BEER GARDEN / FREE

Big Delicious know songwriters who use subtext, and they’re all cowards. That's traffic in simple, old-fashioned tunes that do what they say on the tin.

Featuring far too many musicians and singers from Melbourne’s best-loved bands (Klinger, Sophie Koh, Slow Fades, The Glorious North, Michael Meeking and the Lost Souls, Georgia Fields, Cheezelkane and more), this 9-piece band serves up a hearty stew of all your musical comfort foods: high-lonesome pedal steel, honky tonk piano, old-timey fiddle and the kind of guitar solos that make you want to do burn-outs in a Holden Torana, all on a tasty bed of Wilco-esque indie-rock.

Supported by indie-folk singer/songwriter Ben Birchall and his family band The Beach Belles. Inspired by the likes of CSNY, Joni, Bob, Neil and Beck, Ben has done time in Klinger, Duke Batavia, Ben Birchall & The Corrections and Slow Fades.

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.