2020 MOTH memberships available!

MOTH 2020 Memberships now available. MOTH members receive :

• a $5 discount on every MOTH gig ticket*
• priority release ticket offers
• exclusive line up announcements
• waiting list priority for sold out shows
• plus that warm, fuzzy feeling of being part of a wonderful. community arts initiative.

MOTH 2020 membership $25.

Purchase 2020 MOTH memberships here.

 

Kitty & Frank album launch at MOTH

Painting landscapes with dream-soaked synths, irresistible beats, poetry and pathos, Lucie Thorne presents her extraordinary new art/pop concept album Kitty & Frank. With Kitty & Frank, Thorne traces the wild true stories of young frontier woman Kitty Walsh and her lover, the charismatic bandit & bushranger Frank Gardiner. In the 1860’s Gold Fever came to Wheogo NSW and like Deadwood, it didn’t end well. Delivered live with Thorne’s trademark storytelling warmth and charm, Kitty & Frank inhabits a sonic world that calls to mind a meeting of David Bowie’s Blackstar and Kate Bush’s Ariel, whilst spanning a tale of Shakespearean proportions. All this at the hands of one of Australia’s finest song-poets who has ventured to triumphant new ground with staggering certitude.

Lucie is touring far and wide throughout the spring to celebrate the album’s release – and for the MOTH show she’ll be joined by stellar bandmates Hamish Stuart (drums) Alice Williams (bass & harmonies).

Coming off the back of an array of band shows and festival stages folk rock duo Little Georgia are taking us back to their roots with the announcement of their latest tour “THROUGH THE PAST”.

Collaborators Ashleigh Mannix and Justin Carter will be heading out on the road during July and August with a run of intimate duo shows along the East Coast of Australia.

Support by Melbourne-based, ex-Peninsula singer-songwriter Simon Imrei.

Kitty & Frank album launch at MOTH

Painting landscapes with dream-soaked synths, irresistible beats, poetry and pathos, Lucie Thorne presents her extraordinary new art/pop concept album Kitty & Frank. With Kitty & Frank, Thorne traces the wild true stories of young frontier woman Kitty Walsh and her lover, the charismatic bandit & bushranger Frank Gardiner. In the 1860’s Gold Fever came to Wheogo NSW and like Deadwood, it didn’t end well. Delivered live with Thorne’s trademark storytelling warmth and charm, Kitty & Frank inhabits a sonic world that calls to mind a meeting of David Bowie’s Blackstar and Kate Bush’s Ariel, whilst spanning a tale of Shakespearean proportions. All this at the hands of one of Australia’s finest song-poets who has ventured to triumphant new ground with staggering certitude.

Lucie is touring far and wide throughout the spring to celebrate the album’s release – and for the MOTH show she’ll be joined by stellar bandmates Hamish Stuart (drums) Alice Williams (bass & harmonies).

Coming off the back of an array of band shows and festival stages folk rock duo Little Georgia are taking us back to their roots with the announcement of their latest tour “THROUGH THE PAST”.

Collaborators Ashleigh Mannix and Justin Carter will be heading out on the road during July and August with a run of intimate duo shows along the East Coast of Australia.

Support by Melbourne-based, ex-Peninsula singer-songwriter Simon Imrei.

Spud Thompson is a cheeky, emotive vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter whose work runs the whole gamut of human emotions.

Emerging pop queen MAXON is currently shaking audiences across the state with her trademark vocal and boundless song-writing talents.

MOTH Acoustic Club returns to the exquisite Main Ridge Estate tasting room in mid-May with Melbourne singer-songwriter Anna Cordell.

Annas rich folk music straddles that place between light and dark where true human emotion exists. Her penchant for the minor key coupled with her intricate nylon and electric guitar playing and haunting yet uplifting voice make for an incredibly enthralling performance.

Tasty platters, Main Ridge Estate wines and local beers available.

Main Ridge Estate, 80 William Road, Red Hill. Doors 7pm, performance 8.15 prompt.

A celebration of women on music. Featuring soul and funk legend Kylie Auldist, Zimbabwe-born and Melbourne-based RnB singer-songwriter Thando, contemporary violinist, composer and singer-songwriter Xani and Melbourne keyboardist and singer-songwriter Clio.

Band: Xani Kolac (violin), Biddy Connor (viola), Anita Quayle (cello), Clio Renner (keys), Claire Cross (bass), Alex Roper (drums), Kathleen Halloran (guitar).

Music director – Xani Kolac.

Plus local world music acapella group Ling Marra.

Local wines and beers available.

The defining feature of Ryan Downey’s music is his voice; a jaw-dropping amalgamation of Leonard Cohen and a spirited Bill Callahan by way of a mid-century crooner. His 2018 debut album Running is a glorious and perfectly constructed 21st century folk gem, and not a note detracts from Downey’s rich baritone as he sings a song cycle of humour and pathos, self-analysis, sex, love and modern life.

Support by Melbourne singer-songwriter Hannah Cameron.

Three years ago William Crighton played a remarkable, unplugged band show at MOTH and it remains one our most memorable shows.

William has included MOTH on his first solo tour. He says: “This tour I will be on stage solo, telling stories, sharing thoughts and performing songs from both albums as well as airing some new material for the first time. This is my first headline tour performing solo and I’ve been putting a lot of effort into making it a memorable one for you. I’ll be playing some keys and other various stringed things”.

After more than 10 years in the game, English songwriter Beans on Toast has become something of a cult figure. He’s a hippy, a punk, a poet, a drunk, a die-hard romantic and an eternal optimist and performs simple songs that tackle big issues.

Not to be missed!

Food by Nordie. Local wines and beers available.

Freya Josephine Hollick is an old-timey, country songbird and brings blues and honky tonk goodness that transports you back to early Appalachia, through wartime romance, the golden era of country music and into a cosmic hootenanny.

With a voice that floats between Maybelle Carter, Dolly Parton and Skip James, Freya Josephine Hollick is a lady not to be missed.

Support by Melbourne singer-songwriter Jed Rowe.

Archer is a bona fide, travelling bluesman who’s the sort of character you can imagine rolling into a country town behind a flurry of dust.

One of the last true great Australian poets, his songs follow the rivers and the mountain ranges and the plastic cyber gullies of the peculiar world we inhabit.  A man who sings from the bedrock, where comedy and tragedy walk hand in hand.

Support by local singer-songwriter Taylah Carroll.