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photo by Chris Walter

The summer edition of St Kilda’s infamous A Day By The Green gig at St Kilda Bowlo sees a return to a 10-band format and also features it’s first ever international guests!

Tex Napalm and Dimi Dero will grace the stage on the day which also features the superb Digger and the Pussycats for the first time!

Emceed by the Triple R’s Biggsy of On The Blower Fame .

Don’t miss your chance to revel in the rock!

Doors open at 3pm and tickets are availableat 66 Fitzroy St, St Kilda Bowls Club.

3pm – DOORS

3.30pm – The Originals

4.20pm – Seedy Jeezus

5.10pm – Tex Napalm, Dimi Dero & Brian Hooper

6pm  – Bugdust

6.50pm – Digger & The Pussycats

7.40pm –  Fiona Lee Maynard & Her Holy Men

8.30pm – The Dukes of Deliciousness

9.20pm – The Fuck Fucks

9.50pm – Drawing for Door Prize

10.10pm – Cold Harbour

11pm  – Spencer P.Jones & The Escape Committee

The Controllers are thrilled to present the first single ‘Twins,’ to be launched 13 December at the Brunswick Hotel, 140 Sydney Road, Brunswick from 9pm with Among Giants, Squarehead and Chop Squad.– Free Entry!

‘Twins’ is the tale of two twins – one virtuous, one slightly tarnished and a decision between duty and desire, which is reflected in the design on the single cover by up and coming Melbourne artist Madison Griffiths.

The Controllers count Against Me!, Refused, The Audition, Comeback Kid and Chick Corea as their musical influences and drummer Kieran recently won Australia’s Best Up and Coming Drummer Competition, $3000 worth of prizes and sponsorship from Pearl, Zildjian, Remo and Vic Firth.

Bassist Ben Tyler and drummer Kieran Rafferty met at the tender age of 8 years while attending Grade 3 at Haileybury College and were instant best mates, sharing the common bond of musicality and of both of their mums teaching at the school.

Enter new kid Zac Connelly (guitars/vocals), who came to the school in Year 7 (2007) and was classified as a ‘jock’ rather than a ‘muso.’ like Kieran and Ben.

As it happens, the school was putting on a battle of the bands and Zac, Ben and Kieran were put into a band with 3 other classmates. The band then consisted of 3 bad guitarists, one bad drummer, a mediocre singer, one good drummer and a good bassist.

After much shuffling and many reformations a 4-piece band called Happy Accidents was formed. They went on to win multiple school battles of the bands and a couple of Freeza events. But eventually all things must pass, and at 16, Happy Accidents disbanded to concentrate on completing school.

Fast forward to NOW and at the age of 19 and fresh out of high school, Zac, Ben and Kieran have reformed as The Controllers with a more mature sound and a musical sensibility that belies their tender years.

‘Twins’ is the first single to be lifted from their forthcoming debut 5 song EP and it’s sitting at #17 on the overall charts and #5 on the rock charts on Triple J’s unearthed page. You can download ‘Twins’ here:
www.triplejunearthed.com/TheControllers

ARCHER MAGAZINE LAUNCH PARTY – MELBOURNE

Thursday 28 November 2013

7pm

St Heliers Street Gallery
Abbotsford Convent, Collingwood

ARCHER MAGAZINE IS THE NEW AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SEXUAL DIVERSITY

Started in Melbourne by journalist and editor, Amy Middleton (The Bulletin, Australian Geographic, Rolling Stone), this intelligent new print mag is unlike anything the Australian media has seen before.

A biannual collection of writing and photography, Archer aims to capture Australia’s attitudes to sexual diversity at the time of publication.

The magazine’s crowd-funding campaign through Pozible raised a staggering $20,000 for the first print edition, which makes its debut at the launch.

The first issue of Archer features a challenging new piece from Christos Tsiolkas (author of international bestseller The Slap and 2013’s Barracuda) about the adult desire for youth.

Christos is joined by 11 other Australian writers covering topics such as:

* The transgender experience
* Sex and censorship in Australian film
* Austrailans against same-sex marriage
* The changing face of the Aussie bloke
* Why straight sex is just as ‘queer’ as queer sex

Articles are adorned by images from a host of emerging and established contemporary photographers from across the country.

“Each issue of Archer will date quickly in terms of commentary and photography, leaving behind a relic of the sexual equality movement” 
– Editor Amy Middleton

“I’m excited about Archer, I think the more publications there are that challenge us to think imaginatively about sexuality, sex and gender, the better”
– Christos Tsiolkas (author of The Slap)

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ARCHER LAUNCH – MELBOURNE

Official proceedings 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Party proceedings 9:00pm – 11:00pm

featuring

Live life drawing by Michael Hawkins

Readings from Archer Magazine by Dr Lauren Rosewarne + Aram Hosie

Q&A for the more vocal among us

Meet and greet with founding editor, Amy Middleton

Dancefloor courtesy of DJ Kira Puru

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Mango Groove are hugely excited to announce their long awaited return to Australia and their inaugural visit to New Zealand!

The following shows have been confirmed:

Friday 21 February – Red Hill Auditorium, Perth
Tickets: www.mangogrooveaustralia.com.au or www.oztix.com.au

Sunday 23 February – Forum Theatre, Melbourne
Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com.au

Tuesday 25 February – Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland
Tickets: www.ticketmaster.co.nz

Friday 28 February – Big Top Sydney, Luna Park (Sydney)
Tickets: www.mangogrooveaustralia.com.au or www.ticketmaster.com.au

Saturday 1 March – Eatons Hill Hotel, Brisbane
Tickets: www.mangogrooveaustralia.com.au or www.oztix.com.au

Tuesday 4 March – Norwood Concert Hall, Adelaide
Tickets: www.mangogrooveaustralia.com.au or www.venuetix.com.au

Mango Groove’s lead singer Claire Johnston said, ‘’Wow, I can’t tell you how excited we are about this tour. This is huge for us and coincides with a special anniversary as 2014 is the year we as South Africans celebrate 20 years of democracy: a momentous achievement for our country. It seems fitting we will also be taking the party abroad!’’

Founding member John Leyden agrees: ‘’Ja, this is going to be a very important tour for us. We really hope to see a lot of South Africans at the show, as well as those Australians and New Zealanders who have become familiar with our music through the years.”

Formed in 1984, Mango Groove burst onto the South African scene where their unique blend of township jive and pop has sold over a million albums, charting 12 Number 1 hits and winning every conceivable award on offer in South Africa. They are the only local band to remain at the top of the South African sales charts for over a year.

Performance highlights of their career include:

Freddie Mercury Tribute telecast

Hong Kong reunification concert

Montreux Jazz Festival

Paris SOS Racism concert

Nelson Mandela’s presidential inauguration

Fronted by the inimitable Claire Johnston, who for many years was the voice of South African rugby, the band features many distinctly South African rhythms and sounds including pennywhistle and marimba. Their music takes the traditional township styles of marabi, kwela and mbaqanga and fuses them beautifully with modern pop rhythms to form an upbeat, eminently danceable mix.

Mango Groove’s entire 11 piece band will roll out a back catalogue heavy with hits for this tour, including Dance Sum More, Hellfire, Special Star, Pennywhistle, Hometalk, Moments Away, Tsa-oo!, Another Country, Bang the Drum and many more.

Mango Groove Australia 2014 Facebook Page at http://on.fb.me/HV3lMz

For full tour details: www.mangogrooveaustralia.com.au

For more information, interviews, images and sounds please contact Ashley Sambrooks: ash@showoffrecordings.com | 0404 596 299 Karen Conrad: Karen@karenconradpublicity.com | 0400 527 365