Friday 7 February 2025 – MEMO Music Hall, St Kilda
Saturday 8 February 2025 – Theatre Royal, Castlemaine
Sunday 9 February 2025 – Brunswick Ballroom
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Tom Waits’ ‘Rain Dogs’ with ‘10 Years of Tom’ is an homage to Tom Waits from 1977-1987. It will be performed in a huge weekend of performances from 7 to 9 February 2025 at MEMO Music Hall in St Kilda, the Theatre Royal Castlemaine and the Brunswick Ballroom.
Tom Waits has captivated fans for four decades with his gritty storytelling and eclectic mix of genres. This two-hour show is performed by an eclectic mix of Melbourne’s musicians who are performing together for the first time – Dave Graney, Lachlan Bryan, Brooke Taylor, Delsinki and Maggie Alley.
They are backed by an all-star band featuring Ben Franz (The Waifs), Holly Thomas (Quivers), Stacey Gray (Trial Kennedy) and Ania Reynolds (Circus OZ).
The concert promises an immersive journey through the darkly poetic and soulful world of Waits, featuring classics like ‘Downtown Train’, ‘Clap Hands’ and ‘Jockey Full of Bourbon’.
The audience will experience the raw emotion and enigmatic spirit of Waits’ music through his unique blend of jazz, blues, and avant-garde rock.
Dave Graney said, “I am looking forward to a lot of collaborations in 2025 and going further. This show is a way for me to play with some people I would never normally cross paths with. All concentrating on some material by Tom Waits, an artist who continues to have a long career.
“I have always enjoyed the ‘Foreign Affairs’ album from 1976/7and am doing a couple of songs from that (along with some later selections). It was a time when Tom Waits still lived in a motel in LA and toured constantly, an odd and outstanding presence in the 70s rock scene, a scene which was nothing but oddities. From a time when he was struggling but filled with ambition to realise his peculiar post war pre rock’n’roll bebop vision”.
DATE: Friday 7 February 2025
TIMES: Doors 7.00PM, Showtime 8.00PM
TICKETS: $59/49/39+bf Online, $65/55 at the Door www.memomusichall.com.au
VENUE: MEMO Music Hall, 88 Acland Street St Kilda
DATE: Saturday 8 February 2025
TIMES: Doors 7.00PM, Showtime 7:30PM
TICKETS: $59.90 from https://theatreroyalcastlemaine.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/034ecc48-2645-4933-8f61-cf8f3744b1e4
VENUE: Theatre Royal, 30 Hargraves Street, Castlemaine
DATE: Sunday 9 February 2025
TIMES: Doors 7.00PM, Showtime 8PM
TICKETS: $59 from https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1315783
VENUE: Brunswick Ballroom, 314 Sydney Rd, Brunswick
