Screamfeeder Returning To New Zealand In February

Kicking up a power-pop / fuzz-punk ruckus in their Australian homeland from 1991 onwards, it's been a dog's age since Screamfeeder played in Aotearoa — two decades to be exact! Co-founders / co-songwriters Tim Steward and Kellie Lloyd, Darek Mudge (who first joined in '01) and recent recruit Phil Usher on drums are finally making their way back across the Tasman to treat fans to tunes from their latest album Five Rooms and more, praised by Rolling Stone as "Screamfeeder at their very best".

Live staples at The Big Day Out festival in Aus throughout the '90s (fun fact: I had a bootleg BDO '94 t-shirt with their name on it, even though they didn't play in NZ that year), the Brisbane group's recorded oeuvre runs nine studio albums deep, including 1996's breakout Kitten Licks and 2000's Rocks On the Soul. Don't miss these Antipodean indie-rock heroes this summer in the four main centres, or you might have to wait another twenty years — details below...

Screamfeeder

Wednesday 5th February - The Crown Hotel, Ōtepoti / Dunedin*
Thursday 6th February - Wunderbar, Ōhinehou / Lyttelton*
Friday 7th February - Whammy Bar, Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland*
Saturday 8th February - Meow, Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington

*Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

Hit play on 'Don't Get Me Started' from Screamfeeder's latest album Five Rooms...

Here's Screamfeeder's 1997 classic 'Hi Cs'...

Press release:

Aussie indie legends Screamfeeder are the band whose songs are imprinted into the DNA of every Australian music-lover who came of age in the 90’s and 00’s. A band of eternally-youthful fuzz-pop darlings who, however improbably, have continued to play together for 30 years and somehow have not only gotten better, but have become even more loved. A band that combines loud with beautiful, intense with joyous, chaotic with precise and pulls it all together in a way that very few acts ever manage.

Their latest album, entitled simply Five Rooms, was released to unanimous acclaim in May 2022. It’s another Screamfeeder classic, mixing sharp pop hooks with slower wall-of-guitar anthems, an album unlike anything else at the moment and proof that great songwriters never lose their touch.

And now, after an absence of two decades, they’re returning to Aotearoa for four shows in February 2025. See for yourself what everyone is saying – this band is at the peak of its live power.