There’s always plenty of concerts and gigs for live music lovers to see all around Australia. Get all the latest info on dates, venues, and tickets for announced upcoming tours from Fuck Buttons, Hey Geronimo, Fascinator, The Real McKenzies (with The Go Set), Zomby, a Van Morrison tribute show, and info on music festivals; The Farmer & The Owl, Welcome To The Valley, and Knots.
Fuck Buttons Australian Tour 2013
Critically acclaimed UK noiseniks Fuck Buttons are headed to Australia as part of the Melbourne Festival 2013 music program and in addition to their Festival-presented show at the Foxtel Festival Hub on Friday 25th October, the due of Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power will play in Sydney the night before at the Oxford Art Factory in a show presented by ATP Touring with support from Kanyon and Kilter. The pair have gone from strength to strength since the release of Street Horrrsing in 2008 to mass critical revelry and touring extensively in the US and Europe for numerous festivals off the back of 2009′s Tarot Sport. Their third album, Slow Focus, was released late last month and is similarly making both fans and music press swoon. See what all the fuss is about this October, or end up hearing the accolades from friends who got tickets.
Thurs 24th October – The Oxford Art Factory, Sydney NSW w/ Kanyon & Kilter
Tickets on sale now at moshtix
Fri 25th October – Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival 2013
Tickets on sale now at http://www.melbournefestival.com.au/program/genre/fuck-buttons.html
The Farmer And The Owl Music Festival 2013
Wollongong is getting a unique music festival thanks to a partnership between music venue Yours and Owls and local record store Music Farmers. The Farmer & The Owl arts and music festival will take place across four stages and several venues in the Wollongong CBD on Saturday 23rd November. There’s 16 bands announced for The Farmer & The Owl 2013 lineup alongside a selection of solo performers and DJs, boutique food stalls, and and indie label market. Adding to their impressive festival tally for 2013 and topping the bill are legendary Aus rock band The Drones, indie pop faithfuls Dappled Cities, Melbourne mood-makers Harmony, Wollongong’s own Mother & Son, and Sydney shoegazer Day Ravies, with the rest of the 2013 bill to be announced in the coming weeks.
Tickets will go on sale from Monday August 19th from Music Farmers (5 Crown Lane, Wollongong) and www.oztix.com.au
The Farmer & The Owl Arts & Music Fesitval 2013
Saturday 23rd November, Wollongong
The Drones / Dappled Cities / Harmony / Mother & Son / Day Ravies
+ more to be announced.
Tickets and info at: http://www.thefarmerandtheowl.com/
Hey Geronimo Australian Tour 2013
Brisbane’s Hey Geronimo are back with their new single ‘Lazer Gun Show’ the title track from the band’s upcoming sophomore EP (out October 4). This year has already seen Hey Geronimo scour the country with Strange Talk and 90s indie legends Presidents of the USA, with their third major tour of the year happening this month, this time with Pluto Jonze. Their debut EP hit the top 100 on the US CMJ College Radio charts with an invitation to play at the annual CMJ Festival later this year. Band’s latest Australian tour will end in Brisbane with the band’s performance at Brisbane’s BIGSOUND on the coveted Bakery Lane stage.
SUPPORTING PLUTO JONZE AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Friday 16 August – Rocket Bar, Adelaide
Saturday 17 August – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne
Thursday 22 August – Alhambra Lounge, Brisbane
Friday 23 August – Yours & Owls, Wollongong
Saturday 24 August – Goodgod Small Club, Sydney
Also playing:
Thursday 12 September BIGSOUND Brisbane
Knots Music Festival 2013
Presented by fourwords, Adelaide’s Knots Music Festival is presenting a peerless line up of smart-thinking, slickly-presented Australian electronic acts. Festival organisers have also recently overcome a roadblock to their 2013 showing, with Adelaide City Council However doing them a favour and securing a new venue for Knots after the original site at the Published Arthouse was deemed unusable for public events. Now Knots wil take place at the Grand Hall at Freemason’s Hall in the Adelaide CBD, which does mean for a decreased capacity of 50 people, but all other details remain unchanged. Meaning that the amazing lineup – featuring Seekae, Canada’s Kaytranada and Ryan Hemsworth, Oliver Tank, Collarbones, Fishing, Oisima, and more – are ready to roll this August.
Knots Music Festival 2013
Sunday 25th August – Freemasons Grand Lodge, Adelaide SA
Seekae / Kaytranada (Can) / Ryan Hemsworth (Can) / Oliver Tank (Syd) / Polgraphia (Syd) / Collarbones (Syd/Adl) / Cosmo’s Midnight (Syd) / Fishing (Syd) / Oisima (Adl) / How Green (Adl) / Brokers (Adl) / Lonah (Syd/Adl)
Tickets can be purchased at www.fourwordsknots.eventbrite.com.au
Fascinator Australian Tour 2013
Fascinator, the psychedelic side-project from Children Collide frontman Johnny Mackay is joining electro-synth rock outfit Midnight Juggernauts on their national Australian Tour throughout August and has also announced an exclusive one-off show for Thursday 22nd August at the The Rochester Castle in Melbourne with Electric Smile Band. Now based in New York, Fascinator recently released his debut mini-LP Birth/Earth. Having recently toured with the likes of Tame Impala, Splashh ,and a performance at this year’s Dark MOFO, Fascinator’s fuzzed out hooks, hallucinogenic grooves, and chaotic visuals are earning Mackay’s live show quite the reputation. Don’t miss out.
FASCINATOR TOUR DATES – ALL DATES SUPPORTING MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS
Wednesday 14 August – Bar on the Hill – Newcastle
Friday 16 August – Metro Theatre – Sydney
Saturday 17 August – Zierholz – Canberra
Friday 23 August – Karova Lounge – Ballarat
Saturday 24 August – Corner Hotel – Melbourne
Friday 30 August – The Hi Fi – Brisbane
Saturday 31 August – The Northern – Byron Bay
Friday 6 September – Prince Of Wales – Bunbury
Saturday 7 September – Amplifier – Perth
Friday 13 September – Uni Bar – Adelaide
FASCINATOR W. ELECTRIC SMILE BAND
Thursday 22 August – Rochester Castle – Melbourne
Welcome To The Valley 2013
Welcome to the Valley is a Perth-based music festival unlike any other. An Oktoberfest-inspired spring experience that takes punters through an authentic journey of German beer halls in the Swan Valley and onto a boutique event at the Belvoir Ampitheatre. Tickets to the event are a choose your own adventure style trip where you begin at a destination from a selection of venues, get lunch, brewery and winery delicacies on the go, get free custom steins for all your drinking needs, then finally everyone gets bundled off in transport to the Belvoir Amphitheatre for a final musical finish to the night. All inclusive of the price of the ticket! Playing this year are Brisbane pop quirks Ball Park Music, DJ sets from the impeccable Aston Shuffle lads and Sousueme, as well as an audio/visual set from one of Australia’s leading mash-up artists, Sampology. Read more about the unique journey that is Welcome To The Valley at the official website.
Welcome To Valley 2013
Saturday 12th October – Swan Valley, WA
Part One: Elmar’s Brewery or Dakover Winery
Part Two: Belvoir Amphitheatre
Ball Park Music / Aston Shuffle DJs / Sampology (AV Show) / Sosueme DJs
Plus more acts to be announced
Tickets and info at http://www.welcometothevalley.com.au/
The Real McKenzies Australian Tour 2013
Canadian Scottish punks The Real McKenzies will return to Australia for the first time in 10 years in August 2013. Having just released their latest album Westwinds on Fat Wreck Chords, the McKenzies have been touring heavily over the last year. After 20 years and with an ever revolving all-star touring lineup that has featured Fat Mike of NOFX, Karl Alvarez from The Descendents and Sean Sellers from Good Riddance, the McKenzies show no signs of slowing. The McKenzies are out here to tour with long time friends The Go Set. Both bands share the same management, record label (and often the same bus) in Europe, and The Go Set are celebrating their ten year anniversary this year with a retrospective album and DVD due out in coming months. Bagpipes, kilts, rock n roll and revelry. Folk Punk at its wildest.
The Real McKenzies (Can) & The Go Set
Wed 28th Aug: The Loft, Warrnambool VIC
Thurs 29th Aug: Grace Emily, Adelaide SA
Fri 30th Aug: Brisbane Hotel, Hobart TAS
Sat 31st Aug: Espy Gershwin Room, Melbourne VIC
Sun 1st Sept: Barwon Club, Geelong VIC
Wed 4th Sept: ANU Bar, Canberra ACT
Thurs 5th Sept: Manning Bar, Sydney NSW
Fri 6th Sept: Miami Tavern Shark Bar, Gold Coast QLD
Sat 7th Sept: Prince of Wales, Brisbane QLD
The Paper Kites Australian Tour 2013 Announce Supports
Melbourne folk quintet The Paper Kites have announced fellow homegrown heroes Georgia Fair and Robbie Miller to join them on the road for their national States Tour, set to kick off at The Small Ballroom in Newcastle on August 30, the same date the band’s debut album, States will be released. “We’re really excited to head out on tour with Georgia Fair and Robbie Miller. Both acts are top class and we’re looking forward to getting acquainted and having some fun while travelling around together,” says The Paper Kites’ drummer Josh Bentley. Upon completion of the national States tour, The Paper Kites will head to America for their first international dates to support City and Colour’s National US tour.
The Paper Kites States Tour
w/ Georgia Fair and Robbie Miller
FRI 30 AUG | THE SMALL BALLROOM, NEWCASTLE NSW
Tickets available from www.oztix.com.au | 1300 762 545 | All Oztix outlets
SAT 31 AUG | METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY NSW (ALL AGES)
Tickets available from www.ticketek.com.au | 132 849 | All Ticketek outlets
THU 05 SEP | THE SOUNDLOUNGE, GOLD COAST QLD
Tickets available from www.soundlounge.com.au & www.oztix.com.au | 1300 762 545 | All Oztix outlets
FRI 06 SEP | THE HI-FI, BRISBANE QLD
Tickets available from www.oztix.com.au | 1300 762 545 | All Oztix outlets
SAT 07 SEP | THE NORTHERN, BYRON BAY NSW
Tickets available from www.oztix.com.au | 1300 762 545 | All Oztix outlets
SUN 15 SEP | THE HI-FI, MELBOURNE VIC (U18 MATINEE)
Tickets available from www.oztix.com.au | 1300 762 545 | All Oztix outlets
FRI 20 SEP | JIVE, ADELAIDE SA
Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au | 1300 GET TIX | All Moshtix outlets
SAT 21 SEP | FLY BY NIGHT, FREMANTLE WA
Tickets available from www.flybynight.org | 08 9430 5976 | From Fly By Night Box Office direct
FRI 27 SEP | THE WARATAH HOTEL, HOBART TAS
Tickets available from www.oztix.com.au | 1300 762 545 | All Oztix outlets
SAT 28 SEP | THE FORUM, MELBOURNE VIC
Tickets available from www.ticketmaster.com.au | 136 100 | All Ticketmaster outlets
Zomby Australian Show 2013
One of dance music’s most mysterious and influential figures, Zomby, is set to play one of his very rare DJ shows in Melbourne at New Guernica on Friday 13 September, his first ever performance in the city. Playing in thecountry off the back of 2013 release With Love, released through 4AD records, a 33-track collection of though-provoking dance music that our Tone Deaf reviewer said “presents itself as a behemoth, but as you enter its guts you realise just how accessible he’s made it.” Tickets for Zomby’s sole Australian set are on sale now through MoshTix
Fri 13 Sept – New Guernica, Melbourne VIC (18+)
Tickets on sale now from www.moshtix.com.au
Van Morrison Tribute Show 2013
The Yarraville Club welcomes one of Australia’s most formidable and respected bass players, Joe Creighton – who has played with everyone from John Farnham to Kylie Minogue – as he brings his sell-out show ‘Into the Mystic – The Songs of Van Morrison’ to the venue on Friday 27 September. Brought up in Belfast, who better than Creighton than to pay tribute to
the legendary Irish singer-songwriter? This show pays homage to Van Morrison, and Creighton and his seven-piece band have laboured long and hard to make it move effortlessly move from decade to decade.
Joe Creighton presents ‘Into The Mystic – The Songs of Van Morrison’
Fri 27 September
The Yarraville Club 135 Stephen St, Yarraville
Tickets: www.yarravillelive.com or PH: 9689 6033
