Get ready to be engulfed in a cataclysmic whirlwind of sound as Naarm’s ultimate new wave stoner punk sensation, Lonely Gods, descends upon The Tote Upstairs on May 24th! In a collision of cosmic proportions, they’ll be joined by the legendary power rock trio, Loser, whose thunderous presence will shake the very foundations of the venue. Brace yourself for the relentless onslaught of RomCom’s frenetic post-punk noise, a sonic barrage that will leave you reeling in its wake. And prepare to have your soul ignited by the incendiary melodies of Maizie, whose euphoric pop punk anthems will set your heart ablaze. This isn’t merely a concert – it’s an all-encompassing sensory experience, a visceral journey into the heart of Naarm’s musical underworld. So, Melbourne, steel yourselves for an evening of unbridled intensity, where passion, chaos, and sheer sonic force collide in a crescendo of epic proportions. Mark your calendars, secure your tickets, and prepare to be swept away by a maelstrom of emotion that will leave you utterly and irrevocably transformed!
MAIZIE – 8:30
ROMCOM – 9:20
LOSER – 10:10
LONELY GODS – 11:00
Tickets: $15+bf
https://www.facebook.com/events/389913537273598/

The Hold Steady announce Melbourne Weekender shows for 2024
Celebrating 20 incredible years
Bringing their first Weekender to Melbourne in 2022, Brooklyn-based The Hold Steady are heading back for another run in 2024. Celebrating 20 years of incredible music, fans will have three exclusive opportunities to witness the band’s incredible discography with two shows at The Croxton Bandroom and a more intimate night at Stay Gold in May 2024.
“The Hold Steady came to Australia after our first album and ever since, we’ve had an amazing time playing there. The Australian THS audiences are some of the most fun we’ve encountered. Very excited to be back in 2024” – Craig Finn
Earlier this year, The Hold Steady released their ninth studio album, The Price of Progress. Hailed by Pitchfork as “vivid and weird: a celebration of second winds, unlikely comebacks, and undying rock’n’roll dreams,” the album further cements the bands enduring status as timeless indie legends after 20 years. Known for their massive choruses, sharp hooks and novelist lyricism, The Hold Steady have carved a niche in the music industry that remains unmatched.
Formed in 2003, The Hold Steady have earned countless accolades across two decades of relentless touring and recording, climbing the charts time and time again whilst playing over a 1000 shows throughout the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. Scoring their first Billboard Top 10 placement with 2021 album Open Door Policy, the six piece continue to prove themselves as an ever-evolving force unafraid to explore the unknown. Champions for the lost and broken-hearted, The Hold Steady have always stayed true to their evocative story-telling and detailed song craft.
In May, Aussie fans are in for another unforgettable weekend of transcendent modern rock excellence. Blending rock classicism with their unique brand of indie and punk, don’t miss your chance to catch The Hold Steady in Melbourne for three exclusive performances.
https://www.facebook.com/events/408784565024882/

𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒚 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 🍺
𝐵𝑜𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 𝐷𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟
𝟮𝟬𝘁𝗵 (+𝟭) 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆
Fʀɪᴅᴀʏ, Mᴀʏ 24
Sᴛᴀʏ Gᴏʟᴅ, Mᴇʟʙᴏᴜʀɴᴇ
Dᴏᴏʀs 7.30pm
𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: ➟ https://daltours.cc/THS24-weekender1

Bringing their first Weekender to Melbourne in 2022, Brooklyn-based The Hold Steady are heading back for another run in 2024. Celebrating 20 years of incredible music, fans will have three exclusive opportunities to witness the band’s incredible discography with two shows at The Croxton Bandroom and a more intimate night at Stay Gold in May 2024.
“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐴𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑤𝑒’𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑇𝐻𝑆 𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑛 𝑤𝑒’𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑. 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛 2024”
– 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗴 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗻
Earlier this year, The Hold Steady released their ninth studio album, The Price of Progress. Hailed by Pitchfork as “vivid and weird: a celebration of second winds, unlikely comebacks, and undying rock’n’roll dreams,” the album further cements the bands enduring status as timeless indie legends after 20 years. Known for their massive choruses, sharp hooks and novelist lyricism, The Hold Steady have carved a niche in the music industry that remains unmatched.
Formed in 2003, The Hold Steady have earned countless accolades across two decades of relentless touring and recording, climbing the charts time and time again whilst playing over a 1000 shows throughout the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. Scoring their first Billboard Top 10 placement with 2021 album Open Door Policy, the six piece continue to prove themselves as an ever-evolving force unafraid to explore the unknown. Champions for the lost and broken-hearted, The Hold Steady have always stayed true to their evocative story-telling and detailed song craft.
In May, Aussie fans are in for another unforgettable weekend of transcendent modern rock excellence. Blending rock classicism with their unique brand of indie and punk, don’t miss your chance to catch The Hold Steady in Melbourne for three exclusive performances.
https://www.facebook.com/events/221629397442586/

Australia’s favourite new country music artist, Lane Pittman heads out on the road with his band presenting the show which made him the breakout success of the 2024 edition of CMC Festival. Streamed over 1.5 million times within its debut fortnight, his new self-titled EP Lane secured the #1 spot in ARIAs Top 20 Australian Country Albums, #14 ARIA Top 50 Country Albums and #8 ARIA Australian Album Chart. Lane’s Special Guest on this tour is his good mate, and Toyota Star Maker 2024 Winner – Wade Forster. Raised on a diet of Rodeos and Country Music, Forster bought his first guitar for $50 from Facebook and soon found fans amongst the cowboys and cowgirls on the radio circuit. His solo performance on this tour is the great way to start an evening of fresh country music.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1000928761465902/

Body Maintenance / Dark Water / Armour / It Thing
The Tote Hotel, Collingwood
Friday 24th of May
7:30pm – $20+bf
Body Maintenance return to the Tote band room for their first show of 2024, breaking a short hiatus which followed their warmly received tour of Europe and the UK last year. The Narrm/Melbourne group will be performing their tried and tested live set with the introduction of newer songs from a forthcoming LP out in later this year. Body Maintenance compounds the stark characteristics of goth with an overarching pop familiarity of new wave. Merging tension and ethereal delicacy, the latest batch of songs from Beside You explores both the bleak and dreamy aspects of 80s post punk with heavy nods to The Comsat Angels, The Chameleons and Echo & The Bunnymen. Joining BM on the night will be Melbourne’s premier goth/dark-wave act Dark Water, the incredible local garage/proto-punk outfit It Thing along with Armour, a freshly formed post punk supergroup featuring members of Bloodletter, Pleasure Symbols, Nylex etc. Not to be missed!
Purchase tickets: https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/f504117b-d4b4-4d66-896d-f17302fd7abd
Poster by Joe Munsey
This event takes place of stolen Wurundjeri land. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land and pay our respects to elders past, present & emerging.
Sovereignty never ceded.
https://www.facebook.com/events/3718418265044325/

Ennio Morricone is acclaimed as one of the most innovative composers of the twentieth century. Loved for his accessible, experimental and contemporary compositional techniques, unconventional instrumentations and use of the human voice as a melodic instrument, Morricone created his own iconic signature sound that continues to inspire musicians today. Prior to his death in 2020 at age 91, Morricone’s film music career spanned 57 impressive years, including scores for the iconic films The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Untouchables, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso and The Hateful Eight.
About the concert
Extasy Morricone celebrates the adventurous side of the composer’s film music from the late 1960s to the early 1980s with a jazz-in fluenced, psychedelic and progressive collection of vocal songs and lyrics by the great Alberto Bevilacqua, Carlo Nistri, Giuseppe Patroni Grif fi, Carlo Carunchio, Luciano Lucignani and Maria Travia.
https://www.facebook.com/events/387085940526443/

While forging an international career as a brilliant jazz pianist – producing 23 CDs, topping the jazz charts in Japan, winning a slew of awards (including being inducted into the Bell Award Hall of Fame in 2016) and touring the world with the genre’s leading figures- he was working as first- call pianist on over 60 film soundtracks and performing & recording with a plethora of leading artists from the worlds of opera, jazz, theatre and pop.
More recently Chindamo has emerged as a coveted new voice in contemporary classical composition, receiving numerous commissions from Australia’s leading soloists, chamber groups and symphony orchestras, including the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Australian String Quartet, Camerata and the Melbourne and Queensland Symphony Orchestras.
In 2011 Joe co-founded the innovative duo with violinist Zoë Black. The duo has performed at all the major festivals in Australia and recorded 3 ARIA nominated CDs, (RE-IMAGININGS , DIDO’S LAMENT and their re-versioning of the THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, premiering the latter at Carnegie Hall in 2015. The duo made their debut Italian performance at the Spinacorona Festival in Naples, at the invitation of renowned pianist, Michele Campanella in 2018.
In 2016 he ventured the realm of theatre as a composer, collaborating with Steve Vizard to create the highly acclaimed one-woman musical – Vigil – for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, starring Christie Whelan Brown.
Recent highlights include the premiere of his Concerto for Drums and Orchestra (2018), commissioned and performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the premiere of his Concerto for Orchestra (2021) for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and the performance of his work This House (2018) – for string orchestra- for the centenary of Australia House, London (Commissioned by the Australian High Commissioner in London and performed in the presence of HRH Prince Charles in November 2018).
In May 2022 the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra premiered his Ligeia – Concerto for Trombone & Orchestra, written for ASO Principal Colin Prichard and commissioned by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. In the same month, the premiere performance of his Principia Clarinettica – commissioned by the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra – was given by associate principal clarinettist Philip Arkinstall and string quartet.
In 2022 Joe was added to the Queen’s birthday honours list and awarded an order of Australia for his services to music and the performing arts – OAM
https://www.facebook.com/events/2687078791465703/

Join JMQ Jazz Ensemble for an evening of jazz magic on Thursday, MAY 23, 2024, at the welcoming GOLDEN GATE HOTEL in South Melbourne at 7pm. Jazz songstress Anastasia Aspeling takes the stage, accompanied by guest saxophonist, Hector Harley, with Tony Floyd, Kim May, Michael Harding, and John Montesante. Tickets: www.trybooking.com/COBWU
ANASTASIA is a wonderful jazz artist with a captivating stage presence, and an extensive and versatile career – interstate and international. Over recent years Anastasia has embraced her jazz and soul roots, and JMQ is always delighted to feature her gifts.
HECTOR is a Melbourne-based tenor saxophonist who specialises in improvisatory music of both the American and Australian traditions. A recipient of the Marion Thomas Award for excellence in 2018, Hector has recently completed his honours in Jazz Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts. As a guest with JMQ, he will participate in repertoire from the American Songbook, standards and bebop. We are delighted to introduce him to our audience.
Prepare to be immersed in the world of jazz as these outstanding musicians come together for an evening of musical joy.. Doors and dinner from 6.30pm. Live Jazz 7pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/811044500922393/

DOORS 6.30PM // KITCHEN OPEN // LIVE MUSIC FROM 7.30PM
Get your Groove shoes on & grease up the hair…….
Step back in time at Brunswicks award winning Grand ballroom & Rock the whole night long to the best and the greatest of the 50’s & 60’s Rock N Roll.
Our Charity Groove night of raising funds to aid vital cancer researches, The Vincents will have you Spinning, flipping and Twirling with over 3 decades of rocking out groves from the best and Greatest Rock n Roll Artists of All time!
The Rock N Roll Piano Man , Ezra Lee and his Boogie Woogie Bass Guy Ray West will TEAR up the brunswicks Noise barrier as he Shreads the keys of the ballrooms Grand piano with a wild and high energy set that will ABSOLUTELY ROCK YOU!!
A Gala event with a full evening of entertainment for you, with giveaways, dance competition, live Auction, raffles, door prizes. Best dressed prizes plus more!!
Getcha Rokken Grooves and dress to impress!!!
Tickets
$45 – General Admission
$85 Admission + Reserved Seating + Meal
This is a fundraiser for the Cancer Council of Australia
Rock N Roll Rhonda – is a Fundraiser for the Cancer Council with The Vincents and Ezra Lee playing the greatest 50s and 60s rock n roll…
https://www.facebook.com/events/1093409301805170/

In 2023, Tori Forsyth released two new singles taking us back to her roots; “Sometimes (feat. Shane Nicholson)” and “Made Your Bed”, secured another Golden Guitar nomination for Vocal Collab of the Year for “Sometimes” with Shane & toured with Jackson Dean as well as playing at Gympie Muster and Groundwater Country Music Festival.

2024 will see Tori Forsyth come out of the gates firing with a brand new single & album announce. The single, “Good Enough” has mentor and friend Kasey Chambers on backing vocals adding a beautiful layer to the song
Tori’s forthcoming third studio album, “All We Have Is Who We Are”, is due for release on May 3. When asked to describe her third album, All We Have Is Who We Are, Tori Forsyth says just one word: “exhale”.
You will be able to catch Tori and her band at The Tote for her album launch show, bringing you all the classics as well as showcasing the new record.
For those unfamiliar with Tori, think, Fleetwood Mac X Dolly Parton.
https://www.facebook.com/events/418659287249145/