Keyword results: MIAF
Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
What:
Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
Where:
Becks Bar, Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
When:
TONIGHT 9pm, Fri Oct 24 and Sat Oct 25, 10pm.
How much:
$33.75 / $45 here
Win:
We have 2 dbl passes for the Friday show (10pm) to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'Obama gonna know my name too'
Description:
Toshi Reagon (NYC) is a deadset legend. We've said it before. But, having seen her new show last night, we're saying it again. She does retro funk, R&B, rock, folk and blues and she is mind-blowingly good. Plus she's funny, and not in an annoying way. She'll be dissing the new Qantas super plane, then she'll say something like, "When Obama gets elected he gonna feel like he knows my NAME.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: C
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
When Patti Smith moved to NYC in 1967 she said she was going to "kick poetry's ass". Obviously it was not only poetry's butt that had the boot coming. But how Patti got from the pig swamps of Jersey to godmother of punk is a story we all need to hear.
Filmmaker Steven Sebring brings us a document, narrated by Smith, charting eleven years in her life - travels, concerts, spoken word performances, painting, photography, writing and thinking.
Toshi Reagan and BIGLovely
What:
Toshi Reagan and BIGLovely
Where:
Beck's Bar, Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
When:
Wed Oct 22 and Thu 23 Oct, doors 9pm
Fri Oct 24 and Sat Oct 25, doors 10pm
How much:
$30 / $40 or group (8+) $36 from here
Description:
If people are saying things like 'pure aural electricity' about your show, then you're on the right track. And Toshi Reagan has been on that track since they put ashphalt down. She does retro funk, R&B, rock, folk and blues. Plus she's funny, which is more than can be said for most of the artists in these genres (except for James Brown, but that wasn't deliberate).
Event: Bands
Stimulus: sound the horns!
21:100:100
Never sure how to tell your Merzbow from your Masona, your Jandek from your Scott Walker, or understood why John Zorn is a big deal? Don't have a clue who any of these people are?
Sound art, drone, noise, improvisation, avant-garde: confusing terms that can baffle us regular folk and leave us asking, ‘Will it be one of those wrist-slitty gigs again?'
As with any conundrum, it's best to turn to a professional.
MIAF Artist Lounge
This year the door of MIAF's Artist Lounge will be bulging at the hinges with VIP-mystery. The bar staff are well prepared for those without tickets who will turn up salivating and garbling words like, "leeet uuuus iiiin" with a stinging look of wanker-evil in their eyes. But don't let the mountain of envious bodies clawing at the carpet hold you up.
Mattt Bags for MIAF
Plenty of artists rescue stuff from the garbage. In fact, they might as well start listing themselves in the Yellow Pages next to Mini Skips. 'We drag your crap away and exhibit it at ACCA! Come see it again! Free champagne and floor talks.'
Anyway, the amazing Matt Thomson (of Mattt Bags) takes this worthy endeavour one step further by incorporating used goods into his products.
Panther's Exercises in Happiness
What:
Panther's Exercises in Happiness
Where:
Tape Space, Lvl 1, 81 Bouverie St (cnr Queensbury St), Carlton
When:
Sat Oct 11 and Sun 12 Oct; Sat Oct 18 and Sun Oct 19, Sat Oct 25, 2-8pm daily
How much:
$5 on the door
Description:
It's generally regarded that we're all here to find happiness. There are lucky people who have found it at some point in their lives: King Julians who moved it-moved it with the ladies in this film clip; the Mars Probe when he found ice on Mars. For robot or Rusta King, happiness is possible - so suggest a Melbourne-based duo called Panther.
Event: Exhibition
Stimulus: A
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