MUSIC NEWS: Summer Sounds 2024 at Bunjil Place double headliner RVG and Jen Cloher

Bunjil Place’s Summer Stage Presents: 
Summer Sounds with RVG and Jen Cloher performing a licensed All Age show Saturday 24 February

Summer Sounds 2024 brings live, local music to Bunjil Place in Narre Warren. On Saturday 24 February, Summer Sounds will once again light up Bunjil Place’s outdoor events precinct with RVG and Jen Cloher, supported by Play Lunch. Presented by Music Victoria’s On The Road Again program, Summer Sounds brings an evening of music and entertainment to the heart of Melbourne’s South Eastern suburbs.

2024 brings an extra special transformation to the space, with a full concert stage and temporary shipping containers providing weather shelter and food service areas to ensure a great experience, no matter the weather. The temporary additions to the space remain in place until February 28 and provide a functional outdoor entertainment space as part of Bunjil Place’s Summer events program; Summer Stage. Running from Saturday 20 January until Wednesday 28 February, Summer Stage brings daily entertainment with children’s workshops, Sunday beer garden hangouts, music, outdoor movies, comedy and more. 

RVG

Australian combo RVG, blend lush jangling guitar pop with elements of post-punk, goth, and ’80s college rock. Hailing from the Naarm suburb of Preston by singer/songwriter and Adelaide native Romy Vager, the band followed a trail set by forebears like the Go-Betweens, the Soft Boys, and the Sisters of Mercy. 

No strangers to the live scene, the iconic band set has been seen at Meredith Music Festival, travelled Europe and the UK with Shame (UK) and Sleaford Mods (UK), toured the USA with Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, toured Australia with Kurt Vile (US), Pixies (UK) and POND, showcased at SXSW, The Great Escape and Reeperbahn, performed at Denmark’s renowned Roskilde Festival, and played a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge session, hosted by Huw Stephens.

The four bandmates will be performing songs from their third studio album Brain Worms, a release that pushed them into new spaces, receiving critical acclaim both locally and internationally in 2023. “If we could only make one more album, it would be this one.” - Romy Vager  

Jen Cloher

Songwriter and performer Jen Cloher’s (Ngāpuhi & Ngāti Kahu) taut, terse brand of rock is charged with the static tension that comes with being an eternal misfit; they have spoken truth to power with the shrewd eye that only an outsider can possess. Their incisive, generous songwriting has been admired over the course of five albums, winning a J Award and AIR Award, with ARIA and Australian Music Prize nominations, and will serenade the audience with gems from their 2023 album I Am The River, The River Is Me. 

Inspired by Cloher’s powerful matrilineal line of wāhine Māori, I Am The River, The River Is Me is not urgent, or hurried, but it is vital. The joy of life, Cloher seems to say, is in forgiving your moments of weakness with grace, and embracing the parts of you that are unfinished.

Victoria has a strong network of Performing Arts Centres (the VAPAC network) that present a broad range of work from theatre, dance, cabaret, circus, comedy, live music, and more. Music for the Stages as part of On The Road Again, a Victorian Government initiative delivered by Music Victoria to support the return of live music events across the state, with a focus on contemporary music acts, programmed and working with local curators. 

Bunjil Place was officially opened on 28 October 2017. As the City of Casey’s treasured entertainment precinct, it brings together an unprecedented mix of facilities including an outdoor community plaza, theatre, multipurpose studio, function centre, library, and gallery all in one special place. With a central theme taken from an interpretation of the land in the culture of Wurundjeri, Bunurong and Boon Wurrung people, the traditional owners and inhabitants of this land inspired by two stories, 'The Meeting of Many Paths' and 'Bunjil' the Eagle.

Don't miss this opportunity to soak up the warm Summer nights under the stars with your favourite artists RVG and Jen Choler. 

Summer Sounds - Bunjil Place
Saturday 24 February
RVG and Jen Cloher
Play Lunch 
DJ Sandra Majoka
2 Patrick NE Drive, Narre Warren Victoria 
Licensed All Ages
Doors 5.00 pm - late
Tickets $25+BF: www.bunjilplace.com.au/summersounds
Full Summer Stage Program: bunjilplace.com.au/summerstage
RVG website: www.rvgband.com
Jen Cloher website: www.jencloher.com/jen