November 6th, 2025Gigs

Toody Cole, her band and members of Jenny Don’t & The Spurs will play at the Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal on Saturday, November 22.

Toody, co-founder and mainstay of iconic Oregon group Dead Moon returns to Australia for the first time fronting her own band, following three decades of appearances here with Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows and as a duo with her late great husband Fred Cole.
In Toody Cole & her band, she is joined by Kelly Haliburton and Christopher March (on drums and guitar respectively) of fellow Oregon outfit Jenny Don’t & The Spurs.
Toody had a lifelong journey with Fred Cole, her dearly loved husband of 50 years, carving a unique approach with their passion-drenched raucous dirt road garage punk rock. Toody was the guts, the heart and the unyielding determination and drive of the bands she shared with Fred. Like a garage-grit Patti Smith, jagged-edge Joan Jett, or even Janis Joplin’s older biker sister, Toody Cole, now 76 years young, is a ‘door-busting, ceiling-cracking riot woman’ – and a senior citizen at that.
Famously turning down a US tour with Nirvana in ’92 having already committed to a 20-date run in New Zealand, Dead Moon were influential on subsequent generations of raw rock’n’rollers, from Mudhoney through to the White Stripes.