Dropkick Murphys To Return To Australia With Special Guests Alkaline Trio

If you enjoy punk rock music, you’ll love this tour announcement: Dropkick Murphys will return to Australia this November with special guests Alkaline Trio.

Dropkick Murphys last visited Australia for Good Things Festival back in 2018, but they haven’t headlined a tour down under in over a decade. The tour also marks Alkaline Trio’s first Australian shows in ten years.

The tour begins at the AEC Theatre in Adelaide on Friday, 15 November, followed by dates at the Forum in Melbourne (Sunday, 17 November), Sydney’s Roundhouse (Wednesday, 20 November), and ends at Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on Friday, 22 November.

You can access early bird pre-sale tickets from 9 am on Tuesday, 2 July – sign up here for access – before the general sale begins at 9 am local time on Thursday, 4 July. Tickets will be available via Destroy All Lines.

Dropkick Murphys are touring off the back of their twelfth album, Okemah Rising (released last year), the follow-up to 2022’s This Machine Still Kills Fascists. Both albums contain unused lyrics from Woodie Guthrie, and neither feature vocalist Al Barr, who was on hiatus from the band while caring for his mother.

In January, Alkaline Trio dropped their tenth album, Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs, the band’s final album with drummer Derek Grant (who departed the band before the album’s announcement) and long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Is This Thing Cursed?

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In a Good Things Festival 2018 review, The Music’s Lauren Baxter said of Dropkick Murphys’ performance, “The band deliver a roaring set of Celtic-punk hospitality, putting the entire mosh in a collective headlock.

“Co-frontmen Ken Casey and Al Barr are the ultimate hosts, down in the crowd for most of the set, and Casey even cheekily steals the hose from the security guard to spray him back. After copping it in the face on more than one occasion, I think the word we’re looking for here is karma? Bagpipes, accordions and banjos: just ship us up to Boston.”

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