The program for the 2009 NOW now Festival in the Blue Mountains will be finally revealed! We are living in exciting times.
Caves, kites, films, costumes, bookshops, guitars, outdoor events, indoor events, t-shirts, av performances, saxophones, workshops, birdsong, spiders, international artists, national artists, local artists, post-national artists, akemi, food, sound walks, all night jams, orchestras - the list goes on and on.

Come and pick up the program while listening to some great music. There are also special discounts on festival passes.

Anthea Caddy/Thembi Soddell

+ Lloyd Swanton - solo double bass

Serial Space
33 Wellington St, Chippendale
8pm
cost: Free

$5 @ la Campana, 53-55 liverpool st, the spanish 1/4, Sydney. opens 8pm
runs til late (live acts over by 11pm just i time for last trains).

Anklepants : a “band” type of thing twisted danceable beats from a
c*&tdick with a faceprick

**SQUAT CLUB: as a 4 piece consisting of a drummer, bassist, piccolo
bassist and eukekele/guitarist, Squat Club are one of the most unique,
talented and exciting bands to emerge out of Sydney in recent memory.
Their style is akin to the amalamation of Eastern/Secret Chiefs 3
influenced polyrhythmic structures with early King Crimson, Pink Floyd
and other assorted 60s and 70s psychedelic/progressive groups and a
slight post-rock influence.
http://www.myspace.com/squatclub
**KILL A CELEBRITY: the words that come to mind in describing Kill A
Celebrity are caustic and agonizing. Somewhat renown and reviled within
various Sydney scenes, Kill A Celebrity are a Sydney-based three piece
playing inconceivably fast grindcore influenced by groups such as
Discordance Axis, Agents of Abhorrence and Pig Destroyer. Expect a
lively stage presence which has caused infamy at less spirited venues,
coupled with raw, violent and wholly uncompromising music stripped of
all pretensions.
http://www.myspace.com/killacelebritygrind
fag panic - We want to play for you!
We’ll accept payment in cake form or Steven Seagal’s Lightning Bolt
Energy Drinks (preferably Asian Experience flavour).
Please let us play for you!

Shane Fahey & Tegan Northwood
environmental soundscapes of the south-coast. Surround-sound soundscapes, derived from multiple field recordings by Shane & Tegan recorded over about three years, in and around Murramurang National Park, Kioloa NSW. As part of the ‘WORD – sound interpretations’ night (see attached).
DRIFT bar, Riverbeats Festival ’08 (on Parramatta River, near Wilde St Bridge)
6.30pm

A special night of Art Brut and Loops featuring:

- an introduction to Art Brut by Professor Colin Rhodes (Dean of Sydney College of the Arts and internationally recognised authority on Art Brut and outsider art).
-a visual journey through incredible outsider environments in France with Philip Hammial .
- poetry readings by Phil Hammial.
- two short documentary films about Henry Darger and the anarchitect, Richard Greaves.
- talk about machines in the Journals of Anthony Mannix by Gareth Jenkins.
- exhibition of Australian outsider art.
- audiovisual performances by Ian Andrews and The Loop Orchestra.
- a short experimental film by Rik Rue.
The Loop Orchestra will be launching their new split CD released in China with two Chinese artists and a Swedish artist.
MC: Brent Clough from Radio National.
TIME: 8 pm VENUE: Artspace 43-51 Cowper Wharf Rd, Woolloomooloo COST: $12/$10 concession

The Splinter Orchestra returns from its travels around NSW to the inner city where it has always lived. Don’t miss a rare Sydney gig by this unique large improvising ensemble.

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@serial space 33 Wellington St Chippendale $10 + 8

Formerly know as ‘Songlines’, Footbeat is a festival that celebrates the outstanding natural and cultural environment of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Region. The Festival is a journey, an exploration as much as a celebration of ‘Our Place’. Footbeat festival programs are both informative and celebratory. Our activities add value to the community and play a key role in the development of creative, innovative and accessible arts and environment events. The belief and commitment towards diversity and understanding unifies the vast program.

This closing night gig features some of the excellent Blue Mountains experimental musicians (Sun of the Seventh Sister, Stasis Duo, The Spiders) as well as The Splinter Orchestra and more

From 5pm
St Candice’s Hall
158 Katoomba St
Katoomba
Check out the Footbeat Festival website for more info.

For the third year the West Head Project will perform at the large flat tessellated rock on top of West Head in the Ku-ring-gai National Park. This is such a natural site for meeting and playing that people have probably been doing so for thousands of years, West Head Project continues that tradition. This group project continues an interest in searching for and enjoying performance spaces and acoustics outside of buildings. The context and time/spaces where music is created are crucial. The West Head Project aims tocreate a music appropriate to this specific time/space and hence WHP brings together some of Sydney’s finest improvisers for a spontaneous and site-specific event.
These players have been working together for over 7 years in the Splinter Orchestra and in various combinations associated with the NOW now. They have developed a unique methodology for large group improvisation. Over the last few years their interests and skills have developed for these outdoor events.
Performers: Jim Denley - wind instruments, Peter Farrar - alto sax, Monika Brooks - piano accordian, Robbie Avenaim - percussion. Matt Earle - guitar, electronics. Rory Brown - double bass. Joe Derrick - trumpet.
Where: WEST HEAD, Ku-ring-gai National Park - Elvina Track.
Suggested donation: $30 Full / $20 Concession.
Bookings: Places are limited! Phone Philippa @ NMN on 0411 606 077

The Splinter Orchestra continues its tour in Bathurst, for a one-off afternoon concert.

3pm @ Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre
105 William St
Bathurst

Click here for a map.

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The Splinter Orchestra is heading to Wagga Wagga for the first time, as part of an ambitious regional tour.

7pm @ Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
cnr Baylis & Morrow Street
WAGGA WAGGA NSW 2650

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Jim Denley (wodwinds, electronics) + Kim Myhr - Norway (acoustic guitar)

Adam Sussman + Martin Kirkwood - acoustic guitars.

Akemi, Great Western Highway, Medlow Bath

8pm. $8 + $5