Check out this great line-up of acts at Archies

THE great music and good times are really starting to hot up at the music capital of Gippsland, the Archies Creek Hotel.

The Caravan Music Club team have put together an incredible line-up from now through to the early New Year and beyond and it keeps rolling on this Friday night with cosmic country singer-songwriter, Freya Josephine Hollick.

Growing up in Ballarat, Hollick was exposed to jazz, soul and indie rock before discovering old-timey folk, blues and country music and everyone at Archies Creek is looking forward to Freya launching her long awaited new album, 'The Real World' on the cosy pub stage by the fire.

Tickets are still available on line at https://bit.ly/3GMh7RU or at the door at the Archies Creek Hotel on Friday night, November 25, 8pm open, 8.30pm show.

Freya will be playing up close and personal with a full band featuring luminaries like Louis King & James Gilligan who starred at the Harvest Celebration at Memo last Sunday.

Back in the before times, Freya travelled to the Californian desert to record at the famed studio Rancho de la Luna with Lucinda Williams’ band Buick 6 and renowned guitarist Greg Leisz (Eric Clapton, Beck, Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris et al).The resulting sessions were brought back and then shaped with her Australian band through the ebbs, flows and challenges of the pandemic years.

“Nobody’s No Better Than No One” was the first taste of Hollick’s new work. Clad in cosmic desert dust, the single was heavily influenced by Gene Clark’s hallowed 1974 album No Other, it was added readily to Australian national radio and picked up a sync on the HBO TV drama The Flight Attendant. ‘Nobody’s No Better Than No One’ is an anthem for the underdog.

Next Freya issued “Impossible To Love”, a reclamation of sound and purpose. This short, sharp spark saw Freya embracing her youthful, raw outlaw heart, and national radio again embracing the new single with high rotation. Leaping forward with an electric country scratch, the artist looking to push the much-loved 70sinspired vibe into meaning for these complex times.

Freya returned with the title track “The Real World” which cries to the bleak situation we find our planet in. Once again scoring high rotation on national radio the song laments an earth sosick where, “the sky has turned to fire”. Aching and punctuated by her pure and fragile tone, the song orbits in an ether of sullen strings and bawling steel guitar.

It's a unique sound, begging to blend in with the green rolling hills of South Gippsland and Bass Coast.

Renowned Nashville Fiddle player Joshua Hedley will also have an all-star band with him on Sunday arvo at Archies Creek when the hotel goes into honky tonk hoedown mode.

What a privilege to have such amazing international players in our midst and believe it or not, there are still a few tix left!

Book here: https://bit.ly/3EZJs6b

Scroll down to see what's coming up soon at the creek:

• Friday, November 25 - Freya Josephine Hollick Album Launch
• Sunday, November 27 - Joshua Hedley And Band W/Special Guest Emily Nenni
• Saturday, December 3 - Off The Record and Caravan Music Present 'Big Southern BBQ' featuring Tex Perkins & Matt Walker, Sweet Talk And Queenie & Band
• Sunday, December 4 - Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks
• Friday, December9 - Continental Robert Blues Party
• Saturday, December 10 - Mark Seymour & The Undertow (Almost Sold Out).
• Sunday, December 11 - An Old Fashioned 'Christmas' With Henry Wagons
• Saturday, December 17 - Lisa Miller 'Car Tape 20th Anniversary'
• Sunday, December 18 - The Black Sorrows 'Christmas Party'
• Saturday, December31 – Jazzparty (New Years Eve) W/Special Guests + Dj Ginger Light
• Sunday, January 1 (New Years Day) Mick Thomas & The Roving Commission + Sherry Rich & The Grievous Angels + Dave Wright & The Midnight Electric
• Sunday, January 8 - Katie Noonan – Joni Mitchell's Blue 50th Anniversary
• Sunday, January 15 - The Lyric Genius Of John Prine featuring Mike Mcclellan, Lachlan Bryan & Suzannah Espie.
• Saturday, January 21 - Bones & Jones 'Regional Tour'
• Saturday, February 4 - Red Volkaert & Ray Beadle 'Guitar Gumbo Australian Tour'
• Sunday, February 5 - Brian Cadd & Band
• Sunday, February 12 - Ella Hooper Album Launch (Tickets on sale Monday, November 28 @ 8am!
• Saturday, February 15 - Chad Morgan
• Sunday, February 26 - Dog Trumpet 'Shadowland Album Launch' W/ Special Guest Stephen Cummings
• Friday, March 3 - Eilen Jewell W/Special Guests The Rechords
• Saturday, March 4 - Liam Gerner & Los Perros Perdidos Album Launch.
• Sunday, March 5 - Eric Bibb (USA) (Sold Out)
• Friday, March 10 - Hussy Hicks
• Saturday, March 11 – Chain '55th Anniversary Celebration
• Saturday, March 18 - Songs For Suzanne: The Music And Poetry Of Leonard Cohen (Tix On Sale From Wed 09 Nov @ 9am).
• Sunday, March 19 - Liz Stringer & William Crighton
• Sunday, May 21 - Robert Forster
• Sunday, March 26 - The Whitlams Black Stump Band.