Melody Moko

Join us in The Brewery when Master songwriter Don Walker returns with a new album “Lightning In A Clear Blue Sky” and a 2023 Australian East Coast Tour with his band. Special guest will be Melody Moko.Tickets are $60 + b/fee and are now on sale. Legendary Cold Chisel, Catfish and Tex, Don and Charlie singer/songwriter, Don Walker, has announced the release of his fourth solo album, Lightning in a Clear Blue Sky, on Friday, 5 May and an accompanying East Coast Australian tour commencing in May, 2023.Recorded in Victoria over two days in early 2022, Lightning in a Clear Blue Sky features long-time bandmates and creative collaborators Garrett Costigan on pedal steel; Michael Vidale on bass; Hamish Stuart on drums and the late, great guitarist Roydon Payne, to whom Walker has dedicated the album. They were joined on backing vocals by the Harmonettes, Amanda Roff, Erica Dunn and Brigitte Hart.  A solo effort as deep as the ocean and as dark as the night, with big bright flashes of musical lightning. It’s wondrous and tragic. It’s melancholic. It’s reflective. It’s dirty and bluesy and blue. Honest as a bee sting. Internationally acclaimed author, Trent Dalton, says it best, “The man’s music lives in me like myth. It resides in the same place in my brain where Buddy Holly’s last flight lives; or John’s big bite of Yoko’s apple; or Robert Johnson’s great Delta devil deal. Rosaline. Breakfast at Sweethearts. Standing on the Outside. Choirgirl. Saturday Night. Who needs that sentimental bullshit? Me. We. He. She. They. Them. Us. Always."“And now all this new stuff. And now all this new lightning."“‘I’ve got the song we’ll need to live,’ he sings on the very first line of the very first song. Turns out he’s got a whole album of them. Every one of them nourishing and sustaining; restorative and resurrective. He’s been listening again. And now, for the first time in years – like a fork of white lightning charged to split through your clear blue sky – the incomparable Don Walker is about to speak.”This is a seated, 18+ show. Doors open at 8pm.