Wolfmother are 20 years out from a debut that hit like a power cut — Woman, Joker & the Thief, White Unicorn, 39 minutes of hard rock that borrowed from the Zeppelin/Sabbath/AC/DC playbook and didn’t waste time apologizing for it. The 20th Anniversary Tour brings the Australian trio to House of Blues Houston on Monday, June 8 at 7 PM, where they’ll play that self-titled debut front to back.
About Wolfmother
The band formed in Sydney in 2004 — Andrew Stockdale, Chris Ross, and Myles Heskett — and released the record the following year in Australia, with the international rollout coming in 2006. Woman went Top 10 on the rock charts and won the Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. The album went gold in the US and five-times platinum in Australia. Not a bad run for a band critics were half-ready to dismiss as a retro novelty before the first side was finished.
Two decades and a revolving door of lineup changes later, Stockdale is the only original member still in it. The current configuration — James Wassenaar on bass, Christian Condon on drums — has been working through this material long enough to know where the weight lands. Whether they play the record as a victory lap or something more searching is the interesting question for a room this size. The Houston date falls second on the tour, a night after the Austin stop at Emo’s and a night before Dallas at Granada Theater — a Texas three-night run that confirms these are legitimate mid-tier draws, not a nostalgia package struggling to fill the bookings.
Venue
House of Blues Houston, at 1204 Caroline St, holds 1,800. For an act whose biggest moment is two decades behind them, that’s a real booking — a room that honors the catalog without requiring anyone to pretend the arenas are still calling. No support act has been announced. More Houston concerts on our calendar.
Tickets
The show is all-ages. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster, with Fast Lane Access available as an upgrade add-on.