Welcome to Forepaw.org

Forepaw is a shopfront in Melbourne, Australia. We operate as a non-profit, all-ages venue for gigs, performances, workshops, screenings, installations and anything else that seems like it might fit. Find out more.

Some Stuff That We Do

Mercado

Mercado is our sort-of bimonthly artist market. The first few were a total hoot and the next one will be along soon.

Trails

Trails Forepaw‘s monthly drawing night/ publishing experiment just keeps getting better.

Tape Projects

Tape Projects are holding a series of artist talks at our place, usually on the last monday of every month. Check their site for info.

Run! You Beasts!

Run! You Beasts! This is the short film and video compilation DVD we helped Pip make in 2006. R!YB! II is now seeking submissions!

Summer Winds

Summer Winds are putting on monthly shows here from now on. Each night is a smorgasbord of artschool punk and herky-jerky hottness, with hand-picked performers from all over the country and beyond.

Head Muzak

Head Muzak was an interactive installation by Michael Prior that lived at Forepaw in March of this year. You can watch the little video we made and read the artists statement here.

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Saturday Gig / Monday Talk / Tuesday Trails

Wow, Saturday's gig was a total blast, and we'd like to send a big thanks out to everyone who played and everyone who came for making it such a great night. Photos up here soon. In the meantime, here's what's keeping us busy this week:

Saturday the 26th, we got a pretty special line-up:

Death Bag, from up Bendigo way, is a two-piece featuring ex-Bird Blob and 'Nem folk, and from what we've heard we reckon they'll be a pretty formidable live experience of elevating drone and scree. DENSE. This is their debut performance in the big smoke.

Kind Winds, if you don't know yet, is the ten-year-strong psych/drone/rock project of Tasmania's Colin Henry Jnr. Kind Winds has been through about a million different line-ups and incarnations, but Colin has always been the heart of the thing, and he's produced a massive back-catalog of short-run CDRs and mind-altering gigs over the years. The current line-up, possibly their best ever, also features the mighty Keith "Fucking Genius" Mason on guitar and Kris "Witch Hats" Buscombe on drums. If you never got to see Spacemen 3 -- and we're assuming you didn't -- Kind Winds is your best bet for that kind of fix in 2007.

Daisy Buchanan has been hawking her solo murk + blurt + vocals song-stuff around town for a while now, supporting the likes of Zond and Naked on the Vague. She played at one of the first ever gigs we put on here, and since then her show has developed into the most unique mashing of songwriting with synthnoise-moan-groan-and-fart you'll ever catch anywhere.

Doors open about 8. All Ages. Cheap.


Monday the 28th: Our Monthly Artist Talk, presented by Tape Projects.

EMILE ZILE

"Emile Zile is an Australian-Latvian artist working in single-channel video, live video, installation and performance. Using the mass-media as raw material, Zile's work attempts to locate the poetic in a barrage of popular culture. Embracing broadcast banalities and inhabiting the media, he has appeared on Australian national television to up-stage a gameshow host, installed photographic portraits of Jerry Springer Show audience members in a gallery and performed live video for a hybrid performance work in Guangzhou, China; appropriating 15th century Chinese erotic illustrations, 'Apocalypse Now' and contemporary American death metal. He lives and works in Melbourne, Australia."

Doors open 7pm. Drinks n snacks provided. Free.

Tuesday the 29th:

TRAILS

Our famous free drawing thing rolls around again. Bring pens, friends, loose limbs and your big, beautiful brain.

Doors open about 6.30. Until late. Paper and a limited number of pens provided. Free.

PS Some new stuff on this here site too.

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Sat 19: The Focus, Cut Sick, Majorca, Consider This A Threat

We've had a couple of weekends off here at Forepaw, but this Saturday evening is the first in a long line of awesome gigs and events we've got going on over the next few months.

The line-up is The Focus / Cut Sick / Majorca / Consider This A Threat, doors open at 8pm, it's all ages and five bucks to get in. We're looking forward to this -- hope to see you there. Also: We just found out that the wonderful folks from Sticky will be running a zine stall at the show!

See you on Saturday.

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