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  • STILL WANNA BE A RABBIT
    Presented at Quilt Room, Trades Hall as part of Melbourne Fringe 2022 from Thursday the 6th to Sunday the 9th of October. Over the course of Yumi Umiumare career they have continued to define their performance sensibilities as both steeped in the ancientness of Butoh and Physical Theatre- as much as being obsessed with the…
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  • SCOLD’S BRIDLE
    Presented at The Butterfly Club as part of Melbourne Fringe 2022, from Monday the 3rd to Sunday the 9th of October. Scold’s Bridle- was a draconian implement used to torture, degrade and silence women. Akin to something from the dark ages- it is from this metaphoric title, that this contemporary performance begins. With Frankly holding…
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  • JAGGED LITTLE PILL
    For a certain generation, the music of Alanis Morissette is forever etched into a collective angst filled consciousness, and in Jagged Little Pill the memory of such music comes flooding back in giddy waves.  Introduced first to the all- American Healy family by Mary Jane Healy (played by Natalie Bassingthwaighte)- recording their annual Christmas message. From here…
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  • RAPTURE: BATHTUB EDITION
    Moria Finucane aside from a national treasure, possesses a rare gift that many others could only dream of holding in their own hands. It’s an ability to draw audiences in, holding them captive until the very last moments of a performance, and in Rapture: Bathtub Edition, we are once again reminded of this. Powerful, enigmatic and…
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  • HYDRA
    “The world has changed. There’s no fresh water and machines have taken all the jobs.”- this is Hydra, the latest work by award the winning Melbourne collective Double Water Sign and written by Rachel Perks and directed by Bridget Balodis. You may be familiar with the work of this company through previous productions Ground Control (2016) and Moral Panic (2018), like…
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08/11/2017

THE LADIES LOUNGE

  Many of us were introduced to this creative juggernaut through a band,that left a mark on the Australian music scene with their in your face, take no prisoners, dirty as fuck pop-rock. The band in question is of course, Machine Gun Fellatio, whom rose to fame in a new wave of Australian indie music not too long ago,…
PERFORMANCE
06/11/2017

TETSUYA UMEDA

Japan’s master artist of sonic visual sensations, Tetsuya Umeda creates dynamic environments with architectural structures, sound and light. His mesmerising and surprising performances produce intricate soundscapes and musical compositions through live experiments with everyday tools and scraps, re-purposed machines and electronics. Umeda’s site-specific installation employs found domestic objects, transformed from their daily familiarity into a transcendent spectacle of…
MUSIC
03/11/2017

I SEE RED

They were the band that brought to the world such hits as Six Months in a Leaky Boat, Message to My Girl and I See Red. Their music defined an era. Split Enz rose to fame and continued to stay on top of the charts for many years. In 2017 and in continuation of the legacy left by this group, ENZO…
MUSIC
01/11/2017

THE LIGHT WITHIN

  Saray Iluminado takes Sevdah and Sephardic music forward, by rigorously and poetically investigating and taking it right back to the times when the musical genres were played privately among family members. In these times past, songs were sung to ease the spirit within, to utter the unspeakable. Though despite their haunting beauty, these were once…
MUSIC
31/10/2017

BETTER & LESSER

Better & Lesser are a group of 6 emerging designers: Solange Ting, Emily Licen, Steph Schafer, Lucinda Houghton, Gautam Kapoor and Lucy Dickinson. This collective was formed as a way to present their graduate collections on their own terms, as well as address some of their critiques on the fast fashion industry. It took place…
FASHION
31/10/2017

AUSTRALIAN CELEBRITY

Dressed in uniform black, Tha Paranas take to the stage, their instruments set up beneath hanging cardboard cutout stars and a large crescent moon with a cartoon face. Drummer Bec Matthews scats while the band closes their opening song, and she introduces cabaret provocateur and powerhouse Yana Alana, the hilarious alter ego of Sarah Ward. Yana…
PERFORMANCE
31/10/2017

ST KILDA’S ALRIGHT

Fred Negro is St Kilda’s undisputed king of rock’n’roll. Having enjoyed a career in the music and visual art world for close to 40 years, Negro is a living legend in his own right. More than any other musician,  he has helped put St Kilda on the map as a thriving live music scene. Focusing…
FILM MUSIC
30/10/2017

EQUALITY NOW

It’s incredible to think that in 2017 and in a country such as Australia, there are sections of our community that are still fighting for the same rights that the vast majority can happily take for granted. It was John Howard back in 2004 who changed the Marriage Act to include the definition of marriage…
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