Music

The Rarebit Fiends offer a cheese-fuelled fever dream of country-fried classics. It's a heroic dose of Sabbath to Spears from your resident front-bar psychedelic surgeons!

Front Porch’s musical style is bluegrass heavy, keeping that traditional sound but including elements of western swing, Dixieland jazz, ragtime and folk into their music. The Melbourne band guarantee a fascinating show full of catchy tunes and impressive musicality.

Phil Coyne and The Wayward Aces bring the raw intensity of Chicago blues together with rockabilly swing and garage surf drive, delivering a sound both powerful and infectious. Known for their high-energy, full-throttle live performances perfected around Melbourne's live music circuit, legendary gigs and festivals like The Blues Train, Bruthen Blues n Roots and Mitchell Creek Rocking Blues festival.

We host an open jam on the third Thursday of each month from 7pm. We supply the backline (including PA and mics) so just bring your instrument and join in. All welcome at Jamswells!

Hats and boots optional; a Damn'd Sam & The Preachers show is not about the size of your belt buckle or the love of a plaid Western shirt: you’ll be in fine company when you come just as you are. Enjoy Americana-styled electrified country boogie.

A quartet of expressive songwriters that take their four-part harmonies as seriously as they take their dedication to a good time, Green Mohair Suits (Brian Campeau, Richard Cuthbert, Jason Mannell, Ben Romalis) hold a reputation for inspired showmanship and performances as brash as they are emotive.

Occupying a broad musical landscape somewhere between Gram Parsons, Beck, Buddy Holly and The Beach Boys, Green Mohair Suits’ style basks in the glow of their self-coined glow of “Garage-grass”. There's classic 60s pop, a dash of reggae, bluegrass, indie folk and country in their combined songwriting styles – their voices and musicianship the glue that seamlessly surrounds their songs of heartbreak and hangover, humour and humility.

Van Walker is returning to the pub in duo form with Nick O'Mara (Raised by Eagles, Amarillo). Also playing will be The Romantic Bastards, Nick's new duo with Dan Waters. Don't miss this intimate showcase of world-class songwriters.

The first Friday of every month means Torpedoes! Come have a dance to their vintage 1950s-era rock 'n' roll, blues and more!

Our long-running monthly OPEN MIC returns! Come along and have a sing and/or strum.

Following a spectacular European run, acclaimed duo Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo return home to tour Australia in support of their latest album, 100 Years — out now on Gusstaff/MGM.
Blending experimental blues, ambient soundscapes, and electronica, 100 Years is a bold, immersive record born from a two-day live session at Soundpark Studios, Melbourne. Layered with echoing guitars, smoky vocals, and primal percussion, the album is a hauntingly raw and transcendent listen. As Race puts it: “Tradition does not mean passing the ashes, but the fire.”

Hugo Race, a founding member of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and The Wreckery, brings his signature haunting vocals and evocative guitar work, while Michelangelo Russo, known for his work with The True Spirit and solo projects, adds hypnotic layers of electric harp and psychedelic textures.

Their live performances are highly improvisational, emotionally resonant, and unlike anything else — each show a one-of-a-kind sonic experience that redefines the boundaries of blues. Their previous collaboration, John Lee Hooker’s World Today (2017), was lauded for its reinvention of delta blues, praised as “a psychedelic ghost blues of a profound sort” (Musikreviews.de) and “hypnotic rhythms and haunting guitars” (Eclipsed, Germany).