Ball Park Music - 'Puddinghead' National Tour

It is said that all good things come in threes and today Ball Park Music made a triple announcement that is guaranteed to excite their fans: a new single She Only Loves Me When I’m There, a National album tour, and the release date for their third album Puddinghead.

Unlike the band’s first two albums, which were penned and recorded in between a relentless touring schedule, 2013 provided the first opportunity for the band to write and record in a controlled environment. The result is Puddinghead, the band’s third album in 24 months, and without doubt their most accomplished to date.

They say the word ‘puddinghead’ is a Shakespearean insult offered to “someone who manages to mess up even the most basic tasks…”

Determined to leave their own print, Ball Park Music opted to self-produce and take the recording of Puddinghead into their own hands. Renting a dirt-cheap property in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, they endured the overwhelming heat of their 70s fibro shack, scooped the mud from the doorway, smashed in the broken door, cleaned away the rotten food and insects and recorded to the sweet backdrop of leaky taps, magpies and main roads. It was far from the comforts of a professional recording studio, but somehow it worked.

The first taste of the band’s new material is the lead single She Only Loves Me When I’m There. It’s also the opening track on the record and sets the tone for an album that celebrates their underdog leanings and rejoices in the love, loss and banalities of suburban Australian life. The track and album was mixed by Grammy nominated Tony Hoffer (Beck, The Kooks, Phoenix, Air, and M83).

In celebration of the of the new single and album Ball Park Music will be heading out on national tour throughout April/May, supported in Darwin by Jesse Davidson.

This new and exciting chapter for Ball Park Music comes off the back of an incredible three years that's seen them secure two J Award album nominations for previous albums Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs and Museum, a top 10 ARIA debut for Museum, numerous sold out headline tours alongside becoming one of Australia’s most loved festival bands via performances at Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival, Southbound, Homebake and Big Day Out.

Puddinghead will be released via Stop Start on Friday 4^th April 2014.