Great Gable, Velociraptor, Melaleuca & More Playing Sunlight Sounds Charity Gig

Sunlight Sounds have announced an extra-special gig to raise funds for The Sunlight Centre – a local Brisbane (Meanjin) charity offering mental health support and crisis counselling – featuring heavyweight acts like Great Gable, Velociraptor and Melaleuca.

The stacked bill, rounded out by grunge outfit Eyesite and indie-pop up-and-comer Kieran Stevenson, will take to the stage at The Triffid on Sunday February 4, with doors opening at 3pm. Tickets will run you just a little under $45, and 100 percent of proceeds raised will go to The Sunlight Centre – head here to grab yours.

A press release describes The Sunlight Centre as “a not-for-profit organisation that provides crisis counselling, at no cost, to individuals experiencing suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-injury, and self-harm”. The org also “invests directly in research with a goal to explore barriers to accessing help and improving best practice[s]”.

The show comes as Great Gable continue touring their fantastic debut EP Read The Room, which arrived last September via Matt Corby’s Rainbow Valley imprint. In our exclusive look at the making of the record, the band said of their vision: “We wanted to capture an upbeat, live sound that is similar to the energy we bring to a gig.”

Meanwhile, last November saw Velociraptor return with their first new music in seven years, dropping two massive singles – Leaving Hollywood and Timebong – as a preview for their next full-length album. That’s expected to arrive sometime in 2024, and there’s a good chance the band will preview more songs from it at their upcoming shows.

Earlier this month, too, Melaleuca released a brand new single titled Dog Licking, describing it as “a windows-down summer single about going through the motions of relationships and facing down hard decisions”. Expounding on the vision, frontwoman Jane Millroy said the track is “about falling in and out of love”, noting that “sometimes people come into your life at the wrong time, but you can’t help when you fall in love with someone”.