East Brunswick Club Gig Guide
Box office: 9388 9794
Tickets at The East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St (Corner Albert)
Cash sales Monday to Friday 3-7PM, Saturday 12-4PM
or online from www.eastbrunswickclub.com
For full listing of all confirmed shows at The East Brunswick Club see below.
Here’s some recent changes/highlights…
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fri 29 Sept
BURN THE CITY and MERE THEORY with Sumi and special guest
Burn The City bring to the stage their new album. To celebrate they are on the road with Mere Theory, who are in the process of recording their debut album. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $10+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.burnthecity.com
Sat 23 Sept
LEGENDS OF MOTORSPORT album launch with Budd, Johnny Casino & The Secrets and The Legs
Launching their new album ‘Remnants >From The Big Bang’ which features the ‘Mess It Up’ single the Legends of Motorsport. Over a number of years Legends of Motorsport have built a reputation as being simply one of the best live experiences . Combining sixties garage with seventies hard rock, manic energy with heavy-duty sludge & cheesy surf farfisa with electric guitars. Tickets $12+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.legendsofmotorsport.com.au
Sat 14 Oct
JIM MOGINIE & THE FAMILY DOG album launch with Brendan Welch
Since Midnight Oils retirement of late 2002, their co-founder, guitarist, keyboard player and songwriter has been busy recoding ‘Alas Folkloric’. With the release of the new single ‘Outer Space’ Jim Moginie brings to the stage with him The Family Dog which consists of Jim on guitar, keyboard and voice, Kent Steedman on guitar and bass, Tim Kevin on voice, baritone guitar, bass and organ, Trent Williamson on harmonica voice and jaw harp, and finally Paul Loughhead on the drums. Tickets $18+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.reverberama.com.au
Thurs 21 Sept
FOUR HOURS SLEEP album launch with Kelt and Charles Jenkins
After 10 years, Four Hours Sleep’s new album ‘Love Specifics’ plays like the soundtrack to a non-existent film. Four Hours Sleep’s music has grown in depth and sophistication, yet maintain the deceptive simplicity and emotional directness of the first album. A traditional rock trio (guitar, bass, drums) combines freely at different times with piano accordian, harmonica, harp, violin, and castinets. Bill McDonald and band members Peter and Dan Luscombe have learnt from experience that capturing a quality spontaneous performance is more important than any studied slickness. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $12+ bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.lovetown.net/reviews/more.html
THIS WEEK
Wednesday 30th August
LOST GOSPEL (NSW) album launch with The Cheats
Thursday 31st August
RESURRECTION EVE album launch with special guest
Friday 1st September
TILTMETER with Responder and The Standards
Saturday 2nd September
MACROMANTICS cd launch with Muscles, Lakes and DJ Maria Mafia
Sunday 3rd September
ASID 2006 benefit featuring Dallas Frasca, Joelistics (TZU), DeJah Groove and Vox Congo
Monday 4th September
OKKERVIL RIVER (USA) with Lawrence Arabia and special guest
Tuesday 5th September
CARUS (September residency) with Yanto Shortis
GIG GUIDE
Wed 30 Aug
LOST GOSPEL (NSW) album launch with The Cheats
Celebrating the release of their album ‘Accourding To’, the Lost Gospel sink their teeth in and blast out loud & proud raucous bluesy rock. The band features Jamieson along with Stevie Wright’s son Nick on guitar, ex-Custard member Matthew Strong on bass and Lee Maloney of Bloody Mary on drums. Jamieson started the band with Wright in November 2004 as an acoustic duo but expanded it to a full line-up in mid 2005. The vocalist’s voice shouldn’t work with this rusty barbed-wire blues but somehow it does. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $10 at the door
www.myspace.com/thelostgospelband
Thur 31 Aug
RESURRECTION EVE album launch with special guest
Following the overseas success of ‘Rapture’ Resurrection Eve are proud to announce the local launch of their latest album ‘Ascension’. Resurrection Eve is a finely tuned collaboration incorporating hybrid dance electronics with an elegant quality and strong dance rhythms, accentuated with a gothic-orchestral flourish. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $10+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.resurrectioneve.com
Fri 1 Sept
TILTMETER with Responder and The Standards
Following up from their 2004 debut album, Tiltmeter are back with ‘No Protest, No Applause’, featuring the band’s most raw and emotive material to date. Tiltmeter keep the adrenaline running, with front man Andrew McDonald throwing himself recklessly around the stage. They arrve with a new record portraying the powerful, emotive rock sound the band is well known for. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $10+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.tiltmeter.net
Sat 2 Sept
MACROMANTICS cd launch with Muscles, Lakes and DJ Maria Mafia
Macromantics will be launching ‘Scorch’, the fiery first single off her debut album “Moments in Movement”. She has been invited to open for the likes of Sage Francis, Aesop Rock, Buck 65 and Mr Lif, now she performs her own show that promises to make you dance. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $8+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.macromantics.com
Sun 3 Sept
ASID 2006 benefit featuring Dallas Frasca, Joelistics (TZU), DeJah Groove and Vox Congo
ASID - ‘Asylum Seeker Independence Day’ - is a mega-benefit event with bands such as DeJah Groove, Vox Congo, Joelistics (TZU) and Dallas Frasca combining forces to raise funds and community awareness for those asylum seekers in the community on Bridging Visa E’s who do not have work rights or rights of access to Medicare or Centrelink benefits. There will also be an auction on the night with goodies supplied by Xavier Rudd and John Butler Trio. Proceeds raised will be going to the Asylum Seeker Project, Hotham Mission. Proudly supported by the Northern Migrant Resource Centre. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $13+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.asidaustralia.com
Mon 4 Sept
OKKERVIL RIVER (USA) with Lawrence Arabia and special guest
Okkervil River have just released ‘Black Sheep Boy Appendix’ to occupy the album of the same name. Amid the brilliantly-arranged horns, pedal steel guitars, and banjos, comes lyrical content about broken hearts and homes, Sheff has a real gift for words, and gets to the emotional core of his songs with beautiful, unexpected metaphors and and a surprisingly effective lack of rhyme. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $32+bf - selling fast! East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.okkervilriver.com
Tues 5 Sept
CARUS (September residency) with Yanto Shortis
Throughout September Carus performs his first ever Melbourne residency, previewing new songs as they are being written for his forthcoming album. The residency will see Carus joined by special guests each night as well as opening sets from some of Melbourne’s best singer-songwriters. Each show will be recorded. See Carus and his songs stripped back and raw, acoustic and inspired. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $12+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.carus.com.au
Wed 6 Sept
IILLUCID EP LAUNCH with Mr Coffee, MDK and 21 Summers
Illucid launch their debut EP. They are a four piece Melbourne rock outfit that have scribed their name into the scaffolding of venues all across the sprawling music hive that is Melbourne. Illucid have played sets alongside acts such as Kisschasy, Behind Crimson Eyes and The Getaway Plan. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $8+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.myspace.com/illucid
Thurs 7 Sept
GOOD BUDDHA (NSW) cd launch with Illzilla and DJs
After a year perfecting and honing their new album in the hills of Byron, Good Buddha have returned to let the funk fly with a banging new EP- ‘Bouncin’, featuring two tunes off the soon to be released LP, an exclusive remix from Tipper ( U.K.) and a reworked version of ‘Face the Music’ by the Buddha’s themselves. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $10+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.goodbuddha.com
Fri 8 Sept
OKKERVIL RIVER (USA) with Jack Ladder and special guest
Finding a home in Texas by way of New Hampshire, Okkervil River sound like Ozark savants with lineage to Anton Chekhov, strumming away their broken, exiled souls with acoustic guitars, concertinas, and moonshine. Amid the brilliantly-arranged horns, pedal steel guitars, and banjos, comes lyrical content about broken hearts and homes, Sheff has a real gift for words, and gets at the precise emotional core of his songs with beautiful, unexpected metaphors and deft phrasing, and a surprisingly effective lack of rhyme. Kitchen open at 6pm.
Sold out – extra show Mon 4 Sept
www.okkervilriver.com
Sat 9 Sept
TnT – TEX PERKINS AND TIM ROGERS – ‘My Better Half’ Australian tour 2006 with Rebecca Barnard
The two heavyweight champions of Australian rock, Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers, have joined forces, releasing their first album, ‘My Better Half’. Imagine Bon Scott and Mick Jagger together teaming up. After playing only six shows together, the chemistry between the T’s was so strong they rushed into the studio, with intentions to record an EP and came out with the album. They are a force to be reckoned with. Kitchen open at 6pm.
$22+bf – selling fast! East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.tnt.net.au
Tues 12 Sept
CARUS (September residency) with Nick Barker
Throughout September Carus performs his first ever Melbourne residency, previewing new songs as they are being written for his forthcoming album. The residency will see Carus joined by special guests each night as well as opening sets from some of Melbourne’s best singer-songwriters. Each show will be recorded. See Carus and his songs stripped back and raw, acoustic and inspired. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $12+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.carus.com.au
Thu 14 Sept
BERTIE BLACKMAN (NSW) cd launch with The Floors and Michael Paynter
After a national tour with Bob Evans, Bertie Blackman will release her highly anticipated second album ‘Black’ in Australia on 16 September. Bertie Blackman caught everyone’s attention in late 2004 with her debut album ‘Headway’ and the killer single ‘Favourite Jeans’. Fast-forward to 2006, and Bertie has since released several more hits including ‘Television, You Kill Me ‘and her latest single, ‘Hold Me Close’. Bertie’s evolution to electric guitar, with distortion, pounding drums and killer hooks featuring prominently. Walking in the footsteps of iconic female artists including Bjork, PJ Harvey, Blondie and Patti Smith, Bertie’s music is raw, soulful and seductive. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $10+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.bertieblackman.com.au
Fri 15 Sept
GERSEY album launch with special guest
Melbourne band Gersey announce their album launch tour to support arguably one of the strongest local releases of the year, ‘No Satellites’. Gersey’s latest offering is a natural evolution from ‘Storms Dressed as Stars’ and the debut ‘Hope Springs’. Gersey continue with the bands explorations into dark cinematic soundscapes while veering into directions that have them inhabiting a more immediate and robust world. Revered for captivating and intense live shows, Gersey return to the live front for a national tour and a bag of new songs. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $12+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.gersey.com
Sat 16 Sept
WOLF AND CUB album launch with The Mercy Arms
After just finishing shows with Tv On The Radio, Wolf & Cub are releasing their debut album ‘Vessels’ and hitting the road to celebrate. The album was recorded in Adelaide and mixed in Glasgow with producer Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Super Furry Animals, Mountain Goats) and will be released in Australia on Dot Dash and on the legendary 4AD label (Pixies, Breeders, TV On The Radio) for the rest of the world. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $16+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.wolfandcub.com
Tues 19 Sept
CARUS (September residency) with Emma Heeney
Throughout September Carus performs his first ever Melbourne residency, previewing new songs as they are being written for his forthcoming album. The residency will see Carus joined by special guests each night as well as opening sets from some of Melbourne’s best singer-songwriters. Each show will be recorded. See Carus and his songs stripped back and raw, acoustic and inspired. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $12+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.carus.com.au
Thurs 21 Sept
FOUR HOURS SLEEP album launch with Kelt and Charles Jenkins
After 10 years, Four Hours Sleep’s new album ‘Love Specifics’ plays like the soundtrack to a non-existent film. Four Hours Sleep’s music has grown in depth and sophistication, yet maintain the deceptive simplicity and emotional directness of the first album. A traditional rock trio (guitar, bass, drums) combines freely at different times with piano accordian, harmonica, harp, violin, and castinets. Bill McDonald and band members Peter and Dan Luscombe have learnt from experience that capturing a quality spontaneous performance is more important than any studied slickness. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $12+ bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.lovetown.net/reviews/more.html
Fri 22 Sept
LOVE OUTSIDE ANDROMEDA album launch with special guest
Melbourne’s Love Outside Andromeda formed in 2000 as Andromeda, the brainchild of Sianna Lee - an ambitious bedroom guitarist with a knack for high- calibre confessional-style song writing. This stunning debut out in Sept ‘Longing Was A Safe Place To Hide’ is currently on Triple J & community radio nationally. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $14+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.loveoutsideandromeda.com
Sat 23 Sept
LEGENDS OF MOTORSPORT album launch with Budd, Johnny Casino & The Secrets and The Legs
Launching their new album ‘Remnants >From The Big Bang’ which features the ‘Mess It Up’ single the Legends of Motorsport. Over a number of years Legends of Motorsport have built a reputation as being simply one of the best live experiences . Combining sixties garage with seventies hard rock, manic energy with heavy-duty sludge & cheesy surf farfisa with electric guitars. Tickets $12+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.legendsofmotorsport.com.au
Sun 24 Sept
HOLLY THROSBY (NSW) with special guest
Holly Throsby returns with stellar new tunes. The songs of ‘Under The Town’ are intimate gestures, drawing the listener closer as the album progresses. The strumming and chiming of guitars is the heartbeat of this record, with other textures insinuating themselves over time. Pianos and cellos come and go, but mostly there’s space, lots of space. ‘Under The Town’ will be celebrated with shows in the US and across Australia. With press describing her latest album as “pretty and precious, durable and telling, it just might put a spell on you”, this show is sure to hypnotize. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $15+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.hollythrosby.com
Tues 26 Sept
CARUS (September residency) with Greg Arnold
Throughout September Carus performs his first ever Melbourne residency, previewing new songs as they are being written for his forthcoming album. The residency will see Carus joined by special guests each night as well as opening sets from some of Melbourne’s best singer-songwriters. Each show will be recorded. See Carus and his songs stripped back and raw, acoustic and inspired. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $12 + bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.carus.com.au
Wed 27 Sept
ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI (USA) with Pip Proud, Kes and Das Butcher
Los Angeles native Ariel Pink was discovered by Brooklyn experimental joymakers Animal Collective, who heard some of the numerous and wondrous cassette albums he’d created in his shambolic Hollywood bedroom, armed only with an eight-track recorder, various instruments including mouth-percussion, and an encyclopedic knowledge of arcane and popular music. Since signing to Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks label, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti have won fervent cult status with a handful of amazing and hallucinatory home-made pop albums. For his first-ever Australian tour, Ariel Pink will be joined by an all-star Australian backing band House Arrest. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $22+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.arielpink.com
Thurs 28 Sept
MELINDA SCHNEIDER album launch with THE FLOOD
Melinda Schneider’s launches album four, ‘Stronger’ her first recordings since taking out the two most prestigious gongs at the Tamworth Country Music Awards for her brash, sassy blended country song of rhe year ‘For Real People’ and album of the year, having previously picked up the Golden Guitar for Female Vocalist Of The Year. Taking her further down a road of myriad possibility is her participation in the Broad Festival with Deborah Conway, Ella Hooper, Mia Dyson and Kate Miller-Heidke. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $18+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.melindaschneider.com
Fri 29 Sept
BURN THE CITY and MERE THEORY with Sumi and special guest
Burn The City bring to the stage their new album. To celebrate they are on the road with Mere Theory, who are in the process of recording their debut album. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $10+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.burnthecity.com
Sat 30 Sept
LOVE OF DIAGRAMS with Kes and Zond
Bringing to the stage their brand new album produced by Bob Weston (Shellac/Mission of Burma).Love of Diagrams combine the experimentation of New York No Wave, with the immediacy and tunefulness of classic English Post Punk. The three piece are drummer Monika Fikerle, and guitar / bass lines and vocals of Luke Horton and Antonia. They have toured with Death Cab for Cutie, Electrelane, Les Savy Fav, Pretty Girls Make Graves, and The Rogers Sisters,There last re-released EP contained the single, “No Way Out” which received high rotation on Triple J and on many USA College radio stations
On sale soon
www.loveofdiagrams.com
Sun 1 Oct
CYNDI BOSTE cd launch with Kerri Simpson and Jaimi Faulkner
Launching her much awaited forth album ‘Foothill Dandy’, Cyndi Boste will strutt the East’s stage with her killer band and a host of Melbourne’s finest musicians, including Craig Pilkington, Matt Walker, Bruce Haymes and many more. Supported by Kerri Simpson + Jaimi Faulkner. Alt country/roots/blues and soul at it’s best right here in Swamp city’. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $12 +bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.cyndiboste.com.au
Fri 6 Oct
AVALON DRIVE (QLD) single launch with special guest
Hailing from Brisbane, the various members of Avalon Drive were mates all through school, playing in various bands, and finally coming together in 2005 under their current guise. Since then, the band have built an impressive fan base, playing high energy live shows and carving their place in the rock scene and opening up for many international acts, including Anberlin, Crowned King and Matchbook Romance. The band have recently released their highly anticipated second EP, ‘The City of Burnt Out Lights’. Kitchen open at 6pm. Tickets $10+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.avalondrive.com
Tues 10 Oct
LOREN with MJ Taylor
More info soon
Tickets $10+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.loren.com.au
Wed 11 Oct
BILL JACKSON album launch with Tracy Miller
More info soon
Tickets $13+bf on sale Mon 4 Sept East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.theage.com.au/news/cd-reviews/diggin-the-roots/2006/08/10/1154803017284.html
Sat 14 Oct
JIM MOGINIE & THE FAMILY DOG album launch with Brendan Welch
Since Midnight Oils retirement of late 2002, their co-founder, guitarist, keyboard player and songwriter has been busy recoding ‘Alas Folkloric’. With the release of the new single ‘Outer Space’ Jim Moginie brings to the stage with him The Family Dog which consists of Jim on guitar, keyboard and voice, Kent Steedman on guitar and bass, Tim Kevin on voice, baritone guitar, bass and organ, Trent Williamson on harmonica voice and jaw harp, and finally Paul Loughhead on the drums. Tickets $18+bf East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.reverberama.com.au
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