YOUTH-based events organisation, The Y Project, will make their return to the Newcastle music scene on Saturday, and it's only the beginning.
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The Cambridge Hotel will host The Y Project's Tracks #1, an all-ages gig featuring performances from rising Newcastle indie bands Boycott, Loons and Mission: Banana. It'll be The Y Project's first event since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Last year the City of Newcastle awarded The Y Project a $27,000 grant under their Special Business Rates initiative to host live music and youth engagements in collaboration with different businesses along the light rail line.
The Tracks series was scheduled to begin earlier this year, but was postponed due to COVID-19.
The Y Project's Mae Anagnostis said they hope to organise Tracks events on a monthly basis.
"People over 18 can still go to pubs under the restrictions and there's still a bit of music there, but there's been nothing for the under-18 group and it's been hard and bit lonely for them," Anagnostis said.
"There hasn't been much socialising in general, but particularly a connection to the arts scene."
Several of The Y Project's regular venues like The Dungeon at Adamstown Uniting Church cannot cater for social distancing events. However, the Cambridge has already rolled out several over-18 shows and has announced a series of all-age gigs from Newcastle acts dave the band (Friday), Kookshill (September 5), and Jones The Cat (September 18).
Almost all of the 100 tickets for Tracks #1 have sold.
SOLO RHOMB ROMP
FRENZAL Rhomb frontman Jay Whalley will perform the first show at 48 Watt Street's Small Ballroom since the COVID-19 lockdown on Friday, September 11.
The gig which promises to be "safer and almost as much fun as a Sydney private school's religious study retreat' will feature Whalley's solo renditions of various Frenzal Rhomb scuzzy punk hits.
Newcastle punk band Dal Failure will provide the support.
DASHVILLE ROLLS ON
THE success of Dashville's COVID-safe concert series, Dashville Nights, has led to the announcement of a fourth installment for the Lower Belford property.
Rock stalwart Justin Ngariki, Americana songsmith James Thomson and soul diva Georgie Jones will feature in the all-Novocastrian line-up for Saturday, September 12.
Back in March Thomson released his third album Golden Exile and Jones dropped her new indie-rock single, Baby, two weeks ago.
FORSYTH COVER
KURRI Kurri singer-songwriter Tori Forsyth has served up a U-turn for her alt-country fan base by releasing a cover of Falling Down by late US emo-rapper Lil Peep.
Lil Peep, real name Gustav Ahr, died from a Xanax overdose aged 21 in 2017. Falling Down was released posthumously in 2018 and features vocals from rapper XXXTentacion, who was subsequently murdered.
Forsyth delivers a grunge-inspired rendition of Falling Down, which features Zac Miller, who played on the track and produced it while isolating in Canada.
"His [Lil Peep's] passion and dedication for art was so beautiful, and in light of that, I wanted to share the origins of it, first and foremost," Forsyth said.
