SKYSCRAPER STAN & THE COMMISSION FLATS

tickets http://www.trybooking.com/KFBM

 Throughout early 2016 Skyscraper Stan is taking his band the Commission Flats back out on the road. Having spent the majority of 2015 travelling the country as a solo troubadour Stan has reassembled the Flats for a run of 18 shows around the country taking in much of the East Coast and throwing in several festival appearances to boot. Using previous SSATCF tours as a reference we can expect dynamite performances, semi-coherent banter, cases of VB and late night calls from regional police stations asking for someone to come and collect the backing singer.

DAN KELLY

Feb 6th, 2016

tickets http://www.trybooking.com/KEVK

Dan Kelly has released three lauded CDs and two EPs over the last ten years. Both solo and with his bands Dan Kelly and The Alpha Males and Dan Kelly Dream Band.

 He has received Seven Aria nominations, is J Award and AMP Award nominated and won The Age Award for Best Male Artist in 2010 and Inpress Magazine Album of the Year for 'Drowning in the Fountain of Youth'.

 He has played on 4 albums with Paul Kelly, touring as his guitarist as well as playing and sometimes recording with Augie March,  Neil Finn, Spencer Jones, Bic Runga and Kasey Chambers.

 His song "Drunk on Election Night' is the unofficial election night anthem of Australia. Dan was rated 23rd best guitar player in Australian History ever in Guitar Player magazine last year. tours solo often and is known to tell lots of funny stories as well as shred his guitar while being wrapped in rope lights and over using his smoke machine at times.

His six piece Dan Kelly Dream Band is a widescreen psychedelic party with ultra narrative lyrics, dancing and gravity defying hair styles. Featuring members of Augie March, Ground Components, CW Stonekings touring band  and the Magic Mountain Band

Dan's duet on Rock Wiz with Martha Wainwright singing 'Slave to Love' is considered by many to be the sexiest moment ever in Australian Variety TV history.

He has been named by Australian songwriter Courtney Barnett as an influence.

Dan Kelly's  new album 'Leisure Panic!' was released in Oct to critical acclaim. 

MIGHTIEST OF GUNS

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.

TIM WHEATLEY plus ANNA CORDELL

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

ROB SNARSKI

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

2nd BIRTHDAY BASH with JOSHUA SEYMOUR & JAMES GRIM WOODCUTTERS

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

APES

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

JESS RIBEIRO

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.

DAN FLYNN & THE STATE OF THINGS

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.