Released in 1980 and featuring teenage brothers Steve (12) and Jeff (16) McDonald alongside future Black Flag singer Ron Reyes (on drums) and future Circle Jerks and Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson, the Red Cross or Posh Boy ep as it has become known is more snot-nosed punk than the hardcore their credentials might suggest, indebted to the sounds of late seventies New York and L.A with their own teenage mentality thrown in. Song titles like I Hate My School, Clorox Girls and Standing in Front of Poseur both showed and belied their age and at little more than six and half minutes, Red Cross was an audacious debut suggesting great things to follow.

Born Innocent took the formula further (though not much) and upped the obnoxious quota with a cover of Charles Manson’s Cease to Exist and their own Kill Someone You Hate alongside trash obsessed nuggets in Linda Blair and Look On Up at the Bottom (the latter a cover from the low-budget movie Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) paving the way for future Redd Kross releases and in the process cementing their identity in the canyon of rock ‘n’ roll visionaries.

Having already been performed in the USA as part of the ATP Don’t Look Back series, Feel and Dig It Up! are more than chuffed to present one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most iconic and identifiable bands in their first Australian visit since 1993.

Ladies and Gentleman, Redd Kross. 

REDD KROSS PERFORM BORN INNOCENT AND THE POSH BOY EP & MORE.

Tuesday 24th April: Sydney, Oxford Arts Factory + Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys and Bloods.
Tickets on-sale from www.moshtix.com.au, all mostix outlets and www.feelpresents.com

Friday 27th April: Melbourne, Northcote Social Club + Iowa
Tickets on sale Fri 13 April from northcotesocialclub.com and feelpresents.oztix.com.au

Hear the entire Red Cross ep here

There won’t be any extra shows for either band and no there won’t be a Sonics Sydney sideshow, sorry. All eyes on Dig it Up! now folks. We’re getting very close…

Speaking of, check out the original version of our event anthem. Recorded way back in October 1981 at the legendary Sydney Trade Union Club.

Dig it! Or die trying.

Dig It Up! Live 1981

The Pony Bar in Melbourne (68 Little Collins St and a short 5 min walk from The Palace) will open it’s doors at the earlier than normal time of 3.00pm on Anzac Day playing host to Hoodoo Gurus’ compadres Kim Salmon and Spencer P. Jones as well as young Geelong act The Murlocs. Kim and Spencer will perform in both solo mode and as a double-act while The Murlocs (featuring Broderick Smith’s young son Ambrose on vocals and harmonica) will perform a set of their blistering r’n'b. Get in early!

http://www.singhalamusic.com/the-murlocs/

A revolving cast of local celebrities will also DJ at Pony during the day while in the Palace main room featured DJ’s will include Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring) among others.

And as it is with Sydney, the Melbourne Dig it Up! will now house a venue dedicated to comedy when the Spleen Bar (41 Bourke St and across the road from the Palace) opens it doors with featured comedians and fellow rock tragics Dave O’Neil, Andrew Goodone and CJ Fortuna.

Good enough for ya?

Full performance schedules for both Sydney and Melbourne will be revealed very shortly. Until then tickets for both Sydney and Melbourne and also the Adelaide Dig it Up! are on-sale from www.digitup.net.au

Also joining Kids in Dust in Sydney are audio / visual collective Sounds of Seduction alongside guest DJ’s Jack Shit, Silky Doyle, Andy Travers, Nic Dalton and one-time Hoodoo Gurus band-manager Stuart Coupe.

In other Sydney Dig it Up! news all reserved seating tickets have now sold-out. General admission or dance floor tickets are all that remain – who’s complaining?

Full performance schedules for both Sydney and Melbourne will be revealed very shortly. Until then tickets for both Sydney and Melbourne and also the Adelaide Dig it Up! are on-sale from www.digitup.net.au

Sydney meantime has now sold out of both A & B Reserve tickets leaving just a handful of C reserve and general admission tickets. Hurry!

And we have a 4th venue for Sydney, The Sly Fox Hotel, also on Enmore Road and approximately three minutes walk from the Enmore Theatre. The addition of The Sly Fox will ensure a day jam-packed with options and activity and crazy value for money.

Speaking of that value how about all these new additions at no extra charge…

Steve Wynn, the former frontman for post-punk Paisley Underground act The Dream Syndicate, will perform at the Sydney and Melbourne legs of Dig it Up! alongside his wife and drummer Linda Pimon. Excitement!

Also joining the Sydney line-up will be Kim Salmon and Spencer P. Jones appearing solo and in duo-mode – another first for Sydney courtesy of Dig it Up!

Finally young Sydney punks The Gooch Palms - another of the exciting new breed of garage-inspired punks ie: Royal Headache and The Straight Arrows – have joined the bill for Sydney only. The tradition continues.

Check out bios and you tube clips for all new additions as well as all other Dig It Up! acts under the Artist tab on the www.digitup.net.au website, and stay tuned for the final announcement and schedule due mid-March.

Read more News HERE

Ladies and gentlemen does it get any better than this? The Sonics!

WATCH: Psycho, live! 

All three shows are limited in capacity and include new Sydney venue The Factory Floor, which can be found on the ground floor of The Factory Theatre complex in Marrickville.

Don’t miss these most-excellent fun-packed shows

Sat 21st April: Sydney, Factory Floor + Kill City Creeps and The Gooch Palms
Tickets $38.00 + bf from factorytheatre.com.au or phone 9550 3666

Tue 24th April: Melbourne, The Tote + The Exotics and The Bluebottles
Tickets $38.00 + bf from feelpresents.oztix.com.au or phone 1300 762 545

Thu 26th April: Hobart, Brisbane Hotel
Tickets $20.00 + bf from oztix.com,au, phone 1300 762 545 or all Oztix outlets.