| Following a successful return to Australia in 2023, during which they blew away everyone in attendance at the last ever Boogie Festival, Tokyo’s incredible GUITAR WOLF will return again in March 2025. Since forming in 1987 and releasing their first album on Memphis’s legendary Goner Records in 1993 (following their first appearance at Gonerfest), the group, which is fronted by the heroic Seiji and always clothed head to toe in black leather, have taken their wild and dangerous sound to the world, working with labels like Matador and Third Man in the process. They have released 12 albums and are signed to a major label at home in Japan. They first toured Australia in the late ’90s, when Seiji rode on to the stage of a packed Tote on the back of a borrowed motorcycle. Inspired by the ultra-violent records of ’50s guitar wielding maniac Link Wray as well as motorcycles, the Ramones, Johnny Thunders, the Cramps and Joan Jett, Seiji has called their sound ‘Jet Rock’n’Roll’, but that has nothing to do with Joan. As Seiji explained in an interview in 2012, “I love jet plane. I love noisy music, too. So…there were records…many records…every record have no big sounds. So…easy to listen. I hate that! So! I add jet sounds. Bwaaaahng! Explosion!” (When asked by the same interviewer who came up with the term Jet Rock, Seiji replied, “Me. Yeah, yeah. So we are #1 Japanese Jet Rock Band”.) Guitar Wolf have their own branded motorcycle jacket, the 613 GW, made by Schott NYC of New York, who make the iconic 613 Perfecto jacket as worn by the Ramones. It’s a jacket that dates back to Marlon Brandon in The Wild One, and the birth of the leather jacket as an outlaw/rebel icon. Guitar Wolf are movie stars themselves too, having starred in the low budget sci-fi horror movie Wild Zero in 1999, a sequel to which they announced last year. Despite a number of line-up changes – they are now onto their third bass player Gotz, having suffered the death of original bassplayer Billy (Bass Wolf) by heart-attack aged 38 in 2005, and drummer Takuro has only been with them since 2022 – Guitar Wolf are founded on a singular vision and continue to push forward just as they remain the same. Picture a lone rider pushing through an unending tide of fashion-conscious conformists – that’s what Guitar Wolf are like. As they state in their Official Bio on their website, Guitar Wolf “single-mindedly pursu(e) an unchanging style and radiat(e) power that transcends time and space.” Set to appear at the 10th occurrence of Australia’s premier celebration of garage rock and punk, Jerkfest in Geelong as well as the Meadow Music Festival in Bambra (in the Surf Coast Shire), Guitar Wolf are also playing in Melbourne, Frankston, Bendigo, Castlemaine, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Bunbury and Fremantle. Lucky Melbourne fans will also get a screening of Wild Zero at the Thornbury Picture House, with Seiji and his band mates in attendance. Full dates are as follows: |
| On The Loose Presents GUITAR WOLF AUSTRALIAN TOUR MARCH 2025 FRI 21 MAR MELBOURNE THE CURTAIN (w/ The Prize + The States) SAT 22 MAR (ARVO) BAMBRA MEADOW MUSIC FESTIVAL SAT 22 MAR GEELONG JERKFEST 10, BARWON CLUB SUN 23 MAR FRANKSTON SINGING BIRD STUDIOS (w/ Gnome + more! All Ages show, 4pm – 9pm) MON 24 MAR WILD ZERO FILM SCREENING THORNBURY THORNBURY PICTURE HOUSE WED 26 MAR BENDIGO TRASH CULT (w/ Poppin’ Mommas) THU 27 MAR CASTLEMAINE THE BRIDGE HOTEL (w/Leon) FRI 28 MAR BRISBANE CROWBAR (w/The Onyas + Eyes Ninety) SAT 29 MAR SYDNEY FACTORY FLOOR (w/ Antenna & The Crankees) THU 3 APR ADELAIDE CROWN AND ANCHOR FRI 4 APR PERTH SEASONAL BREWING (w/ Zerodent & The Murderbirds) SAT 5 APR BUNBURY THE PRINCE OF WALES (w/ Turd!) SUN 6 APR FREMANTLE BUFFALO CLUB (Doors 5:30pm)Tix available from On the Loose Presents | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree |
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