Fools

Buy tickets early and show your favourite local bands that the juice is worth the squeeze. We ♥️ playing live, and we ♥️ those who turn out to support us. There’s a helluva lot of negativity about the state of the live music economy right now, but for us onstage is absolutely where this band thrives. It’s fuelled some of our best songwriting, shaped how we approach recording our records and formed lifelonh friendships. What makes it all work, is that we also need you.

Our next (and maybe only) show for 2026 is a mini-festival on April 19 at the .ballroom featuring and

Get your tickets right here —> https://m.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/rhythm-sessions-feat-fools-izzy-rodin-saint-victoire-zevon-lee/191622

Presented by Rhythm Section

📸 at wd

Really excited about this one! We’ve worked together with to put together a show at .ballroom on April 19 and the lineup feels juuusssssssttt right.

We’ll be joined by , and the inimitable . There’s some seriously good stuff happening in Melbourne right now and this bill is just the tonic for your Sunday afternoon viewing.

It’s a daytime show, music from 1–5pm. You can grab a GA ticket or book a table and settle in for the arvo.

We’ve got a couple of new singles out and these shows are where it all comes to life for us and would genuinely love to see you there.

Show us some love and maybe walk away with a new favourite band.

Happy ❤️
Today’s surprise release is ‘Fit to Break’

'Fit to Break’ is about love on the precipice and sees FOOLS refine their larger-than-life blues & roots-rock sound, to embrace the singer-songwriter and country music loving heartbeat of leading man Luke O'Connor.

Recorded live at Newmarket Studios with Guus Hoevenaars in one room and maybe the first take. This tune was mixed by dear friend and long-time collaborator Brett Gasket (Gaskett Guitars) and mastered by Gareth Thomson

Available everywhere now, courtesy of Community Music / UNIFIED Music Group

FOOLS is:
Luke O’Connor — voice
Alex Weybury — background vocals
Angus Rigby — saxophone
Dale Winters — guitar
Haydn Meggitt — drums
James Ferguson — organ
Jessica Wilson — background vocals
Madison Foley — trumpet
Ryan Oliver — harmonica & piano
Travis Clarke — bass
Connor McIndoe - Trombone
Sam Leskovec - Deums

Special guest:
Jy-Perry Banks — pedal steel guitar

Written by Luke O’Connor
Recorded by Guus Hoevenaars
Mixed by Brett Gaskett

Fit to Break — lyrics

Every night becomes the morning all too soon
Every thing is out of place in every room
We could circle round this fear till I come back
Till you come back, I’m still here loving you

I’ve been tryna find the words, they won’t quite stick
This emptiness is making us both sick
When all I see and hear is part of you
Who’s part of me, I’m still here loving you

We both know it’s not quite evil to let the other down
We’re both at fault for breaking what we made
I’m a fire above the clouds, you’re a cool stream underground
But we know there’s more to this than a mistake.
These elements don’t fit, they’re fit to break.

Open hearted surgery
Open ended poetry

I’ve been tryna find the words, they won’t quite stick
This emptiness is making us both sick
When all I see and hear is part of you

We both know it’s not quite evil to let the other down
We’re both at fault for breaking what we made
I’m a fire above the clouds, you’re a cool stream underground
But we know there’s more to this than a mistake.
These elements don’t fit, they’re fit to break.

Fit To Break Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDSFit To Break · FOOLSFit to Break℗ FOOLS distributed by Community MusicReleased on: 2026-02-13Mixing Engineer: Brett GaskettReco...

Give. It. Up. for and for getting older. 🎂 We neeeed you and celebrate you on your specialist of days.

This is kinda what to expect for our gig at this afternoon. We’ll be doing minimal full band shows in Melbourne this year, and this one is free! from 4, us from 4.45

One for the country music lovers, those who love an earnest lyric laced with a little heartache. This is our tale of love on the precipice, awaiting that cliff edge to give way, and it was sheer joy to bring to life one of our most honest, raw and deeply felt songs yet.

‘Fit to Break’ is available to stream February 13.

See you Sunday at for a sneak peak.

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Recorded at The Newmarket Collective and mixed by
Mastered by Gareth Thomson