Not On Your Rider 2023

Overview

If you like music and you like trivia, TV shows such as Spicks and Specks and Never Mind the Buzzcocks likely sit high on your favourites list, with both combining tunes, musicians and questions about them. But in Melbourne on Thursday, November 2, you don't have to confine your music trivia fix to staring at a screen. One of Brisbane's most reliably entertaining evenings out returns to Victoria in the form of Not On Your Rider, the IRL quiz show that's also filled with well-known faces — but staged live, with attendees invited not only to watch but to also play along.

This pop-culture delight has been doing the rounds in Queensland for a few years now — and testing its contestants via rounds of questions — and it's making its second trip down south for 2023. For one night only, Melburnians can show off their skills at Brunswick Ballroom. If you're not already acquainted with Not On Your Rider, it takes something that everyone loves, aka flaunting their music trivia knowledge, and dials it up a few notches.

Here's how it works: the event is hosted by The Creases' Aimon Clark, and will feature The Grates' Patience Hodgson as a team captain. Also, while the two on-stage teams are always filled with musos, comedians, drag queens and other guests, anyone can buy a ticket, sit at a table and answer questions along with them.

This Melbourne go-around's big-name guests: DJ Dooris from The Jungle Giants, Johnny Took from DMA's, Hayley Mary from The Jezabels, Aunty Donna's Mark Samual Bonanno, and comedians Josh Earl and Michelle Brasier.

And as for the quiz itself, it's accompanied by chats about the music industry, plus other mini games involving attendees.