Melbourne-based artist, songwriter & producer Maxine Gillon has made a name for herself with her melodic, lush & plaintive songwriting that introjects the energy and literacy of the rich countercultural history of alternative music into a contemporary eclectic form. Across both vivacious pop songs and ethereal ballads, there’s no mistaking her signature sound once you hear it.

Catch her performing in various incarnations from solo acoustic, drum machine and effects as well as with her full band every Sunday in April from 7th - 28th.

Sunday 7th April (solo) w/ Molly McKew
Sunday 14th April w/ Popular Music
Sunday 21st April w/ CCTV
Sunday 28th April w/ Ricky Albeck

$10 each week

! HEADLINER ALERT !

We are so excited to be sharing the stage with @pettherapyband and our good friends @thetaunts at SATURDAY 13TH OF APRIL AT THE OLD BAR

$10 tickets available at the door only

DOORS: 8:00
PET THERAPY: 9:00
THE TAUNTS: 10:00
LMC: 11:00

Even more excited to be working with @ghutterghoul on some incredible new poster artwork as well as some other exciting projects coming soon… make sure to check them out (we couldn’t choose a colour way so we chose them all)

we had such a fun time playing here in february and hope to get an even bigger turnout

poster artwork: @ghutterghoul @thictacs

Lazy Dingo are back with super special friends Second Hand High and Chloe Booth, for what is promised to be the most epic of gigs. The Dingo’s have been cooking up some new original material for a few months now and are absolutely foaming from the mouth to show ya!

Friday the 12th of April is a date that should be double, triple and quaddie crossed off on ya calendar becuase this cannot be missed.

Doors at 8pm

See you there!!

Dogworld strike a mercurial sound balancing heavy post-punk, country, and jazz sonics with strong melodic intuition.
The four-piece have made waves in Ngunnawal/Canberra since forming in 2021, with their trademark raw, energetic performance style. Now based in Naarm/Melbourne, Dogworld is quickly becoming an underground Aussie favorite. Releases scheduled for this year will mark Dogworld as a vital act to watch in 2024.

With support from Gush and Private Mountain

Old School at the Old Bar

Come and watch
An Old School 70s style campaign in the early basic version of the great game which celebrates its 50th Anniversary. Before computer games. All you had was your dice and a sharp pencil.

Audience Participation:
Express the fickle will of capricious Gods when the players call upon the Will of the Gods - will you grant divine curse or favour?

with your ethically sourced Dungeon Master STALE MATE - who does take bribes

Catch New Zealand's ROBOTS IN LOVE before they return to the land of the long white cloud!

ROBOTS IN LOVE - Robots in Love infuse intense emotion into electronic music. Their unique sound combines heavy guitar and drums with layers of synths and sub-bass and melodic vocals from Elenor Rayner (Sobriquet, The Crystalline Effect). Elenor will be joined on the night by guitarist Mik Thornley and Carlos on drums.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0MyOG7EvRVbimlEvzLTeJG

Supporting them on the night are:

SUBURBAN SPELL - Suburban Spell combines austere 80’s new wave sensibilities, driving rhythms, and some noisy shoe gaze grind. Influenced by the heyday of new wave and ’70’s-’80’s electronica, this music carries the imprints of Ultravox, OMD, Visage, Jean-Michel Jarre, Gary Numan, and New Order. Suburban Spell is the project of Peter Endall playing keys and taking on lead vocal’s, joined live with Johnny B on guitar and Jack on bass. Despite its breezy, ethereal dance nature, the lyrics delve into the complex nature of human belief systems, religious or otherwise and they employ stark, dystopian minimalism to explore the frailty hidden behind the suburban ideal’s pristine veneer.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7vbdKqJ1S2dKJmxdLgHlnV...

PALLIATIVE - The darkwave/synthpop bastard son of The Sisters of Mercy & VNV Nation, bringing songs of death, dying, loss and grief.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6QU7TNMjwcsr2K0qfCAFEF...

Expansion Delfina Marso Exhibition bio

"Expansión," a collection of artworks created in Naarm over the past 4 months. Art, for

me, is complete freedom, a medium through which I can express what I feel and think. I

enjoy exploring movements and textures, playing with colors and visual effects. That's

why in this exhibition, you'll see paintings illuminated with UV lights, and others more

abstract where you can appreciate their details and textures with warm lighting

I look forward to seeing you!

With love, @hiperatigs

Melbourne-based artist, songwriter & producer Maxine Gillon has made a name for herself with her melodic, lush & plaintive songwriting that introjects the energy and literacy of the rich countercultural history of alternative music into a contemporary eclectic form. Across both vivacious pop songs and ethereal ballads, there’s no mistaking her signature sound once you hear it.

Catch her performing in various incarnations from solo acoustic, drum machine and effects as well as with her full band every Sunday in April from 7th - 28th.

Sunday 7th April (solo) w/ Molly McKew
Sunday 14th April w/ Popular Music
Sunday 21st April w/ CCTV
Sunday 28th April w/ Ricky Albeck

$10 each week

After a huge 2023 of releases including their 4th EP 'Learning Futures', Franjapan are kicking off 2024 with some remnants from that project, 'You Got Letters' and 'As I Take It Off'. These 2 singles were recording during the production of 'Learning Futures', and they are set to celebrate the release of this at the classic and iconic 'Old Bar' on April 6th, joined by Dinosaur Alan and Spencer O'Leary on the night.

Team Glasses Records Presents: World Peace (USA) & Cell Rot (USA) East Coast Tour of Australia with Histamine

Making noise since 2017, San Francisco powerviolence outfit WORLD PEACE will be touring the East Coast of Australia for the very first time this Autumn. Joining them is fellow Bay Area raging hardcore punk outfit CELL ROT along with the vicious hardcore of Sydney’s HISTAMINE.

The 3 bands will play ten shows across seven cities, sharing stages with some of the country’s finest hardcore-punk bands.

Since releasing their newest album ‘IT IS WRITTEN’ in mid-2023, WORLD PEACE has barely left the road, performing shows across the USA, Europe, UK and Japan.

Hailing from Oakland, CELL ROT have been delivering abrasive and raging hardcore since 2016 with releases through Convulse and Vitriol.

Sydney’s HISTAMINE round out this triple attack with their  stomping and snarling brand of hardcore-punk.

An incredible lineup at the Old Bar in Fitzroy this Thursday as Nick Robinson, Red Liquorice and Tha Musik take the stage. Fresh original music you won't want to miss.

Doors @ 8PM

Well well well, if it isn’t the sickest Line-up for a Wednesday night. With the street-lords @pleasersadhd and groove kings @graverisk.
You’re welcome //www.direneedhc.com

Cheeky b say a cheeky bye bye for now: taking a cheeky break from live performance while we finish that elusive debut album at Lily St Studios. We also say farewell to Pete and Rory as they finish up with us - all endings are a new beginning. Best of luck to the gents whilst we forge ahead with more nights of rock n roll.

Old Bar
Sunday March 31
$10+ BF presale
$15 door

Welcome and treasured guests help round out our evening, see you at the bar!

Mirror Clippers - to be seen, to be believed, to be heard, don't be deceived. Gouging the night open with a fistful of sound.

The Rayes - the third best alt rock band in Naarm.

Seth Henderson - a singer-songwriter from Tasmania, Australia bringing you stories from the bottom of the world, for better or worse, in no particular order.

Melbourne’s high speed rock 'n' rollers FLY! launch their dangerous debut 7” demo at the Old Bar on 30 March.

Joining FLY! will be hot rockin' heart-throbs AARDVARK and the mesmerizingly masochistic PERSECUTION BLUES.

ONE NIGHT ONLY! LIVE AND LOUD! BE THERE!

An evening of rock, postpunk, and dark electronic nourishment on Good Friday // $15 on the door.

Great Australian Bank is a bastardised Australiana / post-punk quartet hailing from Naarm (Melbourne). Drawing inspiration from the likes of The Church, Sonic Youth, Underground Lovers, and The Go-Betweens, Great Australian Bank channel a sound that is all parts angular, melodic and nostalgic.

Great Australian Bank are celebrating the launch of their second single 'What They Did' from their forthcoming album To The Dry.
Post-punk festivities take place at The Old Bar on 28th March with supports from local heavies Favoured State and Town Ace.

$10 Entry. Doors from 8:00pm. Bands from 9:00pm.

Old School at the Old Bar

Come and watch
An Old School 70s style campaign in the early basic version of the great game which celebrates its 50th Anniversary. Before computer games. All you had was your dice and a sharp pencil.

Audience Participation:
Express the fickle will of capricious Gods when the players call upon the Will of the Gods - will you grant divine curse or favour?

with your ethically sourced Dungeon Master STALE MATE - who does take bribes

JMC Academy Melbourne presents it's Mid-Trimester Ensemble Performance Assessments. Students will be performing a variety of covers and original songs that they have been rehearsing with their new bands since they started the trimester in February.

MORBID MONDAYS AT OLD BAR - MARCH 25th

FREE ENTRY - 8PM DOORS

COLOSTOMY BAGUETTE?
(GOREGRINDING POWER ELECTRONICS)

Colostomy Baguette? formed fifteen years ago by two old high school friends hoping to find the most aggressively straightforward way of making goregrind without the usual tools required for such a trade. Soon enough, things got much slower, they took a detour to simultaneously co-found Religious Observance, and then spent the next few years in a wilfully funereal space, incorporating soundscapes carved by a new London-based member and also carried the fading torch of another new member (who is now sadly departed). Having spent the better part of the last half decade in hiding, they’re now dusting off the cobwebs and stripping back the rig to add more rotten petrol to the harsh power electronics they’re known for.

https://colostomybaguette.bandcamp.com/

LSDOOM
(SLUDGE)

https://lsdoom.bandcamp.com/

LATIBULATE *FIRST SHOW*
(BLACKENEND SKRAMZ

Narrm (Melbourne) 3 piece are releasing their second studio album “Light Pollution” on 23rd March at The Old Bar. 

This full length album follows on from 2023’s EP ‘Lethargy’ and 2024’s ‘Live Sessions’. Signalling the bands unwavering dedication to chugging bass lines, unhinged guitars and infectious drum grooves. 

The trio will bring songs from their new 11 track release to life with support from their good mates Winternationale (post punk mayhem + soundscapes) and Valentiines (recently reformed and the absolute darlings of grunge + garage)

Be sure to get down early!

Combining forces across two special nights at Naarm’s legendary Old Bar, EGGY and Bad Bangs are teaming up to celebrate their latest releases with double surprise launch shows.

Running hot off their latest single 'Contest', Bad Bangs are back - offering a second course with forthcoming single 'Sympathy'. The oddball, angular pop track Sympathy humours the retrospect and delusion around a mild flirtation. Tongue in cheek lyrics and jarring rhythm makes for an unexpected turn on Bad Bangs rollicking train of garage rock. Toot toot next stop the Old Bar - all aboard 

Kicking into a new cinematic gear, EGGY have just shared ‘Open Field’. 

Written and intended as a three part odyssey, these seven minutes and fifty one seconds traverse through the sounds of a band who keep conviction as their touchstone. Taking notes from the Düsseldorf and Berlin schools of the 70’s, these drifting melodies and mechanistic rhythms hold court alongside the climactic intensity of a group forged by the 00’s New York underground. 

Self-releasing and distributing the track across a limited 7”, Open Field will be available for purchase at these shows.

Two nights, two bands, one (old) bar. Unmissable. 

Tickets are $10 for the first 24 hrs, then $15, then $20 on the door. 

Joined by:

The Bloody Norahs (Thursday 21 March)

Program (Friday 22 March)

EGGY  links here.

Instagram (@eggyband) 

Combining forces across two special nights at Naarm’s legendary Old Bar, EGGY and Bad Bangs are teaming up to celebrate their latest releases with double surprise launch shows.

Running hot off their latest single 'Contest', Bad Bangs are back - offering a second course with forthcoming single 'Sympathy'. The oddball, angular pop track Sympathy humours the retrospect and delusion around a mild flirtation. Tongue in cheek lyrics and jarring rhythm makes for an unexpected turn on Bad Bangs rollicking train of garage rock. Toot toot next stop the Old Bar - all aboard 

Kicking into a new cinematic gear, EGGY have just shared ‘Open Field’. 

Written and intended as a three part odyssey, these seven minutes and fifty one seconds traverse through the sounds of a band who keep conviction as their touchstone. Taking notes from the Düsseldorf and Berlin schools of the 70’s, these drifting melodies and mechanistic rhythms hold court alongside the climactic intensity of a group forged by the 00’s New York underground. 

Self-releasing and distributing the track across a limited 7”, Open Field will be available for purchase at these shows.

Two nights, two bands, one (old) bar. Unmissable. 

Tickets are $10 for the first 24 hrs, then $15, then $20 on the door. 

Joined by:

The Bloody Norahs (Thursday 21 March)

Program (Friday 22 March)

EGGY  links here.

Instagram (@eggyband)