Author results: Marissa Shirbin
OBUS spring/summer collection
There are lots of things that go on in backyards: domestics, barbecues, the burial of a dead bodies and money. You do not need an excuse to be in one in your underwear; a No Smoking will never rain on your nicotine parade; there is no 2am lockout.
OBUS knows the freedom that our backyards grant us.
MIFF - Orbit after party
What:
MIFF - Orbit after party
Where:
Screening at ACMI. Party at Coopers Festival Lounge, The Forum
When:
TONIGHT! Thurs Aug 7, screening at 9.15pm, party from 10.30pm
How much:
Party is free!
Win:
We have a dbl pass to the screening to give away. IT'S TONIGHT, so you'll need to be able to meet us in the city for tickets. To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'I admits I love Video Hits'
Description:
It's like Video Hits, but good. MIFF screens a collection of Australian and NZ music videos tonight, including locally made clips from Plug-in City, Winterpark, Little Red, and Die! Die! Die!. Post clippage, the ORBIT after party officially starts at 10.30pm. All India Radio are playing live, followed by John Cope Williams DJing.
Event: Party
Stimulus: C
Pikelet headline show
What:
Pikelet headline show
Where:
Evelyn Hotel, 351 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
When:
Fri July 25, doors 8.30pm
How much:
$10 at the door
Description:
Finally, after much anticipation, Pikelet's very first headline show is set for this Friday at the Evelyn Hotel. (Could this be more perfect? Evelyn at the Evelyn. *Sighs*). For Pikelet virgins, Melbourne's wonder girl Evelyn Morris is a solo artist, producing fascinating, multi-tiered music using an old accordion, a guitar and a delay pedal.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: W
The Hampdens album launch
What:
The Hampdens album launch
Where:
The Toff in Town, Lvl 2, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
Sat July 19, doors 8pm
How much:
$14+BF or $17 on door
Win:
We have one copy of the album to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘don't wear white to my wedding man'
Description:
The Hampdens' first record, The Last Party, launches at The Toff this Saturday, with The Greasers and Dann Hume supporting. Expect fourteen melodic tracks from this six-year-old trio, fully clad in white. (Sources say they only wear clothes made by friend Toni Maticevski.) (I wish my friends made me clothes.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: sound the horns!
Splodge cult movie night
What:
Splodge cult movie night
Where:
The Empress Hotel, 714 Nicholson St, Fitzroy
When:
Mon July 7, doors 7.30pm
How much:
Quarterly memberships required. $7/$6 at door
Related links:
Comprehensive dictionary of piratical phrases
Description:
This Monday might offer the rarest line-up yet at Splodge - The Empress Hotel's monthly film night, which has been going as good as gold for the past ten years. This month, there is a pirate theme - the harbinger of all quality social events. Expect two short monochrome films by Paul Terry and Pat Sullivan, then Treasures in the Pyramid, 1927's Gold Diggers and Byron Haskins's Treasure Island (1950).
Event: Film
Stimulus: sound the horns!
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