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Kripy Irregular Mailer #129, Brain Bender, for Wednesday April 9th. |
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Brain BenderMonkey boy, swarms of irreverent bugs, version 2.0, moonwalking, analog versus digital, spiders and without driving the point home too far, exclusivity. This is what I like to call a mental flossing and it's probably the most effective method for keeping sane other than drowning your sorrows in someone else's tears. You should try it some time, just brain dump without thinking, it's kind of like boot camp for the brain.
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Kripy SelectsBel-Air (Miami) feat. Gameboy/Gamegirl + Catcall + Miami Horror + Hey Now
Friday April 11th (8pm) at Candy's Apartment (22 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross). $10."Sweaty Wet/Dirty Damp" will probably end up as the backing tune for an underpants commercial in some foreign country until an Aussie ex-pat breaks down the vernacular for the locals and the commercial ends up on their equivalent of "Media Watch". |
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MusicTeenagers In Tokyo + Chambers + The Allies
Thursday April 10th (8pm) at Hopetoun Hotel (416 Bourke St, Surry Hills). $10. So I tripped on a can and was a little bit drunk when I did it ... at least I know how to have some fun, eh? The Temper Trap + The Holidays + Bird Automatic 
Friday April 11th (8pm) at Oxford Art Factory (38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst). Presale $10. Dougy. Lorenzo. Jonny. Toby. The travelling maestros, complete with megaphone out the window on their border-crossing visits to Sydney, have way too much heart and the songs to match them. It's been way too long lads. Yves Klein Blue + Flying Foxes + Adrian Deutch 
Friday April 11th (8pm) at Spectrum (Oxford Street, Darlinghurst). $10. I was about to listen to the debut EP from Brisbane louts Yves Klein Blue only to find that Betty, the Labrador, had destroyed it. I know it sounds a little "the dog ate my homework miss" but it's the truth! I'm colour blind too if that helps? Bluejuice + The Paper Scissors 
Saturday April 12th (7pm) at The Gaelic (64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills). Presale $15 (licensed-all ages). I have to admit to knowing absolutely nothing about Bluejuice until I saw them all jumping out of an aeroplane, dressed in tuxedos, accompanied by a rip-roaring tune. It was good. The Paper Scissors I do know of, having witnessed their golden-fried funk first hand. The Menstruation Sisters + Wog + Poletopra Sunday April 13th (6pm) at Hopetoun Hotel (416 Bourke St, Surry Hills). $8. Hands down the best line up of names, and bands mind, you'll encounter for a while. A night of extreme pop presented by the kids at the What Is Music? festival. |
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Beats / The OthersDJ/CLUBBandits feat. S.Y.L.K 
Friday April 11th (10pm) at Club 77 (77 William St, Darlinghurst). $10. Sydney's answer to Chicks On Speed? Maybe not but the cheeky lyrics over synth-laden beats provided by Kon Ding (favourite new DJ/producer name) allow S.Y.L.K to turn a different style, adding a little pizazz and new flavours to the dance floor. DJ/CLUB Dave Nada + Bag Raiders + Peace Out + Jimmy Sing 
Saturday April 12th (8pm) at Oxford Art Factory (38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst). Presale $20. Oh Mad Decent. That and Dave Nada is a lad from Baltimore who actually plays Baltimore club, alongside party-bouncing styles ranging from new school hip-hop, electro, and house, throwing in a little rock and funk for good measure. Mad decent mad fun, brought to you by the kids at On The Fly. PARK LIFE 9th Surry Hills Festival 
Saturday April 12th (10am) at Prince Alfred Park (Chalmers St, Surry Hills). Gold coin donation. Why they shifted the festival from Crown Street we'll never know, sigh, unless someone out there can enlighten us all? I must say that following the dog races with a "pick up poo race" is way smart. That is if they find enough peeps to actually enter. FILM Audition (1999) 
Monday April 14th (6pm) at Chauvel Cinema (Corner of Oxford St and Oatley Rd, Paddington). $20/$15. Anyone who's seen the original "Ring" can attest that nobody does fantasy-horror quite like the Japanese. What freaks me out even more is the fact that the film is based on a Ryu Murakami novel of the same name, the author being responsible for "Coin Locker Babies" which to this day is still burnt firmly into my frontal lobe. |
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Culture / A HackTHEATRELawrence Leung Learns to Breakdance 
Tuesday April 15th (9pm) at Sydney Opera House (2 Macquarie St, Sydney). Performance continues until Saturday April 26th. $28/$23. Lawrence Leung, fresh from sellout stints at the Edinburgh Fringe and London's Soho Theatre, brings his one-man geek fest back to the scene of the crime, resplendent in PowerPoint presentations, every Internet trick in the book, plus a hip-hop finale that would have Napoleon Dynamite dancing in the isles. ART Moran Prizes 2008 
Monday March 10th (9am) at State Library of New South Wales (Macquarie St, Sydney). Exhibition continues until Sunday May 4th (Mon-Thu, 9am-8pm; Fri, 9am-5pm; Sat-Sun, 10am-5pm). FREE! With $100,000 in the kitty the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize can lay claim to the richest portrait prize in the world which some may say would draw a different type of entry to that of our beloved Archibald Prize. (I'm speculating here). Both winners, there's also the $50,000 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, feature the female nude as subject of choice. ART Southern Exposure 
Friday March 21st (10am) at Museum of Contemporary Art (140 George St, The Rocks). Exhibition continues until Sunday June 1st (10am-5pm daily; closed Christmas Day). FREE! The MCA kids get into bed, so to speak, with the equivalent museum in San Diego, presenting a collection of work from emerging artists from around the region. Both museums run on the same ethic, pushing local talent, so next year the San Diego MCA will return the favour by showcasing around 25 key Australian artists. HACKING Music to Observe Electronic Sheep feat. Sven Konig + Jamie Lloyd + Spitzer Wednesday April 16th (8pm) at Oxford Art Factory (38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst). Presale $17. Scrambled Hackz is a computer program conceptualised and coded by Berlin-based musician/hacker Sven Konig. The original idea of the project was to "hack copyright" by storing analysed sound bites into a database and then pulling them back out of order, in real time mind, to create something altogether new. |
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Keep Stay away from "The Nuss" and I won't tell if you don't. Deal? Nate Wragg  Draws things. Hercules & Love Affair  Yeah I get it now. Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons is the vocalist behind "Blind", with disco bits provided by newly recruited DFA kids Hercules & Love Affair aka Brooklyn producer Andy Butler. |
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Giveaway: Yves Klein Blue Remember how I told you the dog ate my CD? Well Carney over at Dew Process has 5 copies of "Draw Attention To Themselves" to giveaway to you kids. All you have to do is hit them with the answer to this question: "Which Aussie band did YKB support at a sold-out Bowery Ballroom in NYC recently?" (Stick Kripy Yves Klein Blue Giveaway in the subject line). Good luck! Jan von Holleben  So Via Alley Ben gives me a graniph donkey tee for my birthday, thanks! Then he points me to the photographer. Kids might fly. The Long Blondes  "Chloe Sevigny, Anja Rubik, and Clemence Poesy pose it out for Nylon". How the hell do you top a tagline like that? |
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Radiohead/ Remix/ Nude The Big M (staring amazedly into a computer screen) replies to the Polar Bear: "I'm trying to work out if this is the best website I've ever seen". Welcome to Sky Valley  "Welcome to Sky Valley", released in 1994 by desert dwelling acid dropping psych-rockers Kyuss, has been rocking my world of late. Finding Memo  This made me laugh although not because emos are under attack in Mexico. It was when combining the two words, a portmanteau if you will, Mexican plus emo equals Memo. |
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