You know what to do

OK GUYS I WILL BE AT OLD BAR EVERY TUESDAY IN SEPTEMBER TO TRY OUT MY NEW SHOW
IT'S CALLED THE STUPID FUCK SHOW AND IT'S LIKE ROVE DO YOU REMEMBER ROVE? WELL IT'S LIKE THAT
I WILL DO MONOLOGUE AND INTERVIEW GUESTS AND DO FUN GAMES AND THERE WILL BE MUSICAL GUESTS PLAYING
IT WILL BE A SHITSHOW AND YOU SHOULD COME SEE IT
I AM STUPID FUCK THE SILLY CLOWN AND THIS IS MY NEW EVENT
SEE YOU THERE
EVERY TUESDAY IN SEPTEMBER
$15
HELP ME AFFORD TO TAKE THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD
LOVE YOU
KEEP IT SILLY

📸 @bigbug_media @naaaafen

It’s spring! Which means Virgo season, (big news for gorgeous annoying people). Half of Mondo Cane are virgos and we thought what better way to celebrate than sinking a couple at Old Bar with some very talented friends. There will be dance music, rocking, rolling and some secret delights in store. Come party with us <3

To celebrate the release of their debut single “SPEEDIN”, Melbourne rockers SPEED BUMPS are playing their first headliner at The Old Bar! After gigging around town for the last few months, they’ve built a wicked sound mixing modern punk energy and classic Aussie rock and roll. Joining them are WA’s own LAST QUOKKA, as well as fellow Victorian punks HANGRENADE HEARTS, NAH, and THE RARTEL. Get your tickets quick, this’ll be a gig for the ages!!

We have a new album! Please join us at The Old Bar as we launch "Let's All Go to Mars" into the world.
We'll be joined by our good friends The Delvenes who are opening the show at a civilised late afternoon hour.
It's a free show! Come along, check out The Delvenes, and then hear our new album live on stage – with special guests if we're lucky

DOORS 3.30
DELVENES 4.00
PHOSPHENES 5.00

Borderline is what happens when four best friends grow up making music together and never stop. The New Zealand quartet - Ben Glanfield (vocals/guitar/keys), Jackson Boswell (drums/vocals), Matthew McFadden (lead guitar), and Max Harries (bass) - channel deep connection into a sound that’s as expansive as it is intimate. Blending shimmering pop, funk grooves, and soaring indie-rock anthems, Borderline is quickly becoming one of the most exciting new bands to break out of the Southern Hemisphere.

Formed in Auckland, the band began building momentum with their debut single “Spinning” and breakout Perfect Movie Scene EP. They’ve since earned millions of streams, cracked the NZ and U.S. college radio charts, and sold out shows across New Zealand. In 2024, they left school to pursue music full-time - a decision quickly validated by the success of “Heartbeat,” and their buzzy U.S. debut at SXSW and first UK shows at The Great Escape.

Their new EP Chrysalis (EMPIRE) pushes further, with standout singles “New Romance” (NZ Hot 20 #1), “When It’s Raining,” and “Breakdown” earning spins from BBC Radio 1, Triple J, and major college stations. At the heart of it all is their friendship. “If you can hear our connection in the music,” says Jackson, “that would be really special.”

Good Music presents Cigarettes & Alcohol.
Playing Britpop hits until late.

Also featuring live performances from…
FINN KIRBY
FENN WILSON & THE WEATHER
THE NOISE

Tickets on sale now.

OK GUYS I WILL BE AT OLD BAR EVERY TUESDAY IN SEPTEMBER TO TRY OUT MY NEW SHOW
IT'S CALLED THE STUPID FUCK SHOW AND IT'S LIKE ROVE DO YOU REMEMBER ROVE? WELL IT'S LIKE THAT
I WILL DO MONOLOGUE AND INTERVIEW GUESTS AND DO FUN GAMES AND THERE WILL BE MUSICAL GUESTS PLAYING
IT WILL BE A SHITSHOW AND YOU SHOULD COME SEE IT
I AM STUPID FUCK THE SILLY CLOWN AND THIS IS MY NEW EVENT
SEE YOU THERE
EVERY TUESDAY IN SEPTEMBER
$15
HELP ME AFFORD TO TAKE THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD
LOVE YOU
KEEP IT SILLY

📸 @bigbug_media @naaaafen

Gigs are go! Super excited to be hitting The Old Bar stage with Josie Jette and Howling Mountain
Niche Band AU
#nichebandau
@howlingmountainband
#howlingmountainband
Josie Jette
#josiejette
#theoldbar
The Old Bar

Dilemmas- our local post-punk art-rock darlings return to the warm & dark womb of the Old Bar! For their first headline of 2025, Dilemmas will showcase a set of their unreleased songs that move the through slow-building dynamics and driving, energetic intensity. Often combining their own sculptural artwork into their headline shows, this will be one not to miss.

Joining Dilemmas, are the tightly coiled and high-strung punk rockers- Hybernators, with a horn section, brand new songs and a penchant for havoc & hilarious antics. 

Three piece punk powerhouse Bodies will bring blood to boiling point, and straight off the back of an Old Bar residency for a saturday evening to celebrate: Captain Beep-Boop, playing anything & everything they can expertly manufacture into an instrument- will open the night and heat up the dance floor playing new tunes! 

This will be a night of good friends & fun, and a delightful assortment of whats to come from some of the most creative artists of our local Fitzroy scene. 

Sophisticated Dingo hit the road in August to bring their new EP ‘Other Kid’ to life in bandrooms across Australia!

Off the back of relentless touring with JET, Polish Club, The Terrys, Beddy Rays, Press Club and Dear Seattle, the road-worn Sophisticated Dingo share their new EP ‘Other Kid’. A collection of songs that shout an examination of the dismal existence of modern everyday life. 

The release features singles ‘Feels Like Woah’ and ‘Mess Me Around’ and follows on from much revered past releases in ‘Radio On’ and ‘Morning View’. 

Sophisticated Dingo is a Garage Rock duo from Melbourne, Australia. Friends since adolescence Jimmy and Lew write songs that are a punch in the face you can relate to.

Supported by Creative Victoria, 10,000 gigs Fund.

Giant Hammer is an Eora/Sydney-based rock band. Working towards a sound that is loud and literate, the group’s five members each bring their distinct voice and flavour to the band. The songs are sweet and sour, bouncing between twee, Go-Betweens-adjacent numbers and dirty rockers a la Sonic Youth or Fugazi. Their newest single, Three Tulips / Argonauts, sits on the gentler side of their catalogue, and marks their first release with new members Lewis Mosley and August Graham.

Liturgy is the project of Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, whose yearning, energetic “transcendental black metal” exists in the space between metal, art music and sacred ritual. Its current lineup includes Mario Miron (guitar), Tia Vincent-Clark (bass) and Leo Didkovsky (drums). Celebrated for their fusion of sincere emotion, compositional complexity, stylistic daring and intense live energy, the band is simultaneously a medium and platform for drama and theology. It was founded in the context of Brooklyn DIY as a solo project by Hunt-Hendrix in 2005 while she was studying philosophy and classical composition at Columbia.  In 2009 Hunt-Hendrix stimulated fervent conversation in the music world with her text “Transcendental Black Metal”, and after expanding to a quartet they made waves globally with their 2011 sophomore album Aesthethica for fusing black metal with math rock and infusing the form with a counterintuitively loving, emotional energy. Their ambitious 2015 album The Ark Work was controversial for its incorporation of IDM and trap production into their musical language. In fall 2019 they solidified this sound world with their highly acclaimed fourth studio album H.A.Q.Q., which is tied to an ongoing philosophical YouTube lecture series. Their fifth studio album, an opera entitled Origin of the Alimonies, was released in November 2020, recorded with an eight-piece chamber ensemble and performed at Roadburn festival in 2021 as the live score to an eponymous film created by Hunt-Hendrix.  After a solo sculpture exhibition in 2022, the album 93696 was released in 2023 followed by an extensive world tour.

“Liturgy have always brought a proggy, sprawling ambition to their music, but rarely have all the pieces locked into place so elegantly. 93696 can be pulverizing, but it’s also gentle, and amid the brutality lie some of Hunt-Hendrix’s prettiest and most ornate songs yet… Listening to [Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix’s] band in full command of its sound, weaving between passages of chaotic release and delicate beauty, it sounds as if Liturgy have finally found some kind of promised land.” - Pitchfork

"the ambition and creative aesthetics that Hendrix brings to the table through Liturgy continue to be something to behold" - The Needle Drop

“One of the year's most unique and inspiring metal releases.” - Exclaim, best albums of 2023

Captain Beep-boop is a transistor-based trans sister who plays electronic punk music on a DIY circuit-bent 1990s Telstra “Bluephone” payphone. Every Tuesday in August, she will be joined on The Old Bar stage by a collection of her favourite noise makers, including Boggle, Ding Ding Ding, Clit Split, LXRP, My Guardian Angel, Cosmic Whiplash and Power Tools. Come and take the Beep-boop test.