MIGHTIEST OF GUNS

Fri 13th May 8:30pm

Mightiest of Guns, Naarm/Melbourne three piece, careen from fuzzed out Australian rock and growling noir country, are launching the first single off their upcoming album Cherax Destructor, "Give it a Rest". The new single, produdced by Nick Finch (Graveyard Train, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks and Blake Scott) is a duet with Kate Alexander exploring romantic exhaustion and love conquering all when the storm of emotional flaying subsides.

With Jess Parker

TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BYACO

PAT DEVLIN & FRIENDS

Sat 7th May 8:30pm

Singer Songwriter Pat Devlin returns to Major Tom’s Sat 7th May. Pat will be joined by his talented musical friends. Limited tickets now on sale

TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BZDLN

AL MATCOTT

Sat 9th April 8:30pm

Special guest Rin McArdle

Al Matcott – boy meets girl meets boy meets world meets heart on your sleeve alt-country meets fuzz-soaked power-pop meets a moody and brooding voice and something else as well but mainly there's guitars and interesting stories.

TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BYTLJ

HOBSONS BAY COAST GUARD

Fri 25th March 8:30pm

KCAT X Major Tom’s presents…

The Guardians of the waves! The Sentinels of the sands! The Brigadiers of the bays! The Coastbusters of the coves!

The windswept hair in the stormy eyes of the sardinesque music scene of Melbourne! Hobsons' take no prisoners... only guests!

https://kynetoncontemporary.com/

TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BXGFN

CONG JOSIE & THE CRIMES + OUR CARLSON

Fri 11th March 8:30pm

Chop chop! Cong Josie & The Crimes are revvin and choppin their way to the country and back!

The debut LP, CONG! came out late last year to rave reviews. It won Triple R's coveted 'Album of The Week' and it was among The Guardian's best Australian records of 2021. Like the live show, CONG! traverses a hyperreal world of romance, sleaze, smoke and gyrating hips. Below this, throbbing synth rhythms and early rock 'n' roll kicks simmer and shake. Pitchfork recently described the LP as "a heady, gleefully ridiculous piece of genre pastiche held together by ... flamboyance and predilection for showmanship." Cong Josie's music is also deeply personal however, with much of the music inspired by therapy sessions - leading to songs of introspection and inner-demon exorcisms!

Together with his band The Crimes, Cong has been wowing audiences with his 'leave-it-all-out-there' sweat-fuelled stage (chairs, tables, floor) manner. From electronic stompers to post-punk swampers and Lynchian romance it will take you places. Major Tom's is in for one hell of a steamy rodeo-rave-up!

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BODY TYPE

Sat 5th March 8:30pm

Body Type are a garage pop group based in Sydney. Sophie MComish (guitar, vocals), Cecil Coleman (drums), Georgie Wilkinson-Derums (guitar, vocals) hail from Western Australia, while Annabel Blackman (guitar, vocals) is from the opposite side of Australia’s coastline in New South Wales, but by some great stroke of luck they all relocated to Sydney for hope, dreams and full-time jobs. What began as a jam session between Sophie and Cecil gained momentum with the addition of wildcards Annabel and Georgia, and the group released their first single ‘Ludlow’ in 2016, which was recorded in an attic on borrowed gear by Nathalie Pavlovic.

 2018 saw the release of the group’s eponymous EP through Inertia Music and Partisan Records. Body Type’s second EP followed in 2019, aptly titled ‘EP 2’. It was a huge year for them, the band flying to the US, UK and EU for the time playing a string of festivals including SXSW, The Great Escape and their own headline tours, before heading back to Australia where they played their biggest rooms to date. 2020 is already off to a flying start with festival slots in place and who knows, perhaps some new music on the cards..

TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BXJRW

BAD BANGS

Sat 26th Feb 8:30pm

Bad Bangs celebrate the launch of their debut album Character Building, amidst a regional Victorian tour. Character Building embodies the quartet's penchant for nuanced garage rock - a  journey through scuzzed-out tones, clattering rhythms and tender, introspective lyricism, the foursome unabashedly toes the line between sophistication and total chaos. Recorded and produced by John Lee at Phaedra Studios, the album has received acclaim across the country, named feature album of the week at 4ZZZ (Brisbane), SYN FM (Melbourne) and Edge Radio (Tasmania). Joining them on the night will be the masterful Baby Velvet!  

TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BWELL

AJAK KWAI

Fri 18th Feb 8:30pm

This summer, renowned South Sudanese/Australian vocalist Ajak Kwai is taking her full band on tour across regional Victoria and beyond, in support of 2021’s outstanding EP, Red Sands. 

After winning hearts with her breakthrough album Let Me Grow My Wings, Ajak and the band have recorded their first release for Melbourne’s Music in Exile label, a not-for-profit championing Australian artists from refugee, migrant and diaspora backgrounds.

Red Sands is sonically akin to the groove-orientated, politically powerful afrobeat and funk sounds coming out of South and West African nations in the 1970’s, sitting somewhere between the infectious pop of the Lijadu Sisters and a more modern desert blues sound of groups like Tinariwen and Mdou Moctar. Drawing inspiration from socially conscious, outspoken, and hands-down powerful vocalists such as Aretha Franklin, Fela Kuti and Emma Donavon, Ajak uses her music as a vehicle to draw subtle attention to prejudice, bias and discrimination as it exsits in Australian soceity today, all the while fulfilling her desire to pack dancefloors and bring audiences together in celebration of the great power of music as a connecting force in our community. 

Ajak and her band will be joined at select dates by Melbourne-based soul singer Allysha Joy, performing material from her recent Light it Again EP and the incredible Acadie:Raw album, as well as joining the band onstage for a very special guest appearance. 

Catch Ajak and her band on tour February through April 2022. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, as well as Creative Victoria and all the kind patrons and supporters of Music in Exile. 

Welcome those around you with open arms and an open heart! 

TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BWYYM

BRECKIN & REBECCA-JANE

Sat 5th Feb 8:30pm

Breckin is the moniker of award-winning artist, poet and singer-songwriter, Heather Marsh. Her debut album Shiner garnered international attention, with single, The Story Bridge, selected as a KEXP Song of the Day.

Raised in a sun-drenched suburban Petri- dish of strip malls and wall-to-wall carpet, Breckin made her escape to an enclave of decadents and artists. Forever ruined for reality, Breckin now inhabits what Martha Graham describes as the ‘blessed unrest’, walking between the pedestrian and the divine, telling tales from the depths and the margins.

Compared in turn to Neko Case and Joanna Newsom, her songs interlace enveloping warm acoustic tones with sparkling finger-style guitar picking.

Rebecca Jane Howell is a singer-songwriter based in the Central Goldfields of Victoria. Sweet yet subtly foreboding, Rebecca”s music and voice will transport you, with evocative stories, lilting melodies, lush harmonies and thoughtfully crafted lyrics. Blending classic indie and folk with tinges of bluegrass and alt-country, her music is textural and poignant, with influences ranging from Gillian Welch, Joni Mitchell and

Carole King to Cat Power, Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. Rebecca will be joined by Cat Howell providing some sweet harmonies, and Marty McKenna lending his soulful vocals, guitar and a touch of banjo.

Her debut album Shiner garnered international attention,

TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BWZLW