Bar Open gig guide - CELEBRATING 10 YEARS
Bar Open gig guide
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS
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Monday 6 October
SCREEN SECT
A night devoted to rarely seen, obsessively loved and criminally neglected cult classics of cinema. Revisit old favourites, uncover hidden celluloid gems, indulge guilty pleasures, or just get yourself an education.
This week:
QUADROPHENIA (Franc Roddam, 1979)
Based on The Who’s 1973 double album rock opera, Quadrophenia follows the story of a young Mod during the 60s. With an intense lead performance by Phil Daniels, a support cast that includes Sting, more sex, drugs and gang violence than you could jump over on a Vespa, this gritty film was instrumental in launching the post-punk Mod revival.
7pm
Tuesday 7 October *FRINGE*
MAKE IT UP CLUB
This year, the MIUC’s annual contribution to Melbourne Fringe is curated by the inimitable musical provocateurs behind Venting Gallery.
With a focus on performers from the underground DIY no-core scene that has been fomenting in the Blue Mountains over the last decade, this year’s MIUC Fringe Fest promises to be as uncompromising as always.
Presented over 2 consecutive Tuesday nights (September 30 and October 7), MIUC Fringe 2008 features groups old and new spanning the sonoverse of avant-improv, from Melbourne to Victoria to Australia to the World to the Sonoverse. This week…..
NECKHOLD (Brisbane): featuring Nic Turner and Taylor Turner (epiphany)
SOUND DWELLER (Sunshine Coast): Luke Holland (guitar), Jasper Hunt (drumkit), and Sam Witek (saxophone)
JIM DENLEY & KIM MYHR (Blue Mountains & Norway): Jim Denley** (saxophone) and Kim Myhr (guitar)
SUN OF THE SEVENTH SISTER (Blue Mountains): Adam Sussmann, Matt Earle, Ryko Kalinko, Melanie Simpson, Nick Dan, Rory Brown, Bonnie Hart, Chris Nylstoch, Ben, Shirls, Martin, Marc, and more…
8.30pm
AWESOME!
By Mark Williamson
The MW Oh Show is Awesome! Sorry, let’s clarify that, the MW Oh Show’s, show is called Awesome! Awesome is defined as inspiring awe. Awe is defined as an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc.
None of this has anything to do with the show but it sounds cool, eh?
The MW Oh Show is the alter-ego of Tasmanian born but not (in) bred and now Sydney based Comedian Mark Williamson. Whom, after finding nothing but disillusionment in the corporate world, found solace in the wonderful world of Comedy!
6.30pm
Wednesday 8 October *FRINGE*
SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND
Melbourne singer/songwriter/guitarist Jon S Williams, having recently returned from performing in Greenwich Village and now promoting his new CD ‘In The Breeze’, presents a Songwriters In The Round session of songs and stories. Joining him onstage are Brent Parlane, Nick Larkins, Matt Joe Gow, Hugh McGinlay
8:30pm free entry
AWESOME!
7pm
Thursday 9 October *FRINGE*
PUTA MADRE BROTHERS
MARCELLE & THE BLOW WAVES
Composed of three reasonably non-muscular gentlemen. Amongst them such legacies as Broken Hearted Chainsaw Routine, Wayfaring Strangers, Croque Monsieur, VulgarGrad, and Made For Chickens By Robots. Internationally acclaimed but never having travelled north of Seperation street, Northcote, these are 3 men with 3 drums and 3 guitars and a trolley-load of foot percussion. Three one-man-bands all at once, that is the story. They’ll terrify you with their spaghetti western tear-jerkers, and blow you out of position with their mighty boot-ville soul shakedowns, tear out your liver and feed it to the goats with some picante mariachi mexicano three-four rhythm-a-tics and they will even happily share their surplus tequila with you. White men, playing brown.
9:30pm free entry
AWESOME!
7pm
Friday 10 October *FRINGE*
JOHNNIE AND THE JOHNNIE JOHNNIES
GASOLINE STEW & THE DUMP
Wow! 4 ghosts! From 1963! Feel it! See it! The pulsating rhythms. The rapid fire low-slung E notes of Johnnie and the Johnnie Johnnies! The spectacle of Croque Monsieur, purveyors of the most maniacal music, morphed into a state of wild surf riptides! Wild and tubular high-end surf guitar and ultra Hammond bliss. Opening up will be Gasoline Stew And The Dump, one hell ride on a four-wheeled dumpster bin, spew boogie blues straight outta the Victorian bushlands just abouts goana bust the mustard through ya custard buster.
10pm free entry
AWESOME!
8:30pm
MARCUS GREEN: UPPER CLASS HERO
Johnny has left us, the rich are being forced to pay tax and public school and hospitals are on the rise! Looks like it’s up to everyone’s favorite Liberal (and ex Minister of Unemployment), Marcus Green to help make Australia safe for the rich once again.
7pm
Saturday 11 October *FRINGE*
‘A KICK IN THE PECKER’
SS PECKER PERFORM: INXS ‘KICK’
SS Pecker return to the Fringe Festival program in 2008 with another classic Australian album show. After putting together a modern interpretation of Midnight Oil’s ‘Diesel and Dust’ in 2007, the 8 piece hip hop ensemble are back to put their spin on the classic ‘Kick’ by INXS. Featuring multi genre interpretations of the entire album. Expect the unexpected, with each band member drawing on their varied influences to arrange a number of INXS’s original tunes. For those who don’t know, SS Pecker are one of Australia’s premier live Hip Hop groups, consisting of eight members from highly varied musical backgrounds. Drawing influence from all sorts of music including Jay Dilla and John Zorn, SS Pecker have established themselves not only as long term stayers in the scene but also as the quirky alternative to the majority of Australia’s emerging hip hop industry.
10pm free entry
MONKEY
If you like your Demons, Magic and Martial Arts with a dose of high camp, wrapped in Buddhist philosophy… The Fabricated Theatre Ensemble re-emerges to present Monkey live on stage. Featuring a conglomerate of some new and some not so new Fitzroy notoriety. Directed by Nick Livingston.
8.30pm
MARCUS GREEN: UPPER CLASS HERO
7pm
AWESOME!
6pm
Sunday 12 October *FRINGE*
FRINGE FESTIVAL CLOSING PARTY
LOST TO THE CITY
VOLUME = COLOUR
LAKES OF RUSSIA
Out of 300 shows at 2008’s Melbourne Fringe Festival this is number 300, and what a wonderful way to see out Fringe! This year’s Closing Night hosts an audio visual treat from some of Melbourne’s finest instrumentalists, presented for free with the support of Bar Open. The night is gathered around new film/live soundtrack project, Lost To The City. A live soundtrack performed by members of The Boats and Faspeedelay. Silent and virtually devoid of people, the film focuses on aspects of inner city change in recent years and how that can be viewed, presenting a unique visual perspective of where we live. Given the recent achievements of Volume = Colour and The Boats, the debut of Lost To The City holds much promise indeed this free event is a fitting finish to 2008’s Melbourne Fringe Festival!
9:30pm
MONKEY
7:30pm
AWESOME!
6pm
COUCHING TIGER djs
downstairs / 7pm free entry
For ticketing and show information, please visit www.melbournefringe.com.au
all week…
alex london dies in public / looped video installation
27th sept 4th oct
What is the ultimate sacrifice in the name of art? Performance artist Alex London decided to take her own life as a work of art. She left behind this work. See the thought-provoking installation first presented at the Adelaide Fringe.
“Beautifully filmed with dramatic effect” - DB Magazine.
Coming up:
Wed 15 oct: quinn band, april maze, zeptepi
Thurs 16 oct: mushroom giant return show, radiant city, milique
Fri 17 oct: mista savona
Sat 18 oct: hoodangers
Sun 19 oct: conquest for death (USA), cut sick, pissbolt, collapsed toilet Vietnam, pathetic human
Wed 22 oct: revolver in furs
Thurs 23 oct: 12 tone diamonds
Fri 24 oct: the shimmeys
Sat 25 oct: king marong
Wed 29 oct: a dead forest index
Thurs 30 oct: indigo kids
Fri 31 oct: checkerboard
Sun 2 nov: deadly are the naked
Mon 3 nov: mista savona
wed 5 nov: babble slam
thurs 6 nov: sean Whelan book launch
fri 7 nov: hoodangers
sat 8 nov: barons of tang
sun 9 ov: los krokodilos
wed 12 nov: jim Christy (can) cd launch, trillions (nz), sean whelan
