The shape shifting rock outfit Full Flower Moon Band, fronted by Kate ‘Babyshakes’ Dillon, return with Party Hard, the second single from their fourth album After Dark, out February 26 via Impressed Recordings. This month, they support Foo Fighters in Brisbane and Townsville, bringing new material and fan favourites to their biggest stages yet. Then in late 2027, they will join Powderfinger on their newly announced tour, playing Hobart’s Cornelian Bay Oval and the Brisbane Showgrounds.
Far from a straight celebration of the rock and roll lifestyle, Party Hard is for the people who keep a scene alive when it’s messy, difficult and misunderstood. The friends, the fans and the artists who keep showing up for work that doesn’t always lead to money or recognition, because some things have no reward and still have meaning. After Dark was written over a single month in New York, after Dillon was awarded the Grant McLennan Fellowship, a competitive award given to one Australian songwriter a year. She applied wanting to feel like a small fish in a big pond again, after the pond in Brisbane had started to shrink. New York had other ideas. “I was expecting to be excited, then the excitement started falling away,” Dillon says.“I was photo synthesising the quality of light I was getting at the time into something that was not feeding me in the way I expected. So it turned into a much darker lived experience.”
After Dark follows Megaflower (2024), which debuted at #1 on the ARIA Australian Album Chart, sold out its first vinyl pressing in a week and won The Triffid’s Album of the Year.
