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Dweezil Zappa – in Australia this February celebrating 50 years of Zappa!

Sheik Yerbouti next February, 2018 as the legendary music of Frank Zappa is celebrated live on stage by the man’s prodigiously talented son Dweezil Zappa and his band The Others of Intention. Freak Out to some of the most inventive and wildly original music ever committed to tape! Discover Who Are The Brain Police as Dweezil conducts immaculate explorations and excavations of Frank’s 50 year old debut album.  Take a drive with the Muffin Man along the Inca Roads in the Orange County ...

Fleabag at Brisbane Powerhouse

Fleabag may seem over-sexed, emotionally unfiltered and in denial, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig themed café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.   //   Stumbling through a maze of social anxiety, disastrous job interviews and meaningless sex, Fleabag serves up an uproariously funny and true account of some sort of a female living her sort of life. Direc...

Brisbane Comedy Festival 2018

Australia’s fastest growing comedy festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival, has grown into a multi-venue extravaganza, bursting at the seams to host a hand-picked selection of the funniest folk in the country. Held at Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane City Hall and SunPAC, Brisbane Comedy Festival will play host to one-liners, whimsy and mockery from more than 70 of the most hilarious national and international comedians.   //   From stand up to improv and sketch comedy, ...

Grouplove 2018 Australian Tour

After a huge 2016 with 25+ dates in Europe and the UK, smashing Bigsound and the success of their lead single 'Bad Bad Things' off their sophomore EP I Used To Hate The Ruminaters, Now I Like Them, The Ruminaters have showed no signs of slowing down with a string of east coast headline shows as well as slots at Mountain Sounds Festival, Secret Garden and Party in the Park. Two years in the making, I Used To Hate The Ruminaters, Now I Like Them was recorded in several studios around the ...

The Rubens Million Man Aussie Tour this February!

The Rubens announced a colossal worldwide tour which, it has now been revealed, will now kick off with two special performances in New Zealand before returning to Australia for an East Coast headline tour, and then venturing to the United States and Europe. Comprised of three Margin brothers, Zaac (lead guitar), Elliott (keyboards, vocals) and Sam (lead vocals, guitar) alongside friends Scott Baldwin (drums)  and William Zeglis (bass), The Rubens’ two albums have been met with immense ...

The Dead Devils of Cockle Creek at La Boîte

Working out of a small shack in the isolated wilds of south-western Tasmania, George, an environmental scientist, is trying to save the world one Tassie Devil at a time. Since she was a small girl she has dreamt of halting the advance of climate change, but saving a species in the middle of nowhere will have to do, for now… Sharing the cramped shack with George is Harris, a ranger with an annoying chicken nugget obsession, who has been charged with bringing a feral dog plague under ...

Veruca Salt Touring Australia Early 2018!

Veruca Salt’s signature hit ‘Seether’ remains one of the most-loved rock tunes of the ’90s. Not surprisingly, the band experienced a meteoric rise, doing everything a young band coming of age in the grunge era could hope for – selling more than a million records, touring with alt-rock royalty Hole and PJ Harvey, and winning critical acclaim for albums like American Thighs (named after an AC/DC lyric).   //   After breaking up in 1998, the original line-up – ...

Exotic Hollywood at GoMA

An eclectic mix of documentary, drama and escapist fantasy, these films transplanted topical narratives of shifting gender, race and social values to the dramatic foreign landscapes of Africa, the Middle East, the South Seas and Asia.   //   'Exotic Hollywood' brings together a selection of these films drawn from the time between World War One and World War Two, when international tourism was still only accessible to the affluent. It offers insights into the American ...

Goldin+Senneby: Standard Length of a Miracle (The Bootleg) Exhibition at IMA

For the Brisbane iteration Goldin+Senneby invited Camila Marambio and Amaara Raheem to act as interlocutors. Marambio & Raheem responded with QUIZ which led to RESULT which led to the conception of Meth(odology) Lab. During the first week of the exhibition Meth(odology) Lab was open making TIME: an immersive set of procedures that distill and digest through lines of Goldin+Senneby’s practice.   //   In the main room, a plot of land acquired by Goldin+Senneby is ...

Special Family Preview Screening of The Jungle Bunch at Dendy Cinemas!

It's a jungle out there. Living in the jungle can be dangerous for animals, which are often subjected to threats and other dangers.   //   There's a group of creatures ready to defend those in trouble. That group -- known as the Jungle Bunch -- is led by tiger warrior Maurice, a great hunter who has taken his adopted son, Junior, under his wing to teach some hunting tricks to the younger tiger. Other members of the group include gorilla Miguel, brainy tarsier ...