Video Ezy is a collaboration between two Sydney based musicians and artists, Nina Buchanan and Del Lumanta. Using synths, keyboards and drum machine, the pair move between dystopian pop songs and loose, repetitive jams.
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Fri 23
Red Rattler, 6 Faversham St, Marrickville Entry is by Gold Coin Donation! Doors 7pm
Angharad Yeo – Spiderstring Album Launch.
Playing an exclusive set with full band, there will also be copies of the album for sale at the event.
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Sat 24
PACT Centre for Emerging Arts 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville 12-2pm, $15 / $10 ALL AGES
This is a special event co presented by New Music Network and the NOW now. The Splinter Orchestra will be presenting an afternoon concert of new works. – We’ve been building up to this the last 5 months!
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Sun 25
107 Projects, 107 Redfern St, Redfern 2pm $10 ALL AGES
Reykjavictim, Mannheim Rocket, The Seaport and the Airport, Wade M Gilmour
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Sun 25
Alaska Projects Level 2, Kings Cross Car Park, 9A Elizabeth Bay Road 5pm FREE ALL AGES
Level 3, Central 28 Broadway, Chippendale 11am-4pm
Other Worlds Zine Fair – an alternative to the MCA’s zine fair.
The MCA is sponsored by Transfield, a corporation that operates contracts in the detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. Transfield derives brand value through its association with the arts. By participating in events that are sponsored by Transfield we add value to their brand. This alternative fair will give zinesters an opportunity to show their protest while still enabling them to sell and swap their zines. An alternative to the MCA zine fair may seem like a small protest, but it’s a specific protest as zine makers, in solidarity with asylum seekers who protest against and resist mandatory detention from within the camps
The Red Rattler, 6 Faversham St, Marrickville, 2204 7:30pm FREE!
the NOW now Festival Program Launch!
::::We’re putting on a free gig to celebrate and launch the program of the 2014 NOW now Festival so be there to see::::
Robbie Avenaim / Martin Ng Pollen Trio Horse MacGyver M.O.B Lucas Abela
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Fri 6
When: 7pm – 11:30 Entry: $5 (free sausage sizzle) Where: Firstdraft Depot, 13-17 Riley Street Woolloomooloo (enter via Haig Lane)
All I Want for Christmas is You Curated by Marcus Whale
Firstdraft invites you to join us at the Woolloomooloo Depot as we herald the holiday season with a night of experimental sound works and musical performances that proclaim the hopes and tropes of pop music, enacted by some of the most dynamic Australian contemporary artists and musicians working today.
Featuring:
Celebrity fan-fiction with Catcall and Kirin J. Callinan Samuel Bruce Romi Fatti Frances Thomas William (with Jonathon Watts) Cassius Select Michael Salerno O.B. De Alessi JD Reforma Scott Morrison & Marco Cher-Gibard
Curated by Marcus Whale
Pop music is an arena for the spectacular intersection of the common and the divine. So as we have branded and adorned ourselves with religious devotion, these gods and goddesses that captivate and elevate us are fantastic constructions that chant ideological slogans from ineffable, mediated stages. As Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake and countless others play out mythical intimacies in their music (and their twitters), we, the listener and the fan, create the atmosphere of simulacra that provides sustenance for pop stardom. In one sense, fan clubs – Rihanna Navy, Directioners, Beliebers – enslave their ghostly icons, coveting and re-constructing the minutiae of their every recorded act in globalised acts of fictionalisation. The pop identity is thereby splintered or refracted millions of times through mass dissemination, ever organically developed and respawned atop and away from its source.
So too, artists remix and appropriate the mystic syllables of pop music – Marco Cher-Gibard glitches the tiniest of a cappella R&B cut-ups into android visions, while Michael Salerno delineates Hanson’s haunted interior with technological decay. Others interrogate and embody the exceptional conditions of pop music performance. Fatti Frances’ replication of a pop live show’s widescreen production presents the methods of iconic performance removed from their grand context and miniaturised into a sensual assault. Meanwhile, the flood of correspondence between, towards, among and outward from the endless circles of fan communities breathes the very life into these enormous personal brands, these religions to which we attach our hearts.
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Sat 7
Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale 7pm $8
RED RED KROVVY OILY BOYS SNOTTY BABIES
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Sat 7
What: Corpus/Sail On! Sail On! 7” Launch – w/ Oslow & Ted Danson With Wolves Where: The West Ryde Conservatorium of Punx, West Ryde (more information will be available closer to the date) https://www.facebook.com/events/614553901913610 How Much: $5 Entry How: The West Ryde Conservatorium of Punx is only a 5 minute walk from West Ryde Station, Victoria Rd Bus stops and there is plenty of parking in the surrounding areas.
SET TIMES: Corpus – 10:30pm Oslow – 9:30pm Ted Danson With Wolves – 8:30pm Doors at 7pm
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Sat 7
King St Theatre, 644 King Street ( Cnr Bray St), Newtown Doors open 6:30 hands on action begins 7:30
Wheel Of Crap
hi folks,
we’ve put together a bundle of entertainment bamboozlement to whack your senses into shape. The night will be hosted by Mr. Nicholas Simon Capper and ‘Dizzy bility’ and this will be the first of hopefully many to come events showcasing homegrown artistic diversity harboring ‘open mind-fulness’. There will be LIVE acts and a group exhibition. Teaming up with the hands on delight-fulness of Reverse Garbage you will get to watch a show, be involved in the creative production, and walk away empowered with the tools to live more sustainably.
BYO CRAP (stuff you’d throw away),your IMAGINATION, SENSITIVITY and expect the unexpected.
your perceptions will be pressed upon – experientially learning will be in order… or rather chaos.
much love.
Featuring: Justice Yeldham (Lucas Abela) Girl Plus Boy Equals Art (Bravo Child and Alphamama) Matt Cornell D A Carter Sy Browne (from Golden Orb) Matty Grey
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Sun 8
Blacktown Masonic Centre, 30 First Avenue Blacktown Doors: 3pm Entry: $15 ALL AGES
BROKEN HIVE RECORDS PRESENTS
MAKE THEM SUFFER STORIES AVERSIONS CROWN ELEGIST GRAVES GLORIFIED
Summer in Sydney means its time for the final Quarterbred for 2008! The December program at PACT space, boldly brings together local and interstate artists for collaborations working in video, dance, performance and installation. *
ONE WEEK TO GO
**Ship of Fools *want you, sailor, for the open mike section. It will be an open opportunity for you to provoke, agitate, repent and stay afloat. Live the dream. Become a God. Register at quarterbred@gmail.com or just turn up on the night.
*Ship of Fools* is soon to set sail on it’s volatile, caustic and sardonicjourney. When you ask? *Saturday 13 December at 7pm*. Where you cry? *PACT Space Erskinville**. 107 Railway Pde Erko * Who you passionately whimper? Kelly Doley, Zoe Coombs Marr, Janie Gibson, Claudia O’Dougherty, Anastasia Zaravinos, Ben Ellwood, Sue Thomas, Nick Capper, Billy Connelly and YOU.
Hosted by MCs Nick Sun (of PHUKLUB fame) and Frances-Francis (the bearded lady). Our residencies include superstar artists from Sydney and Melbourne with artists talks Sat Dec 2o.
To be part of SHIP OF FOOLS or for further details and artist listings check out *www.quartrebred.blogspot.com* or call PACT space on 9550****!
Quarterbred is a resident company of PACT and are supported by the City of Sydney. Quarterbred is an artist run initiative supporting emerging artists engaged in innovayion, experimentation and cross-pollination. Quarterbred is volunteer-run, and working on a part-time basis means that occasionally there will be a delay in our response. We appreciate your patience.
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wed 10
Firstdraft Gallery, 116-118 Chalmers Street, Sydney 6pm runs til December 27, 2008 at 6:00pm Email: tullyarnot@gmail.com
“I think sculpture is a more primitive form of art than painting… there’s something essentially infantile about the sculptural relation to matter. It has to do with the infant differentiating itself from the world.. of course, that’s a disaster, because the infant wants to think of itself as continuous with the universe – the infantile omnipotence. It’s a disaster when one realises one is discontinuous. There is the self, and all that is not the self. And sculpture has something to do with that fundamental feeling.”
– Carl Andre 1972
Obliteration explores the physical and emotional continuum created through loss of self. The works exhibited are situated between self and non-self, dissolving boundaries between artist, audience and curator.
Some works utilise interactivity as a tool to activate and complete the works, while others express an awareness of interaction through deliberate non-performance. These interactions reflect the psychologically regressive potential of self-obliteration, expressed in a way that explores base human relationships rather than intellectual analysis. Inherent to the physically human element of the show, is a strong sense of spatiality underlying the curation of each work.
The exhibition includes a number of artists who have no formal training, or that have previously never exhibited. The show looks at the artist’s personal expression of the self and the non-self as it exists both interior and exterior to the art field.
Opening night 10th December 6pm Artists talks 27th December 4:30pm
Lauren Booker Tara Cook Angela Garrick Neg Head Alex Kiers Jack Mannix Orit Meylakh Johanna Olminkhof Sally Pittman Chris Petro Shaun South + More TBC
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wed 10
consolador de dos caras la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney 8pm $5
Antipan – are Matt Earle, Sumugan Sivanesan, Anthony Guerra and Nick Dan. They last rocked Sydney 4 years ago and include members of xNoBBQx, X Wave, Sven Simulacrum, SSS, etc Releases are out on Breakdance the Dawn, Pulled Out and Musique Provocateaur. Go here to see their pink LP http://pulledout.org/antipan.html
Terrastylus – terrastylus like to meet for playdates in the space where analogue and digital collide. we spend most of our time collecting new nerdy gadgets and smithing rhymes like no gold digger could. our favourite things are power tools, signal paths, doing wheelies, and chasing girls. xx http://www.myspace.com/terrastylus
Monica and the Explosion – Monica and The Explosion is Monica Welander a 29 year old rock artist from Sweden. As a solo artist performing with only an acoustic guitar and playing her own explosive rock music she is something extraordinary, and has been predicted to become one of Sweden’s best live artists. In July this year she represented Sweden at World Championships of Performing Arts in Hollywood U.S. where she received two silver medals. The debut album was released in October 2007, produced by Monica herself, and new songs will be released in the beginning of 2009. She has recieved good response for her live shows all around Sweden, but also in Germany, Holland and Ireland. http://www.monicaandtheexplosion.com/
rev 777 – also known as rank sinatra and dj rainbow ejactulation , a veritable plethora of alias as long as your arm and proud owner of goulborn poultry fanciers society label. Be prepared to expect the unexpectedly expected.
Eiterherd is an Austrian breakcore artist. He first got into experimental music in 1994, when he started DJ’ing hardcore and gabber around Graz, Austria and Maribor, Slovenia. In 1995 he started making music on a computer, using various trackers. In 1996 he together with Gwal he founded the record label Widerstand Records. The goal of Widerstand, besides just releasing music, is doing record business in a non-profit orientated way and using the platform for delivering political messages. In March 1997 Silent Revolution Records was founded as a sublabel of Widerstand records and later two more sublabels followed: reek.org and pornoir.com. The first release on the label came out in October 1996: a limited split 12″ featuring Gwal and Eiterherd. In early 1997 Eiterherd and Gwal both released solo 12″ EPs. In 1999 Eiterherd released his first full-length album as a co- production between Praxis Records and Widerstand Records. The album used samples from the film 1984 and was titled 1984 vs. 1999. In 1998 Gwal and Eiterherd split up and Gwal founded his own label Dusk Records. Eiterherd continues to manage Widerstand Records and is also responsible for the maintenance and design of Widerstand website online from late 1997 until 2006.
This Thursday- from 7pm we’re bringing together niche schlock horror with rare performances from the damn original JRocker (Manifestival) and The Vultures (in some sort of configuration).
WEEK 1:ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST
Zombie Holocaust, directed by Marino Girolami is an Italian horror disaster classic complete with a holey plot, verging on the rediculous. It was made during the Italiano horror craze of the 1970’s / 80’s and features a bunch of B-Grade actors that you’ve never heard of.
The plot deals with that age old question ” Hmmm.. I wonder what would happen if Zombies and flesh-eating cannibals came together for an all-out face biting, skin gnawing fight fest?”.
It’s worth a watch- believe me.
BANDS: THE VULTURES JROCKER
Bands 7:15-9 Film 9-11 Entry $5.00 (Dirty Shirlow’s funrdaiser) Also popcorn, vegan cupcakes and non vegan caramel slices for sale.
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sat 13
220 Trafalgar Street, Annandale 2pm “this is in no way a bad idea” Vol. 1
Bare Arms, Pockets, Little a, Mark Lagana
Entry is: food for VegBQ, Cold dips or Gold Donation BYO respect for other peoples property and this may be the first of many. ————————————————————————————- 15 minute walk from Stanmore Station or catch the 370 from Newtown to Booth St, Annandale or 470 from City… again to booth st
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sat 13
REPRESSED RECORDS< king st, newtown 2PM
STRAIGHTJACKET NATION
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sat 13
Dirty Shirlows, 32 Shirlow st 3:00pm – 8:00pm
The Momo Benchseat Band
Hey, we haven’t played for ages! But we have been jamming in preparation of recording an album. Come along and listen to brand new Momo songs… Yeah! First set: 3pm Second set: 6pm
shaun/tenzenmen ++ i’ll either be at these events or wishing i was there ++
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