Grunge pioneers Mudhoney return to Australia and New Zealand this October, with their first Kiwi dates in over a decade.
Grunge’s snottiest survivors are heading back our way, and Mudhoney are bringing their fuzz-soaked racket to Australia this October.
Since forming in 1988, Mudhoney became the flagship act for independent label Sub Pop, stacking up more than 25 official releases across three decades. The Seattle four-piece helped lay the foundation of the grunge sound, and they show little sign of easing off the throttle.
Mudhoney
- 16 October – The Thornbury Theatre, Melbourne VIC
- 17 October – Torquay Hotel, Torquay VIC
- 18 October – Theatre Royal, Castlemaine VIC
- 20 October – Volta, Ballarat VIC
- 21 October – Felons Barrel Room, Manly NSW
- 22 October – Factory Theatre, Sydney NSW
- 23 October – King Street, Newcastle NSW
- 24 October – Zed 51, Brisbane QLD
- 25 October – The Northern, Byron Bay NSW
- 28 October – Blue Smoke, Christchurch NZ
- 29 October – Meow, Wellington NZ
- 30 October – Totara St, Tauranga NZ
- 31 October – Harbour Hotel, Raglan NZ
- 1 November – Double Whammy, Auckland NZ
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The run opens with a four-stop Victorian stretch through Melbourne, Torquay, Castlemaine and Ballarat, then heads north for New South Wales shows in Manly, Sydney and Newcastle. It wraps on the mainland in Queensland, where Mudhoney headline 4ZZZ FM’s Zed 51 festival in Brisbane.
From there the band cross the Tasman for five New Zealand dates, their first across the ditch in over a decade, landing in Christchurch, Wellington, Tauranga, Raglan and Auckland to close things out at the start of November. Most of the Australian leg also comes with Californian trio Primitive Ring in support.
The In The Red signings count members of the Ty Segall Band, Fuzz, GØGGS, Mikal Cronin’s group and Iggy Pop’s live band, though they sit out the Ballarat and Byron Bay stops. Mudhoney made their name on early singles Touch Me I’m Sick and 1992’s Suck You Dry, both pillars of the late-80s and early-90s grunge explosion, with 2023’s Plastic Eternity their 11th studio album. Tickets land at 9am on 30 June through Press Play Presents.
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