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What’s Cool and Unusual – 3rd December 2008

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wed 3

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

BARRAGE – Melbourne’s Mark Barrage makes a nervy sound tonic, equal parts pop music EQd to breaking point and midnight crucifix synth-kraut. New album Delays finds the dissonant electronic songster in realms of hard sound, dance timings, band-ish arrangements and bleary-eyed nighttime sensation. Delays is a skittery, blunt mix of DIY electronic/minimal synth in the spirit of Australia’s Severed Heads and overseas labels Human Ear Music and Sacred Bones.
 
http://www.myspace.com/egarrab

KNITTED ABYSS – Knitted Abyss is Lucy Phelan (1/2 of Naked on the Vague) and Anna John two Sydney AU. residents and staple down under weirdo makers… like a dark reverberation of down tuned psychedelic guitar murmur and gothy drum machine rhythm, backed by ghostly vocals and doomy echoes. This is a real hazy, foggy, nocturnal set of sounds for a new mutant world’ – Shaun Reed, Night People

COMATONE – Comatone is Greg Seiler. Influenced by the kinds of artists you’ll find on the warp and planet mu labels, with 5 albums and several other bits and pieces to his name, solo and colaborative released in the AU and UK that walk through IDM, Breaks and Textural experiments. The live sets are a carefully executed excursion through detail.  

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wed 3

Gallery 9, 9 Darley Street, Darlinghurst, Australia
6:00pm – 9:00pm

KNOW BRAINER
New work by Matthew Hopkins
Opening night Wednesday 3rd December

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fri 5

Gallucci ask how can you resist putting it off for another week?

10:15 PM – The Place To Be
Crown Lane, Darlinghurst (at the basketball ring – behind Bill & Toni’s).
diepunk***@yahoo.com – 0408***

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sat 6

artists:        TELAFONICA  /  ELIZA MAGILL  /  LESSONS IN TIME
time:           7:30 pm
venue:        Mars Hill Cafe
address:     331 Church St, Parramatta
cost:           Free entry
                   All Ages

Join Telafonica for their annual Christmas bash next Saturday, December 6.  The band is returning to its ‘local’ for an end of year music and art celebration. Telafonica will blast their blend of post-electronica and we’ll be joined onstage by the wonderful johan neve doing live painting along with samantha lee with a special visual arts treat happening on stage.  the support slots are being filled by two of our members’ solo projects – blake will be playing the first ever live lessons in time show (www.myspace.com/lessonsintime) and eliza will be playing a set of her own stuff as well, with her band (see her lastfm page here).  A night of diverse celebration, all free and open to all ages at the Mars Hill Cafe – 331 Church St, Parramatta.

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sat 6

the hutch, 12 hutchinson st, Marrickville, Australia
6:30pm

fag panic, ungus ungus ungus + chris arnott + fag panic + rocheforte
then jam times!!!

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sun 7

Little Fish Gallery
22 Enmore Rd, Newtown

FISH MARKET is a zine and diy affair at Little Fish on the 1st sunday of every month. from 1:00 to 5. book a table by emailing ghost***@gmail.com or come for the day …….

On this month, (Sunday, december 7th) there will also be FOLK AND FOLKS day in Black Rose anarchist library and book shoppe, banjos,double bass, accordions violins and the like from 3pm.
Acts playing will be:
Queen of Hungary’s Water
Redbeard and Gorga
Last Minute Gypsies
The Effing Seas

And our monthly a FILM at 6:30 pm will be ‘Tales of a Gypsy Caravan’, a documentary that celebrates the music of international gypsy performers and interweaves real life tales of their home life and social background.

the ‘JAFF INN’ jaffles and coffees and dandyline coffees etc… will also be running in the newq -or newtown queer space. running from 1 o’clock

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sun 7
 
Braithwaite Park, Yarramalong Road, Wyong Creek
12:00pm – 5:00pm

BBQ lunch all acoustic gig at the park. BYO Booze and Sausages. All welcome to hang.

James Wiley
The (Temperamental) Pocket
Happy Phlegm
Maxwell
Eclectic Dreams
Lucia Afarenze
Brod Diamond
Polyfox and the Union of the Most Ghosts
Mushroom Family 

Host: Lesstalk Records
0403***
Email: matt@lesstalk***.com 

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tue 9

@ Sedition 275 Victoria St Darlinghurst
7pm by donation

Antipan
Geodesic Domes of the Eastern Seaboard
Holy Balm




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What’s Cool and Unusual – 11th November 2008

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tue 11th

sedition
275 victoria st, darlinghurst
7pm/donation

xnobbqx, knitted abyss, dj white pimpernell

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wed 12th

consolador de dos caras
la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney

fag panic, kill a celebrity, squat club, anklepants

this show pretty much embodies the idea behind the club – 4 very different bands brought together for one night of ‘zentertainment’!

**ANKLEPANTS: the bad doctor lives life as a cuntdick with a faceprick. A one man dance band sort of thing spinning twisted danceable rhythms and beats. Dr Richard Facemaker has a face that can be programed to perform an exciting fruit bowl of dazzling movement. Badfacehead pndpndpndpnd.

http://www.myspace.com/anklepantsqwerty

**SQUAT CLUB: as a 4 piece consisting of a drummer, bassist, piccolo bassist and eukekele/guitarist, Squat Club are one of the most unique, talented and exciting bands to emerge out of Sydney in recent memory. Their style is akin to the amalamation of Eastern/Secret Chiefs 3 influenced polyrhythmic structures with early King Crimson, Pink Floyd and other assorted 60s and 70s psychedelic/progressive groups and a slight post-rock influence.

Squat Club combine brilliant progressions with mind-twisting rhythm changes and a beautiful jazz-tinged dynamic drumming feel akin to Jon Theodore’s work in Golden and The Mars Volta. If you’re a fan of Secret Chiefs 3, King Crimson or a range of avant-garde, post-rock or progressive genres, then this is something you wont want o miss. Squat Club are only expected to play a handful more shows before they disband.

http://www.myspace.com/squatclub

**KILL A CELEBRITY: the words that come to mind in describing Kill A Celebrity are caustic and agonizing. Somewhat renown and reviled within various Sydney scenes, Kill A Celebrity are a Sydney-based three piece playing inconceivably fast grindcore influenced by groups such as Discordance Axis, Agents of Abhorrence and Pig Destroyer. Expect a lively stage presence which has caused infamy at less spirited venues, coupled with raw, violent and wholly uncompromising music stripped of all pretentions.

http://www.myspace.com/killacelebritygrind

**FAG PANIC: All-singing all dancing tough arse ponies with hearts of gold. Electro-glam-tronic with the force of a tiger going into battle. We’ll accept payment in cake form or Steven Seagal’s Lightning Bolt Energy Drinks (preferably Asian Experience flavour). Please let us play for you.

http://www.myspace.com/itsfagpanic

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fri 14th
8pm@wherehouse?
$8 all ages

BUM CREEK _ well, i (have) got nothing. they’re website is weird, at least one of them has a large beard, and they’ve been described as ‘tribal’. fuckin’ hippies? fuck no. fuckin’ rad! just come along and see/hear the enigma that is Bum Creek…i can’t articulate why, i hate fuckin’ keyboards.

CASTINGS _ yeah, again – what’s the point? though let me establish a few things. we’re not rich. we’re not hippies. sex and death imagery is boring, and no, we did not start a fight at TINA. next…

PREHISTORIC FUCKIN’ MORON _ also known as Jimmy James And The White Cranes (new CDR ‘The Stud’ out now on Spanish Magic…$5 at the show), the aforementioned moron is arguably sydney’s best and worst kept secret. a complete mess (a composed though absolutely unpredictable mess) of broken tape machines, broken turntables, a broken clarinet…are you seeing a pattern? if you’re lucky, he’ll sell you a tape (there’ll only be five of ’em but THAT CASSETTE WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE), drink your booze, smoke your weed…then perform. acid.

CHROME DOME _ a new band featuring mr. shaun south. fucked up 80’s synths banged into melodic submission ala The Normal, Dark Day and Primitive Calculators (yeah…i know, but this shit’s for real ya know?) rad.

please message one of the bands or me for the show’s location.

www.myspace.com/castings
www.spanishmagic.org
www.myspace.com/spanishmagic

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sat 15th

louie’s, 34 murray st, marrickville
6pm $10 all ages

Bum Creek
Chrome Dome
Knitted Abyss
Onani
Orodruin
Pagan Dawn
Polyfox and the Union of the Most Ghosts
xNOBBQx

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sun 16th

Have a yarn with Uncle Dootch from The Kuradji Tent Embassy, and watch some footage of community resistance to big developers to protect open parkland and preserve Kuradji sacred site. From 6pm onwards, at Black Rose bookshop, address below.

Hope to see you there 
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Black Rose Anarchist Library & Bookshop
22 Enmore Rd (100m from Newtown Station)

w: http://www.blackro***.org
e: blackros***@yahoo.com.au
P: 0424****

open:
thursday & friday 11-7
saturday & sunday 11-5
accessibility: there are three steps at the entrance.  the toilet is not easily accessible

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

What’s Cool and Unusual (quick nifty update) – 7th November 2008

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fri 7

the show at louie’s has been cancelled – possible re arrangements being made for a wollongong house show instead.  if you want to catch The Sharks, They Bite! I believe they’re playing the Sando on Sunday.

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fri 7

319 paramatta rd, petersham
9pm free ALL AGES

scum system kill + more

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sat 8

punx outside #2
end of sydney steel rd, marrickville
1pm free ALL AGES

do not resuscitate, scum system kill, dead wasted, voting with bricks

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sun 9

repressed records, 256 king st
2pm free ALL AGES

captain cleanoff, kill a celebrity, code of lies, roadside burial

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sun 9

Bohemian Grove, L2/68 Sophia St, Surry Hills
6.30 $10

the Creeks, and Jackson/Leipnitz Duo

Creeks is a trio of former UWS students formed in 2008.

When not getting drunk and eating cheese we make some music together which involves Monika Brooks playing Piano (when one is available), Jon Hunter on Guitar and Kusum Normoyle singing in and around her computer. We also made
some recordings into Jons New Laptop, but then Kusum spilt wine on it, but it was ok (One of the shift keys does not work but luckily it has two). We are an improvising band.
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http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=414641481
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The  Jackson / Leipnitz Duo is an intercontinental collaboration of alto saxophonist Dave Jackson (Syd) and drummer Jan Leipnitz (Berlin). The duo improvises freely with an emphasis on melody and groove. Fans of the famous
Charles Lloyd/Billy Higgins duo recordings will love these guys.

— Bohemian Grove performances are 6:30pm doors for a 7pm start each Sunday (unless otherwise advised). The cover is $10 / donation. Please feel free to invite your friends to come and/or join the mailing list, but we ask that nothing be posted on the web for the authorities to find (they are squares). Support live music! bohemiangrovemusic@gmail.com L2/68 Sophia St, Surry Hills

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What’s Cool and Unusual – 29th October 2008

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wed 29th

consolador de dos caras
la campana, 52-55 liverpool st, sydney

New archetypes – FRIENDS since birth, Screamin’ E. Hernia and Karl Richard-Marx formed New Archetypes in 2006 when it became apparent that Karl’s musical skills combined with fledgling guitarist, filmmaker and gutter poet Hernia’s songs formed the perfect recipe for a brutal new archetype. In a rehearsal room in their death-metal friend Billy’s warehouse flat above a smash repair joint in Redfern, they hammered away at their craft, throwing in covers by The Stooges, The Beasts of Bourbon and The Birthday Party, Karl accompanying variously on guitar, bass and a horrific optical theremin shaped like a baby doll’s head with red glowing eyes, which he ran through all manner of effects to synthesise the rotting belch of the devil. Hernia’s raspy screaming and shouting was terrifying. One evening, during a particularly bone-powdering jam, they earnt their first $5, when a tripping metal head who hung out at the flat stuck the money under the door, with a note pleading with them to stop making him feel like he was dying. Skip forward a few months, and Karl is at a party getting hammered. His brother Hans Regretel and friend The Naked Drewth mention they want to form a band, Hans being a bassist/guitarist, Drew being an aspiring drummer (in that he couldn’t play, but liked the idea). Karl and Hernia decided this mix of experience and inexperience (or innocence?) had an attractive Blakean undertone. Besides, this way there’d be more people to chip in for bourbon. Soon after, New Archetypes rehearsed together for the first time, The Naked Drewth having his first ever bash at a kit. With them was friend Ted Frostbite, an eccentric punk and pipe organ virtuoso, who’d performed recitals in places like the Sydney Town Hall and the Opera House. His father was also a keyboard player for Suzi Quattro, as well as The Who’s John Entwistle, Kiki Dee and Robert Palmer’s early-’70s group Vinegar Joe. Despite Ted’s extreme abilities in the art of fine music, he aimed for total chaos. The formula had been written. New Archetypes were complete. The first public New Archetypes gig took place January 5, 2007, at the Lansdowne Hotel and was cut short after just two songs because Screamin’ E. Hernia had already been in a fight with a bouncer and got kicked out. The band had to sneak him back in to play. They were compensated by the venue with unlimited free beer. Things just haven’t been the same since. Prepare yourself for NA. It will be loud. It will be brutal. It will be primitive. You will be addicted. NA beckons.

Maxwell stone – Formed 2005 in Enmore, Sydney. Maxwell Stone is described as Stoner Rock with metal inclinations. Members include Peter ”P.P.R.” Richards (Guitar/Drums)27,Albury ”Benny” West (Drums)24, Sam ”Rush” McNair (Vocals/Guitar)26 & brother Tom ”AKA1-Madman” (Lead Guitar)27. Maxwell Stone is the product of the now infamous ”Cakehole”. The Cakehole is a shoptop flat above a cake shop (though the cake shop no longer remains). Tom,Sam & friend since primary school Pete began jamming on an old borrowed amp inthe lounge room. It grew from there to playing at parties and soon enough in November 2005 the group played their first gig, Bar Broadway in Sydney. In 2007 Maxwell Stone recruited ex-Leprechaun Deathstar drummer Albury West. Maxwell Stone’s music was used in the soundtrack of ”Cheerleader Swap Meat” also playing at the Film launch in August 07. The group plays regular local shows and draws a dedicated fanbase. In 2008 Maxwell Stone has recorded a self titled E.P and plans to release in November. A tour of the Eastern States of Australia is planned for late 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/MaxwellStoneMusic

White knuckle Fever are the dynamo psychobluesy duo uniting 3k short (from machine gun fellatio) and celia curtis (biffos blow up bonanza) . Better put your seatbelts on because they are going to take you for a ride into the abyss !

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thu 30

Conor O’Brien

There Stands The Glass

Opening 30th October

31st October – 16th November 2008

Conor O’Brien was recently referred to as one of the country’s ‘best, most interesting and certainly most promising’ young photographers by the Associate Curator of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Dr Robert Cook.  In October and November 2008, Black & Blue Gallery will host O’Brien’s most recent body of work, There Stands The Glass. 

First shown at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne earlier this year, There Stands The Glass is a collection of colour photographs; portraits, landscapes and observations that are calm and considered, never poking fun at their subjects but always celebrating their beauty. The images were captured over two years and deal with people and the sense of people.  The subjects are almost always friends, family and the places that hold their spirit.

The Age reviewer Penelope Modra wrote of There Stands The Glass, “[O’Brien]’s not asking you to look through his eyes as thought they are your own and share some modernist‘epiphany moment’. It’s just an invitation to feel, well, what you feel.”

O’Brien has shown work at the Australian Centre for Photography, the Centre for Contemporary Photography, The National Portrait Gallery, The Art Gallery of

Western Australia, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Utopian Slumps Gallery and was included in the New York Photography Festival 2008.  He currently lives and works in Sydney.

Vito Belgiorno-Zegna, Director

Black & Blue Gallery
302/267-271 Cleveland Street
Redfern NSW 2016

Thurs to Sat 11-6   Sun 12-5 

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fri 31

louie’s, 34 murray st, marrickville

*Duke Magazine Halloween Party* – Serial Killer Dress Up, Fat-O-Gram, Dancing, Tunes, Party!!!!

thing is, party’s are always fuggin sick. and dressing up is awesome. and dressing up on halloween is the best. AND and and they are gonna have FAT-O-GRAMS. as in some big fatso gettin naked. you really wanna miss that?

starts at 8 and costs $10. try say no.

“Duke is like if National Geographic and National Lampoon had a kid, and the kid grew up to be this really bitchy teenage girl”

– Peter Shamrock, arts editor for  Irish Brogue Weekly

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fri 31

Dark Carnivàle

The Red Rattler Theatre Stage One Launch
and fundraiser for eco-efficient utilities
doors open 8pm, showtime 9pm sharp
limited capacity, be early!

6 Faversham St.
Marrickville

$20 / $15 conc

MOJO JUJU & the Snake Oil Merchants
The Kingpins
Lillian Starr & D-Vinyl
Sex Intents & Glitta Supernova
Brown Council
Justin Shoulder
Janie Gibson
Celia Curtis
GayLourdes
Wife
Crash and Danni

hosted by Kelli Jean
with DJ Gemma

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sat 1

*Deja Boo!*

ok halloween is the night before, but its such a good holiday that i think it’s pretty fair to spread it out over 2 days.

this is Deja Vu’s 4th birthday, and some guy named Aiden’s Halloween party.

this is from the flyer – “open jams & food from 5pm” – i guess jam is more of a spread than a food ey. ha ha ha. blegh. it goes till like 4 am or something.

ANYWAY bands/people/dj’s featured on this night are:

Fuji Collective, Toecutter, Day of the Meerkat, Svelt, Squid, Captains, Baram, Brackets

all for a gold coin donation. fuckin deal!

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sat 1

The Red Rattler Theatre
6 Faversham St.
Marrickville NSW 2204

SCOOTER
7pm $5

BugGiRL (gong)
Valentiine (melb)
Kate Duffy (syd)
DJ Huckleberry Spin

enquiries@redrattler.org
http://www.redrattler.org

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sun 2

Black Rose Anarchist Library & Bookshop

22 Enmore Rd (100m from Newtown Station)

6.30pm

Leila Khaled: Hijacker. About the Hijacking of TWA flight 840 in 1969. The destination was Tel Aviv, Israel. A short while after take off Leila Khaled leaves her seat and threatens the crew with hand grenades and enters the cockpit. She takes hold of the microphone; “Ladies and gentlemen, your attentions please, kindly fasten your seat belts. This is your new Captain speaking. The Che Guevara commando unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine…”
www.leilakhaled.com

open:
thursday & friday 11-7
saturday & sunday 11-5

accessibility: there are three steps at the entrance. the toilet is not easily accessible

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

What’s Cool and Unusual – 22nd October 2008

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wed 22

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

Fantastic Doug and the Cupcake Club – is a (“totally fab!”) musical pop group created in the basement Studio of the Youth Center.
— “Wow, the Cupcake Club? Yeah man they’re totally ‘off the hook’!”
— “You like the Cupcakes??! How ‘INDY’ and ‘DIFFERENT’!”
— “Woooooah dudes I was at the Cupcake Club show on Friday and they were so tight I got a hemmorhoid! And my face melted off!!!! True story”
See what I mean….?

The Warm Feelings – wizards , magic and dreams fortold by a mystical sage to dominate rock ‘ n ‘roll for one night only. Come witness the power drums and guitar can channel from dancing on the dead bones of bon scott and kurt cocaine.

The Mistakes – These guys really haven’t the faintest idea how be a successful rock and roll outfit. It’s been one drama after another over the last (god is it almost) five years. Including on stage implosions, due to excessive levels of intoxication, break ups due to unbearable levels of homo-erotic tension in the band room, a pure inability to sing correctly or even play their instruments, it has been an uphill battle for these guys. Their continuing existence is testimony to their high self-appreciation of their own particular brand of half-cocked, shambolic-punk, post-rock, almost-art, pop-n-roll, hard-wank, mess. That said one almost gets the feeling that one day, somewhere, someone may flip a coin and BAM! The Mistakes may become a credible band. But probably not

www.myspace.com/themist8kes

plus the HOBO PRESS ZINE launch!!

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thu 23rd

Stencil exhibition
THURS OCT 23
Little fish Gallery 22 enmore rd, Newtown
6-9PM
Local street artists of all ages and abilities presenting their work.
There will be people’s choice prizes in three categories:
best technique, best political and best humourous.
A fundraiser for little fish gallery with free wine and drinks by donation. Hopefully some live music, and probably a live auction. Great opportunity for street artists to come out of the shadows and meet their fellows.

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fri 24th

12 barker st, Lewisham(just off old canterbury rd)
starts about 8pm

Simo soo + Question + Little a

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sat 25th

Hornsby PCYC: 94 George St Hornsby

Polyfox and the Union of the Most Ghosts
They Kill & Eat People
The (Temperamental) Pocket
Happy Phlegm
The Snoozefests

$5 6pm
No drugs, alcohol, etc.

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sat 25th

hamizalooza ’08
louie’s
34 murray st, marrickville

run! hide!, dz, yeah bears, call the medic, call the nurse, bare arms, bake em away toys

8pm $8

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sun 26th

Bohemian Grove (L2/68 Sophia St, Surry Hills) is tickled pink to present…

the Carl Dewhurst Trio!
Carl Dewhurst – guitar
Cameron Undy – bass
Evan Mannell – drums

Carl’s trio explore the fine lines of improvising in and out of time/tune/taste. Fortune favours the wrong. Yin/Yang says at it’s worst it’s best, at it’s best it’s bad. And we all know bad is good.

*” In this age of convergent politics and convergent art it’s refreshing to know anarchy still has a champion, and his name is Carl Dewhurst. …he is such a pure, intuitive improviser… Like a liquid, Dewhurst fills any context, but never blandly so. “*
SMH October 2007

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sun 26th

6.30pm $5 donation
Black Rose will be screening Battle In Seattle. A hollywood version of the intense and inspiring events of 1999 when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meetings in Seattle were shut down by a large cross-section of the american community – families, unions, lawyers, eco-activists, anti-racist groups and anarchists 🙂 protesting the existence of the WTO amidst volleys of rubber bullets and tear gas from riot squad police.
www.battleinseattlemovie.com/
this film is directed, written and produced by Stuart Townsend, the same person who directed The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Aeon Flux and is the voice of Lucky Charms Leprechaun on Robot Chicken.
because of daylight savings, throughout summer movie times at black rose will be at 6:30

Black Rose Anarchist Library & Bookshop
22 Enmore Rd (100m from Newtown Station)
w: www.blackrosebooks.org
e: blackrosebooks@yahoo.com.au
P: 0424 490 792

open:
thursday & friday 11-7
saturday & sunday 11-5

accessibility: there are three steps at the entrance. the toilet is not easily accessible

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Dirty Shirlows warehouse space available for rehearsals / recordings and jammin

rehersal rates;
$20 per hour or $50 for three
there is a full 6kW’s pa, 2di boxes, 5 mics, a 12 channel mixer, HALF A DRUM KIT (bring your own snare and cymbals), friendly atmosphere, a fridge WITH BEER BY DONATION…….. what more could you want…?

hours of operation;
11am-11pm 7days

contacts;
shirlows office (02) 95577377
32 shirlow street marrickvile
just  near sydenham station

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and in some more self promotion – the second in the MAYBE MARS series of cd releases from new underground chinese bands came out this week – it being the self titled debut from CARSICK CARS – some sweet indie noise rock from beijing.  you can check out mp3s and video and other guff here:

http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/the-MAYBE-MARS-series/34579323581

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

What’s Cool and Unusual – 20th August 2008

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wed 20

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

bosom
stick stick
bernie lomax 5

+ markets and disco lights

we’re always looking for new bands to play this night – weirder the better!
also feel free to bring a box of your favourite junk along and set up on a table at the markets.

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fri 22

*G**20 Fundraiser Benefit show!*
in solidarity with the arrested

Louie’s 34 murray st marrickville
7.30pm $7

scum system kill
voting with bricks
vae victis
plus more!

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sat 23

Louie’s Mansion
34 Murray St, Marrickville
8pm  $6  All Ages

bed wettin’ bad boys
Circle Pit
Atrocities
Fangs Wound Down

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sat 23

suite 303, 271 cleveland st
10pm $5 BYO

charge group (album launch), canyons

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messages: 

Hi peepz,

I’m putting together a zine called CounterClism so if you are interested in contributing then drop me a line. Anything goes; the more random the better. I’m talking photos, artworks, short stories, social comment, poetry, comics,
weird stuff you’ve collected, etc. As long as it can be photocopied then we can use it. Remember, there’s no money in it for anyone and people are free to make their own copies of the zine. You can send me your stuff digitally
or via the post but I’d prefer things with character so if it’s written then hand write it or use an old typewriter, add some stains, write it on a napkin, etc. Any questions?

-Nick
off******@gmail.com

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next week is the official release of the first in an ongoing monthly series of chinese underground bands on tenzenmen
keep a look out for Demerit – Bastards of the Nation cd in shops or order direct at http://www.tenzenmen.com (mp3 to check out there too).  call your local radio station to request airplay too! and talking of radio:

Thursdays 10.30pm
We Come from Garageland: 2SER 107.3FM

Tuesdays 11pm
Dead Air FBI 94.5FM

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

What’s Cool and Unusual – 13th August 2008

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wed 13

CONSOLADOR DE DOS CARAS

La Campana, 53-55 liverpool st, the spanish 1/4, Sydney.

EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! Game Boy, harshnoise, with screamed vocals about nothing much at all. f**k amazing showman, and sexy as f**k anything. Girls and guys alike, don’t miss this

SIMO SOO The solo project of Simo from Call The Medic, Call The Nurse!!. Features synth punk laptop good times. Simo & only other band member, his laptop, dance, scream and yelp about like the love child of Kathleen Hanna & James Chance.

TEN THOUSAND FREE MEN & THEIR FAMILIES! Plays this event because there is nobody else to play it in Sydney at the moment. Kinda sad that he has to play a full set at an event he org’d. What a wanker. Expect violence. Kicking. Something to break.Oh, and hard house renditions of popular old songs played with no more than a game boy

MICKEY GLOSS Garage punk rock psychedelic band who are very very good. Just drums, vox and guitar. Tops!

PRZEWALSKIS HORSE ON THE DECKS. spinning the classics. last week month he rocked some shit I didn’teven know about. Expect inappropriate use of loop functions andprobably some kaos pad action, f**k up the tracks you worked long and hard to make sound good.

BACK ROOM OF THE CLUB, WHERE ALL THE BADASS shit IS AT. FOR VERY LITTLE MONEY.
8pm!

www.myspace.com/emergencyemergencymusic
www.myspace.com/pregnantwithawesomeness
www.myspace.com/mickeygloss
www.myspace.com/10kfreemen

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fri 15

Host: GOODGOD
Type: Party – Club Party
Location: LA CAMPANA SPANISH NITE SPOT
Street: 55 LIVERPOOL ST (Entrance off Douglass Lane). SYDNEY CITY.
City/Town: Sydney, Australia

GOODGOD SMALL CLUB returns…
A LATE NIGHT DANCETERIA THAT SPITS!
DANCE MUSIC? THIS IS DANCING MUSIC!
10PM – 6AM

OUR NOW FAMOUS DRESS CODE (for ALL to kindly observe):

BLUE JEANS & WHITE TEE
or
WHITE JEANS & BLUE TEE.

Resident DJs SPRUCE LEE, HANA SHIMADA & JIMMY SING are bringing it to the wee hours, with…

SPECIAL LIVE PA by Sydney’s Ethiopian extra-extraordinary R’n’B queen…
OPI !
ON STAGE AT 1 AM

$5 ENTRY or $10 WITHOUT MEMBERSHIP

GOODGOD MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR
HEAPSA CHEAPS drinks before the gong of 12!

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sat 16

Mgtvle, 44 Fitzroy St, Marrickville
8pm $?

Realized (Japan),Dad They Broke Me, Inappropriate Tough Guy Behaviour + more tbc

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sat 16

Repressed Records, 356 King Street Newtown. 3.30pm. FREE!

“Repressed Records first in-store gig will be Saturday August 16th at 3:30 with South Australian lo-fi pop noise trio Hit the Jackpot. It’s free and they will also be launching their new album *Soul Money Gang Vibe* the Sunday night at the Spectrum with Naked On the Vague and Circle Pit. We thought we’d jump on the bandwagon and use it as a grand opening of sorts. Celery and carrot sticks provided.”

http://www.myspace.com/hitthejackpot

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sat 16

Louie’s, 34 Murray St. marrickville
$10 7pm

Paisley Palace
The Dolly Rocker Movement
The Laurels
Straight Arrows
Pee Wee

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sun 17

Host:         amelia and nic
Type: Party – Barbecue
Date: Sunday, August 17, 2008
Time: 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: meeting at our house, but walking to the park

Street: 5 Kirk St
City/Town: Ultimo, Australia

bed wetting bad boys + more

shaun/tenzenmen
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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

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