Brown Paper Bag

The third instalment of Brown Paper Bag is here! and news travels fast, especially when you’re nurturing the most interesting, heart warming young bands of a new generation. For our 2010 opening at Ding Dong Lounge in the city, the bag is brimming with young songwriters and bands who are truly ahead of their time. The already exciting line up sits inside a framework fashioned by Blac List and Major Box, the most experienced, outrageous event organisers in town. Brown Paper Bag is about the best young bands, it’s about music and it’s about having the most energetic, cant wipe the smile off your face party of the decade so far. So don’t be last in on the news, because the masses are sure to converge on Ding Dong Lounge on Friday July 16th.

Headlining the 2010 return lineup is Jonathan Boulet, who is a truly remarkable young musician, riding the waves of heavy commercial and independent airplay with hit ‘Community service announcement”. The aptly named community service announcement turns you into an open window, it’s so impressively concise and introspective from a twenty year old. It puts you into crazy motion until the cool water comes to calm you down. Jonathan Boulet is a freak, and like Melbourne’s ‘Gotye’ before him, has chameleon skin that allows him to play in other bands, to play other instruments and to cross genres. See him now, in the intimacy, or forever hold your peace.

Rat vs Possum became a hit of the warehouse party circuit in Melbourne and then astonished the city with their ability to sell out midweek shows through word of mouth. The music speaks for itself. They play atmospheric electronica, with delayed jangly guitar’s that creep up on you. like a police car that you hear from a distance that eventually drives through your front fence.

Parking Lot Experiments are another hit of the warehouse circuit and bring ineffably cool pop to life on stage, reminiscent of Cults and the jangle of C-86 bands.

East Brunswick All Girls Choir, apart from having one of the coolest band names in town, are also stepping up to the big league with their epic pop rock and complete disregard for the convention of staying on stage while playing a gig, this makes them great to watch and adds to the flair of this great event.

Nothing can prepare you for North East Party House. A completely unhinged blur of garbage tins, keyboards and crowd surfing madness, these clowns have set the club circuit on fire selling out the likes of Rats and 161 for weeks at a time.

Brown Paper Bag is presented by the people who live and breathe rock n roll, indie n electro - MajorBox and Blac List. Together with another industry powerhouse Tonedeaf, its nights like Brown Paper Bag that catalyse generational change. So get down, for the biggest movement this side of the millennium bug.

18 and overs event.