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Dune Rats


with Bad Waitress

$15 advance

From the Promoter

Advance tickets also available at Rotate This & Soundscapes 

DUNE RATS

At a time when true rock tales are as rare as chicken lips, Dune Rats
are traveling the globe as punk rock pied pipers, attracting an army of
ferocious life enthusiasts who are as willing as they are to throw the
dice, turn reality sideways and roll with whatever goes. Ratbags, nerds,
delinquents, outcasts, the brave, the loud, the shy - Dune Rats don’t
care who or what you are, only that you abide by just one rule – no
kooks, no gutties.
Palming Dunies off however as your average trio of wasted lunatics,
would be a sad and narrow-minded mistake. These three take as much
pleasure in overt politeness and the odd spot of gardening as they do
in the eyes-wide open adventure of tilting reality. But at the core of it
all - the platform for everything that follows - is their uncalculated lust
for making music. It’s taken them from Brisbane to the US, South Africa
(ask them how the hell they found themselves here!), China, Indo,
Malaysia, Canada, Singapore, a small seaside shanty South of Sydney
and to the proudest musical moment so far – the writing, recording and
the imminent release on Dune 1st of their first full-length record.
Dunies self titled debut album began to bed in when they read a letter
Steve Albini wrote to Nirvana in the lead in to the recording of In Utero,
which got them frothing on the idea that if they couldn’t record their
album in little over a week, they had no right to be in a rock band.
They connected with the ethos of no bullshit songs, written in a garage
and recorded by a friend. That friend turned out to be Woody Annison,
tour manager and sound engineer for Children Collide whom they’d not
long before bro’d up with when the two bands toured together. Dune
Rats took to the challenge with the same merciless conviction that’s
gotten them both fucked up and famous. Over the span of a month

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they bunkered down in a tiny shed at Brett’s Mum’s house on the
beach and began to pen songs with fervor. Those four weeks became
all about growth. The creative well bubbled over beyond the tunes and
they took to renovating the tiny shed, turning it into a tiny soundproof
studio, they built a vege garden, they surfed, they chilled out, they
slept in beds (for a change), they wrote songs together in the true
spirit of what it means to be a band and they recorded all the demos.
By the time they went into the studio with Woody in Melbourne, they
were ready for the Albini-esque timeframe and needed just a half-day
of pre-production and they were on their away.
‘Funny Guy’ is the first single from the brand new album. A track that
rips, just like the Dunies. It’s an anthem calling out to all those that feel
the need to look like something they ain't - living one life, presenting
another - leading to the lyrical catch cry ‘ Why you gotta lie, all the
time??’
Live the Dune Rats way - ‘NO KOOKS, NO GUTTIES!!’