page_title: The Dickies
section_title: Present day (2010–present)
hierarchical_section_title: The Dickies / History / Present day (2010–present)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Dickies performing December 18, 2011 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California as part of the GV30 event.
context_page_description: The Dickies are an American punk rock band formed in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles in 1977. One of the longest tenured punk rock bands, they have been in continuous existence for over 40 years. They have consistently balanced catchy melodies, harmony vocals, and pop song structures, with a speedy punk guitar attack. This musical approach is paired with a humorous style, and has been labelled "pop-punk" or "bubble-gum punk". The band have sometimes been referred to as "the clown princes of punk".
context_section_description: In 2010, The Dickies hit cover of "Banana Splits" provides the soundtrack to a hyper-violent action scene in the superhero movie Kick Ass.
  The new decade found the Dickies on the road. Reviewing an August 2011 headlining concert in Bristol, England, a writer remarked on their enduring appeal in that country. The mix of young and older attendees was noted, and it was stated that the event had a "timeless" feel. Back in the U.S. for the 2012 Riot Fest in Chicago, the Dickies played the "after party", along with NOFX, Adicts, and the Casualties.
  The Dickies live dates in 2013 included Rob Zombie's Great American Nightmare fest in Los Angeles, and supporting the Damned in Birmingham, England. Regarding the latter, an impressed reviewer suggested that the Dickies were "the perfect support act for the Damned", and praised the band for "having the balls" to play their "crunching take" on Black Sabbath's "paranoid" in that band's hometown. Other tour dates that year included concerts in the US northeast. The band continued to tour consistently through 2014 and 2015, including dates throughout North America, one of which was the 2015 Gwar B-Q, and also shows in Australia.
  Secret Records released Banana Splits (2016), which is the title of both a DVD and a CD documenting a 2002 Dickies concert in England, featuring a guest performance from Michael "Olga" Algar of Toy Dolls. With respect to live performances from the calendar year 2016, the Dickies toured the US and Europe, and were part of the 2016 Rebellion Festival in the U.K. Unfortunately, Phillips became ill with gallstones during a ferry trip from Holland, leading to a hospital visit and endangering the scheduled performances. With the singer's encouragement, the band performed the dates without him, in a "Dickies karaoke" format. Vocal duties were handled by fans, members of the band's entourage, and by guest punk notables, including members of The Rezillos, the Vibrators, Leftover Crack, the Exploited, GBH, the Dwarves, Extreme Noise Terror, Girlschool, Big D and the Kids Table, and others.
  2017 was the band's 40th anniversary, which they celebrated by touring, including 16 dates in England and Ireland, and that year's iteration of the Punk Rock Bowling festival in Las Vegas, which, among many other notable punk artists, was headlined by old band associate Iggy Pop. Stan Lee, in an interview promoting the tour, explained that their somewhat erratic touring schedule, historically, was in part due to his reluctance to be separated from his pet dogs for long stretches of time.
  Another leg of the band's 40th anniversary tour included a run of dates on the 2017 Warped Tour. An incident occurred on July 25, their final day with Warped, which caused the band to become the center of a controversy, to the extent that an LA Weekly writer characterized it as "tearing apart the hardcore music community right now". While performing, Phillips was targeted by a sign-holding friend of feminist band War on Women, who protested his "sexist", humorous, politically incorrect stage banter. Phillips responded with angry, profane insults, and this was captured via cellphone video and posted online. As a result, some in the punk scene denounced the Dickies,  while others, including Noodles of the Offspring, Buzz Osborne, Ben Weasel, and Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal, voiced their support for the band.
  In May 2018, the Dickies, along with the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra, played the theme to Killer Klowns From Outer Space live at the sold-out Montalbán Theatre, during the 30th-anniversary screening of that film. Other activity in 2018 included Oakland's "Burger Boogaloo" festival alongside Devo, the Damned, the Dwarves, host John Waters, and many others, and two runs of tour dates supported by the Queers.
  The Dickies released a single in 2019, their first studio recording in over a decade. A cover of  Cheap Trick's "I Dig Go Go Girls", it features a contribution from Monkey from the Adicts. The B-side is called "the Dreaded Pigasaurus", which is a reference to a creature that functions as g
caption: The Dickies 2011-12-18 02
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