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PINK REASON @ NORFOLK BASEMENT, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4

I'm writing this 40,000 feet in the air but curiously, my subject matter lies at the other end of the altitudinal end - strictly underground in fact - both literally and figuratively. Yes, it was Friday night, the sun had sunk into its ocean horizon like a fiery ship, and in its dark damp wake a peppering of people strode purposefully past the lights of Fremantle's main street. Soon they'd reached it - a stairwell, a beshadowed door, and the glowing entrance to a subterranean cavern of wonders unknown.

Its walls were rocky and rough, punctuated by mysterious artworks and beer taps, one's path lit only by drooping stalactites of fairy lights; and nestled in an alcove was the Silver Bulletin, a mythical creature known for its distinctive call. Known to mortal men as Camryn Rothenbury, he cast strains of near-pained vocals and frank lyricism over twangelic nylon-string guitar which, while robustly delivered, threatenened to fragment and disintegrate into the cosmos at any moment. It's strangely reminiscent of post-Floyd Syd Barret; lyrics both poetic and awkwardly blunt spun with a sleepy conviction over strummed progressions which are at once amateurish, out of tune, and perfectly executed.

Tailing the stirling silver of Mr. Rothenbury were a troupe of master hypnotists known to cave-dwellers as Mental Powers. Eschewing the stage in favour of a floorward psychedelic coroboree with men and instruments littered about the place, they slithered into their entrancing tunnel of math rock percussion grooves, subtly delicious riffery, wailing, half-pawpaw-shaped-metal-boat-thing-hitting and recorder tooting. What elevates Mental Powers above so many shambolic experimental jam-bands is that instead of brewing in a pool of intoxicated aimlessness, their jams have a depth, a complexity, and a direction - wild explorations gradually reveal themselves to be bound by ingenious arrangements, and swell and ebb into a magnificent four-dimensional shape. Every Mental Powers show improves upon the last - the addition of Steve of Mink Mussel Creek/Whalehammer on four-and-six-string certainly hasn't hurt - they are without a doubt one of the most impressive and exciting experimental bunches around

SPLASH! Lakes, the one-man outfit with a deceptively plural name, dove into his dark underground pool, a rust-coloured slush gritty with fuzz and overflowing with clumps of bobbing wooden doof. 'Pleasant' is not an adjective that should be seen within a twenty mile radius of Lakes. The man takes guitar-and-drum-machine sonic sandpaper to your brain and scrapes it all about whilst spitting a low sort of Johnny Rotten-meets-Snowman vocal into your eyeballs, twisted dirgey folk melodies that evoke the distant deathly shanties of ghost-skeleton convicts dragging their ball and chain through a nautical nightmare. Lakes' latest release will make a great stocking filler this christmas for great-aunt Gladys, presuming you really want to give great-aunt Gladys an aneurism. Lakes is nevertheless brilliant at what he does - for the most part- there was a certain apathy to the performance which occasionally rendered his noisemaking more unconvincing than engaging.

But tonight's subterranean stars were Pink Reason, fresh out of Minnesota and tonight consisting of Kevin DeBroux (PR's only permanent member) Matt Whitehurst (Psychedelic Horseshit) and Ryan Jewell (Jandek). In notoriously unpredictable fashion, they set off first into a simple acoustic tune before tumbling into a quasi-latino surf-guitar jam and then a wave of freakish noise which would mount into a tumultuous magenta storm, louder and fiercer than the wet squall now raging outside above ground, before subsiding again to a soft tranquil trickle. Not only was the setlist varied, but the individual songs warped, contorted, reimagined, so as to hardly resemble the original versions - 2 minute-ish garage-punk thrashabout 'Borrowed Time' was transformed into an extended, semiacoustic, ultra-slowed epic, before dissolving into more abstract noise. Drummer Jewell was perhaps the real highlight, manipulating his kit in endless obscure ways and transforming the set's percussive element into a bewildering soundscape into its own right, a dazzling mixture of dexterity, stamina and imagination. DeBroux extracted waterfalls of crumbling fuzzy organ throughout the set's last piece, a hypnotic trudging cyclical riff, brought to a head and exploding as an instrumental geyser, a fittingly ambigous end to the Pink Reason's disorienting psychedelic patchwork. The cozy confines of the Norfolk Basement had presented us with a night of the underground indeed, but one that placed us upon its dark shoulders and lifted us into the clouds, swirling and sparking with a phantasmagoric assortment of sounds, wrapping us in its pink cotton haze of curiosity until long after the sunship had risen to sail aloft another day.


 

Simone and Girlfunkle

The glorious harmony vocal wonder that are Simone and Girlfunkle have been recording and are making material that can easily be described as gorgeous and ornate towers of tunesmithery.. or even.. gushing rivulets of song! The next chance you have to enjoy Simone and Girlfunkle is on September 27 at the Newport with Russian Winters and Boys Boys Boys.  Their myspace

Special Events

HUSSLE HUSSLE at MOJOS BAR!

TONIGHT!!!!!!

 

TONIGHT!!!!!

 

TONIGHT!!!!!

 

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Jebediah play first WA show in a billion years!

Yes!!! Gosh!!!

It's going to be held at Mojos Bar on September 16!!

Entry is a bikini sized $15 and there will be no presale tickets so get there for 8pm start because this will sell out quicker than a Harpoon could pierce and then tug at your heart!!! Supporting on the night will be the Preytells and the Leap Year.

Click on their pic to get to their myspace!

 

Transients and Resort play next Thursday!

Yepp.. Thursday, September 17 at Mojos Bar be sure to catch the Transients and Resort double header. Transients having won awards ranging from best roast chicken to the national 'most high fidelity lovers' title are certain to impress with their succulent tone. You may have seen Resort at any number of international Resorts as their pool side electro pop is truly allowing them the jet setting lifestyle. Paty times are garaunteed! DJs on the night are J Kash w/ MC Amani + Misslie and MC Amani visiting the sista massive vibes. Entry is $15 from 8pm. Godspeed!!

Justin Townes Earl plays one W.A. metro show

Yep the son of Steve Earl is playing a sideshow to his appearance on September 27 at the Wave Rock Weekender.

Catch him on Monday, September 28 at Mojos Bar!

tickets for this show here

his tunes here

 

Stems last ever shows at Mojos Bar!

Yes

Conceive of it!

believe it

grieve it

receive it

Attend it!!!!


 

Gig Listing

Hussle Hussle at Mojos this weekend

Friday, September 11, Hip Hop in the House! This month’s Hussle Hussle sees some of the city’s most illest mc’s and dj’s on the Mojo’s stage.. fresh off the back of dropping ’Eat a Rat 3’ and ready to give the people another serve, one of Freo’s finest, Slackjaw ..solid grooves from the incredibly fat 4 piece hip hop/funk outfit Cloud Kollectiv feat. special guest vocalists Able, Joe Black and Samantha Ray .. ever ready to rumble, the lady with the dope flows and honeyed hooks, Rythm Infinit .. on the vinyl dropping heavy classics, DJ Bennyman , and bringing in the brave nu wave, selecta Simmo T. $10/$7 conc. 8pm-1am. Free entry before 9pm!!

Discordant Natures

Spectrum Project Space
Friday, 11 September till Sunday, 27 September

Discordant Natures is an exhibition of new installations by Spectrum Project Space artists-in-residence, Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang and Janet Carter. The installation works will explore the sense of discomfort and unease with which we deal with our bodies in contemporary culture.

Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang brings sculpture and objects into an ensemble of work that occupies the space with a disturbingly broken sense of presence. Using a seemingly uninteresting everyday object as the subject of her scrutiny (a pair of underwear), she raises questions on the discordant and fragmented way with which we approach our feminine body, sexuality and identity.

Janet Carter's work takes inspiration from queer and feminist theories of the body as 'Other', as objects, and as constrained, bound or disciplined by this 'Otherness'. This exhibition sees Carter's work take the form of an immersive installation combining sculptural forms created from bound inner tubes, and video works which illustrate the performed act of binding those 'bodies'.

Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang and Janet Carter are both Perth based emerging artists and will be completing a residency at Spectrum Project Space in August 2009. Wang's work has appeared in several exhibitions in Western Australia including her solo exhibition, Empathy, in 2005. She is an award-winning artist with works in the Edith Cowan University Collection, the Burswood Collection and private collections in Australia. She has also recently been awarded the prestigious Young Artists with Artitude prize. Carter's work has also appeared in several exhibitions, her most recent being an installation as part of this years Hatched at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Opening: 6pm, Friday 11th September, 2009
Gallery opening hours: Wed – Sun 2 - 6pm

pool (no water) by Mark Ravenhill

 PICA
 Friday, 11 September till Sunday, 27 September

 WEST AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE!

An artist who has risen from obscurity to celebrity, invites her old friends to luxuriate by her new pool. They have struggled to make a living from the art world, while she has achieved international success. They are all back together once again and the party is in full swing. A horrific accident occurs to the hostess and pushes the group to make a bold decision. Could the famous artist lying in a coma become their greatest work of all? Is this their one chance for success?

Inspired by a true story, this shocking new play by British playwright Mark Ravenhill (author of Shopping and F**king) exposes professional rivalry, jealousies and the innermost thoughts nobody wants to confess.

Featuring The HotBed Ensemble: Arielle Gray, Natalie Holmwood, Jacinta John, Will O’Mahony
and Kazimir Sas

Director Adam Mitchell
Set & Costume Designer Alicia Clements
Lighting Designer Trent Suidgeest
Sound Designer Ben Collins

“compulsively watchable” The Times

"Ravenhill’s work satisfies and disturbs on many levels” Curtain Up, London

Bookings: BOCS Ticketing, www.bocsticketing.com.au or 9484 1133.

Please note: pool (no water) contains strong language, smoking and drug references.

Good Little Fox :: 'Darkside' single launch

Fly By Night
Friday September 11

Good little fox launch their latest single, 'Darkside,' with very special guests (and damned good-looking people) Luna Parade and Tree.

Capacity is pretty limited, so get down early!

Destination? presents Santiago & Bushido (Chicago)

Ambar
Friday September 11

 

  In 2000, Chris began working his way up through the channels of Chicago’s nightlife. Within one year of playing gigs, he proved himself a natural and secured a Friday night residency for House Arrest Events, one of Chicago’s premier house nights. His 2007 debut on the emerging Potty Mouth Music label set the tone for a massive year that would see tech-tinged house dominate the underground dance music scene. Whether performing solo on the decks or producing in the studio with Bushido, Santiago puts a brash, ballsy spin on a sound he continues to redefine. The production duo rose to new heights in January 2008 by topping Beatport.com’s list of “Most Downloaded Artists” for that month. This was followed up with the smashing release of the “For What EP” receiving critical praise and massive support from DJs across the globe including Armin Van Burin, Tiesto, Jesse Rose, and Johnny Fiasco.

With their genre busting sound all over the charts, be on the dancefloor for another Destination? exclusive and part of Santiago’s first Australian Tour!

Major support from Signal Drivers, Grantley Hyde, James Francis, Nathan Francis, Aarin F, Suric and Thirteen.

Doors from 10pm.

Afrodisia @ Mojo's Bar

Saturday, September 12, the second Saturday of the month, sees the return of Afrodisia. As you’ve come to anticipate the Askari Afrobeat Orchestra will perform and gosh can these guys jam out complex yet simply joyous afro beat grooves and tunes. Special guest dancer Miss Lully will Lull all into a higher state of sensuality! DJ Charlie Bucket will lay down afrobeat afro disco and high life records for all the heads and shoes in the room. Entry is $10 from 8pm – the night runs until 1am.

Vintage Sale

North Perth Lesser Hall-24 View st
Saturday, 12 September

For more info check out the Facebook

EQUUS by Sir Peter Shaffer

His Majesty's Theatre
Saturday, 12 September till  Saturday, 26 September

Sir Peter Shaffer’s seminal work is presented in Perth in startling new light for the first time in over thirty years. EQUUS rocked the conservative majority when it stampeded the London stage in 1973, prompting outrage and awe in equal measure. Today it remains as potent, confronting and astounding as ever. A not-to-be missed event, an intimate drama of epic proportions, EQUUS uncovers our darkest secrets and deepest desires as Shaffer weaves a masterful thread through humanity, a thread that binds us all and draws us closer to the truth of who and what we really are. A psychiatrist is transformed by his patient, a boy is transformed by his passion and the waking world is transformed by our dreams.

EQUUS is the powerful and provocative story of a stable boy and a psychiatrist who seek to understand the sexual and religious mystery that leads to a climactic and unbelievable event. Revived in 2007, and not professionally produced outside London’s West End and New York’s Broadway theatre districts for nearly 30 years, multi-award winning EQUUS is a contemporary classic.

“One weekend I was driving with a friend through the bleak countryside. We passed a stable. Suddenly he was reminded by it of an alarming crime, which he had heard about recently at a dinner party in London. He knew only one horrible detail, and his complete mention of it could barely have lasted a minute – but it was enough to arouse in me an intense fascination...” Sir Peter Shaffer

EQUUS stars William McInnes (SeaChange, Blue Heelers, Unfinished Sky), one of Australia’s most popular stage and screen actors, in the pivotal role as psychiatrist Martin Dysart and the extraordinarily talented Khan Chittenden (Dangerous, Clubland, All Saints, Packed to the Rafters) as stable boy Alan Strang, with choreography from Queensland’s Gavin Webber (Dance North, Underground, Roadkill, Lawn). Khan filmed his first US based film Endless Bummer last year in Ventura, California.

WHEN: Previews: Saturday 12 September and Monday 14 September 2009
Season: Tuesday 15 to Saturday 26 September 2009
BOOKINGS:
Book at BOCS Ticketing on 9484 1133, www.bocsticketing.com.au or in person at BOCS outlets
Teachers complimentary when booking groups 10+
Phone BOCS Groups 9321 6831

Lucid Dreaming

The Velvet Lounge
Saturday, September 12

Underground House Techno Progressive and Minimal!

This Months LD welcomes SOLATEK (Open Recordings, Cairns) to Perth and sees the return of LD Favourites Progress Inn, Kid Deep, Matty Moon and Matt Wright!!

Artists featured =

Progress Inn : 12-1 (Obstacles Recordings)
Solatek: 11-12 (Open Recordings)
Kid Deep: 10-11 (Democracy, Lucid Dreaming)
Matt Wright: 9-10 (Habitat)
VJ Matty Moon (Sonic Escape)

Lucid Dreaming Academy: 7-9
Ft Olivier C vs El Dario

September's LD sees the return of Progress Inn (Obstacles Rec) & Matt Wright, fresh from their tour of Europe, Worldly wise and ready to step up to the plate, these LD favourites are always on the money and know how to rock a party!

We also welcome back Kid Deep! After playing an unforgettable set at the June LD (all music lovers would of payed a lot to witness). We look forward to what Perth’s best kept secret comes up with next!

VJ Matty Moon, Mattys Visuals give the perfect ambience to an already solid night. As well as being a great VJ, Matty runs the Electroganic night @ The Swan Lounge, and has organised many outdoor events (Earth Dance) Don’t miss his EYE CANDY.

Last but certainly far from least, LD is proud to present SOLATEK (Open Recordings) Straight from Cairns.

Sol has played at almost every festival on the east coast of Oz including Rainbow Serpent, Earthcore, Exodus, Superfreak, Maitreya, Earthfreq, Phonoscope and an extensive list of smaller events.

In recent years and especially after joining the Open records team, the Solatek sound has focussed more on the minimal side of the electronic music, playing a unique style of chunky, glitchy, twisted, progressive techno with a cheeky edge. This is also part of the concept of the compilation he is compiling with Paul Abad.

FREE ENTRY
MIX CD GIVE AWAYS

The Ghost Hotel EP Launch Party

Amplifier Bar
Saturday, 12 September

The Ghost Hotel is coming soon to a haunt near you with Umpire, Russian Winters and The Sean Pollard Band

The Well-Tuned Harp (Recital)

Darlington Hall
Sunday, 13 September

Hills Composer Premiered in Darlington Harp Recital

Perth harpist Catherine Ashley will present a harp recital in the Darlington town hall at 4 pm on Sunday the thirteenth of September. Included in the program will be a new composition by hills composer Angus Barnacle. Angus' music studies began in the unusually asymmetric music room at Darlington primary and will continue later this year with a masters at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague studying with Dutch composer Martijn Padding. The harp recital and premiere has been organised as a fund raising event for Angus' masters study and will include works selected by him and Catherine from composers including Dusek, Andres, Salsedo, Bach, and a couple of French sonnets set by Caplet and sung by Caitlin Cassidy.

The new composition by Angus; 3 to 81 With Temporally Obstreperous Interpolations of the Root Surrogate, requires careful tuning of the harp using natural harmonics derived from just one of the bass strings. The special tuning combined with the rich acoustic of the Darlington town hall will provide an opportunity for harp lovers to savour the broad spectrum of timbres available from the harp in a uniquely lucid manner. There will also be tea and cake available after the concert.

Tomas Ford at Mojos Bar!!!!

Sunday, September 13, international hood ornament for the ridiculous and supremely entertaining Tomas Ford returns from National tour to play Mojos Bar! Supports include DOS4GW (dubstep), Byron Bard, Antipoet, Mark Storen, (Filthy, Tom Waits-ish Caberet), Gabrielle Everall, Simon Cox, Zack Adams (acoustic wielding musical comedian), Scott-Patrick Mitchell , Janet Jackson, Obscotch (sound art computer noisenerd). Entry is $10 from 5pm.

The Moon Sundays

This Sunday, September 13, catch the Co Lab Jam band with MC Mathas and Able. These nights welcome audience participation from varying degrees. Some may want to breakdance and others may want to bob their heads every 32nd beat while slugging ling island ice teas. Either way feel welome. The live show kicks off at 8pm and entry’s free!

Wide Open Mic at Mojos

Monday, September 14, performing at Mojo's for the Wide open mic will be a bunch of ambitious cats who will simply rock up on the night. This night is hosted by Justin Walshe – 0408 755 233 . Justin and the crew that run the night love all kinds of performances. So whether you’re the new George, Julian Clarey, Elton John or Chopper Reid your act is eagerly awaited! Here’s your or somebody you know(s) opportunity to perform live just call Justin. These nights kick off at 8PM with about four acts each hour till 12. Entry is free..

Perth Jazz Society

THE IDEA OF NORTH

Monday 14 September 2009 @ 8:00pm

The Charles Hotel, 509 Charles St. North Perth

Admission Members $25 Concession $28 Non-members $30

SYDNEY’S international award winning jazz vocal group is coming to Perth for a one night only performance at the PJS. Weaving pure magic with just four voices, by the encore you’ll have forgotten that’s all the artists use!
The accolades keep coming for Australia’s premier contemporary a cappella quartet. With a slew of awards both national and international, these four vocalists push the boundaries of what the human voice can do whilst they continue to astound and engage audiences across the globe with their warmth, humour and impeccable harmonies. The evening’s performance will allow you to experience for yourself this `quartet of groovers who rescued instrument free singing from the 1980s’ (Herald Sun).
The Idea Of North is regarded by peers and critics alike as a world class musical act. Their superb musicianship and outstanding arrangements embracing jazz, soul and gospel music, together with an amazing blend of their own award winning originals with traditional and contemporary songs, have marked them as an act not to be missed.

Acoustic Cafe at Mojos Bar.

Tuesday, September 15, features new installment to the Mojos early week. It’s Acoustic café. Performing will be The Whistling Dogs, The Lonely Brothers, The Lazy Railway and James Michael Thompson! Entry is $5 from 8pm.

Going Solo

Wednesday, September 16, at the Moon the artists Going Solo include Damian Robert, Dean Mile End and Danielle MacDonald. This week the artists will go on at 8pm. Entry to restaurants is always free!

 

Little Creatures Loft

Friday week, September 18, while at the Little Creatures Loft enjoying all the little things that make the venue such a big success catch One Tiger Down, Bulletproof Gypsies and Kim McDonald. Entry to this show is $8 from 8pm.

the facebook!

Come Hither Noise

Fremantle Arts Centre
Friday, 31 July till Sunday, 20 September

COME HITHER NOISE
an exhibition of sound works

1 August - 20 September
opening 31 July from 6:30pm
to be opened by Chrissie Parrott, choreographer

Mark Brown, John Conomos, Richard Crow, Ross Manning, Thomas Meadowcroft, Elvis Richardson, Sam Smith, Sriwhana Spong.

Opening night co-presented with Love Is My Velcocity, featuring a collaborative performance by Chris Cobilis, Craig McElhinney, Traianos Pakioufakis.

COME HITHER NOISE is an exhibition of sound works presented as part of the 9th Totally Huge New Music Festival, in association with Tura New Music, 10-20 September 2009

rsvp via email: rsvp@fremantle.wa.gov.au

The Once Upon a Time in the West Tour

+1 Records present
The ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST... Tour
October 1st-3rd

THE DEVIL RIDES OUT (WA)
"Perth’s premier exponents of balls’n’all rock’n’roll grit’n’grime" -
Drum Media
+ THE BLACKWATER FEVER (QLD)
"Their raw sound exemplifies the essence of blues-rock" - Time Off
+ BLACK MUSTANG (QLD)
"One of Brisbane's finest rock acts and one that should never be
missed" - The Dwarf

Thursday October 1st - Players Bar Mandurah
BUY TICKETS NOW: http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=29312&ref=moshtix

Friday October 2nd - Norfolk Basement, Fremantle w/ Luke Dux (solo)
BUY TICKETS NOW: http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=29313&ref=moshtix

Saturday October 3rd - Amplifier Bar, Perth w/ Genghis
BUY TICKETS NOW: http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=29311&ref=moshtix

 

 

 

Abbe May plays Mojos Bar with the Joe Kings!

Yes!

It's happenig October 16!

Maybe it's true that rock and roll will save the day?

Stay tuned!

iNFeCTeD 'crawlspace remastered' + remixed re-release / CD Launch

Hyde Park Hotel
Saturday, 31 st October

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of their seminal debut album 'crawlspace', West Australian metal pioneers iNFeCTeD have remastered it for re-release on Prime Cuts Music through Riot! Distribution in October.

The 2009 version of 'crawlspace' features all new artwork and a brand new bonus track; an industrial re-mix of 'Assimilate' by Andrew Wright, the original producer of 'crawlspace' and newest member of the band on keyboards/samples.

Presented by Western Front and Anger Management, the band will reunite to launch the album and perform it live at The Hyde Park Hotel Back Room, North Perth, on Saturday October 31st, 2009.

Supports for the evening are:
PSYCHONAUT
NAILS OF IMPOSITION
HUMAN EXTINCTION PROJECT
JUPITER ZEUS (ex-Nebula / Moth)

The event will be door sales only, with entry $15 or $25 with a copy of the CD.

For more info on iNFeCTeD visit htttp://www.myspace.com/infectedaustralia

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