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Sun, 7 February 2010

Yah Yah’s Gig Guide

Thursday 11 th February
(EARLY)
ROCK AEROBICS
ROCK AEROBICS is a dance fitness class for lovers of all things rock that sets rock-inspired dance moves to a soundtrack ranging from Blondie and Bowie to AC/DC and Alice Cooper. At ROCK AEROBICS you’ll pogo, skank, shimmy and strut to a monthly rotation of rock anthems. All you need to bring is a pair of sneakers, a towel, $10 and your best rock face (and some spare change for a beer!). Class starts at 7pm. For more info see www.rockaerobics.com.au
7.00pm (One hour class)

(LATER)
JOHNNY UPPERCUT
THE ANALYTE
FIRE FIRE!
ROSS DE CHENE HURRICANES
If you plan on coming to Yah Yah’s on Thursday organizers have warned you had better bring a helmet because there will be stones flying and shit exploding all over the place. Be prepared for a groovey garage rock onslaught early in the evening administered by the accurately titled 2 piece Ross de Chene Hurricanes. Fighter jet pilots Fire Fire! will keep the heat on with their SCORCHING vocal lines and THUMPING tunes that will have you smearing your greasy selves all over the dancefloor. But holy shit, it doesn’t stop there … in the second half of the evening The Analyte will pick you up, and put you in a large canon, that will fire you into the deepest darkest parts of the universe. And if you are still alive at this point then Melbourne’s punk heroes JOHNNY UPPERCUT will, as the name suggests, smack you back to earth with a drunken punch better than the great Ali himself. Get your shit together and be there at 8.30pm.

Door charge from 8.30pm, bands start 9.00pm

11.30pm til late: YAH YAH’s staff selections / free entry
Open LATE!

Friday 12 th February
COCKFIGHT SHOOTOUT
PUSSYXXX (ALBUM LAUNCH)
BUGDUST
THE SLUMS
Can’t wait for Valentine’s Day? Don’t wait! Get started early by making sweet, sweet love to PussyXXX at their long-awaited album launch. Loosen up with the boys on heat in The Slums! Take it to the next level with Bugdust - come on, you know you want to! Wetter is better, and tonight is your night, so lose all inhibitions to PussyXXX! And if that’s not enough, Cockfight Shooutout will blow your load! Who needs a lover with a line-up like this? Bands start 8:30pm & where else could you go all the way at this price???!!!!

Doors 5.00pm, door charge from 8.00pm

11.30pm til late tunes by: MOHAIR SLIM / free entry
Open ‘til 5am!

Saturday 13 th February
DEKODA & C-RODENT (EP LAUNCH)
with guests MC MAGGOT MOUF & PLARKS
AOI (REMIXTAPE LAUNCH)
NO NAME NATH
PIRATE MAFIA
Grimey underground hip-hop meets heavy dubstep at one of Melbourne’s most popular rock clubs. Who would have thought you’d ever see a line-up like this at Yah-Yah’s?! On Saturday February 13 Dekoda/C-Rodent & Aoi will launchtwo of the most unconventional new local hip-hop releases of 2010; the ‘Songs For Ben’ EP and ‘Spotwelders 2′ Remixtape. Dekoda & C-Rodent will be performing their very first live show with special guest MCsMaggot Mouf and Plarks plus No-Name Nath; then Aoi will follow with a mega-mix of blunted beats from the Spotwelders series. Buick, Affiks (Heavy Innit) and local producer Dysphemic close the night with some heavy bassweight, playing dubstep from 1-5am. Door charge before 12.30am and free after. Both ‘Songs For Ben’ and ‘Spotwelders 2′ are available online now. ‘Songs For Ben’ CDs and ‘Spotwelders 2′ cassettes will be available on the night.

Doors 5.00pm, door charge from 8.30pm

12.30am til late dubstep tunes by: BUICK / AFFICKS (HEAVY INNIT) / DYSPHEMIC / free entry
Open ‘til 5am!

Sunday 14th February
THE PALENECKS
EATEN BY DOGS
Sundays are for coming down, sobering up or just trying to piece together what brain cells you have left before you front up to work on the Monday morning and tell everyone that you didn’t really do much on the weekend…just sat on the couch and watched some movies. Well this Sunday you can come down, sober up and pull yourself together at Yah Yah’s with the Palenecks and Eaten By Dogs who will help slow your racing heartbeat to a safer zone. And yes, it is valentine’s day, so fell free to bring your hot date down or maybe you’ll just get lucky at the show. There’s plenty of handsome gentlemen in the Palenecks, and even one with red hair if you’re that way inclined. Bring a red rose…

FREE ENTRY
doors 5.00pm, bands starts 6.00pm

8.00pm til late: YAH YAH’s staff selections / free entry
Open late!

Upcoming shows to get excited about:

Thurs 18 Feb: Run For The Money, Psyche and Soma
Fri 19 Feb: Hugo Race & The True Spirit, Sailors & Swine, Celery
Sat 20 Feb: The Bakelite Age, Suzie Stapleton (Single Launch), The Orphanage
Sun 21 Feb: Reigning Men (Melbourne’s one and only Reigning Sound tribute band), Que Paso, free entry
Thurs 25 Feb: Gostelradio, i=it, Satan’s Death Ship
Fri 26 Feb: Milk Teddy (7” Launch)
Sat 27 Feb: The Spazzys (Single Launch) with Dirtbag
Sun 28 Feb: Rick Ralli, The Barebones, The Wellingtons, Danna & The Changes, free entry
Thurs 4 March: Boarders, Alex Lashlie & His Big Band, Sons
Fri 5 March: The Weekend People (Single Launch)
Sat 6 March: Brian Henry Hooper & His Band, Jules Sheldon
Sun 7 March: Spoonful
Fri 12 March: Hutt River Solution, Bitter Sweet Kicks
Sat 13 March: The Revels (EP Launch), The Get Go, Money For Rope
Sun 14 March: Downhills Home with Dan Brodie & Band, free entry
Thurs 18 March: Hira Hira, Little A, In Tongues, Hunter
Fri 19 March: The Rubys, The New Loutonians
Sat 20 March: Heirs, Fourteen Nights At Sea, Bone
Sun 21 March: Jane Dust & The Giant Hoopoes with Poor People
Fri 26 March: Floods (EP Launch), Duck Duck Chop, Blankface Distortion
Thurs 1 April: Digger & The Pussycats (Album Launch), Legends Of Motorsport, Precious Jules (Kim Salmon’s latest awesome band), YIS