This is sure to be another fun night with live music, djs, burlesque dance, art, decked out party goers and all the usual fun and games of a Lava Rooms event.
Lava Rooms
Time: Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 8:00pm
Street: cnr Broadway and Wattle St, Ultimo, Sydney, Australia
Live music from …
The Belles
Meera Bell Thomson, Stephanie Acraman and Sacha Kilgour will treat you to a red-hot performance that will have you shouting for more. Combining a formidable background in jazz, cabaret and opera, these highly polished and gorgeous gals know a thing or two about faultless timing, rhythm and above all else, seamless harmony: delivering impeccable vocals with superb verve and style.
Dirty Lindy
Dirty Lindy play ‘40’s and early ‘50’s Swing and Jump Blues, influenced by the big band sounds of the ‘40s and early jump blues outfits with old school blues / funk and rockabilly.Put on your dancing shoes …..
Duke of Uke
Expect to be mesmorised by the Duke of Ukes catchy mix, strumminghis Uke and programming his beats, he is sure to get you dancing.
Burlesque dance
Lava Rooms welcomes Tasia to our stage for the first time. Tasia could dance before she could walk. Fascinated by the innocence of technicolour musicals, charmed by the innuendo of exotic Japanese cigarette girls of the 30’s and enchanted by the glamour of Hollywood Screen Sirens, Tasia was always destined to be under the spotlight.
Turn-table-ists
Lava rooms is very pleased to welcome back Limpin’ Jimmy and the Swinging Kitten. A stylish and professional couple who bring together the collective resources of a lifetime of musical appreciation – a formidable team and now Lava Rooms regulars. Jimmy and Margie will get you up and dancing with a smile on your face. Expect to dance to some Swing, some Rockabilly, a bit of Hawaiian and wherever the mood goes from there…..
Outernational Hi-Fi
Re emerging after a decade and a half mostly hibernating and the occasional festival gig…
out of the ashes of a reggae sound system in England’s south in the early 90s, OH-F mixed music from round the world into a dance floor bonanza. Will be taking a trip round the grooviest parts of the musical world starting and finishing in the Pacific….
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.
Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
Street: 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, Sydney (426/428/445 bus)
Phone: 0401152434
Email: dontlookgallery@gmail.com
Rock a Hula 2
Traditional Pacific dance, surf sounds, lounge sounds, Hawaiian steel guitar sounds and much more…….
The Line Up……. traditional dance from the Hawaiian Hula and Polynesian Dance Company live music from the Antikis, the Men from Oahu, the Alohas, dj sets from Brian P, Limbo contest with prizes and more.
Hawaiian and Polynesian Dance Company
The last time they visited Lava Rooms the Hawaiian Hula and Polynesian Dance Company wowed the house with their talent and infectious good vibes. They will take you on an uplifting and energetic journey through Pacific Island culture, performing traditional dances from Tahiti, Samoa, Cook Islands, Aotearoa, Hawaii,Tonga and Fiji. Hip swaying hula skirts and ancient island chants. Not to be missed !
the Antikis
The last time Dean Gray graced the stage at the Lava Rooms the crowd was spellbound by his hypnotic lap steel guitar tunes. Conjuring the islands with the sound that has come to mean the pacific he had the full room mesmerized with his alluring, exotic tunes. Taking the island sounds a step further with a full band Dean will be back with the Antikis and more sweet and sultry sounds of the Hawaiian steel guitar, served on a bed of classic tunes from the Pacific Islands, 50’s pop instrumentals and a dash of Elvis. Order a Mai Tai, put your feet up, and float away in languid lagoon of tropical bliss. This promises to be another amazing performance.
the Men from Oahu
Hawaii 5-0ers by day and musicians by night, the Men from Oahu have an arsenal of musical styles at their disposal and will be delighting the Lava Rooms family once again with sets mixing all into a lounge washed sunami of sounds. Men from Oahu rolls with a glass of the finest mai tai – rich and darkly sweet with subtle suggestions of sensuality and chockers with complex character. It is rumored they have close ties with the men from uncle.
Thee Alohas
If you like your music flavoured with reverb drenched surf sounds the Alohas will not disappoint. After getting the house sweaty at Rock a Hula 1 Rock a Hula the boys will be once again be doing a special set with a carefully crafted lounge – sound drum kit and a set of tunes that will transport you to a place of long boards, hotrods, sand and surf.
Dick dale eat yer heart out.
Brian P will be spinning selections of Hawaiian sounds, pacific pop and other delights to get you dancing between sets. We have to let him, he runs the show.
Limbo Contest with Prizes
This was due to happen at Rock a Hula xmas party, but as there were so many things going on it didn’t happen.
All this for only 20 bucks.
Saturday March 21
8pm – 2am
Lava Rooms
cnr Wattle St. and Broadway
City / Ultimo (Sydney) Australia
entrance on Wattle through big gates.
RSVP LIST IS FULL AS OF MARCH 3.
LIST WILL APPLY TIL 9PM ONLY, THEN IT IS FIRST IN BEST DRESSED.
21st March 2009 – 8.30pm – $8 cc.
A very special night’s entertainment at Melbourne’s – Tiki Lounge and Bar – with a fabulous new print of this very famous and rare gem of cinematic history. From the director who made Nosferatu and the very famous Sunrise (often featured in top ten lists of best films of all time) Tiki Lounge and Bar is proud to present – Tabu – with a score composed and played live from music iconoclast and underground legend Mike Cooper.
About the Movies:
There has never been another film like Tabu. This is a unique blending of ethnographic documentary and expressionist drama, from a master director. The actors are real Polynesians and their ceremonies and rituals are faithfully captured, and interwoven with a tragic love story. The cinematography deservedly won an Oscar – it is truly beautiful. Murnau, away from his usual studio sets, manages to create the same sense of danger using natural light – especially moonlight – and real locations. The performances are very strong – especially Chevalier as the girl, and the old man is as scary as Nosferatu as he haunts her dreams at night.
Sadly this was Murnau’s last film – he died in a car crash just before the premiere. It is a little dramatically uneven, and certainly not the masterpiece that Sunrise is, but it is still very worthwhile. (Source)
Motu Tapu, the place where Murnau made this film, is an actual sacred tabu place. It is therefore understandable that the islanders believe Murnau’s disregard for the tabu, in making a film on this forbidden site, was the cause for his tragic death soon afterwards.
MIKE COOPER – GUITAR /LAP STEEL GUITAR/ ELECTRONICS/ VOCALS
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. Cooper was forging connections between folk and experimental musics long before America got New or Weird… (The Wire)
Where: Tiki Lounge and Bar
Contact: 327 Swan Street, Richmond, Melbourne 3121
Phone : (03) 9428 4336
Website: http://www.tikiloungeandbar.com/
When: Saturday March 21st 8:30pm
Cost: $8 on entry
Tuesday Feb 3rd is a special night at Lava Rooms featuring movie screenings, music and discussions….
HULA GIRLS “Imagining Paradise”.
New York born, LA based, long time pacific island resident, film historian and journalist Ed Rampell will be dropping by Lava Rooms to screen this film, in which he features largely, and then presenting a discussion and Q / A.
Also on the bill ………
Mu-meson Archives’ Miss Death will be presenting an hour of vintage Hawaiian inspired footage saved from the scrap heap. Brian P will be spinning Hawaiian-esque tunes inspired by ukulele ladies, luaus, hula girls and more.
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The theme throughout the night will be the exploration of the non Pacifikan’s imaginary view of the pacific through film, art and music, presently and historically.
Lava Rooms has always unashamedly presented authentic Pacific art with the unauthentic and the kitsch, attempting at all times be respectful of the various rich artistic traditions and cultures of the vast pacific rim, while entertaining our inauthentic notions of the pacific, creating our own pacific inspired art and maintaining our culturally removed love of pacific arts.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 7:00pm
Location: Lava Rooms arts centre
Street: cnr Broadway and Wattle St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
