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ROCKET SCIENCE (single launch) with I Heart Hiroshima and special guest
Sat 10 May 2008
Rocket Science, a band renowned for their organ-driven rock ’n’ roll sound and stupendous shows, released three albums to rave reviews. Ready for a new leap of independence, the band rose to the challenge by self-producing their new album ‘Different Like You’. The result is their strongest, most confident and rollicking platter to date, filled with garage snarl and psychedelic whimsy.
$15+bf
Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
www.rocketsciencerock.com

EVEN (album launch) with special guests

Thu 24 Apr 2008 (Anzac Day Public Holiday Eve)

Even’s forthcoming self-titled record has been over two years in the making for good reason - it’s a little fu#ken beauty! It is the album all music lovers have been waiting for – intelligent, inspired and inspirational. Join Ash, Matthew and Wally, the Melbourne trio revered for their musicianship and colon kickin’ live shows for the launch of the album they’re calling “an Australian masterwork”.

$17+bf

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.even.com.au

MACHINE TRANSLATIONS with Grand Salvo and Firekites (NSW)

Sat 26 Apr 2008

Machine Translations are returning to the live scene after a busy summer. With a new five piece line-up featuring double stand-up drummers and Melbourne singer-songwriters Marcel Borrack and Robin Waters (Boat People), the 2008 live show is a rollicking and unconventional beast that explores unusual musical terrains and will take you places way out beyond the usual pop/rock frontiers. Playing many songs off “Seven Seven” including well receiving singles “Need a Miracle” and “You’ll Change”, and a choice selection from their extensive back catalogue, the Machine Translations live show is one not to miss.

$15+bf

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.machinetranslations.org

OPSHOP (NZ) with special guest

Thu 10 Apr 2008

On the eve of their MTV Australia Awards nomination, multi-platinum selling NZ act Opshop head to Melbourne for their first Aussie shows. Opshop stormed the Kiwi airwaves last year securing the most played song on radio with the single “Maybe” from the number one album “Second Hand Planet”. With seven nominations they were the most nominated act in the NZ Music Awards and walked home with the prestigious People’s Choice award. Sold out shows in London and Dubai and tours with Snow Patrol, Silverchair and Powderfinger finished off the year. Come see what all the fuss is about! “Like our answer to Coldplay and U2, they played big, rousing pop songs with the beef to fill a stadium and the sentiment to back an Oxfam campaign.” NZ Herald 2007.

$15+bf

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.myspace.com/opshop

THIS WEEK

Wed 2 Apr 2008

FITZROY XPRESS (WA) with Lee Morgan

Thu 3 Apr 2008

ALEKS & THE RAMPS with RICHARD IN YOUR MIND (NSW) and The Ancients

Fri 4 Apr 2008

SNOG (EP launch) with Casionova and I Forget plus DJ Andrew Till

Sat 5 Apr 2008

MOSAIK (album launch) with Little Star and Renee Cassar

Sun 6 Apr 2008

‘Jam for Oxfam Benefit Show’ featuring THE BEN SMITH BAND, CHRIS CAVILL, THE BENSON CAMPAIN, AUSTIN (SOLO) AND MJ TAYLOR (SOLO) – afternoon show

GIG GUIDE

PIVOT (NSW) with Qua and BattleSnake

Fri 28 Mar 2008

Doors 8.30

Having just signed to legendary UK label Warp Records, Pivot’s first single ‘In the Blood’ will be dropping in May and the album a little later in the year. Pivot are celebrating with a show at the East Brunswick Club before heading over to Europe at the start of April. If you missed them on tour with Battles last month, don’t make the same mistake twice! Support comes from one-man laptop maestro Qua.

$12+bf

$15 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.myspace.com/pivotisagoodboy

KATAKLYSM (Canada) with Dawn of Azazel, Grotesque and Aphotic Dawn

Sat 29 Mar 2008

Doors 8.30

The Kings of Northern Hyperblast, Kataklysm, wear the crown once more with pride. Their latest release ‘In The Arms Of Devastation’ is a monster album that strongly reaffirms the band’s pole position in the world of extreme metal, and shows the band at its best after a long journey of evolution since forming in 1991, through the folds of all things brutal, technical, extreme and, most of all, heavy. With the incredible international success of this, their eighth album, Kataklysm is at the top of its game and selling more albums than ever. Witness why Kataklysm is the number one Canadian metal export in the world… and after 15 years they are still kings!

$39+bf

$45 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.myspace.com/kataklysm

FITZROY XPRESS (WA) with Lee Morgan

Wed 2 Apr 2008

Doors 8.00

Fitzroy Xpress, Indigenous Australia’s favourite country rockers, bring their infectious mix of country rock to Victoria for the first time. Their album ‘Home Sweet Home’ won the Deadly Award for Album of the Year in 2005. They have toured extensively throughout WA and the top end – from remote tin sheds to headlining major venues coast to coast. Their music reflects Aboriginal Australia with songs about life in a small outback town and about bullocks, bushtucker, girls, love, rodeos, dreaming and being aboriginal. The Walmatjarri, Wangkatjunka, Gooniyan, and Bunuba people call Fitzroy Crossing home. Accompanying the wide-open spaces, clear blue skies, and rugged dreamtime beauty is a wonderful feeling of family and being part of something special.

$10+bf

$12 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.fitzroyxpress.com

ALEKS & THE RAMPS with RICHARD IN YOUR MIND (NSW) and The Ancients

Thu 3 Apr 2008

Doors 8.00

Deadpanning, salubrious songs of misanthropic romance, indie shock-tigers Aleks & The Ramps zig zag lightning fast between disparate constellation points of delicate banjo melodies, death-metal worthy speed smash-ups, pretty glockenspiels and five part vocal harmonies. Their album ‘Pisces vs Aquarius’ is out now. Joining the band in this double headline will be Sydney’s psych poppers Richard In Your Mind, who endeavour to explore a wide expanse of sonic possibilities, with an engaging confetti exploding live show which feature tracks from debut release ‘The Future Prehistoric’.

At the door only

$12 at the door only

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www.myspace.com/aleksandtheramps

SNOG (EP launch) with Casionova and I Forget plus DJ Andrew Till

Fri 4 Apr 2008

Doors 8.30

Before heading overseas to headline festivals in the UK and Canada, the old school electro subversives Snog will launch EP ‘City’, featuring four brand new tracks and a handful of striking remixes by such luminaries as Curse Ov Dialect, Berlin ambient beat-meister Hecq and MZO. This caravan of decadence and anarchy will stop at the East for their only Melbourne show for 2008 with support provided by the torrid synth kitsch of Casionova, electro divas I Forget and dancefloor dominatrix DJ Andrew Till. See what the fuss is about as Snog croon their way over a bunch of synthesizers and twanging guitars with a singer that makes Tom Waits sound like Dame Nellie Melba.

$13+bf

$15 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.myspace.com/snogtheband

MOSAIK (album launch) with Little Star and Renee Cassar

Sat 5 Apr 2008

Doors 8.30

Mosaik tell stories through their creative, emotional lyrics and meaningful acoustic sound, with sudden bursts of heartfelt exhilaration. The band has played with artists including The Whitlams, Tim Rogers, Rob Sawyer, Josh Pyke, Smokie, Old Man River and The Vasco Era, with a fantastic response. Mosaik are set to release their album ‘Zenith Valley’ and single ‘Hello Goodbye’ in the coming months.

$10+bf

$12 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.myspace.com/mosaikband

‘Jam for Oxfam Benefit Show’ featuring THE BEN SMITH BAND, CHRIS CAVILL, THE BENSON CAMPAIN, AUSTIN (SOLO) AND MJ TAYLOR (SOLO) – afternoon show

Sun 6 Apr 2008

Doors 4.30

In their quest to support Oxfam Australia and the 2008 Oxfam Trailwalker, Melbourne singer/songwriters Chris Cavill and Ben Campain are uniting, along with 3 other stellar live music acts, to host the 2008 “Jam for Oxfam”. All proceeds from the night go towards the fundraising efforts of Trailwalker competitors team “Eastern Power.” There’ll be plenty of signed merchandise from huge Australian artists like Xavier Rudd to be auctioned off.

At the door only

$10 at the door only

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www.bensmith-music.com

OPSHOP (NZ) with special guest

Thu 10 Apr 2008

Doors 8.30

On the eve of their MTV Australia Awards nomination, multi-platinum selling NZ act Opshop head to Melbourne for their first Aussie shows. Opshop stormed the Kiwi airwaves last year securing the most played song on radio with the single “Maybe” from the number one album “Second Hand Planet”. With seven nominations they were the most nominated act in the NZ Music Awards and walked home with the prestigious People’s Choice award. Sold out shows in London and Dubai and tours with Snow Patrol, Silverchair and Powderfinger finished off the year. Come see what all the fuss is about! “Like our answer to Coldplay and U2, they played big, rousing pop songs with the beef to fill a stadium and the sentiment to back an Oxfam campaign.” NZ Herald 2007.

$15+bf

$20 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.myspace.com/opshop

‘African Explosion’ featuring special combined performance LAMINE SONKO, KING MARONG AND PAPE M’BAYE (two sets) with special guest

Fri 11 Apr 2008

Doors 8.00

An explosive night of West African percussion to celebrate ‘Senegalese Independence Day’, featuring high energy drum, dance and feel infectious rhythms. International artists include Lamine Sonko, King Marong, Pape M’Baye, Yacou M’Baye and Fode Mane. Support includes a hot set from a combination of Australia’s best Brazilian
Percussionists.

$18+bf

$20 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.africanculture.com.au/africanexplosion.html

‘Free The WM3: Rock For Freedom’ featuring BLOOD DUSTER, DREADNAUGHT, FRANKENBOK, CLAGG, DAWN OF RETRIBUTION and WINTERUN

Sat 12 Apr 2008

Doors 7.30

For over 14 years, three teenagers (West Memphis 3) have been imprisoned for murdering three 8 year old boys, a crime they didn’t commit - condemned by their poverty, incompetent defense, satanic panic and a rush to judgment. But there’s still hope for them, and you can help by joining us in support of the WM3 with this mammoth metal line up at the East.

$14+bf

$16 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.myspace.com/freetheWM3australia

DAN RUMOUR & THE DRIFT (THE CRUEL SEA) with special guest

Thu 17 Apr 2008

Doors 8.00

More details soon

$12+bf

$15 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.myspace.com/danrumourandthedrift

GREY DATURAS (album launch) with Embers, Dad They Broke Me and Default Jamerson

Fri 18 Apr 2008

Doors 8.30

Grey Daturas are an improvising, instrumental trio with no songs or melodies; they don’t rehearse; yet maintain a touring ethos tomatch that of early hardcore pioneers. Drawing sonic influence from free jazz, avant garde, psychedelic rock, punk, metal, industrial and noise, Grey Daturas’ blend of harsh and dark psychedelia is unmistakably their own. The launch is for anticipated third album, ‘Return to Disruption’.

At the door only

$10 at the door only

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www.myspace.com/greydaturas

SUPERSUCKERS (USA) with special guests

Sat 19 Apr 2008

Doors 8.30

More details soon

$45+bf

$48 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.supersuckers.com

EVEN (album launch) with special guests

Thu 24 Apr 2008 (Anzac Day Public Holiday Eve)

Doors 8.30

Even’s forthcoming self-titled record has been over two years in the making for good reason - it’s a little fu#ken beauty! It is the album all music lovers have been waiting for – intelligent, inspired and inspirational. Join Ash, Matthew and Wally, the Melbourne trio revered for their musicianship and colon kickin’ live shows for the launch of the album they’re calling “an Australian masterwork”.

$17+bf

$20 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.even.com.au

SPARKADIA (NSW) with special guests

Fri 25 Apr 2008

Doors 8.30

More details soon

$12+bf on sale Mon 31 Mar

$15 at the door if still available

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www.myspace.com/sparkadia

MACHINE TRANSLATIONS with Grand Salvo and Firekites (NSW)

Sat 26 Apr 2008

Doors 8.30

Machine Translations are returning to the live scene after a busy summer. With a new five piece line-up featuring double stand-up drummers and Melbourne singer-songwriters Marcel Borrack and Robin Waters (Boat People), the 2008 live show is a rollicking and unconventional beast that explores unusual musical terrains and will take you places way out beyond the usual pop/rock frontiers. Playing many songs off “Seven Seven” including well receiving singles “Need a Miracle” and “You’ll Change”, and a choice selection from their extensive back catalogue, the Machine Translations live show is one not to miss.

$15+bf

$18 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.machinetranslations.org

FLESH Vs. VENOM with special guests

Sun 27 Apr 2008

Doors 8.00

More details soon

At the door only

$10 at the door only

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www.myspace.com/fleshversusvenom

AGENCY DUB COLLECTIVE (album launch) with Sine

Thu 1 May 2008

Doors 8.00

More details soon

On sale Mon 31 Mar

$10+bf or $12 at the door if still available

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www.agencydub.com

SARA STORER (NSW) with special guest

Sun 4 May 2008

Doors 8.00

Over three albums, including the multi Golden Guitar winner ‘Beautiful Circle’, Sara Storer has shown herself to be this country’s pre-eminent chronicler of life in the bush. Her new album ‘Silver Skies’, carries on a tradition of uniquely Australian songs from the rural heartland, with electric guitars and drums adding a powerful sense of foreboding to her tale of an imagined conversation between a farmer and the land he is being forced to leave.

On sale Mon 31 Mar

$20+bf or $25 at the door if still available

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www.sarastorer.com.au

LABJACD with ILLZILLA and Flow & Plenty

Fri 9 May 2008

Doors 8.30

Two of Melbourne’s most renowned live bands, LABJACD and Illzilla, are joining forces for one night only. LABJACD have begun working on their second album, meaning this there’s not many chances to see them live for a while. Illzilla have just finished working on their debut album, which will drop in the next couple of months making this show a sneak preview of some of their new material. Flow & Plenty and plenty open the night, playing some soulful hiphop tunes from their recently-released EP.

On sale Mon 31 Mar

$12+bf or $15 at the door if still available

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www.labjacd.com

ROCKET SCIENCE (single launch) with I Heart Hiroshima and special guest

Sat 10 May 2008

Doors 8.30

Rocket Science, a band renowned for their organ-driven rock ’n’ roll sound and stupendous shows, released three albums to rave reviews. Ready for a new leap of independence, the band rose to the challenge by self-producing their new album ‘Different Like You’. The result is their strongest, most confident and rollicking platter to date, filled with garage snarl and psychedelic whimsy.

On sale Mon 31 Mar

$15+bf or $18 at the door if still available

-

www.rocketsciencerock.com

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE (QLD) with special guest

Thu 15 May 2008

Doors 8.30

Nearly a year since the release of her ARIA Nominated debut album ‘Little Eve’, Kate Miller-Heidke is one of the most talked about performers in Australia. Heralded as one of the ultimate acts to catch live, rarely has an artist left fans and reviewers alike so consistently awestruck. Kate is currently selling out national tours, and supporting the likes of Cyndi Lauper and Evermore, as well as being a major festival drawcard (East Coast Blues and Roots, Apollo Bay, Port Fairy, Woodford). “Miller-Heidke’s punishing vocal prowess is the impetus of the gutsiest show in Australian music at the moment. There is nothing contrived here ; just a cathartic release of punk opera - stunning, fine and porcelain-fragile meets pummeling, bruising rock & roll.” Adelaide Fringe Festival

$20+bf

$25 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.katemillerheidke.com

KATE MILLER-HEIDKE (QLD) with special guests

Fri 16 May 2008

Doors 8.30

Nearly a year since the release of her ARIA Nominated debut album ‘Little Eve’, Kate Miller-Heidke is one of the most talked about performers in Australia. Heralded as one of the ultimate acts to catch live, rarely has an artist left fans and reviewers alike so consistently awestruck. Kate is currently selling out national tours, and supporting the likes of Cyndi Lauper and Evermore, as well as being a major festival drawcard (East Coast Blues and Roots, Apollo Bay, Port Fairy, Woodford). “Miller-Heidke’s punishing vocal prowess is the impetus of the gutsiest show in Australian music at the moment. There is nothing contrived here ; just a cathartic release of punk opera - stunning, fine and porcelain-fragile meets pummeling, bruising rock & roll.” Adelaide Fringe Festival

$20+bf

$25 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.katemillerheidke.com

BLUEJUICE (NSW) with THE PAPER SCISSORS and Purple Sneakers DJs and special guest

Sat 17 May 2008

Doors 8.30

Two of Australia’s premier emerging acts, Bluejuice and The Paper Scissors have officially announced a massive co headline national tour. It’s been nothing short of a phenomenal few months for punk hoppers Bluejuice. ‘Vitriol’, the first single from debut album ‘Problems’, was the second most played song on Triple J in 2007 and new single ‘The Reductionist’ has been on high rotation for over two months. Post-indie/soul four-piece The Paper Scissors first hit the national limelight in 2006 with their track ‘We Don’t Walk’ from their self titled EP. Their burgeoning reputation for frenetic, crowd-friendly, loud and tumultuous live shows saw them hit stages nationwide with the likes of Midnight Juggernauts, Datarock, Patrick Wolf and at festivals such as Falls, Southbound and The Great Escape.

$15+bf

$22 at the door if still available

Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com

www.myspace.com/bluejuice

PLASTIC PALACE ALICE (album launch) with The Greasers and Oh Mercy

Fri 23 May 2008

Doors 8.30

Creating music that is macabre, romantic and evocative of all that’s avant garde in pop, Plastic Palace Alice are pirates of the high arts, with influences ranging from bawdy Weimar cabaret to Bowie’s glam chic. Debut album ‘The Great Depression’, with its lush, ornate, daring and colourful songs, is out now.

On sale Mon 7 Apr

$10+bf or $12 at the door

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www.myspace.com/plasticpalacealiceband

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