Against Me! Announce Australian Tour

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For Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel, sometimes you have to get the hell out just to find your way back in. The past 12 years have seen Gabel rise from acoustic folk-punk gunslinger in the dives of Gainesville, Florida to releasing Against Me!’s four searing, blood-smeared slices of scrappy punk. The last of which, 2007’s New Wave, was the major label debut, one that Spin magazine anointed as their Album Of The Year. And while Gainesville was home, Gabel felt the walls closing in when touring for New Wave came to an end. So he split. With his wife, he left behind the “didja-hear-about-so-and-so” insular Gainesville world for the sleepy beach town of St. Augustine, wandering the streets and driving dusty back roads: searching, pining, hoping for inspiration.He found it in spades. The result is White Crosses, as powerful and as bold a rock record as one can imagine. The band – Gabel, guitarist James Bowman, bassist Andrew Seward and new drummer George Rebelo – roar like fighter jets scr...

For Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel, sometimes you have to get the hell out just to find your way back in. The past 12 years have seen Gabel rise from acoustic folk-punk gunslinger in the dives of Gainesville, Florida to releasing Against Me!’s four searing, blood-smeared slices of scrappy punk. The last of which, 2007’s New Wave, was the major label debut, one that Spin magazine anointed as their Album Of The Year. And while Gainesville was home, Gabel felt the walls closing in when touring for New Wave came to an end. So he split. With his wife, he left behind the “didja-hear-about-so-and-so” insular Gainesville world for the sleepy beach town of St. Augustine, wandering the streets and driving dusty back roads: searching, pining, hoping for inspiration.

He found it in spades. The result is White Crosses, as powerful and as bold a rock record as one can imagine. The band – Gabel, guitarist James Bowman, bassist Andrew Seward and new drummer George Rebelo – roar like fighter jets screaming over a stadium on the anthemic title-track (with its shout along line about smashing the 4,000 crosses on a local church’s lawn, ones that signify the number of babies aborted each day in the U.S.).

Against Me! tour Australia for the fifth time this October, tickets go on sale June 25.


Oct 5 - Fowlers, Adelaide
Tickets from Venue Tix and Moshtix outlets, www.venuetix.com.au and www.moshtix.com.au

Oct 6 - Capitol, Perth
Tickets from Moshtix outlets and www.moshtix.com.au.

Oct 7 - HiFi, Brisbane
Tickets from www.thehifi.com.au, 1300 843 4434, Kill The Music, Rocking Horse, Mosh Pit, Sunflower Pacific Fair, Disasterpiece and Butterbeats.

Oct 8 - HiFi, Melbourne
Tickets from www.thehifi.com.au, 1300 843 4434 and Polyester Records.

Oct 9 - Metro, Sydney
Tickets from Ticketek, Metro Box Office (02) 9550 3666, Enmore Theatre or www.metrotheatre.com.au

Oct 10 - Cambridge, Newcastle
Tickets from Moshtix outlets www.moshtix.com.au

Tickets on sale June 25.

Against Me! "White Crosses" out now on Sire.