Yungblud’s Australian tour has been a pretty good reminder that rock stars don’t always celebrate the same way.
After pulling off two sold out shows at Brisbane’s Riverstage over the weekend, Yungblud closed out his time in the city by doing something that feels extremely on brand and extremely Brisbane, jumping behind the bar at Crowbar and started pouring drinks for fans.
No VIP or velvet rope energy, it was Just Yungblud serving beers and grinning through it like it was the most normal thing in the world.
Photos from the moment were captured by his regular photographer and collaborator Tom Pallant, who’s been documenting this tour’s off stage antics as much as the gigs themselves.
If you’ve been following along, you’ll remember Sydney got its own dose of Yungblud theatre too, with the singer drawing big enough crowds at a photography gallery appearance that police reportedly had to disperse the situation.
While he’s been bouncing around the country, Yungblud also popped up on the Rolling Stone Uncut podcast, where he went in hard on the idea that rock needs permission slips or genre police to survive.
“When people say ‘to fit in rock,’ that is the most un-rock and roll thing ever,” Yungblud said in the chat.
“Rock music isn’t supposed to be a gate-kept boys club. And it became that. That’s why it was being suffocated and boring and so adherent to the past. We have to allow young people to pioneer something, or at least try to give this thing a heartbeat. The worst thing that happened to rock was that you were getting ridiculed for the reference point. From 2005 onwards, Oasis sounded like the Beatles, and they fking loved that. They wore that as a badge of honour. Kurt Cobain loved John Lennon. It’s a beautiful fking thing, and people ridicule it for it, and it just sucks…
“My biggest fear is that they get deterred from pursuing a career in it by some old, bitter c**t on the internet.”
Yungblud is set to wrap up the Australian run tomorrow night in Perth, and if the Brisbane bar shift proves anything, it’s that he’s not here to play the distant rockstar role.
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