Australian 70's era punk band the Saints will be making three NYC area appearances later this month. One of those appearances is at the annual Joey Ramone Birthday Bash, where they'll share the stage with the Bouncing Souls, Ronnie Spector, Marky Ramone, the Dictators' Andy Shernoff, the Voidoids' Ivan Julian, Theo of the Lunachicks and more. The other two shows in the area will feature the Ratchets.
Twenty-five years in the current incarnation of the Saints includes singer/guitarist Chris Bailey, guitarist Marty Willson-Piper of The Church, and longtime bassist and drummer Casper Wijnberg and Peter Wilkinson. The band most recently released the full length Nothing is Straight In My House.
| DATE | VENUE | CITY | DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday May 19, 2005 | Irving Plaza | New York, NY | Joey Ramone Birthday Bash |
| Friday May 20, 2005 | Maxwell?s | Hoboken, NJ | early show w/ The Ratchets |
| Saturday May 21, 2005 | Ding Dong Lounge | New York, NY | w/ The Ratchets |
From the press release
"The original Saints emerged out of Brisbane, Australiaâs repressively authoritarian cultural wasteland in the mid-1970âs with a raw, primitive yet evocatively soulful sound that harkened back to Little Richard, the Pretty Things and the Stooges. That and it also predicted the emergence of the new punk wave by several months. The bandâs debut 45, "(Iâm) Stranded" [June 1976] was an international smash, landing the band critical raves before the Damned, the Clash, the Sex Pistols or the Ramones even released their own respective debuts.The albums that followed - (Iâm) Stranded (1977), Eternally Yours (1978) and Prehistoric Sounds (1978) - are now considered timeless records by any standard. One listen to any of todayâs swaggering hard rocking garage bands proves just how deep the Saints left their indelible mark.