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THE MEANIES
reschedule more dates of their
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR,
which features special guests
DICKLORD!
Final radio single from
DESPERATE MEASURES,
‘SOUSA’ at radio now!
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THE MEANIES
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As Covid lockdowns continue to wreak more havoc than Wally Meanie at a wine tasting, The Meanies have to rejig a whole bunch more dates of their ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’ – which was meant to start last month!
As per the last announcement, the tour now kicks off in regional Vic in a couple of weeks, and then breaks until October, when it picks up in Adelaide, and continues through November. What hasn’t changed is that DickLord are the main support on all shows bar one. DickLord, who will be going out on the back of their now-new single “PMA” and recent album It’s Soooo Boring (both out now on Consume/Valve) have been spoken of by Monster Children thusly: “With songs about periods, shitty landlords and being fingered weird, there’s something in DickLord’s lyrics we can all relate to. Mix that in with splashes of Bad Brains and Black Flag references and you’ve got yourself a seriously good band.”
Tickets for rescheduled shows will remain valid, while refunds can be arranged at the point of purchase for those who are now unable to attend.
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DICKLORD
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The Meanies’ ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’ is a belated celebration of their ‘new’ album. Desperate Measures is a hard, fast and catchy onslaught of hard-hitting Meanies mayhem. It evokes the classic sound that made the band a household name in all the worst houses back in the ’90s, and which has influenced generation after generation of young punks ever since. Desperate Measures, out now on Cheersquad Records and Tapes.
Accompanying the tour announcement, and because it is their album tour after all, The Meanies have picked another radio single from Desperate Measures. “Sousa”, the album’s closing track, is bittersweet power pop punk with a couple of killer hooks, fat guitar and some perhaps deliberately obtuse lyrics from Linky that speak of a difficult time: “When your waking world makes less sense than your dreams and the realities of the failed experiment slap you in the face like a cold fish you write a song like ‘Sousa’; not really in the hope of making any sense of it all but more as a futile salve for what ails ya.”
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THE MEANIES – Starting out in ’88, following on from the late ’80s GOD/Bored scene and anticipated the subsequent successes of Spiderbait and Magic Dirt, the Meanies are genuine Melbourne icons and national treasures. Arriving at the same time as grunge, they defied the odds with a pop punk-meets-hardcore sound that pre-empted what was to come out of the US on labels like Epitaph and Fat Wreck Chords. They became Triple J and Big Day Out faves (they did the BDO in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1999!) and kings of the all-ages circuit, and they toured their arses off, playing with the likes of Nirvana, The Lemonheads, Redd Kross, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam and Bad Brains along the way. They toured Europe, the US and Japan and retain an international following. And like their older and uglier brethren The Cosmic Psychos, The Meanies are now enjoying a late career revival, which begun with the release of their first album in 21 years, It’s Not Me It’s You in late 2015 on Poison City Records. Desperate Measures was released in July 2020.
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THE MEANIES
‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’
with special guests
DICKLORD (All shows except Geelong)
Fri July 16 – Barwon Club, Geelong + Poppin Mommas + Eyeroll (no Dicklord)
Fri July 23 – The Eastern, Ballarat + The Dawdlers
Fri July 24 – Railway Hotel Macedon + Persecution Blues
Sat Oct 16 – Jive, Adelaide + Cull The Band
Fri Oct 22 – The Tote, Melb + Persecution Blues + Cheeky Geezers
Sat Oct 23 – The Tote, Melb + Super American Eagle + Sidesplitter
Fri Nov 12 – The Zoo, Bris
Wed Nov 17 – The Basement, Canberra + Charlotte & the Harlots
Thu Nov 18 – Lansdowne, Sydney + Blitz Babiez
Fri Nov 19 – Narrabeen RSL + Tshitaki
Sat Nov 20 – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle + I Hate People
Sun Nov 21 – La La La’s, Wollongong + Ape Rib
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM VENUES
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Website – Facebook – Instagram
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