SUN 10th Sept 2-4pm free
Daffodil Parade After Party with good-time rock n' roll band The Relatives. Following the 'Kyneton Music Festival's tribute to dead rock stars float' in the Daffodil Parade, we will keep the good times rollin' into the afternoon with 2 sets from The Relatives, playing the cream of 60's & 70's rock. Free entry
Sat Sept 9th 8:30pm
Melbourne's The Ocean Party celebrate the release of their seventh album Beauty Point with a national tour that takes in Kyneton on Saturday 9th September at Major Tom's.
On the album, Beauty Point:
After their 2016 release, Restless the band once again took to writing new material while touring and shaping the next full-length entrant to their oeuvre. Beauty Point arrives a year later and showcases the shifts in the lives and inspirations of The Ocean Party over that time.
Recorded in two parts, Beauty Point began to be realised in a week of sessions at a house/studio in Stanwell Park, N.S.W. The beautiful cliffside location was contrasted by the album's final sessions; these took place in the bands inland hometown of Wagga Wagga on top of Beauty Point Drive - the town's central lookout. As an album created very much on-location the band found the two environments painting a dichotomy in their work from two very different perspectives of beauty.
Beauty Point balances moments of introspection with visceral expression as themes of identity, belonging and significance are brought into the light by the shared perspectives of the band's six songwriters.
tickets https://www.trybooking.com/RUWR
Fri 18th Aug
Hugo Race and Michelangelo Russo are no strangers to either Hooker or the blues. Hailed as a supreme influence on the music of their band Hugo Race & The True Spirit, Race and Russo’s reimagining of Hooker is simultaneously blues, electronica, avant-garde and ambient, a homage to one of the greats of rock and roll prehistory. Recorded in a single, continuous day and night live session at the Berlin studio of Einsturzende Neubauten engineer Boris Wilsdorf, this is an epic album of sonic sorcery suspended in time and place on the 100th anniversary of Hooker’s birth.
Tickets https://www.trybooking.com/QLBB
https://www.facebook.com/hugo.race
Youtube Video teaser: https://youtu.be/nQn3SfSf4HE
Sat 12th Aug 8:30pm
Soda Eaves play distinctly Australian folk music, incorporating atmospheric blues, lucid dream pop and warped found sounds. They have released two LPs - 'Like Drapes Either Side' (2013) & 'Murray, Darling' (2016) - with a third due in the near future. Soda Eaves will be joined by Dalhousie, the new project of Frank Moylan.
"Somewhere between folk, pop and shoe-gaze, Soda eaves have an enchanting sway that sifts through their understated, reverberating glory" - Swelltone Music
"Capturing a world most of us will never see, Core's slacker folk tales take us to a dusty time in the past of seedy lustre in downtown Australia. The lo-fi introspection is somewhat hypnotic and would work well on the beach staring into space or enjoying doing nothing sat in the sun." - Rough Trade
FRI 4TH AUGUST 8:30PM
She and I Single Launch
Heartbreaker alt-country duo Miles and Simone weave their lonesome seaside lullabies and ballads with restraint - two sublime voices, gentle melodies, poetic lyrics and hilarious banter. The duet release first single, She and I, off upcoming EP produced by acclaimed producer Dan Luscombe (The Drones, Courtney Barnett) who has drawn out the darkness from the pair's sweet and mournful love ballads. With Pete Luscombe (Paul Kelly) driving the rhythm train on an old snare drum, Dan working his magic on a slide guitar and Jules Pascoe (Jazz Party) bringing up the bottom end on his upright double pass, the outcome is a hollering freight train of a song, screamin down the line towards The Heartbreak Hotel. The duo launch She and I nationally throughout July.
Sat 22nd July 8:30pm
Melbourne’s good time soul-surf-garage party animals La Bastard hit the road with a national tour through June-August 2017 in support of their long awaited third album, Trouble! Renowned for their powerful soulful vocals and blistering, reverb drenched guitar and wildly energetic live shows that have wowed audiences across Australia, New Zealand and Europe, La Bastard return with their most powerful collection of songs yet! This is one show you don’t want to miss! For more info visit http://labastard.com
tickets https://www.trybooking.com/QZVS
Sat July 8th 8:30pm
GEORGIA FIELDS & PHIA: Sky and Sea National Tour with special guest Tiaryn
Two of Melbourne’s brightest independent singer-songwriters are joining forces for their most expansive national tour to date.
Indie-pop chameleon Georgia Fields and live-looping wunderkind Phia present a very special evening of musical dexterity, as they share the stage and each other’s songs – accompanying one another on everything from kalimba to casio, electric guitar to tambourine. Expect luscious harmonies, world-class song-craft, and impromptu audience participation.
Hitting the road through July and August 2017, the Sky & Sea Tour will see these two unique artists lend their distinctive sound to each other’s material, as they reimagine songs from Fields’ Astral Debris and Phia’s The Ocean of Everything albums, both respectively released in 2016.
Support comes from neo-soul powerhouse Tiaryn, who’s latest single Cement Love was heralded by Faster Louder as “a heady slice of alternative pop”.
“Georgia Fields dreams in fantastic Technicolor... Irrepressible pop." – four stars, The Age newspaper
“Bright, catchy-as-hell pop done with absolute surety from Phia." – Double J
tickets https://www.trybooking.com/QITV
Fri 30th June 8:30pm
Following a recent 12-month hiatus from the heavy touring schedule he’s become renowned for, award winning blues/soul troubadour Shaun Kirk announces he is hitting the highway once again this winter for a run of shows across Australia. The ‘Midnight in Motion’ tour marks the beginning of a new chapter in Kirk’s career and will see him showcasing new material in primarily intimate venues.
Kirk is currently working on expanding his already exciting and critically acclaimed one-man show which has landed him at some of the country’s most iconic festivals including Bluesfest, Woodford, Falls and Port Fairy in recent years; as well as opening for the likes of Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Allen Stone, Ash Grunwald and Mia Dyson. The iTunes Chart topper is also preparing to drop a brand new single in late 2017 and has recently been busy in the studio with ARIA award winning producers Joel Quatermain (Eskimo Joe, Meg Mac, Little Birdy) and Jan Skubiszewski (John Butler Trio, Cat Empire, Dan Sultan); as well as six time ARIA award winner and Australian music royalty Diesel who says; "Shaun Kirk has an energy that is unique, with a hybrid of musical styles that challenge genre classification, his shows are nothing short of an experience." The ‘Midnight in Motion’ Tour kicks off on June 29 in Melbourne. Tickets are limited. Further dates and details through www.shaunkirk.com
Sat 17th June 8:30pm
With powerful vocals and fierce guitar playing, Emilee South hollers throwback rhythm & blues, with hints of voodoo, unrequited love, fevers & late-nights.
Emilee’s new EP, ‘MOTEL’, is filled with throwback rock’n’roll, & crooning soul. The heaving, beaten up body of the record was tracked live to tape over two days at The Aviary Recording Studio. Engineered by Fraser Montgomery, it features Matt Dixon on baritone guitar, Ben Franz on double bass, and Joshua Barber on drums. Including a slew of special guest vocalists, (Broads, Al Parkinson, Skyscraper Stan & Ben Woolley) it lays comfortably on a bed of velvet backing vocals.
“Emilee South is soon to be the name on everyone’s lips. Motel is a definite highlight of this year’s local releases, and you need it in your life.” 9/10 - Beat Magazine ‘MOTEL’ was released with a bang through Fever Shake Records, and launched at The Gasometer on Saturday the 13th of May, to a roaring, sold-out crowd. Emilee South & Band are hitting the road, and checking in ‘MOTEL’ all over the country, from May through to August.
Special guest TOBIAS HENGEVELD
TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/QMRJ
