The Living End Continue Their Comeback With New Single ‘Strange Place’

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The Living End have shared ‘Strange Place’, their second single of 2025 following last month’s ‘Alfie’. Both songs are reportedly from the band’s forthcoming ninth studio album, the details of which are yet to be officially confirmed. The Melbourne band recorded ‘Strange Place’ with veteran producer Kevin “Caveman” Shirley, with whom frontman Chris Cheney is bandmates in Jimmy Barnes‘ rockabilly supergroup The Barnestormers. In a press statement, Cheney explained that he wrote the lyrics to ‘Strange Place’ as his attempt to “make sense of where this world is heading”.

“News flash: It’s getting crazy out there,” said Cheney. “It’s become a ‘Strange Place’; a giant asylum full of fragile, disconnected and disillusioned people that aren’t coping. Mental health, the cost of living, social media, the threat of war, increasing youth-related crime, online toxicity, a whole generation trying to learn in real time how to function and cope with a world spinning too fast and run by lunatics.” An accompanying video, created by visual artist Bobby Gray, can be viewed below.

The Living End – ‘Strange Place’

The band began playing ‘Strange Place’ at live shows last year. It was part of the setlist on their recent intimate shows at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne and the Metro Theatre in Sydney, alongside ‘Alfie’ and another unreleased new song entitled ‘Misery’. A follow-up to 2018’s Wunderbar has been in the works for some time, with the band having played a full secret set of new songs in 2023.

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Most recently, the band were seen on the season premiere of Spicks & Specks‘ ’20th Anniversary Gig’ season, where they played ‘Alfie’ over the credits. Other guests included comedian Rhys Nicholson, singer-songwriter Charlie Collins, The Wiggles‘ John Pearce and UK comic Sara Pascoe.

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