Live: Sleeping With Sirens in New Zealand US rockers Sleeping With Sirens are coming to New Zealand in April as part of their worldwide tour on the back of the release of their fifth studio album, GOSSIP. The Florida five-piece are playing a single big show in Auckland, with the details as follows: Sunday, April 29 @ Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland (w/Lower Than Atlantis, Atlantic, The Faim) [AA] The bill is completed by an impressive line-up including UK rock band Lower Than Atlantis and Aussie rockers Chase Atlantic, as well as Aussie newcomers The Faim. Tickets for the show are available from www.mjrpresents.com. Live: Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Play Big Damn Auckland Straight out of Indiana, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band have forged an electic sound encapsulating aspects of ragtime, folk, blues, country and punk. A trio of slide guitar, drums and, uh, washboard, they first came to these shores in 2016 and February seems them return once more. The Big Damn Band are playing a one-off Auckland show as follows: Friday, February 23 @ The Tuning Fork, Auckland [R18] The gig is part of the band's world tour in support of their latest album, the critically-acclaimed Front Porch Sessions. Tickets to the show are on sale now from Ticketmaster. The band are also playing the Splore Festival at Tapapakanga Park, which runs over February 24 and 25. Live: The Selecter and The Beat in NZ together in 2018 Two of the biggest names in ska history are joining forces for twin shows in New Zealand in early 2018. The Selecter and The Beat were at the forefront of the 2-tone movement in the UK in the early 80s and have been touring ever since. In fact, The Selecter's most recent tour of the UK was originally intended as six dates but was increased to nearly 40 due to the high demand for tickets. Meanwhile, The Beat recently released their fourth album (and first in more than 30 years), Bounce, to demonstrate their revival, too. The gigs are as follows: Wednesday, January 24 @ Powerstation, Auckland [AA] Thursday, January 25 @ Opera House, Wellington [AA] Tickets are on sale now from www.mjrpresents.com. Live: The Stranglers and Ruts DC Join Forces The Stranglers will be joined on their New Zealand tour next year by fellow UK punk icons Ruts DC; playing the Town Hall in Auckland on February 2 and The Opera House in Wellington on February 3. Known for tracks like 'Babylon's Burning', 'Staring at the Rude Boys' and 'Something That I Said', Ruts DC creates a formidable double act with The Stranglers as they recreate the heady days of the 70s/80s Brit-punk explosion. The teaming up of the two acts recently smashed box office records around the UK, becoming the highest selling tour of The Stranglers' career. The gigs are as follows: Thursday, February 2 @ Town Hall, Auckland [AA] Saturday, February 3 @ Opera House, Wellington [AA] The tour coincides with the re-release of the entire Stranglers studio album catalogue from the period 1977 - 82. Tickets are on sale now from www.mjrpresents.com. Live: Dillinger Escape Plan Return...For The Last Time This year marks the end of The Dillinger Escape Plan. The band has announced that they will cease to play shows or make music as of the end of the year, but before then - they are hitting New Zealand for one, last time. The shows will cover material from their entire career and are as follows: Tuesday, October 24 @ San Fran, Wellington [R18] Wednesday, October 25 @ King's Arms Tavern, Auckland [R18] Tickets to the gigs are available from Under the Radar and in-store at Flying Out (Auckland) and RPM/Slow Boat Records (Wellington). Live: Marky Ramone in NZ Marky Ramone is one of the last remaining members of The Ramones, and the one with the longest lineage, having handled skins duties for the formative punk outfit between 1978 to 1983 and again from 1987 until 1996. An original denizen of the NYC punk scene centered on Max's Kansas City (Marky also played with Wayne County and Richard Hell's Voidoids with whom he appeared on the classic Blank Generation LP), Marky is bringing a haul of Ramones classics to venues across Australia and New Zealand. "The set-list is 38 Ramones songs. Every song that we play, people are gonna know. It extends from the first album, [1976's The Ramones] all the way to Pleasant Dreams and the Brain Drain album." The gigs are as follows: Thursday, November 30 @ San Fran, Wellington [R18] Friday, December 1 @ The Studio, Auckland [R18] Saturday, December 2 @ The Foundry, Christchurch [R18] Tickets are on sale from www.davidroywilliams.com/tours/marky-ramone. Live: Pistol Glen Matlock Acoustic Tour The career of Glen Matlock is a diverse one. He formed the Rich Kids with Midge Ure who went onto join Ultravox. He worked on Iggy Pop's Soldier album, collaborated with Blondie's Clem Burke in The InternationalS wingers, recorded an album for the Creation, had his own group The Philisteins, and played bass for one of his favourite groups The Faces on a reunion tour. Oh yeah, and he was also in the Sex Pistols. Matlock's place in punk history is founded on co-writing arguably the three best Pistols tracks in "God Save The Queen", "Anarchy in the UK" and "Pretty Vacant". Although he was replaced by Sid Vicious in 1977, Matlock returned for all of the reunion tours. Now, he's coming to New Zealand at the end of November almost 40 years to the day since Never Mind The Bollocks was released. "I'll be playing songs from all aspects of my chequered career acoustically and telling some stories. There will be some stories behind the songs, who I recorded them, some funny tales, some astute, and some sad. But don't worry, it will be fun, I'm not a miserable old po-faced git." The gigs are as follows: Friday, November 24 @ Tuning Fork, Auckland [R18] Saturday, November 25 @ Valhalla, Wellington [R18] Tickets and VIP packages are available from Ticketmaster. Live: The Supersuckers Headed Back to Aotearoa Rock 'n' rollers the Supersuckers are coming back to New Zealand, bringing their down 'n' dirty flavour of garage punk to North Island audiences across four November shows. Their live shows are the stuff of legend, so this is a rare opportunity to see 'em in the (deafening) flesh. The gigs are as follows: Wednesday, November 15 @ Valhalla, Wellington [R18] Thursday, November 16 @ King's Arms Tavern, Auckland [R18] Friday, November 17 @ Totara Street, Tauranga [R18] Saturday, November 18 @ YOT Club, Raglan [R18] Tickets for the shows are available from Ticketmaster and Under The Radar. Live: Aussie Act Blind Man Death Stare in NZ Melbourne punk act Blind Man Death Stare are on tour across Australia and, to finish things off, are jumping the ditch to play a trio of gigs in this country. The band are hitting up the big three North Island centres of Auckland, Wellington and Levin. The show details are as follows: Thursday, September 28 @ Valhalla, Wellington [R18] Friday, September 29 @ Alternative Entertainment Bureau, Levin [R18] Saturday, September 30 @ Whammy Bar, Auckland [R18] Blind Man Death Stare are touring in support of their debut album, It'll Grow On Ya, which was released through Arrest Records on July 26th. Live: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes in New Zealand Everyone's favourite punk rock covers band are in New Zealand for two North Island shows in October as Me First and the Gimme Gimmes return with their ultimate party vibe. The band's current lineup is Spike Slawson, Joey Cape (Lagwagon), Dave Raun (Lagwagon), Jay Bentley (Bad Religion) and Lindsay McDougall (Frenzal Rhomb). The show details are as follows: Saturday, October 14 @ San Fran, Wellington [R18] Sunday, October 15 @ Powerstation, Auckland [R18] Tickets to the gigs are available from selecttouring.com.au. EDIT: The Wellington show has now sold out! More News...