Today, two of Australia’s finest – Tropical Fuck Storm and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – digitally release a joint EP, Satanic Slumber Party, via Joyful Noise Recordings, and share a video for one of its tracks, ‘Satanic Slumber Party Part 2 (Midnight In Sodom)‘. The EP will receive a vinyl release at a later date. Tropical Fuck Storm’s Fiona Kitschin elaborates: “King Gizz were up at our house a while ago, recording their album Fishing For Fishies with Gaz. Then after a long day recording and a few too many drinks, the Gizz guys and us all wore hats and recorded a very long jam, which we called ‘Hat Jam‘. Gizz took ideas from the jam and made up a new song called the ‘Dripping Tap’ and Tropical Fuck Storm took the ‘Hat Jam’ recording and turned it into Satanic Slumber Party. It’s four guitars, three drummers, two synths, bass, harmonica, electronic sax and lots of singers and silliness. It’s like ‘Love Shack’ by the B52’s except it’s evil.”
The 3 song collaborative EP is lifted from the limited edition Hat Jam 12”; a Double A-side featuring King Gizzard’s ‘The Dripping Tap’ and ‘Satanic Slumber Party’. The 12” will be available exclusively on vinyl through both bands’ AU online stores, while the Satanic Slumber Party EP will receive a wider vinyl release at a later date.
TFS are coming to the UK/Europe/US/Canada for the first time since 2019. For the last two years they’ve been holed up in a bush bunker pursuing their sonic experiments which have produced 2021’s Deep States album, and feature film, Goody Goody Gumdrops. Tropical Fuck Storm members Gareth Liddiard, Fiona Kitschin, Erica Dunn and Lauren Hammel will be bringing their wild, destructive and unstoppable chaos to Northern Hemisphere stages performing songs from A Laughing Death In Meatspace (2018), Braindrops (2019) and Deep States (2021).
Tour Dates:
Mar 25th | Bambra, AU @ Meadow Festival
Apr 22nd | Perth, AU @ Charles Hotel
Apr 23rd | Fremantle, AU @ Freo. Social
Apr 24th | Adelaide, AU @ The Gov
May 26th | Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
May 28th | London, UK @ Wide Awake Festival
May 29th | Bristol, UK @ The Lanes
May 30th | Manchester, UK @ Yes (Pink Room)
June 1st | Dublin, IR @ Button Factory
June 3rd | Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
June 5th | Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
June 8th | Ravenna, IT @ Beaches Brew
June 11th | Oslo, NO @ Loaded
Sept 4th | Groningen, NL @ Vera
Sept 5th | Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
Sept 7th | Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
Sept 8th | Hamburg, DE @ Molotow
Sept 10th | Brussels, DE @ Botanique
Sept 12th | Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix
Sept 13th | Paris, FR @ Trabendo
Sept 14th | Rennes, FR @ Antipode
Sept 15th | Lorient, FR @ Hydrophone
Sept 16th | Nantes, FR @ Le Lieu Unique
Sept 19th | Bordeaux, FR @ Rock School Barbey
Sept 20th | Biarritz, FR @ Atabal
Sept 22nd | Bilbao, ES @ Kafe Antzokia
Sept 24th | Madrid, ES @ Shoko
Sept 25th | Valencia, ES @ Loco Club
Sept 27th | Toulouse, FR @ L’ecluse
Sept 28th | Lyon, FR @ Marche Gare
Oct 19th | Montreal, QC @ Fairmount
Oct 20th | Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe
Oct 21st | Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
Oct 22nd | Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
Oct 24th | Detroit, MI @ El Club
Oct 25th | Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
Oct 27th | Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR
Nov 1st | Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Nov 2nd | Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
Nov 3rd | Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
Nov 4th | Washington, DC @ DC9
Nov 5th | Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg