Steve Vai announces ‘Inviolate’ Australian tour!

The Steve Vai ‘Inviolate’ tour and the band are returning to Australia.

The forthcoming Steve Vai ‘Inviolate’ tour which sees Steve and the band back in Australia for the first time since their highly successful shows in 2013. The Tour kicks off on 3 November 2023 in Brisbane before visiting Wollongong, Melbourne and Perth.

Steve Vai shares, ‘The Inviolate world tour marches on. We are saturating the entire globe on this tour. It’s everything I imagined when I was a kid jamming in my bedroom. Travelling The World like this with my band, crew, and family, touching and tasting all these magnificent cultures and feeling the powerful energy from the audiences is what we call living the dream. I am eternally grateful to all the fans that make this possible. We will see you soon!’

Steve Vai 2023 Australia Dates

November 3, 2023, – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane QLD
November 6, 2023, – Anita’s Theatre, Wollongong NSW
November 9, 2023, – Palais Theatre, Melbourne VIC
November 11, 2023, – Perth Concert Hall, Perth WA

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday 20 July 2023 @ 2pm (local time)

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The extensive ‘Inviolate’ tour just began a second leg of dates in North America, with Canadian dates to follow. In June, the Inviolate World Tour visited Central and South America with shows played in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

Over the past two years, Vai released a new studio album titled ‘Inviolate’ and a record titled ‘Vai/Gash’ which he had been holding in his archive for three decades. In support of both releases, Vai embarked on a world Tour in 2022 that will take the better part of 2 years and see the band play more than 200 shows.

Favored Nations / Mascot Label Group presented the official music video for ‘Teeth Of The Hydra’, from Inviolatewhich has now been viewed over 6.5 million times.

Of the Vai/Gash album, Vai shares, ‘The album was written and recorded in somewhat of a stream of consciousness in 1991 within perhaps a 2-week period as an answer to my desire to have a particular kind of music to listen to when I was riding my Harley Davison Motorcycle with my friends. One of those friends was John “Gash” Sombrotto, who is the powerful singer on this record. It’s reminiscent of a certain type of rock music I enjoyed as a teenager in the 1970s. These recordings sat on the shelf for over 30 years and are being released now in 2023.’

General public tickets for Steve Vai go on sale Thursday 20 July 2023 via Ticketmaster.com.au.