FRIDAY 27 JAN
HIATUS KAIYOTE
Fresh from blowing up heads at Woodford Folk Festival and a mini-tour Hiatus Kaiyote are back in Melbourne to play a few sneaky shows before going deep into the studio to finalise their debut EP due out in April.Their rare sound is a hybrid breed of neo-soul, future beats, freakish time changes and coupled with a strong live performance that’s seen them compared with the likes of Little Dragon, Bjork, Georgia Anne Muldrow and The Dirty Projectors.They’ll be joined on the 27th Jan by DJ Ty spinning future beat and nu-jazz goodness in-between their two sets.
Doors 10pm / Free Entry
SATURDAY 28JAN
CACTUS CHANNEL
Hear that sound? Hell yeah! Cactus Channel play Bar Open this Saturday night Raw loose and nasty, The Cactus Channel is a ten piece funk orchestra straight out of Princes Hill High School in inner city Melbourne. These guys are funkier than the sandwich you left in your lunchbox over the school holidays! With a musical maturity beyond their years, The Cactus Channel hit you with the biggest ton of funk this town has ever seen. Melbourne’s funkiest high school band just turned 18! Come and celibate with them – you’ve no excuse – its free!!!!
Doors 10pm / Free Entry
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Friday 27th January
CREATIONS (USA)
ASHES OF DECEMBER (QLD)
DELAWAREWOLVES
THE ROSETTA STONE
CREATIONS are originally from Sydney but are now based in El Centro, California and they’re coming back to destroy Australia in support of their new album “The Gospel”‘ on Mediaskare Records. They are touring Australia With special guests Brisbane party Moshers ASHES OF DECEMBER in support of their debut album “‘Dying Is For Fools”‘.
See them stop into Pony for a night of mayhem on Friday 27th January, with local support from Delawarewolves and The RosettaStone.
Doors 9.00pm
2am late show
THE VOLATILES
FREE
Fresh from band camp, THE VOLATILES are back to show Pony how to play some straight up, red raw punk rock. Carefully pacing themselves for the 2am slot on Friday night these 5 are gonna be running on pure rock delirium. Playing a couple of new tunes and some older classics it should be a great night to have a bit of a dance andwatch as some band you might not know becomes your new favorite.
3.00am tunes by:
WHITE RABBIT
FREE
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Friday 27 January
THE GEAR
BEWARE! BLACK HOLES
CHEV RISE
Rockin’ Melbourne three-piece, The Gear, return to the stage this Friday night, after 3 years, for what is sure to be an explosive show. This will be a one-off performance and promises to be a big one for the boys, who have been living interstate from each other ever since. Supported by everyone’s favourite new surf group Beware! Black Hole and Chev Rise, this is going to be a big night!
DOORS 9PM
Late tunes by ANDY YOUNG
Free entry after midnight
Open ‘til 5am!
Saturday 28 January
THEE WYLDE OSCARS
ALEX WATTS
CRYSTAL THOMAS
In their first Melbourne show in four months, and the first anywhere in 2012, Alex Watts & the Foreign Tongue are throwing a big party at Yah Yahs on Saturday 28th of January and want you all to come. They will be bringing their trademark blend of jangly guitars, driving rhythm and a whole lotta attitude, as well as showcasing a bagful of new material and a few old favourites. Joining them will be Crystal Thomas & Thee Wylde Oscars, two diverse yet exceptional mainstays in Melbourne music.
Through unhinged guitar lines and intense brooding vocals, Crystal Thomas and Benjamin Bunting are set to perform a few warm-up gigs before the release of ‘A Chance In Hell’ - Crystal’s sophomore album, due out in March 2012, through iconic Melbourne label Off The Hip. The album; written, recorded, and co-produced with Spencer P Jones and Matt Walker, captures Crystal’s ‘Australian-gothic’, confessional lyrics over a dark disco pulse and rock n roll swagger, raw against the lush production of the previous offering – 2008 Stovepipe records release: ‘Crystal Thomas & the Flowers of Evil’.
This show will mark the return of the magnificent Thee Wylde Oscars. This will be the band’s first Melbourne show in some time, having returned from a successful European tour mid-2011, and will be showcasing their infectious take on 60’s garage rock. This is going to be a big one folks, so make sure to get down early as two of Melbourne’s best looking bands go head to head. Or back to back. Or cheek to cheek. See you there.
DOORS 9PM
Late tunes by ANTO MANTOOTH
Free entry after midnight
Open ‘til 5am!
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Announcing East Coast Shows With The Kill Devil Hills
& Debut Single ‘You Got To Move’ Coming Feb 4th
In a world where music is an intangible thing we can listen to and move on from in the click of a mouse, The Floors are more akin to thumbing through dusty LPs on the shelves of an old record store; a tactile and visceral experience that, if not entirely traditional, keeps alive some of the more magical aspects of music.
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MONDAY 16 JAN
SCREEN SECT: HOUSE OF GAMES
(David Mamet, 1987)
The debut feature from playwright, screenwriter, director and heretical film theorist Mamet is a highly stylised glimpse into the ever-fascinating, hard-boiled world of the con artist. Lindsay Crouse plays a repressed psychologist drawn into the subterranean world of Joe Mantegna’s slippery confidence trickster.
Doors 7.00pm
TUESDAY 17 JAN
MAKE IT UP CLUB RETURNS IN 2012
WEDNESDAY 18 JAN
POP SINGLES
LOWER PLENTY
FULL UGLY
pop singles have been one of melbourne’s recent staple indie acts, the 3 piece have an album recorded and in the works for roughly a march/april release. tuneful to morose guitar-pop often likened to chiming 80’s australia and that record label from new zealand, with a dose of husker du / GGE / wipers / 60’s psychesque inspirations. lower plenty deliver some heart-wrenching outback ballads and beautiful instrumentation, eaturing dick diver/deafwish/uv race members. full ugly are a pop gem you don’t get the chance to see enough,
for fans of the moles / panel of judges / triffids tapes. free entry!!!
Doors 8pm / Free Entry
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Kristy Cox launches her second Nashville recorded bluegrass album ‘Miles & Timezones’ at The East along with a spectacular line-up of acoustic artists. Originally from South Australia, Kristy recently showcased her new songs at the Americana Music festival in the USA after gaining 3 top 10 radio hits in the Australian Country scene in 2010.
Joining her for the first time in Melbourne is International hit songwriter, Jerry Salley. A Stellar bluegrass singer, and seasoned performer, Salley has had songs recorded by everyone from Elton John to Loretta Lynn. Along with Carl Jaskson & Larry Cordle he recorded a track for the ‘Louvin Brothers Tribute - Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’ which won a Grammy in 2003 for Country Album of the Year.
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Sunday January 29th
Sandringham Hotel 387 King St, Newtown
Penny Ikinger returns to Sydney for a one-off show with her all-star band for the I-94 Bar Club. Deniz Tek joins Jim Dickson and John Fenton as Penny’s backing band.
Also on the bill are Loose Pills (featuring members of The Scruffs, the New Christs, The Eastern Dark and Happy Hate Me Nots) and Redundant Technology.
Doors at 7.30pm and admission is 12 bucks.
