HARRY JAKAMARRA

Sat 24th Feb 8:30pm

Special guest Elwood Gray

Harry Jakamarra has a voice that stops you dead in your tracks. A punchy, Springsteen-esque growl that's imbued with the rugged texture of the West Australian desert where he grew up. 

Harry's songs are truly Australian . . . just like 'Wake in Fright'. A Kimberley Cowboy turned Mad Max, Harry tours in a vegie oil powered fire engine he converted to a house. He tears the roof off Pilbara pubs and southern sit-down gigs alike with his dry Guitar picking and dark, twisted lyrics. 
 

"And then Harry Jakamarra... just blew me away the first time I met him. He's kind of a genius. He's a bit of a multi-instrumentalist and can play the shit out of the guitar as well as having the amazing, gravelly, Bruce Springsteen-y kind of a voice. I think people are going to love him." - Missy Higgins ('The Music' magazine, 25/10/2017)

THE AHERN BROTHERS

Sat Feb 10th 8:30pm

It’s been a phenomenal six months for The Ahern Brothers (Josh Rennie-Hynes & Steve Grady). Following an incredible response to their debut album release in June, the duo have toured without rest throughout Australia and New Zealand, selling out a string of shows as well as spending over a month on the road with Australian music legends Tex, Don & Charlie. Today they announce their final tour as The Ahern Brothers for the foreseeable future, with both artists taking time off in 2018 to work on their new solo albums. The ‘Until Next Time’ tour is their biggest run of headline shows to date, taking in beautiful and unique venues across the country. They will also be making appearances at some of Australia’s most iconic festivals, kicking off the tour at the Cygnet Folk Festival in Tasmania in January, before wrapping it up at the Nannup Music Festival in WA and the Port Fairy Folk Festival in Victoria in early March. For the first time ever The Ahern Brothers will be taking a full band on the road, promising a bigger show while still maintaining the striking harmonies and ‘careworn acoustic guitars’ (Rolling Stone, July ‘17) that the duo are best known for. Early bird tickets are on sale now for all shows until Friday 1 December, with all early bird ticket holders in the running to win a massive merch pack including The Ahern Brothers signed album on vinyl and CD, a limited edition baseball tee and an A0 signed poster.

tickets https://www.trybooking.com/TAEQ

VAN WALKER

Sat 27th Jan 8:30pm

Born & raised on the windswept prairies of north-west coast Tasmania, between lashings of hallucinogenic cheese & Magic Johnson, weened on William Blake & Ribald magazine, Van first heard the music of Bob Dylan around adolescence & began picking guitar & writing songs. Some hundreds of songs later and a hell-bent pick, he moved to Melbourne to form the rock’n’roll outfit The Swedish Magazines, and sing his unique hillbilly stuff on the side.

Drawing on the grand storytelling tradition of artists such as Ray Davies, Townes Van Zandt, Leon Payne & John Prine, & the acoustic finger-styles of John Fahey &  Mississippi John Hurt, Van creates a sound both old & new, with a laconic familiarity that speaks to the heart with an intimacy more effortless than contrived.

Tickets https://www.trybooking.com/TTDR

JORDIE LANE

Sat Jan 20th 8:30pm

One of Australia's much loved songwriters returns to Major Tom's.

tickets https://www.trybooking.com/TLKS

MIKE NOGA AND DAVEY LANE

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. 

tickets https://www.trybooking.com/TGBC

SAM OUTLAW

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

SongStory with Dave Spry, Buck Edwards and Marty McKenna

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

KYNETON MUSIC FESTIVAL

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. 

www.kynetonmusicfestival.com.au

DAVEY LANE

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

www.daveylane.com.au