Marrickville Bowling Club

Album launch for 'Silver Bullets'

Album launch for 'Fifth From The Sun'

Single launch for 'Self Help Tape'. Please note that Final Girls have been replaced on the lineup by No Cake (not reflected on ticket link)

Combined EP and single launch!

Ten bands for ten bucks!

EP launch for 'Forever Light' from this wonderful hyperpop duo!

Sold Out

EP launch for 'Is It Real'

"All profits are being donated to Cystic Fibrosis Community Care, an organisation that supports those living with CF." Curated by Egoism - their drummer Adam lives with the condition and has received support from this organisation. "This is our chance to say thanks and give something back."

This all-day celebration of a radio station that has profoundly impacted the lives of many, many people over its 20 year history is putting on this celebratory / fundraising lineup that spans the Bowlo, the Red Rattler, and an outdoor stage on Faversham St

"20 bucks! Family-friendly. Kids under 12 free. All proceeds to the Gender Centre."

EP launch for 'Fibonacci Sequins'

Album launch

Our PD! After a good year of jetting around the globe and getting all manner of international acclaim, they're back on home turf. Should be a cracker!

EP launch for 'Baby's Teeth'. This is the Beef in their luxuriously large band configuration - full of friends from various acts including the likes of Joseph Liddy & the Skeleton Horse, The Buoys, Skeleten, Megafauna, Babitha and more - yeah, it's a bit of an experience, and one that only gets trotted out ever so often. Worth a look.

Single launch for 'Cat Business'

Launching album #2 'Expired Candy'

EP launch for 'It's Time'

Farewell tour. Collarbones are bowing out after well over a decade of unique and wonderful music, and many many iconic shows. They're returning to the Marrickville Bowlo after originally playing in 2011 for the launch of their debut album "Iconography" (and blowing the venue's speakers in the process). A huge innings, and glad we get to see them do one more lap before calling it a day. You'll probably want to get on this so you can say you got to see a really important part of Sydney's musical history in the flesh... and so you can hear just how hard "Hypothermia" crushes live. As if that wasn’t enough, you’ve also got supports from Bayang x Bract, who released (and I don’t say this lightly) the best album to come out of Sydney this year so far IMO - an incredible pairing - and California Girls, the solo project of Gus McGrath, who also plays drums in Perfect Actress with Marcus from Collarbones.

Great cause with an excellent line-up

Presented by Grindhead Records

Absolute trailblazers, NFA are one of Australia's first Indigenous rock groups, with an incredible legacy - from incessant local touring, to playing with The Clash, Peter Tosh and Cold Chisel, to international tours and film & TV. That history is retold beautifully in Donald Robertson's new book, which comes recommended, but it's not just past glories - their music remains urgent and vital today. A rare, and daresay unmissable show.

Single launch for 'birchgrove'

Debut album launch for these excellent local garage punk legends, with a top lineup to boot!

Fundraiser for radio station 2MBS Fine Music Sydney, hosted by the station's Contemporary Music Collective (CMC)

‘Blood Of My Blood’ Single Launch

This INCREDIBLE two-day festival (it continues the following day) is impeccably curated, featuring an amazingly strong roster of emerging local as well as interstate acts. As the name would suggest, this is the eighth iteration of the festival, it's incredibly exciting to see such a strong showing this year. UPDATE: this entry has now been broken up into the two days now that the festival running times have been announced. The Saturday event is being held at the Portugal Madeira Club.

"Hi! I'm Hollywood Steve. You've caught me relaxing in my music nook ..." If you're of a certain age, those the were the words that transported you into a world that you otherwise might not have had a compass to navigate: a sudden cultural phenomenon from the 70s retroactively dubbed "Yacht Rock". Suddenly, you contextualised and/or discovered a world of The Doobie Brothers, Hall & Oates, Michael MacDonald (as separate from The Doobie Brothers), STEELY DAN, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross – and Warren Fucking G. Suddenly, you had access to an entire musical slice of Americana filtered through a lens of glossy studio production and probably a fuckload of cocaine, I guess. The excesses of the American dream laid rich in luxurious music for vibing to, for 70s people. And you know what? I reckon the guitar solo on "Peg" by Steely Dan might be one of my favourite things in the world ever. I also think "I Keep Forgetting" by Michael MacDonald is an incredible work of art, and not only because it created "Regulate". Hall & Oates fricken crush. And actually I think the riff for "Saiing" by Christopher Cross rules, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. And all the things that are completely obvious and non-controversial, but regardless I am saying them out loud. ANYWAY. If none of what I've said makes sense, please search YouTube for "Yacht Rock". Thank me later. This is a cover show. Sometimes we cover them.

Absolutely stacked lineup. Fig are a sublime "slow glam" act on record - go check them out on the playlist. Should be a ripper.

Final ever show

"Grindhead Records presents another night of Sludge, Grind and black metal all in one package"

Antenna is not to be confused with the Scientists/Hoodoos/Southend supergroup formed in the late 90s. It is, in fact, a new punk group fronted by Shogun (yes, another one!), he of Royal Headache/Shogun & The Sheets/Finnoguns Wake/many more fame.

A comeback show (second time they've played in the last 12 months) of a Sydney band from 1977. I don't know anything more than that... but if Aussie rock history is your thing, this might be a good look-in while you nurse your hangover into submission.

This'll be a wild one. A collision of the Inner West's deeply overlapping country and punk universes, and a bunch of other stuff between. Golledge and his crew famously and frequently end up in the buff more often than they don't, Harnett is a talented tunewriter with a cracking band (check out Robbie on the kit, who also plays for Joe Liddy & The Skeleton Horse amongst tons of other groups), Swine features Nick Ryan from Golledge's band in a four-piece unit that will blast your face off. Jet City Sports Club play sweet jangle pop with hooks for days. This is a solid lineup is what I'm saying. A real nice time. And yet it's sold out. But don't let that stop you from keeping an eye out for these acts next time they're playing!

We love 50 Million Beers. Rock 'n' roll and country - some great originals with a bunch of standards chucked into the set. A really solid Sunday afternoon vibe.

Ron is the lead singer and "principal co-composer" in Australian rock music legends from the 80s and 90s Died Pretty! Fabels are rad. MD Horne I've seen on a lot of Midnight Special and CCXO lineups, and those sorts of people have good taste. Might be worth a look.

"(FREE!)"

"(FREE!)"

Free show, as far as I can tell

Alright, Marrickville Bowling Club's bookings just ramped the fuck up! Normally there's about 8 gigs listed on their website at any given moment, now there's 16. Great space, seen some awesome shows here, always unassuming but reliable. The Bowlo continues its operations at the opposite end of the room almost as though it were oblivious to the incredible music that's come off that stage. In short: Bowlo shows are good. And not to get too political about it, but ... Bowlos are better without pokies.

Free show!

Free show. Someone fill us in on what this is?

Free show!

Downgirl rule!!

Free?? I think??

Free show!

OK I'm going to go out on a limb and put down everything on the Marrickville Bowlo's gigs page (linked under "Visit Website" above)... I'm guessing if there isn't a link it's a free show? We'll figure out how to get the most helpful information from the Bowlo bookings as soon as possible!

Former original frontman of Buffalo playing the band's tracks with a relatively fresh band

Whoa whoa whoa this is COOL. I'm going to break my "no PR copy" rule because this tells you everything you need to know: "Eighties indie label Vi-Nil Records released the likes of Hard-Ons, Lipstick Killers, Psychotic Turnbuckles, Labradogs, Conspirators, The Klerks and more. Their new compilation album INDIE SOUNDS FROM THE HARBOUR CITY (1983-1987) showcases the cross section of bands on the label"

Let Josh sing you dark and mysterious songs about his dark and mysterious feelings. Features a revolving lineup of tops Sydney musicians that can be anywhere from 2 to 9 members. For fans of Nick Cave and 2nd hand book smells.

long awaited EP launch!

Nice little two-hitter of psych-rock. Saw PEEL a couple of months ago supporting The Laurels - they're a fricken great little shoegaze/psych band with lots of drone-y and synth elements. Buried Feather tread more in the classic 70s breed of stoner psych. Reckon this'll be a top vibe in Bowlo mode.

Can someone help us out with info on who is playing this show ... ?

Sydney garage punk band formed in 1984. This is the bit where I need Wikipedia's help. Are you ready? "Comprising former professional wrestlers who re-located to Australia around 1982 from their hometown of Pismo Beach in California, after being banned from the Pismo Beach Wrestling Alliance by promoter Sammy Duke" And there we have it.

An X show is relatively rare, and their 1979 debut record X-aspirations is a stone cold 70s punk classic. Support act DollSquad is a Malbourne all-girl garage group from the 1960s.

Free early show (4:30pm)

Did not know that Penny Ikinger was "a former member of Sydney '60s punk fanatics the Wet Taxis". Her most recent album, “Tokyo”, is a collaboration with Radio Birdman's Deniz Tek.

That's Jim White of Dirty Three fame