Name: Ruby Lou Band + Clarence River Band
Start: 2026-01-23T09:00:00+11:00
Location: 115 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2204

Ruby Lou Band:
Somewhere in between the nameless underlying consensus anxiety attack we all are quietly having from day to day, and the high wire act that is lead singer Ruby Lou's crowd work , is the music of the Ruby Lou Band - magically brokering the deal between all the heart break and love you feel in this world, till a kind of beautiful wordless truth is discovered inside of yourself. In tales of Orcas and dragons, little nightmare girls with evil intentions, or profoundly comforting assurances that a wrongness about the world can be righted just through the act of loving yourself, Ruby Lou sings you through the warmest, kindest corner of the universe. Backed by her incredible band, finding the funkiest beats in the folkiest songs, and placing a sonic halo atop Ruby's delicate guitar work. The end result being a musical prayer, salute, love letter, sermon, to nature and the natural world, to humans and humanity, to pain and the beauty that lies there in. She also blows a pretty mean sax to boot.
Clarence River Band:
From the Great Dividing Range west of Nymboida, Clarence RIver Band runs their country sounds east to the Coral Sea. Lead singer Clarence Playford is based in remote Northern Territory and his songs tell stories of people’s lives and places he has been across Australia, from “Bluestone Cliffs” set in Cloudy Bay Tasmania and the sweet “Big Brown Eyes” written with his grandmother and sung with his mother. He is backed by the River Band, who live around the country but have a strong connection to the NSW north coast and the Clarence River. Inspired by Paul Kelly, The Waifs and Johnny Cash, their mix of crisp country music, shed rock and bush poetry will take you on a ride down the river.
Doors at 7pm. $15(+fees) tickets ( or pay what you can ). Free for mob.
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which this gig is being held, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, and pay our deepest respects to their ancestors past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always way, always will be Aboriginal land.