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Introducing Callum

 

Brothers and sisters,

Join us as we welcome multi-instrumentalist and travelling snake oil salesman Callum with his dusky debut album – 8 songs, self produced and mixed by Wayne Killbourne at Out of Tunes Studios.

 

Containing seven new songs written by Callum and friends, including the dark and somber “Misty Forests” and featuring Ollie Dear (Perch Creek Family Jug Band) on lead guitar and backing vocals on a remix of an ancient field song “Lower On The Hog.” “Kool Aid” darkly references the Jonestown Massacre with an eerie gypsy music influence that Callum picked up in Prague.

 

Callum was raised and home-schooled by a priest in a devotedly religious household and moved around Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Europe as many as sixty times before settling in Melbourne in the musical hub known as St Kilda. As a result of the hustle and bustle of his travelling childhood, he has picked up influences from everywhere and created a provocative brand of rocking swamp-country blues with a psychedelic edge.

 

Callum’s travels saw him becoming involved the underground party scene in Sydney, enmeshed in the Kruezburg music scene in Berlin and dabbling in the mystic and spiritual lifestyle of the mountain healers in the Central Highlands.  He also lived in the infamous George Building in St Kilda, while playing in the late night music club/pub scene.

 

With a long history of spiritual channeling and outer body experiences bought on by shamanic practices, Callum said, “I have no doubt that I am not the source of my music; rather that I serve as a conduit for other great spirits and the sacred energy that challenges and unifies us through the dark magic of sound.”

 

Poignant vocals with country harmonies and up-tempo distorted blues guitar create a Robert Johnson meets Led Zeppelin twang. Callum also indexes Creedence Clearwater Revival and Neil Young as inspiration behind his atmospheric sound.

 

Although Callum is an up-and-comer in the gig rotation around town he has some reputable experiences under his belt supporting well known artists such as The Resignators at The Bridge in Castlemaine and Hugo Race of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds fame at Pure Pop Records.

 

Jackson Rowe, the grandson of Roger Kemp, one of Australia’s foremost practitioners of transcendental abstraction, recorded and directed Callum’s freshmen film clip “Misty Forest,” a frame-by-frame art-deco arrangement.

 

iTunes launched Callum’s self-titled debut album on March 31^st. Visit iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/misty-forests/id855277885?i=855277910

View the freshman film clip “Misty Forest” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx4wT4u0CvY

 

 

 

Basement Discs celebrates Indie Record Store Day Saturday 19th April from 11am til closing time with a day of music, trivia and special treats for patrons!  Don’t  miss celebrating with Eagle & The Worm, Georgia Fields, Mike Rudd, Jen Cloher and celebrity trivia masters Ian Bland and Neil Rogers (of Triple RRR fame).  There will be light refreshments prizes, giveaways and heaps of fun – so come celebrate with you!r friends downstairs in The Basement – Suzanne, Rod, Pat and Stuart!

 

 

The City of Yarra is pleased to announce the second annual  ‘Leaps and Bounds Music Festival’

Named for the iconic and beloved Paul Kelly song, Leaps and Bounds Music Festival pays homage to the largest live gigging precinct in Australia – the City of Yarra.

Following an incredibly successful year in 2013, Leaps and Bounds will run from Friday 4 – Sunday 20 July 2014 and over 40 traditional venues from The Corner Hotel (the largest venue in the area) to Longplay (one of the smallest) will be involved.

The emphasis of the festival is local – local performers and local audiences – while also honouring those that come to live and perform in the area from places far and wide.

The collaboration with the Gertrude Street Projection Festival which opens on Friday 18 July will again return over the last weekend of Leaps & Bounds.

Events are that are returning in 2014 include :

– Yarra Songs at The Yarra with Jon Von Goes

– Bus Tours with Bruce Milne through iconic sites in Yarra

– PBSFM Live to Air with David Heard – Yarra’s Citizen of the Year

– Aarght Records and The Bird Club presents 3 Sunday afternoons in July at pop up music venue Copacabana

– Push Freeza Summit – Music Industry Training and Information for young people at Fitzroy Town Hall

– Music Victoria Panels – One panel on funding advice for the music industry, and one focused on the hard rock/metal genre

New events this year include :

– Charles Jenkins presenting a night of songs about the history of Melbourne at The Fitzroy Reading Room

– Leaps and Bounds Venue Passport – pick it up at your local venue and get it stamped when you attend gigs for special rewards and prizes

– Music Industry Open Day – 20 music businesses to open their doors to the public to see the ins and outs of what happens within the industry in Yarra

– Ramblin Dan Brodie – Dan will play 6 of the smallest venues in Yarra across the 17 days of the festival

– Living Legends Series – a series of shows dedicated to iconic musicians that live and work within the City Of Yarra

Leaps and Bounds Music Festival is proudly presented by City of Yarra, Music Victoria & PBS 106.7FM with the support of the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation.

 

 The Major Bruce Sessions: Volume 1

Like a Prayer by Madonna

Wednesday 19 March at 6.30pm (doors open at 6pm)

Ruby’s Music Room: 132 Lt. Lonsdale Street Melbourne

Tickets: $25 on the door, or $20 online

http://www.trybooking.com/74978

 

Maverick music theatre-makers the Present Tense Ensemble re-imagine Like a Prayer by Madonna as part of The Major Bruce Sessions: Volume 1, a monthly residency at Ruby’s Music Room.

 

Selling 15 million albums world-wide and defining a generation, Like a Prayer is as iconic as Madonna herself. Her own constant struggle with Catholicism runs rampant through this brutally honest record. With sophisticated arrangements, deeply felt lyrics, and a strong assured vocal line, Like a Prayer is the quintessential pop album.

 

Like a Prayer features the star of Chants Des Catacombes Anna Boulic on vocals and harp accompanied by Mark Leahy of The Twoks, Nate Gilkes on piano and a barbershop quartet featuring Aaron Holland, David McNamara, Morgan Phillips and Jack Swann.

 

The performance will capture the hallmarks of the Present Tense ensemble: glorious vocal arrangements and impulsive live performances led by Nate Gilkes, sitting at a sensational Steinway piano.

 

Bookings:

http://www.trybooking.com/74978

GALAXY NOW.  A SARA THORN PROJECT 1983-2014

The Galaxy Now project brings to life the fashion/art crossover work of  Sara Thorn and Bruce Slorach produced in Melbourne from 1983-1994.

Their labels Sara Thorn, Abyss Studio, Galaxy emporium, Funkessentials were synonymous with fashion as culture, textile, print, pattern as a form of communication.

The Galaxy Now project looks at what is the legacy of this work now. How can it have a conversation with the present?

Sara Thorn looks back at her work in the spirit of timeless self expression through film, exhibition, pop up shop , collaborations with
a new generation of creative’s connecting Melbourne’s sub cultures
and creativity.

Exhibition

The exhibition/pop up Galaxy Now at Fort Delta Gallery is part of the Virgin Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program. On for 4 days during Virgin Melbourne Fashion Festival from Thursday 13 – Sunday 16 March at Fort Delta.

The opening Wed March 12, 6- 9 pm offers prizes for the best Abyss/Galaxy outfits.The film Galaxy Now will be previewed during the exhibition.

The Exhibition will be partly pop up shop selling original archival clothing and accessories from 1984 -1993 offered for the first time in over 20 years, and showcase original photographs by photographers such as Kate Gollings, Poly Borland and Andrew Lehman, art work and ephemera juxtaposed to recent
photos and film shot through the
eyes of a new generation of contemporary artists, new music
& a preview of recent fashion pieces created in the inspiration of how Sara worked under the Sara Thorn Project with new prints.

Film

The film Galaxy Now, a collaboration between Thorn and Sally Tabart sets about capturing the spirit of Melbourne in the early 80’s where fashion, art & escaping into club land was a way of life, how has this changed? Part original footage with new experimental film, interviews by punters, academics and personalities, the film like the exhibition will fuse the present with the past capturing creativity, pattern and interactions with the clothing and energy. The Soundtrack will feature the music of Oscar Key Sung, and footage by Willow Darling. The film will run throughout the exhibition.

http://www.sarathorn.com.au

http://www.facebook.com/galaxynow

http://willowdarling.com/GALAXY
Part of the Melbourne Fashion Festival

Http://www.vamff.com.au/events/culturalprogram/cultural-program-events/pop-ups/galaxy-now-a-sara-thorn-projec/

 

 

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