John Waters #Melbourne show

Brilliantly entertaining filmmaker, writer and shock auteur supremo , John Waters will perform his glorious one man show,’ This Filthy World’ in Melbourne.  America’s royal raconteur and director of cult film classics such as Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Cry Baby and Polyester, Waters is famous and infamous as the “Pope of Trash”.  Focusing on Waters’ fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy and the extremes of the contemporary art world, this joyously devious monologue elevates all that is trashy in life into a call to arms to “filth followers” everywhere.

‘This Filthy World’ is an essential experience for anyone interested in how not  to make a movie, how to become famous (read infamous) and how to shock and make people laugh.

John Waters “This Filthy World”
Saturday 27 February @ 8.30pm
the Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Melbourne
bookings  1300 182 183  or www.theartscentre.com.au

Triple M to launch #AC/DC digital radio station

Austereo’s Triple M is launching digital radio station, High Voltage Radio, (MIX 94.5) featuring songs and content dedicated to Australian rock band AC/DC.

It will go to air for four weeks until the end of AC/DC’s national tour and will be broadcast on DAB+ and online at mix.com.au, High Voltage will be the fourth Digital Radio offering from Austereo and will air for four weeks until the end of AC/DC’s national tour.

AC/DC songs featured will include their big hits, lesser known tracks, live versions and archived Triple M interviews.

Angie Réhe brings Patsyfox to Guildford Lane for L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival

Patsy Fox 2010

As part of the 2010 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, the gallery will host an array of fashion-related works from some of Melbourne’s most talented artists, designers and photographers.

Angie Réhe has been working in the fashion industry since graduating in the late eighties. After years of travelling the world and designing for some of Australia’s favourite fashion brands, she now mixes freelance design and illustration with lecturing, web-based reporting for essential fashion industry news site WGSN.com, maintaining her illustrated blog www.patsyfox.com, and designing cards and stationery.

Angie’s illustrations will appear during Melbourne’s Fashion Festival at Guildford Lane Gallery against a backdrop of fashion events such as forums and launches, and alongside the work of industry contemporaries. Including portraits of the fashionable, the famous and the just plain fabulous, her work will be on display from the 10th – 21st March 2010, with an opening event to be held on the 11th.

New for 2010 and launching during LMFF at the gallery is The Patsyfox Drawing Salon, evening classes in fashion illustration for both beginners and advanced.

Illustrator and designer Angie Réhe brings the beautiful work of her alias, blogger Patsyfox, to Guildford Lane Gallery this March.
www.patsyfox.com
www.guildfordlanegallery.org
www.lmff.com.au

GUILDFORD LANE GALLERY
20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne 3000 Australia
PO Box 12179 a’Beckett St., Melbourne 3008
Ph 61 3 9642 0042 Mobile 0422 442 363

The Undiscovered Press #Zinemakers in Melbourne at Sticky Shop

Unleashing the zine habit to the masses.

12 zinemakers from all around the country are unleashing their extreme and slightly undiscovered zine making practice on to the masses. Evolving into a pretty eclectic show of the art of zinesters, the participating zinesters are Androniki Douramakos, Arlene TextaQueen, Marc Martin, Brendan Halyday, Fergus, Mary-Helen Daly, Sarah Foster, On Wednesday, Diego Bonetto, Pat Grant, Michelle Vandermeer and Mel Stringer.

Any questions? Contact Melissa at theundiscoveredpress@gmail.com or 0448595571.

Start Time: Monday, February 8, 2010 at 12:00pm
End Time: Friday, February 26, 2010 at 6:00pm

Sticky ShopDegraves Street Subway, Platform
Melbourne, Australia

RIP Rowland S Howard Loses Battle With Cancer

The news of Rowland S. Howard’s death at age 50, comes as quite a shock. I personally knew members of the Birthday Party having lived with Phil Calvert (then drummer of the Birthday Party) in the 80s in London. All the guys, at that time, Nick Cave, Tracy Pew, Rowland S. Howard, Mick Harvey and Phil Calvert were quirky and nice, if not, drug fucked and brilliant.!

It is true I hadn’t seen Rowland in many years, but was considering going to the Northcote Social Club to see a performance in line with the release of his latest album Pop Crimes. A mighty effort by all accounts and Rowland’s much anticipated musical venture after a ten year wait.

In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine this month, Howard admitted that he had liver cancer, and was awaiting a transplant. He told the magazine, “If you’re trying to write about the human condition there is only so many things you can choose from. Being told that you’ve only got a couple of years to live without a transplant is a pretty frightening experience and certainly changes the way you feel about your life, [it] makes things so much closer.”

This except about Rowland S. Howard’s death this morn comes from Mess and Noise

Excerpt: Australia’s music scene has lost a true icon with the reported passing of Rowland S Howard today (December 30). While no official statement has been made by management, close friends of the guitarist have confirmed reports that he lost his ongoing battle with liver cancer at Melbourne’s Austin Hospital this morning.

Howard, 50, was a former member of the Young Charlatans, The Boys Next Door (who later morphed into The Birthday Party) and These Immortal Souls. He penned the underground hit ‘Shivers’ for The Boys Next Door and memorably dueted with Lydia Lunch on Lee Hazlewood’s ‘Some Velvet Morning’.

GG note:  At least Rowland you can catch up with Tracy and have a snort! Much respect, you will be missed. rosiex

Youtube video of Shivers

Have Zombie Go Go action with Mu-Mesons for New Years Eve – Sydney party

Thursday 31st December
Sounds of Seduction
Celebrity Zombies

Well into the 21st Century and especially in 2009 our notion of celebrity has become unstuck. When they are worth more dead and the living ones are acting like the undead its time for the Sounds of Seduction to embrace this theme and to douse our audience with fame. Come and do the moon walk in the grave yard with Mu-Mesons on New years eve as we turn the Annandale into a Dawn of the Dead shopping mall of the Stars. With Zombie Go Go action and zombie visuals all night long. Prizes for the best dressed. Knock yourself out.

Annandale Hotel – 9.00pm to 3.00am $20+BF pre sale (02) 9550-1078 $25 @ the Door

Annandale Hotel at 17 Parramatta Rd Annandale, Sydney, Australia.  Ph (02) 9550-1078

Psycho: 50th anniversary of this suspense masterpiece, film screaming with live score Syd Opera House Jan 5, 2010

Have you ever truly forgotten that shower scene from Hitchcock’s Psycho? The 50th anniversary of this suspense masterpiece will be celebrated at a special screening at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on January 5, 2010. Hitchcock’s Psycho as never before for one night only, as Bernard Herrmann’s score is performed live by the Sydney Lyric Orchestra.

Bernard Herrmann’s spine-tingling score will be brought to life when for the first time ever in Australia Psycho will be digitally projected onto the big screen in the Sydney Opera House’s Concert Hall accompanied by a specially assembled all-strings Sydney Lyric Orchestra.

Academy Award-winning composer Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), collaborated with Hitchcock in 1960 to produce the soundscape- score for Psycho, which stands today as one of the most dramatic and effective examples of film & music coupling. The noted American composer, who worked on many of Hitchcock’s motion pictures including Vertigo, The Trouble With Harry and The Birds, is recognised for his keen awareness of the effect that music plays in film. There can be no better example of this than Psycho’s infamous shower scene – which Hitchcock had originally planned to leave unscored, but after hearing Herrmann’s composition agreed.

Unique among Hollywood films, the score of Psycho was written by Herrmann solely for string instruments, enabling him to achieve the brilliant sound the film is renowned for. With Concert Master, Adrian Keating – the Principal Violinist for the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra – ably leading the Orchestra, the live musical soundtrack will drive the drama of an engrossing story as never before! Psycho at the Opera House will be a feast for the senses. Conductor, Nic Buc, explains- “the sound of Bernard Herrmann’s music with its piercing strings underlying every jab of violence really is one-of-a-kind and well ahead of its era, and truly creates the excitement, tension and fear”.

Kick off the New Year with a scream and book your place in the shower scene!

VENUE: Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
DATES: January 5th 2010 (Tuesday)
DURATION: 109 Minutes
BOOKINGS: P +61 2 9250 7777; E: bookings@sydneyoperahouse.com
W: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/psycho_with_orchestra.aspx

Suggested gift, Dominick Dunne’s – Too Much Money.

By JANET MASLIN
Published: December 13, 2009

Excerpt:
When Dominick Dunne died on Aug. 26, an online guest book was set up so well wishers could leave condolence messages for his family. The site assured visitors “that the tears of millions of loyal readers were dried by a sudden wind.” The gust was said to be caused by “the collective sigh of rich and famous bullies on multiple continents” because Mr. Dunne’s nonpareil society-crime reporting and his glaringly fact-based fiction would bedevil them no longer. Not so fast, globe-trotting bullies. Mr. Dunne left behind one last, stinging roman à clef. And he most assuredly used it to settle scores.

“Too Much Money” pits his autobiographical character, Gus Bailey, against the New York nouveau riche types of its title. And it keeps Gus constantly aghast at their gall. It commemorates Mr. Dunne’s favorite obsessions — crime, wealth, status, backbiting and power — into a story with a distinctly valedictory flavor, to the point where some of it unfolds at New York’s most elite funeral home. And it includes a line that can serve as Mr. Dunne’s own epitaph, delivered by Gus as a slap to the book’s most moneyed and graceless social climber. She has just made a donation large enough to get her name plastered onto New York’s most important library. Reminding her that libraries exist not just as sites for cocktail parties but as places to house books, Gus tells her: “I don’t have to buy my way in.”

More from the New York Times article

Still Settling the Score, Even Beyond the Grave

Oooh in for a treat. The great journalist Chris Masters will present Investigative Journalism: Why we need it. #Melbourne

I’ve always been a fan of Chris Masters. The dude has integrity and he was always willing in my under-grad years to lend advise and inspire wannabe journos like myself.

Investigative Journalism:
Why we need it.
Why it is endangered.
Fri 11 December, 2009
Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank, Melbourne
Meeting 6.45 for 7.00 pm start
Guest Speaker 8.00pm
Click here for more on Chris Masters

Forever Michael – 7 minute video touring some of the hundreds of Second Life tributes to Michael Jackson

Forever Michael (Sin City)

Designed around spontaneous memorials that are erected around key sites at the time of celebrity deaths, this installation both pays tribute to and comments in the mass hysteria surrounding Michael Jackson’s untimely passing. First reported on celebrity gossip site TMZ.com, Michael’s death sparked an unprecedented internet frenzy, with Twitter recording over 5000 Jackson Tweets a minute. Over 11 million people watched his memorial live on the web, and tributes, traditionally found on the street were springing up on social networking sites and virtual reality applications such as Second Life.This traditional tribute memorial combines both the physical and virtual with a 7 minute video touring some of the hundreds of Second Life tributes to Michael Jackson. Streaming along the bottom of the screen are the sensationalized headlines which appeared, and continue to appear, on TMZ.com. Ending with paparazzi footage of Michael in the last month of his life, we are both voyeur and sympathiser as we watch a lonely figure being hunted and trapped by a mob of ever-persistent cameramen who feed the frenzy that surrounded him in life, and now in death.

“Michael Jackson kept his most stunning performance for the very end. Always able to command an audience, he knew how to bring whole arenas to fits of exultation with his moves and then silence them to the point of tears with his poetry. He was brilliant, excessive, maudlin, tacky and possibly criminal, but you could never ignore him. So it was fitting that in death, he momentarily silenced the largest arena humanity has ever known, the Internet.” TIME MAGAZINE, JULY 2009

Join us for one of Don’t Look’s final exhibitions!

What: Forever Michael (Sin City)
Who: Georgie Roxby Smith
Where: Don’t Look Gallery, 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, Australia
(a block back from the corner of New Canterbury Rd and Marrickville Rd).
When: Opening — Wednesday 9 December, 6.oopm
(see the exhibition for the next ten days through the front window)
Contact: dontlookgallery@gmail.com, Greg -0401 152 434