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Power out show tonight!
Playing at POWER OUT presented by Onetrickpony will be:
Fall Electric
The Ghost Of 29 Megacycles
These Shipwrecks
Taco Leg
Rabbit Island
POWER OUT challenges some of Perth's undergound musicians to adapt their music without the aid of one of its most essential ingredients: Electricity. Onetrickpony presents this one-off event to take music back to a time without microphones, amplifiers or effects. The end product will be something very special, very intimate and definately worth your $10.
Tonight at Spectrum
Starts at 8pm.
Free Beer / Wine / Giveaways provided by BRAVE NEW WORLD Clothing.
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Felicity Groom
As well as opening for Tame Impala at the Freo Arts Centre this evening Felicity Groom is playing two shows as a part of the One Movement Festival showcase next weekend at the Espalanade with the Black Black Smoke on Saturday October 17 during the day and then she’s off to play another performance also ith the Black Black Smoke in wolfe lane in the middle of the city later that night.
The following weekend catch Felicity Groom and the Black Black Smoke on Saturday October 24 at Amplifier Bar with the Silents, Red Shoes Boy and the Atlas Mountains.
Simone and Girlfunkle
Next few shows for these harmony enfused ladies are;
10th Oct @ Settler’s Bar Margaret River w Russian Winters and Boys Boys Boys
16th Oct @ Hydey front room w/ Catherine Traicos
18th Oct @ the Velvet Lounge w/ Split Seconds
Their myspace
Warp artist Clark plays Perth early in November!
Ho ho ho golly goodness!
Yeah it's true..
Check this space next week for details!
In the meantime chck his mad directions here
Grim Fandango play Mojos Bar
Yes. we at Cool Perth Night's are big fans of Grim Fandango so we just had to put this gig way up top here.
Grim Fandango are plying Mojos October 11 with Chainsaw Hookers, The Sure-Fire Midnights and the Spitfires.
The show kicks off at the regular Sunday time of 6PM.
Live Reviews with Lyndon Blue
TRACKSUIT CD LAUNCH @ ROCKET ROOM, SATURDAY OCTOBER 3
As NASA prepares to launch a Centaur Rocket into the surface of the moon, another portentous projectile is being primed; another launch, but one whose targets are simply the auditory craters on either side of your head. Tonight, local Rock-with-a-capital-R merchants Tracksuit set their new single ‘Tough Love’ on its fortissimo trajectory, a rough and tumble tune in the key of T-minus 3, 2, 1…
Oh! You Pretty Things are the electrified field of clouds we blast through first - at times wispy, dreamy and delicate, at others dark, dense, unleashing fierce lightning storms. Sultry ballads such as ‘Boulevard’ drift across your mind like a beautiful stranger ambling past the frosted-up windows of a downtown bar, before the wrath of a pounding rocker like ‘Desert,’ a grinding meditation on a powerhouse riff, strikes you down. There’s a focus on groove, chemistry, musicianship and soul that tends to belong to bygone days, but nevertheless sounds timeless; a curious meld of raucous instrumental stylings and the jazzy croon of Mei Lim results in some kind of real-life daydream in which a Motown diva is jamming with Led Zeppelin in a tin shed in the Nullabor decorated with Christmas lights, or something. Whatever it is, you should go and see and hear it.
Onwards and upwards, The Autumn Isles float down to shower us in their crisp, deciduous tunes, smooth sixties harmonies and buoyant hooks, catchy as those of Rex Hunt. The Autumn Isles probably won’t change your life or the course of modern music, but they may well brighten your night with a beacon of classic, unadulterated powerpop sprinkled with adrenalized guitar solos and a certain garage-rock sensibility.
Our rocketship takes a quick detour to the great solar orb, whereupon strum The Sun Orchestra, previously known as Circuits of The Sun – who tonight wove one of the worst genres of modern music, country, into a gorgeous, reflective, inventive and nuanced duvet of delightment, complete with mandolin and lap-steel. Their first song was admittedly their best; minimal, mesmerizing, mellifluous – but if the music’s inspiration ever waned, our interest was maintained by a live-art spectacle on stage, wherein an artist stood behind a tall backlit fabric screen, stitching thread into it, painting it with a psychedelic visual buffet, enacting a narrative of creativity, start to finish, in real-time. It was really quite brilliant, the sort of peculiar, ingenious initiative that should always be encouraged.
And finally we arrived at Tracksuit, who like the apparel of their appellation, are sweaty, tight, undecorative and familiar. A tracksuit-clad doll joins the three-piece in the room’s velvetine spacepod as they pummel their way across a lively string of tunesl; the rock is straightforward; in my view too straightforward to be particularly distinctive, memorable or engaging, but the gusto of the delivery is undeniable. We’re decked out with free glow sticks from some wandering glow-stick-benefactors and cognitively lubricated from the evening’s jugs of ale, and Tracksuit grow increasingly danceable and merry; their closing track ‘Who’s Feeling Fine?’ is a rollicking chunk of feel-good punkabilly that might get even the most stubborn foot tapping. Guitarist/vocalist Steve Hensby, also of the Sun Orchestra, goes about his rocking business with valiant
fervour, before the band finally collapses into a loud silence and the rocketship dissolves. Back on Earth we bask in the cosmic afterglow, peering at the heavens and the cloud of explosive dust left in the rocking rocket’s wake.
Steady Eye with Tahlia Palmer
Melbourne used to have a kicking goth scene. St Kilda’s Crystal Ballroom was the main haunt of emerging post-punk/goth bands in the late 70’s/early 80’s, including The Boys Next Door, Nick Cave’s first band. Herion was big, Siouxsie and the Banshees were big, and punks and Goths mingled in a beautifully melancholic party atmosphere. Or so I would imagine.
Since then, the Gothic culture has turned into a myriad of sub-genres, due to the amalgamation of other youth cultures, as well as the invention of new drugs, new styles of music, film, and of course, the internet. Traditional Goths still exist, but they’re very hard to find. And I’ve seen very few here in Melbourne.It would seem that most Goths from the 80’s in Melbourne died, grew out of their styles, or opened vintage clothing stores.
There are a few goth nightclubs around Melbourne, all playing your standard goth hits: Depeche Mode, Marilyn Manson, Placebo, Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Cure etc… Although, I’ve never really understood how The Cure’s most popular tracks are so well loved by Goth kids. “Close To Me” and “Love Cats” are really really really happy, in music and lyrical content.
The 21 different types of Goth (refer to http://www.blackwaterfall.com/viewall.php for pictures) come together in their cliquey circles, lamely dancing together as the walls of their individuality crumble around them, soaking the already ready weak mortar of their subculture in alcohol and drugs that make them happy for a few hours. New bands in Melbourne that fall under the goth/industrial tag play at these clubs sometimes and their friends kind of like them and they might have a cousin who works in a record store in Adelaide who stocks their first record but their t-shirts are poorly designed by the only member of the group who stuck it out at tafe long enough to get a qualification. Any local bands with a following are just rehashing music and concepts that cool 20, 15 or 10 years ago, and have very few new ideas to speak of. To my mind, that equals shit.
There are apparently 12812 members of “Melbourne Goth Forum”. The website hosts annual get togethers, where those of the gothic persuasion can meet up for a fun night of socialising and networking. WHAT? And all the information, and the captions from last year’s photos, is written in a crappy “creepy” red font on a black background. Fuck you guys. You’ve fucked everything up by only being good at learning grungy Photoshop techniques from internet tutorials, and jerking off over Suicide Girls, and not taking any decent drugs. What would Nick Cave think? He’s seen you on the street and he’s not a fan.
So to sum it up, Goth was cool when it first happened. Bands from that era still rule- and the first wave of bands influences by were also pretty cool- but this rehashing bullshit, and the awful, awful evolution over the last few years has seen the subculture turn into a messy pile of corsets, pinstripes, and coloured dreadlocks, a group of people a mere parody of themselves.
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HUSSLE HUSSLE
Friday 9th October 09 @ Mojo’s Bar, North Freo.. 8pm til 1 am.. $10/ $7 conc...free before 9pm.
This month at Hussle Hussle, one of Freo’s favourite live electronic acts, Resort, bring in the spring with their buttery beats. Combining keys, violin, original grooves and gorgeous vocals, this trio’s highly danceable set electrofies. On the jazz fusion tip, vivacious songstress Soda lays down playful, soulful vocals over laidback beats spun by hip hop dj Prez Juan. Rythm Infinit, the lady who spits a hundred words/beats per minute, will have you gettin’ your back into it.. Top shotta Deruki selecting the heaviest of fat wobbling beats to bounce your booty to, and Simmo T, man of many bpm’s, on the bangin’ mystery mix ..
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Naik 'In The Shadow of Thunder Mountain' Album Launch
The Funk Club (Upstairs Leederville Hotel)
Friday October 9th
Assembly Line (Live), Diger Rokwell (Live), Ta-ku, Charlie Bucket.
Tickets available Monday 21st September through heatseeker.com.au and usual outlets (Planet, Mills, etc)
$10 + bf
Cool Perth NIghts thoroughly recommend that you check out Naik's new album - it's totally boss.
More info.
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The Clothespeg Project
The SLAUGHTERBLOUSE
Friday, 9 October till Friday, 23 October
The Perth launch for The Clothespeg Project volume 3 is just around the corner.
The exhibition kicks off from 7pm and will run till 10pm on Friday Oct 9 at The Slaughterblouse. There will be a $5 cover charge which will get you 2 drink tickets plus there will be music, live art, nibbles and some rather fantastic prints.
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Streetwear Clearance Sale
The Velvet Lounge
Friday, 09 October till Sunday, 11 October
More info on the facebook!
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Afrodisia at Mojos
Saturday, October 10, Afrodisia, Perth’s premier afrobeat night presents Ziggi New Generation with their authentic African rhythms covering everything from Ethiopian to Nigerian Afrobeat. With full horn section they are sure to blow you away during their temperature rising two sets. Appearing on the dance floor alongside you the Afrodisia punters will be special guest dance troupe. DJ Charlie Bucket will spin Afrobeat, Afrodisco, Afrofunk and High life to glue you to the floor. Entry is $10 from 8pm.
The facebook group!
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Transmission
Corner of Beaufort & Barlee Streets, Mt Lawley
Saturday, 10 October
Taking place in the glass kiosk of a disused car yard, TRANSMISSION presents video and light based works by four artists: Erin Coates, Gian Manik, Perdita Phillips and Loren Holmes.
For one night only - days before imminent demolition, the informal architecture of the kiosk will be used as a 3-dimensional screen which b-grade-noir-horror-road trip-fantasy is projected.
Curated by Erin Coates
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The Little White Lies
Devilles Pad
Saturday, 10 October
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Cut Out. Marnya Rothe Photography Exhibition
Spectrum Art Space
Friday, 2 October till Sunday, 11 October
Marnya Rothe’s debut exhibition ‘Cut Out’ is a photographic reaction prompted by her immersion and research into the world of fashion photography, surrealism and gender politics, and is also the product of her Masters of Photomedia at ECU.
For all the info check out the event!
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The Moon Sundays
This Sunday, October 11, the moon presents Egyptian Style Belly Dance starring Georgia, Charmaine and Yvonne. This will certainly be the most exotic evening at the moon since the 70 woman team of volcano cheerleaders from Hawaii held their famed private party at the venue during the late nineties. Entry to the Moon is always free.
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Perth Record Fair
Vic Park Leisure Centre
Sunday, 11 October
The Perth record fair is on again.
1000's of CD's and Records,
Call Frank on 94585864 if you are interested in selling.
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Rock and Roll Massacre night at Mojos Bar
Sunday, October 11, the ground will shake and the rock will roll as it’s the Rock and Roll Massacre night. Playing this dastardly evening will be Grim Fandango, the Chainsaw Hookers, the Sure Fire Midnights and the Spitfires. Entry is $5 from 6pm.
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Wide Open Mic Night at Mojos Bar
Monday, October 12, 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.
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Perth Jazz Society
DANIEL GASSIN TRIO
Monday 12 October 2009 @ 8:00pm
Admission Members $10 Student members $5 Non-members $15
Pianist Daniel Gassin recorded his debut album ‘Roundtrip’ in 2004 with funding obtained from winning the Banyule/La Trobe University Young Artists’ Award. The album was influenced by seven months spent living in Paris In 2002-2003 (where he studied with local stalwart Laurent Fickelson), and has received significant airtime on prominent national and local radio.
The Daniel Gassin Trio has recently released its second album, “Crossover” recorded with Mal Stanley for ABC Jazztrack, on Vorticity Records.
“A brilliant, lyrical young Melbourne pianist-composer. With support from Leigh Barker on bass and the wonderful drumming of Harry Shaw-Reynolds, these guys bear comparison with the best. Sizzling, beautiful stuff.”
(Richard Mohr – Readings)
“This is piano trio music that gets the sort of intense hum going that only the best of ‘em do” Ken Weir, Sunday Herald Sun
For more – go to http://www.myspace.com/danielgassin
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Acoustic Café at Mojos Bar
Tuesday, October 13, sees the monthly night Acoustic Café return to Mojos Bar. This month enjoy The Accumulated Gestures, Boom! Bap! Pow! One Tiger Down and Tree all in acoustic mode. Boom! Bap! Pow! will be particularly interesting in full acoustic instrumentation.. Entry is $5 from 8pm
the facebook!
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Semi-Permanent Perth 2009
Riverside Theatre, Perth Convention Exhibition Centre
Tuesday, 13 October
Facebook page
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The Fremantle Blues and Roots Club
Wednesday, October 14, the Fremantle Blues and Roots Club is at it again delivering some of the best blues and roots music Fremantle has to offer. This week catch Rory Ellis, the Joe Kings and Dave Capper. Entry is $10 entry $5 for members from 8pm.
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Going Solo
Wednesday, October 14, at the Moon the artists playing the Going Solo night will be Gilbert Wyhte, Vorn Doolette and John Barret. This week the artists will go on at 8pm. Entry to restaurants is always free!
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The Works of Alex Morris & Tim Beahan in Recital
Callaway Auditorium, UWA School of Music
Wednesday, 14 October
Facebook page here
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Little Creatures Loft
Thursday week, October 15, while at Little Creatures come and check out Helen Shanahan band. Also playing will be Lil Lionie Lionheart up in the Creatures Loft! Entry is $8 from 8pm.
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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!
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Fashiontv Diamond Model Awards
Onyx Bar
Saturday, 19 September till Saturday, 17 October
For more info take a look at the Facbook event.
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Illumination For A Dry White Nation
608 Beaufort Street
Saturday, 3 October till Sunday, 18 October
Facebook
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Wall of Sound Super Band starts October 21
60’s Soul Music, Woodstock, Psychedelic Funk, and 70’s Teenage Anthem Rock - Live in FREMANTLE on a Wednesday night @ The Fly By NIght Musicians Club!
I demend to know more!
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Thrill The World 2009 Perth
South Perth Foreshore
Sunday, 25 October
Be part of a Guiness World Record! And pay homage to the legend...The largest simultaneous dance of Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" at the exact same time around the world, for charity and to break the world record.
All the info on the Facebook
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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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Oliver Mann plays creatures Loft
This is happening November 13 and Benedict Moleta will be supporting.
Olivers voice is unlike any in pop music today and the natural reverberation within the Loft space will only tease out further it's rare qualities.
See all there!
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Tourist
United Galleries
Thursday, October 8 till Sunday, November 15
Photography Exhibition-more details on the facebook event page
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Bohemian Shorts
Bohemia Outdoor Cinema, Princess May Park, Fremantle, Australia
Wednesday, 16 September till Monday, 28 December
Facebook Event
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Projector Bombing PERTH
OK people its on again...
we are going to project our drawings onto the streets of Perth.
This is for the greater good...
1. FUN
2. vibrate our city with light
3. promote graffiti
4. unite people
5. unshackle computers and projectors from the office
6. culture jamming
if you dont like it then please find a rock to hide under.
this project is not for profit and is self funded for your liberation...
so again heres the plan. we meet at undisclosed public location. We draw and animate buildings... take lots of photos, videos.. talk, conspire and plan other fun changes for perth. Go home, upload images and video and add new friends on facebook.
So as things change quickly... check this page on the day for the location. (should have a map up on 2nd Nov)
for more info on projector bombing in Perth...
www.grlaustralia.com
www.jerrem.com/notes/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13981952618
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Open Your Eyes Films
The Velvet Lounge, Flying Scotsman Bar
Beaufort St. Mt Lawley (near Walcott St.)
Every 2nd Tuesday
A bi-weekly screening of independent international documentaries that share important information regarding
the truth behind the real global political, financial and monarchy structures and their hidden agenda's. Discover the real roots of our true ancient history and the many biblical contradictions and false stories. Inform your self about why so many consumer products contain harmful additives and who is responsible and what are they.
For showing times and more info go to the facebook page
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Fremantle Print Award 09
Fremantle Arts Centre
Friday, 25 September till Sunday, 22 November
Facebook info
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Independent exhibitions and bands are welcome to submit events to andrew@coolperthnights.com
If you are representing a festival, launch, tour or venue please forward your budget and plans to wetpaint@coolperthnights.com
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