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Tim Mahon (Blam Blam Blam) is heading out on a ten-date The Great Kerfuffle album release tour this October. He and his band Kerfuffle will be start in Ohakune and travelling all the way to Rakiura Stewart Island, with many stops in between.

To kickstart the tour, Mahon also shares the single ‘I’m OK‘.

Mahon calls ‘I’m OK’ a lament for the ordinary, and it’s one of the few tracks on the album that he plays entirely solo.

‘I’m OK’ was engineered and produced by the legendary Paul Steekstra, who sadly passed away in August 2025 .

On The Great Kerfuffle album, Tim Mahon had a top-notch team around him, including Teina Benioni (Bamboo/Ardijah), Sina Saipaia (O.M.C)., Brent ‘Syd’ Pasley (Newmatics) and Mark Bell (Blam Blam Blam).

The Kerfuffle live band is a four-piece combining Tim Mahon (bass, guitar, vocals) and Teina Benioni (guitar) from the album recording, plus additional talent Roger Stanners (guitar) and Alastair Mace (drums).

Mahon and Kerfuffle are packing the tour van and hitting the road in October, with their first show at Kings in Ohakune on Thursday 15th. From there, they head to (in date order) Wellington, Nelson, Takaka, Greymouth, Dunedin, Invercargill, Rakiura Stewart Island, Oamaru, finishing in Lyttelton on Sunday October 25th.

From plucking the bass harmonics on the seminal Blam Blam Blam track ‘There is No Depression in New Zealand‘, Mahon’s new songs are in keeping with the anarchistic revolutionary themes he has long espoused. Subject matter on the 10-track Great Kerfuffle album ranges far and wide. ‘The Ballad of William‘ is an ode to one of the original Radio Hauraki pirates; ‘Happy Go Lucky‘ is a lament for our current times; ‘Fresh Northerly‘ is a climate anthem.

Mahon was also in Richard von Sturmer’s legendary pre-Blam Blam Blam band The Plague. ‘Quite Nice‘ came from a Plague rehearsal for the 2021 Punk It Up festival, and features John Murray on drums, Mark Bell on guitar, with Syd Pasley (Newmatics) later adding harmony guitar.

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Friday 16 October – Meow, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
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Saturday 17 October – WAA! Club, Whakatū Nelson
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Sunday 18 October – Mussel Inn, Takaka
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Monday 19 October – Regent Theatre, Māwhera Greymouth
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Wednesday 21 October – The Crown Hotel, Ōtepoti Dunedin
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Thursday 22 October – Threes & Sevens Records, Waihōpai Invercargill
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Friday 23 October – South Sea Hotel, Rakiura Stewart Island
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Saturday 24 October – The Penguin Club, Oamaru
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Sunday 25 October – Lyttelton Coffee Club, Lyttelton
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