Shaky Poison Lovers brings Brooke Taylor & the Poison Spitting Gin Queens, Rod Paine & The Full Time Lovers and Shaky Stills to Brunswick Ballroom
The best nights out are often the ones where you stumble into a venue and find three bands who’ve clearly been doing this for years, playing like they’ve got something to prove.
Shaky Poison Lovers is shaping up to be exactly that kind of evening. The one-night-only showcase lands at Brunswick Ballroom on 30 January, bringing together a triple bill of Melbourne acts spanning alt-country, blues and honky tonk. It’s the kind of lineup that rewards showing up early and staying late.
Shaky Poison Lovers
- Brunswick Ballroom
- 30 January
- Doors 6.30pm, show 8pm
- Tickets via Moshtix
Check out our gig guide here.
Featuring are Brooke Taylor & the Poison Spitting Gin Queens. Taylor has spent years tearing through stages at St Kilda Music Festival, Tamworth Country Music Festival and Nightjar Festival, and has opened for the likes of Tex Perkins, Tim Rogers and Renee Geyer. In 2021, she joined Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission, adding to credentials that already included a Lyrebird Gift finalist nod. Her 2024 album There’s Magic in Mistakes debuted at number eight on the ARIA Country Charts.
Rod Paine & The Full Time Lovers bring over 30 years of blues experience to the bill. Paine’s band won the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s Blues Performer of the Year in 2013 and represented Australia at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis the following year. They picked up the MBAS Band of the Year gong for 2023, cementing their status as one of Melbourne’s most respected blues outfits.
Rounding out the evening is Shaky Stills, a country western and tex mex outfit known for tight three-part harmonies and a setlist built for dancing. Their sound pulls from western swing and classic trucking tunes, delivered with the kind of big-hearted honesty that works best when there’s a drink in hand.
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