events

Friday September 3rd

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with Autumn Sun & The Lucky Wonder

Stage times:
08:30pm - The Lucky Wonder
09:30pm - Autumn Sun
10:45pm - Skipping Girl Vinegar

Door sales: $20

Pre-sales: $15 (plus booking fee)

In amongst the madness and fervor that has been the last two years, Melbournian four-piece Skipping Girl Vinegar have become one of the most talked [read more]

Saturday September 4th

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Borough Music presents

The Smokestack Orchestra EMD-12 album launch

with Gay Paris and Obliterati

Doors open: 8pm

Stage times:
09:00pm - Obliterati
10:00pm - Gay Paris
11:00pm - The Smokestack Orchestra

Door sales: $12

The Smokestack Orchestra are celebrating ten years of Steam Powered Rock & Roll and are doing it in style, with knives out and screaming [read more]

Saturday September 4th THE LATE SHOW (1AM SLOT)

Door sales: $5 (after midnight)

Sunday September 5th

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with The Stress of Leisure (duo) / Paul Daly

Doors open: 8pm

Door sales: $12

Pre-sales: $10 (plus booking fee)

Singer-songwriter Andy White carries a 12-string guitar under his arm and wears his particular brand of Irish charm on his sleeve. With the political edge [read more]

Tuesday September 7th

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Plus One Records presents

Plus One Records Showcase 2010

with The Honey Month, The Gin Club, We All Want To, Halfway and Roz Pappalardo and the Wayward Gentlemen

Door sales: $25

Pre-sales: $20 (plus booking fee)

Plus One Records are proud to be presenting another showcase of Fine Brisbane Talent that the label has released in the past, for the future [read more]

Wednesday September 8th

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Q Music presents

Boy & Bear Big Sound Live 2010

with The Jezabels / Perry Keyes / Daniel Lee Kendall / The Honey Month

Doors open: 8pm

Stage times:
08:30pm - The Honey Month
09:20pm - Daniel Lee Kendell
10:10pm - Boy & Bear
11:00pm - The Jezabels
11:50pm - Perry Keyes

Door sales: $27.50 – one night / $44.00 – two nights

Pre-sales: $27.50 – one night / $44.00 – two nights

Brisbane will prove itself as a music lover’s paradise this September as the BIGSOUND Live festival takes over Fortitude Valley for two nights of the [read more]

Thursday September 9th

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Q Music presents

Children Collide Big Sound Live 2010

with Artisan Guns / The Checks / Big Scary / The Foreign Objects

Doors open: 8pm

Stage times:
08:30pm - Big Scary
09:20pm - The Checks
10:10pm - Children Collide
11:00pm - Artisan Guns
11:50pm - The Foreign Objects

Door sales: $27.50 – one night / $44.00 – two nights

Pre-sales: $27.50 – one night / $44.00 – two nights

Brisbane will prove itself as a music lover’s paradise this September as the BIGSOUND Live festival takes over Fortitude Valley for two nights of the [read more]

Friday September 10th

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Lions At Your Door 'In A Sea Single Launch'

with The Oyster Murders / Bird And Prey

Doors open: 8pm

Stage times:
09:00pm - Bird And Prey
10:00pm - The Oyster Murders
11:00am - Lions At Your Door

Door sales: $12 (plus booking fee)

Pre-sales: $10

Sydney’s Lions At Your Door return to Brisbane to launch their new single ‘In A Sea’! The LAYD kids have been all around the country, [read more]

Saturday September 11th

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Princess One Point Five ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ album launch tour

with Jackie Marshall and Silent Feature Era

Stage times:
09:00pm - Silent Feature Era
10:00pm - Jackie Marshall
11:00pm - Princess One Point Five

Door sales: $12

Pre-sales: $10

Album of the month in The Age (Melbourne) Magazine ‘From grunge rockers to heady epics, What Doesn’t Kill You is a varied, consistently interesting listen’ Dom Alessio, [read more]

Saturday September 11th THE LATE SHOW (1AM SLOT)

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Stage times: 1am

Door sales: $5 (after midnight)

In a northern suburb of Brisbane in Queensland Australia, the Medicine Show was conceived, labored, born and then nurtured. The music is a true suburban jambalaya [read more]

Wednesday September 15th

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Doors open: 8pm

Stage times:
08:30pm - Surface Paradise
09:30pm - Cowper
10:30pm - Laneway

Door sales: $7

Laneway have a new album, Cowper is heading to Europe, and Surface Paradise know better than to drink alone; so they’ve decided to take over [read more]

Thursday September 16th

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Hub Artist Services presents

Seabellies

with Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!

Doors open: 8pm

Stage times:
08:30pm - TBC
09:30pm - Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!
10:30pm - Seabellies

Door sales: $13

Pre-sales: $10 (plus booking fee) or $20 (ticket and album)

The lucious, layered instrumentation and melodic sound of Seabellies is captured beautifully throughout their debut album ‘By Limbo Lake’ - released on August 20. The [read more]

Friday September 17th

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with Hits and Birdbrain (Lismore)

Doors open: 8pm

Door sales: $15

‘After taking the city by storm in May this year The New Christs will make their return to Brisbane in September 2010 as part of [read more]

Saturday September 18th

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Lofly Records and Shiny Entertainment presents

Re:Enactment 'Talent for Retail' Double A-Side Launch

with Hunz, Moonjog and Toy Balloon

Stage times:
09:00pm - Toy Balloon
10:00pm - Moonjog
11:00pm - Hunz
12:00am - Re:Enactment

Door sales: $15 (ticket only)

Pre-sales: $15 (includes show ticket + 4 track Re:Enactment Double A-Side)

Lofly Records and Shiny Entertainment are proud to present the launch of ‘Talent For Retail’ - the highly anticipated brand new double A-side from local [read more]

Wednesday September 22nd

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Katie Wighton What You Do EP launch

with Dance Hall Paradiso / Claire Whiting

Doors open: 8pm

Stage times:
08:30pm - Claire Whiting
09:30pm -Dance Hall Paradiso
10:30pm - Katie Wighton

Door sales: $15 (includes a copy the EP)

Talented Brisbane songstress, Katie Wighton, launches her breathtaking debut EP, What You Do, on September 22nd at The Troubadour, Fortitude Valley. Supported by Claire Whiting and [read more]

Friday September 24th

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FOOTSTOMP MUSIC & USELESS ART RECORDS presents

The Honey Month Foliage EP launch

with Guineafowl (Sydney) and Mosman Alder

Doors open: 8pm

Saturday September 25th

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The Harbour Agency & Tenderloins Present presents

The Snowdroppers “Songs about Intoxication and Fornication” launch

with The Blackwater Fever / Buick Six

Stage times:
09:00pm - Buick Six
10:00pm - The Blackwater Fever
11:00pm - The Snowdroppers

Door sales: $12

Pre-sales: $12 (plus booking fee)

The term SNOWDROPPER has dual meanings; it’s a 1920’s slang term for cocaine addicts, but also a turn of phrase referring to deeply disturbed individuals [read more]

Friday October 1st

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with Sianna Lee

Stage times: 8pm

Door sales: $25

Pre-sales: $20 (plus booking fee)

After a ten year public hiatus, The Paradise Motel returns to present Australian Ghost Story. An album of reflections on the events of August 17, [read more]

Saturday October 2nd

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Liberation Music, Various Artists
& Select Music presents

The Holidays Post Paradise album tour

with Papa Vs Pretty

Doors open: 8pm

Door sales: $12

Pre-sales: $10 (plus booking fee)

Sydney foursome The Holidays’ debut album, Post Paradise, may have been a long time coming, but it has categorically been worth the wait. The first [read more]

Saturday October 9th

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with Little Scout

Doors open: 8pm

Door sales: $18

Pre-sales: $15 (plus booking fee)

Smudge never broke up. Smudge moved a little slower at the end of the last millennium and indeed signs of life, the beating pulse of [read more]

Wednesday October 13th

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with Lemongrass and The Slow Push

Doors open: 8pm

Stage times:
08:30pm - The Slow Push
09:30pm - Lemongrass
10:30pm - Galapogos

Door sales: $5

Like established ghosts nestled deep within the wreckage and the ruin we remain sketched by saturation. Our electricity has been inspired by the haunting sounds [read more]

Friday October 15th

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Plus One Records presents

We All Want To Album Launch

with Silent Feature Era / Inland Sea

Doors open: 8pm

Door sales: $18 (door with an album)

Pre-sales: $16 (plus booking fee)

A band of five people from very different musical backgrounds; indie rock, folk, drone and noisy pop - WE ALL WANT TO present their debut [read more]

Saturday October 16th

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Angie Hart / Matthew Barber (Canada) Loving Hating It Tour 2010

with Gabrielle & Cameron (Dead Letter Chorus)

Doors open: 8pm

Stage times:
09:00pm - Gabrielle & Cameron
10:00pm - Matthew Barber
11:00pm - Angie Hart

In the 21st century, singer-songwriter Angie Hart has stepped out from the shadow of hit pop band Frente, and finally become her own entity. After [read more]

Friday October 29th

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The Good Ship "Shiver Me Pumpkins"
The Good Ship Halloween Show

with Dead Shades and The Bon Scotts

Doors open: 8pm

Stage times:
09:00pm - The Bon Scotts
10:00pm - Dead Shades
11:00pm - The Good Ship

Door sales: $12

“Shiver Me Pumpkins!” it’s The Good Ship Halloween Show. With support from the ghoulish Dead Shades and Melbourne’s Bon Scotts (just cos they’re named after [read more]

Friday November 19th

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Billion Australia presents

Sugar Army

with Blonde On Blonde / Bonfire Nights

Doors open: 8pm

Stage times:
09:00pm - Bonfire Nights
10:00pm - Blonde on Blonde
11:00pm - Sugar Army

Door sales: $20

Pre-sales: $15 (plus booking fee)

“Every now and then a band comes along that gives you a glimmer of hope for the future of music.” – buddyhead.com SUGAR ARMY release their [read more]