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With Tropical Fuck Storm, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, Party Dozen, Grace Cummins, Exek, NPCede and Loose Lips, 1 November 2025 in Melbourne. Initially I was reluctant to go to this, an all-day outdoor music stage with $100 tickets. These things can tend to involve a lot of queueing
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16 October 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Cat Hope. The Old Bar has got to be the best venue in Melbourne at the moment. There are so many great shows on, the sound is always good, and the tickets are always so cheap. This was $17 to see two absolutely
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11 October 2025 in Melbourne, with Rain Dogs, NPCede and Dumbhead. (G.U.N were a late scratching from the line-up.) Adrian was on his final warning after picking the last show we went to which had left us at the mercy of confusing and (probably) occult forces. But to
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25 September 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Cisco Savage and Snake Powder. I am yet to make sense of what happened last night. It was a late decision to go see Cong Josie play after Adrian spotted a gig poster while walking around Collingwood. Cong Josie, greaser heartthrob, whose album
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12 September 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Striborg, ESP Mayhem and Drealm. This was a cassette launch for Your Mothers Disgusting Window, a doomy sludge three-piece. But I will get to that. The first act was Drealm who may have been my favourite of the night. They played multiple drone
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29 August 2025 in Melbourne, supported by The World At A Glance, ESP Mayhem and R.U.B. Once again the seemingly bottomless Melbourne music scene delivers good times, this time at the Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar in North Melbourne. We began with punk band R.U.B
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5 July 2025 in Melbourne, with Kuntsquad, Strawberry Fist Cake, Beanflipper, Resistance, Blowhole, ADHD, Y Not, Knife and Wot Rot. It's time for a punk show. Punk and metal really, although judging from the sartorial settings on the day it was definitely a punk show. Mamma Chen'
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1 June 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Rocket Science. Tucked deep up the back of Yarraville is an industrial area, copious roadworks and Kindred Studios and Bandroom. It's been years since I was last at this great little venue and I wish more bands I am interested in
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5 April 2025 in Melbourne, featuring doktorb, Wet Electronics, Daydream Deluxe, Dark5lalom, Killawarra, Mada Yana (まだヤナ), JR / KS and Post Dive. A feature of the past few weeks at our place has been Adrian, also known as doktorb, rehearsing for this show. It was the brainchild of Benjamin Chesler who
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21 March 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Ferla, Hearts and Rockets and No Hoper. Sniff! The excellent Bench Press are ending. This was the first of their two farewell shows at The Old Bar. We were sad to miss out on tickets to the final-final show but this night'
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11 March 2025, supported by Mick Turner. Here I am back seeing another international touring act. I promise the next show I see will be something local (I already have the tickets). I feel like these live music posts end up being venue reviews too. In this case, I'
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2 March 2025 in Melbourne, supported by Freya Josephine Hollick I swear I don't only go and see touring acts, but you wouldn't know that looking at my schedule in early 2025. This was my second Kristin Hersh show in about a year and a half