Keyword results: Carlton
Retail Fireworks and friends
What:
Retail Fireworks and friends
Where:
John Curtin Bandroom, 29 Lygon St (opposite Trades Hall), Carlton
When:
TONIGHT! Thurs Sept 25, doors 8.30pm
How much:
Free, probably
Description:
When bands get to writing their own pull-no-punches pressers, what's left for us, the journalists? It does take a load off, though. Guy Roche on the Retail Fireworks show: "There are some good bands on the bill like My Empires and an altogether less wrist slitty evening of music than we usually get lobbed with.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: sound the horns!
Beaches / Inevitable Orbit / Mark Barrage
What:
Beaches / Inevitable Orbit / Mark Barrage
Where:
John Curtin Bandroom, 29 Lygon St (opposite Trades Hall), Carlton
When:
Fri Aug 29, doors 8.30pm
How much:
Not much, but it's a 3CR fundraiser!
Description:
All girl psych-rock quintet of genius, Beaches, are set to seriously blow-up with a slot at the Meredith Music Festival and debut album dropping in November. Inevitable Orbit is a brand new thing from Hi God People's Julian Williams featuring Francis Plagne and Dion Nania from Panel of Judges.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: A
The Process / Last Gypsys / Family & Friends
What:
The Process / Last Gypsys / Family & Friends
Where:
John Curtin Bandroom, Upstairs, 29 Lygon St, Carlton
When:
Fri Aug 22, doors 9pm
How much:
$8 ish
Description:
The infiltration continues! Faced with a CBD venue shortage and bar owners who feel that an adequate soundscape in their building does not extend to live acts, Melbourne's promoters are finding bar owners with balls further afield. This Friday, introduce yourself to the John Curtin Bandroom, just two metres up Lygon Street, opposite Trades Hall.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: C
Sweet Jelly Roll
What:
Sweet Jelly Roll
Where:
Bella Union, Trades Hall, Cnr Lygon St and Victoria St, Carlton
When:
Sat Aug 23, 9pm
How much:
$10
Description:
Meet the McNutts as they spiral out of control on gin and prozac, get knee deep in glitter and drink salt-rimmed beverages until feelings can't be felt anymore. Sweet Jelly Roll is that night for finger waves, fur and fringe. Itsy Bitsy Rima performs a smokin' bellydance, Miss Samantha Diamond and Ava Jinx "Turning the Lamps Down Low" and guest DJs Dr No and Jim Dandy provide the oil to your kneebones.
Event: Party
Stimulus: C
Giant squid dissection
Remember science class in fifth period? Rushing to your desk after snatching a half-price hot food special, and discovering the surprisingly pukeadelic implications of sausage roll and frog intestines.
Think on a larger scale; 245 kilos of squid - only 30 kilos lighter than the largest giant squid ever found - being attacked (presumably with some sort of giant saw) by scientists.
Michelangelo Antonioni Retrospective
When Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni died within a week of each other almost a year ago, it felt like a failed Punk'd sketch: some ghoulish, almighty Ashton had played a joke on European art cinema in the poorest of taste. If anything, it meant the work of two distinct directors suddenly merged in the popular consciousness into a single, generic art-monster: the dreaded Bergmioni.
RUN Melbourne Museum, The Movement Movement
The Movement Movement. Or: your chance to make like Anna Karina running through the Louvre in Jean Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders. Canadians Jenn Goodwin and Jessica Rowe organise large groups to participate in ‘choreographed jogging expeditions through the world's major cultural institutions.
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