2ser Gig Guide

Blueprints, featuring Mia Schoen and Marc Regueiro-McKelvie, step onto vinyl following their cassette releases ‘Blueprints’ and ‘Celestial Spheres.’ Known for their work in the Melbourne underground band New Estate, this dynamic duo blends avant-art-pop with moods from fractured folk to anthemic Beatlesque tunes.

Their new 7-inch ‘Artichoke’ elevates their sound with a skull-crushing disco beat, wild vocals, and stunning instrumentation, including the tracks ‘Bibbulmun’ and ‘Game Show.’ Schoen’s contributions to Sleepy Township, Huon, Possum Moods, and Powerful Owl, paired with Regueiro-McKelvie’s solo project Popolice and collaborations with Jess Rebeiro and Teeth & Tongue, highlight their prolific creativity and innovation.

Join Blueprints, along with Dumbells and Married Man for an unforgettable launch event.

The original introspective collective The Gin Club are strapping on the chaps and heading out for a run of shows this July.  Formed in Brisbane in the early noughts by a group of friends at an open mic night, the group has since gone on to release five full length albums featuring their blend of folk-rock, alt-country and indie. With songwriting and singing duties shared among all ten members of their ever-expanding roster, they’ve toured extensively throughout Australia as well as to NZ and the USA. The tour will happily coincide with the 20th anniversary of the 2005 release of the group’s sophomore album Fear of the Sea which contained much loved singles “Gabriel” and “Drugflowers”.

Music For Change team up once again with Lazy Thinking (2024 FBI Radio SMAC Awards winner) to bring you an afternoon of leftfield, eclectic and downtempo electronic music. 100% of proceeds from pre-sale tickets and door sales are being donated to Dahnoun Mututal Aid, a group of grassroots Gazawi organizers working to provide life-sustaining aid in Gaza.

Lineup:

E Davd (Live) [Pure Space/Music For Change] – https://soundcloud.com/edavd

Suzu [Ear Contact] – https://soundcloud.com/suzu_who

Ulia [Undisclosed] – https://soundcloud.com/uliatechno

Lovefromsoph [Syllabus Recordings] – https://soundcloud.com/lovefromsoph

Andrew Wowk [2SER/Music For Change] – https://soundcloud.com/andrew-wowk

Lazy thinking presents Jess Ribeiro’s Mix Tape – a collection of abandoned pathways, parallel timelines, maybes and what-ifs recorded with different friends over eight  B-sides previously left on the cutting floor, she sings in her signature cinematic style. Evoking teenage memories, smoking cigarettes in the woods after dusk, late-night sorrow, and the moment someone you’ve spent a lifetime waiting for arrives, these songs represent the end of one chapter and the promise of something new. Set against breezy guitars, rollicking drums and nostalgic synthesisers, her economical prose conjures up entire worlds within a few words, saying the most while saying the least.  

Mix Tape is due for release in July 2025 through Poison City Records. Limited vinyl LP copies will be exclusively available at shows only.

Third Eye Stimuli Records is excited to invite you to celebrate our 9th Birthday! It’s been a whirlwind running this beloved indie label for almost a decade and we are so honoured to be part of the Sydney community, since it all began back in 2016. We’ve been so busy releasing music every year that we always forget our special day, so this year we are excited to take a moment and celebrate the label and all the artists, community, fans, industry, photographers, creatives that we love so much.

We’re taking over the iconic Metro Social on George St on Wednesday August 27th, with three of our favourite bands taking to the stage — The Uplifting Bell Ends, Hot Apple Band and WinterMcQuinn & Friends + Third Eye Stimuli DJs. If you’re a fan of the label, you’ll probably need no introduction to these artists as they’re a big part of the family.

Winter McQuinn will be coming up from Naarm with his band of friends to perform all of the latest singles from his upcoming album ‘Where Are We Now?’ and split EP with Acacia Pip. Hot Apple Band will be pulling out their all-star band to perform their classic folk-rock hits and a bunch of new material to be released soon. The night will go out with a bang as The Uplifting Bell Ends gang hit the stage with Fenchy and co performing all the greatest hits from their extensive catalogue and possibly a few new songs—we’ll make sure he packs the recorder for this one. The full Third Eye Stimuli catalogue of records and merch will be available at the merch desk, and we’ll be DJ’ing all of our favourite records from the past 9 years all night.

We can’t wait to see you all and celebrate our special label family and all the weird and wonderful music we have had the pleasure to release.

Currently in the midst of a riotous UK tour performing songs about “f*cking and drinking and hanging landlords,” acclaimed Irish outfit The Mary Wallopers are thrilled to announce their live return to Sydney this September!

In between inducing mosh pits at Glastonbury and selling-out serious venues across the UK, US, Europe and beyond, it’s been a heady rise for the Dundalk outfit, their packed live schedule over the past two years seeing their popularity ascend sky high. Quickly establishing themselves as a live phenomenon not to be missed, the band are set to return to our shores – proudly presented by Frontier Touring. Led by brothers Charles and Andrew Hendy, The Mary Wallopers first shot to fame back in 2020, thanks to their lockdown YouTube shows, which saw the group build a makeshift pub in their home, livestreaming (often hilarious) trad sessions. Since then, and thanks to relentless gigging across the globe and the band’s irreverent, gleeful rebelliousness, the Wallopers have reached new heights… as recent profiles in in The Guardian UK and NME this month attest:

‘The Mary Wallopers have become a word-of-mouth live phenomenon. At the heart of this is their ability to move seamlessly between crackling cabaret-style banter, raucous tales of pintmen, laughter and getting laid, chaotic, Pogues-style punk velocity – limbs and spilled pints everywhere – and pin-drop silence for heartrending songs about the vicious crimes of the Catholic church, or renowned Irish Traveller singer Pecker Dunne’ – The Guardian

‘In just a few years, the group have amassed an international following with their rambunctiously spirited interpretations of the Irish songs of yesteryear, injecting a thrillingly contemporary political zeal into a songbook that was dying to be dragged into the 21st century’ – NME

The Mary Wallopers take on century old songs and new blistering originals and are truly one of a kind. The upcoming tour follows the band’s acclaimed 2024 second album Irish Rock ‘n’ Roll, and recent EP Home Boys Home.

Hearts out, arms aloft, live on stage The Mary Wallopers are full of fire and incendiary energy. Don’t miss these shows!

Brant Bjork Trio return to Australia and NZ this September to promote the release of their first album in the current Trio format, “Once Upon a Time in the Desert”. With long time collaborator Mario Lalli (Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson) on the Bass the band creates a fluid heavy groove that shows why they are collectively known as the forefathers of Desert Rock.  Brant Bjork has spent over a quarter-century at the epicenter of Californian desert rock. A founding member and composer in the heavily influential desert band Kyuss as well as propelling the seminal fuzz of Fu Manchu from 1994-2001. Over the last 30 years embarking on his solo career as a singer, guitarist, composer and bandleader, founding his own record labels (DUNA, LOW DESERT PUNK) and more, his history is a winding narrative of relentless, unflinching creativity.

Now Would Be A Good Time, (out July 25th) the debut album by Folk Bitch Trio, tells vivid, visceral stories. The songs are modern, youthful, singing acutely through dissociative daydreams and galling breakups, sexual fantasies and media overload, all the petty resentments and minor humiliations of being in your early twenties in the 2020s. 

Heide Peverelle (they/them), Jeanie Pilkington (she/her) and Gracie Sinclair (she/her) have known each other since high school, and first started singing together five years ago. Pilkington grew up with two musician parents and brings formative memories of watching them perform, of listening to Gillian Welch and Lucinda Williams. Peverelle spends their spare time making art and furniture; those hobbies, as well as their love of pop music old and new, articulate a love for the tactile, the home-grown and the hand-made. Sinclair is the self-proclaimed jester of the group, but her taste skews dark, gothic, baroque and dramatic, expressed as a love of opera and ballet as well as musicians as wide-ranging as Patti Smith, Nirvana and Tchaikovsky.

Folk Bitch Trio have a shared sense of humour that is embedded deep in their music and that sets it alight, safe from the self-serious traps of the genre. Now Would Be A Good Time is funny and darkly ironic in the manner of writers like Mary Gaitskill or Otessa Moshfegh. Recording in Auckland with Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams) during the winter of 2024, the band built out these songs with minimalist, idiosyncratic arrangements. Recording to tape was the final missing thread in bringing the album to life.  Voices and guitar took centre stage, and the production voice the band struggled to articulate through digital recording was brought to fruition. Finally, they sounded like Folk Bitch Trio.   

The strongest link between the trio, aside from friendship, is music. “We all talked about loving music when we were growing up, and knowing we wanted music to be a big part of our lives,” says Pilkington. “But for me at least, when I looked into the future, it was this relatively mysterious thing.” Joining forces as a group demystified that future.  “When we started singing together,” they continue, “it immediately became the vehicle for my songs and my love of music, and we all had that in common.” That feeling—of music as an innate calling, as opposed to hobby or folly—was justified: Folk Bitch Trio have already toured across Australia, Europe and the US, supporting bands as disparate as King Gizzard, Alex G and Julia Jacklin and signing with iconic indie label Jagjaguwar.

These are the stakes: Learning how to live a life free of lovesickness and loser exes, when to sink into contemporary nihilism and when to have a laugh with your friends, and why being alive can feel so ephemeral and unreal. In this sense, Now Would Be A Good Time feels like a manual for modern living: a missive from three proud Folk Bitches finding beauty and wisdom where they can, together.

Following the announce of their highly anticipated fourth album, ‘Fairyland Codex,’ out June 20^th, 2025, Genre-bending Tropical Fuck Storm are taking their new music on the road, touring Aud in October and November 2025. The songs on ‘Fairyland Codex’ immerse us in the chaos of a fateful landslide, picking out the characters that litter the impending collapse of society. The live renditions can’t be missed.