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Billboard Canada Presents The Chats Live at Lee's Palace for Three Nights in July

The Australian punk band will play a three-night stand as part of the legendary Toronto music venue's 40th anniversary celebrations. Tickets go on presale today (Feb. 6) and on general sale tomorrow (Feb. 7)

Billboard Canada Presents The Chats Live at Lee's Palace for Three Nights in July

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Lee's Palace is making some noise for its 40th anniversary.

As part of the year-long celebration of the landmark birthday, the iconic Toronto music venue is bringing in Australian punk band The Chats for a three-night stand.

Billboard Canada presents The Chats from July 29-31 at Lee's Palace. The three shows will present the Queensland "shed rock" band at the same venue played by legendary rock bands from Nirvana to Oasis, Blur to the Buzzocks.

The concerts continue new Lee's Palace owners MODO-LIVE's mission to further the venue's legacy of memorable shows from buzzy touring bands while remaining a hub for the local music scene.

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The Chats formed as teenagers in 2016 and a year later went viral with "Smoko," which captured the particular ennui of minimum wage service work and popularized the Australian slang term for a cigarette break. In 2019, "Pub Feed" hit another viral note with a song about eating dinner at a bar while dreading the end-of-month rent due. The song was later covered by Aussie children's entertainment royalty The Wiggles. The 2022 album Get Fucked charted on Billboard's Top Albums Sales chart in 2022.

The songs are extremely Australian, and also so universally relatable that they've resonated worldwide. Live, the humour and slang-filled tunes can unite a room.

A venue presale for The Chats shows goes live today today (Feb. 6) at 10 am ET (PASS: CHATS40) and a general onsale tomorrow (Friday, Feb. 7) at 10 am ET. Ticket links are below:

July 29 - https://bit.ly/TheChatsJuly29-YYZ

July 30 - https://bit.ly/TheChatsJuly30-YYZ

July 31- https://bit.ly/TheChatsJuly31-YYZ

3 date link: https://bit.ly/TheChats-YYZ

The Chats shows are part of Lee's Palace's 40th anniversary celebrations, which brings a year of exciting concerts from both touring international and Canadian bands to the well-loved venue with upgraded sound and furnishings. Other acts include Preoccupations, Protest The Hero, Pom Pom Squad, Model/Actriz and many more. More info here and at the Lee's Palace website.

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