Can you feel a certain vibration in the air? Could it be the anticipation of longer and sunnier days to come in Naarm? Perhaps the simultaneous shimmying of fifteen girl group queens? Or maybe it is the sounds of guitars being positively drenched in reverb?

Yes, it’s all of these things! And they will be converging at Shotkickers on Sunday 27 October, when the afternoon will see the Rebelles and the Agents of REVERB come together to conjure up a shuddering, rollicking good time.

The Rebelles will be setting the stage to trembling with their stomping feet and the audience’s hearts a-flutter with their sweet and sassy harmonies. For more years than they care to count, the Rebelles have plied their mix of girl group classics and inspired originals around Naarm, building a wall of sound from 15 female voices and 4 extraordinary instrumentalists. With their selection of ballads, rocking numbers and tunes somewhere on the spectrum in between, the Rebelles know how to make you sway, dance and sing along.

The Agents of REVERB are a 4 piece band that play surf and spy/detective music from TV and films of the 1960s, with a nod to rockabilly, R&B, soul and instro shakers. All members of the band have played around Melbourne venues/hotels/festivals, and also interstate, gaining serious chops and wowing crowds playing for Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Loonee Tunes, Beware! Black Holes, The Unthinkable, the T.V. Evangelists and other bands. Throw in their 5th agent – the uber talented Agent Valentina Tereshkova, who usually joins the band on vocals – and you’ve got a good time guaranteed!

So don’t ignore that quivering in your insides but buy your tickets and join us in Thornbury to create some Sunday arvo musical good vibrations!

Doors 4pm.
Children welcome with a parent or legal guardian

Get your tickets now at https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/the-rebelles-shotkickers/171920?skin=SK_skin

Join the Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/446708554543153

People of the year 2024, we bring you some good news – The Rebelles are heading back to one of their favourite venues, Kindred Bandroom!

It feels like only a heartbeat ago that the Rebelles last brought their girl group sounds to the Kindred stage, but in fact it has been many months. Time is certainly mysterious and we cannot claim to understand how such a thing could be true! But we do know for sure that on Saturday 17 August, a corner where Footscray meets Yarraville will again be pulsating with the handclaps, melodious voices and classic rock’n’roll guitars of the Rebelles. It could almost be the 1960s again, but surely not all of those tunes you are hearing had even been written yet… And that dollop of punk panache seems a little out of place for the 1960s…?

Further perturbing the space-time continuum, at least for the evening, will be Backbeat. This four-piece take you back to the early days of the Beatles, when they were playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg before the release of their first single unleashed Beatle-mania upon the world. With their energy and passion having lit up venues both in Australia and the UK, you too can let yourself be transported by the music of Backbeat. Forget all about what year it is, and just dance!

Who could it have been messing with the fabric of time? Perhaps DJ Lady Love Potion is branching out from romance-conjuring magicks and has also become proficient with other, darker forces? While we muster up all our courage to ask, she will be spinning soulful and sparkly tunes from times that may be past but are still preserved in black wax for your listening and dancing pleasure.

Tickets are on sale now, in the present, right at this moment! We look forward… or maybe backward or sideward through the spirals of time… to seeing you there!

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Dear girl group fans, are you mired in the winter doldrums? Too much work and not enough play? Well the Rebelles have planned a special show to give your inner child a reason to dance! On Saturday 16 September, they will return not only to Kindred Bandroom, but also to their memories of schooldays past, to bring you an evening celebrating schoolyard soul.

The Rebelles will haul out from their battered old schoolbags some tunes – both originals and girl group classics – based on playground chants and clapping games. They’ll celebrate in song some of life’s simpler pleasures, like popcorn, sunshine and rollercoasters. And you know it wouldn’t be a trip back to school without a ditty or two celebrating young love. The Rebelles may have been around the Melbourne music scene long enough to make you wonder if they can remember their school days at all, but any such uncharitable thoughts will soon be forgotten as you are carried away by their delectable harmonies and foot-stomping beats.

Their playground rivals/besties – isn’t it always both! – for the night will be the Sweethearts, a band whose soul smarts belie the fact that they are in fact still in school. These ladies definitely know a thing or two about infusing funk, blues and, of course, soul with youthful energy and pizazz. If you haven’t yet caught one of their live shows over the last 30 plus years, now is the time to catch up on that long overdue homework.

Keeping a watchful, headmasterly eye over proceedings will be none other than the legendary Vince Peach. As presenter on PBS FM of the longest-running soul radio show in the known universe, you know that he can and will teach everyone present some lessons on soul. He’ll be bringing some of his finest records to play a DJ set once the bands are done – after all, it’s not a school night!

Get your tickets now at https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/the-rebelles-with-the-sweethearts-vince-peach/155851

Join the Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/703968518229689

The long wait is finally over! 

Love Bomb, the brand new single from The Rebelles, is now available for your leisurely pleasure! Alls you gotta do is scoot on over HERE to download your own sugar-coated slice of raucous rebellion. But wait, there’s more! Shimmy over thisaway HERE to marvel at all-action animated Rebelles in the sensational Love Bomb video.

But wait, there’s more more! The Rebelles will be launching Love Bomb on Friday 11 November at the beautiful Thornbury Theatre, with special guests The High Tides. Grab your tickets now by grooving over HERE. 

What? You want more more more??!? Well ok! To help you find your perfect Love Bomb match The Rebelles are gifting each and every ticket holder on the night with a strictly limited edition Love Bomb matchbox. Each box contains a download code plus a 100% money back guarantee to KABOOOOMify your life!

The Rebelles, Melbourne’s groovy and griftin’ girl-group greats, make their long-awaited return to the Thornbury Theatre on Friday 11 November! The Rebelles will be celebrating the launch of their brand new single ‘Love Bomb!’’ a sugar-coated slice of raucous rebellion. But the giving goodness doesn’t stop there, with The Rebelles also super excited about the release of the accompanying video, their very first foray into the wonky world of animation! Less artificial intelligence than genuine fun, you’ll be smiling forever once Love Bomb! has its wicked way with you. Stay tuned!

Kicking off the night with punky panache are The High Tides. Conjuring a subtle blend of Jamaican Ska, 2 Tone and Punk, The High Tides set life affirming words to a heavenly melody, a killer bass, and an impassioned beat – the perfect band to get your evening – and your summer, oh yes! – underway!

The Rebelles! There ain’t nothin’ like ‘em!

Get your tickets from https://thornburytheatre.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/dcc00b1d-d727-4855-b018-1eaa6b276c29

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The Rebelles are shake-shake-SHAKING with excitement to finally announce their looooooooooonnnggg overdue return to Castlemaine!

The world’s biggest girl group will be cruisin’ up the Calder to Castlemaine’s glorious Theatre Royal on Saturday 28 May.

Bringing you the hits of the great girl group era alongside their own instant classics, The Rebelles cannot wait to rock the Royal to its very foundations!

Also along for the ride are local punksters, Road to Ruin, paying homage to everyone’s faves, The Ramones. Road to Ruin blast out the hits of the Fast Four, guaranteed to get the cretins hopping, while giving those pinheads a healthy dose of shock treatment!

It’s going to be fun!

It’s going to be extra special!

It’s going to be a night you simply do not want to miss!

Get your tickets here!

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The Rebelles acknowledge the traditional custodians of the many lands on which we gather, create and perform. We acknowledge the wisdom, dignity and resilience of the elders of these lands, both past and present. We recognise all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are continuing to carry their culture and their connections to land, sea and community, and we commit to playing our role in the ongoing journey toward reconciliation.

We acknowledge that we are privileged to play music by people of colour, some of whom did not get the recognition they deserve.

With kind permission from the Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation, we would like to share this song, Ngarra Burra Ferra, with you. Many of you will know it from the soundtrack of ‘The Sapphires’. It’s an old gospel tune called ‘Bring Back Pharaoh’s Army’ that was sung by The Fisk Jubilee Singers. It was translated by Yorta Yorta Elder Therese Clements and transcribed by the great great grandfather of Dr Lou Bennett AM, Thomas Shadrach James. Dr Bennett was kind enough to also give her permission for us to sing this song in language.

Sovereignty has never been ceded. Always was, always will be.

Coming soon – ‘Down By The Rollercoaster’ single, video and launch shows

Summer’s a comin’ in, and so are Melbourne’s Girlgroup Power-force The Rebelles, celebrating the return of the sun to our skies with a series of killer shows and a brand new single and video: Down By The Rollercoaster. 

In time-honoured Girlgroup tradition, Down By The Rollercoaster takes a simple playground chant and kicks it all the way to Rock’n’Roll Heaven – a short fast ride that’s gonna have you coming back again and again.

Down By The Rollercoaster will be released on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify and all major digital services – stay tuned!

The Rebelles will be taking it live with shows in Melbourne’s west and east , as well as jumpin’ in the Rebellemobile for a first time ever trip to our own Motor City, Geelong! 

To help rev up the Rollercoaster release The Rebelles have handpicked three sensational acts: the joyous, 50 strong sing squad Pitchface; the soulful and ever so sassy Sweethearts; and the man who could take on the mighty Jerry Lee at his own game, the wild and frantic, piano-pounding Ezra Lee and his amazing band.

If you want some more, then we’ll see you on the dance floor!

The Rebelles – Live in October and November

• Saturday 26 October, Commercial Hotel, Yarraville, with Pitchface. Book now

• Sunday 17 November, Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong, with The Sweethearts. Book now

• Saturday 30 November, Caravan Music Club, East Bentleigh, with Ezra Lee. Book now

The Rebelles are revved up and ready to once again hit the stage with their good buddies The Substitutes at Kingston Arts Centre on Saturday 30 March.

The Substitutes and The Rebelles have put together a special night celebrating the awesome music made and recorded by women in the ’60s. Kicking off with a set from acclaimed ’60s specialists The Substitutes, followed by the live wall of sound of 19-piece girl group sensation The Rebelles, the night then fully amps up with The Substitutes, joined on stage by award winning blues and soul singer Kelly Auty and the sensational Andrea Lees.

Pack your inhibitions in the bottom drawer! Dust off your dancing shoes! And shimmy on down to the Kingston Arts Centre for a night of great live rock’n’roll!

• The Substitutes + The Rebelles
• Kingston Arts Centre, 979-985 Nepean Hwy, Moorabbin
• Saturday 30 March, 8pm
• Facebook event
• Book tickets