Blimey! Call the Prime Minister, innocent boys and girls of Australia! Like a young Michael J. Fox ripping through an obscene Van Halen solo at the end of a Chuck Freakin’ Berry song while a bunch of dumbstruck '50s kids at a High School Dance look on in horror, Rhode Island noise rock duo Lightning Bolt is crashing the unsuspecting country/continent of Australia for the first time; and, as Marty McFly himself can attest, you are SO “just not ready for that yet.”
As reported previously, bassist Brian Gibson and drummer Brian Chippendale are all set to drop their long-awaited follow-up to 2005’s batshit Hypermagic Mountain (TMT Review), the most-certainly batshittier Earthly Delights, on October 13 via Load. And now, hot on the flaming tracks of that new release, the Brians have been goaded into doing “something that really cooks.” So they’re kicking it up a couple of notches and bringing their whole DIY touring, rolling up parking lots, playing on the ground, blocking the exits kinda thing DIRECT to YOU, denizens of Australia and New Zealand. So if you live anywhere close to there, you might want to plan a fun little road trip down the interstate over to... umm, on second thought, I guess those aren’t the easiest places on Earth to get to, are they? Well, sans flying Delorean, at least... either way, if you live there, you’ll probably want to start practicing that whole “look on in horror” thing in advance, yeah?
Australia/New Zealand Dates:
11.20.09 - Melbourne, Victoria - Thornbury Theatre
11.21.09 - Sydney, New South Wales - Manning Bar
11.22.09 - Brisbane, Queensland - Hi Fi
11.24.09 - Auckland, New Zealand - Transmission Room
11.25.09 - Wellington, New Zealand - San Francisco Bath House
11.26.09 - Hobart, Tasmania - Mona
11.27.09 - Adelaide, South Australia - Fowlers Live
11.28.09 - Melbourne, Victoria - Trades Hall (Static Age Festival)