Year: 2019

East End London punks the Cockney Rejects played the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on Wednesday 23 October 2019, as part of their first-ever Australia Tour. Formed in 1979, The Rejects pioneered the Oi! music genre – a rough brand of working-class rebellion that aimed to bring together punks, skinheads, and other disaffected youth through music and associated subculture.

Beijing’s Birdstriking are pioneers of the current Chinese independent music scene being one of the first bands to make their way out of their hometown scene and capture the attention of the West with a sound that fuses the energy of punk with a uniquely Chinese melodic sensibility.

Melbourne psych band Mote (featuring members of Jack on Fire, Pink Tiles, Greta Mob) supported Birdstriking at the Tote. It’s been a couple of years since the band dropped their demo ‘Recordings I’ which received local radio attention, including a feature on PBS FM’s Radio City 2016 special wrap-up and airplay on RRR. Since then, the band has been playing around town, including strong recent supports with regarded psych bands Flavor Crystals (US) and Dream Can (China).

Tropical Fuck Storm is an Australian band from Melbourne, Victoria formed by Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin after taking a hiatus from the art-punk psych band The Drones. Lauren Hammel, from the band High Tension, plays drums and Erica Dunn, from the bands Harmony and Palm Springs, plays guitars, keys and other instruments.

Surfbort is a Brooklyn-based punk band that has been active since 2015. Fed up with sheeple polluting the airways and submitting to easy listening and passive ideals.

All the Weathers are Georgia Lucy, Gigi, Callum. All the Weathers, All the hits, All the time.

Affectionate and bittersweet, the theatre show was performed in two acts over two sets with some unexpected, but fun, moments of audience participation. “Zevon – Accidentally Like A Martyr” features all of Warren Zevon’s greatest hits and some rare nuggets including Lawyers Guns & Money, Excitable Boy, I Was in the House When The House Burned Down, Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner, Johnny Strikes up the Band, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, A Certain Girl, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead and of course, Werewolves Of London.

Two different Guitar worlds collided at Camelot Lounge Marrickville, Celebrating “Tom Petty”. Kent Steedman (The Celibate Rifles) and Martin Cilia (The Atlantics).