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July 18
Battle of the weekend love
We have a new contender on the Perth weekend nightlife scene, promising to deliver salvation from boring winter nights spent on the couch with only the company of bad commercial television. ‘Love Saves Fridays’ (fb), not to be confused with the previously blogged ‘Love Sundays’ (post) is a weekly collection of Perth’s best DJs let loose on the turntables with one thing in mind: to save your Friday night from dying a dull, danceless, music death.
It all launches 10pm Friday 24 July at the Republic (Corner Wellington and Shafto Lane), which you may be familiar with as the venue for the now very popular SEXY nights (a personal favourite of mine). Whereas ‘Love Sundays’ was a bit of a coosh plastic glam night, ‘Love Saves Fridays’ is all about the atmosphere, company and music: You can expect sounds of the 70s, including indie-funk and glam rock, with different mixes each week.
The night has been created by Petrosex and the team from Bourgeois Bogan, who have a solid reputation for great events in Perth. Anyone with SEXY experience will know these events are all about creating an inner-city haven, where you can just have a plain ‘ol good time without the BS. There is also word that Perth’s performance superstar Ash Baroque will be the evening’s hostess to ensure no unappreciatives enter the walls of Love Saves Fridays.
So if you’re growing weary of the decreasing crowds at the Maddox Mansion (hey, it happens in winter), then do head along to the launch of Love Saves Fridays. It’s something new and fresh, and will save your winter weekends with a bit of soul.
Be sure to download the Love Saves Fridays flyer and check them out on facebook.
July 13
Revisited: The Ellington
Apologies are once again in order for my sparatic updates. What can I say, I’m a very busy woman. Two weekends ago after my visit to Andaluz, my review posse stopped in for the Late Night Groove Series at the Ellington Jazz Club (web). We prebooked a table, and it ended up being an awesome closer to the evening.
I’ve previously written about The Ellington for Soho Nights (fb), their queer friendly evening. This time around though it was a different crowd, a different ’scene’. While Soho Nights is suave and relaxed, the Saturday Late Night Groove Series is energetic bop in your chair action. The atmosphere is rich, and in my lubricated state I could feel each and every person in the room tapping their feet or nodding their head in unison. One guy was enjoying things a little too much… and had to be escorted out of the premises. Hah.
As a side note, the next Soho Nights is this Tuesday 14 July !.
I don’t know too much about jazz so I can’t really give an analytical commentary on the entertainment, but even if you’re musically sceptical you will still enjoy the the grooves, funk and beats at the Ellington on a Saturday night, plus the artists are fun and engaging on stage.. Basically, I loved it.
So book a table. Now. Yes, Now. The late night series sits at 11.30pm, and you will be left out in the cold if you don’t pre-book a table.
June 8
Interview: Alaska
This week the Australian premiere of Alaska opens at the Blue Room theatre (Northbridge Cultural Quarter). It’s a contemporary play originating from England that explores racism in everyday society. In the lead up to the Alaska performance season, I had a Q and A session with one of the play’s cast members, Jeffrey Jay Fowler.
As an icebreaker, what can you tell us about Alaska?
Alaska is half comic, half dark. British racism and British humour at the same time. It focuses on a 24 year old university drop out working in a cinema. Though the play is largely touted as being about racism there’s a lot of other elements at play. Middle class guilt, the sexual attitudes of generation Y, religious righteousness and chain smoking all get their moment for analysis as well.
Your character is described as a seething racist. How do you prepare yourself to portray those traits in what is supposed to be a politically correct world?
‘Supposed to be’ is a pretty important part of that question. I don’t think the world is politically correct. Any weekend I go out I hear racist shouts across the streets of Perth. A lot of the people I meet in every day life will admit to being racist with just a little suggestion of the topic being ok. The play explores that too; the subtle racism ingrained in the way we view the world around us.
Preparing for this character isn’t too different from preparing for any other. I’ve played a nymphomaniac fairy god, a child stealing under taker, a 15 year old paraplegic surfer and the idea of thought itself. There’s always a huge gap between who I am and who I am playing. The director, Michelle Sowden, has a very different way of working character than any I have previously experienced. She has a very free way of creating, requiring a lot of actor impulse.
June 4
Perth media bits
If you picked up Xpress or Drum Media today you would have seen RTRfm’s new station lineup for 2009/10. Very disappointing that ‘Open Closet’, the community radio’s gay and lesbian music and current affairs program has been shafted. It’s completely gone with no replacement. The changes coincide with the station getting a new General Manager - email Graeme Watson to tell him it should stay.
Today The West Australian properly launched their new competitor against Xpress and Drum Media: “The Wire Magazine“. Oh boy does it stink! You get to read everything that was in our free street press weeks ago, and pay the cost of a newspaper to do it.
The copy reeks of middle aged journos desperately trying to reach out for Gen Y, and is littered with embarrassing statements like “hey wire heads” and the Art Gallery’s Art Bar being described as “painfully cool”. To top it off, the opinion page is about how John Farnham is now ‘uncool’. Who cares!
The West really didn’t think this through: Gen Y don’t buy newspapers, and The Wire Magazine has no street cred. Avoid it.
June Out in Perth is on the streets this weekend.
May 20
Pride expands festival line up
Today Pride WA announced an exciting new event in their Homecoming Festival line up: the Pride WA Ball. The title is boring, but the event is not. It’s a dinner, dancing and awards night to recognise the contributions individuals and organisations have made to Perth’s GLBTIQ community (I hate that abbreviation so I won’t be using it again from hereon).
The ball will be on Saturday 22 August at the Novotel Langley and will include live entertainment and the crowning of a GLBTblah ‘King and Queen’. I hope they’re not drag related. Nominations for the various awards happen between June and August, so please bombard Pride WA with many, many emails telling them to nominate me for my contribution to Perth’s very small gay media scene, plus for all that humanitarian work I did in Rockingham - handing out food to homeless bogans, that sort of thing.
Pride WA will be releasing more details closer to the event, so look out for them on gayrage. Other important Pride dates for you to enter into your electronic devices:
- Pride launch: Friday 18 September
- Fairday: Sunday 27 September - (event will become a dance party after 6pm)
- Pride Parade and Homecoming Party: Saturday 31 October
May 2
Soho update
Well I think I’ve done enough posts about venues I’m not happy with - time for some I am happy with (which yeah, is rare). Last Tuesday night I went along to Soho Nights, a queer friendly night at Ellington Jazz club in Northbridge.
Great atmosphere for a weeknight glass of wine, and the music was very cosy. No, there wasn’t any scat jazz (without set beat / melody), so anyone who isn’t a complete jazz-head (me) won’t be alienated by the music. If you are looking for a swarve, sexy and different night out then head along to the next Soho Night on 12 May.
April 30
clothes clothes clothes
This post is all about clothes. So you’re not looking like everyone else this Saturday night (PS everyone is wearing that vest you bought from Myer Basement) here are some nice local alternatives.
Remember Family? They had a store on Murray Street, and before that they were called Fiasco. Now they’re online selling locally designed T-shirts, and currently having a sale which includes free shipping on 2 or more items. Lots of Australia themed tees, so it could be time to stock up for next January? I’m looking forward to Family extending their range soon.
The On William Designer Garage Sale is happening this weekend. Lots of cheap clothes from leading Perth designers and retailers. If you have some Rudd money left over, time to burn it away!
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