A group so legendary they earned themselves the nickname The Most Australian Band Ever!, Sydney punk pioneers Hard-Ons are finally jumping the ditch back to the land of the long white cloud. Featuring You Am I frontman Tim Rogers on lead vocal duties, Hard-Ons will be tearing it up at T\u0101maki Makaurau’s The Mothership and The Raglan Pub with a cast of local hell raisers. Hugely influential and mammothly popular during their initial ’80s \/ ’90s era, both in the land of ‘roos and across the alt-rock universe, Hard-Ons achieved a titanic seventeen consecutive number ones on the Australian independent charts and were staples of the Big Day Out travelling mega-festival.<\/p>\n
Once hailed as sounding like “Mot\u00f6rhead meets the Beach Boys”, Hard-Ons combined overdriven punk rock energy, heavy metal grit and surf rock psychedelia in their own infectious style, expressed across thirteen albums so far, including their classic back-to-back run of Smell My Finger \/ Dickcheese \/ Love Is a Battlefield of Wounded Hearts \/ Yummy!\u00a0They\u00a0notably handed the mic to Henry Rollins for their 1991 amped-up cover of ‘Let There Be Rock’ by AC\/DC, and earlier this year released a collaborative record with fellow alt-rock veterans Red Kross.<\/p>\n
Subject of director Jonathan J. Sequeira’s new documentary Harder And Harder, a direct follow-up sequel to his film about the group The Most Australian Band Ever!, join the Hard-Ons at these crucial gigs or miss out big time \u2014 brought to you by Low Tide…<\/p>\n
Hard-Ons with Tim Rogers (AUS)<\/p>\n
Friday 31st July – The Mothership, Auckland w\/ GrownDownz, Bloodbags, CCTV
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Saturday 1st August – The Raglan Pub, Raglan w\/ GrownDownz, Bloodbags<\/p>\n
Auckland tickets HERE via UTR<\/a> Find out about the secret origin of the Hard-Ons, in the trailer for director Jonathan J. Sequeira’s 2025 documentary The Most Australian Band Ever!…<\/p>\n Bop along with the Hard-Ons’ 1990 anthem ‘Where Did She Come From?’…<\/p>\n Here’s the Hard-Ons’ 1986 classic ‘Girl In the Sweater’…<\/p>\n Feel the power of Hard-Ons’ 1991 cover of ‘Let There Be Rock’ by AC\/DC, featuring Henry Rollins on lead vox…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group so legendary they earned themselves the nickname The Most Australian Band Ever!, Sydney punk pioneers Hard-Ons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[237358,237360,237359,111,43,139,69,188482],"class_list":["post-469247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-hard-ons","tag-hard-ons-aus-returning-to-new-zealand-this-winter","tag-hardons","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tim-rogers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Raglan tickets HERE via UTR<\/a><\/p>\n