What’s Cool and Unusual – 25th September 2013

Thu 25

The Red Rattler Theatre, 6 Faversham St. Marrickville
Entry by $5 donation.

Come play video games, board games and chill out to some sweet music.

They’ll be hooking up a PS2, PS3, N64, Wii, and an Xbox360 to projectors and TVs.

Small World, Pandemic, Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride (Europe),
Risk, Risk 2210 A.D., Spartacus,
Munchkin, Scrabble, Twister, Chess,
Time Lord Monopoly, and a bunch of other games.

Feel free to bring your own games too.

DJ Gatski will be spinning tracks from 7 till Midnight.

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Sat 28

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
6pm ALL AGES

Ben David (S.A) / Dan Cribb (W.A) / Isaac Graham / Ranger Spacey / Koby Geddes

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Sat 28

Red Rattler, 6 Faversham St, Marrickville
8pm

The Native Cats,TV Colours, Four Door, Ruined Fortune

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Sun 29

Jura Books, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
4pm ALL AGES $5

SAFE HANDS / MACHINA GENOVA / CANINE / BAD DEEDS

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Mon 30

107 Projects (107 Redfern St, Redfern)
$10/$8 7pm

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Playing solo pianos

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Doing some instrumental thingbomidies

https://soundcloud.com/kell-derrig-hall

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Turnted out wonk shop hip hop
EP is coming out on dream damage records tomorrow for free download
http://www.polaroidsofandroids.com/reacharounds/power-moves-selfish/7353.html
https://www.facebook.com/pages/POWER-MOVES/496795310385810

What’s Cool and Unusual – 18th September 2013

Fri 20

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES $?

Fourteen Nights At Sea (Melb) / Devotional / Golden Blonde

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Sat 21

Monster Mouse Studios MAUD LANE Marrickville
Midday start

ART/ CRAFT/ ZINES/HAND MADE/JAMS/PICKLES/TAROT READING/PALM READING/DISTRO/ MIX TAPES/SING/ PERFORM/LIVE ART/FOOD EATING CONTEST/PHOTO BOOTH/PORTRAITS

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Sat 21

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES $10

Harbourer / Those Things / Metcalfe / Bad Deeds

Seahorse Divorce – 13th September 2013

Cat #: 142TZM

All life on Earth began innocently in the primordial, prenatal waters of creation, and so too it was that love drew its first delicate and vulnerable breath. If you have known love you will be aware of the terrible pounding and crushing pressure pushing all oxygen from your chest, leaving you gasping for air and looking to take up the nearest sharp object and carve gills into your neck. This is the spirit of the ocean calling to your most ancient protozoan ancestral memory, speaking its most primal intuition and evoking a near implacable yearning to drown yourself in the nearest body of water.

Consider this, then, the conceptual crux of the debut LP from regenerate Brisbane dandies Seahorse Divorce; 11 tracks of unfettered, unapologetic and organic affection prevailing in the face of the invariable estrangement and painful separation of life. Lacking ulterior motive or any concept of predestination, the songs are offered in homage to the other, the oft-ignored remainder after opposing and dominating forces of creative or emotional obviousness wear themselves thin.

Left, then, to wander through an ever-shifting landscape of light and darkness in search of hearth and hospice, as street urchins Seahorse Divorce simultaneously abandon and are abandoned by the bygone progenitors that first gave them life, and yet are clearly distinguished and inescapably marked by their genetic and cultural heritage.

Recorded live, Sun Distorted, punk in intent but never in form, it is unlikely that Seahorse Divorce is the proselytizing litany of a new age but have stranger things not happened? 

What’s Cool and Unusual – 4th September 2013

Thu 5

Beatdisc Records, Church St, Parramatta

Michael Crafter, Dispolar, thedowngoing, The Holiday Project

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Fri 6

Monster Mouse, Maud Lane, Marrickville
6pm $5 ALL AGES

palmer grasp
everything I own is broken
ache
michael crafter
vile specimen
unknown to god
osedax
thorax
darkhorse
edward rodgrigues

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Sat 7

Cosmo’s Rock Lounge, Marrickville
7.30pm ALL AGES

ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2013 Beard Election for President of Marrickville will be held at Deja. Get your beard to leave a post with an election poster / video / or fan page to nominate and be put on the ballot.

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Are you sick of politics? Holy shit, I know I am! Well we at Deja would like to offer you an alternative to crying in a corner this September 7th! THIS!

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September DEJA comprises of…

REDDER!
ON THE STOOP
BRAIN ZAPS
DUBIOUS BLUES TRIO

Ok, now get up, find your nice shoes and get your dancin’ slacks laundered.

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As always, entry is by DONATION

BYO – but food and drinks are also available by donation

Please help keep DEJA and other underground venues safe and under the radar by disposing of rubbish, looking after friends and strangers, respecting residents and neighbours, and not gathering on the street outside.

Spread the word.
Sharing is caring.

FOR ADDRESS/ DIRECTIONS, PRIVATE MESSAGE DEJA OR ADMIN

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Like us: http://www.facebook.com/saturDEJA

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Sat 7

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
6pm ALL AGES

Darkhorse / Extinct Exist (VIC) / Thorax / Jackals / ACHE

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Sat 7

Red Rattler, Faversham St, Marrickville
Doors and DJ from 4pm, bands from 5pm $15 entry.

All funds go directly to the autonomous indigenous Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico.

FEATURING A MOST AWESOME LINE UP OF BANDS AND MUSOS….
Spurs for Jesus
Nunchukka Superfly
U.T.I
Everything I Own is Broken
Sweat & Shame
Conjunto Nortena
Justo Diaz
Alex Party-Cat

ABOUT THE GIG: It’s on again!! A bunch of awesome bands, DJs & volunteer staff have decided to get behind an extremely worthy cause and provide you with a fifth and final evening of “Music of Fire” at the fabulous community- oriented venue, The Red Rattler. And this time we are excited to welcome special guest musicians Julio Cienfuegos with his band & Justo Diaz, playing us tunes from The North of Mexico and South America. What a fitting honour! 🙂

Due to an overwhelmingly positive response from both the people of Sydney and the Zapatista communities in Mexico, we are now hosting Musica de Fuego V. Musica De Fuego is a Sydney based music collective aiming to raise funds and awareness for the indigenous Zaptista struggle in Chiapas. A group of us traveled to Mexico in the summer of 2012 and spent time working and connecting with the Zapatista people. They are overwhelmed and inspired by the support Musica has brought them, and gave us words of gratitude and solidarity which we passed on at Musica III. Some of us will return to Chiapas this December to meet again with our compas in Chiapas and we hope, apart from our willingness to work the land with them, that we can bring the greatest show of support from the people of Sydney yet.

OUR FUNDRAISING EFFORTS: WE have raised approximately $7000 over four gigs so far, all of which has been directly given to the Zapatista communities in Resistance. Our first gig, in July 2011, raised enough money to rebuild a community pharmacy that had burned down. Our second gig in December 2011 enabled us to provide an expensive boot-making machine for autonomous industry so that the Zapatistas can continue to work and function with no assistance from their “bad government”. Our third gig, which was held in June 2012, sent over $2000 to the jungle community we worked in early that year, to help various agricultural and educational projects in the area. Musica IV was sent to a Jungle community that needed to supply it’s “House of Health” and community school with equipment.We have negotiated the funding of these projects with the Zapatistas through the support of our friends at “Schools for Chiapas”. These projects exist in four separate municipalities, and there are five municipalities in total.

This final gig will raise funds to support the fifth municipality in the state of Chiapas, and we are currently in dialogue with “Schools for Chiapas” about which project the Zapatistas need the most urgent help with. We will have further information prior to the gig. After hosting Five “Musicas” we will have assisted all five municipalities in the Zapatista territories to establish or maintain autonomy in health, education and industry.We will have information displayed so you can see what our (YOUR) efforts have achieved.

This important connection between the Zapatistas and the Sydney music scene is something we hope to foster for some time. Even though this is the last Musica as we know it, we plan to host more fund raising events sometime in the future. We also hope to forge some kind of connection with our own indigenous communities and the Zapatistas, the more we learn about their struggle first hand.

ABOUT THE ZAPATISTAS:
These inspirational people, with their strength, solidarity and dignity, have survived serious human rights injustices for decades. Formed predominantly by indigenous peasant farmers, the Zapatistas, on January 1st 1994, demanded an end to the violent repression they had suffered and forced a corrupt government to recognise them as citizens with rights to their own land.

The government betrayed them, however, after agreeing to enshrine indigenous rights into the Mexican constitution and then failing to follow through. So the Zapatistas put into practice alternative forms of government, social and economic self-management where wealth and power are distributed fairly. They get no assistance whatsoever from the Mexican Government. Instead, they are persecuted for their beliefs and live under constant threat of attack, torture, imprisonment and even and murder by government backed paramilitaries whom they continue to resist in a peaceful manner.

Come to the Rattler for a mad night of music on the 22nd December and let the dignified people of Chiapas know that we continue to support their struggle!

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Sun 8

Chatswood Youth Centre, cnr Victor St and Albert Ave
$10 2pm ALL AGES

Survival, Civil War, Mood Swing, Distance, Hurt Unit

Golden Blonde – Gwen – 2nd September 2013

Cat #: 135TZM

‘Gwen’ is GOLDEN BLONDE’s debut full-length album – recorded and mixed with local engineer Tim Carr.

The recording sessions saw the members adopting a cut-and-paste aesthetic inspired by hip-hop producers such as Doom and Madlib.

Electronic and percussive elements come to the fore creating an acoustic and electronic mix of choral melodies, brutal sub frequencies, loops and field recordings.

GOLDEN BLONDE is
Adam Guzowski – Vocals, Guitars, Clarinet & Tenor Recorder
Austin Buckett – Rhodes, Hammond B-3, Synths, Piano, Fujitone & Percussion
Hugh Deacon – Drums & Percussion
Joshua Becker – Bass Guitar

Additional vocals by Amy Wilson on tracks 4, 5, 8 & 11.
Recorded and mixed by Tim Carr at Studio 301, Sydney, Australia.
Mastered by Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering, Newton, USA.
Composed by GOLDEN BLONDE.
Post-production and field recordings by Austin Buckett at various locations.
Co-directed by Austin Buckett & Adam Guzowski.