The Hear My Eyes wrap party is turning Miscellania into a one-night clubhouse for King Gizzard and Mildlife misfits.
After steering its live-score tour of Christopher Nolan’s Memento around the country, Hear My Eyes is closing the chapter with a blowout on 19 September. The Melbourne outfit is handing Miscellania to a rotating cast of players for a single evening.
For its first proper foray into club territory, Hear My Eyes has pulled members of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and Mildlife into fresh formations, backed by a clutch of selectors it has long admired.
Hear My Eyes end-of-tour wrap party
- Miscellania, Melbourne
- 19 September, from 8pm
- Grab tickets here
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From the screen to the dancefloor
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Hear My Eyes made its name on a lovely bit of lunacy: commission a brand-new score from bold musicians, then have them perform it live against a chosen film.
Sitting somewhere between a screening and a gig, the hybrid format has been curated over years by founder Haydn Green, who has paired Sampa the Great with Girlhood, sent the Murlocs through Two Hands and marched a King Gizzard-led supergroup into Dario Argento’s giallo nightmare Suspiria.
The wrap party ditches that blueprint entirely, swapping the orchestra pit for the booth and letting its roster stretch out across club sets instead.
The Gizzard contingent
Michael “Cavs” Cavanagh has manned the drums for King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard since the band formed in 2010, driving the psych six-piece through thrash, prog, jazz and whatever else they fancy. He arrives fresh from reimagining Memento on his own, performing solo across multiple kits and a bank of electronics to shadow Nolan’s fractured, Oscar-nominated breakthrough. That run carried his score to Sydney’s City Recital Hall and Arts Centre Melbourne before circling back to home turf for this send-off.
The band’s ferocious release rate, from the self-titled K.G. to 2025’s Phantom Island, has stacked up more than two dozen albums and a bottomless bag of reference points.
Bandmates Stu Mackenzie and Joey Walker step in beside Cavanagh, both trading their guitars for the decks.
Mildlife’s rhythm man
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Jim Rindfleish keeps the pulse in Mildlife, the local quartet whose weightless, synth-slathered grooves have hauled home Music Victoria hardware and filled rooms well beyond Naarm.
Formed the same year as their Gizzard mates and three albums deep after 2024’s Chorus, the group trades in the sort of cosmic jazz that suits a late-night floor, and Rindfleish’s picks should sit right in that pocket.
On the rest of the roster, DJ Nay Nay brings afrocentric firepower, threading afrohouse, soul and harder dance cuts while flying the flag for the music’s roots through her Enzi Archive series.
Glasgow-raised and now Melbourne-based, Sofay leans on more than a decade of crate-digging and an NTS residency running since 2018, roaming from ambient and folk to dub and post-punk, with sets at Houghton, Berlin Atonal and Golden Pudel on her CV. Glow rounds out the home-grown selectors, plus there’s a mystery guest!
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