This may just be the real-life music event everyone needs: one of Australia’s most successful contemporary rock bands, Birds of Tokyo, performing with the mighty Queensland Symphony Orchestra over not one, but two nights in February 2021.
To mark the release of Birds of Tokyo’s brand-new string-laden album, Human Design, two special concerts will be performed with Queensland Symphony Orchestra. The shows will take place at the Concert Hall at QPAC in Brisbane in February, joining a handful of concerts the band is performing around the country with some of Australia’s most prestigious symphony orchestras.
Over the two nights in Brisbane, the five-piece band will be joined by the 50 members of Queensland Symphony Orchestra for an evening that showcases brand new music as well as reinterpretations of signature Birds of Tokyo classics. Appropriately, the tour will commence in Perth, where the band was founded over 15 years ago before heading east. Formed in Perth back in 2004, Birds of Tokyo have grown from independent roots to become one of Australia’s most popular contemporary rock bands. More than 70 Birds of Tokyo songs have featured on Triple J, making them one of the station’s three most played artists of this millennium.
Most recently, after enjoying a run of four hit singles, Birds of Tokyo have now bundled all these songs plus seven more onto a new album called Human Design. The lyrics on the record share a strong thread because they were largely inspired by a tumultuous period in the personal life of frontman Ian Kenny. He dealt with his marriage breakup directly in the radio smash The Greatest Mistakes plus the ARIA Song of the Year Award nominated Good Lord, while the anthemic Unbreakable provided a different perspective on the same dire situation. Early 2020’s celebratory top 3 iTunes success Two Of Us ushered in the next chapter of his story.
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