Bergy Bandroom
Don Watson presents Modern Heaven
Second Skin, Gush & Special Guest
Bergy Bandroom (Brunswick, VIC)
Thursday, 11 June 2026 7:00 pm
The Midnight Cowboy EP by Modern Heaven was released eight years ago on Burning Rose Records. It was an interesting time for Post-Punk music, considering BRR released most of the now budding and successful acts who spearheaded its renaissance around 2016/17– it was bizarre they were all from the other side of the world: Australia. The seed BRR sewed was initially one made out of practicality: to find a home for live music in Sydney. A reaction to the infamous lockdown laws the city underwent thanks to a ‘coward punch’ in Kings Cross that swallowed the city’s live music venues and live music economy, as well as cultural ecosystem. Oddly enough, BRR’s practical solution to it all, became a transcendental trend across the United States, Europe and the UK, arguably. Modern Heaven was one of the artists the label released in the throes of its roster, and had some success that outlived their eight-year hiatus.
Fast forwarding to 2026, Modern Heaven is about to release their long-overdue debut album, and head off to the UK/EU to promote it, as well as some singles they’re planning to pepper around along the way.
Gush fits in as a new friend and an old soul. The alt-rock foursome are also about to release new music, and have been an integral pillar to the diy scene in the last few years.
Second Skin is a new project by Grace. It’s an electronic solo outfit, akin to the newfound Oklou/dry, but ambient pop-driven art stuff, but imagine that the producer and all-in-one artist was much better than most artists in that genre. Second Skin feels as if she should already be revered and extremely well-known. It’s an art form in itself, to sound so sophisticated and established in one’s own sound/art.
Special Guest TBA.
Fast forwarding to 2026, Modern Heaven is about to release their long-overdue debut album, and head off to the UK/EU to promote it, as well as some singles they’re planning to pepper around along the way.
Gush fits in as a new friend and an old soul. The alt-rock foursome are also about to release new music, and have been an integral pillar to the diy scene in the last few years.
Second Skin is a new project by Grace. It’s an electronic solo outfit, akin to the newfound Oklou/dry, but ambient pop-driven art stuff, but imagine that the producer and all-in-one artist was much better than most artists in that genre. Second Skin feels as if she should already be revered and extremely well-known. It’s an art form in itself, to sound so sophisticated and established in one’s own sound/art.
Special Guest TBA.