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Thurs, 9 September – Kretch + Tank! + I=IT + Children + DJ Kay-Rock

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 1992 01:35:35 +0000

TANK! play post-apunkerlyptiK dance music for drunken scuzbuckets , come and check the sounds not seen on myspace from the forthcoming release “Hello Sparky!” Playing with friends, Children, featuring members from mission control. I=it will be spitting their heavy, hard and passionate venom straight from their blistering hearts. All knocked off by those crazy Kosovo born punks Kretch! DJ’s air and space will be spinning galactic tracks in-between the sets. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. Thursday September 9 Doors at 8pm $7.50 entry. At the Workers Club corner of Gertude and Brunswick streets Fitzroy.

Thursday 9 September

Doors: 8:00pm

Tickets: $7.50

Fri, 10 September – Flying Scribble (Album Launch) + Patinka Cha Cha + Tantrums

admin — Sat, 30 May 1992 07:55:53 +0000

Spook-pop lady two-piece Flying Scribble announce details of the Melbourne release party for their debut album, We’re A Chameleon on Friday 10th of September at the Workers Club. Supported by experimental big-band pop-ensemble Patinka Cha Cha and medi-evil disco peddlers Tantrums, Flying Scribble promise an audio-visual banquet with guest artists creating a live eyeball-feast to accompany each act. Flying Scribble are bold multi-instrumentalists making a startlingly mountainous sound for a duo. Their music is notoriously difficult to describe yet inexplicably infectious, traversing polar extremes of musical environments and reflecting the journey the pair have been on in the last six years of collaboration. Two years in the making, We’re A Chameleon was recorded entirely by the band and was mixed by the masterful Cornel Wilczek (Qua) in his Electric Dream Studios. Flying Scribble is where electronica meets dream pop and brazen rhythm meets soaring melody, all passionately performed with the ‘anything-goes’ expressionism that they have become renowned for.

Fri, 10 September

Doors: 8:30

Tickets: $10

Saturday, 11 September – Surf City + The Laurels + Milk Teddy

admin — Sat, 30 May 1992 07:50:54 +0000

New York’s Oh My Rockness magazine wrote at the end of 2009 “New Zealand’s Surf City are getting such big buzz that the hype has made its way halfway around the world.” They weren’t alone with these thoughts: Brooklyn Vegan (probably the most influential blog in the US) added that Surf City were “easily one of the most-anticipated bands of CMJ 2009.” But despite this obvious excitement, Surf City are not just flash in the pan new kids. Formed in Auckland’s Mt Roskill, they’ve been making a racket around the garages and practice rooms since 2004. Locally, it wasn’t long before they were filling the basement bars and urban hang outs with their warm fuzzed up and strummed down frenetic tones. Surf City were moving the sound forward into the new millennium. It wasn’t long before this sound garnered them some tidy gigs. These included support slots with Interpol, Dinosaur Jnr, Battles and MGMT, the Big Day Out and the Laneway Festival. Between all this touring the band have come up trumps with an amazing debut album. It is calledKudos. IN STORES SEPTEMBER 3rd. Come celebrate with the band who are joined by The Laurels and Milk Teddy on Saturday, September 11 at The Workers Club.

Sat, 11 September

Doors: 8:30

Tickets: $15

Sun, 12 September – Absolute Boys + The Chislers (Tas) + Constant Mongrel

admin — Sat, 30 May 1992 07:45:13 +0000

Absolute Boys are three lovely dudes who reside in Melbourne, but previously lived in Sydney. They play music that is totally dreamy and sweet but also a little bit aggressive. In other words, they tick all the boxes. Come check out these guys, Tassie duo ‘The Chislers’ and Constant Mongrel.

Sunday 12 September

Doors: 7:00PM

Tickets: $6

Fri, 17 September – The Twerps + Bitch Prefect + Woollen Kits + DJ People

admin — Sat, 30 May 1992 07:09:43 +0000

Hi there! We twerps have been mighty lazy of late organising our own shows so we decided to right that, and here its is! We’ve invited two of our favouritest bands in the whole wide world, Bitch Prefect and Woollen Kits to join us, along with two of our favourite dudes in the world, Guy & Ben AKA DJ people. The merriment will be happening at The Workers Club on Friday the 17th of September. Come and have beers with us! ACE!

Friday, 17 September

Doors: 8:00pm

Sat, 18 September – Tobias Cummings + Ancient Free Gardeners + Brendan Welch

admin — Sat, 30 May 1992 07:08:11 +0000

It’s been a while between drinks for Tobias Cummings. In 2006, Tobias released his critically acclaimed debut album, ‘Join the Dots’. The album was nominated for the Australian Music Prize, received 4 stars in Rolling Stone, and was described by Rave magazine as ‘a stunning debut of beguiling vocals and sublime melodies’. Now, in 2010, with a whole new band in tow, Tobias is back on the radar with his highly anticipated follow up, ‘A Trophy’. Produced by the
legendary Tim Whitten, the album is a richly textured affair, filled with arresting music, searching lyrics and, of course, Cummings’ distinctively plaintive voice. To celebrate the release of ‘A Trophy’ Tobias (and band) will launch the LP at The Workers Club on Saturday the 18th of September. Supports come from Ancient Free Gardeners and Brendan Welch.

Saturday, 18 September

Doors: 8pm

Tickets: $15 on the door or $12 through moshtix

Sun, 19 September – Sophia Brous + Lost Animal + Francis Plagne Band + Hunter Dienna

admin — Sat, 30 May 1992 07:06:29 +0000

SOPHIA BROUS (first show with full band in ages – hear, hear!) - Shimmering 60s incantations via the Western frontier. A misty dawn opens as the titles begin to roll…cue Brous with her band of merry musicalas. If you haven’t heard Sophia’s spellbinding music before then this is the time. LOST ANIMAL - Since disbanding St Helens, Jarrod Quarrell has focussed his energies on solo project Lost Animal, described as “rhythmic brew of minimal keyboard melodies, melodic funk bass, free jazz sax licks and broken hearted crooner vocals”. FRANCIS PLAGNE BAND - Incorporating field recordings and improvisations with harmony-rich pop songs of the finest order, Francis Plagne has become one of the most unusual, identifiable and exciting musicians to emerge in Australia. Full stop. HUNTER DIENNA: This concert marks Hunter Dienna’s first live shows since their acclaimed appearances at Nick Cave’s historic ATP Festivals in 2009. Recently relocated to Melbourne, siblings Xanthe and Tom Waite weave dark, moody songs held together by their powerful voices. First band on so come early.

Sunday, 19 September

Doors: 4:00pm

Tickets: $8 on the door

Tue, 21 September – Beg Scream and Shout presents: Nine Feet Teeth

admin — Sat, 30 May 1992 07:04:01 +0000

In the coming months Beg, Scream and Shout! Will be taking Nine Feet Teeth and a cherry picked selection of previously screened shorts up to Sydney to present a showcase of what Melbourne’s all about to the kids up there. Throughout the next twelve months we’ll be presenting films on the third Tuesday of every month in The Workers band room, until late July next year where we will put on our annual event at No Vacancy Gallery. A two hour showcase of the best from the past twelve months with a few new gems thrown in there for good measure.

Tuesday, 21 September

Doors: 7:00pm

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Wed, 22 September – Good + This Free Field + Twin Twin

admin — Sat, 30 May 1992 07:03:03 +0000

This show features three new projects, and is the first show for two of them…
GOOD is Justin Fuller (Zond, Mum Smokes, Breaking The Law etc) and Simon Taylor (Whitehorse, Collapsed Toilet Vietnam, Gauntlet etc)
THIS FREE FIELD is Luke Horton (Love Of Diagrams, Scott and Charlene’s Wedding etc) and guests.
TWIN TWIN is Mai and Lei Gryffydd (Hissey Miyake, Acid Casualty etc)

Wednesday, 22 September

Doors: 8:00PM

Tickets: $7 on the door

Sat, 25 September – SiB (Single Launch) + Tommy Spender + The Black Hill Five

admin — Sat, 30 May 1992 07:02:13 +0000

“Soul explosion”, “sexy rawness”, “smooth, soulful and somewhat sultry”, “elegiac balladry”, “electrifying soundscapes”, “eroticised lyricism”, “passion and conviction”, “languorous” and “wondrous noises” are words used by music journalists who have attempted in the past to describe SiB’s music. French-born Australian singer-songwriter Adrien Siboulet (aka SiB) says “It all comes from the blues for me. I think there’s a healing process through the song, there’s salvation.” After extensive travels and performing in Europe and USA over the last couple of years SiB has returned to our shores with a more Americana Psychedelic Blues Rock inspired sound with a hint of Soul. Joined by Joe Cope on the Hammond organ (The Hello Morning, Eagle & The Worm), Luke Bolton on bass and Andy Reed on drums (the Whitley rhythm section) SiB recorded live, with the help of his producer friend Colin Leadbetter, his new EP “Hunter Street” at the Bakehouse Studio in North Fitzroy on a cold Monday night back in May 2010. SiB & his band of outlaws will be launching the first single “Jezabelle” (an alt-country inspired love song about a man haunted by the ghost of a passionate love affair) at The Workers Club on Saturday 25th of September 2010 with supports from Tommy Spender and The Black Hill Five. $10 Pre-sale tickets available online through Moshtix or $12 on the night at the door.

Saturday 25 September

Doors: 8:30pm

Tickets: $12 on the door/$10 (+ Booking fee) through moshtix