NUNCHUKKA SUPERFLY, the side project of Hard-Ons Blackie and Ray, have a new video which they're premiering with Vive Le Rock!
'What's Ya Week Like' is taken from the trio's forthcoming seventh album, If You Go Down I Go Down Too. Their first album in four years, it's the first to feature new drummer John Banicevic.
"We recorded it at Parliament studios with Lachlan Mitchell again and like with each record we've done we just wanna go that little bit further," says Blackie. "Album no 7 and we're pretty effing proud of it... It's our most prog to date! With John Banicevic, our 4th drummer... yikes that seems like a lot.
"I know we're known for our punk rock but like most our age, before we heard any of that we loved the classic rock of the day," he continues. "As we've gotten older that's deepened to included a lot of the prog rock that we missed out on cause it was dissed by punks but fuck I LOVE YES and King Crimson, Genesis etc. I think somehow in our minds we also act like we're space-rock and post-punk, etc... This record is really where we're at .We laugh sometimes and say we're a bunch of shitty punks trying to play prog."
The video is the work of Jonathan Sequeira who made the recent Hard-Ons documentary The Most Australian Band Ever, as well as the Radio Birdman doc, Descent Into The Maelstrom.
'What's Ya Week Like' is available to pre-save here as well as from the Cheersquad Records Bandcamp.
In other news, the Hard-Ons and guest frontman Poions Idea's Jerry A head out on a US tour next month with Napalm Death and The Melvins. Full dates are....
May 22 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
May 23 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s
May 24 – Kansas City, MO @ Madrid Theatre
May 25 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
May 27 – Denver, CO @ Summit
May 29 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
May 31 – Bozeman, MT @ The ELM
June 1 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory Spokane
June 2 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
June 3 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
June 4 – Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theatre
June 6 – Reno, NV @ Virginia Street Brewhouse
June 7 – Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone Berkeley