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Sun 11: Sustenance by Oliver van der Lugt

2008-05-07T17:48:00.000+10:00

Free 6-9pm

Sustenance is a one-night only exhibition by Oliver van der Lugt. This is what he has to say about it: "Some people would call it art, i prefer to call it a constellation. It encompasses sound, projection, light works, an interactive installation, drawings, objects, photographs and soup. This is a measure of time (travel) (has gently amassed over the course of just under a year of living in melbourne), drawn from/ with what is at hand. Sometimes intuitive/ obtuse/ oblique investigations of environment, syntax, colour, light, texture, rhythm, listening, mapping, narrative, decay. Come along to construct and collapse, bathe in space, play, talk, eat soup, lay on the floor. (and say hello before i leave for japan and europa!)"

Take note of that mention of soup: if you are hungry for eye/ear/stomach food on Sunday evening you know where the action is.

Fri 9: Food. And also music

2008-05-07T17:45:00.001+10:00

Rosalind Hall and Marco Cher-Gibard
Pig and Machine
Glee Cartel
Either/Or
Solid State and Sympathia

7pm sharp, Friday May 9, Entry by donation

A night of diverse and intense audio/visual stimulation, featuring acts from as far afield as Japan, New Zealand and East Brunswick! Noise is a point of departure and a point of return.

Solid State and Sympathia are spatial and dissonant, an interrogation of resonance in its many permutations. It is a dialogue between digital and analogue, involving ferrous metals and field recordings, among other things.

Either/Or is a keen eyed and eared scavenger in a world of discardation. This performance will include mutated magnetics, found and recorded loops, and dumpstered mp3 players, deftly DIY'ed together.

Glee Cartel is half human, half insect king of the earth, weaving dense textiles of sound from disarming, disparate threads. Looping, ebbing flowing, frothing, carpet to line your inner ear.

Rosalind Hall and Marco Cher-Gibard furnish the listener and viewer with an engaging, articulate, and technically impressive audio/visual experience. Live-fed cross examinations of the saxophone are cut up, processed, manipulated and re-projected in real time. This is a communication through air, tone, wire, lenses and light, and establishes a compelling dynamic between the real, the captured, the hyper-real. Simply must be seen!

Pig and Machine have freshly relocated to Melbourne from a vivid Osaka noise scene, and their performances are searing hot costumed energetic. Hovering between noise punkk, breakcore and day glo gospel, they are very, very difficult to stand still to!!!!

There will also be vegan treats! Come along and be merry!

Fri 2: White Woods / Go Genre Everything / Dan Cross

2008-04-29T17:03:00.002+10:00

White Woods features members from such past and present bands as Midnight Caller, K Mason, Love The Bomb, Ragged Anns, Kind Winds, The Astens and a bunch of others. They had a "pre Debut Gig gig" at Afterdark last week, and now this is their "Debut gig" proper. Wha? They pull out some noice indie jangle.

Ably supported by the bash + holler of Go Genre Everything, and the pop genius of Mr Dan Cross (star sign Cancer, Leo Rising).

Friday 2 May. Doors open at 8pm. Won't cost much.

Wed 30: Marcia Jane Artist Talk

2008-04-29T16:33:00.003+10:00

Tape Projects Presents
Marcia Jane

Marcia is a video artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her current video work involves images of her personal spaces and environments: streets and spaces encountered every day. Intensive editing abstracts these images away from their origins and combines them in new graphic and rhythmic relationships. Recent projects include live performance at The NOW Now Festival 2008; and the collaborative show Cluster at VCA gallery.

A selection of light refreshments will be provided.

Artist Talk
7pm Wednesday
30th April

Tue 29: Trails

2008-04-29T16:27:00.001+10:00

Yes, it's on. Bring pens, beer, food. All welcome.

Fri 18: Lost Animal, Barrage, Das Butcher

2008-04-17T11:59:00.000+10:00

Lost Animal
Barrage
Das Butcher

Friday April 18, 8.30pm, $cheap

This Friday night features three of Melbourne's finest solo acts. Wait, come back! There's not a single acoustic guitar strummer amongst 'em:

I think we might have said before that Lost Animal is one of our most favourite new local things. The top two influences listed on his myspace are Suicide and Serge Gainsbourg, and that kinda nails it, but, you know, not really. Sparse, raw songs with crooning vox and minimal backing. "Say No to Thugs" is a stand-out earworm.

Barrage: The Big Issue sez: "The austere moodiness of early 80s new romanticism and the bounce-riddled aesthetics of early 90s melodic electronics ... [with] a strangely disturbing edge." Mess + Noise sez: "A chronicle of order and disorder for a golden dawn" which is, uh, meaningless, but has a nice ring to it. We say that Barrage is just about the cutest little boy you'll ever meet, and his brand of fucked pop is sweet AND sour, and largely pork-free.

Das Butcher reckons: "Mother used to always speak backwards to me, then one day I found a casio rapman in hard rubbish, I got dressed all in blood, made some noise, & this is what happened." He's not joking about the blood neither.

Sat 19: Khuruksetra, Spit, Krystoffkrvstoffiston

2008-04-17T11:56:00.001+10:00

Khuruksetra (Indonesia)
Spit
Krystoffkrvstoffiston

Saturday April 19, 8.30pm, $cheap

Khuruksetra is an Indonesian experimental noise group influenced by Javanese performing arts and the Bharatayudha War. A collaboration between the members of Kalimayat, Whisperdesire, Hypervillain & a Poet. Now based in Sydney. Featuring Danif Pradana, Mikael Mirdad, Enrico Utomo and Andra Fembriarto. This is a rare opportunity to see em do their thing in Melbourne.

Spit is the performing title of Ryan Cockburn, a New Zealander who is a sometime/past member of EYE along with Peter Stapleton (Victor Dimisch Band, Pin Group, Scorched Earth Policy, Dadamah, Terminals, Handful of Dust, Rain, Sleep, Flies Inside the Sun... ), Nathan Thompson (Sandoz Lab Technicians, Sleep) and Peter Porteous (Empirical), among other things. He's in Melbourne now and we're not sure what to expect: Cheap toy guitars, mixers, microphones, turntables with busted records and computers are all part of his kit, and his recorded output seems pretty varied... His rekkid label (UFM) says "If the Dead C had kept making records in the vein of 'Operation Of The Sonne', but ditched the drums and the electric guitars, they might have ended up here. If the Clean got incredibly lazy and started forgetting to finish songs or turn the radio off or sing properly..." Best to just come along for a look yourself.

Krystoffkrvstoffiston: "From dehidrated northcote dusty lungs full of grief and god's wrath splutter forth omnipitant pain and anguish. coroading twin neck guitar and organ acompany these death throughs only barely riseing from collapsing in heat stroke, this is mottled Southern Hemisphree Black & White Metal!!!! other project ST John's Ambience, MOFFARFARRAH, Collapsed Toilet Vietnam, White Horse, MofHoRah, Malakat, Slotholith, 1/16th headed, Dumb Crystals, Paeces, MFFRvsBNS, EOH,Kimberly, Bohemian Knights, Alley oops (ex-Slam Dunk!) and Half man Half Moffafarrah." So, yeah, these two guys who're involved in a swag of skewed local musical projects do this great bleak/black ("bleack"?) metal / doom / drone + scree thing. And they're doing it with the best bandname in town.

Sat 12: Fatti Frances, Beaches, Default Jamerson

2008-04-09T12:20:00.003+10:00

Fatti Frances
Beaches
Default Jamerson

Saturday April 12, 8.30pm, $cheap

Fatti Frances is a newish pop band featuring Raquel Solier (formerly Oh! Belgium, Jemima Jemima). With Help from Judy Garland aka Sarah Weston, Geoff O'Connor from Sly Hats/Crayon Fields, Max Cohan of Agents of Abhorrence and Tim Picone from Unstable Ape Records/The Night Terrors. They sound pretty sweet to me.

Beaches features folks from local groops like Love of Diagrams, Spider Vomit and Panel of Judges. They are good. Have a listen on the Myspace. My favourite Beaches review so far: "melbourne 2008 = south island 1983"

Default Jamerson is Marcus Cook. He just put out an album on Sabbatical. The best phrase in their album description is "Brilliant tone vapours". They also use the word "ominous". That should give you an idea.

Fri 11: Down The Crater Of Torte

2008-04-09T12:11:00.002+10:00

An evening of sweet treats for ears, eyes, and open mouths.

Featuring:

Thugquota
Van Diemen's Band
Deb Ball
Bethany J Fellows

Friday April 11, 7.30pm, $5

Thugquota, tough enough to rush at you with a swag full of his own twisted notions of pop songs and not fall over. Sweeter than a beach ball at least, heavier than a lamington.

Van Diemen's Band, we know nothing.

Deb Ball has its first outing. Dan Bell, giver of inepitude and bad vibes to Ladder and Happy Party is leaving behind a mountain of half working electronics and travelling light with drum machine, keyboard, tape loops, pedals and home made trinkets. Searching for scratch and sniff kraut wallpaper.

Bethany J Fellows is a Melbourne based artist currently doing mostly performance stuff. Her subjects are wide and varied as she explores the iconic, celebrity and self, seeking to subvert the current social/cultural/political climate. Known for her humorous and offbeat projects, she is obsessive and quite acerbic in the kitchen. Some of you might remember her "Pray for Britney" shrine from our first market, and a few of you might have been lucky enough to catch her dressed as a taco on Swanston St. Bethany will be performing Energy Transmutation #1 Sugar.

Sat 5: Wave(r) and Holden Stingray

2008-04-03T11:32:00.002+11:00

WAVE(R) are a 3-piece from Dunedin NZ. From pop to flop they look to channel the the ghosts of such greats as The Sandoz Lab Technicians, Snapper, Sneaky Feelings, Alchemy and the Dead C.

Holden Stingray (NZ) Noise-blues guitar improv, tempered by police assault and defenestration

9pm start, Free drinks.

Fri 4: Alberts Basement LP launch

2008-04-03T11:29:00.002+11:00

Featuring the following:

Seagull
Peter J Head
Psuche Ensemble
Popolice
Wrap Your Legs Around My Face
Great Earthquake
Low Rise Estate
Johnny Saw Horses
Aktion Unit
Extreme Wheeze
Genevieve & Jezebel
Fulton Girls Club

It's $5 and All Ages. 5.30pm start

Sun 23: Blind Billie Speed

2008-03-20T14:55:00.004+11:00

Yeah, we've had a quiet month, but we're gearing up for a pretty full April.
Anyway, before that happens, we present to you:

Blind Billie Speed (tas)

7pm Sunday 23 March
FREE

Blind Billie Speed do highly hypnotic droney-bluesy-instrumental-psych-jam-improv stuff. Catchcries so far include, "1 bass, 2 guitars, 3 beats and the fucking truth!" and "No pedals, no distortion, no songs". Featuring Reggie Norris and Ben Crothers on guitar, Dan Cross on bass and beats provided by a Farfisa Bravo organ.

I can't think of a better way to spend my Sunday evening than this, to be honest.

If you need convincing visit Consumer Productions for mp3s and context.
The Consumer Productions site has a pretty amazing archive of mp3s by Hobart acts from over the last ten years or so. Dig deep, dig wide.

Coming up in April: Albert's Basement All Ages Vinyl Launch with 12 fucking bands; Fatti Frances, Beaches and Default Jamerson; Lost Animal, Barrage, Das Butcher; Khuruksetra (Noise + ritual from Indonesia via Sydney), SPIT + more more more...

Tue 26: Trails

2008-02-25T13:27:00.001+11:00

It kinda crept up on us, but yeah, our monthly drawing thing Trails in on this Tuesday night the 26th of Feb, from 7pm until 11 or so.

As always, bring pens, beer, jokes, friends and your special drawing gloves.

Sat 23: Pikelet EP Launch w/ Paeces, Bum Creek

2008-02-20T14:10:00.004+11:00

Sabbatical presents the launch of Pre-Flight Jitters by Evelyn Morris, otherwise known as Pikelet. This EP features material recorded at Head Gap studio in Preston with Marcus Cook in May 2007. Pre-Flight Jitters pursues some unexpected textural qualities and compositional approaches, while maintaining the rich layering typical of Evelyn's recent work. On this occasion Pikelet is joined by Paeces and Bum Creek.

Pikelet
Paeces
Bum Creek

Saturday Feb 23. 8pm start, $6 Entry. Copies of the EP will be available.

Fri 22: 6majik9, Blank Realm, No Guru, Lakes

2008-02-20T13:48:00.007+11:00

Wow. We're very excited to let you all know 'bout this one. Visitors from the Musicyourmindwillloveyou nexus up in ~~QLD~~ far-northern NSW have arrived in Melbourne and will be playing this Friday night, the 22nd of February, at Forepaw. These guys do a pretty convincing line in psychedelic space-goop on record, and we can't wait to experience it live. The full line-up is:

6majik9 (NSW)
Blank Realm (NSW)
No Guru (NSW)
(Not much internet-luv out there for No Guru but did find this snippet on the OtherFilm site:
"exotic and ragged free-raga afternoon permutations for krar, mbira, pandabox and homemade bass...")
Lakes
Collapsed Toilet Vietnam

Show starts at 8pm. $7

Gang Festival

2008-02-11T15:11:00.001+11:00

Gang Festival is an artist-led initiative celebrating the deep links between Indonesian and Australian community arts. Gang Festival takes its theme from the Indonesian word for alleyway — referring to small roads and particular social groupings; the space between more conventional roads and roles.

Nova is one half of TwinSista, a female hip hop outfit from East Java and the daughter of the guitarist from Indonesia's legendary rock band Suami.

Exi Agus Wijaya and Djuadi Suami are members of a collective in Java called Anakseribupulau — a community of artists and activists across Indonesia working against the destruction of the environment. Exi is a writer and musician while Djuadi's work ranges from performance art to wood carving.

Gangways is a feature-length documentary by Carli Leimbach that takes us to the Indonesian cities of Jakarta, Bandung and Jogyakarta, finally returning to Sydney. It follows the development of the creative relationships between Australian and Indonesian arts communities.

Artist Talk, Screening & Performance
7pm Friday
15th February

Presented by Tape Projects & Gang Festival

Trails

2008-01-28T12:36:00.001+11:00

A quick reminder: Yes, Trails is on this month, from 7pm until whenever this Tuesday evening (that'd be the 29th of Jan). Bring pens. And beer.

And in case you were wondering, the monthly Tape Projects artist talks will be resuming in February.

Dworzec. Summer Winds.

2008-01-17T12:42:00.001+11:00

Please consider:

Friday 18 Jan

Dworzec
Francis Plagne + Marco Fusinato
Julian Williams

8pm. AA. $cheap

Dworzec were probably our favourite Melbourne "thing" when they were kicking around in the early 2000s, an extraordinary and now kind of legendary example of "free-floating, unhinged group-think improvisation". Jon Dale once said that, and he also said this: "Dworzec are a truly incredible outfit - slow-breathing, time-melting, mind-expansion group thought of a most beautiful kind." They disappeared at some point and haven't been sighted for at least 5
years, but recently there's been a couple of attempts at getting them to play again, neither of which ended up occurring due to a) stolen equipment and b) a canceled show. But it's finally happening. At our place. Do not miss this.

Melbourne teenager Francis Plagne was once described in the Age as having "the sensibility of a middle-aged musicologist and the free-form enthusiasm of a teenage music nerd". He's put out a couple of albums that blend pop, drone and musique concrete. He'll be collaborating with Marco Fusinato on the night.

Marco has collaborated with Thurston fucking Moore. He's a visual artist and musician and also plays in the experimental / free / noise group SOLVER with John Nixon. He also runs the FreewaySound label, which, apart from releasing his own and SOLVER's stuff, has also
released albums by the likes of NZ free-noise-alchemists A Handful of Dust.

Julian Williams says this about himself: "Hello, My name is Julian Williams and I've been doing my thing in music and experimental theatre in Melbourne for years now, how they go so fast." These things have included another old-Melbourne-favourite The Solids, a million
solo tapes and rekkids on his own From The Same Mother label, and currently Hi-God People. He has a new album out now/soon on Synaesthesia called Liquidambar.

Saturday 19 Jan

~~Downtown (millionth show at forepaw and 2nd last show ever!)~~
Wasted Truth (2/3rds of Downtown + Lakes)
Bum Creek
Super Star (ex-Deaf!Deaf!)
Emesis (from Brisvegas)

7.30pm. AA. $10 with Summer Winds compilation CD

This is a CD launch/fundraiser for the Melbourne leg of the Summer Winds festival. Go here for more info about that and the bands involved.

We will say that the main reason we have nothing on next weekend is so we can go to SW on the 26th. You should all try and make it to that and this show too. You can have yer Merediths and yer Big Day Outs, Summer Winds is Australia's Finest Summer Music Festival.

NOTE: Early promo (including the flyer on the SW myspace) list ZOND as headlining this show. Well, they're not playing. They played here last weekend and yes, they were pretty fantastic, but their volume levels make our neighbours CRAZY with HATE and RAGE. Which is entirely reasonable. So we can't have them back, unfortunately.

Site Maintenance

2008-01-13T16:16:00.000+11:00

We're tweaking and improving a few things around forepaw.org this weekend, so the odd page might appear busted for a little while. Apologies for any inconvience this may cause. We'll let you know when we return to regular programming.

Loathing. Lakes. Lost.

2008-01-09T14:06:00.000+11:00

No time for small talk. Look at these amazing shows!

Friday Jan 11:

Mutual Loathing (Adelaide) & Nylstoch

Lakes

Joe Talia

Marden

Marco Cher-Gibard

8pm. All Ages. $Cheap

Saturday Jan 12:

Zond

Snawklor

Lost Animal

8pm. AA. $Cheap

Last time Zond played at Forepaw I thought their extraordinary volume / electricity consumption was going to blow our wiring and burn the place down (This is true).

Snawklor is Dylan Martorell & Nathan Gray's longtime musical/visual collaboration.

Lost Animal is Jarrod from St Helens + New Season. Listen, you'll thank me later.

Next week: Dworzec / Marco Fusinato / Francis Plagne / Sean Baxter + Summer Winds CD Launch! OMG!!!1!

Saturday Dec 22: Eamon Sprod / Camilla Hannan / Joe Talia + more in the backyard

2007-12-21T13:03:00.000+11:00

Hello Everybody,

On Saturday evening we will be having our final show / get-together for 2007, and it feels like the perfect event to cap off the year.

So, we present to you this night of quiet drones, field recordings, roughly cut textures and, potentially, mosquito bites:

Eamon Sprod (Tarab) + Camilla Hannan
Joe Talia
Clendisc & Frederec (acoustic strings + motors)

w/ visuals by Anthony Magen of the already-somewhat-infamous Helmet Head

If the weather is good to us we'll set up out in the backyard, and start about 8pm so we can catch the sunset. Bring yr own food and booze. It will be beautiful, and most likely the quietest Christmas party ever.

In the event of rain or natural disaster the show will be in the shopfront.

myspace.com/tarab3058
camillahannan.com
joetalia.com

Finally, enormous thanks to the many collaborators, performers, helpers, friends and audience members who have contributed to Forepaw in 2007. All of you, seriously, are just the fucking best.

See you on Saturday.

Magnetic / Radiant

2007-12-12T18:09:00.000+11:00

Hey, You:

Friday 14 December:

Radiant City
Seth Rees
The Boats
Our Hands In Grey
Scissor Lock

7:00pm

Saturday 15 December:

Magnetics (sparse guitar sounds & percussion)
Tim Caitlin (Pre US tour warm up, drones galore)
Bone Sheriff (1/2 sober ear blistering stubling)
Moffaffarrah (loops & howls)
Collapsed Toilet Vietnam (sheer terror noisecore)

7:30pm

(This one will be HOT)

Moonmilk / Drowned Out

2007-12-05T13:20:00.000+11:00

We've hit the home stretch of 2007 running with a handful of shows to see out the rest of the year.

This weekend we present to you:

Saturday Dec 8:

Moonmilk (Syd)
Mirror Farm
Biddy Connor
Maudita
ii

8pm $5 entry

Sunday Dec 9:

Drowned Out (Bris)
Majorca
Diamond Sea
UV Race
Augustus Hill

Bands from 6pm, Vegan food from 5pm
$6 entry

All shows all ages, all the time.

Trails this Tuesday

2007-11-25T15:16:00.000+11:00

Trails is on yet again, 7pm to whenever, this Tuesday the 27th of November. See youse there!

Artist Talk: Sam Smith

2007-11-25T15:03:00.000+11:00

Sam Smith utilises the mechanics of cinematic production and special effects technology to form parallel universes in the digital realm. He combines the codes of different entities, engineering new hybrid life forms which reference their physical counterparts from the analogue world.

His solo art practice has been exhibited in Australia, Japan, Ireland, New Zealand and Serbia. Sam Smith lives and works in Sydney, Australia and is currently the Tape Projects artist in residence with Simon Berman.

Presented by Tape Projects

7pm Monday 26 November