The world is inflicted with a plague of greed – the fat corporate core has plundered the peripheries for too long.
It now bites back with the vengeance of its adaptive survival screamin' and riffin' with the coarse cut of reality come home. Last Quokka are takin' flight to the nation with a new album and tour.'Take The Fight To The Bastards' is the Last Quokka's in full flight. The recent addition of Dion Mariani (ex-The Flairz) joining Justin Zanetic on guitars has pushed the band into riff overdrive.
Fuzzed-out hooks accompany the relentless rhythm machine that is Carlota Rivera on drums and Ray Grenfell on bass. Resulting in a sonic force that acts as canvas for vocalist Trent Rojahn to spit and sing his sardonic and poignant chunks of poetry over.
No piece of Australian culture is left unturned, from anthemic protests against the cost of living crisis to sci-fi-esque resurrection fantasies of extinct megafauna ('Thunder Duck'), and odes to old-country pubs being ruined by tourists ('Yankee Satellite') or pubs just being ruined by corporations ('Save Our Pubs'), the album has something for everyone.
Here, the band list a few Aussie bastards in their sights.
Rupert Murdoch
This lizard-worshipping bottom feeder has been manipulating our social and political life from the shadows for far too long. Stirring up hate and division to turn a buck. He's the bastard that keeps the other bastards fed.Meg O'Neil
Woodside CEO and climate criminal. When Meg's not destroying the oldest rock art in the world in WA's north-west, she's getting the cops to act as her personal security, raiding people's houses and throwing teenagers in gaol for daring to want a habitat-able planet. Total bastard.Peter Dutton
The soulless lizard man himself. Not content with being a scum landlord-property investor and racist piece of sh.t cop, Voldomort aka Temu Trump aka Mr Potato Head wants to destroy our entire country with his band of not-so-merry climate denying, refugee hating, corporate lap dogs.Anthony Albanese
More coward than bastard, Albo might be considered an outsider in this list, but his lack of ability to speak up for Palestinians during a genocide puts him squarely on the bastard list. Add to that a lack of action on climate change, not ending offshore processing of refugees and doing SFA to address the cost of living crisis. . . yep he's a bloody bastard.Gina Rinehart
World destroyer. Death star oligarch. The MAGA bastard herself: Gina Rinehart. This climate denying megalomaniac will do anything to fill her coffers, even if it means destroying the planet. When she's not sailing around the world on her mega yacht and holidaying with life-long piece of sh.t Pauline Hanson, she's fixing elections and stealing our Commonwealth; and she would probably eat your babies.The views expressed in this article are Last Quokka's.
Last Quokka 2025 Tour Dates
Sat 22 Mar - Buffalo Club (Fremantle)* sold outSun 23 Mar - Buffalo Club (Fremantle)* sold out
Thu 27 Mar - Metropole Hotel (Northern Rivers)
Fri 28 Mar - PFR Lounge (Brisbane)
Sat 29 Mar - Factory Theatre (Sydney)
Sun 30 Mar - The Vanguard (Sydney)
Fri 4 Apr - The Corner Hotel (Melbourne)* sold out
Sat 5 Apr - The Corner Hotel (Melbourne)* sold out
Sun 6 Apr - The Tote Hotel (Melbourne)
