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Vialka - 2010 Australian tour

2010-04-11T07:26:43+01:00

dualpLOVER are proud to announce the French proto world punk explosion that is Vialka will be playing a FREE show at the Tokio Hotel Bar (Home nightclub front bar) on the 14th April, thats right absolutely free no strings attached free, Vialka will be onstage at 10pm SHARP for an hours set of the duo's patented drums and baritone guitar magic.

for venue details please visit
http://www.tokiohotellive.com.au/

This is there only Sydney show, Vialka will be touring nationally throughout april.

08/04 - Perth/AU-WA TBA
09/04 - Brisbane/AU-QLD @ Ric's Bar
10/04 - Lennox Head/AU-NSW @ Lennox Pub
11/04 - Lismore/AU-NSW Keen St Warehouse, East Lismore
14/04 - Sydney/AU-NSW @ Tokio Hotel
15/04 - Adelaide/AU-SA @ Crown & Anchor
16/04 - Hobart/AU-TAS @ The Brisbane Hotel
17/04 - Melbourne/AU-VIC @ The Old Bar
17/04 - Melbourne/AU-VIC @ Pony (2am)

for further infomation visit
http://vialka.com

to celebrate the tour their latest album 'Succès Planétaire International'
will be available for the unrepeated price of $6 including shipping to anywhere in australia for the remainder of the tour.

purchasable from the following link.
http://dualplover.com/vialka.php

Hailing from deepest France, via everywhere and nowhere, Vialka are a devilishly high-spirited nomadic duo whose frontier-touring has taken them to all corners of the globe on a seemingly permanent world tour since their formation in 2002. Deriving their influences from traditional and modern underground music from around the globe Marylise Frecheville (percussion & voice ) and Eric Boros (baritone-guitar & voice) create music that skips joyfully across borders, channelling desert blues, Chinese folk songs, scatter rock and European gypsy song dynamics. A whirlwind dervish energy, that combines endless gypsy punk folk rock tales, hard hitting poly-rhythms, yelps and howls into one feverishly danceable and intoxicating brew. Like 'A Hawk And A Hacksaw' or 'The Ex' their openness to new sounds and cultures makes you feel alive.

Horrorshow : Inside Story Tour Feb - March 2010

2009-12-15T09:19:10+00:00

Elefant Traks are proud to announce Horrorshow's first national headline tour in February-March 2010.

The buzz around Horrorshow is staggering: they've swept up everyone from triple j kids to purist hip hop heads and indie hipsters. Their new album Inside Story was triple j Album of the Week and their joint launch with Urthboy sold out the Metro Theatre in Sydney.

The evocative brand of earnest, ego-free hip-hop announced by their debut album The Grey Space, earned them an ARIA nomination for Best Urban Release. Coupled with acclaimed recordings is their growing reputation for explosive live shows, most recently winning over a swag of new fans during 25 shows (over 7000 payers) on the Spitshine Tour.

If you're talking hip hop, Horrorshow are a group to watch.

-- info via elefant traks website

***W.A Dates TBC*** Tickets on Sale Dec 18!

All tickets are available from horrorshow.oztix.com.au

All Shows Are 18+ Except Sydney and Pushover (VIC)

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TOUR DATES AND TICKETS

Fri 26th Feb - The Factory - Sydney (Licensed/All Ages)
Presented by FBi Radio
$15 pre / $20 door Tickets on sale from
http://horrorshow.oztix.com.au or ph1300 762 545, Venue phonecharge 9550 3666 or www.factorytheatre.com.au

Fri 5th Mar - Republic Bar - Hobart
$12 pre / $15 door Tickets on sale from http://horrorshow.oztix.com.au or ph1300 762 545, Moshtix outlets, www.moshtix.com.au or ph 1300 438 849, Ruffcut Records and from the venue

Sat 6th Mar - Ed's Castle - Adelaide
$10 Tickets available at the door

Sun 7th Mar - Pushover - Melbourne Under 18s
$30 tickets Tickets on sale from oztix.com.au or ph1300 762 545, Moshtix outlets, www.moshtix.com.au or ph 1300 438 849 and from Ticketek outlets ph 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au

Sun 7th Mar - Rubys - Belgrave

$10 pre / $15 door Tickets on sale from http://horrorshow.oztix.com.auor ph1300 762 545, Moshtix outlets, www.moshtix.com.au or ph 1300 438 849, and from the Venue

Fri 12th Mar - Step Inn - Brisbane
$12 pre / $15 door Tickets on sale from http://horrorshow.oztix.com.au, Oztix phonecharge 1300 762 545 and all Oztix outlets

Sat 13th Mar - Sands - Maroochydore
$10 pre / $12 door Tickets on sale from http://horrorshow.oztix.com.au Oztix phonecharge 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and all Oztix outlets and from the Venue Reception

Sun 14th Mar - Great Northern - Byron Bay
$10 pre / $15 door Tickets on sale from http://horrorshow.oztix.com.au and from the Hotel Great Northern Bottle Shop or phonecharge 1300 762 545, www.oztix.com.au and all Oztix outlets

Wed 17th Mar - The Loft - Warrnambool
$10 pre / $12 door Tickets on sale from http://horrorshow.oztix.com.au, Leading Edge and from Capricorn Records – 03 5562 2803 or 148 Liebig St, Warrnambool

Thur 18th Mar - Geelong - Nash
$10 pre / $12 door Tickets on sale from http://horrorshow.oztix.com.au, Oztix phonecharge 1300 762 545 and from the Venue

Fri19th Mar - Evelyn - Melbourne
$15 pre / $20 door Tickets on sale from http://horrorshow.oztix.com.au or ph1300 762 545, Moshtix outlets, www.moshtix.com.au or ph 1300 438 849, and from the Venue

Sat 20th Mar - Karova - Ballarat
$10 pre / $12 door Tickets on sale from http://horrorshow.oztix.com.au, Oztix phonecharge 1300 762 545 and from www.karovalounge.com

contact: richard @ elefanttraks.com

Kevin Blechdom's BARNWAVE show touring Australia & New Zealand Summer 2009

2009-12-13T21:29:33+00:00

dualpLOVER is proud to announce the return or the avant-pop queen Kevin Blechdom with her BARNWAVE show spectacular touring australia and new zealand from dec til over the new year.

04 051209 Wellington
Ladyfest
http://www.myspace.com/ladyfest_wellington

081209 Brisbane
+ Flying Scribble (Melbourne)
+ Brutal Hate Mosh
+ DJ Dot.AY
@ The Troubadour, $8
http://thetroubadour.com.au/
http://www.myspace.com/peerpressurepresents

091209 Lismore
+Professor Blix, Skeletons Of The Devil
@ Tatts Hotel, 108 Keen St
http://tattshotel.net.au/

111209 Newcastle
+ Rice Corpse, Casiogloria, alps and Liz Hurley
@ Croatian Club, Albert St, Wickham, $10

151209 Sydney
+ SINGING SADIE, Rice Corpse
http://www.myspace.com/singingsadie
@ Hermanns, cnt Butlin and City Rd, Sydney Uni, starts 8:30pm $15 /$10 Con
http://www.hermannsbar.com/
http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=31870&ref=moshtix

161209 Canberra
+ SINGING SADIE, Justice Yeldham
http://www.myspace.com/singingsadie
@ ANU Bar
http://www.myspace.com/anubar

171209 Melbourne
+ Suzanne Grae & the Katies
http://www.myspace.com/suzannegraeandthekaties
PUTA MADRE BROS
http://myspace.com/putamadrebrothers
PURPLE DUCK
http://www.myspace.com/mcpurpleduck
and DJ Црни Талас
@ Northcote Social Club
http://northcotesocialclub.com/

191209 Hobart
+Charles Du Cane + The Stan Show
@ Brisbane Hotel
http://www.myspace.com/thebrisbanehotel

30 311209 Marion Bay
http://www.fallsfestival.com/#home-marionbay

070110 Christchurch
+Greg Malcolm & Jenny Ward
@ Wunderbar, 19 London Street, 2100hrs, $10NZD
http://www.wunderbar.co.nz/

090110 Auckland
Whammy Bar
St. Kevins Arcade, 183 Karangahape Road, Newton

100110 Wellington
Happy, 118 Tory Street (cnr Vivian & Tory)
http://happywellington.blogspot.com/

Kevin Blechdom (real name: Kristin Erickson) was born in Florida in 1978.

Kevin Blechdom’s third solo album, GENTLEMANIA, was released on Sonig Records in April 2009, co-produced by Kevin and Mocky in Berlin. Less schizophrenic and madcap manic as her previous two electronic albums, on GENTLEMANIA we hear Blechdom slow down, take a deep breath, and, with thoughtful control, peel back layers of emotion. Combining a strong background in classical and experimental music with a broad knowledge of songwriting traditions, Kevin travels between and coalesces country jangle, Broadway show tunes, old-school R&B, and many other styles into a cohesive and true musical story. The autobiographical and interpersonal themes revolve around introspection, longing, doubt, hope, and ultimately, human transformation.

Since 2007, and to support her newest release, Blechdom is touring as a duo in a hi-tech country and ragtime band with Christopher Fleeger called BARNWAVE.

Kevin began recording music with her brother in an experimental rock band called ADULT RODEO in 1997, releasing two albums on the revered Shimmy Disc label and more records on the Adult Rodeo imprint, Four States Fair Records. Later she hooked up with Blevin Blectum (Bevin Kelley) and formed BLECTUM FROM BLECHDOM after an accidental collaboration one Halloween night while they were at Mills College in Oakland, California. Blectum from Blechdom was a hyperactive computer and sampler duo priding itself with its own digital confusion, frenetic madness, and psychotic delusions. The duo released frenzied and frazzled electronic music on labels such as Tigerbeat6, Deluxe, Orthlorng Musork, and Phthalo. The album “The Messy Jesse Fiesta” won 2nd prize at the prestigious Ars Electronica for digital music in 2001, and soon after they broke up. In 2006 Blectum from Blechdom reuinited by pie-ing each other in the face, and have since been recording and touring together.

After Blectum From Blechdom broke up, Kristin kept her team name Kevin Blechdom and relocated herself to Berlin for five years. She wrote and produced two albums for the Chicks on Speed label: BITCHES WITHOUT BRITCHES (2003) and EAT MY HEART OUT (2005). The albums are a mishmash of styles and production techniques. From Broadway musical to General MIDI rock opera to electro-smudge to aleatoric blatherings, her albums contribute a bizarre spin on what pop music can be for an era of attention span deficit.

Since 1998, Kevin has been touring around the world playing live shows and collaborating. She has worked with artists such as Eugene Chadbourne, Fred Frith, Jad Fair, Kramer, Jamie Lidell, Kid606, Dat Politics, Mocky, John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Zeena Parkins, Cristian Vogel, Safety Scissors, Heidi Mortenson, the Organ Lady, Lumberob, Ching Chong Song, Irene Moon, Teatro Praga, Myrobotfriend, Charlie Engstrom, Christopher Fleeger, Lucile Desamory, Chicks on Speed, Kim Hiorthoy, Andre Vida, Denzel Sinclair, Max Tundra, and Planningtorock. She has played shows in Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Moscow, and across Europe and the United States.

During 2008, she finally completed her M.F.A. degree in Electronic and Computer Music Composition at Mills College. Her final project for school was writing a forty minute opera called Recantata, which musically retold the story about her preschool teachers who were wrongfully imprisoned for satanic ritual abuse because of the misguidance of some child-hypnotizing psychologists.

Kevin produced two self-released Ching Chong Song albums, LITTLE NAKED GAY ADVENTURE and EVERYTHING IS FOR THE BABIES.

She is a founding member of SLAUGHTERIN' SLOBBERSVILLE, a semi-improvised collaborative improperatic musical mutant side show known for touring with too many people in very small vehicles.

Currently she is in Lisbon composing the music for a Musical Theater show called "DEMO" with the Teatro Praga company.

Instrumentation
Kevin Blechdom plays live in a duo called BARNWAVE, often billed as "Kevin Blechdom featuring BARNWAVE." Kevin plays piano, keyboards, digital effects (sometimes computer), banjo, and sings. Her partner, Christopher Fleeger (a.k.a. BARNWAVE) provides arena-sized real-time production via his self-programmed Max/MSP patches and a collection of membrane/mallet gestural controllers. During the show BARNWAVE and Blechdom exchange live MIDI data to synchronize real-time video software with the music. Basically it's a cabaret duo of piano & drums with a few computers in between.

Discography
2009 - "Gentlemania" Album (Sonig)
2008 - "The Chaddom-Blechbourne Experience" Live Album (Victo)
2008 - "The Children's Suite" 7" and Live CD (Dual Plover)
2005 - "Eat My Heart Out" Album (Chicks on Speed Records)
2003 - "Bitches Without Britches" Album (Chicks on Speed Records)
2002 - "Jelly Donuts" 7" (Four States Fair)
2002 - "Your Butt" EP (Dudini)
2001 - "The Inside Story" EP (Tigerbeat6)
2001 - "I Heart Presets" EP (Tigerbeat6)

Previous Bands:

1997-2002 - Blectum from Blechdom (tigerbeat6 records, orthlorng musork, deluxe, phthalo) reunited in 2006: currently working on a new album

1997-2001 - Adult Rodeo (Shimmy Disc, Four States Fair)

Robin Petterd phone chat - sonic objects, art practice, water and built instruments 23/10/2002

2008-02-23T20:00:06+00:00

The phone chat is split into two parts & hosted on archive.org

part 1 archive.org page, where you can select the format to listen or download the mp3 via direct link

part 2 archive.org page, where you can select the format to listen / download or download the mp3 via direct link

I had written a profile for Robin on www.pulseradio.net years ago, but unfortunately I don't have a copy any more.

we chat about his art practice, various projects he's worked on, sonic objects, working with electronics & computers in art, and his theme using water. the interview took place on 28/10/2002.

Robin's website is http://www.otheredge.com.au

His teaching blog is at http://www.otheredge.com.au/weblogs/teaching

You can download, listen and view some of his works and educational pieces at archive.org or via his ourmedia page

There's photos and description of his 2002 sonic objects on Gail Priest's snagglepussy site as his work was part of the Unnatural Selection exhibition at the Manning Regional Gallery, Taree

(photo from snagglepussy.net)
(I'm still looking for my photos from the workshop)

here's some photos of Electrofringe / This is Not Art 2002 where Robin held a workshop / session

Earthdance Global Festival for Peace

2005-09-03T07:57:00+01:00

On September 17 and 18, Melbourne and Sydney unite with 200,000 people dancing for peace around the Australia and the world. In conjuction with the United Nations World Peace Day, Earthdance creates global unity through the creative platforms of music, art and self expression. Earthdance is a global movement which unites socially and environmentally conscious people in more than 50 countries around the world in a celebration of peace and community. Each year the event raises a significant amount of money for charities, the work of which supports the achievement of Earthdance objectives. The climax of the global event is a synchronized dance floor link-up when DJ's at each event across the world synchronize their turntables and play the specially produced song "A Prayer For Peace" at exactly the same time. The result is a deeply felt shared experience and a profound moment of global unity and peace. visit http://www.earthdance.org.au/mambo/ for more details

[tas] "Youth: Voices of tomorrow: Dancing into the Future - What tune are YOU dancing to?" forum

2003-07-23T15:42:00+01:00

Youth forum: for those in Tasmania on 24th July:

'Youth: Voices of tomorrow: Dancing into the Future - What tune are
YOU dancing to?'

Date: 24 July 2003; 6 p.m.

Venue: University of Tasmania's Stanley Burbury Theatre, Sandy Bay Campus

All welcome for this youth forum for people 15 - 25 to have their
say, air their views and opinions (to be broadcast across Tasmania
the following week on ABC Radio 936 Tuesday 7:10 )

At the same, the ABC's 2003 Heywire competition will be launched (a
writing/journalism competition -- more at
http://www.abc.net.au/heywire/about.htm )

The forum is part of the The John Lees Forums -- a series of free
public forums to mark Tasmania's Bicentenary (more at end of message)
and includes singing, music and dance, refreshments; free; all
welcome. Other details
at http://www.abc.net.au/tasmania/johnlees/

Keynote speaker: Eamon Miller, past Heywire winner and Fly TV presenter
Speakers:
- Thuy Shaw, youth worker, Migrant Resource Centre
- Laura Russell, member of the Tasmanian Youth Consultative Committee
(TYCC)
- Matt Hill, youth worker, Derwent Valley Council
Chris Johnson Station Manager, Edge Radio
- Fun: Dorcas Akorsu and Thomas Cauker and The Tribes - African
cultural singing, music and dance; dance by Bonza Youth Group; Edge
Radio DJ

Contact person at ABC:
--------- > Suzie Moore, ph: (03) 6235 3535
mailto:moore.suzie@abc.net.au

SOURCE: Flyer, available from Dave Willans of the Youth Network of
Tasmania, email: mailto:dave@ynot.org.au

-------------------------------------------------------
* About the John Lees Forums -- from
http://www.abc.net.au/tasmania/stories/s774963.htm

" Tasmania's bicentenary of white settlement is in 2004. As a
forerunner to this event, the John Less Forums of 2003 provide
opportunities for Tasmanians to confront some of the issues and
concerns that are part of our lives and to contemplate the future.

" Dancing into the future
Tomorrow's adults are today's youth, and they are Tasmania's most
precious resource. In this forum we will seek to give voice to our
youth, to understand what's important to them, what they feel about
problems, and why?

" What are the implications of the State's changing population? Are
they positive or do they build on existing problems such as the
difficulties associated with isolated rural communities, the high
youth suicide rate, drug abuse and youth homelessness? In the future
where will the opportunities lie for the State's youth?

" The talent in our youth community is great indeed, but is there a
despondency, borne of a lack of opportunity? For many, finishing
education means leaving the State, impelled by the need to follow
paths unavailable in Tasmania.
What can be done do to help?

" In this discussion we will draw on the direct experience of
Tasmania's youth to tease out core problems. We need to utilise their
enthusiasm and ideas in the State's development, and to coordinate
our efforts to impart a sense of direction. "

General Information
Forums are free and open to everyone who would like to attend. We
would like to hear your point of view.

--
Kind regards,

Anne Hugo
List manager for Youth.Comm

Email: Youth.Comm-list-owner@mail-list.com
Ph: +61 3 6226 2591; fax: +61 3 6226 2578
C/- Private Bag 64, Hobart Tasmania 7001 Australia

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