Viagra Boys will tour Australia this November in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
Celebrated as one of Europe’s best live bands, punk-rock satirists Viagra Boys last touched down in 2019.
Now, the unruly Swedish outfit is thrilled to announce The Australia Shrimp Grand Prix tour – with three headline shows this November in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
Viagra Boys Australian tour
- Nov 2 – The Forum, Melbourne
- Nov 5 – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
- Nov 7 – The Tivoli, Brisbane
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Viagra Boys have unleashed three critically acclaimed albums to date: Street Worms (2018), Welfare Jazz (2021), and Cave World (2022).
Their electrifying mix of no-holds-barred attitude, electronically laced riffs, dark sax, and dynamic sound bursts forth in singles like Sports, Troglodyte, Ain’t No Thief and Punk Rock Loser. Another highlight is their audacious cover of John Prine’s In Spite Of Ourselves, featuring Amy Taylor (Amyl and the Sniffers).
Live on stage, Viagra Boys have garnered significant success and acclaim, performing sold-out shows worldwide, including prestigious festival sets at Coachella, Glastonbury, Lowlands, Outside Lands, Reading & Leeds, Meredith, and more.
2023 saw them tour the US with Queens of The Stone Age. The band’s impact extends to the Swedish music scene, where they’ve won awards such as Album of the Year and Best Live Act at the Swedish Grammis & P3 Guld Awards, highlighting their widespread appeal and influence.
Led by frontman Sebastian Murphy, whose voice is a compelling blend of impish smirk and smoker’s rasp, the band is known for its seething satire and darkly comic edge, encapsulating a unique blend of grit and sleaze.
Murphy’s lyrics often reflect on the absurdity and backwardness of the modern world, though he avoids prescribing beliefs or taking sides. Therefore, the band’s music is marked by a playful yet incisive critique of societal follies and contradictions, set to heavy-weight, explosive production.
Tickets to the The Australia Shrimp Grand Prix tour are on sale 28 June. Grab yours here.
