The Black Lips Announce Falls Festival Sideshows

Atlanta's own "flower punk" pioneers The Black Lips have shored up a pair of headline sideshows early next year while they're in the country for the Falls and Southbound festivals in a couple months' time.

As you might expect, Melbourne and Sydney are the cities to score the dedicated gigs, with the Sick Of You scribes touching down at The Hi-Fi on Tuesday, January 6, and the Oxford Art Factory on Wednesday, January 7. Local luminaries Frowning Clouds and the Steve Miller Band will provide support for the Victorian show, with Straight Arrows and Destiny 3000 joining the revelry up in New South Wales.

The band, who you might be surprised to learn have actually been cracking away at this whole music thing together for more than a decade, recently released their seventh studio full-length, Underneath The Rainbow, just after completing an extensive tour across North America and Europe, as well as having become the first US-bred band to perform in Egypt in almost 40 years (the last such appearance came courtesy of The Grateful Dead in 1978).

That stretch of their journey was captured for posterity by director Bill Cody, who turned The Black Lips' Middle-Eastern odyssey into a documentary, Kids Like You & Me. From the patchwork footage provided in the film's trailer, it's pretty easy to see that the tales of The Black Lips' fun, frenetic live shows aren't even close to being exaggerated, so Aussie audiences certainly look to be in for a treat when they make their dedicated appearances away from the festival circuit. Check out the preview below.

If you're chasing a more traditional introduction, check out the videos below for Boys In The Wood and Funny, both taken from Underneath The Rainbow, below.

Tickets for The Black Lips' 2015 sideshows are available now. See the Gig Guide or The Music App for more details.

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