Monnone Alone launch their long-awaited fourth album 'Here Comes the Afternoon' on Saturday, May 17 at Coburg RSL with very special guests The Icypoles and Shelley Short (USA).

Although the name may suggest otherwise, Monnone Alone are a bona fide pop group based around the songwriting of Mark Monnone (ex-Lucksmiths) and featuring members of A-grade pop tinkerers Architecture in Helsinki, Mid-State Orange and Ciggie Witch.

The new album was predominantly recorded on 8-track cassette by Monnone Alone in their shabby-chic backyard studio Stock Cube in the inner-northern Melbourne suburb of Coburg, with some sparkly touches added by Gareth Parton at Los Bomberos.

Deviating from the straight-ahead powerpop of 2019’s Summer of the Mosquito and the locked-down bedroom pop of Stay Foggy (2021), the new album delves into some gentle psychedelia and sunshine pop whilst touching ever so fondly upon The Apples in Stereo, The Who, The Cure, The Bats and yes, Happy Mondays!

The Monnone Alone core line-up of Mark Monnone, Gus Franklin, Joe Foley and Louis Richter are joined on this joyously ramshacklin’ affair by erstwhile Aloners of yesteryear like Darren Hanlon, Steph Hughes and Lehmann B. Smith as well as members of The Icypoles, The Ladybug Transistor, Kisschasy, Fred Astereo and Personal & the Pizzas.

Joining Monnone Alone at Coburg RSL will be The Icypoles making an increasingly rare live appearance with their swoonsome take on the 60s girl group sound, and Portland, Oregon's Shelley Short bringing her gorgeously fingerpicked folk tunes.