KENDRICK LAMAR’s highly anticipated Australian tour kicks off in two weeks and we are thrilled to announce Californian R&B / neo-soul singer and Top Dawg Entertainment artist SiR has been announced as national support. Fresh off the back of his sophomore album November, SiR will open all six Australian shows for the Pulitzer Prize and twelve-time GRAMMY Award winning Lamar, starting at Perth Arena on Tuesday July 10. Full tour dates are below.
Starting out in music co-writing material for the likes of Ginuwine, Jill Scott and the legendary Stevie Wonder – who he met during a rehearsal session which Stevie Wonder happened to walk in on – SiR, aka Sir Darryl Farris, creates soulful R&B in the style of Frank Ocean and Anderson Paak. He signed to Kendrick Lamar’s label at the start of last year and released his sophomore album November in January. November was called “a neo-soul-tinged space odyssey” by Pitchfork, with High Snobiety saying it “positions SiR at the Zenith of dreamy R&B”, and Complex including the single ‘Something Foreign’ (feat. Schoolboy Q) in their Best Songs of 2018 list. SiR has spent the last two months on the road touring the US with Kendrick Lamar, SZA and Schoolboy Q, and after a short break will make his way to our shores for his first ever shows in Australia.
With 13 billion Spotify streams, 12 Grammy awards, and over 6 million album sales worldwide under his belt, Kendrick Lamar has an incredible reach that surpasses many of his peers. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine and in the best 10 rappers of all time by Billboard, amongst other accolades. Lamar most recently curated and produced the soundtrack for Marvel Studios blockbuster Black Panther, which he worked on during the DAMN. tour in the United States last year.
KENDRICK LAMAR – THE DAMN. TOUR AUSTRALIA
with special guest SiR
PERTH
PERTH ARENA TUESDAY 10 JULY
MELBOURNE
ROD LAVER ARENA FRIDAY 13 JULY
MELBOURNE
ROD LAVER ARENA SATURDAY 14 JULY
ADELAIDE
ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE SUNDAY 15 JULY
SYDNEY
QUDOS BANK ARENA TUESDAY 24 JULY
SYDNEY
QUDOS BANK ARENA WEDNESDAY 25 JULY