Love Police today announces Victorian headlining shows for all artists, who are also appearing at Love Police’s much-loved Out On The Weekend Festival in Melbourne on Saturday October 14 at Seaworks in Williamstown.
Austin Texas Asleep At The Wheel, the brainchild of frontman Ray Benson and steel guitar great Lucky Oceans, the man who Australian audiences know and love through his long time show on ABC Radio National and his work with an array of artists, including on the recent Songs For Freedom project from Indigenous singers and songwriters from the Pilbara community of Roebourne. Lucky has called Australia home for decades now but will be returning to his seat in the Wheel for the band’s first ever Australian tour. Loved by the ’70s hippy country-rock community and country traditionalists alike, Ray, Lucky and the band will be joined by current honky-tonkers Brennen Leigh and long-time Love Police pal Joshua Hedley in a show billed The Past, The Present and The Future.:
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
Fri Oct 13 – Thornbury Theatre, Melbourne, VIC with Summer Dean
Sun Oct 15 – The Factory Theatre, Sydney, NSW with Summer Dean
Wed Oct 18 – The Gov, Adelaide, SA
Thu Oct 19 – Freo Social, Perth, WA with Sassafras
Also playing Groundwater Music Festival
Folksinger, storyteller and troubadour Willie Watson, co-founder of the ground breaking Old Crow Medicine Show is coming back for his first Australian shows in six years:
WILLIE WATSON
Sun Oct 15 – The Zoo, Brisbane, QLD with Nat Myers
Tues Oct 17 – A&I Hall, Bangalow, NSW with Nat Myers
Thu Oct 19 – Memo Music Hall, Melbourne, VIC with Melissa Carper
Fri Oct 20 – Thornbury Theatre, Melbourne, VIC with Melissa Carper
Sat Oct 21 – Meeniyan Town Hall, VIC with Melissa Carper
Sun Oct 22 – The Factory Theatre, Sydney, NSW with Nat Myers
Melissa Carper, like her good friend and occasional partner-in-music Sierra Ferrell, has a voice that sounds like it’s coming out of an old gramophone funnel and through a time warp from the early 20th century, will embark on her first Australian tour:
MELISSA CARPER
Mon Oct 16 – Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne, VIC with Summer Dean
Wed Oct 18 – The Great Club, Sydney, NSW with Summer Dean, plus Matt Joe Gow & Kerryn Fields
Thu Oct 19 – Memo Music Hall, Melbourne, VIC supporting Willie Watson
Sat Oct 21 – Meeniyan Town Hall, VIC supporting Willie Watson
Also playing Groundwater Music Festival
Finally Jenny Don’t & The Spurs will play their raucous honky-tonk sounds, joining Athens Georgia cosmic country rockers The Pink Stones for a co-headlining run of show:
JENNY DON’T & THE SPURS with THE PINK STONES and THE BURES BAND
Thu Oct 12 – Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne, VIC
Fri Oct 13 – The Barwon Club – Geelong, VIC
Sun Oct 15 – The Star Hotel, Yackandandah, VIC