The East Brunswick Club

GIG GUIDE

GIG GUIDE

Thursday
11 Mar

Uncle Earl (or the g'Earls) is an all-star, all-female, old-time string band, with songs ranging from high-energy fiddle tunes and dance numbers to haunting, ancient ballads. The five members of Uncle Earl write and perform original songs in old-time styles, utilising mandolin, guitar, claw-hammer banjo, harmonica, old-time fiddle and bass. Named in honor of the band members' mutual appreciation for Earl Scruggs and Steve Earle, Uncle Earl formed in 2000. Uncle Earl's latest CD, Waterloo, Tennessee, draws its sounds from the roots of string-band music, incorporating sounds from Scotch-Irish ballads and Celtic fiddle tunes. The disc, produced by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, is one of the best old-time albums to come out in recent years.
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Tickets On The Door

| $20 conc/ $30 full price at the door if still available

Doors 8.00

Friday
12 Mar

Eilen Jewell is a hot new name in the United States Americana genre, this Boston-based alternative country singer-songwriter is sweeping all before her as her albums receive huge attention and her live performances are winning her new fans at every show she plays. Eilen is touring Australia for the first time with her longtime band of Jason Beek (drums, harmony vocals), Jerry Miller (electric, acoustic, and steel guitars), and Johnny Sciascia (upright bass) who wed her elegantly unflinching songwriting with a rustic, pre-Beatles swagger that encapsulates vintage R&B, Midwestern garage rock, Chicago blues, and early rock and rockabilly, while maintaining the haunting, folk-inspired purity that first made her an artist to watch. Tickets are available at www.brunswickmusicfestival.com.au at the website link below.
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SOLD OUT!

| SOLD OUT!

Doors 8.30

BMF presents COLLARD, GREENS & GRAVY (10.30-12.30) with Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson (9.00-10.00) Saturday
13 Mar

Collard, Greens & Gravy formed in Melbourne in 1995 by Ian Collard, perform original and blues standards in the style of classic country and swamp blues much reminiscent of RL Burnside, and Blind Willie Johnson. The band, have twice represented Australia in the international blues challenge in Memphis Tennesee, their most recent appearance being in February of last year. Collard Greens & Gravy are very Brunswick, very edgy, jagged, original and authentic in equal measures. In 2008 they won the VicTas blues awards for best band and their brilliant CD Devil in the Woodpile was easily the best Australian blues release of the year.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $16 conc/$25 full price at the door if still available Doors 8.30

Sunday
14 Mar

Come and join the friends, family and fellow band-mates of Darren Jones for the launch of an album which features some of the best work from his prolific career. Darren Jones was a brilliant guitarist and vocalist who was tragically murdered in a random attack in February 2006. Sunday March 14 is a day before his birthday, so come on down and celebrate the life and music of this great musician and friend. All proceeds from the CD, which retail for $25, will go toward a trust fund for Darren's son Jett who is now 5, and entry is by a minimum $5 donation which will also go toward the trust fund.
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Tickets at the door

| $5 on the door only

Doors 2.30

SKIPPING GIRL VINEGAR with Goodnight Owl and Snowy Belfast Thursday
18 Mar

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 about bands in Australia today. The band is compromised of brother/sister duo Mark and Sare Lang and their respective childhood friends Chris Helm and Amanthi Lynch. Skipping Girl Vinegar maintain an obsession with melody & pop-hooks; a dark, warm, organic sound, reflecting the environments and journey of the band. SGV has played many of Australia's premier festivals including The Falls Festival 2008, Sunset Sounds 2009 and the Port Fairy Folk Festival and have supported the likes of Bob Evans, The Lemonheads (USA), Something for Kate, Shout Out Louds (Sweden), Little Birdy, Missy Higgins, Angus & Julia Stone, Kate Miller-Heidke, Weddings Parties Anything (reunion tour) and many more.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $20 at the door if still available Doors 8.00

BMF presents ANGIE HART with Kate Vigo & The Underground Orchestra Friday
19 Mar

Singer-songwriter Angie Hart rose to fame with the Melbourne-based alt- pop band 'Frente' which formed in 1991, selling more than a million records worldwide and changing the face of pop music and radio formatting in Australia. Since those days she's performed in the bands Splendid and Holidays on Ice and performed her music on worldwide smash TV shows such as 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'. Angie's sophomore solo album, the recently released 'Eat My Shadow', was recorded with ARIA-Award winning producer Shane Nicholson and mixed by Nash Chambers. It has received unanimous critical acclaim from every corner, with The Age decrying: "Her writing has evolved into a seamless expression of wisdom and craft" and that "Hart's voice has never sounded so effortless". That voice remains one of the most singular in Australia, often-imitated but never bettered.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $18 conc/$27 full price at the door if still available Doors 8.30

BMF presents BARONS OF TANG with Croque Monsieur Saturday
20 Mar

Spawned from the fiery pits of Melbourne's underground theatre scene, The Barons of Tang first performed with notorious local company The Black Lung Theatre. With the taste of blood on their lips, a merciless 2 years of gigging followed taking them to varied locations from playing under a bridge to the Regent Theatre, from the Cape York to Alice to hometown Melbourne, leaving a trail of battered dance floors across the nation. Lashing Tango, Rockabilly, Latin and Gypsy with breaks, hard-hitting guitar riffs, double kick blast beats and massive horn arrangements The Barons of Tang serve up their self described gypsy 'deathcore'. With accordion, double bass, saxophone and tuba to name just a few, the 6 piece Melbourne outfit bend mainly traditional gypsy and tango feels played in the most inappropriate and bastardised ways. The catchy tunes and punk ethos all tie together to mean one thing, dancing is inevitable!
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $16 conc/$25 full price at the door if still available Doors 8.30

BMF presents TRUCKSTOP HONEYMOON (USA) with Sarah Carroll & The Blue Tinsel Sunday
21 Mar

Katie Euliss learned guitar, piano and bucket bass in the streets of New Orleans. She scammed enough money from tourists to buy Lucky Strikes and smoked oysters for six years. Then she met Mike West. Part entertainer, part snake oils salesman, Mike lived by pickin' banjo and selling cds that he claimed were a curative for hangovers and small mindedness. Together they began a perpetual tour of North America, Europe and Australia. They spent their wedding night in the Tiger Truck Stop, somewhere between Lafayette and the Atchafalya Swamp. Truckstop Honeymoon was born. They play banjos and wash tubs. They sing about adultery and oil refineries. It's break-neck breakdowns or heart-break waltzes. Like a Dodge with a burnt out clutch, their music has two speeds and no reverse.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $16 conc/$25 full price at the door if still available Doors 7.30

THE WILSON PICKERS (QLD/VIC) with GEORGIA FIELDS Thursday
25 Mar

The Wilson Pickers are an all-star interstate musical collaboration, better known as Queenslanders Danny Widdicombe, Ben Salter, Andrew Morris, and Victorians Sime Nugent and John Bedggood. The band formed after a crazy idea of uniting in the vague hope of inventing a bluegrass-style band. The Pickers creates an earthy energy by using purely organic stringed and reeded instruments. After gathering an initial repertoire of cover songs from artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Flatt and Scruggs, Steve Earle, Dolly Parton, Paul Kelly and Bob Dylan, The Wilson Pickers have bravely undertaken the task of writing their own material with much success. So much success that it was decided they should make a record to establish the existence of the band. A studio in Brisbane's Samford valley was acquired, and in three short days the album was in the can featuring 11 original compositions, all recorded live in the same room, one of them (Cold River) already winning a gong in last year's prestigious Qsong awards.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $15 at the door if still available Doors 8.00

MARY GAUTHIER (USA) with The Baker Suite (SA) - SELLING FAST! Friday
26 Mar

Alt-country singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier exploded onto the scene in 1999 following her self-released sophomore effort, 'Drag Queens in Limousines'. Her breakthrough album, 'Mercy Now' (2005) was continuously lauded for the two years following its release, earning mentions on a score of year end 'best of' lists in '05. Her most recent release, 'Between Daylight and Dark' (2007) has been called 'a triumph that should catapult her to the forefront of Americana singer/songwriters.' Joining Mary Gauthier at the East will be The Baker Suite in what will form part of their album launch for 'A Quartet for Car Horns and Brakes'. Straight from the heart and reminiscent of a smoky, French cafe, guitarist and vocalist John Baker and accordionist Gayle Buckby create a seductive and potent world full of compelling stories and lush instrumentation, carrying the listener through elegant ballads, gypsy reggae and a lurching night waltz in the rain.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $TBC at the door if still available Doors 8.30

BLACK & WHITE with Midnight Circus, Gamble Avenue and special guests Saturday
27 Mar

Come check out Black and White perform their slick pop grooves live at the EBC on Saturday March 27, in conjunction with the launch of their video clip/debut single 'And Then some.' New album 'The New Republic' available soon on itunes. With supports Midnight Circus et.al.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $TBC on the door if still available Doors 8.30

KEVIN DEVINE (USA) with special guests - SELLING FAST! Monday
29 Mar

Kevin Devine's ability to speak clearly through riddle filled sentences is second to none. An admitted disciple of the late Elliott Smith, Kevin Devine has mastered Smith's penchant for disarmingly lovely melodies that mask a brooding desperation. This is nowhere more evident than on Brothers Blood. Ever the verbose wordsmith and always teeming with hostility, passion and acumen, Devine has refined his vision and is more pointed and more critical than ever before. 'This is Devine at his most captivating, creating a mood that leaves you mesmerised.' - Alter The Press. The singer songwriter, troubadour, philosopher and alt rock's most likable man, Mr Kevin Devine will be playing an intimate club show at The East on the back of his performances on tour with Brand New.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $TBC on the door if still available Doors 8.00

PATTY LARKIN (USA) with special guests Tuesday
30 Mar

Patty Larkin grew up in a music and arts oriented family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Descended from a long line of Irish-American singers and taletellers, her mother is a painter, her sisters both musicians. She began classical piano studies at age 7, became swept up in the sounds of pop and folk in the 60s, studied jazz guitar at Berklee College of Music and with Boston Area jazz guitarists. Patty is a rare combination of talents. Over her 10 CD history, she has honed a reputation as a 'musician's musician', working with some of the brightest talents in American music. Long a favorite with critics, Patty is that unique level of artistic sophistication - one that her audiences have come to appreciate and her new fans will love. Patty Larkin has achieved a personal best with 'Watch the Sky.' The ever evolving artist has continued to search for a new voice, a fresh palate. Patty Larkin will be touring behind her 25th anniversary cd '25'. Watch the Sky. Watch Patty Larkin.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $33 at the door if still available Doors 7.30

Thursday
1 Apr

Canos return to playing live after a string of shows in January launching their debut self titled record. Expect acoustic sounds and vocal harmony aplenty as Canos with Siobhan take the stage at the East.
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Tickets at the door

| $10 at the door only

Doors 8.00

Friday
2 Apr

Four boys from a little country town, living in little rented houses, driving little old cars to a very big city. Spending all their money on all the wrong things.. Loitering in all the bad places, seen with all the bad faces.. and worst of all. Playing rock and roll! Their second EP, Goodbye, Goodnight, traces that journey. Produced by Greg Arnold (Things Of Stone And Wood) and Jeremy Giddings at Hothouse studios, Radio Star spent literally months working on the 5 tracks in an exhaustive effort to find the perfect sound. Taking influence from the new romantic era combined with modern day indie-pop, despite the title, Goodbye, Goodnight is definitely only the beginning.
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Tickets at the door

| $10 at the door only

Doors 8.00

NIAGARA & THE HITMEN (USA) 'St Valentine's Massacre' with special guests (Easter Monday Public Holiday Eve) Sunday
4 Apr

Detroit art punk rock queen Niagara will team with iconic rock and roll soldiers the Hitmen for The St Valentine's Day Massacre Tour, promoting the CD of the same name. Niagara made a name as the femme fatale of Detroit band Destroy All Monsters, whose ranks included late Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton. Destroy All Monsters released a string of singles and toured the US and England extensively in the late 1970s and early 80s, keeping alive the legacy of the Stooges. Her next band was Dark Carnival, a travelling carnival of high-energy underground artists. Membership included Niagara and Ron Asheton, as well as members of Stooges and Dead Boys. Since the 90s, Niagara has concentrated on her exploding career as a pop art painter, exhibiting to vast acclaim around the world. The tour will coincide with exhibitions at the Outre galleries in Melbourne and Sydney. Fans can expect a two-hour show comprising a Hitmen set followed by a high-energy bracket from Niagara, reprising songs from Destroy All Monsters, Dark Carnival and the Stooges. Anything could happen - and will. The 'St Valentine's Day Massacre' live album by Niagara & The Hitmen is out now on Savage Beat/Shock.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $25 at the door if still available Doors 8.00

BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT (USA) with Rio En Medio (USA) and Oren Ambarchi (Tickets from 17/1 date will be valid for the new date) Thursday
8 Apr

The Brightblack Morning Light tour has been moved to Thursday, April 8 at East Brunswick Club and all tickets purchased for the January show will be valid for the April show. Alternatively if you need a refund, please contact the East Brunswick Club box office on 9388 2777. We are really excited about this tour and promise it will be worth the wait! Mistletone is proud to present for the first time in Australia, the slow and hazy psychedelic jams of New Mexico's Brightblack Morning Light. Their dreamy, blissed out desert tones will be the perfect accompaniment to a hot summer. The band was founded by the gentle naturalist ND Shineywater, hailing from Alabama, birthplace of icons such as Sun Ra & Diana Ross. Shineywater since has moved to live a minimal life off the coal/nuclear grid in New Mexico, by using only four solar panels in his small adobe dwelling. For this tour Brightblack Morning Light will consist of Shineywater with two accompanists: Danielle Stech-Homsy (keyboards/vocals) who has released two fine solo albums under the name Rio en Medio, and Chanupa, a Native American artist percussionist who lives in the mountains nearby Shineywater's home. Plus, opening act by personal request of Brightblack Morning Light is iconic Melbourne sound artist, Oren Ambarchi.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $40 at the door if still available Doors 8.00

Friday
9 Apr

Gypsy Punk Cabaret and Pirate Blues Mayhem arrives at the East. Think about Tom Waits with a hangover at a Screamin' Jay Hawkins gig in New Orleans, playing music by Muddy Waters, Danny Elfman and Mike Patton...then you're getting close to Juke Baritone & the Swamp Dogs.
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Tickets at the door

| $18 at the door only

Doors 8.00

PHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY (NSW) with The John Steel Singers (QLD) and Teen Archer - SELLING FAST! Saturday
10 Apr

Fresh from the Laneway Festival tour Philadelphia Grand Jury announce a headline tour and new track 'I Don't Want To Party (Party)' from last year's J Award nominated debut, Hope is For Hopers. To support the single Philadelphia Grand Jury will be hitting the road throughout April for what will be their final Australian shows for the foreseeable future. The band will re-locate to the UK where they have a deal with super cool London based Beggar's label Too Pure and a series of club shows leading into the Northern Summer. The 'I Don't Want To Party (Party)' single package is released to iTunes on March 22nd 2010. The Philly Jays are bringing their effervescent pop and their beards to The East for 2 shows with special guests The John Steel Singers.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $22 at the door if still available Doors 8.30

PHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY (NSW) with The John Steel Singers (QLD) and Frowning Clouds - SELLING FAST! Sunday
11 Apr

Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $22 at the door if still available Doors 8.00

Friday
16 Apr

Fresh from headlining Rock The Bay's basement stage, Melbourne hard-rockers Aural Window will launch their sophomore EP 'Cocoons and Epitropos' at The East Brunswick Club on Friday April 16. The band has received much acclaim for their patented blend of melodic furor within a post-hardcore dynamic. The new EP promises a heavier, more elaborate sound, a departure from the pop vibe of their last recording. Joining them on stage are The Five Venoms who are uncompromising when it comes to dazzling the audience with their mix of classic rock, hard hitting riffs and symphonic guitarmageddon. Bands kick off at 9pm.
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Tickets at the door

| $12 at the door only

Doors 8.30

Saturday
17 Apr

One of Australia's must see live acts 'The Distance' are making their return to the East Brunswick Club to launch their brand new live EP 'Big towns to Outback sounds'. Recorded totally live, the guys decided to throw down some of the classic tunes that brought them to the style of music they play today. After releasing two studio albums, a plethora of singles and film clips and even a collaboration with Aussie rock legend James Reyne, the guys thought a live EP would be the perfect interlude before taking on a third studio album. Considered one of the most invigorating and fresh acts on today's Oz country rock scene, catch the guys at a rare inner city show.
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Tickets at the door

| $15 at the door only

Doors 8.30

JASON ISBELL (USA) with special guests Sunday
18 Apr

Jason Isbell, formerly a member of the Drive-By Truckers, is finally coming to Australia on the back of his second solo release 'Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit'. The album was co-produced by Isbell and his new band The 400 Unit with Matt Pence and recorded at the renowned Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Isbell, follows in the tradition of American songwriters who have recorded in North Alabama; Arthur Alexander, Eddie Hinton and Spooner Oldham, Isbell mixes a soulful vocal style with songs that are passionate and unrepentant in their sense of place and direct in their stubborn Southerness.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $35 on the door if still available Doors 8.00

Friday
23 Apr

More details soon
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Tickets at the door

| $15 at the door only

Doors 8.30

Saturday
24 Apr

Apocalyptic violence comes screaming across the ocean in the form of DIOCLETIAN! Last year saw the release of their eagerly anticipated full length album 'Doom Cult' and Obsidian Records is proud to be able to bring the live act to Australian shores! Adding to the aural onslaught will be Ignivomous, Destruktor and Sanguinary Misanthropia.
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Tickets at the door

| $12 at the door only

Doors 8.00

THE BATS (NZ) with Ross McLennan & The New World Sympathique and Milk Teddy (Anzac Day Public Holiday Eve) Sunday
25 Apr

Mistletone proudly presents The Bats, darlings of the New Zealand indie pop scene on their return tour following last year's sold out tour. The Bats are flag bearers for the legacy of the Flying Nun sound, yet their new music is vital and sparkling as ever. The band has never broken up and is touring in the original lineup of Robert Scott, Paul Kean, Kaye Woodward and Malcolm Grant. The Bats' latest album The Guilty Office (now in its second pressing on Mistletone and available locally through Inertia) was deemed 'as fine a collection of songs from the pen of Robert Scott as there ever was', and last year's shows won glowing reviews and adoring fans. Don't miss the return of The Bats at East Brunswick Club on April 25 (ANZAC day) with special guests Ross McLennan and The New World Symapthique and Milk Teddy.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $35 on the door if still available Doors 8.30

BOB BROZMAN (USA - two sets) Saturday
1 May

Bob Brozman is a guitarist like no other: an established and prolific recording artist, performer, producer, and author, Bob is a non-stop world traveler and tireless researcher in ethnomusicology. His work with musicians from around the world in the past several years has marked him as not only a virtuoso musician and slide guitarist, but also as a pioneer in finding a common thread among global musical cultures.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $35 on the door if still available Doors 8.30

THE CHILLS (NZ) with special guests - SELLING FAST! Friday
14 May

Mistletone is thrilled to announce The Chills returning to Australia for the first time in over 17 years. In the 1980s and 1990s, they were one of the proponents of the Dunedin/Flying Nun Sound. In 2009 they celebrated the 25 year anniversary of the seminal Pink Frost album.
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Tickets available from The East Box Office, on 9388 9794 or online | $38 at the door if still available Doors 8.30

Saturday
15 May

After 10 years, 4 studio albums, a handful of EPs, various festival appearances and hundreds of live shows around the country, Epicure has called it a day. Ballarat's most successful export over the past decade, Epicure has sold in excess of 30,000 CDs since the release of their debut album, 'Fold' back in 2000. Now in 2010, a band that has captured the hearts of so many fans with their emotive recordings and intense live performances over a 10 year period, Epicure release their grand finale … 'Quietly Into The Night - An Epicure Anthology' .The anthology includes Epicure's singles, favourite album tracks, B sides and a collection of videos and behind the scenes footage of what has been a career that many Australian bands would be damn proud to be able to call their own.
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On Sale Mon 15 Mar

| $15 + bf / $18 on the door

Doors 8.30