Your chance to see one of the most unique bands of the contemporary Australian underground/alternative scene.
There is such depth and versatility to The Slingers, you feel like their live experience is just another piece of a puzzle you could spend months recreating.
“We really wanted the album to be about love,” frontman Robert Mahon told us recently. “We do really love and care about our music. We also wanted it to be about this Age. About now, rather than taking refuge in some false nostalgia.”
The Slingers at Brunswick Ballroom
- 7pm, Sat 9 March
- Brunswick Ballroom
- Featuring Spike Fuck
- Part of Brunswick Music Fesival
- Buy tickets here
Keep up with the latest music news, features, festivals, interviews and reviews here.
The band persistently defy classification, with a colourful catalogue of releases that span from country to folk, grunge rock to ballad, Australiana to Americana, acoustic and spoken word to electronica. The Slingers signed to Flightless Records in 2020, releasing a double A-Side 7-inch vinyl, The Cruellest Cut and Kind Hearts (a collaboration with legend of the Melbourne underground, Spike Fuck). In 2021, the band were included in our 20 Underground Melbourne Bands You Ought to Know.
It’s no surprise that Sentamentalism took the group “fucking ages”, they span country to folk, grunge rock to ballad, Australiana to Americana, acoustic and spoken word to electronica. They pare it all back live, brief flashes of joyous instrumentation colouring in an experience that’s less defined by production than by its lyrical content, chronicling with a blend of comedy and tragedy the lives of ordinary people living and struggling through our current age of loneliness.
The Slingers are such an important presence in Australia’s contemporary music scene, it may be a long time between drinks for Melbourne, but they are not to be missed.
Buy tickets here.
