Out today! Here Comes the Afternoon by @monnonealone – link in bio to seize your copy 🤝
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Just some precious tour mems from last weekend. So many highlights (many of which I forgot to photograph) and we must thank @vanishing.sound@cameronemersonelliott@tobymartinmusic and @victoria_theband for joining us for these special shows! Hope it’s not too long before our next visit.
Fun little roadtrip coming up in a few weeks 🚐💨 We’ll be hooking up with some great bands along the way and hoping to amass a Deadheadesque convoy for some chill tailgate pre-parties, come along! 🍺👽 tix in bio.
Melbourne indie lifers Monnone Alone return to Canberra on Friday, March 27 for a late-show at Smith’s with Vanishing Sound and Cameron Emerson-Elliott.
Monnone Alone is a confoundingly misnomered four-piece powerpop powerhouse comprising members of Melbourne icons Mid-State Orange, The Smallgoods and Ciggie Witch all cunningly pieced together by former-Lucksmiths bass fella Mark Monnone. On their fourth long-player Here Comes the Afternoon, the band tweak their Madchester potentiometer and fade some gentle psychedelia into the mix on songs about fish ponds, teenage hairstyles and calcified brain lesions. Unapologetically janky ’n’ jangly—far-out yet familiar—a night out with this fine foursome will leave you questioning how you ever ended up in this predicament, while at the same time asking “when can we do it again?”
Vanishing Sound collects various Canberran stalwarts from bands such as Earache, Dog Name and New Age Group in an expansive guitar-pop unit which spans the gamut of Nick Drake-inspired folk tunings to Sonic Youth-esque guitar squall. As ever, the band continue on their winding path into the fringes of folk and noise rock and back again, via an underlying, unshakable pop sensibility.
Opening the night will be Cameron Emerson-Elliott from such fine bands as Victoria and Youth Group. $20/15, /events/monnone-alone-95757
Sunday, Feb 8 @julierestaurant we’re downing our silly loud instruments and leaping nude into ‘26 armed with only acoustic guitars, bongos and some other soothing trinkets conducive to a Sunday evening’s listening pleasure. We’ll be playing a bunch of weird old songs that we never play plus some current day family favourites, so bring yr dang family and we’ll supply the goods! Julie is a fabulous restaurant with killer cocktails, housed in the lush surrounds of the Abbotsford Convent 🍃 See you there! Ticket link in bio.
ANNOUNCING!!
Coming up next in the “Coffeehouse” at Julie Restaurant music series!!
@monnonealone Feb 8th
@qiqimusic_ Feb 15th (Valentines Day Special)
Tickets via Julie Website
We are very exited for both of these acts!!!
This music series has been incredibly well received so far, with both shows full house.
The performances are intimate and amazingly different to a typical music venue.
We’ve slowly built a menu of pastas, coffee, dessert and more, which is available on the night prior to and after each show. Reviews are “delicious!”
Tickets for these shows will sell quickly too, so buy asap!!
If you were awake this past Friday night / Saturday morning and watching RAGE at approx 2:54am AEDT, right after Courtney Barnett’s new video you will have come across our video for ‘St Mary’s Pass’. You were probably like, “WOW!” and “how the Murray Farquhar did they make that??” So to quench your insatiable thirst for gritty behind-the-scenes warts-n-all content, here’s a little exposé on what went down on the set and the nuts and bolts of how negative-budget cinema magic is created. Of particular note is the way @lehmannbsmith wove his voodoo hocus pocus in such a way as to make Coburg and Preston look just like the Tasmanian east coast. For the green screen shoot, @isobelknowles brought her little amiga Luna the Japanese Spitz along for moral support – some astute viewers may recognise Luna from her cameo in Isobel’s epic video she made for our song ‘Loose Terrain’. Have a flick through these pics as many more such secrets are revealed ✨ and please click the link in our bio to watch the video on YouTube! Thanks again to Lehmann and Iso and all my other wonderful bandmates for flexing their chops in the video: (in order of appearance) Darren Hanlon, Stanley Paulzen, Gus Franklin, Louis Richter and Joseph Foley. 🚙💕
A new Monnone Alone video has landed!! It’s for the song St Mary’s Pass and is a 6-month birthday present for our album Here Comes the Afternoon! 🎂 And joy of joys, this one is a road movie in snack-size form, based on a real-life white-knuckle drive to the Tasmanian east coast (spoiler: we didn’t actually film in Tassie – apologies, Taswegians!). And happy to say this video is another no-budget masterpiece by the maestro @lehmannbsmith with a sprinkling of sagely advice and tech wizardry from @isobelknowles Featuring cameos from all the good folk who played on the recording @theblueguitar@the_frankston_fancy@sheahan_drive@cheesedreams + Lehmann and Isobel and Louis too! Thanks to @ravensingstheblues for the premiere – link in bio! Thanks for coming along for the ride ⛰️❤️
