Tag: Repressed Records

The Ian Jury – 13th October 2023

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A complete genius or total wanker
There’s no in-between
A diamond geezer or a tosspot
If you know what I mean?

Of course, it was a waste
For those with good taste
Lost in old England’s dream
When the rhythm stick hit
Championing the Brit
Inspired by old sweet Gene
A London vicar
A treat or tricker
And occasionally obscene
With panties and boots
From Edwardian roots
Cloaked in a music hall theme

inspired by Will Burch’s Ian Dury biography

Today I’m feeling:

(1.30 am) I’m still awake again. I’m super tired but just can’t get to sleep.

(9 am) I reckon I got to sleep at around 3.30 after trying various different places around the house. It was so frustrating. My 8am alarm shook me awake and I did 100 star jumps to try and actually wake up. On the bus and in the city waiting to see Hayden.

(11.15 am) I’m starting to flag. Hayden’s flight was delayed an hour and I’m desperately trying to keep my eyes open.

Today I’m grateful for:

Ray Ahn at Utopia Records and Nic at Repressed Records for giving me information and updates on what’s happening around Sydney these days. I’m glad they still remembered me!

The best thing about today was:

Catching up with Hayden and his news and cruising around town in and out of various shops. Another day of more than ten thousand steps.

What was out of your control today and how did you handle it?

My brain was a little out of control there for a while as I got dizzy looking at all the books in Kinokunya.

Something I learned today?

Ray Ahn recommended three bands to me; fortuitously, one of them will play the show on Sunday.

What brings me the most fulfilment?

Teaching for sure. Since returning to Sydney for these few days I’m realising how much my life has changed since leaving Australia. My eyes opened to new ideas and pace of life. Whereas I may have found fulfilment with music before, organising and working with artists; that feels like a different life. That’s ok. It’s better not to just be stuck in one thing forever. I’ve worn many hats and maybe I’ll still have a chance to wear more.

Who has influenced my life in a profound way?

All the special women in my life. My mom, Emma, Cherry, Bronwyn, TLJ, Echo, Lorraine, Kyoko, Chise and Amy. Small parts and big, all these people I have loved and got me where I am right now, attending a wedding overlooking the beautiful waters of Sydney. It’s been an up-and-down journey that I’m proud to have travelled.  Let’s keep going. Now the special women in my life are my students who I hope I can inspire to realise their dreams.

Hayden took this picture because we haven’t seen each other for four years and we’re both happy and healthy these days.

What’s Cool and Unusual – 29th May 2013

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Thu 30

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

Ears Have Ears, FBi Radio’s weekly experimental music program is launching a series of new live shows, which will bring together some of Australia’s most exciting musicians to perform in a range of unique venues across Sydney.

This show marks the first in the series with a dual-state lineup featuring primitive poppurveyors and hand-made ‘unstrument’ creators Sky Needle (QLD), featuring members of Kitchen’s Floor, Per Purpose, Unwar & OtherFilm.

Also on the lineup is Sydney’s Desert Luck, a duo made up of Anthony Guerra from the mesmerizing Love Chants / Black Petal label and Peter Blamey, who as a soloist primarily uses open electronics, previously performing at The NOW now, What Is Music? and Liquid 

Architecture festivals.

Third on the lineup is Sydney’s Exotic Dog, the solo project of Nic Warnock (R.I.P. Society, Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys, Model Citizen). A new(ish) act, Exotic Dog uses four tracks and answering machine cassettes to create disorientating soundscapes.

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Fri 31

MCA, 140 George Street, Sydney
7pm tickets: tickets.mca.com.au

Celebrate MCA ARTBAR driven by Audi first birthday this May as you experiment with the theme of weird science curated by Sydney artist Keg de Souza. From the 1985 teen sci-fi film classic by John Hughes to the literal meaning of weird science, Keg invites you to interpret the evening as you see fit. Create Kelly LeBrock out of a computer program, or ponder the vast meaning and strangeness of our modern scientific accomplishments.

Step inside an inflatable planetarium or take in some screenings from the infamous Mu Meson archives. Encounter Wade Marynowsky’s robots, Diego Bonetto’s test-tube gardens or Justice Yeldham’s unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass. For our very first birthday you can expect strange things to be happening in dark the corners of the MCA. Hypothesise on the sculpture terrace for one of the most magical views of Vivid in Sydney.

It’s art but not as you know it.

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Fri 31

Paragon Cafe (65 Katoomba St, Katoomba)
7pm

Sound Bites #10 @ Paragon Cafe (Katoomba)

A monthly performance forum of music, improvisation, poetry, spoken word and sound-art in Katoomba’s original Art-Deco Café featuring: *

Alex Salter banjo skin, guitar, mandolin
Alan Lucas poet
Sleepyhedz (Syd) exploratory clarinet & sax
WeiZen Ho voice & objects

* program line up may change

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Sat 1

Black Wire, 219 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
6pm $10-$15 ALL AGES

Black Wire Bday. CONATION, ETHER RAG, ACHE, CANINE, PALMAR GRASP.

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Sat 1

Repressed Records, Enmore Rd, Newtown
4pm free ALL AGES

Sky Needle, Mob

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Sun 2

Black Wire Records, 219 Parramatta Rd.
3pm start! (afternoon show!)

w/

SIMO SOO
http://www.simosoo.bandcamp.com
PS- its simos bday. BRING PRESENTS & CAKE!

MOONSIGN (sydney/newcastle)
http://moonsign.bandcamp.com/

LUNA LUK

BLACK VANILLA

Zines by Bitch Please!
http://www.facebook.com/transwomandistro

Vegan treats by Vegan Teahouse
http://www.facebook.com/TheVeganTeaHouse

CrushIN cassette/zine launch!!
http://crushinpunx.tumblr.com/ / http://facebook.com/crushinpunx

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Mon 3

LAMPS: 401 Hibernian House
$10/8 conc. 7pm BYO

Get there early to get a comfy sofa/arm chair.

featuring some fine people from the northern hemisphere and some equally fine people from the our fair city…

/// Ingar Zach (Norway) ///
Gran Casa and Percussion Solo

— Xavier Charles (France) and Laura Altman —
clarinet and clarinet

/// Ivar Grydeland (Norway) ///
Guitar and Banjo Solo

— Christian Wallumrød (Norway) / Clare Cooper / John Wilton —
prepared piano/harp/percussion

check out these european superstars in action here
http://www.facebook.com/events/194043447416585

What’s Cool and Unusual – 5th May 2009

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call out:

We’re launching a competition on our website!! We’re on the search for 8 artists!! We are looking for two from each category:
*Painters
*Sculptors
*Photography
*Street Art

For each of the categories we will have a winner and a runner up. The winners will have their work shown at our art expo on the 18th May 2009 in Sydney and the runners up will feature with the winners on a two page article in our magazine.
So whatever you’ve got, send it over!!!!

The link to the entry form on the website is:
http://musiqueart.net/visualComp.html

Enjoy and good luck!!!
Any questions or problems contact holly@musiqueart.net

You can also join our facebook group at:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22084774989

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PLEASE CONTRIBUTE!
The Red Rattler needs your help! We’re still horribly in debt. Your contributions will help The Rattler pay our huge bills – insurances, licenses, plumbing, electrical, etc. so we can stay open, continue supporting local artists and performers, support and provide access to our creative community, and continue valuable programs such as Artists Studios.

The Red Rattler operates on a non-profit philosophy and all funds raised are put direct to ongoing costs of setting up and keeping the doors open only, the building is funded separately and privately by The RR partners.

DONATE ONLINE
The Red Rattler will soon accept online contributions via PayPal, stay tuned. In the meantime, you can direct deposit into our bank account, email enquiries@***.org for the details.

DONATE BY CHEQUE
If you would prefer to send a cheque, please make payable to The Red Rattler Theatre and post it to:

The Red Rattler Theatre
6 Faversham St
Marrickville NSW 2204

Please enclose your address, phone number, and email address, and your name as you wish it to be listed (or specify “anonymous”).

thank you
and as always
lotsa love xx
— The Red Rattler Theatre 6 Faversham St. Marrickville NSW 2204 http://www.redrattler.org

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tue 5 (better hurry up for this one!)

jura books
440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
6pm $10 ALL AGES

daniel striped tiger, bare arms, circuits, epitomes
(+ vegan dinner!)

jura -http://www.jura.org.au

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wed 6

THE HAMILTON STATION
2-6 Beaumont St. Islington, Newcastle
8:30PM. FREE 18+

Daniel Striped Tiger, All My Circuits & Earthlings.

just adding this one becos i love DST and can’t believe i won’t get to see them play any of their shows! fark! you should go see them tho!

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thu 7

Please come and celebrate the beginning of a new chapter for 2ser and join us at the launch of our brand new studios at 11 Broadway.

Beginning with an official opening and studio tour from 6pm, the night will be completed by entertainment, drinks and food at UTS Loft Bar.

Live music will be provided by very special guests Dappled Cities (live & unrugged), *Jack Ladder *and* Laura Imbruglia* plus sets from 2ser DJs.

6pm til late Thursday May 7, 2009
Entertainment from 7pm
The Loft at UTS – enter via 11 Broadway

You are welcome to bring a guest. Capacity is strictly limited.
Please RSVP as soon as possible and by 5pm Monday May 4 at the latest. Email:
rsvp@****.com , or
phone 951****

The new 2ser studios are located at 11 Broadway, between UTS Tower and Harris Street, Ultimo.

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fri 8

Where?house, Sydney, NSW
8pm(?) $? email me if you need to know where to go and the secret password

Deaf Wish, Stabs, Castings

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fri 8

Black Rose Anarchist Library & Bookshop
22 Enmore Rd (100m from Newtown Station)

Punk Record Night and Jail Solidarity!
On the 8th of May from 5pm till 9pm there will be a Punk Record night and jail solidarity letter writing to Lex Wotton at Black Rose. DJ’s include Griffen, Jack, Sophie and John. Materials will be provided for writing letters to Lex (or anyone you want).
There will be food and beer by donation. What more could you want in one evening?

w: http://www.blackrosebooks.org

open:
Thursday & Friday 1 1-7
Saturday & Sunday 11-5

Accessibility: There are three steps at the entrance. The toilet is not easily accessible.

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fri 8

Seymour Centre Sound Lounge
8:30pm $?

Trio Apoplectic launch their second album ‘Sofia‘

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fri 8

search facebook for “A ROOM WITH A MOOSE!” to figure out where this will be.

Phill and Mark turn 23! yay!
Nick Farry leaves us… Noooooo!
A night of Breakcore, Glitch, DnB, Dubstep and METAL

line up:
ZEN MASTER :
A mystery bass heavy techno orientated producer from the trees.
MOTH BALL Z:
a werewolf inside a whizkid breakcore producer bound to make your noses bleed…
BRAINSTORMA:
Playing Dubstep!
MR BILL:
Producer from the gritty hood of south town…
Glitch n breaks .. you can’t deny this boys got rhythm.
ERECSEAN VS STABS:
DnB kids… back to back 🙂
Gorgeous, young.. bass heavy.. what more could you want!?
SERAPHINE KITTEN:
small kitten playing abrasive fuck off noise with a dark and sexy twist!
RHYSTAINZ:
Deep heavy dupstep.
Ju Ju *:
Cosmic Salamander Prog Princess with some sexy IDM beats.
MILF :
Random madness with this boy
MAXX MARY-2000 AFTERBURNER:
Extreme Metal with extra brutal and double kicks
Plus Special guests!

Sound by : TIM DSS
Decor by : MILF AND ju ju*

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sat 9

REPRESSED RECORDS, King Street, Newtown
2pm FREE ALL AGES

THE STABS. DEAF WISH. PEE WEE.

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sat 9

dirty shirlows, 32 shirlow st, marrickville
$10 entry with “Kullucinations” 3 inch / $8 without

16-year-old bedroom urchin Eugene Ward is probably better known through his instrumental hip hop outings as Mazzadius, which, at the tender age of 14, landed him on high rotation at Sydney radio station FBi, and launched beat-making enterprises with musicians as wide-reaching as Madvillain collaborator Stacey Epps.

Apparently bitter at the (musical) world he’d operated in previously, Eugene, under the new moniker Maitreya Kali, has come up with a contemporary bent on the kind of vinyl-based ambience that Touch and Kranky luminaries such as Philip Jeck and Keith Fullerton Whitman have made their names from. I’m hugely thrilled to have the opportunity to let the results of this, “Kullucinations”, onto the world, via 3 inch CD-R.

Also playing is the wonderful Cleptoclectics, the primary musical project of sound designer Tom Smith, whose contribution to Feral Media’s Powwow series revealed a juicy balance between pop sensibility and sampling genius. Clepto will have a 3 inch on HellosQuare later in the year.

FourPlay String Quartet cellist and host of Utility Fog on FBi Peter Hollo brings us some solo cello noises as Raven, whose appearances have been almost as sporadic as, and potentially of similar quality to Scott Walker’s output since the mid 80s. A 7 inch with American cellist Aaron Martin on sound&fury’s passeridae series will also arrive later in the year.

This event will be hosted by the wonderful Dirty Shirlows in Marrickville’s warehouse quarter.

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sat 9

THE RED RATTLER, 6 Faversham St, Marrickville
7PM. $? ALL AGES

Daniel Striped Tiger, Crux, Scum System Kill & Circuits.

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sun 10

DIRTY SHIRLOWS 32 Shirlow St. Marrickville
3PM. $? ALL AGES

Daniel Striped Tiger, Former Republics, Hira Hira & Intentions. AFTERNOON SHOW!

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sun 10

Black Rose Anarchist Library & Bookshop
22 Enmore Rd (100m from Newtown Station)

Film Screening by Mexico Australia Solidarity Network (MASN): The 4th World War
On May 10th at 6:30pm MASN will be screening the film The 4th World War at Black Rose.
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, the North; from Seattle to Geneva, and the War on Terror in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The Fourth World War is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war.
Entry by $5 donation.

w: http://www.blackrosebooks.org

open:
Thursday & Friday 1 1-7
Saturday & Sunday 11-5
Accessibility: There are three steps at the entrance. The toilet is not easily accessible.

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sun 10

the NOW now at Kings Cave, Linden
starts 1pm
cost: donation

the NOW now returns to the Blue Mountains with a very special performance. Not only are there amazing international performers, but it will be also powered by solar energy! Thanks to Eden Ottignon for the use of his solar generator.

Brisbane-based Daiji Igarashi plays a final performance before he leaves Australia to live in Shanghai.
Hewill also be joined be local Blue Mountainer Adam Sussman and post-local Blue Mountainer Rory Brown.

Jeff Henderson from New Zealand performs solo banjo/woodwind/etc. This should be stunning!

Daiji Igarashi was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1983. Since about 2001 he has actively developed music centered on free improvisation, and expanded the possibilities of the electric guitar by innovating various sound effects.
For 3 years together with Yusuke Akai and Joel Stern in Brisbane, Igarashi was the co-curator of Audiopoolen Social Club. APSC is an artist-oriented, freeform, sonic but sensorially promiscuous beast that bewtween 2006-2009 ran over eighty DIY happenings in a concrete storage shelter in West End, Brisbane. APSC had been hosted various international and interstates artists.
In March of 2009, Igarashi was the executive producer of the three days music festival, Ready Aim Fire – Audiopollen Social Festival ’09 – held in Brisbane.

Directions for King’s Cave
the cave is Bourke St, Linden, Blue Mountains. the walking track to the cave is at the “donahoe’s (g)rave” sign. it is a few minutes walk from here.

Driving from Sydney:
from the Great Western Hwy, turn right onto Tollgate drive.
Turn left onto Glossip rd.
turn right onto Bourke rd.

Train:
from Linden station, exit at the end of the platform (not over the bridge).
turn left onto Bourke st.
it is about a 5min walk.

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sun 10

Palace Paddington.
6.45pm

-A new anarchist film is showing at the Spanish Film Festival – The Anarchist’s Wife. Set during the harrowing years of the Spanish Civil War, this drama tells the story of one young couple’s love in the face of terrible obstacles. For more details: http://www.spanishfilmfestival.com/sydney/films_war3.html . Jura will have a bookstall outside each cinema for a couple of hours before each screening.

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

What’s Cool and Unusual – 25th March 2009

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wed 25

once again i’ll be manning the stations at paint it black this evening so drop in and say hello, buy a cd, do a dance.

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wed 25

Location:       Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
Street:         419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill (426/428/445 bus)
Start Time:Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 6:00pm
End Time:       Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 5:00pm

COMINGS AND GOINGS
The entrances and exits of the artist Andrew Newman

“I don’t know what you do with your days,” my father recently said to me.
“I go to my studio ,” I said.
“And what do you do there all day?” he asked begrudgingly.
“I make art.”
The conversation stopped there. My father didn’t really try to unravel my life any further. Art was a foreign concept to him. At every exhibition opening he would walk around the gallery exclaiming, “this is art?” I told my father I would document my days for him and start a blog so he could see that I was doing something.
I wasn’t too offended by my fathers inability to understand what I did each day. I never understood what he did each day. He was an accountant. He would go into the office, and then he would leave the office. The hours in-between were a mystery to me. Once as a child I spent a day in his office and I watched what he did. He had an inbox and an outbox. He would take pages from the inbox, look at them, change them, and then put them in his outbox. It seems to me now that an accountant isn’t too far removed from a conceptual artist.
This abstract of the daily grind that exists in most modern professions, where people are at pains to exactly explain what they do each day is the motivation for the blog titled ‘Comings and Goings’. The blog documented me at the door of my studio, entering at the beginning of the day and exiting at the end of the day. Each blog post included a photograph and a short text explanation listing what I had done before I entered and after I entered the space. Instead of clearly articulating what it was ‘I did’ the blog revealed an absurd, Beckett-like, state of existence that expressed the persistence of the passing of time.
The sociologist Manuel Castells wrote that ‘the process of work is at the core of social structure’. The idea of ‘work’, particularly during this current rise in unemployment, is a pertinent issue that needs to be addressed by artists. People’s very existence is shaped by work and their daily comings and goings. Yet artists, who have a vital social role to reveal the idiosyncrasies of the world, often overlook the nature of ‘work’.
An artist practises art. It is an experimental state, yet at the end of this practise, this dress rehearsal, the artist has an artwork. This is where the work begins.

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thu 26

jura books, 440 paramatta road
7pm entry by donation, all ages

monthly acoustic nights at jura (last thursday every month)

the lurkers, stono caves, merferalz

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fri 27

where?house
Occult Blood
Prehistoric Fuckin’ Morons
Wasted Truth
(and a secret guest)
all ages door opens at 8pm entry = $8

please contact spanish***@hotmail.com for details on the place if ya haven’t visited one of the where?house’s before. we have a couple of hurdles for the next gig – please read below…i will only post it once, then delete this thread soon. sign up for the mailing list at the gig or email the above. thanks.

[now, the building situation: the landlords have put in a security door at the front of the building (which is broken already!) we can only leave it open for so long, ’cause some residents actually wanted the fuckin’ thing…so: it will be open (wide open) from 7 til 9 and then closed but not locked for the rest of the night (unless someone locks it) if people can’t get in, there’s no point in buzzing the room – we won’t hear it. either message a friend or the easiest option is entering from the back – directly opposite the aurora hotel. there is a carport in the building with three yellow poles stopping it from being used (go figure). if you walk past/through the poles, into the port – directly on your right is an always open fire escape door. enter, climb the concrete, then wooden stairs to the first level and enter the first door on your right that isn’t an apartment. exit, turn right up a three stair rise and listen for the noise 100 feet down the hall/balcony. voila!]

www.myspace.com/occultblood
www.myspace.com/forevertruthfulandwasted
www.myspace.com/prehistoricfuckinmorons
www.myspace.com/uniqueoilfreeair

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fri 27

Serial Space, 33 Wellington Street, Chippendale
8pm
Be on time for the fashion parade!
Free entry

As part of Chippendale Fashion Week
There Goes The Neighbourhood is hosting a
FASHION SPECTACULAR FUNDRAISER!!!

There Goes The Neighbourhood is an exhibition and book about spatial politics in Redfern at Performance Space and we are fun-raising to bring some of the international artists to Sydney for the show.

We’re taking our politics, dressing ‘em up and parading them down the runway- this is a fashion show like no other!

Featuring some of Sydney’s hottest local talent looking more MODEL-LY than ever, strutting the catwalk in some of the FIERCEST fashion around- 5 limited edition tees designed by some of the artists in the exhibition- Daniel Boyd, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, Temporary Services, Michael Rakovitz and the There Goes The Neighbourhood logo designed by Tom Civil from Breakdown Press!

In these dire times of the Global Fashion Crisis
but you can save yourself in these dire times by buying a limited edition artist designed hand screenprinted t-shirt plus support the show and the [very] local economy!

Every purchase gets you in the draw for an amazing PRIZE! [announced on the night]

Featuring music by Toecutter
DJ Smallcock
plus a special set by everyone’s favourite husky- DODO THE WONDER DOG- and band!!!
And The fantabulously fashionably fierce Celia Curtis as our MC!

And get the sub-culture makeover you always wanted in our make-over booth!

Tyra Banks eat your heart out- this show is gonna riot!
PLUS
a WALK-OFF—Zoolander style!

we will also be launching our website:
www.theregoestheneighbourhood.org

T-shirt order form and samples here:
http://www.theregoestheneighbourhood.org/tshirts.htm

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sun 29

repressed records
456 king st, newtown
2pm, free, all ages

the holy soul, bowerbirds

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sun 29

Black Rose regular film screening will be Matewan on Sunday the 29th of March at 6:30 PM. Matewan is a documentary film about a labor union organiser that comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company for which they work.

Black Rose Anarchist Library & Bookshop
22 Enmore Rd (100m from Newtown Station)
w: www.blackrosebooks.org
P: 042***

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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sun 29

Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill (426/428/445 bus)
040*** dontlookgallery@gmail.com
6:00pm – 7:00pm

For the past 40 years Mike Cooper has been an international musical explorer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres.
Initially a folk-blues guitarist and singer songwriter his work has diversified to include improvised jazz and electronic music, live music for silent films, radio art and sound installations. He is also a music journalist, writing features for magazines, particularly on Pacific music and musicians, a visual artist, film and video maker, collector of Hawaiian shirts and appears on more than 60 records to date. [The Wire] The Trystero System features improvisation over drum ‘n’ bass style beats.

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tue 31

Sedition, 275 Victoria St Darlinghurst

*Mike Cooper*
*ICAN HZ CH33ZBGR*
*Lungalung*

*from 7pm by donation*

This last in the current series of shows at Sedition features tropical tinged
experimental slide guitar via Rome by Mike Cooper, cosmic multicoloured synth
madness by IAC HZ CHE33ZBGR and breathy gesticulations from Lungalung.

http://www.myspace.com/cooparia

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

What’s Cool and Unusual – 10th December 2008

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first up – a call out for quarterbred:

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.

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thu 11

Dirty Shirlows, 32 Shirlow St, Marrickville
7pm $5

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.
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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

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