Experimental metal band Mr. Bungle have announced Australia and New Zealand dates for March 2024 as part of The Raging Wrath of Australia & New Zealand Tour with fellow pop stars, Melvins.
Mr Bungle will kick off the tour at Auckland’s Town Hall before heading to Melbourne’s Festival Hall, Adelaide’s Hindley St Music Hall, Sydney’s Hordern Pavillion, Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall and concluding at Perth’s Metro City.
For complete tour and ticket information visit livenation.com.au and livenation.co.nz.
Courtesy of YouTube user Jim Powers, fan-filmed video of Mr. Bungle's entire Geek Show Fall Tour kick-off show at Rams Head Live in Baltimore, Maryland on September 5th can be viewed below.
The setlist was as follows:
"Grizzly Adams"
"Anarchy up Your Anus"
"Bungle Grind"
"Spreading the Thighs of Death"
"I Don’t Need Society"
"I’m Not in Love"
"Eracist"
"Hypocrites"
"Habla Español O Muere"
"Methematics"
"Hell Awaits" (intro)
"True / Cold War"
"Raping Your Mind"
"Sudden Death"
"Satan Never Sleeps"
"My Ass Is On Fire"
Mr. Bungle was formed in an impoverished lumber and fishing town by a trio of curious, volatile teenagers. Trey Spruance, Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn beget the amorphous “band” in 1985 up in Humboldt County, Calif., sifting through a variety of members until 1988 when drummer Danny Heifetz and saxophonist Bär McKinnon joined the group.
In 1989, Mr. Bungle signed to Warner Bros. Records. No one really knows how this happened and it remains a complete mystery that even the algorithms of the internet can’t decode. Up until 2000 they released three albums (Mr. Bungle in 1991, Disco Volante in 1995 and California in 1999), toured a good portion of the Western hemisphere and avoided any sort of critical acclaim.
Some argue that the band subsequently broke up but there is also no proof of this. What is true is that they took 20 years off from performing under said moniker while they pursued various other musics that, in contrast, paid the rent. In 2020, a different iteration of Mr. Bungle emerged, pairing the original trio of Dunn, Patton and Spruance with Anthrax’s Scott Ian and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo for a proper release of the Eureka-bred band’s unreleased demo, The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny.
