The Black Sorrows + Tinpan Orange
(Arvo Gig Doors 3pm show 4pm)

The Black Sorrows and Head Records are proud to announce the release of The Black Sorrows’ first DVD, Four Days In Sing Sing. Four Days In Sing Sing documents exactly that. Joe and The Sorrows over four days in Melbourne’s legendary Sing Sing Studios, the birthplace of classic Sorrows’ albums such as Hold On To Me and Harley & Rose. The new release packs in seventeen tracks that the band loves to play live, sprinkled with a couple of Sorrows’ chestnuts. Tinpan Orange open the show and are fast becoming the new darlings of the Melb music scene.

Tickets $30.50 inc GST & booking fees
or $35 inc GST@ door

Spacifix (NZ)

Spacifix are an eclectic, energetic and entertaining seven piece band from New Zealand whose music is a fusion of reggae, funk, pop and rock that has taken the local and international music scene by storm. The band spent several years writing songs and building a fan base in Auckland before releasing their debut album Much Love in 2006. This lead to a successful year for the band, who were commissioned by World Vision to write and record the 2006 40-Hour Famine soundtrack, Spread da Word. They also won a prestigious Telly Award in Los Angeles and have also received two Pacific Music Awards and one Tui (New Zealand Music Industry Award).The band’s early success and trip to Los Angeles were filmed for a nine-episode series aired on New Zealand Television called Henderson to Hollywood. The show won the Air New Zealand 2007 Screen Award for best reality series. With international acclaim and performances with artists like UB40 and Shaggy under their belt, the band is looking to have more of a presence in both the New Zealand and Australian markets and have just returned from a tour in Vanuatu after playing at Island Vibe and Caloundra Music Festivals in October. Their distinctive fusion of sound, harmonic vocals and colourful stage presence combined with their ability to cater for a range of audiences and music genres makes Spacifix a truly unique and exciting emerging artist not to be missed.

Tickets $17.50 inc GST & booking fees
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Archie Roach

In 1988 much of Australia was celebrating two hundred years of white settlement but a young Archie Roach was expressing in song what many who weren’t celebrating were feeling. For many indigenous people there was anger, despair, disadvantage, land rights battles and deaths in custody. Archie Roach dealt with this by writing songs about his own experiences and feelings – and then performing these songs to whom ever would listen. In early 1988 Paul Petran, the producer of the ABC Radio National program, Music Deli asked Archie if he would come into the ABC studio to record a few songs to play on radio. Archie agreed. Twenty one years later Archie will present a collection of these songs and launch his new album ‘Music Deli Presents Archie Roach -1988’ at Joe’s Waterhole, which feature some of the first ever recordings by a young Archie Roach. Aside from his recorded offerings and many awards, Archie has also performed with some of the top names in the entertainment business - including Paul Kelly, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Tracy Chapman, Weddings Parties Anything, Crowded House, Suzanne Vega, Joan Armatrading and Patti Smith.

Tickets $27.50 inc GST & booking fees
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Jeff Lang + Jill Barber (Canada)

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Jeff Lang is world renowned as a prolific artist who has defied categorization by blurring genres to create his own ever-evolving sound from the base ingredients of Folk, Rock, Blues, Experimental and World music styles. The road he has travelled over this past decade has yielded the rewards of many a hard-working musician's dreams - widespread acclaim, a devoted fan base, an exemplary back catalogue, an ARIA Award in addition to countless nominations, invitations to the world's most prestigious festivals, and coveted tours with such icons as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan. More Info

Tickets $24.50 inc GST & booking fees
or $27 inc GST @ door

Jeff Martin and the Armada (Tea Party)

JEFF MARTIN & THE ARMADA will be returning to their spiritual home Australia in November after their debut European tour. The Armada will be touring the east coast of Australia unplugged to captivate followers with their Middle Eastern musical explorations. The Armada is a three piece with the power and intricacies of their playing to entwine you into a transcendental reverie.
The band celebrated the national release of their Eastern-fuelled, Zeppelin-stained self-titled debut with a short run of electric shows around Australia where they welcome bass player Jay Cortez to the fold (Sleepy Jackson, End Of Fashion).
“The Armada is a very big, dark, Satanic, sexual rock show, and I love that, it's a big part of my personality.” says Martin. “The feedback has been amazing, from Tea Party fans and new fans. The Armada did a trial run in Australia in November, and you'd think that the audience for my music would get older. But there was young people everywhere - 20- year-olds getting into it and digging it because it's just great rock 'n' roll music.'' More info

Tickets $40.50 inc GST & booking fees
or $45 inc GST@ door

Geoff Achison (acoustic solo)+ special guests

This will be an intimate evening with one of Australia's top guitarists. Whilst based in Atlanta, Georgia and in the midst of heavy touring schedules, Aussie blues guitarist Geoff Achison gathers ‘dream’ bands into the studio and produces wonderfully crafted albums. Geoff is known worldwide as a jaw dropping guitarist who employs no pedals or gadgets in his playing. His music and vocals are gutsy, organic and soulful with a singular style that has been forged and perfected from putting in scores of touring miles on planes, trains, ships and asphalt.

Tickets $17.50 inc GST & booking fees
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Afro Dizzi Act + The Toothfaeries

Having travelled to several international jazz festivals in Dubai and Kathmandu, the group are currently preparing for their next jaunt overseas to India. It's no wonder Afro Dizzi Act have been successful in the exportation of their sophisticated jazz grooves - they're easily the most skilled and versatile of their local contemporaries and rarely fall short of expectations.

Tickets $22.50 inc GST & booking fees
or $25 inc GST@ door

Grant Walmsley & the Agents of Peace (ex Screaming Jets)

Grant Walmsley is a Newcastle born and bred surfer, best known for his position as the founder and songwriter/guitarist of the legendary Screaming Jets. His latest quest sees him returning to his roots as singer/songwriter/guitar player, fronting his new band Grant Walmsley and the Agents of Peace. Grant has spent years touring the world, sharing the stage with a ‘who's who' of legends including Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Velvet Revolver, Kiss and many others. Bringing the experience of playing 3,000 live shows all over the world to this new project has seasoned him for his role as the multi-talented front man of the Agents of Peace. Grant is the lead singer, guitarist, drummer and percussionist... all at once.

Tickets $17.50 inc GST & booking fees
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The Gin Club + Mexico City

Drawing influence from the attitudes of artists such as The Band, Neil Young and The Wu-Tang Clan, The Gin Club's Live show is instrument-swapping madness, rousing choruses and heartbreak backed by cello, accordion, Hammond organ and heaps of guitars – The word is spreading and they’re steadily collecting avid fans of all ages everywhere they go.

Tickets $17.50 inc GST & booking fees
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Oh Mercy + Washington
Sunday Show - doors open 7pm, show 7-30pm

After saturating the nation’s airwaves with the tracks Seemed Like a Good Idea’,’ Lay Everything On Me’ and ‘Get You Back’, harmonically sublime Melbourne quartet Oh Mercy are hitting the road this October to celebrate the release of their debut album Privileged Woes.
Presented by Triple J’s Home & Hosed, JMAG, and Street Press Australia, Oh Mercy will cover the length and breadth of the country throughout October delivering the tracks from an album that is destined to become an instant Australian classic. Joining Oh Mercy on all dates will be Washington. More info

Tickets $14.50 inc GST & booking fees

Mark Seymour

Mark Seymour is internationally regarded as one of Australia's best singer / songwriters. Since making his name as the lead singer of Hunters & Collectors, Mark has enjoyed a stellar career as a singer and acoustic guitarist. He’s also composed film scores, written and performed music for theatrical productions and acted. In 2008 Mark wrote & released a novel, Thirteen Tonne Theory, a loose collection of stories, observations and exploits from his 18 years with Hunters & Collectors and subsequent career as a solo musician. Mark reached Australian rock cult status throughout the 80's and 90's as the lead singer for Hunters & Collectors, the band performed around the world, a rollicking eight piece funk ensemble. When in 1998, Mark decided he’d done all he could as the front man of Hunters & Collectors, he plunged into the unknown, finding himself alone on stage with just an acoustic guitar. In going solo, Mark discovered a new and refreshing intensity in his voice that he’d believed he’d lost in the band. Mark Seymour’s subsequent five solo albums, each of which has been highly successful, still bare the raw, emotional hallmarks of his writing for the landmark Hunters & Collectors album, Human Frailty.

A passionate, intense vocalist, Mark continues to draw a strong crowd. Mark Seymour’s song writing ever evolves, as he produces songs that resonate and permeate one’s consciousness. Mark Seymour’s music and lyrics have formed an indelible part of Australia’s musical landscape. More Info

Tickets $27.50 inc GST & booking fees

David Bridie & George Telek (PNG)

It has been 21 years since Papua New Guinea’s George Telek and Melbourne’s David Bridie (My Friend The Chocolate Cake) started working together. To celebrate this anniversary, they are playing special shows together up and down the east coast.
These two unlikely collaborators, a grassroots PNG villager and a suburban Melbourne boy, have forged a close friendship from years of recording and touring. Two of this region’s finest songwriters and performers, Telek and Bridie will perform highlights from their extensive repertoires. More info

Tickets $27.50 inc GST & booking fees
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Lulo Reinhardt Project (Gemany)

Dont miss the one and only Show of Gypsy guitar legend Lulo Reinhardt direct from Europe with 6 piece band. Grand-nephew of Jazz legend Django Reinhardt, nephew of the Gypsy violin master Schnuckenack Reinhardt and from a traditionally long line of musicians Lulo represents one of the most unique voices in Gypsy-Jazz music today. Lulos Latin-Swing Project combines pure Gypsy-Swing with elements of Latin music such as flamenco and Tango. The band is Lulo Reinhardt from Germany on guitar, violinist Daniel Weltlinger from Sydney, bassist Harald Becher from Germany, Uli Kramer from Germany on drums, keyboardist Sean Mackenzie from Sydney and also from Sydney, percussionists Peter Kennard. More Info

Tickets $34.50 inc GST & booking fees
or $35 inc GST @ door

Dragon + Alan Boyle as special guest

Afternoon Show 3pm

Following their sell out 30th Anniversary show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in early April, Dragon are set to tour the country to launch their new album Happy I Am.
Formed in New Zealand in 1973, Dragon relocated to Australia in 1975. Between 1975 and 1979, Dragon scored a string of major hits on the Australian pop charts with songs including April Sun in Cuba, Are You Old Enough and Still In Love With You and with the albums Sunshine and O Zambezi, making them one of the country's most popular rock acts of the time. More Info

Tickets $27.50 inc GST & booking fees
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Joe Robinson Electric Band ALL AGES GIG!

Australia's Got Talent Winner…and now…'Grand Champion Performer of the World' at the 'World Championships of Performing Arts USA' 2009

He’s Back…after a knock out show back in May, Joe returns with a band.
At just 17 years of age, Joe Robinson has secured a reputation as one of the worlds finest young guitarists. His unique acoustic guitar style has caught the attention of Les Paul, Steve Vai, Brad Paisley, Tommy Emmanuel and many others. Few doubt that this humble young man is destined for greatness.
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All Ages…Must be accompanied by an adult…Doors 7pm show 7-30 end 9-30

Tickets $14.50 inc GST & booking fees
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"...live, you can’t help but be moved by the passion and intensity of his playing and performance, whether he’s sliding with his resonator or inducing his glittering, black Strat to scream and wail it will be an experience you will take to your grave."
Kevin Borich is still every inch the slashing, stylish axeman who has come to take you higher. Without a hint of parody, he struts the stage at major festivals in lace shirt, snakeskin pants and cocky stance, gleefully unleashing the credible, fluid licks that have accorded him the status of a legend. Borich, the iconic rock/blues guitarist who livened up the national Long Way To The Top tour with fiery renditions of his 1971 hit Gonna See My Baby Tonight, has a theory that music “keeps you young”. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Borich makes few concessions to the passage of time – although the mantra is now sex, fresh air and rock’n’roll. Joining Kev for this gig is his son Lucius from ‘COG’ on drums and the living legend of bass Mr Harry Brus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=628rwZg6X-c

Tickets $20.50 inc GST & booking fees
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Saritah & band

South Korean born, West Australian raised soul/roots songstress saritah brings a potent blend of melody, message and groove that will uplift and inspire. An energetic and captivating live performer, saritah is motivated by her belief that music can inspire positive change. Her songs combine conscious lyrics with soul, reggae and roots flavours, and are delivered with a sincere, raw energy and passion. Saritah will be performing with her full band and special guests.
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Tickets $17.50 inc GST & booking fees
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Dallas Frasca ‘Not For Love Or Money’ CD launch

It’s no surprise that “Not For Love Or Money”, the debut album by Aussie roots/rock powerhouse Dallas Frasca has a sense of exhilaration and dynamics throughout. That’s because Frasca and her partner in crime, Jeff Curran (guitarist) wrote the tracks during a heavy-duty bout of touring.
“Not For Love Or Money” is the sort of record on which each listener will find a highpoint moment. But it creates a solidarity with its audience because is made by a performer who quite clearly lives and breathes music. It marks an exciting new career milestone for Dallas Frasca. More Info

Tickets $20 inc GST & booking fees
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Augie March + special guests - Gareth Liddiard and Dan Luscombe from The Drones

For the past 13 years Melbourne band Augie March have achieved what very few bands, indeed artists in any field in Australia, can claim to have achieved. While steadily building a loyal and ferocious fan base, they have simultaneously sustained critical acclaim and commercial viability.

This year has seen the completion of two very successful and very different tours on the back of the release of their fourth LP “Watch Me Disappear”. The most recent, titled “On The Quiet” was a sellout, a rare presentation of the band stripped back and swinging, a revelation for many in the audience who perhaps had always heard the music but never realised it was 5 human beings with sticks and strings making it come about.

In contrast this winter, Augie March will don full regalia and take the garden of forking paths into their own schizophrenic past where minotaur’s with broken hearts hold up the front bar, manic pixies bore repeatedly into the necks of corporate swindlers, and the human condition gets ridden roughshod by rabid monkeys into an unthinkable tomorrow. Plus there may be a love song or two. Watch Me Set My Strange Sun You Bloody Choir will be a trip down memory lane for Augie fans because all four albums will have an equal showing on this grand tour.
Tickets $32.50 inc GST & booking fees

Renée Geyer

Renée has finished her new album for Liberation Blue, called "Renéesance". In the tradition of the series it's a reworking of her best and greatest tracks. Produced by Bruce Haymes and featuring Jeff Burstin on guitar together with Bruce on keyboards (and noises) it's a wonderful visitation of Renee's greatest and a must for all fans. Sometimes words aren’t enough. All the things that have and will be said about Renée Geyer…one of the world’s finest singers…Australian music legend…are true and undeniable, but saying that about her still doesn’t say enough. Renée Geyer is Renée Geyer, a unique talent, not a singer whose career is dependant on yesterday or tomorrow’s hit song, but someone who lives for her next performance, on stage or on record, someone who refuses to rest on her laurels. The voice was always there. From the first time she opened her mouth those who heard turned their heads, but that wasn’t enough for Renée Geyer, still isn’t enough for Renée Geyer. She’s much more now than she ever was.

“I do rhythm and blues,” Renée explains. “This genre of music picked me. I didn’t pick it. From a very early age I was listening to it on my transistor radio under my pillow. At fourteen or fifteen years of age I knew that this was the music I connected with. With this record I’ve turned some kind of corner where the suit that was bought for me as a young girl, that I knew was a beautiful suit, only just now fits. It just feels right.
Tickets $32.50 inc GST & booking fees

Woohoo Revue “Dance Time”

The sound of The Woohoo Revue ‘reflects the unique experience of a ‘gypsy’ band raised on Melbourne dance floors’ ~Beat Magazine~.

Freakish Balkan tunes are delivered with a dose of the vaudeville, making The Woohoo Revue’s show a genuine musical circus.
Their act features old-world class, theatrical entertainment and childish joy performed by six musicians who might have been trained from childhood by an overbearing Russian ringmaster.
Formed in 2008, The Woohoo Revue is a new band with old world influences. The group has quickly established itself in its hometown of Melbourne with a series of shows that blend scorching gypsy themes with funky rhythms.
Following the release of their album, Dear Animals, The Woohoo Revue jumped in the caravan and met some old comrades along the highway. They have traded gypsy metal licks with The Crooked Fiddle Band, cheated at poker with Juke Baritone and danced around the fire with Mojo Juju and the Snake Oil Merchants.

The band has also fast established itself on the festival circuit by getting the big crowds dancing at Folk Rhythm and Life, High Vibes, The Village and The Maya Festival.
Tickets $17.50 inc GST & booking fees
or $20 @ door inc GST

Ash Grunwald + Band of Frequencies

Fish Out Of Water is the award winning, third single and title track off bluesman and multiple ARIA nominee, Ash Grunwald’s fourth studio album, Fish Out Of Water.
It is a lurching, rock n roll follow up to the radio hit, Break Out (#50 in JJJ’s Hottest 100 2008), produced by TZU’s Counterbounce and will be available as a digital download from April 8th.
A song about a young man stuck within the claustrophobic confines of the city, dreaming of the open road and finally deciding to fly the coup and get the hell outta there!
Fish Out Of Water was recently awarded Song Of The Year at the 2009 Blues Music Chain Awards.
He will be joined on the road by Kanchana Karunaratna on electro beats and ethnic percussion, and Benny Owen playing the Car Door and other Junk percussion for shows on the East Coast.
Tickets $27.50 inc GST & booking fees

King Tide + Dub Marine

Australia’s leading Roots Reggae Band…dance time
The seven piece King Tide was not intentionally formed, it was born. and has begun to grow, taking on a life of its own, more or less kidnapping its members like some kind of haunted ship, hell bent on rocking festival stages across the land, with little or no mercy, this beast/entity is gaining strength daily, sucking power from all the level vibes and support each new crowd seems to feed it.
Tickets $22.50 inc GST & booking fees
or $25 @ door inc GST

Carus + Loren + Drew Wilson

Hailing from Fremantle it is easy to mistake Carus as “just another roots act” in the style of The Waifs and The John Butler Trio. He hit the folk-rock highway ten years ago, he plays over two hundred shows every year and he has sold tens of thousands of CDs. He plays the major festivals and has a passionate fan base that any D.I.Y folky would be proud of.
Yet, in many ways Carus owes more to the OZ pub rock tradition than his rootsy contemporaries. His show is essentially a rock and roll show. While he is a story telling troubadour in the Paul Kelly style, he “goes off” in the adrenaline fuelled manner of The Beasts, The Gurus and The Oils. A lyrical observer of society he may be- but a shoe gazer he ain't.
The tension between the sensitive balladeer and the fold back leaping, nut bag skeg with his guitar behind his head never left my mind during the entire recording process. While Carus says in the title track- he can fit his life into three boxes and go traveling, he himself is extremely difficult to squeeze into a single box.
Tickets $14.50 inc GST & booking fees
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One man. One loop machine. Ten octaves.
300 characters. Never the same.
and a custom-designed Set/Décor/Projections by Jonathan Oxlade

Talk about ‘back by popular demand’! This year’s Sydney Festival pin-up returns to spread his unique talents further around Australia. On his inaugural visit in January Reggie Watts chalked up 11 sellout shows. Countdown to his reunion with rabid Sydney fans as Reggie headlines the Sydney Comedy Festival in May, and appears with Brian Eno as one of the five select performers in LUMINOUS, a festival of music, ideas, lights and performance that’s part of the new VIVID SYDNEY, in June. Select cities and regional areas will now get the chance to see a live Reggie Watts show between May 17th and June 6th.

Reggie Watts is a completely unique comedian AND musician. He shakes new meaning into what you can do with a human voice, a microphone and a loop machine. Exploiting a jaw-dropping ten-octave vocal range he creates funky bass lines and soulful diva-esque vocals to underpin hilarious, off-the cuff riffs on everything from ancient history and technology, science and racism, to theology and pop culture. Channeling over 300 characters, his mix of improvised music, absurd comedy and visceral social commentary makes him a one-of–a-kind performer.

An incisive commentator on all that surrounds him, and one-man-band, Watts is like a tornado traversing hip-hop, trip-hop, 80's pop alternative, nu-metal and classical opera. No two songs or performances are ever the same, as he disorientates and stuns his audiences like a supernatural force. And globe-trotting designer Jonathan Oxlade is creating visuals for Reggie to respond to his own unique way.

Born in Germany and raised in the US, Reggie is a classically trained pianist and jazz singer. He made his name playing and singing in the Seattle music scene through the 90s, shifting to a music- comedy hybrid Reggie infiltrated the New York and Los Angeles comedy scenes, and top festivals including South By South West (USA), Edinburgh Fringe (UK), Montreal’s Just For Laughs and Cape Town Comedy Festival.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York and frequently performs alongside Regina Spektor, Imogen Heap and the Dresden Dolls, Flight of the Concordes , Arj Barker, French chanteuse Camille to name a few.
Tickets $25 + BF