Get set for an ultra-high energy Friday night at The Sound Doctor as indie punk rockers Press Club takes to the Anglesea Memorial Hall stage on Friday 23 May.

Having spent much of 2024 doing what they do best – touring across the UK/Europe, and playing a 44 date national Australian tour supporting Grinspoon – it’s bewildering that Press Club had time to put the finishing touches on their new album.

The Naarm/Melbourne four piece have announced the independent release of their fourth album To All The Ones That I Love, out on 2 May, and they’re heading to The Sound Doctor to celebrate.

Recent singles ‘Wasted Days’ and ‘Champagne & Nikes’ appear on the new album and have seen the band land on the cover of Spotify Local Noise, achieve playlisting on the likes of Spotify All New Rock, New Music Friday AU/NZ, The Local Lise, Rock Out, Student’s Union, Fresh Finds as well as Apple Music’s Good Times, New Music Daily, Breaking Rock, New In Rock and New In Indie. 

Seeing Press Club live is next level – don’t miss this electrifying show!

Supported by Surf Coast Events

With Bonny Light Horseman on Saturday 1 March already sold out, we’re adding to our opening weekend for 2025 and super excited to announce The Grogans are hitting the Coast on Friday 28 February supported by De Porsal.

The Grogans are one of Australia’s hardest working young bands. Forming in 2016 while in high school, the Melbourne/Naarm trio haven’t stopped since, releasing three EPs – Cacteyed, Twangs n Cans and Grogan Grove, and four albums in Just What You Want, Day To Day, Which Way Is Out and Find Me A Cloud. Each release has seen the genre-hopping trio showcase their musical ability, touching on blues, surf and garage rock as well as manoeuvres in punk and psych. The Grogans have supported an array of Australian and international acts including Ocean Alley, WAVVES (US), Hockey Dad and The Chats as well as sharing festival line-ups with Franz Ferdinand, Los Bitchos and The Teskey Brothers.

Support on the night comes from locals De Porsal, the brainchild of the child brain of De Porsal. From their humble beginnings writing quaint indie rock tunes for simpler times, they now bring you their latest creation known as ‘mutt music’: a hybrid of egg punk, jangly pop rock and industrial psych all wrapped up neatly in their latest LP Dishlickers. It’s fast, dumb, manic and at times scary, but importantly very danceable (but mostly pretty dumb). Simple music for tough times.

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Presented with C.W. Records & Lonely Lands Agency

Bonny Light Horseman have been announced as part of the line up for Golden Plains, Port Fairy Folk Festival and WOMADelaide. Now we’re excited to share they are also stopping by Anglesea for a headliner show for The Sound Doctor on Saturday 1 March.

Individually there is nothing in the music world the three core members of this band haven’t done – Anaïs Mitchell is a celebrated solo artist as well as the playwright and songwriter behind the hit Broadway musical Hadestown, which notched eight Tony Awards and a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album. Eric D. Johnson is best known as the mind behind beloved indie mainstays Fruit Bats, as a longtime collaborator with The Shins and as a film score composer. Josh Kaufman is a songwriter, producer and position player, who has recorded and performed with artists ranging from Bob Weir to The War on Drugs to Taylor Swift, Hiss Golden Messenger and The Hold Steady. As a group they’ve received a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album and been nominated for Best American Roots Performance. 

Bonny Light Horseman are heading to Australia with their third release Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free, a sprawling and welcoming album partly recorded in a pub in a tiny coastal village in County Cork, Ireland, that encompasses the group’s captivating artistic layers. Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free is an ode to the blessed mess of our humanity. Confident and generous, it is an unvarnished offering that puts every feeling and supposed flaw out in the open. The themes are stacked high and staked even higher: love and loss, hope and sorrow, community and family, change and time all permeate Bonny Light Horseman’s most vulnerable and bounteous offering to date.

Hearing their musical artistry and the interplay of their harmonies in Anglesea Memorial Hall will be a spinetingling and memorable experience.

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Australian tour presented by Jet Black Cat Music

Co-frontman for celebrated New York City post-punk band Parquet Courts, A. Savage is set to headline The Sound Doctor on Saturday 23 November. And we’re excited to announce Emma Russack & Lachlan Denton as supports.

Emma Russack and Lachlan Denton are prolific songwriters from Melbourne. Somehow, between recording with their respective bands (Snowy Band, Pop Filter, Partner Look and others), they find time to write records together. Something Is Going To Change Tomorrow, Today. What Will You Do? What Will You say? is their latest collaborative project, their fourth(!) in three years. How do they do it? Well, they combine friendship, a desire for writing honest pop music and efficiency (the record was recorded in about 12 hours on tape).

One of the singular indie-rock songwriters of our time, A.Savage returns to Australia from self-imposed exile in Paris to tour his new album Several Songs About Fire. Not your ordinary rock star, A. Savage is also an exhibiting painter and visual artist, voracious reader and thoughtful son of a gun.

Andrew said; “I imagine myself playing these songs in a small club that is slowly burning. Fire is something you have to escape from, and in a way this album is about escaping from something. This album is a burning building, and these songs are things I’d leave behind to save myself.“

Tickets are on sale now to see one of the singular indie-rock songwriters of our time performing a special solo show.

Supported by Surf Coast Events, Creative Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria