National SLAM Day tomorrow

22 February 2012

by Nathan Jolly

With over 100 venues signed up for tomorrow's National SLAM Day, we have curated our pick of the SLAM events happening around the country.

SLAM Day (Save Live Australian Music) began in 2010 when over 20,000 music lovers marched down Swanston Street in Melbourne in protest of harsh Victorian liquor licensing laws.

Now with a national focus, the day is a celebration of how vital live venues are to the careers of Aussie musicians. According to SLAM organisers, “This will be the first time so many venues have simultaneously supported a single cause.”

Check the list below and get along to a SLAM event.

NSW

The Annandale: Papa Vs Pretty, Cabins, Palms (ex Red Riders)

The Gaelic Club: Ghosts on Broadway, Stand For The Fallen, Divide and Conquer, Love and Satellites

Goodgod Small Club: Elizabeth Rose + special guests

FBi Social: Bearhug, Skullsquadron, Lyyar, The Cadres

VIC

Corner Hotel: Matt Corby, with Tin Sparrow and Keiran Christopherson

Esplanade Hotel: Valentiine, Kellie Lloyd (Screamfeeder)

Pure Pop Records: James Leg (Black Diamond Heavies)

The Retreat: Spencer P Jones & The Escape Committee, MJ Halloran & The Sinners, Waco Social Club

Yah-Yah’s: Harmony, Spod, Deep Heat

QLD

The Beetle Bar: Valley Floor (ex The Beautiful Girls/Angus & Julia Stone/Rogerthat), Los Huevos, Race Of The Harridan, Daves Pawn Shop

The Tempo Hotel: Young Meadows, Boss Moxi, Sencabah, Surfin Bird

WA

Rosemount Hotel: Stonefield, Sonpsilo Circus, Sugarpuss

Mojos Bar: Matt Gresham

SA

Crown & Anchor: sleepmakeswaves, + Canidae

The Jade Monkey: The Sundance Kids, Raider, Mere Theory

TAS

The Grand Poobah: Ben Wells, Dean Stevenson, Seth Henderson, Samuel Cole, Al Future, Jonno Coleman, Andrew Marshall, Jade Young, Hannah May, and Jed Appleton.

NT

Darwin Railway Club: Busby Marou, Dave Spry and The Moral High Ground