Lubber Kitchen Gig - Field Commander Ali and Static Cleaner Lost Reward w/ Jordan Ireland

Our series of Lubber Kitchen gigs continues with a very special edition, featuring three Australian artists in Field Commander Ali, Static Cleaner Lost Reward amd Jordan Ireland.

You can purchase a ticket to catch the music or you can get one with added food, for a perfect low stakes evening. Usually these are on a Sunday, but we are trialling out this one a Tuesday night so we can bring you these two brilliant acts!

Field Commander Ali

A bold and singular artist, Field Commander Ali writes songs that act like open windows. Through her musical lens, the world is felt and observed with incisive lucidity.

Her new record, The Next From Field Commander, and second under that taken name, was recorded at home on the South Coast of NSW, Australia. Despite the modest conception of her songs and recordings, often utilising little more than a classical guitar and 4-track tape recorder, they are possessed by a unique density. Her songs call in the spirit of folk song clairvoyants like Bridget St John, Anne Briggs and Maxine Funke while retaining an unabashed intimacy and fidelity to her beguiling vantage.

The Next From Field Commander is out on the 6th of March 2026 through World Of Echo and Brierfield Flood Press.

Static Cleaner Lost Reward

Marking the re-release of Breathing Under Honey (Low Company 2023 / purely physical teeny tapes 2026), Naarm/Melbourne-based diy experimentalist Tarquin Manek brings his gonzo dub-pop project Static Cleaner Lost Reward to life for the first time with a handful of live band shows in EU and UK.

Tarquin Manek has been a major player - and enabler - in the now rightfully revered Naarm underground, releasing an array of solo music under aliases including LST, Silzedrek and Static Cleaner Lost Reward; co-producing albums by YL Hooi and Carla dal Forno; playing in cult groups Kallista Kult and F Ingers (the latter alongside dal Forno and CS + Kreme’s Sam Karmel). Releases have come through labels like Blackest Ever Black, Low Company, A Colourful Storm, and Kashual Plastik.

SCLR's Breathing Under Honey inhabits a world of hazy aquatic soundscapes, tape-loop decay, murky rhythm mechanics and ghostly songwriting, crafting disoriented yet strangely melodic songs that feel both corroded and dreamlike.

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Jordan Lee Ireland ( ex The Middle East, Purple Orchestra, Stolen Violin & Blue Divers) is a multi-disciplinary musician from Australia’s tropical north. Weaving deep astral folk song with outsider spiritual jazz and vivid improvisation to create trance like states, exploring the mystery of existence and communing with the heart.