Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Announce 2018 Australian Tour

Long-standing US rock outfit Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will make their return to Australian shores in March 2018 for a five-date headline tour, showing off material from their eagerly awaited forthcoming eighth studio album. 

The record — which will follow on from 2013's Specter At The Feast — is expected to land in early 2018, so it remains to be seen whether it'll actually be out when the band turn up for their impending sojourn, but either way local fans will be in for a treat when the band bust out plenty of new material alongside a raft of fan favourites from their voluminous back-catalogue.

BRMC will kick off their upcoming run over on the west coast with a show at Perth's Astor Theatre on Monday 19 March. From there, they head east to Adelaide, then up to Brisbane to head down through Sydney and Melbourne to complete the tour.

With any luck, they'll make it through the visit without any of the usual cosmic viciousness that apparently awaits them on their Aussie trips.

"Every time we've toured Australia, something in some way has tried to kill me at one point or another, and always in new and somewhat inspired ways," vocalist/bassist Robert Levon Been said in a statement. "So I have a great deal of respect for whatever cosmic forces are going on down there.

"It definitely keeps me on my toes though, which is all you really need to make rock'n'roll, I guess. Two good toes and a reason to keep tappin' them."

Tickets for all shows will go on sale from this Thursday, 3 August, via tour promoters MJR Presents.

See theGuide for a full rundown of dates, venues and other details.