ED KUEPPER 50 NOT OUT!
Come one come all as we celebrate 50 years as a recording artist for the great Ed Kuepper!
From The Saints to Laughing Clowns, an ARIA award winning solo career, side journeys into The Aints and The Aints!, movie soundtracks, collaborations and back where is all began with The Saints ’73-‘78, Ed Kuepper has forged, flourished and conquered the recorded medium many times over.
Don’t miss the full band experience of The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper as they tackle on of this country’s greatest ever musical legacies.
CHOOSE YOUR (FANCY) WEAPON
Fancy Weapon is another new project for ultra-productive guitarist Mick Turner, also featuring Guy Maddison (Mudhoney), Joel Silbersher (God / Hoss) and Claire Birchall (Paper Planes). Their debut self-titled LP is to be released by Melbourne label Poison City (Bleak Squad, Frenzee, Camp Cope, Cable Ties, Chimers) in July and is a collaboration in every sense with all members contributing material that recalls some of their respective pasts but which also moves in a number of new directions, as expected from such high calibre and passionate creators. Sample their wares here.
NSW DATES FOR MESS ESQUE!
April 24: Newtown, Union Htl – free!
April 25: Lower Belford, Gumball Festival
April 26: Coal Coast, Austinmer Scout Hall
“Casually intense and unexpectedly beautiful, the music takes you on a journey towards the underworld, then up and through into the warm light of living where you stand.” – Mark Mordue
WELCOME PRIMITIVE RING!
Primitive Ring is a new California power trio featuring Charles Moothart (Ty Segall, GOGGS / Fuzz), Bert Hoover (Hooveriii / Groop) and Jon Modaff (Frankie & The Witchfingers). Having released four 7” singles the band have now completed their eponymous debut album set for release on America’s premier garage-punk label In The Red in May 2026. The band intends to tour Australia 2026 or early 2027. Grab a taste of what to expect here.
THE RETURN OF STEREOLAB
Riding high off the back of 2025’s sensational comeback album Instant Holograms on Metal Film (Album of the week SER, Triple R, 4ZZZ and ThreeD) Stereolab return to Australia with special guests Mick Harvey and Amanda Acevedo
“Ephemeral yet timeless, they exist in multiple eras at once; as comfortable in a 60s casino or an 80s club show as a hall in Australia in 2026, their cult just keeps growing.”
Tickets on-sale 11am Friday 27th Feb via feelpresents.com.
NEW DATES FOR BLEAK SQUAD
Those Pulp supports out of the way we can now list the rescheduled Nth NSW & Qld shows for Bleak Squad and throw in an Adelaide debut to boot!
“As the final notes of Black and White faded into the charged silence of The Factory Theatre, Bleak Squad took their time—unhurried, almost ceremonial—stepping forward together for a single, unified bow in acknowledgment of the rapturous applause that swelled around them.” –sydneyartsguide
July 30: Brisbane, Princess Theatre
July 31: Eumundi, Imperial, Hotel
August 1: Murwillumbah, Regent Theatre
August 2: Adelaide, The Gov