Huge international punk show right here in Canberra on Sunday 25 August 2024 presented by the excellent Blow Blood Records.

DARK THOUGHTS (USA)

TOMBEAU & THE IDIOTS (GONG)

SHOCK TREATMENT

SCRAMBLED

Live at Gang Gang Cafe, Downer ACT 2602.

Living in Philly USA, working 12 hour days in the early 2010’s. Minimum wage customer service jobs and barely scraping by, playing punk and hardcore shows to remember why it’s worth being alive. DARK THOUGHTS live in the urgency of reality, but their Ramones-core three-chord punk tunes have hope in dreams of everything great that exists outside of a crushingly oppressive hamster-wheel; you forget about fighting to get another meal in the romance of all things good – I’m talking about being in love and punk music, of course!!

DARK THOUGHTS entered the US hardcore punk scene as a pop-punk band rubbing shoulders with its counterparts such as THE MARKED MEN, SHEER MAG, THE COWBOYS, DIRTY FENCES, NANCY and RADIOACTIVITY. They play with the tough guys, but break through their hard exterior with an earnest emotional expression that makes you feel good while you get to mosh hard and have a straight-up raging time!

After 10 years, three LPs and a bunch of tapes, DARK THOUGHTS are making their way to the Australian east coast - don’t miss them!

Blow Blood Records, Gang Gang, and Sonic Business Ltd acknowledges the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people as owners of the land on which these events will take place, and pay our respects to all elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.