Gigs/Bands/Live

COMA BENEFIT NIGHT!

SCALA: People's Choice Song Competition

 Few 31 year-olds can claim they’ve spent their years immersed in some serious musical talent but SA’s longest running original music organisation; the Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association (SCALA) have done it week after unfailing week for almost 3 decades.

 SCALA is a volunteer led, membership based organisation that continues to promote and encourage the creation of original music of all genres through events, the Festival Of Original Music (FOOM) song competition and an annual SCALA CD release.

Jodi Martin + Jen Lush

Jodi Martin’s live show is full of heart. Stunning songs and humorous anecdotes make her a festival favourite and have seen her tour with mentors such as Bruce Cockburn, Glen Hansard and Arlo Guthrie, as well as headline her own tours around Australia, Canada and the UK. Jodi recently featured on the ABC TV Series Backroads and her upcoming release tips it’s hat to her remote coastal desert hometown of Ceduna. Jodi’s Wheaty show will preview some of these new songs, and kicks off a run of festival dates around the country. Supported by the beautiful Jen Lush, this is a show not to be missed. Songs that will deepen your own connection with your heart.

The Adelaide Sax Pack - Matinee Show

The Adelaide Sax Pack - Evening Show

XMAS EXTRAVAGANZA! Featuring: The Yearlings + The Young & the Wrestlers + special guests

The Wheatsheaf Christmas Extravaganza is back again with Wheaty darlings The Yearlings and introducing- The Young & The Wrestlers to the show!! Together, they will be bringing us an afternoon of soothing and exciting tunes to see out the year.

Emily Davis & Friends Xmas Extravaganza

After 11 long and wonderful years Emily Davis bids a fond farewell to the Wheaty Xmas Eve show.
Promising to take no prisoners, Davis guarantees to Christmas Ham it up like never before.
Joining her will be a delectable handpicked selection of talented singer-songwriters and special guests for a veritable Christmas-sized feast for the ears and hearts.
Bring your singing voices, Christmas cheer and tissues.

$15 on the door

CHRISTMAS DAY - CLOSED

Ahhhh......Christmas. One of the only days your favourite local bartenders get to take off work, eat too much food, and drink copious amounts of the booze they've spent all year serving.

Happy turkey day everyone - see you at the bar on Boxing Day!

If you need something to to while away the hours before the pub opens again, here's some Chrissy Classics for ya:

play / pause / play - Heaps Good 50 Countdown Listening Party + live performances from: Jess Johns & Jason Katsaras [Dead Roo] + Dean Forever

Rob Edwards + Famous Will (VIC)

Traveling soul man, Rob Edwards, is always ready to pour his heart out in the fine form of song. A multi instrument live loop artist, Rob’s recipe of blues and Soul blends together like one of grandmas famous cakes. Whether it’s his technical guitar work or his powerful searing voice, there is no mistaking his unique sound.

Rob loves to share his passion of blending his Aboriginal culture with the power of music and with musical influences from Marvin Gaye and Bill Withers, to John Mayer and Leon Bridges, be ready for something new.

With the move from Adelaide to the paradise of Byron Bay in 2017, Rob has used the advantage of Van life to tour the East Coast multiple times and most recently finishing a tour of regional Western Australia.

With new music on the way and a national tour with Melbourne based Wolf and Willow, 2019 is going to a great ride.

Haystacks Calhoon and Alison Coppe and the Janes

Crump Cake Orchestra

19 piece Funk/ Soul inspired Crump Cake Orchestra present 2 sets of music to help nod your head through the awkward week between Christmas and New Years. Expect a barrage of horns, a super tight rhythm section and some of the best musicians in South Australia. 

Crump Cake Orchestra

Conceived from a love of Big Band Orchestration, and funk/ hip-hop samples, Evan Bassani ventured to create music that would attract new audiences while keeping traditional arranging and composing techniques. The result was Crump Cake Orchestra (CCO), a 18-piece soul and funk inspired Big Band that debuted to outstanding receptions and reviews as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2012. 
Influenced by music from Duke Ellington, all the way to Robert Glasper and beyond, CCO creates music that is about respecting the old whilst paving the way for the future and attracting audiences both young and old with its unique arrangements and compositions. 

Don Morrison's Raging Thirst

Don Morrison, dubbed the Larrikin Troubadour Laureate of Adelaide, is a world renown (recent Spotify statistics show a hot spot for his music in Norway and Sweden!) songwriter, singer, guitarist, author, story teller and guitar maker.  He might not be as young and pretty as he once was but he’s playing, singing and writing songs better than ever.  He’s done shows all over, from Bridgetown to Brunswick, Sydney to San Antonio, and Perth to Penrith and has just released his 16th album, It’s A Long Drive”.  In Don Morrison’s Raging Thirst, Don is joined by the amazingly talented Morrison brothers, Eddie on bass and Jake on lead guitar. Long time ally, Andy Przygonski joins in on drums and together they perform original, roots, blues and alt - country based Australian songs that tell OUR story with a cohesion and harmony unique to family bands.

New Years Eve Shindig! Featuring: Max Savage + Katie Pomery & Friends

There’s really only one place to be to ring in the New Year and that’s with your feet planted on the floor of the Wheaty’s tin shed.

Dust off ya frocks, time to pull that battered pair of dancing shoes off the shelf and limber up for the last (or first) hip swaying, toe tapping good time of the year.

Max Savage and Katie Pomery know how to bring a rock solid Rumba and, for one night only, they'll be setting up the party of the year in a one night extravaganza of blues, rock, pop and soul. Casting off the shackles of their skinny black jeans and cool dude haircuts they'll bring you party hits, late night bangers and music that has been scientifically tailor made to put you in a good mood and keep you swinging into 2019.

So don’t be shy, front up, frock up, rock up and book your tickets to the party of the year (either year.)

Tix - $10 + BF @ OZTIX - $15 from the bar or on the door.

New Year, New You! With Aaron Thomas & Friends

New Year, New You! Brought to you by The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Aaron Thomas and friends are going to help you usher in 2019 till the shakes stop.

The front bar will be awash with sweet acoustic music, lush harmonies and killer banter from 3PM until 7PM on New Year’s day. Aaron Thomas, along with members of his band The Human Patterns will be joined by some of Adelaide’s best singer songwriters to help you shake off the year that was and say hello to the year that will be. Come get some!

Aaron is an Adelaide based singer songwriter whose music switches between the literal and the impressionistic. Formerly based in Spain, he has released 3 studio albums and 2 Eps, as well as providing music for both feature length and short films.

His songs speak of love, pain and life’s mistakes and are framed by a voice that rises and falls along the lines drawn by the telling of each song. Sometimes dark, sometimes joyous, the energy of his live show is big, raw and emotional.

Joining him will be the queen of New Year’s day, Emily Davis. With her winning combination of charm, wonderful lyrics and beautiful melodies, you won’t stand a chance.

PlanB + John McCall

PlanB's exciting, colourful and multi-layered sound harks back to the days when bands cut their teeth on live shows for real people.

Playing well-crafted songs that form from a rich and varied wellspring of inspiration, this exciting eight-piece brassy ensemble will have audiences on their feet from the get-go. 

Hailing from Adelaide and reforming in 2010 after a lengthy hiatus, the band has regularly toured internationally ever since. Recent tours have placed the boys in locations such as: Glasgow, Siem Reap, London, Ulaanbaatar, Jakarta and Beijing, and has seen them appear on the same festival bills as Chris Farlowe, Primal Scream, Cliff Bennett, Focus and Newton Faulkner.

The band has released two well-received studio albums as well as a live album, and is currently recording its third studio offering.

SCALA: Lucy Zola, Stuart Day, Flames Trio

 Few 31 year-olds can claim they’ve spent their years immersed in some serious musical talent but SA’s longest running original music organisation; the Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association (SCALA) have done it week after unfailing week for almost 3 decades.

 SCALA is a volunteer led, membership based organisation that continues to promote and encourage the creation of original music of all genres through events, the Festival Of Original Music (FOOM) song competition and an annual SCALA CD release.

Askya & Ryan Edmond (WA)

ASKYA

Producer/singer/songwriter ASKYA blends Folk x Electronic with airy vocals meeting electronic textures. ASKYA locked himself away the past year to write and teach himself production, whether in a Swiss mountain cabin or Australian beach shack. Moving between Zurich, Switzerland and the surf town of Margaret River in Western Australia, ASKYA writes songs with a sense of vulnerability that reflect experiences far beyond his years. His first two singles garnered immediate traction, being placed in multiple top-tier Spotify playlists worldwide.  ASKYA now has a fresh perspective and is an emerging artist to watch.

Ryan Edmond

Ryan Edmond was taught cornet from a young age by his grandfather. It was only over the past few years living in Sweden he began singing/songwriting and recording.
Now being back home in Western Australia he is focusing on finishing his first album, inspired by the contrasts of living in the two different countries. The first single of the album will be released in the coming months.

$15 on the door

SCALA: Jessica Rae, Paula Standing, The Good Questions

 Few 31 year-olds can claim they’ve spent their years immersed in some serious musical talent but SA’s longest running original music organisation; the Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association (SCALA) have done it week after unfailing week for almost 3 decades.

 SCALA is a volunteer led, membership based organisation that continues to promote and encourage the creation of original music of all genres through events, the Festival Of Original Music (FOOM) song competition and an annual SCALA CD release.