RiotACT Gig Guide (12 - 18 July)

The King Hits will be playing at the Phoenix with Bad Bags and DJ Professor on Friday night from 10 pm. Photo: Patrick Cox.

Good afternoon and welcome to the RiotACT Gig Guide for the 12th to the 18th of July! We have a stack of gigs this week so let’s dive in, shall we?

Pictured above are one of Canberra’s top rockabilly bands, the King Hits, which will be playing with Bad Bags and DJ Professor this Friday from 10 pm. If you haven’t seen the King Hits yet, do yourself a favour! A couple of other standouts for me include Andromeda Is Coming and Ben Drury playing from 7 pm Saturday at Gorman Arts Centre, in what looks be an elusive and astronomic night of experimental tuneage. Speaking of astronomical, on Sunday night at Smith’s Alternative Charlie Marshall will be back in town with a new band and a new album, ‘Sublime’, which is a wonderful LP for fans of highly melodic and psychedelic pop. I will be interviewing Charlie on LocalNLive on 2XX 98.3FM – tune in from 4 pm!

Triumvirate is also playing TWICE this weekend, coming out of a semi-hiatus to play with Neon Highways, The Wumpaz and Sarky Bastard on Friday at the Front, and with Bleach It Clean on Saturday at La De Da. And Mulgara (which you can read more about here) will be hosting Lachlan X Morris’ album launch, playing alongside Grace Turner, PJ Johnson and Evan Buckley on Saturday night.

Anyway, there is a tonne to get through here so I’ll leave that to you – get stuck into it!

Wednesday 12^th

• Leah Senior and Charm of Finches @ Smith’s Alternative, 7 – 9 pm
• Smith’s Varietal #83 w/ MC Rob Shiells @ Smith’s Alternative, 9.30 – 11.30 pm

Thursday 13^th

• The Pratt/Price Collective @ Smith’s Alternative, 7 – 9 am
• First Gulf War, Okin Osan, S-Bends and Cutlab @ Transit Bar, 8 pm start
• Muzzled Headz Presents AMIT @ Kyte, 8 pm start
• Piss Weak Karaoke @ The Phoenix, 9 pm start
• Georgia Fields + Phia ‘Sky and Sea’ National Tour w/ Melanie Horsnell @ Smith’s Alternative, 9.30 – 11.30 pm

Friday 14^th

• Parliamentary Square @ Smith’s Alternative, 7 – 9 pm
• Triumvirate w/ Neon Highways, The Wumpaz and Sarky Bastard @ The Front Gallery & Café, 7 pm start
• Golden Age of Ballooning, Bleach It Clean and Slagatha Christie @ Transit Bar, 8 pm start
• Law of the Tongue, BØG, WRØNG and Panic Burst @ The Basement, 8 pm start
• OILBARON w/ Marlon Bando and Moosk @ Lobrow Gallery & Bar, 8 pm start
• Christina Crofts Band @ Harmonie German Club, 8 pm start
• Equinox feat. Cheshire album launch @ Academy, 9 pm start
• The King Hits w/ Bad Bags and DJ Professor @ The Phoenix, 10 pm start

Saturday 15^th

• Clean Shirt ‘Significant Looks’ EP launch w/ Earache, Ill Winds and Sob Story @ Lobrow Gallery & Bar, 7 pm start
• Beta Blockers w/ Mark Braham and Frank Zappia @ The Front Gallery & Café, 7 pm start
• Vanishing Shapes w/ guest TBA @ Smith’s Alternative, 7 – 9 pm
• 80’s Tribute Night #4 @ The Basement, 7 pm start
• Andromeda Is Coming w/ Ben Drury @ Gorman Arts Centre, 7 – 9.30 pm
• Okinawa Girls, James Montgomery-Wilcox, Harrison Lambert and Jessica Maree @ Transit Bar, 8 pm start
• Mulgara Presents: Lachlan X Morris ‘Ouija Board Heartbreak Tambourine’ album tour w/ Grace Turner, PJ Johnson and Evan Buckley @ Mulgara, 8 – 11 pm
• Triumvirate w/ Bleach It Clean and Sarky Bastard @ La De Da, 8 pm start
• Hello Tut Tut w/ East Row Rabble and Guyy & The Fox @ The Phoenix, 9 pm start

Sunday 16^th

• Sunday Jazz Jam @ Smith’s Alternative, 1.30 – 4 pm
• Canberra Blues Society Jam feat. KillWater @ Harmonie German Club, 2 pm start
• Esmond Selwyn & Sandie White @ Smith’s Alternative, 4 – 6 pm
• Michael Fix w/ Alec Randles @ Smith’s Alternative, 6.30 – 8 pm
• Charlie Marshall & The Curious Minds ‘Sublime’ album launch w/ Evan Buckley @ Smith’s Alternative, 8.30 – 10.30 pm

Monday 17^th

• The Bootleg Sessions: Rumblr, Neon Highways, Suburban Haze, Neon Violence and The Guitar Cases @ The Phoenix, 8 pm start
• The Ganesayers @ Smith’s Alternative, 9.30 – 11.30 pm

Tuesday 18^th

• BANG!! BENG!! BING!! BONG!! BUNG!! @ Smith’s Alternative, 7 – 10 pm