In March 2020, The Menzingers were more than 10,000 miles away from their beloved Philadelphia when the world started to understand that COVID-19 was bound to become a history-altering global event. The band were in Melbourne, Australia, to begin another leg of the world tour in support of their suddenly aptly titled sixth album, “Hello Exile,” when everything shut down.
“If we had left a day later, we wouldn’t have gone,” Tom May, one of the band’s dual guitarists, recalls. “If we had left the day before, we would have thought everything