Exciting beard-related news: Our epic final show, filmed in front of a ravenous home crowd at the legendary Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, will soon be available for you viewing please! We're releasing it on a totally awesome and totally limited-edition comb-shaped USB stick - head over to the online store IMMEDIATELY to pre-order your copy and own an unique piece of beard-music history!!
Christmas is coming up quicker than John Beardman Jnr’s beard, so jump over to the online store to find everything you need for your bearded friends and family….
Well, we’ve been to Aarhus, Aberdeen, Airlie Beach, Albany, Albury, Alice Springs, Amsterdam, Apollo Bay, Armidale, Auckland, Austin, Ballarat, Ballina, Batemans Bay, Belfast, Bendigo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bochum, Breda, Bremen, Brighton, Brisbane, Bristol, Bunbury, Bundaberg, Byron Bay, Cairns, Canberra, Cardiff, Castlemaine, Clare Valley, Coffs Harbour, Cologne, Copenhagen, Darwin, Dashville, Daylesford, Derby, Devonport, Diksmuide, Dresden, Dublin, Dunsborough, Edinburgh, Esperance, Falls Creek, Frankfurt, Geelong, Geraldton, Gladstone, Glasgow, Gold Coast, Griffith, Groningen, Gympie, Hamburg, Hannover, Hobart, Houston, Katoomba, Kiel, Launceston, Lauwe, Leeds, London, Lorne, Los Angeles, Maitland, Manchester, Margaret River, Melbourne, Mildura, Mount Hotham, Munich, New York, Newcastle (Australia), Newcastle (UK), Nhulunbuy, Nijmegen, Nottingham, Noumea, Nowra, Odense, Oslo, Paris, Perth, Port Macquarie, Portsmouth, Prominent Hill, Queenscliff, Rockhampton, Rotterdam, Sheffield, Southampton, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Sunshine Coast, Sydney, Tamworth, Tilburg, Toowoomba, Toronto, Townsville, Traralgon, Utrecht, Wagga Wagga, Wallaroo, Warnambool, Wellington, Whyalla, Wiesbaden, Wollongong and Zurich. Now we have just two shows left in our hometown of Adelaide. Still some tickets available for this Thursday night, come down and help send us off in style…
GLASGOW NOW SOLD OUT
Less than TWO WEEKS until the start of the European leg of our ridiculously long Farewell Tour. We’ll be doing TWO SETS of beard-related awesomeness at every show, so you’re guaranteed maximum beard for your buck. Manchester and Amsterdam are already SOLD OUT and a handful of other shows are getting close – make sure you don’t miss out, head to the tour page now to grab your tickets. Yes!!
We’re about 1/3 of the way through our farewell lap and we’re just getting warmed up… with our final show in Adelaide on Oct 28th already sold out, we’ve recently added a bunch of new dates including a second show at Melbourne’s legendary Corner Hotel, a gig at the almost-as-legendary Pelly Bar in Frankston, and a string of shows on the northern NSW coast, to go with an already humongous list of Farewell Tour gigs. Check out all the upcoming shows below and grab your tickets now from the tour page before we hang up our beards for the final time…
Recently, we, The Beards, have announced that we will be ending our touring and live performing career with a farewell tour in 2016. The fact that we have had a touring and live performing career at all has surprised many, including ourselves. The fact that we can go out on our own terms with a farewell tour such as this is something we are deeply grateful for. And it would be remiss of us if we didn’t offer a genuine and heartfelt thankyou to everyone who has made the last ten years of beard-related madness possible.
As few people other than those who have attempted to do it will understand, the personal, financial and emotional sacrifices necessary to make a living as an unsigned original touring band catch up with you eventually. Whilst being on stage in front of all of you can be the most awesome job in the world, we feel that now is the right time to (hopefully) go out with a bang with one last tour, rather than slowly fade from relevance until we’re nothing but a quirky answer to a 2011 Hottest 100 quiz question.
Being a novelty band (and we’re not afraid to admit it), we faced an uphill battle from the start in many respects –we’ve had precious little radio play over the journey, the majority of festivals didn’t want to know about us, and most self-respecting music fans would screw up their nose at the idea, at least until they saw us live. And so to win people over, we toured. Then we toured more. Then we toured again, until people began to take notice. That’s the reality we faced, as do many young bands that start out with nothing but a glint in their eye and a station wagon that they borrowed from their drummer’s dad.
Let’s be clear, none if this is sour grapes. The experiences we’ve had, the friends we’ve made, the sold-out gigs we’ve played in European cities that we can’t even pronounce – we wouldn’t change any of it. We all know bands and musos who would give their left nut to have the career that we’ve had and we’re exceedingly lucky that from the start, there were enough of you – fans, other bands, managers, booking agents – that believed in us and believed in what we were trying to do. To those of you who got behind us, we can’t thank you enough. For those who didn’t get it or didn’t want to buy in, we’re sorry you missed out.
As funny as it sounds now, we didn’t start this project because of a love of beards. Our passion was, and still is, a desire to do something fun, something left of centre, something that satisfied our warped senses of humour. Also, we had a hunch that just maybe, if we poured enough passion in and crafted the concept just right, something as absurd as a band that sings entirely and exclusively about beards might just end up being something great.
Did we succeed? Depends who you ask. Did we have fun? Hell yes. And do we owe it all to anyone who ever bought a T-shirt, sung along to one of our songs, forwarded on one of our videos, or stood in the crowd with a beer in their hand and a smile on their face? Abso-fucking-lutely. We’ll see you out on the road as we go around one more time – we’ll be doing our best to get to as many places as possible and hang out with as many of you as we can. And once again, from the bottom of our hearts, thankyou all.
Much love,
The Beards
The day has arrived! After 10 years, 4 studio albums, 56 songs about beards, and way too many shows, beers and beard strokes to count, we are hanging up our touring hat indefinitely in 2016. Don't panic just yet though - before we call it a day we're embarking on one more MASSIVE farewell tour to say thankyou to everyone who's come out to support beards over the years. Tickets are onsale now, and you can check out the dates below - more shows will be announced soon but for now here they are...
Wed 20 Jan - WEST TAMWORTH LEAGUES, TAMWORTH COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL NSW
Sat 06 Feb - HOUGHTONFEST, HOUGHTON SA
Sat 13 Feb - MEATSTOCK, SYDNEY SHOWGROUNDS NSW
Thu 25 Feb - ROYAL OAK HOTEL, LAUNCESTON TAS
Fri 26 Feb - WARATAH HOTEL, HOBART TAS
Sat 27 Feb - RED HOT MUSIC, DEVONPORT TAS
Fri 11 Mar - BAR INDIGO (LEISURE INN), ROCKINGHAM WA
Sat 12 Mar - ROSEMOUNT HOTEL, PERTH WA
Sun 13 Mar - WINTERSUN HOTEL, GERALDTON WA
Fri 15 Apr – BODEGA, WELLINGTON NZ
Sat 16 Apr - KINGS ARMS TAVERN, AUCKLAND NZ
Wed 20 Apr - PIER HOTEL, ESPERANCE WA
Thu 21 Apr - THE WHITE STAR, ALBANY WA
Fri 22 Apr - DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN, DUNSBOROUGH WA
Sat 23 Apr - PRINCE OF WALES, BUNBURY WA
Wed 11 May - GLADSTONE EVENTS CENTRE, GLADSTONE QLD
Thu 12 May - LIONLEIGH HOTEL, ROCKHAMPTON QLD
Fri 13 May - MAGNUM'S, AIRLIE BEACH QLD
Sat 14 May - DALRYMPLE HOTEL, TOWNSVILLE QLD
Sun 15 May - THE JACK, CAIRNS QLD
Sat 21 May - JIVE BAR, ADELAIDE SA
Wed 25 May - THE LOFT, WARRNAMBOOL VIC
Thu 26 May - THE GOLDEN VINE, BENDIGO VIC
Fri 27 May - SS & A CLUB, ALBURY NSW
Sat 28 May - THE AREA HOTEL, GRIFFITH NSW
Thu 9 Jun - RAILWAY CLUB, DARWIN NT
Fri 10 Jun - RAILWAY CLUB, DARWIN NT
Sat 11 Jun - KATHERINE HOTEL, KATHERINE NT
Wed 15 Jun - THE SPOTTED COW, TOOWOOMBA QLD
Thu 16 Jun - THE SOUNDLOUNGE, GOLD COAST QLD
Fri 17 Jun - SOL BAR, MAROOCHYDORE QLD
Sat 18 Jun - THE TRIFFID, BRISBANE QLD
Thu 23 Jun - KAROVA LOUNGE, BALLARAT VIC
Fri 24 Jun - THE BARWON CLUB, GEELONG VIC
Sat 25 Jun - CORNER HOTEL, MELBOURNE VIC
Thu 30 Jun - BEACHCOMBER HOTEL, TOUKLEY NSW
Fri 01 Jul - THE CAMBRIDGE HOTEL, NEWCASTLE NSW
Sat 02 Jul - THE METRO, SYDNEY NSW
Yes! It's the new Christmas duet featuring the very pro-beard Kate Miller-Heidke and the even more pro-beard Beards' frontman Johann Beardraven. Not only is it destined to be this festive season's biggest hit, it's also raising money for Decembeard - donate through the website and you can download the song! Go to http://www.decembeard.org.au/ChristmasSingle - you'll be helping spread Christmas cheer AND helping stop the spread of bowel cancer. Win!
Big big thanks to everyone who came out to help us celebrate 10 years in style. For those of you who missed out, fear not - we've got some big announcements coming up soon and we'll definitely be hitting the road again some time in 2016 to share the beard love once again. You can also catch us in Sydney on November 7th at Fisher's Gig in Campbelltown. In the meantime, keep on thinking about beards with this informative list of beard facts...
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The Ten Long Years, One Long Beard Anniversary Tour started with a bang in Queensland over the long weekend but we're just getting warmed up. We've got some bangin' gigs coming up in Vic, SA and NSW so jump over to the tour page to grab your tickets. Only a couple more chances to catch us this year so if you're in any doubt about our feelings towards beards, make sure you don't miss out!!
A decade of beards has been leading up to this! The ten-year anniversary compilation double-album Ten Long Years, One Long Beard is out September 4th! Order your copy right now from the online store - buy a copy of the CD and receive a free digital download of the entire album.
Featuring the greatest hits from all 4 studio LPs, rare and previously unreleased tracks, a brand new single PLUS an entire live set, it's ideal for the longtime fan or the uninitiated. This is the BEARDIEST OF THE BEARDY!!
This is it! Our brand new ten year anniversary single is here just in time for World Beard Day. Watch it whilst you stroke your beard for added satisfaction!!
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