PBS presents the ‘Live and Local’ outdoor stage

Separation and High Street Outdoor Stage

Artist: Brolga Boys

Time:12:00pm - 12:40pm

Brolga Boys have been performing for over many years and have established themselves as one of the Indigenous Bands in the country. All members are excellent musicians in their own rite and together they form a band that produces a great sound. They celebrate their music every time they take to the stage with a dynamic performance.

http://www.myspace.com/brolgaboys

Artist: The Peep Tempel

Time:1:00pm - 1:40pm

The Peep Tempel play the music you would celebrate a successful bank robbery to. It goes great with champagne and smug grins, and will give you more than enough adrenalin to deal with the close physical attention that the local law enforcement agencies will be giving you when they know that your far too pissed to defend yourself and come bashing down the door for their slice of the pie. We like Lobby Lloyde, Ezy E and alcohol fuelled ball games, We look forward to meeting you!

Artist: Brothers Grim and the Blue Murders

Time:2:00pm - 2:40pm

Brothers Grim began as the Inabinet Brothers duo, ripping out 20/30’s style delta blues songs with a furious fervour. Over the coarse of the next two years they slowly bought on board a string of musicians to settle on their current band ‘the Blue Murders’ – a fat and sweaty combination of Drums, Double Bass, Dolbro slide guitar and Howling vocals.

The result has been described as “…Skip James on too much cocaine, tempered with that ol’ fashioned morphine that’s good enough for your gran-pa, a truly engaging experience ”

But the short of it is: Brothers Grim and the Blue Murders are the filthiest Country-Blues band to come out of Melbourne in some time. It is not the clean homogenised ‘white-boy’ blues repackaged again and again, but rather straight up ‘country-blues’ – fired at you like a buck-shot!

Order a whiskey, sit down and strap in…this is gonna be a bumpy ride.

http://www.myspace.com/brothersgrimblues

Artist: Downhills Home

Time:3:00pm - 3:40pm

Melbourne based five piece Downhills Home have quietly earned their place as one of the finest roots-rock acts getting around the country today. They released a cracker of a record earlier this year, their second to date, titled ‘the Wolves in the Woods’ and it was met with a tone of praise from critics and fans. Martin Jones of Rhythms Magazine called it ‘the guitar rock album of the year’, the Age gave it 4 stars and Beat Magazine said ‘Downhills Home are as real as bands come. Great songs, serious licks, elegance as far as the eye can see.’
Since it’s release the band have been touring extensively across the nation and now return home in better form than ever, to play one of their first Melbourne shows since July.

http://www.myspace.com/downhillshome

Artist: The Red Tree

Time:4:00pm - 4:40pm

Melbourne three piece THE RED TREE create a unique synthesis of ambient, textural and electronic pop; delicately interweaving dense sonic landscapes with haunting vocal harmonies and driving beats. Their music moves dynamically through minimalist sonic lullabies to full, realised crescendos, resulting in a captivating, melancholic yet beautiful listening experience which is set before a flickering backdrop of sublimely animated projections. The group formed whilst living together above a gallery in 2005, and after a few years of experimentation, they have finished their debut album entitled 'I am not a bird', released in June 2009.

http://www.myspace.com/theredtree

Artist: Silver City Highway

Time:5:00pm - 5:40pm

Have you seen Silver City Highway before? In which carnation did you see them? Was it a full blown psychedelic beast? Perhaps it was the mellower side of songwriter Fergus McAlpin you witnessed at a quiet Fitzroy local.
Additions of Viola and Theremin to the ever changing line up, from the epic wall of sound to the intimate and everywhere in between, Silver City Highway shows are never the same twice making them an addition to the High Vibes festival not to be missed.

http://www.myspace.com/silvercityhighway

Artist: The Sand Pebbles

Time:6:00pm - 6:40pm

Elvis, Stones, Sand Pebbles, Beatles.

http://www.myspace.com/sandpebbles

Artist: Cuthbert and The Night Walkers (NSW)

Time:7:00pm - 7:40pm

Sydney sextet Cuthbert & the Night Walkers have just released their new single ‘Pace Ourselves’ – an ode to surviving a big night on the town – and they’ll be making the trip down to Melbourne to play it to Northcote on Sun 20 Sept at High Vibes festival. Mixed by Cornel Wilczek (Qua), ‘Pace Ourselves’ is the first slice of delicious pop lifted from the band’s sophomore album, due for release October 2009 through ABC Music/Universal. Cuthbert & the Night Walkers won triple j’s Unearthed in 2007. Since then they have gone onto perform with Soko, Peter Bjorn & John, and Still Flyin’, and played festivals including Playground Weekender, The Great Escape and Peats Ridge.

http://www.myspace.com/cuthbertandthenightwalkers

Artist: Matt Joe Gow

Time:8:00pm - 8:40pm

Very few artists wield so much charisma that they can sell you just about anything before you’ve realised what’s happened. Matt Joe Gow has the charisma to be one of those artists – but he isn’t. Matt prefers to concentrate on the conviction. On writing and delivering songs that look you straight in the eye. You don’t have to listen to more than thirty seconds of Matt’s debut LP ‘The Messenger’ to appreciate that. The deep quaver in his voice leaps out of opening track ‘Come To Mama, She Says’, like an arrow, both graceful and inexorable.

http://www.myspace.com/mattjoegowmusic