ALWAYS LIVE, MG Live & Roundhouse Entertainment Present
Live At The Gardens with Chet Faker
Chet Faker with Mildlife and Phoebe Go
Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
Woiwurrung Country
Ticket Information
Fri 22 Nov
ALWAYS LIVE, MG Live and Roundhouse Entertainment are proud to present CHET FAKER for an exclusive one-night-only performance to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of his iconic album Built On Glass.
CHET FAKER returns to Melbourne for a very special one-off show at Live At The Gardens on Friday 22 November.
CHET FAKER will perform the 12-track album that’s become a soundtrack for a generation, and in addition to the complete Built On Glass album, he will also play a selection of his other hit tracks at Melbourne’s iconic Royal Botanic Gardens, for an incredible event you won’t want to miss.
A decade after its original release, Chet Faker's 5 x ARIA winning (and 9 time nominee) seminal album Built On Glass is set to be reintroduced to the world with a special, expanded 10-year anniversary edition. Originally released in 2014, Built On Glass was the album that catapulted Chet Faker, the moniker of Melbourne-born musician Nick Murphy, into global stardom.
Built On Glass debuted at #1 on the ARIA Charts, won the J Award Australian Album of the Year and was nominated for AIR Awards and the Australian Music Prize. The album had three songs in the Top 10 of 2014’s Triple J Hottest 100, with 'Talk Is Cheap' taking the #1 spot.
With the 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition, Chet Faker is offering fans a chance to revisit the iconic tracks that defined a generation. The digital and vinyl release will feature the original 12-song album, plus remixes, rarities and a collection of live performances from an early Built On Glass-era show at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney.
Chet Faker on the seminal record, “Built on Glass was an important record for me so I'm excited to finally repress it with this expanded edition and share several unreleased recordings from that era. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate 10 years than to play the record in full in my hometown Melbourne in the Botanic Gardens - something I haven’t done before.”
CHET FAKER - BUILT ON GLASS (10th Anniversary Expanded Edition)
PRE-ORDER HERE
Facilities onsite to assist with the expected heat conditions include;
Free drinking water stations: We will have refill stations at the main stage, Food and Beverage Zone, and near the toilets, as well as free water available at all bars. We also encourage patrons to bring empty water bottles to refill onsite.
Pre-show messaging: We’ll remind patrons to stay hydrated, wear sunscreen, and bring hats.
Shaded areas: The venue itself offers plenty of natural shade. By 5 pm, the majority of the main stage viewing area is shaded, which proved effective at last Saturday’s event. In addition to the existing tree canopies onsite, we have dozens of umbrellas around the other parts of the site.
Hydration at the front of the stage: Water will be available at the barrier for patrons at the front who may need hydration.
Medical support: Our first aid provider, Colmed Medical, will have a registered paramedic onsite and 3-4 medics. There's also a large shaded chill zone located next to the medical tent. Given the lineup, expected attendance, and the fact we had no issues last weekend, Colmed is confident in our medical readiness.
Security: We will have security staff available to assist patrons suffering from the effects of heat as needed.
Misting tent: We are installing a misting station onsite for this coming weekend.
It'll be a hot one this weekend in Victoria, so it's important to play it safe when you're out in the sun enjoying ALWAYS LIVE events. 🌞
Remember to:
💧Stay hydrated
😎 Slip, Slop, Slap
🌳Seek shade
🎶 Look out for your mates and know the signs of heat stress [feeling dizzy or unwell? Cool off immediately!]
This event proudly supports Support Act, our charity partner. For every ticket sold, $1 will go directly to Support Act to help them provide crucial support to musicians, managers, crew, and music workers facing health issues, injury, or other crises. Your contribution helps keep the music community strong! Donate here
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ARTISTS
When Mildlife’s debut album, Phase, was released in 2018 it didn’t so much explode on to the scene as ooze. Their mellifluous mix of jazz, krautrock and, perhaps more pertinently, demon grooves, was the word of mouth sensation of that year among open-minded DJs and diggers searching for the perfect beat.
Their emergence was backed up by European tours that demonstrated a riotously loose-limbed approach to performance that was every bit as thrilling as Phase’s tantalising promise. What was more impressive was how lightly they wore influences that took in Can, Patrick Adams and Jan Hammer Group, while primarily sounding precisely like Mildlife.
By the end of 2018 they’d been nominees for Best Album at the Worldwide FM Awards (Worldwide’s Gilles Peterson was a notable champion) and won Best Electronic Act at The Age Music Victoria Awards back home in Melbourne. Their progress post-Phase was cemented with a UK deal with Jeff Barrett’s Heavenly, who released How Long Does It Take? replete with Cosmic doyen Baldelli and Dionigi remixes, while last year they were officially anointed by DJ Harvey when he included The Magnificent Moon on his Pikes compilation Mercury Rising Vol II.
With Automatic, the band have made a step-change from their debut. It’s more disciplined, directional and arguably more danceable. As on Phase, they are unafraid to let a track luxuriate in length without ever succumbing to self-indulgence. The arrangements, tightly structured thanks to Tom Shanahan (bass) and Jim Rindfleish’s fatback drumming, permit space for the others to add spice to the stew, topped off with Kevin McDowell’s ethereal vocals as Mildlife effortlessly glide between live performance and studio songwriting. “The recorded songs kind of become the new reference point for playing the songs live,’ says Kevin. “They both have different outcomes and we make our decisions for each based on that, but they’re symbiotic and they both influence each other. It’s usually a fairly natural flow from live to recorded back to live.”
The centrepiece of Automatic is the title track where the band sound like Kraftwerk and Herbie Hancock on quarantined lockdown in Bob Moog’s Trumansburg workshop. It’s both a departure and quintessentially Mildlife. This is music you can dance to rather than ‘dance music’ and it’s all the better for it.
Midlife
Phoebe Go is the highly anticipated solo project of alt-pop artist, Phoebe Lou. It’s a heartfelt project that, at its core, is full of hope. After the success of her high-school band Snakadaktal catapulted her into the music industry at the tender age of 15, Phoebe Lou was just a kid. Now, with 10 more years of experience and another exceptional project, Two People, under her belt, it’s time for her to catapult herself.
In her debut EP Player (October 2022), Phoebe Go unveiled a full-bodied and wholly realised acoustic world unlike anything Phoebe has shared before. The process of finding her voice as a solo artist has been, as described by Phoebe herself, daunting, but it has also set her free.
Over the past two years Phoebe has shared the stage with Arlo Parks, Chet Faker, MUNA, Briston Maroney and more as a special guest, as well as playing her own headline shows and festival sets at Yours & Owls Festival, and the inaugural SXSW Sydney 2023. Phoebe's highly anticipated debut album Marmalade will be released May 17, 2024
Phoebe Go
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