Music

Having shared the stage with the likes of Tommy Emmanuel at age 16, Elias is one of Australias emerging great accoustic guitarists.

Three-piece psychedelic rock. Desire, madness and death. Delivered through crunching riffs and melodic progressions.

Death by Carrot stays in motion. Having travelled more than 300,000km across Australia, their next stop is Mona.

JP leads a jazz-posse (pozze?) with his elite guitar skills.

Fun and modern interpretations of hot swing and cool ballad-tunes. 'Awesome jaaaazz'.

Six-piece instrumental funk band. Get invested.

Urshula has a lovely voice, and is not afraid to use it.

Screech plank blues.

Charlie McCarthy and his string trio play gypsy jazz, in the hot club style. They'll make you feel like you've been hit in the soul by a sledgehammer made of ice, and the ice is made of whisky.

Fierce vocals and boisterous guitar combine for a tribute to the greats of acoustic blues.

Join Kyra as she unpacks her adjectives and her recordings made while traveling across Antarctica with her French horn, Otto. Backed by video art by Ryn Hardiman.

The loudest band in Hobart. Punishing (or pleasing) ears with their eclectic brand of amplified psychedelic blues and rock of the early 60s and 70s.

S.E.I.S.M.I.C weave together elements of psychedelia and garage with a wall of fuzz.

Improvisation electronically processed French horn, voice, and video art.

King Cake are cooking up some fresh soul food, courtesy of Jump Blues and New Orleans funk.

Self-taught singer-songwriter, Katie's music doesn't just fill a room, it seeps into your bones.

Nods to the Berlin school of electronica. Stepped synth sequences. Fresh interpretations of the finger-licking banjo-plucking Moog albums of the seventies.

Fuzz, synthetics and subsonic frequencies. Delivered with heart and soul.

Jazz manouche, modern jazz, prog rock and classical numbers.

Leo is a response to songs recorded by local outfit, PUK.

Taking influence from the American folk revival through seminal acts such as The Band, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, this folk-rock group from Walyalup tackle both the old and the new. Fitting venue really.

Classic rockabilly unit who've based their sound on the tough, wiry energy of English Teddy Boy bands. Not actual raccoons.

Australian four-piece rhythm and blues band. Known for their high-energy, rockabilly and blues inspired by the 1940s and 50s.

Ferocious Melbourne-based six-piece alternative outfit who embody the spirit of the indie movement and the urgency of punk.

Meditative and atmospheric. Inspired as much by the organic as the industrial, Godrich writes pop music reminiscent of the bedroom gods of old.

A creation by Hobart-based banjoist Hugh Foley, Spinnabago blend elements of jazz, country, and psychedelia into a very unique sonic experience.

Greg, a cellist who has been plying their trade around Hobart for the better part of three decades, brings their unique approach to looping as a form of live-action composing to the table/stage.

A soulful singer-songwriter peddling everything from upbeat grooves to emotional rollercoasters.

Blending tradition with modern innovation, Emily Wolfe's expressive violin and warm vocals drive WolfeFolk's sound.

Flower Extract are a psych-ish local outfit. Their songs are a unique take on Australian surf-psych-rock.

Yacuruna explores the old and new sounds of Latin America. Cumbia, bossa, bolero, and more.

Tasmania's finest cigar-box blues guitar duo play original compilations and covers from the Delta and beyond.

Desert guitars, synths and sublime vocals. Tackling the bold of the deranged, the language of dreams, and the inner silent scream. Everyday kinda stuff.

A gumbo of guitarish goodness. Tasty original and original interpretations.

The Tasmanian MIDI Orchestra (TMO) is a collaborative collective of local electronic musicians, specialising in experimental, electronic, and unclassifiable sonic landscapes. Find them on the container stage as they bring a day of drone and ambience to a close.

Ambulating daydreams, nostalgic trips, and undulating stereo fields.

Improvised slow evolving and repetitive compositions creating a hypnotic, deep listening experience.

Tash Parker is a Lutruwita/Tasmania-based artist producing immersive ambient soundscapes using her voice and found sounds. The result is an experience that feels at once both grounding and transcendent.

A duality of drone, warm, earthy tones dissolving into otherworldly soundscapes of frozen planets.

Arman is a Hobart-based jazz singer born and raised on the island of Java, Indonesia. He has crooning voice that rivals the classics of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.

One of the true stalwarts of the Hobart music scene. Billy does blues and Americana.

Shoegaze trio from Nipaluna and Boorloo.

Evoking the picturesque Australian coastline where they grew up, Heaps Grass combine dreamy textures and rich grooves with nostalgic storytelling.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

DJ Yutts brings the party without prejudice or pretentiousness.

Tash Parker is a local artist producing immersive ambient soundscapes using her voice and found sounds. The result is an experience that feels at once grounding and transcendent. Her performance will gently explore reflections of sound and light. As you pass through the space she invites you to linger somewhere under a rainbow and listen for whatever it is you’ve been searching for.

With his charismatic storytelling and distinctive 12-string guitar style, Howard brings the same psychedelic acid-folk spirit that made his 1974 cult classic So What If I’m Standing in Apricot Jam a hidden gem of Australian music. Now, in his later years, Howard offers something even more personal and potent, a heartfelt reminder of the immense power available to us when we reconnect with that underlying frequency of love.

Nidala is a Jabirr-Jabirr & Djugun artist moving between song, story, and protest. Her music sits at the intersection of folk, soul and elemental blues, with a voice that feels both intimate and unyielding, her sound echoes somewhere between Hozier and Olivia Dean, grounded in a distinctly First Nations worldview.

Dreamy synths, immersive vocals, live-looping and drum effects. An improvised set, slowed right down with dub sensibilities.

Dreamy-dark-folk-bitch-word-weaver.

Shoegaze/psych-rock/doom-pop. Delivered through fuzzy guitars and reverberant melodies.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

A cynic and a dreamer, Rá Bellatrix is making a journey most deem impossible: from the sea floor to a distant star in space. Catch the soundtrack to her ascent, in the flavours of dark RnB, alternative pop and house music.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

Timothy Allen, aka Spectrical, is an ambient, drone and experimental artist creating soundscapes both dissonant and dreamy, with a focus on atmosphere, texture and experimentation.

As part of the Dark Spectrum Soundbath series, Spectrical will fill the Spectrum Chamber with drifting sonic environments comprising analog synths, acoustic instruments, field recordings and sampled classical vinyl records, all processed through a Eurorack modular system.

DJ Yutts brings the party without prejudice or pretentiousness.

Pressed for a comparison, one could say that Dag sounds a bit like Neil Young covering the Go-Betweens. On another night, it might be ABBA on opioids.

Local post-punk outfit that is equal parts disorienting and rejuvenating.

Everyone goes out to see bands for a good time, right? The Pits understand this, and issue out

"no bummers, only hummers".

Alien Nosejob started as a loner bedroom recording project with no fixed genre, mutating over time into a 6 piece band with a restless punk-adjacent core. Not quite divine intervention, but close enough to feel like something bigger than a bedroom project.

Hugo Race, a founding member of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and Michelangelo Russo are returning to Australia to tour their latest album, 100 years. Blending experimental blues, ambient soundscapes and electronica, the duo layer echoing guitars, smoky vocals and primal percussion to produce music that is hauntingly raw.and electronica. Inspired and unclassifiable.

Local hardcore/punk. Get your crab hands(claws) out.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

Bedroom producer released into the wild with a bag of slumbering beats and dronal keys. Tune in to drop out to the daydream basilica.

DJ Yutts brings the party without prejudice or pretentiousness.

As a drummer, Lindsay has played for rockbands, in theatre pits and dives, cruise ships, clubs and theatres. They've performed with too many artists to name, but include the likes of The Bee Gees, Jim Moginie, Brian Ritchie, and Lindy Morrison to only name a few.

A Mum and Dad from Moonah who tell it like it is. They’ll get your rumps shaking.

Performing songs from the recently released SnarskiCircusLindyBand album, when Rob (Blackeyed Susans) and Lindy (Go-Betweens) step on stage as a duo, they offer an intimate and captivating experience all their own.

An interspecies improvisational trio from Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. VMA transforms the electrical signals of living plants and fungi into sound, fusing modular synths and live percussion to make spontaneous, rhythmic, and unpredictable music that is a living system.

A dissonant vacuum of fuzzed out improvisation. It's not jazz...it's not blues...it's something else.

A member of the Grammy-nominated ensemble Wild Up, Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary vocalist, composer, and sound healing practitioner known for her work in experimental sound, vocal embodiment, and immersive performances.

DJ Yutts brings the party without prejudice or pretentiousness.

Tasmanian songstress, author, and multi-media artist.

A psychedelic, cinematic fusion of post-punk and new wave. Real good.

With a philosophy of musical risk taking, Philomath attempt to reach an alternate sonic universe with each performance.

An ambient psych-rock band by conceptual artists, Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. Centred on themes of love, joy, death, and loss, their music is a cathartic response to grief, incorporating field recordings, guitars and vocals, where every song is their last.

Crafting an acid-washed dreamscape of synthesisers, sax and live jams.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

Berlin-based sound artist with a background in cultural anthropology. Her practice unfolds at the intersections of improvisation, composition, and introspection. Working with gongs, radiophonic forms, field recordings, resonance, minimal sonic gestures, and silence itself, she explores sound as a site of presence and perception.

DJ Yutts brings the party without prejudice or pretentiousness.

Experimental indie-folk-noir. Michael's 2023 album, Ghost Music, was was voted as the UKs 4th best album of the year by the publication Sun 13. He'll be Berriedale's number 1 artist on this day.

Pronounced "dju-merick", Joe Kneipp is a Queensland-born, Hobart-based vocalist and producer.

A restless, multi-instrumentalist mapping her own strange, tender terrain between dream-folk, chamber-pop and something more elusive. She’ll sing you through the emotional wringer, but you’ll quickly forgive her.

Boggle is what Boggle does. Baritone saxophone, synth, guitar, drums, weirdness, wildness, wilderness, light and heavy, dark and steady, controlled chaos for the senses.

Beguiling, off-kilter songs with disarming melodies that have a quietly magnetic pull. His music drifts between alt-country warmth and something more unsettling, intimate, and all together beautiful.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

A band of people in nipaluna/Hobart. Hard to define.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

Spirits breathing, circuits humming, tape heads clanking. The calm before the storm.

Captain Fighting Machine features a fluid musical cast of friends and family in service of the songs written by Macdonald (his long suffering partner Bridget Lewis plays synth in the latest configuration). Lyrics and melodies are carefully crafted and paired, allowing the songs themselves to shift in form, from sparse and desolate to layered and warm and back again across time and space.

Hypnotic, psychedelia-inflected gothic rock and post-punk. Big riffs, melodic verses, synths.

Musical alias, in varying forms. Sparse alternative folk and ambient country.

Visceral, high-energy, and politically conscious gothic post-punk.

A collaboration between Mick Turner and Helen Franzmann, Mess Esque is a curious synthesis of psych soul and ethereal indie rock.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

Don't feed the chickens.

Feeding Fauna is the solo project of Louise O’Reilly. They'll be joined by Shem Allen to bring their can’t-look-away energy to the Sex + Death Day Club, bringing slow-dance bangers to life.

Featuring poignant vocals and sparse, delicate arrangements, McKisko is the project of Helen Franzmann, celebrated for her intimate, atmospheric, and emotionally resonant live performances.

Five Neurodivergent, and musically diverse guys, combine to destroy barriers, stereotypes, and produce a sound like no other, an unholy union of genres.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

An electronic media artist, musician, curator and writer. Performing and recording electro-acoustic and drone works, he sees his work as part of a greater context aligned to psychedelia, digital abstraction and hauntology.

Hypnotic songs of longing. Inspired by artists such as PJ Harvey, Beck and Cate Le Bon, Tilly weaves together layered and sophisticated sonic textures, transporting listeners into her world.

Walking a tight rope between lively rock originals and emotive slow burners, the five-piece indie / alt-rock band take influence from old classics to contemporary indie.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

Five-piece indie rock band known for a sound that ranges from post-punk to britpop, with an affinity for 60s pop and 90s alternative.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

With a background in psychotherapy, fine arts, and audio engineering, his creative practice has long been centred on ritualised cycles of mark-making. In recent years, he has rekindled his passion for analogue synthesis, expanding his artistic exploration into sound. The results are slowly evolving, repetitive compositions that create a hypnotic, deep listening experience.

Question. Can Dave, a blind singer-songwriter teach 3 talented teenage punks how to play an album’s worth of songs he wrote 35 years ago?

Answer. Yes he bloody well can.

Four-piece alt-rock band exploring dark emotional and psychological terrain through poetic, experimental songcraft.

Renowned for her warmth and vulnerability, Tulliah brings a suitcase full of strings and stories wherever she goes.

What happens when you take the dregs of Tasmanian stalwart Enola Fall and turn it on its head? Trip-hop, shoegaze, and hints of brit-pop brought to you through synths, beats and washed out guitars.

Jessie weaves new stories with old threads, inspired by ancient myth, the celtic and Appalachian folk traditions, as well as other experimental mediums to enchant audiences with mystical compositions filled with poetry, symbol, dreams and humanity.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

Created initially from lounge-room recordings by husband & wife team Travis Velthoven (guitar, vocals) and Marie Velthoven (bass), this endearing quartet have fast found a name for themselves at home and abroad.

Ben's one of our musicians-in-residence, and he put the Day Club shebang together. Who knows what he'll play. Something new, probably.

IKSRE (I Keep Seeing Rainbows Everywhere) is the solo moniker of Naarm/Melbourne-based

multi instrumentalist, vocalist, producer and sound healer, Phoebe Dubar, combining ethereal vocals with lush strings, bass-forward synths and sound healing instruments with field recordings, to create a unique, ambient pop sound.

Proud Yuwaalaraay artist living in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Healing through music, song writing, storytelling and sharing.

Singer/songwriter, Alice, explores feelings of loss, love and learning through their music as a way of self-soothing, understanding and connecting.

A fusion of folk storytelling with the grit of alt-rock and grunge.

Luke's won a bevvy of awards, and along the way his indie-rock group, Minor Premiers, have supported acts such as You Am I, The Gin Club, Youth Group and Dan Kelly. You'll be in good company.

Mainlanders play new age music backwards.

Mixed-glamour post-punk duo from near here. Bass, beats, crushed Nintendo synth, labyrinths of history and resonance.

Spinning self produced EDM, hip-hop and ambient music.

Violaloop loves to live loop. Experience one musician creating the sound of a whole orchestra.

Deep, aching balladry and swelling synth melancholy with a country twang.

A reformed rock music project in the throes of returning to its emo-country roots. Earnest lyricism, understated songwriting, precarious melodies.

Funky-arse jazz-pop with electric keys, a horn section, and a sprinkling of gospel. Also prone to 'going cosmic', which sounds pretty rad.