Bluebottle Kiss Drop Single & Vinyl Reissue

Australian indie rockers Bluebottle Kiss could never totally disappear as long as their music lived on.

Since reuniting in 2022 (following a round of final shows in 2007), the band has toured across the country. Back in March, a concert recorded that year, Never Leave Town—Live In Sydney, hit cinemas and was pressed to vinyl. The album release got to #4 on the ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart.

In 1996, the band recorded a song for their second album, Fear Of Girls, called Outside Are The Dogs. A song that found popularity amongst the Bluebottle Kiss devoted, some fans remained confused about why it never became a single. Outside Are The Dogs has finally received the single treatment it deserves today.

The live version of Outside Are The Dogs is out today, with a music video and single release. The new version features on the Never Leave Town—Live In Sydney album directed by Australian filmmaker, musician, and social worker Ben deHoedt. You can watch the video below.

Later this month (Friday, 26 July), Bluebottle Kiss will reissue Fear Of Girls as a double vinyl release via indie Perth-based label Love As Fiction Records. In November, they’ll join Screamfeeder for an epic national tour.

In a feature for The Music, Ben deHoedt said of the Never Leave Town – Live In Sydney release, “In the 90’s, I always wished that I could hear on record what I had heard on stage – that heart-wrenching quiet, that tightrope of power and chaos, those unyieldingly discordant vamps - tumbling and overflowing. 

“This live album and film – in as much as it is possible for these formats – are definitive snapshots of what took place in Sydney on October 22, 2022, when Bluebottle Kiss played their set to a packed, enrapt, sweaty house. This is how the band sounded; this is how the night felt.”

Here’s one of the songs from that night: