Moor Music brings The Jazz Doof back to Second Story Studios in Collingwood on Saturday 6 June for its eighth edition.
What started as a backyard block party in 2018 has quietly become one of Melbourne’s most beloved cult DIY warehouse parties.
As with every edition, a portion of every ticket sold goes to SANE Australia, helping fund accessible mental health services, peer support and recovery programs for people living with complex mental health challenges.
Vol. 8 spreads across three rooms, each running at its own pace. Live music upstairs, a darker warehouse floor downstairs for deeper DJ sets, and a dedicated grounding space – a quiet, low-lit room with mats, cushions and bean bags available throughout the night.
The Jazz Doof Vol. 8
- Where: Second Story Studios, 222A Johnston St, Collingwood
- When: Saturday 6 June, 6pm until late
- Tickets: available here
LINEUP
Live
- Thndo
- The Seven Ups
- Barney McAll – Precious Energy
- Kaviitá
- Javiera Diaz
DJs
- Lori B2B Mike Guerrieri
- Amber Ferraro
- Joey Lightbulb
- sissy
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Leading the live programme is Thndo, a Zimbabwean-born vocalist with a commanding stage presence built across festival stages and major theatre productions including Dreamgirls and The Color Purple. Melbourne groove outfit The Seven Ups follow, threading funk, Afrobeat, psychedelic jazz and improvisation into a single moving set.
Grammy-nominated pianist Barney McAll presents Precious Energy, a live fusion of avant funk, soul and open improvisation featuring collaborators drawn from the worlds of Hiatus Kaiyote and Gary Bartz. Kaviitá, a Wadawurrung Country-based artist, brings neo soul, jazz, R&B and hip hop together in intimate, textured soundscapes. Javiera Diaz rounds out the live acts with soulful songwriting shaped by jazz, R&B and Latin-influenced pop.
Holding the room between sets is Joey Lightbulb, a long-form selector tracing paths through disco, house, funk, soul and left-field club music. Opening downstairs, sissy brings deep percussive house and rolling groove-focused energy to the early hours. Amber Ferraro follows with house and disco-rooted selections grounded in an underground sensibility. Closing out the building, Lori and Mike Guerrieri go back-to-back across jazz, soul, broken beat and electronic textures — built for late listening and a dancefloor that’s settled into itself.
Alongside the music, the grounding space offers somewhere to step out, stretch or sit in stillness at any point in the night — a considered part of the format that reflects how the series thinks about the people moving through a long night, as much as what they hear.
Moor Music began in 2018 as a series of small events in Melbourne and has grown into a platform for jazz, soul and forward-thinking electronic music. It has stayed independent in approach, focused on curation and on creating space for artists to explore without constraint.
Eight hours. Three rooms. One DIY warehouse. Arrive early and let it unfold.
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This article was made in partnership with Moor Music.
