Canadian punk wrecking crew PUP are heading back down under this August, and they’ve just tapped Adelaide’s finest loudmouths Teenage Joans to support them on the Australian leg.
That sound you hear is a thousand sweaty kids sprinting to grab tickets.
If there’s one band unhinged enough to match PUP’s feral energy, I’d say it’s Teenage Joans. The duo have been ripping through stages with reckless abandon for a few years now, slinging fuzzed-out anthems with the confidence of a band ten times their age.
They’ll be joining PUP in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth – and if you think they’re going to play it safe in front of the big dogs, you’ve clearly never seen them live.
Expect chaos, volume and at least one cathartic scream-along that leaves your throat wrecked and your heart somehow lighter. I think my throat is still recovering from the last time.
For the New Zealand crowd, local acts are picking up the support slack – Model Home in Auckland and Adult Friends in Wellington – but let’s be real: the Australian dates just became the ones to beat.
PUP, in case you forgot, are touring behind their upcoming fifth record Who Will Look After The Dogs, which drops May 5. The new material promises to be the usual cocktail of self-deprecating howls and existential rot. But now it appears they will performing with more vulnerability and less holding back, apparently. If that sounds soft, don’t worry: they’ll still melt your face off.
PUP live is always a beautiful mess, and throwing Teenage Joans into the fire is only going to crank the intensity. It’s not a tour, I’d call it more of a group therapy with distortion pedals.
Tickets for PUP’s Australian and New Zealand tour (supported by Teenage Joans, Model Home and Adult Friends) are currently on sale via Destroy All Lines.
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