Violent Femmes at the Sydney Opera House

By Benjamen Judd

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The Sydney Opera House is bringing in the big guns this summer with their Music at the House program. Truly, it’s as though they read our diaries and designed the ultimate ensemble concert starting with the awesomely angsty Violent Femmes on December 29.

Anyone who felt even the slightest bit out of place during their youth probably had the Violent Femmes on high rotation. Even today, their music still speaks to the outsiders and the disenfranchised.

Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of Violent Femmes (1983), American three-piece and acoustic punk innovators Violent Femmes return to their adopted home with founding members Gordon Gano (singer-songwriter, guitar) and Brian Ritchie (bass), and new member Brian Viglione (drums), to perform the lauded self-titled debut album in its entirety plus tracks from their critically acclaimed sophomore LP Hallowed Ground (1984) – for a year-end Opera House debut of classic pogo-friendly pop and rite-of-passage rock ‘n’ roll.

One of music’s greatest bands at one of the world’s brilliant stages – the Violent Femmes at the Opera House is not one to be missed in this lifetime.

The Violent Femmes will perform at the Sydney Opera House on December 29.