Sat Jan 20th 8:30pm
One of Australia's much loved songwriters returns to Major Tom's.
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FRI 15th Dec 8:30pm
Mike Noga, one of Australia's most accomplished musicians and songwriters... from his work with The Drones to his three lauded solo albums... is wrapping up his hectic year touring his critically acclaimed concept album 'KING' with a visit to the wonderful Major Tom's, Kyneton VIC, in solo mode. This will be your last chance to hear 'KING' performed live before Mike settles in to work on his new album for release in 2018.
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FRI 8th Dec 8:30pm
Special guest Ben Mastwyk
Sam Outlaw, who has graced our shores and stages twice before, will this
time bring with him a brilliant new album ³Tenderheart² which was released
in April of this year. The 13-track collection of originals was met with
rave reviews including The Australian newspaper who said in it's 4.5 Star
review "On his second album the 34-year-old delivers a gem infused with
the musical history of his adopted city, as well as Nashville, Austin and
every dance hall and honky tonk in between". while Rolling Stone Magazine
Australia gave it a 4 Star review and called 'Tenderheart' an assured
step forward for this rising country star.
TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/SHXJ
Sat 25th Nov 8:30pm
SongStory - Darwin Songman Dave Spry join local singer songwriters Marty McKenna and Buck Edwards for one night only. These unique voices share the intimate story behind their songwriting.
TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/SZES
Sat 21st Oct 12pm-11pm
Kyneton Music Festival returns with a huge lineup of acts performing next in St Pauls Park and at Major Tom's. Featuring Golden Sounds, hand picked gems from the Goldfields region. Full list of artists and playing times coming soon.
Sat 7th October 8:30pm
Davey Lane has been honing his craft for quite a while now – working in the studio and on stage with artists such as Crowded House, Jimmy Barnes, Robyn Hitchcock, Masters’ Apprentices, The Saints as well as legendary Australian rock group You Am I, with whom he has been standing stage right on lead guitar since 1999. Years of learning from many local and international songwriting greats have seen Davey himself grow in turn as a songwriter, with a smart pop sensibility, a keen ear for a big chorus and a surreal turn of phrase.
The culmination of his apprenticeship sees Davey emerge, after months of solitary nocturnal pottering in his Headley Garage studio, with his second full length LP. Entitled I’m Gonna Burn Out Bright, it’s melancholy lyrical themes of mortality and one's place in the universe are framed in joyous, brash space-pop melodies, forming a veritable collection of long-lost radio hits of eras current and bygone.
Featuring the symphonic pop of first single Taurus All Apart, the grandiose pastoral folk of This Is Hell (as featured in ABC TV’s upcoming medical drama Pulse), and the XTC-meets-Kate Bush synth-pop of My Apple Lady Cried, I'm Gonna Burn Out Bright - whilst mainly a solo album in the very sense of the word - also features guests from members of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Saskwatch, Dorsal Fins and GL and Laura Jean. The record is Davey’s bold love letter to great pop music through the ages, making something concurrently universal and completely his own.
Today Davey Lane also shares a video clip for ‘Taurus All Apart’, in Davey words - “a well worn tale of paranoia, misunderstanding and imaginary subterfuge - and the fallout that comes with it. I ham-fistedly hammered out one chord for the verse and another for the chorus and let the bass go for a walk as they say. It’s a fun tune.”
I'm Gonna Burn Out Bright is out August 18th, on Capgun Kids thru MGM Distribution
tickets https://www.trybooking.com/RVVG
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