Australian punk rock legends the Hard-Ons tour nationally in March 2027 with Jerry A of US hardcore outfit Poison Idea on lead vocals, following their collaborative album released in 2026. The tour visits Ed Castle in Adelaide on March 5, with shows across Australia from March 4 to March 21.

Australian punk rock legends the Hard-Ons are hitting the road in March 2027 for an extensive national tour, joined by hardcore punk royalty Jerry A of iconic US outfit Poison Idea on lead vocals. The tour follows the release of their collaborative album in 2026.

Formed in 1982, the Hard-Ons have spent over four decades carving out a reputation as one of Australia's most influential and explosive live bands, blending punk, heavy metal, power pop and psychedelia into their own unmistakable sound.

Now entering an exciting new chapter with Jerry A at the helm, the Hard-Ons remain as relentless and infectious as ever. Armed with a legendary back catalogue spanning over four decades, the band continue to push forward with the same ferocious energy that has earned them a devoted following around the world.

The Hard-Ons with Jerry A, live across Australia this March

March 4 - Link & Pin, Woy Woy
March 5 - Ed Castle, Adelaide
March 6 - Milk Bar, Perth
March 7 - The River, Margaret River
March 10 - Dissent, Canberra
March 11 - Barwon Club, Geelong
March 12 - The Tote, Melbourne
March 13 - Singing Bird, Frankston
March 14 - Altar, Hobart
March 18 - The Hamo, Newcastle
March 19 - Paddo RSL, Sydney
March 20 - Vinnies Dive, Gold Coast
March 21 - The Brightside, Brisbane

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The Hard-Ons first toured with Poison Idea back in the late '80s and first recorded with Jerry A as guest vocalist back in 1993. The first product of their new collaboration came out in the form of single - "You Won't Shut Up"/"Dead End Turnaround" - released ahead of the American dates last year. And in August of this year, having just shared stages together in Europe, the team, which is known forthwith as Hard-Ons/Jerry A, released their long-awaited album, on Cheersquad Records & Tapesin Australia and NZ and American Leather for the ROW.

Of the collaboration, Blackie from the Hard-Ons says, "We toured and collaborated a few times before and always talked about getting serious... well here's the start of that. Hard-Ons with Jerry A!! It's happening."

The two bands - Jerry A and Poison Idea and the Hard-Ons - shared not only a mutual history and a significant level of influence but a mutual love of all things hard and fast. Both bands formed in the early '80s, having been weened at a young age on the classic punk of the late '70s as well as its high energy rock'n'roll precursors. Both bands quickly became iconoclastic transgressors of both good taste and punk convention as they moved into harder/wilder realms later in the decade, and both bands spent much of the '90s sitting atop - and at the same time somewhat apart from - the international hardcore scene.

Jerry and the Hard-ons both are noted fans as well as being musicians. Poison Idea released an acclaimed covers LP of favourite songs in '92 while the Hard-Ons, as well as having done the odd cover over the years (perhaps most notably a version of AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock" with Henry Rollins on vocals) have more recently put their money where their mouths are, backing recent Australian tours by both Redd Kross and legendary Adverts mainman TV Smith, for whom they became the Australian Adverts earlier this year. The fact that Jerry and the Hard-Ons are massive fans of each other is why this collaboration is happening.

The subject of a two-part documentary film, the first standalone part of which coincided with their 40th anniversary in 2024, the Hard-Ons released their latest album I Like You Getting Older and the film soundtrack The Most Australian Band Ever! - The Secret Origin of the Hard-Ons in 2025 and released a new Korean Language mini-album this year, before their first tour of Korea.

Hard-Ons/Jerry A is a sledgehammer hardcore punk rock'n'roll assault which will appeal to fans of Dickcheese and Feel the Darkness both, and it provides an explosive taste of what fans will hear when Jerry A and the Hard-ons will bring to Australia together in 2027.