Dropkick Murphys to play Big Day Out?

30 October 2008 | 10:04 am | Staff Writer
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"We kind of try to write as you go so that way when you get to the point where you're ready to start working on a new record you're not just cramming, you know what I mean? But as far as the new year goes, we're real excited because we got the Big Day Out, which is a big festival in Australia, so we're planning on going to Australia for about three weeks in January, and New Zealand as well. We really love Australia. We've been to New Zealand only one other time and that was really cool, so we're looking forward to that, y'know. It's really cool, this band has afforded us all the luxury of being able to travel all over the world and that's pretty amazing."

Dropkick Murphys singer Al Barr recently spoke to Jersey Beat, and dropped a little info about the band heading back to Australia for the Big Day Out festival in 2009 as well as future recording plans....


"We kind of try to write as you go so that way when you get to the point where you're ready to start working on a new record you're not just cramming, you know what I mean? But as far as the new year goes, we're real excited because we got the Big Day Out, which is a big festival in Australia, so we're planning on going to Australia for about three weeks in January, and New Zealand as well. We really love Australia. We've been to New Zealand only one other time and that was really cool, so we're looking forward to that, y'know. It's really cool, this band has afforded us all the luxury of being able to travel all over the world and that's pretty amazing."