Everclear lights up Gold Coast with Sparkle and Fade 30th Anniversary Tour
Everclear celebrates 30 years of Sparkle and Fade with a Gold Coast show.
What’s happening?
Everclear, one of the leading alternative rock bands to emerge from the 1990s, has announced Australian dates for their Sparkle and Fade 30th Anniversary Tour this November and December.
The tour will include a Gold Coast show on Saturday 6 December at Miami Marketta, where the band will perform hits and fan favourites along with almost the entire Sparkle and Fade album.
Why it matters
Released in 1995, Everclear’s Platinum-selling major-label debut Sparkle and Fade had a massive impact with its chart-topping hit Santa Monica.
The album also featured Heroin Girl and Heartspark Dollarsign, and was hailed as “a must have for any fan of pop-punk” (Punknews) and “a tough, melodic set of gnarled post-punk hard rock” (AllMusic). The Rolling Stone Album Guide described it as “everything a radio-ready rock record should be: explosive, soul-searching, belligerent.”
Frontman Art Alexakis said, “Sparkle and Fade was not the first album I had made, but it was the album I had wanted to make my whole life. It changed everything for me and Everclear. Because of its success and lasting impact, this band has survived and prospered for three decades, and this tour celebrating Sparkle and Fade is another way of us saying ‘thank you’ to all of the incredible fans, old and new. We’re excited to bring this tour to Australia.
In addition to all the hits and fan favourites, we’re going to pretty much play the whole album through the course of the show to commemorate this 30th anniversary. If you are a fan of this record, you do not want to miss this tour!”
Local impact
The Gold Coast stop at Miami Marketta gives fans the opportunity to see the band up close as they celebrate the record that cemented their international success.
By the numbers
Everclear will perform 16 shows across Australia on the Sparkle and Fade 30th Anniversary Tour.
The album produced three standout singles: Santa Monica, Heroin Girl, and Heartspark Dollarsign.
Since forming in 1992, Everclear has released 11 studio albums, with over 6 million records sold and 12 Top 40 singles.
Zoom in
The current Everclear lineup is Art Alexakis (vocals, guitar), Davey French (guitar), Freddy Herrera (bass), and Brian Nolan (drums).
Zoom out
Formed in 1992, the band’s career includes four Gold or Platinum records in the US, a Grammy nomination in 1998, and thousands of live shows.
To mark their 30th anniversary in 2022, Everclear reissued their 1993 debut World of Noise as a deluxe edition and released a retrospective video hosted by former MTV VJ Matt Pinfield.
In 2023, they released Live at The Whisky a Go Go, and in 2024, Songs From an American Movie Vol. One was issued on vinyl for the first time.
What to look for next
Tickets for Everclear’s Sparkle and Fade 30th Anniversary Australian National Tour, including the Gold Coast show at Miami Marketta on Saturday 6 December, are available now at everclearmusic.com/tour.
Other tour dates in Queensland, too.
