These days, Sticky Fingers don’t even bat an eye when they sell out an entire tour’s worth of shows (often without even announcing the gigs) or when they’re tapped to play shows overseas or for prestigious festival slots.

But whilst they may be one of Australia’s most popular and talked-about young bands, they didn’t officially become bonafide rockstars until their Friday night performance at Melbourne’s beloved Forum Theatre.

As a cheeky image shared to Facebook days later reveals, following a stage dive intervention in the crowd, frontman Dylan Frost subsequently emerged on stage minus his trousers, forcing the singer to cover his shame for the crowd.

A reviewer from local music blog The Craft was in attendance and recounted how Frost disappeared into the crowd at one point and whilst the audience held him up (a la Iggy Pop) for the most part, they simultaneously clawed at his pants.

“At one stage Dizza jumped into the crowd which held him up nicely for the most part. He was certainly roughed up, with cats scrambling to touch his hair that once he got back on stage it was clear that his pants had been torn to shreds,” the reviewer wrote.

“So naked from the waist down poor Diz had to cup his dick and balls whilst waiting for a new pair of pants to wear. Ever the extrovert on stage he fucking loved every minute of it, gyrating to the crowd, holding a Carlton Draught in one hand, D&B’s in the other, lapping up the wolf whistles and claps.”

And there you have it, folks, you’re not a true rock star until you can’t go into the audience without having them tear your pants to shreds. Oh, by the way, the band may be a pack of loose party animals, but they put on one hell of a show.

By all accounts, the Sydney outfit’s Melbourne performance was, like the rest of the shows on their sold-out national tour, a complete success, with reviewers commending the band for their tight instrumentation and Frost’s impressive vocal power.

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