1) Real Talk – The return of Micronations’ closer listening series hits The Waiting Room on Saturday 15 December. Anonymeye is launching a new EP, Automating is up from Melbourne and flogging a slew of new releases, and Micronations is making a nice concession to the summer party spirit with party jams from Green Nose and Brainbeau. More info here.

2) Monday Night Future Jazz Party – I’m programming a night of music at this great little weekly club night in West End in Brisbane. Headlining will be Subaqueous from the USA, with stellar local support from White Palms + Roku Music (new duo of Donnie/Innez, of No Anchor/Feathers/Pastel Blaze/Die On Planes/Tiny Spiders/Butcher Birds/etc/etc).  This show is unfortunately no longer proceeding.

Also looking to bring Frank Fairfield back to Australia in 2013 – so hopefully will have some news for you all in the new year.

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I’m DJing on Friday 28 September, playing some country/folk/rock’n'roll for three hours before/between/after sets by Suicide Swans and Dom Miller; and playing some r’n'b/electro/dirty south/hip hop on Saturday 29 September for three hours before/between/after sets by Collarbones and Outerwaves.

Also DJing are Blank Realm DJs (September 8), DJ Outerwaves (September 13), DJ Adam Scott [Undead Apes/Eat Laser Scumbag!] (September 20), and DJ Lame (September 27).

Check here for more info on each night!

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Further ahead, DJing at some of the upcoming Sonic Masala nights at The Waiting Room, and some more TBA.

Spent some time in the States recently looking at some acts to tour – hoping to get Frank Fairfield back to Australia in 2013. Also keep an eye out for the return of The Decline of Modern Civilisation in early 2013.

in BRISBANE, July 2012

THURSDAY 12 JULY
THE WAITING ROOM (11 Browning St, West End)
$10, 8pm
TALKSHOW BOY (Melbourne)
SCRAPS
FEET TEETH

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SATURDAY 14 JULY
THE WAITING ROOM (11 Browning St, West End)
$10, 8pm
NO ANCHOR
THE RATIONAL ACADEMY
ANONYMEYE VS AMBROSE CHAPEL

presented by NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA

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Those goodtime, high fivin’ supporters of Australian music, New Weird Australia, have launched a new project, Vagrant. Vagrant is a traveling gig series, a pop-up club-night with no fixed abode, an open-source platform for eclectic and experimental music.

Vagrant debuts in Brisbane in July over two nights, due to awesome coincidence, at the same venue. Programmed by Andrew Tuttle (Thursday 12th) and Ian Rogers (Saturday 14th), Vagrant’s inaugural Brisbane events bring a whole bunch of weird, wild and wooly Australian acts to The Waiting Room in West End. Have a squiz below for more information.

Rad poster design by Matt Deasy of 7th Disaster.

THURSDAY 12 JULY
THE WAITING ROOM
$10, 8PM

Talkshow Boy (Melbourne): http://talkshowboy.bandcamp.com/: Talkshow Boy, aka Adrian K-Sahara aka Adrian Trajstman aka the guy from Keith! Party who raps heaps, has been creating amazing hyperactive hard-pop for almost a decade now. Talkshow Boy is energy personified and magnified, with elements of the synthesised world coming together in a frenetic blur. Electro, hip-hop, and breakcore are but some of the reference points for Talkshow Boy, although as a man who laughs heartily at genre, whilst giving it the warmest and fuzziest of cuddles, you know you’re in for something special. Talkshow Boy has released several albums, but Brisbane audiences will know that Adrian particularly shines in the live arena. Over heaps of performances over the last few years, this unofficial cultural ambassador for the Sunshine State sings, screams, yells, dances, and parties with reckless abandon.

Scraps (Brisbane): https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scraps/: As Scraps, Brisbane’s Laura Hill creates melodic pop music that’s about as pure to the idea of a ‘good song’ as you can get nowadays. The Scraps live set is a lovely mix of humour, sincerity, the occasional awkward moment, and musical assuredness. Scraps is pretty much the essence of the DIY ethos, without the holier-than-thou argy-bargy. After way too long, Scraps has entered the world of recorded music, which is ace, as posterity is indeed a wise thing. A 12″ on Bedroom Suck, a 7″ on Disembraining, and some swell self-released CDRs should hopefully be at the ol’ merchandising table. http://www.myspace.com/sssscrapssss

Feet Teeth (Brisbane): http://feetteeth.com/: Feet Teeth are Joel, Paul, and Kate – three local darlings who together have managed to combine their love of textural sounds and incredible musical dexterity into something which is pretty wonderful. They make digitally mangled experimental free-jazz, with computer, trumpet, drum kit, electronics, marimba, commodore64 and other instruments. They’re also one of the few bands around that have chops, but aren’t smarmy jerks about it. Yet another reason to go see them live. Good vibes? Check. Good sounds? Check. Thumbs up to Feet Teeth!

SATURDAY 14 JULY
THE WAITING ROOM
$10, 8PM

No Anchor (www.noanchorband.com) Brisbane’s most popular drone-doom-sludge-noise band (also Brisbane’s only drone-doom-sludge-noise band) return for their last show of 2012. Bass player / vocalist Ian Rogers heading to Europe in July and thus the band is going on ‘gig-hiatus’ until March 2013. So this is it: the last chance to hear this mess of a band for the year. And if that were not enough (it is often enough), they will be previewing a few new songs.

The Rational Academy (https://www.facebook.com/therationalacademy) This Brisbane four-piece may be the only black metal avant-pop supergroup on planet Earth. Loved by lonely teenagers and brain-damaged record collectors alike, these guys have been plugging away forever and never get their due. They are due a giant gold blimp, trailing the words THE RATIONAL ACADEMY ARE BETTER THAN YOU behind it. But life is bullshit, so it never happens.

Anonymeye VS Ambrose Chapel Total half-assed dog-shit played by two guys who couldn’t even get a gig if they weren’t so supernaturally attractive. http://www.icq.com/

Vagrant is a New Weird Australia project, assisted by the Australia Council For The Arts.

Also! Sign up to the Micronations mailing list for more info.

Micronations is extremely excited to present the return of an irregular series of music, Real Talk. Real Talk, which sauntered into being in 2011, is a relatively relaxed event compared to its Micronations sibling/BFF-series ‘The Decline Of Modern Civilisation’, focusing on exploratory, abstract, minimal, beautiful and otherwise wonderfully sitdown-ish sounds from throughout Australia and across the globe. Real Talk will guide your ears and eyes through a radical and diverse vortex of awesome. Real Talk.

The first Real Talk night of 2012 once features a well overdue return of a musical expatriate wonder, and some of Brisbane’s most loved innovative musicians. Real Talk.

Real Talk: Brain Drain (Sydney) + Do The Robot + Primitive Motion
Thursday 12 April, 2012
The Waiting Room (11 Browning St, West End, Brisbane)
$7, 8pm.

Brain Drain: Brain Drain is the musical alter-ego of Sydney residing, otherwise globetrotting, and erstwhile Brisbane lad Adam McFillin. Brain Drain’s beautiful minimalist-via-pop pieces straddle the divide between structure and improvisation, often revelling in the contrast between the two. McFillin’s primarily guitar-driven pieces centre around creating both mood and rhythm through loops and using this repetition as a foundation on which to improvise. A follow up to Brain Drain’s debut self titled cassette release will be launched for Brisbane audiences at Real Talk. http://braindrain.bandcamp.com/

Do The Robot: Deasy squared are joined at the hip and tied by the shoelaces, with enigmatic lips sealed tight. Their intimate live shows gently coax the audience towards the rocks with their haunting charms before smashing you asunder with some deftly timed walls of noise. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Do-The-Robot

Primitive Motion: With lyrics cut from dated astronomy texts & ping pong vocal rounds soaked in reverb, Primitive Motion (Leighton Craig & Sandra Selig) create their own brand of spontaneous, steam-driven electronic pop. Their moves recall Joe Jones’ readymades, Joe Meek’s I Hear a New World & the minimalism of The Door and Window, as preset keyboard, voices and cosmic flute intersect with machine / human beat systems across the four songs on Certain Materials. http://kindlingrecords.blogspot.com.au/

Mixes from the Micronations mix series (www.micronationstours.com) before/between/after sets.

I hope you’re all having a wonderful 2011 wind-down period… thought I’d get in touch to wrap up the Micronations 2011 adventure (with some insights and highlights) to thank you for all of your support and adventures.

Tours and events: As in previous years, Micronations presented national tours and Brisbane and Melbourne events for an incredibly wide array of music. Highlights this year included an epic and hugely successful debut Australian tour of mind-blowing Californian folk musician Frank Fairfield (see the tour page for press, pics, audio and video from the tour!), the return of Micronations’ party nights ‘The Decline Of Modern Civilisation’ (with sets from Captain Ahab (USA), Molliger (reunion show), Keith! Party, The Fancy Boys, STAG, DJ Lame and HEAPS more), and the inaugural ‘Real Talk’ closer listening series in Brisbane and Melbourne (sets from Anonymeye, Time Shield, Ben Byrne, Brain Drain, Scraps and other fine guests).

Other great one-offs included a Brisbane style 30th birthday party for the iconic Flying Nun label, Neon Mountain – a collaboration with Brisbane Festival’s Under The Radar with sets from Qua, Fabio Umberto and Dot.AY), and an Anonymeye album launch in Melbourne in October. Special thanks to Brisbane Festival, dualpLOVER, Avantwhatever and Flying Nun/A Low Hum for co-presenting shows/bringing out some touring artists, to the live acts/DJs for playing, to venues/bookers/etc, to radio/online/print media, and to those who came along to the shows!

Mix series: The Micronations mix series is just the ticket for end of year and holiday listening – with around ten mixes on the site, ranging from chipsounds to solo guitar to post-punk to dancecore to exploratory sounds to psychedelia to neo-goth to chilled beats – something for everyone. Mixes from Anonymeye, Yair Yona, Talkshow Boy, Raven (FourPlay, FBi FM), Francis Plagne, Dot.AY, DJ Lame and more! There’ll be more mixes in the new year, so stay tuned to www.micronationstours.com

DJ: DJ Micronations sets at the Hangar, Frankly! @ Brisbane Powerhouse and Out the Back @ Metro Arts, and B.A.S.S sets at The Decline Of Modern Civilisation and Super Pocket Music. Always keen to DJ – hit up www.micronationstours.com for bookings!

Anyway, that’s plenty for now. Again, thanks for such a wonderful 2011 from Micronations! Stay tuned for some exciting national happenings in 2012, and to Brisbane folk, some special Brisbane only treats.

Many thanks,

Andrew Tuttle / Micronations

www.micronationstours.com – tour info, blog, mix series

Andrew

There’s been some great press on Frank in Australia, including in/on Radio National (The Music Show), The Australian, PBS FM, Rave Magazine, Inpress, and Drum Media. Will upload links throughout the next week. Keep an eye out for features and live sets on/in the Sydney Morning Herald, Radio National (Music Deli), RRR FM, and Time Off.

Also, some info on upcoming shows…

• Tuesday 13 December: Cronulla: Brass Monkey with The Singing Skies + Spookyland (solo). Tickets on sale now through oztix and at the venue. $17+bf, $20 on the door. 7:30pm.

• Wednesday 14 December: Sydney: The Basement, with 49 Goodbyes + Jefrey Siler. Tickets on sale now through moshtix. $20+bf, $25 on the door if available. 7:30pm.

• Thursday 15 December: Brisbane: Syncretism @ Judith Wright Centre, with Ryan Francesconi [USA]. Tickets on sale now. (co-presentation with ROOM40). 8-10pm sharp. SOLD OUT. No more tickets will be made available. Go to the Gold Coast show instead!
  

• Friday 16 December: Gold Coast: The SoundLounge, with Laneway + Anonymeye [Brisbane]: Tickets on sale now online through the venue. $17+bf, $20 on the door if available. 7:30pm.

• Saturday 17 December: Melbourne: Gasometer, with Khancoban + The Orbweavers + Anonymeye [Brisbane]. Tickets on sale now through oztix. $15+bf, $20 on the door if available. 8:00pm. Selling fast!

• Sunday 18 December: Blackwood: The Blackwood Acoustic Music Revue, with The Flying Engine String Band + special guests. 3pm, $10, door sales only. (co-presentation with oldtimepromotions)

FRANK FAIRFIELD from More Dust Than Digital on Vimeo.