God loves little Children, combat medics, retarded people...and Guttermouth. Throughout the course of their lives the members of Guttermouth have respectively survived a myriad of the most heinous of messed up ailments that biology can inflict upon one group of punk Rock miscreants: a drunk driving incident where a telephone pole fell upon a member and crushed his spleen, lungs, chest, and broke both his femurs. A bout with necrotizing fasciitis (fleash eating streptococcus) which almost claimed a members lower leg and life. An infected abcess of the tonsils, the disease that killed George Washington. Recurrent anaphylaxia from an unknown allergen that continues to plague the band member to this day. And alcoholism, a condition where too many Newcastle Brown ales cause you to hit on ugly fat girls and listen to The Cult on your Ipod at 4:30AM while your room mate is trying to sleep.
However, throughout all of these hardships Guttermouth are stil alive...and still dying...slowly. But rest assured Guttermouth may just overcome these desperate ailments to bring a show to you...Guttermouth will persevere. Nay...Guttermouth will CONQUER THESE HARDSHIPS! THEY WILL OVERCOME THESE TERRIBLE AFFLICTIONS THAT NATURE HAS BESET UPON THEM, THEY WILL OVERCOME THE RIDICULOUS IDEA THAT THEY ARE SPECIAL JUST BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN KINDA SICK SOMETIMES...GUTTERMOUTH WILL PREVAIL OVER ALL, BECAUSE...BECAUSE...because it's better than getting a real job.
And Guttermouth will return to New Zealand for the first time in nine years. Having previously visited as lead support for The Offspring in 1999, followed by a short headline run in 2001, and with songs and antics as tasteless and juvenile as ever, the band's first New Zealand headlining dates in almost a decade will be a beer-goggled return to West Coast punk's heyday. Get along and crash the Guttermouth party!
The King's Arms, Auckland
Friday November 12th
with Fifth Threat and Ghost Echoes
Bodega, Wellington
Saturday November 13th
with Nana Squad and Black Chrome
tickets from www.undertheradar.co.nz
