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C.W. Stoneking returns to Australian stages this August and September, bringing his one-of-a-kind brand of hokum blues, jungle exotica, and old-time gospel to rooms and halls across the country. With a voice that sounds like it was conjured from a different era entirely, Stoneking delivers a live experience unlike anything else — raw, hypnotic, and utterly transportive.

From the tropical stages of the Darwin Festival to Sydney's Factory Theatre, the Corner Hotel in Melbourne to this pokey little golf club on the mid North coast, this tour winds its way through cities, coastal towns, and hidden gems alike. Wherever he plays, C.W. Stoneking turns the room into something stranger and more wonderful than it was before he arrived.

Don't miss your chance to catch a true original on home soil.

Support by Conor McDonald.

Sitting at the core of Melbourne’s burgeoning movement of cinematic instrumental soul, Karate Boogaloo’s roots go deep into the fabric of the DIY soul idiom. A mainstay of the Melbourne underground for longer than a decade, their now sought-after three-volume ‘KB’s Mixtapes’ series, two original LPs and collaboration with US singer Danielle Ponder are evidence of their long-standing contribution to the city's cinematic soul sound.

This four piece seeks inspiration from the great small combo instrumental bands à la Booker T & The MG’s and The Meters. Coming off of a booming tour of Europe with College Of Knowledge labelmates Surprise Chef in 2025, 2026 will see new music from Karate Boogaloo released via Colemine Records (US) and
College Of Knowledge Records (AU) as well as some relentless touring!

College Of Knowledge DJs are musical collaborators and friends. Endeavoring to represent the soulful side of the record racks; through thoughtful DJ sets; through the cinematic soul sound they push as Surprise Chef; and through the College Of Knowledge Records imprint. Their DJ sets are a reflection of a strong musical bond and deep friendship; enthusiastically and intuitively navigating the sounds of deep soul, super-funky-jazz, leftfield disco, foundation dancehall and boom bap hip hop records that fill their shared crates.

It's gonna make for a beautiful afternoon of dance at the golf club. We're excited to welcome them down here!

FROM FITZROY TO BELLINGEN!

One of Australia's most loved singer-songwriters, boasting numerous accolades including 7 ARIA Awards, NIMA Awards, Top 5 ARIA-charting albums, and an ARIA-certified gold record. His 2023 self-titled album Dan Sultan took home the ARIA for Best Adult Contemporary Album, while also earning nominations for
Best Solo Artist and Best Independent Release.

A powerhouse live performer, Sultan has headlined the Sydney Opera House Forecourt to thousands of fans, toured his orchestral reimagining of Blackbird with the MSO, DSO and ASO to sold-out houses, and supported Bruce Springsteen, Midnight Oil and Vance Joy, including shows at Central Park, Red Rocks and The Ryman.

His reach extends well beyond Australian shores, with a performance at the Paris Paralympics Athletes Village and an appearance on UK television's The Last Leg drawing over one million viewers.

Now Sultan turns a new page, joining forces with legendary songwriter and producer Guy Chambers, known for his iconic work with Robbie Williams, Diana Ross and Mark Ronson, on a brand new album.

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.”