Melbourne’s Phil Coyne & The Wayward Aces launch their new album, White Knuckle Time, with a full-throttle night of blues at Shotkickers.

It’ll be a blues extravaganza, kicking off with TK Reeve and Benny Gerrard’s hypnotic hill country rhythms, swinging next to the Hammond soul and deep instrumental grooves of the Liam Kealy Trio, before the Wayward Aces bring the new record to life in full four-piece flight.

Recorded with Paulie Bignell at Hailstone Studio, White Knuckle Time captures the band’s move from three-piece punch to four-piece firepower: high-voltage, harp-driven Australian blues, with original songs, hard-swinging rhythms, razor-edged guitar and a rhythm section built to get rooms moving.

It is the band’s biggest hometown show of the year and the first chance to hear the new record brought fully to life onstage.

Set times

8pm — Doors

8:30pm — TK Reeve and Benny Gerrard

9:30pm — Liam Kealy Trio

10:30pm — Phil Coyne & The Wayward Aces

Three acts. One room. A new record sent properly out into the world.

Phil Coyne & The Wayward Aces — 'White Knuckle Time' Album Launch