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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.

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++ 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

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What’s Cool and Unusual – 4th March 2009

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some call outs first up:

CALLING ALL ZINESTERS
MCA & SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL ZINE FAIR 2009

Calling all zinesters, writers who self-publish, artists who work with words, and general lovers of the independent press and the arts!

Sell/trade your zines or browse the wares of others at the MCA & Sydney Writer’s Festival Zine Fair. Huge day planned, featuring live music, great panel sessions and free guided tours of exhibitions.

FREE event
Sunday 24 May, 11.00am – 5.00pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
140 George Street, The Rocks

Stall bookings: 02 9245***
Stall fees: $15 per table

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Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009
Time: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Dirty Shirlows
City/Town: Marrickville, Australia
Phone: 955***
Email: dirtyshirlows@gmail.com

Monthly Dirty Shirlows markets kick off soon (and continue) on the second Sunday of every month.
Sell your music, clothes,zines, gadgets and other stuff!  email to book space
Djs etc

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wed 4

come hang out with me at paint it black (86 enmore rd) every wednesday night (6 til 11ish) as i’ll be keeping the store open.  mogwai are playing at the enmore tonight so maybe i should go buy some earplugs to sell 😉  there’s a stack of new stock in the store including things from tenzenmen distro, accident prone distro and short fuse records.  i’d like to get people to just come and hang out, maybe get some quieter acts/bands to play too.

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fri 6

Dirty Shirlows, 32 Shirlow St, Marrickville
8pm $8 all ages

DEATHTRAP, DNR, KILL A CELEBRITY, ‘DEAD, WASTED’

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fri 6

Serial Space, 33 Wellington Street, Chippendale. 8pm.
8pm $12 all ages

Grouper, Pimmon & Seaworthy

In what should turn out to be one of the best live music nights of 2009, Preservation will present a show from US artist Grouper in Sydney on March 6.

The project for Portland, Oregon’s Liz Harris, Grouper has steadily built incredible international acclaim for her mesmerising music, culminating in reaching both Pitchfork and The Wire’s Top 50 albums for 2008 with her most recent full-length, “Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill”.

Often compared to classic 4AD dream-pop acts – especially the Cocteau Twins – the trance-like melodies and narcotic voice in a Grouper song swirl both prettily and mysteriously in their pastoral, psychedelic way. Otherworldly and blissful, this one-off, intimate show will be special.

Making that more so will be a rare performance from Sydney’s sublime electronic composer Pimmon, set to release his new, long-awaited album Smudge Another Yesterday in April, with Seaworthy also adding their own delicate beauty to the evening.

The night takes place Friday March 6 at Serial Space, 33 Wellington Street, Chippendale from 8pm. Entry is 12 dollars.

Hear Grouper – http://www.myspace.com/grouperrepuorg

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fri 6

Where (?) house
8pm

Heil Spirits, Prehistoric Fuckin’ Moron & Onani

No door fee. Just bring yourselves and whoever & possibly a mobile phone cause we’re not sure how we can arrange for people to get in through the new door downstairs… call whoever you know will be there to let you in!
contact me if you need details

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sat 7

58 railway rd, sydenham
1pm

hira hira, question, green green green

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

From Facebook:

I will be hanging out at Paint It Black tonight – come visit!

What’s Cool and Unusual – 11th February 2009

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wed 11

505
hibernian house, 342 (?) elizabeth st
8:30 $10 all ages

Klumpes, Ahmad w/ Austin Benjamin Trio

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thu 12

Akemi
Opp. Meadlow Bath Station, Blue Mountains
8pm? $? all ages

Inappropriate Tough Guy Behaviour, Turds of Prey, Sun of the Seventh Sister

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fri 13

Dirty Shirlows
32 Shirlow St, Marrickville
8pm? $? all ages

Inappropriate Tough Guy Behaviour, Nunchukka Superfly, Athol & Hee Haw

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fri 13

where?house?
contact me for details
$? 8pm?

hochman and hopkins, moonmilk, knitted abyss and alps of nsw

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tue 17

@ Sedition
275 Victoria St Darlinghurst
7pm by donation

Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Rhythm Device
Pure Being (Bris)
The Spiders (Blu Mtns)


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

What’s Cool and Unusual – 31st December 2008

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wed 31

attic productions
Party – Night of Mayhem
7:00pm-10:00am
Location:
Forest 1 hour north of sydney… check sydneyfriction.com for info line and directions on the 31st.

-Exodus –

Outdoor DNB NYE party 1 hour north of Sydney.

Dauntless
Mad Cow
Highly Dubious
Reload
Sam the Chemist
Insurgent
& more TBA…

all on Hijack sound.

$10 donation will go towards paying for the sound and generator hire.
check www.sydneyfriction.com for info line and directions on the 31st.

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fri 2

@ where?house
8pm $?
contact me if you need details for the venue

Slug Guts, Alzheimer Blanks, NOTV and Dead Farmers

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sat 3

louie’s
34 murray st, marrickville

ITS 2009. A NEW LEAF.
LETS ENJOY LIVING WITH
KIRIN J. CALLINAN
STRAIGHT ARROWS
SLUG GUTS [QLD]
TULLY ARNOT
WHORES

DJ JAY + JAI
FIRST ON AT 7.30
COOL. BYO + $6 ENTRY BY DONATION.

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I’m learning naughty words in Thai!

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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What’s Cool and Unusual – 24th September 2008

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wed 24

la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney
8pm $5

CLUB CONSOLADOR DE DOS CAROS PRESENTS:

TIM OLIVE –  3 OF MILLIONS – KUSUM NORMOYLE

starring on our NEW IMPROVED PA SYSTEM!

TIM OLIVE (USA/jap)-     Osaka resident, born and raised on the Canadian prairies, began playing electric bass at age 12, fueled by 70’s hard rock.  A move to “the city” brought exposure to free jazz, early electronic music and the music(s) of Asia.   Efforts were made to accomodate these sounds within the range of rock instrumentation in the bands Nimrod and Soap-Jo Henshi, but eventually periodic rhythms and tempered pitches were jettisoned in favour of open forms, improvisation and exploration of the full sonic possibilities of steel strings and magnetic pickups, the number and diameter of strings varying periodically.
Extensive touring in North America, Europe and Japan has provided opportunities to play with a wide range of musicians, as well as long-term playing recording relationships with Jeffrey Allport, Shinichi Isohata, Fritz Welch, Francisco Meirino (aka Phroq), Nishikawa Bunsho (in the duo Supernatural Hot Rug And Not Used), as well as a duo with dancer Corrie Befort.
http://www.virb.com/shranu
http://www.myspace.com/timolive

3 OF MILLIONS- Brave turns, textural layering and a strong sense of united phrasing direct the music from intimate storytelling to epic intensity. This is music for the laughers, and the cryers. The rawest of emotions are sure to be unleashed. Keep your ears peeled and eyes open. In 3ofmillions, the piano trio format is morphed in to a new ultra-sonic beast. Rising from the embers of eclectic musical experiences including Triosk, Trio Apoplectic, the Splinter Orchestra, Pivot, Pure Evil Trio, and Holly Throsby Band. These influences are all called upon to improvise music that can, and does, go anywhere.
“a brave new world of sound.” **** John Shand, SMH

KUSUM NORMOYLE – Kusum is an improvising vocalist/electronic artist/alternative pop musician based in sydney. She works with voice and electronics for performance and installation. Kusum is also performing at TINA this year, get in for a preview with consolador, this exciting new sound experimentor is one to watch.

http://www.myspace.com/kusumnormoyle

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fri 26

dirty shirlows
32 shirlow st, marrickville

truth from facts, fourteen nights at sea, hira hira, the thaw

(killer line up!)

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fri 26

where?house
when?time
what?price

Castings, Collapsed Toilet Vietnam, Lakes, and Naked On The Vague.

castings myspace for info

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sat 27

Splinter at Anode

FIELD TRIP is a free subterranean excursion through art and sound, projections, performance, installation, photography, and music. Along the way you’ll find artist Jess Cook musing on Sydney, and Token Imagination giving a moving performance. ANAT present the live improvised sound art of the 20-piece Splinter Orchestra. Check out Perran Costi’s Portable City installation, odd travel photography by Alex Crowfoot, take a seat in the pop-up cinema to see animation by Ingrid K Brooker, or hang out at the Bodega crew’s car park deck party.
Domain Car Park, Sydney.
Free. 12 – 7pm
For more on Anode go to http://www.anode.net.au/

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sat 27

the louie’s PA fundraiser event of the century
louie’s
34 murray st, marrickville
7pm til late late late $10

fourteen nights at sea
truth from facts
dead farmers
bed wettin bad boys
voting with bricks

drum and fakecore after party!
the incredible hexadecibels w/ creassult
main$tream
p.p. flo
dalit
killjoy

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sat 27

52 Pick Up launch!

7pm – 12am, shows 9pm sharp
Saturday 27 September
The Red Rattler
6 Faversham St. Marrickville

A night of cabaret, dirty tunes, filthy roadside food, arm wrestling and sickly sweet cocktails, to launch a truckstop-themed deck of playing cards.

$7 / 10 entry, or $25 entry and deck of playing cards.
Special introductory offer one-night-only price of $20 per deck (normally
$25)!!!

Performances by Glita Supernova, Wife, King Daddy and Candy, Sister Muscle Mary, Rooty Rita and KK No Pants. Music by DJ Gemma, Deadbeat, Huckleberry Spin and Toecutter. Plus trucker arm wrestling, cake stall, diner coffee and hotdog stand by The Dog, Diamond King of the Diner.

Dress diner glamour or roadside grime.

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sat 27

@MGTVLE 40 Fitzroy st, Marrickville
8pm $8

Scum System Kill (crusty punx)
Useless Children (Melbourne, female fronted fast hardcore)
Repo Man (80s style mosh)
Maus (Instrumental grind ex-Massappeal)

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sat 27

rock hard cock!
4 talbot st, sydenham
$8 9pm

cherry 2000, des peres, anklepants, djs anal erection, andy rantzen, catinabox and a surgical sideshow performance

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sun 28

hackett house
6-8 old bankstown plaza, bankstown
1pm $5

First show in a room in Bankstown. Its very close to the station, so no travel-based excuses. Its even on the Inner West line!!

The Thaw (Westies trying to be Magic Dirt but playing Godspeed and eating cupcakes instead)
Melaleuca (current/ex members of Marrickville, Newtown, Beverly Hills, Lakemba and Penrith)
They Kill And Eat People (Lizzie from BoysClub?? The quiet boy and the one who used to have dreads? They also cover the Weakerthans)
Cripple Gypse (The T-1000 turning kittens into sludge)

plus more! (a-lot-of-bands-we-asked-can’t-play-so-we’re-asking-more-core)

Check http://myspace.com/hacketthouse for more mad shit.

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sun 28

punx outside!

1pm meet at enmore park rocketship or text 0449***** for directions on the day

useless children
vae victis
gwilym evans
fraud

+ stalls, food etc

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

What’s Cool and Unusual – 16th July 2008

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I will be at Consolador de Dos Caras tonight – come and say hello!

wed 16

la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney

dualpLOVER in conjunction with 2SER and tenzenmen present club
CONSOLADOR DE DOS CARAS

this week cloth ear presents:

Matthew Hopkins and Jonathon Hochman – like wizards with electronic devices , may have mind probes so approach with caution beware matthew hopkins’s future time travel machine. DON’T LOOK INTO THEIR EYES WHILE THEY ARE PLAYING OR YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF IN THE FUTURE.

XWAVE – loud abrasive noisy c**ts from the mountains.Like wizards with apples and heroin , weird horrible / beautiful sound that will make you feel extremely happysad

Cabaret Callado (Brazil) –  new folk album “Mecanismo Objeto” is almost ready , don’t miss the brazillian master of psychedelic neo folk in another rare solo appearance.

plus usual DIY markets and crazy dj’s in the front room

$5 is all it takes for a good wednesday night out.

Upcoming: TOXIC LIPSTICK ALBUM LAUNCH Wed 6TH AUGUST

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wed 16

message from lloyd:

Yeah that’s right, another email from some ‘struggling artist’ (read: some dude making horrible music that you aren’t going to come see anyway) about some gig that will either be cancelled at the last minute due to venue/transport/amp/zombie army/irreconcilable-dispute-between-band-member troubles or simply three people will show up to (the promoter, one band member’s girlfriend and some guy who just heard that Naked on the Vague were
playing even though they’re not).

Wednesday night I’m taking part in a revised version of Brendan Walls’ gamepiece “Chess” that was debuted at the NOW now festival at the beginning of this year.  Also playing are the Walls himself and James Iha from the Smashing Pumpkins.  Or Title Records, I’m not entirely sure.  Either way, about a hundred amps, little noisy thingies, a chess board and a banjo will be used to make transcendental blah blah blah you’re not listening.  WHO SAID POST-MODERN MUSIC WAS DEAD?  

If you’ve actually read this far and are still interested then (what the hell?) it’s taking place at 405 hibernian
house (342 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills, just across from central station) and we’ll be playing with other collectives/bands/people/”musicians”.  No idea who because there has been precisely zero promotion for this event.  Big
surprise.

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fri 18

Friday July 18th @where?house

CASTINGS, KITCHENS FLOOR, 2779 + a mystery group that may involve members of Vincent Over The Sink

8pm opening…$8 entry

_Castings will probably play first.

_Kitchens Floor are from Brisbane. Matt (Look Pond, Minxx) and Julia play beautiful, eccentric, minimalist acoustic pop music. they are one of the best young groups in the country today in my not-so-humble opinion. think of Beat Happening, Neu and ”Hi, How Are You?” at a house party and you are close.

_2779
fuck! where do i start. trance-inducing but jaw dropping at the same time, this group from the mountains consists of Ben, Adam (Stasis Duo / XWave) and Matt (xNOBBQx / Stasis Duo). fucked up psych/noise/garage/punk/primitive/minimalist bliss. fuck No New York, come see 2779!

message me or myspace.com/castings for the where?abouts or the venue.

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sat 19

red rattler, 6 faversham street, marrickville
7pm $5

scooter presents

go go go go (brisbane)
haisha haisha
magnoliaceae

awesome new venue in marrickville!  please support this space as a lot of people have invested a LOT of money and time in this place!  totally legal too!

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sat 19

Louie’s: 34 Murray Street, Marrickville.
Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 8:00pm

KITCHENS FLOOR – World’s nicest dude Matt (also da main-man in Look!Pond) and buddy Julia playing killer outsider folk/pop tunes. Bloody great songwriters! All the way from Brisbane. *Also playing at the where?house Saturday night.

CIRCLE PIT – Wall-o-sound heavy boogie rock in full force five piece mode. Bound to be the headbangers ball.

ALPS – Resident of Newcastle/the world Chris Hearn armed with a Yamaha Keyboard, Xylophone, Drum machine, cassette recorder, two hands, voice etc. Great lo-fi pop. Some songs are uppers, others are total downers.

PEE WEE – 100% fun!!! Teenagery punx with a surf/garage vibe featuring members of Straight Arrows and Dead Farmers. DA ULTIMATE PARTY BAND.

BABY COFFIN – Lloyd Honeybrook of the much hated Happy Go Hate Fuck on amplified sax and Brendan Walls of the much hated Menstruation Sisters on bass (i think??). Their first live show, got high hopes
for this one!

BYO!!!!

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sat 19

dirty shirlows, 32 shirlow st, marrickville
cut to bits

killjoy
cat-grrl
maladroit
xian vs b.i.n.t.
dj rainbow ejaculation
dj anal erection
unhappy animals make bad meat
abortifacient
eject
dalit

$5 9pm

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mark this one in your diaries

MONDAY July 28th at
dirty shirlows, 32 shirlow st, marrickville

GRAF ORLOCK, ROBOTOSAURUS, YEAH BEARS, SCHRODINGERS CAT
$10 8pm first band

www.myspace.com/graforlock
“Not only are Graf Orlock’s tunes uproariously nihilistic but concise and poignant, morphing the innovative savagery of Pig Destroyer and Brutal Truth with scathing punk cynicism. ”Corpserate Greed”’s two minutes and 18 seconds careen around three priceless Joe Pantoliano samples. In the movie he plays a variation of what expert ’80s action deconstructionists Ruthless Reviews call ”the Stupid Chief,” breathlessly berating Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s body count for necessitating, yes, ”detectives detecting shit” and forensic teams having to stick corpses ”back in the fucking
bags.” It’s trivial, silly blockbuster ear candy, but the decontextualization and shuffling of the dialogue makes for an artful, grotesque exchange that couldn’t be more metal. Pantoliano’s tantrums buffer neck-snapping blastbeats, bad cop/worse cop freakouts and curiously enough Hatebreed-style staccato, which is all that’s left by the militaristic outro. On an EP heavy on Alien worship, is Graf Orlock’s Bad Boys II nod simply wink-wink turd-polishing? Or is Michael Bay’s cash-cow clusterfuck like Reagan-era staples Red Dawn, Invasion USA or Commando representative of something
sociopolitically deeper and darker?”

early warning on this one as it’s a monday night.  please venture out for this if you can as the touring bands specifically requested to have an ALL AGES show in sydney and this was the only free night.

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

Vialka, The Laurels, Ian Wadley, The Question?, Ten Thousand Free Men and Their Families, Divide By Zero, Przewalki’s Horse, Abortifacient – Club Consolador De Dos Caras, 53-55 Liverpool Street, Sydney, Australia – 23rd April 2008

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Pic: inside Dirty Shirlows

What’s Cool and Unusual

wed 23

consolador de dos caras
la campana, 53-55 liverpool st, sydney
$10 8pm

this is the one we’ve been waiting for! and the line up has blossomed madly! first band will be on at 8.30 tonight so BE EARLY!

the laurels – the laurels are a 5 piece psychedelic/shoegaze band from sydney. first taking the stage in june 2006, the laurels juggernaut has accumulated accolades, guitar pedals and fans in approximately equal proportion.

Vialka – Vialka is an inflatable submarine that survived the commercial war. It travels unrestlessly around the world to explore the rich diversity of its cultures before it is too late. Vialka is a noisy comedy not ashamed of its own way by scorn or ridicule. It is an invitation to dance to steady explosive rhythms, terror melodies and experimental movements. It is a symphony for humble flesh through the high spirits of rock’n’roll. Globetrotting mavericks and dynamic two piece from everywhere and nowhere, Vialka unfailingly blow the minds of the uninitiated! With the world’s smallest and hardest hitting female drummer and ungodliest (un)bearded baritone guitarist, this band surpasses all expectation of the possibilities of popular music!

ian wadley – played with bird blobs, jandek , mick turner plus a whole list as long as your arm. have a look at the website for more info. Oh and also brother to greg of new waver fame

the question – Formed through a combination of too much time + equipment and lack of like minded individuals. no more sitting around >>>time to mess around.

as if these bands weren’t enough there will be other crazy shit going on in the front room:

TEN THOUSAND FREE MEN & THEIR FAMILIES

– 10kfreemen is the alias of Tom Gilmore, an Australian chiptune artist. Tom began making Game Boy music in early 2007 with very little exposure to the world of chiptune. His early minimalistic style developed with his exposure and increased involvement with the scene, along with the development of a live show to express himself to new audiences and expose a new genre of music to an unaware Sydney, Australia. http://10kfreemen.com http://myspace.com/thefloortom

DIVIDE BY ZERO

Often described as a mathematical anomaly, Divide is setting out togive a big lo-fi fuck you to mathematicians. ”Anomalise this, cunts” he has been heard to say, wielding a gameboy in each hand whilst shooting lazers out of his eyes. He also occasional designs flyers for No Frills.

PRZEWALSKI’S HORSE

In the wild, Przewalski’s Horses live in social groups consisting of a dominant stallion, a dominant lead mare, other mares, and their offspring. The patterns of their daily lives exhibit horse behavior similar to that of feral horse herds: Each group has a well-defined home range; within the range, the herd travels between three and six miles a day, spending time grazing, drinking, using salt licks anddozing. The stallions can frequently be seen sniffing dung piles to confirm scent markings, and playing out 8-bit tunes in Sydney.

ABORTIFACIENT

When not elbow-deep in recreational autopsy, Abortifacient likes to program Breakcore. Born in 2005, Abortifacient has taken his brand of Queensland Breakcore on a Japanese tour. Like a Gabber set at the Gympie Muster, Abortifacient’s live shows blend Psychobilly, Chiptunes, and Horror Film Fanaticism.

plus the usual DIY markets – bring your wares if you have something to sell

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fri 25

‘stikki records’
510 king street, newtown , sydney
12.30pm all ages FREE

capa capo
death cage
rocksteady dub militia
squidd
doin it for the money
fuck oath.

its a public holiday so no excuses!

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sat 26

wolli creek outdoor acoustic entertainment society
1pm meet at turella station

harriet
trini
commonfilth
+ more

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sat 26

Name: Killerwatts System presents…
Tagline: Death from Above
Host: Killerwatts
Type: Party – Night of Mayhem
Time and Place
Start Time: Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 9:30pm
End Time: Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 12:30am

Location: Dirty Shirlows Warehouse
City/Town: Marrickville, Australia

PASSENGER OF SHIT
MATT BLEAK
CAT-GRRL
DIABOLIQUE
DISLASYSTEM
DJ ZEITGEIST

see breakcore.com.au or killerwatts.info on the day for more info

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sat 26

vic on the park
Cnr Enmore Rd & Addison Rd, Enmore
8pm $10

Schrodingers Cat
http://www.myspace.com/schrodingerscattheband

Luca Brasi(Melbourne)
http://www.myspace.com/lucabrasinoise

Dining in Tuscany
http://www.myspace.com/diningintuscany

Hospital the Musical
http://www.myspace.com/hospitalthemusical

i really wish i could go to this as it’s luca brasi’s only show in sydney this weekend. i’ve heard good things about dining in tuscany and i still haven’t seen hospital the musical or schrodingers cat! in my absence you should go check it out! and then head on round to dirty shirlows for mad dancing.

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sat 26

YR wherehouse (contact me if you need address details)
8pm $?

castings, onani, pfm, pagan dawn

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sun 27

low tea
jura books, 440 paramatta rd, petersham
11am free

from kat thaw:

i’m really excited about this sunday!!! we’re having a big tea / cake party at jura bookshop, with music by loads of lurvely ladies and then a bit of a discussion about women in diy music and activism.

my good friend lena has come up from melbourne to grace us with her gorgeous sounds, louise has some new tunes for our listening pleasure, anna will tearour hearts out with her musical tales and i’ll play some little bits i’ve been working on.

there’ll be a huge spread of vegan cakes and treats! feel free to bring some along if you’re extra inspired. and we’ve plenty of tea cups to go around!

most importantly there’s going to be a discussion of women and queers in diy and activist communities in sydney, but more broadly as well. don’t be shy – come and contribute!

the whole thingo kicks off at 11am on sunday morning (27th april) so don’t sleep in too much or you’ll miss out on all the edible goodies! jura bookshop is easy to get to – a five minute walk down crystal street from etersham station, or a short bus ride from central station down parramatta road. it’s number 440 on parramatta road, just a block from where norton street meets parramatta road. just next to the flag shop and opposite the bald faced stag (pub) if that helps.

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sun 27

thirroul neighbourhood centre
1pm $5

hospital the musical
mary jane kelly
run! hide!
sound the mute
hira hira
let me down jungle man gently

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get prepared for Malaysian screamo merchants DAIGHILA in sydney next weekend (sunday 6pm at hot new space Dirty Shirlows with amazing support from former republics, ohana and the thaw!)

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