Melbourne Opera presents Verdi - Il Trovatore
Romantic Opera
Athenaeum Theatre One — Friday 28 Aug at 7:30 PMDetails ›
MEDITERRANIAN COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE LIVES OF IRANIAN WOMEN IN DIASPORA
Theatre
Brunswick Ballroom — Sunday 30 Aug at 4:30 PMDetails ›
District Makers Market
Market
Rose Street Artists' Market — Sunday 30 Aug at 10:00 AM ~ — FreeDetails ›
**FREE ENTRY** Ripple (Dance, Poetry and Film)
Dance / Spoken Word / Film
Bar Open — Thursday 27 Aug — FreeDetails ›
Improvised Idol - Live Musical Comedy
Musical Comedy Improv
Sooki Lounge — Thursday 27 Aug at 7:30 PM ~Details ›
The National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship
Exhibition
NGV — Thursday 27 Aug — FreeDetails ›
Ryan Presley wins Telstra Art Award in 2026 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Exhibition
Melbourne — Thursday 27 AugDetails ›
F#*k This, I Quit: Comedy Based on YOUR Work Stories
Comedy
The Improv Conspiracy — Friday 28 Aug at 8:00 PM ~ — from $24Details ›
Hot August Night: The Neil Diamond Story
Tribute / Musical Theatre
Memo Music Hall — Friday 28 Aug at 7:30 PM ~ — from $39Details ›
Museum After Dark: Creatures of the Night
Exhibition
Melbourne Museum — Friday 28 Aug at 6:00 PM ~ — from $30Details ›
Twilight Anniversary Party Melbourne
Other
Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy) — Friday 28 Aug at 7:00 PM ~ — from $22Details ›
The Remix: Live Improv Comedy From A Guest’s True Stories
Improv
The Improv Conspiracy — Saturday 29 Aug at 8:00 PM ~ — from $24Details ›
The Time After Now by Anne Freeman [Book Launch]
Book
New Guernica — Saturday 29 Aug at 6:00 PM ~ — from $11Details ›
MEDITERRANIAN COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE LIVES OF IRANIAN WOMEN IN DIASPORA (arvo)
Theatre
Brunswick Artists Bar — Sunday 30 Aug at 4:00 PM ~Details ›
Catch-Up Corner 🍸 Thursday Social
Community
State of Grace (Fall from Grace Cellar Bar) — Thursday 27 Aug at 6:00 PMDetails ›
Melbourne Conversations: The God We Made
Philosophy
Wheeler Centre — Thursday 27 Aug at 7:30 PM ~Details ›
A Readings Kids Event With Abc Radio Nationals Top 100 Books
Other / Other
Readings — Tuesday 1 Sep at 5:00 PMDetails ›
FUJI DEATHCULT, Ethereal Gone Kids, Chanel Louise, Black Wattle Witches, Trip to Paris
World / Jazz Fusion
Bar Oussou — Thursday 27 AugDetails ›
Parkrun Melbourne
Social
Albert, Altona Beach, Aurora, Brimbank, Coburg, Cruickshank Park, Cyril Curtain Reserve, Dandenong, Darebin, Diamond Creek, Dorset Recreation Reserve, Frog Hollow, Gardiners Creek, Jells, Karkarook, Kirkdale Reserve, Lalor, Lewis Park Reserve, Maribyrnong, Mullum Mullum, Newport Lakes, Parkville, Point Cook, Studley, The Phar Lap Track, Victory Road Reserve, Warrandyte River Reserve, Warringal Parklands, Westerfolds, Westerfolds junior, Woodlands Historic Park — Saturday 29 Aug at 8:00 AM — FreeDetails ›
AMARU TRIBE: 'Golden Roots' Album Launch
Latin Fusion / World
The Night Cat — Saturday 29 AugDetails ›
BOWIE UNZIPPED STARRING JEFF DUFF - 10th ANNIVERSARY FAREWELL TOUR 2026
Glam Rock Tribute
Brunswick Ballroom — Friday 28 Aug at 8:30 PMDetails ›
'THE BROKEN HILLS' Brunswick Ballroom House band: Country standards & originals
Country Standards & Originals
Brunswick Ballroom — Thursday 27 Aug at 5:45 PMDetails ›
THE DISGRACE / THE IANS / THE ALIVE EAST
Punk
Brunswick Ballroom — Friday 28 Aug at 8:30 PMDetails ›
ETHEREAL GONE KIDS / CELLOPHANES / IVORY
Indie Rock / Indie Pop
Brunswick Ballroom — Saturday 29 Aug at 8:30 PMDetails ›
Barr-Nun presents: Lookin At Me (Lookin at U) Single Launch Party
Indie
Espy Basement — Saturday 29 AugDetails ›
**FREE ENTRY** The Four Scoops (Front Bar)
Indie
Bar Open — Friday 28 Aug at 8:30 PM — FreeDetails ›
**FREE ENTRY** Smoking Vinyl (Front Bar)
Indie Electronic
Bar Open — Friday 28 Aug at 11:30 PM — FreeDetails ›
**FREE ENTRY** The Jude Quintet (Front Bar)
Jazz
Bar Open — Sunday 30 Aug at 8:30 PM — FreeDetails ›
GOOD MUSIC THURSDAYS w/ THE GENEVIEVES + STOCKINGS + NO TURNS
Indie Rock / Post-Punk
The Old Bar — Thursday 27 Aug at 7:30 PMDetails ›
FREE ENTRY ARVO SHOW w/ JAY MOTHMAN + ELECTRIC GUITARS
Indie Rock/Alternative
The Old Bar — Saturday 29 Aug at 4:00 PM ~Details ›
FREE ENTRY ARVO SHOW w/ BLOOD BROTHERS 2 x SETS
Indie Rock/Alternative
The Old Bar — Sunday 30 Aug at 4:00 PM ~Details ›
FREE ENTRY MORBID MONDAYS w/ SIMON J. KARIS + LAUREN, LAUREN & LAUREN.
Noise/Industrial/Hardcore
The Old Bar — Monday 31 AugDetails ›
Montaigne - Glorious Heights 10th Anniversary Tour
Indie Pop / Alternative
The Corner Hotel — Friday 28 Aug at 8:00 PM ~Details ›
THIRD EYE & KHAN – 10 Year Dual-Headline Australian Tour
Indie Rock / Alternative
The Corner Hotel — Saturday 29 Aug at 8:00 PM ~Details ›
SUNK LOTO - The 'Dead Shadows' Tour
Hard Rock / Heavy Rock
The Corner Hotel — Wednesday 2 Sep at 8:00 PM ~Details ›
Skiptracer 'Liminal' Debut Single Launch w/ Maggie Slater & Middle Management
Indie
The Tote — Thursday 27 AugDetails ›
ANGLERR Sheepies Single Launch w/ Flowerfieldfolly & Nerijus
Indie
The Tote — Friday 28 AugDetails ›
DIRT ROAD WAVE + GOLD COAST LEATHERS + STOMP STONES
Indie Rock / Surf Rock
The Tote — Saturday 29 AugDetails ›
Koert van der Laan’s Dual Single Launch with Mailey and Chasing Planes
Punk / Indie / Alternative
The Tote — Sunday 30 AugDetails ›
DOLE NIGHT w/ The Clones + Mudbath
Punk / Indie / Alternative
The Tote — Wednesday 2 Sep — FreeDetails ›
JON STEVENS (NZ) - The Noiseworks & INXS Collection '26 Tour
Rock / Pop
Northcote Theatre — Saturday 29 Aug at 7:00 PMDetails ›
‘Social Sanctuary’ with Beefheart & McQuinn, Macrocarpa + The Boatmen
Indie / Alternative
Northcote Social Club — Monday 31 AugDetails ›
Seahaven (USA - Australian Tour 2026)
Indie / Alternative
Northcote Social Club — Wednesday 2 SepDetails ›
Liam Byrne and Laura Vaughan
Classical Recital
Melbourne Recital Centre — Friday 28 Aug at 6:00 PMDetails ›
Strike a Chord 2026
Classical Concert
Melbourne Recital Centre — Saturday 29 Aug at 2:00 PMDetails ›
Distilling Nature: Hanadayori Night 2026
Classical
Melbourne Recital Centre — Saturday 29 Aug at 7:00 PMDetails ›
Con Spirito: Music of The Bay
Classical Concert
Melbourne Recital Centre — Monday 31 Aug at 7:00 PMDetails ›
ANNUAL MUSIC CONCERT 2026
Classical Concert
Melbourne Recital Centre — Tuesday 1 Sep at 7:00 PMDetails ›
Nyilamum Song Cycles
Classical Concert
Melbourne Recital Centre — Wednesday 2 Sep at 7:30 PMDetails ›
The Night Creatures present The Grand Jazz Dinner Show
Jazz
Melbourne — Saturday 29 Aug at 8:00 PM ~ — from $145Details ›
Montaigne: Glorious Heights 10th Anniversary Tour
Pop
Pier Hotel — Thursday 27 Aug — from $50Details ›
The Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra with Mel Searle
Contemporary Jazz
Paris Cat Jazz Club — Thursday 27 Aug at 8:00 PM ~ — from $45Details ›
Brooke Taylor & The Gin Spitting Queens + The Davidson Brothers
Indie
Memo Music Hall — Friday 28 Aug at 8:00 PM ~ — from $25Details ›
Scattered Limbs + Bifurcation
Rock
The Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar — Friday 28 Aug — from $20Details ›
HamilTown: Hamilton vs Hadestown Club Night
House / Electronic
Max Watt’s (Melbourne) — Friday 28 Aug — from $17Details ›
The Great Composers: A Mark Morand Production
Jazz
Paris Cat Jazz Club — Friday 28 Aug at 8:00 PM ~ — from $45Details ›
Duets: Peggy Lee & Frank Sinatra
Jazz / Standards
Paris Cat Jazz Club — Friday 28 Aug at 8:00 PM ~ — from $45Details ›
Tour through Tarantino with Katankin
Jazz
Paris Cat Jazz Club — Friday 28 Aug at 8:00 PM ~ — from $45Details ›
Deep South Brass 8 Band
Brass / Funk / Soul
Paris Cat Jazz Club — Friday 28 Aug at 8:00 PM ~ — from $45Details ›
Chuleo Club: A.Chal / Slim Soledad / LIZZ / Dinamarca / Zalina
Reggaeton / Latin Trap
Melbourne Town Hall — Friday 28 Aug at 8:00 PM ~ — from $65Details ›
The Little Bourke Big Band presents The Very Best of Nat King Cole with Ben McGill
Big Band / Jazz Standards
Paris Cat Jazz Club — Saturday 29 Aug at 7:30 PM ~ — from $48Details ›
R&R: Rebecca Cardamone & Richard Pavlidis
Jazz
Paris Cat Jazz Club — Saturday 29 Aug at 9:00 PM ~ — from $45Details ›
Chris Johnstone Quintet play Grant Green & Joe Henderson
Jazz Standards / Soul Jazz
Paris Cat Jazz Club — Saturday 29 Aug at 8:30 PM ~ — from $45Details ›
Toni Childs: A Retrospective
Soul / Neo-Soul
Clocktower Centre — Saturday 29 Aug — from $79Details ›
Outcast Bookings Presents: Deathbats Australia
Death Metal
The Graveyard Bar — Saturday 29 AugDetails ›
Finding Figaro: Octave One / Sleep D x Hybrid Man / JNETT / Baby G
Techno / Electronic
Melbourne Town Hall — Saturday 29 Aug — from $66Details ›
Essendon Symphony Orchestra: Best of All Worlds
Classical
Clocktower Centre — Sunday 30 Aug at 7:30 PM ~ — from $25Details ›
MY DISCO / Robin Fox / Jeho Yun + Kyoungjin So
Experimental
Melbourne Town Hall — Sunday 30 Aug — from $50Details ›
Emerson + Matilda Pearl: Leap! on Tour
Indie / Rock
Bergy Bandroom — Sunday 30 Aug — from $15Details ›
Marlene Cummins
Other
The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts — Wednesday 2 Sep — from $30Details ›
Wax On Wednesdays: Open Decks in The Froff Shop
House / Open Decks
Bodriggy Brewing Company — Wednesday 2 SepDetails ›
Flow Motion Late Night jams
Late Night Jams / Improvisation
Kindred Bandroom — Thursday 27 AugDetails ›
HETEROPHOBES, RAUZAH, THREE STAR MOTEL & 1EMOVIOLENCE
Punk / Hardcore
Bad Decisions — Thursday 27 AugDetails ›
COLOUR BLEED + DOWN THE DRAIN + CHOMP (UPSTAIRS) SOFT BAIT (NZ) W/ VEST & KAMBIO (bandroom)
Punk / Hardcore
Bendigo Hotel — Thursday 27 AugDetails ›
Michelle Nicolle with Guests Mat Jodrell & Tom Lee
Singer Songwriter
The Brunswick Green — Thursday 27 AugDetails ›
Thursday Night Music Club feat: Patrick Lionel, A.C Saunders
Singer Songwriter
The Bridge Hotel — Thursday 27 AugDetails ›
Christian Foyle, Mick Coll and Friends at Lyrebird Lounge
Singer Songwriter
Lyrebird Lounge — Thursday 27 AugDetails ›
The Savage Beat: The Wraylettes, The Earthquakes and more!
Garage Rock / Post-Punk
Graveyard bar — Friday 28 AugDetails ›
The Australian Joe Cocker Show
Blues / Soul / Joe Cocker Tribute
Bird's Basement — Friday 28 AugDetails ›
The Heights Live At The Espy joined by Fools Me Twice & SpillKit (basement)
Indie Rock / Alternative
Esplanade Hotel — Friday 28 AugDetails ›
Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo (Album Launch)
Indie / Alternative
George Lane — Friday 28 AugDetails ›
The Pearly Shells Swing Orchestra Ft. Yvette Johansson and Paula Maki
Swing / Jazz
Jazz Lab — Friday 28 Aug at 7:30 PM ~Details ›
SAMBA REGGAE PARTY ft Ras Jahknow Band + Sambrazuka + Paulo Almeida & Ba
Samba Reggae / Dub
Howler — Friday 28 AugDetails ›
Hamilton vs Hadestown Club Night - Melbourne
House / Dj Set
Max Watts House of Music — Friday 28 AugDetails ›
Sheoak - single launch, Charlie Needs Braces
Indie Rock / Alternative
Lulie Tavern — Friday 28 AugDetails ›
Bad Neighbour 'The Burns from the X-Ray' Tour, Win Big + Dive Down
Indie Rock
Bergy Bandroom — Friday 28 AugDetails ›
Complexant, The Absolution Sequence, Orpheus Omega, Ironstone and Snake Mountain
Indie Rock
The Evelyn Hotel — Friday 28 AugDetails ›
The Sloppy Jalopies Single Launch w/ The Henchmen and Salvation Jane
Indie Punk
Retreat Hotel — Friday 28 AugDetails ›
Great Falls, Mirror Clippers (arvo) Red Camellia - single launch, The Opals and Fiasco (evening)
Indie
The Last Chance — Saturday 29 Aug at 4:00 PM ~Details ›
Workfriend Album Launch (Arvo Show)
Indie Rock/Alternative
Nighthawks — Saturday 29 Aug at 4:00 PM ~Details ›
PUNT FEST Ft. Cosmic Psychos, EXEK, Georgia Knight, Lothario, Essendon Airport and More!
Punk Rock
Punters Club — Saturday 29 AugDetails ›
Buckleys: 'You, Me, Mary Single' Launch (arvo)
Indie
The Brunswick Green — Saturday 29 Aug at 4:00 PM ~Details ›
Pat McKernan (arvo) The Pheasantry (evening)
Folk Singer-Songwriter
The Drunken Poet — Saturday 29 Aug at 4:00 PM ~Details ›
Mike Rudd (Spectrum) & Tim Gaze (George Lane Matinee Sessions) Danni K (evening)
Psychedelic Rock
George Lane — Saturday 29 Aug at 2:00 PM ~Details ›
Kareenarose, The Electrodub Experiment & more...
Electrodub / Dub Techno
Bad Decisions — Saturday 29 AugDetails ›
Glenn Richards (Augie March) Solo (esplanade) Barr-Nun presents: Lookin At Me (Lookin at U) Single Launch Party Special Guests: The Defibs + CME (basement)
Alternative Rock / Indie
Esplanade Hotel — Saturday 29 AugDetails ›
The Brakes, Prink, Doe St and a surprise headliner
Indie Rock / Alternative
Nighthawks — Saturday 29 AugDetails ›
Country & Western Ramblers (arvo)
Country
Bodriggy Brewing Company — Sunday 30 Aug at 4:00 PM ~Details ›
Shackleton (arvo) The Tipplers (evening)
Folk / Singer-Songwriter
The Drunken Poet — Sunday 30 Aug at 4:00 PM ~Details ›
ROSARIO DE MARCO (arvo)
Singer Songwriter
Edinburgh Castle Hotel — Sunday 30 Aug at 4:00 PM ~Details ›
Three Mothers, R.M. Lazar and Jen Callaway & Michael McCosker
Indie Rock / Alternative
Nighthawks — Sunday 30 AugDetails ›
Garry Allen plays the songs of Robert Johnson
Folk / Blues / Singer-Songwriter
The Drunken Poet — Tuesday 1 SepDetails ›
Frisco x Ho Liao
Electronic / Dj Set
Ho Jiak Melbourne - Junda's Playground (Enter via 1 Rainbow Alley) — Saturday 29 AugDetails ›
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