And the party keeps on rolling on! After a successful return to live shows in 2022, Bleeders are back to finish what they started.
2003 saw Bleeders unleash their debut record ‘A Bleeding Heart EP’ across Aotearoa. Seven songs of pure aggression, emotion, and everything in between. Twenty years later this debut release has gone on to be an essential record for any fan of alternative music and will be forever etched into Aotearoa’s punk rock folklore.
Elevenfiftyseven Records presents
BLEEDERS
A Bleeding Heart EP 20 Year Anniversary Tour
Friday 5th May | The Crown Tavern | Dunedin
W/ Mandate, Dale Kerrigan
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Saturday 6th May | Embankment Tavern | Christchurch
W/ Bear Trap, Deranger, Anti Stasi
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Friday 12th May | Galatos | Auckland
W/ Flirting with Disaster, Melanie, Stacked
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Saturday 13th May | Last Place | Hamilton
W/ Landlords, Drop Off Point
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Sunday 14th May | Totara Street | Mount Maunganui*
W/ Angry Papamoans, Two Skinner
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*Sunday Matinee Show Doors 4pm
For more info join the Facebook event page HERE
All shows R18
Tickets on sale NOW at the above links.
Press Release:
Formed in 2002 it didn’t take long for Auckland based Bleeders to take off, in the following months they released the legendary hard-core punk classic ‘A Bleeding Heart EP’. This, followed by constant sold out shows all over the country, saw the band rewarded for their hard work and ever-growing success by signing a major record deal with Universal Music NZ in 2004.
2006 was a huge year for the Bleeders. Their debut album, ‘Sweet as Sin’, reached #2 in the charts, garnered them Best Break Through Artist and Best Rock Album at the 2006 New Zealand Music Awards and went on to sell gold certification status. The band toured like maniacs in New Zealand and headed across the Tasman no less than five times at the invitation of numerous international touring acts.
The self-titled follow up to Sweet as Sin rejected any notion of resting on their laurels, produced by Clint Murphy and the band at Auckland’s York Street Studios and mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York, ‘Bleeders’ was a return to the brutal vitality that first brought them to people’s attention.
After a 12-year absence 2019 saw Bleeders release the much anticipated come back, ‘Delusions EP’. With only three months and a handful of shows in support of the release, the rug was pulled out in the blink of an eye thanks to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Fast forward two years and what better way to bounce back than with a run of sold out shows in 2022.
As Real Groove magazine once said of them, they “lack the sense of exclusivity that confines so many bands to their cliquey pigeonholes… If you buy a Bleeders album or go to a show, you’re in the gang, no further questions.”
Catch Bleeders live performing the iconic EP front to back followed by all the classics we know and love this May!
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