HOO HA!
Commotion. On the screen. On the street. In your head, in your heart and in your genome.
HOO HA!
In the club. In the parliament. On the airwaves.
Rising from humble origins in an Adelaide whitegoods warehouse in 2012, Bad//Dreems today release album #4. HOO HA! sees a triumphant Bad//Dreems at the top of their game. One feels that this is the album that finally does justice to their reputation as live juggernaut. It’s their most immediate, vital, and confident record to date and sees them firmly embedded in the canon of independent, literate Australian music that has sought to define the true character of this great Southern land.
To celebrate HOO HA! during its release week, Ben Marwe and Alex Cameron will go into duo mode for a run of very special acoustic performances at indie music stores around Australia with events in Melbourne, Adelaide, Wollongong, Sydney (at Young Henrys in Newtown featuring a live ‘HOO HA!’ podcast recording with special guest Fitzy from Nova, Newcastle, Byron Bay and Brisbane.
This whets the appetite for the Bad//Dreems ‘HOO HA!’ Tour which kicks off with a hometown show at Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide on Friday 23rd June (now with Cable Ties added to the bill), Melbourne at the Corner Hotel on Saturday 24th June, Brisbane’s Triffid on Friday 30th June and Sydney’s Factory Theatre on Saturday 1st July. Children Collide and Dr.Sure’s Unusual Practice* will be along for the ride.
THE ‘HOO HA!’ RECORD STORE EVENTS
Friday May 19th – Oh Jean Records, Melbourne (4PM)
Saturday May 20th – Clarity Records, Adelaide (5PM)
Sunday May 21st – Music Farmers, Wollongong (6PM)
Monday May 22nd – Young Henrys, Sydney (5PM)
Tuesday May 23rd – Hiss & Crackle, Newcastle (5PM)
Wednesday May 24th – Thrills, Byron Bay (4PM)
Thursday May 25th – Sonic Sherpa, Brisbane (5PM)
BAD//DREEMS – THE ‘HOO HA! TOUR
Friday 23rd June Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide SA
with Children Collide, Cable Ties and Twine
Saturday 24th June Corner Hotel, Melbourne VIC
with Children Collide, Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice and Doe St
Friday 30th June Triffid, Brisbane QLD
with Children Collide, Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice and Arthington Stack
Saturday 1st July Factory Theatre, Sydney NSW
with Children Collide, Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice and Sad Girls Sex Club
The songs on ‘HOO HA!’ mark a newfound sense of confidence for Bad//Dreems; the confidence to express what they want, to sound how they want, and to speak up about what matters to them. “There was a significant possibility that we may never have been able to record or play together again. If we were to do so I made a pledge to say exactly what I wanted to and make music true to only ourselves. Bugger the consequences,” Cameron declared.