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Chase Atlantic’s Melbourne all-ages show sold out in under 40 mins and due to popular demand, the show has now been upgraded to Arrow on Swanston with tickets on sale now. All tickets for Wrangler Studios are valid for the new venue.

Tickets for all remaining shows are selling fast.

From humble beginnings in their hometown, Cairns to worldwide acclaim and ferocious sets on some of the planet’s biggest stages, alt-pop trio Chase Atlantic return to Australia in November for a string of headline shows in support of their second album, Phases.

Chase Atlantic formed in 2014 with brothers Mitchel Cave and Clinton alongside their best friend, Christian Anthony. The viral single Friends caught the ears of Good Charlotte’s Joel and Benji Madden, who signed Chase Atlantic to their esteemed LA-based music company, MDDN, in 2016. They released a pair of EPs and a self-titled debut LP in 2017, leading to an endless string of sold-out headline shows and tours around the world, including festival slots at Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Firefly, Reading & Leeds, and Vans Warped Tour.

Hot off the heels of the release of their latest album Future Ruins earlier this year, which saw them stamp their authority
as the OG purveyors of widescreen psychedelic shoegaze, Swervedriver are ready to land back Down Under this
September brandishing their latest long player full of molten riffs and a sonic roadtrip through the depths of their back
catalogue stretching back almost 30 years.

Forming in Oxford in 1989, Swervedriver were thrown headlong into the forefront of UK underground music, soon
signing to Alan McGee’s legendary Creation Records and releasing their seminal debut EP, Son of Mustang Ford in
1990. This began a prolific period of touring and releasing records, with albums Raise and Mezcal Head defining the
heavier end of the shoegaze spectrum, and elevating them to the guitar pedal stomping pantheon inhabited by fellow
luminaries such as Ride and Slowdive. Amidst personnel issues and management changes the core team of frontman
Adam Franklin and fellow guitar arc welder Jimmy Hartridge maintained an astonishing work ethic that saw EPs,
albums and tours completed at a prodigious rate until the band screeched to a halt at the end of 1998.

The eight year hiatus only saw the absence make the hearts of fans both old and new grow fonder as they returned
triumphantly to the live scene at Coachella in 2008 followed by a number of US, UK and Australian tours. Firm
favourites on Australian shores, Swervedriver last toured to ecstatic crowds three years ago in support of their first postreformation album I Wasn’t Born To Lose You, with the wait now almost over for those looking to experience the
spellbinding fuzzed out crackle and crunch of Future Ruins.

A product of its time, Future Ruins, doesn’t find the band settling in the middle age; rather it ventures from a bleak
primal scream to a knowing introspection as they contemplate the modern dystopia we find ourselves mired in and kick
out as only they know how – channelling simultaneous despair and resignation through coruscating yet tender walls of
six string noise. Pack a set of earplugs and prepare for an epic night of sonic bliss.

Premier Artists Presents…
SWERVEDRIVER AUSTRALIAN TOUR SEPTEMBER 2019

Thursday 19th September 2019 – Croxton Bandroom, Melbourne VIC Tickets
Friday 20th September 2019 – Manning Bar, Sydney NSW Tickets
Saturday 21st September 2019 – The Zoo, Brisbane QLD Tickets
Sunday 22nd September 2019 – Rosemount Hotel, Perth WA Tickets
Tickets on-sale Tuesday 18th June, 9AM AEST.

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Bass Drum of Death are heading back to Australia for the first time in over four years this October to bring their
primordial garage quicksand to Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong, along with exclusive intimate headline
shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Since their now legendary Australian tour in 2015 on a heavyweight triple bill with DZ Deathrays and Hockey Dad,
which saw them packing out venues over multiple night stands, the band have solidified their lineup, overcome
personal issues and made themselves at home in New York City as one of the leading lights of the city’s feedback
soaked lo-fi garage scene. It’s no surprise either, that as US tour mates of Royal Blood after a chance meeting at a
Hollywood strip bar, the likeminded groups collaborated on the single, Lights Out which led off the Blood’s 2017
album, How Did We Get So Dark.

Starting with a prodigious output of solo project lo-fi garage rock that echoed the sounds emanating from the dive
bars of NYC 20 years ago, Mississippi native John Barret’s Bass Drum of Death are now a live performance and
touring juggernaught. Since forming in 2008, and releasing their debut EP Stain Stick Skin on the tastemaking Fat
Possum Records; the band’s touring lineup has evolved from Barrett solo playing a bass drum and guitar to the
searing, raw live experience they deliver with a drums and two guitar attack these days.

Latest album, last year’s Just Business, has seen the band take massive steps in the scope and scale of their
sound, with the claustrophobic fits of their earlier releases now amplified into a reverb soaked widescreen
panorama, with Barret positioned as the evangelist preacher leading a schizophrenic sermon that takes musical
cues from The Hives to The Buzzcocks, The White Stripes to The Only Ones with the odd genuflection to The
Cramps thrown in for good measure.

Locally, while garnering many fans with triple j support for their early releases, the band’s fanbase is diverse, with
many discovering BDoD through the use of their songs on computer games such as Grand Theft Auto, and in the
soundtracks to Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, and The Vampire Diaries to name but a few. An incandescent live
experience, however, is their forte – don’t miss the chance to catch these shows.
Premier Artists & Out Of The Loop Presents…

BASS DRUM OF DEATH | AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2019

Thursday 3rd October 2019 – The Curtin, Melbourne VIC – Tickets
Friday 4th October 2019 – The Lansdowne, Sydney NSW – Tickets
Saturday 5th October 2019 – Yours & Owls Festival, Wollongong NSW – Tickets
Sunday 6th October 2019 – Crowbar, Brisbane QLD – Tickets
Tickets on-sale Thursday 6th June 2019, 9AM AEST

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WA’s finest The Southern River Band continue to tease the release of their upcoming second album Rumour and Innuendo with the brand new single “Second Best” out now!

Showing their melodic side, “Second Best” is a hooky slice of 70’s FM rock with tight-ass harmonies and of course the band’s patented tasty guitar work courtesy of lead vocalist, guitar slinger and in-house stand-up Cal Kramer.

The song’s video, directed by Steve Browne and shot by Drew Kendell, features an amazing retro themed wrestling drama where try as he might, our hero Cal does indeed only manage to come off second best.

As renowned Melbourne rock ‘n’ roll man about town and Cherry Rock impresario James Young attests, “Second Best has soul, swagger and power-pop sensibilities. Don’t let anyone say that The Southern River Band sound like The Darkness or Lynyrd Skynyrd. They don’t.”

With a video for “Second Best” due on release, more new music on the way and some big news to come SRB are stepping it up in 2019 and ready to take on the world.

Young concludes, “When I think of Southern River Band I think of Countdown on the ABC in the 70s. Colour, movement, magic and a guaranteed global smash hit.”

The Southern River Band 
Second Best Video and Single Launch
Friday, 19 July 2019, from 8pm
Indian Ocean Hotel, 23-27 Hastings Street, Scarborough

Upcoming Shows At Vinnies Diver Bar

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OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE

FROM 1968 TO NOW: THE NGV ON ST KILDA ROAD

Saturday 27 July, 11am-12pm | NGV International | Booking required, free entry

Built in 1968, the NGV building on St Kilda Rd set new standards for exhibition layout, art storage and conservation, and represented a new era in the arts and public architecture. Discover the story behind the NGV’s relocation to St Kilda Rd on a special tour as part of Open House Melbourne.

ARCHITECTURE INSTALLASTIONS AT THE NGV

Sunday 28 July, 11am-12.30pm | NGV Australia & NGV International | Booking required, free entry

NGV Senior Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture Ewan McEoin leads audiences on a tour of three installations at the NGV for Open House Melbourne, including John Wardle Architect’s Somewhere Other, SO – IL: Viewing China and the 2018 Architecture Commission Doubleground. This program begins at NGV Australia and includes a ten minute walk from NGV Australia to NGV International.

NGV FRIDAY NIGHTS

NGV Friday Nights returns this winter for the 2019 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. This season features the best of Australia’s vibrant musical talent, exclusive late-night access to theTerracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality and Cai Guo-Qiang: The Transient Landscape exhibition, bars and dumplings in the pop-up Hutong Dumpling Bar.

Upcoming performances include:

RAINBOW CHAN

Friday 26 July, 6pm-10pm | NGV International | Booking required, fees apply

Rainbow Chan is a singer, producer and multi-disciplinary artist who has built a reputation with her idiosyncratic brand of pop and vibrant aesthetics. Drawing on nostalgia, diaspora and her Chinese heritage – the result is­­ a collage of seemingly disparate sounds and cultures. Chan has toured extensively including performances at the Sydney Opera House, Iceland Airwaves, Vivid, Mona Foma and Melbourne Music Week, and received two SMAC Award nominations for Best Live Act and Record of the Year.

KIRA PURU

Friday 2 August, 6pm-10pm | NGV International | Booking required, fees apply

Performer, photographer, visual artist, DJ and vocal powerhouse Kira Puru continues to prove herself as a force to be reckoned with. Recognised for her dynamic live performances and genre-defying writing style, the recent single Molotov charted in triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2018, and was released as part of her debut self-titled EP which also features breakthrough single Tension.

SKETCHING THE SOULS OF THE WARRIORS

Saturday 2 August, 8am-10.30am | NGV International | Booking required, fees apply

Local artist Filomena Coppola leads a private drawing session beneath Cai Guo-Qiang’s monumental installation Murmuration (Landscape), a flock of 10,000 porcelain starlings described by Cai Guo-Qiang as the ‘souls of the warriors in the sky’. Working with pencil, explore the tonal range of light and dark and create evocative works that draw inspiration from the texture and detail of Cai Guo-Qiang’s installation. Participants are invited to a private viewing of Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality and Cai Guo-Qiang: The Transient Landscape from 8–9am, before the drawing session begins.

Facilitator Filomena Coppola is a Melbourne based artist and teacher whose work explores migration, cultural loss and role of the feminine. As an educator, she loves teaching drawing and exploring the personal connection between the hand of the maker and the emotion carried through the work.