DIIV Announce Australian Laneway Festival Sideshows
Following the release of their fifth studio album, ZIRP! last week, DIIV announce Australian Laneway Festival sideshows for 2027, presented by Mistletone.
In addition to their Laneway Festival 2027 appearances, today DIIV announce all ages Australian sideshows, hitting Eora/Sydney’s City Recital Hall on February 11, Tarntanya/Adelaide’s Jive on February 15, and Naarm/Melbourne’s Thornbury Theatre on February 18. Pre-sales are live at 10am AEDT today.
DIIV’s Laneway Festival tour will follow their June 2025 Australian tour that included headline performances at Melbourne’s Northcote Theatre, Brisbane’s Princess Theatre, and Perth’s The Naval Store, alongside appearances at RISING (Melbourne Town Hall), Hobart’s Dark Mofo and VIVID Sydney (Carriageworks).
Last week, DIIV announced their 47-date headline world tour that will see them bring their energised live show back to Australia, as well as Japan, North America, the UK and across Europe. This November, DIIV will perform at Pitchfork Music Festival in both Paris and London along with Sonic City Festival in Beldian.
Out now via Fantasy Recordings, ZIRP! is DIIV’s fifth album. Produced by A.G. Cook, ZIRP! includes the previously shared singles Dare Me, Trillions, Kid and The Fountain. On ZIRP!, DIIV emphatically and ecstatically embrace the underground pedigree and the pop instinct that have anchored the band like magnetic poles for the better part of their career, smashing them together in pursuit of a sound that pre-empts any notion that Zachary Cole Smith, Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield and Ben Newman have ever been playing between worlds. Put more simply, on ZIRP! DIIV answer the simple questions that so many bands can’t: What would it mean to grow up? And glow up, too?
This is The New Alternative: a new genre for the 21st century. More specifically: a new genre for music’s optimised VC-funded super deluxe remixed AI-enhanced algorithmically perfected wild west 2020s, where a million streams is great, a billion even better, and a trillion well within reach.
Produced by British pop wizard A. G. Cook (Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, Troy Sivan) – a chief architect of our current post-category future – ZIRP!, named for the zero interest rate policies that drew us into a world of failed startups and turned us all into atomised “users,” expands on the themes of 2024 album, Frog In Boiling Water with a newfound lightness.
Here, Palantir, societal breakdown and streaming’s endless hamster wheel are all fodder for rich, sparkling pop songs: Album opener and lead single ‘The Fountain’ pairs the sprawl and squall of DIIV records past with a jolting rhythmic guitar section that has arena-filling potential. Throughout, the band is zeroing in on its punchiest, most memorable melodies to date, each new internal hook and tossed-off earworm indicative of a band more than ready to make good on its ability to play in the mainstream.
For as long as they’ve been making music, DIIV have been victims of a world without the vocabulary to describe their willingness to braid the harshness of genres like shoegaze (on 2024’s Frog In Boiling Water) and grunge (2019’s Deceiver) with mellifluous and memorable pop melody. Over the years, the world has caught up with them, with artists like Slayyyter, Eartheater and Turnstile forcing old-guard gatekeepers to find new ways to describe this gleeful disregard for old-fashioned scene designations and genre tags. With ZIRP! – and their embrace of The New Alternative – DIIV lock in on a name for the universe they’ve been chasing for all these years, and a sound that represents the apotheosis of that universe.
Pre-sales are now live for DIIV’s Australian live dates. Stream/order DIIV’s new album, ZIRP! here.
DIIV 2027 AUSTRALIAN SIDESHOWS
Presented by Mistletone
Thursday, February 11 – Eora/Sydney – City Recital Hall [all ages]
Monday, February 15 – Tarntanya/Adelaide – Jive [all ages]
Thursday, February 18 – Naarm/Melbourne – Thornbury Theatre [all ages]
Pre-Sale/Tickets HERE
