Where is my mind?

pixies!

My mind was blown last night by pixies’ astonishing performance at Luna Park. A Great Performance of Great Songs by a Great Band. And a crowd of thousands of fans in [rather than on] ecstasy.

It was so much better than I could have hoped for! Earlier in the day I’d watched the recent doco loudQUIETloud which portrays the band members as fragile, damaged people, incapable of communicating with each other. The performances in that film were excellent, but pedestrian compared with what we were treated to last night. It was one of those magical occasions where artist and audience lift each other to great heights. Kim Deal was beaming for the whole show, as was the audience. And like many in the packed crowd, I danced like a maniac to most of the songs. Here’s a little taste, via my phone camera:

An unforgettable concert. Sure there’s plenty to discuss around why this groundbreaking band isn’t releasing or performing new material, but I’ll save that for another time. Right now I’m still coming to terms with the realisation that I may have just seen the best gig of my life.

DAMMIT!

I was resigned to the fact that I wasn’t going to see the pixies, cos I wasn’t prepared to go to the V festival, and they weren’t going to do any other shows. Now I’ve just found out that they’re playing at Luna Park this Friday – apparently this was only announced last week and it’s already sold out! At $75 it’s a rip-off, but I still would have gone… Does anyone here know of any spare tickets or any other way of getting in?

UPDATE!
I’M GOING TO SEE THE PIXIES – YAY!!!
Although many websites, including Ticketmaster, claim that it’s sold out, I was able to buy a ticket directly from the Luna Park ‘Big Top Sydney’ website. $86.35 incl. booking fee. It is a rip-off, but hey, this is an historic event! So who else is coming? Hit that website quickly if you want to get a ticket.

THE AILING FESTIVAL

BADRADIO PRODUCTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH KILLER WATTS SOUND SYSTEMS PRESENTS:

“THE AILING FESTIVAL”

SATURDAY 10TH MARCH
2007
2-8PM
OUTDOORS (T.B.A)
FREE!!!

A free not-for-profit event at the ass-end of summer

The Ailing festival aims to bring together the best (and worst) of Sydney’s noise/outsider/dumb/other music in a free, highly accessible public space.. there will be music, food, art, merch and you!

Artists:

WINNER
MOONMILK
TOECUTTER
TOYDEATH
LECTER MACABRE
RANK SINATRA
SUN OF THE SEVENTH SISTER
HAPPY GO HATE FUCK
DJ SMALLCOCK
NIKKY WEBSTER’S PRESEDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BENEFACTOR V’S THE STANLEY GREEN FOUNDATION
ONANI

Djs:

DJ MONOBROW
CORPORAL LEPER
REV MUCK HOLE

Other stuff:

DUAL PLOVER merch
TENZENMEN merch
BANG A GONG zines (Woolongong)
GOULBURN POULTRY FANCIER’S SOCIETY zines
BBQ by the QUEEN OF FRANCE

Banners:
NURSE MIFFY AND JROCKER

PLEASE GET THERE EARLY TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT TO ALL ARTISTS!!!!
(and to catch the ailing sunlight of the summer season)

BIOS:

WINNER:
Winner is Sydney’s own psychotic supergroup covers band. Your favourite pop hits as you’ve never heard them before. Get down to such classics as Bohemian Rhapsody and Tainted Love as performed by a demented Eno-era Roxy Music featuring Sweden, Swerve and Adrian (Spastic Howitzer) Bertram.

MOONMILK:

Moonmilk have been recording,releasing and performing improvised music together for around two years. The pair’s focus is on exploring the emotional and physical effects of sounds. Moonmilk’s first full length c.d release “The World Creaks” was releassed on Spanish Magic in 2006 a full length recording entitled “The winter Sun Has Teeth” Will be released early in 2007. Moonmilk also has plans for the release of an e.p in Brazil this year.

TOECUTTER:
Ibiza dance-core

TOYDEATH:
Toydeath use childrens electronic toys to create music you have never heard before! Thats right we only use toys! We have collected an arsenal of toys to make any kindergarten green with envy. You will hear talking George Bush, Jesus, Barbie Dolls, Speak and Spells, Rock Guitars, Sax-a-booms, Toy Telephones and lots of other fantastic Toys! Toydeath have also collected toys from their international tours and use Chinese, Dutch, German and Japanese language toys in our set. All toys have electronic additions(circuit bending) to turn them into wild and unique

LECTER MACABRE:
Bio: Lecter Macabre are the music of the spheres, ambient astral reconnaissance, extreme noise terror, radio emmissions from the heat death at the centre of the universe, psychic turmoil at the edge of sleep, unknowable and primal.

Please buckle your seatbelts around your head, the captain for this trip deep within the confines of the hollow earth is none other than the good and kind Doctor KKlarence Von Macabre, a practitioner of free form mesmeric animal magnetisim who shall pour golden honey into your trembling earballs whilst whispering sweet nothings to your boiling brain of blood.

Selah

Luther Blissett (RIP)

Mark Selway (ex-Music For Big Game Hunting) – Theremin
Josh Shipton (TRIANGLE, Marquis De Sound) – Voice

RANK SINATRA:
Black Metal Karaoke

SUN OF THE SEVENTH SISTER:
Sun of the Seventh Sister (Blue Mountains)
Blue Mountains inspired Ecstatic Noise ensemble with no members.

HAPPY GO HATE FUCK:
Lloyd + Daniel + whoever the drummer is for the night = Happy Go Hate Fuck.
Noise type stuff

DJ SMALLCOCK:
Plays under a number of monkiers is part of Dual Plover www.dualplover.com

NIKKY WEBSTER’S PRESEDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BENEFACTOR V’S THE STANLEY GREEN FOUNDATION:

Fanclub with fx machines and tape destruction

ONANI:
ONANI BRINGS DA RUCKUS. ONANI IS THE BLACK AND WHITE COOKIE OF NOISE. Daryl and Nic first jammed sometime in the middle of 2005 with pretty much no gear. Nic got a way brutal ear infection the next day, it must have brought the ruckus. Shits continued since, they got more gear. Once they freaked out these Axel Rose looking dudes when we played at this girls birthday party. They were all like “WTF,?!?!?!?”. Sound&Fury described Onani as “Harsh, but not grating. Dense, but not cluttered. You’d think they’d been at it for decades, such is the focus and maturity they display” but really, we’re just two kids who can’t play our instruments properly.

DJ MONOBROW (2RRR 88.5fm)
collector/hoarder of all things musically strange including outsider music; homemade/private press lp’s; barrel organ records; avant garde; free jazz; spoken word; grannies singing pop songs; kiddies singing comformist pop muzak; how-to language records; sexi flexi discs; christian ventriloquist puppets singing “Jesus Loves Me”; animals singing beatles songs; and more………

DJ CORPORAL LEPER(2RRR 88.5fm):
Dj Corporal leper like’s girl scouts in tumble dryers and the cackle sisters, is prone to obsessivley collecting bhamitzvah sing-along tapes and the sounds of people’s blenders. She likes to play recordings of people trying really hard and not gettting anywhere (talent show’s, jilted lover’s mixtapes, foghorn recordings for documentation purposes) and also has a love of noise.

She also does a radio show with her friend Josh on 2rrr 88.5fm called RADIO SHOW.

REV MUCKHOLE:

“I’ll let me pecs do the talkin”

Three Nights with the Splinter Orchestra!

The Splinter Orchestra Presents Three Nights Of New Music For Electro-Acoustic Ensemble

Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday November 28-30, 2006

THE FLOUR MILL STUDIO’s
2B 23 Gladstone Street, Newtown
Next to the Silo’s off Enmore Rd

$7 and $10

Two nights of concerts and one open recording session. More

unsound06 + Loco Motivus

unsound06

regional australia’s ONLY experimental arts festival

http://www.unsound.org

10-11 november 2006

unsound is wagga space program’s (WSP) biennial experimental arts festival. unsound06 will be the fifth year of the festival’s presentation in the Riverina region. And this year it’s happening on a TRAIN!!! More

update

Electrofringe/TINA was great this year. My highlights included the new!shop performance/installation, the Corporate Techno and sedition panels, and performances by Lloyd Barrett, DJ Scotch Egg and Robin Fox, but there was lots of other excellent stuff. My panels and gigs also went pretty well, and the nights were full of drinking and fun – all in all a wonderful festival experience. I’ve put some photos up on Flickr.

Now I have to keep my head down to prepare for my end of year PhD presentation next week, as well as finishing off some other work that’s overdue. See you on the other side!

TINA time

This Is Not Art is on in Newcastle this weekend. It’s my favourite Australian festival – if you’ve never been, you should check it out. I’ll be doing a couple of talks and a couple of performances.

Last week’s word was

INTERVENTION

San Jose

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outta here

in a few hours i’ll be leaving au for a month. if downtime coincides with free/cheap net access i may post here. otherwise, see you when i return!

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