Ball Park Music’s Alter-Ego Band, ‘The Pizzas’, Have Blacklisted Sydney

Ball Park Music frontman Sam Cromack revealed a devastating secret for Sydney-based fans: The band’s alter-ego, The Pizzas, will never perform in the Harbour City.

Chatting with Daphne Berry on the newest episode of the Airing Your Dirty Laundry podcast, Cromack shared the key mandates that the band abides by. “The two rules of The Pizzas is that we’ll never play It’s Nice To Be Alive, and we’ll never play in Sydney.”

Though he never elaborated on those particular points in the rest of the episode, Cromack did also tell fans how The Pizzas came to be, explaining that their first show was actually a “warm-up show” before playing Splendour In The Grass a few years back.

“We thought, ‘Oh, maybe we’ll do a secret show at a club somewhere in Bris, and we’ll do it under a different name.’ And we chose ‘The Pizzas’... I don’t think we thought much of it at first, but then, over the years, more and more weird little opportunities come up where you either want to play, or you want to play a different kind of show or because of weird exclusivity stuff with the band, you’re just like, ‘Well, let’s just do a sneaky show under a different name.’ And then it just kept evolving and getting sillier.”

Adding to that silliness is the fake rivalry between Ball Park Music and The Pizzas, a long running joke for fans of the band.

Just recently, The Pizzas announced their Sorry About Everything Baby “unlucky” Christmas show, and Ball Park Music took to social media to convince punters not to go.

“IF you must attend this show (please don’t) can you make every effort to boo the pizzas, but also can you defend Ball Park in the instance that they try to verbally attack our integrity. We hear horror stories about these shows and as much as we try to take the high road. It’s not always possible. Thank you.” 

Joining in on the fun, BPM’s supporters were found in The Pizzas’ comments, making fun of the band.

“God this sucks, why would anyone waste their time on this burnt dinner of a show,” one fan wrote.

“I’d prefer to do a shoey out of a randoms sweaty red boot and eat vegan pizza off the floor of the zoo than go to this shit show,” another said.

The Triffid itself even commented, saying, “Not looking forward to it…”

Because, as Cromack himself said on the podcast, “The Pizzas are real assholes.”