gigs :: Upper Hutt Posse in Australia!
Where: Ding Dong Lounge, Level 1/18 Market Lane, Chinatown, Melbourne
Who: Combat Wombat, Upper Hutt Posse, Uber Lingua DJs + Ngaatahi: Know The Links rapumentary screening
Cost: $12 full/$10 conc
Big ups to Dialect-ic friends VulgarGrad who are playing at Club Spiegel (at the Spiegeltent) for the next fiveSundays. It's a late start (11.30), but for $5 you get two sets ofVulgarGrad plus all the other crazy stuff that goes on in there (whoknows?). So even if you miss the first one (this Sunday, October 22),you can still catch the next 4.
Filastine in an alley post-show, kind of dirty, w/ rare flamethrower attachment.
"Some of the people living in the [Kakuma] camp, such as the “lost boys” of Sudan have been there for ten years." (caption&photo courtesy Senator Amanda Vanstone)
If you only watch the news, you may well think that The War is only taking place in the Middle East...catch this film for a different picture: www.rampagethemovie.com.
BROADCAST 22 JULY
BROADCAST 24 JUNE
Big ups to new co-host bP aka Brendan Palmer! And to Melbourne's RRR for their continued support.
Inner Voice :: The Dum Dum Project remixes Trilok Gurtu [UK/INDIA]
Uber Lingua starts it's new slot on SBS Alchemy Radio this Friday night, featuring post-global mixes from some our many DJs. 'Uber Lingua DJs on Alchemy' features recordings from our past events andothers that are specifically recorded for this purpose, between Midnight and 7am weekly on SBS Radio frequencies 93.1FM in Melbourne and 97.7FM in Sydney. If you are based in other places of Australia, the SBS Radio signal is available on their Digital TV transmission. More info at website.
a review from 'Kashishi's The Gig Chaser', published in Togatus (April 2006):
Lieben dank an Ronny, to share his story live on-air - of cycling from Germany to Australia (in 2 and a bit years) with his partner Anke and their three-year old son Bela...
Big ups to guest presenter Morganics and Sinpare (Kenya):
Gur Nalon Ishk Mitha (Sax/Whelan Mix) :: Bollywood Brass Band [INDIA/UK]
I didn't even know about this award, and unfortunately I was in another city DJing when the party/ceremony was on. I even missed hosting my own show that week. Nevertheless I'm proud to announce:
Human Disco Ball :: Plastilina Mosh [MEXICO]
The most epic gig ever as announced in previous post outgrew us, Uber Lingua. It has been scaled back to just presenting Kenyan rappers Sinpare, courtesy of Melbourne's Next Wave Festival. But less African acts has meant more room for local support acts, and opened the doors for future collaboration between Australia and Africa.
There's some more poster art. This is the most monumental, epic, gig I've ever been involved in...for complete info go to www.uberlingua.com/3corners. Catch me supporting as sakamoiz in most cities...
Let me indulge in posting some of the world's best - or at least most intriguing - poster art. I grabbed this particular poster off one of the Nortec Collective (Tijuana) members' blog: http://pgbeas.blogspot.com.
Starflier :: Toy Death [AUSTRALIA]
There is no transport for which you can buy tickets, to the end of this road I’m going to. My journey starts with sticking out a thumb on the open highway heading out of Hobart. My grubby backpack that has waited at many train stations of Europe – and shared the rooves of collapsing buses with animals in Indonesia and Central America – is loaded with a couple of dozen records and a few hundred CDs. This precious cargo is padded with a sleeping bag. I carry no shelter, although the skies loomed grey yesterday. But I’m heading to The End Of The Road where only the sun shines, and no one needs to sleep.
Thanks to Monkey Marc and MC Izzy of Combat Wombat for talking about their new album Unsound $ystem & their influences.
sakamoiz will be selectin' tunes in the forests of southern Tasmania, courtesy of the Terraphonic Sound System. Expect me to bring a vynil collection of latin exotica, Tijuana brass, Bulgarian sounds on Hungaroton recordings, Combat Wombat B-sides, the ABC of sound, unforgotten German tenors, 1920s Jazz-Razz-Ma-Tazz...
There are music festivals around Australia well-worth checking out. Here are reviews of some I've experienced in the last few months:
thanks to guest presenter James Newitt (of Inflight Art)
Never though of Hobart (Tasmania) as being big on hype, but local duo The Scientists of Modern Music have created it. Two kids whose EP Number One was produced within months/weeks of their first gig, put together in the bedroom & all copies eagerly snapped up at the launch. Check out their retro fun at Pure Volume.
Hobart's first multilingual dancehall showcase event LINGO, started with a 100% dub gig the next night. Then it was only pumpin' booty shakin' events.
PHOTO: sakamoiz with Melbourne based Kenyan DJ BONGO as guest co-host on Dialect-ic (March 2005)