Mistletone

Mistletone proudly presents WEDNESDAY, returning to Australia with their smash-hit new album Bleeds.

WEDNESDAY TOUR DATES:

FRIDAY MAY 29: ARRIVAL FREMANTLE @ NAVAL STORE with Smol Fish + Symmetrical Dogs. * SOLD OUT!
SUNDAY MAY 31: RISING MELBOURNE @ Max Watts with Alien Nosejob. * SOLD OUT!
MONDAY JUNE 1: RISING MELBOURNE @ Max Watts with Season 2. * SOLD OUT!
WEDNESDAY JUNE 3: SYDNEY @ Metro Theatre with Naaki Soul. * SOLD OUT!
THURSDAY JUNE 4: BRISBANE: OPEN SEASON @ PRINCESS THEATRE with Naaki Soul. Tickets here.
FRIDAY JUNE 5: MULLUMBIMBY CIVIC HALL with Royal Ratbags. Tickets here. Presented with Jet Black Cat Music + Eltham Hotel.

Wednesday, the North Carolina rock band led by generational songwriter Karly Hartzman, return astride their new album Bleeds, one of last year’s greatest; an intoxicating blend of outlaw grit, place-based poetry and hair-raising noise.

As fans who caught Wednesday on their debut Australian tour in 2024 can attest, the Wednesday live show is phenomenal; a gloriously ramshackle, emotive and powerful communal experience. 

From wowing crowds at Golden Plains, MONA FOMA and Perth Festival as well as sweaty club shows, Wednesday have gone on to play their biggest shows to date around the world, most recently selling out the 3,000 cap Roundhouse in London, hailed by The Times as “A five-star example of the US crank rock invasion”. 

Wednesday’s return for RISING Melbourne and a Sydney headline show, plus more shows to be announced, will no doubt cement their reputation as one of the most essential and compelling bands of the current cultural landscape.

Karly Hartzman — Wednesday’s founder, frontwoman, and primary lyricist — credits the band’s tightened grasp on their own identity to time spent collaborating on previous albums, plus a tour schedule that’s been both rewarding and relentless. “Bleeds is the spiritual successor to Rat Saw God, and I think the quintessential ‘Wednesday Creek Rock’ album,” Karly has said, articulating satisfaction with the ways her band has sharpened its trademark sound, how they’ve refined the formula that makes them one of the most interesting rock bands of their generation.

Just like Rat Saw God, one of the defining rock & roll records of the 2020s so far, Bleeds holds the exact right amounts of country truth-telling, indie-pop hooks, and noisy sludge. Maybe sometimes the best way to locate truth or pain or dignity within your own life story, Bleeds suggests, is by crawling into someone else’s. Karly’s distinct singing voice and its connection to her storytelling has always been at the heart of Wednesday, and her vocal has never sounded sweeter than it does when she’s sentimentalising pickled eggs on the twangy and timeless-feeling “Elderberry Wine”. 

Bleeds is a reminder that Hartzman and her bandmates are exclusively interested in chasing glory through games they invent themselves—games with rulebooks you can only decipher late at night, in that freaky and perfect place between sleep and awake where you’re not sure if you’re dreaming or remembering something that already happened. In this arena of their imagination, the scoreboard’s a neon bar sign, the commentator’s a cicada, the mascot is an eighty-year-old Pepsi addict with no teeth. Wednesday is always World Champion, and the award hanging from Karly Hartzman’s neck isn’t an Olympic gold but rather a heart-shaped pendant—a clunky, rust-stained heirloom with countless funny and fucked-up stories locked safely inside.

Wednesday dominated Best of 2025 lists, with adulation from Pitchfork, TIME Magazine, GQ, NPR, Rolling Stone and made their TV debut with an arresting performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

“A five-star example of the US crank rock invasion” – THE TIMES

“One of the great rising rock bands” – NPR

“The most exciting band in contemporary indie rock” – Associated Press