Six years after his last visit to Australia, former Radio Birdman guitarist Chris “Klondike” Masuak is returning with his hand-picked local band, Dog Soldier, for a select run of East Coast shows.

Masuak and Dog Soldier will play a three week tour with shows in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and the ACT.

Masuak’s musical history reads like a muscle car ride through the mean streets of Australia’s rock and roll underground.

The Canadian-born Masuak achieved notoriety as teenage guitarist for Australia’s legendary Radio Birdman, and then waged a War Against The Jive with the country’s hardest working rock and roll band, The Hitmen.

Next came a stint with the original live version of the New Christs, followed by international prominence with the chart-busting Screaming Tribesmen.

A member of the ARIA Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Masuak has an impressive back catalogue of rock, pop and blues releases under his own name and fronting the Viveiro Wave Riders. He is now based in Galicia in northern Spain.

Dog Soldier comprises bassist Tony Bambach (Aberration, Green Spiders, ex-Lime Spiders) and drummer Stu Wilson (Aberration, The Rivers, ex-New Christs).

Their tour will re-trace Klondike’s storied career, drawing on material from his key bands - with a few surprises thrown in.

MAY
19 - House of Music & Booze, St Peters, NSW+ Starcrazy
+ The Dark Clouds + Pocketwatch Tickets
21 - Link and Pin, Woy Woy + The Silver Dragons (1.30pm) Tickets
26 - Northcote Social Club + River of Snakes +
The Fiction Tickets
27 - Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong + Baby 8 + Sacramento Sweaters Tickets
28 - Smiths Alternative, Canberra+ Il Bruto (7pm) Tickets
JUN
2 -Stag and Hunter, Newcastle+ Joeys Coop + East Coast Low Tickets
3 - Federal Hotel, Bellingen + Nikki Websters
4 - Vinnies, Gold Coast + The Square Tugs + Mick Medew & Ursula Tickets

Chris will be touring France as special guest guitarist with Australian band The Prehistorics in September.

Dates are as follows. Please check with venues for last minute confirmations.

2022 French Tour
SEP
7 - Binic, Le Chaland qui passe

8 - Le Havre, McDaids w/ The Gentlemen Of Leisure

9 - Paris, L'International w/ The Gentlemen Of Leisure

10 – Lille  L'Imposture w/ The Gentlemen Of Leisure
11 Paris, L'Armony w/ The Gentlemen Of Leisure

14 - Orleans, Le Croque Bedaine w/ The Sharpers
15 - Clermont-Ferrand, Le Fotomat w/ Foxhole

16 - Toulouse, Bar Le Ravelin w/ The Bad Ass Motherfuzzers

17 - Perpignan, Le 911 w/ The Bad Ass Motherfuzzers

18 - Montpellier, TAF Club /The Secret Place w/ Little Green Fairy
21 - Perigueux, Billard Club Perigourdin
22 - Bourges, Le Bar Saint Bonnet
23 - Talmont Saint Hilaire, Le Hangar w/ The Chris Rolling Band
24 - St Brieuc, Le Fut Chantant w/ Candy & the Dead

CHRIS “KLONDIKE” MASUAK’S TOP SEVERAL FOR 2021

What’s another year without the obligatory screed from Klondike? 

You know that my tongue is firmly in cheek but my heart unashamedly on sleeve when wishing you all as peaceful, calm, and rockin’ a Christmas as is possible to the human mind!