Artist info
Genre
Rock, Roots
Sounds like
jack white, dead meadow, jeff lang, shakey graves, seasick steve, mark lanegan, the cruel sea, tom waits, beasts of bourbon, the teskey brothers, nick cave and the bad seeds
band members
Nick Carver- Vocals & Guitar Chris Doig- Drums Alex Burkoy- Bass Jake Amy- Keys
Influences
mark lanegan, tex perkins, nick cave and the bad seeds, the beatles, deer tick, sharon van etten, queens of the stone age
Unearthed artists we like
The Colemans, Emma Volard, The Mamas, Gamjee, Southbound Snake Charmers, Clowns, Danny Walsh Banned, CASH, Rowboy, Manny Fox, Tracy McNeil & The GoodLife, The Morrisons, Two Last Names, Steve Cousins
Gig
Nick Carver and the Mean Street Butchers
16 May
The Retreat
Melbourne, 3056
Brunswick
2:30pm
Gig
Nick Carver and the Mean Street Butchers
11 Jun
The Red Hill Hotel
Central Victoria, 3451
Chewton
8:00pm
Gig
Nick Carver and the Mean Street Butchers
26 Jun
The Gem
Melbourne, 3066
Collingwood
8:00pm
Bio
Nick Carver injects as much truth and soul into his singing, songwriting, and guitar playing as possible. Anything that ends up in a Mean St Butchers song is there because he loves it. This authentic energy has been picked up by others, leading the band to play festivals such as NYE on the Hill, and support Canadian rockers The Tea Party on their 2019 tour of Australia. As he cruises the hills of Gippsland with the sounds of Neil Young, Kyuss and Nick Cave blaring from his car stereo, you can tell Nick’s musically obsessed. With his band of butchers from Melbourne (Alex Burkoy, Jake Amy, Chris Doig), his sound is best described as a swampy mix of alt-country and desert rock.
Nick Carver & the Mean St Butchers begin 2021 with the release of their new single Pony. A heavy psychedelic affair, the song was stitched together out of pre-COVID jams, and some lockdown love in Nick’s studio. Mixed and mastered by Tyson Fish (Vance Joy, Mammal), the single is a taste of the sound of the bands forthcoming album.
Review
Wild Dog Road
Nick Carver and the Mean Street Butchers
Delectably twisted, love how this looms in the darkness and refuses to come out. Sonically dazzling, I love the dark and mysterious world you live in.
Delectably twisted, love how this looms in the darkness and refuses to come out. Sonically dazzling, I love the dark and mysterious world you live in.