This week, Mik chats with members of Japanese tribal underground rockers, Buddhadatta. Unfortunately, this Wednesday, the band were denied entry into Australian and the tour has had to be cancelled! This interview was recorded on the Monday of this week, when the tour was still on! Buddhadatta were to pull into the Golden Vine Hotel on Sunday Feb 22 with local post punkers, Alarms, in tow. Buddhadatta are no strangers to Australian shores, nor to Bendigo, where they packed the Vine on their 2025 visit. The trio includes a practicing Buddhist and are described as an excitement machine that use dark and mysterious tribal rhythms, led by throat singing and backed with rock instrumentation. The tour was to celebrate their recently released album, “Buddha and Devadatta”. I hope you enjoy my conversation with the band and that we do get to actually see them in Bendigo in the near future. There's also the weekly gig guide and music by artists playing locally this weekend, including: Alarms, Skyscraper Stan, TsuShiMaMire (Japan), The Hoodoo Heathens, The Distant South, Regurgitator, Kisschasy and Good Charlotte.

<p>This week, Mik chats with members of Japanese tribal underground rockers, Buddhadatta. Unfortunately, this Wednesday, the band were denied entry into Australian and the tour has had to be cancelled! This interview was recorded on the Monday of this week, when the tour was still on! Buddhadatta were to pull into the Golden Vine Hotel on Sunday Feb 22 with local post punkers, Alarms, in tow. Buddhadatta are no strangers to Australian shores, nor to Bendigo, where they packed the Vine on their 2025 visit. The trio includes a practicing Buddhist and are described as an excitement machine that use dark and mysterious tribal rhythms, led by throat singing and backed with rock instrumentation. The tour was to celebrate their recently released album, &ldquo;Buddha and Devadatta&rdquo;. I hope you enjoy my conversation with the band and that we do get to actually see them in Bendigo in the near future. There's also the weekly gig guide and music by artists playing locally this weekend, including: Alarms, Skyscraper Stan, TsuShiMaMire (Japan), The Hoodoo Heathens, The Distant South, Regurgitator, Kisschasy and Good Charlotte.</p>

Bendigo – situated in the geographical centre of Victoria. Should it be the central to the tour itinerary of bands playing Victoria? Yup. Could it be? Let’s you and I do what we can to make that the case! When the venues book out of town bands, I’ll aim to play them and if possible, interview them. I’ll support the local acts too, because we wanna hear local voices and sounds too, right? When you hear about these gigs and you dig the act, buy a ticket in advance. Deal? Together we can support our great local acts, while putting our beautiful regional city on the rock and roll tour map! 

<p>Bendigo &ndash; situated in the geographical centre of Victoria. Should it be the central to the tour itinerary of bands playing Victoria? Yup. Could it be? Let&rsquo;s you and I do what we can to make that the case! When the venues book out of town bands, I&rsquo;ll aim to play them and if possible, interview them. I&rsquo;ll support the local acts too, because we wanna hear local voices and sounds too, right? When you hear about these gigs and&nbsp;you dig the act, buy a ticket in advance. Deal? Together we can support our great local acts, while putting our beautiful regional city on the rock and roll tour map!&nbsp;</p>