• X’s World Tour 2025
• Monday, March 17
• Brisbane Entertainment Centre

Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane

Pre-sale available from 10am local time on Thursday, March 7. Tickets are on sale to general public from 10am local time Friday, March, 8.

Cigarettes After Sex will tour Australia in March, 2025. They also have a new LP. ” X’s” will be released on July 12.

Filled with raw, imagistic, sometimes smutty vignettes set to entrancing, slow-burn pop songs, bandleader Greg Gonzalez captures every emotion a romantic arc inspires.

But where previous albums have drawn from an amalgam of relationships, for the most part, this album centralizes on one relationship that spanned four years.
 
“The record feels brutal,” admits Gonzalez. 

“I could sit and talk about this loss to someone, but that wouldn’t scratch the surface. I have to really write about it, sing about it, have the music, and then I can start to analyze and learn from it. Or just relive it – in a good way. I don’t have that Eternal Sunshine-thing of wanting to forget.” 

A change of note

While continuing to observe classic pop song structures, Gonzalez has moved away from the prior sonic touchstones of the 50s and 60s, finding himself drawn to a 70s/80s slow dance.

While these changes may be subtle, the overall resulting energy is akin to disco ball-refracted, dancefloor tears.

Today also marks the release of the record’s first single, “Tejano Blue”, a nod to Gonzalez’s Texas childhood.

The result is the most instantly memorable version (and liveliest tempo) of the band’s signature sensual, timeless, love songs.
 
With billions of streams and countless sold-out performances in their wake, Cigarettes After Sex’s X’s World Tour will see them take on New York’s Madison Square Garden and London’s O2 Arena.

Yet, they remain shadowy figures, always maintaining the mystique that has created a space for fans to truly commune with their music, sharing it like an illicit secret.

Cigarette-y facts:

• The band last toured Australian in 2018 in a sold-out run of shows.
• Last year, they have sold over 200,000 tickets globally, despite not being in an album cycle.
• The band sits in Spotify’s top 240 most-streamed artists, and their music has been used 6.4 billion times (and counting) on TikTok, holding five spots in the top 1% of all viral audio creations.

Presale available from 10am local time Thursday, March7. Tickets on sale to general public from 10am local time Friday, March, 8.

When are where:

• Wednesday, March 12 – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
• Friday, March 14 – ICC Theatre, Sydney
• Monday, March 17 – Brisbane Entertainment Centre

Tickets:

• Pre-sale: 10am local time, Thursday, March 7
• Tickets: general public from 10am local time, Friday, March 8

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