Bird’s Robe Announce 15th Birthday Tour In December
featuring COG, sleepmakeswaves, Trail Of Dead, Caspian, Closure In Moscow and more!
We’re excited to finally announce a special series of seven shows to celebrate our 15th anniversary!
Taking place over two weekends in December this year, the celebratory lineup features an impressive array of headliners, including Australian rock icons COG, Texas-based post-hardcore pioneers ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, acclaimed Sydney post-rock outfit sleepmakeswaves, and cinematic rock luminaries Caspian from Boston.
The Bird’s Robe 15th birthday tour will visit Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne across two weekends - December 5-7 and December 11-14 - and feature a diverse lineup of artists from the Bird’s Robe roster.
Highlights include the first Australian performances in over a decade for both ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead and Caspian, alongside the long-awaited reunions of math-prog pioneers Squat Club and ambient rock outfit Grun.
Fan favourites including COG, sleepmakeswaves, Meniscus, SEIMS, Anubis, and Shanghai will deliver their only Australian shows of 2025, while Closure in Moscow and Toehider return to home stages for the first time in ten months.
Affectionately dubbed ‘Mikefest II’, the tour follows the label’s original fifth birthday celebration held at Sydney’s Manning Bar in 2015. The original event earned the informal nickname ‘Mikefest’ from the artists, in tribute to Bird’s Robe founder Mike Solo.
Beyond the music, fans can look forward to exclusive merch giveaways, meet-and-greets, complimentary food and drinks for early arrivals, and even table tennis tournaments at select venues.
The celebration also coincides with the release of the Bird’s Robe documentary series, which premiered its first episode last week. New episodes are set to drop fortnightly from July through December.
Bird’s Robe has established itself as a cornerstone of Australia’s post-rock and progressive music scene, representing some of the country’s most acclaimed and adventurous artists. The label’s roster includes internationally recognised acts such as sleepmakeswaves, We Lost The Sea, Closure in Moscow, Toehider, Meniscus, The Crooked Fiddle Band, Troldhaugen, and Solkyri, among others.
Plans to mark Bird’s Robe’s 10th anniversary with a series of live events in 2020 were ultimately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These celebrations pivoted to the production of a documentary series, which also faced delays amid extended lockdowns and restrictions.
In its 15-year history, Bird’s Robe has promoted more than 1,500 shows and released over 200 records, including five ARIA-nominated albums and seven #1 albums on the Australian Independent Charts, amassing over 50 million streams across its catalogue to date.
Director Mike Solo says:
Ten years ago, on Saturday 5 December in 2015, a bunch of bands playing post-rock, prog, metal and alternative rock got together at Manning Bar in Sydney, Australia to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Bird’s Robe Records. It was awesome.
Since then, we’ve crossed the globe many more times, survived a global pandemic and come out the other side with even more talent to showcase from our little niche. So please join us to relive the memories, create new ones & celebrate an epic ride of prog, post rock, and otherwise innovative music with our friends & family.
If you’ve never had the chance to see some of these bands, we hope our efforts to bring them all together in the one place make for a worthy day/night of entertainment.
Enjoy!
BIRD’S ROBE 15TH BIRTHDAY TOUR
Fri, 5 December - The Brightside Outdoors + Indoors, Brisbane - TICKETS
feat. COG + Caspian (USA) + Kodiak Empire + hazards of swimming naked + Echotide + Squat Club
Sat, 6 December - Max Watts, Melbourne - TICKETS
feat. Caspian (USA) + Suldusk + Meniscus + Solkyri + Squat Club + Treebeard
Sun, 7 December - Manning Bar, Sydney - TICKETS
feat. sleepmakeswaves + Caspian (USA) + Closure in Moscow + Toehider + Anubis + Squat Club + Treebeard + Kodiak Empire + Mowgli + clayhands + Hence Confetti + The Orphaned Bee
Thurs, 11 December - The Triffid, Brisbane - TICKETS
feat. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (USA) + SEIMS + Shanghai + the sea shall not have them
Fri, 12 December - Max Watts, Melbourne - TICKETS
feat. COG + ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (USA) + Mushroom Giant + SEIMS + the sea shall not have them
Sat, 13 December - Max Watts, Melbourne - TICKETS
feat. sleepmakeswaves + ..And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (USA) + Closure in Moscow + Toehider + Anubis + Kodiak Empire + Echotide + Svntax Error + Myriad Drone
Sun, 14 December - Metro Theatre + Metro Social, Sydney - TICKETS
feat. COG + ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (USA) + Meniscus + Solkyri + SEIMS + Squat Club + Shanghai + Mushroom Giant + Echotide + Myriad Drone + Svntax Error + Grun
