Grammy & Oscar-winning Guitar Wolf returning to NZ
Friday 10 February 2023
High octane Tokyo rock fiends Guitar Wolf make their return to New Zealand shores next month for a furious run of shows up and down the country. For the unacquainted, it only takes one brave foray into the rock'n'roll band's back catalogue to get totally hooked (Their 'Here's Five' from 2017 wouldn't be a bad place to start). When they were last here some six years back, the full noise trio just about blew the roof off Auckland's Whammy Bar, and we've got the photos to prove it - featuring an impromptu human pyramid, crowd surfing, and some genuinely startling velociraptor masks. Not only masters of noise and electrifying live performance, Guitar Wolf are gigging heroes for their inclusion of all ages shows and early start times on school nights. Catch them with support from Ratso and The Ideas in Tāmaki Makaurau and with The D4 at Raglan's Yot Club before they zag their way south for an heroic string of dates...
Thursday 30th March - Whammy Bar, Auckland w/ Ratso
Friday 31st March - Piha RSA, Auckland w/ Ratso, The Ideas ALL AGES
Saturday 1st April - The Yot Club, Raglan w/ The D4
Sunday 2nd April - Tauranga Harbour Bridge, Tauranga [2PM SHOW]
Sunday 2nd April - The Green Room, Thames ALL AGES
Monday 3rd April - Daddy Long Legs, Auckland ALL AGES
Tuesday 4th April - Valhalla, Wellington
Wednesday 5th April - Space Academy, Christchurch
Last here for devastating shows in 2017 they have circumnavigated this and many planets many times since..
Guitar Wolf's maxim has always been..
SEIJI (Guitar Wolf the man) says: There are rules for the rock and roll band. First, the band has to have looks. Second, fighting spirit. Third, action. There is no fourth and fifth. Sixth, technique. The band is not qualified to stand on the stage if they don't have anything to watch at all. Even if the band can play the music well technically, there's nothing there if they don't have something special to catch people's eyes. Stir people's heart and your own!
AND for those who came in after the advertisements ... this is the Japanese band that got The D4 to Japan in 1999, took the Transistors from Rangiora on a mammoth US tour in 2012, created mammoth human pyramids on their 2013 tour, spent Christmas Day 2005 with famous NZ artist Henrietta Harris and her mum, had noise control close down their first Auckland show in 1999 not to mention shows in Japan and USA with Joan Jett, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Cramps , releases on Matador, and recently Third Man.
