In 2024, Radio Birdman toured Australia to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The tour culminated with a Sydney concert. A biography ” Retaliate First: How one band smashed the rules of Australian rock and roll ” was released in July 2024 coinciding with this final tour.
In June and July 2017, the band undertook a joint national tour with Died Pretty . They last performed live in 2019.
In 2017, Radio Birdman was the subject of a feature-length documentary, Descent into the Maelstrom – The Radio Birdman Story . The film covered the band’s history, from precursor bands the Rats and TV Jones to their European tour in 2015. In December 2020, Radio Birdman were listed at number…
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In 2014, the band released a box set on the Citadel label. The box set included 7 CDs and 1 DVD, featuring remasters of the band’s official releases plus archived and previously unheard studio material. The box also contains a professional recording of the 12 December 1977 Paddington Town Hall…
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In July 2007, the band was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ) Hall of Fame (in an interview, vocalist Rob Younger indicated the band had previously declined an invitation to join the Hall of Fame years before). The induction saw all living original members plus current…
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The band toured Australia, the US, Canada, and Europe, with approximately 80 concerts in 2007. In September 2007, the band featured in the Clash of the Titans tour alongside the Stems and Hoodoo Gurus which launched in Sydney at the Enmore Theatre and included dates across Australia. In October 2007,…
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Following a February tour of Australian capital cities, the band toured internationally in support of Zeno Beach in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the US, from 27 July 2006 in Sydney to 7 October. This was the first time Radio Birdman played in America. Many Australian dates featured the LA…
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The band’s next album, Zeno Beach , was released in Australia on 24 June 2006 via the band’s own Crying Sun Records, and in the US via Yep Roc Records on 22 August. Zeno Beach was recorded in Sydney in December 2005, produced by guitarist Deniz Tek and engineer Greg…
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Radio Birdman reunited for the Big Day Out tour in 1996 and again in 1997. Since then, Radio Birdman has toured sporadically. In 2002, Warwick Gilbert was replaced by Jim Dickson, who had previously played with the New Christs , Louis Tillett , the Passengers , the Barracudas and Deniz…
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A non-musical LP, Soldiers of Rock ‘n’ Roll , was released in 1982. This album, described by the record company as “an audio documentary of Radio Birdman,” was released after Deniz Tek had left music to pursue a career as a jet pilot and was assembled by the people at…
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