The Hard Ons - I Like You A Lot Getting Older - LP

LTD x150 COPIES UK GREEN VINYL EDITION

LTD x100 COPIES UK BLACK VINYL EDITION

Cheersquad Records and Tapes are exhilarated to announce the forthcoming new album by Oz-punk tearaways the Hard-Ons, “I Like You A Lot Getting Older”
 
I Like You A Lot Getting Older will be the third album by the band's current line-up of Blackie, Murray, Ray and Tim, and follows 2021's Australian top 5 debuting I'm Sorry Sir, That Riff's Been Taken and last year's the Australian Top 30 debuting Ripper '23. An exclusive limited edition green vinyl pressing (150 only, with different colour on the cover) will be available via the album's UK distributor Forte.
 
The new album's release will precede the band's recently announced 40th Anniversary Australian tour (and coincide with their 40th Anniversary European tour), and the premiere of the feature length documentary on the band, The Most Australia Band Ever. Today's announcement follows the release of the new single and video "Buzz Buzz Buzz". It's the first single from the Punchbowl band's forthcoming long-player, their third album since co-opting You Am I's Tim Rogers in 2021. Guitarist Peter 'Blackie' Black describes the song as "Our best collaboration so far. When Tim said 'I wanna get a little left of centre with the melody on this,' I was BLOWN away (but not surprised :-))" The video was shot live last month as Hard-Ons opened for Radio Birdman by Jonathan J Sequeira, director of the Birdman documentary Descent Into The Maelstrom.

Tracklist: 1. I Like You A Lot 2. Buzz Buzz Buzz 3. These Days Are Long 4. Happy Accidents 5. Because You're Mine 6. Finder's Fee 7. Getting Older 8. The News That Fits 9. Operation Lightning 10. Ride To The Station 11. Doesn't Look Like Me At All 12. Pushover

“I f*cken love the Hard-Ons!”  - Eamon (The Chats)
 
"The Hard-Ons were – still are - amazing. Musically, but also for what they were. This multi-cultural band. They were fearless. Ray and Blackie always came to Dirty Three shows in Sydney early on, and I always felt that we were somehow aligned attitude-wise. They were awesome live, with that power that only a trio can have. They also wrote the best singles! Beyond that, they always did whatever they wanted. “
– Warren Ellis (Dirty Three/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)