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Laughing Clowns 1981

Thu 15 Nov 2018
From The Vault

From the PBS Vault – a live set from Laughing Clowns, recorded at the Seaview Ballroom on 12th September 1981.

THE DOME

Mon 5 Nov 2018 to Sun 11 Nov 2018
Feature Sounds

by NUN

 

Formed in late 2011, Nun started life as a recording project for members Jenny Branagan, Tom Hardisty (Woollen Kits), Steven Harris and Hugh Young (Constant Mongrel / Hamhock).

 

Their new LP THE DOME opens with a track named ‘Wake In Fright’, and presents a conceptual framework inspired by R. Buckminster Fuller that arms the record with a cohesive horror.

The Grace Darling

Thu 1 Nov 2018
Venue Supporters

The Grace Darling is an ornate 19th-century pub with a focus on locally produced beer and food, plus live indie bands.

With two seperate live music spaces and a warm and bustling front bar and eatery, this inner Northern staple is a great place for a casual pub lunch, group dinner or gig going for all kinds of music lovers.

 

 

Good Citizens

Mon 1 Oct 2018 to Sun 7 Oct 2018
Feature Sounds

by Cash Savage and The Last Drinks

 

Good Citizens begins and ends with a thought. “I’m thinking violence is the answer”, Cash Savage sings as the Last Drinks rally behind her.

 

The Old Bar

Mon 1 Oct 2018
Venue Supporters

Keeping the filth in Fitzroy for over fifteen years. The Old Bar is a beacon of dirt in the sparkly clean ether of the Melbourne bar and music scene.

Live music 7 nights a week and Saturday and Sunday afternoon shows.  

Satellite art gallery upstairs.

Good poeple, good staff, good bands.

 

The Old Bar

The Royal Oak

Wed 1 Aug 2018
Venue Supporters

150 years old, The Royal Oak provides a welcoming atmosphere with cold beer, pub food, sports viewing, live music and trivia.  There's always something going on at The Oak!

 

 

The Royal Oak

442 Nicholson St, Fitzroy North

Monday - Sunday: midday till midnight

Phone: 9481 4693

Lithium Zion

Mon 23 Jul 2018 to Sun 29 Jul 2018
Feature Sounds

by Deaf Wish

 

Lithium Zion is the fifth full-length album for Deaf Wish (and second for Sub Pop following 2015’s Pain), and while it’s a rare case that a group’s fifth album is their best, particularly any band operating under a “loud fast rules” ethos, Deaf Wish make a strong case as the exception.

 

On Drugs

Mon 28 May 2018 to Sun 3 Jun 2018
Feature Sounds

by Primitive Calculators

 

Seminal proto synth-punks Primitive Calculators are back with their third studio album On Drugs. In a career spanning four decades, a lot has changed but just as much has stayed the same.

 

The Tote

Tue 1 May 2018
Venue Supporters

The Home of Rock (and punk-metal-pop-indie-shoegaze-post-dole-synth-wave and miscellanea).

The roster of bands that have played the Tote is long and illustrious, spanning back to the early 80's.  Get down and have a look around, the Tote's history is on the walls, in the carpet, in the beergarden and on the stage.

 

 

The Sciences

Mon 30 Apr 2018 to Sun 6 May 2018
Feature Sounds

by Sleep

 

Sleep releases their first full length album of new recordings since 1998 on Third Man Records.

 

Years after the release of Volume One in 1991, Sleep’s Holy Mountain in 1992 and Dopesmoker in 2003, the sonic titans reaffirm their place at the top of the riff pyramid with this brand-new double album, The Sciences.

 

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