Weedeater and Conan Touring Australia/New Zealand in July
This one kind of sells itself, doesn’t it? Pretty straightforward? News of Weedeater and Conan touring Australia and New Zealand together is pretty much a dogwhistle to the converted signaling its own utter necessity. The US and UK acts, both primo proliferators of riff, will join forces in what I’ll assume is the dead of winter in that part of the world, and unleash their ultra-stoned and ultra-destructive methods over the course of six shows. I’ve never hung out with the Weedeater cats, but I hear they’re great guys, and from what I know, the dudes in Conan are also cool as hell, so apart perhaps from the travel involved, I can’t imagine the two bands won’t come out of the tour as good friends.
Good, hungover friends. The PR wire had this to offer:
WEEDEATER (USA) & CONAN (UK) Australia/New Zealand July 2016
LIFE IS NOISE PRESENTS:
WEEDEATER (USA)
& CONAN (UK)
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND
JULY 2016
LIFE IS NOISE is very excited to announce that US trio Weedeater will be bringing their brand of stoner sludge to Australia and New Zealand this July… and as if that weren’t enough, they’ll be taking brutally monolithic UK outfit Conan along for the ride. This will be a menacing, heavy and destructively loud tour.
For the first time ever, LIFE IS NOISE is proud to be bringing North Carolina’s favourite cough syrup swilling, hot sauce snorting weirdos, Weedeater to venues across Oz and NZ. Fronted by legendary bassist/vocalist “Dixie” Dave Collins, Weedeater are a dirty stoner force only to be fully appreciated up close and live with a show full of noise, sweat, spit, and fire. Weedeater will give you a contact high from merely listening.
Conan are punishingly loud, mercilessly heavy and just downright menacing.
Forming in 2006, the Liverpudlian trio’s latest release, Revengeance, is their third album of “caveman battle doom” – where ferociously hammered drums and sludge-filled guitar and bass meet torturously howled vocals to create music that sounds like a herd of war elephants marching over the bones of a vanquished army.
On stage, Conan are simply a behemoth of a band playing in front of a wall of amplifiers pushed to their limit. Pummelingly intense, you don’t just see a Conan show, you try to survive it!
Catch Weedeater and Conan on the following dates:
Wellington – San Fran – July 12
Auckland – Kings Arms – July 13
Brisbane – Crowbar – July 14
Sydney – Manning Bar – July 15
Melbourne – Max Watt’s – July 16
Perth – Rosemount Hotel – July 17
https://www.facebook.com/events/635917996555217/
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https://weedeater.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/conandoom/
http://tickets.lifeisnoise.com/
