Friday, June 22, 2007

Bands 'n' Stuff: June 27th to July 3rd

Gig o' the Week

Hey Hey, It's the Basics

Too easy this week, it's the all-singing, all-dancing good clean family fun spectacular at the Athenaeum on Saturday night! We've talked about almost everyone on this bill ad nauseum, so not much more need be said, other than "tickets from Ticketmaster". Never thought I'd say that when talking about Melbourne indie music. This'll be nuts.

The Basics
with help from
Spargo
Emma Heeney and the Daves
Little Red
Tokenview
Lawrence Leung
Andrew McClelland
Oliver Clark

The Athenaeum
Saturday June 30th
8pm
$13-$22 from Ticketmaster


Wednesday June 27th

A quiet night tonight, it's raining and getting cold and, well, probably easier to just stay home really? As we settle into the depths of winter only the strong survive. A highlight is gothic post-country superstars Silver City Highway at their final residency gig at the Old Bar. Elsewhere check out Sime at the Gem or the Standard for boys and guitars. Don't know a lot the other two gigs, to be honest.

Cactus, Deserters Rosie Burgess, Son Hawk, Kid Katana
@Bar Open, 9pm, $5

Fourth Floor Collapse, The Neurotransmitters, The Glorious
@Rob Roy, 8pm, $8

A Friend of Mine, Zeros, Paper Tiger
@The Tote, 8pm, $5

Silver City Highway, The Vandas
@Old Bar, 9pm, Free

Sime Nugent
@The Gem, Free

Danny SubAudible Hum, Nedd Wellyn
@Standard, 9pm


Thursday June 28th

Warming up now for the weekend. Out of the four ‘band nights’, I like upcoming indie pop group Oh Mercy at Filla and chilled out acoustic countryites Ned and the Meds at Stop. Drop. Roll. But then there is also like Ferg at IDGAFF, he's got a lot of friends and will make more with his low key alt-country ballads, or the magnificent country tricksters, Wagons at the Retreat. Elsewhere there is post-rock at the Rob Roy, indie kids at the Tote, songs at the East, but the best gig tonight is at the NSC, a real Candle records feel.

Anthony Atkinson and the Running Mates, Small Knives, D Rogers
@NSC, 8:30pm, $10

Monique Brumby, Kerri Simpson
@Empress, 9pm

Cmon Cmon
84, From Hell, Plastic Flophouse
@The Evelyn, 8:30pm, $8

The Dirty Romantics, Tokenview, The Chemists
@Pony, 9pm

Filla
Oh Mercy, Detective Social, Pitching Woo
@Revolver, 8pm

Jigzag, Matt Walters
@East, 8:30pm, $15/$10

Fergus Silver City Highway and friends
@IDGAFF, 8:30pm, free

The Spheres, The Black Hundred, Il, Underlapper
@Rob Roy, 8pm, $8

Stop. Drop. Roll
Ned and the Meds, J Hawk
@The Glasshouse, 8:30pm, $6

Straight to the Ace, Chinook, Alesha Joy
@Gertrudes, 8:30pm

Treetops, Telecom, Chase Ego
@The Tote, 8:30pm, $8

Wagons
@Retreat, 9:30pm


Friday June 29th

If it wasn’t Friday night I’d probably go and listen to the quietish sounds at the Afterdark. Nice gigs tonight too at IDGAFF and the East, different ends of the country/folk spectrum. Lots of JJJish stuff down at the Espy, Then there’s just straight rockin' at the Rob Roy. The Gertrudes gig will be interesting if you like ambience, and Yidcore haven't played for a while so if you can find Yarraville get down there. But, really, go to the Rochie for nostalgia's sake - remember when the DJ played that song and you danced and that boy was there? Yeah, that's the place.

The Apartments, Dave Graney and Clare Moore and the Lurid Yellow Mist
@NSC, 8:30pm, $16+bf

album launch
Lou Bennett and the Sweet Cheeks, Liz Stringer
@East, 8:30pm, $12+bf

Ben Birchall, Talamere, Benji Pee, Cindy and the Cindy's
@Afterdark

Blessington, Mousetrapreplica, Tinker
@IDGAFF, 9pm, $5

Blueline Medic, Daysworth Fighting, Magentaline, Of the Night
@Gershwin Room, Espy, 9pm, free

Panic - Last Ever
@Rochester Castle, 9pm, free

Offcuts, Lady Strangelove, Tokenview, Grand Atlantic, Spoonful
@The Espy Front Bar, Free

The Paper Scissors, Sailors and Swine, Boy+Girl
@Revolver

The Resignators, Yidcore, Schadenfreude
@Commercial, Yarraville, 9pm

Silver Night Drive, Jarvis, The Fearless Vampire Killers
@Ding Dong, 7pm, $8

Sin City, The Bakelite Age, Kids in Cults, Screwtop Detonators
@Rob Roy, 8pm, $10

album launch
Underlapper, Scissors for Sparrow, Anonymeye
@Gertrudes, 8:30pm, $8


Saturday June 30th

And, out of nowhere, a huge night tonight. Celebrating the end of the financial year? Nah, just celebrating the end of smoking in pubs. Sounds fucking good to me. So, there's the gig of the week, yes. And someone's gotta watch the Saints rebound from a good win. But how about Because of Ghosts' last show for the year, at the East? (They're heading overseas.) Chris Chinchilla's launching Antescene in this town at a Brunswick warehouse, with some great young indie bands - but on the other side of Brunswick, Cloud City are blowing away the walls with a great lineup. The awesome Nation Blue are playing a headline show. Add a decent Click Click, a good night at the Espy, harmony rich The Brutals at Weekender and it gets silly. Even sillier when you see who is doing the 2am slot at Pony. And the electronic-experimental Chris Willits at North Bazaar makes it impossible to choose.

Antescene Melbourne Launch
Macaca Mulatta, The Contrast, Love Is Science Fiction, Greengreengreen
@Irene's Warehouse (5 Pitt St, Brunswick), 7:30pm, all ages, $5

last Oz 2007 show
Because of Ghosts, Extreme Wheeze, Chris Smith
@East, 8:30pm, $10+bf

Click Click
Plug In City, Lady Strangelove, Mission Control
@Brown Alley, 9pm

Cloud City Soundproofing Benefit
Ground Components, My Disco, Grey Skulls, The Focus, Naked on the Vague (NSW), Quebec, Duck Duck Chop @Cloud City (14 Prentice St, Brunswick), 6pm, all ages, $15

album launch
The Commas, Sime Nugent @NSC, 8:30pm, $10+bf

Dynamo
@Greyhound, 9pm

The Hovercrafts, The New Black, The Detours, Panel of Judges (2am)
@Pony, 9am

LABJACD, Symbiosis, Shemesh
@Front Lounge, Espy, 9pm, free

Metal Wars
Terrorust, Synthetic Breed, Realm, Paroxysm, Immersion, New Skin
@Gershwin, Espy, 8pm, $12

The Nation Blue, Sky, Kids with Guns for Hands, These Hands Could Separate the Sky, Chainsaw Girls
@Arthouse, 8pm

Weekender
The Brutals, Big Cats
@Ding Dong, 8pm, $10

Christopher Willits (US), Touch Typist
@North Bazaar, 8pm, $5


Sunday July 1st



To recover, a quiet Sunday, but with some quality gigs. Guitar singer-songwriter action at the Toff, or indie rock at Bar Open from some cane toads. But IDGAFF is where it's at, celebrating a year of good gigs and beer with a big lump of folky, bluesy kids.

album launch
Fred Astereo, Rob Clarkson
@Toff, 7pm, $10

album launch
Grand Atlantic (QLD), Son Hawk, Goo Fang
@Bar Open, 8pm

First Birthday!
Steve Lucas, Quincy McLean, Van and Cal Warner, James McCann and Jo Brockman, Dan Warner @IDGAFF, 5pm, $10


Tuesday July 3rd

Jmag Launch
Children Collide
@Ding Dong, 6pm, free


5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

if anyone has trouble ordering tickets to the basics show through ticketmaster (i did) you can book them directly through the athenaeum on 9650 1500

aren't i a good little member of team basics..

10:47 pm  
Blogger Syms Covington said:

No.

5:41 pm  
Blogger Syms Covington said:

Sorry Tim. You done well.

The gig was like a red hot slice of fried gold! A hatful of fun, and pocketful of kryptonite.

"Ovulate, ovulate".

3:11 pm  
Blogger Dave said:

Yes, yes it was. Lawrence Leung is a very funny man.

4:46 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said:

oo its like i got in trouble, but just very briefly..

if you have time, you must come and fish in my trout stream

12:54 am  

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