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Bamboo Musik is back at The Mercat this Easter weekend with Bunny Magik, the Re-birth party featuring resident DJ’s Butt Egg and Roman Born Again, special guest DJ Gordy Rabbit, a synth dance music performance by Alex Akers and Roman Born Again and a dance competition hosted by Miss B. Get more info here. Thats All Folks.
The Narrows straddle the enviable aesthetic territories of art and design. The result is gallery admired by fellow curators and a back catalogue of exhibition flyers that are eminently collectable. Caroline Clements talks to Warren Taylor at The Narrows gallery about wall flowers, intelligent insects and how this gallery in Melbourne is walking the line where art meets design. Continue Reading…
This Easter Sunday in Sydney, Slow Blow takes you on a celestial journey into the depths of the congo for Jungle Party. Enter the panthers lair, exploit your ears, release your inner beast and get inside GoodGod’s Small Cave for the heaviest disco fever humanly imaginable with Slow Blow Duo, Softwar, Discodelicious and DJ Lady Fingers.
Slow Blow – Jungle Fever
Sunday April 4, 10pm / $10 **CHANGE OF ADDRESS** Iguana Bar
13-15 Kellett St, Potts Point
Download G-Orgy from Slow Blow’s exclusive hot hot hot live vinyl mix for The Blackmail. BOOM!
When I was a teenager I lived in Singapore for a year with my family. One of the things I remember most about the food in Singapore was chicken-rice. I am sure it is a national signature dish. You could by a plate of chicken-rice for only a few dollars at any local kitchen. Some were quite gelatinous, others were dry and tasteless, but during our stint in Singapore my mother nailed her own version, which was very similar to this. You poach the chicken in stock to give it flavour. The key is to cook it slowly over time with baking paper over the stock to keep the flavour in and the chicken very tender. The sauce was a mix of garlic, soy sauce, peanut oil and spring onions. The veggie dish was a subtle light Asian flavour, you could really taste the veggies – bok choy and shitake mushrooms with a little chili. The subtle flavour really complimented the salty chicken.
The second installment from Brisbane’s Violent Soho detailing their time in the States where they’ll be based for the next year after signing with Thurston Moore’s (Sonic Youth!) Ecstatic Peace label.
“This is in a venue in Milwaukee… it’s an abandoned swimming pool (obviously) and James jumped in and walked around. It was pretty fucking amazing. The venue is this massive building with four or five different rooms in it, and this was backstage at one of the rooms, an abandoned fitness centre that they haven’t used in years and years with this massive swimming pool. So cool. It’s meant to be haunted too…”
This week’s Cheeky Freak is Kool Keith. The above video is an infomercial for a product called The Dick Towel and features the pure genius of Ultramagnetic MC Kool Keith. Note the fish in the background. Find the song over here and spend all your money on Dick Towel’s here.
Friday night in Sydney is Jingle Jangle’s 1st Birthday Extravaganza hosted by Smokey La Beef and Smart Casual with guests The Disbelievers and Count Doyle (Wishbone, Dynamite, FBi) down at GoodGod Small Cave. 9pm till late, $10.
Saturday afternoon in Sydney, see Shorts, a collection of short films by Beautiful Losers artists presented by Aaron Rose, screening at the Chauvel Cinema at 4pm. Tickets $5 from Monster Children or on the door.
Saturday night in Sydney head back to GoodGod for Good Eating with The Swiss (live), Magic Happens, Mull Face Cake and snacks to fill yer belly! 9:30pm till late, $15.
Friday Night in Brisbane, head to Edwina Corlette Gallery for the opening of Observatory, a show of new work by Kill Pixie” (Mark Whalen). Show continues until April 10.
Family Bookstore has announced the opening of it east coast pop up store Thirty Days coming to life in New York next month. With an interior designed by the amazing Ben Jones (Paper Rad) and a series of free artist conversations, live bands, performances, author readings, art exhibitions, and art projects curated by David Jacob Kramer and Sammy Harkham, Thirty Days is a destination not to missed (pending global positioning).
It didn’t take long for something to fill the void left by the now-passe trilby and chintzy pork-pie hat, but after a good 6 months off the circuit, headwear is enjoying rejuvenated popularity. In fact, amidst the sea of recent fashion week street-style shots, rarely was a mop spotted without a hat atop it. The awkward face flattening, narrow-brimmed molds of the past (made seriously by unpopular by the powers of LiLo and Ashlee Simpson combined) have all but disappeared, and in their place we now find a series of effortless variations on the classic, universally flattering, wide-brimmed slouch and fedora (see Vena Cava, Moschino and Kenzo). And although this style has proven to be enormously popular amongst the off-duty catwalkers, the are also the more daring few burgeoning a niche for the revival of the turban. We know Prada pushed for this a few seasons ago, with measured success, but will the influence of mega-stylist Catherine Baba see it really take off this time around?
Check back each Thursday for more on the fashion world from Billy Bride
Just because summer has drawn to a close it doesn’t mean that the ocean has gone away, in fact it has come closer. This Sunday the 28th in Melbourne, Speakeasy Cinema, Spunk Records & surf legend Andrew Kidman will present Last Hope a compilation of 16 short films inspired by the sea set to music from the Spunk Records roster combined with a live score by The Windy Hills. With an impressive line up of contributing filmmakers including Albert Falzon (Morning Of The Earth), Last Hope is guaranteed to sooth the soul. We have been told that it’s like a cross between going for a swim and going to a gig so be sure to bring a towel.
Last Hope
Sunday March 28, 7.30pm
Tickets $20 pre sale or $25 on the door
As a licensed event this screening is 18+. Speakeasy Cinema
1000 £ Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
