Back to All Events

Darcy Gilkerson & Monty Shnier + We Have Cats

  • Stadium Rockdale 5 Tramway Arcade Rockdale, NSW, 2216 Australia (map)

Doors - 7:30pm
8pm - We Have Cats
9pm - Darcy Gilkerson & Monty Shnier
Tix are $25 full/$15 concession on the door only (cash or EFT)

Address - "Stadium Rockdale" Lvl 1, 5 Tramway Arcade (find the "Massage" sign, go upstairs and we're the door on the left). Please be aware that the venue is accessible by stairs only. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Darcy Gilkerson and Monty Shnier

Long time partners and collaborators Darcy Gilkerson and Monty Shnier bring together their love of folk, bluegrass, chamber music and improvisation into an intimate format.

Darcy Gilkerson - cello
Michael Brady - guitar
Monty Shnier - bass

Art by Camille Wiseman

We Have Cats

Free Form - Improvised - Double Bass Trio.

Exploring the bass beyond its typical role, Marie-Louise Bethune, Josh Shipton and Valerios Calocerinos unite their creative and cultural diversity to produce genre-defying music that moves through ambient, experimental, classical and jazz (plus whatever they find in-between).

If Marie-Louise wasn’t spending her time playing bass, piano and drums, she’d be an eco warrior chaining herself to trees. Her fierce feline revolutionaries at home, Nzinga, Nadezhda and Zetkin, would prefer to see her chained to the fridge door for cat snacks. But, alas…

​Josh Shipton (noun: describing the space where a hinge should be but isn’t) - Sydney-based bassist, vocalist, artist, guitarist, songwriter, composer, conductor, curator, evangelical atheist and anarchist. A man who enjoys a good pop song as much as screaming louder than the void can scream at him. He takes his medicine, turns up on time and has an excellent cat named Zeus.

Valerios is currently owned by “Douggie” an antisocial 14 year old black cat. Douggie is a play on words seeing that Doug is “dog” in Scottish. Douggie left home and is currently writing his memoirs from the Scottish border town Galashiels since being banned from the Herriot-Watt University of Textiles and Design after shredding an historic 18th century quilt.

Earlier Event: September 28
Moonstruck