// GUSH // have crafted their unique sound, which blends post grunge, shoegaze, and dreemo, from years of performing and experimenting in the Melbourne music scene. Fuzzed out wall-of-sound guitars often form the bedrock of their sound. The music is permeated with melodic bass lines, beautiful vocal harmonies, and is punctuated with punchy drums.

// Dogworld // strikes a mercurial sound balancing heavy post-punk, alt country, and jazz sonics, with strong melodic intuition. The four piece have made waves in Canberra since forming in 2021 with their trademark raw energetic performance style.
Now based in Melbourne, pushing the release of their debut ep 'Range' - Dogworld are quickly becoming a vital act to watch in 2025.

“Great big thunderheads of feedback come from // Airline// ’s set, plaintive vocals sat delicately in a giant storm of noise. Epic in scope but still very personal, it sounds like monstrous waves crashing on a shore, but somehow they’re still all landing right on top of you in particular.” ~ The Underground Stage

The Toot Toot Toots made their long awaited return last month, performing a best-of set including spaghetti western murder ballads, raucous country hoe downs and epic ELO inspired pop songs in front of a sell-out crowd. Now they return to their spiritual home, The Old Bar, for one night only. Joining them will be fellow Old Bar alumni Cherrywood, performing their first set in several years and honky-tonk Texan J. Taylor Bell & the Ding Dongs. Tickets won't last, get in quick!

We’re set for a smokin’ hot summer when our favourite explosive live act THE SCHIZOPHONICS return to take over the stages along the East Coast. Our jaws dropped when we brought them to Oz in 2023 and now we’re ready to do it all again.

Get ready for the unstoppable combination of rock ‘n’ roll energy and showmanship, fuelling the band’s wild live show with flavours of James Brown, Iggy Pop, Hendrix… we could go on, you’ve just gotta see this band live as they will blow minds with their high voltage set!

Since forming in San Diego in 2009, singer/guitarist/ultimate dancer Pat Beers and drummer Lety Beers have played hundreds of shows around the planet, generating fans through their pulsating and electrifying shows. 

“Like watching some insane hybrid of Wayne Kramer, James Brown and the Tasmanian Devil.” – Shindig Magazine.

The Schizophonics have been hailed as the ‘wildest live band in America’, so let’s get wild this summer with our excellent friends coming soon to a venue near you this January and February.

Shelly’s Motor Club will be kicking off 2025 at the Old Bar! If you like high energy Soul and Rock n’ Roll this gig is for you.

Supporting will be local Alt/Country legends @wilddogmountains These guys are amazing so do yourself a favour and come have a boogie to them!

Tix $15 on the door

Starts 7:30pm 🎶

74-76 Johnson Street, Fitzroy

You know how it works.

Good Music presents NORTHSIDE NEW WAVE.
Playing classic new wave and 80’s alternative until late.

Also featuring live performances from...
THE MUNDAYNES
W.O.M.B.A.T
RED MOON COWBOY

Tickets go live at 5pm AEST on Thursday January 23rd.

Our Carlson releases the first single “Hyper Pop Money Song” off debut album OC Spray.

An uplifting Hyper Pop number through the lens of Our Carlson, dealing with issues of disability in a Collapsing economy while finding income through alternative means in lieu of government support. 

“Had a fit the other week and now we can’t work but I’m not disabled enough for benefits and music ain’t paying shit so I’ll get some on tick and hit the streets I guess?”

DJ Cash Daddy will be steering the ship on the Tracks like a VLine and throwing some banter to match. Rumours are floating around that Cash Daddy is Mean Jean Okerland reborn and we may or may not address this issue on the night. 

All the hits and some new bangers from the rich tapestry that is the debut Our Carlson album OC Spray.

Support comes from from hot new act that twists Beach-side classics - Michael Beach’s new band Units Of Measurement:

"Beach/Brown/Fikerle - three experienced campaigners and mutual admirers drifting into planetary alignment. Freewheeling explorations of harmonics and rhythm with dynamic swell. Pushing and pulling at the threads of the Michael Beach songbook - quickly becoming one of the most revered catalogues in Melbourne.”

More support coming from my most listened to artist of 2024 Captain Beep-Boop.

Captain Beep-boop is a transistor-based trans sister who plays electronic punk songs on a modified Telstra “Bluephone” payphone.

At my bar, your bar, our bar, The Old Bar.

February 7 Grab yourself a ticket and one for a mate.

DEBUT OF ‘DOG WATCH’ at Old Bar Feb 8th. 

DOG WATCH, a trio of absent minded wanderers kickin' it through the punk rock psych realms, Brit punk meets Aussie psych rock stoner grooves driving as the back beat for a message in a flowing channel of righteous barking.

Support by the epic Super American Eagle and Arabella & The Heist. 

Super American Eagle, Melbourne power trio deliver manna for heavy rock fans craving detours into noise, psych, pop and sludgy, dank, herbal grooves. First show for 2025 after a massive 2024 touring their debut album and supporting JET across the US and Oz.  They also released a sick as 7inch covering The Prodigy and Dee Lite.  SAE have started recording their 2nd album at MONA in Tassie which is due in 2025. 

Arabella & The Heist, femme punk that is powerful, fierce and electrifying. Forming in 2019 in Melbourne, Australia, the outfit has taken their cues from rock icons, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Dead Weather and The Pretenders stirred in with a fast hit of punk seduction.  

You do not want to miss this epic line up that will melt your faces for the minimal charge of $10 (+ BF) presale / $15 on the door. 

Doors from 8PM

Come along to The Old Bar for a night of music that blends the sounds of folk rock and homegrown soul.

Delivered from the roots of passion, this performance promises a diverse soundscape that will keep your heads nodding and feets thodding.

Enjoy, as the performances of Phoebe x Reece, Video Life, and Mishto express their spirited storytellings over easy rhythms.

Make your way to The Old Bar 7.30pm February 9th. Don't miss out!

Monday 10th February

SUPERBOWL LIX

10am at The Old Bar (The world's greatest sports bar)

10am. That is fkn gross. Anyway, we're doing it.

$15 Jugs of Coors

Bloody Marys

Game will be projected on a BIG screen.

Coors giveaways

Half time shows and USA stupid ads all shown.

Come get gross and watch some sports.

Song some sings

drank some drinks

Grace Woodroofe's early career produced music with poignant potential; the striking singer/songwriter with an enigmatic quality was discovered and signed by the late Heath Ledger.

Ledger introduced Grace to the iconic Ben Harper, who would go on to produce her critically-acclaimed debut album, Always Want. A gorgeous blend of influences that evoked the sonic density of PJ Harvey and Cat Power, delivered through Woodroofe’s unique lens.

Woodroofe has been praised for her dynamic and engaging performances at a run of festivals as well as on
stages supporting artists like alt-J, Glass Animals, Matt Corby, and Jack Johnson, and Ben Harper both in
Australia and abroad.

Woodroofe is now gearing up to release her first full-length studio album in over ten years, working with collaborators such as Oscar Dawson (Holy Holy), Dustin Tebbutt and Matt Corby and will be previewing songs from her forthcoming album for the first time, detailing the journey that brought her back to herself and her artistry.

Joined by Special Guest, Matilda Dunn.

“She’s astonishing... And I don’t use that word but maybe once a decade.”
BEN HARPER

“...a singer and songwriter who can be haunted in one song, jolting in the next and somehow always at home
within the darkness she conjures. Every track, gentle or hard, leaves (her) voice exposed in all its doleful
intimacy.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Grace Woodroofe sang like a woman possessed, trying to exorcise herself by sheer force of will. The result was
captivating, like watching Fiona Apple, if she were Jack White...”
THE BOSTON GLOBE

It is with a heavy hea... No! No cliches! God I hate generic band talk.
But this is heavy-ish content coming up...

Medicated Love have decided to call it a day. And when I say 'we', really, I should say 'I'.
It's a miracle that I was even able to start this band, start any band for that matter! Being a drummer for the majority of my life kinda pigeonholed me into having the one role within a band forrrrrrreverrrrrrrr.
UNTIL! I made a huge leap and decided to try and write my own songs, sing my own lyrics, create something all on my lonesome.
And from there my confidence slowly built up, and I was able to convince 3 other legends to jump on board with me to play these songs live. It's been amazing having their creative input and thoughts, not to mention their skills in the studio.

We've had some bloody great times, and I'm SO proud of the songs that we have created (there's even some unreleased bangers I'll piff up one day).
But when you find your band on the backburner, not front and centre, not getting the attention, time and funds that it truly deserves, you realise it may be time to hang up the boots.

But, we've decided to share one more night with y'all...

Joining us Friday Feb 14th at @theoldbar will be the amazing @tinyredhouses and the awesome @typeset_band 🎉

Can't wait to go out on a good note with family and friends with us 🖤

No pre-sales! Just cheap door tix on the night!

Always, ML xx

Brace yourselves - The Earthquakes are joining forces with surf rock groovers The Tommys to shake up The Old Bar!💥

Prepare for a seismic afternoon of high-richter rock’n’roll, evocative eruptions and tectonic twang!🎸

🗓 When: Saturday, 15th February
📍 Where: The Old Bar, Fitzroy
⏰ Time: Arvo Show 4–6 PM
🎟 Entry: FREE!

Don’t let this one get away - come and ride the wave! 🌊

🎨Artwork: @sbryning

“The 1980s” start 2025 with a lazy Sunday arvo at The Old Bar on 16 February, joined by crowd faves “Coronata”.

Spread the word around, the death reeking riff slingers have returned with new songs, same pong. Gigantic giants, lords of the ocean and hungry zombies have been heard to be lurking in alleyways of Fitzroy. The joining of these dark forces has been told in the prophecy as a night of high volume ear/beer destruction. Bring your mates. Bring your Mum. Everyone is welcome.