GUIDE TO BETTER LIVING 2017 TOUR - Update July 6:

22 Shows sold out in advance with limited tickets available only for Darwin(One Tropical Day) , Hobart , Gold Coast ShakaFest , Canberra UCU ,Wagga CSU , Barooga , Albury and a few left for the final end of tour show in Newcastle at NEX.

Don't wait another 20 years!

Re-issued deluxe version GUIDE TO BETTER LIVING album with bonus live from CBGBs disc on UMA - re-entered the ARIA charts this week at #8 and is the 2nd highest Australian album.

GRINSPOON:

Post-grunge Aussie rockers, Grinspoon have today announced a 20th Anniversary deluxe edition of the album that kickstarted their long-standing music career, Guide To Better Living, alongside an epic 27-date national tour of Australia, playing the album cover to cover for fans throughout June, July, August and September.

It’s 1995.  A band from Lismore named Grinspoon (named after Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Dr Lester Grinspoon who supported the medicinal use of marijuana) submitted the track, Sickfest to triple j’s Unearthed national band comp in its inaugural year.  To everyone’s amazement, they won - and for the next two months the song was the station’s number one request.  Fast forward to September 1997, signed to Universal Music’s Grudge imprint, Grinspoon released their debut album, Guide To Better Living. 

Going on to boast double-platinum accrediation on the back of five singles; Pedestrian, DC×3, Repeat, Just Ace and Don't Go Away – Guide To Better Living (GTBL) spent 36 weeks in the ARIA Top 50. The album stands now as a similar coming of age as The Angels’ Face to Face, Cold Chisel’s East and Midnight Oil’s 10, 9, 8… were at the time.  Since then, it’s been a rolling success and yeah, occasionally, excess story with certified sales of well over half a million, seven albums all very familiar with the Top Ten, ARIA Awards, 13 ARIA nominations, more than 1,000 gigs, tens of thousands of international frequent flyer miles, 7 appearances at the Big Day Out as well as slots at Homebake, Falls Festival, Splendour in the Grass, an NRL Grand Final and a Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony in Melbourne.

Twenty years later – with the album chalking up a double decade of acclaim – Grinspoon are emerging from hiatus to celebrate their debut album with the Guide To Better Living tour.  Supported nationally by Hockey Dad, they’ll be playing the album cover to cover across June-September 2017, alongside a selection of later favourites from their albums that followed. The tour takes in 27 dates across the nation – the first tour of such scale since the band went on hiatus in 2013, broken only for a support slot on Cold Chisel’s Perfect Crime tour of Australia in 2015. 

Candidly chatting about the 20th anniversary of their monumental debut release, vocalist Phil Jamieson jests, “I hate nostalgia, it gets my goat.  What I do love are tunes, and we’ve got tunes!  NBT - Balding Matters - Scalped are probably what are considered to be album tracks or ‘filler’, but I can’t wait to spit ‘em out with as much venom as I did as a 19 year old.  Then there is Railroader - Repeat - Just Ace - Champion - Boundary …. it’s like a little treasure box of ditties!  I don’t think I really knew what I was doing when I made Guide To Better Living, but I know that playing this album from start to finish is going to be one of the most challenging, enjoyable & kickass things I’ll ever do!  Bring on the road, bring on the tour, bring on the shows… happy 20th birthday GTBL!”

To correspond with the tour, an accompanying expanded, multi-format reissue of the album will be released on June 23. Grinspoon have curated a 20th Anniversary edition of Guide To Better Living, expanding the original 16-track album to a mammoth 49 track feast of rarities, live tracks and unreleased recordings. The album also appears on vinyl for the very first time in the form of a limited edition red vinyl pressing, coupling the original album with a second disc Live At CBGB’s – an incendiary 10-track live recording of the band taken from the fabled CBGB’s venue in New York. The recording was found in a scour of the vaults late in 2016.  The physical 2CD edition is packaged in a deluxe slipcase, alongside a 36 page book featuring unseen images, scans of memorabilia, full lyrics and essays from each of the band members. 
The original 16 track album is augmented with Live recordings, rare B-Sides and an unreleased track ‘Green Grass Meadow’ recorded at the time of Guide To Better Living, unheard until now. The set is finished off with a previously unreleased 13-track performance from the Falls Festival of 1997.  49 tracks in all!

“It’s a real honour to be releasing the 20th Anniversary of Guide To Better Living.  It was an amazing time in the band’s life.  Going back and listening to the album and watching old footage reminds me of what was an unbelievably exciting time in all our lives,” says guitarist Pat Davern.

Grinspoon is Phil Jamieson on vocals, Pat Davern on guitar, Joe Hansen on bass and Kristian Hopes on drums.

Guide To Better Living 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is set for release on June 23.  Pre-order album bundles are onsale from www.grinspoon.com.au .

Pre-order: Guide To Better Living deluxe 20th anniversary album out June 23

View: Guide To Better Living 20th anniversary trailer

GUIDE TO BETTER LIVING NATIONAL TOUR DATES
Presented by TEG LIVE and Triple M

FRI 23 JUN | KAY ST ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX, TRARALGON VIC | 18+ SELLING FAST /LTD TX AVAIL AT THE DOOR

FRI 30 JUN | MARGARET COURT ARENA, MELBOURNE, VIC | LIC AA  SOLD OUT

SAT 1 JUL | VILLAGE GREEN HOTEL, MULGRAVE, VIC | 18+ SOLD OUT

THU 6 JUL | ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY, NSW | LIC AA -  SOLD OUT.

FRI 7 JUL | ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY, NSW | LIC AA  SOLD OUT 

SAT 8 JUL | THE TIVOLI THEATRE, BRISBANE, QLD | 18+ SOLD OUT 

SUN 9 JUL | THE TIVOLI THEATRE, BRISBANE, QLD | 18+  SOLD OUT

SAT 29 JUL | ONE TROPICAL DAY @ DARWIN SKI CLUB, DARWIN, NT | LIC AA **

THU 3 AUG | THE WOOL EXCHANGE, GEELONG, VIC | 18+ SOLD OUT

FRI 4 AUG | PIER BANDROOM, FRANKSTON, VIC | 18+ SOLD OUT

SAT 5 AUG | GRANADA TAVERN, HOBART, TAS | 18+ SOLD OUT  / 

SUN 6 Aug on sale now 80% sold.

THU 10 AUG | THE JACK, CAIRNS, QLD | 18+  SOLD OUT

FRI 11 AUG | DALRYMPLE HOTEL, TOWNSVILLE, QLD | 18+ SOLD OUT

SAT 12 AUG | MAGNUMS, AIRLIE BEACH, QLD | 18+ SOLD OUT

THU 17 AUG | VILLA NOOSA, NOOSAVILLE, QLD | 18+ SOLD OUT

FRI 18 AUG | REDLAND BAY HOTEL, REDLAND BAY, QLD | 18+ SOLD OUT

SAT 19 AUG | SHAKA FEST – MIAMI TAVERN, GOLD COAST, QLD | 18+ **   - SELLING FAST < 250 tx left only tx for QLD/NRTH RIVERS LEFT FOR THIS GTBL TOUR  ( FYI- CALOUNDRA  MUSIC  FESTIVAL Mon 2nd Oct is a Greatest Hits set not the GTBL show.)

THU 24 AUG | DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN, DUNSBOROUGH, WA | 18+  SOLD OUT

FRI 25 AUG | METRO CITY, PERTH, WA | 18+  2nd release tx added SOLD OUT

SAT 26 AUG | ADELAIDE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, ADELAIDE, SA | AA 2nd release tx added SOLD OUT

THU 31 AUG | THE CAMBRIDGE HOTEL, NEWCASTLE, NSW | 18+ SOLD OUT  / NEX SAT 23 SEP just added show on sale now /2nd release tx SELLING FAST < 300 tx  -ONLY  TX WITHIN 2HRS DRIVE OF SYDNEY LEFT FOR THIS TOUR -JUST SAYIN...

FRI 1 SEP | LISMORE CITY HALL , LISMORE, NSW | 18+  SOLD OUT 

SAT 2 SEP | RACEHORSE HOTEL, IPSWICH, QLD | 18+ SOLD OUT

THU 14 SEP | THE ENTRANCE LEAGUES CLUB, BATEAU BAY, NSW | 18+  SOLD OUT

FRI 15 SEP | WAVES, WOLLONGONG, NSW | 18+ SOLD OUT

SAT 16 SEP | UC REFECTORY, CANBERRA, ACT | 18+  SELLING FAST  - Handful of tx left -be quick or drive to albury/Wagga :)

WED 20 SEP | CSU, WAGGA WAGGA, NSW | 18+  SELLING FAST - BEST VALUE TX IN COUNTRY- BOOK EARLY ONLINE -THIS SHOW WILL SELL OUT SOON. OPEN TO STUDENTS & GENERAL PUBLIC.

THU 21 SEP BAROOGA SPORTS CLUB 18+  SELLING FAST -ONLY SHOW NEAR VICTORIA OR MELB w TX LEFT.

FRI 22 SEP | BEER DELUXE, ALBURY, NSW | 18+ SELLING FAST

SAT 23 SEP NEX NEWCASTLE WESTS - 2nd release tx opening up  main auditorium to 2,400 capacity are SELLING FAST - END OF TOUR  FINAL SHOW ON GTBL TOUR < 350 tx 

**Hockey Dad not appearing

For further information, head to www.grinspoon.com.au.