Today, American punk rock band Dead Boys announce their first ever Australian Tour. The Cleveland Ohio punk band were among the first wave of punk, and regarded by many as one of the rowdiest and most in your face groups of the era. This is one show not to be missed. Full tour details below.
Dead Boys were formed by vocalist Stiv Bators, rhythm guitarist Jimmy Zero, bassist Jeff Magnum, lead guitarist Cheetah Chrome and drummer Johnny Blitz in 1975. The original Dead Boys released two studio albums, Young, Loud and Snotty and We Have Come For Your Children.
The Dead Boys were initially active from 1975 to 1980, briefly reuniting a few times in the mid-1980s, and then later again in 2004 and 2005 for the first time without Bators, who had died in 1990. In September 2017, Chrome and Blitz reunited the band with a new line-up for a 40th anniversary tour along with a new album, Still Snotty: Young, Loud and Snotty at 40, a re-recording of their debut album. The new lineup includes vocalist Jake Hout, guitarist Jason "Ginchy" Kottwitz and bassist Ricky Rat, alongside Chrome and Blitz.
"The brutality and energy are all intact, but with more polish, and singer Jake Hout remarkably re-creates Bators' post-Alice Cooper snarl."