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  • Tommys live Oldbar2JP

    It’s been a busy year for the Tommys: plenty of shows pushing our new 45 "Born To Follow" b/s "Window Pane” including a live-to-air on 3CR’s fabulous "Burning Vinyl" radio show.

    1. 1969 Ludwig Supraphonic snare drum
    There’s a reason why this is the most recorded snare in history. Just killer.

    2. Pork Pie Drum Throne.
    To any drummer or bar stool hog out there. Pay the extra and never look back

    Pork Pie

    3. Little Green Festival, St Kilda Bowling Club, March 2025

    4. The T Bones celebrated their 40th Anniversary with a cavalcade of lineups from over the years.
    Helen "Hellcat" Cattanach of Moler and I were the rhythm section on the first 45 and album. Great fun to rock out again including a warmup show at Bar 303, Northcote.

    T Bones 303

    5. Show with Kreep 500 Town Hall Hotel at North Melbourne
    Played some fun shows this year with Mick and Otto's raucous rockin’ garage two-piece.

    Tommys Kreep 500 Townie

    6. The Wraylettes with The Tommys - Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood

    Wraylettes Tommys

    7. Pearly Shells with Robert Susz - Jazz Lab, Brunswick.
    I lived in Darlinghurst in 1985 and used to catch Continental Robert and his bar band at the Piccadilly Hotel in the Cross every Sunday arvo for free. He still has the tone and chops, and the Pearly Shells Big Band nailed it.

    8. Ocean Vuong – The Emperor of Gladness

    9. Archie Moore, kith and kin – Queensland Art Gallery 
    Immense.

    10.  Perfect Days - Wim Wenders.  

  • ozone stThis record is so damned cool. So damned ultra-cool.

    It’s sorta- like the late ’80s indie punk art of Sonic Youth with its rocky side exposed, combined with The Pixies and with the classic English rock pop of T-Rex thrown in. There’s even a nod to US ‘60s girl pop and urban country twang. It stayed in my CD player for a few weeks, and I keep hitting the the play again.

    Los Dominados is essentially a band formed from the remnants of Moler, who mixed it up as a grungy, power pop band playing hip, street-level music with tough lyrics in the late ‘90s. Twenty years later, there’s been a vast development in song-writing - as shown in this, the band’s fourth album. We find a broader tapestry of influences and the band members have learned a lot about minimalism as well as using dark and light shade. And about sophistication.

  • spencer adl2 
    I missed the first band, but I’ve heard good things. I did catch The Pro Tools.

    Led by the extraordinary Pete Howlett, ThePpro Tools hammer at you - they’re a lot of noisy, in-your-face fun; coupled with Howlett’s almost Dolls-esque behaviour.

    “No-one flicks his hair with such elegant contempt as Johnny Thunders,” remarked fellow audience member Nazz Nassari tonight, in response to my observation that Howlett’s perfectly timed angry slash at his hair toward the end of their set expressed an eloquent contempt). I never saw Thunders, but Howlett has a sort of compressed loathing of his instrument, despite his dexterity and talent, as if somehow the instrument simply cannot do what Howlett wants it to. Therein lies part of the public persona/reality of the man.

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Australian Tour
JAN
22 – Dissent Café and Bar, Canberra 
w/ GRMLN (USA/Solo) + Vanishing Sound + Olivia's World
23 - Marrickville Bowlo, Sydney
+ Bridge Dog, GRMLN (USA/Solo)
24 - Singing Bird Studio, Frankston, VIC
+ Billiam and The Split Bills + The Handgrenade Hearts + Clydesdale
25 - The Curtin, Melbourne
+ Dippers +  Aquatico
26 -  Trash Cult, Bendigo, VIC
+ Astrofuzz
Tickets

"King Street Crawl
Summer Edition"
- Jan 25
Too many venues to mention 
in Newtown, NSW

Mach Pelican
“A Secret Session”
Single Launch
+ Loose Lips + Elvis II
The Last Chance Bar, Melbourne
- Jan 31
Tickets

Peter Black solo tour
FEB
5 - Society City - Wollongong, NSW
Details
7 - Velvet Fog Records - Katoomba, NSW
Details
13 - The Cave Inn, Brisbane, QLD
Tickets
14 - Vinnies Dive Bar, Gold Coast, QLD (Matinee Show)
Tickets
19 - Medusa Bar, Geelong, VIC
Tickets
20 - Town Hall Hotel, Melbourne (two sets) 
Details
21 - Shedshaker Brewing Company, Castlemaine, VIC
Details
27 - Hopsters Brewery - Sydney
Details
28 - Flow Bar - Old Bar, NSW  
Details
MAR
1 - Hiss and Crackle Records, Newcastle, NSW
Details 

Dave Favours & The Roadside Ashes
Service Station Chcken Tour
JAN
20 – The Tamworth Hotel, Tamsworth, NSW
“The Tops Day Out” festival
30 – Link & Pin, Woy Woy, NSW
+ The Dunhill Blues
31 – The Oak Tighes Hill,Newcastle, NSW
+ Crank Williams and Patsy Decline
FEB
27 – The Main Bar, Ballarat, VIC
28 – Union Hotel, Brunswick, VIC
MAR
1 – Bendigo Hotel, Brunswick, VIC

The Gnomes
Dive! Dive! Dive!
Rock ‘n’ Roll Dive Bar Tour
JAN
23 - The Gem, Collingwood (8pm)
+ W.O.M.B.A.T. + Sargent Baker
30 - Last Chance Rock'n'roll Bar, Melbourne (8pm)
+ Winsky + Riviera
31 - Trash Cult, Bendigo (7pm)
+ Clydesdale
FEB
14 - Shotkickers, Thornbury (8pm)
+ Public House + Special Guests
20 - The Tote Front Bar, Collingwood (6pm)
+ Champ Ruby
21 - Kindred Bandroom, Footscray (8pm)
+ Stimpies + special guests

The Sugar Beats 
+ Plastic Section
Golden Barley, Enmore
- Feb 20

TsuShiMaMiRe (JP)
Australian Tour
FEB
19 - Shotkickers, Melbourne, VIC
20 – Trash Cult, Bendigo, VIC
22– Young St Tavern, Frankston, VIC
27 - Shadows, Canberra, ACT
28 – Moshpit, Sydney, NSW

The Jackets (CH)
Australian Tour
FEB
25 – Shotkickers, Thornbury, VIC
+ Plastic Section + Burning Effigy +  Special Secret Guest
26 - Vineyard, St Kilda, VIC
(Door sales only)
27 – Mixtape Bar & Brewing, Marrickville,
Sydney, NSW
(moved from Marrickville Bowlo)
+ The Strike-Outs + pocketwatch
28 - The Bendi, Collingwood, VIC
MAR
1 -– Trash Cult, Bendigo, VIC (arvo show)
+ Grinding Eyes, + The Damos
2  – The Last Chance, Melbourne, VIC
Tickets

Cosmic Psychos
"I Really Like Beer Tour"
JAN
22 — Tanswells Hotel, Beechworth, VIC
23 — Sooki Lounge, Belgrave, VIC
24 — Westonport Hotel, San Remo, VIC
25 — Social Club, Balnarring, VIC
26  — Volta, Ballarat, VIC
29  — Whalers Hotel, Warrnambool, VIC
30 — Torquay Hotel, Torquay, VIC
31  — Riverview Hotel, Tarwin Lower, VIC
FEB
12  — Royal Oak, Launceston, TAS
13 — Forth Pub, Devonport, TAS
14  — Altar, Hobart, TAS

“Surreal Science”

Music of the Scientists & 
Kim Salmon
and The Surrealists

APR

10 – The Corner, Melbourne
Tickets
 11 – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
Tickets
 18 – Rosemount Hotel, Perth, WA
Tickets

 

 

 

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