When Dune Rats and FIDLAR interview each other, you know things are about to get messy.
How sick are the Los Angeles garage rockers? Well, according to their Aussie mates, somewhere between “absolute bullshit” and “fuck yeah ledge yew!”
Tour antics? The usual: toe nails getting bitten off, piss in shooter bottles, and go-to cocktails of “alcohol, weed, and cocaine.” Just a day in the life for these two proper punk bands.
After nearly a decade of touring together, FIDLAR and Dune Rats’ bond is as wild as their gigs. It’s a “transpacific matefest” that’s taken them from tiny clubs to huge venues.
Dune Rats sum it up best: “It’s been the best part of a decade playing shows together that started when they first came to Australia doing venues half the size of the ones we are playing on this tour. Can’t wait to show them how crazy it is to play in Australia this time round.”
Beyond gigs, Zac from FIDLAR produced Dune Rats’ 2017 album The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit, and now they recently teamed up again for the joint single “Dead, Rich or in Jail” – the perfect anthem for their current Australian tour.
Dune Rats said, “It’s our first time since The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit collaborating with Zac from FIDLAR which was awesome to do again. We drew inspiration from that mate everyone has who’ll either end up dead, rich or in jail…..for us that friends name is Felix. It’s also the first time we’ve recorded a track entirely in our own studios, and is definitely the shape of Dunies to come. Psyched to play it on tour yew!”
With Dune Rats’ If It Sucks, Turn It Up out now and FIDLAR’s Surviving the Dream dropping September 20th, this party is nowhere near over.
Read FIDLAR and Dune Rats’ full conversation below.
Dune Rats & FIDLAR Remaining Australian Tour Dates
Presented by triple j
Tickets available here
Thursday, September 12th
The Station, Sunshine Coast, QLD
Friday, September 13th (SOLD OUT)
The Tivoli, Brisbane, QLD
Saturday, September 14th
Kingscliff Beach Hotel, Kingscliff, NSW
FIDLAR Interview Dune Rats
FIDLAR: On a scale from “absolute bullshit” to “fuck yeah ledge yew!”, how sick is FIDLAR?
Dune Rats: They just came off a long international flight so someone would have COVID…. yew?
What’s the nicest/most palatial/luxurious American cocktail you’ve ever been blessed to savour?
That cocktail of alcohol, weed, and cocaine.
Snuggle up with, have a psycho/wild night out with, move in with? – Zac, Brandon, Max?
Snuggle with Max cos he’s a great hugger, wild night with Brandon cos he only starts to get going after 20 beers, and move in with Zac cos he would have a studio in the house.
Which FIDLAR song would you most likely make sweet passionate love to?
“By Myself.”
Best/worst FIDLAR/Dune Rats
Best: Playing a dice game for $500 USD on our first US tour with FIDLAR.
Worst: Losing the dice game.
If you could swap a member of FIDLAR with a member of Dune Rats for a whole tour, who would it be?
Danny for Zac – then both bands would learn to appreciate what they have. (This was answered by Danny.)
What are the odds, sporting, no jank, that this is the sickest tour either of our bands has ever done.
1 straight up!!!
Dune Rats Interview FIDLAR
If you were all trees, who has the biggest stick?
Max.
What’s your favourite cheap Aussie beer?
Young Henrys Dunies Lager.
Fuck, marry, kill – BC, Danny, Brett?
Fuck Danny, fuck Brett, marry BC… everyone lives.
What’s your favourite and least favourite Dunies song and why?
Favourite: “Scott Green,” so fucking clever haha.
Worst: “Dalai Lama,” so fucking stupid haha.
Best Dune Rats/FIDLAR tour memory?
I think it was Danny losing the odds game on tour and having to bite off BC’s toe nail. Brandon losing the odds game and having to piss into a shooter bottle and it absolutely going everywhere.
If you were all shrubs, who has the smallest stick?
Brandon – Zac’s stick is sized perfectly.
