Badminton Bandit & Coastal Shelf invite you to: GALLERIA

Sunday 8 January 2012
Galleria, 55 Wittenoon St, East Perth 6004

An evening of music, reading and healthy eating.

Music by: Jane Harris (GER), Craig McElhinney (VIC), Rabbit Island (ALB) and Traianos Pakioufakis (DJ).

Badminton Bandit post-chrissy record sale and re-hang of Mystery Meats screen-prints by James Doohan.

The Coastal Shelf franchise opens its latest outlet in the Galleria foyer, boasting the best spread of art and design books on the west coast.

Plus some delicious veggie treats to help us pay the rent. Bring a new friend.

Facebook event here.


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Rabbit Island Jay and Silent

Hi Kristy. Today you're with a Serbian, planting things in the garden. Last night I was at Leonie's house. There was a party, and everyone* was there. There was music playing in the backyard, real music, from your computer, and from a guitar and a woman's voice and an amplifier. There was two parts of the band Astral Travel. The girlwoman singing has the same name as me, but she has a very very beautiful and very very big voice and she has made perfect songs and they remind me of everything good about music and especially sonic youth for some reason, although there's only a few songs of theirs I know properly in my heart, and her boyfriend was drumming right behind all the beats with a little ponytail, and they played a song which I knew was a cover but I didn't know what it was and then Sharky was walking towards me on the driveway and said some sort of thing like "Did you know The Boss wrote that song?" and I didn't know but then it all made sense and he continued "For Patti Smith?".

And then beautiful Kenta played, and I had been looking at his arms earlier in the night, very beautiful, and he and Matt and Will made fast music which was all played just right and very loud so Kiirti had to take Diipeche up further on the driveway and I was wearing a children's suit either from the television show Dinotopia or Power Rangers depending on who was talking to me, and then we watched an amazing slideshow and Mark and Kenta were sitting either side of me, and Emlyn was standing behind me or sitting on my lap and all the photos were taken by Leonie's ratpack father, or of him, and every photo was like a beautiful dream and I really honestly couldn't tell if it was a dream or not, and even now I'm not quite sure if it was or not, and who would have guessed that Perth once had a theme park called Atlantis?

And tall bronzed women in golden bikini suits and scalloped Roman skirts, and riding on chariots pulled by donkeys, and giant seals which seemed too large to be real and someone had a story about the golden women riding on the dolphins in the water, one foot each on two dolphins and holding reins no doubt, and lubed up and wet for the water and riding and riding through the eighties into a new day dawning where the Opera House is fully constructed, and Greece doesn't look the same, and no men's socks are pulled up high like all those men we saw in all those slides and no-one's ever quite as bronzed as all that.

Mental Powers Homoh 12" Launch

(Holy) Thursday 21st April
The Bird

with:
Kurbist Gong Band
Healing Crystal Meth
Rok Riley


Facebook event here.


















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Rabbit Island Oh God Come Quick Album Launch

Friday 25th March
The Bakery

with:
Sarah Chadwick (Batrider)
Allbrook, Avery and Co. (Pond, the Growl)
Bamodi
Lil Leonie Lionheart (VIC)
Solar Barge
Gilbert Fawn

Entry includes a copy of the CD album
























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Mental Powers Homoh 12" Tour 2011

VIC

Friday 18 February
Yah Yahs, 99 Smith St, Fitzroy
with Free Choice Duo and Jonny Telafone
$8 / 8pm - late

Saturday 19 February
Goodtime Studios, Basement, 746 Swanston Street, Carlton
with David Egan (WA), Young Romantix, Asps, Gilbert Fawn and Michael Ozone. $5 / 8pm - late


NSW

Friday 25 February
Black Wire Records, Annandale
with Holy Balm and Palmists
$5 / 7-10pm

Saturday 26 February
Croatian Club, Newcastle
with Alps (LP launch), Bare Grillz, In The Dollhouse, Athol and Atlas Room
$10 / 7-11.30pm

Sunday 27 February
Vox Cyclops, Newcastle
with David Egan (WA), Cock Safari and Wine Sleaze
2:30pm


Gilbert Fawn Tour 2011

Friday 18 February
Sunshine and Grease 9 Queens Parade, Clifton Hill
with David Egan (WA)
6pm - 8pm

Saturday 19 February
Goodtime Studios, Basement, 746 Swanston Street, Carlton
with Mental Powers, David Egan (WA), Young Romantix, Asps and Michael Ozone. $5 / 8pm - late

















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Pond Greens Pool 7" Tour 2011

Saturday 12 February
Camp A Low Hum | WELLINGTON
Tickets from Camp A Low Hum

Tuesday 15 February
Goodgod Small Club | SYDNEY
with Art Rush & The New Termites
Tickets from Moshtix

Wednesday 16 February
East Brunswick Club | MELBOURNE
with Twerps and The Cuckoos
Tickets from Corner Hotel

Thursday 3 March
Beach Hotel | BYRON BAY
with MGMT
Tickets from Moshtix

Tuesday 8 March
The Palace | MELBOURNE
with MGMT
Tickets from Ticket Master

Thursday 10 March
The Enmore | SYDNEY
with MGMT
Tickets from Ticketek