Minneapolis punks Dillinger Four are back with their first new single in 18 years titled ‘Don’t Happy Be Worry’ as well as with their tour happening right now in Japan – the band has also announced their hometown Minneapolis show later this month.
Dillinger Four shares: “So it’s been something like 18 years since we released any new music, and the inescapable questions are why? And…why now? The honest truth? I have no fucking idea. We’ve been active that whole time playing shows, and we never really stopped writing music; we just sort of stopped finishing music. We’ve never tried to do this band as some kind of a career, and so we’ve never felt the pressure that comes from that. We do feel extremely grateful that, for whatever reasons, people all over the world are still willing to come check us out when we’re playing and hoping to hear us do something new. If we’ve ever felt anything resembling pressure to do the band, it’s for that reason alone.”
The band also adds: “The balance of the shit we’ve been doing in our lives, parenting, work, hobbies, etc., has just seemed to fall into place in the past couple years to where now there’s some room to get back to finishing some music. It feels good. It takes more time than it used to still. We can’t just drop everything for two weeks and make a whole album. Slowly but surely, though, we’ve now got a stack of some new stuff, and it’s time to start getting it out there. But as with all things Dillinger Four throughout our history, we reserve the right to do it how, when, and wherever we want.”
Upcoming tour dates:
April 2nd – Live House Fever – Tokyo, Japan
April 4th – Shelter – Tokyo, Japan
April 5th – Fandango – Osaka, Japan
April 18th – Modist Brewing – Minneapolis, MN