TOY DEATH
performance art / experimental music

Re-purposing children’s electronic toys and assuming toy-like characters, Toydeath create live music with sounds coerced solely from tortured electronic toys and accompanied by hilarious costumed antics. Using circuit-bending techniques, each instrument is a hand-crafted modified toy capable of extraordinary sonic possibilities. Audiences are exposed to a barrage of hyperactive hootenanny as Toydeath unleash the contents of a toy box six year olds would kill for. Formed in 1995, this Sydney-based trio have appeared at major Australian music festivals including the Big Day Out, Field Day and The Great Escape, and performed in Japan, China, South Korea, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

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Website: www.toydeath.com

Event Information:

What: A ‘Glam Friday The 13th‘ party night with live show by dance rock band Super Massive
Where: The Junkyard (Grand Junction Hotel)
88 Church St, Maitland.
When: Friday 13th February
Time: 8:30pm
Entry: Free
Info: Ph: (02) 4933 5242 or www.myspace.com/supermassivesounds

Maitland and Newcastle area music fans who prefer their entertainment on the more theatrical side - and particularly those that like to dress up and party - are in for a treat Friday 13th February, as The Grand Junction Hotel, Maitland, takes a ‘Glam Friday The 13th’ theme, with a live show by award-winning, upcoming Sydney dance-rock band Super Massive, whose style draws from disco, electro, glam rock, pop and funk. It starts at 8:30pm and entry is free.

LIVE FEEDING is a one-night occurrence of audio-visual performance and installation under the stars. The Old Melbourne Gaol exercise yard will become a site of convergence for local AV practitioners and merry makers. To kick the evening off, we would like to invite you to play with our overhead projectors, get acquainted over drinks and enjoy a BBQ until the sun sets, when the performance and installation programs will come to life! Artists: Philip Samartzis + Marcia Jane; Rosalind Hall + Marco Cher-Gibard; Helmet Head (Anthony Magen + Rod Cooper); Xenosine AV; Marden; Christina Tester; Melody Henderson; Idora Alhabshi, Lisa Shingles. Proceedings begin: Wednesday 5 March 2008 at 7pm

Free show - Super Massive play the very first show for new electro/rock night "Sinthetic" at the Golden Sheaf, Double Bay.

Super Massive play at the very first night of Sinthetic this Thursday 1st March at the Golden Sheaf Hotel, with Purple Sneakers DJs on the decks from 9pm.

Sinthetic is a new weekly electro/rock night with no cover charge.

Just the right band to kick off the series, Super Massive is a stunningly huge sounding, creative dance/rock group from Sydney, with the distinction of bringing extra musical detail into their electro based songs with beautiful, accomplished, live playing. They make dance/pop/rock songs with soul, beauty, hard filth, and gorgeous layers of synths and sounds.