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Ultravibalux

Ultravibralux return to their spiritual birth place, the streets of St kilda with their their bold essoteric sounds. Their music is a unique cocktail of cinematic psychedelic funk that takes cues from greats like the JB’s, Frank Zappa, Funkadelic, Lalo Schifrin, Mulatu Astake, Herbie & Miles. Fueled with the classic tones and of valve-soaked sounds of 60s & 70s amplification Ultravibralux combine sophisticated tight horn arrangements, heavy hitting baselines and deep grooves. They will be performing songs from their first full length album ‘Secret Level’ recently launched to a packed audience at the Workers Club in Fitzroy.

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The Regnans

Hailing from the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, The Regnans are an explosive, captivating band that blends funk, blues and rock to deliver an electrifying experience - and are excited to bring a new headline show to The Workers Club in October.

Consisting of Hamish Warner (Vocals), Zac Annal (Guitar), Angus Williamson (Bass) and Josh Buchanan (Drums), The Regnans have the potential to carve an incredible future in the music industry.

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blues rock

YID!

YID! is a wild Melbourne-based ensemble whose daring fusion of traditional Yiddish tunes with elements of electronic dance music, Weimar Republic cabaret, free jazz, indie pop and big band flourishes – plus a dash of late – 70s funk – demands to be seen, heard and danced to! The 23 – piece YID! mixes tribal beats, improvised riffs and angelic vocals, channeling the sweet tunes of traditional Eastern European folkloric songs. Ahead of YID!’s WOMADelaide appearance, Mark Moray chats to the ensemble’s organiser and bass player Simon Starr.

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indie pop

funk

Adam Pringle

A fun and eclectic mix of music. Spontaneous yet full of direction. Played with passion, not pretention. One of Sydney's finest musicians. Three of his friends.
Drawing from a wide spectrum of genres, influences and individual careers, Adam and Friends have one goal, and one only: To make great music.
Influences that are strongest are the ones shared by all members, including The Meters, Albert King, Freddie King, Ernest Ranglin, Bonnie Raitt.
On the table are years of experience, from all aspects of the music industry.

Adam Pringle (Guitar, Vocals) has been performing live since the age of 14, when he was sneaking into his uncle's blues gigs. It was the "trial by fire and brimstone" approach to learning that has given him the strong, rich and unique guitar tone he is know for. Apart from leading his own career, he has also been a sideman for such acts as Corinna Steel, Kara Grainger, The Hiptones, Melanie Horsnell and The Bondi Cigars.

Niall Anderson (Keys) Moved to Sydney five years ago, after completing a Bachelor of Music at WAAPA, Perth. He was quickly employed to be Musical Director for songstress Gin Wigmore, and also currently plays for Split Enz's Tim Finn.

Tim Curnick (Bass), Currently tours and records with Tim Freedman (The Whitlams), Old Man River, Ngaiire, The New Dynamites and his own band SHINOLA!. Tim was part of the late Jackie Orszaczky's "School of Soul", and has been a member of the house band on GNWTV's The Sideshow, as well as Good News Week.

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New Orleans

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Tim Curnick

Craig Laird

Session Guitar player from Sydney . Member of 1927 for 10years.
Other local artists: Richard Clapton, Glenn Shorrock , Ross Wilson, Marc Hunter, Human Nature , Steve Kilbey, Joe Camerleri, Wendy Mathews , Mark Williams The Chantoozies, Mark Gable,Real Life, Boom Crash Opera, OSHEA . Kate Ceberano
Internationals: Berlin (US) Martika (US) Men without Hats (CAN) Limahl(UK).

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Loz Irwin-Ray

Loz Irwin-Ray is a Melbourne-based musician who specialises in voice, double bass, electric bass and piano.

Loz combines a love for creative expression and connection. She constantly strives to learn, understand and create a wide-variety of music. She finds herself rising to new creative challenges every day. Performing as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist in a number of Melbourne bands, she enjoys effortlessly jumping from one style to the next. Be it straight ahead jazz, earthy folk or free electronic improvisation, Loz maintains an honest, considered and heartfelt approach to her music.

Loz covers plenty of ground in the Melbourne music scene, working as a vocalist, double bassist, electric bassist, pianist, choir director, performer, composer/song-writer, educator, arranger, session musician and curator. She typically plays and writes in genres including folk, jazz, improvisation, blues, pop, funk and neo-soul.

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Cookin' on 3 Burners

Cookin’ On 3 Burners are Australia’s hardest hitting Hammond Organ Trio – joining the dots between Deep Funk, Raw Soul, Organ Jazz & Boogaloo.

Listening to Cookin’ On 3 Burners is like poking your head through a time portal that stretches between the year you were born and the middle of next week. On one hand there are clues to a spiritual home that’s situated somewhere in the back streets of 1966, but on the other is a reinvented soul stew that’s very much a product of the 21st Century.

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Dylan Lewis

Dylan Lewis is one of Australia’s most enduring and recognisable entertainers, with a career spanning over two decades and encompassing television, radio, film and music. Dylan was a mainstay on Nova for 13 years, and was most recently heard all over Adelaide as the co-host of Nova919 Adelaide breakfast show ‘Dylan and Hayley’, and ‘Lewis and Lowe’ before that. The start of 2020 saw Dylan feature as a guest host of Double J’s ‘Summer Mornings’. For two years he then hosted Double J Weekends. He has previously hosted radio shows on Fox FM, Triple J and Nova 100 in Melbourne.

Dylan's hard work and talent has been rewarded by winning 3 ACRA Awards so far in his radio career, 'Best Newcomer' 2007, 'Best Music Personality’ 2009 and ‘Best Music Presenter’ 2012.

Infamously known as the presenter of ‘Recovery’ on ABC, Dylan has hosted an array of television music and variety shows, including 10.30 Slot, Pepsi Live and Network Ten’s national Saturday morning show, ‘Video Hits’ with Faustina Agolley from 2010 to 2011. To the delight of ‘Recovery’ fans, the ‘Recovery Special’ returned in 2019 as part of ABC’s AusMusic month.

A regular star on television, Dylan has also been popular guest panellist on shows such as ‘Spicks & Specks’, ‘Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation’, as well as regular field reporter and guest co-host on ‘The Circle’ and appearances on Network Ten's 'The Project’ doing the 'Whip Around'.

When Dylan first shot to cult fame on ABC TV’s national Saturday morning live music show ‘Recovery’ in 1996, he catapulted the popularity of live music and interviewing to a new level. He hosted ‘Recovery’ for four years and his infectious persona brought a new element into Saturday morning television. Dylan's warmth and individuality aided in attaining artists that would appear exclusively on ‘Recovery’ whilst visiting Australia.

Following ‘Recovery’, Dylan hosted the national television program ‘The 10.30 Slot’ on Friday evenings, another of ABC TV’s popular music and pop culture extravaganzas. Dylan's association in the music world was cemented when he became the host of Channel 10’s ‘Pepsi Live’ in 2001 - continuing this role for three years on the only Australian commercial television music program at the time. Dylan simultaneously hosted the show’s national radio program on 2-Day/Fox FM. He then went on to co-host ‘Video Hits’ 2010-2011, airing every Saturday and Sunday morning on Channel Ten, Australia’s longest running music show and the world’s second longest running after Eurovision.

Dylan’s star studded list of celebrities interviewed includes Stevie Wonder, Foo Fighters, M.I.A, Britney Spears, Ed Sheeran, Sting, Kylie Minogue, Bjork, Russell Crowe, Silverchair, Faith No More, Metallica, Oasis, No Doubt, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Reece Witherspoon, Billy Zane, Eric Bana, Noel Fielding…and the list goes on...

As a huge fan of the series, Dylan was thrilled to accept an offer to be in the Australian Celebrity Big Brother. When it came to the final eviction night, Dylan was the overwhelming winner as voted by the general public. He has also appeared on Channel 9’s ratings winner, Celebrity Circus where his natural comic ability and willingness to take on all challenges thrown at him, once again made him an absolute standout of the series. The start of 2022 saw Dylan enter the ‘so-called’ jungle on ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’, supporting ‘Lifeline’ as his chosen charity.

One of Dylan’s career highlights was when he appeared as an extra in ‘Star Wars Episode 2 – Attack of the Clones’. Continuing on the feature film ride, Dylan landed a role in ‘The Real Thing’ released in Australia in 2002 and has played the lead role in short films, ‘Like It Is’, ‘RAY’ and 'The Postman', as well as many minor film and TV roles. He had a guest role in ‘Emo The Musical’ as Doug Skeleton in 2016.

Dylan graduated from Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Education in secondary drama and music in 1994. He dabbles in pastimes such as juggling, fire-breathing, clowning and magic. He plays piano, clarinet, saxophone, turntables, accordion, harmonica and didgeridoo. Dylan also has his own man-choir called....Manchoir – a group of men who sing (and perform) in mostly perfect harmonies. He has also played in two well-known Melbourne bands: funk band 'The Brown Hornet' and hip-hop band Megabias. Both bands have toured extensively, released a few albums and performed on a variety of television shows. He now plays in a band called The Haploids making music for kids that parents won’t hate.

Dylan extends his support to many different charity causes through his media profile. Namely, he’s been an ambassador for Headspace (The National Youth Mental Health Foundation), The Starlight Foundation, Smiling Mind, Ride2School Day, Lifeline, Polished Man and Artists For Kids.

Dylan has hosted many launches, corporate functions and awards events. The rare experience of hosting an abundance of television shows, including hundreds of hours of live TV, combined with his professionalism and elite talent allows him to deliver at the highest level.

He is the proud father of a daughter and a son. He is very happily married. He collects action figures, musical instruments, records, art and camels.

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Alternative Rock

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The Comet Is Coming

The Comet Is Coming is a London-based jazz-rock band who incorporate elements of jazz, electronica, funk and psychedelic rock.

The band originally recorded for The Leaf Label, on which their debut EP Prophecy was released, on limited edition 12" vinyl, on 13 November 2015, with the full-length album Channel the Spirits following on 1 April 2016.[1][2] The album was nominated for the 2016 Mercury Prize, and in 2018 the band signed with Impulse!

The members of the band use the pseudonyms "King Shabaka", "Danalogue", and "Betamax" to respectively refer to saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, keyboardist Dan Leavers, and drummer Max Hallett.[3]

In a 2013 interview, Hutchings explained the name of the band thus: "The name of the group comes from a BBC Radiophonic Workshop piece of the same name. Once we heard this piece, with its allusions to sci-fi, cosmic remembrances and general space, it instantly struck a chord. We're exploring new sound worlds and aiming to destroy all musical ideals which are unfit for our purposes so the name stuck."[4]

In an interview with M magazine, Betamax spoke of the band's genesis:

Me and Danalogue the Conqueror play as a psychedelic electro synths and live drums duo called Soccer96. We began to notice a tall shadowy figure present at some of our gigs. At some point he appeared at the side of the stage with his sax in hand. When he got up on stage to play with us it created an explosive shockwave of energy that stunned us all. A couple of weeks later King Shabaka rang me up and said 'hey let's make a record' so we booked three days in Total Refreshment Centre studios. It all came together at an incredible speed. We played and recorded to 1/4 tape with no pre-written material. By the end of three days we had recorded hours of music.[5]

The imagery associated with the band is based around outer space, science fiction and B-movies, as can be seen in the music videos for their singles "Neon Baby" and "Do the Milky Way", as well as in song titles and artwork. "Do the Milky Way" premiered on The Quietus.[6] In a feature in The Guardian in April 2016, the group were described as the "true heirs" of cosmic jazz pioneer Sun Ra, and praised for their "fusion of jazz, Afrobeat and electronica in an improvisational, intergalactic mash-up".[7] The Quietus wrote that although the band is "intrinsically linked to funk...and spiritually linked to all manner of cosmic music via their imagery (and love of space-creating echo and reverb effects), The Comet Is Coming has the feel of an utterly fresh sort of project".

King Shabaka elaborates on the cosmic side of the band and the connection to Sun Ra in the same article, when describing the crystal that dominates the cover of their Prophecy EP. He says, "The other thing about the crystal, metaphorically speaking, is the whole Sun Ra thing of creating your own myths. The thing I like that Sun Ra says a lot is the fact that societies that can create their own mythological structures are the ones that have their own agency. To the point at which you can dictate the terms of what's real and what's not real. The crystal in the hand forces you to create your own myth".[8]

In August 2016, the band was nominated for the Mercury Prize for their debut album, Channel the Spirits.[9][10]

In January 2017 the band was one of the recipients of the Momentum Music Fund through PRS for Music and in April 2017 the band released the Death to the Planet EP through The Leaf Label as part of Record Store Day.[11][12]

Their second full-length album, Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery, was released in March 2019 and received critical acclaim, with The Quietus noting the importance of Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane on their sound while acknowledging that "rather than being weighed down by those legacies, The Comet Is Coming have turned them into fuel, accelerating their sound, and with it, the sound of jazz today."[13] Pitchfork gave the album a score of 7.8 out of 10 and wrote, "Mostly low- to mid-tempo, the band skillfully integrates bleak and radiant tones, leading to an impressive nine-track suite of ambient, spoken-word and grime-infused compositions."[14] The album currently holds a score of 83 on review aggregator Metacritic, indicating "Universal acclaim."

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Cool Out Sun

Melbourne band Cool Out Sun make Afro roots music, peppered with hip hop goodness and a sunny disposition. The supergroup is a cross-cultural enterprise that sees vocalist N’fa Jones (1200 Techniques), percussionist Nui Moon (Digital Afrika) and drummer/producer Sensible J (REMI, Sampa The Great) teaming up to create sultry beats and poetic commentary on a variety of social issues.

Jones is an established solo artist whose career dates back to the late-‘90s. Cool Out Sun is a refinement of his musical vision that invites contributions from various prominent musicians, such as vocalist/percussionist Lamine Sonko of the African Intelligence.

Late last year, Cool Out Sun recorded a special session which has only recently been broadcast on MUUZOstream(link is external), Channel 31’s live music program. For our next Studio 5 presentation, we offer you the chance to hear this fabulous set in its entirety on Boogie Beat Suite.

Tune in from 11am on July 12 while MzRizk brightens up your Tuesday morning with the ever cool and poignant music of Cool Out Sun.

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