KYUSS Australian Tour 2011

At the beginning of this year there were these crazy people spreading rumors about the greatest band to grace my childhood doing a possible reunion tour. My response was,"There is no fucking way in hell they will." Those rumors were quickly extinguished and made my statement legit when founding member (and now Q.O.T.S.A frontman Josh Homme) expressed his thoughts on the idea:

"The offers come in all the time. They're getting more and more expensive, and more and more elaborate. The money is crazy, but I've never been tempted I don't really care about the money, I never have. That's not what Kyuss was about, so to punctuate the end of our sentence with that would be blasphemy. Kyuss fans are so fuckin' rad, they're fuckin' badass — but to me, reunions are just not necessary. It's not what it was, it's what it is, and Kyuss was a really magical thing — and if you weren't there, well, you weren't. That's just the luck of the draw. I don't feel the urge to do it for somebody who didn't have the opportunity to see us, or just didn't take the opportunity to see us. I'll let other bands alter their great legacies. Kyuss has such a great history that it would be a total error. I like that nobody saw Kyuss, and that it was largely misunderstood. That sounds like a legend forming to me. I'm too proud of it to rub my dick on it."

So when I woke last week to find out that three quarters of KYUSS are reforming for an Australian Tour next year, a giant brown nugget exploded into my Cheap Mondays.

Kyuss will be touring under the moniker Kyuss Lives! and features original Kyuss members singer John Garcia, bassist Nick Oliveri and drummer Brant Bjork and will be joined by on guitar Bruno Fevery. Oliveri was an original member of the group, though he was replaced by Scott Reeder shortly after 1992’s Blues for the Red Sun album. And you guessed it, Josh Homme will not be rubbing his dick on it.

TOUR DATES

Wednesday 4th May – Coolangatta Hotel, Gold Coast, – 18+

Friday 6th May – The Tivoli, Brisbane – 18+

Saturday 7th May – Metro Theatre, Sydney – Lic A/A

Sunday 8th May – Billboard, Melbourne – 18+

Tuesday 10th May – Fowlers, Adelaide – Lic A/A

Wednesday 11th May – Capitol, Perth – 18+

Tickets on sale Thursday 25th November