Last minute update - seems cut to bits will no longer be held at dirty shirlows on saturday. Sit tight is the word.
Sketch the rhyme @ underbelly 08
Pretty fair to say that sketch the rhyme was one of our faves from the latest installment of the underbelly festival just passed.
The concept was great - five artists clustered around a table on the right, with a camera trained overhead that broadcast their sketches onto the big screen at the back, and a smaller screen facing the MCs at the front.
The MCs then engaged in a variety of ‘games’ - for example, a word association game where the MCs had to guess what the artists were drawing from the sketched clues, all the while freestyling over sublime beats from the phonies.
This got a great reaction from the crowd, and as with the surry hills festival earlier in the year, we were pleasantly surprised again by the quality of some of the rappers (Gabi in particular was outstanding).
Again, great concept… we want more.
Ohana @ random surry hills space
We decided to drop by one of the newer spaces in sydney - and were suitably impressed (unintentionally, though, as it seems we were actually in the wrong place!) Cool little whitewashed room with simple lighting and a friendly (if studenty) crowd.
We arrived expecting to hear the ambient electronica of aktion unit and moonmilk, though as we moved into vicinity it was clear we were mistaken!
ohana, to the north and hira hira played to a small but knowledgeable audience. we especially enjoyed the unkempt, discordant artrock stylings of ohana, who rocked out (and reminded us of more than a few bands we enjoyed around the turn of the century. god we’re old 
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As always, enjoy the rest of our snaps. And we swear next time we go looking for bohemian grove we’ll actually find it!
btw if you came through a search engine to get here, this is NOT bohemian grove. But i swear we will get some pics up soon. ~ed
China Heights has moved
In case you were wondering, china heights has ditched the character-filled warehouse location near central for 257 crown street in darling-it-hurts.
Next week’s Anthony Bartok exhibit looks especially enticing for a check-out of the new location.
Louie’s and CAD Factory also rock!
We’ve had a pretty good response to our recent posts on dirty shirlows and the likes of maggotsville.
So it’s also worth pointing to a couple of other spaces in marrickville, one called louie’s warehouse and another called the CAD factory. Haven’t been down to check out either yet (or maybe we have but didn’t know what they were called!) but seems like they have some good things coming up.
We’ll attempt to update this post regularly (as with dirty shirlows) to keep you in the loop on happenings. Who said we don’t look after you?
Louie’s
10 july - Psyus demo launch w/ Schrodingers Cat, Yeah Bears
31 july - Diamond Sea 10″ launch w/ The Focus, Yes Nukes +
CAD factory
5 july - Hoss (Melb), Whopping Big Naughty +
19 july - The Holy Soul, etherland (Melb), Mink Puppet
C.L.I.T fest at chatswood this friday
We have to plead ignorance at not really knowing about C.L.I.T fest, but now that we do… wow, cool idea. And one that we are fully in support of.
Anyone who’s spent some time around the punk scene anywhere will be aware that punk and hardcore, for all intents and purposes, seems predisposed to play lip service to equality rather than do much to foster it - and make it happen. We’d hasten to say it’s one reason we weren’t too keen to stick around the scene. But we digress.
Enter C.L.I.T fest. The C.L.I.T stands for combatting latent inequality together, and it’s a festival to bring the contribution of women (and women themselves) into the scene spotlight. Awesome.
It’s been running overseas successfully for several years now, so great to see it make it’s way here courtesy of uncut flowers.
From 6.00pm on Friday 20th june at chatswood youth centre, there’ll be a screening of the C.L.I.T fest ‘04 doco, bands and 15-minute discussions on sex and gender in music.
There’s also a zine to be made available on the night, though it sounds like the organisers have had a hard time getting folks to commit.
We realise not everyone is going to be up for socio-scene politics on a friday evening, but encourage as many folks as possible to go and show some support.
A.P.H.I.D party this weekend
If you’re up for some inner-west ambient/dub/hip-hop/electronica goodness, assemblage point are once again hooking up one of their A.P.H.I.D parties to launch their new cdr on um records.
Line-up seems pretty good with live bands like telafonica, video installations, visual art, theatre, dance, improv and more promised.
Action kicks off at 4.00pm and goes for a long while. $5 entry. Get on it.
Winter tragic festival - medlow bath
If you feel like a trip up to the mountains, this looks like a pretty interesting party. pretty keen to check it out ourselves, we are.
Abe Duque sydney doco
Spied this two-part documentary of acid maestro abe duque’s recent visit to sydney.
The first vid is an always interesting tourist’s perspective of the city, while the second is a booth view of his performance at home.
Worth watching both. Really cool.
