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Fast Castle

It’s a universal truth that good things come in 3. Three is just more satisfying. Like Neapolitan ice cream, the father, son and the holy spirit, the three stooges, Melbourne 3 piece band Fast Castle just feel good and sound right.

Join Fast Castle, Waxman and Moths at the Catfish May 9th, drink beers, listen to loud tunes, have a cheeky boogie.

Curtain Call: The Hits of Broadway

Curtain Call: The Hits of Broadway is a high-energy celebration of the greatest songs from musical theatre’s biggest stage and screen sensations.

Featuring showstoppers from Hamilton, SIX, Heathers, Cabaret, The Wizard of Oz, Newsies, Beetlejuice, Legally Blonde, Rent, and Wicked (just to name a few), this electrifying concert brings together 35 iconic numbers from nearly 30 beloved musicals.

Backed by a live band and performed by a lineup of rising powerhouse vocalists, this is musical theatre at its most thrilling – bold, nostalgic, and unforgettable.

Get ready to be Satisfied, take a Journey to the Past, and leave feeling Fabulous, Baby!

Do not throw away your shot. Tickets on sale now.

Nash & Friends

Come down for some sweet jazz fusion,

Badger on the Paddock Headlining.
The Sweepers supporting.

Set times
The Sweepers 8pm
Badger on the Paddock 9.30pm

The Story Of The Clash & The Specials

England, late seventies. Punk and ska begin to overlap. Guitars cutting through basslines carried into Britain from Jamaica years earlier. Rooms filling with kids from different scenes, suddenly wearing the same t-shirts. Punk stripped it down. Ska and reggae carried the pulse. By 1978 and 1979, The Clash and The Specials moved through the same circuits, same bills, same pressure in the air.

It returns to the stage at Brunswick Ballroom, intact.

Black Market Clash play the songs of The Clash without smoothing the edges. Should I Stay Or Should I Go sits next to Straight To Hell, Safe European Home, Lost In The Supermarket and Janie Jones. There is no hierarchy and it’s not just a greatest-hits run. Victor Stranges, who came up through Melbourne’s 1980s punk scene, shares guitar and voice with Garry Allen. Stu Thomas on bass, drawing on years with Dave Graney and Kim Salmon. They approach the material with respect and reverence. Nothing out of place.

Loonee Tunes come at The Specials from inside the bloodstream. Not revival, but continuation. Formed in 1982, they are Australia’s longest-running ska band still performing regularly. Early in their career, they were channeling Dexys Midnight Runners before realising the room moved more to ska. A Message to You, Rudy, Too Much Too Young, Gangsters and Concrete Jungle. Horns tight. Rhythm locked. Movement follows naturally. The room doesn’t stay still.

One night only.

Mark Churchill (Band)

Join Mark Churchill and band for his first show back after time away working on new material. With support from Wriding & Notch Cut, expect a night of dark grooves, raw songs, and unfolding lo-fi textures.

Mark Churchill –

Mark’s music blends melancholic, melody-rich, off-kilter songwriting with chilling atmospheric synths and hypnotically static beats, crafting a sound that is nostalgic with modern sensibilities.

Wriding –

Wriding are a slowcore band from Naarm.   Their pastoral lyrics and windswept arrangements evoke a turbulent, drought-stricken desolation – and sometimes, the warm glow of a back door light left on.

Notch Cut –

Notch Cut is a new project from Zoe Irving (Mares), Gemma Helms (Hooper Crescent, No Sister, Mares) and Max Falović (Orange Moon, Esc, Great Outdoors), who make rhythmic bass driven music centred around landscape, uncertainty and shifting ground.

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Pre-Sales | $15

Door | $20

Free for Mob. Please email and a ticket will be allocated to you.

Pie Night

Pie Night lands at the Barwon Club Hotel on King’s Birthday Long Weekend, Sunday 7th June, 2026 with doors from 4pm, turning the bandroom into a full afternoon and evening of raw local noise, beers and pies!

The lineup pulls together a stacked bunch of local garage rock, punk and underground favourites with a twist!
THE VEE BEES (ACT) raw theatrical bogan rock’n’roll royalty. BLOODSUCKING FREAKS – Adelaides long standing 3 peice, fast and raw punk rawk icons reunited with some of Geelong’s finest once again, SACARAMENTO SWEATERS, POPPIN MOMMAS, GRYTT and MULSHLUKA.

Ox’s Raffle at 5pm will not only determine the lineup order but evey ticket to the gig gives you entry into the raffle and your chance to win some great prizes, with additional raffle tickets available for purchase on the day.

Line Up From…

The Vee Bees
Bloodsucking Freaks
Sacramento Sweaters
Poppin Mommas
Grytt
Mülshluka

With beer specials flowing across the bar the BC kitchen crew leans hard into the theme with proper Pie Night menu to feed the hungry masses.

Proudly supported by CUB.

Doors 4pm

Tix $25 +b/f / $30 Door

The Vee Bees

The Vee Bees (NSW) are comin’ down the Hume to the home of the best cold beer, and the best cold beer will be at the Bendigo Hotel June 6th.

Joining them are Adelaide veterans Blood Sucking Freaks, local Melbourne legends Scarnon, everyone’ s favourite drunk uncles Poppin’ Mommas and fellow Geetroit misfits Sacramento Sweaters.

It’s going to be fast, loud and obnoxious enough to give you a hard earned thirst.

Deep South Brass 8

South Gippsland’s newest eight-piece high-energy band delivering the raw infectious spirit of contemporary New Orleans jazz and funk.
Catch them play 2 sets at the early time slot from 2pm-4pm.

KONG

Melbourne-based instrumental dub reggae band KONG and the Dudley Flats Rockers perform two curated sets of both originals and covers.

Cycad

Cycad are making their grand return to The Retreat Hotel bandroom, this time to launch their long-awaited debut album Scouch. Be among the first to hear the album live in full, as the band bring their patented blend of psych-rock and neo-soul to the stage for yet another high energy show. Joined by special guests Fiasco and Dirty Gwen, this is a show not to be missed.

Firefly Horns

Firefly Horns is a Melbourne-based, 7-piece, horn-heavy party band specializing in original New Orleans-style funk, jazz, and soul. Known for high-energy performances featuring trumpet, saxophone, and trombone, they create a “Bourbon Street” vibe with, chants, and 80s/90s movie references.
Come enjoy two sets from Firefly Horns on Sunday May 10th, 4pm-6pm.

Sea Wolves Howl

Based on the true stories of a remarkable local community, Sea Wolves Howl is a vivid theatre with catchy songs.

Early each morning, an intrepid intergenerational group of women and gender fluid people meet on the beach. They enter the sea, join hands so no-one can chicken out, howl like wolves, and immerse in the freezing water.

Five characters take us from home to the shore, into the brine and back, each step offering a particular physical challenge evoking stories, memories, fears, triumphs, connections, courage and laughter. When they brave the wild sea, the differences that divide them on land are stripped away as they expose their bodies and souls to the water, to nature, and sometimes to each other. This cold-water therapy becomes a whole-life therapy, unleashing a wildness and playfulness that says yes to the universe with a mighty howl.

A metaphorical plunge into the joys and challenges of cold water swimming, Sea Wolves Howl features older female and gender-fluid actors strutting their stuff in their togs, speaking and signing the words of people whose lives have been transformed by finding their wet and wild together.

The Cosmic Jams (Open Jam Session)