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Icarus

Column: TidBits | Date Published: Wednesday, 17 March 10 | Author: Travis Heinrich | | 1 year, 10 months ago

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WHAT: The eel’s hips of experimental electronica
WHERE: The Street Theatre
WHEN: Fri March 25

Now, I was somewhat surprised whilst reading about Icarus for this tidbit. It seems that quite a few reviews state this UK duo as being the best live act they’ve ‘ever seen’. A huge call in anyone’s books, but I can’t ignore the sheer amount of freakin’ compliments they seem to get. In case you missed the ‘where’ part – It’s at the Street Theatre, a frightfully glorious live music venue. The entrees should add more saliva to your mouth, with HelloSqaure head honcho Shoeb Ahmed playing, along with (ex- Canberra Canon) Reuben Ingall and Luke Penders. Come sit on Gigmund Freud’s couch.

	All Our Friends: WHAT: Our very own fun-size version of We Love Sounds WHERE: UC BAR WHEN: Sat 5 Jun Step 1: Get a Credit Card with no limit. Step 2: Buy the credit company with the credit card. You then owe to debt to yourself, therefore it cancels itself out. Now that you’re a multi-millionaire and won’t have to work anymore, you’ll have to find something to do with your time. Gallivanting in your vault of cheddar will get boring after a while, so let me suggest an activity. The oh so peachy We Love Sounds has animorphed into an intimate club version of itself, warming our bastard winter with the likes of Laidback Luke, Tiga, Steve Aoki, Felix Da Housecat, Proxy, Joachim Gerraud plus more to be announced. Sounds Danceable. Buy tickets here
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	TNT Karaoke Dynamite competition!: WHAT: Yup, Karaoke. WHERE: Transit Bar WHEN: Running for 8 weeks! “A bottle of milk thanks.” “Low fat, no fat, full cream, high calcium, high-protein soy, lite, skim, omega 3, high-calcium with vitamin D and folate or extra dollop?” Ok. How about you shut your wilted noise-hole you horrifying corpse. I’m sorry that science and cultural freedom has allowed us more choices, but if it wasn’t for them you’d be covered in boils in some dirt hole. Evidence that TV sucks, and that you should go outside. Karaoke has been proven by the Guinness Book of Records as the best thing ever – and here’s your ticket kiddo. Stop watching milk ads and go win some clams singing your favourite tune. As a plus, karaoke makes the pain temporarily go away.
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	Strangeways 3D: WHAT: That zany troop of DJs – in 3D! WHERE: Transit Bar WHEN: Fri Mar 19 Well this is neat. The Strangeway lads have concocted their next gig around a 3D theme, one that I’m slightly wooed by. 3D projections and still images will pepper the walls, and you can view them with your FREE 3D GLASSES! It’ll be a ‘sidekick to the bully from a 50’s movie’ convention. Its so kitsch, it makes me want to get a slice of pizza from KC’s (after a round that migraine inducing virtual reality game), followed by an awkward fumble for the token to get my bag back from Impact Records and finally a drunken Meatbee gig at the Gypsy. Sigh. At least Transit is holding strong with free gigs like this.
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	FUNdraiser: WHAT: For Fun Machine! Because a robber snaffled their vault cheddar WHERE: Macgregor Hall WHEN: Fri 19 Mar Geeze-Louise, now this is upsetting. Local delights Fun Machine are not only violently talented, but frightfully hard working as well. Sad to say, a bad-guy stole all the earnings from their genius album ‘More is More’ and now they are all crying. These guys have done, and are doing beyond fantastic things with the Canberra music scene and deserve a helping hand. Aside from Fun Machine, you get performances from Beth Monzo, Lady Grey, Cuddlefish, Jason Recliner, James Fahy Trio and the insanely good Joe Oppenheimer. I blame McDonalds. It’s that Hamburglar. Whose fucking idea was it to have a re-offending convicted criminal as their spokesperson?
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	You, beautiful: WHAT: ‘DISCO’ WHERE: Monkey Bar WHEN: EEEEEEEVERY SATURDAY Gary Glitter has done awful things to the word ‘glitter’. Whilst donning those speckled dots, he made bad music, bad danced and was far too god-awful for my liking. Well hey, his music might have been bad, but I’m sure he’s a good guy. Oh wait right, he nailed some kids. Whoopsie daises I forgot. Once upon a time, Monkey bar was called ‘Awkward bar’ (nice segue that) and was open for around 3 weeks. Business management people! Either way, Monkey bar rose from the ashes and is going strong. They have this thing that looks fun. Glitter, glam and retro music – every Saturday night. Get your bad dance on.
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