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THE VASCO ERA
return with
long-awaited new music

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“a prime example of just how intoxicating rock’n’roll can be” – The Music

“regarded as one of Australia’s best live bands.” – Beat

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After thirteen years out of the studio, pre-eminent Melbourne/Surf Coast band The Vasco Era (Sid O’Neil, Ted O’Neil and Michael Fitzgerald) are back. Their highly anticipated return to the sonic sphere is led by the speaker-breaking new single ‘I Don’t Mind’ (out July 11), the first taste of their forthcoming album of the same name, due September 2025.

“I Don’t Mind is about walking around seeing the lies and accepting them,” says frontman Sid O’Neil. “But like all thought processes, just when you settle on a perspective, it gets upset. I’ve been through actual hell and almost heaven since our last release — this song is about almost reaching acceptance. Kinda.”

The official video for ‘I Don’t Mind’ also lands July 11. It captures the tension and release at the heart of the track and displays Sid’s creative spark and quirk: “My son made a walking stick out of a goat skull, so I decided to walk around with it and make a film clip, as all good fathers would,” he says.

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Following standout albums ‘Oh We Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside’ (2007), ‘Lucille’ (2009), and ‘The Vasco Era’ (2011), the band return with a new album produced by longtime collaborator Greg Rietwyk (Lunchroom Records), capturing their raw energy with renewed focus. Named after its first single, ‘I Don’t Mind’ distills the album’s spirit: raw, loud, tender — sometimes all at once. The album itself is split in two — Side A: Yelling. Side B: Crying. A loud side and a soft side. A mirror of the band’s extremes, but also their control over them.

The Vasco Era have graced some of Australia’s most iconic stages with headline shows at The Forum and Corner Hotel, while earning international acclaim at festivals like China’s Midi Modern Music Festival, The Great Escape (UK), and CMJ Music Marathon (USA).

The members of The Vasco Era make and play music that is described as ‘bestial but heartfelt,’ which is an apt description for their new songs. It’s Sid (guitar and vocals), managing to flip from full-throated screams to sweet, delicate tones in mere seconds. It’s Ted (bass) and Michael (drums), foot to the floor, driving the rhythm and riff with an urgency that hits like a freight train. It’s all the usual chaos of the beloved Vasco—emotion, sweat, volume—but now it’s sharpened, matured; after twenty years of screaming it out to entranced onlookers, they know exactly what they want to say, and how to say it.

Their new album, ‘I don’t mind,’ will be released through Naarm’s own Marthouse Records, home to artists Dr Sure’s Usual Practice and Gut Health. “This record is us embracing both chaos and beauty,” Sid reflects. “Yelling and crying — two sides of the same coin.”

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Follow THE VASCO ERA
Bandcamp – Instagram – Facebook
YouTube – X – Spotify

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AMNPLIFY – DB