MetalTalk marked Dirty Honey as “fresh, alive, boogie-licious, pure rock ‘n’ roll” on their debut release in May 2021. It’s been an exciting rise ever since. The band have travelled the world. MetalTalk has been there all the way, and we are as delighted as any to see that Mayhem And Revelry Live, the band’s first live-in-concert release with a video documentary, is scheduled for release on 21 February 2025.
It has been an impressive rise, kick-started when Dirty Honey hit the road on The Young Guns tour with Mammoth WVH in March 2022 before hitting Download that Summer.
Before the lads hit the UK, we found out about them drinking shots with Sammy Hagar and how excited they were for Europe. “That’s always been a dream of mine,” Marc told MetalTalk, “to get to Europe, and especially the UK, which I know has a big rock market. I couldn’t be more proud and excited that we’re finally doing it. It’s gonna be a crazy, crazy summer.”
Dirty Honey were back in Pennsylvania in late 2022, having covered the UK with Rival Sons in the summer, but by November, the news of a UK Headline tour broke. A phenomenal start to the tour was witnessed in Norwich, where we saw that the next stage of something truly world-shaking was tangible. We caught up with John Notto before the show and Marc after.
The Can’t Find the Brakes album and tour was announced in late 2023, and with the Illinois show covered in December and the Cardiff show covered in early 2024, we waved the band away across Europe as they went on to travel the world.
Mayhem And Revelry Live will chart the journey as a live-in-concert, double-vinyl CD and digital release along with a companion four-part video documentary, all recorded live throughout North America, the UK and Europe on this tour.
“To me, live albums have always been the quintessential cornerstone for any rock band’s catalogue,” Marc LaBelle told us. “I grew up on Aerosmith’s A Little South Of Sanity, AC/DC’s LIVE, The Stones Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out, and Zeppelin’s How the West Was Won.
“There’s something beautiful about a band’s unbridled live energy mixed with an audience’s excitement that breathes new life into songs. The guys in the band and I have long been told, ‘your records are awesome, but you’re even better live,’ and I think that sentiment comes across loud and clear on Mayhem A Revelry.”
Mayhem And Revelry Live can be pre-ordered from here. The live version of When I’m Gone just shows how remarkable this band are live. “Like my favourite live albums I listened to constantly as a kid,” John Notto said, “I believe this album features the band in its most honest form, feeding off the audience and walking the wire with a grin and a dash of reckless abandon that can only come from that magical place we get to onstage with you, the audience. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed performing it.”
