Great Southern Nights & Yulli's Brews present; Melodrones, Marilyn Maria, Bonetwister

Great Southern Nights 2024 will take place from 8-24 March 2024 featuring more than 300 gigs across 17 nights throughout Sydney’s inner city and Western Sydney, as well as shows in seven key music communities across NSW, including Tamworth, Wagga, Newcastle, Wollongong and the Northern Rivers.

On March 22nd Yulli's Brews and Great Southern Nights present; Melodrones, Marilyn Maria & Bonetwister.

Melodrones -

Dick was carrying around a briefcase full of songs, written midst a manic episode, when he ran into Mody carrying a guitar case. Impressed with the tracks, Mody suggested Mel got involved and helped Dick sing the songs. Mel agreed provided Xavier would be the one providing the back beat to her bass lines.

It was on the eighth day that The Melodrones were formed.

Marilyn Maria - Marilyn Maria takes its name from a movie star and a religious saint: a dichotomy that mirrors the Eora/Sydney quartet's theatrical, shrewd and disarmingly vulnerable take on pub-rock. Think the dissonance of The Drones meets the surrealism and satire of DEVO. In a mere two years, the band has independently recorded and released two four-track EPs that traverse a range of sonic palettes and influences: from the self affirming alt-country ballad 'Love Yourself', to politically charged garage with ‘Watching America’ and the haunting murder ballad 'Jack Fell Down’. 2024 marks a new cycle of singles that see the band continue to push the confines of genre.  Married with an incendiary live show that must be seen to be believed, this four piece will be one to watch closely over the coming year.

Bonetwister - In the face of fear, loneliness, and the type of dread only an international pandemic can conjure. One highly caffeinated human, armed w/ a 57 &
Garageband.. wrote songs for one very tiny human who chose to dance. Who dared others to dance. To boogie like life as we know it, depended on it. Did our powers combined fight back the dark forces of evil? Or were we conjuring the devil the whole time?