Australian music company Bird’s Robe will conclude their 15th anniversary celebrations with a massive show at the Metro Theatre on Sunday 14 December.
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Headlining the final event of a 7 show series are alternative rock heavyweights COG, playing their first shows of 2025, alongside American alternative rock icons ..And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, returning to Australia for the first time in over a decade.
Set across two stages - the evening kicks off at 2pm and showcases a dynamic lineup from the Bird’s Robe family. Highlights include the long-awaited reunion of influential math-prog outfit Squat Club, as well as performances from local post-rock and progressive rock favourites Meniscus, Solkyri, Shanghai, Mushroom Giant, SEIMS, Myriad Drone, Echotide, Grun & more.
Lucius Borich from COG said of Bird’s Robe/Mike Solo:
“For what he’s done for bands and artists and the independent music scene and industry, prog rock scene so to speak, it has been fantastic. You know, really been the artery to help things flow.”
The celebration also coincides with the release of the Bird’s Robe documentary series, which premiered its first episode last week. New episodes are set to drop fortnightly from July through December.
Bird’s Robe has long been a launchpad for some of Australia’s most acclaimed post-rock and progressive artists, including sleepmakeswaves, We Lost The Sea, Closure in Moscow, Toehider, Meniscus, The Crooked Fiddle Band, Troldhaugen, and Solkyri, among others.
Across its 15-year journey, the label has promoted more than 1,500 live shows and released over 200 records, including five ARIA-nominated albums and seven #1 releases on the Australian Independent Charts. Its catalogue has collectively amassed over 50 million streams, underscoring the label’s impact both locally and internationally. Over 100,000 tickets have been sold to Bird's Robe events around the world.
Director Mike Solo says:
Ten years ago, on Saturday 5 December in 2015, a bunch of bands playing post-rock, prog, metal and alternative rock got together at Manning Bar in Sydney, Australia to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Bird’s Robe Records. It was awesome.
Since then, we’ve crossed the globe many more times, survived a global pandemic and come out the other side with even more talent to showcase from our little niche. So please join us to relive the memories, create new ones & celebrate an epic ride of prog, post rock, and otherwise innovative music with our friends & family.
If you’ve never had the chance to see some of these bands, we hope our efforts to bring them all together in the one place make for a worthy day/night of entertainment.
Enjoy!