Stories about growing up in Frankston in the 90's & 2000's playing in bands and causing  mischief. Featuring Joel Charter + more. Some of the topics will be quite heavy some will be hilarious 

Trigger Warning: This event will cover topics including drug use, violence and death.

Doors 8PM.

Strictly no recording devices allowed.

FRANKSTON STU'S TRUE FRANKSTON STORIES

Doors 8pm

Bands from 830

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RIVIERA & GARDEN ST

DJ Centipede & The Earthworms need your help getting to Japan!

With support from good mates RAT-TAXI, The Styes, and Violet Tendencies.

Doors 8pm

Bands from 840.

DJ CENTIPEDE JAPANESE FUNDRAISER! w/ VIOLET TENDENCIES, RAT-TAXI, THE STYES

Don’t miss an unforgettable evening with one of Australia’s most acclaimed country music artists, **Andrew Swift**, on his Brick by Brick tour.

A **three-time Golden Guitar Award winner**, including **2023 Male Artist of the Year**, Andrew has amassed **4 x ARIA #1 albums** and more than **9 million streams**, earning a reputation as one of the hardest-working and most down to earth performers on the country music scene. Whether he's lighting up major festivals across Australia or taking Australian country music to the world stage at CMA Fest in Nashville, Swift delivers every time.

Having toured alongside The Wolfe Brothers, Catherine Britt, Amber Lawrence, Sara Storer, Andrew Farriss and Shannon Noll, Andrew knows exactly how to command a stage and connect with a crowd. Expect soaring anthems, heartfelt storytelling, powerhouse musicianship and the kind of performance that has made him one of the most celebrated artists in Australian country music.

**From chart-topping hits to behind-the-scenes stories from the road, Andrew Swift delivers the perfect mix of world-class country music, humour and heart. Join us for an intimate evening with one of Australia's finest country artists. Tickets won't last long – grab yours today!**

**Doors Open 8pm **

**Special Guests TBA**

Young Street Tavern

101 Young Street Frankston

Bunurong Land

Andrew Swift - 'Brick by Brick' Single Launch Tour

***C.W. Stoneking*** returns to Australian stages this August and September, bringing his one-of-a-kind brand of hokum blues, jungle exotica, and old-time gospel to rooms and halls across the country.

With a voice that sounds like it was conjured from a different era entirely, Stoneking delivers a live experience unlike anything else — raw, hypnotic, and utterly transportive.

From the tropical stages of the Darwin Festival to Sydney's Factory Theatre, the Corner Hotel in Melbourne to a golf club in the NSW hinterland, this tour winds its way through cities, coastal towns, and hidden gems alike. Wherever he plays, C.W. Stoneking turns the room into something stranger and more wonderful than it was before he arrived.

Don't miss your chance to catch a true original on home soil.

Doors 7PM

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101 Young Street Frankston

Bunurong Land

C.W Stoneking - Live

****VIC heavyweights THE MEANIES have joined forces with QLD chainsmokers DAD FIGHT to bring you something truly dangerous; a split 7" vinyl featuring one track each and a joint tour to match. Thursday 24th September is the date to remember and not only are Jake & the Snakes playing too but the Friday is a freakin’ public holiday so you’ve got no excuse! **

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MEAN DAD - THE MEANIES + DADFIGHT! w/ JAKE & THE SNAKES

***Two Headline acts for the price of one hits the Tav this October!***

***Abby Dobson****,* who won acclaim with chart-topper ***Leonardo's Bride*** and has enchanted audiences many times will coming back to Young Street for another stellar set and will be sharing the stage with ***The Deserters***, a powerhouse duo crafting raw, honest songs delivered with grit, heart, and a good dose of dry humour. Their sound spans baroque textures, dusty country, classic folk and low-down blues, all tied together by rich harmonies and road-worn storytelling.

Afternoon Show

Hybrid Seated/Standing Room

Doors Open 3:00

Music from 3:30

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101 Young St, Frankston

Bunurong

DOUBLE HEADER: ABBY DOBSON & THE DESERTERS

For the first time ever, two giants of the Australian roots scene are joining forces to create new music on stage together on a national tour.

In what promises to be an electrifying collaboration, this is a show not to be missed for fans of roots, blues, virtuosic guitar playing and exquisite songcraft.

**Jeff Lang** has released 32 albums, published one book and won three ARIA awards across a storied career of over 30 decades. He’s delivered show-stopping performances  across the globe, including The Dublin Blues Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Quebec City Music Festival, Rajasthan International Folk Festival, Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Fuji Rock, Glastonbury, Echo Park China and Ottawa BluesFest and he’s shared the stage with Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Richard Thompson, Bonnie Raitt, Ani Di Franco, Chris Whitley, Albert Collins, Loudon Wainwright III, Greg Brown, John Butler and Bob Geldof, among many others.

Voted Traditional Blues Artist of the Year 2022, 2024 and 2025 by the Sydney Blues

Society, **Dom Turner** is guitarist, vocalist, and founding member of the legendary Australian blues group, Backsliders, performing with other acts including The Rural Blues Project, The Turner Brown Band and with US blues legends Phil Wiggins, RL Boyce, and Sunpie Barnes.

Dom has toured the Australian and international festival circuit since the 1980s, and has been invited onstage with various guitar legends, most recently in Sydney by Derek Trucks (The Tedeschi Trucks Band) at the State Theatre and The Allman Betts Family Band at Metro Theatre.

Sunday Matinee Show

Doors 2PM

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101 Young Street Frankston

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Jeff Lang & Dom Turner - Together! @ Young Street Tavern

Pony Face return!

After several sold-out (Nebraska) shows earlier this year, Australian indie dreamscape four-piece **Pony Face** are back with new music. And excited to play the Bridge, the band will perform in this format for the first time in six years.  Playing an albums worth of new material as well as some of their number one smash hits…  as part of a Vic tour.

Leading the charge is their new single "Expire" — a power-punk, stooges dirge with shades of Dr Jnr. Don't miss this special show!

Supports TBA

Doors 8pm

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101 Young St, Frankston

Bunurong

PONY FACE - LIVE IN FRANKSTON

**Celebrated songwriter Kristin Hersh will return to Australia this November for a run of intimate headline shows in support of her forthcoming new album Sugar On Blackstone, out 18 September via Fire Records.**

Renowned for her fiercely emotional performances and uncompromising songwriting, Hersh’s Australian dates will see her bring songs from Sugar On Blackstone to audiences across the country alongside highlights from her extensive catalogue.

Following on from 2023’s Clear Pond Road, Sugar On Blackstone is a darker yet delicately rendered collection exploring life and death, memory, survival and human connection. Deeply personal and emotionally expansive, the album reflects on the lasting bonds between musicians, family and friends, and the way certain sounds and places can suddenly bring someone vividly back into focus.

New single ‘Dark-Eyed Junco’ offers another striking glimpse into the album, pairing lucid melodies with deeply autobiographical storytelling. Recorded at Stable Sound Studios, the album features longtime collaborators Rob Ahlers (50FOOTWAVE) on drums and Pete Harvey (Throwing Muses) on cello.

Long celebrated as one of alternative music’s most singular voices, Hersh continues to deliver performances that are both intensely intimate and disarmingly powerful - a rare opportunity to experience one of modern music’s most influential songwriters up close.

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101 Young Street Frankston

Bunurong Land

Kristin Hersh - 'Sugar on Blackstone' Aus Tour 2026

***HARDLINE MEDIA proudly presents SUPERPUSSY 2.***

The triumphant return of THE SUPERSUCKERS & NASHVILLE PUSSY, but Australia, it just got bigger, it's HAMMERTIME - that's right, direct from Kentucky, USA, we bring you NINE POUND HAMMER for their first time ever Down Under. Three of the greatest American Rock N Roll / Punk / Cowpunk bands y'all ever did see… this is gonna be one Helluva HoeDown Under, again!!

THE SUPERSUCKERS + NASHVILLE PUSSY + NINE POUND HAMMER are ready to rip Australia a new one in late February 2027. This time with some added stops. Get ready Gold Coast, Geelong and Frankston, they're comin' your way this time round.

THE SUPERSUCKERS will open the gates in Brisbane, Gold Coast and Melbourne, with NASHVILLE PUSSY headlining these shows. Then in Sydney, Adelaide, Geelong and Frankston, NASHVILLE PUSSY will open the shows, while THE SUPERSUCKERS take the bull by the horns!!!

THE SUPERSUCKERS are an American rock band, formed in 1988, whose music ranges from Alternative Rock to Country Rock to Cowpunk. Described as "the bastard sons of Foghat, AC/DC, and ZZ Top after being weaned on punk rock, unafraid of massive guitar riffs, outsized personalities, or pledging allegiance to sex, weed, and Satan with a wink and a nudge” - AllMusic

Having had a long and colourful career with some Alt Hit singles along the way like "Born With A Tail" which received heavy airplay in Australia, THE SUPERSUCKERS return to Australia after the initial SUPERPUSSY tour couple years back. These legends of Cowpunk have a huge following here in Australia, and these shows are sure to pack out.

After nearly four decades of unapologetic rock n’ roll, the Supersuckers return with their twelfth studio album, *"Liquor, Women, Drugs & Killing"*, out now via Hardcharger Records. Eddie, Marty and Chris will see you all soon!!

Classic Supersuckers - *Born With A Tail* > www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n07SlFbPfg

New Supersuckers - *Maybe I'm Just Messin' With You *> www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwkWsEzyc0

This is Hardline Media's third run with NASHVILLE PUSSY, of course with the *Superpussy* tour a couple years back,  and with their sold out shows on their 2022 Aussie tour, including being the last band EVER to play the iconic Frankies in Sydney - which had well over 5000 people lining the streets of Sydney's CBD attempting to get into the club to witness the closing of the venue and Nashville Pussy!!! Twas a raucous Rock n Roll night - one for the history books.

Raised on a diet of Marshall stacks, Gibson Guitars, Jack Daniels and weed, NASHVILLE PUSSY is the bastard offspring of foul-mouthed, demented, hillbilly, ice-cream man BLAINE CARTWRIGHT and tractor driving, nude art school model and guitar prodigy RUYTER SUYS. Born deep in the Baptist Bible Belt of Kentucky, USA – BLAINE CARTWRIGHT used the sounds of The Ramones and The New York Dolls to maintain sanity. Meanwhile in Vancouver, Canada, 8 year old, hippie kid, Ruyter Suys picked up her father’s guitar and started playing along with Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix.  “We got married on a dare, after dropping acid… Nashville Pussy is our baby,” says Suys.

And let's not forget the powerhouse rhythm section of amazing  Bonnie Buitrago on Bass, and the dude that is Dusty Watson on drums. Note - Metal fans check who played drums on Lita Ford's "*Out For Blood*" - best bring that to the Meet and Greet,  and maybe some Sonics stuff too for all you Skegs out there!!!

“If there’s been a better band than Nashville Pussy to open for Motörhead, I’ve never heard them” – LemmySo, take it from The Man Australia… DON’T MISS OUT ON NASHVILLE PUSSY (appropriately) DOWN UNDER!
Big, loud and absolutely unapologetic. Give It Up for Nashville Pussy's new release, "10 Inches Of Pussy", setting out to conquer the world and raise the bar — 10 inches at a time!

Classic Nashville Pussy - *Go Motherfucker Go* > www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH5VpdJRtfM

New Nashville Pussy - *Gonna Do It Some More* > www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV1jeO0dlaE

Last but not least, direct from Kentucky USA , its Hammertime - NINE POUND HAMMER. One of the true originators of the Cow-Punk genre, the Hammers are heading down under for the first time. Nine Pound Hammer was one of the first rural hardcore punk bands to substantially incorporate rural blue collar motifs into the minimalistic hardcore sound. With 12 albums under their belt, and break ups over the years (most notably in 1997 when Blaine after the break up went on to form Nashville Pussy) the band has stood the test of time as one of the South's finest!!! With landmark albums *"Smokin' Taters" *and *"Hayseed Timebomb" *to later releases such as *"When The Shit Goes Down"*. You cannot miss this band, they are in firing form!!!

Classic Nine Pound Hammer - *Rub Your Daddy's Lucky Belly *> www.youtube.com/watch?v=rehmgov-sUo

New Nine Pound Hammer - *Drunks, Babies & Fools* > www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgo1oJPkr1ASo saddle up and get down Straya - if they don't get lost, wind up in jail, or join a cult,  these shows will go down in history. See y'all there!!!

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