Joe Bludge (EP launch) with supports: Aretinos + Siera Wiski + DJ Bonnie Rock

It’s been a good few years since Joe Bludge has popped up as a solo artist, apart from the odd support slot here and there. Mostly, Bludge has had his hands full for many a year with his role out front of Perth’s long-running garage legends The Painkillers, but is now back to reprise his act as the loudest troubadour going. “I had these songs, they were not really Painkiller songs, but I really want to give them some air and hound people with them if I get a chance,” says Bludge, not altogether joking, “I have five songs on this EP, and they are all about the plague year and what happened for people I love, and some of them we lost and how I have sort of dealt with it so far, which is with a lot of thinking about mortality and all that sort of stuff.” It’s more fun…