Free show of stupid f#ckery at Old Bar! Get a load of these clowns after dealing with your on the clock clowns Monday. Blow off steam with the dumbest acts in town.

Fly out of this world and into the Old Bar, for 3 Nights in June KEYO ROSES FLYING CIRCUS will be scorching through a plethora of original material following the release of their debut album ‘BLOW ME UP’ ! These Glam Punk Rock’n’roll rats will be home and HOT off the back of a run of shows in Adelaide and starving to melt you like cheese in the grill 
Igniting their new material along with known favourites, KEYO ROSES FLYING CIRCUS perform 3 different sets across 3 dates and RECORD LIVE (so long as robots don’t spontaneously combust like Harold Holt) with 3 WAM BAM RICKA JAM support acts each night, this carnival thoroughfare’s not to be missed! Who knows what will go up down and all around… cooking in the Old Bar

JUNE 15,22,29:

15th ep1: ‘BARZ ON MARZ’
With local legends: PEPPER LA FLOYD, FILTHY MCNASTYS and SUGARGUM

22nd ep2: ‘GIVE ME ASYLUM’
With local guns: SALMON SISTERS, C.W.A and THE JALOPIES

29th ep3: ‘BLOW ME UP’
With local crunch catz: HETEROPHOBES, EBI NORI AND THE PHANTOM FINGERS and HAPPY MEDIUM

Support local music, community and culture! 
Get some food on the table for these people and get your blood pumping for lobsters sake!

A Single Flower
Listening party and art exhibition.
Featuring Treebeard and Bear The Mammoth. �
June 21 - Old Bar, Fitzroy

We aren’t playing, but come and hang out at the Old Bar anyway and drink beers with us while we play our new record really loud over the PA. All 70 minutes of it.

There will also be an exclusive showing of the artwork from A Single Flower on display with limited prints available.

If things go to plan, we’ll have very limited copies of the new vinyls available for sale as well as a select bunch of other merch.

We’ll be joined by awesome local talent Treebeard and Bear the Mammoth.

Tickets are $15 on the door

Cass Aware, kings of the Melbourne grunge rock mosh pit, are celebrating their first birthday. And they’re throwing a no-holds-barred birthday bash at The Old Bar in Fitzroy.

Teaming up once again with alt-blues rock icons Star-Jock*, and heavy rock powerhouse Seven Pound Halo, it’s set to be a night of filthy riffs, thunderous bass, and feral beats.

This is a gig you don’t want to miss.

'Spring' is coming...our next single! Out 13th June. Recorded and mixed with the incredible engineer Rohan Sforcina
late last year at Headgap before it was very sadly devastated by fire.

Spring - potentially our most ambitious and interesting song to date - greater than the sum of its parts.

Come and celebrate with us at our launch show: 19th June at the Oldie with special guests Annual Leaf and Gareth Skinner + another secret guest...an incredible musician will be joining our set. Can't wait!!

Tix: $15

Dia Diamond's EP Launch — "The Very Secret Life of Dia Diamond" arrives at The Old Bar on Tuesday the 17th of June 2025 at 8pm, and you’re invited into an expansive night of music, honesty, and transformation. This highly anticipated release celebrates Dia’s journey towards radical self-love and resilience in the face of heartbreak, with songs that reach deep into the soul. Whether you’ve loved and lost or are still finding your way back to yourself, this EP's promise is that each track will strike a chord. Joining Dia on this intimate evening are two incredible support acts: the emotionally raw Elleni and the genre-defying Godwit. Expect a room full of big feelings, shimmering falsetto, and stories sung from the heart — this is a night to feel it all.

$10 tickets, 10% donated to Pay The Rent

https://events.humanitix.com/dia-diamond-ep-launch

@grassroots_ptr @theoldbar @diadiamondmusic @elleni_music @gxdwit

Fly out of this world and into the Old Bar, for 3 Nights in June KEYO ROSES FLYING CIRCUS will be scorching through a plethora of original material following the release of their debut album ‘BLOW ME UP’ ! These Glam Punk Rock’n’roll rats will be home and HOT off the back of a run of shows in Adelaide and starving to melt you like cheese in the grill 
Igniting their new material along with known favourites, KEYO ROSES FLYING CIRCUS perform 3 different sets across 3 dates and RECORD LIVE (so long as robots don’t spontaneously combust like Harold Holt) with 3 WAM BAM RICKA JAM support acts each night, this carnival thoroughfare’s not to be missed! Who knows what will go up down and all around… cooking in the Old Bar

JUNE 15,22,29:

15th ep1: ‘BARZ ON MARZ’
With local legends: PEPPER LA FLOYD, FILTHY MCNASTYS and SUGARGUM

22nd ep2: ‘GIVE ME ASYLUM’
With local guns: SALMON SISTERS, C.W.A and THE JALOPIES

29th ep3: ‘BLOW ME UP’
With local crunch catz: HETEROPHOBES, EBI NORI AND THE PHANTOM FINGERS and HAPPY MEDIUM

Support local music, community and culture! 
Get some food on the table for these people and get your blood pumping for lobsters sake!

Hey friends, join us for another Sunday arvo of jangle and twang at Fitzroy’s finest, @theoldbar. Sunday 15th June. Doors open at 3 and the music kicks off at 4 with a set from Western Districts.

 Join us to launch a pair of singles "Pig City" and "Waterfall Way." It's gonna be an epic night of folk music and a hell of a party with our friends Aoife Nic Dhiarmada, Bec Bastoli and Wobbly Boots Stringband. 50% of the proceeds will help pay comrades' legal costs from Disrupt Land Forces. Get your tix ASAP!

$25 Waged/$10 Unwaged/$50 Solidarity. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Double Dole Stringband play innovative and driving old-time tunes. Holding down the fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, and vocals both sweet and rowdy, they've become stalwarts at venues around their borrowed hometown of Naarm/Melbourne, as well as folk festivals across the country

The band ventured into the studio in winter 2024 to record their debut full-length album, with the first single Lewin’s/Rusty’s released in February and the album set for release in Spring of 2025. When they're not playing original tunes, you can find them calling high energy bushdances, running inclusive old-time sessions, and picking into the wee hours.
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Aoife Nic Dhiarmada is an Irish traditional singer and fiddle player who’s seen frequently performing, teaching and hosting at sessions and festivals around Ireland and Australia. Aoife is a founding member of the Naarm Traditional Singers Circle, Folk Artists for Palestine Naarm, and teaches traditional singing at Melbourne Comhaltas.
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Bec Bastoli is an Australian-Palestinian artist whose songwriting explores threads of identity, connection and longing. Accompanying herself on guitar and mandolin, her richly melodic music invites listeners into a space of thoughtful reflection. With a voice that is both expressive and unguarded, she delivers what Timber and Steel called “some of the most poignant songs I’ve heard in ages.”
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The Wobbly Boots bring their own blend of hillbilly string band music across the Merri Creek to the Lowie from their home, busking on High St. Pete Holmes sings original and traditional songs on banjo with Charlie Sandford's repertoire of fiddle tunes - rags, blues and old-time mountain tunes, with an infectious rhythm accompaniment of guitar, mandolin, double bass and rubboard.

Alright peeps...GIG ALERT! It's a Saturday arvo, it's @theoldbar, it's free...nuff said.

And we had so much fun at the album launch that we've asked back the wonderful, 90's drenched, indie-tastic @thelit.allusions to join us...and they said YES!

This winter brings Central Coast psychedelic surf punk quintet Shacked! And noise funk rock quartet Madam Sandler to a stop along the East Coast near you.

This double headline tour is Shacked’s second time hitting the road and Madam Sandler's debut to tour life. 

The pair will be unleashing their raw energy and fresh sounds over 6 dates, causing skulls to shake and limbs fly.

Catch them then at the Old Bar, Fitzroy, with mates Planets Caravan and Special Guest. June 13th!

Berlin-based Melburnian Ned Collette got his start in experimental and improvised music, before gravitating increasingly towards songwriting. His literate, evocative songs are paired with music that's both adventurous and eclectic, and his albums exist inside a dynamic flux of folk, jazz and avant rock.

Ned’s most recent album, Our Other History, was released late in 2024 on the US label Sophomore Lounge and features contributions from regular collaborators including Jim White and Mick Turner of the Dirty Three, Chris Abrahams of The Necks, folk singer Leah Senior, and other luminaries of adventurous music worldwide. His live performances drift between delicate, intimate folk and explorative sonic jam-outs, both when performing solo or in various band combinations.

Over the years Ned has collaborated and toured with such artists as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Joanna Newsom, Cat Power, Bill Callahan, St Vincent, Kurt Vile and Deerhoof, amongst many others. Funny, haunting and sad, often all at once, the music nonetheless manages to remain plain-spoken and uncluttered, despite its expansive vision.

“Ned’s music wears its modernity subtly and surely and is as rewarding a listening experience as I’ve come across in recent times.” – Will Oldham

Thalia Zedek’s considerable body of work demonstrates a clarity of vision, a singular performance style, and an expansive range. Her ability to deliver raw emotions through her vivid stories of loss and hope, strife and triumph is unmatched. Thalia has long been a melodic songwriter in iconic bands like Come and Live Skull and never hesitates to speak truth to power. Her new album The Boat Outside Your Window, just out on Thrill Jockey, finds Thalia contemplating absence and distance, with songs as spirited as they are profoundly moving.  Unlike some of her more politically-charged earlier work, the songs on The Boat Outside Your Window reflect inwards, deftly uncovering how external realities manifest in our internal worlds, and Thalia’s unique musical voice remains potent and pointed.

At the frayed bottom-edge of Indiana – just a moderate bike ride north of Louisville, Kentucky – multi-instrumentalist, artist and songwriter Ryan Davis’s Americana-noir soundwaves have been emanating for years in myriad forms. As driving force of the lauded State Champion, long-running member of Tropical Trash, administrator of the esoteric and excellent Cropped Out Festival, and lone proprietor of the Sophomore Lounge label, Ryan has recently produced his first proper ‘solo’ release with Dancing On The Edge – a rich, 2-LP tapestry of tunes that absolutely glows over seven expansive cuts (given an exclusive Australian CD release by Newtown’s own Repressed Records). It’s a pure collage of modernity and heritage. After a period of introspection spent re-immersing himself in his drawing & painting practice, as well as his newfound delvings into instrumental music, Davis’ sea change was imminent. “I wasn’t sure I would ever make another record of ‘song’ songs,” he says, “but last year I started writing again and it eventually took the shape of the record at hand. I worked painstakingly hard on the material and the process pulled me out of a strange place. There’s a load of inspiration captured in the grooves with Ryan’s unfiltered, folk-traditioned approach to poetic twists-of-tongue meeting head on with sublime instrumentation.

THE VERY SAME DAY that they touch down from a massive European tour, DARTZ are returning to Melbourne with a show at The Old Bar! Last seen in the city selling out The Tote, the NZ post-pub heroes will be bringing a finely tuned set of new songs & old favourites direct to YOU! Support to be announced soon.

Morningbirds will be playing a ruccous set of noise-soaked alt rock at The Old Bar on Sunday June 8th.

With support from post-hardcore/noise powerhouse Waxman and your future favorite heavy alt rock band Quiet Neighbours,

Plus, there's no work on Monday thanks to some royal dude (Kings Birthday). So come and get weird! 

After a 20-year hiatus, the legendary slackabilly surf trio The Tommys are back and better than

ever. Ollie Laurie (Exotics) Jonathan Lickliter (Died Pretty) and Rob Lastdrager (T Bones) left

audiences wanting more with their’ first album “Grow Fins” in 2000 and the follow up single

“Chastity Melts” recorded live and dirty at the Old Bar in 2004. Reforming for Garage Fest 2024

they survived a tour of duty in Cambodia and now they’re thrilling audiences in Melbourne and

Sydney once more with their tsunami of lo-fi garage surf grooves. Don’t miss the launch of their

red vinyl 45 single, Born to Follow / Window Pane on Saturday June 7 th , 4-6pm at the Old Bar,

Johnston St Fitzroy.

Special guests The Kreep 500 will deliver savage howls with garage nous. A duo far beyond the

sum of its parts: think Cramps, Scientists, Reigning Sound. Their debut album sold out in

months. Album#2 due late 2025 on Groovie (Europe) & Off The Hip locally. Not to be missed!!