{"id":582257,"date":"2026-04-03T05:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582257\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:50:12","slug":"mulling-it-over-with-hot-mulligan-australian-tour-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582257\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulling It Over With Hot Mulligan: Australian Tour Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is one thing we know about a Hot Mulligan<\/a> Australian tour, it\u2019s that it is going to be absolutely hectic. Ahead of their upcoming shows, we sat down with Ryan, Tades and Jonah to ask all of our burning questions about Aussie tour life, acclimatising to life on the road, and some of the band’s fondest memories on our shore. If this insight into the whirlwind that is a Hot Mully tour doesn\u2019t make you snag a last-minute ticket, we don\u2019t know what will!\u00a0<\/p>\n

First impressions of Australia?<\/p>\n

Ryan: The first time we landed in Australia, I want to say my first impression was, “Oh my god, I’m so tired”, because we just flew for so long. But I think we were all very pleasantly surprised with just how almost familiar – at least for me – it feels like Australia is compared to the States. It almost has a West Coast of the U.S. type of vibe. But it’s also cool, because it is an entirely different culture of people. We found the shows to be very fun, the people were all really nice, like everyone we travelled with and encountered at the venues, and the fans were pumped to have us over, so I’m excited to do it again.<\/p>\n

Tades: Fuckin’ warm.<\/p>\n

Jonah: Warm.<\/p>\n

Tades: The weather is just perpetually sick, so that was cool. It was the first time I’d been in some subtropical climate stuff like that. It’s just alien; it’s not Midwestern United States weather. Not counting California and Florida, anyway. Those don’t count.<\/p>\n

Jonah: When you do a US tour, unless it’s the summer – the 3 months where everywhere is kind of nice – you go through, like, 4 different climates, so the whole thing was just very nice. We swam almost every day. Our driver was nice enough to show us some local spots, we were just doing fun stuff every day before the shows. I think for that reason, it was one of my favourite tours that I’ve ever been on. I’m definitely looking forward to going back.<\/p>\n

What else did you do in your down time?<\/p>\n

Jonah: Aside from swimming, I feel like that was the main thing we did. We were like, “Where’s a cool swimming hole or beach that you could take us to before the show?” But other than that, we saw the Opera House – that was cool. We went to some local dive bars and played pool.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ryan: There’s a lot of times, especially on US tours or mainland Europe tours, where it’s like, “Okay, you have 6 hours to kill, but it’s cold outside, or it’s raining, and there’s nothing to do”, and all of the local places to go sit down and have a bite and a beer all kind of suck. But in Australia, I felt like no matter what city we were in, there was always a good food option, a good patio to sit down and just hang out, have some drinks, or sit outside, which is nice.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The shows last time around were absolutely rammed. What memories stand out the most from that tour?<\/p>\n

Ryan: I can’t, for the life of me, remember what city. But coming all the way across the world, obviously, we had to play some smaller shows than we’re used to. But we had a few that were specifically small, like just bars, more or less, where the stage is kind of there as a formality. Those were really fun, not just because it’s small and the energy is good, but also because all the fans are very excited. It feels like, for Australian fans, I’m sure it feels like a rarity when one of their favourite US bands come over, as opposed to here, we could do 100 US shows in a year, and no one would bat an eye. So it is cool to play in that context where it’s small, high energy. Just fun, you know?<\/p>\n

Tades: Maybe that’s a thing. It more or less felt like the scene did here a while ago, when we were playing there. It’s actually alive, a decent community. It just felt like the old way. It was cool.<\/p>\n

Jonah: I echo that sentiment. It’s always fun when we go to a new place for the first time, the shows are smaller again, and there’s not a 20-foot gap between us and the crowd. It just feels more personal, you get to talk to people after the show, and they’re a little bit more excited because we’ve never been there before. It felt very unique and special.<\/p>\n

Touring Australia is a lot different. It\u2019s a long drive between cities\u2026<\/p>\n

Jonah: Yeah that’s a challenge, for sure, because that’s definitely what we’re used to even in the UK and Europe. We’re on a bus, and the drive is, maybe 3 hours to, at most, 7 hours. But, every single city is, like, 9 hours apart. So, we flew to every show except for one. We drove, and they were like, “Oh yeah, it’s a short drive”, and it was 8 hours. I don’t remember the city we came from, but I know that we were driving to Wollongong, because we made a Spotify playlist that we all could contribute to that was called “The Long Drive to Wollongong”.<\/p>\n

Jonah: The playlist was terrible. We were all just putting on the worst songs we could think of just as a way to try to get a laugh.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ryan: Lots of metalcore.<\/p>\n

Jonah: Yeah, yeah, everyone’s got a little bit of a different taste, so there were some of our own tastes mixed in with a lot of jokey, funny songs and we just put it on shuffle. We didn’t have enough music to last the 8 hours, so it just kept repeating.<\/p>\n

Can you give us a sneak peek of your upcoming Australian tour<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Ryan: Well they can expect a Hot Mulligan set. A lot of the new record, because that’s what we’re touring on currently. It’s the Sound a Body Makes When It\u2019s Still, quote, “World Tour.” We’ve spent a lot of time recently, through touring in the US and in Europe and the UK, just kind of refining down the setlist and our workflows. I think we’ve come out on the other side – it’s a pretty good set. It feels pretty locked in. I’m just excited to take it over there now.<\/p>\n

Tades: I think you can more or less expect the same thing but we\u2019re just up now. You can’t get on the stage and do any of the fun, goofy diving. But that’s what I’m hoping for. I want to get some bodies doing some weird shit.<\/p>\n

The carnage begins on April 21st as Hot Mulligan land in Melbourne to destroy 170 Russell. Then making their way through Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, only a select handful of tickets remain. Don’t have egg (or a big load) on your face, and grab your tickets before they run out! <\/p>\n

Final purchases can be made through Destroy All Lines here<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hot Mulligan- The Sound A Body Makes When It\u2019s Still Tour<\/p>\n

with Saturdays At Your Place (USA) and Forests (Singapore)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tuesday 21 April: 170 Russell, Melbourne 18+<\/p>\n

Wednesday 22 April: Forum, Melbourne 18+ (SOLD OUT)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Saturday 25 April: Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane AA<\/p>\n

Sunday 26 April: Roundhouse, Sydney AA<\/p>\n

Monday 27 April: The Gov, Adelaide AA (SOLD OUT)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there is one thing we know about a Hot Mulligan Australian tour, it\u2019s that it is going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-582257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}