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Wednesday 25th January – 1st February
It’s never the most exciting thing to talk about the weather, let alone write about it. It’s been hot, damn hot, so if anything we should just be pleased that we made it through the weekend and leave it at that.
Instead of boring your friends to tears sounding like Edwin Maher, Issue 039 focus’ on some of the more interesting things to slot into your conversation. Things like the new exhibition at the CCP, a Junkyard Cinema or a new inner city fashion boutique, a Modular mix disc or a multi-tiered Japanese restaurant. More exciting than precipitation levels or cloud cover, and cooler than a cool change, this week’s ThreeThousand is a 7-day forecast of a different nature. |
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ThreeThousand Issue 039 – rain, hail or shine
Cover photo by tin&ed. If you would like to submit a cover photo, email photo@tinanded.com.au |
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Last Thursday night nearly 500 people packed into the CCP to celebrate the first shows of 2006, an impressive turn-out for some equally impressive exhibitions.
In Gallery 1 Juha Tolonen’s Entropia combines the ubiquity of entropy with the implausibility of utopia. Grand sounding but visually clear, pictures of turnstiles leading to nowhere or a television reflecting its own environment skilfully contrast ideas of progress and degeneration.
Simon Cuthbert’s Downtown questions the messages we receive from our urban environments and Underpin, a series by Andrew Curtis, is a close up exploration of the underworld. One thing leads to another by Debra Phillips focuses on all things street-level and shows the seeming inexhaustibility of photography. Last but not least, Chantal Faust, in her exhibition Monster, literally compresses her weird and wonderful subjects into photographs using a flat bed scanner.
The O.C may be starting again in a couple of weeks but the current shows at the CCP are where it’s really at.
Photo: Juha Tolonen, Television, 2004 |
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What:
New exhibitions at the CCP
Where:
404 George St, Fitzroy
When:
Wed-Sat 11am-6pm until 11th March |
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Australian based music taste-makers, Modular, don’t seem to be content with just spotting and nurturing talent anymore. Over the past few months they’ve added a number of new strings to their bow, including monster Christmas parties in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as monthly nights, which kicked off in fine style with Annie. If you can’t get around to the regular nights, or if you just want to take home the Modular magic, make sure you grab Leave Them All Behind.Over two discs (one of them mixed) you’ll get an audio explanation of why they are considered one of the best stables of talent in the world. |
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What:
Modular Presents Leave Them All Behind
Who:
Various
Artists include Cut Copy, The Midnight Juggernauts, Rubicks, Bloc Party and some other mighty talented people
On:
Modular |
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They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, so logically, that must make a junkyard a positive goldmine. The Junkyard Cinema, at the site of the Rose Street Artists’ Markets is exactly that, and will be a treasure trove of classic films screening over the next few months. Running on Sundays, the current fixture includes Sleepy Hollow, Man Bites Dog, Naked Lunch, Amelie, Donnie Darko and other cult flicks.
You can hire chairs or bring your own, tickets are only $8, and best of all it is licensed. The Junkyard Cinema – helping you get trashy. |
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What:
The Junkyard Cinema
- this weeks film is Sleepy Hollow
Where:
Rose St Artists’ Market, 60 Rose St, Fitzroy
When:
Sunday’s, 22nd Jan to 7th May
Opens 7pm, films begins at sundown |
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From the outside, Shoya Japanese Restaurant looks pretty humble, even miss-able, like any other restaurant on the China Town strip. Positioned next to Flower Drum you almost feel sorry for it – until you go inside. Looking like a Kill Bill set without the violence, Shoya can hold its own. With a Japanese BBQ area downstairs and a sushi bar, dining room, cocktail lounge and karaoke bar upstairs it is more like a theme park than a restaurant.
The sashimi (pictured) is excellent, served Iron Chef style with an ice dish that both tacky and genius at the same time. The sake list, although expensive, is impressive and the specialty dish, which involves quail and scallop, combines a flightless bird and sea creature in a way you never thought possible.
Shoya may not be a cheap night out, but its menu is as inventive as it is poorly translated, and both these elements give it a personality that
make the experience more than worthwhile. |
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What:
Shoya
Where:
25 Market Lane, Melbourne
When:
Sun-Thursday 18.00 to 22.30
Fri-Sat 18.00 to 23.00
Contact and Info:
9650 0848
Licensed and BYO (Corkage $3 pp) |
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What:
Children Collide, The Ca$inos, Hot Little Hands, La Femme La Fever
When:
Wednesday 25th January
Where:
Revolver Upstairs, 229 Chapel St |
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Description:
Australia Day Eve extravaganza! Wear green and gold, wear your stubbies and wear yourself out listening to some great bands and the DJ talents of Generik and Streetparty. Bands start at 9pm. |
What:
The Situations (NZ)
When:
Thursday 26th January
Where:
The Tote |
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Description:
The Situations are touring with The White Stripes and are playing a headline show supported by Temper Temper, Children Collide and Seconds.
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What:
Double Happiness Chinese New Year Street Party
When:
Friday 27th January, 4pm onward
Where:
Liverpool St, City |
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Description:
Drinks, lions, firecrackers, DJs and other dangerous things.
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What:
Great Lake Swimmers (CAN)
When:
Thursday 26th January
Where:
Northcote Social Club |
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Description:
Great Lake Swimmer’s album Bodies and Minds is out now and so are they. Catch them at the NSC supported by Josh Pyke. $20 + BF.
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What:
Branedance V.02
When:
Saturday 28th January
Where:
Loop, 23 Meyers Place
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Description:
Get lost in a musical sea of 1’s and 0’s at Branedance brought to you by Kiss FM’s Good Machine/Band Machine (87.6fm, Sundays 12-2am). Dedicated to neglected forms of experimental electronic music DJs Dave Pham, Not Happy Jan, Futuretron, Sye and Turbo make sure the fun is not neglected either. Free Entry. |
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ThreeThousand is a weekly snapshot of Melbourne's subculture, fired by email into the loving arms of people who realise that the best things in life are often hard to find. It is compiled by an amorphous gaggle of writers, stylists, designers, photographers, sub-cultural attaches and a large troupe of monkeys who enjoy working for peanuts.
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Robert Freeman Design for the film poster for A Hard Day's Night 1964 (detail).
Collection of the artist, courtesy of Bruce Karsh. © Photography and Design by Robert Freeman |
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