Embiggen Shotkickers
We’re stoked to announce that Shotkickers is expanding. But we need your help to get the job done!
We’ve taken on the lease next door (formerly Deans Picture Framing) to create a new front bar & smoking area. Decades ago, the two buildings were adjoined, nowadays separated only by the huge steel door you may have noticed inside our sound engineer station. We’ve decided it's time to crack it open and bring these beauties back together!
The expansion will see Shotkickers as we know it become our band room and the new building will feature a front bar for all your hangout needs. Complete with DJs on weekends, pool table, full dinner service, trivia plus a new smokers area off the footpath! Same Shotties vibes, Embiggened!
We’ve managed to raise over half the funds we need to but we need your help to finish the project and get the doors open early 2025.
Small venues have taken an absolute beating in recent years and Shotkickers has been no exception. Costs for running a music venue have skyrocketed in with costs of alcohol and public liability insurance going through the roof. Sprinkle a cost of living crisis on top and bar sales have plummeted this year, making hosting small band room gigs almost untenable for us. This is on top of the all the things we’ve had have to throw money at in the first few years of operating the venue just to keep it functioning and comfortable.
We know its a tough time to pass the hat around but Embiggening Shotkickers is our opportunity to extend our hospitality to the wider Northside community and be able to sling verditas and vibes at all times, whether the band room is sold out or not your flavour that night. We’ll have Shotties Saloon Kitchen in full swing and with a heap of natural light in the new bar we’ll be leaning into lunch and arvo hangs too!
Our hope is that this pivot will allow us help fund our greatest passion, unearthing and highlighting the best local and interstate bands we can find and showcasing some of the greatest from around Australia and abroad! We’ll be making some slight alterations to the bandroom to get rid of some bottlenecks at those busy Shotties nights. But largely the OG Shotkickers will stay as it is.
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We’ve conjured up some awesome rewards for pledgers who can help us Embiggen Shotkickers. We’ll be doing our first ever run of venue merch with 2 T-shirts to choose from. One Shotkickers tee and one Embiggen Shotkickers campaign tee, available only for campaign pledgers. Designed by our poster GOAT Jase Harper.
Speaking of goats, our in house sound/lighting wiz Rosie Excess is putting together Shotkickers Live Mixtape VOL 1, a compilation of performances from some of our fav up and coming bands’ previous gigs @ Shotties. Cassettes available if you pledge $250+ and come with a digital download code.
For those pledging $500 + you can pick a brick in our new front bar or smoking area and we’ll have it decorated to with your name / business name / bandname to commemorate your awesomeness. We’ll be collaborating with local visual artists to make design this to your liking!
You’ll also score a poster book featuring all the amazing Shotkickers posters designed to date by the amazing Jase Harper.
If you pledge $1000 or more you’ll get all these goodies plus 10% off food and drinks at Shotkickers for life!
For pledges larger than $1000 reach out to us so we can sort out how best to reward you [email protected]
Budget Overview
Some local legends have purchased the building next door to lease to Shotties. We've come up with $250,000 through brand partnerships to finance the expansion. The campaign will help us get the fit out finished and the doors open in early 2025!
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I just want to help save Shotkickers!
Shotkickers T-Shirt
New Shotkickers T-shirt designed by Jase Harper. Pledgers can get their hands on our very first run of venue merch!
Embiggen Shotkickers T-shirt
Embiggen Shotkickers campaign T-shirt. Designed by Jase Harper. This will be the only run of this tee. Pledgers will get their hands on our first ever run of venue merch.
Both T-shirts
Both Shotkickers T-shirt designs. Designed by Jase Harper. These are our first ever run of venue merch available only to pledgers.
Both shirts + Shotkickers Mixtape Vol I
Pledgers get both Shotkickers and Embiggen Shotkickers T-Shirts plus Shotkickers Mixtape VOL I on cassette! Featuring live performances @ Shotkickers recorded by our in house sound/lighting wiz Rosie Excess.
Merch Bundle
Both Shotkickers T-Shirts + Shotkickers Mixtape VOL I + a coffee table book of Shotkickers Posters all designed by our poster goat Jase Harper. Plus pick a brick on our massive new front bar or smokers wall and we'll decorate it to your liking with your name / band name / business name to commemorate your awesomeness in helping save Shotties. We'll get local visual artists on board to make your design bricktacular!
Lifetime Membership + Merch Bundle
Both Shotties T-shirts + Shotkickers mixtape vol I by Rosie Excess + Shotkickers Poster book by Jase Harper + Pick a Brick in Shotties new bar or smokers to commemorate your awesomeness + 10% off food and drinks at Shotkickers. You'll get a card for your digital wallet and that'll be valid forever.