macrocarpa is a new band/group project spearheaded by songwriter Sam Bambery (he/they). Bambery is originally from Lyttelton, NZ but is now based in Naarm/Melbourne (since June 2024). macrocarpa is an alternative music group featuring the creative input and performance of musicians from both sides of the Tasman Sea. After recording and performing his previous solo album Rubricator, Bambery based himself in Melbourne with a Tascam 4-track in an apartment overlooking the busy heart of Fitzroy. 

The songs produced from this period of writing capture an awakened awareness of mortality and position in one's own life, wrapped in guitar arrangements that echo Bambery's fondness for contemporary flavour and flown-by convention.  Country shuffles playing out into post-rock disassociation, lyrical metaphor centring the garden bed as mirth-maker and funeral mask. The name macrocarpa (in lowercase) is pulled from the cypress trees lining Bambery's sap-stained childhood memory whilst also drawing reference to the native mottlecah eucalypt, a physical tie to Bambery's new home in Australia. 

macrocarpa is a quintet of friends old and new; featuring two guitars, cello, bass guitar and drums. The band formed at the start of 2026 and has been playing shows to a steadily growing audience across Melbourne. The current band consists of Sam Bambery (guitar/vocals, he/they), Amy Archer (cello, she/her), Maisie Niven (bass, she/her), Samuel White (drums, he/him) and Hugh O'Meara (guitar, he/him).

**Join Macrocarpa and The Eyelashes on Saturday afternoon, October 3.**

*3PM DOORS*

*PRESALE $10 + BF*

*DOOR $15*

Macrocarpa (NZ/AU) and The Eyelashes

Emily Barker is an award-winning Australian singer-songwriter. She had early success as the writer and performer of the theme to the hugely successful BBC/PBS Masterpiece crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh,and has since gone on to forge an acclaimed catalogue of releases.

Barker has announced her new album, Fragile as Humans, produced at storied English studio The Wool Hall by Luke Potashnick (Gabrielle Aplin, Jack Savoretti, Alberta Cross). It's her first album for nearly four years, following A Dark Murmuration of Words, which Uncut called “…a kind of Australian equivalent of PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake” 

Barker has released music and toured as a solo artist as well as with various bands and collaborations, most notably her long association with Frank Turner, and has written for TV and film, including composing the soundtrack for Jake Gavin’s lauded debut feature Hector starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen.

“One of the most literate and probing folk albums of the year. I really love it.” Ann Powers, NPR Music

“an album of spare, striking beauty” Mojo ★★★★

“…a kind of Australian equivalent of PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake” UNCUT 8/10

“bold, direct, uncompromising” CLASH

“a high-class piece of songwriting and beautifully expressed musicianship” Americana UK 9/10

“irresistibly catchy…an album replete with nooks and crannies, light and shade” The Australian ★★★★★

“an album full of grace and danger” RnR ★★★★★

3:30PM - Doors

4:00PM - Support

5:00PM - Emily Barker

$25 + bf presales / $30 on the door

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