Free digital media workshop with UK artist – Robin McNicholas, 30th June & 1st July, #Melbourne

Join UK digital media artist Robin McNicholas in a workshop on making moving images through craft techniques and digital media. The workshop will explore alternative ways of making images using unusual and everyday materials. Young artists, designers, musicians or performers interested in digital media, animation or music video production are invited to participate. The workshop is free, eligible participants must have a Healthcare card, not be in full-time study and be aged between 16–28.

Two day workshop 12–3pm on Wednesday 30th June and Thursday 1 July.

Robin McNicholas is a UK based artist and member of Flat-e, www.flat-e.com. Supported by the British Council in partnership with
Jesuit Social Services, Artful Dodgers Studios.

Numbers are limited, please contact Artful Dodgers studios to book in, or for more information.
T: 03 9415 8700
E: forest.keegel@jss.org.au
W: www.Artfuldodgers.tv
Artful Dodgers studios, 1 Langridge Street,
Collingwood, Melbourne 3066.

The #Melbourne Music Club monthly meetups – starts May 5th

The Melbourne Music Club is a monthly meeting for discerning music fans to discuss music they are passionate about and play a song or two. Held on the 1st Weds of each month between 6-9PM at Off The Hip Records, 381 Flinders Lane (Basement), Melbourne

Bring a couple of your all-time favourite songs to talk about preferably on vinyl or CD.
Inaugural meeting on Weds 5th May at 6PM

Join Melbourne Music Club at Facebook to stay in the loop
http://bit.ly/dbJ4×3
Email: MelbourneMusicClub@gmail.com
Twitter: MelbMusicClub

Terrordactyl Last Show! The Committal EP Launch! & Johnny Uppercut #Melbourne May 1st

Start Time: Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 8:00pm
Location: CHERRY BAR, AC/DC LANE, MELBOURNE

Description.TERRORDACTYL’s LAST SHOW?!
2 and a half years after the birth of the screaming devil fucking incarnation of so called music. it seems circumstances are against us continuing our campaign against the ear drums of the world.

goon explosions, sleeping in interstate gutters, glitter clouds, spandex, roadtrips, missing band members, freak outs and violence..its been fun

On May 1st we’ll bring our acid punk/prog/rock ( I still dont know how to sub genre it) to Cherry Bar for one last slam dancing salute to sonic oblivion

with special guests joining the party

!!!THE COMMITTAL’S EP LAUNCH!!!
After a handful of packed out shows at the end of 2009 and the addition of a new guitarist, Tim !POW! the Committal are all geared up to launch their EP.

Post Hardcore..Post Punk…Indie Metal. Whatever you call it, it’s going to hit you hard and make you throw your self in the air like you just don’t care.

All your friends will be talking about it May 2nd, so don’t miss out May 1st!

& JOHNNY UPPERCUT!

CHERRY BAR
AC/DC LANE, MELBOURNE
Doors Open @ 8pm
Entry is $12

Burning Man Open Day #Melbourne – April 24th

Start Time: Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 2:00pm
Location: Pipemakers Park Melbourne

Description.MELBOURNE REGION ‘OPEN DAY’ SAT 24TH APRIL 2010

Wanting time to reconnect with the good energy left over from ConFest or Every Picture Tells a Story? Love Burning Man or want to know more about? Or just want to have a fun day with a great group of people? Then this is the event for you!!

Burning Man’s newly created ‘Melbourne Region’ is putting its name right on the Map, on Saturday 24th April 2010, with a wonderful afternoon and evening of activities at the Future Art Research Studio which is located in Pipemakers Park at the Living Museum of the West.

The day will be running from 2pm to Midnight with an entry of $10.

All money will go toward supporting regional activities and the upcoming Regional Burn in June.

Come and participate in a diverse range of entertainment and activities where you may find, Performers, Drummers, Comedians, a Burn School, Fire Twirlers, Movies, Costumes, Exhibitions, Musicians/Acts, DJs, Workshops & Talks, all gifted in the true Burning Man spirit.

Bring out your creative side and dress in your funkiest costumes!!

The day is a mini showcase of what you may find at Burning Man or any of the Regional Burns worldwide.

Everyone is a participant and there is always a space to welcome the stranger.

To be involved and placed on the program or even be part of the organising team, please contact:

Email: melbourne@burningmanaustralia.com
Website: http://burningmanaustralia.com

FLY-ON-THE-WALL THEATRE presents Half A Person: My Life As Told By The Smiths #Melbourne

“I was looking for love and then I found love, but heaven knows I’m miserable now”

Written by ALEX BROUN
Directed by ROBERT CHUTER
Music Re-creation by SIMON POLINSKI & COLIN BERWICK
With MARK TAYLOR as William

William is a young man with three obsessions: very strong long blacks, pining for his lost Salome, and listening to The Smiths. He only exists to devour coffee, despise people and worship the patron saint of wrist-slashing ­ Steven Patrick Morrissey.

Just like his idol, the world he occupies can be cruel and lonely. He stumbles from café to cemetery in search of a companion or even just a confidant. He runs headlong into Salome; the obstructive agent of seduction who slithers her way into his life, and entices his addictive personality. Meanwhile, the best friend, Rick, whom he takes for granted, is struggling with his desire for William while confronting his own mortality.

A dark and funny play set to the music of The Smiths, the music that gives William a chance to be more than just half a person.

Venue: Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St, Prahran, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Dates: Thursday 20 – Sunday 30 May 2010
Times: Wednesday-Saturday 8.00pm, Saturday matinees 2.00pm & Sunday 6.30pm Tickets: $28.00 [Full] & $24.00 [Concession] (+ transaction fee) Bookings: 8290 7000 or www.chapeloffchapel.com.au

Dave Graney & The Lurid Yellow Mist @ The Republic #Hobart

Supercollider Symposium – Call for Works

Submission Deadline  26 April 2010 ::
18 – 22 September 2010 :: Public welcome

Works, Installations, Papers, Workshops submissions are invited for submission to be presented at the Supercollider Symposium, which will introduce SuperCollider (SC) to new users, show the current state of development, and host talks and presentations of a variety of artistic and/or scientific projects realised with SC. The four-day conference will be preceeded by five days of workshops intended as community service to help beginning programmers, composers and artists with specific SuperCollider techniques.

For more information – http://supercollider2010.de/calls/13-calls-general

Jackie Loeb Sings the Worst Songs Ever Written

Comedian and musical virtuoso Jackie Loeb is back with the world debut of her brand spanking new show JACKIE LOEB SINGS THE WORST SONGS EVER WRITTEN.

Come and laugh at the most cringe worthy musical extravaganza ever to be staged! Comedian Jackie Loeb puts her vocal chops and reputation on the line to perform some of histories most appalling and pathetic excuses for songs.

This promises to worse than a Britney and Whitney concert combined!
So what songs will make it onto the list!!! You have only 5 nights to find out.

Australian Geek Rockers – Heartbreak Club – are International Songwriting finalists

‘Fail with style’ at Youth Week Sydney/Newcastle/Melbourne’s (yep, spread over three cities!) hardest working independent geek rock outfit Heartbreak Club (HBC) have just been announced as finalists in the Rock category of the International Songwriting Competition, judged by Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Robert Smith (The Cure) and more!

(Other finalists include Aussies such as Eskimo Joe, The Living End, and Children Collide). In a tenuous segue, HBC will also test new material from their upcoming album “Our Horse Is Dead” on all ages crowds for Youth Week, notably the Sounds Loud Festival at Moonee Ponds w/ Bluejuice, Calling All Cars, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Behind Crimson Eyes, Hungry Kids of Hungary at more!

To record the album, HBC reunited with US Producer Ed Rose (worked with Soundwave favourites Motion City Soundtrack and The Get Up Kids) who was joined by Australian engineer Matt Voigt (The Killers, Midnight Oil, The Living End) at the helm. The album will be released in May 2010 coinciding with the single ‘Truth or Consequences’. Abandoning somewhat the ‘teen angst parody’ of their EP’s, the band promises the new album to be ‘unapologetically melodic; adopting a brutally honest, confessional, darker, grittier and grungier tone’, with the band noting their 90’s influences of Weezer’, Regurgitator, Blink 182 and Nirvana. They are, however, still geeks. “We’re definitely taking a step to the left of field with the album”, says singer Teddy Hernandez. “Whilst happy with our previous two releases, many people did not realise the music was a satire”. Still maintaining a socially satirical edge, the new album is a critique of “male narcissism, shallow sexuality, obsession,” and, wait for it… “impotence”.

Editor’s note: faints> how geeky!

U P C O M I N G S H O W S :

Friday March 26 @ Manly Youth Centre, Manly NSW w/ Town Hall Steps, Static Silhouettes, Aplonea, and Standing Silence

Sunday April 11 @ SOUNDS LOUD FESTIVAL, Moonee Ponds VIC , w/ Bluejuice, Calling All Cars, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Behind Crimson Eyes etc.

Saturday Aprill 17 @ QUEANFEST, Quenabeyan NSW w/ Super Best Friends, Steady the Fall, + 10 more! Saturday April 17 @ The Phoenix (18+), Canberra ACT w/ Rubix Cuba and Steady the Fall

I M P O R T A N T I N F O : Recorded new album in with Ed Rose (Motion City Soundtrack, The Get Up Kids) and engineer Matt Voigt (The Killers, The Living End, Midnight Oil) at Sing Sing Studios, Melbourne. Released in May 2010 First single ‘Are You Leaving Me?’ on Triple J’s ’short.fast.loud’, Nova (nights) and Triple M accompanied by 9-weeks of national and regional touring. Recorded EP ‘O Tempora! O Mores!’ with US producer Ed Rose (Motion City Soundtrack, The Get Up Kids) and engineer Anthony The (The Vines, Youth Group); Heartbreak Club released ‘O Tempora! O Mores!’ nationally on Oct 25 2009 (Goodman & Hart / Amphead)

LINK to music: www.myspace.com/heartbreakclub – New tracks available if requested Www.heartbreakclub.org

The Pool is Full of Hats (a ditty to cover your dandruff)

Despite its Dada-esque title, ‘The Pool is Full of Hats’ is quite a simple little tune. A gradually building synthetic beat, ancient-sounding keyboards and subtle acoustic guitar provide a non-intrusive vehicle for Collette’s always-affecting vocals.

Mess and Noise.