North & West Melbourne Upcoming Events.
The Kick Heavy
KickHeavy are a Melbourne based band bringing you alternative rock with a splash of country and a slap of energy from the bass player. Come on down!
The Hornets play the Humour of Bob Dylan
The Hornets play the Humour of Bob Dylan - dry, wry and plenty of it!
How Do I Let You Die?
As Australia careened from deadly bushfires to the beginning of COVID-19, and as Hmong-Australian writer Michele Lee was working on Asian ghost TV shows, she rang her parents for 30 minutes each day.
How Do I Let You Die? assembles an extraordinary team of Asian-Australian artists to weave together phone calls, Asian ghost tropes, Hmong horror stories, and the simple potency of an adult child coming to term with a parent’s eventual death.
As moments of acute and layered crisis bring mortality achingly close, this charming and tender work of theatre offers moments of humour and nuance, and moments of contradiction, to wonder on our approaches to this life and the next.
Tickets from $10 -$35
How Do I Let You Die?
As Australia careened from deadly bushfires to the beginning of COVID-19, and as Hmong-Australian writer Michele Lee was working on Asian ghost TV shows, she rang her parents for 30 minutes each day.
How Do I Let You Die? assembles an extraordinary team of Asian-Australian artists to weave together phone calls, Asian ghost tropes, Hmong horror stories, and the simple potency of an adult child coming to term with a parent’s eventual death.
As moments of acute and layered crisis bring mortality achingly close, this charming and tender work of theatre offers moments of humour and nuance, and moments of contradiction, to wonder on our approaches to this life and the next.
Tickets from $10 -$35
How Do I Let You Die?
As Australia careened from deadly bushfires to the beginning of COVID-19, and as Hmong-Australian writer Michele Lee was working on Asian ghost TV shows, she rang her parents for 30 minutes each day.
How Do I Let You Die? assembles an extraordinary team of Asian-Australian artists to weave together phone calls, Asian ghost tropes, Hmong horror stories, and the simple potency of an adult child coming to term with a parent’s eventual death.
As moments of acute and layered crisis bring mortality achingly close, this charming and tender work of theatre offers moments of humour and nuance, and moments of contradiction, to wonder on our approaches to this life and the next.
Tickets from $10 -$35
How Do I Let You Die?
As Australia careened from deadly bushfires to the beginning of COVID-19, and as Hmong-Australian writer Michele Lee was working on Asian ghost TV shows, she rang her parents for 30 minutes each day.
How Do I Let You Die? assembles an extraordinary team of Asian-Australian artists to weave together phone calls, Asian ghost tropes, Hmong horror stories, and the simple potency of an adult child coming to term with a parent’s eventual death.
As moments of acute and layered crisis bring mortality achingly close, this charming and tender work of theatre offers moments of humour and nuance, and moments of contradiction, to wonder on our approaches to this life and the next.
Tickets from $10 -$35
Steamboat Whistlers
The Steamboat Whistlers are a Melbourne based acoustic band dedicated to early jazz and blues that emanated from New Orleans before travelling up the Mississippi and all around the globe. The band's repertoire draws on a wide range of musical influences which include traditional jazz, depression era blues, ragtime and spirituals.
The Steamboat Whistlers have gained a loyal following through their energetic dedication to reliving these tunes of old, their unique vintage sound can be heard at many venues and festivals in Melbourne and Regional Victoria.
The Steamboat Whistlers are guaranteed to get you tapping your toes!
AC Dixie – The songs of AC/DC Country Style!
AC/DC wrote some of this country’s most iconic and memorable hard rock songs.
Mostly around one simple riff and a few easy chords, yet catchy melodies and poignant lyrics for the demographic it was targeting.
Bon Scott’s “toilet poetry”, Malcolm Young’s solid rhythms and Angus Young’s blistering lead breaks captured a nation of bogans but what if their music was “countrified”. What if we put those words into the mouth of Johnny Cash or those chords into the hands of Glenn Campbell ?
Would the songs have the same meaning but for a different audience?
Sean Simmons & Bronwyn Henderson believe YES and attempt to take those few barre chords, slap a capo on them and turn them into open chords… take Angus’ guitar and put it on a fiddle or Bon’s bagpipes and put them on an accordion… and most of all, breathe love, loss and heartbreak into what they believe are some of the most beautiful songs ever written…
Jump the Shark
Jump The Shark play Jump Blues and Blues dance music. They feature songs by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Duke Robillard, Robben Ford, Big Joe and the Dynaflows, Albert Collins, Colin James, Hollywood Fats and many others.
The Jump Cats
The Jump Cats are a swingin' jump blues band that plays an uptempo style of blues that you can dance to. Their music harks back to the 40's and 50's when rhythm and blues was big on the scene with music from the likes of Louis Jordan, Tiny Bradshaw and later from artists such as Hollywood Fats.
The Jump Cats are a four piece band with Mark (Harpo) Greenway on guitar, Alf Mott on the skins, Jeff Walters on Bass and Chris (Stibbo) Hanger on Vocals and blues harp.
Bret Mosley
An extraordinarily itinerant journey from a small desert town in Texas to New York’s indie music scene informs Mosley’s sound, which popmatters.com described as, “...no more country than R&B, no more folk than rock.”
Nomadic beginnings prepared Mosley for years of constant touring following the release of his debut album, Light & Blood—which NeuFutur Magazine commended as “a heart-felt masterpiece”. The veteran road warrior has more than 2000 headlining dates under his belt, and has opened for notable international artists Cedric Burnside, Trombone Shorty, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, George Porter, Jr., Jackie Greene, Kaki King, and The Blind Boys of Alabama, among others.
Two studio releases followed up Light & Blood: Charge, in collaboration with indie/jam rocker Jerry Joseph—and his self-released EP, X-ING. Mosley is currently self-producing multiple solo projects from sessions in New York, Mississippi, and Australia.
Now living in Melbourne, Mosley has shared the stage with or supported prominent Aussie artists Ian Moss, Tex Perkins, The Pierce Brothers, Hussy Hicks, Minnie Marks, Kallidad, et al.
Gerry Kennedy
In certain dialects, his name translates to ‘Dog with an Ugly Head’.
And with a face like a smashed crab and an insatiable appetite to delight, GERRY KENNEDY is a hound with a sound you’ll be glad you found!
Once described as “the Godfather of backyard rock…(or at least the drunk uncle)”, GERRY KENNEDY’s acoustic, folk-rock rumpus is the scintillating soundtrack to your suburban backyard.
From wineries to rooftops, backyards to packed bars, expect a colourful cocktail of hit singles, lit jingles and a dogged determination to ensure you leave absolutely delighted.
See him barking live in The Drunken Poet on Thursday 9th November - WOOF-WOOF!
Zoe Scott
Zoe Scott is an award-winning vocalist, Fresh to Melbourne from Waiheke Island, New Zealand. From her set, you can expect brutally honest songwriting and emotional vulnerability that’ll leave you in a puddle of tears or bubbling with anger.
This is Our Youth
This is Our Youth, by American dramatist and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan, is a realistic dissection of the complications and challenges that plague late adolescence.
Set in early, Reagan-era New York City, the play follows 19-year old Warren Straub who has just been kicked out of home by his abusive father, stolen $15,000 from him, and carted it across town to seek shelter at close friend and role model, Dennis Ziegler’s apartment. Dennis, the older and more domineering of the two, concocts a plan to use the money to purchase and resell cocaine in order to make back what Warren has already spent. As this plan unfolds, we are introduced to Jessica Goldman, and watch as she and Warren navigate the awkwardness surrounding their feelings for each other, and the social implications of choosing whether, or not, to act on them.
Tickets from $30 to $40
This is Our Youth
This is Our Youth, by American dramatist and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan, is a realistic dissection of the complications and challenges that plague late adolescence.
Set in early, Reagan-era New York City, the play follows 19-year old Warren Straub who has just been kicked out of home by his abusive father, stolen $15,000 from him, and carted it across town to seek shelter at close friend and role model, Dennis Ziegler’s apartment. Dennis, the older and more domineering of the two, concocts a plan to use the money to purchase and resell cocaine in order to make back what Warren has already spent. As this plan unfolds, we are introduced to Jessica Goldman, and watch as she and Warren navigate the awkwardness surrounding their feelings for each other, and the social implications of choosing whether, or not, to act on them.
Tickets from $30 to $40
Weredingo
Weredingo is a profound and playful work of dance theatre that challenges the western interpretation of shapeshifting. In the western context, shapeshifting is limited to folklore and pop culture. However, shapeshifting for First Nations people reflects past, present and future.
Through sharp movement and text, Weredingo follows the intertwining journeys of three shapeshifters, exploring their experiences and physical powers. It covers the good, the bad; the cultural, the political; the pain and the pleasure.
Led by a First Nations team, this story is brought to life alongside beautiful animations by Studio Gilay and projection by Wirrim Studios.
Tickets from $10 to $35
Weredingo
Weredingo is a profound and playful work of dance theatre that challenges the western interpretation of shapeshifting. In the western context, shapeshifting is limited to folklore and pop culture. However, shapeshifting for First Nations people reflects past, present and future.
Through sharp movement and text, Weredingo follows the intertwining journeys of three shapeshifters, exploring their experiences and physical powers. It covers the good, the bad; the cultural, the political; the pain and the pleasure.
Led by a First Nations team, this story is brought to life alongside beautiful animations by Studio Gilay and projection by Wirrim Studios.
Tickets from $10 to $35
This is Our Youth
This is Our Youth, by American dramatist and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan, is a realistic dissection of the complications and challenges that plague late adolescence.
Set in early, Reagan-era New York City, the play follows 19-year old Warren Straub who has just been kicked out of home by his abusive father, stolen $15,000 from him, and carted it across town to seek shelter at close friend and role model, Dennis Ziegler’s apartment. Dennis, the older and more domineering of the two, concocts a plan to use the money to purchase and resell cocaine in order to make back what Warren has already spent. As this plan unfolds, we are introduced to Jessica Goldman, and watch as she and Warren navigate the awkwardness surrounding their feelings for each other, and the social implications of choosing whether, or not, to act on them.
Tickets from $30 to $40
Weredingo
Weredingo is a profound and playful work of dance theatre that challenges the western interpretation of shapeshifting. In the western context, shapeshifting is limited to folklore and pop culture. However, shapeshifting for First Nations people reflects past, present and future.
Through sharp movement and text, Weredingo follows the intertwining journeys of three shapeshifters, exploring their experiences and physical powers. It covers the good, the bad; the cultural, the political; the pain and the pleasure.
Led by a First Nations team, this story is brought to life alongside beautiful animations by Studio Gilay and projection by Wirrim Studios.
Tickets from $10 to $35
Twihards, Twiharder: A Twilight Inspired Variety Night
With a stellar lineup of Melbourne performers, sets jam packed with Twilight references, prizes for best dressed and sing-a-longs, Twihards is more than just a variety night – it’s the event of the year for Twilight fans with comedy, burlesque, storytelling and more.
Come celebrate the franchise across three nights this Halloween.
Tickets from $32 to $40
Twihards, Twiharder: A Twilight Inspired Variety Night
With a stellar lineup of Melbourne performers, sets jam packed with Twilight references, prizes for best dressed and sing-a-longs, Twihards is more than just a variety night – it’s the event of the year for Twilight fans with comedy, burlesque, storytelling and more.
Come celebrate the franchise across three nights this Halloween.
Tickets from $32 to $40