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What’s Cool and Unusual – 6th August 2008

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wed 6

consolador de dos caras
la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney
$10 8pm

this wednesday 6th august a massive fractal crackin bass extravaganza by the pre teen queens of screams, catch their only sydney show before they head back to osaka to unleash hell on an unsuspecting japanese public!KAWAIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!

TOXIC LIPSTICK ALBUM LAUNCH Thats right the new dual plover release, POOPIN by everyone’s favourite fractal crackin’ bass junkie toxic lipstick will be launched at club consolador. Here are some quotes from dedicated toxic fans: “Poopin sounds reelly good, it makes me feel good 2″ Steven, 4 (Logan, Brisbane)”After coming home from work, there`s nothing I like better than a cold glass of Poopin” Steven, 12 (Wombat Peaks, Tasmania)”Poopin`s like a fine wine that gets u wasted” Toxic Lipstick, 14 (no relation), (Purga Creek, QLD)

Supporting on the night will be the ever entertaining toecutter

plus
cockupshittingwhore(featuring members of suicidal rap orgy and butchers harem)

“Many people say u can`t polish a turd. It`s just impossible. But fractal-crackin bass junkies Toxic Lipstick have done the impossible, gettin’ busier than a mum down the pub on singles nite to produce their 3rd debut album, POOPIN. Following up previous releases on Sydney’s commercially challenged dualpLOVER label, including the seminal ‘When Doves Cry’ and puberty induced ‘Prisoner of Hormones’, POOPIN features such crowd thumpers as Rape Me, Itchy Balls, and Teen Mum, showing that magic really can happen… even if it`s just in your pants. Get ready 4 the trashcore bubblegum sensation that is…POOPIN!!!BREAKING NEWS!! To celebrate the release of POOPIN, Toxic Lipstick are undertaking a gruelling tour of their favourite speed dating venues. These girls really bark at the gristle when they get on the mikes so make sure you’re within projectile vomiting distance this July & August.”

toecutter

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wed 6

serial space 33 wellington st chippendale
$10 8pm
The NOW now Series 2008 #6

David Rothenberg – (USA) Rothenberg’s music connects the living sounds of the natural world to the traditions of global rhythmic innovation and improvisation. Inspired by the melodies and beats of birds, insects, whales, water, and wind. http://www.whybirdssing.com

roil (chris abrahams, mike majkowski, james waples)

Kraig Grady (USA now Wollongong) if as it says in Wikipedia “He has been nominated four times for the LA Weekly Music Awards best uncategorizable artist and was chosen by Buzz Magazine as one of the “100 coolest people in Los Angeles”, What the fuck is he doing in the Gong? + Chris Abrahams

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thu 7

black and blue gallery, cleveland st (above Mao and More)
Preview Thursday August 7
6pm – 9pm
August 8 – August 24

Emily Hunt & Raquel Welch
Hoochie Coochie

The fabled myths of death, the grotesque and the bizarre come to life in an excessively ornamented carnivale in Raquel Welch and Emily Hunt’s ‘Hoochie Choochie.’ Imaginary beasts and exaggerated caricatures are displayed in an
set-up which can best described as a behavioural study of the fantastic. Each scene features craftily constructed figures that are embellished with a nod to the crude elements of voodoo. But with a natural disposition towards the absurd,
Hunt & Welch’s make-believe underworld is nothing short of eccentric.

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fri 8

download the opening ceremony of the olympics – it’ll be better than any tv coverage – and go to this instead!

louie’s
34 murray street, marrickville
8pm $?

the new justice team, teargas, deathcage, deathtrap

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sat 9

mgtvle
44 fitzroy street, marrickville
8pm $?

the new justice team, teargas, do not resucitate + more

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sat 9

4 TALBOT ST, SYDENHAM
8pm $12

cherry 2000, day of the meerkat, lawyers guns and money, the quits

+ trash, sleaze, piercing show + djs til dawn

HEY SYDNEY! ROCKIN THE RANDOM IS FOR ALL THE TIMES YOU’VE BEEN CHUCKED OUT OF A VENUE FOR DANCING ON THE TABLES, GOING WILD, OR LOOKING DRUNK (AS IF THAT WASN’T HALF THE POINT), FOR ALL THE WAREHOUSES THAT AREN’T ALLOWED TO ROCK OUT ANYMORE BECAUSE OF NOISE COMPLAINTS!!! WE SAY FUCK YOU TO ALL THE ARSEHOLES THAT MOVE INTO THE CITY AND THINK THAT WE SHOULD ALL BE QUIET!!! THIS IS FOR EVERY GIG YOU EVER WENT TO FULL OF LAME MOTHERFUCKERS LOOKING SO SLICK BUT NOT BLOODY DANCING!!!!! FOR ALL THE TIMES WHEN YOU WERE JUST GETTING INTO IT AND THE PUB FUCKING SHUTS!! AND FOR ANY TIME A BOUNCER, COP OR OTHER CUNT TRIED TO CURB YOUR FUN – FUCK ‘EM! SO IF YA WANNA GET DOWN AND DIRTY THIS IS THE FUCKIN ANSWER!!! GET YOUR SLEAZE ON AND COME AND GET BENT TILL THE BREAK OF DAWN AT ROCKIN THE RANDOM!!!!! SEEDY!!! TRASHY!!! OUT OF CONTROL!!! YEEEEHAAAAH!!!!

BANDS, BROADS AND BOOZE (ALL CHEAP!)!!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!!

GETTING THERE:GO LEFT OUT OF SYDENHAM STATION, WALK DOWN RAILWAY RD UNTIL YOU HIT PRINCES HIGHWAY, TALBOT IS FIRST ON THE LEFT (8-10 MIN WALK). OR: CATCH A 422 BUS FROM CENTRAL STATION OR NEWTOWN.

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What’s Cool and Unusual – 30th July 2008

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wed 30

consolador de dos caras
la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney
8pm $5

KRYSTOFFKRVSTOFFISTON – Also drawing some degree of inspiration from the black stream (though concerned more with depressive ambience over hammering repetition), duo Kkriskristoffiston are just as likely to disgust BM purists. From dehidrated northcote dusty lungs full of grief and god’s wrath splutter forth omnipitant pain and anguish. coroading twin neck guitar and organ acompany these death throughs only barely riseing from collapsing in heat stroke, this is mottled Southern Hemisphree Black & White Metal!!!! other projects ST John’s Ambience, MOFFARFARRAH, Collapsed Toilet Vietnam, WhiteHorse, MofHoRah, Malakat, Slotholith, 1/16th headed, Dumb Crystals, Paeces, MFFRvsBNS, EOH,Kimberly, Bohemian Knights, Alley oops (ex-Slam Dunk!) and Half man Half Moffafarrah -Also drawing some
degree of inspiration from the black stream (though concerned more with depressive ambience over hammering repetition), duo Kkriskristoffiston are just as likely to disgust BM purists. From dehidrated northcote dusty lungs full of grief and god’s wrath splutter forth omnipitant pain and anguish. coroading twin neck guitar and organ acompany these death throughs only barely riseing from collapsing in heat stroke, this is mottled Southern Hemisphree Black & White Metal!!!! other projects ST John’s Ambience, MOFFARFARRAH, Collapsed Toilet Vietnam, WhiteHorse, MofHoRah, Malakat, Slotholith, 1/16th headed, Dumb Crystals, Paeces, MFFRvsBNS, EOH,Kimberly, Bohemian Knights, Alley oops (ex-Slam Dunk!) and Half man Half Moffafarrah

FAMILY JEWELS – A one man power electronics boogie band. Nic Warnock of Circle Pit and Onani playing analogue synthesizer, cassette four track loops and delayed/distorted vocals. Influence from his limited knowledge of early electronic music, Royal Trux, DJ Screw, Whitehouse and Alan Vega.

PEE WEE. – Killer garage/surf tinged punk rock featuring members of Straight Arrows and Dead Farmers. For fans of  the Ramones, pizza, partying, practical jokes, getting wild, Dead Farmers and Straight Arrows.

if you want to sell something, bring it along to the DIY markets and set up on a table.

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wed 30

Date:        Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Time:        7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location:          SYDNEY / Jimmy Sing’s Record Stand
Street:            302 Cleveland St. Surry Hills.
City/Town:City of Sydney, Australia

Come learn why wrestling is THE great artform of the 21st century while watching some of the most spectacular matches of recent years with Sydney’s greatest Pro-Wrestling expert, SHANE McGRATH.

Between the steroids and painkiller abuse, shitty working conditions, combat-zone mortality rate, and badly-acted, badly-written storylines, pro-wrestling may be literally the worst industry in the
world.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t awesome!

From corporate arena spectacle to low-budget shows in high-school gyms, this is a night not to be missed. Oh my God, not the Death Valley Driver onto the ladder!

This one’s going to be a slobberknocker, folks.

****** !!! ****** !!! ****** !!! ****** !!! ****** !!! ****** !!! ****** !!! ******

NB! LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO SECURE YOUR PLACE BY EMAILING goodgodsmallclub@gmail.com

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fri 1

mgtvle
44 fitzroy st, marrickville
8pm $?

the focus, the diamond sea, hee haw, former republics

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sat 2

louie’s, 34 murray st, marrickville
8pm $8

fangs of satanic soccer moms, the thaw, hee haw, blackie (solo), the focus

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sat 2

Black Rose Movie Night: Office Space (1999) Mike Judge
@ 22 enmore rd newtown

from 5pm
entry by donation [$5 suggested]

Peter Gibbons just can’t seem to catch a break. His girlfriend is cheating on him, he has an obnoxious neighbor, and he’s completely miserable with his job as a small cog in a company called Initech.
Then he visits a hypnotherapist, who dies just after putting Peter into a state of complete bliss. Free of worrying about making a living, he no longer feels the need to keep his job,

Date:                          Saturday 2 August 2008
Time:                          17:00 – 19:00  (GMT +10:00)
Location:                      Black Rose Anarchist Books
Street:                        22 Enmore Rd
City State Postcode:                       Newtown
Phone:                         0424490792

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sun 3

akemi, great western highway, medlow bath

Coming up at Akemi on this Sunday, 3rd August is a night of quality acoustic folk, featuring two acts: Lime and Steel, and Five Leaves Left.

Lime and Steel play original songs, with harmonies sung with distinctly Australian flavour.   They also throw in generous helping of Irish influence, and a touch of bluegrass influenced banjo and some sweet mandolin picking. (myspace.com/bensong)

Five Leaves Left features singer-songwriter and fingerpicking guitarist Nick Szenkuti. They do some fine folk/blues originals and covers, with a line-up that usually includes Mary Jones on flute, Simon Watts, on fiddle, with Ian
Morrison brushing up percussive goodness. (http://www.myspace.com/szentkuti)

We plan on having a session of Irish Tunes after the gig, so bring your instruments, all you diddly-people.

It’ll be an easy-going toasty loungeroomy gig.  BYO, and Akemi folks sometimes put on a pot of stew or the like, for which you are allowed make a small donation if you feel like clocking up some good karma.

Cover on the door is $5

Feel free to forward this to all your friends

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What’s Cool and Unusual – 16th July 2008

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I will be at Consolador de Dos Caras tonight – come and say hello!

wed 16

la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney

dualpLOVER in conjunction with 2SER and tenzenmen present club
CONSOLADOR DE DOS CARAS

this week cloth ear presents:

Matthew Hopkins and Jonathon Hochman – like wizards with electronic devices , may have mind probes so approach with caution beware matthew hopkins’s future time travel machine. DON’T LOOK INTO THEIR EYES WHILE THEY ARE PLAYING OR YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF IN THE FUTURE.

XWAVE – loud abrasive noisy c**ts from the mountains.Like wizards with apples and heroin , weird horrible / beautiful sound that will make you feel extremely happysad

Cabaret Callado (Brazil) –  new folk album “Mecanismo Objeto” is almost ready , don’t miss the brazillian master of psychedelic neo folk in another rare solo appearance.

plus usual DIY markets and crazy dj’s in the front room

$5 is all it takes for a good wednesday night out.

Upcoming: TOXIC LIPSTICK ALBUM LAUNCH Wed 6TH AUGUST

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wed 16

message from lloyd:

Yeah that’s right, another email from some ‘struggling artist’ (read: some dude making horrible music that you aren’t going to come see anyway) about some gig that will either be cancelled at the last minute due to venue/transport/amp/zombie army/irreconcilable-dispute-between-band-member troubles or simply three people will show up to (the promoter, one band member’s girlfriend and some guy who just heard that Naked on the Vague were
playing even though they’re not).

Wednesday night I’m taking part in a revised version of Brendan Walls’ gamepiece “Chess” that was debuted at the NOW now festival at the beginning of this year.  Also playing are the Walls himself and James Iha from the Smashing Pumpkins.  Or Title Records, I’m not entirely sure.  Either way, about a hundred amps, little noisy thingies, a chess board and a banjo will be used to make transcendental blah blah blah you’re not listening.  WHO SAID POST-MODERN MUSIC WAS DEAD?  

If you’ve actually read this far and are still interested then (what the hell?) it’s taking place at 405 hibernian
house (342 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills, just across from central station) and we’ll be playing with other collectives/bands/people/”musicians”.  No idea who because there has been precisely zero promotion for this event.  Big
surprise.

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fri 18

Friday July 18th @where?house

CASTINGS, KITCHENS FLOOR, 2779 + a mystery group that may involve members of Vincent Over The Sink

8pm opening…$8 entry

_Castings will probably play first.

_Kitchens Floor are from Brisbane. Matt (Look Pond, Minxx) and Julia play beautiful, eccentric, minimalist acoustic pop music. they are one of the best young groups in the country today in my not-so-humble opinion. think of Beat Happening, Neu and ”Hi, How Are You?” at a house party and you are close.

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fuck! where do i start. trance-inducing but jaw dropping at the same time, this group from the mountains consists of Ben, Adam (Stasis Duo / XWave) and Matt (xNOBBQx / Stasis Duo). fucked up psych/noise/garage/punk/primitive/minimalist bliss. fuck No New York, come see 2779!

message me or myspace.com/castings for the where?abouts or the venue.

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sat 19

red rattler, 6 faversham street, marrickville
7pm $5

scooter presents

go go go go (brisbane)
haisha haisha
magnoliaceae

awesome new venue in marrickville!  please support this space as a lot of people have invested a LOT of money and time in this place!  totally legal too!

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sat 19

Louie’s: 34 Murray Street, Marrickville.
Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 8:00pm

KITCHENS FLOOR – World’s nicest dude Matt (also da main-man in Look!Pond) and buddy Julia playing killer outsider folk/pop tunes. Bloody great songwriters! All the way from Brisbane. *Also playing at the where?house Saturday night.

CIRCLE PIT – Wall-o-sound heavy boogie rock in full force five piece mode. Bound to be the headbangers ball.

ALPS – Resident of Newcastle/the world Chris Hearn armed with a Yamaha Keyboard, Xylophone, Drum machine, cassette recorder, two hands, voice etc. Great lo-fi pop. Some songs are uppers, others are total downers.

PEE WEE – 100% fun!!! Teenagery punx with a surf/garage vibe featuring members of Straight Arrows and Dead Farmers. DA ULTIMATE PARTY BAND.

BABY COFFIN – Lloyd Honeybrook of the much hated Happy Go Hate Fuck on amplified sax and Brendan Walls of the much hated Menstruation Sisters on bass (i think??). Their first live show, got high hopes
for this one!

BYO!!!!

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sat 19

dirty shirlows, 32 shirlow st, marrickville
cut to bits

killjoy
cat-grrl
maladroit
xian vs b.i.n.t.
dj rainbow ejaculation
dj anal erection
unhappy animals make bad meat
abortifacient
eject
dalit

$5 9pm

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mark this one in your diaries

MONDAY July 28th at
dirty shirlows, 32 shirlow st, marrickville

GRAF ORLOCK, ROBOTOSAURUS, YEAH BEARS, SCHRODINGERS CAT
$10 8pm first band

www.myspace.com/graforlock
“Not only are Graf Orlock’s tunes uproariously nihilistic but concise and poignant, morphing the innovative savagery of Pig Destroyer and Brutal Truth with scathing punk cynicism. ”Corpserate Greed”’s two minutes and 18 seconds careen around three priceless Joe Pantoliano samples. In the movie he plays a variation of what expert ’80s action deconstructionists Ruthless Reviews call ”the Stupid Chief,” breathlessly berating Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s body count for necessitating, yes, ”detectives detecting shit” and forensic teams having to stick corpses ”back in the fucking
bags.” It’s trivial, silly blockbuster ear candy, but the decontextualization and shuffling of the dialogue makes for an artful, grotesque exchange that couldn’t be more metal. Pantoliano’s tantrums buffer neck-snapping blastbeats, bad cop/worse cop freakouts and curiously enough Hatebreed-style staccato, which is all that’s left by the militaristic outro. On an EP heavy on Alien worship, is Graf Orlock’s Bad Boys II nod simply wink-wink turd-polishing? Or is Michael Bay’s cash-cow clusterfuck like Reagan-era staples Red Dawn, Invasion USA or Commando representative of something
sociopolitically deeper and darker?”

early warning on this one as it’s a monday night.  please venture out for this if you can as the touring bands specifically requested to have an ALL AGES show in sydney and this was the only free night.

shaun/tenzenmen
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What’s Cool and Unusual – 9th July 2008

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wed 9

Club Consolador De Dos Caras
La Campana

back room – Nikko, simo sooo, turds of prey, pink Space Bike Race

Aaron (Turds of Prey/Un/Pure Evil Trio) and that looks like me in the background there.

sat 12

Static Age Festival:
Dirty Shirlows, 32 Shirlow Street, Marrickville 
2pm- midnight 

GREY DATURAS (VIC)
WOG
EMBERS (VIC)
PEEWEE
AKTION UNIT (VIC)
DEFAULT JAMERSON (VIC)
BED WETTIN’ BAD BOYS
STICK STICK
TIRED HANDS
THYCALINE DEATH RATTLE
SCISSOR LOCK

What’s Cool and Unusual – 25th June 2008

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Facebook update: ….beats the typhoon to head to Malaysia in the morning.

What’s Cool and Unusual

wed 25

consolador de dos caras
la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney
8pm $5

dining in tuscany – With a mixture of epic and memorable-heavy music, seamed together by ethereal and ambient atmospherics, DIT experiment with sound-scapes and classical composition.From brutally complex to somber and melodic, D.I.T capture many muscial styles that translate proficiently through their stage presence.

monstrum solo spectacular – MONSTROM SOLO SPECTACULAR. 1 MAN, 1 MASK, 1 GUITAR. COME AND WITNESS THIS MASTER OF DERANGED METAL OBLITERATE THE SPANISH QUARTER

Feick’s Device- Who needs electricity?
Perched on the punk edge of acoustic artcore, Feick’s Device use handdrums, acoustic guitar, noisemakers and a diversity of vocals to pound out polyrhythmic melodies of abrasive charm.

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fri 27

7pm – Teale Palace (2A Teale Pl, Parramatta) – Lilies, Former Republics, Hammercide, Bare Arms

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sat 28

hellen rose schauersberger laboratorium, 17 waterloo st, surry hills
8pm usual donation

naked on the vague, absoluten calfeutrail, defektro, onani

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What’s Cool and Unusual – 4th June 2008

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wed 4

consolador de dos caras
la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney
8pm $5

garbage and the flowers, lt colonel spastic howitzer, thylacine

garbage and the flowers – Coming out of Sonic Youth-drenched Wellington, NZ in the early nineties, The Garbage & the Flowers were always going to be an anomaly. Denounced as the fifty-thousandth band to sound like the The Velvet Underground, and even as a Christian band in the local street press, the five-piece nevertheless built up a solid gang of devotees, who claimed their sound to be “unique, fractured, and psychedelic” and ideal to take acid with and get stoned to. Championed by songwriter Alastair Galbraith, they released a critically acclaimed first single, Catnip/Carousel, and double album, Eyes Rind As If Beggars, both on US labels. The latter, with its “sun-burning” and lyrical improvisations found them a secure place in the noise-pop canon.

lt colonel spastic howitzer

Thylacine – Anna Chase: vocals, rhythm guitar. Ben Benton: drums. Jack Dibben: lead guitar, ambience. Jess Corcoran: vocals, keys, harmonica, violin. 

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thu 5

Club 77

THE SCARE
YES NUKES
FAIT ACCOMPLI
LOENE CARMEN
+ a free beer on entry

sat 7

The Jura Collective, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
9550 9931

Come along to our working bees, where we’ll be sanding and painting the floor, and fixing the skirting boards – the final touches on the library renovations. Saturday 7th June, from 12pm.

The Jura Food Co-op continues to provide people with affordable, organic fruit and vegie boxes. Order yours or find out more by emailing jurafoodcoop@riseup.net

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sat 7

dirty shirlows, 32 shirlow st, marrickville
8pm $?

abc weapons, when chimps attack, voting with bricks, euripedes beserker, do not resuscitate, melaleuca memorial

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sun 8

14:00 – 17:00

“The Upstairs Dance Studio”
Jura Bookshop, 440 Parramatta Road, Petersham

Join us for an arvo of VEGAN high tea, popping lessons with the elegant shelly and hip-hop sounds from secret special guests!!! This shall be followed by a discussion of gender, and the subversion of gender, in hip-hop and dance.

Vegan treats are most welcome (e.g. cupcakes, jelly, choc crackles).
This event is FREE, but donations to Jura are always appreciated.

Check back for some suggested pre-readings and materials (e.g. dance moves!). These are purely for fun! Don’t feel you need to read anything or have ANY dance or cooking skills to participate. ALL ages, genders, species, etc are welcome.

READINGS:

Hip-Hop, Gender, Race and Capitalism – Nichali Ciacco (Znet)

The Exploitation of Women in Hip-Hop Culture – Ayanna (My Sistahs) 

Hip-Hop and Sydney’s Western Suburbs – Meguel D’Souza (Urban Expressions, 1988)

Jura Collective (and myself) do not necessarily agree with all of these writings. These are intended to start the brains ticking on the pertinent issues. Also, search “popping” on youtube!
tree.kneee@gmail.com
Katrina

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sun 8

super 8 diaries launch
dirty shirlows, 32 shirlow st, marrickville
2pm-midnight
$12 all ages

tucker b’s, charge group, ohana, when chimps attack, castings, lola flash, do not resuscitate, qua, alps of nsw

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mon 9

The NOW now Series 2008 #4

laura altman + monika brooks
daiji igarashi (Brisbane) – solo
daiji + adam sussman + rory brown
artery – chris abrahams, jon rose + mike majkowski
artery + peter farrar & sam dobson

Serial Space 33 Wellington Street Chippendale 7pm $10 + $8 

shaun/tenzenmen
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What’s Cool and Unusual – 28th May 2008

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wed 28

consolador de dos caras
la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney
$5 8pm

hira hira, tim dwyer, a friend of mine
plus the usual crazy djs

hira hira – we. are. all. xray. pricks. no. talent. fuck. off.

a friend of mine – Their mix of catatonic introspection and impassioned instrument thrashing makes their live performances a unique spectacle that “you couldn’t turn a deaf ear to… double unison vocals which droned into a sea of power chords, and a drummer that rocked hard enough to put holes in your ear drums.”
(fasterlouder.com.au) ” A Friend Of Mine played the sort of music you might bulldoze a neighbourhood to: rolling waves of brooding guitar grounded by frenetic, precise drumwork… their variation in intensity and unpretentious character made them a band worth catching.” (Inpress) They have since gone on to support a number of bands as diverse as Magic Dirt and Baseball, as well as improvising alongside Damo Suzuki.

tim dywer – I asked him for a bio but he never got back to me , so I am writing one for him. Tim reckons he sounds like suicide and he sort of does, I saw him playing with a jumper on his head and hammering a saxophone with a lot of smoke from a smoke machine. Was pretty good show. I think he is also doing some kind of master degree
in art or some shit like that down in canberra. Anyway I guarantee it will be worth seeing

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sat 31

mgtvle, 40 fitzroy st, marrickville
8pm $10 all ages

ampere, majorca, former republics, scum system kill

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sun 1

dirty shirlows, 32 shirlow st, marrickville
4pm $10 all ages

ampere, majorca, ohana, crux

just got back from a weekend in melbourne to check out the ampere shows – awesome and intense.  ohana were there too to record their new cd and play quebec’s final show.  great line ups in great spaces.

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that’s all i have for now. i’m leaving on friday so if you’ve got anything coming up in the next six weeks let me know by wednesday and i’ll add it to the list.  i’ll be checking email from time to time too.

shaun/tenzenmen
++  i’ll either be at these events or wishing i was there  ++