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Wednesday 11th – 17th May
With the help of our revolutionary new pills you can improve your sex life without significant effort! Gain up to 3-inches in length and 20% in girth in just one week!
Actually, unlike most emails you receive in your inbox, ThreeThousand can’t claim to have any new pills. Nevertheless, Issue 054 will still attempt to change your life, not your libido, in some small way.
This week we will arouse you with Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9 featuring Bjork, Glaswegian band My Latest Novel’s debut Wolves and creative collaborators All Of The Above. We will make you weak at the knees with GeorgieLove and the The East Brunswick Club and we will also get you hot under the collar by talking dirty in our STINK section. ThreeThousand may not make you more of a man, but that’s okay, especially if you’re a woman.
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ThreeThousand Issue 054 – arouse your suspicion
Cover photo by All Of The Above.
All Of The Above, 109 Victoria Street, Fitzroy.
If you would like to submit a cover photo, email photo@tinanded.com.au |
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For ThreeThousand, live music has never been about a fan-filled arena or laser show. While big international names may choose venues like Rod Laver or the earthier Festival Hall, the successful flow of local and international artists to hubs like the Northcote Social Club
and the Tote suggest that Melbourne’s music scene is still raw and ready at heart.
Starting this week there’s a new venue in the inner-north, where it won’t cost you a week’s wage to see quality artists. Like the NSC, The East Brunswick Club is smoke free, puts out a fine parma and has a backyard beer garden. It’s a place you go for the music, not the scene.
With a week-one line-up that includes local band Strip for Cash and NSW rock outfit The Lovetones, plus an upcoming variation of local and international sounds - from Melbourne’s Durbeyfield to Japanese rockers The Zoobombs - the EBC looks set to keep up the growing tradition of live music, minus the attitude.
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What:
The East Brunswick Club
Where:
280 Lygon St, East Brunswick
(corner Albert St)
When:
Open daily, from 12pm
Contact:
9388 9794 or online |
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There’s a brand-spanking new hub for Melbourne’s art community, it’s open 24/7, has no walls and is guarded by a mixed-mutt super dog.
Brainchild of Sally Morrigan and her pet pooch George, GeorgieLove currently stocks around 20 Melbourne-based artists and designers in the convenient location of cyber space. Up and running for around two weeks, the site’s collection of hand-made paintings, jewellery, clothing and toys is growing by the day, with each piece accompanied by picture and updated artist profile so you can learn a little more about the Melbourne design scene while you browse.
George’s online selection combines functional accessories with installation pieces. Designer Gaye Naismith’s recycled vintage-fabric ‘postcard wallets’ are developed from mixed materials overlain with retro images. While the one-off ‘Little Scamp’ prints by Amy Alexander manage to make kids with abnormally large heads look seriously cute.
So instead of bashing out the usual faux fur slippers from Target this Mother’s Day, stay at home and brave the net. Shipping is free, the art is 100 percent local and George doesn’t bite.
IMAGE: Little Scamp Painting 11, 4 x 6 inch, $75 by Amy Alexander |
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What:
GeorgieLove: hand made pleasures
Where:
Cyber space
How much:
Pieces range from $15 - $210, shipping FREE Australia-wide |
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In multiple-choice maths tests, d) all of the above, is there to trick you. One question, three correct answers, what could be more confusing? However, born from the spirit of collaboration, new Melbourne creative project All Of The Above makes complete sense.
Combining a retail space, design studio, gallery, fashion house and screen printer, All Of The Above is set up to encourage mutual inspiration, to spark creativity and imagination while carrying these ideas over into reality.
This philosophy of collaboration manifests itself in the choice of clothes stocked, able to function as unique articles, or combined to form whole outfits, labels such as the San Franciscan Rebel8 (exclusive to All Of The Above) and Rag & Bone work alongside classics such as street-tough articles from Army/Navy. Whether you’re after hoodies, hats, Japanese denim, bags, prints or bling, everything can be mixed and matched without missing the mark.
All Of The Above – you can’t go wrong. |
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What:
All Of The Above
Where:
109 Victoria Street, Fitzroy, Vic 3065
When:
Tues-Thurs 11-6, Friday 11-7, Sat 11 – 5, Sun 12-5
Contact:
8415 0461 or email
Stocks:
Rebel8, Tryst (house label), Rag & Bone, Army/Navy, Little Brother (coming soon), Lonely Hearts Club, Upper Playground |
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Experimentation, fun and fancy have long been the trademarks that have separated Marc Jacobs from most American designers. From his collections to his costume parties, his reputation as the king of quirk is constantly being re-enforced.
Juergen Teller, Cindy Sherman, Marc Jacobs is a book of collaborative photos/dress-ups that began with Jacob’s spring 2005 campaign. A mixture of both the ordinary and the tragic, Teller and Sherman play a range of characters from office workers to truckers, junkies to couples, both working with (as well as beyond) existing ideas of American stereotypes.
Hard-covered and hard to ignore, this publication is beautifully simple in its clothing and design, yet ugly and complicated in its portraits. In short, it’s everything we love about Marc Jacobs. |
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What:
Juergen Teller, Cindy Sherman, Marc Jacobs
Where:
NGV Shop, Federation Square
How Much:
$55 |
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Wolves is an album for the brooders. For those stuck in a rut or just stuck at a tram stop. It is for those with a headache, or worst-case scenario, a heartache. And, as Amazon.com says, it is also for the people that bought the Arcade Fire and Belle & Sebastian.
Glaswegian band My Latest Novel’s debut is as narrative as their name suggests, charismatic songwriting is punctuated by four part harmonies and tempo changes, strings and even the odd (but always charming) bit of whistling.
At times Trainspotting script, at times Dead Man soundtrack, Wolves is both epic and engaging, evoking an age-old melancholy while maintaining contemporary relevance.
If you can, forget about the music industry that cried wolf, My Latest Novel’s
Wolves, although containing stories, is no lie. |
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What:
Wolves
Who:
My Latest Novel
On:
Etch n Sketch
MySpace:
here |
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As an artist, actor, or Icelandic nutbar, Björk runs the gauntlet from musical genius to genuine fruit-loop. She swore off film after her stint as Selma in Dancer in the Dark, but that was before she met visual artist and boyfriend Matthew Barney.
Their collaborative film Drawing Restraint 9 is not so much a movie, but an evolving artistic on-screen process. Following two main characters (Björk and Barney) and set on a Japanese whaling boat, the story merges romantic fantasy with biological reality, where sexual engagement takes the form of a traditional tea ceremony conducted beneath a shape-shifting petroleum jellyfish.
Screening as part of Future Classics at ACMI, Drawing Restraint 9 forms part of a showcase that includes Barney's films De Lama Lamina, the epic Cremaster Cycle, plus a new documentary about the artist-filmmaker No Restraint.
Drizzled with Björk’s formidable electro/orchestral sound against the backdrop of Barney’s visionary sculptural motifs, Drawing Restraint 9 promises to be an abstract cultural-ecological-sexual journey from two of the contemporary art world’s most intriguing characters. |
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What:
Drawing Restraint 9
Where:
ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne
When:
May 12 - 15
How much:
$13 full, $10 concession or win some here
Contact:
8663 2200 or online |
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What:
IRON GIANTS: The Battle for Supremacy
When:
Friday May 12, 6-9pm
Where:
Revolver Upstairs, 229 Chapel St, Prahran
How much:
Free |
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In the theme of TV’s ‘Iron Chef’ Revolver Upstairs have hand-picked some of Melbourne’s finest aerosol artists and given them the essential ingredients for a masterpiece on canvas. Each artist has two 60 x 80 canvasses and six specific coloured Molotow spray-cans with which to battle it out for the Iron Giant title. |
What:
The Art of Fighting
When:
Friday May 12, 8pm
Where:
Salon @ The Spanish Club, 59-61 Johnson St, Fitzroy
How much:
$15 + b/f from Polyester 9419 5223, Greville, Missing Link and the Corner Box Office 94279198. |
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Description:
Fresh from a stint around Europe with Claire Bowditch, Art of Fighting bring their haunting sound to the Spanish Club. With Holly Throsby and Hot Little Hands.
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What:
Marcel Borrack
When:
Saturday May 13, 8.30pm
Where:
The East Brunswick Club
How much:
$10 + b/f online |
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Description:
“Suburban cowboy philosopher” Marcel Borrack hits the new East Brunswick Club to launch his album “I Was Only Dreaming”. With the Sime Nugent Band and The Yearlings. |
What:
Mother’s Day Breast Cancer Benefit
When:
Sunday May 14, 3.30pm
Where:
St Jerome’s, 7 Caledonian Lane, Melbourne
How much:
Free entry, but all donations go to the Australian Breast Cancer Foundation |
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Description:
After you’ve spent the morning with mum, head into the city for cheap drinks, a BBQ, kick-ass raffle, tunes and a good cause. Temper Trap, (formerly Temper Temper) Moscow Schoolboy, Hot Little Hands, Plug In City and Winter Park play to rake up some funds for breast cancer awareness.
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What:
Stay Awhile
When:
Every Sunday from May 14, 7.30pm
Where:
After Dark, 565 High St, Northcote
How much:
Free |
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Description:
Playing mostly 60s tunes from divas to garage, DJs Ben (Smallgoods) and Natalie will warm your ears amidst the cozy surrounds of After Dark. A great excuse to drink-up with your buddies on a wintry Sunday evening. Prizes awarded for best 60s get-up.
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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.
Without editorial independence ThreeThousand has nothing. All editorial you read is featured because it's worth it – not because it's paid for.
Advertising Partnerships:
ThreeThousand is funded in full by one advertising partner per issue. We warmly invite advertisers who see the benefit in speaking to Melbourne through a trusted and targeted medium to contact Francesco at frunch@rightanglepublishing.com
Editorial Submissions:
The editorial team at ThreeThousand may know a lot - but they don't know everything. Feel free to send information on events, venues or anything else to chris@threethousand.com.au
Feedback:
Heap praise, sling abuse, ramble inanely – if you have anything to say to us please send it directly to talk@threethousand.com.au
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ThreeThousand and TwoThousand are published by Right Angle Publishing.
Right Angle Publishing
Level 6, Curtin House
252 Swanston Street
Melbourne, 3000
(03) 9662 1657 |
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Publisher
Barrie Barton
03 9662 1657
barrie@rightanglepublishing.com
Editor
Chris Barton
chris@threethousand.com.au
Deputy Editor
Nadia Saccardo
nadia@threethousand.com.au
Design Monkeys
tin&ed
www.tinanded.com.au
Contributing Monkeys
Charlotte McInnes
Nigel Carboon
Reuben Ruiter
Tom Hyde
Will Larnach-Jones
Max Olijnyk
Ana Cecilia
Toby Temper Temper
Jade Barclay
Joanna Weekes
Blingrid
Pollyanna
Jeanne Tan
Annie Fox
Dan Honey
Richard Hack
Lewis Mulvey
Richard Janko
Tom Jackson
Nick Sweeney
Lauren Katsikitis
Reuben Acciano
Lucy Morieson
Dana Nikanpour
Kath Loftus
Jonah DeMallory |
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