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Henry Rollins (USA)

This event has an MA15+ rating and is restricted to persons 15 years and over.

HENRY ROLLINS returns to Australia this April-May at the invite of Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Sydney Comedy Festival, to perform his spoken-word show, and Cairns has been lucky enough to score a side-show with the former front man of US punk outfit, Black Flag.

Now a writer/ raconteur/ activist/ actor/ agent provocateur and renaissance man – he’s all of that and still more.

“Since I was last on tour, I have been working in television and radio, travelling all over the world,” says Henry, “and like everyone else, dealing with the changes America – and the world – is going through. I thought America would become a more peaceful place in 2009. I had no idea the country had so many lunatics. There's a lot to remark upon, of course. There always is." 

When Rollins talks about travelling the world, he’s not referring to plush resorts and genteel European cities. Henry’s current and most recent travels include stops in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Brunei, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, and Senegal. These global experiences – like past excursions to such vacation hotspots as Pakistan, Myanmar, and Siberia – not only supply humorous anecdotes for Henry’s talking shows, but they inform his worldview.  As Shepherd Fairey’s tour poster bills it, “Knowledge without mileage equals bullsh*t.”