Bar Open Gig Guide
Monday 11 th January
SCREEN SECT: JOHNNY SUEDE (Tom DiCillo, 1992)
DiCillo’s first feature was also Brad Pitt’s first starring role, in which he plays an aspiring rockabilly musician with an outsize quiff, who idolises Ricky Nelson. A strange, anachronistic Lynchian comedy, which also stars the wonderfully talented Catherine Keener and features a cameo performance by Nick Cave, as the Jim Jarmusch look-alike fictional albino rock icon Freak Storm. Weird fun.
Doors 7.30pm
Tuesday 12 th January
MIUC
Percussionist Will Guthrie and guitarist Ren Walters to provide regular performance opportunities for experimental improvisers at a time when such opportunities didn’t really exist with any stability in Melbourne founded The Make It Up Club in 1998. Since then, the MIUC has grown into the longest running program of its type in Australia, presenting a weekly series of challenging and adventurous freely-improvised music and sound performance. Hosted every Tuesday night throughout the year at Bar Open, the MIUC aims to present and promote the most daring and innovative improvised music from across Australia and around the globe, and to foster and cultivate Melbourne’s vibrant community of performers and listeners dedicated to one of the most rewarding art-forms in existence.
Doors 8pm
Wednesday 13 th January
GOODNIGHT OWL
SEAGULL
BROKEN FLIGHT
Wednesday night at Bar Open is going to ease the burden of the halfway point in the working week with both grace and charm as Goodnight Owl can lead you in one of two directions - an embrace of the dawn, or an adventure into the dark. Make it what you will, Central Australian born Eddie Alexander has developed his song writing to take the listener on a journey lyrically and musically, using fragile electronics to craft beautiful pop soundscapes. Goodnight Owl will be joined by Seagull and Broken Flight, and it’s free entry so you have no excuses.
Doors 8pm / Free Entry
Thursday 14 th January
PATINKA CHA CHA
HAMMOCKS & HONEY
THE MOTIFS
ISLE ADORE
Experimental Pop fiends Patinka Cha Cha will be bringing their unique twist of sounds to the Bar Open stage this Thursday night with the crème-de-la-crème of indie pop music in Melbourne, good pals Hammocks & Honey, The Motifs and Isle Adore. Patinka Cha Cha use records and beat-boxing along with traditional ensemble instrumentation to craft a sound drifting between the edge of dreamy pop and something completely new. So get down to Bar open for a night of intricate and magical pop bliss.
Doors 9pm / Free Entry
Friday 15 th January
SiNE
SiNE is a Melbourne eight piece live dub and reggae outfit combing sub-bass frequencies with skanking horns, smooth vocals, delayed chords, synth and samples, all being dubbed and warped live by their resident sound engineer. Whilst paying tribute to the Jamaican innovators, SiNE has evolved with a futuristic attitude to culture, pushing forward the expression of roots music. In 2009 they supported legendary reggae producer and performer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry at the Luminous Festival in Sydney, which was curated by legendary producer Brian Eno - SiNE scored the support after Eno noticed them on youtube. They’ve also recently released their debut EP ‘Sub Frequence.’ Don’t expect to sit still when these guys take the stage this Friday night at Bar Open.
Doors 10pm / Free Entry
Saturday 16 th January
FATS WAH WAH
Take the trip round the universe, through funky reggae, sweet ballads, foot stomping country and blues turned red hot. It’s more than music, it’s an attitude adjustment.
Doors 10pm / Free Entry
Sunday 17 th January
EELING +
SPECIAL GUESTS
Featuring ex members of Damsels, Sharpie Crows, Street Chant and Nigger Hunt. Eeling from Melbourne Australia,
are competitive with the best bands from anywhere. Their music combines the brutal, downtuned riffing of
traditional thrash (think Some Girls or Burzum) with the dissonance and shifting time signatures of Gorguts and the
slow, atmospheric passages reminiscent of Pig Destroyer.
upstairs/ 7.30pm
COUCHING TIGER DJS
Downstairs 7pm ‘til late
coming up…
Mon 25 Jan: AUSTRALIA DAY EVE! The Woohoo Revue + A French Butler Called Smith (QLD)
Thurs 21 Jan: The Ancients + Dirtbag
Sat 30 Jan: Checkerboard
Thurs 4 Feb: The Boy Who Spoke Clouds + The Points North (USA) + Svavar Knutur (ICELAND)
Fri 5 Feb: The Band Who Knew Too Much
Sat 13 Feb: Barons Of Tang
Fri 19 Feb: The Putbacks
Fri 26 Feb: Casual Projects
317 brunswick street fitzroy 3065
03 9415 9601
www.baropen.com.au / www.myspace.com/baropenfitzroy
