WHAT A PARTY IT WILL BE. Come one come all. FREE and ALL AGES. Lots of records, giveaways, prizes, good times and funk. Performing LIVE will be STEPPERS and then from NEW ZEALAND the incredible hiphop band MOKOMOKAI finally our own angel will see us out, the legendary KEE’AHN. We also get to have a SINGING with the one and only BAKER BOY at 2om.

The day will be soundtracked by legendary DJ’s from 3RRR – local community radio celebrating 50 years this year! Hear Johnny Topper, BUMPY and EMMY from PEBBLES, ENNIO STYLES , the SYSTA BB, and bo$$man DAVE HOUCHIN plus more we will have a fun giveaway from RISING linking in their show THE VINYL FACTORY: REVERB. We will have TOTES and TEEs in a classic collab with BURN.

Join us as we celebrate the career and new record of legendary dubbed out legend DJ E.A.S.E. of NIGHTMARES ON WAX.

Founded in 1988 on @warprecords – N.O.W. are a very important UK sound system band. We are getting in local sound system, bo$$es Housewife’s Choice to power our vibes on the day. Two great DJs EMELYNE and MISS FEE will keep the sounds up and will drop a few tracks of the new DUB version of the 20 year anniversary edition of IN A SPACE OUTTA SOUND if you pre-order the new album INSTORE you will receive a limited exclusive SIGNED 12” x 12” print

Yes there will be a PRIZE FOR THE BEST DANCER. Ok, maybe we will offer a few prizes for the best dancers. Its next Wednesday hope to see you here! Feel free to bring in your old Nightmares LPs to be signed too.

All INSTORES are FREE and funky and ALL AGES and take place on the stolen lands of the Wurrundjeri People if the Kulin Nation. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

LIVE PERFORMANCE AND INSTORE SIGNING

Fresh soul from Sydney, sweet like a Harbour View for you, Delivered by DON WEST to the people. This Friday his debut LP is out. GIVE ME ALL YOUR LOVE in @donwestmusic words, is an album about “love and sex, heartbreak and pining. It’s a window into my experience and mindset at the time of writing the record.” While drawing inspiration from greats such as Marvin Gaye and Al Green, DON WEST is creating his own lane in the soul game. We will also have the recently release vinyl edition of DON WEST’s debut EP “Don West” also available to purchase AND get signed!

Get down from 4pm as our own soul patrol brings STUCKEY to DJ and set the scene as DON WEST will perform live at 5! Get down to see the legend in the building! All instores are FREE and ALL AGES, and there will be a prize for the best dancer.

THURSDAY 4th DECEMBER 6pm sharp!
SUMBISORI Album Launch
Assembled to realise bandleader Liam McGorry’s compositions drawing on 1960s Italian & French soundtrack music, Temporary Blessings brings together trusted instrumentalists and fellow travelers from Melbourne’s rich enclave of cinematic soul. With Liam at the helm, the group includes Lachlan Stuckey and Jethro Curtin (Surprise Chef), Hudson Whitlock (Brenda, The Pro-Teens, Karate Boogaloo), Will Morrissey and Tom Pettit (Saskwatch, Let Your Hair Down) and Katarzyna Wiktorski.

A veteran of Melbourne soul, McGorry’s steady hands have touched some of the city’s most revered projects over the last 15 years; McGorry-led projects Saskwatch, Dorsal Fins and Ex-Olympian sit aside Sampa The Great, Ella Thompson and Adrian Eagle on Liam’s list of credits and collaborators. He has contributed more than his fair share of bricks to the great structure of Melbourne soul, always playing the background, true to his humble nature. LIAM IS NORTHSIDE RECORDS. All events are FREE and ALL AGES

THURSDAY 23rd OCTOBER 6pm

ESSENDON AIRPORT – Live INSTORE performance

Join us next week as we honour the incredibly innovative analog synth embracing legends ESSENDON AIRPORT @the_hangar_1979 as they launch a classic project updated for the NOW lead by their 1979 founders David Chesworth and Robert Goodge.
More than four decades since first disbanding, Essendon Airport’s 21st century incarnation features original collaborators David and Robert plus, early 80s bandmates Paul Fletcher (percussion) and Barbara Hogarth (bass), plus pedal steel guitarist Graham Lee (The Triffids, KLF).

For new album MOR, this quintet re-engage with their early minimalist work, revisiting songs from the Sonic Investigations era in expanded full band arrangements. They also offer up one newly composed track, the delicately inquisitive Malibu. The result is a lush, elegant update of these beautifully hypnotic and meditative compositions, full of atmosphere and melody, but still imbued with the band’s trademark off-kilter sense of experimentation and wonder.

Come down at 6pm SHARP! and cut some shapes and remember all instores are ALL AGES and FREE and there will be a prize for the best dancer.

This event will take place on the lands of the Wurrundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never seeded.

FRIDAY 17th October — 6pm sharp!

Join us on RELEASE DAY to celebrate an incredible record, Bloom is the classic soul album WILSN always dreamt of making. Recorded live and to tape in Brooklyn, NYC. Channelling the spirit and sound of late-60s soul to create something both timeless and of the current moment, she has a crack band and a hot sound! Get down to witness the new new funky soul sound of today! Come along and be here by 6pm SHARP for the FREE and FUNKY, ALL AGES event!

This event will take place on the lands of the Wurrundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never seeded.

INSTORE ANNOUNCEMENT

BRENDA
Fri 22nd August 2025.
6pm sharp.

 

Brenda is the nom-de-plume of prolific multi-instrumentalist Hudson Whitlock, who’s new album ‘BATH TIME’ is on College Of Knowledge Records

Brenda encompasses the left-field soul sensibilities for which Whitlock has come to be recognised in cult instrumental groups Surprise Chef, Karate Boogaloo and The Pro-Teens, alongside heartfelt, introspective lyricism delivered in a sincere, delicate falsetto. Stylistically, lines can be drawn to the 1960s sweet soul ballads of The Delfonics, Jean-Claude Vannier’s vivid arrangements for Serge Gainsbourg, and, of course, the unmistakable flavour of Melbourne’s cinematic soul movement à la other Whitlock exploits Surprise Chef and Karate Boogaloo .

Join us on the release day of this amazing record by an inspirational young artist. It will be performed live in the church of funk for the disciples of groove, thats YOU from 6pm sharp.

Yes there will be a prize for the best dancer,

Yes, this instore is held on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded.

INSTORE ANNOUNCEMENT

WRONG WAY UP

THIS FRIDAY 21st Feb (release day)

Live instore performance at Northside Records.

Out on Soundway Records on a limited CASSETTE !!

Born out of a deep love for the dancefloor, Wrong Way Up channel vintage Afro disco and psychedelic boogie to bring a new kind of heat.

Paying homage to Frances Bebey, William Onyeabor and Lijadu Sisters, the Melbourne-based Afro-synth duo delivers energetic melodies, deep grooves and addictive chants – led by a less-is-more manifesto. Featuring quirky synthesizers and 1970s drum machines, the result is a sonic landscape that feels fresh and unique, yet somehow familiar.

Playing at this years Womadelaide, Wrong Way Up, will be hosting a wild party this Friday at 6pm sharp.
Yes, all instores are FREE and ALL AGES. All instores have a prize for the best dancer. Could it be you?

All instores are held on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and we acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

 

we welcome the Andrew Gurruwiwi Band is a high-energy, 8-piece funk band who have honed their chops on the beach at Birrtjimi and in the dirt of Yirrkala, a remote NT community in N.E. Arnhem Land. Led by Andrew Gurruwiwi, a shy-but-extravagant, blind, keytar-wielding Yolngu elder with a passion to make people dance while sharing his culture they write real funk jams in their native tongue, Yolngu Matha. They play YOLNGU FUNK. Be here at 6pm sharp, it’ll be one for the lovers and the lovers of dance here early on Valentines Day. Share the love as there of course will be a prize for the best dancer! All instores are FREE and ALL AGES. All instores are held on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and we acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

 

To co-inside with relase day (and Finn’s brthday) we invite you all to come and see the majesty that is the amaing live show of CLOSE COUNTERS! It’ll be super super funky and of course the PRIZE FOR THE BEST DANCER will be a hard fought affair.

THe album LOVERS DANCE ACADEMY has been described as the years best soulful dance album even though its only February! (Thanks Frank Booker!!) It brings together some amazing local musicians to create a eally fun and enjoyable album.