Seether coming home

10 September 2013 - 02:22 By Staff reporter
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Shaun Morgan of US-based South African rock band Seether at Oppikoppi Sweet\Thing.
Shaun Morgan of US-based South African rock band Seether at Oppikoppi Sweet\Thing.
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Seether are returning to South Africa for an acoustic tour in November.

The band will embark on a unique, semi-acoustic tour - An Intimate Evening With Seether - performing in Cape Town and Durban, and then headlining the Parklife Festival, in Johannesburg.

The three shows will give Seether fans the ultimate experience of seeing the band in a storyteller-type atmosphere.

Local acts will be joining Seether on all three of the shows.

Already confirmed for the Parklife Festival on November 24 are The Dirty Skirts, ISO and Shortstraw. More local acts will be announced later.

In support of the tour, Seether will release a Greatest Hits double CD that will include their top songs along with three new tracks, rare B-sides, and live tracks, at the end of October.

Early bird tickets for the An Intimate Evening With Seether tour are on sale at Webtickets.

Seether have sold millions of albums worldwide, have more than 63million YouTube views and are mainstays on the tour circuit, averaging 275 gigs a year.

They have had 11 number one singles and 17 top 5 hits across multiple formats.

Formed in South Africa as Saron Gas by Shaun Morgan and Dale Stewart, Seether made their impact in the US with the album Disclaimer in 2002.

Their first single, Fine Again, was a pensive ballad that resonated with fans worldwide.

Seether gained nationwide live exposure with a spot on the Ozzfest tour.

They re-recorded the acoustic track Broken as an electric version featuring Evanescence vocalist Amy Lee.

Broken became a massive international hit. In 2004, Seether remixed and remastered Disclaimer, adding eight new songs and cover art to create the double disc Disclaimer II, which is now twice platinum.

In 2005, Seether released Karma & Effectand followed that release up in 2006 with a live, acoustic CD/DVD, One Cold Night.

In 2007 Seether released Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces. The album was reissued in 2009 with a cover of George Michael's Careless Whisper.

In 2011 Seether released Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray.

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