Bleak Squad

Bleak Squad is a new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty. Featuring Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque) Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting), the unlikely quartet unite for the first time on Bleak Squad's brooding, noir-rock debut LP, Strange Love, since shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize. Borne from spur of the moment jam sessions, Strange Love sees all four members juggle multiple instruments, songwriting, their own idiosyncrasies, and lead vocal duties between Adalita and Harvey. The result is a confident nine-song set of love, loss and lonesome-ness, set to fizzing guitars, slippery bass lines, and the signature illogical squawk of Turner's guitar. With Strange Love, Bleak Squad announce the boldest of entries into the Australian music landscape.

"...they should not be missed live: four Australian music greats with charisma to burn, uncanny chemistry, and a quality set of songs tailor-made for those long, dark nights of the soul."

Andrew Stafford, The Guardian

Jess Ribeiro is a shape-shifting musical enigma. The near-untouchable quality of her recorded output is astonishingly consistent and the wait for new music is always worthwhile.

Ribeiro's 2012 debut album My Little River was an award-winning folk-country masterpiece while her second album (2015's Kill It Yourself produced by Mick Harvey) was a slow-burning indie-noire masterpiece which left reviewers scrambling for superlatives.

On her newest album "Summer Of Love" (released April 12th through Labelman), Ribeiro traverses isolation, loss, tiny snatches of love, expectation versus reality, once-in-a-century pandemics and healing.

Written and recorded in a little beach shack outside Melbourne , Australia,with producer Nick Huggins the album features artists including Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White), Dave Mudie (Courtney Barnett) and Leah Senior, as well as a host of other acclaimed Australian artists.

Jess has toured with Angel Olsen, Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnett and Aldous Harding. She has performed as a backup singer for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away Tour and contributed to records with artists such as Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnetts record Lotta Sea Lice.

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Age restriction: 14+ / U16s accompanied by an adult