Wheatus frontman Brendan B Brown and fellow Wheatus member and partner in crime Gabreille Sterbenz come to Torquay this weekend for the final show of their 14-date Dirtbags Across Australia Tour.
The tour presents Brown and Sterbenz in acoustic duo mode, stripping back the band’s catalogue of tunes to present them in a more intimate setting.
The band returned to Australia in its entirety in 2024, rocking out Sydney’s Pandemonium Festival in April in what has been described as one of the standout sets of the festival.
Wheatus released their self-titled debut album in 2000, which included their biggest ever hit, Teenage Dirtbag.
They recently released an expanded edition of that album, which included ten unreleased tracks.
““We found demos of ten more songs from throughout the band’s history that had such an album-one vibe that they never made it on to our more recent records,” Brown said.
Teenage Dirtbag saw something of a revival after the album rerelease, undergoing a viral social media trend in 2022 that drew in celebrities such Paris Hilton, Madonna, Heidi Klumm, Mark Ruffalo and Christina Aguilera.
On the back of that trend, in November 2023 the song managed to re-enter the UK Top 40, much to the astonishment of Brown and his band members.
Wheatus will perform at the Torquay Hotel at 7.30pm on Sunday, February 2.
