Alanis Morissette to perform in Australia for the first time in nearly 20 years
Exciting news for angsty '90s teens who chewed up their Jagged Little Pill tapes with obsessive listens.
Alanis Morissette is set to perform in Australia for the first time in almost 20 years, with two shows in Sydney and Melbourne next January.
The gigs will be held at Melbourne's Palais Theatre on Tuesday January 23 and Sydney's ICC Theatre on Wednesday January 24.
Billed as "acoustic and intimate", the shows will mark the singer's first performances in Australia since 1999, when she toured her fourth album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.
The gigs will see the Grammy-winning star performing songs "spanning her entire career in an intimate acoustic trio setting," a press release said.
Morissette, 43, hasn't released an album since 2012's coolly received Havoc and Bright Lights, instead focusing on her monthly podcast Conversation with Alanis Morissette and a regular advice column for The Guardian. She has also been involved in charitable work with the UN, and gave birth to her second child Onyx last July.
However, she returned with a few high-profile appearances in the past couple of years – including a viral cameo on James Corden's late night show, where she updated the lyrics to her oft-discussed anthem Ironic – as fans celebrated the 20th anniversary re-release of her seminal 1995 album Jagged Little Pill.
She is also working on a Broadway musical adaptation of the album with Oscar-winning Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody, set to debut in May next year.
An uncharacteristically blonde Alanis will be playing Melbourne and Sydney in January.
Photo: Chugg Entertainment"Thankfully, the stories that were being told I can stand by, so I'm not cringing when I repeat them," Morissette told Elle last year about still performing the brutally bare songs that made her an icon.
"There was a timelessness to what I was expressing... When I wrote [Jagged Little Pill] I was in a bit of a vacuum, and then when people connected with it, I realised that I was being given this opportunity to support and uplift and empathise with people."
Tickets to the gigs go on sale on Monday August 7 at 9am AEST.
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