Sat 18th Jan 8:30pm
Pat Devlin returns to Major Toms on the 18th Of January off of the back of his latest release "Make It Loud Quick".
Joining Pat for the second time is Tom Donnelly as main support.
Be there early for a great night of music.
Tickets on sale now https://www.trybooking.com/BHQRU
Fri 10th Jan 8:30pm Special guest HAYLEY MARY
After a banner year, including the release of her critically and popularly acclaimed second LP Hello, I’m Doing My Best (triple j’s Feature Album) a record which Pitchfork heralded as “An emotionally nuanced album that never takes itself too seriously” and her debut European and US dates Ali Barter is going back out on the road during Summer 2020 for a run of regional dates on the East Coast of Australia.
Hitting Ballarat, Kyneton, Euroa, Cronulla, Newcastle, Wollongong, and peppering in a couple of Melbourne and Sydney shows, Ali will kick off the decade swapping New Year’s resolutions for riffs. Her Australian dates precede her North American tour, seeing her play six shows in March, including New Colossus Festival before wrapping up her US sojourn with a showcase at SxSW. Full list of Australian and North American tour dates below
Watch the video for ‘Big Ones’ here
Hello, I’m Doing My Best follows Barter’s 2017 debut LP A Suitable Girl. A record that, by all accounts was critically and popularly acclaimed. Tone Deaf touted it as “an album that struck a nerve with Australia”, while Sydney Morning Herald backed her as a "star on the rise". Ali Barter, however, wasn't so sure. “The first record came out and for some reason I rejected it,” she says, listing the complaints she found with her own work: “it’s too polished and my voice is too high” being at the top of the list. Overcome with self-doubt, Barter pushed herself away from music, determined to never write another song.
But in the winter, a few months after the record's release, she went out of town to clear her head, with her guitar for company. "Stuff started coming up and I couldn't push it down," she says, and despite feeling like she "wasn't ready" for what these songs were saying, her and Dawson went about recording and testing the limits of her surprising new songs. She heard something in them she'd realised she didn't need to fight anymore. "When we demoed them up, I was like, Oh, there I am. The thing I was pushing against was me"
Hello I’m Doing My Best is a sentiment most can relate to, and therein lies the undeniable pull of Ali Barter’s output. From her breakout single ‘Girlie Bits’ to recent cut ‘Ur A Piece Of Shit’ Barter spins sobering honesty through sugary pop songs, like a one-two punch of staunch self assurance and touching vulnerability, in a way that is so uniquely her own. On her method, Barter explains “I really connect to the idea that you can say something really controversial, but if you say it in a nice way people are more likely to listen to it.”
Since winning the triple j Unearthed competition and releasing her debut album A Suitable Girl in 2017, the former choir girl has enjoyed support at home from triple j, FBi Radio, The Australian, Rolling Stone and Tone Deaf, while further afield, Beats 1, Clash and The 405 have all thrown support behind the unconventional pop star.
Barter has toured relentlessly, completing two sold out headline tours, countless festival slots and supported The Rubens, The War On Drugs, The Jezabels, Stevie Nicks, The Preatures, Chrissie Hynde and personal hero, Liz Phair.
TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BHKLR
Thurs 9th Jan First show 6:30pm - 8:30pm (sold out). Second show 9pm-11pm
Featuring Jordie Lane & Clare Reynolds, Randy Feltface & Tully Sumner. All proceeds to Mallacoota firefighters and our dear friend Christy who lost her house
TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BHPVV
6:30PM show is now Sold Out, SECOND 9PM SHOW ADDED (SOLD OUT)
If you would like to donate, you can do so here
https://www.mycause.com.au/page/220187/mallacoota-bushfire-appeal-this-ones-for-you-christy
Sat 21st Dec 8:30pm
This countries finest purveyors of Americana Raised By Eagles return to Major Tom's this Summer! Playing songs from their 3 critically acclaimed albums as well as some brand spankin' new ones.
TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BHGQT
Fri 29th Nov 8:30pm
As part of the national tour to launch the Majestic Horses album Away From the Sun (Kasumuen Records), Kellie Lloyd (Screamfeeder) joined by Andy Hayden (Tv-Haze) on bass and Monica Fikerle (Love of Diagrams, Crash Material) on drums.
Join us for beers, burgers and banging tunes.
TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BGOTD
Sat 16th Nov 8:30pm
My new song ‘HETERONORMATIVE NIGHTMARE’ is out right now! This song chronicles my awkward adolescent (and let’s be honest my awkward present) and the humbling realisation that you’re a big homo. I'll be heading around the country supporting cock rock icon BEC SANDRIDGE on her national ‘Try + Save Me’ album tour and then i'll be bringing it home with a regional romp!
I'm so excited to be heading out on my first headline tour that I'm bringing the whole band along as well as absolute corker humans Rin McArdle & Georgia Knight !!!
We would like to acknowledge that this event takes place on the land of the Dja Wurrung people of the Kulin nation, the traditional owners of the land, and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has not been ceded. Dja Wurrung
TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BGCPC
Sat 9th Nov 8:30pm
After releasing their debut album which enjoyed high rotation on Double J and airplay on community radio stations across the country, Human Face emerge from their forest studio to launch ‘Parallels’, the band’s second full-length album.
From the creepy psycho-disco ‘Moth’ to the heartbreak ballad ‘Shadow’, the album can’t be wedged into a single-genre pigeon hole. Human Face’s penchant for studio gizmos and classic gear shines through, with drum machines, obscure analogue synthesizers and the band’s beloved RE-201 Space Echo featuring across the album.
Themes on ‘Parallels’ also cover much ground, from the intergalactic fantasy of the title track to the political sentiment of “Dirty Rinehart”.
Catch Human Face in a rare live show with support from local talent "Bruiser".
TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BGCLD
FRI 18th Oct 8:30pm
“Skyscraper” Stan Woodhouse is a songwriter lauded for his observational lyricism - a cocktail of wit and grit delivered in a versatile baritone. His touring band The Commission Flats have developed a reputation as one of the more dynamic live bands in Victoria today. They have shared bills with artists such as Marlon Williams, The Troggs, The Animals, The Church and C W Stoneking and appeared at major festivals around Australia.Their second studio album is due for release in May 2019.
Sat 28th Sept 8:30pm
Leo Rondeau deals in stories candid and honest and plainspoken. Based in Nashville TN, his own story finds root in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota, where Rondeau grew up surrounded by country music listeners and pickers spanning three generations. “It was always around me,” he says.
This aspect of his adolescence bolstered an unwavering sense of self and place in his work that sets Rondeau apart from peer musicians. A child of the rural American west and owning family lineage within the Turtle Mountain band of the Chippewa Indian tribe, his own history and worldview are engrained in the lines of his songs. This is about a type of honesty that means more than simply telling the truth. It’s a voice that either lives within you or does not.
Early on, Rondeau found and dug into such contemporary mainstream artists as Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakam, gleaning from them a penchant for up-tempo numbers geared toward the dance hall. But Leo Rondeau is a country dance band with a folk singer’s heart. If there's a dance floor you'll find it in full swing when Leo's playing, but you’ll also find bar sitters turned on their stools watching the stage.
Rondeau is first and foremost a songwriter. As a boy, he took immediate interest in writing and has maintained a deep respect for studying one’s own life through song. He calls himself a lifelong musician, and to hear him play will take the wind out of anyone who says otherwise. In his writing, Rondeau has been heavily influenced by the dolorous and at times bleak illustrations of Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers and Townes Van Zandt. His marked presence within the scenes of his stories is even reminiscent of early Tom Waits tunes in their somber appreciation of the darker realities of life.
This is Rondeau’s third visit to Australia, having been invited back to play the incomparable Dashville Skyline Festival in NSW, and will be touring with full band, the East Coast with Melbourne’s Prince of Honky Tonk James Ellis and the Jealous Guys
TICKETS https://www.trybooking.com/BEZRK
