Handsome Tours is proud to present the debut Australian tour of Canadian post-punk prophets, Viet Cong. The band will perform at Brisbane's Brightside on Friday 22nd January and Sydney's GoodGod Small Club on Monday 25th January (Australia Day Eve). These newly announced performances join their hotly anticipated Melbourne-exclusive appearance at Sugar Mountain Festival.

The band's Australian shows will be the last ever performances announced under the Viet Cong moniker. The band recently announced their intention to change their name after it became apparent the title was unintentionally hurtful to some within the Vietnamese community. "We don't know what the new name of our band will be, and we owe it to our fans to honour the concerts we have booked. We rushed into our last band name decision, we don't plan to rush into this one, but know that will be rolling out a new name as soon as we agree upon one." The band are expected to unveil the updated moniker in the near future.

Meanwhile Viet Cong have emerged as one of 2015's most acclaimed and essential new bands. Since the release of their brilliant self-titled debut LP in January, the four-piece have been criss-crossing all corners of the world, playing countless sold-out shows to rabid fans across North America and Europe, and garnering piles of enthusiastic acclaim for their tight, angular, and catchy brand of post-punk. The band infamously stole the show at SXSW earlier this year, despite drummer Mike Wallace having broken his hand in the days before, powering on to play all shows with only one arm.

Pitchfork awarded Viet Cong's debut Best New Music status for it's "heavy, ingenious contraptions" whilst Exclaim concluded that its "frenzied, sharp-turn transitions are what make this band feel so vital, so alive and so different." The Guardian called it "an ambitious and rewarding debut" whilst Spin described it as "inexhaustibly fun to listen to"

Viet Cong will be joined in Sydney by Melbourne's own noise-rock provocateurs Batpiss, who's unrelenting style forges a unique space between doom, sludge, punk and drone.