MAIN ROOM / FREE SHOW

Al Matcott brings his Forever Band to The Retreat Hotel for an evening of caterwauling guitars, engrossing storytelling and blistering rhythms. His first album 'Summer's Coming' was a full-throated howl against the forces dooming the world to climate disaster. Matcott's upcoming second album focuses his ire on the wasteland of our digital lives, but also features some of his most personal tunes - with some expanded and more lush sonic tones. The Forever Band, telling it like it is. Whenever. Wherever. Shakira Shakira. Coming along for the ride is Cahill Kelly and the Encounters. Hailing from Far North Queensland via a detour through '60s and '70s Laurel Canyon psychedelic singer-songwriter rawk 'nd rawl. Slick tunes, slicker button-down long-sleeves.

The Retreat Hotel would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which The Retreat now stands, and pay our respects to all elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded and that our venue operates on stolen land.