Tag: The Meanies

Perth’s Benny J Ward returns with the new single ‘Fear Of Going Out’ and confirms October Melbourne performances with his all-star live band Benny J & The Psych Ward.

Spiderbait have unveiled local support acts for their Ivy & The Big Apples 30th Anniversary Tour, with the national run kicking off in Brisbane this weekend.

The Meanies have announced a broad run of Australian dates including Spiderbait shows, a return to Western Australia and a new split 7-inch release with Dad Fight.

Link Meanie reintroduces Bagful Of Beez as a full band with new single Fever Dream, featuring Meghan Maike, Matt Cotter and Chip Wardale.

Spiderbait add a second Melbourne Forum show after a sellout, extending their Ivy & The Big Apples 30th Anniversary Tour.

The Meanies return to the stage in March 2026, performing new single “Shutdown” alongside classic punk hits in Melbourne, Sydney and regional NSW

Melbourne punk icons The Meanies have released Shutdown, a track recorded 25 years ago, and announced a rare run of shows in Victoria and New South Wales this November.

Australian punk veterans The Meanies are set to unleash a slice of lost history. Their long-buried track Shutdown, recorded a quarter of a century ago, will finally see the light of day on October 9. To mark the release, the Melbourne legends will hit the road for a short, sharp run of dates that revisits their roots in sweaty pubs and iconic venues.

The Meanies have released their first new music since 2020.

Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett and Rami Jaffee are not dead. Also Dave Grohl has not gone solo. It appears the recent Foo Fighters movie ‘Studio 666’ was fake news. The Foo Fighters were very much alive in Geelong, Australia tonight, and for the record, lets date stamp that as 4 March 2022.

Foo Fighters will perform one show only in Australia in Geelong on March 4.

Lindsay McLellan (aka Link Meanie of The Meanies) has a new project called Bag of Beez and the first song from the project, ‘Syco’.

The Meanies have had to reschedule more dates for their Better Late Than Never Desperate Measure tour.

Alt-Music festival Spring Loaded has new dates for Brisbane and Melbourne.

The Meanies will finally get their arses back into gear for the ‘Better Late Than Never Desperate Measures’ tour to make up for the tour that couldn’t happen when the ‘Desperate Measures’ album was released.

Melbourne’s Even have brewed up an album of cover title ‘Down The Shops’, a collection of songs from Australian rock’s Hoodoo Gurus and The Sunnyboys to global hits from The Kinks, Blondie and The Beatles.

The Meanies will have a new album in July. Right now you are being treated to the “kinky horror” video for the new song ‘Cruel To Be Caned’.

After a successful 2019 in Queensland, Spring Loaded has expanded to Sydney as well for 2020.

The Reservoir Stomp is rolling around again in mid-November. It is the festival where anything can happen, like … when Wally Meanie and Murray Cook from The Wiggles performed an old Cowsills classic together.

May 1989. It was the birth of The Meaning. Now 30 years on, Melbourne’s grunge-predecessors, will lap Australia to show how just how well they have aged.

A Day On The Green has delivered a 5 Star 5 Band All-Australian line-up for its first announcement of the 2016/2017 season.

The Meanies have completed their first album in 21 years. ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’ is coming in September.

The Meanies will reform in October for a lap of Australia to celebrate their 25 years.

The birth of alternative Australian rock has been documented in ‘ Dirty Jeans: The Rise of Australian Alternative Rock’, the latest heritage compilation from Warner Music.