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Wednesday October 3rd - 9th
Living in the best city in the southern hemisphere can lead to a certain complacency. We have come to expect various things from our town, but it still throws us a curve ball now and then. At these moments we may find ourselves saying “that’s weird…
I’m reading a great magazine in an airport lounge… I thought YouTube was free… Skin care products are not what I wanted at all
This was advertised as a Francois Ozon screening... Those ThreeThousand goons can DJ?”
ThreeThousand Issue 125 - one cotton pickin minute
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Images from Justice, presented by Killer and Lee Jeans at the Prince Bandroom |
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Black Dice are completely sublimated, Shinto-like, in the teeming hive of sounds on new album, Load Blown. The New York trio’s ‘ecological’ concerns (their words) have never been answered better than this – each track is a close-up look at the surface of some new, virulent and electronic ant-hill. There’s something paganistic about their artificial powers of regeneration; it’s a freaked-out, amoral and thrilling feeling of the music being somehow half-animal / half-machine. Black Dice are like those islanders in The Wickerman who perversely worship nature, but instead are given over to the embodying powers of electronic music.
Fans will expect as much, not only as a one-up from 2002’s watershed post-noise album Creature Comforts, but also because Load Blown takes in tracks from the recent Roll Up / Drool and Manoman 12” EPs. The open-ended format and communicative bubbling and gurgling of the former is like the album overall – sheets of trebly static roll across sampled drunk guitar, synthetic balloon rubbing and, four minutes into the track, the huge revving sounds of a broken, sit-in arcade driving game. Kids nowadays would do better dropping acid to this, than to Microcosmos or Koyaanisqatsi.
By Mark Gomes
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Who is Billy Apple? A short, compulsory art class to follow.
Billy Apple was once Barrie Bates, born in Auckland, moved to London to study graphic design at the Royal College of Art, hanging out with David Hockney and the gang and generally becoming one of the pop generation. Graduated, changed his name to Billy Apple. Was all about the shift from formal to conceptual art but did it before anyone else.
Moved to the Big Apple, opened his own gallery (Apple), which was one of the first alternative, artist-run spaces in New York. Exhibited Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes in the famous ‘American Supermarket’ exhibition. Meanwhile, worked on his own site-related performances and installations.
So, now you know. And it’s pretty amazing that he’s here in Melbourne for a launch this Thursday night. Neon Parc (in association with Hamish McKay Gallery) are presenting documentation of Apple’s Four Activities, originally staged at Apple, 161 West 23rd Street, New York on March 20, 1971.
What were these four activities? This you will discover, but they possibly involved a vacuum cleaner and some bi-carb soda.
By Penny Modra
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What:
Billy Apple, Four Activities, 161 West 23rd Street, New York, 20 March 1971
Where:
Neon Parc, 1/53 Bourke St, Melbourne (cnr McIlwraith Pl)
When:
Opens Thurs Oct 4, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs Oct 3-27
How much:
free
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What:
Are You Being Flocked?
Where:
Carlton Hotel & Studios, upper levels, 193 Bourke St, Melbourne
When:
Opens Thurs Oct 4, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs until Oct 27, open Thurs-Sat 4-7pm
How much:
free
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Well are you?
If you stand still too long in the Carlton Hotel you may well run the risk. But this exhibition is happening upstairs in the gallery, so remain stationary all you like and gaze at work by a group of artists who famously exhibited at Prahran’s Store 5 during the ‘80s.
Curated by stencil forefather and pal of Perks, Constanze Zikos, this is a varied reunion show including work by Stephen Bram, Toony Clark, Marco Fusinato, Melinda Harper, Fiona McDonald, Anne Marie May, Callum Moorton, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Kerrie Poliness and Kathy Temin.
As James at The Carlton says, there may not be flocking in this show, "But there are some flockers.”*
By Kate Mosh
*Note: James is totally friends with these artists and calls them flockers to their faces all the time.
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Remember the days when sneaking a peek at your Christmas presents required a series of capers involving younger siblings, your dog, and prank calls to your own house? Well, these days even the opening of a new clothing store can provide the sensation of sticking it to the ‘big people’ in charge.
The appropriately named Heist Store, opening this week on Little Latrobe Street, works on the premise of exclusively importing rare, quality threads in an attempt to whisk misguided masses away from the evils of chain-store shopping.
And, unlike the dingy recesses of your mother’s wardrobe, blind rummaging is not necessary as booty is displayed in sleek, minimal style.
Brands like Crash One, Coup De Grace, Crooks & Castles, Heights NYC, Know1edge, Orisue, LRG, Reason, Still Life, Rip Off & Duplicate, IHMDJ, Levis (Japan Vintage) will grace the hangers, with Hellz Bellz and Married To The Mob for the girlies. There is also talk of showing works from local Melbourne artists like Jagi and Bonsai.
The store launches this Friday night with DJs Dexter (where’s he been all this time?), J-Red, Cluso, and Mu-gen on the tunes. Incognito optional.
By Laura McIntosh
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What:
Heist Store launch
Where:
33 Little Latrobe St, Melbourne
When:
Fri Oct 5, 6-9pm
How much:
free |
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This never happened with VHS. Sure, we had to fast-forward through that "HAVE ... YOU ... GOT ... WHAT ... YOU ... PAID ... FOR?" anti-piracy ad – shouted with glee here if you need reminding – but there were no commentary tracks, making-of featurettes, or animated menu screens. More and more, we seem to watch a movie through the media sitting around it.
The upcoming Focus On Francois Ozon retrospective at ACMI understands this. They’re playing his new film Angel along with the older and rarer material that you'd expect from the critical darling of stylish French cinema.
But they’re also showing double-features, where Ozon himself has picked the following film that he thinks will be the perfect thematic sequel to his own work – like Fassbinder’s Fear Eats The Soul and Sirk’s awesomely melodramatic Imitation of Life.
The pick of the bunch is the final night: Ozon’s icy ‘erotic thriller’ starring Charlotte Rampling, Swimming Pool, and Ingmar Bergman’s ‘uh-kinda-hot-maybe-if-you’re-feeling-obtuse’ classic Persona. They’re both stories of strange relationships between an older woman and younger girl, filled with precise imagery, shifting power dynamics, and repressed, ripe sexuality.
By Martyn Pedler
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What:
Swimming Pool (2003) and Persona (1966)
Where:Focus on Francois Ozon at ACMI
When:Fri Oct 5 - Sun October 14
Watch the Swimming Pool trailer:
here
Wach the hilariously portentous Persona trailer:
hereWin:We have three double passes to the double bill to give away. It's on Sun Oct 14, 5-9pm. Just email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'I'm feeling obtusely hot' |
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They say that sometimes, when you’re hungry, you’re just mistaking dehydration for burger lust and that’s why people who don’t drink enough are contributing to the obesity epidemic (but not, to their credit, the drought). The point being, sometimes you think you want one thing when you actually want another. It comes from an excess of choice in our western world.
Case in point: once I bought a tube of Geranium Leaf Body Balm when what I really wanted was a book of magic realist short fiction. Don’t get me wrong, my withered skin was grateful, but this kind of thing happens to people every day. Fortunately, Aesop is leading the fight against such mishaps by converting their Fitzroy shop into a bookstore, selling only hundreds of copies of Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. So, throughout October, if you are on Brunswick Street pursuing a mistaken lust for hand cream, you will not run the risk that I did.
By Penny Modra
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What:
Aesop store turns into bookshop
Where: 242 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
When:October How much:$3.95 for everything in the store Contact:9419 8356 |
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The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival is famous for exhibiting the beautiful, the absurd and very fit men. This season, we’re into three performances which capture these theatrical qualities. Like the giant wal k-through worm at Phillip Island, but without the gut-twisting smell of off cheese, Kaleidoscope is a special journey installed in the basement of the North Melbourne Town Hall. Experience the adorable childhood dreams of Ben, a 9-5 suit whose office life is not what he imagined when he was five. This will leave you grinning so hard you may end up with lock-jaw. Pure Puppet Palaver features sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and a mute ventriloquist. There’s probably nothing else you need in theatre. Oh, except for a man eating paper bag, of course. If you only read this far because we mentioned 'very fit men' then theatre may not be for you. However, allow us to twist your arms to see a combination of fit men and acting, handstands, 1930s outfits and lots of flirting at Controlled Falling Project. By Isabel Dunstan* *Isabel Dunstan is working on one of the Fringe shows mentioned above. She has a weakness for the beautiful, the absurd and very fit men. But at least she's off the crack. |
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What:
Fashion Keyboard (featuring Vice, Material Boy, Fat, Alpha60 and ThreeThousand DJs)
Where:
189 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
When:
Fri Oct 5, 10pm
How much:
free
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Description:
Fashion Keyboards are a bizarre species of instrument. They go “bleep, ping, honk” when you press on their candy-coloured buttons. But this evening has nothing to do with them, really. On Friday, designers, editors and hairdressers will be the DJs. For your butt-popping, torso-jerking, shoe-shuffling pleasure, Briony ‘N’ Myki (Vice), Led Zephyr (Material Boy), Isabel & Penny (ThreeThousand – they actually flashed their boobs for this), Eminemineminen (Fat), Frenchie (Pedestrian.TV), Alexalpha (Alpha60) and Jamie (Sweet Caroline) hide behind the decks while you push their buttons hoping that they, too, go “bleep, ping, honk”.
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What:
Art After Dark / Meccanoid Silver Factory Party
Where:
NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
When:
Fri Oct 5, 5pm – 9pm
How much:
free with your Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now ticket
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What:
Us vs Them 6 month anniversary party
Where:
Roxanne, Lvl 3, 2 Coverlid Place, Melbourne
When:
Fri Oct 5, doors 9pm
How much:
$15
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Description:
You’d think, with all the versus goin’ on – the us, the them, what have you – this party/band night wouldn’t be around to celebrate 6 months. But it seems the cogs of the world are oiled by conflict and luckily so because otherwise we wouldn’t be seeing Mission Control, Mist & Sea (drawn partly from Pretty Boy Crossover and Underground Lovers), Ben Birchall & the Corrections or The Galvatrons this Friday. Plenty of psych-electro, rock and power pop to keep you ready for the fight. Take it out on DJs Chestwig, BROmance and No Requests.
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Description:
Weirdo label Sabbatical Records is presenting two interstate heavyweights this Friday at Forepaw, Melbourne’s premiere all-ages, DIY show space. Local merchants of drone and noise Absoluten Calfeutrail and Bone Sheriff will warm up the night for Queensland’s pounding, visceral Scul Hazzards. Master noisemaker and glass auteur Justice Yeldham will then send you home (or to the asylum). A great way to start the weekend. |
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What:
Trough Faggot Party 17
Where:
Geddes Lane (off Flinders Lane, behind King St), Melbourne
When:
Sat Oct 16, doors 10pm
How much:
$10 on the door |
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Description:
As the Trough guys say, it's cocktober. (The perfect precursor to movember, and dickcember for that matter). So what better time to head out and see Seymour Butz (Syd), Damn Arms DJs, Kapitolina and My DJ Continuity.
Despite what their website says, Tina Turner will not be there. (She lives in Europe we think, and she is not a man.)
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What:
Leafcutter John (UK), Sebastien Roux (FR), Sanso-Xtro (UK)
Where:
The Toff in Town, Lvl 2 Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
Mon Oct 8, doors 8pm
How much:
$12 presale, $15 on the door Contact:
9639 8440
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Description:
Missed Electrofringe? Well, it was, like, hundreds of kilometres away in a coal-mining town. So don’t beat yourself up, just grab a ticket to this one-off side show at The Toff on Monday. Mash Out co-presents three internationally renowned (and, yes, oddly good-looking) sound artists in one show. Headliner, Leafcutter John, is UK artist who's shared stages with Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton, Yo La Tengo, Nick Cave (the whole gang) and is widely thought of as the forefather of ‘folktronica’ (remember Matt’s educational piece on that last week?). Sebastien Roux plays minimalist electronica (see his acclaimed 2006 album Songs), Sanso-Xtro (aka Melissa Agate) plays everything from guitar, ukulele and kalimba, to drums and analogue synthesizers. Plus she is hot and you are better-looking than the residents of Newcastle. Well, it’s true. Supported admirably by DJ Oren Ambarchi.
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