Sweet Talk

The Espy

Sweet Talk

Sweet Talk

The Espy, 11 The Esplanade, 3182 St Kilda Kort

sun. 28.06.2026 19:00

Miðar / Skráning

There’s something dangerous about a band standing on the edge of something.

In a few weeks time, Sweet Talk head to the U.S. with the Red Clay Strays for a run of shows across America — and honestly, we’re ready to find out what happens when Australia’s most handsome southern boogie band gets turned loose on the endless black ribbons of highway stretching out somewhere between Nashville and God knows where.

But before all that, we’re doing one proper run through our home state of Victoria to sharpen the tools before takeoff.

FRI 26 JUN — Eureka Hotel, Geelong

SAT 27 JUN — Major Toms, Kyneton

SUN 28 JUN — The Espy, St Kilda

We’re real damn stoked to be linking up with The Smith & Western Jury across the whole run too. That’s exactly the level of danger we were hoping for.

Three nights. Loud amps. Cold beers.

Come see us before we hit the road.

Presented by Wheelhouse Agency.

Flytjendur

  • Sweet Talk
    Sweet Talk

    here’s something about Sweet Talk that doesn’t ask for your attention so much as demand it. Hailing from Melbourne, carrying the swagger of Southern rock and the storytelling heart of Americana, but bent through their own lens, one that lets the red dust and late-night grit of Australia seep into every note. They don’t imitate; they translate. And in that translation, they’ve found a voice entirely their own.

    That voice is all over Switch On, their debut album. Produced by Robert Ellis and mixed by Grammy-winner Trina Shoemaker, it landed in 2025 and refused to leave the ARIA Country Album Top 20 for more than eighteen weeks. Long before that, the single Warm Love cut a path of its own, earning an APRA Award nomination and marking Sweet Talk as more than another band on the rise. A national tour with Alabama’s wildfire Red Clay Strays proved it - night after night, crowds of thousands walked in curious and left converted. BIGSOUND 2025 further proved the band were hot property, with Australian country music legend Troy Cassar Daley and Bigloud’s Jonno Keitells proclaiming the band “export ready” to hit stages around the world.

    The road here has been relentless: National tours with the mentioned Red Clay Strays and Charley Crockett, multiple appearances at Byron Bay Bluesfest, Tamworth Country Music Festival, Port Fairy, Queenscliff, Gympie, Groundwater, Out On The Weekend. Pubs with sticky floors, backyards that smelled of smoke, festival stages that shook with thousands singing back. At every stop, Sweet Talk sharpened the thing that’s hardest to fake: connection.

    2026 is continuing apace, with new music being written and recorded, and exciting collaborations slated with some Australian and US based heavyweights, as well as the whispers of some big tours coming up… Sweet Talk are just getting started.

    Call it Americana, call it Southern rock, call it whatever you want. Sweet Talk are taking those traditions and bending them into something that feels both familiar and new - songs that know where they come from, but more importantly, know exactly where they’re going.

  • The Smith & Western Jury
    The Smith & Western Jury

    The Smith & Western Jury will make you feel like you’ve just been hit by a rolling freight train. With songs that will delight country music fans and convert punk rockers to a genre they never thought they’d consider.