Past Tours

SPANK ROCK (USA)

“Spank Rock have a PhD in a little something called good old fashioned fun” - Vice

Civil Society are pleased to announce the welcome return of Baltimore’s bad boyssss, the sometimes retarded but always entertaining Spank Rock as they embark upon a national tour in early January 08.

They descibe themselves as sounding like “Fat girls in a hot tub, popping bubbly, after a long night of playing slots at Caesar’s Palace. We sound like the X rated Motorcycle Diaries meets Kweli on crystal meth!”…Indeed!

If you are looking for a more musical point of reference the following comments have been made to in describe them

“hybrid of Beastie Boys, Beck and Missy.” (Straight No Chaser)

“a lewd, rude call to the dance floor… and a ferocious sense of fun.” (Salon.com)

“Spank Rock doesn’t look or sound like any other rapper as he delivers hyper, clever lyrics over high BPM beats…” (The Fader)

“Spank Rock’s frayed Pharrell-meets-Usher carnal grind and full clip(ped) jackin-meets-jerkin’ beats as ghetto traxxx du jour, like booty shake done by ESG with David Bowie’s abstract phrasing.” (URB)

Drawing on the music of their hometown, Baltimore, Spank Rock makes something genuinely unlike anything you’ve heard before. Of course there are antecedents - Missy’s first album, 2 Live Crew, the Beastie Boys and Dizzee Rascal all spring to mind - but Spank Rock demands to be approached on his own terms.

MC Spank Rock (aka Naeem Juwan) has managed to reconfigure the musical landscape by being funny, catchy, clever, fearless and most of all, innovative. For this, their 3rd visit to our shores, Spank Rock will be giving us their bigger-than-life beats with the FULL 4 piece live version of MC Spank Rock, MC Pase Rock and the Baltimore bass Connection Soundsystem of Devlin and Darko.

Tour

Adelaide

Wednesday January 9

NEW VENUE
Rocket Bar, 142 Hindley Street, Adelaide
Tickets $40 + bf available from The Gov (Ph: 8340 0744), Venue-tix www.venuetix.com.au (Ph: 8225 8888) and all Ticketek [BUY] outlets (Ph: 132 849)
Support from the Femme Fatales (live), Fire Santa Rosa Fire (live), Master Celebrator and Prince Aaronak

Perth

Thursday January 10

Proudly supported by Supersonic and RTR 92.1
NEW VENUE
Shape Nightclub, 237 Hay St East Perth
Tickets $45 + bf available from Heatseeker [BUY], Star Perth, Mills Fremantle, Beat Karrinyup, Planet Mt Lawley and all Ticketek [BUY] outlets (Ph: 132 849)
Support from Bourgeois Bogan

Spank Rock are also playing around the country:

Melbourne. Sunday December 30 Pyramid Rock Festival [Details]
Melbourne. Monday December 31 (New Years Eve), Killer NYE [ Details]
Sydney. Tuesday January 1 Field Day [Details]
Gold Coast. Saturday January 5 Summafieldayze [Details]
Sydney. Saturday January 5 Sydney Festival First Night [Details]
Sydney. Sunday January 6 Sydney Festival Becks Bar [Details]

Press

“It’s been a long time since I’ve been genuinely excited by hip-hop, but Spank Rock had me body popping all over the office. A brilliantly bonkers take on 21st Century hip-hop. YoYoYoYoYo should take a place in your collection. Fresh, in a word…”

(The Daily Star)

“Rampaging beats, frantic, mindblowing rhymes. Get this, and watch the skies!”

(DJ Magazine 5 Star single of the fortnight)

“Spank Rock bring the joy, freshness and plain weirdness back to hip hop. Just as “Rick Rubin” reinvented music in the 80’s, Spank Rock are going to do the same 20 years on - and with songs as great as this you wouldn’t bet on it.”