A magnificent night Saturday night at Mr Boogie Man Bar for ‘Back to the Yak’.

Thanks to everybody who made it along – and for the very special night it was. Lots of people to thank for their support. We are The Tribe. Graham & Kate, Heidi, Madeleine A & Jax  – thanks for your epic efforts, serving all kinds of interesting food (including a mountain of fairy bread). To Paddy Lulu, Rod & Sean from Bomb Cafe – we salute you for generously giving us the ability to cook and reheat! And to Clive Cooke, thank you for donating the meat tray for the Dave Frusher meat tray raffle – and Heidi again for a sterling effort with the raffle tix.

Thanks to Rosco for brilliant guitar guest action in the 3rd set. Mr Mick Brown – you totally rocked on drums (under duress at times – created of course by me).

Fires out.

One more sleep til our last local show before heading overseas. Come on down to Mr Boogie Man Bar tomorrow night for a one-off ‘Back to the Yak’ extravaganza. Free entry, finger food, meat tray raffle, special guests. It’s all happening at the hottest show in town. 160 Hoddle St Abbotsford. See you there!

Fires out.

Come down to Mr Boogie Man Bar Abbotsford, 7pm Sat 24th Aug. It’ll be an awesome night – free entry – and our last local show before heading to Europe in September. The Dave Frusher Meat Tray Raffle, a special guest or two, finger food and so much more. See ya there.

Keep this on the down low. Comes out Sunday in Germany.

Our debut album Sky Caves In is now available on Spotify at The On Fires page.

Check it out right here –

We’ve re-released this album in honour of our first European tour in 6 years – this September – and for ‘Back to the Yak’ at Mr Boogie Man Bar, 7pm 24th August. Check our FB page for details.

Sky Caves In was released in 2004 (Whoa) during the heady days of all things MySpace. We’d even book tours using this now all-but-defunct app, easily contacting bands overseas, jumping on lineups from Poland to Ukraine, sleeping on floors etc.

Sky was recorded locally at our previous home studio in Richmond. Mick Brown, who’ll be joining us at Back to the Yak, was our drummer way back then. And he killed it. Check the title track for one.

Fires out.

Very special guest, Mr Mick Brown – our original drummer who played on the Sky Caves In album – will be joining us on stage at the ‘Back to the Yak’ show, Sat 24th August at Mr Boogie Man. How cool is that!

We’ve played tons of shows with Mick – and many at the Yak. He’s a crackin’ roof-raising super rock drummer – and a gentleman to boot (unlike myself). Damn we’re looking forward to it!

Fires out.

Here it comes. The big one for the year. (for quite a few years in fact). We’re taking it back to The Yak, the bar where it all began for us some 12 years ago. These days it’s my local. Barman Dave (the Doctor), gave the place a new name 5 years ago – Mr Boogieman Bar.

Dave and cohorts Jax and Rosco have restored the place to it’s former glory. And we’ll be back there on Saturday 24th August. Kicking off around 7pm. We have a special guest or two – details shortly, watch this space.

Seeya there!

Fires out.

Saturday night 24th August 2019, we’re ‘Back At The Yak’.

A show 12 years in the making… from the place where it all began. Now the beloved Mr Boogieman Bar – Join us for a one-and-only pre-European tour show.
(Europe September) Heidi’s quiche? Meat raffle? (Clive)

More details soon – keep the date. 24th8.