Hoodoo Gurus are celebrating 45 years with a singles-only Rewind Tour alongside Ratcat and The Stems.
Hoodoo Gurus say people call them a singles band, so their 45th anniversary Rewind Tour will feature nothing but the singles.
Running through November and December 2026, the Hoodoo Gurus Rewind Tour – All Killer, No Filler ditches the b-sides and album cuts entirely. The aim is to play every one of the band’s 42 singles at least once somewhere across the run.
Joining them on every date are Sydney pop-punk favourites Ratcat, who are marking 40 years of their own, and Perth garage rock institution The Stems.
Hoodoo Gurus Rewind Tour – All Killer, No Filler
- 28 November – Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide
- 1 December – Ice Cream Factory, Perth
- 5 December – Tumbalong Park, Sydney
- 6 December – Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
- 11 December – The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
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Frontier members get first dibs from 22 June at 12noon local time, with general tickets opening from 23 June at 1pm local time. Everything you need is at frontiertouring.com/hoodoogurus.
Melbourne fans can catch the bill at the Royal Botanic Gardens on 6 December as part of the Live at the Gardens series, an all-ages, licensed show under the open sky.
Formed in Sydney in 1981, the Gurus came up through the city’s late-70s punk scene before welding garage rock to sharp pop songwriting. Debut record Stoneage Romeos topped the US college and alternative chart, while Mars Needs Guitars!, Blow Your Cool and Magnum Cum Louder all landed on the Billboard 200.
Four decades on, the band have collected 10 ARIA Top 20 albums, nine Top 40 singles and a swag of platinum certifications, plus a 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame induction. You can hear their DNA in everyone from You Am I and Spiderbait to Violent Soho.
Ratcat’s story runs deep: the Sydney crew topped the ARIA singles and albums charts in 1991 thanks to the Tingles EP and its sleeper hit That Ain’t Bad, before doubling down with the chart-topping Blind Love. They came out of the same late-80s underground that shaped a generation of Australian guitar bands.
The Stems, meanwhile, helped define Australian garage rock out of Perth in the mid-80s, with their 1987 debut At First Sight, Violets Are Blue still held up as a classic of the era. Founders Dom Mariani, Julian Matthews and Dave Shaw remain at the core, joined here by You Am I guitarist Davey Lane, with a new single, Your Kind of Love, on the way as they finish a third studio album.
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