Australian indie rock stalwarts, Augie March will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their seminal album 'Moo, You Bloody Choir' with a national tour in 2026.
An instant classic of Australian music, featuring the band's most recognisable hit 'One Crowded Hour' (2006's #1 Hottest 100 song) alongside 'The Cold Acre' as well as deeper cuts like 'Stranger Strange', 'Victoria's Secrets', 'Clockwork' and 'The Honey Month', 'Moo, You Bloody Choir' walked away with a stack of awards and nominations.
The ARIA album chart top 10 record won the 2006 Australian Music Prize, while it was nominated for five ARIA Awards including Album Of The Year (which was taken out by Bernard Fanning's 'Tea & Sympathy') as well as being nominated for Australian Album Of The Year at the J Awards.
"We're a modest outfit, almost always have been, questions of age of respective members are tactfully off limits," shares the band of their approaching 20th anniversary of 'Moo, You Bloody Choir', who'll perform the album in its entirety followed by a second set of their other hits and fan favourites.
"That aside, we're fighting fit and pretty happy that we're probably a better equipped bunch to tackle this sprawling, ambitious, poetic, melodic record than we were first time around. People loved 'Moo' and it'll be a series of rooms full of reciprocal love, nothing is surer."
The tour will commence in Fremantle, before travelling to Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane in April (with a Sydney date tba soon).
"These anniversary things can either be rote and procession like, or a second chance to investigate the enduring mystery that genuine, complete, composed bodies of work are made of," the band share.
"We are excited to opt for the latter version, not that there's a choice in our case. The songs will be treated with respect and disdain simultaneously, the shows will be powerful and intimate by turns, we will speak with the audience and they will speak with us, like all the best Augie shows."
The recording of 'Moo' also comes gift wrapped with its own morbid storytelling. "A little known anecdote while recording some of the album in the tenderloin district of Chicago, at a studio that served as the home of Creedence Clearwater Revival's best patch of work, there was a total of three dead bodies encountered by band members over the week, including one as a result of an armed robbery at the diner across the road.
"Fun? Not really, but when you get to be the not dead bodies, there is a certain strange euphoria."
As to their own view of their own legacy as a band? "Not very old; understated; overwrought and completely unique in the Australian and world cultural landscape." Hear, hear Augie March!
Tickets on sale from 9am (local time) on 2 December.
Augie March 2026 Tour Dates
Fri 3 Apr - Freo.Social (Fremantle)
Sat 4 Apr - The Gov (Adelaide)
Fri 10 Apr - The Croxton (Melbourne)
Fri 17 Apr - The Triffid (Brisbane)
