August 2010
10 posts
Past Shows: Castanets (Portland, OR)
On January 2, we welcome Portland Oregon’s Castanets (Asthmatic Kitty) for Over Ambition #6. Here promoting his fifth record, ‘Texas Rose, the Thaw, and the Beasts’, Ray Raposa will bring his weirdly wonderful brand of dark folk to The Troubadour. He’s joined by American slow-core ‘basement soul’ collective Tiger Saw, Novocastrian popscapist Alps and local psych-folk...
Past Shows: Vampillia (Osaka)
Osaka’s Vampillia (coined the ‘The Brutal Orchestra’) appear at The Club House, Friday 18 December, presented by Making Hey. Fresh off tour with Jarboe (ex-Swans), the collective’s second Australian appearance comes in support of highly anticipated debut full-length Sppears, released on iscollagecollective. Sppears comes hot on the heels of the acclaimed 09 EP Romance, a collaboration with Tujiko...
Past Shows: Tiny Vipers (Portland, OR)
Seattle’s Tiny Vipers – or Jesy Fortino as she’s known to friends – heads ‘Over Ambition #5’, Saturday October 3 at The Troubadour, presented by Making Hey and Half Back Flank. Fortino’s first ever Brisbane performance comes in support of new LP, Life on Earth, her second release on Sub Pop/Stomp. Creating and performing the music for her new album with a singular approach, Life on Earth is...
Past Shows: Alps (Newcastle)
The fourth in Making Hey’s “Over Ambition” series celebrates the launch of two new releases from a couple of the most exciting and gritty lo-fi pop acts from around these parts, with Newcastle’s Alps introducing Alps of New South Whales, and Brisbane’s own Kitchen’s Floor finally taking the wraps off long-awaited debut LP Loneliness is a Dirty Mattress. This instalment comes...
Past Shows: Vampillia (Osaka)
Osaka’s Vampillia (or ‘The Brutal Orchestra’ as they’ve been dubbed) heads number three in Making Hey’s ‘Over Ambition’ series, Wednesday April 29, at the Step Inn. The collective’s first ever Australian appearance comes in the lead-up to the long anticipated release of Romance, a collaboration with Tujiko Noriko, and emperor of noise, Merzbow.
Combining classical music with hardcore-noise...
Past Shows: Grouper (Portland, OR)
In what promises already to be one of 2009’s must-see live shows Portland’s Grouper—or Liz Harris as she’s known to friends—heads number two in Making Hey’s ‘over ambition’ series, Saturday March 7 at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art. Harris’s appearance comes in support of her latest full-length Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill (released on Type), which has pulled rank in...
Past Shows: Mystic Eyes (Perth)
Has the distinct lack of noise gigs post-Festivus been getting you down? Well chin up fancy-face! Returning to our fine city for the first time since featuring in Rhys Catham’s ‘100 Guitars’, Perth’s queen of drone, Mystic Eyes (aka Lisa MacKinney), is set to lead an all-star local line-up Thursday 22nd at the Step Inn.
She’ll be joined by noise jammers, Secret Birds; doom beasts of the deep, No...
Past Shows: ii (Melb)
It’s tough to kick out the improvised jams, and at the same time maintain a balance between edginess and accessibility, but not if your name is Jon Tjhia or Alex Nosek and you’re part of Melbourne ambient pop duo, ii (pronounced ‘eye-eye’).
Collaborators for over seven years, adlibbing instrumental pieces that tread the more lovable regions of pop seems to come as naturally to these two as...
Past Shows: The Ghost of 29 Megacycles (Perth)
SOUNDS LIKE A HAUNTING
Perth-based performance art collective, The Ghost of 29 Megacycles, is set to expand minds in Brisbane when they float in on June 7th, en route on national tour. This follows the release of the group’s new EP, 10000 Flying Girls, a work mastered by New York minimalist, Taylor Dupree, and out through Frosty You Haunt Me.
TG29MC’s live show is a breathtaking AV experience....
Past Shows: Vialka (FR)
FASTER THAN THE MUSIC
Vialka are part of a diminishing breed of bands whose art closely imitates life. This currently France-based nomadic duo has been traversing the globe, touring through over forty-five countries, averaging one-hundred shows per year for the past seven years (you do the math). And now Vialka are once more gracing Australian shores.
As if the duo’s prolific schedule wasn’t...