FRIDAY 27 JAN
HIATUS KAIYOTE
Fresh from blowing up heads at Woodford Folk Festival and a mini-tour Hiatus Kaiyote are back in Melbourne to play a few sneaky shows before going deep into the studio to finalise their debut EP due out in April.Their rare sound is a hybrid breed of neo-soul, future beats, freakish time changes and coupled with a strong live performance that’s seen them compared with the likes of Little Dragon, Bjork, Georgia Anne Muldrow and The Dirty Projectors.They’ll be joined on the 27th Jan by DJ Ty spinning future beat and nu-jazz goodness in-between their two sets.
Doors 10pm / Free Entry
SATURDAY 28JAN
CACTUS CHANNEL
Hear that sound? Hell yeah! Cactus Channel play Bar Open this Saturday night Raw loose and nasty, The Cactus Channel is a ten piece funk orchestra straight out of Princes Hill High School in inner city Melbourne. These guys are funkier than the sandwich you left in your lunchbox over the school holidays! With a musical maturity beyond their years, The Cactus Channel hit you with the biggest ton of funk this town has ever seen. Melbourne’s funkiest high school band just turned 18! Come and celibate with them – you’ve no excuse – its free!!!!
Doors 10pm / Free Entry
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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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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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MONDAY 17 OCT:
SCREEN SECT: THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (Henry Selick, 1993)
The delightfully dark, retro stop-motion-animated musical film, co-written and produced by uber-Emo Tim Burton, with songs by long-time Burton collaborator Danny Elfman.
Doors 7.00pm / Free entry
TUESDAY 18 OCT:
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 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 13 JUNE
SCREEN SECT: THE DEAD ZONE
(David Cronenberg, 1983)
Cronenberg brings his unique psychological body horror sensibility to this tale of a schoolteacher who awakes from a coma with a strange, psychic sixth sense. Christopher Walken gives a brilliant, sympathetic performance, ably supported by the likes of Martin Sheen, Tom Skerrit and Brooke Adams.
Doors 7.00pm / Free entry
TUESDAY 14 JUNE
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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NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:
POISON CITY WEEKENDER FEST feat. The Hawaiian Islands, Anchors, Fires of Waco (QLD), Grim Fandango (WA), Stolen Youth and Luca Brasi (Tas) (FRI) and Bridge & Tunnel (USA), Screamfeeder (QLD), The Nation Blue, The Gifthorse, Paper Arms (SA) and The Optionals (NSW) (SAT): JUST ANNOUNCED - ON SALE NOW!
Poison City’s annual Weekender Fest is back again for 2011! Held annually in Melbourne to celebrate great bands, good friends and plenty of life’s other little excesses, the event takes place on one massive weekend, with two epic shows at the East on Fri 16 & Sat 17 September. Welcoming bands from across Australia and abroad, this year’s weekender is set to be bigger and better than ever before! And, for the first time this year we’re giving you the chance to enjoy every waking minute the festival has to offer with a 3-day ‘Weekender’ pass available that’ll get you into both East Brunswick Club shows as well as the show at the Tote.
Fri 16 Sept 2011 7:30pm and Sat 17 Sept 2011 7:00pm
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