screen sect:
RUMBLEFISH 
(FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, 1982)

This highly stylized, expressionistic adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s novel (made directly after Coppola’s much straighter rendering of The Outsiders) features surreal cinematography, a cooler-than-cool cast including Mickey Rourke, Matt Dillon, Dennis Hopper, Tom Waits and Larry Fishburne, and a driving, percussive soundtrack from Stewart Copeland, drummer from The Police.

Doors 7pm 

BABBLE! 
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

Babble returns to Bar Open as a monthly event and to celebrate this Sean M Whelan  will be performing with smoking new band, The Interim Lovers. This is only the 3rd public appearance of The Interim Lovers since appearing at the 2009 Overload Poetry Festival and Going Down Swinging Launch. Also performing will be the wonderful Michelle Dabrowski. A founder of Montreal's famous Throw Poetry Collective, Michelle is a dynamic and engaging performer. She used to belong to Canada now she belongs to us! Don't arrive late, or you will miss her!
Also on the night will be the famous Babble open mic. Bring your best 3 min poem to read and register at the door.
The open mic will also contain a random prize draw! And will be recorded with the highlights being made available for Triple R's Aural Text program! DJ Emilie Zoey Baker will be in the house to stimulate your ears and provide your walk up music to make you famous.

This will mark the return of Babble as a monthly event, running the second Wed of each month. 

Doors 8pm 

Thursday 11th March

UBER SOUNDSYSTEM
OVER THE WHOLE VENUE!!

As you may know, Uber Lingua is a crew of international music loving DJs, multi-lingual vocalists, diverse musicians, visual artists. Over the past few years a loose ‘sound system’ has formed, more recently known as the abbreviated title UBER SYSTEM. This entity pulls upon Uber’s massive human resource to create continuously changing cultural combinations in a live performance scenario. Using DJ & MC Hip Hop methodologies, the impro techniques of Jazz, affected mixing styles of Dub and electronic music & video art production, Uber System participants exist almost as modular elements. Infinite combinations are formed for specific outcomes. Around 14 languages will be flexed during this particular event, and that’s not counting tracks dropped by the DJs. Uber System will evolve over the months and new scenarios will be formed.

Uber System ‘Prototype’ at Bar Open on March 11 is the start of a monthly residency at this small bohemian Fitzroy venue, known for its progressive programming and support for innovative concepts. 

Doors 9pm / Free Entry

RESPONSE

Response is a live Hip Hop group that combines musical inventiveness with irresistible grooves. Featuring jazz guitarist Nashua Lee (12 tone Diamonds, Barney Mcall), Keyboardist Thai Matus ( True Live, 12 Tone Diamonds), Drummer Ivan Khatchoyan (True Live, Cookin on three Burners) and Bassist Rohan Sherlock ( Red Eyes, Pete Murray) the band invites a different guest MC to rhyme for each gig. With a deep appreciation for Hip Hop history, Response fuses evocative filmic passages of music with deep beats and hypnotic grooves in the modern tradition of left field Hip Hop luminaries DJ Shadow and Madlib.

Doors 10pm / Free Entry

THE BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE

Warming up before playing as MULATU ASTATKE’S band when the Ethio-Jazz heavy weight hits our shores for Jazz Fest! The Black Jesus Experience is 9 piece Afrojazz/Hip-Hop ensemble fusing an exciting blend of traditional Ethiopian song with Jazz, Funk and Hip Hop. The members include singer/songwriters from Ethiopia, Namibia and Burundi with the rhythm and horn sections from Australia, NZ & Ethiopia, including Ethiopian master musician Danny Atlaw Seifu, formerly of The Ethiopian National Theatre. The horn section of BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE has a deep history, spanning over 20 years with accomplishments and awards from playing with some of the world’s best musicians and producers including Evan Parker, Guru and Irmin Schmidt (The Can). Bar Open are elated to have our saviors, The Black Jesus Experience, appearing within our walls for one hell of a party this Saturday night, so come down and worship! with special guest tunes from Cassawarrior.

Doors 10pm / Free Entry

Sunday 14th March

TTT
SAILORS & SWINE
CAUGHT SHIP

Fresh from their recent single launch and gearing up to the release of their debut album, Lands, TTT take to the stage at Bar Open for the very first time this Sunday. They'll be joined on the night by the dark, blistering rock of Sailors & Swine (the recent supports for supergroup Them Crooked Vultures), and the dense abrasive atmospherics of Caught Ship who is the lastest addition to the EXO label’s extended family. TTT will be on your end of year list in some form so make it down for this show so you can tell your friend’s that you saw them aaaages ago before everybody else!

Upstairs / 7.30pm


COUCHING TIGER DJS
Downstairs 7pm ‘til late