The Weekender is back! Steadily, but very organically, growing into the biggest, best and most anticipated date on the Melbourne music calendar, The Poison City Weekender revealed its new lineup last week. Two international bands – Knapsack and Pity Sex – will headline, with an exciting collection of local talents to accompany. The Bennies, Luca Brasi, Harmony, The Gifthorse, Clowns, Wil Wagner, Grim Fandango, Lincoln Le Fevre, Paper Arms, Postblue, Hoodlum Shouts, Toy Boats, Fear Like Us, Infitie Void, High Tension, apart From This, Ceres, Tape/Off, Mere Women, Freak Wave, Roku Music, Sockades, Initials, Ted Danson With Wolves, Death Mountain and Regrets will all perform over three nights at the Corner Hotel (August 22), John Curtin (August 23), The Public Bar (August 23) and The Reverence Hotel (August 24).
Excellent Canadian band White Lung have announced a collection of east coast tour dates this June, and you should probably, definitely ensure that you get along to these gigs. Their upcoming second album Deep Fantasy will be released via Domino shortly so they’ll be on the promo warpath, smashing out new tunes at The Tote on Saturday June 7 and Howler on Monday June 9. Tickets are available now.
Ringwood-based record store Fist2Face are shutting up shop soon (looking like June at the moment) but they’re organised some friends to play some gigs to assist recover lost finances. Heaps of great bands are offering up their time in support of the much-adored store and you can get on board and show support by purchasing some Fist2Face merch. Farewell shows are as follows: Saturday April 26 at TLC Bayswater (all ages) from 1pm featuring Storm The Sky, Beneath The Rising Tide, For Our Hero, Forever Ends Here, A Sleepless Melody, Way With Words, Void Of Vision, Autumn In Alaska. Friday May 9 at The Public Bar featuring The Bennies, Apart From This, Foxtrot, Bro Down. Sunday May 11 at Ding Dong Lounge featuring Antiskeptic, Sounds Like Chicken, Best Before, The Ramshackle Army, The Playbook, Admiral Ackbars Dishonourable Discharge and Payoff.
The Casualties are chucking some sideshow action while they’re in the country with Hits n Pits Festival. Go see them team with ska kings Big D and The Kids Table and Heartsounds at The Reverence Hotel on Thursday May 15. Tickets are available now.
In a shitty, shitty trend that I’m starting to feel is far more pervasive than we all think, another famous musician was accused of sexual misconduct with underage fans last month. Steve Klein of New Found Glory was charged with various offenses, which I’ll spare you the disturbing details of. Klein’s ex-wife apparently testified in a hearing this week that she found “at least 100” video chats between Klein and females who appeared to be underage.
Alexisonfire fans will be exciting to know that vocalist George Pettit has formed a new band. Dead Tired is still very fresh and few details have emerged on the line up, just some intriguing pics posted to the band’s Instagram account. Colour us intrigued.
Bleeding Through vocalist Brendan Schiepatti is coming to Australia, but he’s leaving his band at home. The finely tuned frontman will host a series of ‘Rise Above Fitness’ sessions. The dude’s running some gnarly boot camps so ya’ll can get ripped like him. The Melbourne session will be hosted by Kenko Cross Fit on Friday May 23. Tickets are $30.
