Monday nights are not usually the most exciting time to venture out in Ōamaru, but this Monday threatens to change all that, as Japanese rock'n'roll legends Guitar Wolf take to the stage at the Penguin Club.

Led by irrepressible frontman Seiji for more than 30 years, Guitar Wolf have a reputation as one of the wildest live acts on the planet, mixing the music of the Ramones, Johnny Thunders, the Cramps and Joan Jett into a sound Senji calls 'Jet rock'n'roll'.

"I love jet plane," Seiji once told an interviewer. "I love noisy music, too. Many records are easy to listen. I hate that! So! I add jet sounds! 'Bwaaaahng!' Explosion!"

Over the course of 15 albums – with titles like Kung Fu Ramone, Beast Vibrator and Missile Me!, Seiji and his leather-clad cohorts have plotted a chaotic course through rock'n'roll, bringing the kind of riotous excitement to the stage rarely seen in the age of modern, over-produced pop.

As esteemed international publication Pitchfork once said: "Much as 1960s British Invasion groups bastardised the blues and sold it back to American teens, Guitar Wolf have spent the past 30-plus years making once-rebellious Stateside sounds – surf, rockabilly, Nuggets, CBGB punk – seem dangerous again."

Martin "Robot Man" Horspool, who owns the Buggyrobot Gallery in Ōamaru and is one of those responsible for Guitar Wolf's presence at the Penguin Club, is excited.

"March 10 will go down in the history of Ōamaru," Horspool exclaims.

"A tsunami of sound. A triumph of tinnitus. A plethora of perspiration. A wall of warm leather. A rampage of riffs. A sonic sensation. A sweaty bombardment of 1000% energy live on the stage of the Penguin Club never seen before!"

Support will come from Ōamaru favourites Cuticles – who'll be debuting a new, five-piece line-up – and Kurow singer-songwriter Mads Harrop.

The show is at the Penguin Club on Emulsion Lane (just off Harbour Street) on Monday (March 10), with doors open at 6pm.

All ages are welcome with tickets for under-18s just $10, and over 18s $25. Tickets are available in advance from Under The Radar.