THE VALERY TRAILS (QLD) at the Fitzroy Pinnacle

Saturday 4th October, 2025 @ 8:30pm

with Signal Chain and Field Monuments

Brisbane indie rockers The Valery Trails bring their Winter Palace album launch tour to The Fitzroy Pinnacle, joined by Signal Chain and Field Monuments.

Andrew Bower (vocals/guitars), an expatriate Australian then living in Houston, enlisted his brother Sean Bower (bass) and Dan McNaulty (drums) in his hometown of Brisbane, Australia to form The Valery Trails in 2011. With the assistance of the internet and some intercontinental travel, the trio developed a set of songs started in Andrew's home studio into the band's debut album Ghosts and Gravity, released in 2012.

Albums released in 2014 (Buffalo Speedway) and 2016 (Chameleon Bones), to differing degrees also involved long distance recording and exchanges of ideas but when Andrew moved back to Brisbane in 2020 the band began to operate more conventionally, picking up new members Tim Steward (guitars) and Skye Staniford along the way. The first album for this new expanded lineup was 2022's The Sky is Blue, followed by Winter Palace in 2025.

Signal Chain are a sonic whirlwind of shoe gaze, straight garage rock and occasional folk/country leanings. Lipstick pick ups, sonic rumblings …

Field Monuments feature ex-members of 90s/00s stalwarts Skip Tracer and Deloris. Wide-screen, 90s indie-folk-post-rock songs about teenage memories, relationships crumbling, parenthood and new love.

Tickets via OZTIX

DIRECTIONS: 251 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North VIC

11 Tram line, stop 22 Scotchmer St/ St Georges Rd