Eliza Hull returns to the stage this August for a series of intimate headline shows, performing brand new material with her full band.

Following the release of her acclaimed new single Hotel Room, Hull brings her cinematic, emotionally charged songwriting to exclusive performances in Melbourne and Castlemaine. Rich with atmosphere and unflinching honesty, these shows offer a rare opportunity to experience new music from an artist entering a bold and exciting new creative chapter.

Over the past few years, Hull has established herself as one of Australia's most distinctive songwriters, crafting songs that explore identity and desire with remarkable depth and vulnerability. Her 2023 EP Here They Come was praised by Double J as part of their Best New Music, while her haunting reimagining of Silverchair's Tomorrow for Playing Gracie Darling captured national attention, including praise from Daniel Johns himself.

Alongside her music career, Hull is an acclaimed writer and disability advocate. Earlier this year she was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her contribution to music and disability advocacy.

These headline shows arrive fresh off the back of a Victorian tour with Sarah Blasko and recent dates supporting Dan Sultan, marking another exciting chapter for one of Australia's most compelling and captivating artists.

Don't miss the chance to see Eliza Hull up close as she shares new songs, old favourites and the stories in between.

“Eliza Hull has returned with one of the most emotionally powerful songs of her career.”  /  “Hull remains one of Australia’s most respected and important artistic voices.” - AAA Backstage

"Eliza Hull has built a reputation for turning life's most complicated emotions into songs that feel both deeply personal and universally understood." - Ramona Magazine, Freya Bennett

"one of the most beloved songwriters and important voices" - The Music, Emma Whines

"Ethereal sounds from one of Australia's most distinctive voices." - Sydney Festival

Tickets HERE | Doors 8pm

Thursday Night Music Club is back in August! Our free monthly gig at the pub brings together three handpicked songwriters for an intimate night of music and storytelling. Each artist will perform a short set and let us peer into their world - sharing the stories behind their songs, their inspirations, songcraft, anything they wish. 

Mika James steps out from behind the drumkit of Melbourne punk outfit The Vovos with a solo project that refuses to sit still — swerving from cinematic country to punk-infused blues. Her songs are intimate, world-building, and sharp with life experience, drawing comparisons to Weyes Blood, Sharon Van Etten, Laura Marling, and PJ Harvey. Wildness that can't be boxed.

Patrick Lionel is described as having the ability to both “break your heart and fill your heart in the matter of three minutes”, Patrick Lionel is a singer-songwriter who will leave you with tingling skin. He is an artist who performs and writes with a quiet beauty. With just an acoustic guitar and his voice, he is able to create nothing short of a sonic oasis. 

A.C Saunders is a storyteller, guitar slinger and a song singer. A.C writes from the heart, with melodies of an angel and lyrics pulled from the depths of her own darkness. In her short career, A.C has already supported indie legends Throwing Muses and toured nationally with Willie Watson and performed at Nannup Music Festival in 2026. If you like daydreaming, over thinking and crying to sad songs then you will love A.C Saunders.

Oh My Godot - a fundraiser to support Castlemaine's own The Ravens Theatre Company - proudly supported by the Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine

Help bring the Ravens Theatre Company to life by attending a great rock and roll extravaganza!! The cast are somewhat musical and thought it would be unfair to NOT let them have at least one night of rock and roll shenanigans...

...So, featuring the talents of ARIA Hall of Famer, You Am I legend and frontman Tim Rogers, the band will present a classic lineup of musical delights. Cast members Gus Read Hill, Tim Heath and Luke Lennox will be joined by Michael "Fabio" Vickers from seminal local cover band Smokers Run Faster to round out the group with a rakish and raffish tone.

And...warming up the evening's frivolities Tim Rogers will present a bracket of his best loved tunes, all on his lonesome. What a treat! Proudly supported by the good folk at Bridge Hotel Castlemaine!

Find out more about the WAITING FOR GODOT production and buy tickets here

The Bridge Hotel welcomes a double bill of jangle pop as Steve Lane & The Autocrats join Castlemaine favourites The Steinbecks.

Award-winning songwriter Steve Lane and his band The Autocrats deliver a distinctive blend of jangle pop, Americana and hook-laden indie rock, drawing comparisons to Wilco, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, and The Go-Betweens.

Steve Lane & The Autocrats made an impressive debut with their album The Romance of Communication (ABC Music), which was nominated for the Australian Music Prize and named Album of the Week on ABC JJ/Dig Music. As reviewer Isabella Tolhurst observed, "Steve Lane & The Autocrats release an album that has all the tell-tale signs of an Australian band bound for longevity."

More recently, Lane's self-titled 2022 album The Great Imposter, released through Scottish label Last Night From Glasgow (LNFG), reached #2 on the UK Indie Breakers Chart, #5 on the Scottish Albums Chart, and #8 on the UK Vinyl Albums Chart.

His latest release, Where The Rivers Meet (LNFG), was produced by ARIA Award-winning musician and producer Darren Seltmann (The Avalanches) and recorded in central Victoria and Scotland.

For this performance, The Autocrats are a true family affair, featuring Steve's son Kai, daughter Neneh, niece Miette, and longtime mate David Williams (Augie March, Fanning Dempsey National Park).

The Steinbecks were formed when brothers Josh and Joel Meadows disbanded their first group, The Sugargliders, which made sparse, melodic pop songs with ‘disarmingly naïve’ lyrics for legendary UK label Sarah Records. Josh and Joel are joined by Joel’s sons Lloyd and Micah Meadows in this latest iteration of the band. Three quarters of The Steinbecks live and love in Castlemaine.

 Tickets HERE | Doors 8:30PM

Think About You sing songs about Geelong, St Kilda and North Balwyn. They have toured internationally and appeared at major festivals, earning praise from KEXP as "one to watch" and Big Love Records as "a miracle you can't help but hear without realising it". Their first album, Taxi Kids (2022), was produced by Dylan Young (Way Dynamic, Cool Sounds). TAY's sophomore, Don't Die On Me (2024), was engineered by Nao Anzai (Tropical Fuckstorm, Cash Savage). The band's forthcoming LP was mixed and recorded by Nick Huggins (Dirty Three, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) at Resting Bell Studios on the unceded lands of the Wathaurong people of the Kulin Nation. It is set for release later this year.

Taking notes from 80s Australiana guitar pop, Piggietails pull the best bits from every era creating lyrically engaging simplistic songs that still manage to pull you into their personal world.

Supprting them will be twee pop legends Piggietails.

Doors: 9:00

Piggietails : 9:15

Think About You : 10:15

Tickets HERE

Fruit Bats – formed as the project of Eric D. Johnson (USA) – are one of the most in-demand live acts in indie rock. Eric D. Johnson journeys in from the USA to take to The Bridge stage, solo, celebrating their 2026 album The Landfill.

The midwest, particularly the part of the midwest Eric D. Johnson hails from, is a largely flat expanse. Fruit Bats’ June 12, 2026 album The Landfill, released via Merge Records, draws inspiration from the landfill hills scattered across the largely flat Midwestern United States landscape. Some of these man-made hills become parks or trails; for Johnson, they symbolise the emotional weight of the past.

“The mountain that gives us this vantage point is made out of the trash that we’ve created,” he says. On the title track and lead single “The Landfill,” Johnson reflects on “a holy vision / of what could be / and couldn’t be / and could have been”. But what’s truly stunning is how, in his recontouring from could to couldn’t to could have been, he has lost none of the vulnerability that was brought to the foreground of his songwriting by 2025’s solo outing, Baby Man.

Unlike previous Fruit Bats albums shaped over long periods, Baby Man was created spontaneously using stream-of-consciousness “morning pages” that flowed directly into daily recording sessions. The result documented two intensely personal weeks and opened a new immediacy in Johnson’s songwriting that continues throughout The Landfill.

Doors 8PM | Tickets here

Australian folk diviner Leah Senior makes her way to Castlemaine with her band in August to launch her fifth studio album Pt. Roadknight.
 
Pt. Roadknight explores Leah’s introspective, nature-loving side while honing the singular baroque psych folk that has captivated listeners around the world. While the style and instrumentation of ‘70s Brit folk are touchstones on Senior’s forthcoming album, her disarming lyrics are fresh and wholehearted, wrestling with modern concerns of gentrification and isolation while finding solace in the quiet beauty of the Victoria surf coast town where she lives.

A shining star of the Australian folk scene for the past decade, Leah Senior’s past four records have received critical acclaim from global media and radio stations, with Leah touring extensively, sharing stages with the likes of Wilco, Iron & Wine, Simon Joyner, Jessica Pratt, and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard. 

The new album Pt. Roadknight marks an exciting new chapter in Leah Senior’s musical journey, affirming her as one of Australia’s most authentic folk storytellers.

Doors 2pm | Tickets HERE

Art School dropout, seminal punk rocker, and living legend.

Born into the isolation of the semi-industrial wastelands of 1950s outer suburban Perth, Kim Salmon clawed his way out of the swamp and onto the world stage in his bands, the Scientists, the Surrealists, and the Beasts of Bourbon.

Kim Salmon has earned his reputation as an authentic artist incapable of choosing the safe road. For nearly fifty years, he has performed on the world's biggest stages and with the most remote punk bands; traversing every corner of music and art to create a body of work that stands up with the best.

His latest band, Smoked Salmon is a concept, a collection of recordings, a collective, a philosophy of least resistance flowing from a reputation for resolutely going against the stream! Wait a minute! Least resistance? Against the stream? Here’s the clincher. You can do both!  Kim still has the desire to go upstream but has found a great source of new  repertoire fishing in the streams from whence such classics as "Frantic Romantic", "Last Night", "Dropout", "Come On Spring" and "Swampland" sprang!

They have toured Europe and Japan - combining classic moments from across his career with an album of brand-new original songs in 2025 and a follow up ‘Totally Sick’ coming May 29 2026.

Tickets HERE | Doors 8:30PM

Our free gig at the pub is back in June, bringing together three handpicked songwriters for an intimate night of music and storytelling. Each artist will perform a short set and let us peer into their world - sharing the stories behind their songs, their inspirations, songcraft, anything they wish.

Dan Kelly
Local legend Dan Kelly has written 6 acclaimed albums, his most recent GOLDFEELS described as a sad, fabulous boogie record. Can’t wait to hear stories of our pocket of the world through his eyes.

Gaia Scarf
Raw and honest, Gaia Scarf writes about being seen in the dark. Her music holds a mirror to the soul and her voice is truly bewitching. You’ll leave spellbound.

Brock Alexander
Melbourne based Brock Alexander is known for his intimate and vivid songwriting. With shades of Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley, we’ll be transported into a world of love and longing.

Free entry | 8PM

“The Squeeki Wheel (Gets The Grease)”

Very special guests ESCAPE-ISM join Kirin J Callinan, live in concert for the first & only time ever in Australia. Fronted by the legendary Washington DC Author, Filmaker, Dilettante & Rock & Roll philosopher & provocateur Ian Svenonius and Los Angeles Multi-Instrumentalist, Choreographer & Icon Sandi Denton. All East Coast shows.

plus Sydney’s Worst, Room Full Of Pussy!

Tickets HERE | Doors 8pm

Happening every Wednesday night at 8PM!

Table bookings essential.

Winter has never sounded better. Cut Worms (USA) are finally coming to Australia this July for some East Coast shows, along with special guest John Andrews (USA). A two-for-one magic run not to be missed! We’ve loved Cut Worms’ country-esque folk-rock hits for a long time, and his new album Transmitter is a truly wonderful evolution. Very keen to have him and the brilliant John Andrews, whose Brooklyn-based cobblestoned electric piano epics have kept us going this year. Join a special matinee performance at The Bridge to close out their tour.

TICKETS HERE I Doors 2.30pm

Happening every Wednesday night at 8PM!

Table bookings essential.

Our free gig at the pub is back in June, bringing together three handpicked songwriters for an intimate night of music and storytelling. Each artist will perform a short set and let us peer into their world - sharing the stories behind their songs, their inspirations, songcraft, anything they wish.

This month we are joined by Harmony Byrne, Pearl and Kelsie Paige Rimmer.

Doors 8pm | Free entry

Happening every Wednesday night at 8PM!

Table bookings essential.

C.O.L.A. is sort of a self-titled album. It’s an acronym for Cost of Living Adjustment, a fitting conceptual framework for the band’s third record. Why? Because C.O.L.A. considers, among other things, socialism vs. hell. It considers: rolling the dice of life. The eerie and sweet pangs  that nostalgia can provoke. This is not new territory for band members Tim Darcy, Evan Cartwright, and Ben Stidworthy. It is, in Cartwright’s words “a deepening of what we’ve been doing.” C.O.L.A. is an intricate, beautiful, and sometimes strange record. It is the band’s most refined offering. A perfection of carefully honed aesthetic impulses.  

Catch the band on their debut Australian tour, playing songs from their highly anticipated upcoming record at The Bridge Hotel Castlemaine on June 19 with special guests: Season 2 and Bodies Of Divine Infinite And Eternal Spirit.

DOORS 8:30 TICKETS HERE $35 + BF

Hailing from Naarm/Melbourne, punk trio CLAMM—comprising Jack Summers, Miles Harding, and Stella Rennex—delve into the tumultuous experience of youth striving to lead an authentic and principled life in an increasingly chaotic world. Their music confronts the challenges of navigating entrenched systems of power and oppression while striving to preserve mental well-being and a strong sense of self. Through their raw and visceral sound, CLAMM aspires to foster community, ignite creativity, and provide a channel for catharsis.  
In 2025, CLAMM released their highly anticipated third album, Serious Acts, marking a bold evolution in their sound. Featuring the single ‘And I Try’, the record retained the band’s signature no-nonsense lyricism while expanding into new sonic territory with the inclusion of synths and horns. The album signalled a confident new chapter for the trio—pushing their musical boundaries while staying true to their raw and powerful core. Looking ahead, CLAMM are already gearing up for their next release in 2026, set to arrive via an iconic Melbourne label, with more details to be revealed.

TICKETS HERE
 

Happening every Wednesday night at 8PM!

Table bookings essential.

Happening every Wednesday night at 8PM!

Table bookings essential.

Happening every Wednesday night at 8PM!

Table bookings essential.

Thursday Night Music Club is back in May! Our new free monthly gig at the pub brings together three handpicked songwriters for an intimate night of music and storytelling. Each artist will perform a short set and let us peer into their world - sharing the stories behind their songs, their inspirations, songcraft, anything they wish. 

Matthew Colin brings with him the philosophy of history’s great songwriters “a song and a friend for every mile behind”. It’ll only take listening to one or two lines to find a writer of considered craft, values nested in a time of country folk music when all that mattered was the song itself.

Castlemaine’s Tom Candy Cox is a known deep thinker and acoustic guitar picker. He’s got a voice as sweet as brandy and as well as being a wonderful songwriter is known to pull out some special cover version.

Renowned for her warmth and vulnerability, Tulliah brings a suitcase full of strings and stories wherever she goes. She blends bright and bold music with honesty and heartache to make something truly special.

8PM START I FREE ENTRY

Tiramisu Misterioso is 2 parts lady fingers, 3 litres of Mascarpone, 1 cube of buffalo cream, a queef of cocoa, a squirt of coffee and a drizzle of Tia Maria. Served in a vintage Peter's Neapolitan ice cream punnet on a gondola floating down Barker's Creek. For their first ever headline show they will be joined by Kit. Come and witness history.

Kit 9pm
TM 10pm

TICKETS HERE

Sunshine Tip return to the Bridge to launch the first single from their forthcoming album Little Snakes. The four-piece plays melodic, wistful originals about life’s edges, troubles and simple joys, on guitar, cello, mandolin and drums, with sweet vocal harmonies. Songwriter Dave Bowers’ lyrics explore the shifting zone where country meets city, from smashing empties on outer suburban train tracks, to hanging washing on the line and remembering past dance floor heroics.

Free Entry

Saddle up! Chadley’s Silver Spurs are coming to town on Friday 15th May for a night of big western energy at The Bridge. They’ll be performing two sets of classics by all the country greats, new and old, from Garth Brooks to Dolly Parton to Zach Bryan. Plus a line dancing lesson from Neon Cowboy Bootscooters to get you warmed up, perfect for beginners and seasoned dancers alike. Tickets just $15+ booking fee. Don’t miss it ranchers.  

Set 1: 8.30pm
Line Dancing Lesson: 9.30pm
Set 2: 10pm

TICKETS HERE

Melbourne's smokiest slow dance party returns to Castlemaine. We play the slowest, spookiest, sweetest, swinginest old records we can find, and people dance real slow in a haze of smoke and dim red lights. It's a good time. Join us in the smoke filled dreamland that is SLOW GRIND FEVER for an evening of finger snapping rhythm 'n' blues, smoochy low-rider soul, jazzy popcorn, sultry slow-funk burners and uncategorizable moody melters, all sizzling off of antique discs brought to you by your host Richie1250 alongside special guests Aperol Ritz and China Bone (Jazz Party).

TICKETS HERE

Introducing Thursday Night Music Club, a brand new free monthly gig at the pub, bringing together three handpicked songwriters for an intimate night of music and storytelling. Each artist will perform a short set and let us peer into their world - sharing the stories behind their songs, their inspirations, songcraft, anything they wish.

Country siren Freya Josephine Hollick is known for her spellbinding vocals and gritty, poetic storytelling. Freya brings the raw spirit of the 1970's outlaw country scene wherever she performs and has the stories to back it up.

James Kenyon's music has been described as the soundtrack to the great Australian road movie. Think a road trip with Paul Kelly and Don Walker up front with Bruce Springsteen (circa Nebraska) and Iron & Wine in the back seat.

Imogen Pemberton mesmerises audiences with her broad vocal range, soaring melodies and sophisticated guitar playing. Within her cinematic compositions she touches on many genres but always stays true to her own unique sound.

Free Entry - 8pm

Carla dal Forno is an Australian composer, songwriter and producer based in Castlemaine, Victoria. Blending post-punk minimalism, experimental pop and atmospheric electronics, she has built a devoted international following through acclaimed releases and extensive touring across Europe and North America, with praise from outlets including Pitchfork, The Quietus and Resident Advisor, and airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music.

Her fourth studio album, Confession, expands her immersive, minimal sound, carried live through brooding electronics and melodic immediacy in a focused, quietly powerful performance.

She launches the album with a special hometown show at The Bridge Hotel with support from Mio.

TICKETS HERE - SOLD OUT!

TEK TEK are coming back to Castlemaine! Ready to shimmer you away with two jam-packed, exotically-perfumed sets of sweaty disco, psychedelic chicha, surf, exotica and sleazy jazz. It will be a wild night, guaranteed!

TEK TEK are three guys and three girls in matching outfits audiences playing exclamatory trumpet; hedonistic violins and organ; deeply pulsating drums and bass; wild psychedelic electric guitar and synthesizer, with a rich smearing of harmonized singing thrown on top.

TEK TEK Ensemble formed in 2010 and have performed countless times around Australia and the world including Jakarta, The Pilbara, Berlin, New Caledonia, Bangkok and Paris. The band has its roots in the wildness of late-night Melbourne pub music with the stylings of jazz and classical performance, and the danceability of tropical rhythms and hard-partying disco beats. 

Doors 8:30PM

TICKETS HERE $25 - SELLING FAST!

Fresh off their run with Shane Smith & The Saints, The Wet Whistles are fired up and ready to hit the road again, this time for their very own headline shows. Expect a night packed with energy, stories, and plenty of grit. The boys have been busy writing and can’t wait to road test some brand-new songs alongside crowd favourites like Sex, Drugs & Country Music and Guilty of a Good Time. It’s time to whistle up another unforgettable night of Aussie country music.

Doors 9pm
Support (TBA) 9:15
Wet Whistles 10:15

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

Gordi returns to Australia following her Sydney Opera House and east coast album launches in October, this time for a national run celebrating her ARIA-nominated third album Like Plasticine.  With a comprehensive run featuring a mix of iconic venues with hand-picked remote village halls, this tour is set to offer Gordi in her most unique live settings around the country.

Doors 7pm | TICKETS HERE $35