Jan 31st arvo 3-5pm free
MIGHTIEST OF GUNS are a dark, slacker country quartet born in a dirty warehouse in Abbotsford, Melbourne in 2011. Featuring members of Cash Savage And The Last Drinks, and The Baudelaires; their gritty, raucous songs are inspired by desperation, drunkenness and cruelty.
Fri Jan 29th 8:30pm
After a successful month long tour of Australia playing packed out venues, Tim Wheatley is now heading back to LA to launch his debut solo record in his current hometown on the other side of the world. The Melbourne indie alt folk troubadour’s hard work has paid off, scoring the ultimate recognition from the industry, impressing fans and critics alike with his album, Cast Of Yesterday, with the album charting at number 9 on the weekend’s ARIA country music chart and number 18 on the Australian artists chart.
“Full of nostalgia, melodies and magic that shows Wheatley has finally arrived” Herald Sun
Anna Cordell plays delicate yet deceptively complex folk music. Her voice is rich and tender yet lyrically her music is filled with angst and conflict, an emotional impact that is heightened by her penchant for the minor key.
“Some of the most moving and enthralling folk tunes we’ve heard all year.” TONEDEAF
www.timwheatley.net
www.annacordellmusic.com
Jan 9th 8:30pm $15 presale $18 door http://www.trybooking.com/JZBI
Rob Snarski (VIC) has been described as owning “the purest voice south of the 7-11 that Elvis was lasted spotted at" (Thomas Taylor, The Age).
After 25 years as the velvet-voiced singer for The Blackeyed Susans, Rob released two acclaimed solo albums in quick succession – Wounded Bird in 2014 and Low Fidelity (Songs by Request Volume 1) in 2015.
Respected music writer Michael Dwyer declared recently that Rob has “evolved the right vocal equipment to make one tiny speaker ring like the whole world under bedclothes in the dark”.
This is a show not to be missed.
"One of the great romantic singers” Jeff Jenkins, STACK
SAT 12TH Dec 8:30pm $15 'MAJOR TOM'S IS TWO!' We bloody love our little burger joint and we're pretty stoked that the little beast is two whole years old. We couldn't have made it here without you guys, so we hope you can come celebrate with us! We've invited two of our favourites, Joshua Seymour &James Grim Woodcutters to join the party. They will be hitting the stage from 8:30pm while Prue & Rob will be on the right side of the bar with you guys.
Joshua Seymour - troubadour, interpreter, storyteller, will be bringing his unique Australian spin on the Americana genre to the party with full band in tow. Spending the past few years as co-songwriter in Melbourne based alt-country band Cherrywood, 2015 saw the release of his fantastic debut album Rope Tied Hope.
James Grim Woodcutters is the latest offering from the Brothers Grim singer. Expect a bone-deep set of stripped back country tunes, raw ballads as straight as broken arrows - weaving honest tales that don't pull their punches. In our opinion, James Grim is one of this country's finest frontman and finally, we have him coming to Major Tom's.
www.joshuaseymourmusic.com
www.jamesgrim.com.au
Fri 4th Dec 9pm special guests Destrends and Pretty City $12 presale
A mix of searing garage-rock and stamp-your-feet-shout-out-loud choruses are set to put APES firmly on the map both home and abroad.
Led by vocalist and guitarist Benjamin Dowd the APES sound is one that owes as much to the indie punk bombast of the Hives as it does the moody atmospherics of BlackRebel Motorcycle Club and to the halcyon years of Australia’s illustrious rock’n’roll and garage/punk past. Combining an ear for scrappy, rough and ready melodies with strong hooks (and those can’t forget 'em choruses) APES stamp the sound as their own.
Helluva Time - ‘The greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll song written this year. Hands down’! - Phil Taggart BBC Radio 1 UK
Sat 21st Nov 8:30pm $12 presale $15 door special guest Coda Chroma (solo)
Jess Ribeiro is an award winning singer songwriter inspired by artists as diverse as The Velvet Underground to Dusty Springfield. She has been compared to the likes of Karen Dalton and Cat Power, Jess has supported and performed with artists including Nick Cave, Steve Earle and Tim Rogers. No stranger to critical acclaim, Ribeiro's 2012 debut, My Little River, was awarded ABC Radio National Album of the Year, Best Country Album at the 2012 AIR Awards and was shortlisted for the prestigious Australian Music Prize. Her most recent album Kill it Yourself , produced by acclaimed musician/producer Mick Harvey, dives headlong into hazy rock, landscape ambience and melodious 60's psych.
Sat 31st Oct 8:30pm $12 special guests Mosey
Dan Flynn and The State of Things is the Melbourne indie folk outfit formerly known as Major Chord.
Major Chord was originally a solo project for songwriter/producer Dan Flynn who released three well received albums from 2007-2011.
Then in 2012 Dan formed a band with Aaron Pepper (drums, keys), Meabh Friel (vocals, mandolin) and Phil Collings (bass) and together they recorded Major Chord's highly regarded 2013 album Transition (feature album on Radio National, 3PBS, ABC DIG Music, Eastside FM)
Cut to 2015, Major Chord is dead, and Dan Flynn and The State of Thingsare about to release their 'first' album Preparing for Flight.
Sat 24th Oct 8:30pm $15
Tipping his hat to the great Mississippi delta bluesmen of the 1930s as well as the reckless abandon of the 1960s...ranging from Son House and Skip James, through to Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, as well as more contemporary artists like Tom Waits and Nick Cave, Frank Sultana dwells comfortably in this vintage stylistic world, where the song is still king, and nothing beats a great story.
FRI 9TH OCTOBER 8:30PM $12
Following two single launches, a video for 'April's Fool', and two years since their first EP, sweethearts of the Melbourne alt-country community, Jemma & The Clifton Hillbillies release their debut full-length album this September 2015. Engineered and produced by Sean McMahon, and recorded around the very table where the songs were written, wine was poured, love bloomed, musicians met, and bonds were forged in the fires of country music, the highly-anticipated recording showcases the group's talent for heart-on-sleeve confessional booth song-writing married with a wondrous Stone Country style. With a Loretta for posture, and a Patsy for feeling, ever the bookie's daughter, Jemma Rowlands offers grand odds on love, life and raw emotion.
