Glenn Richards, frontman of the acclaimed Australian rockers Augie
March, has announced details of his new solo album with the Venus Lakes, The
Great Behind, due for release on October 9th, 2026, on Johnny Depp’s IN.2
Records. The ten-track album was produced by Richards and Jethro Pickett.
The release marks the culmination of a musical love affair nearly
twenty years in the making. In spring 2008, Johnny Depp was in his sun-
drenched, art-deco home studio in LA — taking a breather from shooting
Public Enemies in Chicago — painting a portrait of his recently departed dog,
Moo, when something stopped him in his tracks. A song drifting from a
friend’s iPod. A song about an owner and his dog stoically preparing for death.
The song was The Cold Acre, by Augie March.
The coincidence was too profound to ignore. Johnny learned the album
it came from was called Moo, You Bloody Choir, and felt compelled to seek out
every Augie March recording on the planet before contacting Glenn directly.
Now, nearly twenty years later, Johnny gets to release Glenn’s solo record on
his very own label.
The full track listing of The Great Behind runs as follows: Pest; 1990
Never; Cold Hands, Warm Heart; La Boue; The Great Behind; The Old Rotten
Thing; The Chicken Wedding, Stuff of Life; The Sign, By The Sexy Mouth of The
Unseen River; The Fourth Chariot.
The first track to be released off The Great Behind will be Pest, an
impossibly-urgent and weird slice of paranoid menace that begs to be jumped
up and down to, Richards surely sounding like Blah, Blah, Blah-era Iggy when
he sings “You make a desolation and call it peace”, a paraphrase of a line by
Caledonian chieftain, Calgacus, celebrated in Roman historian Tacitus’
Agricola.