Melbourne punk rockers, we have some good news for you! Boston’s rock ‘n’ roll underdogs turned champions DROPKICK MURPHYS and CHICAGO’s rock canons ALKALINE TRIO have added a 2nd show in Melbourne after selling out the first show in under an hour. The 2nd show will be at the Forum on Monday 18 November and will see DROPKICK MURPHYS play a completely different.
Tickets for the 2nd and final Melbourne show go on sale Monday 8 July at 9am local time.
This marks DROPKICK MURPHY‘s return to Australia for the first time since last appearing at Good Things Festival in 2018 and ALKALINE TRIO‘s first Australian shows in 10 years!
Since 1996, DROPKICK MURPHYS have created the kind of music that’s meant to be chanted at last call, in packed arenas, and during the fourth quarter, third period, or ninth inning of a comeback rally. Their celebrated discography includes four consecutive Billboard top 10 album debuts (Turn Up That Dial, 11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory, Signed and Sealed in Blood, Going Out In Style), along with 2005’s Certified-Gold album The Warrior’s Code featuring the double platinum classic I’m Shipping Up To Boston. DROPKICK MURPHYS’ music has generated half-a-billion streams, they’ve quietly moved 8 million-plus units worldwide and the band has sold out gigs on multiple continents.
DROPKICK MURPHYS returned to fully electric performances in late 2023 following a pair of critically acclaimed acoustic albums – 2022’s This Machine Still Kills Fascists and 2023’s Okemah Rising – interpreting the work of Woody Guthrie for a new generation. The albums, recorded in Tulsa with trusted collaborator and producer Ted Hutt, exposed the band to new audiences through airplay on stations like SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country, coverage in outlets such as Rolling Stone Country, Paste, CNN, Americana Highways and SPIN, and via DROPKICK MURPHYS’ first-ever acoustic, reserved-seating theater tour in 2022.
Their touring plans for the remainder of the year include a series of festival dates after a run of European festival dates between now and July. They’ll then return to North America and Canada for Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival, Newport Folk Festival, New York State Fair, Envol et Macadam, Music 4 Cancer, Louder Than Life and Aftershock before their string of Australian shows.
In more than 25 years together, ALKALINE TRIO have delivered urgent punk blasts with a dark, driving edge that helped them remain commercially viable without sacrificing their raucous spirit and created their own little universe in their songs with a few short steps away from armageddon. Their music has been a reliable black mirror of reality. Slowly ascending through the Warped Tour ranks into the early 2000s, they reached the Billboard Top 20 with 2003’s mainstream breakthrough Good Mourning. They hit a peak with their seventh set This Addiction, which topped the US rock, alternative, and indie charts in 2010.
Brought together in late 1996 by heartbreak, angst, and the companionship of drinking. They started making a name for themselves in the Midwest with their emotion-fueled, angst-ridden, dark pop-punk and released their full-length debut in 1998 with Goddamnit!, an album whose heartbreak tales and anti-cop rants earned a modest following.
They kicked off the year with the release of their monumental tenth album, Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs. It’s been five years since the beloved punk stalwarts have released an album and to commemorate hitting the big ten milestone, they went back to basics stripping their sound down to the bare essentials of the sonic identity that endeared them to a generation of punk fans. They enlisted Grammy-winning producer Cameron Webb and spent several weeks holed up at Studio 606 in Northridge, California, the private recording space owned by Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters. With more than two decades and ten records under their belts, ALKALINE TRIO’s legacy in the rock canon, as well as their influence on their genre, is undeniable.
2024 will undeniably declare punk rock is not dead – be sure to see DROPKICK MURPHYS and ALKALINE TRIO this November when they bring their explosive, high energy live shows down under.
Tickets for 2nd Melbourne show on sale Monday 8 July @ 9am local time.
Tickets for all other shows on sale now at destroyalllines.com
