Pollyman is one to watch

Pollyman may not be an act that you’re familiar with, but you will be.

What’s on at The Palais-Hepburn

Closing out the year and welcoming 2020, The Palais-Hepburn are hosting a New Year’s Eve Masquerade Dance Party.

Celebrate the New Year on The Pier with Piano Bar

Prepare to sing at the top of your lung to all those guilty pleasures and make friendships for life.

Spend New Year’s Eve at the Bah

How is it almost New Year’s Eve again?

A moment with Sleuth (aka Melissa Francis)

Release: Alter Ego is out now.

Weave through the grasslands at the Nightjar Festival in 2020

Is there a better way to spend a balmy summer evening than by heading to a night festival?

Grampians Music Festival 2020: Four years of big mountains, huge sounds

Heading back to the beautiful Grampians National Park in February for its fourth year in a row, the Grampians Music Festival (GMF) has a huge line-up of outstanding Australian up and coming artists for 2020.

Summer Sundays returns to Ballarat in 2020

Sunshine, good music and a handful of your closest mates; is there a better recipe for a good time?

The search is on for Geelong’s Best Busker

Not only do buskers get their name out there, share their music and get to enjoy the vibrant atmosphere, but there’s a range of prizes to be won, with a prize pool in excess of $1000, including an opportunity to play live on Pulse radio, and the opportunity to play at a number of festivals and public events.

Spend Boxing Day with Lambys

Over in Geelong, Boxing Day is all about tradition, and that means treatin’ yourself to a few Mario Karts and at good ol’ Lambys.

Take a Chance on Mind The Moon

Australian audiences will be able to hear some of the tracks from ‘Mind The Moon’ live when Milky Chance return down under for Falls Festival.

Grampians Music Festival: The Buoys & Maddy Jane

To celebrate the return of this absolute showcase of the best new bands making music all over the country, we passed the baton and got Maddy Jane and The Buoys to interview each other!

Dandecat provide an escape in time with ‘Kaleidoscope Mind’

Self-described as “unlabelled” and “fusion music”, the four-piece band feature powerful riffs, back-beats and vocal layers on their debut EP ‘Kaleidoscope Mind’.

Five minutes with Rama Jordon

Centred around his classical and Brazilian Jazz guitar style and unique voice, Geelong’s Rama Jordon’s music and performances are diverse and dynamic.

Casey Bennetto’s Swinging Bella’s Christmas

Fun is exactly what A Swingin’ Bella’s Christmas is about so unbox your Santa hats and Christmas sweaters (because let’s face it, this summer hasn’t been much chop so far), and in Arctic Monkey’s fashion, get on your dancing shoes – Christmas has come early!

Bakers Daughter aka Alyce Platt

Melbourne’s Bakers Daughter (aka Alyce Platt) has returned, but for this artist, everything is new. Reframing her past, Bakers Daughter presents her original music and artistic pursuits through the lens of the Indie-pop artist she is so highly regarded as by her peers and critics alike.

Ring in the New Year with Bluestone Blues Festival

Hosted annually by Geelong’s own Sleepy Hollow Blues Club, this well-loved two-day festival is one of the friendliest going around, bringing quality blues musicians from across the country to our own back door – a door only 20km out of Geelong!

A Grumpy Celtic Christmas

No need to flinch – there is not even a pinch of a Grinch in sight, despite the name of Claymore’s Christmas collaboration with Order Of Australia recipient Eric Bogle and the Glenbrae Celtic Dancers!

Get loose and get merry at Lambys this Christmas

There’s only so many times you can listen to Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas’.

Cosmo’s Midnight To Get Your Heads Dancing

Sydney producers, Cosmo’s Midnight, will be taking over the decks at Barwon Heads Hotel post-Christmas day as part of the annual Dancing Heads Music Festival, alongside Bag Raiders, Cassian and Dean Turnley.

Resisting the Fall

If you think you’re too metal for Meredith, get along to the show Saturday 14 December at The Eastern.

Destruktor Blaze up with new Bassist

Like a fine whiskey, Destruktor only gets better with age. 22 years since their first demo (on cassette, remember those?) and four years on from their second full-release Opprobrium, Destruktor are kicking back into action for BLAZE Geelong December 7th hosted by the Barwon Club.

Blaze is bringing Garlic Nun to town

Her Highness and Resist Promotions present Blaze, a festival of musical delights that takes place at the Barwon Club on December 7.

Kikx are back!

Long disbanded Geelong band KIKX are back and have just released an album, with 11 tracks written back in the day, and recorded in the now. We chat to vocalist and guitarist Monty Osewald.

 

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