Dune Rats are currently zig-zagging across the highways of the UK with good mates DZ Deathrays as part of a massive international tour. Turns out, it’s not just we Aussies who go absolutely nuts for Brisbane’s favourite sons.
In fact, the fandom in the UK is so strong that one fan actually went and made the Dunies their own custom, branded rolling papers. “Some legend from Leeds made us some custom Dunies rolling papers,” the band wrote on Instagram.
“Would be keen as f**k to replicate this shit! They’ll get put to good use yew!” To be perfectly honest, we’re actually surprised the Dunies hadn’t already invested in their own line of rolling papers. Thank God one entrepreneurial soul did.
You can see the very official-looking papers for yourself below. In the meantime, we’re still holding onto hope that spending so much time on the road together will finally result in a studio collaboration between the two bands.
After revealing that they’d been writing some new tunes together, drummer BC Michaels recently confirmed that completing a song with the DZ boys is definitely on the bucket list. “I’d love to because then it’d give us something else to play with them on stage for this tour,” he said.
There’s no date yet for when we can expect the new Dunies record, but triple j’s 2016 Aussie Release Schedule claims the release will be an EP which will drop some time before the end of the year. Meanwhile, BC says the band plan on dropping a new single before 2017.
As for DZ Deathrays, they recently unveiled the music video for their latest single, the raucous ‘Pollyanna’. They accompanied the announcement with a string of new headline Australian tour dates, officially cementing them as one of Australia’s busiest bands.
