Australian sister duo Charm of Finches delivers intricate folk-pop that is simultaneously graceful and darkly bewitching. Their seamless blood harmonies traverse melancholy and wonder in equal measure.
 
They return performing songs from their latest album as well as exciting new material. The sisters, Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes, have toured extensively through the UK, Europe and Canada in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
 
Their fourth studio album ‘Marlinchen In The Snow’ was recorded in rural Nova Scotia with acclaimed Canadian producer Daniel Ledwell (Jenn Grant, Oh Pep!), inspired by the frozen beauty of the landscape and their transient life on the road with their music. It was released on iconic Australian Indie label Spunk Records in April 2024, debuting on the national ARIA charts Top 30 Aus Albums.
 
Their third album ‘Wonderful Oblivion’ released in 2021 through New York-based label AntiFragile Music saw them win the Australian Folk Music Awards Best Folk Album (2022) and Music Victoria Best Contemporary Folk Act (2021).
 
They have been nominated twice for the prestigious Australian Music Prize.
 
Please note: This show will be in our shaded beer garden stage unless there is poor weather. Tables can be booked if you would like to eat before the show. Bar and kitchen open from 1pm.

Show to start at 3:15

Tickets $20+BF HERE / $25 door

JAPAN'S GREATEST 'JET ROCK'N'ROLL' BAND RETURN TO AUSTRALIA

"There are garage-rock bands, and then there’s Tokyo terrors Guitar Wolf. Your typical garage band might make your ears ring; this one kills zombies." - Pitchfork

Since forming in 1987 and releasing their first album on Memphis's legendary Goner Records in 1993, the group, fronted by the heroic Seiji and always clothed head to toe in black leather, have taken their wild and dangerous sound to the world, working with labels like Matador and Third Man in the process. They have released 12 albums and are signed to a major label at home in Japan. They first toured Australia in the late '90s, when Seiji rode on to the stage of a packed Tote on the back of a borrowed motorcycle..

Inspired by the ultra-violent records of '50s guitar wielding maniac Link Wray as well as motorcycles, the Ramones, Johnny Thunders, the Cramps and Joan Jett. Guitar Wolf are movie stars themselves too, having starred in the low budget sci-fi horror movie Wild Zero in 1999, a sequel to which they announced last year. 

Despite a number of line-up changes, Guitar Wolf are founded on a singular vision and continue to push forward just as they remain the same. Picture a lone rider pushing through an unending tide of fashion-conscious conformists - that's what Guitar Wolf are like. 

As they state in their Official Bio on their website, Guitar Wolf "single-mindedly pursu(e) an unchanging style and radiat(e) power that transcends time and space."

Guitar Wolf will be supported on the night by Castlemaine's own LEON, in a brand new format.

Doors :8PM

Leon :8:15

Guitar Wolf :9:15

$25 + BF HERE / $30 door

Having just opened for Tyler Childers at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, James Ellis continues to celebrate the release of his new record, The Party Might Be Over, with a show at The Bridge Hotel in Castlemaine on Friday 21 March.
 
Joining him will be his long-time band, The Jealous Guys, as they play songs from the new album as well as from 2018’s It Ain’t Texas (But It Ain’t Bad), which won Best Country Album at The Age Music Victoria Awards, and 2020’s Country Lion.
  
The Party Might Be Over features Nashville-based stars Chris Scruggs (Marty Stuart), Fats Kaplin (John Prine) and Lillie Mae. Produced by Micah Hulscher (Margo Price), it recalls the late 60s / early 70s Nashville sounds of Mercury / Smash’s Jerry Kennedy.

Doors 9pm
Support: Charlotte Le Lievre

Tickets $20 plus booking fee available here

Grassy Strings are India’s premier Bluegrass band. Touring Australia and featuring at this year’s Port Fairy Folk Festival.

Hailing from Kolkata, India, founded by the guitarist/vocalist Souvik Hazra and the mandolinist Subhankar Dhar. This acoustic duo has been attached with American folk music, swing music and Bluegrass music for last few years. This rarest project from the country has became a part of many other international music exchange activities since they have started.

Grassy string will grace our garden stage for a free entry show on March 16th

3pm start

Since forming, … Kim Salmon’s latest incarnation ‘Smoked Salmon’ has toured France, Japan and Australia, released 3 records and made a couple of videos.
 
It has 12 players scattered over 2 countries and release their self-titled 12 track debut album on February 28th.
 
The material follows the template set by Kim’s 47 year career performing and writing gems for such legends as the Scientists, The Beasts Of Bourbon, STM and Antenna. Smoked Salmon tours the album round Australia in March and April

With support from Cold Iron Bounds

Doors : 9PM

Cold Iron Bounds : 9:15

Kim : 10:15

$20+BF HERE / $25 Door

Simon Joyner is widely regarded as one of the great singer-songwriters of our generation.

He will be touring Australia / New Zealand for the first time in Feb/Mar 2025, joined his backing band, The Eucalypts – featuring Leah Senior, Jesse Williams, and Michael Beach - all celebrated Australian songwriters and performers in their own right.

The tour coincides with the release of Joyner's newest album, Coyote Butterfly, out Nov 22nd, via Melbourne’s Homeless Records, as well as a reissue of his third album, 1994's The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll, in late November. The Cowardly Traveller was famously one of three records played in their entirety on John Peel’s legendary BBC1 show, alongside records by Bob Dylan and Siouxsie & the Banshees.

"… the reigning heir to Henry Miller's dark emotional mirror, Townes Van Zandt's three-chord moan, and Lou Reed's warehouse minimalism: his name is Simon Joyner." — Gillian Welch

"Joyner has been chipping away at the subtle absurdities of life since 1991, his rambling balladeering garnering comparisons to Leonard Cohen and Townes Van Zandt. He also shares a wry approach to self-reflection with modern practitioners like Mark Kozalek, Bill Callahan and David Berman." – MOJO

Doors :8pm

Leah Senior : 8:15

Simon Joyner 9:15

Tickets are $20 + BF

Raised on Wadawurrung Country with a piano in the house and a granny who yodelled at bedtime, Annie-Rose Maloney grew up inspired by the likes of K.D.Lang’s Hymns of the 49th Parallel, The Be Good Tanyas and The Waifs, and between daylighting as a gardener, high school teacher and ex-cricketer for Australia, writes devastating, joyful songs that are quite unlike anything else you’ve heard. She elevates listeners to rare levels of vulnerability and insight, with all the openness of Laura Marling, the energy of Dolly Parton, and the devastation of Tracy Chapman.

She has a simple ethos when it comes to writing a song: it must have a pulse, it must feel nice to sing, and it must bear a truthfulness about the human experience. Her debut album Circle Walking was recorded in a living room in Heidelberg in Naarm/Melbourne’s northeast with co-producer Tim Harvey (Aldous Harding, Jade Imagine, Lisa Mitchell), featuring Jess Ellwood on guitar and backing vocals from Angie McMahon, Ruby Gill and Olivia Hally (Oh Pep!)

Annie-Rose Maloney has already supported the likes of Andy Shauf, Angel Olsen, Hurray for the Riff Raff and Angie McMahon despite only having released three singles, and to celebrate the release of Circle Walking, she will be bringing the album to life with two launch shows. 

Playing the support slot will be Castlemaine's own Felicty Cripps  

Doors: 8pm

Felicity Cripps : 8:15

Annie-Rose Maloney : 9:15

$20 + BF HERE / $25 Door

Please note this show will be outside, weather permitting.

“You could hear a pin drop for the entire set, as Cash had the crowd in the palm of her hand for over an hour.” (Scenestr, 2024)

Reviews from the first solo shows of Cash Savage’s career attest to the searing performances that enraptured audiences over two nights at Naarm’s Gasometer Hotel in 2024.

In service to fans, Savage has announced an east coast tour of her most vulnerable and potent performances to date.

Hand-picking songs from her 15-year back catalogue, Savage reveals some of her original versions of songs usually belted out by 7-piece band Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, one of the most revered live acts in Australia today.

Between tracks, Savage shares intimate details about experiences that inspire her signature heart-wrenching lyrics, and delivers raw and reverent performances of a curation of crowd favourites, including tracks from ARIA-nominated album So This Is Love, and previous highly-acclaimed LPs Wolf, The Hypnotiser, One of Us and Good Citizens.

A magnetic performer and one of our country’s greatest songwriters, Savage delivers hard truths about love, relationships, political disorder, and the chaos of the human mind, with a sense of humour and connection that captures crowds to the very last line.

This is a performance not to be missed.

Touring regional and metro Vic, NSW and Queensland in early 2025. 

TIMES TBC

Tickets $35 + BF HERE / $40 Door

THE KILL DEVIL HILLS are heading East for 2 very special shows in Naarm Melbourne Feb 14 and Dja Dja Wurrung Castlemaine Feb 15 2025. An entrancing, visceral and emotive live act, this is one of those special Australian-mutant bands that only remote continents can cough up, a species confined to islands, fever-dreams, and occasionally to strut the stage a while. Joined by beach goths KINO MOTEL, hot off their debut album release and extensive European touring, the band are a Melbourne via Berlin 3-piece who push the dynamic range to extremes in both directions. Control and beauty and darkness featuring Ed Fraser (Cash Savage & The Last Drinks) and Rosa Mercedes (Josephine Foster Band).

Opening the Bridge Hotel  show is the ill-fated explorer of the interior recesses of the embattled brain-box, ARCHER. They will take you on a sonic journey to the very edge of the world, into the deepest darkest portals of your soul and bursting out upon the glorious golden symphony of the Divine Church of the Open Sky. Expect a night of dark alt-country, with hints of grunge, post-punk and Australian gothic thrown in to the mix

Doors : 8PM

Archer : 8:15

Kino Motel : 9:15

Kill Devil Hills: 10:15

Tickets HERE $25+BF / $30 door

Bad Debts are a local Castlemaine outfit. Fronted by three individual songwriters in Pete Daly, Al Carr and Mitch Dillon. They came together in mid 2024 joined by Blair Venn on harmonica and Al Stanley on drums to rehearse an initial batch of material variously described as loose rock n roll and open sky roots music. They played one well received home town gig late 2024 as well as a quick trip down the Calder to play for a Melbourne audience at the Old Bar, before hunkering down in local studio Ragged Gum to record their first album. Engineered and mixed by Mitch Dillon the album will be out in early 2025. Bad Debts look forward to kicking off 2025 playing material from the soon to be release album at favourite watering hole The Bridge Hotel on Sunday 9 February.

Show starts at 3pm. Tables bookings encouraged

Local party purveyors THE PRESBYTERIANS and OK DARLING are coming back to the Bridge for another night of outrageous impropriety and dancing, on Saturday the 8th of February.

Come dance your socks off to some electro fusion. It’s only $10 on the door, no presales.

DOORS 9PM

$10 on the door

14 Shows | 3 French Artists | Solar-Powered Concerts
Embark on an unforgettable musical journey with The Solar Odyssey—a unique Australian tour featuring three exceptional French artists: Malo’, Ysé, and Geoffrey Le Goaziou. This exciting tour combines the enchanting sounds of French music with a powerful commitment to sustainability, offering a series of solar-powered concerts across Australia.
The adventure kicks off the 30th of December at the iconic Woodford Folk Festival, Australia's largest celebration of music and culture. Each artist will perform multiple times, with a grand finale concert on January 1st: Meet The French! This vibrant performance will showcase the diverse and rich tapestry of French music, celebrating culture and creativity in a truly unforgettable way.
After Woodford, the tour continues its journey along Australia’s stunning coastline with the Solar Sessions—a series of solar-powered intimate concerts from January 3rd to 18th in Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Sydney, Nowa Nowa, Meeniyan, Melbourne, and Geelong. These concerts will be entirely powered by solar energy, giving audiences the chance to experience world-class French music while supporting a sustainable future.
The tour will culminate in a festive French Garden Party at the Bridge Hotel in Castlemaine, where music, food, and French culture come together for one last jubilant celebration.
The Solar Odyssey is more than just a concert series—it’s a celebration of French artistry, cultural exchange, and a vision for a sustainable future. Don’t miss this extraordinary journey!
 

This special one-off event will begin at 6pm on Saturday January 18th. Table bookings can also be made via our web site. We will have drink and food specials including cheese boards from Long Paddock and world class wines from Maison LAPALUS 

Tickets available here

This is a family friendly event

Three venues, one hot ticket. Do not miss Castlemaine’s biggest NYE party across The Bridge, Taproom and Boomtown. Bangers in all directions provided by Dallas Woods, Jen Moore, Jo Huff, The Tommys (featuring membes of M79), Single Entendre, Norachi, Luqman, Kyan and more! Plus silent disco, icecream republic, Boomtown BBQ and a whoooooole lotta dancefloor. Three times the fun!

Tix $30 + booking fee onsale now HERE

Experience a night of music with award-winning artist and disability advocate, Eliza Hull. With an expansive body of work spanning television, radio, and film, her songs have been featured on ABC KIDS TV, The Heights, and in US shows Awkward, Teen Wolf, and Saving Hope. Having graced iconic stages from the Sydney Opera House to SXSW and Ability Fest, she’s firmly established herself as one of Australia’s most compelling and distinctive songwriters. Eliza has also shared the stage with artists such as Maple Glider, Jen Cloher, Dan Sultan, and Clare Bowditch.

Now, Castlemaine’s own Eliza Hull invites you to an intimate performance where she will debut brand-new, unreleased songs from her highly anticipated 2025 album. Known for her ethereal vocals and heartfelt, organic instrumentation, Eliza will be performing with her full band, delivering a captivating experience you won’t want to miss.

Opening the night is MAGNETS, the solo project of Siobhan McGinnity—a disabled artist, advocate, and multidisciplinary creator. With a unique sound that blends textural layers, chorus-drenched guitars, and driving rhythms, MAGNETS will immerse you in a nostalgic yet fresh sonic journey.

DOORS 8PM

SET TIMES TBA

$25 + BF HERE / $30 Door

In August this year, The Breadmakers got back from their most successful and enjoyable tour of Japan so far. Now they are super excited to have their yearly salubrious sabbatical trip to The Bridge Hotel in Castlemaine.

 

“We love The Bridge Hotel’ bass player Cadillac Slim mumbled in between bites of his hand crumbed chicken parma the last time The Breadies visited Castlemaine. “ We love the vibe, and the food, we love Pat the Publican, and we adore playing in the Beer Garden”.

 

After their Japanese adventures, the Breadmakers are primed for a great afternoon of raving rhythm n blues in Castlemaine with new songs, old favourites, really old on stage jokes and a great brand-new LP to be released in 2025.

This is a free entry show in the beer garden. 3pm start.

Pitjantjatjara/ Kokatha man Russell Smith’s music career has taken him around Australia and to all parts of the globe, working with some of the world’s most recognised musicians. Russell has played Didgeridoo/Yidaki with everyone from the late Uncle Archie Roach AC, Paul Kelly, Rodriguez, Tommy Emmanuel, The Dandy Warhol’s and Jane’s Addiction.

As the charismatic frontman of Brolga, Russell aims to connect people with his music, and as the late Uncle Archie Roach stated, “As a Pitjantjatjara singer/ songwriter Russell Smith has important stories to tell for all Australians to hear.”

Russell founded Brolga Boys in 1996 and continues to lead the Indie First Nations Rock Band under the name Brolga. He has brought together a significant band of skilled musicians to write and record his first album. Brolga members include Russell Smith, Dave Mudie, Lee ‘Sonnyboy’ Morgan, Matty Vehl, Phil Ceberano, Bones Sloane and Georgia Anger.

A debut album, a lifetime in the making and a chance to share his talents as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist - a traditional song man.

Brolga is an Indie First Nations Rock Band with an important voice.

Russell says, Brolga is “The New Ancient Sound of Australia”.

Doors: 8pm

Brolga :8:30

Note : this gig will be in the beer garden if the weather permits. Bookings for dinner can be made on our web site

Fresh off the back of a sold out launch for newly released album ‘Golden Mountain’, Melbourne folk-country favourites Amarillo are bringing the full band to The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine for an afternoon of music not to be missed… With an eclectic mix of influences including Lucinda Williams, Towns Van Zandt, Grant Lee Buffalo and Fairport Convention the musical world of Amarillo and band spans traditional country, delicate folk to soaring lap steel and harmonies in full flight. 

DOORS 2PM

SHOW 3PM

FREE SHOW

Is it that time of the year already? You bet it is and so Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission are hitting the road for their annual Christmas tour - beginning at the iconic Bundy Hall in Sale, taking in Hobart, the Queenscliff Festival, some choice regionals, heading out around the country then ending in their beloved Melbourne town.

After a year of quiet consolidation on the back of a fruitful 2023, this September, the band head to Auckland to record at Neil Finn’s Roundhead Studios with award winning producer Steve Schram (Crowded House, Paul Kelly, San Cisco etc). These twenty dates promise to be a superb setting to run some new songs among the old Christmas crowd faves. It’s the full six piece lineup of the band featuring powerhouse songbird Brooke Taylor, alongside long time compadres Squeezebox Wally and Jen Anderson. There’s some beaut opening acts, some familiar venues as well as some brand new stages thrown in for good measure. Yep, it’s that time of the year already and All Your Christmases might just have come at once.

Doors: 7pm

Support act (Norwood): 7:15

Mick Thomas: 8:15pm

Tickets here

Please note: in case of bad weather this show will be held inside. Table bookings can be made via thebridgehotelcastemaine.com

Ripple Effect are touring to launch their debut album Mayawa. Mayawa is more than just a collection of songs, it is a celebration of Ripple Effect Band’s stories as mothers, daughters and sisters, sung in the languages of their people. Each track resonates with the echoes of traditional ceremonies, capturing the raw beauty of their heritage and the dynamic pulse of their present. On this record, Ripple Effect Band invite listeners on a journey through time and space, where every note and lyric is a bridge connecting past and future generations.

Riplpe Effect Band have a cult following in Castlemaine and we'rew very excited for their return.

Doors: 8pm

Set times: TBA

$25 + BF HERE | $30 DOOR

Adam Hattaway and The Haunters are rock n roll in style, ethos and influence but their exact sound can’t be pinned down. With styles of r&b, folk, indie, country, and soul, Adam’s voice is the defining constant across it all. Playing tracks from their most recent album ‘High Horse’ (produced by Marlon Williams), The Haunters are an electric act, still with that Hattaway flavour but not as we know it.

Free show

2pm start

Beer Garden (weather permitting)

Back for the second time in 2024, Town Folk Fest has had a growth spurt. Following the good-time success story of the first three editions of Town Folk Festival, the one-day event returns on 16th November 2024. Bringing together 16 of the best contemporary folk artists to Castlemaine, Town Folk celebrates diverse, compelling and exciting music, which all fits vaguely or specifically under the ever-widening umbrella of folk. This year we are proud to have The Teskey Brothers, Marlon Williams, A. Savage (Parquet Courts), Ngaiire, Grace Cummings and many more.

The one-day festival takes place in Castlemaine on Dja Dja Wurrung Country across 4 stages, all a short walking distance from one other and packed with an afternoon-into-evening of musical greatness, food, drinks and friendly faces.

Full lineup:

The Teskey Brothers
Marlon Williams
Ngaiire
Tek Tek Ensemble
A. Savage
Grace Cummings
The Maes
Don't Thank Me Spank Me
Kid Sam
Harmony Byrne
Merryn Jeann
M79
Aplegate
Ruby & Loretta
Felicity Cripps Band
Queenie

Tickets available HERE

• General Admission: $134.00 each ($130.00 + $4.00 fees)

• Youth (13-18) - General Release: $64.00 each ($60.00 + $4.00 fees)

• Children (4-12) - 2nd release: $44.00 each ($40.00 + $4.00 fees)

• Campbells Creek Campground Ticket - FRI+SAT: $42.00 each ($40.00 + $2.00 fees)

• Campbells Creek Campground Ticket - SAT ONLY: $32.00 each ($30.00 + $2.00 fees)

Skyscraper Stan and the Commission Flats are celebrating the release of their new single Talk to Me with a run of shows through Victoria, NSW, SA and the ACT. Taking musical inspiration from Motown and Stax era soul with that signature Skyscraper twist, "Talk to Me" is about conversations in the age of conspiracy. It's for anyone out there trying to pull a loved one out of a rabbit hole. Don't turn your back on them. Have a chat. That might be all they need. 

This show will take place in our garden stage (weather dependent). 

Lunch bookings welcome (and you can keep your tabel for the show)

Pub opens 1pm

Support:- Dominic Hoey 3:15

Stan: 4pm

Tickets HERE $25+BF | $30 Door

Folk Bitch Trio—Gracie Sinclair (she/her), Jeanie Pilkington (she/her) and Heide Peverelle (they/them)—are known for enrapturing audiences around their home city of Naarm/Melbourne with sensitive and thoughtful arrangements of three part harmony. What began as an unserious collaboration between three friends has led the trio to share stages with acts such as King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Alex G, Julia Jacklin and Courtney Barnett. The trio manifest a unique kinesiology of relaxed indie-folk with a quietly confident, assured underbelly. Born out of what they describe as a "mutual love for songwriting and truth-telling," most significant to their rise and consistently captivating to their craft is the joy they take in making music together — it surges with the power of friends and collaborators executing a unified vision.

Their brand new single “God’s A Different Sword” follows on from the 2023 released singles “Analogue” and “I Heard”, which Rolling Stone described as “resplendent in gorgeous harmonies and confessional songwriting”, and a triumphant run of shows at SXSW earlier this year.

The trio explain, “‘God’s A Different Sword’ speaks to relinquishing a pattern, but indulging in the habit ‘just one more time’. The song was produced by us and Tom Healy during a fleeting stop in Auckland, Aotearoa this winter, while we were in town supporting Ben Howard. The lyrics are exasperated and questioning, so we wanted them to be held by instrumentation that is optimistic and open. The video, made by our dear friend Bridgette Winten, shows us gallivanting around our stomping grounds in Naarm, where this song was written and born.”

DOORS 9PM

$20+BF HERE

Brothers Harvest at The Bridge Hotel

Brothers Harvest are headed up to beautiful Dja Dja Wurrung country. Doing their honest best to put on a damn fine show for the good folk of Castlemaine – the full band will be cookin up their own special blend of Blues and Americana music.  If you dig that kinda sound, be sure to come down and say g’day from 2pm Sunday November 3rd. Smokers Run Faster, are coming along for the ride too and will be bringing their sweet Blues Rock and Soul numbers. Bring ya friends, grab a feed, have a dance, or just enjoy a laid back arvo of live music in the sun. Free Entry. Set Times below.

Smokers Run Faster (Support): 2pm

Brothers Harvest (Headline): 3.30pm

Exploding from the eye of the universe it’s the Sand Pebbles!
The Sand Pebbles are coming to Castlemaine after having just released their eighth album, The Antagonist. Hypnotic, cosmic, kinetic, freewheeling. 

This is a band who have toured/played with Luna, Primal Scream, Tame Impala, Sonic Boom, The Wedding Present, Ed Kuepper, Arthur Lee & Love and more.

If those artists are in your wheelhouse, you’ll find something to love in Sand Pebbles.

Doors 9pm

Tickets HERE $20 + BF | $25 door

The Singing Stockman himself, William Alexander, is playing an afternoon show for us on Sunday October 13.

He's got songwriting and style reminiscent of the likes of Willie Nelson & Hank Williams, but with the contemporary lilt of Colter Wall & Charley Crockett. If you like classic, heartfelt and authentic country, this is one for you. Joining him, good mate Patrick Wilson.

2 sets, 2 fantatsic artists.

3pm. Free entry.

The Watty Thompson ‘Rock & Roll Tour’ comes to The Bridge Hotel on the public holiday eve of Thursday September 26th. 

Indie bush bard Watty Thompson is hitting the road in support of his brand-new single Rock & Roll, a clarion call for his fellow artists doing it tough. After his Australian Music Prize nominated 2023 debut album scored a direct hit into the hearts of fans and critics alike, winning praise, accolades, and airplay, it announced the arrival of a newpositive voice in Australian music. 

Since then, Watty has been taking stock, quietly working toward his next message of hope. The bush born empath gathered up the multi-limbed talents of his Total Fire Band and headed into the studio to capture some more of his patented heart on sleeve messages to self-belief. The first fruit of those efforts is the rollicking affirmation “Rock & Roll”.  

In a country where it's somewhat engrained to keep our hopes and dreams to ourselves through fear of getting cut down, “Rock & Roll” seeks to encourage other artists to follow their calling, regardless of what society might suggest is a safer path.  

“It can take guts to follow your true calling”, Watty admits. “All kinds of things can make you second guess yourself, but if you know in your heart that you’re meant to be doing something, give it your all if you’re able to do so.”

At a time when the Australian music industry is doing it tough, “Rock & Roll” seeks to edify fellow artists a to hang on and keep fighting for their art.  As ever Watty is trying to live by example suggesting, “it's a long road sure, but I’ll be striving hard until the day that I die, even if it means forever digging ditches in between to make it possible.”

Voted Music Victoria’s Regional Artist of the Year in 2023, Watty and his Total Fire Band have connected with a growing number of believers through stellar showings at festivals including Dashville Skyline, Riverboats, Out On The Weekend, Boogie, OK Motels and of course their life-affirming set at Meredith Music Festival. These new tour dates will visit some new places and faces as Watty looks to spread his message across the country.

He says, the world needs art and as artists, I reckon we’ll reach the end of this life with a full heart regardless of how full or empty our pockets are. We’ll be fulfilled and content knowing we did what we were supposed to do.”

Watty and his Total Fire Band will be joined by special guests K5. 

Doors: 8pm

K5: 8.15pm

Watty: 9.15pm

Tickets $30 + BF HERE / $35 on the door

Dan Kelly Esq. of Campbells Creek is launching his new record GOLDFEELS at the Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine on Sunday afternoon, September 8 with his band Regional Crisis (Gus Agars, Ben Woolley, Dan Luscombe). 

The album will be played in full, followed by a selection of ye olde tunes from Dan’s past albums.  GOLDFEELS, an ode to the Dja Dja Wurrung lands of the Central Victorian Goldfields, has been years in the contemplation and a year in the making, and it is right and proper that it should be officially launched in Dan’s adopted home town. 

A dark compact epic, combining remedial piano boogie, widescreen electric guitar happenings, traditional Irish instruments and Dan’s patented macro/micro lyrical adventures, GOLDFEELS touches on important local questions such as ..

Superb Fairy Wren versus the Spotted Pardalote? 

Which chicken magnate will control the local apocalypse militia in the future?

Where do all the white Utes go when their owners sleep?

Is the Campbells creek CFA siren going off because of bushfire or bbq mishap?

Is the BOM gaslighting us all by using the Redesdale weather station data?

What is the meaning of time? And many more regional conundrums and revelations

This will be an afternoon not to be missed, and possibly one of the Castlemaine society events of the year.

Pub open from 1pm.

Doors 2:30pm.

Dan Kelly 3pm

$25 + BF HERE/$30 door