Painters and Dockers - THE BOY WHO LOST HIS JOCKS - 40 Years On!
The Tote - Band Room (Collingwood, VIC)
Saturday, 16 November 2024 7:30 pm
A Birthday Celebration! The Boy who Lost his Jocks on Flinders Street Station turns 40!
The Australian cult classic by the Painters and Dockers, ‘The Boy who lost his jocks on Flinders
Street station’, celebrates its 40 th birthday this November. The song was originally released on the
classic debut album, ‘Love Planet’ and has featured several times as the number one song about
Melbourne. To mark this historic occasion, the Dockers are bringing their dynamic show to Volta,
Ballarat (15 th November) and the Melbourne rock institution, The Tote, Collingwood, (16th November).
The band will be joined on stage by Laurence Hewson, the Voice of Flinders Street Station.
Live shows by the Painters and Dockers are a total entertainment experience. A band based in punk
rock, power pop with soulful horns, instant classic songs, flamboyance and showmanship as good as
it gets. It’s not a superior air that they bring to the stage – it’s a communal, one-in all-in let’s take this
baby to the stars and hang there as long as we can in an orgy of outrageous exuberance. The gig IS
the after-party, right from the start, and everyone’s invited.
Do not assume this band is without a message. Do not assume they don’t sound incredible live. Do
not assume that your new favourite band won’t be forty years old!
They were only supposed to play once!
Some 2000 shows later, twelve albums later and tours of North America, Canada, New Zealand and
all over Australia under the belt, the band now have an esteemed place in Australian rock history.
Well known songs by the band include DIE YUPPIE DIE, NUDE SCHOOL, KILL KILL KILL, YOU'RE
GOING HOME IN THE BACK OF A DIVI VAN, ALL MEN ARE BASTARDS, MOHAWK BABY, I
KNOW BETTER QUEENS THAN THAT, NEW WORLD ORDER, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS JOCKS
ON FLINDERS STREET STATION and countless more.
Volta, 15 Field Street, Ballarat 15th November 2024
The Tote, Johnston St, Collingwood, 16th November 2024
The Australian cult classic by the Painters and Dockers, ‘The Boy who lost his jocks on Flinders
Street station’, celebrates its 40 th birthday this November. The song was originally released on the
classic debut album, ‘Love Planet’ and has featured several times as the number one song about
Melbourne. To mark this historic occasion, the Dockers are bringing their dynamic show to Volta,
Ballarat (15 th November) and the Melbourne rock institution, The Tote, Collingwood, (16th November).
The band will be joined on stage by Laurence Hewson, the Voice of Flinders Street Station.
Live shows by the Painters and Dockers are a total entertainment experience. A band based in punk
rock, power pop with soulful horns, instant classic songs, flamboyance and showmanship as good as
it gets. It’s not a superior air that they bring to the stage – it’s a communal, one-in all-in let’s take this
baby to the stars and hang there as long as we can in an orgy of outrageous exuberance. The gig IS
the after-party, right from the start, and everyone’s invited.
Do not assume this band is without a message. Do not assume they don’t sound incredible live. Do
not assume that your new favourite band won’t be forty years old!
They were only supposed to play once!
Some 2000 shows later, twelve albums later and tours of North America, Canada, New Zealand and
all over Australia under the belt, the band now have an esteemed place in Australian rock history.
Well known songs by the band include DIE YUPPIE DIE, NUDE SCHOOL, KILL KILL KILL, YOU'RE
GOING HOME IN THE BACK OF A DIVI VAN, ALL MEN ARE BASTARDS, MOHAWK BABY, I
KNOW BETTER QUEENS THAN THAT, NEW WORLD ORDER, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS JOCKS
ON FLINDERS STREET STATION and countless more.
Volta, 15 Field Street, Ballarat 15th November 2024
The Tote, Johnston St, Collingwood, 16th November 2024