Bar Open gig guide
Monday 23rd August
SCREEN SECT: BARFLY(Barbet Schroeder, 1987)
Charles Bukowski scripted this semi-autobiographical story of a drunken writer (Mickey Rourke in one of his last great roles before his recent renaissance) who finds love (with fellow lush Fay Dunaway), and is given a shot at literary fame. Atmospheric, amusing and surprisingly upbeat.
Doors 7.30pm
Tuesday 24th August
MAKE IT UP CLUB
The Make It Up Club is committed to nurturing, presenting and promoting avant-garde improvised music and sound performance of the highest conceptual and performative standards, regardless of idiom, genre, or instrumentation.
This week Dead Ants Rainbow double quintet; Social Climber; Nik Kennedy and Shane van den Akker.
Doors 8.00pm
Wednesday 25th August
PSUCHE (Oscar �n� Martin)
WEEKEND PHAROAHS
WAVES
Playing together for the first time, three bands of Melbourne each with their own unique take on pop music, have vowed to play “boogey” sets for the evening of the 25th at Bar open. So between the Waves, Weekend Pharaohs and Psuche (oscar ‘n’ Martin); hip shakers, twisters, krumpers and jumpers will all have a moment to shine on the D floor. Psuche (Oscar ‘n’ martin) will be playing limited shows leading up to their single release in late November followed by there long anticipated next album which is repeatedly being Un packed and reconfigured. They have experimented with live beat making to a point of virtuosity, that and their poignant song writing makes them an ecstatic Live experience.
Doors 8.00pm. Free
Thursday 26th August
DRUNK DIAL
JP SHILO
AZARAK
Drunk Dial is a new project for Ian Wadley (Mick Turner, ex-Bird Blobs etc) & Justin Fuller (ZOND, Mum Smokes etc).Taking a step away from busy schedules with ZOND and Mick Turner’s band, these two long time acquainted musicians point themselves into their newest creation.
J.P. Shilo, ex-Hungry Ghosts who found themselves invited to NYC by Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley to sign to his Smells Like Records label. A solo album on the s…ame label dumbfounded reviewers with its originality of sound and structure. Recently JP Shilo made significant contributions to the final Rowland S Howard Lp, The Triffids reformation tour of Europe and The Blackeyed Susans support tour of Leonard Cohen etc etc. JP�s solo set draws on varied styles pulled together by a unfied tone of presentation.
Eko Eko Azarak is a one woman pagan ritualist chanteuse - conjuring distant spirits through primal rhythms, a must see!
Doors 9.00pm. Free
FRIDAY 27th August
SOL NATION
Take a large melting pot, fill it half way with Reggae, add a dash of East Timorese folk song, a punch of Cuban Salsa, a sprinkle of Latin dance, 3 parts Afro-Beat, 2 parts tropical rhythm, a sprinkle of Brazilian Samba, fill with funk and stir. Let it settle and taste…Sol Nation! To perform their music live, Sol Nation have brought together a Seven piece band, drawing its members from some of Australia’s top world and reggae bands mixing superb musicianship with a charismatic stage presence that creates an exuberant, colourful and exciting live showfull of silky smooth, multi-lingual vocals,hypnotic angelic harmonies,funky Jazz fused keys,unmistakably uniqueguitar, red hot percussion and a driving drum kitand bass guitar collaboration propelling the band without fault.
Doors 10.00pm / Free Entry
Saturday 28th August
DEEP STREET SOUL
Hailing from deepest Melbourne, Deep Street Soul are the local kings of Australian raw funk. Tough, hard-hitting, gritty & aggressive they bring the hard edge party to Brunswick St this Saturday August 28. You think you know how to party. Step up to Deep Street Soul and get schooled.
Doors 10.00pm / Free Entry
Sunday 22nd August
SAXBROWL SUNDAY
PAUL BRESLIN
YOUNG ROMANTIX
SHITSTORM PYRAMID
IN THE VOGUE CLOSET
When you combine sexiness and brawling and say it like a sexy fighty Texan drag racing enthusiast, you get SAXBROWL! On Sunday August 29th, the amazing SAXBROWL! Event Night returns to Bar Open.
Just in time for the colour absorbing, well fed SAXBROWL audience is PAUL HESLIN who has just returned from a prophetic period in Europe, circuit bending TV’s and creating noise that has left that entire continent hypnotised. Do you have the power to resist him?
Opening with aggressive love for this homeward bound traveller is
YOUNG ROMANTIX, the original musical project of Shaun from Chrome Dome, SHITSTORM PYRAMID and soulful newcomers IN THE VOGUE CLOSET will round out the card.
There will probably be a Nintendo64 or a SNES that you can play
projected over the bands juxtaposed next to work from some of
Melbourne’s most outrageous video artists, there will be finger food
and in between the bands JONNY TELAFONE and PATRICK BLAYZEE will interrupt your thirst for cigarettes with their SAXBROW-LOVE SONGS.
The whole night’ll be a chilled sexy violent evening deal probably
ending around ten thirty and best of all GOLD COIN ENTRY!
COUCHING TIGER DJS
7pm upstairs
Coming up…
THUR 2 / THE MOXIE + FRANCOLIN
SAT 4 / RAZ BIN SAM (NSW/ISR) + MISTA SAVONA
FRI 10 / THE WOOHOO REVUE
THU 16 / RADIANT CITY (ALBUM LAUNCH)
FRI 17 / USELESS CHILDREN (LAUNCH)
317 brunswick street fitzroy 3065
03 9415 9601
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