NEW SINGLE: Don't Thank Me, Spank Me! 'Be My Forever' + Announce self titled album

Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me! crush on you with their new single ‘Be My Forever’
+ Announce self-titled album and pre-order
+ Album Launch show!

Best friend duo Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me! are back and crushing on you with added guitar rock flair in their catchy new single ‘Be My Forever’, out Thursday 18 April. Along with the single, the pair announce the arrival of their debut self-titled LP Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me! out Friday 24 May with pre-orders now available via Bandcamp and tickets now on sale for their Naarm launch on Saturday 8th June at The Tote with Cong Josie and Sandy Dish.

The duo's genius combination of sublime songwriting, good hair, and matching Fender Mustangs saw them release the album’s latest single 'Hey Woman’, playing their anti-capitalist message on the airwaves of community radio across Australia.

Equal parts cheeky as it is cheesy, ‘Be My Your Forever’ is a catchy ode to anyone who has told the person they have a crush on, that they have feelings for them. "Be My Forever is the tequila of songs for us. Occasionally you write a song that makes you feel high when you play it and that’s what this track does for us. It’s an upper!", says Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me!. A song that kind of wrote itself, appearing like an invisible ink trick on a scrapbook, its punchy bossy lyrics are packed with a message of taking the power back, choosing your own story, and not waiting around like a wallflower asked to dance.

"Be My Forever is dedicated to our mums as they have both loved hard, fallen hard, been obsessed by and are bossy with love." - Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me!

Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me!’s self-titled debut album is co-produced with the help of Henry Jenkins (Mo’Ju), Hudson Whitlock (Karate Boogaloo), Myka Wallace and Jules Pascoe with Casey Rice on mixing duties. A love affair between all their greatest musical influences, Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me! draws on the duo's love of girl bands from the 70s, 80s pop rock, 90s RnB, and so much more, as they speak to their experience moving through the world as women. Sandy’s opening track is an ode to archetypal good-girl gone bad, Sandra D. This quirky disco banger wields gritty guitar hooks, catchy harmonies and spitfire rap lyrics. RnB inspired ‘Dollars and Cents’ embraces the ‘gold diggers in need of a goldmine’ trope, featuring tight vocal harmonies, chunky funk guitar and a groove that sits right at the bottom of a cashed up cowboy’s deepest pocket. At the other end of the spectrum, ‘Hey Woman’ flexes the band’s garage sass, with un-precious vocals and acoustic guitars, raging against the desperate housewives and bored husbands of Prahran.

Life is confusing. Sometimes we wanna eat the rich, sometimes we wanna be the rich, sometimes we wanna make-out with someone cute, sometimes we wanna slow-dance around the room like our grandparents did, sometimes we wanna be good, and sometimes we just wanna be bad.’ - Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me!

Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me! have captured audiences across Australia, taking them to their parallel universe where the Runaways hung out with Britney Spears and cranked out guitar-heavy 80s bangers with garage-girl-group harmonies and attitude. Together they have performed with acts such as Cong Josie, Blonde Revolver, Bad Dreems, and Jazz Party, performed at Dark Mofo (2023), Wide Open Spaces Festival (2023), Wonder Mountain Festival (2023), Brunswick Music Festival (2024), and a pop-up performance in the hop front of renowned fashion designer Alice Edgley’s store.

Crush on Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me! with this latest single ‘Be My Forever’ and don't miss them launch their debut album Naarm's spiritual home of rock, The Tote!

‘Be My Forever’ single out Thursday 18 April 
Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me! LP out Friday 24 May 

Don't Thank Me, Spanks Me! Album Launch
Saturday 8th June
The Tote 
Supports: with Cong Josie and the True Romantixx and Sandy Dish plus Richie 1250
Doors: 8 pm
Tickets: Via Oztix, $20 + BF $25 on the door