Blue Murder Presents
Frenzal Rhomb - Sans Souci 23rd Anniversary Tour
The Baso - Canberra (Belconnen, ACT)
Friday, 14 August 2026 7:00 pm
Frenzal Rhomb’s Sans Souci turns 23 - and we’re celebrating!
Here at Frenzal Rhomb, the number 23 has always been important to us. 23 pairs of
human chromosomes, William Burroughs’ 23 enigma, Psalm 23 in the bible, “the
Lord is my shepherd”; we’ve always been big with shepherds.
Actually, that’s all nonsense, we just missed the 20th, and the world may not make it
until the 25th, so this year we’re celebrating the 23rd anniversary of Sans Souci!
The difficult sixth album, Sans Souci saw us back with Camel producer Eddie
Ashworth for sixteen sweet servings of shrewd social commentary slid inside some
superb punk pop skins, including the green-tinged morality tale of “Bucket Bong”, the
complicated relationship drama of “I Went Out With A Hippy And Now I Love
Everyone Except For Her”, even trying our hand at sports metal with “Punisher”.
There was the Kernaghanesque “Looking Good”, the Gastro-rock of “Ballchef”, and
that song about Russell Crowe’s band we’ve been advised by our lawyers not to talk
about.
And heaps more! And we’re gonna play them all* on the Frenzal Rhomb Sans Souci
23rd Anniversary Tour. A marquee event! And it’s still French for “no worries”.
Get tickets now before Russell Crowe’s lawyers get back in touch!
*look we may not make it through the whole album, and we probably won’t play it in
order. So don’t go getting all weird and complain like that one person did on the
Camel tour. We’ll give it all a red hot go though.
Here at Frenzal Rhomb, the number 23 has always been important to us. 23 pairs of
human chromosomes, William Burroughs’ 23 enigma, Psalm 23 in the bible, “the
Lord is my shepherd”; we’ve always been big with shepherds.
Actually, that’s all nonsense, we just missed the 20th, and the world may not make it
until the 25th, so this year we’re celebrating the 23rd anniversary of Sans Souci!
The difficult sixth album, Sans Souci saw us back with Camel producer Eddie
Ashworth for sixteen sweet servings of shrewd social commentary slid inside some
superb punk pop skins, including the green-tinged morality tale of “Bucket Bong”, the
complicated relationship drama of “I Went Out With A Hippy And Now I Love
Everyone Except For Her”, even trying our hand at sports metal with “Punisher”.
There was the Kernaghanesque “Looking Good”, the Gastro-rock of “Ballchef”, and
that song about Russell Crowe’s band we’ve been advised by our lawyers not to talk
about.
And heaps more! And we’re gonna play them all* on the Frenzal Rhomb Sans Souci
23rd Anniversary Tour. A marquee event! And it’s still French for “no worries”.
Get tickets now before Russell Crowe’s lawyers get back in touch!
*look we may not make it through the whole album, and we probably won’t play it in
order. So don’t go getting all weird and complain like that one person did on the
Camel tour. We’ll give it all a red hot go though.