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By: Lionel Bitchie
Date: 22nd Feb 06
Venue: Bar
Meal: Where everybody knows your name
What:
Blame it on the Rain
Where:
Misty – 3-5 Hosier Lane, Murmur – 17 Warburton Lane, Robot – 12 Bligh Place, Troika – 106 Little Lonsdale St
When:
Begins February 23, 7.30pm, and runs for ten days
Milli Vanilli’s 1990 ousting as lip-synching frauds inadvertently sent shockwaves through the MTV community, and temporarily silenced Ford Capri cassette decks worldwide.
Sixteen years later, their memory lives on in the form of Blame it on the Rain, a ten-day exhibition curated by the new collaborative venture, Hell Yeah Projects.
Four of Melbourne’s finest drinkeries – Misty, Murmur, Robot and Troika - will host the event, baring their walls/floors/benches/souls to feature work by 19 of Australia’s sassiest creative wunderkinda. The exhibition will be kick-started on 23 February with a party spanning all four venues. You can start wherever you like, and hop/skip/stupor your way between the bars. Just don’t get shickered too early – at least wait until you’ve seen all the art.
Works in photography, illustration and even toy making will be on show, and given people are generally more agreeable when they’re liquored up, it’s handy to know all works are for sale.