Only in these crazy times might a band tour it’s new album the year after the year after it was released, but that’s what the Meanies will be doing when they hit the road in January to finally give Desperate Measures a proper live airing. Desperate Measures was released in July 2020, by which time the shit had already hit the fan. Their BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR was first announced earlier this year – 2021 – when things looked like they’d cleared. They got bumped a couple of times, and now they’re on for 2022.
At least the certainty (?!?) of things as they stand now has allowed for more shows to be added. It’s also given Link Meanie – aka Link McLennan – a chance to release the debut album by his new project Bagful of Beez.
The Meanies’ Desperate Measures is a hard, fast and catchy onslaught of hard-hitting Meanies mayhem. It evokes the classic sound that made the band a household name in all the worst houses back in the ’90s, and which has influenced generation after generation of young punks ever since. Their BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR is gonna be worth the wait.
THE MEANIES’ BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR 2022
JANUARY
Fri 14 – The Eastern, Ballarat VIC
Fri 21 – Railway Hotel, Macedon VIC
Sat 22 – Uncaged Festival, Brisbane QLD
Sat 29 – Uncaged Festival, Melbourne VIC
FEBRUARY
Fri 4 – Jive, Adelaide SA
Sat 12 – Spring Loaded Festival, Mornington VIC
Sat 12 – Uncaged Festival, Sydney NSW
MARCH
Thu 10 – The Zoo, Brisbane QLD
Fri 11 – Eleven Dive Bar, Maroochydore QLD
Sat 12 – Spring Loaded Festival, Eaton’s Hill QLD
Sun 13 – Miami Marketta, Gold Coast QLD
Fri 18 – The Tote, Collingwood VIC
Sat 19 – The Tote, Collingwood VIC
Fri 25 – Barwon Club, Geelong VIC
Wed 30 – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle NSW
Thu 31 – The Lansdowne, Sydney NSW
APRIL
Fri 1 – Narrabeen RSL NSW
Sat 2 – Yours & Owls Festival, Wollongong NSW
Sun 3 – The Basement, Canberra ACT
Sun 24 – Grindhouse Festival, Snake Valley VIC
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21 July 2021
As Covid lockdowns continue to wreak more havoc than Wally Meanie at a wine tasting, The Meanies have had to rejig a whole bunch more dates of their ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’. The latest two postponed shows are this week’s ones in Ballarat and Macedon which have now moved to November. Tickets for rescheduled shows will remain valid, while refunds can be arranged at the point of purchase for those who are now unable to attend.
The tour, which was meant to start in June, is now set to start with a rescheduled Geelong show in August before picking up in earnest in October.
THE MEANIES ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS DICKLORD (All shows except Geelong)
Sat August 21 – Barwon Club, Geelong + Poppin Mommas + Eyeroll (no DickLord)
Sat Oct 16 – Jive, Adelaide + Cull The Band
Fri Oct 22 – The Tote, Melb + Persecution Blues + Cheeky Geezers
Sat Oct 23 – The Tote, Melb + Super American Eagle + Sidesplitter
Fri Nov 5 – The Eastern, Ballarat + The Dawdlers + The Shorts
Sat Nov 6 – Railway Hotel Macedon + Persecution Blues + Maggie Alley
Fri Nov 12 – The Zoo, Bris (DickLord are only support)
Wed Nov 17 – The Basement, Canberra + Charlotte & the Harlots
Thu Nov 18 – Lansdowne, Sydney + Blitz Babiez –
Fri Nov 19 – Narrabeen RSL + Tshitaki
Sat Nov 20 – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle + I Hate People
Sun Nov 21 – La La La’s, Wollongong + Ape Rib
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2 July 2021
As Covid lockdowns continue to wreak more havoc than Wally Meanie at a wine tasting, The Meanies have to rejig a whole bunch more dates of their ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’ – which was meant to start last month!
As per the last announcement, the tour now kicks off in regional Vic in a couple of weeks, and then breaks until October, when it picks up in Adelaide, and continues through November. What hasn’t changed is that DickLord are the main support on all shows bar one. DickLord, who will be going out on the back of their now-new single “PMA” and recent album It’s Soooo Boring (both out now on Consume/Valve) have been spoken of by Monster Children thusly: “With songs about periods, shitty landlords and being fingered weird, there’s something in DickLord’s lyrics we can all relate to. Mix that in with splashes of Bad Brains and Black Flag references and you’ve got yourself a seriously good band.”
THE MEANIES ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS DICKLORD (All shows except Geelong)
Fri July 16 – Barwon Club, Geelong + Poppin Mommas + Eyeroll (no Dicklord)
Fri July 23 The Eastern, Ballarat + The Dawdlers
Fri July 24 – Railway Hotel Macedon + Persecution Blues
Sat Oct 16 – Jive, Adelaide + Cull The Band
Fri Oct 22 – The Tote, Melb + Persecution Blues + Cheeky Geezers
Sat Oct 23 – The Tote, Melb + Super American Eagle + Sidesplitter
Fri Nov 12 – The Zoo, Bris
Wed Nov 17 – The Basement, Canberra + Charlotte & the Harlots
Thu Nov 18 – Lansdowne, Sydney + Blitz Babiez –
Fri Nov 19 – Narrabeen RSL + Tshitaki
Sat Nov 20 – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle + I Hate People
Sun Nov 21 – La La La’s, Wollongong + Ape Rib
Tickets for rescheduled shows will remain valid, while refunds can be arranged at the point of purchase for those who are now unable to attend.
The Meanies’ ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’ is a belated celebration of their ‘new’ album. Desperate Measures is a hard, fast and catchy onslaught of hard-hitting Meanies mayhem. It evokes the classic sound that made the band a household name in all the worst houses back in the ’90s, and which has influenced generation after generation of young punks ever since.
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1 June 2021
Better late than never – and in the midst of their part in the national SPRINGLOADED tour with a few old buddies – Australia’s punk-rock heavyweights The Meanies announce their ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’. The tour is a belated celebration of their ‘new’ album Desperate Measures, which is out now on Cheersquad Records and Tapes.
THE MEANIES ‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DESPERATE MEASURES TOUR’
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS DICKLORD (All shows except Gold Coast and Geelong)
Fri June 18 – The Zoo, Bris
Sun June 20 – Miami Marketta, Gold Coast
Thu July 1 – The Tote, Melb
Fri July 2 – The Tote, Melb
Sat July 3 – Jive, Adelaide
Wed July 7 – La La La’s, Wollongong
Thu July 8 – Lansdowne, Sydney
Fri July 9 – Narrabeen RSL
Sat July 10 – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
Sun July 11 – The Basement, Canberra
Fri July 16 – Barwon Club, Geelong
Fri July 23 The Eastern, Ballarat
Fri July 24, – Railway Hotel Macedon
Desperate Measures is a hard, fast and catchy onslaught of hard-hitting Meanies mayhem. It evokes the classic sound that made the band a household name in all the worst houses back in the ’90s, and which has influenced generation after generation of young punks ever since.
Joining The Meanies as they take their desperate measures are one such group of rowdies – the mighty DickLord, whose album IT’S SOOOO BORING is out now on Valve. Monster Children have said of DickLord: “With songs about periods, shitty landlords and being fingered weird, there’s something in DickLord’s lyrics we can all relate to. Mix that in with splashes of Bad Brains and Black Flag references and you’ve got yourself a seriously good band.”
Accompanying the tour announcement, and because it is their album tour after all, The Meanies have picked another radio single from Desperate Measures. ‘Sousa’, the album’s closing track, is bittersweet power pop punk with a couple of killer hooks, fat guitar and some perhaps deliberately obtuse lyrics from Linky that speak of a difficult time: “When your waking world makes less sense than your dreams and the realities of the failed experiment slap you in the face like a cold fish you write a song like ‘Sousa’; not really in the hope of making any sense of it all but more as a futile salve for what ails ya.”