New mini-album ‘Rinsed’ due for release August 2021 via Easy Action on 10” vinyl, CD and download
DESPERATE MEASURES, the London/New Zealand punk and rock four piece will release their brand-new mini album ‘Rinsed’ on Easy Action records in August 2021. Containing six tracks of hard-hitting punk with a big helping of rock n’ roll and available on 10” vinyl, CD and download, these recordings feature the new line-up of founder Eugene Butcher, former Glitterati and current Rich Ragany and The Digressions/Hollywood Brats guitarist Gaff, Ricky McGuire (U.K SUBS, The Men They Couldn’t Hang), and former K-Line/Done Lying Down drummer James Sherry.
Album launch gig confirmed at legendary London venue the Hope and Anchor on July 30th
Written over lockdown and with influences including the Stooges, Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols and Guns N’ Roses, song titles include ‘Scars and Memories’, ‘Flowers at Your Door’ and first single ‘The Rich-Tual’ as well as a cover of the Dave Berry/Sex Pistols ‘No Lip’.
With DM’s last gig before the pandemic way back in Feb 2020, the band are excited to announce a 13-date tour with The Professionals and a headlining album launch show at London’s legendary Hope and Anchor on July 30th.
“”To go on tour with the Professionals is a dream come true! We were totally into their album ‘I Didn’t See It Coming’ back in the day,” states frontman Eugene Butcher. “This is going to be an explosive double bill!”
Dates are:
JULY 30TH LONDON HOPE AND ANCHOR (Album launch with Vibrators’ Knox and Backstreet Abortions)
Plus with The Professionals on the below dates.
Wed 13th Oct Tunbridge Wells Forum
Thur 14th Oct Oxford o2 Academy
Fri 15th Oct Swansea Sin City
Mon 18th Oct Glasgow King Tuts
Tue 19th Oct Newcastle The Cluny
Wed 20th Oct Nottingham Bodega
Thur 21st Oct Birmingham Castle Falcon
Fri 22nd Oct Liverpool EBGB’s
Sun 24th Oct London The Garage
Mon 25th Oct Bristol The Exchange
Tue 26th Oct Leeds Brudenell Social
Wed 27th Oct Milton Keynes Craufurd Arms
Thur 28th Oct Chester Live Rooms
ABOUT DESPERATE MEASURES:
Desperate Measures formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1981. It was a violent city, and a violent time, but the city had a thriving music scene and DM’s quickly found a following with their punk and post punk sound influenced by the likes of the Stooges and Killing Joke. Highlights for the band in their brief existence down under were playing the after-show party for the Clash where Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon met the band, and playing New Zealand’s most famous punk festival, ‘Golden Showers’ in Wellington.
Desperate Measures released one sought after 7inch, the ‘1984’ E.P that now sells for upwards of $100 and a live album before splitting in 1983, when singer Eugene Butcher moved to the U.K. After a couple of well received reformation shows back home in New Zealand supporting the U.K Subs and Peter and the Test Tube Babies in 2009 and 2010, fast forward, and 40 years after they formed, a new line-up featuring sole original member, Eugene Butcher, have been fully active on the UK music scene, sharing stages with the likes of U.K. Subs, The Pack, Cockney Rejects, Subhumans, Nashville Pussy, alongside appearances at festivals such as Rebellion, Camden Rocks and HRH Punk.
Find Desperate Measures online at facebook.com/desperatemeasuresnz
