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Monday 8th
March
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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
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Tuesday 9th March
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MAKE
IT UP CLUB
The
Make It Up Club is committed to nurturing, presenting and promoting
avant-garde improvised music and sound performance of the highest
conceptual and performative standards, regardless of idiom, genre, or
instrumentation. Whilst traditional forms of avant-garde improvisation are
welcomed, MIUC programming policy gives priority to projects which
challenge the boundaries of current musical trends and which are
predominantly, though not exclusively, improvisational in nature.
Doors 8pm
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Wednesday 10th March
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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
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Thursday 11th March
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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
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Friday 12th
March
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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
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Saturday 13th
March
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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
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Sunday 14th
March
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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
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