This album is cinematic in style – it seems to drift. A collection of beautiful moments, instrumental, distant, layered and mysterious. If there is a grand narrative, I couldn’t tell, but it matters not. The perfect music to refocus with – and actually listen to. I remain pleasantly haunted by it…and yes, slightly in love with it. Naming your band after a Victorian era mourning fabric? Delicious AND atmospheric… Here Their Dreams is brought to us by Gersey posse member Matt Davis (look out for other Gersey side projects Sirens of Venice and The Tall Buildings). Written and recorded in ...
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Turn cardboard, fabric and everyday objects into shadow puppets and scenery for puppet play in our shadow box theatre. All materials provided. This two day workshop is suitable for age grade 1 up. When ...
Filed under: love your work, northcote
The DEAD CStatic Age Festival (venue TBA)with Oren Ambarchi, Blarke Bayer/Black Widow, Marco Fusinato, Breathing Shrine, Candlesnuffer, Make up Sex, Zond + more TBC. Saturday 2 October, $35 +BF, available from Missing Link and Sunshine & Grease.http://www.heathenskulls.com/Northcote Social Clubwith Marco Fusinato, Black Widow and Joel Stern Sunday 3 OctoberDoors Open 7:30pm$20 +BFhttp://northcotesocialclub.com/
I am underwhelmed by the fugly glass-fronted apartment/retail complex coming soon to Westgarth Village. The only good thing about the redevelopment is this signage becoming visible again… Filed under: letter-riffic, northcote
Sunday was a lovely sunny afternoon and Spring was in the air...it's been such a wonderful wet Winter that our gardens are all looking very lush and even the strawbales are growing.
This makes me laugh so much – I totally disagree with the message, and can’t help wondering what inspired such a graffiti tantrum… Thanks to John Carney for spotting it, and Fitzroyalty for sharing the link with me. Filed under: northcote, rant-o-rama
2A Mitchell St, Northcote Sitting down in Joe Green and looking around the walls you are taken on a mini trip around the world. An old-fashioned wood and brass world times clock is part of the round the world paraphernalia including animal print wallpaper. Diving into the already overcrowded breakfast market on High St is a brave move and Joe Green have done it well. Joe Green’s position is nice because it is just off High St so you miss the hustle of eating on High St and the feel is just that bit more relaxed. Joe Green has also done well with the ...
Last night I took Joffa to Thornbury Theatre to see Darren Hanlon. Beautiful songs, in a very luxe environment. If you haven’t been yet, imagine a reception centre with decor and plasterwork by Franco Cozzo’s slighly more minimalist cousin…Anyhoo, great show, nice buzz, and this track in the encore. Yes, I sang along and loved it. which of course is a cover of Happy Birthday Joffa, and thanks Darren, Monnone Alone and Shelley Short for a great show! Filed under: dee-lites, hi-fi, love your work, thornbury
Guy 1: “Hey! Do you like Muddy Waters?” Guy 2: “No, I prefer Fiji water” *this blog in no way suggests you buy or consume Fiji water, but would totally love to turn you on to the music of Muddy Waters… Filed under: hi-fi, northcote
Well, despite some rather dramatic weather we had a good turn out at the AGM on Sunday,(including our newest and youngest member in a very stylish sleeping bag type ensemble)and we managed to cover a fair bit of business in between tea and cakes.Office bearers were elected and issues of plot maintenance and membership obligations were raised. There will be un updated version of the rules coming shortly and we will email everyone to let them know what's what.
It's that time of the year again. The time to take a look inside some very creative studios and get inspired and motivated all over again. Open Studios Nicholas Building 2010Thursday 19th & Friday 20th August, 20104pm-9pm (both nights)picture via Visit MelbourneOver at the Nicholas Building Blog, there's an eInvite where you can see the list of all the artists and it is like a who's who of Handmade in Melbourne!You can wander in and out of studios, take ...
Camerahead or photoborg, I wondered to myself…Is it a comment on the increased surveillance in our cities, the push to document all experiences phographically, or the constant quest for the perfect picture? A homage to The Buggles I am a Camera, or the 1950s play and film of the same name? If you know why these are appearing around town, do leave me a comment. This one is on High Street, Northcote, I’ve also seen one on a billboard near the Clifton Hill Tram Terminus…? Filed under: cinerama, clifton hill, hi-fi, love your work, northcote
This series of Saturday seminars is for emerging craft makers interested in starting up their own craft businessThe course will be facilitated by local women who’ve take the leap and made craft their business. Dates and times. ...
We are on sale here at idah, and we have lots of fabulous Winter stock that we have to clear before our fabulous Spring stock comes in the next few weeks! Up to 70% off some of our fave labels such as High Tea With Mrs Woo, Yoshi Jones, Love, Yogini, Vigorella, Dogstar, Ammo & Dot & Herbey.
Is there a story behind this one? I’m slightly curious. Yesterday in Mitchell Street, Northcote. Filed under: northcote
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OutsideCedar Bakery makes Lebanese 'pizzas' and pastries and are also the largest Lebanese supermarket within a lazy bike ride from home. We know them fairly well - weekend lunches are often a few of their joyous pizzas, and if you need dried apricot paste in a sheet, this is the place to go in Thornbury/Preston. They also have a huge range of Mediteranian stuff - olives, nuts, cabbage rolls, oils etc and also do roast lamb for events.Hard to get excited by a photo of a supermarket, I know...On this day we ordered four ...
At Large Gallery continue their run of great shows, and next up is the duo-show from Melbourne artists ADi and Craig Poore. “In their upcoming show “Beautiful Strange’, artists Craig Poore and ADiexamine the beautiful as strange and the strange as beautiful. Our thoughts of the visual world are blurred by our perceptions. ‘Beautiful Strange’ invites [...]
Join us for an evening of warm winter goodness.Soups, beanies, felted, knitted and crocheted goodies.Jams and cakes and some great live music.Friday 16 July4 -7PM99 LEINSTER GROVE Thornbury.
Continuing with our new-found Preston joy, C-Culture is a jaunty Chinese BBQ and seafood restaurant in the northern climes. Despite its stupid name, we spent a lovely Friday night there and we ate far, far too much protein, although that says as much about the way I like to spend Friday night than it does about anything else.LooksC-Culture (I cringe as I type that name) is large by High Street standards and was boisterous with families, couples and groups of all shapes and sizes, like a low-rent Benetton commercial peopled with people instead of models. Although not pretty ...
Today saw a short jaunt to High Street in Preston to drop off F's sewing machine at the sewing machine shop for its annual lube job and a new set of piston rings.While there we collected menus for a number of enticing restaurants, predominately Chinese and Vietnamese and visited the most extraordinarily crappy $2 shop. We also dropped into the oddly-named "Bread Top". Bread Top is a franchise that specialises in asian-style buns - the sort that always look beautifully presented and taste, well, unexpected and usually sweet. Having seen Bread Top pop up around Melbourne's CBD, ...
Sometimes I despair of being a Melbourne food-blogger. We finally get around to visiting Proud Mary and feeling like we're catching up to the zeitgeist a bit and then a pile of trendy new places open up (I'm fully aware that the linked places have all been open for ages, we're just slow). So it was a relief for us to get ourselves organised fairly quickly to visit the recently opened and widely raved about Bell Jar in Clifton Hill.It's a really cute space - a bustling front-room, a laid-back communal table tucked around the back and a ...
Morning tea at LarkIn absentia - wish you could have been with us Curlypops!$75 puppy dog - Finki and Mrs Beckinsale both wanted this for their little boys!Mill Markets bathroom wallpaperRoadtrippers, add your photos to the Northside Makers Flickr pool!
