Mountain Goat Live & Untamed Unplugged

Mountain Goat proudly presents Live & Untamed Unplugged at Welcome to Thornbury. Sunday March 19^th. Expect cold beers and vibey, lo-fi sets from a killer line-up of Aussie artists including Adalita, Davey Lane, Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe), Scott Darlow, Reece Mastin and Zoe Fox. Tickets $10 (under 18's free)

The line up…

Rock icon Adalita is poised to take us all through an intimate musical journey filled with introspection and raw artistic emotion.

Adalita’s self-titled debut album launched her solo career in 2011, to rave reviews and packed houses on her subsequent national tour and support slots for Blondie and The Pretenders, a special performance for The Dalai Lama, and accolades including Best Independent Album at the Australian Independent Record (AIR) Awards.

In 2013 her follow up album All Day Venus elevated secured a 2014 ARIA Award nomination for Best Female Artist as well as The Age/Music Victoria award for Best Female and a performance highlight at the most remote festival in the world, the Big Red Bash. Adalita has also rekindled her creative journey with Magic Dirt, who reformed in 2018 to the delight of their loyal fanbase, having garnered nine ARIA Award nominations and secured four Top 40 releases on the ARIA Albums Chart the first time around.

Davey Lane, in his own words, was a nerdy kid, prone to obsessions.

As a member of You Am I he has been part of some of the greatest Australian rock albums of the past 20 years. Outside the band, his skills as a guitarist led to the kind of experiences that nerdy kids might have dreamed about, touring with Crowded House and Jimmy Barnes, playing shows with pop-rock giant Todd Rundgren. Lane added his distinctive guitar tones to albums from artists such as Charles Jenkins and the Zhivagos, Chris Bailey & The Saints, and the final two albums from Australian rock legend Jim Keays of The Master’s Apprentices.

Some songwriters arrive almost fully formed and make their great record when they are 20. Lane took the long way around, but all that experience has been brought into focus on his third solo album, Don’tBank Your Heart On It.  It truly signals his arrival as a songwriter and singer to match his musical skills.

He has done it with an album that features some of his great musical allies, from Rogers, Barnes and Rundgren to English songwriter Robyn Hitchcock, psych maven Stu Mackenzie of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Tommy Stinson of The Replacements.

Kav Temperley has played a major role in the success of Australian three-piece, multi-platinum band Eskimo Joe.  Kavs best known as frontman, bassist and award winning songwriter contributing to bringing home 3 International Song-writing Awards, 11 WAMi Awards and 8 ARIAs and 11 of their compositions have featured in Triple J’s Hottest 100 countdown, with ‘Black Fingernails, Red Wine’ landing 2nd place. 

Three of the bands’ albums debuted at no.1 on the ARIA charts, with their biggest hit “Black Fingernails, Red Wine” starring in Australia’s Top 50 for 62 weeks, and most recently releasing their first single in 7 years “Say Something”.

In 2009 Kav joined forces with Josh Pyke, Kevin Mitchell (Jebediah and aka Bob Evans) and Steve Parkin (Autopilot), all singer-songwriters at the top of their game to form the supergroup Basement Birds. The group released a self-titled studio album in July 2010, which peaked at number 12 on the ARIA charts.

Kav is an experienced songwriter but is at his best when performing live.  His experience is varied performing to huge crowds at large events such as Sound Relief, Live Earth, Make Poverty History, ARIA Awards, Big Day Out, Homebake, Splendour In The Grass to name a few, and tired internationally in the US, Canada, Europe and Korea.  

Playing more recently to a packed Optus Stadium in Perth with the pre-game entertainment before the NRL State Of Origin, plus a very special show at Freo. Social where the band got to play the album Black Fingernails, Red Wine in it’s entirety. 

Kav was asked to join the legendary Jimmy Barnes on stage during a national support tour with Jimmy and sing a rendition of  and finished the year off with a sold out reunion show with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Kings Park at the end of 2019

Since entering the Australian music scene in 2003, Yorta Yorta descendent Scott Darlow has been a mainstay of Australia’s Indigenous and independent music industry. The versatile singer-songwriter, guitarist, and didgeridoo player has sold more than 50,000 albums worldwide and has extensively toured Australia, Asia, and the USA.

Darlow has released four albums to-date; two with his first band “The Darlow Show,” and most recent as a solo artist. His landmark album, Sorry, released November 2016 to critical acclaim with Rolling Stone describing the album as, “…front-foot rock, oozing in confidence and honesty…with originals that cross the spectrum from country to heartland rock, to more traditional pop, all unified by Darlow’s passionate, anthemic approach.” His first single from the album is a cover of Goanna’s 1982 hit, “Solid Rock,” and features Goanna frontman and writer Shane Howard. The song reached #6 on the Australian iTunes charts and became most played rock song on Australian radio in February 2016 with heavy rotation on Rock radio network, Triple M. The second single on the record, Down Like Flies was in June 2016 added to radio stations all over the UK and South Africa. In January 2017, the album’s title track, Sorry, was added across the board nationally on rock radio network Triple M.

Since capturing the nation’s heart and topping the charts as 16-year-old X Factor winner in 2011, Reece Mastin has reinvented his career from teenage pop idol to rock ‘n’ roll young gun, counting Aussie legends like Jimmy Barnes, Diesel and The Living End’s Chris Cheney amongst his supporters.

With two platinum #1 albums, three consecutive chart-topping singles and a successful pop career under his belt, Reece has spent the past 5 years proudly earning his place on the Australian rock circuit, proving time and again that raw talent and rock ‘n’ roll are at his core.

With hits such as ‘Shout it Out’, ‘Rockstar’, ‘Good Night’ and ‘Shut up and Kiss Me’.

Debuting his first independent album at #1 on the iTunes rock charts in 2018, the distinctive voice that made Reece Mastin a household name, combined with his cool, native British rock sensibilities and true-blue Aussie rock chops, sees the band regularly featured on rock festival line-ups around the country.

Zoë Fox is a multi-instrumental and multi-genre songwriter from Melbourne, who writes and performs quirky ‘60s inspired folk-pop songs and is the sole songwriter and frontwoman of disco-infused space-pop project, Zoë Fox and the Rocket Clocks.

Zoë Fox and the Rocket Clocks’ 2020 debut album Clockwerks received national praise for its multidimensional meanderings through psychedelic and disco pop, with psychedelic collages of whimsy, creative playfulness, and intergalactic ventures aplenty.

No stranger to the main stage, Fox has performed at a string of Australian festivals, including Falls Music and Arts Festival, NYE on the Hill, The Hills are Alive, Loch Hart Festival, Happy Wanderer Festival, Grampians Music Festival, Moomba and more.

She has also played alongside The Teskey Brothers, has sung with Didirri, Darren Hanlon and The Babe Rainbow, and has toured Europe supporting Pauline Croze and Le Maison Tellier.

Tickets are $10 and include a pint of Mountain Goat’s newly released Headliner Pale Ale or a can of Mountain Goat Pink Gin & Soda on arrival.  (1 redeemable token per person Whilst stocks last, Ticket promotion not available to patrons under the age of 18 years)

Music will be live from 3pm - 9pm. Arrive early and stay late for the ultimate Sunday session featuring ice cold Mountain Goat beers and a cross-genre line-up of all-Aussie talent.