Australian avant-pop provocateur & icon Kirin J Callinan returns to the stage in 2025 at the intimate Carlton institution The Curtin. That's where the familiarities end.

The setlist will feature a selection of songs not usually, if ever, played live before. Deep cuts from the albums Embracism, Bravado, Return To Center, If I Could Sing and Can't F*ck The F*cker, as well as stand alone singles such as Thighs, The Teacher, Dumb Enough or New Music Friday, plus yet to be realised or released new works - fleshed out & worked out live for the very first time - are all up for discussion, down for dissection, ripe for the picking et al etc.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to see one of Australia's most storied & spontaneous, aesthetic, chaotic & generous live performers, playing songs he'd otherwise forgotten or that he's never even known how, belting 'em out like his life depends on it, as always.

Featuring two extra special special guests - The first hailing from Wollongong via Tokyo, truly a musicians musician; the melodic, open hearted, dry, wry and globally loved Tex Crick; and, opening the show, the Pakistani pleatherman playboy, most recently based in Naarm having conquered Berlin & beyond, with his singular vision & expressive reimaging of new wave romance, classical bombast, black metal magic and pop-placicity, crwl