rock n roll

Flying Dutchman are a 4-piece Rock & Roll band from Melbourne, Australia. After years of jamming together the two brothers and two cousins fuse hard monsterous groove and tight punchy riffs with hard hitting vocals. The type of of sound that will make you want to slam back a few bevs and bang your head until your neck is sore.

Born out of a love of rock, punk and metal, Forklift Assassins have come to throw down some massive riffs. Playing fast and loud tunes, these guys know what it means to ROCK OUT.
The band is made up of Sanjin on guitar, Lex Baritone on bass and Mike on drums and vox. Influences include Dead Kennedy’s, Black Sabbath, The Ramones, The Misfits and especially Motorhead. Go on, get on it.

Arguably, The Rolling Stones are one of the most iconic rock and roll acts in the history of modern pop music, given and holding the title of the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band for decades. Monkey Men dare to stand in the world’s biggest musical shoes. Formed in March of 2023 by Karl Liebhardt and Paul Montgomery, band mates from a former Rolling Stones tribute, Exiles on Main Street, they hit the ground running with a fantastic line-up of local musical talent. Monty, the group’s frontman, looks nothing like Mick Jagger, but wears the look as the character he portrays. “I have seen the Stones at least a dozen times and I have been singing their tracks at the top of my lungs driving up and down California’s freeway’s for decades. I know what Mick sounds like and I know how he moves. What do they say about 10,000 hours? I’ve put the time in on their music”. Yet Monty asks the audience of Rolling Stones fans to listen with their ears, not their eyes. “I get our guys to bring the energy out of the music in their playing. I tell them, "I need to feed on you guys and you need to feed off me and the audience will feel it. We’re not just playing their music, we have to bring the energy they bring.” Like Mick himself says on Let It Bleed, “We All Need - Someone we can Feed aawwwnnnn..” Karl, the group’s “Keith” guitarist, is also the band’s historian, a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge about the Rolling Stones. He brings an authenticity to his musical approach staying true to the different guitar tunings Keef used on certain recordings and uses today in their live sets. There’s that 10,000 hours thing again… Monkey Men, a play on words from the hit song “Monkey Man” from the Let It Bleed LP, are after the live sound of the Rolling Stones today, bringing to the stage an entourage of seasoned, musically educated and talented performers including a horn section and backing vocals. Monkey Men bring the Rock and Roll Show in their tribute to the Greatest Rock and Roll Band, tip their hats and dig in the feast of energy in the music of The Rolling Stones.

Perry grew up in the inner city working class area of Sydney known as Redfern. He grew up in a home populated by various uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents. Every Saturday morning his grandmother would do the house work whilst playing the likes of Ray Charles and Roy Orbison at a volume loud enough to spill out onto the neighbouring streets, lined with tightly-packed terraced houses, warehouses and textile factories.

When he was 12, he got his first guitar from the local pawn shop and within six months he’d written his first song. It was during his first year at high school that his family moved to the neighbouring area of Waterloo, with its high-rise Department of Housing blocks. It was within this environment that Perry formed the band The Stolen Holdens in 1989. Musically inspired by the likes of The Clash and Elvis Costello and lyrically taking his cue from artists like Lou Reed and Bruce Springsteen, Keyes and The Stolen Holdens developed a small but loyal following in the local Sydney music scene.

The band faded by the early 90’s and Perry re-emerged in 2003, playing solo sets featuring songs that would make up the bulk of his debut double album Meter – released in 2005 to critical acclaim and numerous years end best-of lists.

His next album The Last Ghost Train Home was received with even greater acclaim upon its release in 2007. It went on to be short-listed for the Australian Music Prize and was named the ABC Radio National Album of the Year.

Johnny Ray’s Downtown contains 16 tracks that once again draw on Perry’s local environment – the marginalised, often neglected and rapidly decaying inner city areas of Sydney – for their inspiration. These are songs about growing up, or trying to grow up, in the face of an environment that often suggests that the mere thought of getting past your late adolescence is hoping for more than what’s actually on offer.

With Sunnyholt the focus shifts west to the outer Sydney suburbs where Perry's family travelled in the late 1960s and 1970s only to find an environment devoid of infrastructure and struggling to birth a community.

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Jim Salmon's Lament was released October 5, 2018. “I started thinking about the families I grew up with and a particular family that lived in the James Cook [Housing Commission] flats, a brother and sister. I thought I would write about the dad, because I was pissed off with narcissistic blokes where everything they do is fuelled by self-interest but every time it got to mentioning the kids I would start writing a song about them, so I realised that the centre of the album was the brother and sister. That is the grace in the record.”

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In 2020 Perry released a series of singles including "Railway Square" and "Wentworth Park".

"I think putting the songs out at regular intervals is a good way of keeping up contact with the people that like what I do and at the same time, hopefully, have some new people hear it as well," he says. "There's a nice immediacy to it as opposed to going away for two years to record albums whilst nobody hears from you for all that time.

"Having said that, there are three albums in the can that I hope to get out in a relatively short amount of time. And, there's also a live album ready to go."

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That album was Live in B-Town, and was released at the end of 2021.

The Crookeds are a Melbourne 4-piece making rock music like you’ve never heard. Perfect amounts of grit and splendour combine to create an alluring and epic sound. The band effortlessly combine tight drums, groovy bass, and heavy riffs with angelic, Buckley-esque vocals to create one-of-a-kind, heavy rock ‘n’ roll. 2019/20 saw The Crookeds release two massive singles ‘Sucker for Pain’ and ‘Never Get It’. During this time, the band also embarked on two massive national tours, allowing them to refine and perfect their infectiously energetic live show in venues across the East Coast. Rearing to go following the Melbourne lockdowns, the boys have come back strong with a massive new track ‘Dead Eye’ - a hard and fast take on society’s shift from intuition. Dirty riffs and powerful grooves combine effortlessly as the band takes you on an epic sonic journey. With a recent run of sold-out hometown shows, and an EP on the way, these guys are proving they are a rock ‘n’ roll force to be ...

Members
Sonny James // Oscar Linkson // Matt McLean // Brad Biviano