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  • songs from the land of nodThey don’t have Real Rock and Roll bands in New York City any more, do they? Don’t kid yourself, kid. They might be hard to find but they’re still there, their beating hearts buried under 50 feet of radio-friendly dross and cultural fragmentation.

    No, Virginia, there’s no CBGBs. They made a shitty telemovie about it and moved the awning to an airport bar, somewhere. It was a shadow of what it was, even when I got there in the mid-‘80s. There’s no Max’s, either. Times Square is more family friendly than a Disney dance party. Even The Continental is just a dive bar now, more famous for (literally) banning a figure of speech than the Joey Ramone parties it used to host in the ‘80s.

    Gentrification has a lot of downsides and one is squeezing cultural outsiders to the extreme margins. Art mostly doesn’t pay the rent, pegged or non existent. The NY rock “scene” is in Brooklyn these days, by all accounts. It has been for quite some time but it’s mostly disposable pop. Thank fuck, then, for Beechwood.

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The Stems
40th Anniversary Australian Tour
SEP 
+ The Rhinehearts
+ Vancool
5 – Freo Social, Fremantle
SOLD OUT!

Punkfest presents
Psychotic Turnbuckles 
“40 Years Undefeated”
+ The Dangermen + The Busymen
The Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane
- Sept 7
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"Outtaspace Weekender"
The Cha Cha Chas
+ The Warts + Space Boozies
Link & Pin, Why Why, NSW
- Sep 7
+ The Warts
The Oak, Tighes Hill NSW
- Sep 7
+ Plastic Section + Sick Fizz
+ The Howlin Rats + TOXEDO
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- Sep 8
(2.30pm)

King Brothers Australian Tour
SEP
4 - The Old Bar, Fitzroy, VIC
+ Rocket Science + Grinding Eyes
5 - Barwon Club, South Geelong, VIC
+ The Meanies + Grinding Eyes
6 - The Bearded Lady, West End, QLD
+ Dick Move (NZ), + The Dangermen (free)
7 - Marrickville Bowlo, Marrickvillle, NSW
+ Grinding Eyes + The Loose Lips
8 - Shotkickers, Thornbury, VIC
+ Mesa Cosa +, The Wraylettes
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The On and Ons
+ The Hovering Spooks
Marrickville Bowling And Recreation Club, NSW
- Sep 15 
(4.30pm - free)

The Stallers
+ 1978 + Balkan Grill
MoshPit Bar, St Peters
- Sep 28
(2.30pm)

Buzzocks Australian Tour
OCT
25 - Brisbane - The Triffid
26 - Adelaide - The Gov
27 - Fremantle - Metropolis
31 - Newcastle - King St Bandroom
NOV
1 - Sydney - Metro Theatre
2 - Melb - Northcote Theatre
3 - Lorne - Lorne Theatre
4 – Castlemaine - Theatre Royal
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The Saints ‘73-‘78
NOV
13 - Adelaide Hindley St. Music Hall
+ Double Agents
15 - Castlemaine Theatre Royal (SOLD OUT)
+ Parsnip
16 - Melbourne Northcote Theatre (SOLD OUT)
+ The Double Agents
17 - Melbourne Northcote Theatre 
+ Alien Nosejob
20 - Fremantle Freo Social 
+ Chimers
22 - Sydney, Enmore Theatre
+ Kim Salmon & The Surrealists
23 - Brisbane, Princess Theatre (SOLD OUT)
+ Chimers 
24 - Brisbane, Princess Theatre *new show*
+ Chimers 
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The Stranglers
50 Years In Black  
2025 Australasian Tour
MAR
NZ
13 - Powerstation, Auckland
15 - Meow Nui, Wellington
16 - Christchurch Town Hall, Christchurch 
AUS
19 - Enmore Theatre, Sydney
20 - The Tivoli, Brisbane
22- Forum, Melbourne
23 - The Gov, Adelaide
25 - Astor Theatre, Perth
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