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The Saints Deliver Final Testament With Chris Bailey On Long March Through The Jazz Age

The Saints are preparing to release what will stand as their final album with Chris Bailey, Long March Through The Jazz Age, due 28 November through Fire Records. The second single, Judas, has now been unveiled – a haunting, string-laden ballad where Bailey’s unmistakeable voice is draped across the shimmer of a 12-string guitar.

Tagged as: Aussie Punk, Australian rock, Chris Bailey, Davey Lane, Final Album, Fire Records, Judas, Long March Through the Jazz Age, Pete Wilkinson, Punk History, Sean Carey, The Saints

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Ed Kuepper and Jim White Announce First U.S. Shows With Mick Harvey

by Paul Cashmere

Ed Kuepper, twice inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame as a founding member of both The Saints and Laughing Clowns, will finally bring his acclaimed collaboration with Dirty Three drummer Jim White to the United States for the first time this November. The pair will perform in Los Angeles on November 4 and New York on November 17, with support from none other than Mick Harvey of The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds.

Tagged as: 90s, alternative, Australia, Ed Kuepper, indie, Jim White, The Dirty Three, The Saints

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The Saints To Release Chris Bailey’s Final Recordings ‘Long March Through the Jazz Age’

by Paul Cashmere

Fire Records will release Long March Through the Jazz Age, the last recordings of Chris Bailey and The Saints, on 28 November 2025. The release will arrive just days after what would have been Bailey’s 69th birthday, serving as a poignant final chapter in the story of one of Australia’s most important and influential bands.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Brisbane, Chris Bailey, Fire Records, Long March Through the Jazz Age, punk, rock, The Saints

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The Saints Expand Dates To Play North America and Europe

by Paul Cashmere

Australia’s legendary punk band The Saints will perform two shows in New Zealand late October and then head to North America and onto Europe for more dates at the end of 2025.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, punk, The Saints

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The Saints ’73-’78 To Tour UK In November

by Paul Cashmere

Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay will take the 2024 edition of The Saints into 2025 for the UK in November for (so far) five shows.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Brisbane, Ed Kuepper, Ivor Hay, Mudhoney, punk, The Saints, The Sunnyboys

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Ed Kuepper Revisits His Old Music As New Music

by Paul Cashmere

Ed Kuepper has reached back to his days of The Saints, The Laughing Clowns and his solo works to reimagine his early works on his new album ‘After The Flood’.

Tagged as: 70s, alternative, Ed Kuepper, Jim White, rock, The Laughing Clowns, The Saints

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R.I.P. Mark Moffatt at Age 74

by Paul Cashmere

Australian producer and one time pop star Mark Moffatt has died in Nashville at age 74.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Mark Moffatt, producer, punk, The Saints

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Ed Kuepper And Ivor Hay Reform The Saints With Members of Mudhoney, Sunnyboys and Bad Seeds

by Paul Cashmere

The Saints founding members Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay will reform the band for an Australian tour in November.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Ed Kuepper, Ivor Hay, punk, The Saints

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Ed Kuepper Archives Reissues Will Include An Unreleased Album

by Paul Cashmere

Ed Kuepper, the punk pioneer and co-founder of The Saints, The Aints and Laughing Clowns, has started his archives reissue journey with his first and fifth solo album out again on vinyl. ‘Electrical Storm’ (1985) and ‘Honey Steel’s Gold’ (1991) have kickstarted the project.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, alternative, Australia, Ed Kuepper, Laughing Clowns, punk, The Aints, The Saints

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Algy Ward of The Saints and The Damned Dead At 63

by Paul Cashmere

Alasdair ‘Algy’ Ward, an early member of Australia’s The Saints and later one of The Damned, has died at age 63.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Algy Ward, punk, Tank, The Damned, The Saints, UK

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Violent Femmes and The Saints Accompany Russell Crowe In ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’

by Paul Cashmere

Violent Femmes ‘Gone Daddy Gone’ and The Saints ‘I’m Stranded” are just two great songs in Russell Crowe’s pretty awful movie ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’.

Tagged as: 90s, movies, rock, The Cult, The Popes Exorcist, The Saints, theatre, Violent Femmes

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Mick Thomas Covers The Saints ‘Shipwreck’

by Paul Cashmere

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission has covered The Saints’ ‘Shipwreck’ for the new EP ‘Back In The Day’.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Australia, Chris Bailey, Cold Chisel, folk, Mick Thomas, Neil Young, rock, Roving Commission, The Saints, Weddings Parties Anything

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Midnight Oil Pay Tribute To Chris Bailey

by Paul Cashmere

Midnight Oil have once again performed The Saints classic ‘Know Your Product’ as a tribute to Chris Bailey who died at 9 April 2022 at age 65.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, alternative, Australia, Chris Bailey, Midnight Oil, Peter Garrett, Rob Hirst, rock, The Saints

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Chris Bailey The Saints play their I'm Stranded Album at the Forum in Melbourne on 14 January 2009. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Chris Bailey of The Saints Dead Has Died At Age 65

by Paul Cashmere

Chris Bailey of Australia’s punk innovators The Saints has died.

Tagged as: 70s. 80s, Australia, Chris Bailey, punk, rock, The Saints

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Ed Kuepper and Jim White Juggle Dates Again

by Paul Cashmere

The Ed Kuepper and Jim White dates have once again had to be juggled due to Covid restrictions.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, alternative, Ed Kuepper, Jim White, Laughing Clowns, punk, rock, The Aints, The Saints

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Ed Kuepper and Jim White Announce Shows Together

by Paul Cashmere @paulcashmere

The Saints’ Ed Kuepper and The Dirty Three’s Jim White will embark on an Australian tour together in May.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, alternative, Australia, Dirty Three, Ed Kuepper, Jim White, Laughing Clowns, punk, The Aints, The Saints

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Ed Kuepper Has Three Retro Albums On The Way

by Paul Cashmere

Former The Saints, Laughing Clowns and The Aints guitarist Ed Kuepper will mark his 45 years as a recording artist with three retro albums.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, Ed Kuepper, Laughing Clowns, punk, The Aints, The Saints

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Ed Kuepper is all about The Aints and no longer about The Saints

by Paul Cashmere

When Ed Kuepper agreed to a reunion with The Saints with Chris Bailey a decade ago he wasn’t expecting it to be a shemozzle.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, alternative, Australia, Ed Kuepper, rock, The Aints, The Saints

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Ed Kuepper To Release His First Album For The Aints

by Noise11.com

Ed Kuepper will finally release an album by The Aints after forming the band in Sydney in 1991.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Ed Kuepper, punk, rock, The Aints, The Saints

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The Killers Are Covering Different Aussie To Each Hometown

by Paul Cashmere

The Killers have been adding a local flavour to each of their Australian shows by covering Australian artists from the city they come from at each gig.

Tagged as: 00s, 80s, Australia, Crowded House, INXS, Men At Work, rock, The Killers, The Saints, The Vines, USA

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R.I.P. Iain Shedden Writer and One Time Drummer For The Saints Dies At Age 60

by Paul Cashmere

Iain Shedden, the music writer for The Australian and one time member of The Saints, has died at the age of 60.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Australia, Iain Shedden, punk, rock, The Saints

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Ed Kuepper To Play The Saints With The Aints

by Paul Cashmere

Ed Kuepper has resurrected his anti-Saints band, The Aints, to perform the music of the original band.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, punk, rock, The Aints, The Saints

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Historic ‘Australian Made’ Concert To Receive Upgrade Release After 30 Years

by Paul Cashmere

30 years ago, in the summer of 87, Jimmy Barnes, INXS, Models, Divinyls, I’m Talking, The Saints and The Triffids toured with the Australian Made festival.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Australian Made, Divinyls, Historic 'Australian Made' Concert To Receive A DVD Release After 30 Years, I'm Talking, INXS, Jimmy Barnes, Models, rock, The Saints

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The Saints Reactive For Three Melbourne Shows

by Paul Cashmere

Chris Bailey reactivated The Saints for three shows only in Melbourne this week.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Chris Bailey, punk, rock, The Saints

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Hitler Reacts To The Saints 2016 Dates

by Paul Cashmere

Chris Bailey will play The Saints dates in Melbourne just after the AFL Grand Final. That’s old news. The new news is Hitler is not happy.

Tagged as: AFL Grand Final, Chris Bailey, Hitler Reacts To The Saints 2016 Dates, music news, The Gasometer, The Saints, You Am I

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The Saints To Play Three Melbourne Pub Shows

by Paul Cashmere

Chris Bailey will form a special edition line-up of his historic band The Saints for three very tiny Melbourne pub shows in October.

Tagged as: Chris Bailey, Davey Lane, Iain Shedden, Pat Bourke, The Saints, The Saints To Play Three Melbourne Pub Shows

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Stranded The Chronicles of Australian Punk, music news, noise11.com

Australian Punk Compiled In The Chronicles Of Australia Punk

by Paul Cashmere

51 tracks of Australian punk spanning 40 years has been compiled for ‘Stranded: The Chronicles of Australian Punk’.

Tagged as: music news, Music News Australian Punk Compiled In The Chronicles Of Australia Punk, Stranded: The Chronicles of Australian Punk, The Living End, The Saints

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Bruce Springsteen High Hopes, Noise11, Photo

ARIA Albums: Bruce Springsteen High Hopes Is Number One

by Gavin Ryan

The eighteenth studio album for Bruce Springsteen entitled “High Hopes” debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week, becoming only his third No.1 album in Australia and his first No.1 in almost nineteen years.

Tagged as: ARIA, Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band, High Hopes, Just Like Fire Would, The Saints

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Bruce Springsteen, Rod Laver Arena, 2013, Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo

Bruce Springsteen Reveals Just Like Fire Would Video

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band (at least the version with Tom Morello instead of Steven Van Zandt), has released a performance video for the track Just Like Fire Would from the new album High Hopes.

Tagged as: Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band, High Hopes, Just Like Fire Would, The Saints

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Bruce Springsteen High Hopes To Include Live Born In The USA DVD

by Paul Cashmere

Bruce Springsteen’s forthcoming ‘High Hopes’ album will include a bonus DVD featuring the entire ‘Born In The USA’ album performed live in London.

Tagged as: Born In The U.S.A, Bruce Springsteen, High Hopes, The Saints

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Bruce Springsteen Nebraska era Photo by David Michael Kennedy.

Bruce Springsteen To Release Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition With Never-Heard ‘Born In The U.S.A.’

Bruce Springsteen’s stark 1982 masterpiece Nebraska is set to be reintroduced to the world this October with a five-disc collection that goes deeper than ever before into one of the most unlikely classic albums in rock history. Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition will be released on October 17 through Sony Music, presenting fans with a sweeping archive of never-before-heard material, including the mythical “Electric Nebraska” sessions, solo outtakes, a remastered album, and a newly filmed live performance of the record in full.

September 6, 2025