{"id":25990,"date":"2025-01-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25990"},"modified":"2025-01-23T08:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:26:03","slug":"guitar-wolf-set-for-2025-tour-dates-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25990","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Wolf – Set for 2025 Tour Dates Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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<\/strong> will return again in March 2025.

Since forming in 1987 and releasing their first album on Memphis’s legendary Goner Records <\/strong>in 1993 (following their first appearance at Gonerfest<\/strong>), the group, which is fronted by the heroic Seiji <\/strong>and always clothed head to toe in black leather, have taken their wild and dangerous sound to the world, working with labels like Matador<\/strong> and Third Man <\/strong>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<\/strong> on the back of a borrowed motorcycle.

Inspired by the ultra-violent records of ’50s guitar wielding maniac Link Wray<\/strong> as well as motorcycles, the Ramones, Johnny Thunders, the Cramps<\/strong> and Joan Jet<\/strong>t, Seiji has called their sound ‘Jet Rock’n’Roll’<\/strong>, but that has nothing to do with Joan. As Seiji explained in an interview in 2012, “I love jet <\/em>plane<\/em>. I love noisy music, too. So…there were records…many records…every record <\/em>have<\/em> no big sounds. So…<\/em>easy to <\/em>listen<\/em>. I hate that! So! I add jet sounds. <\/em>Bwaaaahng<\/em>! Explosion!” <\/em><\/strong>(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”<\/em>.<\/strong>)

Guitar Wolf have their own branded motorcycle jacket, the 613 GW<\/strong>, made by Schott NYC<\/strong> 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<\/em>, 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<\/strong><\/em> 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<\/strong>, having suffered the death of original bassplayer Billy (Bass Wolf)<\/strong> by heart-attack aged 38 in 2005, and drummer Takuro<\/strong> 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.”<\/strong><\/em>

Set to appear at the 10th occurrence of Australia’s premier celebration of garage rock and punk, Jerkfest in Geelong<\/strong> as well as the Meadow Music Festival in Bambra <\/strong>(in the Surf Coast Shire), Guitar Wolf are also playing in Melbourne, Frankston, Bendigo, Castlemaine, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Bunbury<\/strong> and Fremantle<\/strong>.  Lucky Melbourne fans will also get a screening of Wild Zero<\/em> at the Thornbury Picture House<\/strong>, with Seiji and his band mates in attendance.  Full dates are as follows:<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
On The Loose<\/em>\u00a0Presents
GUITAR WOLF AUSTRALIAN TOUR MARCH 2025<\/u><\/strong>
FRI 21 MAR\u00a0MELBOURNE<\/strong>\u00a0THE CURTAIN (w\/ The Prize + The States)\u00a0\u00a0
SAT 22 MAR (ARVO)\u00a0BAMBRA<\/strong>\u00a0MEADOW MUSIC FESTIVAL\u00a0\u00a0
SAT 22 MAR\u00a0GEELONG<\/strong>\u00a0JERKFEST 10, BARWON CLUB\u00a0\u00a0
SUN 23 MAR\u00a0FRANKSTON<\/strong>\u00a0SINGING BIRD STUDIOS (w\/\u00a0Gnome\u00a0+ more! All Ages show, 4pm – 9pm)
MON 24 MAR\u00a0WILD ZERO FILM SCREENING<\/em><\/u><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0THORNBURY<\/strong>\u00a0THORNBURY PICTURE HOUSE
WED 26 MAR\u00a0BENDIGO<\/strong>\u00a0TRASH CULT (w\/ Poppin’ Mommas)
THU 27 MAR\u00a0CASTLEMAINE<\/strong>\u00a0THE BRIDGE HOTEL (w\/Leon)
FRI 28 MAR\u00a0BRISBANE<\/strong>\u00a0CROWBAR (w\/The Onyas + Eyes Ninety)
SAT 29 MAR\u00a0SYDNEY<\/strong>\u00a0FACTORY FLOOR (w\/ Antenna & The Crankees)
THU 3 APR\u00a0ADELAIDE<\/strong>\u00a0CROWN AND ANCHOR
FRI 4 APR\u00a0PERTH<\/strong>\u00a0SEASONAL BREWING (w\/ Zerodent & The Murderbirds)\u00a0
SAT 5 APR\u00a0BUNBURY<\/strong>\u00a0THE PRINCE OF WALES (w\/ Turd!)
SUN 6 APR\u00a0FREMANTLE<\/strong>\u00a0BUFFALO CLUB (Doors 5:30pm)Tix available from\u00a0On the Loose Presents | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree<\/a>
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