Get Notorious Magazine | February
 

February, 2010

Summer lovin has been fun, hoping you've had a trashy time too - send us your favourite shot from this summer for the next issue and we'll shout you and your friends a night out email howdy@getnotorious.com.

Thanks to Neat Creative for this month's snazzy cover shot.

This newsletter hails from the heavens of St Jeromes. If you like what you see, sign up for future issues at www.getnotmag.com For advice or information on life, love, luck or science email howdy@getnotmag.com.

 
 
 

Hoo Haa! Is the only Trials bike film / demo / social gathering in Australia

Side-Hop your way to 1000 £ Bend for some free riding, demos, watch Trials films on the big screen with surround sound, grab a gourmet hot-dog and a beer for $10, in an inner-city warehouse. Catch Andrew Dickey, 6 times Australian Champion and Joe Brewer - the current Australian Champion and World No.8, smash some King Lines with the local boys.

Err! What is Trials?? Surely you've seen this video by now!

Hoo Haa!

HOO HAA, IT'S A PARTY!
Tuesday 9th Feb 6 - 10PM
1000 £ BEND | 361 Lt Lonsdale Street Melbourne CBD, between Elizabeth & Queen Streets.

TICKETS
Pre-Sale: Hotdog + Beer + Films = $10 From Moshtix.
On the door: $10 no dog, no beer :(
Facebook Event

GAP-TO-FRONT!
6.30pm - Trials bike demonstration / Free Ride
7.00pm - Trials bike riding films screened in the Cinema (upstairs) with a Hotdog in one hand and a beer in the other.
8.00pm - Music madness, beers, bikes and tales of King Lines til 10.00pm


1000 £ Bend is at 161 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. Open 8am-8pm weekdays, 11am-8pm weekends.

www.thousandpoundbend.com.au

 
 
Hoo Haa! | Get Notorious Magazine | February
 

10 tips for junior creatives in ten minutes from Andrew Ashton of Studio Pip & Co

Junior Event:
Wednesday, 10 February.
1000 £ Bend. 361 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne.
www.lifeatthebottom.com

WTF IS JUNIOR?
Junior is a web-resource for young creatives. For the last year or so the junior team have been sucking the brains of the most talented creative directors, film-makers, animators and writers from all over the world. And on the second Wednesday of every month, junior celebrates life at the bottom outside cyberspace, with an industry senior giving ten tips in ten minutes. They're kicking off 2010 with Andrew Ashton, designer extraordinaire and founder of one of the hottest studios in Melbourne, Studio Pip and Co.


1000 £ Bend is at 161 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. Open 8am-8pm weekdays, 11am-8pm weekends.

www.thousandpoundbend.com.au

 
 
 

BlackBird Summer Market from chase burns on Vimeo.

Blackbird Market

Blackbird Market commences its regular 2nd Saturday of every month slot, starting Sat 13th of Feb. The line-up features British India (DJ set), The Great Earthquake and Timothy and Wilderness. If you missed the last one, watch this vimeo.


The Workers Club,
Cnr Gertrude and Brunswick Streets, Fitzroy
Every second Saturday starting from 13 February.

 
 
 

LTRHDS

An exhibition of the English Alphabet

The Letterheads exhibition is a re-visioning of the English alphabet by 26 of the most influential emerging and established contemporary artists in the world today. Each artist has created a work exclusively for this exhibition depicting a single letter to create a display of the entire alphabet from illustration, cartoon, fine art, graffiti, street art and graphic design fields. Featuring internationally renowned street artists such as Craig (KR) Costello, Anthony Lister, Mark Bode (NY) and Usugrow (Japan).

Letterheads 2010 is open everyday from Friday 26th February to Friday 19th March 2010 at 1000 £ Bend Artspace 361 Lt Lonsdale Street Melbourne.

Check out exclusive interviews with the artists on the LTRHDS Blog


1000 £ Bend is at 161 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. Open 8am-8pm weekdays, 11am-8pm weekends.

www.thousandpoundbend.com.au

 
 
 

WORLD'S END PRESS

February's Thursday Residents
World's End Press
w/ QUA, Flying Scribble, Super Melody and more...

World's End Press play Dance Music. Having explored a number of directions over the years, W.E.P. have somehow found their feet moving about in a post millennium adaptation of classic disco and house music. With a new set, and a new drummer, their welcome back party at the Order of Melbourne recently saw 200+ people get down for the new sound. So here it is, 4 wild weeks of dancing, showcasing their favorite local groups, and culminating Feb 25th in the launch of the first single from their forthcoming LP, co-produced by qua. Thursdays in February at the Workers Club Corner of Gertrude & Brunswick Streets Fitzroy.

Guests:
Feb 4 - Magic Silver White + Jared David
Tickets
Feb 11 - Ponze Island + Ev & Shags
Tickets
Feb 18 - Super Melody & Flying Scribble
Tickets
Feb 25 - QUA, Darren Sylvester1, Magic Silver White + Jared David
Tickets

The Workers Club
corner of Brunswick and Gertrude St
Fitzroy

 
 
 

The Art of Fashion
By Prudence Rees-Lee

Prudence Rees-Lee
January 27 - February 27

'The Art of Fashion'

Designed by new kids on the block Hammocks and Honey, and painstakingly crafted by accessory label PHILOS-o-FACE, the sculptural pieces featured in 'The Art of Fashion' straddle the art, craft and fashion trajectory in a unique, and kind of creepy, way.

Using repetition to engage with the tensions between mechanical reproduction and the post GFC preoccupation with the handmade, the work also plays with ideas of fan culture, image saturation and memorabilia while challenging the once static categories of wearable jewellery and art object. This is the first in a series of collaborations between the label and band.


The Workers Club
corner of Brunswick and Gertrude St
Fitzroy

 
 
 

Sensory Projects Showcase #1
Love Connection + The Ancients + Children Of The Wave

The Workers Club and Sensory Projects present the first of a number of unlikely ever-to-be-repeated Sensory Projects label line-ups, this one featuring Love Connection, The Ancients, and Children of the Wave. Payers will receive a copy of the Sensory Projects label CD sampler, 'Come Play Frolic!' featuring brand new tunes from Love Connection, Great Earthquake, The Ancients, Bruce Peninsula, White Woods, new and unreleased Children of the Wave, MUM SMOKES, Panoptique Electrical, Mystery Twin (Cailan Burns from Pretty Boy Crossover), new The Sun Blindness, Canon Blue, The Rectifiers, The Declining Winter (remixed by Aus), and The Sand Pebbles.


The Workers Club
Fri 5 Feb, 8.30pm
$10 tickets on the door

  

Kinematic vs Pete Sounds with guest Emily Trembath & Band

Indie pop rockers Kinematic team up with Pete Sounds (the new project for Pete from Dallas Crane) for a summer Saturday double headliner at The Workers Club! Kinematic will be playing songs from their third album 'Kites', which was recently launched the Workers and their latest video for 'Jefferson High' was shot entirely at that gig (see YouTube). Pete Satchell is previewing his new record and band 'Pete Sounds' with a special acoustic duo performance featuring some of the new songs, and some of the old ones as well. Opening the night, it's the adorable Emily Trembath and band.


The Workers Club
Sat 6 Feb, 8.30pm
$10 tickets on the door

  

The Thod (Album Launch) with guests Carnation, The Messengers & Jeremy Mair

Melburnians are living in dire times: beer prices are rising exponentially; iPods are providing the soundtrack of our nightlives; celebrated venues are facing bankruptcy at the hands of capricious, paternalistic, overzealous, arbitrary, sanctimonious government regulation. There may be no hope for us. The end appears nigh. Big Brother has culture by the balls. But on Friday, February 12th, in a dark corner of The Workers' Club, The Thod will be doing everything in their power to help you forget all about the New Temperance Movement and get you drunker than you have ever been before. Supported by: Carnation, The Messengers and Jeremy Mair (of The Priory Dolls).


The Workers Club
Fri 12 Feb, 8pm
$5 tickets on the door
 
 

Love of Diagrams
(Overseas send off show)

Love of Diagrams are playing the Workers Club Friday 19th February as a send off show for their USA tour and SXSW appearances. Busy writing new songs for a new album to be recorded upon returning from o/s, the band will preview some new material along with songs off their highly acclaimed record Nowhere Forever (Beat magazine's 'best local album' of 2009 etc).


The Workers Club
Fri 12 Feb, 8pm
$12 + bf

  

Big Scary 'Elements' EP Launch
with guests Bean + The Villainares (Syd)

Big Scary, the boy/ girl duo comprised of the strummer and the drummer will be launching their new EP 'At The Mercy of The Elements' at the Workers Club in Fitzroy, Friday February 26. 2010 is already promising to be a big year for the Melbourne two-piece (made up of front man and guitarist Tom Iansek and drummer Jo Syme). Kicking off the year with highly coveted support spots on Editor's and Florence and The Machine's shows, while their new single 'Falling Away' was immediately added to rotation on JJJ as well as on highly influential community radio stations in Melbourne (RRR, PBS) and Sydney (FBI).


The Workers Club
Fri 26 Feb, 8.30pm
$10 tickets on the door

  

Dancing Heals
with guests SiB & Band + How Love (Debut)

After spending 2009 perfecting their live presence, road-testing the songs acoustically in New York and Los Angeles, and recording their debut album... DANCING HEALS revealed themselves early in the new decade. The Melbourne five piece strum crystal folk acoustics, then plunge into soaring synths and expert rhythm. Both heart warming and haunting, they lying somewhere between the thump of Arcade Fire and delicacy of Nick Drake. With their album due for release within a few short months, the train picks up pace at The Workers club. Standing alongside them will be French-born and Melbourne music veteran - SiB and band - playing his blues and soul. And opening up will be the debut performance of How Love.


The Workers Club
Fri 27 Feb, 8.30pm
$8 tickets on the door
 
 

Dear Reader

Dear Reader,

Your befuddled author is currently in the terrible grips of a waking dream head fog, that you as an occasional traveller recognise all too well as jet jag, or as my friend put it, 'still being on Laos time'. Don't panic. I will not be subjecting you to 2000 photos or accounts of seeing this temple or that pagoda.

Today is Melbourne's Laneway Festival. However enticing the bill may be, and with the chance to to witness the bravery of one Daniel Johnston, I have declined to attend, for today is also Nana Dot's birthday lunch. Not my Nana - my wife's.

Ninety years is quite an innings, as they say, and she's arrived sporting her best polyester floral pant and blouse combination. I sit here at a long table seated with thirty family members negotiating a Roast of the Day and scrawling on my napkin facing the small framed shining light that is the birthday girl, Dottie. With one good eye and failing hearing she is surprisingly coherent. Earlier, when she mistook my wife for her son, Barry (my wife's uncle) it only served to increase her charm.

As the afternoon develops the tales spill forward of Dottie's life reminding the family and enlightening me of her earlier days in Melbourne. The accounts of meeting her husband at a dance, of living behind a lollie shop, of cutting the heads off chooks for the family tea and of her elegantly playing the piano. Her face was rich and she was clearly delighted at the accounts. A wave of sadness. Such a shame that she now lives alone in a nursing home. This is the trend it seems. My grandparents, who have long since gone, spent the last of their days in a similar environment.

At thirty-something, I can't help ponder my own mortality. The likelihood of myself to reach such a ripe age with such a miss-spent twenties is highly unlikely. As with most twenty year olds, some things just don't come under consideration. Thirty year olds too for that matter. Hell, I still live like a freight train, the aftermath just hurts more now.