Gary "Angry" Anderson is the vocalist and longest tenured member of Rose Tattoo. He's helped raise hell and bang heads as the frontman of the Australian rock band since the group's inception in 1976. With 2026 marking Rose Tattoo's 50th anniversary, the group will call it a career with a final show planned for New Year's Eve.
When asked whether the decision to end the band left him with "mixed emotions," Angry Anderson let out a sigh and nodded. "Yeah. I thought I was fine," he said, as translated by Blabbermouth.net.
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Rose Tattoo has endured its fair share of heartache. Founding members Pete Wells and Ian Rilen have both passed away, as have guitarist/songwriter Mick Cocks, drummer Dallas "Digger" Royall, guitarist John Meyer, and bassists Lobby Loyde and Nell Smith.
Rose Tattoo's last major release was 2020's Outlaws. The band first released its self-titled LP in 1978. They followed it up with 1981's Assault & Battery, before achieving international success with Scarred for Life in '83 (establishing them as more aligned with the hard rock of the early 80s than with that of the prior decade).
Anderson took a break from the band to play the character of "Ironbar" Bassey in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. And at that time, the group was ready to go its separate ways.
The group will go out on a high note with a new album that will appeal to both new and old fans. Anderson credited slide guitarist Mick Arnold as being "very prolific, musically" and having a modern "bluesey" approach to songs.
This left Anderson reflective. "Because by this time, midnight had come, and I just thought, well, [in] a year, I'll be sitting there possibly…' Well, I'll be with the band, 'cause we'll play on New Year's Eve into the New Year's morning of the first morning of '27, because that's how the band started. We took our first gig from the New Year's Eve gig at the Chequers nightclub here in Sydney. And I thought, I'll wake up to a new year, and I'll be bandless."
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