Thursday 26th February
Dear those about to rock,
Do not forget the people who gave you a leg-up. Those, in fact, who have already rocked. The guy who interviewed The Doors when no-one else would talk to them. The dingo who rides the lightening. The man who filmed the Stones recording 'Sympathy For The Devil' then punched out his producer, and the little bar that got a thousand crate-sitters laid.
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The Noise In My Head
Submitting to The Bullet
A.P.C. Summer 09
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Wavves
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The Songs You Used To Love
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Sympathy For The Devil
What:
Sympathy For The Devil
When:
Mon Mar 30, 7.30pm
Where:
The Astor Theatre, Cnr Chapel St and Dandenong Rd, Windsor
Win:
Thanks to The Astor, we have 2 prize packs of a dbl pass to the screening plus a sweet poster for each person! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘I'm a man of wealth and taste'
It's glorious to watch the Rolling Stones at the height of their powers. These days, their personal mythologies and 'legendary' status overshadow their musicianship, but Jean-Luc Godard's first English film bottles the lightning of the Stones' craft. In long, observational studio shots, we see them experiment with instrumentation, tempo and phrasing... It's like being there, give or take the odd visible boom mic.
But the Stones weren't operating in a cultural vacuum, and Godard juxtaposes the studio scenes with abstract skits exploring radical ideas. Back in '68, people really did believe that shitty graffiti slogans and spoken word happenings could spark revolution! So we have Black Panthers, a woman named ‘Eve Democracy', a dude reading Mein Kampf in a porn bookshop, and a posh voiceover reciting pulp fiction. Touching, but unintentionally hilarious.
Things got even more farcical at the London premiere, where Godard discovered his producer had included the final version of 'Sympathy For The Devil' over the closing credits and changed the film's name from 'One Plus One'. Incensed, he offered the audience their money back, called them fascists when they demurred, and punched out the producer, starting an all-in melee. Someone should make a movie about that!
Format: Cinema
Mood: Nostalgic
Keywords: The Astor, Jean-Luc Godard, Rolling Stones
Born Like This
Urgent surrealist headtrips from DOOM - formerly MF Doom, Viktor Vaughn, King Geedorah and half of Madvillain and Danger Doom - on the masked Atlanta, Anti-rapper's welcome return album, Born Like This. Named after and sampling Charles Bukowski's end-world fantasy poem, 'Dinosauria, We', Born Like This finds DOOM in deadly, sour-sick form - 'Same guy, same disguise, sick aim, eye stare' - riffing smart on his usual themes of super villainy, game tech fetishism and eye-popping volumes of weed, but this time with added, industry-dissing swagger, abandoned hope and a production job heavier on sounds of suspense and confusion.
'Gazillion Ear' starts with a spooky Hammond loop, zombie bass walk and siren motif from J Dilla's Donuts before breaking into full-blown space jam with Bruce Haack -style descending pulse and God knows what kind of euphonic free associative word play from DOOM - his 'PHD in indiscreet street haggling' in full flight picking apart a rapper hell bent on making a 'gazillion grand'. 'Absolutely' similarly damns ego-mad MCs with street-war imagism, horror strings and overdubbed COPS crime scene report, while 'Batty Boyz' ingeniously uses Batman and Robin's latent homosexuality as metaphor for faking in the rap game.
Release: Album
To Cure: The hangover
The BOMP! Book
Before the internet, before Rolling Stone, before Dylan Lewis's masterful hosting of Recovery, there was BOMP! Music nerd Greg Shaw founded the first free music press in the mid sixties in the form of hand-printed A4 zine Mojo Navigator, which was distributed around San Francisco, the epicentre of everything at the time.
These underground zines morphed into BOMP! - a ‘proper' colour magazine that was still independent as hell. This amazing book catalogues every issue and the birth of rock criticism as we know it, in turn tracing the evolution from ‘60s psychedelia to ‘70s glam, punk, new wave and garage rock.
There is the first ever interview with the Doors, in which they discuss the different strains of LSD available at the time. Five pages about the Ramones trying to find good Chinese food in London. And epic, sprawling rants on the colossal significance of the New York Dolls.
Writing like this came before everything was rehashed and cynical, when music actually meant everything. It's an exciting read, passionate and wild.
Format: Book
Motivation: Cancel all plans
Keywords: Rock, Music writing
New and Used, Warwick Baker
What:
New and Used, Warwick Baker
Where:
C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford
When:
Launching Wed April 1, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs until April 19
New and Used is the shared title of Warwick Baker's collaborative publication with writer TB Hemingway and his upcoming show at C3. While the publication contains the thoughtful transience of the American realist painter Edward Hopper, the exhibition channels the wild and ever-creepy eccentricities of his surname-sake, Dennis Hopper.
The photographs to be presented in New and Used were taken across California and Arizona and are the artist's response to a land of virtual realities. Some works are saturated, clinging and claustrophobic, while others are odd, even unaware.
Yet, like air conditioning after arid heat, or perfume after petrol fumes, it is the softness of Baker's lens that provides balance and relief. Image by image we witness the drift of this mild-mannered Australian through an American landscape, which fluctuates between the austere and the absurd.
Image:
Hotel (Los Angeles) CA, Warwick Baker, 2008
Medium: Photography
Drink: Dandy shandy
Keywords: Warwick Baker, Photography, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford
Co-op Store
Adelaide has copped its fair share of flack over, well, forever. BUT! The 'City of Churches' isn't all parishioners and stale wafer.
Co-op Store founders Andy Irwin, Josh Akmens, Aaron Byrne and Jamie Bennett weren't even altar boys. This is shocking gossip around town, but it meant they had time to start Value King, a gallery/store that housed Nieves, hamburgereyes and PowerShovel.
In January, Value King shut up shop to become Co-op, this also raised a few eyebrows along Grenfell Street but what can you do? Seems that with all the churches, Adelaide just wasn't big enough.
Online you'll find AIAIAI Earphones, 3SIXTEEN and MHI high tops, with Schwipe and womenswear appearing soon. We are also trying to convince them to sell pie floaters, but postage could be an issue.
Product: Everything you dreamed
Anatomy: Brain
Keywords: Online, Adelaide, Nieves, Powershovel
School of Seven Bells interview FUTURE
What:
School of Seven Bells interview
Who:
Robert S Lee talks at Claudia Deheza
Where:
The Corner Hotel, 57 Swan St, Richmond.
When:
Sat April 25, doors 8pm
How much:
$35+ BF from here
Win:
Thanks to Speak n Spell, we have 2 dbl passes to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'Can you believe these new girls? None of them use birth control and they eat all the steak!'
Probing questions fell on tired ears as I interviewed Claudia from School of Seven Bells. The band was on a rock 'n' roll tour bus to Vienna, it was 1am and I was half-cut on gin and tonic, so naturally my mind raced with excitement, images of orgies and unkempt groupie hair from Almost Famous. To sum it all up by paraphrasing Courtney Love, who probably lifted it from John Mellencamp, "We all play our opposites on stage." While the interview didn't blow my mind like a Tiny Dancer sing-along, or realising that in eleven years it will be 1984, School of Seven Bells promise to put on amazing shows across the nation next month. After all, that's why they're paid the big bucks, right? What I'm trying to say is, this interview explains why i am leaving home to become a stewardess... Signed, Robert S Lee.
RC: How do you find Vienna so far?C: Oh we're not there yet actually.
RC: What are you doing to pass the time on the bus?
C: Oh, I'm just listening to my ipod.
RC: Cool.
RC: Okay, did you ever envision that the gig with Interpol would see the amalgamation of Secret Machines and On!Air!Library!?
C: It was definitely out of the blue, ah, yeh I mean, it just kind of happened, I don't know, you know?
RC: So what about the colab with Prefuse 73, did that thing just come about, or..?
C: The single?
RC: Yeh, sorry it's 1am here, and I've had a few gin and tonics. Yes, the single. Read the rest...
Release: Tour
To Cure: A quiet weekend
Keywords: School of Seven Bells, Speak n Spell Records, The Corner
Perth
We took a trip to Perth to see Syl Johnson play. Our taxi driver described his city as 'a small town full of rednecks in snot-green utes.' It is that, and so much more!
The CBD is a lot like Frankston, but with better record stores. Dada's is a proper cave, overflowing with booty and crap piled everywhere. The owner looks like the old man in The Life of Brian who hasn't left his hole in 30 years.
Fremantle has shimmering beaches, many bronze leather bags with wealthy people inside them, and a giant dingo who rides the lightning and owns a flour mill. Northbridge has an '80s aussie gangster feel, with lots of Chinese restaurants and strip clubs.
The place we saw Syl was as close to a southern juke joint / biker bar as you'll get, with lots of neon signs, pool tables and fairy lights strung along the walls. Under the tables there were some great stickers from the joint's previous incarnation as a skin club for bikers. 'Rage with a Raunchy Lady! Perth, WA.' We pulled some off, stuck them to Lou's handbag and flew home.
Ambience: Outdoor
Difficulty: Exertion will pay off
Rice Queen
Rice Queen is the new Asian kid on the block, in Smith Street below Panama Dining Room. Previously a Latin American dance studio, it is the progeny of restaurateur James Langley (of aforementioned Panama Dining Room and also St. Judes).
Like Panama, the room is light and airy, with cheap and cheerful Asian restaurant touches: cane furniture, vinyl chairs and Formica tables, in fact if they threw in some wall-mounted TVs and a gold cat waving its paw at the till you could be mistaken for thinking you were in the exotic east or at the very least Victoria Street.
Any Asian worth their salt approaches 'new' Asian places with the same feelings of trepidation that they would a share-house stir-fry. Thankfully, Rice Queen dispenses with such fears through a fresh take on pan-Asian classics such as dumplings, lemon chicken and Thai noodle salads. Go to Rice Queen if you cannot be bothered climbing an extra flight of stairs to Panama and want a GEC meal from a menu that is essentially the UN of Asian food.
Image:
By Fitzroyalty
Venue: Restaurant
Meal: Dinner
More ouTS - March 26
What:
More OUTS!
Where:
On the site right now!
St Jeromes - The Last Days Parties
What:
St Jeromes - The Last Days Parties
Where:
St Jeromes, Caledonian La, Melbourne
When:
Every day until Sunday - check events here
Who:
People who have loved Jeromes
How much:
Free!
Description:
It seems like an age ago that we wandered into the old Swiss Bakery on Caledonian Lane to find a tiny new cafe called St Jeromes. And then wandered in the next day to find a giant hole jackhammered through the back wall, revealing a 'secret' courtyard. And then a month later walking up to find the place overrun with every mofo suit west of Exhibition sitting in the gutter. (Note: This was in the bar's early 'flavour of the month' period.) And that same night we said to Jerome, who was pleasingly sauced at the time, 'Dude, you're a sure-fire genius! These mopes are PAYING TO SIT IN THE GUTTER!' And Jerome nodded. And he looked upon what he had created, and it was funny as. Now we have to say goodbye to the bar that survived the suits, that survived the floods, that showed us a good time just as it showed us a long neck doesn't have to be cold. Just please check out the flyer for this weekend and pay your respects. - PM
Event: Party
Stimulus: Cheap Beer/Drinks
Keywords: St Jeromes
TRUCK STOP Cock Monsters Party!
What:
TRUCK STOP Cock Monsters Party! Launch night.
Where:
The Old Bar, 74-76 Johnston St, Fitzroy
When:
TONIGHT! Thurs Mar 26, doors 9pm. Then the last Thursday of every month.
How much:
$5
Description:
Sometimes we feel guilty that promoters write better copy than us, being that they probably do it on a Monday morning and maybe even still on the pingers. But the good lady stands down for the better man, so here you go: 'TRUCK STOP Cock Monsters Party is taking over Fitzroy's dirtiest and most intimate hole... You want a gay punk noise elec-hop party on the northside? You want jockboys dancing to old no wave and bare thighs sliding to '90s hip hop hits? Then you're a Cock Monster.' Featuring Wasted Truth live plus Helen Johnson, Lisa Warbrick, Roger Nelson and Adam Curley on decks. - PM
PS: Job taken by Cock Monster. Resume available upon request.
Event: Party
Stimulus: Hana Shimada
Keywords: The Old Bar
Ned Collette
What:
Ned Collette
Where:
The Thornbury Theatre, 859 High St, Thornbury
When:
Fri Mar 27, 7pm
How much:
$14 +BF here or $18 on the door (if available)
Win:
Thanks to Remote Control, we have one dbl pass to giveaway! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'We don't sodding know if he's related to Toni'
Description:
Know the phrase 'there are no original ideas'? We like Jim Jarmusch's version: 'Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.' Okay. Well, the way we see it, authenticity is a little like porn - it's hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Take Ned, who performs bucolic, lyric-driven songs over guitar layered melodies. So a bit of Leonard Cohen comes through. Fo sho. Nick Drake? Him too. But shit, it's still convincing, and he's coming home from tour to prove it. Like the return of the prodigal son. (But you know, different.) - ST
Event: Bands
Stimulus: W
Keywords: Music, Thornbury, Thornbury Theatre, Ned Collette
Amber Wallis, Circle of Eagles
What:
Amber Wallis, Circle of Eagles
Where:
Utopian Slumps, 25 Easey St, Collingwood
When:
Launching Fri Mar 27, 6-9pm
How much:
Free!
Description:
Look a lot of people write stuff about art and even get paid for it and we're not naming names but frankly, no-one gets it. So I'm going to tell it to you straight. Amber Wallis is the real deal. She's one of those artists who we won't see much at The Union soon because she'll be jetting around snorting coke off Dave Hickey's trucker cap. Stuff to say at the launch: "Well, this is indeed both figurative and abstract." "A pay bar? Surely you jest." "There is an open sense of narrative in the triptychs, which I enjoy." "I assure you, if one more person starts smoking out here the fucken balcony will collapse." - PM
Event: Launch
Stimulus: Red Wine
Keywords: Utopian Slumps, Amber Wallis, Collingwood
Beaches with The Ancients, The Twerps and Grouse DJs
What:
Beaches with The Ancients, The Twerps and Grouse DJs
Where:
The Tote, 71 Johnston St, Collingwood
When:
Fri Mar 27, doors 9pm
How much:
$12
Description:
Jammy psych-rock quintet Beaches have had an incredible six months: releasing their Australian Music Prize-nominated debut album, playing All Tomorrow Parties, Big Day Out, Meredith, Summer Tones and Golden Plains festivals, supporting Mogwai on national tour and managing to retain their smiles the whole time. Tomorrow night they play their last show before a well-earned hiatus from the live circuit, supported by pop-gaze friends, The Ancients and laid back fuzzy youngsters, The Twerps. Consider this Summer's official going-away party. - Us.
Event: Bands & DJs
Stimulus: E
Keywords: Music, The Tote, Collingwood
Blak Night Cinema
What:
Blak Night Cinema
Where:
Treasury Gardens, Melbourne
When:
Fri Mar 27 - Sat Mar 28, 7.30-10.15pm each night. Check the program here.
How much:
Free!
Description:
Finally here's some solid entertainment in the Treasury Gardens than doesn't involve doing the samba with the population of East Malvern while a random three year old rubs chicken drumstick on your pants. Blak Night Cinema is a two-day film event covering a big array of local Indigenous films. Including Lionel, which was Eddie Martin's follow-up to Jisoe. Now, Lionel Rose defeated Fighting Harada in Japan over fifteen rounds in 1968. He was the undisputed bantamweight champion of the world. He was our first black sporting hero. And THEN he started a country music band. Chap could not be more of a legend if he slayed the boogy man. - PM
Event: Film
Stimulus: Sausage Sizzle
John I: the cult of men
What:
JOHN I: the cult of men
Where:
Geddes Lane, Melbourne
When:
Fri March 27 and the last Friday of every month. We'd say get there at 10pm.
How much:
Email john@troughfaggotparty.com for $15 doorlist
Description:
We're glad this new party is called JOHN, because we had a lot of trouble with spam filters when it was called Trough Faggot. Oh craps. Did it again. Oh God Damnit all to hell. Anyway, brought to us by two of the makers behind Trough Faggot Party and They Shoot Homos Don't They?, JOHN is a dance party dedicated to a hustler, an anonymous male, a toilet, John 'Farnsie' Farnham and the disciple who loved Jesus the most of all. Wild, really, truly, unreal. Lucky we didn't mention Viagra. Oh fucksticks. - PM
Event: Party
Stimulus: Love
Keywords: geddes lane, They Shoot Homos Don't They, Trough
Wrangler Party! With Wolf & Cub and Tame Impala
What:
Wrangler Party! With Wolf & Cub and Tame Impala
Where:
HiFi Bar, 125 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
Fri March 27, doors 9pm
How much:
Strictly invite only
Win:
Thanks to Wrangler, we have 5 dbls to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'Mildred: What're you rebelling against, Johnny? Johnny: Whaddya got?'
Description:
Honestly, when you can place your partying requirements in the hands of a trusted jeans brand, alls the better, we say. Aaaaalls the better. And Wrangler knows more than just a tasty butt crack when it sees one. It knows that we want to see Wolf & Cub and Tame Impala live and then the Yacht Club DJs at exactly the moment our brains switch off. It also possesses the key ingredient to a good time. Tickets to Pink. Just kidding! Sauced up models. Just kidding!! Money. And now a word from the sponsor: 'This gig is a throw-back to when skirts were short, hair was long and life was all about fast living.' - PM
Event: Bands & DJs
Stimulus: crazy
Keywords: Wrangler, Yacht Club DJs, Tame Impala, wolf & cub
C.W. Stoneking and the Primitive Horn Orchestra at the Zoo
What:
C.W. Stoneking and the Primitive Horn Orchestra at the Zoo
Where:
Melbourne Zoo, Melbourne
When:
Sat Mar 28, gates 5.30pm, music from 7pm
How much:
$36 at the gate
Win:
We have a dbl pass to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘dude, there *was* no pre-smoking-era Tom Waits'
Description:
Clarinets, tuba, cornet, trombone, and a pre-smoking-era Tom Waits are a few of the sounds emanating from a normal C.W. Stoneking show. Things will be a bit different this go around though, as the Earth Hour concert at The Zoo is billed as ‘unplugged on the rug'. Wait, wait, wait, don't listen to those hippies! Don't worry! The essential elements of C.W. Stoneking were around before electricity was mainstream, therefore the gypsy hillbilly jungle blues sound will be in full effect to make you swing and sway with the monkeys. - PC
Event: Bands
Stimulus: Sunshine
Jack Ladder with Touch Typist
What:
Jack Ladder with Touch Typist
Where:
The Empress, 714 Nicholson St, North Fitzroy
When:
Sat Mar 28, doors 8.30pm
How much:
$12
Description:
He just won the Red Bull Award as part of the Australian Music Prize for his album Love Is Gone, which means he has at least $15,000. He has a raw, perhaps vintage R&B, alt-country, folk and blues sound. Furthermore, dude is a total babe and Laurenz from Pivot plays in his band. Jack Ladder may, in fact, be Admiral Pussyhound. If you find out for sure, emails to Pat. - PM
Event: Bands
Stimulus: Fame
Keywords: Jack Ladder, The Empress, North Fitzroy
Speak n Spell Party Round 3
What:
Speak n Spell Party Round 3
Where:
John Curtin Bandroom, 29 Lygon St, Carlton
When:
Sat Mar 28, doors 8pm
How much:
Around $20 as Dave has to buy dinner for the bands.
Description:
The boys at Speak n Spell do some admirable work. Promoting artists to get them publicity, play, and press is not an easy job. With that in mind, it's no surprise that sometimes they are too concerned for their artists and not enough for themselves. That's where we come in to get their backs though because Speak'n'Spell are throwing round 3 of their great parties and a super special international guest is to perform. Maybe now is a good time to head to their website and familiarise yourself with the laundry list of artists these dudes represent...don't worry about Teeth and Tongue and The Last Gypsies because they'll be playing no matter who else flies in! - Us.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: sound the horns!
Keywords: Music, Carlton, John Curtin Bandroom, Teeth & Tongue
Mad Max Remix
What:
Mad Max Remix
Where:
Bar Open, 317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
When:
8pm, Wed-Sun, Apr 1-26
How much:
$15/$10
Description:
Now before you run away because it's ‘altering a classic' sit right down and read this. All of the Mad Max movies are perfect in their own right, sure, even Thunderdome... but the thought of watching them in a marathon is enough to break even the hardest of Mel Gibson ponyboys. But there is a solution for the ADHD generation - the Mad Max Remix! All three movies re-edited, overdubbed and reanimated in one hour! This show has been written and directed by Eddie Sharp and Zoe Coombs Marr (the best people in Sydney) and comes to us with help from the Safari Team. As you know, it is the story of Max, the greatest dancer of all time. - PC & PM
Event: Film
Stimulus: C
The reason we're going to V Festival is probably pretty unique. While we think The Killers will be great, Snow Patrol is witty and fun live, and Madness will be playing every song of theirs we have ever wanted to hear...there is something grander afoot. And that is the keytarist for The Human League. That's right, keytarist. He plays bass and lead keytar, wears tighter pants than your 15-year-old brother, and struts around like Mick Jagger on stage. That's what we need to see more than anything else.
All the other acts are going to rule too. M83 are here all the way from France to play their brand of dream pop. The Kills' latest album was great and hopefully they will be ripping through its bluesy tracks and throwing in some classics too. Plus Jenny Lewis will be doing her solo stuff and maybe she'll whip out that cover of the Travelling Wilbury's ‘Handle With Care'. What more would anyone need? Oh yeah, tickets.
Well, lucky for ya'll we have a double pass to give away. To enter, just answer this simple question:
This week's question:
Why love The Human League's keytarist?
a) Something to do with the skin-tight pants
b) He plays a fucking guitar combined with a keyboard
c) He, unlike Mick Jagger, plays an actual instrument
d) I hate the ‘80s, and you
Send your answer, name and mailing address to win@threethousand.com.au. Winners will be notified by email. Subscriber only entry. Not a subscriber? WTF?! Sign up here.
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