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Forget the coconut-scented crowds of Swifties that took our cities hostage during the Eras tour. Forget the lager-soaked piss heads that turned out for Oasis.
It's time for an army of wallet chains and eyebrow peircings to assemble beneath the fog of self-administered prescription nicotine vape smoke.
Tickets for the hottest touring concert of 2027 have gone on sale today - and blokes with ponytails around the country are either scowling at their iphones or cheering to the rock gods.
In May next year, the cult British band Radiohead will play its first concerts in Australia for well over a decade.
In fact, it's been 15 years since every creep and every weirdo made their way into town to watch their favourite multi-instrumentalist alternative art-rock pioneers thrash it out in the 2012 King Of Limbs arena tour.
And those same stoic Gen-X rockdogs are today once again allowing themselves to be tormented by an online Ticketek cue that has broken hearts right across the country.
Except for the bloke at your work, who seems to have the closest thing you've ever seen to a spring in his step today.
With a lot of silent air punches and air guitars, it seems the old fella in IT is going to the 2027 tour.
And to celebrate he's decided to treat himself with not one but two seafood sensation foot longs from the Subway attached to the service station next to the enormous round-a-bout at the front entrance to the local business park.
"For a minute there, I lost myself." he says, as he sits down for a well deserved 900 grams processed crab meat and lettuce with an a couple extra swirls of a Thousand Islands Sauce.