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What’s Cool and Unusual – 24th June 2014

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Call out!

The Red Rattler’s Management Committee is on the hunt for some new Directors. This is your chance to get directly involved in the management of this community-run space – hands-on and fully intimate.

We are looking for individuals with skills or knowledge in at least one of the following areas:
Finance
Law
Not-for-profit organisations
Governance and compliance
Event management
Risk assessment processes
Program and Project Development
Social Media
Contemporary arts and culture
A commitment to planning for the long-term viability of this non-profit venue
A commitment to implementation of The Red Rattler eco-sustainability plan
A passion for arts and politics
A commitment to build a space where racism, homophobia, transphobia and sexism are not welcome.
Find full details on submitting your Expression of Interest online or contact Director Kat Roma Greer on kat@redrattler.org.

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Another call out!

Want to Smash Jura Books?
With a Hammer

Ever wanted to take a sledgehammer to Jura Books? Well, now’s your chance. We’re doing renovations to our library to make it a bigger, better space for talks and gigs. We need your help to destroy a wall (and rebuild the room). We also need a certified electrician to do about a day’s work on the wiring. We can afford to pay the sparky, although mates rates would be appreciated! Please get in touch if you are a friendly sparky or know of one.
• Working bee, 12-5pm, Sat 5 July
• Working bee, 12-5pm, Sat 12 July

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Sat 28

Red Rattler, 6 Faversham St, Marrickville
8pm

LAKES/FOUR DOOR/LUCY CLICHE/ORION

The follow up single to last year’s well-received ‘Blood of the Grove’ LP from Melbourne based musician Sean Bailey under the moniker of LAKES. Post punk meets dark folk delivered with military-like precision, for fans of DEATH IN JUNE and THE MOB. Mixing bleak pop with an underlying aggression, delivering stark melodies with understated power.

17th Aug 2021 – As far as I can tell, after 7 or so years of weekly posts, this was the last newsletter sent out. As I had lost my job earlier in this year, I wasn’t going out too much so not so much in the loop of things. Also, Facebook had really taken over as the communication tool of choice, leaving this list feeling a little redundant. Jeremy Chunn valiantly helped out for the last 12 months or so but even his enthusiasm couldn’t motivate me to keep going. This was a special time in Sydney with a lot of motivated people trying to create things outside regular bar venues. Places like The Pitz, Maggotville, Dirty Shirlows and many many more became legendary for a while there.

What’s Cool and Unusual – 13th November 2013

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Fri 15

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

HEROIN SS (Bris) / COMMON ENEMY (Byr) / UNKNOWN TO GOD / DEAD IN THE GUTTER

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Fri 15

Cosmos, Marrickville
9pm ALL AGES $?

WORMWOOD :: Buried Feather (VIC) + Buzz Kull + Faspeedelay (VIC) + SPIRIT VALLEY ::

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Fri 15

Jura Books, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
6pm ALL AGES

Mutiny + 3 more TBA

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Sat 16

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

THE OCEAN PARTY (Melb/Album Launch) / KING TEARS MORTUARY / SHOPGIRL / NATHAN ROCHE

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Sat 16

Turtlehead Warehouse, 62a Constitution Rd, Dulwich Hill
3pm FREE ALL AGES

Heroin SS, Common Enemy, Tremor Doll, The Fuck Outs

What’s Cool and Unusual – 6th November 2013

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Fri 8

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

THE BENNIES (Melb/Album Launch) / IVAN DRAGO / LOCAL RESIDENT FAILURE / OSLOW

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Sat 9

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

Bush Fire Relief Benefit: THORAX / CANINE / PALMAR GRASP

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Sat 9

Jura Books, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
7pm $5 ALL AGES

Jurassic Penguin, Postal, Home Burial & Snakes Get Bad Press

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Sat 9

The Record Crate, 34 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
8pm FREE ALL AGES

Ted Danson With Wolves, Oslow

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Sun 10

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
3pm ALL AGES

COUNTERATTACK (Melb) / DISPARO! / ATOMIC DEATH SQUAD (Melb)

What’s Cool and Unusual – 23rd October 2013

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Thu 24

Jura Books, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
6.30pm

Folk punk in the library

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Fri 25

Jura Books, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
7pm ALL AGES

Featherweight, Yo Put That Bag Back On, Mowgli, Those Things

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Fri 25

Peppertree Cafe, 63 The Mall, Bankstown
6pm Free ALL AGES

Angharad Yeo, Aaron and Luke, Tommy Francisco

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Sun 27

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

PAPER ARMS (Adl) / APART FROM THIS (Melb) / YO, PUT THAT BAG BACK ON

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Mon 28

401 Hibernian House, 342 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills
7pm $10 ALL AGES

::::::::: KLAUS FILIP (Austria) :::::::::::
solo sine waves
http://klingt.org/

:::::::::::: ASTRID LORANGE:::::::::::
words

::::::::::: THE SPLINTER ORCHESTRA ::::::::::::
electro-acoustic sounds made by lots of people
http://thenownow.net/splinter-orchestra/

::::::::::: IVAN LYSIAK ::::::::::::
‘Lucky Dip’

What’s Cool and Unusual – 25th September 2013

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Thu 25

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

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

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

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

Feel free to bring your own games too.

DJ Gatski will be spinning tracks from 7 till Midnight.

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Sat 28

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

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

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Sat 28

Red Rattler, 6 Faversham St, Marrickville
8pm

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

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Sun 29

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

SAFE HANDS / MACHINA GENOVA / CANINE / BAD DEEDS

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Mon 30

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

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Playing solo pianos

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Doing some instrumental thingbomidies

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

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

What’s Cool and Unusual – 31st July 2013

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Thu 1

Lamps, Hibernian House, 342 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills
Doors 7:00 pm, first act 7:30pm $10 ALL AGES
Ears Have Ears, FBi Radio Presents #3 feat:

THOMAS WILLIAM VS SCISSOR LOCK
KNITTED ABYSS
HORSE MACGYVER

  • Ears Have Ears Djs

Ears Have Ears, FBi’s weekly experimental music program presents the third in a series of live shows bringing together some of Australia’s most exciting experimental musicians to perform in some of Sydney’s more unique venues.

Ears Have Ears Presents #3 features three acts at the forefront of Sydney’s experimental and independent music community under various guises.

THOMAS WILLIAM VS SCISSOR LOCK

Thomas William Vs Scissor Lock is the collaborative project of Tom Smith and Marcus Whale.

Tom is a mainstay of Sydney’s experimental music scene – a curator, teacher and musician, most recently releasing the highly acclaimed ‘Deccan Technicolour’ via Melbourne label This Thing and curating Firstdraft’s Night Depot as part of ISEA, Vivid.

Scissor Lock aka Marcus Whale is best known for his work in Collarbones (with Travis Cook) & Black Vanilla (with Guerre & Marseilles). As Scissor Lock he combines manipulated voice and feedback with laptop processing.

In duo mode, Thomas William Vs Scissor Lock create detailed soundscapes which fuse individual styles effortlessly, as realised on their excellent 2012 album ‘Jewelz’ via New Weird Australia and 2013 original contribution ‘Dreams Have Dreams’ made exclusively for Ears Have Ears radio last year.

Thomas William: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thomas-William/256262611077443

Scissor Lock: https://www.facebook.com/scissor0lock

‘Jewelz’ on New Weird Australia: http://newweirdaustralia.com/projects/thomas-william-vs-scissor-lock-jewelz/

KNITTED ABYSS

Knitted Abyss is the resurrected duo of Lucy Phelan (ex NOTV, currently of Half High duo) and Anna John (Holy Balm). The pair sprung out of Sydney’s DIY scene in the 00’s – releasing small-run cassettes of unique guitar, pedal and drum machine driven audioscapes on Night People and Bumtapes before laying the project to rest some years back.

At Ears Have Ears Presents #3 Knitted Abyss play their first Sydney show in a number of years – not to be missed! We feel really honored to present this rare KA performance!!

Myspace: https://myspace.com/knittedabyss

Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Knitted_Abyss/

HORSE MACGYVER

Third on the lineup is self-proclaimed loser concrete soloist Horse MacGyver aka Tim Dwyer. Horse MacGyver’s distinctive electronic excusions have seen him billed with Witch house legends oOoOO (USA) and Butterclock (Fr) as well as Standish/Carlyon and Kirin J Callinan. Beyond his a recent cassette release, Tim is also part of Zonk Vision, an audio/visual collective making psychedelic inclusive low art.

Website: http://www.horsemacgyver.org/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/horsemacgyver

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Fri 2

107 PROJECTS – 107 REDFERN ST
8PM / $10

A DEAD FOREST INDEX (VIC) + DEVOTIONAL + BROADCASTING TRANSMITTER + SUPER GALAXIES

Unfamiliar with A Dead Forest Index? Time to familiarise yourself in an intimate show at 107 Projects with support from heart-wrenching Devotional, mind-wrenching Broadcasting Transmitter and gig debut by Super Galaxies.
Take a listen… more info below.

A DEAD FOREST INDEX – http://adeadforestindex.bandcamp.com/
DEVOTIONAL – http://devotional.bandcamp.com/
BROADCASTING TRANSMITTER – http://octopuspi.bandcamp.com/track/mandelbrots-hangover
SUPER GALAXIES- https://soundcloud.com/supergalaxies

  • music selections by Octopus Pi

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Fri 2

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

Duck Duck Chop, Making, No Art and Lenin Lennon

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Fri 2

Jura Books, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
7pm $5 ALL AGES

Hey everyone, we’re throwing a bit of a party at Jura books with some lovely bands.

Playing on the night is the amazing

Plus our friends from Tassie

Also playing is the dreamy

And kicking off proceedings (and hopefully singing songs about Skyrim and Enmore Rd)

Check out http://www.paperbagmusic.com.au for more info.

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Sat 3

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
$5 7pm ALL AGES

Ghost Talk, Angry Beige, Palmar Grasp & Stay Closed Minded

What’s Cool and Unusual – 17th July 2013

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Callout

Volunteering
The Red Rattler Theatre Inc exists due to the hard work and commitment of many many volunteers.

The space is always looking for dedicated volunteers, to help staff events, and assist us to maintain and improve the theatre.

If you’re interested in being part of Sydney’s much loved creative playground please email:
****@redrattler.org

Let us know how you’d like to help.

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Wed 17

Beatdisc Records, Shop 11/181 Church Street, Parramatta
5pm FREE ALL AGES

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY // YES I’M LEAVING // PALMAR GRASP

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Sat 20

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
8pm

INFINITE VOID, DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, THORAX, COLLAPSO

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Sat 20

Jura Books, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
5pm Entry by donation.
All funds raised will go to the Bradley Manning Support Network.

‘We steal secrets’ film screening.

‘Now, I’m going to be very candid, right? We steal secrets…’ So says Michael Hayden, the head of the CIA under Presidents Bush II and Obama. This isn’t a huge surprise: States have been keeping their own secrets and trying to steal ours for as long as we’ve had to live under them. But in 2006, they suddenly faced some competition. An international, online, non-profit organisation appeared, founded by an Australian and dedicated to providing a secure and anonymous way for those of us with access to corporate and government secrets to safely make them public.

Even before the massive historic leaks of US government data in 2010, Wikileaks had released some incredible information. Financial scandals in Iceland and Switzerland, corruption in the Kenyan Government, the membership list of the right-wing British National Party, oil scandals in Peru and our own Government’s secret list of websites which are illegal for Australians to view. Then in 2010 came the biggest release of private information in human history: 92,000 reports from the frontlines of the War on Afghanistan, 400,000 more from the War on Iraq, then 251,000 written by US Embassies around the world, including hundreds from Canberra.

‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks’ is a powerful new documentary film, written and directed by Alex Gibney (‘Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room’, ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’). It takes a critical look at the organisation and the two people most closely associated with it, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. Featuring interviews with Assange, Adrian Lamo, Michael Hayden and one of the Swedish womyn who made the allegations of sexual assault against Assange, as well as current and former Wikileaks volunteers, there’s a lot here to keep us informed and angry in the age of the PRISM.

What’s Cool and Unusual – 26th June 2013

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Fri 28

Black Wire Records, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
6pm $10 ALL AGES

Tired Minds
Postal
Ghosts (final show)
The Reverend Jesse Custer
Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt
Yo, Put That Bag Back on

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Fri 28

Jura Books, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
6.30 ALL AGES

DEQY Presents: New Boyfriend, Palmar Grasp & Everything I Own Is Broken

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Fri 28

SOUND BITES #11
Paragon Cafe, 65 Katoomba St, Katoomba.
28th June, 7 – 8.45pm 28th June, 7 – 8.45

$15 / $8 conc.
Sound Bites is a monthly performance forum of music, improvisation, poetry, spoken word and sound-art in Katoomba’s original Art-Deco Café – Paragon Café. This month ‘s event is presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institute and will feature:

BROOK & WILTON DUO:

Andrew Brooks is a saxophonist, improviser and curator creating work which draws from jazz, improvised and experimental traditions. His music explores the intersection between composition and improvisation and focuses on a ‘collective-interactive process’ between the musicians. Amongst many things, Andrew is a co-director of the NOW now series and festival of exploratory music, a co-conveyor of the Splinter Orchestra, a co-presenter of the experimental radio program Shepherd Tones on Eastside Radio and a co-founder of the independent record label and creative music network‚ Listen/Hear Collective‚ an artist-run initiative. http://www.andrewbrooksmusic.com/

John Wilton is a Sydney drummer involved in rock, jazz, and experimental music scenes. He plays in Nhomea, Yard Duty, the Splinter Orchestra, Project Collective Unit, Ur 1st Luv, and a number of collaborations with various improvisers including Rishin Singh, Andrew Brooks, and Jeremy Tartar. He performed at the 2012 and 2013 NOW now festivals and has since become a co-director of the organisation. He was also recently involved in the Australian premiers of works by Austin Buckett, Cat Hope, and Peter Ablinger on New Music Up Late on ABC Radio.

HINTERLANDT is a German-Australian solo act juggling string and wind instruments, electronic sounds, percussion and effects. Composed parts are merged with improvised sections to create one piece of music and sound. Hinterlandt has released eleven studio albums on nine underground labels in five countries. Having already played in places such as Sydney, London, Melbourne, Bangkok, Berlin, Helsinki, Rome, Brisbane, Amsterdam, Lisbon, etc. Hinterlandt is looking forward to add Katoomba to the list.

SCHNEIDER TM is a traveling sound artist from Germany sponsored by Goethe-Institut. He has been touring extensively and putting out semi-electronic indie albums on City Slang etc. but he also did more experimental collaborations with Oren Ambarchi, Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten), Pan Sonic, Damo Suzuki (Can) etc. etc. His current set Construction Sounds is an abstract body of work based on field recordings. http://www.schneidertm.net/

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Sat 29

Black Wire Records, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
7pm ALL AGES

Making + Roku Music + Yes, I’m Leaving + Sour Cream

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Sat 29

The Red Rattler Theatre, 6 Faversham St. Marrickville
8pm $15 ALL AGES

Sydney’s long-running electronic act, ollo, are leaving our fair shores, and this will be their final show. Featuring performances from friends such as Liz Martin, and a selection of DJs, ollo will be going out with a Shebang! Pow! Plop! Whizzzzzzz! (to quote Bardot/Gainsbourg).

And get your pens and paper ready as at some point in the show they’ll be improvising lyrics based on your suggestions once again…

Their third album ‘Ape Delay’, released last year, made the SMH best of 2012 list, and was nominated for the Australian Music Prize.

$15 (part of the door charge
goes to Save the Rat!)
Find out more at ollo.net.au.

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Sat 29

Tin Sheds Spots #3 – Schneider TM (GER), Scissorlock, Steffan Ianigro
Tin Sheds Spots in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Australia.
7pm
FREE

Not actually in the tin sheds gallery

Back to the Old School – meaning that this one is back in the Darlington Old School Building, not that we’ll be playing 80s hip hop, although SchneiderTM is a guy who has been around long enough to have seen some genres come and go. We’re pleased to welcome him to Sydney and perform his Construction Sounds set. In support are two Conservatorium alumni who are pushing at the edges.

Schneider TM (Germany): electronics and recorded industrial sound from Berlin, w visuals by paniK
Scissor Lock: electronics and voice
Steffan Ianigro: gas cylinder bells and electronics

Old Darlington School (Maze Crescent, University of Sydney, Darlington)

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Sun 30

Alaska Projects (Level 2, Kings X Carpark, 9A Elizabeth Bay Road, Kings X)
6pm ALL AGES – FREE

“The power of the music – what it gives you and does to you, where it takes you – seems impossible, like sorcery or subatomic physics, considering its simplicity. It’s like the sun; and then the moon. How does it do that? It encompasses, more dimensional even than light, instantly, and not by force but sympathy. It changes everything.”

  • Richard Hell, Go Now

Contemporary music and art magazine World’s Only and Kings Cross gallery space Alaska Projects come together again in the ninth free concert in the MUSICAL ALASKA series, Tribes. Exploring the mystical and transcendent power of music and what it means to perform it as a group, Tribes will feature two very unconventional orchestras: improvised music stalwarts The Splinter Orchestra alongside the very new Alaska Orchestra in their fourth performance together.

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Mon 1

@ 401 Hibernian House
342 Elizabeth St,
Surry Hillz
doors 7pm, sounds 7:30pm
$10/8
BYO

featuring…

// Dale Gorfinkel (melb) //
modified trumpet
http://dalegorfinkel.com/

::: Té :::
Kynan Tan (perth) + Andrew Brooks
electronic and acoustic sounds
http://te-duo.tumblr.com/

Aemon Webb // Adam Sussman (bris) // Laurence Williams
double guitars + drums
https://soundcloud.com/etchmusiccarves

Various disguises are regrettable but necessary – 26th February 2012

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Sunday, February 26: Jura Books, Petersham – Lenin Lennon, Wells, Union Pacific, Zounds, Palisades

Jura Books is a long running anarchist bookstore and library almost directly opposite the Bald Faced Stag and just a couple of doors down from the Clarence Hotel. Both hotels have live music, although I’m not sure what styles are entertained at the Clarence as I’ve never come across any bands I know in Sydney that may have played there. A block away from these pubs there’s also the Petersham Hotel which used to be a bastion of the Sydney music scene about 15 years ago, I don’t think they have any live music these days though. It’s certainly an easy area to find a drink if you want one though.

Jura Books is pretty much a converted house and offers no competition to the hotels. The downstairs is a small shopfront whist the upstairs is a small library. Emphasis is on small here. The space is made available to host shows, talks and potentially other suggestions can be brought to the table too. Obviously the space has a huge political slant but there is no overt influence cast over a show beyond the fact that it being an intimate setup and a shop where “fuck-wittery” will not be tolerated.

Today’s show was an amalgam of two lots of traveling bands looking for a space to play in Sydney. Main organiser Mitzi, who rarely organises shows at all, knew that it would be easy to pull something together quickly utilising the small community of friends in and around Jura, and after a few phone calls, a Facebook event was created and it was on. Having her own PA for use, all that was needed was to organise some drum and amp sharing. Easy!

Ben is currently the event co-ordinator for Jura and as a musician himself he’s come to prefer the more intimate shows that spaces like this can provide. He also feels there is more direct participation from bands wanting to use the venue (i.e. bands may organise everything themselves from equipment and line ups to promotion and food options). Once the show is happening the intimacy provided by the cramped space is often accentuated by the fact that you can be sure that everyone in the room is a friend of a friend or perhaps once more removed at most. This makes for a comfortable setting and also provides the opportunity to easily make new friends.

All of the artists playing today confirmed the preference for intimacy and the comfort it provided even for interstate bands who may know no one at the stage of their set and make firm friendships by the end of the night. Teo from Palisades sometimes hosts shows in his house back in Melbourne and understands and appreciates the effort that goes into such events, including the shitty end of the deal cleaning up the following day, but also the highlights of the freedom and self regulation that goes on. There’s no requirement for hired security and money is not a prime factor in these type of events. Today’s show had a sliding scale donation entry of 5 to 10 dollars and those too poor to pay at all are often welcomed too. It’s easy enough to soak up the atmosphere from downstairs or outside anyway and today two acoustic acts jumped on the bill and played between the main bands up in the library.

Sunday afternoon shows can be a lazy affair and despite some of the high energy music on offer they were brief bursts of energy amongst friends that brought smiles to our faces and pleasure to our ears.


Zounds


Lenin Lennon


Palisades


The Union Pacific

Whilst it’s obvious through the writing of this piece, and well established by those that know me, I am immersed in this scene and these spaces. It’s a special occasion for me to venture to a regular bar venue and as a consumer at those events I can enjoy myself immensely. But I still leave them without caring about the venue in any shape or form. If it closed down the following week I would unlikely be affected.

Sydney, and everywhere else, has other options. Currently these places are mostly inhabited by the punk and alternative music scenes but they are all open to anyone; anyone with a shred of organisational skills could put something together and likely be welcomed as they diversify the range of events and broaden their audiences. When people cry about the death of a music scene in a city I believe they haven’t yet fully explored all the options available to them and despite the naysayers the Sydney scene is very much alive and well.

29th Apr 2021 – Originally published at Polaroids of Androids – also see entries for 24th and 25th of February.