MONDAY 16 JAN
SCREEN SECT: HOUSE OF GAMES
(David Mamet, 1987)
The debut feature from playwright, screenwriter, director and heretical film theorist Mamet is a highly stylised glimpse into the ever-fascinating, hard-boiled world of the con artist. Lindsay Crouse plays a repressed psychologist drawn into the subterranean world of Joe Mantegna’s slippery confidence trickster.
Doors 7.00pm
TUESDAY 17 JAN
MAKE IT UP CLUB RETURNS IN 2012
WEDNESDAY 18 JAN
POP SINGLES
LOWER PLENTY
FULL UGLY
pop singles have been one of melbourne’s recent staple indie acts, the 3 piece have an album recorded and in the works for roughly a march/april release. tuneful to morose guitar-pop often likened to chiming 80’s australia and that record label from new zealand, with a dose of husker du / GGE / wipers / 60’s psychesque inspirations. lower plenty deliver some heart-wrenching outback ballads and beautiful instrumentation, eaturing dick diver/deafwish/uv race members. full ugly are a pop gem you don’t get the chance to see enough,
for fans of the moles / panel of judges / triffids tapes. free entry!!!
Doors 8pm / Free Entry
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What a year 2011 has been for Perth indie electric disco outfit Voltaire Twins.
Beginning with a run of national support’s for Tim & Jean, July then saw the band release Animalia, the first single to be lifted from their Romulus EP. FBI and triple j both added Animalia to rotation, RAGE featured the accompanying (award winning) video for nearly two months straight and both track and clip (together with a remix by French disco wizard Lifelike) carved a swathe through the international blogging community.
September saw the release of the Romulus EP which Brag Magazine in Sydney made their ‘Indie Release Of The Week’ stating: “If you like your synth-pop dark and sweet as black strap molasses, then Perth’s Voltaire Twins might just be your fix”.
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MONDAY 5 DEC
SCREEN SECT: STRAIGHT TO HELL
(Alex Cox, 1986)
Possibly the most expensive ‘home-movie’ ever made, in which the director of ‘Repo Man’ and ‘Sid & Nancy’ packs off to Spain with an all-rock-star cast (including The Pogues, Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello, Dennis Hoper, Jim Jarmusch, Grace Jones and Courtney Love) to create a twisted blend of spaghetti western and heist movie. Fun.
Doors 7.00pm
TUESDAY 6 DEC
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.
Doors 7.00pm
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Thursday 8th December
On our new downstairs stage!!
BEN WRIGHT SMITH
VLADDY B
Our Thursday night downstairs sessions continue this week with locals lads BEN WRIGHT SMITH and VLADDY B playing unplugged for your listening pleasure. BEN WRIGHT SMITH is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician, whose music combines styles such as folk, blues, jazz & Rock and Roll; his lyrics are often allegorical and surreal. You can expect everything from high-paced rockabilly freak-outs to melancholy ballads of longing and loss. Remember his name, as Ben promises to be one of the leading voices of the folk revival. VLADDY B is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who was born in Moscow and moved to Melbourne in 1990. Taking piano lessons from a young age was a key factor in building up his musical foundations, but hearing The Doors and ABBA in his parents’ vinyl collection changed that musical perspective completely, and in time led him to taking inspiration from the likes of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Come down and hear two of Melbourne’s up and coming singer-songwriters at Pony this Thursday night. And it’s free entry of course.
Doors 8:00pm / FREE ENTRY
OUR NEW THURSDAY NIGHT
1AM LATE SHOW
ROYAL ACE
FREE
The festive season draws nearer and you’ve probably got a few sickies up your sleeve, so why not throw a quick one this week before they run out at the end of the year and give yourself a long weekend. It means you’ll be able to stay up late and party with ROYAL ACE at Pony in our new Thursday night late slot. Jesse, Max and Danny like rock and roll, so one day they decided to make a rock band called ROYAL ACE. You won’t see them onstage staring at their feet – oh no you won’t – they put out with gusto in spadefuls and their amps have 50 times the necessary power. If you chucked AC/DC, Aerosmith, Guns N’ Roses and Van Halen into a blender, the goop you’d be left with would put you in the ball park of ROYAL ACE.
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NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
COSMO JARVIS (UK) with special guest: JUST ANNOUNCED! ON SALE NOW!
Thu 13 Oct 2011 8:00pm
British singer-songwriter Cosmo Jarvis has already courted controversy with his viral sensation ‘Gay Pirates’. The self-directed video for ‘Pirates’ has received over half a million YouTube views following a twitter post by Stephen Fry. Continuing in the thought-provoking vein of ‘Gay Pirates’, Cosmo also released the controversial video to his follow up single ‘Sure As Hell Not Jesus’ which he wrote and directed himself, exploring the themes of shame and redemption from a papal perspective. His album ‘Is The World Strange Or Am I Strange’ will be released on Friday 30 September.
www.cosmojarvis.com
TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET (USA) with special guests: JUST ANNOUNCED! ON SALE NOW!
Sun 11 Sept 2011 7:30pm
Wyoming”s punk rock quartet Teenage Bottlerocket announce their own Melbourne headline show at the East. This follows the soon to be sold out juggernaut with Frenzal Rhomb in early September…
www.teenagebottlerocket.com
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MONDAY 29 AUG
SCREEN SECT: TEETH
(Mitchell Lichtenstein, 2007)
Under-rated, blackly comedic coming-of-age horror satire, in which the teenage spokesperson for a Christian abstinence group discovers that she has developed a very unsettling and deadly physical malformation. Extremely bad news for the boys at her school, too.
Doors 7.00pm / Free entry
TUESDAY 30 AUG
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.
Doors 7.00pm
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MONDAY 11 JULY
SCREEN SECT: MAN BITES DOG
(Belvaux / Bonzel / Poelvoorde, 1992)
This Belgian mockumentary is steeped in black-as-pitch comedy, as a crew of film-makers follow the exploits of a charismatic serial killer, recording his crimes and, ultimately, becoming more and more complicit in the increasingly chaotic violence. Dark and brilliant.
Doors 7.00pm / Free entry
TUESDAY 12 JULY
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.
Doors 7.00pm
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