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🚨CLOUD ICE 9 🌩️🧊9️⃣ in Canberra🚨Cloud Ice 9 rounds out an incredible week of underground music in Canberra. We are blessed to have some of the best and most interesting bands in the country come our way.
Crabifornia, here we claw. Join Cloud Ice 9 on their first East Coast Tour. Exorcisms of apocalypse musings with a peppering of labyrinth woe. Plus Olivia’s World and first show for new Canberra punk band edda down at Gang Gang Cafe.
CLOUD ICE 9 (MELB)
OLIVA’S WORLD
EDDA (FIRST SHOW)
📅Saturday 16 May 2026
📍Gang Gang Cafe
🕖Doors at 7:00pm // Bands from 7:30pm
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Cloud Ice 9 emerge from the strange, slow-burn creative fallout of Naarm’s long lockdowns. Formed in the barns and attic sharehouses where hours of tinkering on toy keyboards evolved into a fully-fledged “hive mind.” The result is one of the most adventurous and bewildering sounds in the post-COVID Antipodes. Difficult to pin down and even harder to predict, Cloud Ice 9 twist familiar genres into something uncanny. Fragments of post-punk, experimental pop, and off-kilter grooves are warped by surreal storytelling, robot voices, and an ever-expanding palette of oddball instrumentation. Across releases like 8 Ball (2020), Circus St (2020), and Hocus Pocus (2023), they’ve built a reputation for crafting immersive, otherworldly soundscapes. Their latest LP, Globophobia (2025), is a darkly humorous, sci-fi-tinged odyssey through the absurdities of modern life.
Step into the hive mind. Cloud Ice 9 are not to be missed.
Olivia’s World return to Canberra with their signature style of angular post-punk and dolewave-pop. In 2025 Olivia’s World debut full-length album Greedy & gorgeous, the band’s third release following their two EPs Olivia’s World (2019) and Tuff 2B Tender’(2021). In Greedy & gorgeous, a quasi-concept album about desire, Olivia’s World inhabitants deal with the woes of pleasure-seeking and a never-ending quest for beauty.
edda is a new Canberra band led by Joel Neville (Optic Nerve, Lower Body, Oxen, Lapse). The band is a family - made up of spouses, siblings, siblings-in-law, childhood friends, and ancient Icelandic origins.
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Event Venue
Gang Gang Cafe, Shop 4/2 Frencham Place, Downer ,Canberra,ACT,Australia
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