LAST FRIDAYS: Access All Areas
Ticketed event, bookings required
Enjoy an unmissable sit-down session with legendary Grinspoon frontman Phil Jamieson and gain afterhours access to the exhibition WE CAN BE HEROES: a backstage pass.
Join our host Phil Jamieson as he talks with curatorial advisor and exhibiting artist Luke Kellett on all things music and art. Followed by a live acoustic show from local garage rock legends and exhibition subjects Flight to Dubai, and bluesy melodies by the support act Midday Lover, as well as candid conversation around music, life on the road, and the hard slog to the top.
Snap up some goodies from pop-up stalls and discover an array of local music merch for sale, including wares from Abicus Records and Newcastle Music Collective.
Due to the limited capacity and COVID safe practices at the Gallery, LAST FRIDAYS: Access All Areas will be a ticketed and seated event. Tickets will be $10 per person and will entitle the holder to a complimentary beverage at the bar.
This is an 18+ ages event.
Tickets are SOLD OUT!!
About the host:
Phil Jamieson is best known as the front man of iconic Australian band Grinspoon. The first band ever Unearthed by the ABC Youth Radio Network triple j (1995). Grinspoon have been together for over twenty five years, yet its phenomenal Chemical Hearts 2019 Concert Tour performed to 24,000 fans in sold out multiple capital city venues. This was a milestone career best for Phil with a next level personal performance.
Grinspoon have been one of the most successful bands in Australia’s music history. They have received 13 ARIA nominations and in 2005 won an ARIA “Best Rock Album” for ‘Thrills Kills + Sunday Pills’. They have been nominated for APRA & ARIA Song of the Year. The band played live at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the closing ceremony of the Melbourne 2006 XVIII Commonwealth Games. Grinspoon’s Albums “Guide to Better Living”, “Easy”, "New Detention, & "Thrills Kills & Sunday Pills" all went platinum in Australia.
About the artists:
Luke Kellett began his photographic career in 2004 with UK record labels, Atlantic and Sony producing album art and artists press shots. During this period he assisted London fashion photographer George Ktistakis and was an apprentice at London darkroom Rapid Eye. Arriving in Australia in 2008 he undertook his first major photographic essay “This City Speaks To Me” about Melbourne’s underground artists, performers and musicians using a large format camera and any of the last remaining Polaroid Type 55 film he could find. In 2011 The State Library of Victoria recognized the project as an important record acquiring the complete body of works.
Flight To Dubai, are a Sydney garage-rock outfit reinvigorating the sounds of early 70s rock and roll. With trademark baritone vocals, scathing guitar and frenetic rhythm section, renowned for their energetic and heart-on-sleeve demeanour the 4-piece share resembling qualities of proto-punk and doo-wop inspired melodies. Their latest success of ‘Strife’ (EP) released via their own independent label Hail Damage Records and recorded by Simon Berckelman (Philadelphia Grand Jury) received strong backing from sold out shows, community radio rotation, national TV broadcast on Rage (ABC), publication coverage and debuted 2nd & 3rd on AIR’s indie charts.
Flight To Dubai are noted for their passionate and frantic live performance which was quickly affirmed by countless headline shows around the country and have landed the band to support Australian acts such as The Chats, Lime Cordiale, Pist Idiots, Gooch Palms, The Pinheads, A. Swayze and the Ghosts and Crocodylus.
Midday Lover, strap yourself in and prepare to be entertained by this fresh faced local 4 piece. Creating a window into a world steeped in sunshine, heartbreak and nostalgia. Supported by a rock steady band, the bluesy melodies will leave you with a warm feeling in your belly and an achey breaky heart in your chest.
