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January, 2010
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ... ∗scrunches up paper, starts again∗ ... It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen ... that's been done, too, right? ... In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since ... bah! ... It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife ... Introductions are tough, and introducing a new decade is terrifying. From everyone in the St Jerome's stable: may champagne be popped, streamers get strewn and new leaves get turned in 2010.
Get Notorious. Turning leaves.
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Laneway Festival
There are two types of festival-goers in the world. The nerds who set their alarms to buy early-bird tickets and diarise their summer like civilised human beings... and the hussies who sleep through ticket releases and then have to trawl eBay dumpsters and snivel to record label execs lest they miss out on seeing the likes of Black Lips, Daniel Johnston and The XX at this year's Laneway Festival.
Attention hussies! You may not have organisation on your side, but we know you're creative souls at heart. Get Not have a double pass to the Melbourne Laneway Festival up for grabs if you can crank your acrostic talents into gear.
Send a LANEWAY acrostic to six of your friends, chain-mail style, telling them about Get Not Mag - and you'll go in the draw to win a double pass to Laneway along with an esky of beer!
Here's How:
- L - You fill this out and send to Friend #1 with a pointer to sign up to Get Not Mag.
- A - Friend #1 fills this out and sends to Friend #2, cc'ing you.
- N - Friend #2 fills this out and send to Friend #3, cc'ing you and Friend #2
- E - and so on...
- W - and so on...
- A - and so on...
- Y - Friend #6 fills this out and sends back to you, cc'ing everyone.
You email the final poem to us, cc'ing in your six friends. If you win, you'll have to choose who to take from amongst them...
St Jerome's Laneway Festival
Footscray Community Arts Centre
45 Moreland St, Footscray
30 January
SOLD OUT!
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The Book of Levitation
Step aside David Copperfield. This month at TwentyByThirty Gallery Melbourne-based artists Sergei Ignatievsky and Wanda Gillespie reveal a levitating book. 'The book of Levitation,' will literally float inside the world's smallest gallery for a month. The tome's gothic font alludes to something pious beneath its hard cover, while its levitation suggests an eerie other-worldliness.
Sergei Ignatievsky is a Melbourne based artist interested in kinetic sculpture, illusion and the humorous in art. His background as an electrician has led him to creating kinetic art works. Wanda Gillespie is a Melbourne based artist interested in materialising the immaterial through quirky or wondrous means. Fiction or prose often play an important role in grounding her works. Wanda recently finished a Masters of Fine Art by Research at the Victorian College of the Arts.
The Book of Levitation will be on show at TwentyByThirty Gallery through January. Pushka front window, 20 Pesgrave Place, Melbourne.
Pushka front window
20 Pesgrave Place
Melbourne
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Blackbird Market
After one explosively successful first-run, the Blackbird Market is here to stay. Bringing some of Melbourne's finest jewellery, contemporary fashion and vintage, Blackbird Market has found its nest at The Workers Club twice monthly. Every second Saturday of every month - starting from 13 February - this new summer market kicks off with DJs, live bands, artist installations as well as sartorial temptations.
To all you hoarders out there, if you have a wardrobe that's brimming with more vintage clothing than eBay can handle, or if you're a designer with good stuff to sell, contact Sam or Courtney. If you're just really freaking excited about this market and think they're pretty and need to tell them so, contact Sam or Courtney.
Blackbird Market will be held every second Saturday of every month, beginning from the 13 February at The Workers Club
The Workers Club,
Cnr Gertrude and Brunswick Streets, Fitzroy
Every second Saturday starting from 13 February.
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Royalchord
Royalchord have been touring far and wide, and return with frankly mind-bending album. The lady-duo hail from Melbourne, but have been touring the states and Europe, winning the hearts and minds world-over.
What's the story behind Royalchord?
Eliza and I met through mutual friends and we were both playing music in varying capacities. We started jamming together, and really enjoyed playing music with one another. As time progressed, we built upon that.
What are you looking forward to most about your pending overseas tour?
Yeah, we're going to America and then Europe after that. It's so nice to play music and travel. We went to America in August and I loved playing in different places, and meeting different people and seeing a lot of the country.
Who is responsible for your album's cover art?
The guy responsible for all our cover art, posters and everything is a guy called Luke Fraser. With this album cover, we let him listen to the album and then gave him free reign. We trust him artistically and I think he's outdone himself with this album in particular.
Your music has been praised for being layered and complex, yet sounding hypnotically sparse. Is this something you set out to achieve?
It was probably both intentional and accidental, in a way. Our music has always been quite sparse, but with this latest album it's all played by us (rather having a whole lot of people guesting in the past). A lot of the recording was done while we were overseas, and it was just the two of us. We had a lot more time to think about how we wanted the songs to be: not too busy or overdone. In the past we were quite happy to throw everything in. Maybe we're just now more aware of how we want things to be these days.
You recorded the album in France after spending time in Berlin and Guatemala. Did you travels influence this recording?
Oh, completely. When we were in Guatemala we wanted to begin taking music a lot more seriously. We realised we could live our lives a certain way, and music can be a part of that. By the time we got to Germany, neither of us could speak the language, and we didn't have any friends, so that isolation influenced everything we were doing on the album. And by the time we got to France we were isolated even more - we were in rural France and it was literally just the two of us. We'd have people visit us, but other than that it was just us.
So you were forced to focus on your music?
Well, there was nothing else to focus on! But, you know, that was the purpose of the trip. And we had never really done that - we had always recorded while working, and on weekends. We had never given ourselves that much time to do anything. And I think the end product is reflective of that. Sometimes you need to reflect on music while you're making it.
Royalchord perform at The Workers Club
corner of Brunswick and Gertrude St
Fitzroy
8 January, 8pm
$10 on the door.
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LTRHDS
26 letters. 26 artists. An exhibition of the English alphabet.
anthony lister / Craig (Kr) Costello / french / graeme base / greg (sp.one) lamarche / James (Jagi) greenaway / James reka / Kami / Kano hollamby / Kid Zoom / luca ionescu / Mark bode / Meggs / Mr Jago / phibs / puzle / sasu / scott (bonsai) neo / sheone / shohei otomo / shohei takasaki / shun Kawakami / sync / twoone / Usugrow & bene / Yusk
Curated by Alexander Mitchell & James Reka.
1000 £ Bend is at 161 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. Open 8am-8pm weekdays, 11am-8pm weekends.
www.thousandpoundbend.com.au
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Through the Looking Glass
Inventioninnovation
Ah, the eternal war between technology and man: horses replace legs, trains replace horses, and iPods take over the world. Australian-born, Deutsch-based artist Madeleine Brady tracks the eternal influence of technology on the 'worker'. Via illustration and an unusual squirty window-cleaning device, Madeleine mines the notions of masculinity, logic and economy in her window installation for Through the Looking Glass.
The Workers Club Gallery
The Workers Club
corner of Brunswick and Gertrude St
Fitzroy, until January 18
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Website now (a)live
Mon-Tues 8am – 6pm
Wed-Fri 8am – 11pm
Sat-Sun 9am – 5pm
Pushka (off Little Collins Street)
20 Pesgrave Place
Melbourne
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Sista Bella's Menu Specials
Last month we brought you news of an air conditioner and gazpacho-marinated calamari. Just when you thought your summer at Bella's wasn't going to get any better, we've got even more news.
Weekly specials at Sister Bella's will probably give you that tingling eating-out-is-cheaper-than-eating-in feeling which you can wash down with a cocktail-jug of sangria.
Sunday: roast $11 all day
Monday-Friday: $4 pizza 12-4pm
Tuesday: two for one main meals after 6pm
Wednesday: steak and tinny special $15
Thursday: a pound of chicken wings $10
Friday: cocktail jugs $25
Saturday: sangria jugs $15
Pushka front window
20 Pesgrave Place
Melbourne
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Bachelor of Arts
A fresh beginning - that's the way Bachelor of Arts are approaching 2010 and the release of their new EP, Wither With Her. Synth-mangled guitars, contact mic'ed bookshelves, circuit bent distortion pedals and three part harmonies sit in a world of Afro-beat and GZA influenced rhythmic bursts. With guests Absolute Boys + A Dead Forest Index.
The Workers Club
2 January, 8pm
$8/$10 entry
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Radio Star
Indie darlings Radio Star have a refreshingly trashy take on pop. Two years back the Albury ex-pats burst onto the scene with their DIY EP Here We Are. Hear them launch their new single 'Come Back' ahead of their second EP Goodbye, Goodnight, out through Byrneside Records in February. With The Salvadors + The Boo Hoo Hoo's + The Overview.
The Workers Club
16 January, 8pm
$10 entry
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The Golden Age of Song
Song-birds continue to tra-la-la-la-la at The Workers Club's weekly acoustic evening but in 2010 The Golden Age of Song moves to a Thursday night residency. Meals are still priced for the thrifty at $12 and you can now add $12 jugs and $18 bottles of wine to the menu. Check the website The Workers Club for line-up details. For bookings contact Jon on 0434212833 or email.
Sideshow
The Workers Club
Every Thursday from 21 January, 8pm
$10 entry
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