Perth 5 Seconds of Summer fans are spitting chips after the band left Perth off its 2016 Australian tour.
No fewer than eight online petitions popped up overnight in the wake of the announcement, urging the band to head west. 
The Sydney pop-punk outfit with legions of teenage fans interrupted the 2016 ARIA Awards broadcast on Thursday night with a live video message announcing the 2016 Australian leg of their tour to promote new album Sounds Good Feels Good.
Just before winning the Best Australian Live Act ARIA for its previous tour, the animal onesie-clad youths said their Sound Live Feels Live tour would visit only Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. 
Immediately, hashtags such as #thewiggleshavemoreaustraliandatesthan5sos and #perthwants5sostourdates began to trend on Twitter and petitions surfaced on change.org.
"I'm telling you 5sos, take my money, I want to see you live!!," exploded one petition poster.
"You won the ARIA for best live act in Australia for a reason, but now you're barely even playing in your home country.
"Don't make us feel invisible, we want these shows and I'm gonna try hard to get them.
"I know it's a long way home, but it's Australia, not outer space and it's worth playing more than 3 x 6,000 capacity shows."
Another petition urged the band to recognise the "effort and love and support" of its homegrown fans.
"Only touring three cities in the country where it all started really isn't fair," it said.
High-profile music tours leaving Perth off the agenda is a sadly familiar story.
Most recently, thousands of Perth fans incensed by Taylor Swift's snubbing Perth on her '1989' tour joined numerous Facebook groups promoting messages such as "Don't let Perth be Shaken Off!" - but their pleas fell on deaf ears. 
The tour has not been extended. It opens in Sydney on Saturday, with the few remaining tickets for the east coast shows selling for as much as $1900 on Ebay. 
This is why you stay in school. You actually learn that Australia has more than 3 states #PerthWants5sosTourDateshttps://t.co/K54IH6obpU
??? Jennnnnn (@notreallyjenn)     November 26, 2015
please make this happen 5sos, u are doing what every other artist does and blatantly ignores wa #PerthWants5sosTourDates
??? jaz (@vocaImgc)     November 26, 2015
"Airplanes cut through the clouds" Not to Perth or Adelaide though #PerthWants5sosTourDates#AdelaideWants5sosTourDates
??? kiara (@mgc_kiara)     November 26, 2015
gahh @5SOS are those all the aus tour dates oh my god everyone's crying please help #PerthWants5sosTourDates#AdelaideWants5sosTourDates
??? 5sos (@lrhoodings)     November 26, 2015
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