Month: July 2022

Rob Snarski is a singer, a velvet-voiced troubadour. Rob has toured the globe with The Blackeyed Susans and as a guest vocalist with The Triffids and The Go-Betweens, and has graced the same stage as Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen and Nico amongst others not quite as popular. […]

Edwina Preston plays keyboards and sings in Harry Howard and the NDE (Spooky Records) with Harry Howard, Dave Graney and Clare Moore, and in ATOM (IT Records) with Harry Howard and Ben Hepworth (Repairs, Exek). […]

Holocene formed in Melbourne in 1992, when Kerrie (ex Autohaze) and Jo-Anne (ex The Squad/Ripe) got together to make noisy, melodic pop. Mick (ex The Beekeepers, Perth) and Duncan (ex The Squad) soon rounded out the lineup, and Holocene was born, the band name referencing an era of geological evolution. […]

An alternative rock/shoegaze band from Melbourne. They released two albums, ‘Filterfeed’ in 1990 on Polyester Records and ‘The Plastic Hassle’ in 1993 on Beggars Banquet. They split up shortly after their second album. Two of the members, Mark Murphy and Katie Dixon, formed a new band, Moondriven. In 2006, Mark and Katie reformed under the Ripe name with some additional members. They released an EP, ‘Galaxies And Stars’, on Timberyard Records and did some touring. However they disbanded again in 2007. […]

In the 1800s Ballarat Victoria brought the world gold from the earth…in the 1900s they gave it – The Fat Thing. […]

After wildly successful seasons in Sydney and Brisbane, Dolly Parton’s smash-hit West End musical, 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL, has arrived in Melbourne. Internationally acclaimed and loved by audiences and critics alike, 9 TO 5 plays at the State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne until 18 September. […]

The Breadmakers are a Melbourne institution, but are perhaps better known in Japan, Spain and France than they are in some Australian capitals. They formed in 1989 to play early ‘60s-style Louisiana Rhythm & Blues – they take their name from a Slim Harpo track – having individually cut their teeth in ‘60s-styled garage rock bands earlier in the decade. […]

Punters Club Reunion. Getting the band(s) back together! A trip down memory lane – aka 1990s Brunswick Street – we pay homage to the musos who helped shape the Melbourne music scene. […]