JanuARTy 2011 => FebruARTy…
- SAT-1-JAN-2011
- Bass Jump 2011The Prince Of Wales Fitzroy St Sat-1-Jan 2pm-Sun-2-January 6am $95+ soldout but worth a SNEAK~? Lineup: Andy C (UK); Excision (CAN); Break (UK); Loefah (UK); D Bridge (UK); Breakage (UK); Camo & Krooked (AUT); Dov (USA); Rico Tubbs (FIN); Atomic Hooligans (UK); Klute (UK); Mc LowQui ; UK); They Live (UK, NZ); Presha (NZ); Patch (SA); MC Pase (SA); 3rd Eye (Byron); MC Stylee (WA); Safire;Droid Sector; Finna; Same O; Affiks; A13 ;Deviant; Taya ;Tobias J Dust; Fiend; Muska; Fraksha; Beatski; Wasabi; Spin FX; Dabeata ;Heartical Hi Fi Outernational; Citizen.com; Flip; Lickweed; Dyzlexic CM; Keir; Baron Von Rotten; Bass Bin Laden; David Bass; kodiak kid; Livewire; Camo
- WED-5-JAN:
- 4walls opener politicanally guz-rect 34franklin 6-8pm
- THUR-6-JAN:
- VOLUTION opener 1000 £ Bend 361 Little Lonsdale 6-8/9pm
- Shoot My City Exhibition E Fifty Five 55 Elizabeth St 6:30-9:30pm
- R6 – RACKET 6TH JAN 2011 6:30 pm with performances starting at 7 pm sharp &finishing just after Midnight. $10 jugs and $5 pizza all night.Door entry=$5. SPHERIX LIVE; .NAM (replacing Dan Beck); NASTY GENIUS LIVE; VDMO KSTATI; XENOSINE LIVE; SIMON HAMPSON LIVE; NETZAIR INSTALL
- empress (c)rap nyt Hugo1+Treats+”RAPNEWS”+Elf Tranzporter $5. 8pm-1am: Elf Tranzporter 9pm; Hugo + Treats 10pm; Monkeymarc 11pm…
- FRI-7-JAN: [MELB]
- robotface opener,somewhere gallery29, lvl 2, royal arcade 314 lil collins 6-8pm
- Takuro Kotaka. Finding the Utopia. Residency closing party!Seventh gallery. 155 Gertrude St 6-8pm
- Beeswax project opener-Light Projects, 176 high st. nthcote. 6-8pm/9pm?
- SOLM $5 special at The TOTE 8-11pm SONS OF LEE MARVIN (11.40); DAMN THE TORPEDOES (10.40); …THE BEAT DISEASE (9.40); DOZERS (8.40);
- Ali MC and New Dub City Sound with Kojo at Bar Open 10pm-1am
- Art show in the midst of’ukoffsville – bah!need car/chauffeur.*hiss*
- Squid2 gaydanceathonpartymadness at GLASSHOUSE, fitz/collingwd $6.
- The Royal Jelly Dixieland Band at Bouverie Studios lvl1/81 bouverie st carlton 8:30pm-> $5 Royal Jelly Dixieland Band will refresh 90-year-old music not heard live since Louis Armstrong jammed it out with Bix Beiderbecke in the 1920s
- FRI-7-JAN: [NUKE-ARSE]
- CongratALOTulations to ‘benny myfavourite coxy ever’ for his (f)art show~!OAKS OF MAMRA exhib – showing at BEFORE IT BEGAN, upstairs 14 THORN ST [what the frig! the 1st place i ever moved outa home to was the top flaw of this place! "The Pad" was the best femme batchelor pad, bar none. Benny i canna help but think this means somethingkt meaningful!! gosh!] 6-9pm
- SAT-8-JAN: [back to mostly MELB info]
- Broken House Gig - 52 Hope St, Brnswk 1-7pm Backyard DIY house show- noise, drone, blackened shoegaze, doom and gloom on hope street. Impvlse/Kontrol; Brooding Man Orchestra; Oranj Punjabi; Radical Creation-. afta dat, we party on at the old bar to see WHITEHORSE, LORDS OF RUINS, EXTORTION AND TASWEGIAN BLACK METAL BAND THRALL
- Melbourne I Love You But…Revolt Melbourne Artspace 12 Elizabeth st | Kensington Melb 3pm-1am Mainstage bands: 3:45 Buried Horses; 4:50 The Jacks; 5:55 Dead South; 7:00 King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard; 8:10 The Blue Jays; 9:15 Jack On Fire; 10:20 The Bakelite Age; 11:25 Stabbie Stabbie Kill Kill *Break out/art gallery stage: Wild Dog Creek; and Document Swell *The Caberet stage: Lilikoi Kaos; and the strawberry siren
- ‘BRAIN FURNITURE’ BOOK LAUNCH Vacant block 50 metres behind Black Cat (off Brunswick st, Fitzroy) Corner Greeves+Young st’s, Fitzroy 5-7pm
- Fuck I’m Dead + Cemetery Urn + Die Pigeon Die + Monoliyth at The Tote Saturday, January 8, 2011 · 8:30-11:30pm
- REGGAE PARTY Anytime Place Ovens St Brnswk 9pm-12am JUDGE PINO AND THE RULING MOTIONS (LIVE); MOHAIR SLIM; HEATICAL HIFI’S STRYKA D; THE COOLING PIE (LIVE);
- SUN-9-JAN:
- An afternoon of drawing. Old Langy: Ascot Vale 2-4pm
- TUE-11-JAN:
- Paintings collages+other bits & pieces. Plus: Mikelangelo;Sean Simmons (The Spoils); Brendan Black (The Stabs); Free for that too. So you should come down. Idiot. 6pm-> free upstairs The Old Bar
- Dont Walk Dance – Portable Dance Portal At FED SQ. intersection – from 6PM! BYO LOVE BYO MUSIC – (that’s your ipod or mp3 player with fave playlist folks so that you can have your own little silent disco OR make some live music).Red man = DANCE Green man = GO TO THE OTHER SIDEFlashing man = STRIKE A POSE or melt into the public and ask them what all the crazy dancing is about! BE SAFE – we’re dancing not dying – remember to obey road signals and respect other dancers and non dancers… FEEL FREE TO DANCE ACROSS THE STREET but ONLY when the little green man says so.
- WED-12-JAN:
- 7th gallery opener 155 gertrude st 6-8pm
- Short film nyt-LOOP BAR meyers place.7-9pm
- Secret Wars Heat 4 – Drew Funk v BRADDOCK 1000 £ Bend 361 Little Lonsdale St 6:30-9:30pm Doors=6:30pm. Battle=8:30pm $10/15 or sumthin
- THU-13-JAN:
- HandHeld opener Suite 18(upstairs) Paramount Arcade-108 Bourke St 6-8pm
- BLINDSIDE opener Nicholas Building, Lvl 7, Room 14.37 Swanston St 6-8pm
- GROUPED exhib launch Town Hall Gallery rear, 358 Burwood Rd Hawthorn 6-8pm
- NoNo Gallery opener 14 raglan st, nth melb 6-8pm
- Christina Tester :: Film Poems :: Launch/Screening/FundraiserWorkers Club cnr Gertrude+Brunswick St 8-11:30pm
- RAP@EMPRESS: monkeymarcLOTEK+JESSI I $5, 8pm-1am
- FRI-14-JAN:
- KINGS ARI opener 1/171 king st 6-8pm: georgine cue + G.O.L.D.
- nine on seven artspace opener Rooftop Bar Curtin house 252 Swanston St 6pm->
- HOGAN gallery opener 310 smith st 6pm-1am [pART of midsumma festy of gaygaylove x0x]
- TRØUGH X_HIBITIØN Club80 Dungeon (usually a male only venue) 10 Peel St,Collingwood 6-9pm
- Soundbytes 7-chipmuzak at La Di Da, Melb 8pm-> $10/12 Sievert, Abortifacient, cTrix, Maddest Kings Alive & Derris-Kharlan
- ***AMAZING MIDSUMMA VIS ARTS OPENINGS & LAUNCHES – check ‘em out!!! http://www.midsumma.org.au/events-calender/day.listevents/2011/01/28/-
- SAT-15-JAN:
- Alcaston Gallery opener 11 brnswk st, 2-4pm
- LAB Section 8 Free Day Party w/ NICONÉ (Bar 25, Still Vor Talent)Section 8 Tattersals Lane Melb NICONÉ (Bar 25) Simon Foster; Uone; James Cooper; Scott Dickson 2pm – 9pm
- EXCELLENT UNIVERSE @ LOOP An afternoon of melodic electronic music, including styles such as ambient, IDM, and chiptunes. Exotic Snake; Pselodux; Maddest Kings Alive; + More TBA++ Live visuals!Come along, drink some nice beers, and enjoy the music and visuals. You’ve got no excuse, it’s a Saturday afternoon! Loop 23 Meyers Place 4-7:30pm
- EXTORTION, OCCULT BLOOD, KROMOSOM – 15/1/11 – catfood press. lygon st, brnswk
- [SYD] => DEATH RAVE EVENT –dirty shirlows
- [hobART/TASSIE] = MOMA?MONAFOMA sumfin or other ART festy + puta madre bros. gig…
- SUN-16-JAN:
- The zero dollar show closing party @West Wing, Melbourne Central level2, opposite gloria jeans 4-6PM
- SUMMER INNIT(#3) free/open muzak in EdiGardens 1-8pm
- MON-17-JAN:
- MIDSUMMA opener 45 downstairs flinders lane. 5-7pm? 6-8pm?
- TUE-18-JAN:
- Pigment gallery opener ‘CON/STRUCT’ dissects the construct of fashion to investigate what’s going on beneath the cosmetic facade w: a series of garments, photographs, murals+projections Lvl2,Nicholas Blding-37swanston 7pm->
- WED-19-JAN:
- GlamShock Therapy opener at CarbonBlack gallery 188 HighSt(nr Chapel) Prahran 5-7:30pm ?? carbonblackgallery.blogspot.com
- THUR-20-JAN:
- CraftVic opener 31 flinders la. 6-8pm =ceramacists+jeweller
- kidNeon opener-Street Gallery 178 Johnston St 6-9pm
- Counihan gallery opener 233 Sydney Rd 6-8pm
- METAMORPHOLOGY body o’work-NicolaTrethowan 1000 £ BEND | upstairs 361 Little Lonsdale 7pm->
- James Makin Gallery opener & Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking Prize.67 Cambridge St C’lingwd 6-8pm
- TACIT gallery opener 323 Johnston St.Abbotsford 6-9pm
- Monkeymarc/ (c)RAP at EMPRESS: PASO BIONIC + DJ SAKAMOIZE $5, 8pm-1am
- SAT-22-JAN:
- Collingwood Gallery opener:292 SmithSt 6pm->
- Australian Made: 100 Years of Fashion (ends 23-jan) Free http://www.artabase.net/exhibition/1841-australian-made-100-years-of-fashion The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square Fashion & Textiles (Gallery 12) Level 2
- RELAPSE 22ND OF JAN OUTDOOR PARTY $10 ENTRY at My Aeon, SydneyRd 10 HOURS = $1 AN HOUR! MARK N, DEP AFFECT, NULL HYPOTHESIS , DOC ROSS, MOTHBALL Z , MATT BLEAK, MS DEVASTATED, XIAN, NOISTRUCT etc!
- Australian Made: 100 Years of Fashion exhibition (ends Sunday 23-jan) Free http://www.artabase.net/exhibition/1841-australian-made-100-years-of-fashion The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square Fashion & Textiles (Gallery 12) Level 2
- TUE-25-JAN:
- Niagara opener 254 punt rd, richmnd 6-9pm
- Keith! Party ‘Roof Raisers’ Official Album Launch CONTORTION ACT; *A FOOD FIGHT!;*JUNK!*FABIO UMBERTO*RAT VS POSSUM DJ’S*TALKSHOW BOY DJ’S The Workers Club 51 Brunswick St 8pm-1am
- TOO MUCH! PRESENTS//AUS DAY EVE SPECIAL//DIZZ1(LIVE)//GALAPAGOOSE(LIVE) Mercat X-456 Queen St, Melb 7:30-10:30pm
- WED-26-JAN:
- Stutter @ The Gasometer – Australia Day 26/01/11 + Jason Kahn (CH)/ Stasis Duo (NSW) + Mani Neumaier solo (DE) + Pivixki – The Gasometer Hotel 484 Smith St 8:30-11:30pm $5/10?
- ComeOnArsesiescomeOn! Kings Domain Gardens, St Kilda Rd 10am-1pm The street artists who brought you the Street Art Christmas Wall!Bados Earthling & Nick Ilton are collaborating again; this time they are doing their own celebration of Australia Day on Wednesday 26th of January….At 10am.But this time they are not creating STREET ART.They will create PARK ART Another public Australia Day event will be on @ the same location. They will be installing their unique style of street art & performance in the park. They promise no trees will be harmed in the installation.
- THU-27-JAN:
- Monkeymarc @ The Empress Night: MIKE KAY + DECLAN KELLY $5, 8pm-1am
- 24 Guildford lane opener 6-8pm
- Discobeans opener/exhib 238high st, nthcote.
- FRI-28-JAN:
- ♥ (Tasmania Is An Anagram Of) I Am Satan – INFLIGHT at HELL Gallery 5a Railway Place Richmond 6pm-late
- ♥ Launch: Fri 28 Jan,7.30 – 9.30pm GOWEST Contemporary Art Exhibition =-The Joel Gallery,The Louis Joel Arts & Community Centre
- ♥ BSG opener 322 brnswk st,fitz 6-8pm
- ♥ Noise in my Head Exhib-Goodtime Studios-basement,746swanston St, Carlton 6pm.
- ♥ DE HØJE HÆLE (Denmark), Spew Your Guts Up, Brainwaves+Infinite Void Entry =$8 – Doors 8.30pm Yah Yah’s Smith St Collingwood
- SAT-29-JAN:
- ♥ satanic lovers,germany. dumbshit, dead ants rainbow trio,baaddd,voodoootake $4 pony, lil collins +exhib st’s 8:30-11:30pm
- ♥ [SYD] companyfuck/PoS/noistruct,bint gig DirtyShirlows Marrickville $10.
- ♥ CSS at the corner hotel,richmond
- ♥ PANDORA’S BOX presents Ms POONIVERSE 10:30pm at Glasshouse Hotel, Clingwd
- ♥ VULGARGRAD withFLAP & SUITCASE ROYALETomorrow 8:30pm at Anytime Place, Brunswick, Anytime Place Presents…. водка + музыка + танец + … свекольник + гадалка We’ve been keeping this a secret from you…..?!?!? This will be your last for a long time to see the most debaucherous band of Russian criminals, VulgarGrad in their classic line-up! And whom better to send them off into exile than the fabulous Flap and the spectacular Suitcase Royale!! Come along, drink some vodka, dance like an Odessa jailbird and show Renato you love him. Doors @ Half eight.
- ♥ Rat Vs Possum, Witch Hats, Butcher Blades +Caught Ship play the ‘new’ Ding Dong. Also: droney shoegaze dripping in reverb by Witch Hats. Chopped up tropicalia and skewed house beats by Butcher Blades. Caught Ship necking a bottle of cough syrup and turning the release knobs on their envelope…
- SUN-30-JAN:
- ♥ GARAGE SALE 20 Westbourne Grove Northcote 9-5pm
- ♥ ?Gay Mormon Kissing Club (live)?+Hold The Anchovies (exhib) 6pm-> HoofKake 284 Albert St Brnswk Live music from Gay Mormon Kissing Club, Horse MacGuyver, Baaddd, etc
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- FebruARTy
- WED-2-FEB:
- ♥ FourWalls opener MsLibs-34 franklin st 6-9pm
- ♥ C3 opener abbotsford convent, 1 st heliers st 6-9pm
- Seventh opener 155gertrude 6-8pm
- THUR-3-FEB:
- RMIT spareroom opener,23Cardigan St,Carlton 5-7pm
- SUBTEXT: artists and writing West Space lvl 2? melb central opp.gloriyuk jeans 6-8pm
- Hogan gallery opener 310 smith st, 6-8pm http://hogangallery.com.au/exhibitions/doldrums/
- N-N-NERVOUS: Kirsten Perry NO NO GALLERY: 14 Raglan St Nth Melb~ OPENING 6-8pm
- REVOLUTIONISING ANIME opener: PURSUIT OF ULTRA-REALISTIC FANTASY JAPAN KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS&CHINA+REVOLUTION: HISTORY PARODY+MEMORY IN CONTEMPART RMIT fancy gallery 344 swanston st Opening: 6-8pm, RSVP 03 9925 1717 / rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au
- ♥ Feiyue Australian Launch No Vacancy Gallery,34 jane bell lane,QV building 6-9pm
- ♥ COLOUR FACTORY OPENER 6-8pm kerr st, near gore? 6-8pm
- ♥ La Toilette d’une Femme, new work by Lyndal Walker 6pm- Centre for Contemty Photog,(cnr kerr/gore-?) Fitzroy, AustraliaExhibition opens 6-8pm
- ♥ Upstairs At The Napier Hotel Exhib Opener-napier st, fitz 6-8pm
- FRI-4-FEB:
- ♥ DYLAN MARTORELL opener 200 gertrude st fri-4-feb- sat-5-mar http://www.gertrude.org.au/exhibitions/gallery-11/upcoming-15/
- ♥ somewhere gallery opener lvl2,royal arcade 314lil collins 6-8
- ♥ Owl & pussycat – 34 swan st, richmond 6-8/9pm
- MON-7-FEB:
- ♥ nine on seven presents THE INS AND OUTS OF POKING New works by Cosima Pay 6-8pm rooftop curtin house,swanston st
- FRI-11-FEB:
- ♥ Anna Pappas 2-4carlton st. Prahahan 6-8pm
- SAT-12-FEB:
- ♥ GARAGE SALE 10am at 937 Rathdowne St, North Carlton (corner Rathdowne & Pigdon)come to buy cute clothes formerly belonging to beautiful queers
- ♥ AFTERGLOW perfArt+photos Monash Gallery of Art 860 Ferntree Gully Rd Wheelers Hill: Artists Gordon Bennett; Cherine Fahd ; Mike Parr ; Jill Orr ; Juan Davila ; Justene Williams 3pm->
- ♥ ART BEAT North Melbourne Saturday, February 12 at 4:00pm – February 13 at 11:00am farewell party
- ♥ CAMBRIDGE STUDIO opener 52 Cambridge St,C’lingwd 4-6pm
- ♥ SPEWLIGHT DISKO SWEETHEARTS PARTY!Saturday, February 12 at 8:00pm at Railway Hotel The Noise Bar AMAZING PARTY 4 VALENTINES, SWEETHEARTS AND MAJOR BABES. OVE NAXX (JAPAN) TOXIC LIPSTICK (HOT) BABAYAGA WITCHES …(JAPAN) BAADDD (NAME SEZ IT ALL) FABIO UMBERTO (WTF) KEITH PARTY (!!!!) XIAN (SPIZZA BREAKCORE) KT SPIT (XTREME BABE) AND MAYBE EVEN MORE, BUT DEFINITELY AT LEAST THOSE ONEZ. PLUS SWEETHEART SLOW DANCE AT MIDNITE, HEARTBREAK PINATA, AMAZING AUDIOVISUALS, FIERCE BABES, DOOR PRIZES. PAH LEASE COME!!!!!!!! $10 FROM 8PM TIL LAAAATE
- TUE-15-FEB:
- ♥ mossenson indigen-art opener 41 Derby St, C’lingwd 6-8pm
- WED-16-FEB:
- ♥ Sexual Robots and Plastic Humans in Anime Artists Talk 12-1pm, RMIT Gallery, free
- FRI-18-FEB :
- ♥ Backwoods Gallery opener 6-8/9pm 25 easey st, c’lingwd
- SUN-20:
- ♥ Kimberley and Ted’s Laser Tag,
- THUR-24-FEB:
- ♥ Gould galleries opener Sth Yarra (270 toorak rd?)
- FRI-25-FEB:
- ♥ TimCoke memorial EdiGardens 6:30-9:30 (am?)
- ♥ Captain Ahab End of Irony Australian Edition Launch Tour Anytime Place, Ovens St, Brnswk + Barrage; B.A.A.D.D.D.; Horse MacGyver; more TBA 10pm til late $15
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- THUR-3-MAR:
- ♥ Off The Rails – Dubstep, Hip hop open mic and glitch bonanza ocation: Railway Hotel The Noise BarTime: 8:00PM Thursday, March 3rd
