Irish Murphy's Geelong

Get along to the Geelong Folk Music Club's Last Sunday concert this month at Irish Murphy's Geelong and catch central Victoria's favorite son entertaining the crowds with a few friends and even the odd special guest?!?!

The Allnitelongers were formed in July 2009 by three musician friends who are long time fans of the late Johnny Cash. Melbourne muso Don Gula (double bass player) is one of the organizers of the Newport Folk Festival, and it was suggested that they should do a Johnny Cash “Sun Recordings” tribute for the Festival. They were all well aware that most of the Cash tributes were not up to a standard of presenting the great man’s songs as they should be, just “cashing” in on “Walk the Line”.

With Mick Coates (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Oliver Dear (Electric guitar and Fender Tweed amp) they had a very authentic replica of Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two, and got down to practising for the Festival. The 3 guys had been playing some of the stuff in their own bands for many years, so the sound and the feel was happening virtually from the start. The act at the Festival, held at the Newport RSL, was so popular, that they are still playing that venue once or twice a month’ as well as numerous hotel and bar gigs around Victoria.

In the relatively short space of time since, The Allnitelongers have widened their repertoire to include more material from the rest of the Cash catalogue, encompassing the Sun days to the prison concerts and Rick Rubin’s American albums. This has necessitated the band adding the services of a drummer, thus replicating the Tennessee Three. They are flexible in being able to operate as a 3 or 4 piece.

Mick and the boys will play The Last Sunday Folk Club Irish Murphy's Geelong Sunday 28th March 2010! BE THERE Read more »»

United by a love for Folk Music, Doole, Evans & Farnsworth bring years of experience in many different musical genres to the music they treasure. Read more »»

Irish Murphys - Thurs Apr 2 - 7.30 pm

The High & Lonesome Sextet is back at Irish Murphys for another night of One Mic No Sh*t old school live, singing-into-a-can folk music. The last Irish Murphys Show was fantastic - no-one does live music this way in Geelong, except High & Lonesome.

The boys will be hot to trot out the usual gladbag of hillbilly mayhem of folk, country, blues, bluegrass and classic rock as only they can.

As one respectable punter said at the recent High & Husky gig at Irish Murphys: "Good to hear some decent music here for a change." Read more »»

Our cousins High & Husky are returning to Irish Murphys on Thursday Jan 8th. With a couple of the regular players MIA, the boys will take to the stage as a quartet, including a revamped Cornhuskers set featuring Mr. Adam Burke as Johnny Cash.

Get along and showq your support for old-school folk at Irish Murphys!

A huge thanks to all involved in making the Beatles singalong at Murphy's a huge success! With an almost full house the room was packed with singing, humming, whistling, foot tapping and dancing punters letting their hair down to some of the last decades greatest pop hits!

A huge thankyou to Paula for making it all happen, without her vision and commitment to community music in Geelong this sensational event just wouldn't have happened. Paula, you're a gem!

Here's a sample from Geoff Sinnbeck and friends.

More audio here. Read more »»

With the up coming Beatles sing-a-long night fast approaching, check out this quick quiz to get you up to speed with all the Beatles 'basics'!