20 YEARS OF ‘GUIDE TO BETTER LIVING’ – 2017
Post-grunge Aussie rockers, Grinspoon have today announced a 20th Anniversary deluxe edition of the album that kickstarted their long-standing music career, Guide To Better Living, alongside an epic 27-date national tour of Australia, playing the album cover to cover for fans throughout June, July, August and September.
It’s 1995. A band from Lismore named Grinspoon (named after Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Dr Lester Grinspoon who supported the medicinal use of marijuana) submitted the track, Sickfest to triple j’s Unearthed national band comp in its inaugural year. To everyone’s amazement, they won – and for the next two months the song was the station’s number one request. Fast forward to September 1997, signed to Universal Music’s Grudge imprint, Grinspoon released their debut album, Guide To Better Living.
To correspond with the tour, an accompanying expanded, multi-format reissue of the album will be released on June 23. Grinspoon have curated a 20th Anniversary edition of Guide To Better Living, expanding the original 16-track album to a mammoth 49 track feast of rarities, live tracks and unreleased recordings. The album also appears on vinyl for the very first time in the form of a limited edition red vinyl pressing, coupling the original album with a second disc Live At CBGB’s – an incendiary 10-track live recording of the band taken from the fabled CBGB’s venue in New York. The recording was found in a scour of the vaults late in 2016. The physical 2CD edition is packaged in a deluxe slipcase, alongside a 36 page book featuring unseen images, scans of memorabilia, full lyrics and essays from each of the band members.
The original 16 track album is augmented with Live recordings, rare B-Sides and an unreleased track ‘Green Grass Meadow’ recorded at the time of Guide To Better Living, unheard until now. The set is finished off with a previously unreleased 13-track performance from the Falls Festival of 1997. 49 tracks in all!
“It’s a real honour to be releasing the 20th Anniversary of Guide To Better Living. It was an amazing time in the band’s life. Going back and listening to the album and watching old footage reminds me of what was an unbelievably exciting time in all our lives,” says guitarist Pat Davern.
Tickets and Tour Dates
| Date | Venue | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 23 | Kay St Entertainment Complex | Traralgon | VIC |
| June 30 | Margaret Court Arena | Melbourne | VIC |
| July 1 | Village Green Hotel | Mulgrave | VIC |
| July 6 | Enmore Theatre | Sydney | NSW |
| July 7 | Enmore Theatre | Sydney | NSW |
| July 8 | The Tivoli | Brisbane | QLD |
| July 9 | The Tivoli | Brisbane | QLD |
| July 29 | Darwin Ski Club | Darwin | NT |
| August 3 | The Wool Exchange | Geelong | VIC |
| August 4 | Pier Bandroom | Frankston | VIC |
| August 5 | Granada Tavern | Hobart | TAS |
| August 6 | Granada Tavern | Hobart | TAS |
| August 10 | The Jack | Cairns | QLD |
| August 11 | Dalrymple Hotel | Townsville | QLD |
| August 12 | Magnums | Airlie Beach | QLD |
| August 17 | Villa Noosa | Noosaville | QLD |
| August 18 | Redland Bay Hotel | Redland Bay | QLD |
| August 19 | Miami Tavern | Dunsborough | WA |
| August 25 | Metro City | Perth | WA |
| August 26 | Entertainment Centre | Adelaide | SA |
| August 31 | The Cambridge Hotel | Newcastle | NSW |
| September 1 | Lismore City Hall | Lismore | NSW |
| September 2 | Racehorse Hotel | Ipswich | QLD |
| September 14 | The Entrance Leagues Club | Bateau Bay | NSW |
| September 15 | Waves | Wollongong | NSW |
| September 16 | UC Refectory | Canberra | ACT |
| September 20 | CSU | Wagga Wagga | NSW |
| September 21 | Barooga Sports Club | Barooga | NSW |
| September 22 | Beer Deluxe | Albury | NSW |
| September 23 | NEX | Newcastle | NSW |
