Me First And The Gimme Gimmes return to our soil this this week to serve up a dose of good times, or ten.
There are very limited tickets left for tonight at The Triffid in Brisbane, Thursday night at Cambridge Hotel in Newcastle, Wednesday 11th at Barwon Club in Geelong and Thursday 12th at Capitol in Perth. All other shows are sold out. Keep an eye on socials just in case any last minute ticket releases pop up.
For the uninitiated, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes are a punk rock all-star team, which for this tour will consist of Lagwagon frontman Joey Cape on rhythm guitar, Chris Cheney of The Living End on lead guitar, Lagwagon drummer Dave Raun on the skins, with bass duties occupied by Bad Religion’s Jay Bentley, and rounded out by Uke-Hunt’s incomparable crooner Spike Slawson.
Together, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes — an outfit that has always operated more like a beer-hall Pussycat Dolls than a regular mortal band — contain so much hot air, so much pomp, so much attitude, that it’s a wonder that these guys can still manage to pull their five individual tour buses into the same parking lot, put their differences aside and belt out the ballads without clawing each other’s eyes out. But they do, for the love of the fans, the music, and of course, the applause.
After 7 studio albums, tackling just about every genre under the sun, be it Motown, Country, Show Tunes, J-Pop (sung in Japanese!), these seasoned punk rock pros have triumphed on every occasion in a way only the Gimmes could. With such an extensive and wide-ranging catalog, where does one begin?
That problem was solved with the recent release of ‘Rake It In: The Greatestest Hits‘. 17 of their finest cuts in one place. Grab it on Vinyl [Here] and CD [Here] both with free shipping, or digitally on iTunes [Here].
ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES
OCTOBER
3rd – The Triffid, Brisbane [18+]
4th – The Triffid, Brisbane [18+] SOLD OUT
5th – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle [18+]
6th – Metro Theatre, Sydney [18+] SOLD OUT
7th – Corner Hotel, Richmond [18+] SOLD OUT
9th – Corner Hotel, Richmond [18+] SOLD OUT
11th – Barwon Club, Geelong [18+]
12th – Capitol, Perth [18+]
13th – Fowlers Live, Adelaide [18+] SOLD OUT
—> Tickets available now.
—> For more information, visit [Here].
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