Hey! The NSW state government did something today! Everyone come look!
For those of us too Friday to bother clicking that link, they finally abolished that nasty Place of Public Entertainment (POPE) licence once and for all, which until now had meant that in order to have any kind of live music, venues had to meet laughably arbitrary and unfair conditions. Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Pope is dead! (The Pope is not dead.) The changes mean that now any venue – cafes and restaurants included – can have live entertainment considered part of their main business without needing a licence. Kind of like how pubs have always been allowed to have blindingly huge TV screens, deafening sports commentary and obnoxious, drunk and violent crowds as part of their main business without needing a licence. Huh.
We can complain all we want about how long things are taking to change (things are really taking way too long to change whinge), but the bottom line is Hooray! It’s being very much attributed to the ongoing lobbying of John ‘Raise The Bar’ Wardle and his cohorts. More proof that a few people who really won’t shut up about something can change that thing, and then we can blog about them. Friday Fuzzies!
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Posted by steph in Daily, Music
Tags: friday fuzzies, live music, music licences, pope, state government, Sydney, venues
In Ma Jackolantern :: Ma Gallery Double Halloween
…23.10.09
The two magical witches who run ma. gallery, Kee Kee and Solo, told me a story by the flickering light of a jackolantern while they brewed an evil smelling broth in the corner. It began with the evil day of Wednesdays, when their gallery had openings, which happened to not actually be the day of Halloween, despite the deeply scary nature of their characters.
So as a result, Kee Kee and Solo combined their magical powers to CHANGE TIME AND SPACE so that Halloween would land on a Wednesday and they could celebrate it in their gallery space. Unfortunately, Kee Kee snarled and cackled, while Solo fed newts to her dog Booga (who used to be an accountant for some big corporation and totally blew all their money on cocaine and hookers, thus was cursed and turned in to a small, lively pug) the spell went wrong and instead of altering the fabric of the universe they only managed to curl Booga’s tail up a little bit more.
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As a result, ma. gallery are celebrating Halloween twice because they just love it so fucking much – once last Wednesday, and once on the coming Wednesday, where you will find some evil witches, a human trapped inside a dog, a zombie kissing booth, tarot reading, blood punch and costumes. It’s called Shallow Graves and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be drinking beers with a crack-loving accountant and play pokies online in a pug dog’s body next Wednesday.
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Posted by amelia in Art, Events
Tags: booga, halloween, Kee Kee, ma, ma. gallery, shallow graves, solo
Chippendale Food For The Future Fair :: Pat The Chooks
…22.10.09
“Delightfully fresh seedlings” and “face painting”? Fuck oath, I’m ditching all of you guys and heading to Chippendale on Saturday for the Chippendale Food For The Future Fair. I’m not sure whether the event will live up to the website but holy god I swear that this list of activities on the website is making me all hot and bothered. In particular, “pat the chooks” and “relax on a haystack” have definitely got my attention.
There’s also a sausage sizzle and a family farm. And “great raffle prizes”! “Rocket launch and grass root games for kids” sounds pretty good but I’m not sure if those kids will be cooler than me and I might feel a bit out of place.
Also has anyone else started feeling kind of fat and pale now that the sun is out and stuff? Because I’m deeply convinced that eating more fruit and vegetables bought from street fairs will probably fix that. Failing that, I’m happy with the haystack.
If none of this appeals to you (seriously, not even delightfully fresh seedlings? That got me right away. I mean, if World Bar had some delightfully fresh seedlings I’d be there eight days a week) then you could always go see Steph’s dad’s band play in Petersham, because I hear that’s going to go OFF.
Do chooks actually like being patted? I’m going to find out. Saturday, Kensington Street, 10am-4pm.
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Tags: chippendale food for the future fair, delightfully fresh seedlings, family farm, pat the chooks, relax on a haystack, rocket launch
Bike BBQ :: I Love You, Ramona
…22.10.09
When you fall in love, you want the world to know. It’s as uncontrollable for you as it is unbearable for everyone else and before you get all whatever-it-is-you’re-about-to-get, I’m not discounting myself from this phenomenon. I fell in love this year, and I was insufferable.
Her name was Ramona. She was Japanese and gorgeous, full of old-school sass and whimsy; she was beautiful and together we were King. I shook with pride each time someone would stop us on the street to comment on the match we made. I felt like a Prince, but was only a pauper; paralysed with poverty and unable to buy her the riches she demanded and deserved. Ours was a love that couldn’t bear the burden of my blunders, and she left me four weeks ago – ugly thugs cut through the cheap chain with which I shackled her (I know how it looks but she was into that kind of thing), and just like that she was kidnapped. I think about her every day, and will never be truly happy again. So there’s that.
There’s also this: people’s relationships with their bikes are getting weird. It’s a global phenomenon that, like many global phenomena, has taken a little while to hit us in Sydney. But we’re finally ready to deem this year Sydney’s Year of the Bike. There’s collectives, there’s blogs, there’s workshops, there’s freecycle, there’s group rides, there’s BUGs, there’s polo, there’s the Sydney Tweed Ride (!), there’s about to be the third Sydney Bicycle Film Festival, which we have reason to believe is going to be the biggest to date (more on that soon…) – and now, there’s a PICNIC!
The Bikes N Babes BBQ Block Party is meeting Saturday 24 October, Redfern Park from 2pm. If anyone sees a yellow vintage single-speed beach cruiser that looks like a broken heart, her name is Ramona and she wants to come home.
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Posted by steph in Culture, Events
Tags: BFF, bicycles, bikes, bugs, freecycle, le pista resistance, Ramona, sydney bicycle film festival, three point turnz
Your Face :: Exploding Plastic Inevitable @ OAF
…21.10.09
Photos by the lovely and quite smoking Natalie Connolly.
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Tags: exploding plastic inevitable, oaf, oxford art factory, Your Face
Danks Street Festival :: Nothing Better To Do On A Sunday
…21.10.09
Danks St, Waterloo. That place that we all hang out at all the time right? Who cares, they’re having a festival there on Sunday, where there will be handmade markets, music, food (Kylie Kwong!), exhibitions and people milling around, hopefully not in the extreme heat anything at all similar to today, chatting and being probably being just as hungover as you.
Danks Street has always had a sense of sophistication in my mind, which is possibly because I’ve been to trendy art openings there in the past. Anyway, there are some bands playing there including The Donovans, Dimity Claire and the Bleeding Hearts, Danny and the Cosmic Tremors and the EON Beats Project. Plus “surprises”.
Furthermore, my friends, there is free bike parking and a free bus to get you there, just in case you were bitching about it not being your local hangout. Also it’s free and you have nothing to do on Sundays anyway. I know, every time time I call you, you’re like, “Nah, nothing man, just hanging out on the couch. Wanna come over and play Xbox?” Just go: Danks Street, Sunday, from 11am.
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Posted by amelia in Events, Festivals
Tags: art and about, danks street festival, danny and the cosmic tremors, dimity claire and the bleeding hearts, eon beats project, kylie kwong, the donovans, waterloo
Whimsical Things Recently :: Mix CDs and Postits
…20.10.09
Steph tells me sometimes that we can’t do too much girly shit on this blog, and just because we happen to be two girls doesn’t mean we have to indulge in it. However, despite her advice, I’d like to just point out that I am indeed a girl and I do actually really enjoy cute and whimsical stuff, but that you shouldn’t discount me as a person or discount the authority of this blog because of that, and that I totally beat up kids for their lunchmoney and I am heaps hardcore and don’t mess with me because I’ll cut you.
Anyway so when I’m not flying kites or spooning a kitten, I like discovering whimsical projects. Such a thing happened on Saturday night when I went to Born in the Doorway, and met Natasha Lee, who runs Love Is A Mix CD, or when I stumbled across a blog called Between You And Me or Beau Newham’s lovely zine Tears In My Schooner. More after the jump…
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Posted by amelia in Art, Daily
Tags: between you and me, love is a mix cd, tears in my schooner, whimsical things