Factsheet
Event Name:
Games Gig
Tickets (on sale April 12th):
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/games-gig-tickets-149665887699
Facebook Event:
https://fb.me/e/2aF8UeLwK
Event Date:
Thursday June 10th, 2021
Doors at 6:30pm, Music from 7pm
Venue:
The Toff in Town
252 Swanston St, Melbourne
Contact:
Jacob Leaney
jacob@thingsforhumans.studio
0492995445
Artist Twitter Handles:
@MonstrMansion
@MaizeWallin
@RiverBoyBeats
@lasngngna
Games Gig: Indie musicians perform their music from indie games
Games Gig is the official Thursday night Freeplay Festival event, a music focused afterparty featuring a line-up of indie, pop, and electronic game composers performing their music from Melbourne indie games. The event is on June 10th 2021, with doors at 6:30pm and music from 7pm.
Come and grab some food and drinks, chat and celebrate the year with some awesome music at one of Melbourne's iconic music venues, The Toff in Town!
Games Gig came about with muso/game devs Jacob Leaney and Maize Wallin wanting to showcase game music that doesn't often get a chance to be seen and heard live, performed by the people that wrote it. Games Gig focuses heavily on electronic and pop music, in contrast to orchestral and chiptune focused game music events. It's an event for Freeplay Festival attendees, indie game devs, local musicians, and music lovers to socialise and celebrate games and music after a long year of minimal in-person events.
- All artists are available for interviews
- Contact for radio suitable music downloads (mp3, wav, etc.)
- Please contact for further information and story leads
Lineup
Twitter: @MonstrMansion
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3s0xFKP
Monster Mansion is the solo synth-pop project from songwriter and game developer Jacob Leaney. The music is dark yet energetic, with clear influences from being a 90s kid and artists like The Midnight and Chvrches. Leaney also develops stand-alone companion games for each release. Leaney will be performing with his band and playing his upcoming single Galaxies from Samurai Punk's Justice Sucks: Recharged soundtrack, music from his recently released EP/game Video World, as well as a collection of his other original songs from games.
Maize Wallin
Twitter: @MaizeWallin
Bandcamp: https://maizewallin.bandcamp.com
Maize Wallin is a Melbourne based composer, sound designer, and audio programmer working across indie games and big budget AAA. Highlights from Maize's extensive folio include God Fall, Receiver 2, Wayward Strand, and Cosmic Express, as well as their solo experimental audio game works. Maize will be performing music from Receiver 2, as well as samples from other games.
River Boy
Twitter: @RiverBoyBeats
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3mxQJyX
River Boy is the new solo project of Narayana Johnson (one half of Willow Beats). His music draws extensively on his childhood and teenage years spent roaming creaks, forests and mountains in the Northern Rivers, NSW. River Boy will play a mix of contemporary music and his music from local video games. River Boy recently performed at Brunswick Music Festival supporting Moju.
Allison Walker
Twitter: @lasngngna
Bandcamp: https://allisonwalker.bandcamp.com/
Allison Walker is a composer and sound designer who creates ambient things made in Ableton with a sort of good midi keyboard, and sometimes some Tidal Cycles coding - a live coding environment designed for musical improvisation and composition.
