See photos from The Gov’s 160th Birthday on 13 October, 2007!

Friday 8 August

Front Bar: Friday night acts
Sing-a-long session in the Front Bar with weekly performers, in a joyous, riotous atmosphere.

1st Friday of each month: The Cowtippers
2nd Friday of each month: Don Morrison
3rd Friday of each month: Steve Brown
4th Friday of each month: Corey, Chip & Scooter
5th Friday of each month: Ryebuck Sheilas

Price
Free

Time
8pm

Saloon Bar: Irish session
Squeezeboxes, fiddles and tinwhistles provide the soundtrack for the Friday Saloon Bar follies. Music as music should be.

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Saturday 9 August

Saturdays @ The Gov

Tonight:

President Dick (featuring James Sweeney and Jed – ex-Vegans In Leather)

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Tuesday 12 August

Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society

All are welcome!

Price
Free

Time
7pm
(on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month)

Wednesday 13 August

Open Mic Night

All are welcome to join in!

Adelaide musician and producer Terry C. Bradford has created a new “musical community” with Open Mic Night.

Terry, who has produced 54 albums and founded numerous Adelaide bands, is the host.

Details…

Price
Free

Time
8pm

Thursday 14 August

Winter Warmers

Thursday Winter Warmers @ The Gov will offer a great way to spend a chilly evening … laidback original live music … acoustic, alternative, alt. country, pop, roots, blues, soul, jazz and folk. Warm your socks by the blazing open fires. Enjoy one of our great counter meals. The beers will be pouring and the music will be soft and sweet…

Tonight:

Room 4.09

Room 4.09 is an acoustic duo who have recently moved back to Adelaide from Melbourne. The band consists of Simon Basey on vocals and guitar and Ben Roberts on lead guitar and back up vocals. Together they play an assorted mix of acoustic music with influences from many generations of songwriters and many genres of music.

They can seamlessly blend rock, Celtic, blues, and folk music and have a reputation for very energetic and entertaining live shows. The band is promoting their soon-to-be-released CD with 9 brand new tracks.

“I don’t think I’ve seen so much audience interaction and involvement at an acoustic gig before.”
– Amelia Dougherty, On Dit (Issue 76.5)

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Saturday 16 August

Saturdays @ The Gov

Tonight:

Kat’s Farewell Party – music by The Phonics

Public welcome

Five-piece Sixties Powerpop R’n’B band The Phonics are here and they plan to stomp til they drop, and they’re gonna take you with them!

Come on down to the cozy front bar and help farewell our favorite bar babe Kat as she takes off on her overseas jaunt.

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Thursday 21 August

Winter Warmers

Thursday Winter Warmers @ The Gov will offer a great way to spend a chilly evening … laidback original live music … acoustic, alternative, alt. country, pop, roots, blues, soul, jazz and folk. Warm your socks by the blazing open fires. Enjoy one of our great counter meals. The beers will be pouring and the music will be soft and sweet…

Tonight:

Emily Davis

Emily’s music comes straight from the heart. It is a finely crafted expression of home truths woven with earthy acoustic sounds and hauntingly beautiful lyrics. Her raw energy, stage presence, unique vocals and soulful guitar work mesh into a performance that will enrich you with its honesty. Her live performances are warm and inviting, drawing the audience in for an especially moving experience.

Singing and songwriting since the age of 14, Emily’s music is constantly evolving. The trials and joys of everyday life are translated through her poetic lyrics as she connects with her audience – providing a fresh and real perspective. Soundscapes and stories, reflections and ballads about the beauty and tragedy of urban pursuits, are brought to life in her songwriting.

Emily’s performances have a balanced blend of earthy and rhythmic acoustica, and intense and emotive interludes. With influences of classical guitar, jazz, folk and pop, the fusion of sounds is carefully weaved together to form her classic style.

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Tuesday 26 August

Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society

All are welcome!

Price
Free

Time
7pm
(on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month)

Saturday 23 August

Saturdays @ The Gov

Tonight:

Brenton Manser And The Disciples Of Zen

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Saturday 30 August

Saturdays @ The Gov

Tonight:

Tom West + The Art Therapists

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Thursday 4 September

Winter Warmers

Thursday Winter Warmers @ The Gov will offer a great way to spend a chilly evening … laidback original live music … acoustic, alternative, alt. country, pop, roots, blues, soul, jazz and folk. Warm your socks by the blazing open fires. Enjoy one of our great counter meals. The beers will be pouring and the music will be soft and sweet…

Tonight:

Ria Loof

Ria Loof has become one of Adelaide’s most sought-after vocalists and backing vocalists. Working with various local and overseas artists around Adelaide and nationally, she has been involved in many session recordings over the years at Sony studios in Sydney and at many Adelaide studios for independent songwriters.

As well as having recorded numerous albums as backing vocalist, Ria has a respected amount of experience playing in various bands, musicals and festivals, and is currently recording her first solo album.

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Saturday 6 September

Saturdays @ The Gov

Tonight:

Syds Gate

Augustus Turtle

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Saturday 13 September

Saturdays @ The Gov

Tonight:

The William Street Strikers

CD launch – details soon

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Thursday 18 September

Winter Warmers

Thursday Winter Warmers @ The Gov will offer a great way to spend a chilly evening … laidback original live music … acoustic, alternative, alt. country, pop, roots, blues, soul, jazz and folk. Warm your socks by the blazing open fires. Enjoy one of our great counter meals. The beers will be pouring and the music will be soft and sweet…

Tonight:

Jayne-Anne Power

A mix of influences such as Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys, James Brown, Justin Timberlake and Mary J. Blige underpins her music which combines acoustic soul, R&B, pop, gospel and jazz. However, it’s her diva vocal delivery and the ever-present rhythmic drive in her music that is winning Jayne-Anne critical acclaim.

With her debut independent album, Substance, exploding online with over 34,000 track downloads as of April 2007 it has not taken long for Jayne-Anne to spark interest from around the world including live interviews and airplay on American radio and feature articles in popular women’s magazines.

Graduating from The Elder Conservatorium with a ‘Best Jazz Vocalist’ award and a national music scholarship, Jayne-Anne was also the winner of the 2003 Music Oz Award in the R&B category.

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Saturday 4 October

Saturdays @ The Gov

Tonight:

Spirit Of Alondray

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Thursday 16 October

Winter Warmers

Thursday Winter Warmers @ The Gov will offer a great way to spend a chilly evening … laidback original live music … acoustic, alternative, alt. country, pop, roots, blues, soul, jazz and folk. Warm your socks by the blazing open fires. Enjoy one of our great counter meals. The beers will be pouring and the music will be soft and sweet…

Tonight:

Abbie Cardwell (Vic)

“Abbie is one of my favourite singers. Laid-back, soulful and breathtaking like the lady herself”
– Vicki Simpson, The Waifs

Internationally-touring, ex-Adelaide songbird Abbie Cardwell’s one helluva self-taught banjo pickin’, guitar slingin’, harmonica totin’ chick with “the voice of a homesick angel.”

This multi award-winning songwriter draws inspiration from life and the roots of all music.

Soaking up her favourite moments of rock, folk, country, soul, and blues, Abbie creates what she has nicknamed as “Rootsy Toons”.

Now she’s based ‘on the road’ and in the middle of her East Coast tour before she heads to the USA to launch her latest album.

Catch her playing acoustic and solo in the very intimate setting of the Gov’s front bar for Winter Warmers.

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Saturday 18 October

Saturdays @ The Gov

Tonight:

The Pleasure Of Books

Price
Free

Time
9pm

Thursday 6 November

Summer Sessions

Thursday Summer Sessions @ The Gov is the place to be for a fruity cocktail with a bunch of good friends before the weekend hits and the road-trips, beaches and backyard BBQs beckon … laidback original live music … reggae, acoustic, roots, pop, alt. country, blues, soul, jazz and folk. Enjoy one of our great counter meals or indulge in one of our wicked desserts. The beers will be cold and the music will be sweet and summery …

Tonight:

Coby Grant (Vic)

Coby Grant is a singer of songs, a teller of tales, a believer of love, and an embracer of life. The acoustic/folk style singer songwriter based in Melbourne is working hard and putting herself on the map as an up and coming independent Australian artist.

After recently returning from a writing and recording stint in the US, where she worked with producers / writers / musicians such as Peter Malick (Norah Jones), Anthony J Resta (Collective Soul, Elton John, Duran Duran, Shawn Mullins), Ted Greenberg (The Funk Brothers, Chaka Khan) and Thomas Baraka DiCandia (Live, Sting, Weezer, Coolio), Coby has jumped straight back into touring the country promoting her new songs.

Coby has played at some of the country’s most prestigious venues- Manchester Lane and The Esplanade Hotel in Melbourne, The Basement in Sydney, Settlers Tavern in WA and many more. Her live performance is a pleasure, an adventure. Her quiet but cheeky manner and the delivery of her well crafted pop songs about things, people and love, account for the instantaneous connection that audiences feel to Coby.

Joined onstage by fellow vocalists Rach and Sal, the three girls create with amazing ease, magical harmonies that have been taking people’s breath away. Coby’s fan base continues to grow as she relentlessly pursues her quest to reach people with her songs, her heart and her infectious grin.

Price
Free

Time
9pm