Music

Join us each and every Sunday for some free music at the Loyal featuring a host of local, interstate and the odd international performers.

Kick off usually for just after 3pm til' sundown. See you there!

UPCOMING: 

Sunday 4th October: Joseph Fairburn & Zac play 12.30pm, Jamie Blanco 3pm onwards

Sunday 11th October: 

Sunday 18th October: 

For the first time in more than a decade, Cash Savage & The Last Drinks return to Bellingen for a rare and unmissable performance at the Loyal Bellingen Golf Club.

Naarm/Melbourne heavyweights Cash Savage & The Last Drinks have built a reputation as one of Australia's most powerful and emotionally charged bands. Their legendary live shows are an overwhelming flood of emotion and sound, with magnetic frontwoman Cash Savage at the centre of the storm.

At the heart of this band is a fierce collective chemistry. The Last Drinks command a brooding intensity and force that can shift from fragile intimacy to overwhelming sonic overload. This is music that is epic in scale yet deeply human.

The band's last album So This Is Love was awarded Best Album at the Music Victoria Awards, and earned nominations from the ARIA Awards, Music Victoria Awards and National Live Music Awards - cementing their reputation as one of the country's most vital contemporary acts

"One of the most powerful bands in the country… you won't hear much that's better than this" — The Guardian

"A fucking spectacular live phenomenon" — Beat Magazine

★★★★★ — The Age

This long-awaited return promises an unforgettable concert of raw intensity and profound connection! Supports to be announced.

The Loyal Bellingen Golf Club welcomes #1 Dads!

#1 Dads is the solo project of TomIansek, a valuable, proudly independent fixture of the Australian music scenefor over two decades as one half of themulti-award-winning Big Scary and No Mono, and an in-demandproducer (Maple Glider, Kate Miller-Heidke, The PaperKites, Ruby Gill, Lisa Mitchell, and more).

Animated by intimate, understated arrangements and lyricalhonesty, #1 Dads is a perfect introduction toIansek’s sonic authenticity and rich, rewarding music. His gentle melodies andless-is-more production make for homely yet sophisticated pop songs that haveseen the Australian-born, London-based artist become an unassuming cultfavourite, beloved with fans and critics alike.

Debuting as #1 Dads with2011’s Man of Leisure, Iansek further showcased his sincere, quietlyinnovative songcraft with 2014’s ARIA-nominated About Face and2020’s Golden Repair. Born of a period of dramaticupheaval, Every Little Fire is the Melbourne-bred, London-basedartist’s most deeply personal record

Every Little Fire, the fourth #1 Dads album,due October 16 via Pieater. PRE-SAVE EVERY LITTLEFIRE HERE. https://1dads.lnk.to/EveryLittleFire

The record arrives six years after 2020's GoldenRepair and follows a period of profound personal upheaval - atransatlantic relocation, a growing family, the particular vertigo ofdismantling one life and building another fromscratch. "It was not an easy thing to do," Ianseksays. "It has been an insane, wonderful, chaotic, intense and joyfulperiod of my life." Every Little Fire, in both title and execution, takesthat turbulence seriously.

Produced and mixed by Iansek himself, in small rooms, including aDIY bedroom studio, Every Little Fire reflects the conditions of itsmaking. Imperfections were left in. Longer, unvarnished takes. Tempofluctuations. Breaths. The result is an album that sounds handmade in the bestsense: intimate without being precious, and honest without being confessionalfor its own sake.

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Way Dynamic, the project of Melbourne songwriter Dylan Young, shares his new single ‘Officially’. The song is included on the first-ever international release of the album Massive Shoe, out on 2 Oct via Jagjaguwar, which also features the recent BBC 6 Music playlisted single ‘Miffed It’.

‘Officially’ is released ahead of Way Dynamic’s upcoming UK, Ireland and North American tour. "I wrote ‘Officially’ the week I met my girlfriend, so it really is a shamefully joyous love song,” Dylan explains. Part delirious and part lament, he continues, “But it also contends with the downside of being addicted to someone - I am a very compulsive person." It’s a jubilant number that enhances Massive Shoe’s take on relationships squandered and flourishing....

Massive Shoe is Way Dynamic’s playful and understated, luminous and textured third album, originally released on Spoilsport Records. It’s minimalist folk-pop, art rock and baroque pop, produced and largely played by Young, who moonlights in Melbourne’s beloved Cool Sounds and Good Morning and has played drums with Snowy Band and Kankawa Nagarra. 

It’s tempting to only compare these songs to those of yesteryear – Young’s falsetto, his ear for harmonies and the intricate arrangements all feel timeless. But there’s a sensibility, a turn of phrase, that feels deeply contemporary: it’s telling that Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield described ‘Miffed It’ as her “favourite song in a VERY long time”, and Katie, MJ Lenderman, This is Lorelei and Black Country New Road have all taken Way Dynamic on tour, while Sir Elton John said that he “just cannot stop listening” to ‘Ibiza’. Young’s songs don’t shy away from sentiment, or equally from silliness: on any given song he might suggest a flight to space or earnestly lament a miscommunication. “Can we walk and talk as well?” he asks on ‘I Was the Dancer’, and we rush to accept the invitation.

Presented by our pals, Jet Black Cat Music.

Singer/songwriter Kevin Morby (USA) pens songs that meld Dylanesque lyrical mystique with rootsy production. Along with contemporaries like Angel Olsen and Kurt Vile, he represents a wave of sharp, indie-bred 2010s songwriters whose audiences have grown exponentially as they've come into their own.For Kevin Morby, the “little wide open” is the big sky, the small lives, it’s his origins in the Midwest, & every duty and modesty and familiarity and isolation.

“There’s something unintentionally musical about the Midwest; cicadas chirping in the trees, a train passing, a tornado siren going off,” explains Morby. “If you listen, there are these almost ominous sounds taking place beneath the wide-open sky—its ugliness and its beauty and how the two are often working together simultaneously. And while the Midwest isn’t technically the badlands, it’s my badlands.”Little Wide Open is the title of Kevin Morby’s eighth studio album, produced by Aaron Dessner.

The album, which includes a host of contributors such as Dessner, Amelia Meath, Andrew Barr, Justin Vernon, Katie Gavin, Lucinda Williams, Meg Duffy, and more, has been described by Morby as the third in a trilogy of releases, following 2020’s Sundowner and 2022’s This Is a Photograph, which catalogued his time in the Midwest after moving back to Kansas City.Now primarily living in LA, the atmosphere that runs through Little Wide Open has changed somewhat from its predecessors.

As Rachel Kushner writes of Morby in the album’s accompanying essay: “It’s about time, about feeling like he has shifted from nostalgia & the losing game, losing but beautiful, of holding onto the past. He has accepted that time is ceaselessly flowing, and you can’t stop it. Instead, he feels like he’s riding it. He’s riding passenger with time.”

Love Police presents… John Craigie, the American singer, songwriter, troubadour, raconteur, and all-round master of the perfectly timed story returns to Australia in April 2027 for his third time Down Under.

Craigie loves Australia, and Australia loves Craigie - especially anyone lucky enough to have shared an evening of his songs, stories and seriously good company.

Following tours with Cat Clyde in 2024 and Kassi Valazza in 2025, Craigie returns this time with special guest Anna Moss, bringing her distinctive, heart-meltingly good voice to Australian audiences.

Craigie will be playing songs from his latest album I Swam Here, alongside plenty of crowd favourites, weaving songs and stories from the grit of New Orleans to the quiet of the Pacific Northwest.

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Jet Black Cat Music presents Pachyman (PR) on his longest trip out to Aus yet! This time around we’re bringing the dance party to some different venues. Pachy will be coming all the way from LA, bringing his infectious rhythms to play some of the old, some of the new and may even drop a few unreleased tracks along the way.

Pachyman (Pachy García) is a Puerto Rico-born, Los Angeles-based producer and musician working in the lineage of dub reggae. Drawing from vintage production techniques and the methodologies of genre masters like King Tubby and The Scientist, Pachyman constructs expansive soundscapes that showcase an intuitive understanding of repetition, space, and sonic architecture.

Originally trained in reggae and experimental rock bands in Puerto Rico, Pachyman's artistic evolution reflects a diverse musical palette spanning synth-pop, dub techno, vaporwave, chillwave, soul-jazz, Kosmische musik, and krautrock. His work synthesizes these influences while remaining rooted in dub reggae's core philosophy, creating a distinctive sound that balances experimental edges with dancefloor-driven energy.

Recording in his basement studio 333 House, Pachyman is known for his meticulous approach to production, unconventional compositional methods, and emerging capabilities as a vocalist. His practice involves journaling and cyclical creative processes that inform both the conceptual and sonic direction of his work. Despite his demonstrated mastery of repetition, Pachyman constantly pushes against formulaic approaches, seeking new ways to evolve and inject spontaneity into his music while building his own distinct sonic world.

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