Yamaha Felt Hammer
What:
Yamaha Felt Hammer
Where:
The Toff in Town, Lvl 2, Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
March 12 - 24
How much:
Depends on show, go to The Toff site for ticket info.
Image:
We were going to run a picture of a piano, but this one of Sophie Brous is so Streisand-bling-tastic that we went with it.
Win:
We have a double pass to the Muscles piano show on Saturday night! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘chubby '70s concert halls suck'
Sound the call. Haters of chubby ‘70s concert halls and ‘shhh' jazz clubs can breath a sigh of relief when Yamaha Felt Hammer opens tonight. Felt Hammer is the first of long line of tri-annual ‘mini festivals' where a Yamaha C1 Grand Piano comes to the Toff In Town to host some of our best-loved local* and international tinklers in our favourite intimate inner-city bar hang.
It brings together a superhot line-up including Muscles in acoustic mode (gasp), New Buffalo, Melbourne's most wanted (and Felt Hammer founder) Sophie Brous with piano god Paul Grabowsky, electroacoustician Cor Fuhler (Holland) with Oren Ambarchi, celtic popstar Rachel Unthank (UK), Japanese pop heros Lullatone, an evening of Anthony Pateras (including an amazing new duo with Agents of Abhorrance's Max Kohane), James Rushford playing Morton Feldman, Jane Badler with Sir, and an opening night party show boasting members of every local band that we could care to see live, including Art of Fighting, Architecture In Helsinki, Macromantics, Little Red, Ned Collette, Sly Hats, Guy Blackman, Ground Components and Lucksmiths, Hot Little Hands and Three Thousand.* Set up a bed in the Toff stairwell, there's no need to leave for the next 12 days.
*Penny is playing tonight and if you want to see someone do something they haven't tried since 1996, while surrounded by actually talented people and wearing a hat made of sequins, then you should buy a ticket.
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Won't hurt a bit
Keywords: The Toff in Town
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