In the aftermath of Melbourne’s latest lockdown, Australia’s punk-rock heavyweights The Meanies will no longer be travelling to Queensland this weekend for Spring Loaded on Saturday or their shows at the Zoo on Friday and the Miami Marketta on Sunday. Spring Loaded and the Miami Marketta shows are going ahead with revised line ups – acts featuring Melbourne-based members are unable to attend – and the Meanies’ headliner at the Zoo has been moved to Friday November 12. Tickets for the Zoo show will remain valid, while refunds can be arranged at the point of purchase for those who are now unable to attend.
In addition to these changes, the Meanies have announced opening acts for all dates of their ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’, which now kicks of July 1, and which features DickLord as the main support on all shows bar one. DickLord, who will be going out on the back of their 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.” .
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.”
THE MEANIES ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS DICKLORD (All shows except Gold Coast and Geelong)
Thu July 1 – The Tote, Melb – Tickets
Fri July 2 – The Tote, Melb – Tickets
Sat July 3 – Jive, Adelaide – Tickets
Wed July 7 – La La La’s, Wollongong – Tickets
Thu July 8 – Lansdowne, Sydney – Tickets
Fri July 9 – Narrabeen RSL – Tickets
Sat July 10 – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle – Tickets
Sun July 11 – The Basement, Canberra – Tickets
Fri July 16 – Barwon Club, Geelong – Tickets
Fri July 23 The Eastern, Ballarat – Tickets
Fri July 24, – Railway Hotel Macedon – Tickets
Fri Nov 12 – The Zoo, Bris – Tickets
