Jamie Hutchings returns to the intimate confines of the Django Bar to launch his new single Winter Mirth.

It’s the first single to be launched from Hutchings’ seventh solo album, due in February 2027, and titled A Kiss on the Knee. Of Winter Mirth, Jamie says:

‘ Wonder is a real gift, one that I’m trying to hang on to. I feel lucky to have spent my youth in the pre-digital age, where sometimes all you’d have to occupy your time whilst you waited for a bus or train, was to stare at stuff around you, and let your mind take a walk. I feel like everyone worked together on this song to create something celestial without it being too airbrushed.’

A prolifically creative musician, Hutchings has built a career in the Australian scene that stretches back to the early 1990s.

He first established himself as the cornerstone of noisy indie-rock auteurs Bluebottle Kiss before embarking on a solo career with the release of The Golden Coach in 2002. If that wasn't enough to satiate his musical curiosities, Hutchings also formed the band Infinity Broke, releasing the first of their three albums in 2014 and using the framework of the group to venture even further into angular guitar art rock, with a strong through-line of inventive and repetitive rhythms and percussion.

Earlier in 2023 Hutchings released his most experimental solo album, Making Water, a collage of rhythm and noise, drone and abstraction that explored free jazz, Krautrock and the kind of terrain inhabited by The Necks and late period Talk Talk.

As Hutchings tends to do, he pivoted again stylistically, returning to a more traditional sounding solo album in 2023 with A New. In 2025 his avant-rock quartet Infinity Broke released their fourth album, This Masthead. 2026 saw the re-release of Bluebottle Kiss’ classic fourth Revenge is Slow album for the first time on vinyl, with a regrouping of the classic line-up to celebrate.

For this show, Jamie will perform solo for the first time in many moons, drawing from his back catalogue of over 15 albums from a variety of projects.

Special guest on the night is Melbourne based folk/country singer-songwriter Jules Sheldon, who will be showcasing material from his latest album Electric Transport. Sheldon has been described by the legendary Kim Salmon as possessing ‘…Ray Davies’ melodic stylings with a healthy dose of the spirit and vibes of his beloved mentor Spencer P Jones’.

"There is much to discover in the Hutchings catalogue but A New is an excellent place to start, with some of his most appealing songcraft. Pack a coat though. The weather might be warm but some storms are also guaranteed."

Noel Mengel, Music Trust

"There is a Jimmy Webb grandeur as expressed through Glen Campbell in the instrumentation and delivery... there is certainly a majestic sixties timbre to the track with its big pounding drums and dramatic delivery, all beehive hairdos and kohl eyeliner."

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$30 +bf pre, $35 door

Django @ Camelot

7pm doors, 8pm show

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Please book carefully – as no refunds, credits or exchanges on tix!All ages welcome (but under 18′s must be accompanied by an adult)Fully licensed – NO BYO. Delicious food (including pizza!) available.