# Party Dozen
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{{Short description|Australian noise rock duo}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Party Dozen
| image = Party Dozen op het Valkhof Festival 2025.jpg
| caption = Party Dozen in 2025
| origin = [Sydney](/source/Sydney), New South Wales, Australia
| genre = {{flatlist|
* [Noise rock](/source/Noise_rock)
* [Experimental rock](/source/Experimental_rock)
}}
| years_active = 2015–present
| label = {{flatlist|
* Grupo
* [Temporary Residence Limited](/source/Temporary_Residence_Limited)
}}
| current_members =
* Kirsty Tickle
* [Jonathan Boulet](/source/Jonathan_Boulet)
}}
thumb|Mutations Festival, Brighton 2025
'''Party Dozen''' are an Australian [noise rock](/source/noise_rock) duo from [Sydney](/source/Sydney), formed in the mid-2010s by saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and drummer [Jonathan Boulet](/source/Jonathan_Boulet). The band have released four studio albums, ''The Living Man'' (2017), ''Pray for Party Dozen'' (2020), ''The Real Work'' (2022) and ''Crime in Australia'' (2024).[{{cite web |last=Cahill |first=Mikey |title=Party Dozen: "There's no way we were going to give Nick Cave notes"|url=https://www.nme.com/features/music-features/party-dozen-the-real-work-album-interview-nick-cave-3262068 |work=NME |date=8 July 2022 |access-date=7 December 2025}}][{{cite web |last=Heywood |first=Benji |title=The Crimes of Party Dozen |url=https://post-trash.com/news/2024/9/30/the-crimes-of-party-dozen-feature-interview |work=[Post-Trash](/source/Post-Trash) |date=30 September 2024 |access-date=7 December 2025}}] The track "Macca the Mutt" on ''The Real Work'' features a guest vocal by [Nick Cave](/source/Nick_Cave).[{{cite web |last=Young |first=David James |title="I was on my own, envisioning lots of people": The lost solo years of Party Dozen’s Jonathan Boulet |url=https://www.theaureview.com/music/i-was-on-my-own-envisioning-lots-of-people-the-lost-solo-years-of-party-dozens-jonathan-boulet/ |work=The AU Review |date=3 September 2024 |access-date=7 December 2025}}][{{cite web |title=Pray For Party Dozen is on the way: "Party Dozen is a band that no one asked for, so I think it’s funny, the idea of praying for us" |url=https://gimmiezine.com/2020/04/10/pray-for-party-dozen-is-on-the-way-party-dozen-is-a-band-that-no-one-asked-for-so-i-think-its-funny-the-idea-of-praying-for-us/ |work=Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie Zine |date=10 April 2020 |access-date=7 December 2025}}]
After working on individual projects, Boulet relocated to Berlin around 2013 in search of a heavier, more aggressive musical direction, while Tickle was also moving away from indie pop toward more experimental work. During a period when both were living in Berlin, the pair began developing a two-piece project built around saxophone, drums and electronics, working under the name Top People on "sludgy, doomy" material that would eventually evolve into Party Dozen.[{{cite web
|last=Smethurst
|first=Nick
|title=Interview: The Sydney Duo Behind Exhibitionist's Immaculate Pop and Party Dozen's Noisy Jams
|url=https://reverb.com/news/interview-the-sydney-duo-behind-exhibitionists-immaculate-pop-and-party-dozens-noisy-jams
|website=Reverb
|date=12 January 2018
|access-date=7 December 2025
}}]
By 2015–2016 the pair were back in Australia and began performing together in [Sydney](/source/Sydney). The duo recorded their debut album, ''The Living Man'', in a small [Marrickville](/source/Marrickville) studio. It was released through their own label Grupo in 2017.[{{cite web |last=Newton |first=Caleb R. |title=Interview: Party Dozen’s Jonathan Boulet, Kirsty Tickle Talk Entrancing New LP, ''The Real Work'' |url=https://newnoisemagazine.com/interviews/interview-party-dozens-kirsty-tickle-talks-entracing-new-lp-the-real-work/ |work=New Noise Magazine |date=13 July 2022 |access-date=7 December 2025}}]
''The Real Work'' attracted wider international attention in part due to the track "Macca the Mutt", which features a guest vocal from Nick Cave. According to the band, they sent Cave the nearly finished song via management, and he contributed an improvised [coda](/source/coda_(music)) vocal that they incorporated unchanged.[{{cite web |title=The 25 best Australian albums of 2022 |url=https://www.nme.com/features/nme-best-australia-albums-of-the-year-2022-3366550 |website=NME |date=16 December 2022 |access-date=7 December 2025}}]
===''Crime in Australia'' (2024–present)===
In 2024, Party Dozen released their fourth album, ''Crime in Australia'', again recorded in their Marrickville studio and released via Grupo and Temporary Residence on 6 September 2024.[{{cite web |last=Moir |first=Tammy |title=Party Dozen talk new music: A dose of punky shoegaze & plenty of sax! |url=https://happymag.tv/interview-party-dozen-the-big-man-upstairs/ |work=Happy Mag |date=3 July 2024 |access-date=7 December 2025}}] The record was conceived as a kind of soundtrack to a fictional Australian crime film, drawing on the visual and thematic atmosphere of local crime movies and television such as ''[Two Hands](/source/Two_Hands_(1999_film))'', ''[Chopper](/source/Chopper_(film))'', ''[Wake in Fright](/source/Wake_in_Fright)'', ''[Mr Inbetween](/source/Mr_Inbetween)'' and other Australian [noir](/source/Film_noir) works.