Welcome to Bird’s Robe.
Bird’s Robe is dedicated to the promotion and continuation of progressive and experimental music in Australia and around the world. It’s a management company, a record label, a booking agency, a tour promoter, a publicist, a publisher, a blog & probably a few other things.
Formed in 2008 by Michael Solo & Alexander Tulett, Bird’s Robe has grown to accommodate artist management, bookings, releases, publicity and tour promotion both nationally & internationally.
Art rock, prog, post-rock, pop-prog, jazz-metal, avante-garde, psych-rock, post-metal, electronica, chiptune,?noise-rock, fusion, tech-rock, crescendo-core, new dirt, experimental rock?are just some of the many descriptions used to define the music we enjoy & promote. The one thing it all has in common: it’s music we like. Give it a listen & we hope you’ll like it too.
***FAQ***
What the hell are you?
In the development of the music scene we love, BRC acts as a label, promoter, publicist, agent and management.
Since 2008, we?ve orchestrated over 400 shows, pushing amazing left-field, Australian and international?artists. Bird?s Robe have created and?produced Sydney?s FeatherFest, Space Prom and Progfest events, the Australia-wide MENAGERIE festival & championed international touring acts such as:
65daysofstatic (UK)
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead (USA)
And So I Watch You From Afar (Northern Ireland)
Caspian (USA)
f*ckjazzforaminute
Maybeshewill (UK)
Mew (Denmark)
MONO (Japan)
Ningen Dogs Orchestra (Japan)
Ruins-alone (Japan)
The A Band (UK)
The Protomen (USA)
This Will Destroy You (USA)
Tujiko Noriko (Japan)
Vampillia (Japan)
Bird’s Robe has also hosted tours and album releases by sleepmakeswaves, Closure in Moscow, We Lost The Sea, The Red Paintings, Meniscus, Toehider, Troldhaugen, Pirate, Anubis, The Crooked Fiddle Band & many more.
In 2010 we launched Bird?s Robe Records (BRR), assisting local and international acts with distribution for their releases, as well as sponsoring collaborative recording projects between musicians, released under the series moniker ?The Bird?s Robe Collaboration Band.?
Why the hell are you?
The Bird?s Robe Collective came about through an almost complete lack of promotion for progressively minded or influenced bands in Sydney, leaving these groups very few options for support. This collective was started to bring those bands together to help each other, whilst maybe even making a name for themselves and their music.
Since then we’ve evolved to help the artists we love take their music to a wider audience and help like-minded fans of this music continue to enjoy listening to and seeing these musicians.
Our resume includes?an assembly of similarly motivated musicians, artists and bands with half a mind to slap you silly with progressive and experimental music, aiming to keep you entranced long after the last chord has faded.
Who are the hell are you?
BRC continues to be run by Mike Solo
For?BRR artists and releases,?browse our site or listen directly at?www.birdsrobe.bandcamp.com
For a comprehensive list of bands we?ve worked with, see below.
To contact us, call Mike on 0404 937 095, or email at birdsrobe (at) gmail (dot) com
OK so what does ?Bird?s Robe? mean?
Not much at all! It?s a title intended to create imagery. It also makes it easier for us to design posters.
BANDS
We’ve worked with and promoted a lot of artists over the past few years.
There are a smaller number of acts who are exclusively part of our management, bookings & label roster. You can check them out over at the ‘artists’ tab.
There is a far larger number of artists whom we support, recommend or have supported in some form or other.
Here’s a list in alphabetical order. Check out, because they are all great.
- 65daysofstatic
- …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
- A Band
- Abortifacient
- Adrift For Days
- aheadphonehome
- Akh-Naut
- And So I Watch You From Afar
- A Lonely Crowd
- Annexed
- Anubis
- AquaNaut
- Arcane
- Atlantis
- The Barons of Tang
- Batterie
- beaufields
- Besom
- Bon Chat Bon Rat
- Blonde Bear
- Brackets
- Breaking Orbit
- Brian Campeau
- Bright Quito Spring
- The Bznzz
- Caplin Rous
- Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes
- Captains
- Caspian
- Cheapshot
- Cities of the Red Night
- Citizen Loud
- Closure in Moscow
- CODA
- The Crooked Fiddle Band
- Darth Vegas
- Dave Carr?s Fabulous Contraption
- Dead Ant Rainbow
- Double Handed
- Dream Cities
- Drowning Horse
- Dumbsaint
- Echotide
- Eleventh He Reaches London
- Ennis Tola
- Forenzics
- Foveaux
- Fourteen Nights at Sea
- fuckjazzforaminute
- Geamala
- Ghoul
- Godinpants
- Godswounds
- Greenthief
- Grun
- Hawkmoth
- Hazards of Swimming Naked
- HEIRS
- Helm
- Hinterlandt
- Hope Drone
- I Am The Agent
- i like cats
- Injured Ninja
- Josh Gibbs
- Justin Ashworth
- Karoshi
- Kerretta
- Kidney Thieves
- Lander Configurations
- LAN Party
- Laura
- Laurenz Pike
- Lumiere
- May
- Maybeshewill
- Mechanical Black
- Megastick Fanfare
- Meladora
- Meniscus
- Mew
- Mirrorsessions
- Mish
- MONO
- Moranis
- Mountain Static
- Mushroom Giant
- The Mumps
- Ne Obliviscaris
- Nikko
- Ningen Dogs Orchestra
- Nobody Knew They Were Robots
- Nucleus
- Osaka Punch
- Panzer Queen
- Paper Champion
- pHader
- Pipe Dreamer
- Pirate
- The Protomen
- PVT (Pivot)
- Quiet Child
- Rockethead
- Re:enactment
- Rook
- Rosetta
- Ruins-alone
- Secrets in Scale
- Serious Beak
- Setec
- Sex on Toast
- Screens
- Shanghai
- Skull Squadron
- sleepmakeswaves
- Slimey Things
- Solkyri
- Space Banditos
- Space Project
- Spider Goat Canyon
- Squat Club
- Squid
- Steering By Stars
- Svelt
- Tangled Thoughts of Leaving
- Tatsuya Yoshida
- Teal
- Ten Thousand Free Men and Their Families
- The Red Paintings
- These Hands Could Separate The Sky
- The Silent World
- This Is Your Captain Speaking
- This Will Destroy You
- Tim McMillan Band
- Tinderbox
- Toehider
- Totally Unicorn
- Toy Death
- Triangle
- Troldhaugen
- TTT
- Tujiko Noriko
- Twelve Foot Ninja
- Tyme.
- Umlaut
- Underlapper
- Unitopia
- Vampillia
- Violence in Action
- Voyager
- Water Temples
- Xenograft