UK rock band NECK DEEP today announce their return to Australia with The Dumbstruck Dumbf!*k Tour confirmed for April 2025. The boys will kick off the tour on April 21 at Metropolis in Fremantle before heading to Adelaide’s Hindley St Music Hall, Sydney’s Roundhouse, Melbourne’s Festival Hall and concluding at Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall.
Neck Deep will be heading around the country promoting their recently released self-titled album “Neck Deep”, out now on Hopeless Records. Joining them for all dates will be special guests, Albany New York pop punk act State Champs. Full tour details below.
In the little over a decade since Neck Deep formed in the Barlow brothers’ spare room in Wrexham, Wales, a lot has changed. From the scrappy, naively hopeful beginnings that define the starting of so many teenage bands, the pop-punks have gone on to be one of British Rock music’s most successful global exports in recent memory: top 5 records in both the US and UK, global touring, viral hits and over a billion streams just some of the fruits of ten years spent mastering their craft.
For the new self-titled record, the band, completed by Ben’s older brother and bassist Seb, guitarists Matt West and Sam Bowden and drummer Matt Powles, took ‘doing their own thing’ – and only their own thing – to the next level. Eschewing a keen list of collaborators and producers eager to work with one of rock’s hottest properties and choosing, instead, to write and record in their own warehouse space, mere miles from where they grew up. Old school, just like it used to be.
From the bouncing bombast of “Dumbstruck, Dumbf*ck” and the ripping intensity of “Sort Yourself Out”, to the poetic introspection of “They Don’t Mean To (But They Do)”, Neck Deep is an album that boasts a song for almost any occasion.
Despite their name, State Champs made four albums without a trophy on the cover. In 2024, that triumphant symbol finally appears, on album five, confidently named simply State Champs, out now on Pure Noise Records.
Billboard calls Derek DiScanio, Tyler Szalkowski, Ryan Scott Graham, and Evan Ambrosio “modern-day pop-punk torchbearers,” a reputation cemented by anthems like “Silver Cloud” and “Secrets.”
They’ve delivered their music and heartfelt message of passion and resilience on tour with Fall Out Boy, 5 Seconds Of Summer, blackbear, Simple Plan, A Day To Remember, and Boys Like Girls.
Starting in bedrooms and basements in 2010, State Champs quickly ascended as leaders of a new scene owing as much to early Fall Out Boy and Green Day as latter-day Warped Tour bands.
State Champs surges with the energy of The Finer Things (2013), Around the World and Back (2015), and Living Proof (2018). It expands on the Kings of the New Age (2022) blueprint. That beloved post-pandemic album proved the band will survive. State Champs now sees them thrive.
On State Champs, they cement themselves as an outfit that can and will stand the test of time.
LIVE NATION PRESENTS
NECK DEEP
THE DUMBSTRUCK DUMBF!*K TOUR 2025
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
STATE CHAMPS
METROPOLIS, FREMANTLE
MONDAY 21 APRIL
HINDLEY ST. MUSIC HALL, ADELAIDE
WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL
ROUNDHOUSE, SYDNEY
FRIDAY 25 APRIL
FESTIVAL HALL, MELBOURNE
SATURDAY 26 APRIL
FORTITUDE MUSIC HALL, BRISBANE
SUNDAY 27 APRIL
Tickets on sale: Thursday 21 November, 9am (local)
Live Nation pre-sale: Wednesday 20 November, 9am – Thursday 21 November, 8am (local)
For More Information – www.livenation.com.au
