Keyword results: Punk
The Reptiles EP Launch
What:
The Reptiles EP Launch with Teen Archer and Breaker Morant
Where:
The Evelyn, 351 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
When:
Sat Nov 29, doors 9pm
How much:
$10 on the door
Win:
We have 3 double passes and 3 copies of the EP to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘cup-over-balls over knee-over-balls'
Description:
Reptiles are creepy. The fact that the Melbourne zoo has a whole building dedicated to them gives me the willies. It's gross. Luckily The Reptiles are a band of homo sapiens that according to their press release play ‘knee-to-the-balls guitar-driven punk rock'. That's a serious hyphen filled sentence.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: C
Beaches
A paean to freedom and knowing its truth, Beaches' debut is a powerful, sex-driven record smacking of Stooges greatness. Edgeless and heavy, freely oscillating through song forms, and everything done with never-ending feel; Beaches are classic musicians' musicians - light on nothing stupid and heavy on the rest.
Vivian Girls
In addition to sharing the name of one of Melbourne's finest bygone groups, Brooklyn's Vivian Girls sound Australian in other Chapter Music / best indie senses. The trio's head-first, shambling delivery couches a classic handling of melody reminiscent of QLD greats Small World Experience, and there's a joy of fuzz and bubblegum sentiment reminiscent of Adelaide's Hit the Jackpot and Lindsey Low Hand.
Die Roten Punkte
What:
Die Roten Punkte
Where:
New Ballroom, Trades Hall, Cnr Lygon and Victoria Sts, Carlton
When:
NIGHTLY until Sat Oct 11 (no Mondays), doors 8.15pm (7.15pm Sun)
How much:
$17/$24 here
Description:
You won't catch these Germans out for modesty. And you won't catch them out for not starting a punch up with Courtney Love then getting arrested for DUI. Die Toten Punkte topped the European charts, for what it's worth, in 2005 with their pop punk anthem ‘The Best Band in the World'.
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.
The Moondoggies, Don't Be A Stranger
Despite their reputation as coon huntin', sister marryin', mob lynchin' small-minded pricks - rednecks ain't all bad. Hell, us hipsters and gay urban males stole half our wardrobe from them.
Beyond dressin' well, those rednecks know how to ROCK. And you can hear the twang of every check flannelled, working class band from Creedence Clearwater Revival to The Band to the Doobie Brothers on Don't Be A Stranger, the debut from Seattle's Moondoggies.
Transvision Vamp DJ Set!
What:
Transvision Vamp DJ Set!
Where:
Northcote Social Club, 301 High St, Northcote
When:
Next Wed Sept 24, doors 8.30pm
How much:
$10 +BF from here, $15 on the door
Win:
Thanks To NSC, we have 2 dbl passes to give away! To enter email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘I don't want your money honey, I want your passout stamp'
Description:
As we all know, Wendy James, formerly of Transvision Vamp, is the best woman in the world. As we didn't know until Leon from the NSC emailed us (propelling our office into a state of ecstatic disarray seen only once before, when Modular asked us to ‘help' them at the Daft Punk show), she is doing a DJ tour of Australia.
Event: DJs
Stimulus: sound the horns!
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