Melverton Drive — Hallam
A room full of people making things
Studio NVCBLE is a new hub, opening mid-2027, for musicians coming up in Casey and Melbourne’s south-east. One place where you can collaborate, record and perform under one roof — run as a not-for-profit and open to whoever wants to hang out, meet people, start something and actually finish it.
How this will work
The plan, in short
- 10
- Showcase nights planned a year, last Friday of the month
- 1
- Big show planned a year, the whole building
- 2027
- Doors open mid-year in Hallam
- NFP
- Not-for-profit, run on sponsorship and community donations
- 01
Come in before you book
Once we open, drop by, sit in on a session, meet whoever is around. The best things made here should start with somebody hanging about on a day they had nothing booked.
- 02
Bring people together
We are starting a list of writers, players and producers who want to be in the room. If you turn up short a drummer or a top-line, ask.
- 03
Finish things, then play them
The live room, the control room and the stage are twelve steps apart, so a song should not sit half-done for six months. Write it, record it, play it on the last Friday, put it out.
- 04
Talent, not budget
Nobody here will care how many streams you have or what is in your account. Membership is a small donation, and the artist fund covers anyone who cannot pay. First gig or fifth record, the welcome will be the same.
Content studio
The Greenroom
Talent is not enough if nobody sees it. The Greenroom is a small, lit content studio off the live room where artists and bands get short clips and photos taken professionally — for Instagram, Reels, TikTok and Shorts, and for press kits, gig posters and pitching to venues.
- Clips
- Short vertical performance clips, cut and captioned, ready to post
- Photos
- A portrait and press set — solo, band and live-room shots
- Who shoots
- Local photographers and videographers, plus students learning alongside them
- Yours to use
- Social media, streaming profiles, press, posters — no licence fees
- Cost
- Subsidised for members, free where money is the barrier
Melverton Drive
An industrial street, on purpose
Hallam is a working estate, and that turns out to be the best thing about the address. Our neighbours are metal fabricators, machine shops and powder coaters, so nobody on this street is going to complain about a drum take — and it is five minutes off the Monash Freeway and the Princes Highway, which makes it about as easy to get to as anywhere in the south-east.
Five minutes out
Monash Freeway, Princes Highway
Easy from Narre Warren, Berwick, Cranbourne, Dandenong or the city. Nobody has to make an expedition of it.
No curfew
Light industrial zoning
The nearest house is four hundred metres away. Play as loud as you like, for as long as you like.
Fabricators next door
Sheet metal, welding, machining
Stands, risers, brackets and case hardware made or repaired on the same street, usually the same day.
Built for load-in
Roller door, hardstand, one floor
Gear rolls from the tailgate to the floor on the flat. Nothing here goes up a set of stairs.