<p>Dive deeper into our world + tour ticket presales at https://weirdertogether.substack.com</p><p><br></p><p>Ben&#39;s back from 60 shows around Australia (and avoided all crocodiles). Ione has been nursing a six-foot baby. And we have a lot to catch up on.This week: Olivia Rodrigo just announced Daisy Chain Fields — an all-female festival with Bikini Kill, Stevie Nicks, Mitski, Chappell Roan, Karen O, and more — and we get into why it matters, what Lilith Fair got right and wrong, and why the 90s community ethos feels more radical than ever in 2026.</p><p><br></p><p>Also: it&#39;s the 40th anniversary of Wham! breaking up, and Ione has a memory involving a gay music promoter on her childhood street, early vinyl promos, and George Michael not yet being out. </p><p><br></p><p>Plus: why Hal Hartley is the most underrated director of the American indie film era, the troll who called Ben a &quot;soy boy,&quot; and Ione&#39;s lifelong crush on a boy who wrestled a crocodile.</p>