SOFT POWDER - Mini Residency

The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick (Front Bar)

2 shows over 2 Tuesdays in April.

8PM // Free Entry

Soft Powder

https://linktr.ee/softpowder_

SHOW DATES & SUPPORTS

Tuesday April 23rd w/

Nightlight

https://nightlightzmusic.bandcamp.com/

Julian Benjamin

https://soundcloud.com/julianbenjaminmusic

Tuesday April 30th w/

Love Games

https://lovegames.bandcamp.com

Babyccino

https://soundcloud.com/sawysauce

Poster by John Szetho

Howdy everybody!

Come party down hard with The Codeine Cowboys and pals down at The Retreat Hotel on the 25th of April!

It’s a public holiday and we want to see every beautiful face the world has to offer!

Doors at 8!

Free Entry!

The Codeine Cowboys

Easy Browns

Hannah Kate

Grizzlee Train return to The Retreat Hotel for the Melbourne leg of their SHAKIN' tour! Featuring special guest Anabelle Kay.

FREE ENTRY!

Alex Hamilton Folk Singer is back to play everyone’s favourite front bar. He is joined by the always captivating and masterful Grace Cummings and Melbournes premium country singer Teresa Duffy-Richards. Pull up a stool and drink away your blues. It’s free and it’s easy.

3pm - Grace Cummings

4pm - Teresa Duffy-Richards

5pm - Alex Hamilton Folk Singer

FREE

It's Music Mamas 20th event so it's time to celebrate! We are back at one of our fave venues, The Retreat, this time in their awesome front bar. Get ready to PARTY, kids!

Music Mamas is a unique event where mainly female singer/songwriters with kids, nieces/nephews or just a love of kids, play a family-friendly showcase gig.

These are All Ages events, so everyone is welcome, especially parents, little kids and grandparents.

Make sure you grab some food while you are listening to the awesome tunes as the meals at The Retreat are great!

Music Mamas #20 features:

The Kat O Army

Burnt letters

Rachel Clark Music

At long last your favourite melancholic mates have created some new music! Joining us are the wonderful sound crafters Tamara & the Dreams and Dez!

About the bands...

Dez

Dez are a 4 piece Melbourne-based band creating a blend of indie, jazz, and surf rock. Their sound has drawn comparisons to Jeff Buckley and King Krule.

Tamara & the Dreams

Whimsical, bittersweet guitar songs that explore what it means to be young and alive

The Sunken Sea

The Sunken Sea are a brooding art rock band from Melbourne. �

The large collective of trained musicians creates music with sincerity and soul that makes your heart swell.

Led by the turbulent lyrics and powerful baritone vocals of songwriter and bassist Dougal James, they forge syrupy harmonies and intricate rhythms that evolve and undulate in powerful and unexpected ways.

Back when I was the booker at The Retreat, I installed Charles Jenkins as a kind of permanent exhibition, playing every Monday night from 8pm - 10pm. Well, on the last Monday of April I'll be filling in for him, playing solo and selfish but also getting some friends up to play some tunes.

This show is still evolving in my mind - I want to do something different - maybe I'll do a set of covers of some of my favourite local artists' songs, or maybe I'll play in costume, or maybe I'll just recite a few monologues from my favourite plays. I DO own a copy of all the Seinfeld scripts, so maybe I'll assemble a small cast and we'll just act out few episodes. I'm open to suggestion - but I' definitely planning on making it fun - so please come along and join me!

SOFT POWDER - Mini Residency

The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick (Front Bar)

2 shows over 2 Tuesdays in April.

8PM // Free Entry

Soft Powder

https://linktr.ee/softpowder_

SHOW DATES & SUPPORTS

Tuesday April 23rd w/

Nightlight

https://nightlightzmusic.bandcamp.com/

Julian Benjamin

https://soundcloud.com/julianbenjaminmusic

Tuesday April 30th w/

Love Games

https://lovegames.bandcamp.com

Babyccino

https://soundcloud.com/sawysauce

Poster by John Szetho

Floss headline show at the Retreat Hotel in Brunswick, seriously good pots at this place. To join us will be Pamela Street and Diamonds of Neptune. Hope to see ya there!

Prepare yourselves for a full night of local Melbourne magic, as four-piece powerhouse Dandecat take to The Retreat Hotel stage for the very first time.

With FREE ENTRY and support from the talents of bands Lady Blue and Mylk, excuses are extremely limited, and good times are on the cards.

So in the words of Rebecca Black, you gotta get DOWN on Friday*

*Friday the 3rd of May to be specific . . . to the Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

*** FREE ENTRY FREE ENTRY FREE ENTRY ***

Doors 8:30pm

SET TIMES TBA

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Dandecat

Born from jazz, soul and rock, Melbourne based Dandecat is a fast emerging four-piece that never fail to enchant audiences with their unique sound; a sound that is bound to get you thinking.

Listen Here:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ShF6fdXhEfZZZuS1jiq1M?si=we-dziDtRxeWCua-TaLNxg

Intergalactic rockers Zoë Fox & The Rocket Clocks are landing their spaceship in Brunswick for a disco jam afternoon take over of the Retreat front bar. Super special guests joining the line - Kaipora and Grace Cummings

~Free~

5/5

2PM ~ 6PM

Clear Tears ~

https://cleartears.bandcamp.com

Doily ~

https://juliantuss.bandcamp.com

The Meeseeks ~

https://themeeseeks.bandcamp.com

Adore take to the well-loved Retreat front bar stage on a Sunday night to launch "Carey Rang", the 2nd single from their debut album "Leave Without Murmur, Leave Without Trace".

A dedicated bandcamp page for the single with fresh artwork will be uploaded and made permanently available from the launch date! In the meantime, here's the album:

https://adore-naarm.bandcamp.com/album/leave-without-murmur-leave-without-trace

8pm doors

FREE ENTRY

8:30 Rogue Wavs

9:15 Boyparts

10:15 Adore

Mondays in May I'll be playing songs new and old at the Retreat Hotel- solo, with the occasional special guest hopping up for a song or two to be announced closer to the night.

Looking forward to sharing some new songs and hope to see some familiar faces!

First set begins 8pm.

ANNA CORDELL

Anna Cordell's rich folk music straddles that place between light and dark, where true human emotion exists. Her penchant for the minor key coupled with her intricate nylon and electric guitar playing and haunting yet uplifting voice make for an incredibly enthralling performance.

Cordell has recently completed her debut album in New Zealand with producer Ben Edwards, and will be releasing new music later this year.

“Delicate and haunting, this song comes from a patient and knowing heart and will stir a yearning in yours.” Caz Tran, TRIPLE J

https://youtu.be/JNPwkh0CUOk

Hey friends, we're headed to the Retreat for a coupla Tuesdays in May, with support from some good friends. Hope to see you there.

7th

Sean Lee Mccoy: Old timey yodellin' music maker man

Katie Bates: Class act with the voice of a damn angel

14th

Thea Lang: Dreamy songbird

Matt Parlane: Super cool guy, writes super cool songs

Free entry so giddy up neighbours.

With love, peace n chicken grease,

The Ironbark Brothers x

Come along to the Retreat on the 9th of May for a FREE SHOW chocker-block filled with captivating compositions and a celebration community! Horatio Luna and Proto Moro - new found friends and purveyors of experimental jazz are excited to put on a smash hit blockbuster for all you beautiful beings! Malla will be joining them too with their spiritual jazz stylings and will make your inner core tremble with excitement.

The night will be lit up in amazing visuals by the one an only, Liam Martin, and tunes will be pumping all night with Buddy Nice and Aka Zeb sharing the decks between sets!

Horatio Luna will be coming in fat with that Detroit House for a free show at the Retreat! He has been bridging the two aesthetics as a solo producer and band leader. An offshoot of the 30/70 collective to which this left leaning jazz musician is a founding member.

New cats Proto Moro have just entered the scene and are bleeding their souls into every venue they enter. They have an experimental and psychedelic tone about their approach, but encompass the energy that will make your booty's shake as they explore genres such as house, funk fusion and hip hop.

Malla are a large ensemble with a beautiful and swelling sound. Their exploration of spiritual jazz and heavy hitting tunes will make you turn to the person next to you and simultaneously hug and dance with them. This is not an experience that you want to miss!

Sleeper and Snake, Alex Macfarlane and LIVE DEBUT from The OPALS! At the Retreat Hotel Sydney Rd Brunswick MAY 10 2019

On May 11, the retreat is serving up an arvo of intimate Retreat front bar shows. Free entry!

Francis Tait is a non pivotal member of both The Vacant Smiles and Squid Nebula telling stories and singing songs about being human and 21st century life through a wordy folk storyteller lens. If he’s lucky enough Francis is often accompanied by Hannah McKittrick bringing an air of class and some ripper keyboard solos to the whole thing. His Mum has had it up to here though and he’s gonna try and finish a couple of happy songs before this one.

“When Zac E Tea isn’t reinventing surf rock in Hobsons Bay Coast Guard, he’s serving up bossa-nova infused pop gems on his own. Last time I saw him his banter was lit and the songs even litter. Please dispose of all litter after show.” - James Lynch

Amy Dowd is a Noongar woman newly delving into the sights of a solo project. Known as the captivating front-woman for Melbourne's soul/groove outfit, 'Squid Nebula’, Bumpy (Amy) also delivers her own independent artistry.

Bumpy is an escape and outlet for all the things crawling inside her mind, while exploring the lengths of her own independent artistry.

12th MAY | THE RETREAT HOTEL | FREE ENTRY | 8pm START

Come for the MUSIC. We all love playing. Its on a Sunday.

Hailing from the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne Prickly Pear are a trio of friends that share a love of creating and improvising. Along with exploring modern modal harmony, the band also takes inspiration from Randy Newman’s Americana and John Scofield’s fusion grooves. Much like their name suggests, their music aims to capture the audience with a unique sound and sweet melodies, but can also pack a prickly punch.

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Niine the idiosyncratic ball of quirky goodness has been hitting the live music scene hard. Niine's vibrant song writing and organic grooves have been making an impression since the end of 2016. As the world’s first avant-guard avalanche pop artist, she brings a completely new sound to the music scene through her recordings and live shows. Her abstract view of the pop world and discrete punk attitude is delivering exactly what the pop music scene craves.

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B.Phillip blends folk, jazz and hip-hop to bring to life musical ideas that explore politics, the natural environment and sometimes fantasy worlds. Love of vocal harmony and shifting time signatures permeate the projects sound, giving colour to the lyrics and melody. The music is played with guitar, drums, bass guitar, keys and alternating sets of vocal folds. With the music changing shape, regularly throughout the set, B.Phillip aims to keep the soundscape fluid and surprising.

Mondays in May I'll be playing songs new and old at the Retreat Hotel- solo, with the occasional special guest hopping up for a song or two to be announced closer to the night.

Looking forward to sharing some new songs and hope to see some familiar faces!

First set begins 8pm.

ANNA CORDELL

Anna Cordell's rich folk music straddles that place between light and dark, where true human emotion exists. Her penchant for the minor key coupled with her intricate nylon and electric guitar playing and haunting yet uplifting voice make for an incredibly enthralling performance.

Cordell has recently completed her debut album in New Zealand with producer Ben Edwards, and will be releasing new music later this year.

“Delicate and haunting, this song comes from a patient and knowing heart and will stir a yearning in yours.” Caz Tran, TRIPLE J

https://youtu.be/JNPwkh0CUOk

Hey friends, we're headed to the Retreat for a coupla Tuesdays in May, with support from some good friends. Hope to see you there.

7th

Sean Lee Mccoy: Old timey yodellin' music maker man

Katie Bates: Class act with the voice of a damn angel

14th

Thea Lang: Dreamy songbird

Matt Parlane: Super cool guy, writes super cool songs

Free entry so giddy up neighbours.

With love, peace n chicken grease,

The Ironbark Brothers x

Mondays in May I'll be playing songs new and old at the Retreat Hotel- solo, with the occasional special guest hopping up for a song or two to be announced closer to the night.

Looking forward to sharing some new songs and hope to see some familiar faces!

First set begins 8pm.

ANNA CORDELL

Anna Cordell's rich folk music straddles that place between light and dark, where true human emotion exists. Her penchant for the minor key coupled with her intricate nylon and electric guitar playing and haunting yet uplifting voice make for an incredibly enthralling performance.

Cordell has recently completed her debut album in New Zealand with producer Ben Edwards, and will be releasing new music later this year.

“Delicate and haunting, this song comes from a patient and knowing heart and will stir a yearning in yours.” Caz Tran, TRIPLE J

https://youtu.be/JNPwkh0CUOk