Local Gig Guide in Perth 

Originally born in Mt Lawley, The Bird in Northbridge invites you to a cosy night filled with music and candlelight. With a selection of great drinks and shaker fires, this is a great way to kick the mid-week blues. 

England’s finest genre-blenders Pop Will Eat Itself aka PWEI return!
Playing “This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!” (Can U Dig It?, Def Con One, Wise Up! Sucker) in full!
Plus hear an encore of classics - Ich Bin Ein Auslander, Everything's Cool, Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!, Their Law and heaps more!

“We try to be entertaining. Obviously we want it to sound good, but we’re not trying to present the fact that we’re proficient musicians, we’re not. It’s about entertainment, so if we run about the stage and bump into each other and somebody fluffs a note, it’s all part of the fun” – Crabb, on a PWEI live show

“This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!” was hailed as a masterpiece ahead of its time. Hear it live with boundless energy that always makes a Poppies show so much fun

Exploring darker thmes of loss and regret WAAX's newest album celebrates the joys and heartaches of loneliness with special guests to be announced soon.

The Zep Boys return to Perth unleashing classic rock in an epic salute to Led Zeppelin at Freo.Social on Friday 9 October.

Zep Boys founding member Vince Contarino says:

“We are thrilled to be heading back to our pub and club roots for these shows in WA, playing to the ‘working class fans’ who have supported us since our inception in 1986.

We’ve toured with orchestras playing to sold out houses in Australia, UK (including the London Palladium and Hammersmith Odeon) and Europe, but it’s the ‘true believers’ who are responsible for our success in band mode, over hundreds of gigs and lineup changes."

“…the Zep Boys are the real deal…they play with passion and above all a love of music …many attempt to pull off the trademark Plant howl but few succeed – Vince is one who does…..they should be given an open ticket to return.”  Daily Telegraph Manchester

Brisbane quintet Waax have been making lots of compelling noise of late. Signing with Australian indie heavyweight Dew Process and featuring heavily on the nation’s airwaves they’ve been winning hearts and selling out national tours in the process. Supporting the likes of big time internationals Wolf Alice, Fall Out Boy and Biffy Clyro, the band have also been making sizable waves on the festival circuit with standout sets at Splendour In The Grass, Falls Festival, Good Things and Unify Gathering, not to mention a growing collection of local music awards and it’s clear to see the band’s trajectory is on a stratospheric rise

This rising star has already sold out Perth Venue, Jack Rabbit Slims with the show being upgraded to Villa. All current tickets remain valid with the show still set to take place on the same day. All shows are selling fast! Having just been added to high rotation on triple j with his track ‘Taste (Make It Shake)’ we are sure Australian and New Zealand fans will not want to miss this chance to see his explosive debut.

Currently sitting at number one in the UK with ‘Take Me Back to London’ (his collaboration with Ed Sheeran and Stormzy), Aitch (real name Harrison Armstrong) has also recently released his debut EP Aitch20 to much fanfare both at home and abroad.

Boasting over 200,000 YouTube followers as well as tens of millions of Spotify streams for singles ‘Strike A Pose’ (with Young T and Bugzy), and ‘Trust Me’, this prodigiously talented rapper and MC is hitting extreme heights with dizzying speed.

Still not quite 20, most of Aitch’s childhood friends would probably be more likely to head to Australia for a boozy gap year at this stage of their lives, but such has been the extent of this North Manchester native’s rapid rise, he’ll first set foot on these shores in the midst of a fully blown breakout bonanza.This rising star has already sold out Perth Venue, Jack Rabbit Slims with the show being upgraded to Villa. All current tickets remain valid with the show still set to take place on the same day. All shows are selling fast! Having just been added to high rotation on triple j with his track ‘Taste (Make It Shake)’ we are sure Australian and New Zealand fans will not want to miss this chance to see his explosive debut.

With 10 hours of local music in the stunning and serene surrounds of Somerville, In The Pines is the perfect place to picnic with friends, take in some of Perth’s exceptional musical talent and enjoy the party!

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Australia's favourite musical misfits and auteurs of Aussie hip hop, Butterfingers are back, breaking hearts and bones (mostly their own) with a killer new single, Dancing (to the beat of my own drum), out January 30.

Confident and with more ecstatic energy and sharp lyrical wit than ever before, Dancing (to the beat of my own drum) is classic Butterfingers, and is accompanied by a glorious video filmed by the band themselves. After a fourteen-year long album release cycle, this hectic new track is the first taste of a brand new Butterfingers album, Bad News, set for release on March 30.

On his 18th Australian visit, Green continues a love affair with Australia that boasts multiple sold-out City and Colour tours, premiere sets at Splendour in the Grass and Bluesfest, a sold-out performance at the prestigious Sydney Opera House, and ARIA Top Ten spots for his last three studio albums.

Best known for cult gems like ‘The Girl’, ‘Lover Come Back’, and ‘Comin’ Home’, City and Colour eases confessional turbulences into enthralling swells of guitar-driven euphoria. Much adored for his emotionally intimate songs and crystalline live vocal, audience testimonials have earned him a dedicated fan base.

“Green's voice is truly captivating. The range from near whispers to fearless belts wring every melancholic lyric out dry.” – NPR

This year saw City and Colour release his first new music in four years, beginning with kaleidoscopic single 'Astronaut’ and follow-up ’Strangers’, a soaring track that Green says, “is about how you will never truly know another human being”. His sixth studio album ‘A PILL FOR LONELINESS’ will be released next week, Friday October 4, and is produced by three-time Grammy winning Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits).

Honing his live show in front of massive crowds at icon festivals including Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, City and Colour has over the years toured with P!nk, Neil Young, Alice in Chains, Ben Harper, Tegan and Sara and more.

Warming audiences around the country with her dynamic solo set is local singer-songwriter Alex Lahey. Lahey has played premiere music festivals including Falls, Splendour In The Grass, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Sasquatch, Osheaga and more. With a brand new album The Best Of Luck Club under her belt, and after delivering a standout cover of My Chemical Romance’s ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’ for triple j’s Like A Version last week, Lahey is a star on the rise.

Following the release of Suck On Light, the boys are excited to share their new album with audiences across Australia and New Zealand in 2020.

**ALL AGES**

After a watershed year in 2019, Melbourne rock favourites Slowly Slowly kicked off 2020 with the announcement of their third album Race Car Blues. The follow up to their critically-acclaimed 2018 effort St. Leonards, Race Car Blues captures a formative period for Slowly Slowly frontman Ben Stewart. Where St. Leonards found him reflecting on his entire life – harking back to painful moments and trying to rectify them – this album traverses through a crucial 18 months of self assessment and development.