# THE HARD-ONS Announce New Album ‘I Like You A Lot Getting Older’ - Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/the-hard-ons-announce-new-album-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older/ - Published: 2024-08-15T13:00:00-05:00 - Author: Eugene Tierney ### **THE HARD-ONS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM _I LIKE YOU A LOT GETTING OLDER_** #### **NEW ALBUM OUT OCTOBER 4 AHEAD OF 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR AND SXSW PREMIERE OF FEATURE-LENGTH HARD-ONS DOCUMENTARY _THE MOST AUSTRALIAN BAND EVER_** #### **ANNOUNCEMENT FOLLOWS RELEASE OF NEW SINGLE & VIDEO “BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ” ** _“The Hard-Ons were – still are – amazing. Musically, but also for what they were. This multi-cultural band. They were fearless. Ray and Blackie always came to Dirty Three shows in Sydney early on, and I always felt that we were somehow aligned attitude- wise. They were awesome live, with that power that only a trio can have. They also wrote the best singles! Beyond that, they always did whatever they wanted. “_ **– Warren Ellis (Dirty Three/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)** _“I f*cken love the Hard-Ons!”_**  – Eamon (The Chats)** [⌊The Hard-Ons⌉⌊The Hard-Ons⌉[ **Cheersquad Records and Tape**s are exhilarated to announce the forthcoming new album by **the Hard-Ons, _I_** _**Like You A Lot Getting Older**_. The album is out October 4, 2024 and available for pre-order now. _**I Like You A Lot Getting Older **_will be the third album by the band’s current line-up of Blackie, Murray, Ray and Tim, and follows 2021’s ARIA top 5 debuting ** _I’m Sorry Sir, That Riff’s Been Taken_** and last year’s the Top 30 debuting ** _Ripper ’23. _** It will be released on black vinyl and CD and in digital formats, as well as a number of limited coloured vinyl editions – clear vinyl with orange smoke (100 only), clear vinyl with blue smoke (100 only) and clear vinyl with pink smoke (100 only) – and a limited-edition cassette (100 only). An exclusive limited edition green vinyl  pressing (250 only, with different color on the cover) will be available via the album’s UK distributor **Forte Music Distribution**.  The new album’s release will precede the band’s recently announced **40th Anniversary Australian tour** (and coincide with their **40th Anniversary European tour**), and the premiere of the feature length documentary on the band, **_The Most Australia Band Ever_**. Today’s announcement follows the release of the new single and video**“ Buzz Buzz Buzz”**. Hard-Ons - Buzz Buzz Buzz (official music video) [⌊Hard-Ons - Buzz Buzz Buzz (official music video)⌉⌊Hard-Ons - Buzz Buzz Buzz (official music video)⌉ Watch this video on YouTube _Hard-Ons “Buzz Buzz Buzz” (Official Video)_ **Pre-order UK Green Vinyl from one of these outlets** **[https://www.arcade-sound.com/products/the-hard-ons-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older-lp](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=9117e435a2&e=7f3088bce0) [https://www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/product/the-hard-ons/i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=bb0bc44182&e=7f3088bce0) [https://www.crashrecords.co.uk/products/hard-ons-the-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-old-pre-order](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=b9d7a00200&e=7f3088bce0) [https://familystorerecords.co.uk/products/the-hard-ons-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-old](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=52e177e4cb&e=7f3088bce0) **Pre-order _I Like You A Lot Getting Older_ via Cheersquad Bandcamp (Australia) [https://cheersquadrecordstapes.bandcamp.com/album/i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=8517ed95db&e=7f3088bce0) **Pre-order/Pre-save via digital providers [https://bfan.link/i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=8143d58a00&e=7f3088bce0) _“(The Hard-Ons) should be in the ARIA Hall of Fame!” _**– Dave Faulkner (Hoodoo Gurus)** One of Australia’s most loved and influential bands, **the Hard-Ons** are this year celebrating 40 years of punk rocking in public. In doing so they will embark on ** 40th anniversary** tours of both Australia and Europe, along with the release of a new music _**I Like You A Lot Getting Older **_on **Cheersquad Records & Tapes**. They are also the subject of a new feature length documentary film, **_The Most Australian Band Ever_**, which will premiere October 16 at Sydney’s **SXSW** festival. New single** “Buzz Buzz Buzz”** is the first taste of the new album, and a great, razor-sharp pop song driven by intense energy and power. It’s a **Tim Rogers/Peter Black** co-write (about which **Blackie** sez, _**“Our best collaboration so far. When Tim said ‘I wanna get a little left of center with the melody on this,’ I was BLOWN away (but not surprised 🙂**)_“) and it’s a promise of great things to come.** Blackie**, **Ray**, **Murray** and perpetual newbie **Tim** have covered a lot of bases on their two albums to date (2021’s ARIA top 5 debuting **_I’m Sorry Sir, That Riff’s Been Taken_** and last year’s the Top 30 debuting **_Ripper ’23_**), but “Buzz Buzz Buzz” hints that **_I Like You A Lot Getting Older_** is heavy on the pop. The sort of pop that can cause hearing problems that is – **the Hard-Ons** wouldn’t have it any other way.  **_The Most Australian Band Ever_** is directed by** Jonathan J. Sequeira** for production companies **Living Eyes** and **Play Vintage **– the man and the production house that made the acclaimed 2017 **Radio Birdman** documentary **_Descent Into The Maelstrom_** (and it’s worth mentioning **the Hard-Ons **just opened for** Birdman** on the three sold out Sydney shows that closed out their **Birdman 5-0** tour). The film is set to premiere October 16 at **SXSW** in Sydney with a screening and Q&A at the **Dendy Newtown**. Perfectly timed with the anniversary,_ **The Most Australian Band Ever**_ offers insight into the band’s long existence, with plenty of live footage and interviews and guest appearances from **Dave Faulkner **(The Victims, Hoodoo Gurus), **Ross Knight** (Cosmic Psychos), **Jerry A** (Poison Idea), Steven Hanford aka **Thee Slayer Hippy** (Poison Idea) and **Rob Younger** (Radio Birdman). The film has a particular focus on** the Hard-Ons**‘ early days, the obstacles – some self-inflicted– which they’ve had to overcome, and the legacy they’ve built.   [⌊The Hard-Ons⌉⌊The Hard-Ons⌉[ **European 40th Anniversary Tour dates are as follows:** * **01/10 – Musicon, Den Haag, NL** * **02/10 – Rare Guitar, Münster, DE** * **03/10 – De Ondergrondse Zwolle, NL** * **04/10 – Musiktheater Piano, Dortmund, DE** * **05/10 – Alte Hackerei, Karlsruhe, DE** * **06/10 – Der Hof, Düsseldorf, DE** * **08/10 – Medley, Malmö, SE** * **09/10 – Quasimodo, Berlin, DE** * **10/10 – Rate Sonne, München, DE** * **11/10 – Freakout Club, Bologna, IT** * **12/10 – Blah Blah, Torino, IT\*\*\*** **The Hard-Ons’ 40th Anniversary Australian Tour Oct – Nov 2024** * **Friday October 18th – Soapbox, Brisbane** * **Thursday October 24th – Sussex Inlet Tavern, Sussex Inlet** * **Friday October 25th – La La La’s, Wollongong** * **Saturday October 26th – Paddo RSL, Sydney** * **Sunday October 27th – Hamilton Station Hotel, Newcastle** * **Thursday October 31st – Altar, Hobart** * **Friday November 1st – The Tote, Melbourne** * **Saturday November 2nd – Singing Bird Studios, Frankston** * **Sunday November 3rd – Red Hill Hotel, Castlemaine** * **Monday November 4th – Barwon Club, Geelong** * **Thursday November 7th – Amplifier, Perth** * **Friday November 8th – Indian Ocean Hotel, Scarborough** * **Saturday November 9th – Froth & Fury, Adelaide** Tickets on sale now and available from [https://linktr.ee/thehardons](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=f71cc99dc4&e=7f3088bce0) It’s been a long and punk-rocky road for our heroes, who formed the band while still in high school in the multicultural South-West Sydney suburb **Punchbowl**. Reflecting that multiculturalism, the core band (despite members come and gone) comprised three kids of East Asian, South Asian and Eastern European parentage – not your typical punk rockers of that or any other era. Weened on high energy rock’n’roll (**Kiss**!) and then the early punk and post-punk eras (with a focus on local Australian sounds, in particular the ’76/’77 punk of **The Saints**, **Radio Birdman**, **Victims**,** Psycho-Surgeons **and **News**, and the anarchic noise of **The Birthday Party**), the new group appeared on a Sydney scene that took itself fairly seriously. With one foot in the **Ramones/Radio Birdman**-influenced garage-punk scene and the other in the spikey-haired punk-inspired scene of the early ‘80s, **the Hard- Ons** found a common denominator of noise and energy and appealed to a young crowd who was open to anything. With their youthful and unforgiving band name, transgressive and hilarious graphics and diverse ethnicity, they also found plenty of resistance. [[ _Photo: Jo Forster_ Following the release of their first EP in 1985, **the Hard-Ons** quickly began to build a large following. Not content to repeat themselves, new elements entered their sound, including thrash metal and psychedelia, which were previously unheard in Australian punk. Their unruly and un-stylised look, which soon came to involve shorts, thongs and bare torsos, became something of the look de rigueur in punk circles as the decade wore on. **The Hard-Ons** had become trendsetters and were welcomed with open arms in international punk circles. In their original incarnation, **the Hard-Ons **shared bills with the likes of ** the Ramones** and **Nirvana** and appeared on numerous **Big Days Out**. They scored a never-bettered **17 consecutive number 1’s** on the Australian independent charts and in 1989 were the only Australian band still based in Australia to hit the top 5 in the NME charts (the only Australian artists to have achieved that – Nick Cave and the Go-Betweens – had both been UK-based). Despite a break-up, the formation of another band (Ray & Blackie’s other ongoing band **Nunchukka Superfly** – that band’s original line-up recently launched the long-lost album **_Nunchukka Superfly ’95_** in August!) and, in Blackie’s case, a solo career, **the Hard-Ons** regrouped in the new millennium and found a whole new audience – kids who knew of their influence on subsequent groups like **the**** Meanies** and **Frenzal Rhomb**. New recordings ensued, and in 2018, by which time fans of another new generation of bands, including **Clowns **and **Private Function** were onboard, they undertook their 19th European tour, when they played the massive metal festival Hellfest, alongside Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Joan Jett. In 2021, the core pair of **Ray** and **Blackie **and “new” drummer **Murray** found themselves a new front person in the form of longtime fanboy, **Tim Rogers** of _You Am I_. Over the years, the Hard-Ons have won the vocal support of artists like **Dave Groh** l, AC/DC’s **Malcolm Young** and **Jello Biafra** amongst countless others. They’ve influenced not only subsequent generations of punk bands but a wide-ranging groundswell of Australian alternative artists – from **You Am I **to **Spiderbait** to **Silverchair** to **Regurgitator** to **Magic Dirt** to **Powderfinger** to the **Dirty Three** to **The Chats** – each of whom have been inspired by the Hard-Ons’ energy, free spirit and uncompromising dedication. **Social Media:** [Facebook](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=b8fdf7ac0c&e=7f3088bce0) | [Bandcamp](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=b5e67d9e54&e=7f3088bce0) [⌊Cheersquad Records and Tapes⌉⌊Cheersquad Records and Tapes⌉[ **[Website](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=011fc9e98b&e=7f3088bce0) | [Bandcamp](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=8a185f2021&e=7f3088bce0) | [Facebook](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=f51874dc9a&e=7f3088bce0) | [Instagram](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=d9ac23b1d5&e=7f3088bce0) | [Twitter/X](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=91c6e88afc&e=7f3088bce0) | [YouTube](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=c5b0464fe1&e=7f3088bce0) | [Soundcloud](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=f41c490a4c&e=7f3088bce0)** [⌊Dave Laing Publicity⌉⌊Dave Laing Publicity⌉[ ### Share this: * [ Facebook ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/the-hard-ons-announce-new-album-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older/?share=facebook) * [ X ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/the-hard-ons-announce-new-album-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older/?share=x) * [ Email ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/the-hard-ons-announce-new-album-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older/?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20THE%20HARD-ONS%20Announce%20New%20Album%20%27I%20Like%20You%20A%20Lot%20Getting%20Older%27&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyrdcast.com%2Fthe-hard-ons-announce-new-album-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older%2F&share=email) * [ LinkedIn ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/the-hard-ons-announce-new-album-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older/?share=linkedin) * [ Mastodon ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/the-hard-ons-announce-new-album-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older/?share=mastodon) * [ Nextdoor ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/the-hard-ons-announce-new-album-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older/?share=nextdoor) * [ Pinterest ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/the-hard-ons-announce-new-album-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older/?share=pinterest) * [ Reddit ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/the-hard-ons-announce-new-album-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older/?share=reddit) * [ Tumblr ](https://www.nyrdcast.com/the-hard-ons-announce-new-album-i-like-you-a-lot-getting-older/?share=tumblr) ### Like this: Like Loading… ### _Related_