Batrider play the last date of their national ‘Piles of Lies’ launch tour this Friday at The Tote alongside Tasmania’s Native Cats who are also launching their album ‘Process Praise’. Joining these awesome bands on the night will be the equally awesome Absolute Boys as well as Lady Dreams. Get down early, if the facebook numbers are anything to go by, this one is going to be a sell-out…there’s a great artist on artist interview on Mess+Noise with Batrider and Native Cats here too…
…In between playing some powerful shows around the country, Steph Crase has been producing music videos for a bunch of songs from the album, check them out below:
Two Bright Lakes is very happy to be part of this excellent series of shows put together by those lovely folks at The Workers Club. We’re also very excited about having Melbourne guitar luminary Mick Turner down for the show.
At the Workers Club, we hold our local and independent music and arts
community in extremely high regard and believe that nurturing and supporting
our creative community is of the upmost importance.
But behind many of these bands and artists is a side of the creative community
rarely publicly celebrated or acknowledged, that being the Independent Record
Label. In today’s climate of the wonderful world of the music industry, these
people are some of the hardest working and often under-appreciated pioneers,
obsessives and passionate music lovers out there.
Here at The Workers Club, we think that’s worth celebrating, and have designed
a series of nights happening each Wednesday entitled ‘The Released Series’
specifically to acknowledge these labels, with each night personally curated by
the person or people behind the labels, showcasing their favourite bands, artists
and DJs each week.
As part of the Series, the Workers Club will be running the ‘Released Record
Stand,’ inspired by NYC’s ‘the Cake Shop,’ a half venue-half independent
record store, ‘the Released Record Stand’ is a semi-permanent record stand
set up each week giving labels the opportunity to have their releases available
for sale not only on the night of their curated show, but for the duration of the
series with labels taking 100% of all sales.
NIGHT SWIMMING is Two Bright Lakes monthly all night party at The Buffalo Club. Featuring some of our favourite bands and Djs, hopefully NIGHT SWIMMING will be your Friday night hang out – a place to boogie and forget a week, let loose and romance the night away.
This month we welcome Sydney’s lovely party bros Astral People and kindred spirits to co-present our lineup.
Coming off a massive launch party in Sydney last month Astral People will be bringing the good times to Melbourne in future months, with local and international touring artists.
Artwork by Andy Wilson
Decor by Hicks Inc
Projections by Blake Byron-Smith