BONEZ Queer Party announces Heavy LGBTQ+ Tour in August!

Each event will feature 4 bands + a Drag or Burlesque host for the evening and DJs to keep the party going after the bands are done!

The tour starts off in on Gadigal Land/Sydney on Saturday 13th August at Crowbar, hits Naarm/Melbourne at The Leadbeater Hotel on Saturday 20th August, and then finishes up in Meannjin/Brisbane at The Zoo on Thursday 25th August! Tickets are on sale now at https://linktr.ee/BonezQueerParty! Ten Tickets have been made available for free for First Nations people to come along to the event.

Created in 2017, BONEZ Alternative Queer Party was created to celebrate and bring together members of the LGBTIQA+ community in a high energy event with a unique punk rock sensibility. Seeking a new space to support Queer identities and promote Alternative bands and performers, seasoned events producer Sunny Dial created BONEZ to bring heart, soul and a whole lotta eyeliner to Melbourne’s nightlife. Bonez was created to foster a space that goes beyond ‘gay bar’ and aims for broader and more active inclusion, guests are offered free pronoun pins on arrival-safety and acceptance are number one on the agenda, and harassment of any kind is not tolerated!

Melbourne-based heavy outfit The Last Martyr are headlining each event! They returned with a vengeance in April 2021 with a new single, 'Hindsight,' a fierce tune with a nu-metal bounce that led the four-piece to a multitude of milestones including Triple J rotation and Unearthed Feature Artist. They followed swiftly with, ‘Afterglow;’ and a live performance on Metal Injection’s ‘Slay At Home,’ YouTube series. Their blast-beat-led single ‘Freaking Out’ was not only their heaviest to date, but the final piece prior to dropping their EP, ‘Purgatory;’ produced by Chris Lalic (Windwaker, To Octavia, Rumours). They kicked off 2022 playing one of Australia’s most loved Heavy music festivals, ‘Unify Gathering’!

Vilify are hitting Brisbane and Sydney on the Bonez tour. They are a close group of friends who officially formed a heavy band together in late 2020 with the collective goal of using their art to discuss issues close to home and heart from both a personal and observational perspective. Being born during a pandemic has created hurdles for Vilify's extensive live touring ambitions and this has only created more of what is a the forefront of the art - being pissed off and speaking up and asking the audience to reflect on whatever it is that's being screamed in their face. They recently dropped absolute banger 'Futility'!

Five Island Drive are heading out on all dates on the Bonez tour - they are a heavy wave trio consisting of trans vocalist Frankie Jean, German multi-instrumentalist Kim Quint, and drummer Bradley Michael de Leon. Essentially, if Denzel Curry met with Rammstein to write a Sega soundtrack, Five Island Drive might be the sonic afterbirth. Based in NSW, Australia and born out of lockdown, FID are entirely self-sufficient; they house their own studio and are composed of visual artists, producers and songwriters alike. A wavy genesis launched in Mega Drive fever dreams, expect colourful, trance-flavoured mosh when turning on Five Island Drive.

Tickets on sale now for the inaugural Bonez Tour! All tickets can be purchased/acquired at https://linktr.ee/BonezQueerParty!

SATURDAY 13 AUGUST
SYDNEY (GADIGAL) - CROWBAR

SATURDAY 20 AUGUST
MELBOURNE (NAARM) - THE LEADBEATER *

THURSDAY 25 AUGUST
BRISBANE (MEANJIN) - THE ZOO

* VILIFY NOT APPEARING IN MELBOURNE