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City and Colour Add Third London Date To Huge UK Tour

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Dallas Green AKA City and Colour has added a third date to his huge headline tour in support of his new album The Love Still Held Me Near.

The new album brings a range of new sounds to City and Colour, while staying to true to the sound that brought Green to becoming a household name within singer-songwriter and folk-rock scenes.

The Love Still Held Me Near is the seventh studio album from City and Colour and is a raw open book of emotion, and the first chance for fans in the UK to experience the songs live will be this autumn.

CITY AND COLOUR Fri 27 Oct 2023 Bristol – O2 Academy SOLD OUT Sun 29 Oct 2023 Birmingham – O2 Institute SOLD OUT Mon 30 Oct 2023 Manchester – Albert Hall SOLD OUT Tue 31 Oct 2023 Glasgow – Barrowland Thu 02 Nov 2023 London – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire SOLD OUT Fri 03 Nov 2023 London – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire SOLD OUT Sat 04 Nov 2023 London – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire EXTRA DATE ADDED

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City and colour announce october 2023 uk tour.

City and Colour has announced a headline UK tour for autumn 2023.

The new tour announcement follows the release of 7th studio album, ‘ The Love Still Held Me Near ‘.

The new album sees Dallas Green reveal more of himself amongst a new soundscape as he experiments from the City and Colour sound.

City and Colour will headline Glasgow’s Barrowlands on 31st October 2023 with tickets starting from £34.70 (+ Booking Fee).

The full UK tour dates are as follows:

OCTOBER 27th BRISTOL, O2 Academy 29th BIRMINGHAM, O2 Institute 30th MANCHESTER, Albert Hall 31st GLASGOW, Barrowland

NOVEMBER 2nd LONDON, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Tickets for City and Colour 2023 are on sale now via various ticketing platforms.

City and Colour (aka Dallas Green) announces Oct/Nov UK tour

City and Colour’s Dallas Green on music as a savior, dealing with grief

April 18, 2023
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City and Color artist Dallas Green will be in Columbus May 12 to perform “The Love Still Held Me Near.” Credit: Courtesy of All Eyes Media

City and Colour’s seventh studio release “The Love Still Held Me Near” has taken Dallas Green through the healing process while coping with loss. He is now set to bring the album to life in his upcoming tour.

City and Colour announced a U.S. and UK/European tour shortly after the release of the album. Green will be in Columbus at Kemba Live! May 12, according to a press release from All Eyes Media.

Green, the artist behind City and Colour, has established a fulfilling music career for himself spanning over 20 years. Originally performing as a member of the band Alexisonfire, Green said he began performing stripped-down coffeehouse style versions of songs he had written for the band, as well as other original songs. He said he sold CDs of these versions in coffeehouses, and they ended up on the internet in the early 2000s via file sharing.

The positive reception and attention his songs received online inspired him to record a studio album under the moniker City and Colour — since then he has released six more, with over 1.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone. Songs like “The Girl” have over 100 million streams, and songs from “The Love Still Held Me Near,” released March 31, have received upwards of 2 million streams.

“‘The Love Still Held Me Near’ is a deeply personal and cathartic offering, and the most sonically expansive in the celebrated City and Colour canon,” City and Colour stated.

Green said he began working on the album after the loss of one of his best friends in September 2019. The album helped him work through his emotions and grief, especially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Green said.

“When the smoke started clearing a little bit, I dug into trying to write about it,” Green said. “The record ended up being this really cathartic process of trying to deal with my grief and figuring out a path forward to healing.”

Green said music and writing has always served as a deeply emotional and personal outlet for him. He said his discography serves as a way to process and archive his feelings over certain periods of his life.

“I think City and Colour has always been this sort of place where I can go and just ruminate on certain things that are weighing on me or kind of stuck up in my head,” Green said. “Whether it’s just certain things that are going on in my personal life, or just things that I’m kind of dwelling on, I’ve always used it as like almost having a journal entry type thing.”

“The Love Still Held Me Near” is one of Green’s most intimate pieces to date, as he said it is what truly allowed him to work through his grief. It also helped him rediscover the importance of music to his own life.

“I think part of moving forward was rediscovering how much I love music and how much I just am truly grateful for the ability to be able to write a song about how I’m feeling,” Green said. “Then have it sort of turn into something that can connect with another human being is rediscovering that love and that joy. And then like I said, sort of using it as a tool in order to help myself cope. Yeah, it was like a savior.”

Green said he has been touring since fall 2021 with Alexisonfire as well as playing some shows as City and Colour. He said he is looking forward to the connection he’ll make with the audiences during his upcoming tour because he feels performing has become a part of him.

“It’s something that sort of just feels like it’s a part of me at this point,” Green said. “I’ve been doing it since I was 21 years old. It is my career, my livelihood, but I also do feel like it’s been truly a part of me, so it’s been really beautiful.”

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Dallas Green announces new City And Colour album, The Love Still Held Me Near

Listen to gorgeous new single Underground, taken from City And Colour’s upcoming album The Love Still Held Me Near.

Dallas Green has announced a new album under his City And Colour banner, The Love Still Held Me Near.

The Alexisonfire singer-songwriter will be release his next full-length on March 31 via Still Records, an imprint of Dine Alone Records. Dallas explains that the record was “born out of unimaginable loss and the subsequent journey through the grief and heartache that followed.

“It’s about digging deep down into yourself and attempting to unearth hope and light in the things that can comfort you through those times. For me that has always been writing and recording music, so that’s exactly what I did.”

City And Colour’s new single/video Underground is out now – listen below:

See the full The Love Still Held Me Near tracklist:

1. Meant To Be 2. Underground 3. Fucked It Up 4. The Love Still Held Me Near 5. A Little Mercy 6. Things We Choose To Care About 7. After Disaster 8. Without Warning 9. Hard, Hard Time 10. The Water Is Coming 11. Bow Down To Love 12. Begin Again

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“The Love Still Held Me Near”: City and Colour’s Dallas Green Talks Loss, Grief, & Love

Dallas Green opens up about the profound grief and love driving City and Colour’s achingly intimate and beautifully raw seventh album, ‘The Love Still Held Me Near’ – an unfiltered and brutally honest exploration of loss in its many forms.

‘the love still held me near’ – city and colour.

Let’s just forget the unforgiving presence of death and live wild and free; Godless or not, you can’t let the fear control your body…

D eath hit Dallas Green when he least expected it.

“We were on tour in Australia and my dear friend Karl tragically drowned, and it threw just everything in our world into turmoil,” the City and Colour frontman recalls. “It was one of those things that you just never want or think is going to happen, but then it happens to you…”

Green’s best friend (and longtime City and Colour producer) Karl Bareham went swimming in Australia’s Gold Coast while the band was on tour there in September 2019, and he never came back. A few months later, the COVID-19 pandemic came to North America, and Green had all the time in the world and nothing to do but sit with his feelings; to process his loss, soak in his grief, and let it pour out of him.

During those early months of the pandemic, Green reconnected with his old Alexisonfire bandmates, and the group began writing and recording songs – just for fun, initially – for the first time in over a decade; their fifth studio album Otherness was subsequently released in June 2022.

“I was so rejuvenated and almost reborn by this experience of being in a room with my guys again just playing, writing songs, and not really knowing what they would become or even if there would be a future for us to present it. It was just in those early months of like, ‘let’s just do this ’cause we are able to,'” he says.

Green found himself inspired by this reunion, and began writing new material of his own on the side. These were more intimate singer/songwriter-leaning songs, many of which centered around themes of love and loss – some influenced by the ongoing pandemic, others reckoning with his dear friend’s still-recent passing. They didn’t quite fit the Alexisonfire mold, but they were perfect for City and Colour – the folk/rock solo “side project” Green first launched in 2005, and has been running with ever since.

“I think the songs I was writing by myself became this real magnifying glass on that one state of my being – the grief and the loss – but I had started to come around this corner of it,” Green shares. “Once a week, I was jamming with the guys, and we were making a racket, and I was coming home and working on those songs, but every few days, I would go back to these sort of journal entry songs. And really, before I knew it, I had a whole batch of songs for this other thing. It was weird – it was like I’d found myself back to the person I was when I first started in the band, and I had all these other songs, and it was okay that I could do both ’cause nobody knew about either of them.”

“I’d found myself in just this total joy of making music, this youthful exuberance of how I felt when I was a kid, and I was moved by records before it became my all-encompassing life. The songs were just pouring out of me, but I was also letting them; I was letting it be easy, I think, which I’d never really done before.”

The Love Still Held Me Near - City and Colour

Green began teasing new music of his own about five months after Alexisonfire’s album release; City and Colour’s seventh studio album, The Love Still Held Me Near , released on March 31 via Still Records, an imprint of Dine Alone Records. Sonically tender and emotionally turbulent, The Love Still Held Me Near is an unfiltered, brutally honest exploration of loss in its many forms: From the death of a loved one to the loss of his own identity as a person who made music and toured, Green held nothing back in creating an achingly intimate and beautifully raw expression of heartache and inner turmoil.

“I’d obviously dealt with some loss in my life,” Green explains. “I lost some grandparents early, and some close friends of mine had passed away, but nothing on this level – and in the middle of the loss of all these other parts of my life, where it was me and a magnifying glass on this devastating relationship I had built with myself. It was just really like, ‘ Do I avoid all of that because it’s too personal or too heavy to talk about, or do I dive headfirst into it and try to use it as a tool to get my way through whatever I’m dealing with, and then maybe it will turn into something beautiful? ‘”

Awake, awake, my darling The moon is down The waves, the waves, they are crashing all around What would you do? What would you say, if I was gone? Losing your breath Toil and sweat Just hold on

If you say it now leave no doubt you’d shatter the earth it’s where i will be found ‘cause the love still held me near say it now then time will disappear.

He wound up diving in headfirst, and the result sees City and Colour at his most intimate and his most intense.

Full of soaring, stunning highs and tearful, tragic lows, The Love Still Held Me Near is a visceral, profoundly personal journey through Green’s own unrest and upheaval. From the heart-wrenching, breathtaking album opener “Meant to Be” and the smoldering, no-holds-barred “Fucked It Up,” to the emotionally charged “A Little Mercy,” the impassioned, soulful eruption “Without Warning,” the soft acoustic ballad “Things We Choose to Care About,” and the fiery and spirited “The Water Is Coming,” The Love Still Held Me Near reads like a diary and sounds like a heavy soul unleashed. It’s rip-roaring and dynamic in some spaces, and incredibly quiet and subtle in others. Through it all, Green remains unapologetic and true, wearing his heart on his sleeve throughout an hour’s worth of powerfully emotive and cathartic songwriting. These twelve songs may range in sound and scope, but they are all the undeniable results of grief and love.

“What I will always, I think, take from it, is that it was a way to turn something painful into something beautiful,” Green says of making this album. “It was just proof that I could lean on the thing that has always gotten me through. It’s always been my saving grace, whether it’s listening or writing my own music.”

He ends the album with the soothing “Begin Again,” an uplifting ray of hope shining on the darkness. “ Leave the worry a little while take my healing hand. When all is said and done, we will begin again ,” he sings knowingly at the song’s end, a sense of serenity radiating through his warm voice. “ It’s been a long time since I’ve felt peace in my mind, but there on the horizon, I can see the light .”

City and Colour will be head back out on tour, playing the West Coast and Southern states this August and September in support of The Love Still Held Me Near . Dive into our intimate interview below, where we discuss grief, death, and dive deep into the songs themselves, and grab tickets to City and Colour’s live dates here !

Dallas Green considers The Love Still Held Me Near to be the best thing he’s ever made, and it’s not hard to see why: Achingly intimate and beautifully raw, this album presents him at his most human and his most vulnerable: Fragile, devastated, but never fully alone.

As he sings in “Underground,” “ Let’s just forget the unforgiving presence of death and live wild and free. Godless or not you can’t let the fear control your body .”

Dive into the depths of this beautiful, breathtaking album in our conversation below!

Did someone say that this would be easy? Did they proclaim “this too shall pass”? One thing I know you learn for certain Is that the good times, they never last

But darling, you know i ain’t got the answers but i sure as hell won’t surrender it’s gonna be you and me ’til the end of time though we lost it all without warning after dark always comes morning you know we can make it one more night, – “ without warning ,” city and colour, :: stream/purchase the love still held me near here ::, :: connect with city and colour here ::.

A CONVERSATION WITH CITY AND COLOUR

Dallas Green: Well, first of all, I’m sorry for your loss, but I’m thankful that you were able to relate to what I was singing about. I think that’s what was part of the reason why I sort of dove headfirst into writing about a lot of the loss and the grief I was experiencing was because I knew that it would eventually help me get through it. And then, obviously, the hope was that it would be relatable because it was sort of like that understanding that even though it felt like the end of my world, it is not a singular experience. It’s something we all have to deal with at one point or the other. So I’m sorry for your loss but I’m grateful that you were able to get something from the songs.

Dallas Green: Yeah. I think, it’s funny, the record is definitely about that, but it’s also, I think, about loss as a whole. And I think right in the middle of a couple of things was an experience that I never thought would happen. We were on tour in Australia and my dear friend Karl tragically drowned and it threw just everything in our world into turmoil. It was one of those things that you just never want or think is going to happen, but then it happens to you and really just makes you believe that, oh, this happens to everybody. Maybe not necessarily like that, but oftentimes it’s way worse than that. And so then the pandemic started, and so I was sort of stuck with a lot of loss and grief. And I think the part of me knew that at some point I would start to write about it just because that’s how I’d always written, at least City and Colour songs had always just been this platform for me to ruminate in and around things that are on my mind.

Whether it’s deeply personal things or just grand observational things, it’s just this place where I felt comfortable getting things off my chest. But then there was a long period where I just didn’t understand how I would write about something like that. And even the other parts of my life that were going completely… You know. My personal relationship, the loss of who I thought I was. I was this person who made music and toured, and then I was in the middle of the pandemic going, “Well, maybe that’s not a thing anymore either.” And it was just this real sort of crossroads of, “ Do you dig deep into the loneliness, or do you dig deep inside and try to figure out how to get through all of this? ” And that’s sort of what I wrote the record about.

Dallas Green: Yeah. I’d obviously dealt with some loss in my life, I lost some grandparents early, and some close friends of mine had passed away, but nothing on this level. And in the middle of, like I said, the loss of all these other parts of my life, where it was me and a magnifying glass on this devastating relationship I had built with myself, I guess. So, yeah, it was just really like, “ Do I avoid all of that because it’s too personal or too heavy to talk about, or do I dive headfirst into it and try to use it as a tool to get my way through whatever I’m dealing with, and then maybe it will turn into something beautiful? “

Dallas Green: Yeah, I think the songs really did guide me. I think because I was writing… It was a strange period. It was like I’d gone through this, the first bunch of months of the pandemic were, I think like most people, filled with confusion and dread and just sort of fear of the unknown of this thing that we were all collectively going through, but also just completely going through on our own. But then a few things sort of like sparked my creative brain, and things started to turn around where it just sort of kind of exploded. But because I was starting to jam with Alexis and we were starting to write songs for that new record at the same time, I was so rejuvenated and almost reborn by this experience of being in a room with my guys again just playing, writing songs, again, not really knowing what they would become or what it would become or even if there would be a future for us to present it. It was just in those early months of like, let’s just do this ’cause we are able to.

But in doing that, I think the songs I was writing by myself became this real magnifying glass on that one state of my being, the grief, and the loss, but I had started to come around this corner of it. So it was just sort of like I just started writing these other songs. Meanwhile, once a week, I was jamming with the guys, and we were making a racket, and I was coming home and working on those songs, but every few days, I would go back to these sort of journal entry songs. And really, before I knew it, I had a whole batch of songs for this other thing. And it was weird. It was like I’d found myself back to the person I was when I first started in the band, and I had all these other songs, and it was okay that I could do both ’cause nobody knew about either of them, and it was just this…

Dallas Green: Yeah, right? But it was like I’d found myself in just this total joy of making music, this youthful exuberance of how I felt when I was a kid, and I was moved by records before it became my all-encompassing life. So I think it was really just the songs were just fucking pouring out of me. But I was also letting them, I was really just letting it. I was letting it be easy, I think, which I’d never really done before. I had always sort of made it really difficult on myself, for whatever reason.

Dallas Green: All I ever wanted to do was make music, and I got to do that, but the way it happened, and the two bands, and it actually working, and people liking it, and all of this other stuff, it’s been a very confusing experience for me.

Dallas Green: Yeah, exactly. All I had was time, and I’d always said if I had double the amount of time or if I actually worked on music as much as I thought about working on music, then I would have twice as much. And there you go. In five months, I had written and recorded two records.

Dallas Green: Yeah, I know.

Dallas Green: Oh, they’re like much different. I think the conception of them, it was a strange… Like I said, it was sort of this crossroads where I went from not thinking I was gonna write much or sort of like losing who I thought I was, to all of a sudden a switched turned where I was like, “What am I doing?” This is just what I do. I write music and sing songs, whether I get to do that for a living or not anymore has no bearing on the ability that I have to just write and make songs. So once that clarification hit me, I just went full force into it. But so much of it was written alone. And the City and Colour songs were really birthed from a lot of just isolation, whereas the Alexis jams, when they started, we had a place we could go to where it was a private building and we would wear masks, and we could go in there and not be around other people. And it was just, it’s a space. But the City and Colour record was made with the hope that by the time I was gonna record it, my band would be able to fly from Vancouver to Ontario.

Dallas Green: Yes, they were, thankfully. But even that, we recorded both records out at a studio where we could just live there and not really be in the public. So that really helped us. We knew the people who owned this place. But it was just such a strange time to make music, but I think, again, we don’t need to focus too much on the fact that I made it in the pandemic. But I do think both records have this real joy to them, and I think it’s because the people who were making music in that room at that point hadn’t really been in a room of people in a long time. And I’m sure a lot of records that were made in that first few months of being able to kind of gather again, I think ultimately just ended up having this real beautiful sense of joy to it because for people who do that, people who gather for a living and make music with other people, it’s a real life’s blood for us, I think. So I know I was just happy to be there. I was obviously grateful to be making music, and I’m so appreciative of still having that in my life but, man, just being in a studio with some other human beings was like… You know. After six months of playing to a drum machine, playing music with an actual drummer, it was just like, oh. You know?

Dallas Green: Yeah, it was the first record I had made without Karl since before If I Should Go Before You . So I think it was strange for all of us ’cause everybody who was a part of the record knew Karl or worked with Karl before, too. So when we all went to make the record, we all knew what we were doing. It was like everybody knew what I had been through to write all of these songs because they were all with me. They were all my friends or either parts of it or family. So it wasn’t just like a bunch of strangers working on songs I had written. We all knew what we were trying to capture. And it’s one of those strange things where I don’t know if a lot of the songs exist without what happened happening, but I also don’t think the record is the way it is if I don’t have the experiences I’ve had with Horse. So he is deep in the fabric of this record. Whether he’s there or not, he’s there in it.

Dallas Green: Absolutely.

Dallas Green: Well, obviously, it’s a song on the record but I usually like to think of a phrase that just sort of encapsulates the group of songs. And for me, as much as that song is sort of like specifically… The song itself is specific in what it’s about but I just sort of kept leaning on that phrase because I think it was the thing that truly did help me get through the troubled waters was that I just was hanging on to the good. And whether it was the fact that I was alive so I better use my time wisely or the fact that I didn’t let the darkness take over, and I tried to, like I said, use my time wisely and create something beautiful out of the darkness I was experiencing. And it was that. It was the love and it was the light and it was thinking about the good things that kept me pushing forward, like you just said.

ON THE SONGS

Dallas Green: Yeah. I think when I was writing a bunch of the songs, I don’t want to say it was tiptoeing around the idea, but I was sort of waiting for it to hit me, whether it be a certain line or a melody that just made me realize like that’s going to be the song I write about this specific feeling. And I remember the night that it just kind of presented itself. I was working on something different, and then I just was fiddling with chord progression and then the line “the sun, it kept on rising” just kind of came to me and it was just one of those moments where I kind of just knew that was gonna be it, this was gonna be the song. And then when I wrote it… It’s funny, I’ve had the line at the beginning of the song “when I grew up I had big city dreams; I wondered if the Bible was wrong”, I’ve had that line forever and I’ve just never wanted to put it in a song or just never worked in a song or it’s just been written down in numerous versions of my books forever. And then all of a sudden that night, it just started unraveling itself, and I knew I was gonna write about Karl.

But I was also gonna write about the fact that I was born and raised a Catholic and went to Catholic school my whole life and was taught a certain way of living or a certain version of what life is supposed to be or is according to certain things. And they all just sort of smashed into each other in that evening when I wrote the song. And it was this way for me to sort of eulogize my friend, my lost friend, but also question a lot of what I’ve been taught or what I had been taught, which is what I like about music. That’s what I always try to do with songs. I like to write simple songs but I’m having big deep conversations about things in myself when I’m trying to put it together. You know what I mean? And that’s the beautiful journey of writing a song is you can put so much into it and then it leaves you and it could be anything to anybody else.

Dallas Green: This is how I choose to write.

Dallas Green: Well, ’cause I think it was I’ve never been shy about singing about that kind of stuff because I ruminate on it a lot, and that’s why I’ve always written openly about death or the idea of what it is or what happens. We should all be enamored by it. It’s the one real truth that we share is that we’re all gonna die, and we need to figure that out. I don’t know. But this one is just specific because it’s about an actual death.

Dallas Green: No. And I think that was part of why I felt okay about writing that song was I knew it was gonna be sad, but I think that’s okay. And, like I said earlier, what would holding it in do? I will be honest, though, right before it came out, I did have a moment of panic where I was like, “Is this ridiculous. Am I being ridiculous by singing about this?” And I called my friend Juice, who’s another one of my long-time crew member family members, who literally was in the room with me when me, him and our friend Dante had to identify Karl. I called him and was like, “Am I being ridiculous?” And he was the one who reminded me that, “Well, no, I can’t write a song about this. But I was there, and it’s not singular to us. It’s something that happens to everybody.” And then I also listened… I don’t know if you’ve listened but Nick Cave recently put out a book called Faith, Hope and Carnage, and it’s just a long-form conversation with him and a writer, Irish writer. It’s really beautiful but, man, does Nick ever speak so beautifully and poetically about grief and his own grief and writing about it and sharing it. Listening to that audiobook, that conversation really helped put it into perspective for me too, is that you’re numbed by this thing when it happens. He puts it, I think he says, you’re obliterated by grief. And for so many people, it’s like the words haven’t even been invented yet on how to speak about it. It’s really beautiful. Even if you like Nick Cave’s music or not, it’s really just a beautiful book.

Dallas Green: No, that’s okay. I think that there’s nothing wrong with simplifying something, so it’s understood. And I think, yeah, that’s exactly what it is. That’s what the title is. I’ve never been shy or shied away from just writing simple songs because sometimes I think that’s the easiest way to get your point across. But I think with that line, I was just thinking a lot about those… I wrote that song in the real depths of the pandemic, and I was thinking about how there was this narrative coming to play where it was like, well, just be happy with being healthy and being alive and just stay inside and all that. And I appreciated all of that too and I was doing my part, but then I started to think, at some point, we have to be alive. We do have to be alive. And it’s not an anti… It’s not like a political pandemic song by any means. It was just sort of magnifying this idea that you have to try to do something with your life.

Dallas Green: Well, I do. I think, like you said, you carry it with you, but it’s been there the whole time, right? It’s been there the entire time that you’ve been alive. You’ve known that this is possible. And like I said, it’s like one of the first things you learn when you come flying out of the womb, and they’re like, “Okay, let’s make sure it’s breathing because it could immediately die.” You don’t even have a life yet. But it becomes this thing that nobody talks about, and we’re all terrified of it. And I think for me, I’ve always felt like I lived that way. I always felt like I’ve tried to follow where my passion takes me, for better or for worse. But, man, there’s nothing like losing someone to make you remember how fragile it actually is.

Dallas Green: Oh, yeah. I feel like I’ve always been pretty open in my songwriting, always been pretty direct. I think when I was younger, being in Alexis and writing really strange music and songs about whatever we could think about was an avenue for that part of my creative brain. And City and Colour, like I said, always just became this sort of direct journal entry rumination of what I was feeling at the time, putting it to music. I’ve never really changed that approach. But I think this time around, too, it’s like I just knew exactly what I needed to say. And “Fucked It Up” is just basically, is simple. I mean, it’s a simple playful song about how complex and fucked up relationships can be and how, if you plan to try to be in a relationship with somebody for a very long time, it goes up and down constantly, and that’s where the line “ain’t it strange how we keep fallin’ in and out of love?” comes from.

That’s simple as it can be. But if you’ve been in a long-term relationship, you know how complex it is and what I’m actually saying when I’m saying that. I was talking to somebody recently, there was a bunch of married people. We were talking about marriage, and this girl said, “It’s crazy how I’ve been in like six or seven different relationships since I’ve been married, and they’re all with the same person.” And I was like, “You know what? I wrote a song about this, actually.” [chuckle] It was before this one had come out. And “Fucked It Up” is I came up with that chorus lyric, and I was like, oh, this is a perfectly simple fun way to describe what’s been going on.

Dallas Green: Oh, nice. Another simple one.

Dallas Green: “Without Warning” was something that came really quickly. I had discovered this, I was going through an old file on my computer of demos and just some ideas and things, and I had stumbled upon this piano sort of verse-chorus idea I had laid down years ago. I didn’t even remember, but as soon as I heard it, it started to remind me of where I was when I was writing the melody. So I started to fiddle with it a bit, and it was like I saw the whole song in that moment. And I called Matthew, my friend Matthew Kelly who plays in my band and produced the record with me, ’cause he’s a wizard when it comes to musical instruments and arrangements and things like that. That’s the kind of stuff, when I said earlier I’ve made it easier on myself. An old me would have struggled through trying to put this thing together that I saw very clearly in my head but instead, I called Matt. I said, “Matt, I’m gonna send you a verse and a chorus piano thing. Build me a five-minute framework of a song that has a verse, a chorus, two verses, two choruses, blah, blah, blah.” And I was like, “I have a song in my head. I need to do it right now.” And a few hours later, he sent me back this demo and I wrote the song over it that evening.

‘Cause I just knew that I had it. And that doesn’t happen often for me, really it doesn’t. That makes me sound like a magician and I am not. That’s really every so often, I just can see what I’m hearing, if that makes sense – and that was when I knew. As soon as I came up with that first line, I knew what I wanted to write about, I knew the sentiment I wanted the song to portray. And if I played you the demo of it, it didn’t change much at all when we went to record it. It felt special right then and there and that was it.

Dallas Green: Thanks, man.

Dallas Green: Yeah. [ laughs ]

Dallas Green: My favorite song is “ A Little Mercy ” because I’m a sucker for two chords and that’s it. My favorite songs are always the ones like that which are just like that’s a song where I just needed to get something off my chest. And I just love the groove of it. I was trying to write some… I don’t know. It’s like me just really loving Shad, and just trying to imagine Shad sort of soulfully dancing on stage. So that’s where the music of that song comes from.

And I really love “ Bow Down to Love .” That was important. I think those two are important to me because those are the two songs that don’t deal too directly with the grief or the personal turmoil I was experiencing. Those were two songs written just from an observational standpoint of like I was watching the world break apart and I just wanted to write. I just wanted to write songs about the pain I felt like everybody was experiencing.

And so those two I think are more important to me in a way because I wasn’t using them as total therapy sessions. They were more just like reminiscent of moments I’ve had where I just wanted to write a song about. “Bow Down to Love” was just watching all of the George Floyd protesting and all of that and just seeing how angry we were and how upset everyone was and how filled with anger we all were about everything. And I just wanted to write the opposite of that.

The day begins to blur Under this bruised light Within the beast still stirs Am I unfit to guide? And now I’m weeping towards the sky For what seeps back into the earth Are we not supposed to love In fear of losing someone? Are we too afraid to feel Too many wounds to heal? Will they ever heal? Will they ever heal?

Cause we don’t need this pain and this suffering, no we don’t need this pain and this suffering, no just a little mercy.

Dallas Green: Absolutely. And I can’t wait for it to come out because that’s also part of it, too. Once it’s out, then it literally is not mine anymore. It just becomes this sort of my contribution to the ether and people can listen to it if they want. If they don’t, that’s okay.

Dallas Green: No, no. These are good. I’ve been sitting on the record for a while and I’m proud of it and I’m happy to talk about it. I am.

Dallas Green: Yeah, that’s something. That’s where I was coming from, from both points of it. I think the songs, as much as they’re all personal to me in my own way, a lot of the times I’m trying to tackle, certain lines will mean this, and certain lines will mean this and they all end up as a sort of succinct statement as one. But I am really just having these big conversations with myself. And I’m glad to hear you say that that’s what it made you feel.

Dallas Green: I’m gonna think back to it here. I do love the line, just it’s simple… I mean all of them are simple but I love the line in “A Little Mercy”: “ Are we not supposed to love in fear of losing someone? ” I think that’s an interesting question because when you do love someone and you lose them, you do realize how much you actually did fucking love the person. And you sometimes wonder, Is it a safe thing to do to yourself to put yourself out there in fear of losing it? But I think ultimately, yes, of course you should.

Dallas Green: No, it’s definitely my shit happens record, for sure. No, it is. It’s like, okay, well, this is the point of your life you’re in.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Dallas Green: Well, it’s hard for me to say or judge that because I don’t know that it’s up to me. I would say personally that it’s the best thing I’ve ever made.

Dallas Green: But I like to feel that way about everything. And it doesn’t necessarily have to be, I mean every new thing I make, and that doesn’t necessarily have to be on the whoever’s list of whatever. It’s just, I like to think that I’m constantly pushing myself forward, whatever that means. But I do feel like it is the best thing I’ve made because it was an intersection of the most emotionally distraught period of my life but mixed with 20 years of only doing this. And, like I said earlier, that switch just turned on where I was like, oh, this is what I do. I can just make music ’cause I’ve spent more time making music than doing anything else in my life at this point. So I really, like I said, I just made it easy on myself. I went in and I knew exactly what I needed to do to make the record, and I think I did that.

Dallas Green: Well, like anything I make, I do hope that they can just take whatever they need from it, people who listen to it actually give it time ’cause, again, that will always be my favorite part about music is everybody has a different experience when they listen to something. But for me it was personally just, it was proof to myself that I could keep going. And I don’t mean that in a darkness way, like there was no way I was able to carry on. I just mean like I had no reason to make the record other than to make it for myself. I don’t have a record label forcing me to do it. I don’t have people pressuring me to write songs.

Like you said at the very beginning of our conversation, I write when I feel like I need to write and then I make music and put it out and hope that people like it. That’s my process. So for me, it was just proof that I could lean on the thing that has always gotten me through. It’s always been my saving grace, whether it’s listening or writing my own music. So that’s what I will always, I think, take from it is that it was a way to turn something painful into something beautiful.

Dallas Green: Yeah. I think because I’ve read a bunch of people’s thoughts on the song and I’ve spoken to people now about it, and I realize that I think it was the right thing to do was to share my experience because I could.

Dallas Green: Yeah, that’s it. And thankfully, I’m at a place too in my life, in my career, where I feel good about what I’ve done. And it’s just more so than ever about that, about what you just said. More than ever, I just wanna make music because I can.

Dallas Green: Okay. What have I been listening to in the last few days? I’m gonna look at my phone quick. So there’s this girl. This girl’s got this great, great pop song. What is her name? Her name is Eloise. She’s English and she’s got a song called “Giant Feelings” that is just a perfect chorus. What else?

There’s a girl singer/songwriter from England named Billie Marten. She just put out some new songs that are really, really good. I’ve listening to the Alex G record ‘God Save the Animals’. That song “Miracles” is just a perfect… It’s like a Tom Petty song. What else? Lots of stuff. Lots of old stuff, lots of new stuff, but those are some newer things I’ve been jamming the last few days.

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A Conversation With Dallas Green (City And Colour)

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Post date April 4, 2023

Since City And Colour emerged in 2005 as a prettier, more refined offshoot to Alexisonfire (the influential Canadian hardcore outfit he co-founded), Dallas Green has ushered his singer/songwriter project through numerous permutations. But the common thread has always been his voice, an aching freak of nature that has the ability to wrench your heart from its chest cavity. It does exactly that on “Meant To Be,” the leadoff track to The Love Still Held Me Near (Still/Dine Alone), City And Colour’s first LP in four years.

Like many of us, the Juno Award-winning singer/songwriter has had a tough few years. Green’s pandemic angst was compounded by the loss of two close friends: cousin Nicholas Osczypko and City And Colour producer/engineer Karl Bareham, the latter whose drowning death inspired “Meant To Be.” Throw in Green’s trial separation with his wife, and you have a pretty solid explanation for why City And Colour’s seventh release can be a serious emotional workout at times.

Green worked through the grieving process with longtime band member Matt Kelly, who co-produced The Love Still Held Me Near , and he’s since reconciled with his wife. Chatting with MAGNET for the first time, he puts some perspective on the chain of unfortunate events that fueled his latest work.

Let’s get this out of the way right now—that voice. Do you ever see it as anything but an asset? One of the best things I have in my life is when I sing. Since I was very young and singing along to the records I loved, it always seemed to feel like more than just singing to me. It was a way of emoting that I couldn’t necessarily do by speaking. The answer I want to tell you is that I’ve never felt anything but great about it. But I do know that people have judged me and my music based on my voice. That’s something you learn when you sing for people half your life, and you realize you’re asking for their opinion, whether you want it or not. I’ve had people say really terrible things about my voice, and I’ve had them say really nice things, too. At this point, I’m just comfortable with it. I don’t think I’ve ever felt more comfortable with my voice—or who I wanted to be—than on this record.

Condolences on the loss of your two friends. How does mortality inform The Love Still Held Me Near ? I just don’t think there was any way to avoid it. There was so much tied to what we were all feeling about my friend Karl. It was so sudden, and he was out on tour with me. I’d made a couple of records with Karl producing with me. He was like a brother to me. I’ve always used City And Colour to kind of ruminate on things that are weighing me down. I wasn’t sure how I was going to address it at first. How do you make sure you’re going to speak elegantly about these things? But somewhere along the way, I started to realize that this is just what I do—I use this as a process to help myself through everything in my life.

This album has to be your most emotionally direct. I was working through such a heavy batch of emotions, so it needed to have this urgency to it. The record became more about me blossoming into this thing where I was healing—but healing out loud. I started to feel like I had to be as direct as possible.

What was it like co-producing with Matt Kelly? It was beautiful. Matt’s been playing with me for 10 years. When I started realizing I had a good batch of songs cooking, it coincided with COVID restrictions easing up and Matt being able to come visit me. As we started working on the songs, we realized there was this whole new version of our working relationship as we grieved together. When it came time for us to think about going into the studio, Matt became this sort of catalyst for me. He helped me get the vocal performance I wanted. He just sat at the board, and I got stoned and was like, “Let’s fuckin’ do it.”

“Meant To Be” and “Begin Again” resonate for so many reasons, and the vocals on both are heartbreaking. Was there ever any doubt that those songs would the album’s bookends? No. It really presented itself early in the process. “Begin Again” was the first song I started to write in February of 2020. When I finished it, it felt so joyful … It ended up feeling like the finale. And “Meant To Be” had to be the first song.

For someone who’s just discovering the City And Colour catalog, what two albums would you most recommend for newbies—aside from this one, of course. I’d say (2008’s) Bring Me Your Love , because it’s a good snapshot of the young me, and (2015’s) If Should Go Before You , where I really explored some musical territory I love. I wrote that record after really getting to know the guys I was touring with. It was a great period in my life.

On a personal note, you have the same name as one of the most famous Philadelphia Phillies managers. Is that a coincidence? Not at all. I was born Sept. 29, 1980. My mother wanted to name me Graham-Todd—hyphenated, by the way. My dad did not want to name me Graham-Todd. That year, he bet money on the Phillies to win the World Series. They did—and he named me Dallas Green. My father was a gamblin’ man.

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This 2023, Canadian singer-songwriter and esteemed music producer Dallas Green, a.k.a. City and Colour, will embark on a highly-anticipated global tour with a hefty string of dates across Europe and North America! In September, the platinum-selling artist will make his way toward the U.S. to perform a limited number of shows, 15 dates to be exact! On Tuesday, 12th September 2023, City and Colour will deliver his folk-driven hits at the Majestic Theatre Dallas! Fans can anticipate a myriad of City and Colour staples, such as “The Girl,” “Underground,” “Lover Come Back,” “Meant to Be,” and plenty more! Aside from older hits, City and Colour will also showcase new songs from his latest album, The Love Still Held Me Near! Whether you’ve been a longtime follower of his work with Alexisonfire or a newfound fan of his solo works, you should quickly secure tickets to see City and Colour at the Majestic Theatre Dallas!

City and Colour’s 2023 tour is set to debut the tracks from his latest effort, the Love Still Held Me Near. The album peaked at number 12 in his home country in Canada and spawned two chart-performing hits, “Underground” and “Meant to Be.” This 2023’s set list is also anticipated to feature many of City Colour’s career-spanning staples from his earlier releases.

In 2005, Dallas Green, who plays guitar for Alexisonfire, pursued his solo project, City and Colour, and released his debut album, Sometimes. The record featured several hits, including “Save Your Scissors” and “Comin’ Home,” which earned platinum status in Canada. Three years later, Green entered the charts for the first time with his sophomore effort, Bring Me Your Love, peaking at number 3 on the Canadian chart and number 11 and 35 on U.S. Billboard’s Heatseekers and Independent Albums. The album was led by two platinum-selling hits, “Sleeping Sickness” and “The Girl.”

City and Colour began receiving incredible traction, and the albums have achieved phenomenal commercial success. By 2011, Green had released his first number 1 ranking with his third effort, Little Hell. It was also his first record to enter the Billboard 200 chart. For his subsequent releases, Green continued to top the Canadian charts and earn several gold and platinum certifications.

His exemplary work has also earned him numerous accolades, including three Juno Awards and seven Juno Award nominations. He won his first Juno in 2007 when his debut effort, Sometimes, won Alternative Album of the Year. He later won Songwriter of the Year twice, once in 2009 and another in 2012, for the singles “Waiting..,” The Girl,” “Fragile Bird,” “We Found Each Other,” and many more.

Last year, City and Colour released the lead single “Mean to Be” from his latest album, The Love Still Held Me Near. The song peaked at number 44 on the Canadian Rock chart, followed by “Fucked It Up,” which reached number 3.

You can expect City and Colour to perform these amazing hits at his upcoming show at the Majestic Theatre Dallas. Green has been praised for his phenomenal tight sets and outstanding storytelling through his emotive lyrics.

Catch City and Colour at the Majestic Theatre Dallas on Tuesday, 12th September 2023, by scoring your tickets now!

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Dallas Green!! Amazing wether it’s city and colour or alexisonfire, he does not disappoint. My wife and I saw him years ago the night we Got engaged. He ended the night with the girl as his encore and played we found in each other in the dark which really hits home for us. I hope he comes back near us so we could him live again. Dallas Green live is just as if not better than on a recording. He’s the only artist that I have bought every vinyl for his music. Amazing!!!!

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Paradiso Amsterdam 2020-02-23. Dallas Green (City and Colour) decided to do this tour solo instead of playing with a band. The reason to do so was the sad loss of his friend and collaborator Karl ''horse'' Bareham. Most songs he did play solo while some were accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Matt Kelly on guitar, piano or pedal steel guitar. This all made it very intimate and personal, which was picked up by a warm and enthusiastic audience that helped him out by singing along. He really did touch many hearts tonight with his beautiful songs, which of course sounded different, more personal, stripped of all electric instruments and effects. It was a great concert. Impressive!

This was my second show and I was not left short of having an AMAZING TIME! Dallas Green is one of the most talented musicians out there and I believe that everyone should go to at least one of his shows. He is a role model and impacts my life daily with his music and I have been a fan for almost 10 years now and I plan on attending my 3rd show this august while he performs in Denver! I cannot wait!

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Biography: City and Colour

A simple man with a simple approach — Juno Award-winning Dallas Green, more commonly known as City and Colour, balances his Gibson Casino alter ego with the paired down resonance of his 1989 vintage Martin 0017 acoustic.

Since 2005, Green has been stretching wheels of his solo career from St. Catharines, Ontario Canada to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, Berlin, Paris and every stop in between. With three full length studio albums, three studio EP’s, and roughly six live albums, City and Colour’s lush melodies have infected radio stations, elevators and grocery store intercoms internationally, providing an honest success story of a humble tattooed post-hardcore rocker with nothing more than his guitar, a few close friends and, of course, his Warby Parker glasses.

Dallas Green was born on September 29, 1980, in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He began writing songs at age 14 with a small portion of the City and Colour collection written by age 18. Though introduced as a singer-songwriter for the band Helicon Blue, Green recorded his first recognized demo Simple Songs in 2000. In 2001 he joined post-hardcore group Alexisonfire with whom he gained his soulful reputation, using his bluesy vocals to cut through the band’s grating and aggressive nature.

By 2005, City and Colour’s debut full-length Sometimes (Dine Alone Records) was released, unveiling the unique rawness of Green’s style that hadn’t been previously captured in Alexisonfire. The tender austerity of the album bypasses the front of Green’s appearance and tenacious individuality. Green’s hit “Comin’ Home” is a popular tune among devout C&C fans with its twangy sincerity. Sometimes embodies the sadness which Green seeks out in music he tends to escape to. In 2009, the album was re-released to the U.S. for the first time in physical form.

Bring Me Your Love (Dine Alone Records/Vagrant), released in February 2008, introduced an abundance of instruments as well as a series of collaborations that hadn’t been used in his previous tracks. A more rounded and definitive album for Green, Bring Me Your Love has been compared to Neil Young’s Harvest. The increased momentum after the release of the album earned Green a spot on his first solo national tour, supporting Tegan and Sara as well as Girl in a Coma, followed by a headlining tour in January 2009. Singles from Bring Me Your Love include “Waiting…”, “Sleeping Sickness,” and “The Girl.”

2010 was an active year for City and Colour—a U.S. headlining tour promoting Bring Me Your Love, a UK tour in June 2010 accompanying Pink and Butch Walker, and a handful of singles including “Live Forever” featuring Shad and “At the Bird’s Foot”, a song found on the Gasoline Rainbows benefit compilation for the Gulf oil spill. Green’s velocity led to the writing of several songs to be demoed and soon released on his 2011 album Little Hell (Dine Alone Records). The versatility of the now collective City and Colour (ft. Daniel Romano and Spencer Burton of Attack in Black) showcases the versatility of Green’s writing techniques in songs such as “Fragile Bird” (#1 on the Canadian rock/alternative chart) and the ever so Nashville “Natural Disaster.” After repeated success of C&C’s studio endeavors and crowd reaction out on tour, it was announced on August 5, 2011 that Alexisonfire members had parted ways due to Green’s decision to focus on his solo career.

With numerous awards and nominations, City and Colour will continue to grow and share the intimate side of a rugged rocker. It was recently announced on the Official City and Colour Website that a UK tour is scheduled for October followed by a headlining U.S. tour in support of Little Hell in November.

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By Brenton Harris

For droves of music fans around the world, there are few sounds more evocative than Dallas Green’s voice. Whether soaring above the chaotic sounds of post-hardcore outfit Alexisonfire or hovering dreamily over the tender musical modes of City and Colour , Green’s signature tone speaks straight to the soul of his fanbase.

Green has released six albums as City and Colour, and album seven, The Love Still Held Me Near , is due out on Friday, 31st March. Green has deployed his voice in search of catharsis on each of his previous outings, penning songs of regret, grief, heartbreak and anxiety. This approach has yielded rich rewards, both commercially and artistically, allowing City and Colour to become so much more than just an Alexisonfire side project.

The Canadian songwriter is again seeking catharsis on The Love Still Held Me Near , using music to navigate the grief that followed the death of his best friend. On the album’s first two singles, ‘Meant To Be’ and ‘Underground’, Green sounds neither angry nor in shock, but prepared to process the grief.

Music Feeds spoke to Green ahead of an Australian tour that includes the SummerSalt festival and headline shows. Green opened up about the inspiration behind and intentions of a record that he feared he’d never write.

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Music Feeds: Dallas, you’ve just announced your new album, The Love Still Held Me Near . Are you looking forward to sharing some of those songs with the Australian audience?

Dallas Green: I’ve been kind of sitting on this record for a little bit while we were off doing the Alexisonfire stuff, but I’m really, really proud of it, and it was a really emotional record to make. So, yes, I’m really looking forward to sharing it with everybody.

MF: The album will land less than a year after the latest Alexisonfire record. Does it feel like you’ve found a well of inspiration lately?

Dallas: It does, but when we first started writing these songs, I didn’t really see it coming – and then all of a sudden, I just couldn’t stop. For a bit of context, 2019 was a very difficult year for me, and then at the beginning of 2020, with the pandemic kind of starting, I was in this really strange place in my life. I know it was really strange for everybody, but I think having had this really troubled year before it had put me in a really bad place – creatively and in my life.

I know that is a very cliché thing for a writer to say, but it was truly one of those points where I didn’t know if I was going to write anything else ever again, or if I would even want to play music. I had to have a serious conversation with myself and that led to this creative explosion where I just started writing. And then Alexis started jamming, and by the end of May 2021 I had made both records.

MF: What did it feel like to be experiencing such a sudden burst of creativity after all that soul-searching?

Dallas: It was the most creatively explosive time I’ve ever had as a writer. I really did find a well of inspiration, but I still don’t know where it came from. All I do know is that I’ve usually written about things that are troubling me or weighing on me – I’ve always tried to write myself through those moments – but this was really astonishing to me, to be honest with you.

MF: Were the events that inspired these songs still occurring when you were writing? Or was this you processing their impact in the aftermath?

Dallas: It was sort of the latter. In 2019, I lost my best friend, right before my last record came out. So I was promoting the record and I had no idea how to do it. I was not there at all, mentally and emotionally. It was really the world shutting down that caused me to have to sit there and process and think about how to talk myself through all of this stuff.

The record is really about me being as low as I’ve ever felt. It’s about feeling broken and torn apart and just trying to figure out how to put the pieces back together.

City and Colour – ‘Meant to Be’

MF: Your fans connect with your music in a deep and personal way, and your music has often been played at weddings and funerals. How does it feel knowing that your music has played a role in some of the best and worst days of people’s lives?

Dallas: To be honest with you, it’s a complex thing to answer. I couldn’t be more grateful that the music that I write as a cathartic process has been able to translate into other people’s lives. When I was younger, all I wanted to do was to write a song that made somebody feel the way that I did when I heard the music that I loved.

I could never have imagined that people would play it when they were walking down the aisle or in memory of someone that’s gone. It’s an incredibly complex, nuanced feeling to explain. I don’t really know if I have the right words to express how knowing that makes me feel.

Sometimes it makes me feel sad that there are even situations in other people’s lives where they would have to play a song of mine because someone has passed, but at the same time, I understand that those experiences aren’t singular to one person.

‘Meant To Be’ is about the most devastating thing that has ever happened in my life, but I also understand that it’s not singular to my experience; it’s a thing that binds all of us as human beings. While we all differ and we all have different opinions and different cultures, there are some things that bring us all together – and the truest and most universal of those is death.

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City and Colour 2023 Australian Tour

Wednesday, 1st February – Enmore Theatre, Sydney NSW
Tuesday, 7th February – Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo VIC
Thursday, 9th February – Forum, Melbourne VIC
Monday, 13th February – The Tivoli, Brisbane QLD

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Saturday, 28th January – Thomas Dalton Park, Wollongong, NSW
Sunday, 29th January – Esplanade Park, Fremantle, WA
Friday, 3rd February – Royal Botanical Gardens, Hobart, TAS
Saturday, 4th February – Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley, VIC
Sunday, 5th February – Torquay Common, Torquay, VIC
Saturday, 11th February – Park Beach Reserve, Coffs Harbour, NSW
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Eagles know opponent for 1st-ever NFL game in Brazil. How to get tickets, travel packages

The Eagles will have a marquee matchup when they open the 2024 season with the first-ever NFL game in Brazil.

That's because the NFL announced Wednesday that the Eagles will face the Green Bay Packers on Friday night, Sept. 6, at Sao Paulo's Corinthians Arena.

The Eagles were announced as the home team back in February. Sao Paulo is Brazil's largest city in population with about 12 million residents.

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A storied rivalry

The Packers, of course, are one of the NFL's most storied franchises. They finished 9-8 last season and made the playoffs as a wildcard team. They upset the No. 2 seeded Dallas Cowboys 48-32 in the first round of the playoffs before losing 24-21 to the San Francisco 49ers the following week.

Green Bay is led by quarterback Jordan Love, a first-round pick in 2020 who sat for three seasons behind Aaron Rodgers. But Rodgers was traded to the Jets last season, giving Love the chance to start.

The Eagles, meanwhile, are coming off an 11-6 season in which they lost five of their last six games, followed by a first-round loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They revamped a good part of their roster, signing running back Saquon Barkley and adding free agent edge rusher Bryce Huff, linebacker Devin White and safety Chauncey Gardner-Johnson among other moves.

The two teams have met 46 times with the Packers holding a 28-18 edge. They last met on Nov. 27, 2022, at Lincoln Financial Field. The Eagles won that game 40-33.

Why the Eagles-Packers are playing in Brazil

The Eagles last played overseas in 2018, when they beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-18 in London. Last season, the NFL issued a directive that it wants its teams hosting an overseas once every eight years.

That's because the NFL is planning to have as many as eight overseas games beginning in 2025. The NFL can do this after going to a 17-game schedule in 2021. That enabled AFC and NFC teams to alternate between having an extra home game each season.

Eagles chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie said at the NFL owners' meetings two weeks ago that the team was willing to give up one of its nine home games this season in order to play the first-ever game in Brazil.

"As part of the international priority, every team is going to host a neutral game," Lurie said. "We stepped up and thought, ‘Let’s do it in South America and Brazil, a really dynamic country ... We are big supporters in trying to make the NFL a more popular game around the world."

The Eagles will still have eight games at Lincoln Financial Field this season. The Eagles know all of their opponents , but the dates and times will be announced sometime in early May.

Eagles home games 2024

Dallas Cowboys

Washington Commanders

New York Giants

Carolina Panthers

Atlanta Falcons

Pittsburgh Steelers

Cleveland Browns

Green Bay Packers (Brazil)

Jacksonville Jaguars

Eagles away games 2024

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

New Orleans Saints

Cincinnati Bengals

Baltimore Ravens

Los Angeles Rams

Travel, ticket information

At last check, round-trip airline fares from Philadelphia to Sao Paulo will cost at least $1,000. The trip takes about 8½ hours of flight time. Sao Paulo is two hours ahead of Philadelphia.

Fans can check for ticket and travel packages through On Location, the official hospitality partner of the NFL, at onlocationexp.com/nfl/nfl-brazil-tickets. The packages aren't available yet, but they can include game tickets, deluxe hotel accommodation, game day transportation. Those fans placing a deposit can get access to the packages before they go on sale to the general public.

Contact Martin Frank at [email protected]. Follow on X @Mfranknfl.

Taste of the Masters: Bringing Augusta National's food experience to patrons at home

Pimento Cheese sandwich and moon pies. (Courtesy of the Masters Tournament)

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From start to finish, the Masters Tournament has an identity all its own. Whether it’s the drive up Magnolia Lane or the green jacket donned by the victor, the Masters is known for a multitude of things: azaleas in full bloom in early spring, Rae’s Creek, Butler Cabin and the quintessential selection of food and drinks enjoyed exclusively by patrons in attendance. Or rather, that used to be the case.

Insert "Taste of the Masters," a food and beverage initiative spearheaded by Augusta National in 2020 when the tournament took place at a non-traditional time, in November, with no patrons on-site due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pandemic challenged the sports and entertainment industry to adjust and adapt, and the Masters was no different. It began with a simple question from the team at Augusta National: What are some ways to help bring the experience to fans and make this a memorable tournament?

Aside from opening an online patron shop that allowed ticketed patrons to purchase Masters merchandise from home (the Masters only sells official Masters merchandise on the grounds at Augusta National), the team also came up with the idea of selling Masters food and drink kits to those ticketed patrons, which they dubbed "Taste of the Masters."

The full spread of what's included in Taste of the Masters. (Courtesy of the Masters Tournament)

The club and hospitality team spearheaded this initiative by identifying the items that represented the Masters best. Without hesitation, the answer was obvious: pimento cheese.

There may be no other concession item in sports that holds the weight or reputation of Augusta National’s pimento cheese sandwiches. With the perfect amount of spice paired with cheesy creaminess and jammed between two pieces of fresh white bread, the pimento cheese sandwich has been a staple on the menu board at Augusta since the 1950s.

Beyond pimento cheese, the team knew they needed to fill the kits with other options to satisfy the appetites of all who planned to enjoy the meals from home. Pork bar-b-que and egg salad were added as entree options, as were sides including Augusta’s signature chocolate chip cookies and potato chips.

When tasked with the challenge of replicating the on-site experience, however, a final few pieces were vital. While the food offerings satisfied the taste aspect, to really give it that Masters feel they added authentic plastic Masters cups and sheets of the iconic Masters checkerboard serving paper.

Masters coasters, food placards and flag toothpicks from Taste of the Masters. (Courtesy of the Masters Tournament)

The "Taste of the Masters" was such a hit that the team brought it back for the 2021 Masters, which featured partial patron attendance. The kits were now available to everyone, not just ticketed patrons, and sold out even faster.

And that was a wrap on the kits, or so the team thought.

The kits were discontinued in 2022, as patrons on-site could once again enjoy the full offerings while strolling the grounds. But overwhelming fan feedback suggested that the kits were missed.

Georgia Pecan Caramel Popcorn. (Courtesy of the Masters Tournament)

The team was not expecting "Taste of the Masters" to become a fan staple, but as folks expressed how important it was to have the kits, using them to create or enhance their traditions around watching the tournament together, it became clear it had. Augusta National recognized the opportunity for people to recreate the patron experience at home, and so, "Taste of the Masters" returned in 2023.

For 2024, the Augusta National team continued to look at ways to evolve and perfect the project. One enhancement for this year: Fans have had a say in what's included thanks to their feedback. Bar-b-que potato chips, Georgia pecan caramel popcorn and Masters coasters are included in the kit, with the popcorn’s inclusion a direct result of fan feedback. The team even added a smaller tasting kit as an option this year, also a direct result of fan feedback, which also includes fun accessories like food item placards and miniature Masters flag toothpicks to hold sandwiches together.

Pork bar-b-que sandwich with bar-b-que potato chips. (Courtesy of the Masters Tournament)

For Augusta National, the kits are yet another opportunity to go above and beyond for fans across the country while also paying homage to the tournament's roots in Augusta, Georgia. The food and beverage experience is part of Masters history, which started with the vision of Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts, who believed that food was key to the Masters’ evolution as an elite sporting experience for patrons. The two tournament pioneers wanted the menu to reflect a southern-style picnic, with sandwiches as an easy option that locals could create in their homes and bring to the course for the patrons.

The menu has come a long way since the Masters inception in 1934, with the Taste of the Masters as simply the next step in its evolution. What originally started as an almost regional, exclusive offering for ticketed fans in 2020 has now grown to a nationwide fan favorite in households across the country. As for whether the Masters pimento cheese sandwich has made its way to all 50 states, it’s hard to say, but 2024 is the first year where shipping to Alaska and Hawaii is available. And why stop there? Fan interest north of the border suggests that "Taste of the Masters" could be headed to Canada as well.

While nothing is guaranteed, "Taste of the Masters" looks to be around for the long haul.

Justin Lemminn is a member of the PGA TOUR's digital content team. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, he went to college at the University of Central Florida in Orlando and is passionate about his hometown Jaguars and the UCF Knights. Follow Justin Lemminn on Twitter .

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Masters 2024: Scottie Scheffler wins Green Jacket – as it happened

Scheffler has won two of the past three Masters

Key moments

Scheffler wins 2024 masters.

It got close around the turn but, as his challengers faded away, Scottie Scheffler remained cool as ice and he taps in at the 18th for par to win his second Green Jacket. In doing so, the 27-year-old becomes the fourth-youngest player to win the Masters twice after Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Seve Ballesteros.

The American could have left the course at any stage had his wife Meredith gone into labour, but he was entirely dominant and showcased exactly why he is the world No 1. Bogeys at the 4th and 7th will have offered the chasing pack hope, but he put on a display of ball-striking excellence and made seven birdies in a final round of 68.

Ludvig Aberg, the mightily impressive young Swede, came close in what was not only his Masters debut, but his first appearance in any major. He shot 69 today with a remarkable blend of power-hitting and deft touches on and around the greens, but he found water at the 11th and was unable to make up the lost ground down the closing stretch.

There was rich promise for Collin Morikawa and Max Homa at the beginning of the day, but the former made double bogeys at the 9th and 11th, while the latter never recovered after dropping out of the bushes at the 12th.

Scheffler has now won three times in 2024 and has not played a single round over par. In winning his second major here, he becomes the second fastest player to win the Masters twice.

Scheffler leads by four on 18th.

Scottie Scheffler makes a rock-solid par at the 17th to move to the 72nd hole with that four-shot lead intact. Remember he four-putted here when winning his first Green Jacket in 2022. Zero chance of that happening again though. The Green Jacket is his.

Scheffler’s to lose

Ludvig Aberg has to settle for par at the 15th and 16th after misplaced tee shots and this now seems a procession for Scottie Scheffler. The American places his tee shot at the par-three 16th almost perfectly, with his ball catching the right slope and feeding in towards the front pin. Does he nail the putt? Of course he does. Cool as a cucumber and his lead is now four going into the final two holes.

Scheffler leads by three

Sensational yet again from Scottie Scheffler, who hits a stunning approach into that pin at the back of the 14th green and moves to ten under. Collin Morikawa, his playing partner, is meanwhile back on four under having never really rallied since finding the water at the 11th.

Up ahead, Tommy Fleetwood has completed a three-under and bogey-free final round to finish the tournament at four under. That is currently good enough for a tie of fourth place, but either way it will be his first top-ten finish at the Masters.

Fleetwood, who was without his regular caddie this week, leaves the 18th with his stand-in local caddie

More birdies at the top

Scottie Scheffler just isn’t going away. He finds the 13th green in two, hits a perfect lag putt, then taps in for birdie to move to nine under. Ludvig Aberg continues to impress up ahead though: the Swede smokes a 329-yard drive down the middle of the fairway, leaving him only 121 yards in, then sticks his approach close and holes the putt. He remains two back, but where might Scheffler slip up?

Aberg makes birdie

Beautiful from Ludvig Aberg, who has 18ft for eagle at the par-five 13th after a sublime 236-yard approach. Make this putt and the Swede will be one behind Scottie Scheffler on seven under… it slides just by the left-hand side. That was a big opportunity, but this is no procession yet.

Aberg has made five birdies today but will rue finding the water at the 11th

Dropped shots

Things are suddenly not going to plan for any of the leaders. After Ludvig Aberg makes double bogey at the 11th, Collin Morikawa also finds the water and Scottie Scheffler fails to get up and down from next to the green so drops back to eight under. Meanwhile, one hole ahead Max Homa sends his tee shot at the 12th into the bushes behind the green, is forced to drop in the pine straw, and has to settle for double bogey.

Homa was one back on seven under but made a double bogey after finding the bushes

Scheffler birdies, Aberg finds water

Metronomic from Scottie Scheffler, who hits another brilliant approach, this time into the 10th, and holes the putt for a third birdie in three holes. Ludvig Aberg then overcooks the draw on his approach into the 11th, his ball catches the wind, and ricochets into the water. The Swede will do very well to escape with a bogey there. In front, Tommy Fleetwood has made another birdie in an excellent bogey-free round.

‘Anything you can do...’

What. A. Putt. Ludvig Aberg has just hit one of the putts of the week and it’s now seriously heating up at the top of the leaderboard. The Swede was actually disappointed with his approach into the 9th with his ball missing the ridge that runs across the centre of the green. It left him with the most slippery of putts 36ft back down a sheer slope towards the cup, and he had to start it way outside the left edge, but his ball slammed straight into the middle of the cup. Incredible.

How does Scottie Scheffler respond? Just as you’d expect the world No 1 to. Just after Aberg clears the green, the American flies his approach long of the pin and spins it back down the same slope to just two inches. That so nearly went in for eagle. Scheffler is eight under, Aberg is seven under. This is setting up some back nine.

Scheffler and Morikawa lead

Great response from Collin Morikawa and Scottie Scheffler. Morikawa’s tee shot at the 8th cuts too much and finds the fairway bunker, preventing him from taking on the green in two strokes, but he fizzes his third to just a few feet from the hole and taps in for birdie. Scheffler meanwhile hits a three-iron long of the green, but delicately chips on and holes the birdie putt. The all-American final pair share the lead on seven under.

Aberg leads

Scottie Scheffler makes bogey at the 7th after that poor tee shot, Collin Morikawa misses another good look at birdie, and that means Ludvig Aberg is now in a share of the lead at six-under par. Let’s remember that not only is this the Swede’s Masters debut, but it is also his first appearance in any major. A year ago he wasn’t even a professional; now he is the world No 9 and hunting down a Green Jacket. It’s absolutely astonishing — but there’s a long way to go.

Aberg birdied the 2nd and 7th holes and has looked solid with his irons

Aberg one back

Movement at the top of the leaderboard. Ludvig Aberg hits another monster drive 343 yards down the 7th then stiffs his approach 4ft from the pin and tidies up for birdie. The Swede is now six under and one shot behind Scheffler, but just as he reaches that mark, Max Homa makes a bogey and drops back to five under.

Behind them, Collin Morikawa has hit a bomb down the 7th but Scheffler’s drive clatters amongst the pines on the left then ricochets across fairway and into the first cut. The best he can do is punch into the bunker short of the green. It’s all happening out there.

Morikawa will be three-quarters of the way to a career grand slam if he wins the Green Jacket

Scheffler bogeys

The lead is back to one. Scottie Scheffler goes way long at the 4th, leaves a tricky chip back too short, and is unable to hole the lengthy par putt. Elsewhere, Bryson DeChambeau has made back-to-back birdies after those two early bogeys to get back to three under and Tyrrell Hatton has picked up yet another birdie at the 13th to get to two under.

Scheffler leads by two

That’s more like it from Scottie Scheffler, who is fast proving himself just as good with a wedge as he is with a driver or mid-iron. The American finds the greenside bunker at the short par-four 3rd with his tee shot, but splashes out to just a few feet and holes the putt for birdie to move to eight-under par. He now leads by two as he approaches the testing stretch from the 4th to 6th.

Up in front, Tommy Fleetwood has just hit a delightful approach from 106 yards into the par-four 7th before tapping in for birdie to move to three-under par. Another Englishman, Tyrrell Hatton, is meanwhile having one of the best rounds of the day at four under through 12 holes. The 32-year-old is bogey free and just drained a monster putt from 43ft to move to one under.

Aberg and Homa birdie 2nd

What a putt from Ludvig Aberg. The young Swede hits a glorious chip at the par-five 2nd, but his ball rests cruelly on the top of a slope that would have funnelled it down to the pin. He still has 22ft for birdie, but no bother: his tickled putt gathers pace down the ridge and rolls straight into the back of the cup. Max Homa then follows suit by making his first birdie for 34 holes with a solid up and down.

Behind them, Scottie Scheffler drives into a fairway bunker at the 2nd, has to splash out, then air mails his third shot way over the green. He makes par, but suddenly he has a couple of players breathing down his neck.

Scheffler and Morikawa under way

Is that 1st-hole nerves from Scottie Scheffler? The world No 1 has only 163 yards for his approach, but his nine-iron comes up 30 yards short and rolls back down the front of the green. Was that a mishit from the best ball-striker in the game? The American’s stabbed chip to the back pin then comes up several feet short — that distance he’s found rather uncomfortable of late — but he holes the nasty knee-knocker for par. Scrappy to say the least. Collin Morikawa meanwhile has a great look at birdie after a lovely approach, but his putt slides by.

Scheffler hit a poor approach at the 1st but rescued par

Elsewhere, Nicolai Hojgaard has made amends for that double at the 1st with back-to-back birdies, Will Zalatoris is having a decent round and has got back to one over after nine holes, and Rory McIlroy has just made a birdie at the 8th.

Smith four back after eagle

The leading four players are yet to tee off but we are already witnessing leaderboard swings below them. Nicolai Hojgaard, who at one stage led on seven under yesterday, makes double bogey at the 1st so drops back to level par, but Cameron Smith suddenly fires himself into contention by holing out for eagle from the greenside bunker at the 2nd. The Australian, who won the Open at St Andrews in 2022, has finished in the top ten four times at Augusta — can he win a second major championship today?

Elsewhere, Cameron Young, who is playing alongside Tommy Fleetwood, has also got to two under, but Bryson DeChambeau drops a shot at the 1st so slips back to the same mark.

Fleetwood leads English hopes

The highest English players in the leaderboard are Tyrrell Hatton, Matt Fitzpatrick and Tommy Fleetwood, and all three have made pleasing starts to their final rounds. Hatton has made birdies at the 2nd and 6th to get to one over, Fitzpatrick — the 2022 US Open champion — is back to level after a birdie at the 3rd, and Fleetwood hit a perfect drive then nailed a 25ft birdie putt at the 1st to get to two under.

Fleetwood’s 31 putts in round three was disappointing given he hit 13 greens in regulation

That is particularly encouraging for Fleetwood because in yesterday’s round he “struggled with [his] driver” and ranked 48th out of 60 players for putting strokes gained. That 1st hole will therefore give confidence to the man from Southport, who ranks second for approach strokes gained over the entire tournament, as he tries to cut the five remaining shots to Scottie Scheffler.

Rahm holes out

Rory McIlroy hits another brilliant drive and approach into the par-five 2nd, leaving him with an eagle putt from only 11ft. Big opportunity for the Northern Irishman, but the eagle chance slides by then he misses the return back up the hill for birdie. McIlroy should really be two under after two holes in this final round but he is one over.

Up ahead, Tiger Woods has just completed his 100th Masters round with a five-over 77 that takes him to 16 over, and Jon Rahm has just hit this absolute stunner at the 7th to get back to three over.

Scheffler’s putting holds the key

So, just how good is Scottie Scheffler at the moment? Well, he is of course the world No1, but his strokes gained statistics on the PGA Tour this season are also extremely impressive:

Scheffler strokes gained on 2023-24 PGA Tour

Total : +2.812 (rank: 1st) Tee to green : +2.798 (1st) Off the tee: +0.903 (2nd) Approaching the green: +1.347 (1st) Around the green: +0.547 (5th) Putting: +0.014 (97th)

Those putting statistics have been Scheffler’s only Achilles’ heel of late, with the American missing a disproportionately high number of short putts — about 16 per cent from 4ft, in fact. However, he recently switched to a mallet putter after being let down on the greens once again at the Genesis Invitational. His results since? Winner at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, winner at the Players Championship, tied-second at the Texas Open.

Scheffler has switched to a mallet putter but has a tendency to miss short putts

Scheffler did miss a 3ft putt when making a double bogey at the 10th yesterday, but he also drained a 31ft eagle putt at the 13th to catapult himself back into the lead. How he performs on the greens today could well hold the key to his chances of winning a second Green Jacket.

Kim on the charge

Is there a low round out there today? Absolutely — just look at Tom Kim. The talented 21-year-old, who already has three wins on the PGA Tour, began round four 11-over par, but he has just made five birdies in six holes around the turn to get back to six over. It could have been even better were it not for a missed birdie putt from 5ft at the 13th, but it will certainly offer encouragement for the chasing pack.

Kim has made birdies at the 4th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th holes today

Meanwhile, Rory McIlroy has just teed off with an absolute bomb down the middle of the 1st fairway, but his errant approach from 134 yards spins off the green and he makes a bogey. How many times have we seen that?

Tiger religion

Owen Slot , Chief Sports Writer, Augusta: I’ve just been out to watch Tiger Woods and failed. I mean, I got a few glimpses of him. If you stand at the top of the second fairway, for instance, you might get to watch him putt out 150 yards away down the hill. If you can see that far. When you get close, you have no chance and that’s just because Woods is a religion here and it may be that more people assemble for church with Tiger here now, when he is struggling to remain respectable, than in his heyday when he was accumulating victories.

The five-times Masters winner remains at 15 over after that four-over front nine, but his approach at the 14th has just rattled the pin only to ricochet 40ft away to the front section of the green.

Patrons gather to watch Woods tee off at the par-three 12th

Morikawa of old

Few would have predicted Collin Morikawa to make the final group at the beginning of this week given he has fallen to world No 20 and ranks 94th for total strokes gained on the PGA Tour this season. Remember, however, that this is a player who won the 2020 PGA Championship and 2021 Open Championship — both on debut — and who began his PGA Tour career with 22 consecutive cuts made, a record second only to Tiger Woods’s 25.

Morikawa was renowned as the game’s best iron player when he reached a career-high ranking of world No2 in 2021

The Californian has been plagued by inconsistency since, but in his pomp he ranked first for strokes gained approach on the PGA Tour, an asset vital for negotiating the numerous platforms on Augusta’s multi-tiered greens. Ranking highly in those metrics again this week, Morikawa begins round four only one shot behind Scottie Scheffler, and if he were to win the Green Jacket he would be three-quarters of the way to completing the career grand slam… at the age of only 27.

Out in the front nine there have just been birdies for Jon Rahm, Corey Conners and Sahith Theegala, and Rory McIlroy will be teeing off in about 40 minutes.

Homa: I’m a dog and I’m ready

Max Homa’s record in major championships until now has been a real complexity. The 33-year-old has six wins on the PGA Tour and reached a career-high ranking of world No 5 around this time last year, but in 17 major appearances before this week he missed the cut nine times and has only one top-ten finish.

However, Homa was the USA’s stand-out player in the most recent Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, scrapping to win a combined 7.5 points from nine matches, and he once again showed real character late last night. The American made a mistake in taking on the back pin position at the 18th and found the treacherous right greenside bunker, but he played an exquisite chip to get up and down to stay two shots off the lead. Speaking after a passionate fist-pump, Homa outlined his plan for today: “I’m going to remind myself I’m a dog and I’m ready for this moment.” Strong words.

In a dreadful 2017 season Homa missed 15 of 17 cuts and earned only $18,008 in prize money, but he is now the world No11 and in the penultimate group today

Out on the course, Keegan Bradley, Min Woo Lee and Si Woo Kim have made fast starts to get down to five over, while Tiger Woods has just completed a four-over-par front nine.

Donald’s seven key pins

Tiger Woods is playing in the 100th round of his career at the Masters, but like yesterday it is not going to plan for the 15-times major champion. A birdie at the 2nd offered encouragement but he followed it with a bogey at the 3rd and has just made a triple bogey at the 5th.

Luke Donald has meanwhile offered an insight into the Sunday pin positions and where the birdies and bogeys could be made today. Approach play is always vital at Augusta but that is particularly the case in round four. The European Ryder Cup says: “3, 6, 12 are the toughest hole locations for that hole. 2, 7, 8, 13, 14, 16, 18 you can use the green slopes to bring it to the hole.” This is where the greenkeepers have positioned the pins:

Hope for the challengers?

Don’t forget, there remains a chance — albeit a slim one — that events away from the golf course could end Scottie Scheffler’s bid for a second Green Jacket. His wife, Meredith, is pregnant and although they are still a few weeks from the due date, Scottie says he will abandon Augusta if baby Scheffler arrives early. Now that would be a dramatic turn of events.

...and we’re off

The first group are under way: Adam Hadwin of Canada and Fiji’s Vijay Singh, the champion in 2000. Hadwin’s wife, Jessica, is a bit of a hit on social media and kept golf fans amused with this tweet yesterday:

Hadwin replied last night: “To clear this up, this was taken Sunday when we got into our rental. Not this morning. Although maybe fixing a sink would have helped me play better.” Like Woods, he went round in 82.

Tiger’s troubles

“His friend and former player Notah Begay says he has a different DNA to the rest of us, and we can hope this does not become a DNF. After making a record 24th consecutive cut, he had claimed he was still in with a chance of winning, and while denial is a necessary part of confidence, the wheels came off the fun wagon.”

That was Rick Broadbent ’s assessment of Tiger Woods yesterday, when he shot 82. “It will be a long night and a long warm-up session,” the 48-year-old said of today, when he plays with Neal Shipley, the only amateur who made the cut. What an experience that will be for the young man.

Swedish star

Not since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979 has the Masters been won by a first-time player, but Ludvig Aberg is not your average rookie. It is less than a year since he turned professional, but the 24-year-old Swede has already won on the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, not to mention playing a starring role in Europe’s Ryder Cup victory in September. Could he pull it off today? Maybe.

• Owen Slot: Aberg has mental resilience to end 45-year wait for rookie winner

The villain we need

DeChambeau was brilliant on Thursday before slipping off the pace, but he finished his round yesterday with a moment of magic:

He has been a somewhat divisive figure in golf for a few years now, but the leading LIV challenger this week makes the sport all the richer, says David Walsh :

• Brilliant DeChambeau is the accidental villain golf needs

Will Scottie do it?

Scottie Scheffler, the 2022 Masters champion, goes into the final round with a one-shot lead. He is the world No 1 and was the pre-tournament favourite, but can anyone catch him? We’ll find out soon enough.

Aberg has mental resilience (and ice cream motivation) to end 45-year wait for rookie winner

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