After recently notching his 50th birthday, multiple Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Ryan Adams will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his breakthrough solo debut album 'Heartbreaker' when he returns to Australia in 2025.
The alt. country, folk rocker will headline concerts in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne next October performing acoustically celebrating 'Heartbreaker' as well as highlighting his expansive catalogue with intimate renditions.It was 2000 when Ryan's original band Whiskeytown disbanded, the artist immediately pursuing a solo career that took flight with the release of 'Heartbreaker', an album nominated for a Shortlist Music Prize award.
It featured a swag of hits including 'Come Pick Me Up', 'To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)', 'Oh My Sweet Carolina' and 'Amy' as well as fan favourites 'My Winding Wheel', 'In My Time Of Need', 'Damn Sam' and 'Call Me On Your Way Back Home'.
Adams had further success with The Cardinals in the second half of the 2000s, before returning to the solo path throughout the 2010s.
A super productive period during the COVID years – after a tumultuous period in the wake of numerous woman (including Phoebe Bridgers and ex-wife Mandy Moore) alleging Adams curtailed their careers as well as harassed them on social media after rejecting his romantic advances – has seen Adams release a string of both original and cover studio albums (all released independently on his label PAX-AM).
2022 saw the release of 'Chris', 'Romeo & Juliet', 'FM', 'Devolver', 'Nebraska' and 'Blood On The Tracks' followed by the Oasis cover album of '(What's the Story) Morning Glory' simply called 'Morning Glory'. New Year's Day 2024 saw Adams drop another swag of albums: 'Sword & Stone', 'Star Sign', 'Heatwave', '1985' and 'Blackhole'.
As he wraps us his 2024 touring schedule, Adams posted this week a reflective snapshot of his 2024 that will see him release his 'lost' album 'Blackhole' this Friday.
"Carnegie Hall, NYC, will be the final show of this year's tour. I am misty already and will miss the songs and this set that grew and morphed until became a cocoon for me while I turned 50, playing shows with a more beautiful voice now somehow and a much better guitarist.
"The solitude of my late 40s hurt for so long until I saw what a gift that time was. It was a lesson I was meant to learn. To be free, spirit and mind. . . heart and soul.
"I have lived out west for so long yet that hustle and inertia a person absorbs after they are a New Yorker stayed with me. Being a loner in New York was so much easier because there's this thing, this unwritten agreement that you're alone together there, in those long summer shadows of as many buildings as lives lived out, unwritten.
"I love outsiders. Even when they're monolithic. Sometimes the outsider can't help but remain colours fallen outside the lines. It's what being wild at heart means. I am that. I am that beast.
"So, in a couple weeks, November 24, 25 and 27th I will be saying goodbye to you all for this year. This me, this dynamic and most beautiful set. On nights people come to listen, we elbow up to near 40 songs and the wild, crazy shows which require more fast wit there's still at least 30."
Tickets on sale from 10am (local time) on 15 November.
Ryan Adams 2025 Tour Dates
Sat 4 Oct - Astor Theatre (Perth)Tue 7 Oct - Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Thu 9 Oct - Eatons Hill Hotel (Brisbane)
Fri 10 Oct - Darling Harbour Theatre @ ICC Sydney
Sun 12 Oct - Hamer Hall (Melbourne)
