What is being billed as the lineup of the year, Dan Brodie and the Grieving Widows, The Dacios and Matt Sonic and the High Times have joined forces to rock the Tote Hotel on Friday September 3rd. Presented by Motor City Touring and in conjunction with Solar/Sonar Records and the Tote Hotel, Brodie and co. will be playing it hard and fast, and maybe even a little bit slow, in what promises to be a night of dirty blues, psyched out jams and stoner-rock anthems.

Don't miss this exciting one off event of three of Australia's most exciting bands and performers all on the one bill! Dan Brodie, The Dacios and Matt Sonic at The Tote Friday September 3rd.

$12 Tix on the door at 8.30pm

Foot stompin', horn honkin', go-go dancing psychedelic freak outs the Toot Toot Toots will be launching 'Curse the Crow' at the newly re-opened Tote Hotel on Saturday the 4th of September. Now with 20% more horn and mandolin!!!

The night will also star Melbourne's favourite garage duo Digger and the Pussycats, Wollongong's swamp surfers Mother and Son, flamboyant psych rockers YIS and beard clad country kids Jack on Fire.

$12 entry, doors 8.00pm

Mondo Generator Party Launch - The Tote Sunday 5th September 5pm

A bunch of Melbourne's stoner rock bands have joined forces to give birth to Mondo Generator Party, a bimonthly spontaneous festival, which will descend upon unsuspecting suburban parks and carparks, abandoned warehouses and factories, beaches and other inappropriate places. In order to make these guerilla style festivals happen, they need a generator and generators cost money. The Tote is kindly hosting the launch party and generator fundraiser on Sunday 5th September, featuring Wicked City, My Left Boot, Molten Duke Ranch (after a three year hiatus), The New Quiet and Creatures of Silence.

Future festivals will only be advertised the day beforehand via txt and email, so make sure you're at the launch to secure your spot on the mailing list.

First band will start at 5pm sharp. $10 entry.

Reverse Fox + Wunderlust + I Dream in Transit + guests

$8 entry, doors 8.30pm

Melbourne's theremin fueled synth rock noiseheads The Night Terrors are heading back to Europe for two months of touring in support of the reissue of their album 'Back to Zero' through Trendkill Records.
This will cap off a massive year which has seen the band peddle their ethereal weirdness to audiences in 14 countries, rock the Sydney Opera House and the Forum Theatre, and share the stage with Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Electric Electric, Boris, Nick Oliveri, Melt-Banana, Faderhead,
Bardo Pond, Dope Stars Inc and many more.

Come down and see the Terrors off in style as they tear up the awesome new Tote stage with support from the glorious psychedelic pop sounds of Gosteleradio, hot young synth rockers These Patterns and fellow theremin-wielders Cinnamon Dynamo to open

$13 entry, doors 8.30pm

Before Telstra there was Telecom. A time when you could actually find phone boxes. Usually vandalised and inoperable but they were still around. Telecom are not of that time. They are of the now. Their new album which they are launching at the Tote Saturday 11 is even a little bit of the future. If you can imagine Dinosaur Jr. as a Sonic Youth cover band, trying to play the music of The Pixies while fronted by Bruce Springsteen, you must have quite an imagination. TELECOM have quite an imagination too, but they harness it for the purposes of writing music, rather than dreaming up farcical super-groups that will never exist.

Supports for the night include Brain Rust and Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist

$12 entry, doors 8.30pm

The Premodernists, having recently secured distribution for their critically acclaimed debut EP will be hitting the stage in their own inimitable style. With hints of proto-garage Nirvana and a late ‘70’s agitprop art school post-punk sensibility, the band’s furious, feverish sound touches on their various musical and ideological influences. Also on the bill Drunk Mums will be giving you a dose of infectious catchy bluesy rockin poppin lockin tunes. Currently working on a debut release these young lads are destined for big things.Tag team duo The Eyeball Kicks will be bringin there White Stripes influenced rock and opening the night will be gutter trash tweakers Rapid Transit.

With a free BBQ and a measly $7 door charge this will be a Sunday evening at the iconic Tote not to be missed!!!!

Kremlin Sucession + Guests tbc + Guests tbc + Guests tbc

Fresh out of the studio recording to tape Jack Farley's (Love of Diagrams / Beaches) Transient Studios, The Kremlin Succession will be heading down to the wonderful establishment that is the Tote Hotel. With the lead single "Time" getting spins on PBS, FBi, RRR and 2SER, make sure you get down and familiarise yourself with the new tracks before the 7" launch coming up later this year.

$tbc entry, doors 8.30pm

Friday 17 September

Band Room, $20/$25  entry, doors 8pm
TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT
Tote front bar:
(03) (03) 9419 5320

Polyester Fitzroy:
(03) 9419 5137

Missing Link:
(03) 9670 8208

Corner Box Office:
(03) 9427 7653

SPLATTERHEADS
MIDNIGHT WOOLF
COCKFIGHT SHOOTOUT

It’s the return of the inimitable, the one-and-only Splatterheads! Five Sydney longhairs who came together back in ’87 to thrash out some gnarly punk rock but have since left an indelible footprint on Australia’s loud rock and roll landscape. They are back. The Tote. Friday September 17. If you call yourself a true Aussie punk fan you will be there.

$20/$25  entry, doors 8pm

Songs + Love Of Diagrams + Zsa Zsa

Before Jeff Burch relocates OS get down to the Tote to catch the awesome Songs. The Sydney based band make echo heavy drone pop that gives modern music the cold shoulder. Squeezing into the gap between pop, minimalism and no wave, the sound of Songs is deceptively simple, friendly and willfully careless. They simulate the best of the 'New' music: New York during the 70's and New Zealand in the 80's. Joining them are Melbourne’s own indie rock smashers Love of Diagrams and Zsa Zsa (featuring members of Songs, Fabulous Diamonds and Kes Band)

Supports for the night include Brain Rust and Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist

$15 entry, doors 8.30pm

Boasting a knack for canny songwriting and a big dip to bands such as the Who and the Kinks, Melbourne’s the Solomons have a live show that brings the wow and kapow. 

Joining them are Irish/Aussie lads the Grinders, the Routines and Ryan Leslie.

$ entry, doors 6.00pm