Is This It Strokes show
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thefader.comIn July 2001, The Strokes toured Australia. Then an extremely hyped buzz band, the tour saw the Julian Casablancas-led group opening for the massive Australian band You Am I, filling in for another New York band called The Mooney Suzuki, who had pulled out due to the injury of one of the band members. (Double J recently published an extremely fun history of the tour.) While in Melbourne, The Strokes played a live-to-air show for community radio station Triple R, performing at Fitzroy's Laundry Bar on 18 July 2001 for around 200 people.
One of many packed-out shows on the band's run, the success of the tour led to Is This It being released in Australia three months early, two weeks after the Laundry show.
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