It's hard to believe Wheatus are just one year away from the 20th anniversary of their eponymous debut album and still ubiquitous single 'Teenage Dirtbag.'
Yes, that’s right - Dirtbag is currently in its final year as a teenager. What happens when the song ends its adolescence remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure: come 2020, Wheatus will release a new & expanded edition of their now classic debut album, in conjunction with a world tour.
“We found demos of about ten songs written alongside the tracks that made the album, but they didn’t get finished," says frontman Brendan B Brown.
"Looking at them now, they feel surprisingly fresh and deserving of a proper chance to be heard. So, we’ll have a brand new twenty-song version of our album on its twentieth anniversary… and that all happens in 2020.”
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves… 2019 is anything but a holiday for Wheatus.
The hard-working band are just completing a mammoth coast-to-coast, sold-out tour of America with friend Mike Doughty on his Ruby Vroom 25th Anniversary shows.
That tour culminated in a super special hometown headline show where the ‘classic’ line-up of Wheatus reunited for one night only - their first time on stage together in 18 years.
A few short days after that, the current line-up flies to South Africa for some festivals, and then make the short journey to The Netherlands to begin a ridiculously dense spring 2019 tour of Europe and the UK.
The remainder of this year will be spent working on the aforementioned re-release of the debut album, finishing their seventh full-length album (all the while keeping their fans up to date on the process at patreon.com/wheatus) and getting ready for a somehow even busier 2020. No rest for the wicked, indeed.
Wheatus play The Craufurd Arms on Tuesday, May 2.
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