Ashgrove

The Experiment’s next show is at one of our favourites, The Standard in old Fitzroy on Sunday August 4th at 7:00pm. It’s the last gig at The Standard for a while too, whilst the venue takes a break from music until summer.

In September, the Experiment will be heading up to QLD for a show in Brisbane on Saturday September 14th. It’s a special matinee show at Junk Bar in Ashgrove, and support will be Mardi Wilson. Tickets are now on sale, so get them over at Oztix here - the Junk Bar’s only small, and we sold it out last time so get in early. It’s our only QLD show for 2019, most likely.

Poster design by Kristin Copson at Go Dog Go.

Oak

The Experiment play next at The Royal Oak Hotel in Fitzroy North on Saturday July 20th.

We recently took part in the recording of the soundtrack for a new short film by Brown Cabs productions and partly funded by SBS called ‘Out of Range’. The sessions took place at Aviary Studios with our good friends Fraser Montgomery and Nick Edin, and was a whole pile of fun. I’ll keep you posted on when it might be screened.

Photo by Fraser Montgomery, taken at Aviary Studios on May 10th 2019.

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The Experiment’s next scheduled show is on Thursday June 27th at the Edinburgh Castle Hotel in Brunswick. Two sets from 8:00pm, friends. We all have a bunch of stuff on in the meantime, which is why there’s so big a break between collective drums/bass/guitar solos, but we’re also working on the soundtrack to a short film that will feature on SBS later this year - so that’s going to take up a bit of our time too.

If anything else comes up, we’ll let you know.

The CP Experiment at Sly Fox, Enmore, March 7th 2019. Photo by Robyn Hitchcock.

Sidebar

What a fun time we had playing up in NSW. Thanks to everyone for coming out, both in Sydney and in Maitland.

The next Experiment gig will be at The Standard Hotel in Fitzroy on Sunday April 14th. It’s one of our favourite places to play, so we’ll be turning it on, and turning it up. Two sets from 7:00pm. Chocks away.

Fox

The Experiment is heading up to Sydney and Maitland for a couple of shows. We’ll be playing Sydney on Thursday March 7th at SlyFox in Enmore, as part of Ramblin’ Nights, presented by Alt. Roundup, Mother Hen Touring, and Post To Wire. Joining us for the evening will be the excellent Adam Young and The Down Main. Tickets are already selling fast to this one, so get yours here at the jump through Oztix.

Then, we’re off to Maitland to play The Grand Junction Hotel on Friday night March 8th. Two nights of music, two postcodes, two action settings: loud and twangy.

Poster design by the fabulous Hana Brenecki. She’s great.

Returned

Here’s something cool: some footage that Ben took on his go-pro camera of our gig with Trichotomy at Jazzlab on December 14th 2018. The tune we are playing is called Effergy, written by Stuart McCallum.

The next Experiment show is at Coburg RSL on Saturday February 16th, as we play two sets from 5:30pm for their annual members day, which also features sets before us from Capital Gains and after from Drunken Poachers.

Here’s a head’s up too: in March, the experiment are coming up to NSW for a few shows. Come catch us at:

Thursday March 7th: Sly Fox, Enmore, Sydney. With Adam Young and The Down Main
Friday March 8th: The Junkyard Hotel, Maitland. Two sets from 8:00pm.

Nineteen

Happy 2019 everyone! What a year it’s going to be. We have big plans for this year, and we plan to be making a bunch of music about the place too.

First gig coming up for 2019 is at one of our favourites of all, The Standard in Fitzroy. We’ll be playing two sets from 7:00pm on Sunday January 13th.

Photo from Ben Graham’s GoPro, taken at the Chris Pickering Experiment and Trichotomy show at Jazzlab, Brunswick, on December 14th, 2018. L to R: CP, James O’Brien’s back, Ben Graham, John Parker, Sam Vincent' (acoustic bass), and Sean Foran (piano).

Three

Last gig of the year is coming up, and boy, it’s going to be a doozy. For this one, we are going to be joining forces with our Brisbane friends Trichotomy for a special ‘double-band’ gig. We’ll be playing our stuff, their stuff, and then playing together as well. That’s right, both bands on stage, jamming out a solution for everything. It promises to be something else, so come on down to The Jazzlab in Brunswick on Friday December 14th to witness it. Get tickets at the Jazzlab page, you won’t regret it.

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Thanks to everyone who came out to our Brisbane shows. Boy, we had a great time, and great to play to a sell-out crowd at The Junk Bar, and for such friendly people. We love you guys, and we’ll be back next year for sure.

The next Experiment show will be in Melbourne on Sunday November 18th, when we barrel into another two sets at one of our favourite venues, The Standard in Fitzroy.

We’ve got something pretty exciting planned for the end of the year too - a special ‘double band’ gig with Brisbane group Trichotomy at Jazzlab in Brunswick on Friday December 14th. They’ll play a short set, we’ll play a short set, then we’ll both play a set together. That’s right, two bands on the one stage. It’ll be wild. Details will be announced soon, and this will be a ticketed show, so stay tuned.

CPE at The Junk Bar, Brisbane, 20th October 2018. Photo by Raychel Stone.

Bane

The Experiment head up to Brisbane this coming weekend to shake the windows and rattle the walls. We’ve got a headline show at the Junk Bar on Saturday October 20th, and then we are playing a more subdued set supporting Jackie Marshall’s ‘Lilith Shrugs’ Album Launch at Brisbane Powerhouse on Sunday Oct 21st.

There are still a small amount of tickets available for the Junk Bar show, but they are selling fast, so if you want to get along, you’d better book one. Oztix are taking care of that and you can get yours here at the jump.