The Aints, the powerhouse vehicle of singer / guitarist Ed Kuepper, bassist Peter Oxley and drummer Paul Larsen, encore in Sydney & Melbourne (only) this March performing the material of Kuepper’s adolescent band The Saints (’73 - ’78). Keyboardist Alister Spence and a 3-piece brass section complete the 2018 Aints with underground legends feedtime joining the undercard in Sydney and Melbourne psychedelic five-piece Sand Pebbles completing the line-up in the southern capital. Tickets for both shows are on-sale 9.00am Thursday 21st December.

But wait, there’s more … in addition to the live shows The Aints will record an album - working title ‘The Church Of Simultaneous Existence’ - comprised entirely of songs written by Kuepper in the period 1973 - 1978.

''Things had started to move fairly quickly once The Saints recorded  [I'm] Stranded (Fatal Records) in mid ’76. We recorded three albums over the next two years as well as doing a fair it of touring, and for a while things were looking very promising, however, business problems, compounded by personal and artistic differences meant the band didn't get around to recording all the material I had lying around....so forty [very] odd years later it occurred to me that these songs might well have made up a hypothetical 4th album....The Church of the Simultaneous Existence.....the songs that refused to die....performed in much the way they would have had the band not split up in 1978’’ - Ed Kuepper (on the until now, lost songs of The Saints.

The Aints recording begins this April while The Aints Play The Saints (’73 - ’78) perform live this March.

Friday 9th March 2018: Sydney, Manning Bar 

special guests feedtime

Tickets via manningbar.com

Friday 23rd March 2018: Melbourne, Thornbury Theatre 

special guests Sand Pebbles

Tickets via thornburytheatre.com