A Melbourne record label is calling time after 10 years, but not without one almighty, fancy-dress-fuelled send-off at Brunswick Ballroom first.
Brunswick Ballroom is about to host a goodbye that’s anything but quiet. Marthouse Records is closing after 10 years, and Odd Ball 3: Marthouse Forever marks the send-off on 25 July.
The Melbourne indie label, founded by Dougal Shaw, has spent a decade and more than 40 releases building a tight-knit roster of weird, wonderful and wonky acts.
Now Marthouse Records is putting itself to bed, and Odd Ball 3: Marthouse Forever will see almost the entire label lineup take the stage or the decks one last time.
Odd Ball 3: Marthouse Forever at Brunswick Ballroom
- When: 25 July, 6:30pm
- Where: Brunswick Ballroom
- Live sets from Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice, The Vasco Era, It Thing and Tali & The Arms
- DJ sets from Sunnyside, Gut Health, Heir Traffic and The Backs
- Red carpet, photobooth and a prize for worst dressed
- Marthouse vinyl, tapes and rare merch on sale, including test presses
- Tickets here
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Shaw says he’s got an office full of stock he doesn’t fancy lugging around forever, so the night doubles as a full warehouse clearance, with vinyl, tapes and assorted Marthouse memorabilia going cheap.
Whatever’s left on the shelves will be heading out the door at Brunswick Ballroom.
True to the Marthouse spirit, the dress code is loose at best. Punters are encouraged to dig out their worst suit, an ill-fitting ball gown, a gorilla costume, or honestly whatever else is lurking in the back of the wardrobe.
The label has built its decade-long run on welcoming, well, everyone; friends and freaks, oddballs and outsiders alike, and this last hurrah is shaping up to be no different.
It caps off 10 years and more than 40 releases for the label, with every active act on the roster either plugging in or jumping on the decks for the occasion.
For a label calling it quits, Odd Ball 3: Marthouse Forever sounds like one heck of a way to go out.
For more information, head here.
This article was made in partnership with Brunswick Ballroom.
