Martha Wainwright

Overview

If brutal honesty, passionate angst and extraordinarily affecting personal songwriting is your jam, rejoice the return of Martha Wainwright to Australia for a massive, 12-date national tour.

Part of a large, fractured musical family, it was perhaps fitting that Martha made her first big splash with 'Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole', a song at once heartbreaking and defiant, laying bare her difficult relationship with her father in an extraordinarily public way. And her forthcoming album, Come Home to Mama, continues this deeply personal approach to music, inspired by the six-month period in which she gave birth to her first child and lost her mother — legendary Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle — to cancer.

But it's not all doom and gloom. Over the years Wainwright has established herself as a compelling and engaging performer with an extraordinary voice, one that will have you in tears one moment and tapping your feet the next. It won't be an easy night, but it could be an amazing one.

31 May – The Tivoli, Brisbane
1-2 June – Byron Theatre, Byron Bay
6 June – Sydney Opera House
8-9 June – Live n Cookin' @ Lizotte's, Newcastle
13 June – Theatre Royal, Hobart
14-15 June – Recital Centre, Melbourne
16 June – Memorial Hall, Leongatha (VIC)
20 June – Dunston Playhouse, Adelaide
22 June – Astor Theatre, Perth