Sticky Carpet Up front: Tex Perkins (front) and the Beasts of Bourbon. Back for its second year, New Years Evie is a two day camping festival, December 31 to January 2, on the same site as Easter's Boogie festival in Tallarook, one hour away from Melbourne. The line-up to see in 2015 includes Chela, Civic Civil, the Harpoons, Teeth & Tongue, Fraser A. Gorman, Gruntbucket, the Babe Rainbow, the Reprobettes, the Galaxy Folk, Jasmin Kaset, Hexham Vox and DJs Manchild, Mermaid, Etta & Tilly, Sabatino, the Banger Sisters, Born Slippy and Larry Colonic Snr. The festival is all ages, BYO in camping areas with quality food and drink available plus a giant slip and slide. Tickets $99+bf, kids (8 -15 yrs) $44+bf and free for kids under 8. newyearsevie.com Gig of the week: Skyscraper Stan & the Commission Flats. Musician and now candidate for the seat of Albert Park in tomorrow's state election, Tex Perkins, fronted Australian swamp rockers the Beasts of Bourbon since 1983. A new documentary called The Brass Ring about the loud, sweaty group that grew from a side project to become one of the most popular live bands in the country has just been completed and will be released on DVD next month. Filmed over eight years and featuring exclusive interviews with all members of the band, including Spencer P. Jones, Kim Salmon, Charlie Owen, Boris Sudjovic, Brian Henry Hooper, James Baker and Tony Pola, The Brass Ring has been a labour of love for filmmakers Robert Brokenmouth and Jethro Heller. The pair will host an exclusive screening of the rockumentary at the Thornbury Theatre on Wednesday, December 3, with most bands members present for a Q&A. Tickets are available via the venue's website. The Beasts of Bourbon won't be performing live on the night, although some members will play live at the after party at nearby venue Tago Mago after the screening. The Coburg Night Market has live music every Friday for the next month. Now in its fifth year at Bridge Reserve, acts include afro beat group the Public Opinion Six, Uptown Brown, 1930s inspired jazz party the Furbelows, Kylie Auldist and the Glenroy Allstars, Nicky Bomba's Bustamento, Rob Snarski from the Black Eyed Susans, the Stetson Family, Alwan, Bindaas Bollywood, the Willie Wagtails and more. One of Melbourne's most enduring independent record labels Rubber Records celebrates its 25th anniversary with five live shows next month. There are three consecutive Wednesdays of gigs at the Northcote Social Club featuring rockers The Casanovas and a reformed proto Melbourne grunge group called The Affected. The following week sees a once-only reformation show by bZark and Tarek Smallman's Low Fly Incline plus Gareth Skinner. On December 17 its Hamish Cowan and his group Cordrazine in acoustic mode plus the Genes. Hip hop veterans 1200 Techniques are also back together after a near 10 year hiatus with a new EP on Rubber in January and performing live at Howler on December 12. Underground Lovers will wrap up the celebrations with a Christmas show at Howler on December 20. Rubber Records has released over 250 titles including music by Even, the Ice Cream Hand, Liquor Giants, Chris Whitley, Crooked Fingers, Ricaine, the Twilight Singers and the very first EP for Melbourne group Jet, who went on to sell almost 7 million albums. The line-up for the 26th Bluesfest in Byron Bay keeps growing with the fiveday family friendly Easter festival announcing Lenny Kravitz will headline the first night with Counting Crows, Ben Howard, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Jimmy Cliff, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood and many more. Other festival acts include the Black Keys, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Jurassic 5, Gary Clark Jr, Train, John Mayall, Keb Mo, Michael Franti with Spearhead, Angelique Kidjo, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Mavis Staples, Xavier Rudd, Tony Joe White, Mariachi El Bronx, Pokey LaFarge, Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin, Jon Cleary, G. Love & Special Sauce, RocKwiz Live and Paul Kelly 's Merri Soul Sessions with Dan Sultan, Kira Puru, Vika & Linda Bull and Clairy Browne. Tickets are on sale now, go to bluesfest.com.au for more information. Last week Bright Space Gallery in St Kilda hosted Punk Journey: St Kilda and Beyond. The exhibition focused on St Kilda, which was at the epicentre of the Melbourne punk scene between 1977 and 1987. The exhibition had authentic artefacts, photos, videos and fashion, which also coincided with Melynda von Wayward's Punk a Photographic Journey: 2004-2007 book launch and the first ever Melbourne Punk Awards. The celebration also included DIY punk workshops, forums, a walking tour, a little bands live music night and a punk pop up shop. Although most of the events sold out and the exhibition is now over there is enough public interest for an encore showing. Less than a month after launching as a music venue the owners of the newly refurbished Railway Hotel in Brunswick have pulled the plug. All gigs have been cancelled which includes this weekend's Ross McLennan show. Reasons for the decision have yet to become clear, although the venue is still open for business. The 18th annual Queenscliff Music Festival is on this weekend with a huge bill including Age Music Victoria Awards and ARIA winner Dan Sultan, the Jezebels, Kasey Chambers, the Church, the Waifs, Xavier Rudd, Hiatus Kaiyote, Stonefield, the Bombay Royale, Husky, Dyson Stringer Cloher, the Delta Riggs, Marlon Williams, Archer, Davidson Brothers, Charles Jenkins, D.D Dumbo, Emma Swift and Christopher Coleman Collective, Skyscraper Stan & the Commission Flats as well as internationals Hurray for the Riff Raff and much more. The three-day family friendly seaside festival offers a tier of ticketing options and accommodation options are still available. visit qmf.net.au for more information.