Sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas.

Consider the case of the Dune Rats. When the Georgia Straight caught up with the Australian three-piece by phone in the spring of 2014, it was immediately evident that the band takes its partying seriously. Bassist Brett Jansch was doing his best to recover from two straight days of debauch with next to no sleep, while his bandmate Danny Beusa had gone missing, eventually to be discovered face-down, but alive, in the desert. If memory serves us correctly, the Dune Rats were subsequently turned back at the border trying to get into Canada, which probably wasn’t a surprise.

The psych-tinted garage fuckups will make another attempt to play Vancouver this Saturday (October 24) for a gig at the Cobalt. Hopefully they won’t be coming up the coast through Vegas.