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What’s Cool and Unusual – 4th June 2008

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

wed 4

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

garbage and the flowers, lt colonel spastic howitzer, thylacine

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

lt colonel spastic howitzer

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

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thu 5

Club 77

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

sat 7

The Jura Collective, 440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
9550 9931

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

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

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sat 7

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

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

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sun 8

14:00 – 17:00

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

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

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

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

READINGS:

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

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

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

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

What’s Cool and Unusual – 28th May 2008

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ Leave a comment

wed 28

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

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

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

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

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

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sat 31

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

ampere, majorca, former republics, scum system kill

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sun 1

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

ampere, majorca, ohana, crux

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

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

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