Tonight you can have your cake and eat it too.

Long­time gui­tar­ist and co-con­spir­at­or of Greg John­son’s, Ted Brown is play­ing a free gig at Bodega. Sing­er-song­writer Brown has been based in Los Angeles over the past few years, after mak­ing the big move there with Greg John­son (U.S. site) in 2002. After 5 years build­ing a fol­low­ing they now tour reg­u­larly across Amer­ica. And did I men­tion that the gig is free? That’s bet­ter than bad.

Across town at the Adelaide, the post-rock­ing Dukes of Leis­ure are play­ing with rock-posters Mar­inev­ille. They’ll be start­ing at a sens­ible time, provid­ing as much oppor­tun­ity as pos­sible for drink­ing plenty of that cheap cheap Adelaide booze. Door $5 for that show.

PS. Last week­end The Dukes of Leis­ure fin­ished record­ing the basic tracks (out at Island Bay with Nic McGow­an) for their album… they reck­on they’re very excited to be out play­ing live again and have new mater­i­al to debut.

Listen to tracks by the vari­ous bands by fol­low­ing the links to their Myspace pages. Mar­inev­ille’s offi­cial site is here.