Held in honour of the three-decade long recording career of Australian garage icons the Hoodoo Gurus, Dig It Up! highlights the band’s finely honed musical taste and inspiration by showcasing their favourite bands in several cities around Australia.
Hoodoo Gurus will again perform this year, playing their second album Mars Needs Guitars (a feature listing in 2010 book: 100 Best Australian albums) and home to singles Wipeout!, Death Defying and the classic Bittersweet. Joining them for Dig it Up! will be the band with the raddest name in the whole world, San Francisco’s Flamin’ Groovies, who produced some of the decade’s most vital recordings, including the classic singles Shake Some Action and Slow Death. Dig It Up! will be the first time since 1981 that the Jordan/Wilson/Alexander lineup of the Flamin’ Groovies have appeared anywhere in the world.
Blue Oyster Cult, a band revered by punks, metal heads, sci-fi geeks and horror movie fans alike, will tour Australia for the first time thanks to Hoodoo Gurus. Joining them will be UK punk pioneers Buzzcocks, along with Peter Case, The Stems and more to be announced soon.
