** FREE ENTRY // FRONT BAR // 11PM-2AM **

Soa Gabi is a vinyl cumbia collector and selector spinning Old-school classics and hidden gems from across Latin America.

Expect authentic grooves, timeless rhythms, and dancefloor energy.

**FREE ENTRY** DJ SOA GABI (Front Bar)

That’s all, folks. Meraki are hanging up our rollerskates, solid-state amplifiers and tambourines (pretty sure Peggy lost it at some gig years ago…), ah and who can beat the algorithm these days? Our time as a band has come to an end.

To celebrate the life and love of Meraki, we are doing a goodbye show with some guests on August 8th at bar open and we’d love to see you there. We’re releasing the first and last of our recordings, we’ve made indie-style, with whatever’s been in our houses: second-hand microphones/ blankets and socks as sound absorbers etc.

Thanks for listening all these years; we've had fun refining our craft and learning from others. Remember us as we were: homemade, whimsy and eclectic. And don’t forget, the future of music made by humans lies with YOU, dear listener. Make sure to keep listening LIVE and keep listening LOCAL.

Meraki Minds (Goodbye Show) w/ Deporsal

** FREE ENTRY // FRONT BAR // 6:30-8:30PM **

GuriNgai sisters Charlie and Miri from Live Looping act Charlie Needs Braces have drawn in audiences across Australia, their energetic musical landscapes weaving together stories and language. In 2022 they came first place in the Upstart Awards, and won the Archie Roach Award for Emerging Talent in 2023 through Music Victoria Awards.

The two piece have performed across Australia at several festivals including the Share the Spirit Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, Burramatta Festival, St Kilda Festival, Queenscliffe Music Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, the National Folk Festival, Planting Festival, Wandiligong Nut Festival, The Town Folk Festival, Clarence Jazz Festival, supported The Teskey Brothers on their national tour with A Day on the Green 2025, and showcased at Folk Alliance International January 2026 New Orleans USA.

**FREE ENTRY** Charlie Needs Braces (Front Bar)

Big Black Maria - August 9th at Bar Open Big Black Maria will be bringing their walls of sound to Bar Open alongside Purrers and The Morning Birds.

Big Black Maria are a new, experimental rock band, utilising dynamics and destruction to curate a sound of their own. Drawing from post-rock, noise rock and post-punk, with an emphasis on rhythm, contrast and texture. Purrers are an ethereal shoegaze band from Melbourne.

Their reverb drenched sound is dreamy, beautiful and haunting. The Morning Birds are a noise rock band from Melbourne. Their sound is pulsing and noisy, with driving basslines and piercing guitar.

Big Black Maria w/ Town Ace + The Morning Birds

** FREE ENTRY // FRONT BAR // 6:30-8:30PM **

Monkey Stick are six primates on an instrumental jazz-funk mission to smack you in the soul with a fusion of jazz grooves, funk and afrobeat to help you dance, sway, and pray your blues away.

**FREE ENTRY** Monkey Stick (Front Bar)

The Make It Up Club

Avant-Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance

Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

Doors at 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start.

TICKETS: $15 / $10 (conc.). No Presales.

Make It Up Club

CASSClub is the passion project of Melbourne based vocalist Cassie Barker-McLaren, combing singer-songwriter originals with sultry bass lines to create an eclectic and raw sound. A 7 piece band featuring some of Melbourne's best up and coming jazz musicians, the group's tunes evoke a smorgasbord of fusion, neo-soul, jazz and indie rock in their storytelling.

HAPPY HOUR AT BAR OPEN

$5 POTS AND $10 PINTS OF COOPERS DRAUGHT

6:30-8:30PM

CASSClub w/ Nepenthes + Mary and the Little Lambs

On-Ly presents The Boil Over in collaboration with Bar Open.

Following a capacity launch of BURN, On-Ly returns for a special two-set feature, with an opening set by Playstar 5.

An evening spanning contemporary fusion, deep funk, Latin groove, psychedelic jazz and soul.

A double bill not to be missed.

On-Ly w/ Playstar 5

** FREE ENTRY // FRONT BAR // 6:30-8:30PM **

Ben Carr harness' the energy of the Sun (Ra) to create a warm round sound searching for possibilities. Informed by contemporary jazz, and the pioneers of the late 80’s M-Base movement, the compositions resonate the sonic abstract imagery of bonfires during the Solstice, undulating mountain trails, still silent water, and improvisations that encompass our solar system.

**FREE ENTRY** Ben Carr Quartet (Front Bar)

A killer lineup with sets from Plastic Trees, The Bluebirds and Moss Dealer showcasing a range of sounds from funk to punk. These three Melbourne-based bands are sure to provide a night of quality entertainment, good vibes and even better music.

Plastic Trees w/ The Bluebirds + Moss Dealer

** FRONT BAR // FREE ENTRY // 6:30-8:30PM **

The Four Scoops are a combination of four unique working musicians from differing musical heritages bound by a love of back-beat groove.

The groups musical heritage harks back to a time of melting musical styles as Jazz met early Rock n Roll. Their repertoire is wide and varied from Blues shouters Winonie Harris to Jazz back beat legend Louis Jordan to Fifties crooners to Bolero versions of Cold Chisel and Dragon hits. The Four Scoops love of variety in tunes and grooves has its basis in the diversity of the members.

**FREE ENTRY** The Four Scoops (Front Bar)

** FREE ENTRY // FRONT BAR // 11PM-2AM **

'HIKS' is a jazz fusion funk house DJ based in Naarm melbourne.

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