the NOW now

Wednesday December 28th at 7 p.m.

JIM DENLEY
and MONICA BROOKS

at The People’s Republic of Australasia

with a very, very special Xmas surprise
for the People!!!

Monica Brooks and Jim Denley have been regular collaborators since they first met in 2002.
In recent years they have played together with the quartet Embedded, which recently toured New Zealand.
With West Head Project they have released a CD and in January they will play together at Mona Foma in Hobart.

Jim has played throughout Australia, Europe, Japan and the US with artists such as Chris Abrahams, Clare Cooper, Keith Rowe, Joel Stern, Robbie Avenaim, Jon Rose, John Butcher, Otomo Yoshide, Fred Frith, Phil Niblock, Trey Spruance, Clayton Thomas, Tess de Quincy, Axel Doerner, Adam Sussman, Ami Yoshida, Oren Ambarchi, Tony Buck, Ikue Mori, Satchiko M, Malcolm Goldstein and Annette Krebs.
‘This is music at it’s most primal, enhancing the beauty of creation.’ (John Shand – Sydney Morning Herald).
Jim has recently returned from concerts in Europe and South America.

Monica Brooks hails from the mountain tops of the western plains, primarily focusing on the relationship termites have to astronomical phenomena such as the aurora australis. Monica is often found playing few notes in slow succession on the piano accordion in West Head Project, Splinter Orchestra, Mayas/Altman/Brooks Trio, and she made Z grade celebrity status in the band formerly known as Ubercube. She also amuses herself with radios and guitar pedals in a trio with Anna Vo and Nadene Pita. Monica on occasion delves deep into the superficial habitats of indie music as a perpetual novice of the piano and computer, and thoroughly enjoys a good yodel with other beer-swilling slags around the Sydney sub-tropics. Monica has made a number of attempts to transform into an artist/sound sculptor, and used to spell her name with a ‘k’ to appear more exotic.
Monica’s piano is vastly different to her accordion…
in this concert she will play solo piano as well as playing with Jim.

THERE WILL BE THREE SETS ON THE NIGHT !!!

EVENTS AT THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC ARE FREE
WITH DONATIONS INVITED AND ENCOURAGED!

PLEASE RSVP TO THIS nshimmin [at] dodo.com.au ASAP FOR FURTHER DETAILS

EVENT IS BYO

Shhh, it’s about that time. In one of the last gigs of the year, come and hear Lines of Flight take off for their once a year countdown. We’ve assembled a great line-up of music, and we’re really looking forward to playing together after another busy year of music.

Lines of Flight:
Joe Cummins – Trumpet
Casey Golden – Piano
Sam Pettigrew – Bass
Alex Slater – Drums

Felucca:
James Loughnan – Saxophone
Abel Cross – Bass
Paul Derricott – Drums

Duo set:
Alister Spence – Piano
Sam Pettigrew – Bass/Vibrators/Preperations

$10
402/1 Hibernian House 342 Elizabeth rd surry hiillss

New Weird Australia, Octopus Pi, Sound Series & Refraction present:
UNPOPULAR MUSIC 2011
TWO VENUES, ONE TICKET

// LATE SHOW at Dirty Shirlows from 9pm:

STRANGE FORCES
ZEAHORSE
SECRET BIRDS
SCATTERED ORDER
DJs PAUL GOUGH, JACK SHIT & OCTOPUS PI

// EARLY SHOW at Hardware Gallery from 6pm

THOMAS WILLIAM VS SCISSOR LOCK (album launch)
MONOLITH
ANNA CHASE
UND

$12 ON THE DOOR (gets entry to both shows)
$2 FROM EACH TICKET DONATED TO FBI RADIO
Magical Audio Tour between venues – Leaves Hardware 8:45pm

Mrs Tapes Fest =

Axemen ( Flying Nun pop freaks play their first ever Sydney show!)

http://theaxemen.org/

http://www.myspace.com/nemexa

Circle Pit (Sexiest band in Sydney)

http://www.myspace.com/circlepit

Alps (only show for a long long time)

http://www.myspace.com/alpsalps

XNOBBQX (Nick and Matt back together again for a few days)

http://www.myspace.com/xnobbqx

Mad Nanna (Ian Wadley of Bird Blobs, Michael from Albert’s Basement, Pat from Sunshine & Grease, White altar’s Jesse and Samaan of Where Were You at Lunch)

http://madnanna.bandcamp.com/

School Girl Report (Batemans Bay’s latest hesitation rock band)

http://www.myspace.com/schoolgirlreport

Satanic Rockers (NZ) (come early, you need to see this band)

http://www.myspace.com/satanicrockers

+ drop 1 take 1 tape box

$15 at the door

http://theaxemen.org/

http://www.redrattler.org/sydney/about+us

9565 1044

Axemen Australian Tour 2011

The SuperUsers – AV Extravaganza

The SuperUsers
+ Hypnololly
+ Pia van Gelder
+ Sven Simulacrum
7-10PM, THURS 15th Dec $8

The Superusers

The Superusers was created by Australian-born-Berlin-based artist Scott Sinclair in 2010. Scott currently performs as the central member of the group in collaboration with like-minded artists from around the world.

The Superusers is a vehicle for artists to extend their practice into unknown territories. Members of The Superusers are involved in performance, music, film, programming, installation, literature, and costume. Members may incorporate their existing work from any medium, which is then adapted into a dynamic and cohesive audio-visual performance. The result is a retroactive combination of aggressive audio-visual media with the absurdist humor of dada and expanded cinema. The message is EXCESS!

The Superusers are here in Sydney with the support of NowNow for the NowNow Festival Launch playing as Botborg on Wednesday the 14th of December at Red Rattler.

http://www.thesuperusers.com/

Hypnololly

aka Fred Titan aka Harriet Birks

Recently back from Berlin and London, Hypnololly is the other half of twodeadvoices (www.twodeadvoices.tk) With screenings at Whitechapel Gallery in London (Alphaville festival, 2010), performances at The Fab Lab in Berlin (You are a Wasteland, 2011) Artch Gallery in London, supporting Dead Voices on Air, 2011, the MCA (vivid festival, 2010)
and the Powerhouse Museum (beta space, 2009)

Hypnololly will make like a deep sea squid with phosphorescence and electrify your mind with audio visual synthesis and electronic tendrilscapes.

Pia van Gelder

Pia will be playing with a combination of open electronics and an audiovisual synthesizer.
www.piavangelder.com

DJ A-D-D

Providing sweet pumping melodies for the in-betweens.

live!

YUKO KONO (from My Pal Foot Foot, Japan)

MAD NANNA (Melbourne)

plus Peter Blamey & Anthony Guerra

plus special guest DJ t.b.a.!

starts at 7pm.

401/2 Hibernian House

SOUND
Mesa Cosa (VIC) – https://www.facebook.com/mesacosa
Brackets – https://www.facebook.com/bracketsband
Nick Carson (VIC) – http://nickcarson.wordpress.com/
F’tang – https://www.facebook.com/ftangftang

READING
Nathan Roche (Marf Loth) reading from his latest novel

VISUALS
Optic Soup – blacklight
Creon & Steven Nuttal – Live Art

DJs
Nellie (Double Good Records)
Loz Nonsense
+ ??

Presented by Octopus Pi
www.octopuspi.com

Dirty Shirlows
9pm

Come and celebrate the beginning of the festive season with us, 3ofmillions and Showa44. If you come dressed as Santa you get in for free*.

1st set. 3ofmillions

2nd set. Showa44

3rd set. For the first time ever this Christmas. 44ofmillions!! (That’s all 5 of us together

*If you come dressed as Santa you won’t actually get in for free. $10 entry. BYO. Hope to see you!

402 hibernian house
8.30

the 6th installment in Serial Space’s Great Debate Series aims for the jugular in the ongoing discussion in our communities about property rights, commercialization, corporatism, gentrification, art and increasing inequity:

TOPIC: THAT PROPERTY IS THEFT

Serial Space’s Great Debate Series has hosted some of Sydney’s most impassioned and articulate thinkers, arguing and discussing political, personal, private and popular topics: this debate will be no exception. Our speakers are:

AFFIRMATIVE
Dr Catriona Menzies Pike
Dr Bec Conroy
Mark Gawne

NEGATIVE
Dr Ann Deslandes
Dr Adam Jasper
Pip Smith

HOST
Dara Gill

Real Estate agents in Sydney are like celebrities, driving in fancy cars and driving up the cost of living. Increasingly the artistic community is feeling priced-out of the city. But, on the flip side, we work hard for a living, we need to be able to manage and organise our society and the concept of property is one way to do that. Can we potentially change it from within? Why not buy a family home and make it into a polyamorous commune? Or buy a forest and donate it back to Nature? Or design an amazing computer program that enables your Hacker-ARI to compete with Apple for global supremacy and sell it to all your friends to start the viral trend? Then again, maybe we all just want a big house and a flashy car and our banging on about inequity and gentrification is just a manifestation of jealousy for our best mates who chose finance instead of fine arts.

This debate will get the emotions fired up as a bunch of confident and savvy individuals with a trumped up sense of entitlement get serious about what they can actually claim to have and to hold as their own. And just in time for Christmas!
Serial Space
33 wellington st
chippendale