After winning over festival crowds at Falls in Lorne and Marion bay, infectiously happy indie darlings Grouplove graced The Corner in Richmond on a hot and sweaty Wednesday night.

There are a lot of great tours coming up over the summer months, here are a few additional shows that have been announced for bands that have sold out their initial gigs and also a lot of support acts have been announced.

VENGABOYS

The Dum Dum Girls are a relatively new incarnation of vocalist and songwriter Kristin ‘Dee Dee’ Gundred, who named the band even before the band was even actually a band. Whether Gundred took the moniker from Talk Talk, the Vaselines, Iggy pop or a brand of sweets is by the by, and the unlikely name for this group of talented musicians belies the fact that the music and lyrics of the songs is extremely well crafted and that these women are no slouches.

Arriving as Brat Farrar were finishing up the first of two sets they would play on the evening it was a little disappointing to see The Corner Hotel so bare. Regardless, the three boys took no notice and played with everything they had, obviously quite happy and humbled to be playing alongside a band of Future of The Left’s caliber.

Getting hit by food poisoning usually makes most humans curl up around the toilet bowl with pale skin. Stephen of Strange Talk on the other hand soldiered through a day of suffering in the Melbourne hospital to come and play a headline show at the Corner Hotel with support band Zowie for their Sexual Lifestyle tour. If he hadn't told the crowd 6th song in, no one would have guessed.