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
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 ++ i’ll either be at these events or wishing i was there ++
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 ++
the lilies – it’s a sound that occurs when grunge and psychedelia meet in a dark alley. There is also a strong assosciation to the fringes of the punk and new wave movements with experimental ‘post’ sounds present – an unhinged sorta vibe.
Every wednesday night club ‘consolador de dos caras’ will be changing the lyrics of that easybeats classic as midweek becomes the minds principal night of longing.
The front room is still operating as a free market with all your favourite music you never knew you liked from our irregular yet robust dj’s so bring along your music / art / publications / etc for sale while you still can . If the front room has a weird dinner party or some function that could possibly not be part of dual plover then the entrance is around the side on edgar lane.
While in the back room we’ll have 4 live acts every week for a nominal charge (usually $5 but may vary depending on touring acts). We open at 8pm and live acts in the back are between 9pm and 11:30 however the club is licensed til 6am so please feel free to stay on drink or dance to whichever dj is still playing.
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wed 21
Wednesday, 21 May, 2008 Art After Hours – Art Gallery of NSW 6.30PM central court Amanda Stewart – writer, performance poet, vocalist + Jim Denley – wind instruments and electronics Amanda Stewart and Jim Denley first started working together in the late 1980’s. Jim was interested in what his music instinct could learn from language and Amanda what her language instinct could learn from music. Their excitement came from the creation of, for them, new types of song – symbiotic words and music. They would go on to expand the scale in the group Machine for Making Sense which started in 1989. They have continued to do duos for the last 20 years. 7.30PM Centenary Auditorium Machine for Making Sense a music video by Stephen Jones. The group Machine for Making Sense have been producing exploratory music and interdisciplinary work in Sydney and around the world since 1989. The group includes: Jim Denley (flutes, saxaphone and voice), Chris Mann (voice and text), Rik Rue (samples and tape), Amanda Stewart (voice and text), Stevie Wishart (violin, live electronics, hurdy-gurdy and voice). This film has them performing at the Sydney Opera House in 1994. Free.
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thu 22
sandringham hotel, newtown $? 8pm
my precious (singapore), meaningless existence (brisbane), crux, death trap
the new my precious material is excellently executed punk/hardcore with two screamo-styled vocalists. these are some cool kids from the DIY scene in singapore so go say hello and ask them about it – maybe your band will play there one day.
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fri 23
Friday 23rd May: Opening forum 6:30 pm at Australia Hall, 150 Elizabeth Street, Sydney
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th May: Panels, Discussion & Workshops Redfern Community Centre, Hugo Street, Redfern
Speakers include: Larissa Behrendt Vince Forrester Tom Calma (tbc) Heather Goodall Sam Watson Mick Dodson (tbc) Barbara Shaw
Conference sessions include: *History of the struggle *Unions and Aboriginal rights *Resisting the new paternalism
Almost one year since the NT intervention began, there is a pressing need for the Aboriginal Rights movement to come together, consolidate recent gains and plan for the fight ahead.
The new Rudd Government has made some important symbolic gestures – from the apology through to commitments to ‘Close the Gap’ in Indigenous health. But for communities in the NT, Rudd is now the face of an intervention which is causing a new wave of dispossession and, as argued by Mutitjulu elder Vince Forrester, “a return to Apartheid”.
Welfare quarantines, the destruction of Community Employment Development Projects (CDEP) and the compulsory acquisition of Aboriginal lands, businesses and services has forced thousands of people from their communities into urban centres. There they are met with racism and police repression – 190 people were taken into custody in Alice Springs on 4-5 April in an operation targeting “anti-social behaviour”.
The ideas of paternalism, assimilation and the free-market driving the intervention, and pushed so hard by the Howard government, are impacting on Aboriginal policy across the country. From the Queensland government’s decision to continue holding stolen wages “in trust”, the “mainstreaming” of Indigenous services which continues, through to the burgeoning national roll out of punitive welfare policies, a policy consensus has emerged in government and media against self-determination.
The new government is actively campaigning for retention and expansion of the explicitly racist intervention laws. They refuse to acknowledge the social break down taking place. They continue to deny Aboriginal people the basic human rights of protections against discrimination or rights to appeal.
2,000 people marched in Canberra on February 12, demanding an end to the intervention and campaign groups have been established iwn the major cities. Many trade unionists and activists in the broader community have recognised the need to actively challenge the racism of the intervention and renew the fight for Aboriginal rights around the country.
The upcoming conference aims to strengthen the networks that have been formed through this campaign. This conference will look to successful struggles from the past and hear from the strong communities leaders of today – to advance the politics of self-determination and forge demands and strategy for the ongoing campaign against the intervention.
Any groups wishing to become more involved in the campaign through organising and running a workshop at the conference are invited to register their interest with the organisers. For further information, please contact aboriginalrightscoalition @ gmail . com (with spaces removed).
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fri 23
Date: Friday, May 23, 2008 Time: 7:00pm – 11:55pm Location: Little Fish Gallery Street: 22 Enmore Rd City/Town: Newtown, Australia
S.C.A.R. Print Project is a series of print making workshops and exhibitions happening across australia in march, april and may. These workshops and events bring together folks who are survivors, folks who support survivors and folks who work to end sexual violence/abuse in our immediate communities and in the wider world. They will give space for people to creatively express their feelings around this shit and be supported and recognised as having valid and important voices (individually and collectively) S.C.A.R. prints is a World Without project (Melbourne’s community response to sexual assault group) www.worldwithout.org
There will be music and an exhibit of heaps of prints from the workshops, plus an auction of the prints with all money raised going to World Without
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fri 23
thunderdome 22 fotherigham st, stanmore 7pm
walrora, fail
bands start after scar auction at little fish
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sat 24
Paradise Lost Dirty Shirlows, 32 Shirlow St, Marrickville $10 10pm
Hey hey you Cool Cats & Jivin’ Jo’s get your groove on and come on down to Dirty Shirlows this Saturday night for some disco diving delights… Get your leg warmers, head bands, tights, short shorts, skates, shoulder moves , blush , butt bounce , and loved up eyes ready for a surprise ! HHmmmmm feelin feisty check out www.paradiselost.net.au if you wanna taste the tunes. God Dam come get your swinging sweet groove on baby….
PS – there will be a lock out once we’re full at Shirlows this w/e so make sure ya get in early for a full physical body visual and aural experience
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sun 25
Make sure to to come to the MCA on Sunday May 25 – because we are having a Zine Fair! There will be loads of stuff to buy, sell, trade as well as live music and great panel discussions.
FREE ENTRY Watch this space as the program is announced… A hard copy program guide designed by Keg de Souza will be available at the MCA from May 9
Interested in booking a stall? Call 02 9245 2484 or www.mca.com.au/events $10 per table or half a table for $5
New to zines and want to find out more? ZINE MASTERCLASS DATE: Sunday 11 May, 1.00pm-5.00pm COST: $30/$25 Members & concessions For further info and to book go to www.mca.com.au/events
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sun 25
to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the French uprising in May 1968, there is going to be a screening of ‘The Grin Without a Cat (Le Fond de l’air est rouge)’ – an epic elegy to the new left and the contradictions that swept the world in 1967 and 1968. It includes an amazing collection of footage from the streets of France as well as from around the world.
PLUS there will also be a launch of a zine all about May 1968.
Where: Black Rose Anarchist Library, 22 Enmore Rd, Newtown (100m from Newton station). When: 5pm, Sunday May 25th. entry by donation ($5 or what you can)
******************** Black Rose Anarchist Library & Bookshop 22 Enmore Rd (100m from Newtown Station) e: blackrosebooks@yahoo.com.au P: 0424 490 792
kate wilson (drums) steph (guitar, vocals) kallie (vocals) kate mara (accordion)
Serial Space 33 Wellington Street Chippendale 8pm $10 + $8
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i’ll actually be in melbourne this weekend – friday is my precious/ampere double bill! and saturday is quebec’s second last ever show (with my disco, ampere, daimond sea and majorca! – how’s that for a line up!)
shaun/tenzenmen ++ i’ll either be at these events or wishing i was there ++
consolador de dos caras la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney $10 8pm
this is the one we’ve been waiting for! and the line up has blossomed madly! first band will be on at 8.30 tonight so BE EARLY!
the laurels – the laurels are a 5 piece psychedelic/shoegaze band from sydney. first taking the stage in june 2006, the laurels juggernaut has accumulated accolades, guitar pedals and fans in approximately equal proportion.
Vialka – Vialka is an inflatable submarine that survived the commercial war. It travels unrestlessly around the world to explore the rich diversity of its cultures before it is too late. Vialka is a noisy comedy not ashamed of its own way by scorn or ridicule. It is an invitation to dance to steady explosive rhythms, terror melodies and experimental movements. It is a symphony for humble flesh through the high spirits of rock’n’roll. Globetrotting mavericks and dynamic two piece from everywhere and nowhere, Vialka unfailingly blow the minds of the uninitiated! With the world’s smallest and hardest hitting female drummer and ungodliest (un)bearded baritone guitarist, this band surpasses all expectation of the possibilities of popular music!
ian wadley – played with bird blobs, jandek , mick turner plus a whole list as long as your arm. have a look at the website for more info. Oh and also brother to greg of new waver fame
the question – Formed through a combination of too much time + equipment and lack of like minded individuals. no more sitting around >>>time to mess around.
as if these bands weren’t enough there will be other crazy shit going on in the front room:
TEN THOUSAND FREE MEN & THEIR FAMILIES
– 10kfreemen is the alias of Tom Gilmore, an Australian chiptune artist. Tom began making Game Boy music in early 2007 with very little exposure to the world of chiptune. His early minimalistic style developed with his exposure and increased involvement with the scene, along with the development of a live show to express himself to new audiences and expose a new genre of music to an unaware Sydney, Australia. http://10kfreemen.comhttp://myspace.com/thefloortom
DIVIDE BY ZERO
Often described as a mathematical anomaly, Divide is setting out togive a big lo-fi fuck you to mathematicians. ”Anomalise this, cunts” he has been heard to say, wielding a gameboy in each hand whilst shooting lazers out of his eyes. He also occasional designs flyers for No Frills.
PRZEWALSKI’S HORSE
In the wild, Przewalski’s Horses live in social groups consisting of a dominant stallion, a dominant lead mare, other mares, and their offspring. The patterns of their daily lives exhibit horse behavior similar to that of feral horse herds: Each group has a well-defined home range; within the range, the herd travels between three and six miles a day, spending time grazing, drinking, using salt licks anddozing. The stallions can frequently be seen sniffing dung piles to confirm scent markings, and playing out 8-bit tunes in Sydney.
ABORTIFACIENT
When not elbow-deep in recreational autopsy, Abortifacient likes to program Breakcore. Born in 2005, Abortifacient has taken his brand of Queensland Breakcore on a Japanese tour. Like a Gabber set at the Gympie Muster, Abortifacient’s live shows blend Psychobilly, Chiptunes, and Horror Film Fanaticism.
plus the usual DIY markets – bring your wares if you have something to sell
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fri 25
‘stikki records’ 510 king street, newtown , sydney 12.30pm all ages FREE
capa capo death cage rocksteady dub militia squidd doin it for the money fuck oath.
its a public holiday so no excuses!
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sat 26
wolli creek outdoor acoustic entertainment society 1pm meet at turella station
harriet trini commonfilth + more
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sat 26
Name: Killerwatts System presents… Tagline: Death from Above Host: Killerwatts Type: Party – Night of Mayhem Time and Place Start Time: Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 9:30pm End Time: Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 12:30am
Location: Dirty Shirlows Warehouse City/Town: Marrickville, Australia
PASSENGER OF SHIT MATT BLEAK CAT-GRRL DIABOLIQUE DISLASYSTEM DJ ZEITGEIST
i really wish i could go to this as it’s luca brasi’s only show in sydney this weekend. i’ve heard good things about dining in tuscany and i still haven’t seen hospital the musical or schrodingers cat! in my absence you should go check it out! and then head on round to dirty shirlows for mad dancing.
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sat 26
YR wherehouse (contact me if you need address details) 8pm $?
i’m really excited about this sunday!!! we’re having a big tea / cake party at jura bookshop, with music by loads of lurvely ladies and then a bit of a discussion about women in diy music and activism.
my good friend lena has come up from melbourne to grace us with her gorgeous sounds, louise has some new tunes for our listening pleasure, anna will tearour hearts out with her musical tales and i’ll play some little bits i’ve been working on.
there’ll be a huge spread of vegan cakes and treats! feel free to bring some along if you’re extra inspired. and we’ve plenty of tea cups to go around!
most importantly there’s going to be a discussion of women and queers in diy and activist communities in sydney, but more broadly as well. don’t be shy – come and contribute!
the whole thingo kicks off at 11am on sunday morning (27th april) so don’t sleep in too much or you’ll miss out on all the edible goodies! jura bookshop is easy to get to – a five minute walk down crystal street from etersham station, or a short bus ride from central station down parramatta road. it’s number 440 on parramatta road, just a block from where norton street meets parramatta road. just next to the flag shop and opposite the bald faced stag (pub) if that helps.
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sun 27
thirroul neighbourhood centre 1pm $5
hospital the musical mary jane kelly run! hide! sound the mute hira hira let me down jungle man gently
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get prepared for Malaysian screamo merchants DAIGHILA in sydney next weekend (sunday 6pm at hot new space Dirty Shirlows with amazing support from former republics, ohana and the thaw!)
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shaun/tenzenmen ++ i’ll either be at these events or wishing i was there ++
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