{"id":1873620,"date":"2026-04-09T09:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1873620"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:15:43","slug":"with-north-america-and-europe-tour-dates-to-come-keli-holiday-has-hunkered-down-with-his-next-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1873620","title":{"rendered":"With North America and Europe Tour Dates to Come, Keli Holiday Has \u2018Hunkered Down\u2019 With His Next Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tPop stardom is about the big moments. Securing one, and nailing it. Keli Holiday\u2019s arrival at the 2025 ARIA Awards was a moment that many of us would rate as the stuff of nightmares, a phobia right up there with heights and massive, fangy spiders. <\/p>\n

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\n\tHoliday had the honors of opening the ARIAs with a performance of his viral smash \u201cDancing2.\u201d Just Holiday, his hair teased like a mane, chest out, staring down the barrel of national TV cameras. Right on cue, he strutted through the industry tables at Sydney\u2019s Hordern Pavilion, singing and cutting a path to the stage where an all-star band awaited. No worries. <\/p>\n

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\n\tBig moments, if and when they come, rarely do so with such a high degree of failure. He nailed it. Later, he nabbed an ARIA Award for best video, a fan-voted category. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the five-plus months that have passed, Holiday has been gliding like he did at the ARIAs.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHoliday\u2019s second studio album Capital Fiction<\/em>, opened at No. 3 on the all-genres ARIA Albums Chart in February, and topped the national Australian albums tally. His tour in support of the LP got underway in March and went deep into regional Australia, visiting the capitals with a string of sellouts, and expands with his first-ever run of dates in North America, followed by more shows Down Under, and then the United Kingdom and Europe.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn April 29, Holiday has two chances of adding to his collection. He\u2019s a first-time nominee for the APRA Music Awards, including the coveted song of the year for \u201cDancing2,\u201d which took flight on TikTok, where fans clamored to its message of love, connection and positivity.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis new chapter for Keli Holiday is a \u201crepresentative of love,\u201d he tells Billboard<\/em> over Zoom. \u201cThe core of it, it\u2019s really joyous. It\u2019s really about love. Human beings, we\u2019re constantly craving love. We constantly hold on to love. It\u2019s top of the rock. There is something to be said for the fact that, with all the madness going on in the world, any skerrick of sunshine we can clutch onto, whether that be through a song, or a movie, or a conversation is welcomed with a wide embrace. That\u2019s what I represent with my shows and what I want to do it, because I really feel it, so I got to give it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHoliday has been here before, but all of this is new. He\u2019s the alter-ego of Adam Hyde, who alongside Reuben Styles is co-founder of Peking Duk, the multi-platinum, ARIA Award-winning electronic duo which has accumulated more than 400 million streams across such songs as \u201cHigh,\u201d \u201cTake Me Over,\u201d \u201cStranger\u201d and \u201cFire.\u201d The duo\u2019s debut album, Paradise<\/em>, is due out Aug. 14 and features the cut \u201cThrills\u201d with Rico Nasty.<\/p>\n

\n\tWant a job done, ask a busy person. Holiday is that person. He\u2019s already making headway on a new album. \u201cI\u2019ve written the majority of the next record,\u201d he tells Billboard<\/em>. \u201cI want to get that album as close to ready as possible before embarking on those shows. Because I have a lot of ideas coming out of me at the moment, and to not act upon them while they\u2019re creating a little buzz within would be remiss. It\u2019d be a disservice to the idea itself, so I\u2019m really looking forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd how far along is the process? \u201cAs far as the agonizing part goes, I\u2019d say I\u2019m about 60% now. The most important thing is the bones of it, the writing. So, I\u2019ve really hunkered down. I think I\u2019ve written all the songs for the record. I could be wrong.\u201d Holiday plans to \u201cget with some people in L.A., throw some different sonic ideas around. We\u2019ll see where we land.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tFor those fans about to experience Keli Holiday for the first time, he sets the scene with the \u201cwild, sweaty, beautiful union of people getting down to a bunch of new music\u201d on his Australian tour. \u201cIt felt so refreshing to be able to bring this show that I created around this country, and to have it received in a warm embrace. It was gorgeous. I\u2019m still kind of humming from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat confident ARIAs performance last November, and hanging out backstage with Olivia Dean and his peers, was like a gate opening for Holiday. \u201cBuzz is definitely the word,\u201d he recounts of the experience. \u201cIt was, like, a different kind of nervous energy. It was a real excitement. To be able to walk through the room, sing this song, meet all these wonderful people, it was just a great way to introduce Keli Holiday to Australia, in a really kind of formal way. Even though I wasn\u2019t wearing a shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n

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