Prolific and celebrated Tasmanian songwriter Van Walker is taking his Gothic country rock group Badlanders on a Winter tour of Victoria's beautiful regional and outer-metro scenery

Van Walker is a a 'cult figure' in his adopted home of Melbourne, with a vast catalogue of poetic lyric-driven material that explores a range of personal and social themes. His early solo work was compiled on Underneath the Radar 2008-2012 (Fuse music), punk-rock on I Wish Life Could Be...Swedish Magazines (4.5 Stars, Rolling Stone Magazine), and power-pop via The Livingstone Daisies (2013 PBS Album of the Year; 2014 4.5 Star Age EG), houserocking blues boogie with Goatpiss Gasoline, while also writing and performing as a member of the critically acclaimed Vandemonian Lags stage production with a cast including Mick Thomas, Tim Rogers, Brian Nankervis and many more. His last solo album Ghosting (2020, Green South Records) was voted Rhythm Magazine Readers Runner-up Album of 2020. He continues to tour consistently nationally and internationally and is highly regarded in the Australian music scene and respected for his contributions to the industry.

Supporting the band is Fountain Lakes, the project of Jac Tonks and Emma Heeney. With playful songwriting and lush harmonies, the pair create the romance and foreboding of girl groups of the 1960s, their songs are both sweet and dark cautionary tales.

“Another effortless classic album of tunes.” ~ Mick Thomas, Weddings Parties Anything

"Messages from an unearthly time, beyond our modern tropes. I wanna live in that time." Tim Rogers, You Am I

"Poetic and elemental. After the changes and stresses we've all been through collectively over the last few years , this record feels like meditation." Ella Hooper, Killing Heidi

Young Street Tavern

101 Young Street Frankston

Bunurong Land

Contact the host of Van Walker's Badlanders - with support from Fountain Lakes