Milo Eastwood will present the four-date residency 24 Hours of Milo at The Night Cat this winter.
There’s a deep catalogue of tracks Milo Eastwood is always keen to revisit in the right moment.
Eastwood, the host of PBS FM’s The Breakfast Spread, has become known for his open-air day parties in recent years. In February, he played his biggest headline show to date, selling out the Coburg Lake Reserve with his second annual On the Lake party. He has also supported Hot Chip, Nightmares on Wax and Cut Copy, and played the ever-iconic Meredith Music Festival.
24 Hours of Milo Eastwood
- The Night Cat
- Saturday 2 May, 6 June, 4 July & 1 August
- Tickets here
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Eastwood is returning to one his favourite local haunts, The Night Cat, for a winter residency that launches on Saturday 2 May.
He’ll play four six-hour sets at the venue, settling in from 9pm to 3am on the first Saturday of the month until winter is over.
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“I used to play at the Night Cat heaps,” Eastwood says. “From 2023 through to the end of 2024, I did maybe five Night Cat shows that all did pretty well. But I got to a point where I wanted to move on and try other spaces and not get pigeonholed as the Night Cat resident DJ – which is quite ironic because that’s exactly what I’m about to be. But I do love playing in the middle of the room and just the energy in there is really special.”
Eastwood has been presenting a three-hour breakfast radio show week in, week out for the last nine years. The morning radio format allows him to dip into areas of his music taste that wouldn’t make sense in a dance floor setting. He is similarly looking forward to stretching out beyond his signature sound during The Night Cat residency.
“I feel like people broadly know me for uplifting, sunshine-drenched, hands in the air, big vocals, happy, disco-adjacent house music,” he says. “That’s a huge part of the sound that I navigate around as a DJ, but there’s just so much more to it. So, the idea was to do long extended sets and take people on a bit of a journey from downtempo stuff to higher tempo, maybe a little bit harder on the more techno, trance side of things.
“I have the opportunity to bring it right down with some slow jams at the end of the night, and just try and attract a crowd that’s kind of up for anything.”
As a result of the breakfast radio gig and his preference for open-air day parties, Eastwood has already attracted what he calls a “wildly diverse” audience.
“I’m always amazed at the diversity of the crowd that comes to my things,” he says. “At Fairfield Amphitheatre two years ago, there was an entire family that came – mum dad and their three sons. I also met a couple in their early 70s who said they hadn’t been to a rave since the early 90s and that they wanted to come out because they listen to me on the radio. I also meet people who’ve just finished school or they’re in university or in their 30s and 40s.”
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Eastwood is a canny organiser. He keeps a log of all his radio playlists and all his party sets. He’s been digging through the archive in preparation for the Night Cat residency.
“I spend my life collecting music for radio and DJing. This actually forces me to go through the terabyte and a half of music I have on my drive and the record collection I have at home to rediscover some stuff that I’ve found in the past and have forgotten,” he says.
Eastwood prefers to come into a DJ gig feeling as prepared as possible. That way, he says, he can fully enjoy the experience and invite the crowd to join him.
“For me, especially in a space like The Night Cat with a 360-degree stage, the best sets are the ones where there’s a real connection between the DJ and the dance floor.
“It’s a shared thing. You’re in it together. I love when you can feel the DJ actually enjoying it too. It kinda invites everyone else to come along for the ride.
“If I’m spending the entire time, head in the CDJs, just scrolling around of all my music, I personally won’t walk away from it with a sense of enjoyment. I have a DJing MO of spending as little time mixing as possible and as much time dancing as possible.”
Milo Eastwood’s 24 Hours of Milo residency begins at The Night Cat on Saturday 2 May. Tickets here.
