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.

#DJ Spooky Live Performance, March 5th, #Melbourne

Experimenta, Open Channel, Shed 4, Stable and RBMA Radio present:

DJ SPOOKY, THE NAURU ELEGIES

As part of the Nauru Elegies, DJ Spooky will give an exclusive live performance in Melbourne’s iconic Docklands warehouse, Shed 4. Composed by Paul D. Miller (aka. DJ Spooky), the performance reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated by DJ Spooky and a string quartet.

Tickets on sale now, $25, $20 concession + booking fee:
http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=34591&ref=Shed4

Friday 5 March, 8pm
Shed 4, North Wharf Road, Docklands, Melbourne

http://www.djspooky.com/

The Nauru Elegies #Melbourne #DJSpooky

A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture

The Nauru Elegies is a multimedia portrait of the island of Nauru. The work explores the island in a state of economic collapse and environmental devastation. It has been realised through the collaboration of composer Paul D. Miller, best known as DJ Spooky, and architect Annie K. Kwon.

The music component of the Nauru Elegies reflects colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century translated into a string quartet, composed by Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, while the architectural component conceptualized by Annie K. Kwon spatializes and formalizes otherwise invisible economic flows and irreversible ecological devastation.

Venue: Blindside Gallery, Nicholas Building,
Level 7, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Dates: 19 February – 6 March. Times: 10-5 daily

http://www.experimenta.org/

Push Over #musical event #Melbourne March 7, 2010

The Push’s signature all ages live music festival Push Over returns to The Abbotsford Convent (Melbourne) on Sunday 7 March, 2010. As always, Push Over will feature over 30 acts across four stages, and some of the best current crop or upcoming “next big things” on the Australian indie rock, hardcore and hip hop scene! Now in its 18th year, Push Over provides one of the hottest and freshest summer line ups on offer – as voted by young people from around the state!

Live acts for the 2010 event include: 50 Lions, Break Even, Built on Secrets, City Escape, Dash & Will, Heroes for Hire, Horrorshow, I Explode Like, Kisschasy, Lovers Grave, The Mission In Motion, The Sundance Kids, Urthboy, Wherewolves, Yacht Club DJs, Young Heretics and Yves Klein Blue; plus nine FReeZA Push Start battle of the bands Regional Final Winners, and multiple MCs, DJs and break-dancers battling it out in the Push It hip hop arena.

Keeping the event way more affordable and accessible than other music festivals thanks to the generosity of the bands, the ticket price will remain at just $30 presale ($40 on the door, if not sold out). Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au, www.oztix.com.au & Ticketek 132 849

For more info head to www.thepush.com.au, call (03) 9380 1277 or email push@thepush.com.au
Push Over is proudly supported by The Push, triple j, FReeZA, FReeZACentral and Victoria Rocks.