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Alright, so since MySpace expired as quietly as Mr. Marceau (ZING!), we decided to get in with the cool kids and joined the latest in facial literature. We wanted to get there before it filled with too many annoying features and more spam than a Monty Python sing-a-long, but it looks like we were too late. Still, as soon as we discovered that Facebook offers Scrabble, we got a bit moist and immediately forgave them for the embarrassing aquarium applications. We’ve made a THROW SHAPES group, and we want you to join.
In other news, we’re doing a website makeover!! OMGZ!!!! Other than the haircut, new wardrobe and happy-go-lucky before/after montage sequence, we’ll also be launching a new gallery over the next few weeks. We’re looking for social photographers to join us at various launches/gigs/galleries/festivals/bleakly-coincidental-musicals/Lilley-lynching events. You’ll get free tickets, your name published, and perhaps (maybe) some (not much) money. Inquire Above.
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| “It’s a game, it’s a party, it’s an experiment in community engagement, and it’s open to absolutely anyone with a digital camera and access to the Internet. “ This tickled our fancy in such an arousing way we couldn’t ignore it. Snap Shot City is a globally-synchronised photographic treasure hunt that was started last year by a group of friends, and ended up with over 500 playing in over 30 cities. All that you budding-photographer-types have to do is register a team, come along to the September 28 party for Sydney competitors, and take note of the 20 themes that will inspire 20 photographs you'll take of your fine city the next day. We registered our team last week. |
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The notorious Mercury Fur was considered so shocking after the UK’s premier that prize-winning playwright Philip Ridley’s publisher refused to publish it. It’s set in a dystopic London at an imagined time where anarchy rules, war ravages and hedonistic citizens look for whatever means they can to escape their brutal reality. But despite its science-fiction take on humanity, Mercury Fur speaks both out of and to the present – and has been compared more than once to A Clockwork Orange. In one review: “It is bleak; it is unremitting: but the more oppressive things become, the more shockingly valuable the streaks of altruism and love are when they appear.” |
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| Developed through the Australia-Japan Dance Exchange program last year, not quite right is a bizarre/super-cute performance presented by the acclaimed Strange Kinoko Dance Company. Renowned for pounding the mundane with the peculiar, the Strange Kinoko troupe jump, slide and dance around a selection of distorted furniture designed by Melbourne’s Justin Caleo. “Try to shift a little bit to change your point of view. Tilt the table top just a little, make chair legs different length, use furniture at incorrect scale. See the domestic from a different perspective” - all to a soundtrack of swing, jazz, and J-pop. A bit out of left-field. A bit out of Japan. |
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| Cameron Gray is the one man photographer/artist/MACHINEEEE (he's not really a machine but how awesome would that be) behind Parable Visions Magazine - an arts, literature and photography publication. And a publication he can add to four of his own books - Parable Visions; the art of Cameron Gray, Artistic Methods, The Blue Patient & Alternate Macro. So that’s five reasons to hate him for being 22 years old. Dark, grotesque, provocative, scenic his art presents “Questions of life, love, death and everything in between.” |
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CLOVER MOORE'S SMALL BAR BILL
Please allow us to violently thrust a policy down your throats. This week, Clover Moore presents her Small Bars Bill to Parliament, to help Melbourne-style bars set up shop in an inhospitable Sydney. It involves banning pokies, lifting unaffordable licence fees and abolishing the ridiculously costly Social Impact Assessment for small bars. Join the Facebook group, or call 02 9360 3053 to sign the petition. |
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ON TOURING:
> That was huge. It was just like playing all the first gigs I did in Australia all over again but overseas. Every city has got like its own little indie scene that likes all the same music as me. Actually it’s kind of scary when DJs play exactly the same tracks in every city and people dress similar…
+ And they all know your music…
> They did! Everywhere I went in the UK there were at least like ten kids in the crowd who’d heard of “Ice Cream” or “One Inch Badge Pin.”
+ Aaannnd which one are you getting sick of the most?
> None yet!
ON CRUSHING BABY TURTLES’ SKULLS:
+ I have a quote from you I found about twelve minutes ago. “One day I would like to crush an infant tourtoises head with the palm of my fist."
> (pause) Yes.
+ Is this true?
> It was.. kind of like a joke. I mean, ah, it was a joke. In the rest of the interview I was trying to fit as many song titles into my answers, and then I thought I’ll hit them with something unexpected and… horrible.
+ Well, it was definitely unexpectedly horrible.
> Actually there was some 14 year old girl from America on MySpace that kept messaging me and saying “I’M NOT GOING TO SUPPORT YOU ANYMORE. THE BABY TURTLES.” I’m gonna have to write a song on the next album. About baby turtles. And how much I love them. And how much I don’t want to crush their baby heads with the palm of my hand. (pause)
I’m more of a baby penguin man myself.
+ In terms of crushing their infant heads?
> (pause) No.
ON FANS AND CITIES:
+ You got so many fans so quickly – is there pressure to keep putting out stuff that you know they’re gonna like? How are you gonna evolve it?
> I had an idea about adding a band member every album - but all the people I told that to thought I'd lose the magic of my live show. Maybe I'll bring on a dance routine or something... I dunno, as long as I keep writing really well thought out, exciting songs that young people can relate to, I think there’s no pressure at all. If I go back to having just 10 people like me in six months I don’t really care. I guess.
+ Melbourne Versus Sydney?
> Sydney.
+ Correct! Well done.
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WHAT
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This week PC THUG is joined by the infamous, PhDJ. The DJs have license to play whatever they want. 1980’s drink prices with a music policy that will keep you guessing.
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LOADED THURSDAYS >
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| The longest running brit-indie night in Sydney, ever! Join Mad Willie, Monkey, Porch & Bibs as they spin the legendary Loaded playlist alongside this weeks album of the week, PJ Harvey’s “White Chalk”. |
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MUM FRIDAYS >
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| Tiger Stripes (Adel), Fait Accompli & To The Throne as well as the Throw Shapes DJ’s, Jack Shit (FBi), Wax Motif, 1 Arm Bandit, Nick La Rosa and loads more …and don’t forget: 2 4 $12 JAGER BOMBS! |
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WHAM! SATURDAYS >
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| The party just keeps getting bigger and bigger at WHAM! DJs: James Taylor, Wax Motif, Daigo, Gabriel Clouston, Temian, Kemuri and heaps more!!
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Free every Sunday: Sit back with friends on the terrace and enjoy 2 for 1 cocktails and enjoy the soulful house laced with funk, party electro, and boogie tech. DJs: Louis M & Tim Park.
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KISS OF DEATH
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If you still haven’t been to the Oxford Arts Factory, this is the perfect excuse. Sparkadia are headlining to tell everybody about their upcoming album, Postcards (in song format.) But feel free to get just as excited about the supporting cast of Soft Tigers (who’s Mr Icecream single was released on Friday), ThrowShapes faves Cloud Control, MTV KickStart winning Yves Klein Blue and the start-namedropping-them-before-everyone-else-does Cassette Kids. Sold. |
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WAR ON DEMOCRACY Chauvel Cinema |
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“Never before has most of humanity registered such alarm at the ambitions of a great power.” John Pilger’s first major feature film demonstrates the brutal reality of America’s self-proclaimed role as a ‘champion of democracy’. Pilger highlights a fundamental yearning for democracy amongst humanity, with specific focus on Latin America -where grassroots political groups have fought for years to achieve a democracy more pure and widely supported than any which can be found in the West, only to be repeatedly crushed by US policy. So yeah, NOT a romantic comedy. |
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| It sounds like Ian Parton hasn't changed much of his production formula at all for this sophomore release – which is fine with us, because the first was so damn good. Still has the pastiche of lo-fi hip hop sampling. Still has Ninja’s cheerleading vocals taking a middle-back-seat to the beats, despite the fact they’ve been recorded live this time. Still sounds like its been sampled from a late 70’s cartoon theme-tune. So is anything different between the two? Well, no. But they’re both still packed with total, unadulterated, unpretentious fun that we recommend you enjoy it while the fragile genre still hangs onto the limelight by the fingertips. (AP) |
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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
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| Ahhh Animal Collective… the music-nerd’s menagerie. This time, Panda Bear and co have managed to fit in some more accessible pop amongst the collection of Liars-esque arpeggios, distortion and noise – dominated by their signature unpredictable cacophonies driven by cutesy vocals. Which occasionally, and less-cutely, explode. While the LP’s second half stretches into less structured territory – the ‘Collective never loses the plot entirely. But we’d forgive them if they did.. it’s a music-nerd thing. (AP Vs SH) |
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DR. DOG
We All Belong |
| Within the spectrum of retro rock homage, this album sounds like it’d fit somewhere between The Beatles and The Beach Boys. This Philadelphian five piece are currently touring with Wilco, and released the album to reasonable acclaim in the States - though I’m struggling to find a sound which is entirely Doggish. Somewhere within the middle lurk a few less-derivative songs such as‘The Girl’, whose 3 part harmonies, organ and cowbell are fuzzed out in a similar vein to swampy early White Stripes albums. (AP)
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ROBYN Self Titled |
| Would you believe us if we told you that this chicky was the same one who graced the charts in '97 with 'Show Me Love' (show me light, baybee show me what it's allll about...)? When I first heard ‘Konichiwa Bitches’ 18 months ago, I thought this tiny Swede was on the verge of a comeback album that would come at you like a Doberman in heat… But right now, it’s sounding more like ‘Album of 2002’. The only difference between Robyn’s ‘Handle Me’, and Brandy’s RnB hit‘What About Us’ comes down to an updated synth pad. But there's nothing wrong with that when it's done well. Plus, Swedes could defecate in a cup and release it here and it'd sell. (AP)
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ALELA DIANNE
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| So, according to the experts (Wikipedia), there’s a genre out there called the New Weird America that reached its peak around two or three years ago. It’s a mix of folk, psychadelia and bizarre vocals, that’s almost entirely inaccessible at first listen, almost entirely eccentric at second, and from then on slowly erupts into a heart-bursting relationship between you and your brand new CD. Alela Dianne's beautiful/strange take on freak folk that fits her into this genre, alongside the likes of Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective and her tour-buddy Joanne Newsom. Not made for short-attention spans, trance-enthusiasts, or commercial success. (SH) |
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MUSCLES Guns Babes Lemonade |
| It’s a little weird listening to more than one Muscles song in a row and not being in a crowded venue drinking my face off and dancing my ass off. Verdict? 'Ice Cream' is getting a bit tired (both as a song and as a song-concept), 'Once Inch Badge Pin'’s still got it, 'The Lake' is the best part of the whole album (better than the new release 'Sweaty'), and ending the whole thing with 'Hey Muscles I Love You' = A Very Good Move. “If Muscles has a party everybody is invited, / you tell me that you’re coming and you leave your home early”. That pretty much sums it up. (TA)
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Harmon Layout & Computer Stuff & Other
Things Matt Roden
Email steph@throwshapes.com.au Address
24 Bayswater Rd, Kings X, Sydney
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