Centenary of Canberra and MusicACT are kicking off a new battle of the bands competition in September.
It’s called ‘Smells like Centenary Spirit’.
Centenary of Canberra Executive Director, Jeremy Lasek, says the Smells Like Centenary Spirit competition encourages bands and musicians across all genres to get involved.
“From The Gadflys to the church, Canberra has produced some of [...]

[ 18 May, 2013; 7:30 pm; 25 May, 2013; 7:30 pm; ]

“Burning The Midnight Oil” – a tribute show that shakes and moves featuring George Huitker & Junk Sculpture.

Teatro Vivaldi Restaurant (at ANU). May 18 & 25 at 7pm.

Dinner and show.

Bookings essential – 02 62572718

2XX is a pretty great thing to have here in Canberra.
They’re running a Radiothon, which is a weeklong fundraising event where they plan to give away hundreds of prizes.
Prizes are pretty great to have also, so this is like win/win.
Jamie Freestone, station manager at 2XX FM, is “really excited to be re-launching Radiothon again. [...]

In Canberra Tonight was totally a thing that was apparently fantastic. I was out having dinner with my Mum and missed it.
Fortunately CIT are filming all of it, so I can catch up.
For those of you who were absent, our Commander in Chief Johnboy was given 5 minutes to recount the top stories of the [...]

[ 24 April, 2013; ] Awesome Melbourne band and Oz rock stalwarts ‘King of the North’ are heading our way to The Basement on 24th April.

Catch these guys before their rock explosion goes viral.

Following on from supporting ‘Cold Chisel’ last year and many residencies including the iconic Esplanade Hotel (home of RocKwiz), this surprisingly huge-sounding 2-piece are on an Australian [...]

When I started these Unearthed Reviews I was given very simple instructions.
Go look though the ACT artists alphabetically. If you see an artist or group with a green or red drum next to their name that we haven’t reviewed, review them.
Simple. Except I’ve now done a full loop.
I’m gonna need a new way to pick [...]

Record store day came and went, I celebrated with a visit to Songland at Cooleman Court. The vinyl on offer was all donated and was generally what you would expect.
I picked up some groovy tunes (6 records for $10) and now just need to work out how to play them; otherwise I will [...]

Joshua Eversham has sent this video in with this note:
Over the last year I have had the opportunity to travel around the Australian Alps, from Mt Gingera down to Kosciusko National Park, through each season, through waist deep snow, torrential rain, sub zero temperatures, perfect summer days where the sky seems to extended into [...]

[ 24 May, 2013; 7:30 pm; ]

This sounds pretty cool. An awesome looking gig/zine launch/panel/ep launch? That’s just so crazy it might work. I’m in.

Jeremy Staples, the editor and creator of the final and free retrospective book of Bizoo titled ‘The Best, the Worst & the Trash that never made it’ is excited to be launching the massive book in Canberra [...]

Why I haven’t done an Unearthed Review in 4 days! How on Earth have you all been coping?
It’s ok, we’ll get you your fix with Kempsey.
Here’s what they have to say about themselves:
Kempsey draws it’s life from a broad world of influences. From the guitar driven riff-rock of Television, to the mood-filled hangover of [...]

[ 27 April, 2013; 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

The Invisible Thread is a publication of 75 Canberran writers.

To celebrate its release, NewActon is combining the words of three authors with the music of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra.

Alex Miller, Alan Gould and Sara Dowse have each chosen two musical compositions to bookend their poem or prose works. These will be performed by an [...]

[ 18 April, 2013 to 21 April, 2013. ]

Thursday:

– Jane Austen Festival Australia @ St John’s Church Hall (until 21 April)

– History @ M16 Artspace, 12pm-5pm (Wed-Sun) (until 5 May)

Friday:

– Rugby League Test – Australia V New Zealand @ Canberra Stadium, 7:45pm

Sat:

– Morris 100 @ Langton Crescent car park in front of the Treasury building, 10am-3pm

– The National Dinosaur Museum’s 20th Birthday [...]

Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens have just released their new film clip Adeleine.
As you probably know I’m a bit of a fan of JDSS, so I was rather surprised to discover there is in fact two Julia Johnsons. Also, food fight!
We have of course added it to the Canberra Playlist.

[ 19 April, 2013 to 21 April, 2013. ]

The unstoppable tide that is 2013 continues to roll over us (and we’d be alarmed if it were otherwise).

But like it or not the weekend is nearly here.

What’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra?

Just leave your brilliant suggestions in the comments.

[ 18 April, 2013; 7:30 pm; ]

There’s a new local variety show kicking off at the O’Connor Polish Club tomorrow night.

It’s so awesome they’re even getting us to do a segment on local news which will feature all of you (in a way).

Here’s the details as received from Maestro Chris Endrey:

In Canberra Tonight is a spanking new live variety show to [...]

[ 19 April, 2013; 6:00 pm; ]

Facebook brings word of a magnificent shindig:

Way back in the year 2012, the Polish Club played host to a night of old-fashioned shuckin’, jivin’, hootin’, hollerin’ and other apostrophed verbs: The Old Timey Music Revue.

It’s now time to be nostalgic for the last time we were nostalgic, and to do it all over again with [...]

[ 20 April, 2013; ]

The Feldon’s have written us to let us know that a whole stack of great music is hitting the Pot Belly this on the 20th of April.

This Saturday at the Pot Belly, LIVE, LOCAL and ORIGINAL.

From the laid back blues influenced Chris and Shedea, to the madness that is the Magic Rob Universe (think Through [...]

[ 8 May, 2013 to 9 May, 2013. ]

The Canberra Symphony Orchestra is putting word out on the next concert they’re putting on:

The second concert in the popular Llewellyn Series is proudly supported by the Embassy of the Russian Federation as a Centenary gift to Canberra. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Commonwealth of Australia Mr Vladimir Morozov expressed [...]

Are you down on your luck? Is your Grandmother about to be evicted? Is your partner in need of an operation that you can’t afford? Is the orphanage you grew up in closing down? Are you in any way involved in some sort of movie narrative that requires you to win some sort of a [...]

Our epic quest to do an Unearthed Review for every ACT artist that has a drum next to their name is almost at an end. We’ve only got three bands left!
The first of those three is Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens.
Here’s what they have to say about themselves:
Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens have [...]

[ 20 April, 2013; ]

Hey April the 20th is Record Store Day! Feeling nostalgi for vinyl? Pretending to feel nostalgic for vinyl because you’re too young to actually feel nostaligic for it but understand that it’s the cool thing to feel nostalgic for? Me too.

Vinyl is pretty cool, but independent music stores are even cool. Head down [...]

Published to YouTube with his elucidation:
@busvipers
@cerealmonk
Ray thinks it’s funny
Added with all due ceremony to out Canberra Music playlist:

Unearthed Reviews! I may not currently be in the ACT, but my heart is still there, and today it’s listening to Mornings.
Here’s what they have to say about themselves:
mornings in it’s current form has been together since mid 2011.
our music is made up delayed and distorted guitars;
looped and effected bass;
loud, sporadic drums;
and sparse vocals.
we have [...]

[ 12 April, 2013 to 14 April, 2013. ]

The wild year rolls on and the weekend turns up yet again.

What’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra this weekend?

Just leave your suggestions in the comments.

We’re 100 days into Canberra’s Centenary year, and one of the runaway successes has been The
Musical Offering.
It’s an ambitious project that is making sure there’s something musical happening in Canberra every day in 2013, with performances from carillonists and choirs to jazz ensembles and funk bands.
This is how it works: the folks at The Musical [...]

One day the masses will look up and shout “Give us another Unearthed Review Barcham!”… and I’ll look down and whisper “No.”
Sadly today is not that day.
Who are we visiting today? Why it’s Kodakbeatbox who I thought normally was just called Kodak… but whatever.
Here’s what Kodakbeatbox has to say about himself:
Kodak (Karthik Lakshman) is [...]

These guys have been playing in Canberra for nearly 7 years, you may have seen them at the Liftoff band comp, Foreshore 2011 or the National Band Campus Comp. They’ve got a progressive pop/rock/funk style. This is a really cool self-produced mini EP, if you click “buy now” you can put in $0 and download [...]

[ 27 April, 2013; 8:00 pm; 8:00 pm; ]

Activate Jetpack are serious contenders in the ‘who has the coolest band name in Canberra’ competition, and they are planning to drop a new record on you. Possibly while flying over your head with their jetpacks.

I really want a jetpack. You probably want details.

Here they are:

What’s that you say? “I want my Jetpack!” the [...]

Canberra Symphony Orchestra are selling out shows and getting heaps of work this year, and are very excited about it. So they should be.
Well done CSO for being awesome, and well done Canberra for supporting the arts.
Canberra’s Centenary year is proving to be the best yet for the Canberra Symphony Orchestra (CSO) with box office [...]

The world needs more Unearthed Reviews, and I shall step up to the plate if nobody else will.
Next musicians on the list are those masters of glitter rock, Fun Machine.
Here’s what they have to say about themselves:
Artwork for the image by the incredible Natalie Mather.
Full quality audio available at mostfunmachine.bandcamp.com
Come let’s fly a kite.
xx [...]

[ 13 April, 2013; 8:00 pm; ]

Facebook has the happy news that local music ornament Lavers is launching a single at Transit this Saturday:

LAVERS – “I’ve Been Waiting For You” single launch
supported by Amber Nichols and Nite Society DJs.

ALSO FEATURING A VERY SPECIAL FOR-ONE-NIGHT-ONLY DJ SET BY LAVERS!
www.facebook.com/laversband

LAVERS new single, ‘I’ve Been Waiting For You’, was recorded at Sydney’s Studios [...]

In a world where big acts tend to play Sydney and expect us to come see them there it’s nice to see a poster with Canberra on for a headline act.
It’s worth noting the internet is awash with rumour and counter rumour about this tour. But someone’s made a poster OK?
(Also I think you’re meant [...]