The Throw Shapes webzine has relaunched as a blog, but the thrust (if we may) is still the same: to support the local and independent arts, music and grassroots projects that aren't getting the attention they deserve.Sydney's creative scene isn't as small as it seems - we just need to tug on the waistband of her jeans to fit a bit more talent in. At least 80% of our content is about things happening in and around Sydney, and 80% pushes creative work existing on an independent or grassroots level. The rest is here because it represents something new; an idea to take home with us, a subculture or movement missing from our lives, or simply a demystification of success. Either that or it's here because we think it's funny and we have a blog. Mostly, we just want to get as many inspiring people together in one place as we possibly can. If you want to know more, contribute, or get your stuff on our pages, email us: info at throwshapes.com.au OR send things to: Throw Shapes 24 Bayswater Road, Kings Cross 2011 NSW We wouldn’t be around if it weren’t for the World Bar who have housed, nourished and nurtured us and countless other creative tangents over the years. We probably owe them a drink or two as well. x TS
Steph Harmon Editor Amelia Schmidt Assistant Editor, Marketing Matt Roden Design Natalie Connolly Photography sydneyspawn

February 2010

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FEBRUARY

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February 1

Espere: Hope for Haiti

MUSIC: Well, anyone who's met us knows that this kind of music aint usually our thing, on account of Where's The Ukulele We Can't Hear The Ukulele They Should Turn The Sound Up, but this particular Wham! is going to be huge and benevolent. Kind of like God, except with more dancing. Than God. Anyway, so Ajax, Kid Kenobi, Bagraiders, Dangerous Dan, Anna Lunoe, Ro Sham Bo, KillaQueenz and pretty much everyone else (60 artists all up) are all donating their time to raise funds for Medecins Sans Frontiers.

@ World Bar, Kings Cross, $20 pre-sale, from 8pm

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February 12

Jingle Jangle #9

MUSIC: The 9th Jingle Jangle, featuring The Frowning Clouds and Owen from The Straight Arrows, with all the usual rock 'n roll-, r&b- and soul-flavoured bells and whistles.

@ GOODGOD Small Club at La Campana, $10, from 9pm

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February 12

Boy and Bear

MUSIC: We quite like this band and they're playing at SOSUEME with Baba O'Reilly and Bell Weather Experiment.

@ SOSUEME, Q Bar, $10, from 8pm

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February 12

Dead Letter Chorus at The Wharf Sessions

MUSIC: The Dead Letter Chorus are one of our Sydney favourites and are playing a set for the Wharf Sessions, where Bridezilla and Lions At Your Door have previously played. A nice change of surrounds perhaps..

@ The Wharf, $FREE!, from 10pm

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February 13

Reclaim the Lanes

CULTURE: This roving street party is a cultural celebration of the inner west and also the right to Make Your Own Fun Wherever You Want. They're meeting at The Hub in Newtown at 2pm and you are encouraged to bring musical instruments, drums, friends, bikes, skateboards, chalk, food, drinks, pets, whatever.

@ Newtown Hub, $FREE! from 2pm

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February 14

The Bitch Done Left Me

MUSIC: The Snowdroppers are freaking awesome and wear suspenders. And apparently on this day people are celebrating some mushy shit like love or something and whatever, the Snowdroppers are throwing a party to celebrate heartbreak instead. With attitude. And rockabilly clothes. The Frowning Clouds and Lanie Lane also join them. Perfect.

@ The Vanguard, $18, from 6.30pm (SOLD OUT)

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February 18

Sydney Spawn

MUSIC: FBi are doing a thing with some bands, whodathunk? The Ripping Dylans, Megastick Fanfare, The Maladies, The Magnetic Heads and Line Drawings will all play at the first of a series of nights showcasing the top of the crop. DJs will also spin your demos if you bring them.

@ The Annandale, $10, from 8pm

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    Firstly – the Flaming Lips are good, and way to go 2Day FM production team, someone’s getting fired and your station is terrible. “Throw Shapes: just like Twitter, but without so much of the Twitter.”

    In non rape-related news, and recognising the beauty of that phrase as an opener to any sentence, there’s an exhibition opening at Parramatta Artists Studios that looks good enough to blog. I’m Worse At What I Do Best has been curated by Tom Polo, who also does good things with garbage. The group show involves ten artists using everyone’s favourite tools – irony, self-deprecation and defeatism – to make things for us to look at.

    [clears throat] Let us engage with the novelty of our downfalls and our aspirations as we march towards the uncertainty of our future!

    [scattered applause]

    They’ve got some high-profile and some emerging artists, including work by blog-cum-ABC-miniseries-the art life’s Andrew Frost, ever-provocative Simon Pericich and the infamous Anastasia Klose. A bit of a Wiki on Anastasia Klose will surface these sentences: “In 2005 Klose filmed a video of herself engaging in sexual intercourse with a with a fellow art student in a disabled toilet at the VCA entitled In The Toilets With Ben, and later the same year filmed Mum And I Watch In The Toilets With Ben, where Klose and her mother viewed the former video together sitting on a couch.“ So there’s that, too.

    It’s opening Friday, 31 July 2009, 6pm with a speech from Judith Blackall, the MCA’s Head of Artistic Programs – but if you miss that, the show will be showing (?) until October 9 at Parramatta Artist Studios, 45 Hunter Street Parramatta.

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    One Response to “I’m Worse At What I Do Best :: Well, We All Have Days Like That”

    1. simon pericich says:
      August 7, 2009 at 5:13 pm

      great show! thanks for the memories.

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