STG Announces Ticket Sales for Empire of the Sun and More This Week

Seattle Theatre Group (STG)'s mission is to make diverse performing arts and education an integral part of our region's cultural identity while keeping three historic venues, The Paramount, Moore and Neptune, alive and vibrant. STG presents a range of performances from Broadway, off-Broadway, dance and jazz, to comedy, concerts of all genres, speakers and family shows - at these three iconic theatres in Seattle and venues throughout the Puget Sound region and in Portland, Oregon.

STG announces the following concerts going on sale this week:

Scott Aukerman & IFC Present

COMEDY BANG! BANG! LIVE!

Featuring Special Guest Paul F. Tompkins

& The Birthday Boys

October 2 at 8 p.m.

The Neptune (All Ages / Bar w/ ID)

Tickets are $25, not including fees

On sale now

Available online at Tickets.com, Paramount Box Office, 24-hour kiosks at The Paramount, Moore and Neptune Theatres, or Sonic Boom Records in Ballard. For more information visit STGPresents.org.

Scott Aukerman's COMEDY BANG! BANG! LIVE!, featuring special guest Paul F. Tompkins, along with opening act The Birthday Boys, are hitting the road together for a multi-city comedy tour, leading up to the return of Comedy Bang! Bang! and The Birthday Boys series premiere on October 18.

COMEDY BANG! BANG! LIVE! will feature host Scott Aukerman, Paul F. Tompkins, and special guests doing a mix of live performance pieces, audience interaction, character drop-ins, a live podcast, and improvisational games, along with sneak peek clips from the series.

Empire of the Sun

Special Guest: Alpine

October 23 at 7:30 p.m.

Paramount Theatre (All Ages)

Tickets cost $39.50 not including fees

General Admission Flat Floor & Balcony

On Sale: Saturday, August 10 at 10 a.m.

Available online at Tickets.com, Paramount Box Office, 24-hour kiosks at The Paramount, Moore and Neptune Theatres, or Sonic Boom Records in Ballard. For more information visit STGPresents.org.

After headlining numerous summer festivals, Empire of the Sun will launch an extensive North American headline tour that will give fans the opportunity to see the Australian band in more intimate settings. The fall outing will launch on September 1 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC and will include shows at Pier 26 at Hudson River Park in New York City (September 5) and the Paramount Theatre in Seattle (October 23).

The band is touring in support of its new album, ICE ON THE DUNE (Astralwerks), the follow-up to the 2008 BRIT-nominated, global smash WALKING ON A DREAM. "Alive," the collection's first single, is currently No. 1 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play Songs chart. The "Alive" video - produced by Kelvin Optical, Inc., a division within Bad Robot - has more than five million views.

Empire of the Sun made its U.S. television debut on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! last month and kicked off the new monthly Jimmy Kimmel Live Stream concert series thereafter. You can view the band performing "Alive" here.

In 2008, two of Australia's leading musician/producers, Luke Steele (The Sleepy Jackson) and Nick Littlemore (Pnau), created a vision that seemed to come from an alternative reality - a post-apocalyptic psychedelic adventure known as Empire of the Sun. The resulting album, WALKING ON A DREAM, went on to sell more than a million copies worldwide and contained the singles "We Are The People," "Standing on the Shore" and the RIAA certified Gold hit "Walking on a Dream." The album helped spearhead the then-burgeoning EDM movement and earned eight ARIA awards and two BRIT nominations. The adventure continues with ICE ON THE DUNE, which Steele and Littlemore produced with the WALKING ON A DREAM production team.

Joining Empire of the Sun as support on their headline dates are Alpine. The Australian sextet released their debut album A IS FOR ALPINE in May 2013 thru Votiv. The album was awarded iTunes' Australian Alternative Album of the Year, and has received early critical praise from Rolling Stone, USA Today and NPR, with Pitchfork calling it an "unforgettably light and charismatic gem." Alpine are known for their energetic live shows featuring the double threat of front-women Phoebe Baker and Lou James on lead vocals. Follow them at facebook.com/alpineband.

Mike Doughty

(used to be in)

Soul Coughing

ALL SONGS FROM EL OSO, IRRESISTIBLE BLISS, RUBY VROOM

November 2 at 8 p.m.

The Neptune (All Ages)

Tickets are $25, not including fees

General Admission

On Sale: Friday, August 9 at 10 a.m.

Available online at Tickets.com, Paramount Box Office, 24-hour kiosks at The Paramount, Moore and Neptune Theatres, or Sonic Boom Records in Ballard. For more information visit STGPresents.org.

Mike Doughty and his band of musical samurai play "Circles", "Super Bon Bon", and the best of Soul Coughing.

Mike Doughty contains multitudes: Singer. Songwriter. Guitar player. Poet. Author. Playwright. Photographer. Most Improved Camper, West Point Youth Camp, 1982. He's released five solo albums, some EPs, a couple of live albums, a bunch of EDM tracks and remixes, a poetry book, and a memoir about that time he was in a band called Soul Coughing and didn't like it and took a lot of drugs. He most recently released an album of covers in the fall of 2012, wherein he played songs by John Denver, Cheap Trick, and Stephen Sondheim.

After years of not playing the songs of the band he founded in the 90s, Mike Doughty's got an upright bass player, a drummer, and he's put together a show playing the best of Soul Coughing - "Super Bon Bon", "Circles" among them. "My memoir, THE BOOK OF DRUGS, was a big fat ball of darkness," Doughty says. "I wanted to figure out who I was, where I was, and what I meant, when I wrote those songs-and what, back then, I originally wanted them to sound like."