Music

Over the course of his now 25-year career under the moniker Fruit Bats, most of Eric D. Johnson’s output has been the product of patience and fine-tuning. His songs, to borrow a phrase, are slow growers, given life on albums that encompass long stretches of time and memory.

Most recently here in Australia mid 2025 touring with his other project Bonny Light Horseman, we’re excited to welcome Eric back. This time enjoying a library of Fruit Bats classics as well as an array of new songs from his soon to be released record ‘The Landfill’.

So very excited to host this bloke here in Bellingen for what will be an incredible mid week at the Loyal.

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.

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.

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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.”