The Whitlams
Scarborough Wombarra Bowling Club, 578 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, 2515 Wombarra Directions
Sun 18.10.2026 16:00
A legendary Australian band is coming to play Australia’s most legendary Bowlo.
This October, The Whitlams take the stage for the Bowlo’s huge 70th birthday gig—a celebration of seven decades of live music, community and unforgettable nights.
Following the elegance of their celebrated Orchestral ’26 tour, The Whitlams are turning up the volume and getting back to where they belong: playing loud and live, with the crowd standing right up close.
The set will lean towards the high-energy side of the band’s seven-album repertoire—packed with classics, loud favourites and songs made for a room with nowhere to sit.
Tim Freedman will be joined by stalwarts Terepai Richmond on drums and Jak Housden on guitar, with Ian Peres returning on bass and keys.
“The songs splash colours across a portrait of a lonesome, inner-city suburbia that few others can match for original detail and authenticity… The Whitlams have never sounded even mildly like anybody else.”— The Newcastle Herald, 2022
One legendary band. Australia’s most legendary Bowlo. Seventy years in the making.
Come celebrate the Bowlo’s 70th birthday with The Whitlams for one unforgettable night.
Performers
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The WhitlamsThe Whitlams are an Australian Indie rock band formed in late 1992. The original line-up was Tim Freedman on keyboards and lead vocals, Andy Lewis on double bass and Stevie Plunder on guitar and lead vocals. Other than mainstay Freedman, the line-up has changed numerous times. From 2001 to 2022, he was joined by Warwick Hornby on bass guitar, Jak Housden on guitar and Terepai Richmond on drums – forming the band's longest-lasting and best-known line-up. Four of their studio albums have reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 20: Eternal Nightcap, Love This City, Torch the Moon and Little Cloud. Their highest charting singles are "Blow Up the Pokies" and "Fall for You" – both reached number 21. The group's single, "No Aphrodisiac" was listed at number one on the Triple J Hottest 100, 1997 by listeners of national radio station, Triple J. In January 1996 Stevie Plunder was found dead at the base of Wentworth Falls. Andy Lewis died in February 2000.
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William CrightonARIA Award–winning singer-songwriter William Crighton will release his fourth studio album, Colonial Drift, on March 20, 2026. A pioneer of Bush-Psych and a vital voice in Australian music, Crighton weaves stories of land, spirit and struggle with raw intensity. His music carries the weight of ancient winds, grounding modern truths in timeless song. Leading the release is the first single, Further Down the Road, written by Crighton, his wife Julieanne, and bandmate Luke Davison. Experiencing time as linear makes history a fading memory and the future an uncertain beast. The song comes from nights alone outside the world of clocks and modern man, in the bush, experiencing the cyclic nature of time and reconnecting past, present and future. Sex, Death and Choices, a B-side born when the world felt like it was splitting in two – one half chasing immortality in space, the other half sitting barefoot in the dirt trying to remember what it means to be human. A collage of people I’ve loved, mistakes I’ve made, and the strange era we’re stumbling through. Recorded at The Grove Studios by Damian Charles, with a portion crafted in Crighton’s home studio, Colonial Drift stands as his boldest work yet - expansive, uncompromising and unmistakably his. Renowned for powerful live performances, Crighton has toured with Midnight Oil and The Dead South and appeared at major festivals including Glastonbury, carving a uniquely Australian sound: fierce, grounded, wholly his own. -
Tim FreedmanThe Whitlams' Coastal Tour Jan 2024 on sale now