NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:
JASON ISBELL (USA) with special guests
Alamaba‘s Jason Isbell, formerly a member of the Drive-By Truckers, is finally coming to Australia! Isbell delivers a soulful vocal style, with songs that are passionate and unrepentant in their sense of place, and direct in their stubborn Southerness.
Sun 18 April 2010
www.myspace.com/jasonisbellmusic
JUKE BARITONE & THE SWAMP DOGS (album launch) with Mikelangelo & The Tin Star, The Brothers Grim and Mojo Juju
Gypsy Punk Cabaret and Pirate Blues Mayhem arrives at the East. Think about Tom Waits with a hangover at a Screamin’ Jay Hawkins gig in New Orleans, playing music by Muddy Waters, Danny Elfman and Mike Patton…then you’re getting close
Fri 9 Apr 2010
www.myspace.com/jukebaritone
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Matt Costa, with Neil Halstead and Zee Avi will play two special shows this March -
one at Sydney’s Northern Beaches Mona Vale Hotel and Melbourne’s Northcote Social
Club.
MATT COSTA, on the strength of his debut release, the folky, beautiful Songs We Sing, earned
a reputation as an L.A. buzz act, crisscrossed the U.S. in a van, and performed at all the major
North American music festivals including Coachella, Lollapalooza, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, and
Austin City Limits among others. In 2007 Costa recorded the follow-up Unfamiliar Faces,
again on Brushfire Records. He is currently working on new material.
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James Keelaghan is making his 7th trip to Australia, touring to promote his latest album, the critically acclaimed House of Cards. 10 new originals, some of them co-written with folk luminaries David Francey, Karine Polwart and Rose Cousins, make it one of his best yet. House of Cards showcases Keelaghan’s great assets, solid guitar playing, a voice unmatched and instantly recognizable, and lyrical excellence.
Keelaghan says “I was at the Celtic Colors Festival in 2008 and the producers locked six of us in a house for a week, and the company included Dave Gunning, David Francey, and Rose Cousins, it was an amazing experience. We had to come up with enough material for a show at the end of it”.
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Monday 8 th February
SCREEN SECT: American Movie (Chris Smith, 1999)
A strangely inspirational documentary, this follows the at-times comedic misadventures of manically driven Milwaukee film-maker Mark Borchardt, as he struggles against bad planning, financial hardship and an amateur cast and crew, to complete his independent horror film ‘Coven’. A must-see.
Doors 7.30pm
Tuesday 9 th February 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. Whilst traditional forms of avant-garde improvisation are welcomed, MIUC programming policy gives priority to projects which challenge the boundaries of current musical trends and which are predominantly, though not exclusively, improvisational in nature.
This week’s performers are:
- Freya Schick-Arnott (cello) and Nic Tammens (electric guitar)
- Jonathan Heilbron (contra bass) and James Mclean (drumkit)
Doors 8pm
Wednesday 10 th February
FIREWITCH
MYSTERY BAND (FROM LAND OF THE RISING SUN)
OCCULT BLOOD
BREATHING SHRINE
On Wednesday the 10th of February, Bar Open hosts a night of crushing, psychedelic, noise-rock featuring the highly anticipated return of Firewitch. After many a moon in hibernation, they will be performing a special set, switching between classic Firewitch motifs and material from their latest incarnation as Inappropriate Tough Guy Behaviour. Support comes from the free-form phych duo Breathing Shrine, neanderthalic noise-core sect Occult Blood, plus a special appearance by mystery act from the land of the rising sun. Don’t miss this rare program of monolithic sonic disorder.
Doors 8pm / Free Entry
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Monday 4 th JANUARY
SCREEN SECT STRANGER THAN PARADISE (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
Jarmusch’s second feature is a deadpan comedy that sealed his reputation as one of the brightest stars in independent cinema. Jazz musician John Lurie and former Sonic Youth drummer Richard Edson play two ‘hipsters’ whose monotonous habits are interrupted by the arrival of a 16 year old cousin from Hungary. The suitably vacant monochrome cinematography is by Tom DiCillo
Doors 7.30pm
Tuesday 5th January
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. Whilst traditional forms of avant-garde improvisation are welcomed, MIUC programming policy gives priority to projects which challenge the boundaries of current musical trends and which are predominantly, though not exclusively, improvisational in nature.
Doors 8pm
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Monday 28 December
SCREEN SECT: Akira (Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
Classic, epic landmark anime, and still one of the greatest, most ambitious animated films ever made. Adapted from the original 6 volume manga series and set in the futuristic, post-war Neo-Tokyo, in 2019, this is full of breathtaking visuals and stunning action sequences.
Wednesday 30 December
CHOTTO MATTE
SAM PRICE
THE LANDS
Chotto Matte embodies diverse theatrical influences in a ritual of live musical improvisation. Loosely tapping into generic rock formulae, Chotto Matte generates a strange, perceptual landscape, littered with memory. From dense, brooding atmospheres dance figures of violent mysticism. Chotto Matte is not a band. Chotto Matte is an intense, theatrical phenomenon. For this very special event, Chotto Matte teams up with local drummer and composer, Sam Price and dirty noise rock duo, The Lands. Kicking off the night, The Lands are a Melbourne based collision of drums, distorted guitar and voice. Strange and haunting, The Lands play pop songs that ooze with a droning sensibility. Sam Price combines generative audio software with improvised percussion to weave intricate and unpredictable audio strata. Sam will play a solo display of his ongoing experimentation with improvised sound, and a second set as stand in drummer for Chotto Matte.
Doors 8pm / Free Entry
***NEW YEARS EVE***
Thursday 31 December
KING MARONG & AFRO MANDINKO
New Years Eve is all about partying and what better way to bring in the new year than to get down and dirty with King Marong & Afro Mandinko and dance until your feet are blistered. King Marong and Afro Mandinko is a collaboration between King Marong and a group of Australia’s premier musicians and ambassadors of cultural exchange. All contribute creative ideas resulting in a vibrant sound that is accessible to all traditional west african instruments and rhythms that blend with bass and drums, guitar, keyboards and a horn section to present an eclectic hybrid of afrobeat-funk-reggae and an audio-visual feast that no one can resist! To cap it all off it’s free entry so you can save your pennies for bigger and better things. New Years Eve at Bar Open with King Marong & Afro Mandinko and it’s FREE!!!!!!
9pm / Free Entry
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AT LAST!
DIRECT FROM THE LONE STAR STATE
With special guest KASEY CHAMBERS
Lyle Lovett takes to the road for his first-ever Australian tour playing dates nationally in March 2010.
The four-time Grammy winner is one of America’s finest singer-songwriters, leading a remarkable 20-year career spanning 13
albums and over four million records sold.
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