Perico in early retreat

Fresh after a sizzling performance on ANZAC Day eve at the Brunswick Hotel, Perico will soon hit their favourite drinking haunt and Brunswick's premier venue for live music, The Retreat Hotel.

From 6pm on Sunday 6th May, enjoy Mark Sinton (solo) before Perico play a dinner set performance starting at 7:30pm.

Free entry and great meals. Book your table soon.

Contact Us

If you'd like to contact Perico, you can email them, or phone Colin on 0425 746936.

Perico to play Gig for the Diggers

Brunswick musicians Perico have confirmed their return to the live scene with a special "Two-up Tuesday" supergig with Mark Sinton and the Prefabs on ANZAC Day Eve at the Brunswick.

"This gig is just like the Essendon-Collingwood ANZAC Day clash" explained Perico drummer Col.
"except that we'll be playing music, not football, and it's on the night before ANZAC Day, and not at the MCG but at the Brunswick Hotel."

"Otherwise, it's pretty much the same."

Perico Announce New Recording Project

Perico today confirmed reports that they would be seeking to record an EP for release later in the year. The songs have been selected under a complex voting system that was described by Perico Renaissance man, Richard Oldfield, as "akin to Australian Idol without the sms part" and are believed to include a number of new tracks, yet-to-be performed live.

"There'll be something for everyone in this EP" said new family man and gung-ho drummer Col.

In an exclusive interview with top Brunswick music blog pericoloco, Perico also indicated that a number of gigs have been lined up for April and May, including a possible return of the extremely successful "Sunday Drivers".

Sunday Drivers in Smash Hit.

Around 100 people packed out the Retreat Hotel on Sunday night to see the inaugural Sunday Drivers gig featuring Mark Sinton & the Prefabs, Thrill City Radio and Brunswick super-rockers Perico.

Well-known Brunswick drinker, Damo Wilding, was impressed.

"It was so pumped in there.. it was like a Saturday night, not a Sunday." he said.

"Only it was different 'cos I would have had to get up early the next day, being Monday, if I actually had a job to go to, that is."

Perico, who had just completed 6 gigs in 4 weeks and were in white-hot form, are likely to be in short recess for a month or two before re-appearing in March. More details to follow.

Check out Col's comments, plus see more video footage from Yarrawonga on the pericogigs blog.

Perico Returns

Hot off the tails of a whirlwind regional tour, Brunswick quartet Perico return to familiar territory this Sunday 21st Jan at the Retreat Hotel, Brunswick as part of the "Sunday Drivers" megagig.

First off the grid, and firing on all cylinders will be Mark Sinton and the Prefabs, followed by Perico, with the turbo charged Thrill City Radio gunning it down the home straight.

Engines will be started at 7pm, and $5 gets you pole position for all the action. The Retreat kitchen is open all day for re-fuelling.

Retreat Hotel is at 280 Sydney Road Brunswick (near corner Glenlyon Road)

Party - Yarrawonga 2nd January 2007

This is a rough edit of "Fall of Rome" performed at a party in Yarrawonga on the 2nd of January.

Farewell Show for TCR at Sunday Drivers

Thrill City Radio have announced that their final ever gig will be as the final act on the 21st January's Sunday Drivers gig at the Retreat.

Also on the bill is Northern-irish born Mark Sinton and his band, the Prefabs and Brunswick all-star rockers, Perico.

The line-up for this supergig is one of the strongest assembled this year so far, and appears to be a sho-in for next week's Golden Parrot.

Sunday Drivers kicks off at 6:30pm at the Retreat on Sun 21 jan. $5 cover charge.

Perico Gigs Blog Updated

Read reviews by Perico drummer Col about past Perico gigs here. Col promises to make an effort to backdate and list every Perico gig ever played. What a list. What a guy.

3/4 lengths back in as Yarrawonga ROCKS

"The fashion police haven't made it up to Yarrawonga as yet" said a disturbed Richo last night, commenting on the 3/4 lengths being worn by both bass player Greg and guest muso Sean Payne.

"I thought we had an agreement about wearing that type of thing ... obviously I was mistaken."

The 3/4 incident was the only sour note on an otherwise successful 2 gig tour to the Murray.

Perico return to Brunswick on the 21st of January at the Retreat Hotel.

For more photos from Yarrawonga, click here.

New Year's Eve in Brunswick

Given it's holiday season now, we could run this blog to cover every day's gigs because, let's face it, something is ALWAYS going on in the Wick. That's why we've just listed the gigs for this new year's eve and haven't bothered covering this Friday and Saturday and are not awarding this week's Golden Parrot. But it's is time to start thinking about who, out of all this year's talented winners of the Golden Parrot, will walk away with the coveted 2006 Platinum Crazy Parrot.

The Perocoloco (crazy parrot) awards are held annually in salubrious locations and have become somewhat of a Brunswick institution. More details on this year's awards will be posted next year( ie next week).

We promise that we will not follow the particularly lame example of Time Magazine when they awarded the 2006 person of the year to "you". We can assure you that you won't be winning anything, well, not in the way that Time did it. We've got far more class than that. And integrity.

See you next year.

New Year's Eve
DJ TROY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. Free.
HAVE YOUR SAY BAR TUNES Cornish Arms Hotel, Brunswick. Free.
NYE PARTY – FEAT: DJ’S THE AMBASSADORS OF THIS OLDE SCHOOL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. Free.
THE COMMITTED SOUL TRIBUTE The Spot, Brunswick. 7pm. Free.
PAUL WROKEY BAND Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 5.30pm. Free.


Wednesday 3rd January
PERICO with Sean Payne
Criterion Hotel, Yarrawonga

The Wick In the Wong

After a packed gig at the Brunswick on Friday night, Perico go country with their next gig at Murray River town, Yarrawonga.

Commencing at 8pm, Brunswick's favourite rockers take their eclectic blend of country/rock/folk/pop to the Criterion Hotel on the main drag at the Wong on Wednesday 3rd January and it's free.

Christmas Gigs in Brunswick

"We wish you a Merry Christmas..." - not exactly carol time in Brunswick, but some great Christmas shows to intersperse with the office parties and the desparate last-minute shopping.
It doesn't get much better than Sunday's Noise Bar extravanganza, with the brilliantly-named Kids in Cults rocking alongside Brunswick studs, Crazy Like a Fox and all girl group Bang Bang Bangs. Actually, it does get better, because Friday night's Golden Parrot winning gig is possibly the 2006 pericoloco gig-of-the-year.
Featuring an opening set from the accomplished Jeff Samin and Ben Birchall, Brunswick supergroup Perico follow, featuring Tim Gartland back on vocals and guitar for the first time in 8 months. Finally, international musician Mark Sinton and the Prefabs complete the perfect set. Merry Christmas.

Friday
MASTER CARDINAL + MY SECRET CIRCUS + ALITHIA Cornish Arms Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. $5.
BEN BIRCHALL & JEFF SAMIN + PERICO + MARK SINTON & THE PREFABS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. Free.
STARKY + MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY + DARDANELLES East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick. 8.30pm. $12+bf.
TV WEIRD Plan B Bar, Brunswick East.
BENNIE & THE FLY-BY-NIGHTERS Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 9.30pm. Free.

Saturday
A NIGHT ON THE TILES BY DISCOUNT LIQUOR RECORDS – FEAT: THE CRACKWHORES + BEACHCROMERS + THE LOVESLAPS + SWEDISH MAGAZINES + THE MATTI B Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm.
BILLY JOE BUFFALO Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6pm. Free.
BLUEBOTTLE KISS + LAURA & EMILY ULMAN East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick. 8.30pm. $12+bf.
MARIKA + PAPER PLANES + NEW ESTATE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. Free.
P-TEX Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7.30pm.
STOVETOP + TINPAN ORANGE Cornish Arms Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. $10.
THE CONCH + BRUNSWICK MUSIC GROUP Noise Bar, Brunswick. 3pm. Free.
THE WEATHERMEN Noise Bar, Brunswick. 2pm.
BRODERICK SMITH BAND Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 9.30pm. Free.

Sunday
AMBASSADORS OF THIS OLDE SCHOOL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
DJ PAT & SHANNON (DALLAS CRANE) Beergarden – Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3pm.
JAY BOATS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6pm. Free.
KIDS IN CULTS + TIJUANA SOUVENIRS + CRAZY LIKE A FOX + BANG BANG BANGS + IAN NIGHTINGALE Noise Bar, Brunswick. 3pm. Free
THE COMMITTED SOUL TRIBUTE The Spot, Brunswick. 7pm. Free.
THE WEATHERMEN Noise Bar, Brunswick. 12pm.
JIMMY DOWLING’S UMMER OPEN MIC SESSIONS Cornish Arms Hotel, Brunswick. 6pm. Free.
KELLY AUTY BAND Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 5.30pm. Free.

"I'm Ready to Go" says Perico Front Man

Returned Perico superstar singer, guitarist and song-writer, Tim Gartland, announced emphatically on the weekend that he was back and that he "was ready to go". Performing on a stage overlooking Melbourne's eastern suburbs which he likened to "standing on the Berlin Wall in the 1970's overlooking oppressed people in the east", Gartland was confident and bore no signs of ageing.

Perico return with Gartland on stage on Friday night at the Brunswick Hotel. Playing with Perico are Jeff Samin and Ben Birchall (early) and Mark Sinton & the Prefabs (late).

Brunswick This Weekend

In the hiatus between Meredith and the Perico XMAS show next week at the Brunswick Hotel, pericoloco went searching for a quieter place to recover. This week's Golden Parrot is awarded to JESSICA PAIGE + NICK STYLES + JUSTIN GROUNDS + BILLY JOE BUFFALO performing at Don’t Tell Tom Bar on Saturday evening.

Friday
DJ POWELL + DJ PANDY The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm.
KRISTY LEWIS & THE WRETCHED Plan B Bar, Brunswick East. 9pm.
LOUIS KING (CD LAUNCH) + PETE BAYLOR The Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 9pm. $10.
MASONIA Don’t Tell Tom Bar/Café, Brunswick. 9.30pm. $5.
BIG TONY'S SHOW OF RESPECT – FEAT: T.K.BOLLINGER The Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm.
MAURICE FRAWLEY & THE YARDHANDS Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 9.30pm. Free.
TRIPOD CHRISTMAS TOUR (COMEDY) East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick. $29+bf.

Saturday
DOWNHILLS HOME The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5pm.
JEN CLOHER AND THE ENDLESS SEA East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick. $15+bf.
SPECTRUM Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 9.30pm. Free.
THE BANK HOLIDAYS + NED COLLETTE + J WALKER The Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 9pm. $10.
THE VAGRANTS + SOULPHONIC + KINEMATICS The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm.
JESSICA PAIGE + NICK STYLES + JUSTIN GROUNDS + BILLY JOE BUFFALO Don’t Tell Tom Bar/Café, Brunswick. 9.30pm. $10.
THE CONCH Noise Bar - Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 3pm. Free.

Sunday
BLACKFEATHER Don’t Tell Tom Bar/Café, Brunswick. 7.30pm. $10
CAROLINE OATES Plan B Bar, Brunswick East. 6pm.
CERES CHRISTMAS CAROLS – FEAT: CARL PANNUZZO + MAL WEBB CERES Community Environment Park, East Brunswick. 6pm. $15/$10.
DJS PAT + SHANNON (DALLAS CRANE) Beergarden – The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3pm.
GATORBAIT The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 6pm.
JAY BOATS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6pm. Free.
MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS + THE LUAU COWBOYS The Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 5pm. Free.
THE HAPPY ENDINGS + GLENY RAE VIRUS & HER TAMWORTH PLAYBOYS (CD LAUNCH) The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
WELLYN & OLLIE BROWN + DAN & RYAN (SUBAUDIBLE HUM) East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick. $10+bf.
MERRI CREEK Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 5.30pm. Free.
SANDILANDS + CLINT DYLAN O’GRADY Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 9pm. Free.

This Weekend's Gigs

Lots of amazing stuff this weekend. Where else could you get to see The New Pornographers Rose Tattoo The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Augie March,Dallas Crane, Spencer P Jones and The Escape Committee? Well not really in Brunswick but at "Brunswick in the Bush" at the fabulous Meredith Music Festival.

If you haven't got a ticket there seems to be a sudden last-minute glut so you haven't been looking hard enough. The big surprise news this year is that Brunswick rock stars Perico will be playing at Meredith. Well, playing up anyway. Look for four philandering blokes up the front during Augie March and that'll be them.

Golden Parrot? Rumour has it that the Golden Parrot has gone missing and is believed to be hidden under blankets in someone's boot (alongside the stubbies and the mate without a ticket) on its way to Meredith. Pericoloco apologises for not awarding the Golden Parrot this weekend and requests that anyone who knows of its location to contact this blog immediately.

Perico Auditions Un-Earth New Talent

7 months of trawling through submissions, checking out talent at seedy bars and holding lengthy auditions have come to end, according to rumours circulating Brunswick today.

It is believed that Brunswick supergroup Perico are about to announce the expansion of the band from a cosy threesome to a noisesome foursome.

"I distinctly heard two guitars and a three-part harmony when they were practicing" said a neighbour who preferred to remain anonymous. Another neighbour claimed to have seen strange people coming and going at night.
"Whoever I saw, wasn't just another one of those groupies I see hanging around. He looked like a musician, so it wasn't their drummer Col either, it was someone new."

Gig Guide

The Golden Parrot really is a prestigous award. Pericoloco were stoked to find online encyclopedia Wikipedia felt that the award was significant enough to list. Click here to check it out.

Meanwhile this week's top gigs include the Prayer Babies at the Lomond on Friday(also playing at the Cornish on Sunday), Austin Floyd at the retreat on Saturday and the Nick Charles US Tour Fundraiser at the East on Sunday. This week's Golden Parrot, however, goes to Catgut Mary, who play at the Brunswick Hotel on Saturday night. Never heard of them before, but you gotta love the stupidity of that name.

Friday
BOB EVANS East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick. $18+bf.
ONE ODD + LIQUID MEMORY + CYCAS REVOLUTA Noise Bar – The Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 8.30pm.
PRAYER BABIES Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 9.30pm. Free.
SUPER DELUXE + DARKEST HEARTSTRINGS + BAY CITY HOSTILES The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. Free.
THE EXOTICS The Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. Free.
THE WAYFARING STRANGERS + MYSTERIOUS TAPER MAN + DJ POWELL + DJ MATTI B The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm.
BRODERICK SMITH + PHIL PARA The Cornish Arms Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. $12.

Saturday
AUSTIN FLOYD + PAESANOS + DJ SEEDY REED The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5pm.
CATGUT MARY The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. Free.
GLOVEBOX + NIKKI TEEUW & BAND + THE MINORITY Noise Bar, Brunswick. $6.
ILLUCID (LAST EVER SHOW) + LOSTBOYFOUND + ELLORA + MASON'S EDGE Noise Bar, Brunswick.
SARAH MCCLEOD Don’t Tell Tom Bar/Café, Brunswick. 9pm. $15.
SOULS ON BOARD (EP LAUNCH) East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick. $8+bf.
TESS HENDERSON The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6pm. Free.
AUSTIN FLOYD + THE PAESANOS The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7.30pm. Free.
CAPTAIN DARLING The Cornish Arms Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. $10.
ROADHOUSE ROMEO’S Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 9.30pm. Free

Sunday
DJS PAT &+ SHANNON Beergarden - The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3pm.
JAY BOATS + SHELDON KING The Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6pm. Free.
THE COMMITTED SOUL TRIBUTE The Spot, Brunswick. 7pm. Free.
THE PRAYERBABIES The Cornish Arms Hotel, Brunswick. 5pm. Free. THE SPOILS + CHEFS DE MISSION + HELEN FRANZMANN The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7pm.
NICK CHARLES US TOUR FUNDRAISER – FEAT: NICK CHARLES + FIONA BOYES + STEVIE PAIGE + JIMI HOCKING + ALEX BURNS East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick. $10+bf.
SANDLIANDS + CLINT DYLAN O’GRADY Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 9pm. Free.

Separated at Birth?

This weekend's Brunswick gigs

OK, so you're not heading down to Queenscliff for The Festival and you're not spending the weekend ensuring the right people get elected on Saturday and you wanna hang out in the Wick?

This is one of the biggest weekends ever, in terms of pure volume of alternatives. Too many to individually mention, but, depending on what you're up for, this week's Golden Parrot winner is Barb Waters, playing at the Lomond on Sunday.

Friday
ARSECORE – FEAT: MALADROIT + WHEELSFALLOFF + BUTTRESS O'KNEEL + NOISTRUCT + XIAN + PASSENGER OF SHIT + DYSPHEMIC + SIG.NT + 4 LAYERS OF 9 + 2 RABBITS Ace Morning, Brunswick. 9pm. $7/$5.
BRENT PARLANE + FRANK JONES TheQuietRoom - Noise Bar, Brunswick. 8pm. $15.
DIRTY PINK JEANS + THE GOOD + KING BAYLER + COTTON SIDEWALK + ROGUE Noise Bar, Brunswick. 8pm. $8.
DAN DINNEN Plan B, Brunswick East.
GRIMWAH + MY LEFT BOOT Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. Free.
MELANIE HORSNELL & THE INFLATABLE GIRLFRIENDS + AMY GROSSBARD + KARL BROADIE Cornish Arms Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. $5.
THE COUNTERFEIT GYPSIES + DJ POWELL + DJ TRAFFIC JAM The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm.
THE NATION BLUE + SABER TOOTH TIGER East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick. $12+bf.

Saturday
CHEFS DE MISSION The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5pm.
MY FRIEND THE CHOCOLATE CAKE East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick. $27+bf.
REBECCA MOORE & BAND Don't Tell Tom Bar & Café, Brunswick. 9pm. $10/8.
SATURDAY NOISE LIVE – FEAT: THE HAPPY ENDINGS + JUNE'S ROOM Noise Bar, Brunswick. 8pm. $5.
THE CONCH Noise Bar, Brunswick. 3pm. Free.
THE RETURN OF THE SACRED KINGFISHER FESTIVAL CERES Community Environment Park, East Brunswick. 3pm. $8/$5.
TODD ANGUS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6pm. Free. WATERS EDGE + MY SECRET CIRCUS + LUCY’S CROWN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. Free.
YOUNG HUSBAND & DES PERES + ANDREW MCCUBBIN & THE HOPE ADDICTS + DJ COUSIN MATT The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7.30pm.
CHRIS WILSON + THE SPIDERMEN Cornish Arms Hotel, Brunswick. 9pm. $10.
CONTINENTAL ROBERTS’ BLUES PARTY Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 9.30pm.

Sunday
DJS PAT + SHANNON Beergarden – The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3pm.
JAY BOATS + SHELDON KING Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6pm. Free.
MY FRIEND THE CHOCOLATE CAKE East Brunswick Club, East Brunswick. $27+bf.
THE COMMITTED SOUL TRIBUTE The Spot, Brunswick. 7pm. Free.
YANTO SHORTIS & BAND + LUAU COWBOYS The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5pm.
BARB WATERS MOTHERS OF PEARL Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 5.30pm.
FIRE AND THEFT Cornish Arms Hotel, Brunswick. 5pm. Free.
MELBOURNE SONGWRITERS CLUB Noise Bar, Brunswick. 1pm. Free
SANDILANDS + CLINT DYLAN O’GRADY Lomond Hotel, East Brunswick. 9pm. Free.