The Maggie Pills and Last Quokka (WA) present a top notch double launch at The Old Bar.
The Maggie Pills will be launching the second single “The Freedom Club” of their upcoming debut LP “Hope is a Risk”. Last Quokka will launch their new LP “Red Dirt” to kick off their album launch tour.
They will be joined by very special guests Zig Zag. Join us for a night of heavy, intense and unhinged punk!
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The Maggie Pills are a fierce Melbourne-based six-piece who embody the spirit of the ‘90s alternative movement. Their music is urgent, intense, and loud.
Their lyrics are stories. They speak to universal truths we all connect to — love hurts, bats are beauty, life is trauma. TMP feel a strong affinity with humans and creatures on the fringes. Their creative practice is opposed to the abuse of power, to nepotism, to bullying, injustice, and prejudice.
“The Freedom Club” is the second serve of music from their upcoming 14-track debut LP, out Friday 16 June.
West Australian garage punks Last Quokka return to Melbourne to launch their album “Red Dirt”. Portraying Australia as a place that is simultaneously full of beauty and wonder but also poisoned by corruption, racism and greed, the album is a reflection on country, politics and nature.
Described as “a more aggressive Eddy Current Suppression Ring”, Last Quokka have spent the last seven years refining their energetic and anarchic performance. It’s the real shit: energetic, angry garage punk that you can shake your arse to.
Special guests and Melbourne beloved Zig Zag are a punk outfit fuelled by the power of DIY, queer expression and creating a safe space for everyone to soak up all of the above. Zig Zag embraces experiences of pain and trauma with camaraderie and optimism.
They build catchy riffs around expressive lyrics, burning up the dance floor with anthemic angst. It’s punk, it’s celebratory, it’s cathartic, it’s yours. The only thing it’s not, is straight.
“We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land where we will perform, the Wurundjeri people, and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Indigenous Australia. We must always remember that under the concrete and asphalt, the land, sea, and waterways were, and always will be, traditional Indigenous land.”
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