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LA DISPUTE

ANNOUNCE
NO ONE WAS DRIVING THE CAR
AUSTRALIAN HEADLINE TOUR 2026

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Today, conceptual band La Dispute announce their No One Was Driving the Car

Australian headline tour, which will be hitting our shores October 2026. La Dispute will be promoting their latest album No One Was Driving The Car, released in September of 2025 via Epitaph Records.

The headline tour sees La Dispute kick it off at the Astor Theatre in Perth on October 16, then over to Victoria at Singing Bird in Frankston on October 18 and 170 Russell in

Melbourne on October 19. The band head to The Gov in Adelaide on October 21, Liberty

Hall in Sydney on October 23, King Street in Newcastle on October 24, finishing off in

Brisbane at The Tivoli on October 25. All shows are all ages except for Melbourne which is

18+, and Perth which is Licensed All Ages, patrons under 18 can attend with a parent/guardian over 18. Guests on the tour are Meanjin/ Brisbane four piece Special Features. Full details below.

Six out of the seven shows in Australia are all ages / licensed all ages, harping back to the roots of La Dispute, as vocalist Jordan Dreyer explains;

"All of us were underage when we first started going to local shows at home in West

Michigan, and still when attending them pushed us to start writing music together and playing our own. Without venues that were accessible to us, both as attendees and

performers, the entire endeavour might’ve died on the vine, and we’d have lost out not only on an important creative outlet as young people, but a welcoming community too.

Understanding that possibility, it’s been a priority always to keep our doors open to all comers where possible, so that anyone—including (or especially, really) younger people— have the same opportunities afforded to us at a crucial age."

It’s been six years since La Dispute released their last album, Panorama. Since then, the Michigan post-hardcore band—made up of Jordan Dreyer on vocals, Brad Vander Lugt on drums, Chad Morgan-Sterenberg and Corey Stroffolino on guitar, and Adam Vass on bass

—dealt with the stagnance of the pandemic, celebrated the ten-year anniversaries of

Wildlife and Rooms Of The House, and began working on No One Was Driving The Car.

The fifth studio LP is the first entirely produced by the group, and it came together in Grand Rapids and Detroit, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Philippines: “I think the change in environment was really helpful to breathing new life into the process each time we came back to it,” Dreyer says.

Self produced and heavily inspired by the 2017 psychological thriller First Reformed, No

One Was Driving The Car grapples with malaise in the shadow of the looming apocalypse, which has noticeably been worsened by the advancement of tech. The title comes from a

quote from a police officer vocalist Jordan Dreyer read in a news article about a lethal selfdriving Tesla crash, an absurd event which raises qu

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