Super Massive play at The Step Inn, Brisbane on Australia Day, Saturday 26th January, in a night chock full of electro-rock goodness. Local electro-pop-rock band Elation lending their dirty grooves, big beats and sassy vocals in support, and the Dance In Circles DJs, Gay Dan & Ninja Rock will be there right through til 1:30am to guarantee the sexiest sounds for your ears and feet. Entry is $12, 8pm.

Super Massive were awarded the Best Alternative Artist Award at the 2007 MusicOz Awards in November, for their evocative and as-yet-unreleased synth/rock song “Fists”, which you can sneak preview on the band’s myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/supermassivesounds.

The band is the songwriting co-project of drummer/composer Glenn Abbott (formerly of ARIA winning band Machine Gun Fellatio & his own solo project The Bryan Ferrysexual Experience) and singer/writer Malina Hamilton-Smith.

Together with electric bass genius John D. Young (Chuck Berry, Marcia Hines, Vanda & Young) and talented young guitarist Marc Malouf, the four deliver a powerful and entertaining show that seamlessly blends loops, synths, electro sounds, deep funkiness and the lustiness of a full-blooded rock band, in creative and catchy, pop-structured songs.

Says Hamilton-Smith, "It's an entertaining and energetic show that people can either sit back and watch, or get up and dance to. There's a lot of variety in the songs and sounds to keep it interesting for the audience, and we drive it to the highest intensity we can, to make it a real thrilling, exhilarating night."

The band has been steadily building a following at live shows in Sydney over the past two years, performing to full houses at venues including Home Nightclub, Will & Toby’s Supper Club and Glebe Street Fair as well as at the Beach Hotel, Byron Bay.

The band's debut EP, which will include the award-winning song “Fists”, is due for release in March, however, a numbered Limited Edition Pre-Release CD will be available for purchase at the show.

Tour dates:

Wed 23rd Jan - Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
Thurs 24th Jan - Hoey Moey, Coffs Harbour
Fri 25th Jan - Beach Hotel, Byron Bay
Sat 26th Jan - Step Inn, Brisbane
Sun 27th Jan - Hard Rock Cafe, Surfers Paradise

For further details, live gig photos and music samples, visit Super Massive's website at http://www.myspace.com/supermassivesounds

FRIDAY 11th NOVEMBER 2005

LIVE @ DREAM 229 Queensberry St, Carlton VIC

Tickets: Free

Time: 10pm - 2am

A night of lush symphonics, hard beats, experimental electronics and mental spoken word performance.

First Monday of every month at Lanfranchi's Memorial Discoteque.
Level 2. 144 Cleveland St. Chippendale. Free. 7:30 pm.

Monthly screenings with a simple goal of showing interesting and
experimental film and video works in an appropriate setting,
comfortable seating - 5.1audio - large scale projection - free

Month of September (05.09.05)

At the risk of breaking everyone's brain, this month we are taking a
participatory journey through the "...unavoidable future of entertainment.."
as we peruse the history of, and highlights from, Channel101 -a strange beast.
Every month, in an old theatre in LA, a crop of ~5min show pilots appear along
side the shows that have survived from the previous month. At the end of the
show the audience votes on those who will return, but more on that later.
In keeping with the Channel101 ethos, the Camera Obscura audience "drunk on
the blood of lowly artists" will vote our way through the various shows.
We're going to preface this with some new content from Brisbane's Botborg,
something short and sweet from Spike Jonez and, as always when I'm in charge,
something remixed from archive.org called We Edit Life.

This is the last Camera Obscura for 2 months, as we'll be in Newcastle for
electrofringe next month doing a screening, (check:
www.thisisnotart.org/Program/EventDetails/tabid/783/xmid/244/Default.aspx )
So if you are going to be at electrofringe and you'd like your work screened
by us in the future, send me an email, or ring me on 0401 922 997 during the
festival.

We've also have a Camera Obscura program winging it's way to Indonesia for the
first ever internation C_O screening, which is pretty cool.

We Edit Life
Vicki Bennett (people like us) (10min, USA, 2002)
"Experimenters in visual perception are using computers to create weird and
random patterns that never occur in real life to find out what and how people
see when these patterns are shown to them. The art of computer graphics is
only in its infancy yet it is already stimulating creative thought in far out
areas where research is likely to get complex and unwieldy. If offers not only
the means to quicken the pace of discovery but an ideal of communicating what
we may discover"
- We Edit Life.

How They Get There
Spike Jonez & Mark Gonzales (3min, USA, 1996)
A sharp and clean idea, that gets driven over the top.

you must render the pleasure of holding the superfine
Joe Musgrove & Scott Sinclair (Botborg) (12min, AUS, 2005)
"Botborg present live audio-visual performances using a complex feedback web,
consisting of audio and video mixers, screens and camera. In this web, sound
and vision fuse into a self perpetuating synaesthesia of colour & rhythm,
generated (in real time) entirely by device feedback through electronic
circuits and the performance space. Assisted in performance by Scott Sinclair
& Joe Musgrove, the human elements of Botborg can influence, but never
completely control this web once set in motion. These performances provide an
equally disorienting and joyous but deeply organic experience as the
'operators' of the web attempt to 'converse' with (rather than control) the
internal logic of the feedback system."
- http://www.halftheory.com/botborg/

Channel101 (http://www.channel101.com)
Channel101 is a "living, autonomous, untelevised TV network, powered not by
promise of reward to the artist, but by the artist's desire to reward the
audience."
"For the audiences that attend the live screenings, Channel 101 is a chance to
sit in the worn-out chair of the fat network exec, drunk on the blood of lowly
artists whose right to exist is given in exchange for their ability to
nourish. If there are 10 shows in the screening and 7 of them are good, that
means 2 good shows aren't coming back and the power of life and death is in
your hands. Base your decision on whatever you want. You run the network. You
pick the programming. Then come back in a month and see the next episodes of
the shows you picked- plus a healthy crop of new pilots. Dump the whole lineup
and start fresh, or keep your favorite show running all year. Unlike "real"
television, at Channel 101, what you want is what you get more of, and the day
you stop wanting something is the day it stops."
- http://www.channel101.com/about/index.php

In keeping with the Channel101 ethos, I have collected all of the episodes
from a number of the more popular shows. We are going to watch them one by
one, and you "drunk on the blood of lowly artists" will be able to choose if
we continue with each show or move to the next one. I have no idea of how
long this part of the screening will take, but we've got a bunch of episodes
from "House of Cosbys", "Laser Fart", "Gregory Shitcock, P.I.", "Adventurous
und Magick Haus" and more so we could be there all night.

House of Cosbys
The first Channel 101 series ever to go three consecutive months at #1, House
of Cosbys was one of those rare 101 breakouts that went on to satisfy the
world. In the show, the real Bill Cosby never came along and destroyed his own
clones, but in real life, creator Justin Roiland and channel101.com site
administrator Dan Harmon received "cease and desist" orders from Cosby's
attorney in June 2005. The legal questions ground HOC's intensive animation
process to a halt and House of Cosbys became Channel 101's first show to be
killed not by the audience or by its own creator, but by lawyers. However, due
to outcry and outrage, Channel 101 will continue to carry the first four
episodes for your enjoyment.

Laser Fart
Laser Fart began as a joke submission during a light month in 2004. Creator
Dan Harmon was able to keep it alive with a Jack Black cameo in episode 2. On
the third episode, Harmon teamed up with samurai lensman David Hartman and
Channel 101 history was made. Laser Fart delighted audiences with its
ironically epic feel and came breathtakingly close to breaking The 'Bu's
record for longest running show.

Gregory Shitcock, P.I.
Gregory Shitcock, P.I., was one of the first signs that 2005 was going to be a
very different year at Channel 101. Hancock and Randolph, who had come humbly
sniffing around with their pilot Man to Man, became just confident enough to
make this show's brilliant first episode and the audience immediately snatched
them up. Like Laser Fart before it, Shitcock evolved on its third episode,
taking a slight step behind the fourth wall and ratcheting up its
cinematography. It was the first show to shoot a three-episode arc all at
once, and the strategy did pay off in that the trilogy of episodes 4-6 was
allowed to come to its touching conclusion.

Adventurous und Magick Haus
Dave Hartman's second Prime Time show's unspoken premise was simple: Vote for
me, and every month, I will bust my ass on mind-blowing visuals, channeling
the resultant sleep-deprived schizophrenic breakdown into the story and
characters. The result was a truly magickal blend of refined technical
expertise and stream of conscious mythology.

As always we're looking for your screen stuff, or your suggestions.
You can find us at: amera_obscura@cse.unsw.edu.au"camera_obscura@cse.unsw.edu.au

Team Plastique love the Monaco Royal Family - they are fun, trashy and tragic, like every Royal family should be (...or actually is). Monaco-a-go-go will be a scandalous night of Eurotrash glamour - Think international Playboys, Circus Trapeze Lovers, Bodyguard Romances and Tragic Princesses.

Catch the Princess Stephanie Dancers - the ultimate tribute to Monaco's own chain smoking, former fashion model, swimsuit designer and Rock Band Singer. (She even recorded a duet with Michael Jackson called "in the Closet" in the '80's!!)

Booty dance with the Air Hostess Go-Go's from Togo named after the mother of Prince Albert's scandalous illegitimate child.

Maybe piss in the corner like Ernst of Hannover did in the Turkish pavilion of Expo 2002.

Just come and be part of the glamorous scandal of Monaco-a-Go-Go.
Featuring:

The Princess Stephanie Dancers.
Air Hostess Go Go from Togo.

Starring:

Team Plastique - www.team-plastique.com (Berlin)
Monster Zoku Onsomb - www.monsterzoku.com (Australia)
Instantremovers - (Amsterdam)

Visuals by:

Alex and Jeremy (Amsterdam) - www.alexetjeremy.com

DJs:

Hure von Babylon, DJ Dude, Ki Ki Ill (Nam Shub of Enki), Carlo von Lynx and More!!!

Golden Gate, Jannowitzbruecke, Berlin, Germany, U-Bahn = U8 Janowitzbruecke,

August 12th 2005 at Absinthe:
Esco (388 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy Melbourne). 9pm!
Tickets at door $10

A night of cold, danceable darkness, hard beats, aggressive synths, riffs from hell and emotive melodics.

Supported by DEMUS ( dark electronic music underground )
http://www.tidalportal.com/DEMUS