The Date

2021 is set to be an exceptional year for Perth veterans The Date. Not only are they on course to release their sixth album Mandate, they will do so unveiling one track per month, leaving no idle time throughout the year. Questioning, probing, illuminating and honest, mandate continues The Date's ethos of looking at the ways of individuals and their connections to each other and the people who lead them. As they always have been, The Date remain a band that writes what they see and above all, what they feel.

Writing as a two-piece and recording as a three-piece, The Date have produced Mandate between their own Dating 42 Studios and Hammerspace Studios with engineer Troy Nababan... and the results speak for themselves. Lead single Manage is strident but elegant, wrapping sleek guitar runs, courtesy of Rob Susanto around the distinctive voice of David Moran, as it crescendos with a call to the people to review themselves and their leaders and make sure they’re getting what they pay for.

After spending 2019 releasing their fourth album Premedidated and 2020 releasing their fifth album Dating, one track every month, the band are working to deliver this year’s album with another set of 12 songs again released on the last day of each month of 2021.

On their first single from Manage, Moran elaborates, “As the people of the world start to look harder at the leadership within their governments and how they deliver the basic necessities of health, housing, employment and safety, more often than not those in power are found wanting. When a change in leadership doesn’t create the change needed for the people, what do they do and how do they go about reinstating their rights and are those rights even accepted by those who represent them. Manage is the first release from our 2021 album Mandate and it begins a yearlong look at how the world is being managed and how individuals are managing themselves.”

As one of Perth's most enduring bands that writes for itself but plays for its fans, each month The Date will present the fruit of their hard work until Mandate is fully realised.

www.thedate.com.au / FaceBook: TheDateband / https://soundcloud.com/thedateband

Contact: David – (+61) 0437846321 (Perth, Australia) / david.moran@pincgroup.com.au

The Date’s tracks

• Maniacal by The Date
• Mantelligence by The Date
• Mantle by The Date
• Mandate by The Date
• Mantra by The Date
• Mana by The Date
• Mankind by The Date
• Manage by The Date
• The Promise Of Hollow by The Date
• I Lean Forward (To Get Ahead) by The Date