Open House Melbourne is a public architecture organisation that advocates for well-designed cities.

A year-round program of talks, tours, workshops, interviews and special programs explore issues, challenges and success stories of our built environment. At the heart of the program is the Open House Weekend in Melbourne and now Ballarat, where people visit significant buildings and sites across the city to learn about how the built environment and urban planning initiatives and issues influence our culture and shape our future.  

By empowering people with knowledge about the impact of good design decisions in our built environment, Open House Melbourne aims to ensure our cities are liveable and vibrant places now and in the future. 

First started in London twenty-five years ago and now in thirty-seven cities around the world, the success of the Open House model is due to its approach of offering diverse, direct design experiences, free-of-charge, in a non-elitist manner. It reaches over 750,000 people worldwide—the largest audience of any public-facing architecture program.

Having drifted around the world recording and playing shows for the last few years, Roller One have settled back into Melbourne to release their third album.

Roller One is a collaboration between Fergus McAlpin on lead vocals and guitar, and Adam Afiff on double bass. Their songs span astral folk and alt-country genres, and are influenced by the rich Melbourne music scene and a desire to create work that is both full of tradition and something original. The current band formation is a three-piece with drums.

Piss Factory began as the solo project of Scout Albertine, playing with a four-track and simple drum machine in her suburban Sydney bedroom and releasing a number of EPs and zines between 2013 and 2015, with songs and sound collages bursting with stories about heartbreak and friendship and contracting glandular fever.

Inspired by 1970s punk and narrative songwriting—Piss Factory is named after a Patti Smith song, after all—the pull of Melbourne brought Scout south in 2016 to study painting, a decision which kickstarted a renewed musical creative streak too. This prompted the desire to make her songs sound bolder and louder in the city’s celebrated music venues, and she soon recruited Bianca (from The Girl Fridas) on drums and local zinester Thomas on bass.

Having played together for over a year, Piss Factory’s current repertoire is a mixture of older material and new songs demoed by Scout in her studio, The 377. This is reflected on their debut eponymous cassette, recorded by Jay Tyler, whose production credits include EPs by Pillow Pro, Chelsea Bleach and Ghost Dick.

Time For Dreams is the Melbourne-based duo Tom Carlyon (Standish/Carlyon; The Devastations) on guitar and beats, and Amanda Roff (Harmony) on vocals and bass. Recently through It Records they released their debut album, In Time, described as transit music for imagined journeys through humid, dystopian landscapes; where nightclubs pulse slow and dark in the dense tropical heat; where the mediterranean meets the sky; and where the metropolis meets the desert.

Chris Endrey is a prolific artist of many stripes and he's bringing a band to town to play through his debut LP, Lost + Found. A concept work of interconnected songs performed on the piano, the album is a startlingly intimate and raw take on notions of Australian masculinity. Supported by drummer Clarke Finn (PAINTonPAINT) and bassist Louis Montgomery (Slow Turismo), this lush and vulnerable work builds a dynamic soundscape of loss and yearning and regional Australia.

Liam Linley is a singer, writer and guitarist, with a musical style ranging from rock 'n' roll to folk and beyond. In his previous bands, The Bowers and HOY, Liam released three albums and three EPs, and toured Europe and the UK as well as Australia. Liam now plays under his own name—both solo and with the Liam Linley Band—and released his first solo single, ‘Soaking Cherries’ in August 2017. He's currently preparing to release a second single in November, with his debut solo EP set to follow in March 2018.

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