Bar Open gig guide
317 brunswick street fitzroy 3065
p. 03 9415 9601 // www.baropen.com.au
Monday 30th April
screen sect
A weekly film 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.
RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND
DIR: MONTE HELLMAN(1965)
Filmed back to back with another minimalist western, The Shooting, this tale of three men wrongly accused of murder and hunted by a vengeful posse stars (and was co-scripted and co-produced by) Jack Nicholson, with support from Harry Dean Stanton.
7pm / $5 - 3 month membership
Tuesday 1st May
THE MAKE IT UP CLUB
THE MAKE IT UP CLUB IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MELBOURNE JAZZ FRINGE FESTIVAL PRESENTS…
10:30 HARROW
Sean Baxter - drums
Niko Schauble - drums
Ted Vining - drums
Gideon Brazil - baritone/alto saxes
Phil Noy - baritone/alto saxes
Adam Simmons - baritone/alto saxes
9:30 Panharmonic Ubermelodic Transcendence from:
Phil Bywater - saxes, flutes, bits
Elliott Folvig - guitar, processing
Dale Lindrea - bass, processing
Ben Sibson percussion
8:30 Tim Pledger Trio
Tim Pledger woodwind
Harry Shaw-Reynolds drums
Jorges Rodrigues double bass
8pm $7/$5 conc
Wednesday 2nd May
ONE AND THE SAME
LAST FIVE MINUTES
One And The Same are a Melbourne-based four piece - violin, guitar,bass & drums - who play clean, sparse, emotionally charged, twangy dirges laced with urban story telling and a liberal dose of black humour. The band rose from the ashes of Cream of Tartar and have been playing the Melbourne venues for the past ten years.
The Last Five Minutes blend elements of 60’s classic pop and psychedelia, 80’s indie, folk, country twang and a fistful of other influences into a unique collection of songs ranging from devastatingly catchy pop to dark melodrama. Inspired by Wilco, Splitz Enz, Love and The Who.
Doors 8pm / free entry
Thursday 3rd May
JONA BYRON
THE BOY WHO SPOKE CLOUDS
GREY SKIES BLUE ENSEMBLE
Jona Byron is a singer/songwriter/instrumentalist of his own breed, a true clergyman of melancholy. His voice balances somewhere between Grant Lee Phillips, Stuart Staples (Tindersticks), Frankie Sparo and even Bill Calllahan. There is no mistaking his lyrical aphorism and his approach to music, which is raw and painfully honest.
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds, featuring acoustic guitar, piano, violin and gorgeous vocal harmonies, amalgamates a love of eclectic sounds, including gypsy, indigenous and shamanic music. The songs can burst with joyous yelps and flamenco style strumming and at other times settle into powerfully introspective and sparse territory.
Melbourne experimental musicians Seth Rees (Amplifier Machine) and Guy Harris (The Spheres) formed the Grey Skies Blue Ensemble in response to the S11/Melbourne World Economic Forum protests of 2000. Their lush ambient soundscapes evoke artists such as Stars of the Lid and Windy and Carl.
Doors 9pm / free entry
Friday 4th May
CHECKERBOARD LOUNGE
Checkerboard Lounge play their last show in 6 months before singing drummer Carl Pannuzzo goes back overseas. This infamous roots/impro band consistently defies the believable realms of energy and keeps curiosity baited with their propensity for journies into the unknown.
Doors 10pm / free entry
Saturday 5th May
THE SNAPPERS
The Snappers formed by bringing together musicians who regularly perform with Melbourne bands The Hoodangers, The Band Who Knew Too Much, C.W Stoneking, The Red Eyes and The Cat Empire.
This energetic group features the vocal talents of Ben Gillespie and a host of exciting instrumental soloists propelled by a hard driving rhythm section. The sextet performs a variety of styles including early jazz, shuffle and rhythm ‘n blues music from the 20’s through to the modern day.
Last gig at Bar Open before they embark on a summer European tour of Scandinavia.
Doors 10pm / free entry
Sunday 6th May
ROGERTHAT
BLACK MARKET RHYTHM CO.
Sons of the velvet era. An upbringing that has inspired the free flowing, psychedelic rock-reggae sounds from from Burleigh Heads quartet Rogerthat. 5 years of development has polished a creation, opening hearts and minds with a set of raw, energetic grooves and improvised jam outs. RT’s musical journey will see a national tour through Sydney, Melbourne, W.A, landing at Bar Open this Sunday night.
In support is Brisbane’s own triple J darlings the Black Market Rhythm Co. Old hollow body guitars haunted by the distorted ghosts of 1966, trumpet lines banging around a dark alley, dark purple drums beaten into pulp wood and a voice which could launch a ship and then sink it to the bottom of the Brisbane River.
Doors 8:30pm / $5 entry
COUCHING TIGER
Brunswick St’s longest running Dj duo do that thing they do from 6pm til late every single Sunday.
Music from the four corners and in-between!
Residents : Custard Mayfield + Toots + quality guests.
downstairs / 6pm free entry
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COMING UP…..
Mon 7 May: Screensect- NEAR DARK (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)
Tues 8 May: The Make It Up Club
Wed 9 May: Extreme Wheeze, Seth Rees, Scissors for Sparrow
Thurs 10 May: Iain McIntyre’s A Warning OST launch
Fri 11 May: Lordz of the Fly (syd)
Sat 12 May: The Inflatables
Sun 13 May: Amanaska, Sunsaria, Red Eye Express, Rip Van Hippy
