Labyrinth City - Brisbane

EVENT (W/E 7-AUG’11): TRASH VIDEO FILM CLUB. CROWN HOTEL, 2 AUG ’11

ED — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:18:44 +0000

TRASH VIDEO FILM CLUB “MONDO BIZARRO”

2nd AUGUST 2011 – THE CROWN HOTEL – 446 LUTWYCHE RD LUTWYCHE

7PM – FREE – 18+

EVENT (W/E 7-AUG’11): FANTASTIC VOYAGE. THE OLD MUSEUM, 3 AUG ’11

ED — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:17:32 +0000

FANTASTIC VOYAGE: JOSH WATSON & ADAM RIGNALL

3rd AUGUST 2011 – THE OLD MUSEUM – 460 GREGORY TCE

7PM – DONATION – AA + BYO

EVENT (W/E 7-AUG’11): WTEM. CONTORTIONIST STUDIOS, 6 AUG ’11

ED — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:16:20 +0000

SCIENCE PROJECT

MADDEST KINGS ALIVE (VIC)

GODINPANTS (NSW)

DOT.AY

WTEM (MySpace)

6th AUGUST 2011 - CONTORTIONIST STUDIOS – LUCINDA ST, WOOLLOONGABBA

7PM – $10 – 18+

EVENT (W/E 7-AUG’11): SUNSHINE STATE. WOODLAND BAR, 6 AUG ’11

ED — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:10:44 +0000

THE OTCHKIES

SUNSHINE STATE (bandcamp)

6th AUGUST 2011 – WOODLAND BAR – CONISTON LANE, FORTITUDE VALLEY

9PM – $5 – 18+

EVENT (W/E 7-AUG’11): MARF LOTH. REAL BAD, 7 AUG ’11

ED — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:07:33 +0000

MARF LOTH (NSW)

STAG (blog)

OLD GROWTH COLA (bandcamp)

PINK MOUSE

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS

7th AUGUST 2011 – REAL BAD, MOOROOKA (BEHIND THE TRAIN STATION) MAGIC MILE

3PM – FREE – AA + BYO

I very much enjoy all the music that will be played at this concert. It’s at Real Bad, or the shop behind Moorooka train station. I’ve forgotten the address/doesn’t matter. Marf Loth from Sydney (originally Townsville), Pink Mouse is Melanie Simpson solo (Craft Bandits), and new act Girls Girls Girls (you should be on the edge of your seat).

EVENT (W/E 31-JUL’11): THE SCRAPES. CARTEL, 28 JUL ’11

ED — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:16:29 +0000

THE SCRAPES (blog)

SWAN DISTRICTS (SA)

28th JULY 2011 – CARTEL – 2 CAXTON ST, BRISBANE

9PM – FREE – 18+

EVENT (W/E 31-JUL’11): NITE FIELDS. HIGHGATE HILL, 29 JUL ’11

ED — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:12:51 +0000

CLEARING

NITE FIELDS

JOSH WATSON

29th JULY 2011 – HIGHGATE HILL HOUSESHOW (MESSAGE BANDS FOR ADDRESS)

7PM – FREE – AA + BYO

EVENT (W/E 31-JUL’11): KIDS ON GLUE. WILLIAM JOLLY BRIDGE, 29 JUL ’11

ED — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:10:34 +0000

KIDS ON GLUE

PASTEL BLAZE (blog)

WHEAT PASTE

THE GREAT SHAME

29th JULY 2011 – WILLIAM JOLLY BRIDGE (SOUTH ARCH) – SOUTHBANK

8PM – FREE – AA + BYO

As reported by Jamie over at aus_noise. This is not a City & the City event.

BOOTLEG: THE CITY AND THE CITY 9, 2 JUL ’11

ED — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:47:56 +0000

Beerwah’s Cannibal hyper Fear/A.F. *punk, taking cue spin & heel from the last note of Seizure’s Tribal Theatre darkened, blistered performance I can’t believe I stayed away for so long. Drum kit falls apart every song.

Full set download:

Cannibal – Live at The City and The City 9, 2nd July 2011 (18:04mins, 33.11mb – 256kbps .mp3)

Meat Thump tonight is Brendon (guitar. Negative Guestlist, White Cop) with Matt (bass. Kitchen’s Floor) and Bobby (drums. Sounds from the Ward). Cassette ‘Neck Tattoo’ out on NGL records (NGL005).

Full set download:

Meat Thump – Live at The City and The City 9, 2nd July 2011 (22:15mins, 40.77mb – 256kbps .mp3)

Dead Boomers (Melbourne) is Mark Groves (Dick Threats, Von Einem) and Leith Thomas also both of True Radical Miracle (who performed the previous night at the Step Inn) and co-founders of the Sabbatical label. Try to find the ‘Michael Douglas/Sharon Stone’ 2xCS from Sabbatical – well worth the effort (I’m not giving up mine).

Full set download:

Dead Boomers – Live at The City and The City 9, 2nd July 2011 (21:02mins, 38.54mb – 256kbps .mp3)

The Perfect Lovers is Jamie Hume (The Year of the Sex Olympics +) and tonight with Kaspar, Marek (Impromptulons), Donat (The Sixteenth Century), and Sarah (Sky Needle, Stag) with a mic-grab by Andrew (Cured Pink) half-way through.

Full set download:

The Perfect Lovers – Live at The City and The City 9, 2nd July 2011 (32:47mins, 60.04mb – 256kbps .mp3)

EVENT (W/E 24-JUL’11): NON-EVENT.

ED — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:58:57 +0000

For the third week in a row there’s been next-to-nothing interesting organized. I don’t think I’ve stayed out of Zone 1 for this long in years. It’s nice.

I’ve got a few bootlegs to upload once I have found a stable connection. It’s hard to keep an updated blog without one. I’ll look around again tomorrow. I really need to get my own one of these days, or years.

EVENT (W/E 17-JUL’11): NON-EVENT.

ED — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:42:45 +0000

Nothing!

Nothing remotely interesting this week. Is that right? For the second week in a row? I missed something last week at the IMA but is this it? Leave a comment below.

Apologies for the lack of punctuality.

EDIT: Update! Kate’s got back to me re: a gig tonight, FRIDAY 15 JUL ’11 (see comments):

Laneous & The Family Yah presents – THE PINK DOVE SHOW

-ART ACTION WAREHOUSE EXPERIMENT-

Friday 15 July 2011 – from 7pm
Ice Cream Factory. (Absoe Factory 1, L2, 35 Mollison St, West End)

The Pink Dove Show, is a radical event/experiment curated by Laneous & The Family Yah on their own turf and on their own terms.

BANDS:

Laneous & The Family Yah (Mutant Soul)
Pow Pow Wow (w/Ben Ely from Regurgitator)
IMO (Avant Garde J-Pop)
Pastel Blaze (Garage Glitter Punk)
Potato Masta (MPC + Junk Rap)

SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES:

Evil Eddie (from Butterfingers)
Captain Dreamboat (from Chocolate Strings)
Grim Tilla w/Kel On Earth

MISCELLANEOUS PERFORMANCES:

Erotic/Abstract Peep-Show Installation
Giles Thurston Alesworth and the consort of players presents: ‘THE TRUE STORY OF’ the surprisingly curious yet somewhat fascinating world of pre-classical music.
Dance Dance Annihilation

TICKETS: (no presales)

$20 RSVP to pinkdoveshow@gmail.com
$25 ON DOOR

Thanks Kate! (Doors worth it for Potato Masta alone…)

BOOTLEG: THIS IMPERIAL CAN, THE PERFECT LOVERS. THE CITY AND THE CITY 7, BRISBANE CITY. 21 MAY ’11

ED — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:52:45 +0000

This Imperial Can is Ian McIntyre (6Majik9, Ffehro, Greg Boring, Soarwhole, Gerald Keaney & the Gerald Keaneys) solo guitar, pedals & mics floorshow tonight a lot more pensive than the other show I bootlegged at Shit Life last year keeping to a tight delayed drone & static skipping over the surrounding audience too concerned with the state of hair care products or something. I couldn’t focus much more than they could have at the time but listening back to it as I try to find my way back home I seem to enjoy it four even fold. Good cycling music.

This Imperial Can – Live at The City and the City 7, Brisbane City. 21 May ’11 (16:12min, 30.4mb – 256kbps, .mp3)

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CAN’T STOP THE MADNESS

The Perfect Lovers is led by Jamie Hume (percussion – also of The Year of the Sex Olympics, Auchenflower Red Light District, The White Petunias) and tonight it’s the Perfect Lover Jamie, Rin & Cheryl (vocals), Donat (drums), Marek (guitar), Adam (guitar, power tools), Kaspar (bass); Though originally formed as a duo in 1998 with Michael Baker (synth) with their first live show in ’99 (4zzz on-air) it soon expanded & with a semi-fluid line up and became notorious for their chaotic and often confronting live shows with cues taken from early Whitehouse, SPK, dada free noise etc whatever w/ tributes & reimaginings through power tools, TVs, metal percussion perhaps ‘cross-legged’ other times a frenzied ritual a la Crash Worship. TPL split with conflicting ideas resulting in Michael departing. A short hiatus between ’06-’10, reunion show back on Halloween ’10 so this’ll be their second show since the break. There’s a long, incestuous family tree involved here but a branch could be nabbed for sake of argument: Half-sister act Impromptulons (Marek, Rin, Adam+), The Freek Ensemble (Jamie, Michael), No Guru (Rin+), The Sixteenth Century (Donat+), White Petunias (Hume+), Unique Oil Free Air, Pen Noise Trio (Adam+), Cherry Cherry and the Export Data (Cheryl+) and oh god I can’t keep up with it and apologies to Jamie Hume for any inaccuracies here (Or There). A lot of the information regarding TPL has succumbed to the Fiction Department. One thing to note and to stand out that there has never been any forethought or practice before their live shows – “this is the date and time, be there” – and as a result can be considered, perhaps, yes one of the very few (still) lasting, honest improvised shows.

The Perfect Lovers – Live at The City and the City 7, Brisbane City. 21 May ’11 (32:47min, 62.48mb – 256kbps, .mp3)

EVENT (W/E 10-JUL’11): NON-EVENT.

ED — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:00:39 +0000

There’s nothing of particular interest (or anything interesting rather) happening this week it seems. Ah, Ty Segall is playing at Woodland Bar Thursday 7th of July and the Flavors of Skuzz festival also at Woodland Bar 9th of July (The Royal Family) if you love bands and bars and security and overpriced drinks and and ah fuck it.

I’ll update asap when there’s something better but keep an eye on the Surrealism exhibition at GoMA in the meantime.

EVENT (W/E 3-JUL’11). LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 12. BRISBANE POWERHOUSE, 1 JUL ’11

ED — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:45:14 +0000

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LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 12:

MARC BEHRENS (DE) (website)

PASCAL BATTUS (FR) (website)

LUKAS SIMONIS (NL) (website)

DAVE BROWN (VIC) (website)

TRALALA BLIP (NSW) (website)

1st JULY 2011 – BRISBANE POWERHOUSE (ROOFTOP TERRACE) – 119 LAMINGTON ST, NEW FARM

8:15PM – $15 – AA

Curated by ROOM40. Tickets & program details available from here.

Video from Eternal Soundcheck.

EVENT (W/E 3-JUL’11): TRUE RADICAL MIRACLE. THE STEP INN, 3 JUL ’11

ED — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:30:39 +0000

TRUE RADICAL MIRACLE (VIC) (myspace)

STAG (tumblr)

PER PURPOSE (myspace)

CURED PINK (myspace)

DIE ON PLANES (blog)

1st JULY 2011 – ~~BASEMENT 243 – 243 BRUNSWICK STREET, FORTITUDE VALLEY~~ THE STEP INN (UPSTAIRS) – 186 BRUNSWICK ST, FORTITUDE VALLEY

8PM – $10 – 18+

I’m glad this isn’t at Basement 243 – I wouldn’t have liked to smell like piss for the rest of the night.

EVENT (W/E 3-JUL’11): THE CITY AND THE CITY 9. BRISBANE CITY, 2 JUL ’11

ED — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:09:10 +0000

THE CITY AND THE CITY 9:

THE PERFECT LOVERS (website)

DEAD BOOMERS (VIC)

MEAT THUMP (blog)

CANIBAL

2nd JULY 2011 – SOUTHBANK SQUATSHOW (SEE AUS_NOISE FOR DETAILS)

7PM – FREE – AA + BYO

The Perfect Lovers! Dead Boomers are Mark & Leith from True Radical Miracle (harsh noise). Canibal are from the ashes(?) of the Seizures. Meat Thump is led by Brendon of Negative Guestlist.

EVENT (W/E 3-JUL’11): XNOBBQX. EAST BRISBANE HOUSESHOW, 3 JUL ’11

ED — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:43:30 +0000

Jim Denley & xNOBBQx @ OVERGROUND 2011 from Joshua Watson on Vimeo.

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XNOBBQX (myspace)

WARDEN BURDER

OLD GROWTH COLA (myspace)

MADBOOTS

3rd JULY 2011 - EAST BRISBANE HOUSESHOW (CONTACT FOR DETAILS)

3PM – FREE – AA + BYO

Wardenless Burgers? Don’t know much about Madboots, sorry (throw some information in the comments). Arguably everybody’s favorite band is playing too. That video there is from their tour down to Melbourne for the Overground festival, jamming with Jim Denley. Captured by Josh Watson.

EVENT | UPDATE: BASTARD THEATRE OF BRISBANE #3.

ED — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:53:31 +0000

The Bastard Theatre of Brisbane #3 gig – being held this coming Sunday (26 Jun ’11) – has been moved to Contortionist Studios. This event will not be held at Basement243.

EVENT (W/E 26-JUN’11): NEW PRIMITIVE: A CAPPELLA. SOUTHBANK, 22 JUN ’11

ED — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:53:40 +0000

NEW PRIMITIVE: A CAPPELLA

22nd JUNE 2011 – SOUTHBANK

7PM – FREE – AA + BYO

Featuring short a cappella sets from a few local artists as part of the on-going New Primitive series of events. Contact SPEC for address details.

EVENT (W/E 26-JUN’11): MONO.TALK: DOUGLAS QUIN. INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART, 23 JUN ’11

ED — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:47:14 +0000

MONO.talk:

DOUGLAS QUIN (USA)

23rd JUNE 2011 – INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART – JUDITH WRIGHT CENTRE – 420 BRUNSWICK STREET, FORTITUDE VALLEY

6PM – FREE – AA

Field recordist Douglas Quin talks about his work and playing a few of his recordings. Presented by ROOM40