24-05-2025
Aussie singer Katie Noonan announces national tour - with a surprising twist
Katie Noonan has announced an upcoming national tour - with a surprising twist.
The popular Aussie singer, 47, recently shared a post to social media revealing she would be touring Australia later this year - to cover late US singer Jeff Buckley.
The former George vocalist is set to perform the late singer's iconic 1994 album Grace in full at venues across the country.
The tour will commence at Perth 's Astor Theatre on Thursday, September 18th, promising an enchanting musical journey through Buckley's soul-stirring compositions.
From there, she will weave her magic through 20 cities and regional centres, including Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle.
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The Brisbane-born singer will wrap up her tour on Saturday, November 8 at Civic Theatre in Newcastle.
Katie told The Music that Buckley's seminal 1994 album - which was the only one he recorded before his death in 1997 at 30 - helped define her musical career.
'Never had I heard a sound world like this, never had I heard a band that unique and never had I heard a voice that expressive, exploratory and exciting,' she said.
'The album is the biggest influence on my musical journey and was an enormous inspiration for my debut album, Polyserena, and my 29 subsequent studio albums.'
She will be supported by Australian singers Jack Carty and Georgia Fields.
Katie rose to fame in 2002 as the lead vocalist of Brisbane indie-rock band George, whose debut album Polyserena debuted at number one on the ARIA charts.
It subsequently achieved double platinum status, and earned the group the ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist.
In April, Katie shared a heartbreaking update on social media after revealing a year of loss.
The former George vocalist is set to perform the late singer Jeff Buckley's iconic 1994 album Grace in full at venues across the country
The singer took to Instagram to shed light on what has been a rough 12 months, lamenting the death of her father, the breakdown of her marriage and the crumbling of her oldest band.
'So much profound grief and loss this last year,' she wrote in an Instagram post, accompanied with a sombre selfie of the George front-woman in a black and white hue.
'I am so deeply hurt and exhausted, but there is great solace in knowing I am not alone as I walk this new path - alone yet all one.'
She revealed that the split from her husband and bandmate Isaac Hurren resulted in the simultaneous loss of her marriage and band that they had created together, Elixir.
Katie added that in 2020 she had been relying on the government's JobKeeper payment scheme to stay financially afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The musician began losing income when her tours were cancelled, which she had to work hard to recover from.
Katie told the Courier Mail: 'I was crippled by the enormous financial loss, very significant loss, as an independent producer. JobKeeper has been a life saver and I was lucky enough to get on that.'
The ARIA-award winning artist was due to go on tour before the lockdown and travel restrictions were enforced across Australia.
While she has been lucky to receive the government support, she noted that the industry as a whole will likely take a long time to bounce back.
