Glenn Richards announces October UK dates and details of his long-awaited solo album, The Great Behind on October 9th on Johnny Depp’s In.2 Records

Glenn Richards, frontman for the hugely-acclaimed and much-loved Australian rockers, Augie March, has announced details of his long-awaited solo album due for release on October 9th 2026.

Entitled The Great Behind, the ten-track album, was produced by Richards and Jethro Pickett, and is the culmination of a musical-love affair between Johnny Depp and the Augie March frontman that’s lasted nearly twenty years: in Spring 2008, Johnny Depp was in his art-deco, sun-drenched home studio in LA – taking a breather from shooting Public Enemies in Chicago – and painting a beautiful image of his recently, dearly-departed dog, Moo, when something stops him in his tracks: it’s a song on his friend’s iPod called The Cold Acre, by Augie March, which talks about an owner and his dog stoically preparing for death. Johnny learns that the song is on an album called Moo, You Bloody Choir, and then feels compelled to seek out every Augie March recording on the planet, before contacting Glenn; finally, some twenty years later, Johnny gets to release Glenn’s solo record on his very own label.

The full track listing of The Great Behind runs as follows: Pest; 1990 Never; Cold Hands, Warm Heart; La Boue; The Great Behind; The Old Rotten Thing; The Chicken Wedding, Stuff of Life; The Sign, By The Sexy Mouth of The Unseen River; The Fourth Chariot.

Glenn Richards - lead and rhythm guitars, vocals, keys, percussion
Beau Thomas - drums, percussion
Louis Gill - bass, double bass, bowed double bass
Chris Richards - lead and textural guitars
Jethro Pickett - keys, lap steel

The first track to be released off The Great Behind will be Pest, an impossibly-urgent and weird slice of paranoid menace that begs to be jumped up and down to, Richards surely sounding like Blah, Blah, Blah-era Iggy when he sings “You make a desolation and call it peace”, a paraphrase of a line by Caledonian chieftain, Calgacus, celebrated in Roman historian Tacitus’ Agricola. 

Oh, yes.

Pest will be made available on September 4th - beforehand, you can watch the lyric video below:

Richards has also confirmed a series of UK dates to promote the release of The Great Behind. The dates are as follows:

Thursday October 8th - London, Rough Trade East

Saturday October 10th - London, The Spice of Life

Tuesday October 13th - London, The Water Rats

Friday October 16th - Brighton, Prince Albert

"Almost every songwriter in Australia has name-checked Richards as one of the finest tunesmiths of his generation” - Daily Telegraph

It's twenty years since Moo, You Bloody Choir went Platinum, won the Australian Music Prize, and gave Australia One Crowded Hour — the triple j Hottest 100 number one of 2006.

To mark the occasion, we’ve pressed a limited edition 2LP on alabaster vinyl with an exclusive gold and maroon cover.

Moo, You Bloody Choir — 20th Anniversary 2LP

Limited Edition on Alabaster Vinyl

The 20th Anniversary pressing of Moo, You Bloody Choir — a limited edition 2LP on alabaster vinyl with an exclusive gold and maroon cover. Includes full lyrics and credits. Available to order via the Shop.

Moo 20th Anniversary MERCH

We’ve just put the remaining tour merch online — a fairly limited run of what’s left from the road:

— Minotaur tees in burgundy

— Signed linocut prints by Madeleine Griffith

— Hoodies, tote bags, caps and a small run of extras

A couple of bundle options are up as well (LP + print / LP + tee) while stock lasts.

Once this batch is gone, that’s it for this run.

Composed from notes made on a mobile phone while in the grip of a species of long Covid and a brutal high European Summer, Malagrotta is the new album from songwriter Glenn Richards and band Augie March.

The songs of Malagrotta ~ a nickname given to Rome’s great burning rubbish dump, loosely translating as ‘bad cave’ ~ chart this infernal tour, walking in the sandals of long dead kings, mad alcoholic refugees, successful anarchist bankers, failed revolutionary jesters, chastened muses, hybridised mythic wild men, seasonally sad office-bound river dwellers, and pagan priests of alternate antiquities, among many other characters.

It is another work of strange imagination and unique perspective on the human condition from the much admired Australian band that sails on whatever the weather, or the budget.

Malagrotta is available to order on Compact Disc and Vinyl LP from our shop, and by download from Bandcamp (with bonus track 'Mules').

Tracklisting:
1. O Desejado
2. German Beer
3. Hill of Muses
4. Malagrotta
5. A Walk Along the Tiber
6. Horn of Plenty
7. Irrational Anthem
8. All Along the Isar
9. Napoleon is Colour Blind
10. Every Song a Miracle
11. This
12. This Ought to Do It

Released: October 4, 2024

Below is a sample of three tracks from Malagrotta.

All tracks can be played via our YouTube channel, with lyrics here.