Waxman with Soup and The Crouton and Oil Rig

Bleeding, emo singer-songwriter has been supporting hip hop artists Rickfean and Stazi as of late. He blends emotionally driven lyrics with a soulful sound, often with a formidable band. Influences include Fall Out Boy, Dance Gavin Dance, and Paramore. Supporting are Quiet Neighbours and Achey Peace! Come support local artists, and new songs!

To celebrate the release of their sophomore EP Speaking Terms, Tomorrow’s Forecast are heading out on a run of East Coast shows, bringing their most vulnerable and energetic work to date. From garage-rock chaos to stripped-back confessions, this indie-rock outfit is proving they’re not just ones to watch — they’re already here.

Speaking Terms captures the messiness of relationships in all their stages — from breakdowns to beginnings — produced in collaboration with female and gender-diverse creatives, aligning with the band’s vision for a more inclusive scene.

Catch them in Melbourne at Nighthawks on August 1 with Erica Avenue and Charlotte Bridie.

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Hamish Bloom and Oberon Bramall-White are back playing their acoustic folk songs written together in early 2024, this time joined by Martin Frawley of Twerps and Chris Bolton of Seagull. It will be a lovely night of acoustic and intimate sets. Come and join us!

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We're back!!!
Join us for the tenth edition of HEAR THE MACHINE, a monthly series showcasing experimental synthesiser music, including drone, ambient, noise, and other electronic music practices being explored by artists in Naarm.

**NEW TIME, NEW PLACE**
HEAR THE MACHINE happens on the last Sunday of the month, at Nighthawks Bar - 136 Johnston street Collingwood

HEAR THE MACHINE #9
July 20th 2025
7pm doors
$15/10 (no presales)

The artists:
eves (Edwina Stevens) is an improv-noise musician from Aotearoa/Narrm --- wandering, accumulating and tangential improvisations shapeshift between layered and overlapping harmonic/dissonant tones, elemental/textural/spatial recordings, non-languaged vocalisation and feedback --- a slowing down and expanding across senses through embodied and acoustic resonance --- pure sine wave generator, pedal chain and eurorack modular system designed to merge tones generated through the resonance of self-oscillating filters.

https://eves.bandcamp.com/album/eves

Spectrical, aka Timothy Allen is a musician creating ambient, drone and experimental soundscapes in nipaluna, lutruwita / Hobart, Tasmania.
Tim began playing music early in life, starting with the violin at five years of age and picking up the guitar in his teens. He began releasing music as Spectrical in 2012 with releases on netlabels Test Tube and CONV. These works focused on experimental sound design and recording techniques with the use of a contact mic and induction coil pickup, respectively.
Tim curates Perceptual Tapes and continues to create experimental ambient music mixing acoustic instruments, analogue and modular synths, field recordings, found sounds and digital processing.

https://spectrical.bandcamp.com/album/among-lunar-glaciers

dom alt is the re-contextualisation of ambient composer Domininc Altamore's live act. Combining dream-like atmosphere with sample heavy genre defiance.

https://domaltmusic.bandcamp.com/track/live-hear-the-machine-290724

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the continuing custodians of the land where this event takes place.

Well, well, well...
Break in those new Doc Martens and put that waterproof eyeliner to the ultimate test — Lazerlips are back and resurrecting chaos at Nighthawks. The punk/alt-rock trio have stumbled out of their tombs once more to remind you why they might just be the world’s meanest, nicest, most handsome, cutest, most talented, hardest-working, best-smelling band on the planet. Or maybe they just really like playing music.

Either way, they’re recharged, unhinged, and absolutely out for blood — and with new drummer Zac Fernandez smashing the kit like it owes him money, they’ve never sounded more alive.

If you’ve yet to witness the mayhem, expect fuzzy slide guitar, grungy vocals, eerie samples, lyrics soaked in vampire lore, '50s rockabilly swagger, and yes — the occasional black metal blast beat thrown in just for the hell of it. It's groovy. It's loud. It slaps.

Choose wisely: hop in the pit, or live with regret for all eternity.

Also taking the stage are Harminia, Naarm’s own alt-rock/shoegaze visionaries. With soaring vocals, shimmering guitar textures, and an aesthetic that refuses to be ignored, they’re here to tilt the local scene on its axis.

So whether you're chasing catharsis or just killing time this Friday, make it a night with Lazerlips and Harminia at Nighthawks. You won't regret it — until maybe the next morning.

HEY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE! WE ARE BACK HEADLINING AND IT IS AT NIGHTHAWKS IN COLLINGWOOD <3. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR HARD ROCK MIXED WITH JAZZ MIXED WITH PUNK MIXED WITH INDISCRIMINATE YELLING THEN THIS IS THE SHOW FOR YOU!

We have some killer bands coming at you with SHARP EDGES and HYPNOTIC STATE opening the show giving us some fresh grunt rock and some punk/surfy vibes respectively. Love to see you there at our first headline show of the year!

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Event bio -
*whispers frantically* Harvey is headlining here!?
HIGH KEY! Harvey is releasing his next studio single ‘Warmth’ at Nighthawks and you cannot miss it! After his sold out show at Freshen Up from which he released his statement making live EP ‘Live @ 303’ Harvey is pulling out all the stops for a solo night of feel great music. Blending Pop, Jazz, Funk and Rock in ways you didn’t think possible in his signature keys playing frontman style. Soothing your ears alongside him is Lunic and Kayla Thomas to bring together an encapsulating night of music that will tickle your soul for years to come.

*estranged whispering again*
grab your ticket before word gets out!

Harvey artist bio
- Harvey Town is the Melbourne singer songwriter, frontman keys player you didn’t know you needed.

Working his way through the piano man circuit belting out rock classics in South Melbourne, to comping jazz piano in the North, Harvey fuses Jazz, Pop, Funk and Rock in new ways through original songs with a killer live band that you just can’t sit still for.
Deriving influence from Elton John, Cory Henry, and Stevie Wonder, Harvey exudes passion with every lyric sung and every chord struck to bring together music that lights a fire in your soul (or under your bum).
Harvey has played all over town in numerous venues across Melbourne from the Espy, Piano on Chapel, IVY, Bodriggy, 303 and Ragtime Tavern. Whether there’s 5 or 500 people, Harvey blasts his new music like you’ve heard it 1000 times before for a night of fun, fear and funk you won’t forget.

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RAEV :
New(ish) group comprising of ragtag & restless sound marauders; Tarquin Manek (Bum Creek, F ingers, Static Cleaner Lost Reward et al), Ruby Jeppe (Astral Travel), James Vinciguerra (Total Control, Nicky Crane, Trevor), Louis Hooper (Bloody Hell, Rat Columns) & Jesse Hutchene (Debussy, Satie, Ravel) Gruff guitars interplay with hardcore, heavy hitting ride/sub section & psychedelic sound clash. Mad minds make melodic body music, chaotic but controlled - may or may not be a mosh pit. Almost and nowhere near folk, dub, rock, punk, soul, metal. For sure DIY. What is genre anymore anyway? Raev is a feeling. More than feeling. Songs about necrophilia, mice & armies, creating tsunamis, urban malaise, dumb collapse of dumber civilisations, altering beasts & other cliches like love & loss & loneliness. Another band, another planet.

LEITMOTIV LIMBO:
Leitmotiv Limbo is the sonic of Elijah Värttö; builder of abstruse instruments from industrial springs on burnt timber, and analogue electronics of specific visceral effect. Primitive yet eloquent, approximating a form, blank minimalism and fibrous textures. Tracing forms of industry, rough ambience, minimal (not)techno and rhythmic noise. Flickering with incident.

https://leitmotivlimbo.bandcamp.com

ABSURD COSMOS LATE NITE:
Absurd Cosmos Late Nite is Mark Groves (Index Clean, Voice Imitator, Red Wine and Sugar). One party monopolises the conversation, the other dissociates. One is all too present in the moment, the other dreams of departure. One voices their disappointment in the table service, the other ruminates on whether the Caramelised Barramundi or the Mongolian Beef will allow for a more rapid exit. The author occupies both roles.

https://absurdcosmoslatenite.bandcamp.com

ROUSSEMOFF - Minimal, loud, belligerent. 2 basses and drums instrumental heaviness.

TONGUE BITER - Two-piece metal band out of Phillip Island, Australia.

Blending doom, stoner, sludge, and punk into a heady brew of crusty chaos and heavy riffs.

Za Noon launches her debut record 'Heartdrag' with full 5-piece band for the first time. On supports are Ruby Milner (band) & do the bed.

Za Noon is the alias of Melbourne artist Jess Zanoni. Known as the frontwoman of alt-rock band Arbes, Za Noon is Jess’s solo venture into intriguing, incandescent alternative folk & pop. Her debut record evokes the shifting tides akin to connection, in romance, and with the world— both inner and outer. Za Noon music attempts to embody the ineffable, a tender and spirited measure of felt time and place.

Ruby Milner is a singer-songwriter from Melbourne, with roots in country/folk, later influenced by jazz and indie-rock sounds. Her writing combines classically inspired progressions with careful and honest lyricism, inspired by musicians such as Joni Mitchell, Adrienne Lenker and Rufus Wainwright.

do the bed are a five-piece alt-folk rock band. Their music is slow, rhythmic, and a bit rough around the edges — folk at the core, with a darker, heavier feel. Just songs they like playing.

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BIO:
DIY multi-instrumentalist Buddy J Francis makes psych rock that adds a dash of other genres such as hip hop and folk while throwing in some tongue-in-cheek comedic bits for good measure.

In a recording sense he operates like Mac Demarco and Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) – tracking each instrument personally. Each track takes months of work.

Live performances are more like a thespian Tash Sultana - using a loop pedal and multiple instruments while performing as several different characters (each with their own costumes and personalities).

Called an ‘endearingly audacious’ artist who makes ‘psychonautic scuzz’ by A&R Factory.

SHOW PROMO:
One-man-band Buddy J Francis is here to play some guitar, drums and sing (sometimes at the same time) and he's brought some friends along. Whether it's British hip-hop legend Cornelius Strongbottom (aka The Baddest Of All Time)(aka The BOAT) or the charismatic Californian Jimothy LaJones or the slightly less charismatic and mood-killing dark poet Moody J Bigfingers, you are sure to witness a musical journey that delves into such topics as love, Coopers Pale Ale, loving Coopers Pale Ale and, of course, cyber safety.

Lismore's media puzzle takes on Naarm for the very first time!

Accompanied by The States and Dungeon (debut show) at Nighthawks.

media puzzle are touring their new 5-track EP 'Intermission', channeling online frustration, regional burnout, and absurdism.

Saturday, June 28

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It's getting cold out there, but it's gonna be getting hot at Nighthawks on June 27th.

Grevillea return to the Nighthawks stage one year on from selling out the venue for their 'Remember' single launch in 2024.

Joined by Romcom and Trip To Paris, it's going to be a special night not to be missed.

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Join us for an afternoon of live music at Nighthawks featuring three local favourites.

Headlining the day are Elo and The Shinkicks, bringing their energetic, no-frills rock to the stage. Main support Blondehouse offer up their signature blend of grunge and alt-rock, full of emotion and vulnerability. Opening the show are Badass Broadcasters, kicking things off with a fun, fast-paced set of garage rock tunes.

Doors open early – swing by, grab a drink, and enjoy some great live music.

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Fresh off the release of their new single 'Take Me Up', Firm Filters return for a winter gig at the iconic Nighthawks bar. Also performing is indie folk/rock/pop singer-songwriter Emma Yue and up-and-coming band LEGROOM.

Firm Filters are a three-piece indie rock band formed in Naarm/Melbourne. Taking influence from folk rock, heartland rock, punk, new-wave and classic pop, their set is based around frontman Brad Woodward’s original songs. Completed by warm bass lines from Jason Renehan and passionate drumming from Rory Day, Firm Filters’ songs tell the story of youth, love, struggle and everyday life. Their debut album arrives later this year.

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