Hoodoo Gurus Announce Partnership With Universal Music Australia & New Record Club

Hoodoo Gurus have today announced a massive partnership with Universal Music Australia and New Zealand which will see the iconic Australian outfit's entire catalogue on all streaming services. 

Included in the rollout is the previously-digitally-unavailable Bite the Bullet: Directors Cut live/rarities collection alongside their 2003 garage side-project, Turkish Delight, recorded under the pseudonym of Persian Rugs.

Also coinciding with the new partnership is the launch of the Hoodoo Gurus Record Club. The initiative will see the chronological release of each album on vinyl over one year – one per month on the first of every month from June 2018.

"We’ve finally gone from the Stone Age to the 21st Century (pun intended) and made our music available for streaming, something our fans have been demanding for a long time," frontman Dave Faulkner said.

"It’s a delicious irony for us that we are doing it through the revived Big Time Records entity, the label that we were first signed to in 1982. Hoodoo Gurus had to sue Big Time Records in 1988 over unpaid royalties and we won that case - but we never got those royalties, because Big Time Records went into liquidation straight afterwards.

"We ended up buying the Big Time label from the administrator, making it a very expensive trophy indeed. But It was all worth it, because we had gained our freedom, and we set a lot of other Big Time artists free at the same time.

"Now, Hoodoo Gurus are proud to celebrate our landmark deal with Universal Music with the relaunch of our very own Big Time Records label and, as the label’s owners, this time we’ll make sure we pay ourselves our royalties!"

Click here to join the Record Club.

Meanwhile, Hoodoo Gurus will next appear at Birdsville Big Red Bash this July, while a string of shows with fellow Aussies You Am I is expected to be announced soon; head over to theGuide for more details.