Jamie Hay with Liam White - Sunset Months Album Launch

Jamie Hay writes songs like open windows, inviting in light, air, and the quiet truths we sometimes forget to say out loud. A longtime voice in Australia’s independent music community, Hay’s work brings together years of lived experience, punk spirit, and disarming availability… reshaped into something gentler, brighter, and deeply human.

Best known for his work in DIY staples like Conation, A Death in the Family and Fear Like Us, Jamie Hay’s music continues to evolve while staying rooted in community and honesty. With Sunset Months, he offers listeners a set of quiet anthems for resilience: Keep going, the light is never too far off.

The new album, Sunset Months, which Jamie & Liam are launching marks his first solo release since 2012’s King of the Sun. A long-awaited return that feels both grounded and expansive. This time with longtime friend and collaborator Liam White at the forefront. Written during a time of reflection and change, Sunset Months is Hay at his most hopeful.

Joining Jamie & Liam on the show is long time friend Jen Buxton, a much loved and incredibly talented member of the Australian music scene with real grit in her voice. Combine this with a captivating writing style and you will begin to understand what makes her special. There is a reason that her 2014 Poison City Records release "Don't Change Your Plans" is an untouchable release. It is a rarity for Buxton to visit Melbourne these days so don't miss this opportunity to catch her live at this show!

Bec Stevens is an old soul. Not in the dust-and-mothballs fashion, but in that tugging, goosebump-raising way – something wholly familiar yet captivating and un-pinpointable.

Her voice is a trigger, prompting reflections of your own life while she brazenly steps us through her own. All of it’s there in its worn grooves, its pitched valleys. Line-by-line, verse-by-verse, it’s a voice that threads you back to something thought completely faded: that first house you moved into after finishing school, a party in motion, a moment – a lost feeling – somehow intact, frozen in time.

Finally, JMS Harrison known for his melancholic, guitar-driven sound, heavily influenced by post-rock and artists like The Cure will be opening the night