Ungus Ungus Ungus 'The Fun House' Album Launch

First there was the great void, and then the profusion of life in all its complexity, contradiction and entanglement came to be. Using a kaleidoscope and a set square, an unnamed entity distilled some of life’s more frenetic flavours into a strange elixir known as Ungus Ungus Ungus, which serves as the base for a new concoction called The Fun House. And here we are.

The result of a half-decade of creative process, The Fun House is the seventh album from the enigmatic and indefatigable Ungus Ungus Ungus. Having roused peculiar vibes in the festival world for over ten years, the most carnivalesque dance band this side of a Hieronymous Bosch painting actually dates back to the late 00s in the warehouses of Sydney’s inner west. Since then, it has traversed genres and formations to develop a unique expression of psychedelia for the creatively inclined.

The Fun House brings together different dimensions of the Ungus sound over the past 15 years. Opening with old-timey circus sounds and heavy-duty horns familiar from Constellations (2021) and the frenetic force of Rumpapo (2013), the album spirals into the band’s origins in weird funk, with more electronic shades and guest MCs coming through on the b-side. Woven throughout is the lurking, carnival-masked chaos that pervades life on Earth - all grounded in an ethos of creativity and wry faith in the cosmic field of possibilities.

Join Ungus and friends as we throw open the doors to The Fun House. 

Also on board for the night are fabulous co-conspirators in the peddling of danceable weirdness:

Emerging from the brains behind the legendary Culture Jam, Trickbox will get the vibes cooking with loops and layers constructed live. With freestyle wizard Flash Poetry on the mic, this collab set is a perfect portal into our carnival ride.

Next, we’ll turn up the heat with Gusto Gusto - star purveyors of raucous instrumental dance music out of West Preston. Get ready to ride the dancefloor with this well-oiled groove machine made of human energy.

Then Ungus will throw down a mix of new material and old faithfuls, performed in big 8-piece band fashion with crew from across three states (a daring circus trick in itself), along with self-multiplying clownesque creatures of unknown providence.