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Arts jobseekers in Canberra can create an account and upload your CV as a PDF. Notifications can be set up so you can receive an email when jobs become listed in the category(ies) of your choice. Then you can bid on the [...]

With the great swelter still rolling on it seemed like a good time to introduce the ignorant to the wonder of the late and much lamented Baterz.
So enjoy, just click on the image.

Last year’s Enlighten festival was actually tremendously good.
So it’s sad to see Andrew Barr trying to rev up the 2013 version with, yes you saw it in the headline, “Live jazz in a high-security basement”.
Live jazz in a high-security basement, indigenous dance, inspirational talks, shadow puppet comedy and evening nature tours are just a [...]

[ 11 January, 2013 to 13 January, 2013. ]

A fresh year lies before us dear reader.

But what is worth seeing and doing around town this weekend in Canberra?

Just leave your suggestions in the comments!

[ 8 January, 2013 to 31 January, 2013. ] This just in:

Tuesday 8th 7:30pm
Andrew Galan’s Our Dystopian Futures Trivia

Thursday 10th 9pm
Chainsaw Hookers
Johnny Roadkill
Renegade Peacock

Saturday 12th 9:30pm
The Mouldy Lovers (Bris)
Underscore Orkestra (USA)
The Brass Knuckle Brass Band

Sunday 13th 8pm
Wil Wagner (The Smith Street Band, Melbourne)
Lincoln LeFevre (Hobart)
Isaac Graham (Sydney)
Ben David (Adelaide)

Tuesday 15th 7:30pm
Arc Cinema Presents
Liz and Bolings Quiz of Fortune

Wednesday 16th 8pm
BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

Saturday 19th 9:30pm
Bob Log III
Crash [...]

Dear Riot folk,
I’m writing to say hey, happy new, and ah also the You Are Here Festival is happening from 14-24 March.
I’ve been involved with both the 2011 and 2012 festivals, and I can say without a glimmer of doubt that this is the most intense, challenging and exciting of the three. In [...]

So I am looking to book a band of the semi-professional cover band type for a substantial (400+ people) event in March [not a wedding though]. As much as I would prefer to go with something a little more exciting, knowing the audience I have to play it conservative and go for a band [...]

The best place to be in Canberra this New Year’s Eve was the Canberra Musician’s Club’s bash at the Polish White Eagle Club.
‘pling was kind enough to take some photographs to record the event for posterity.
Here’s a quick slideshow for those who missed it and those who want to remember.
If you’re in Canberra next year [...]

To get you in the mood for New Years Lavers has released a new video Don’t Drop Stones with this note:
Hope everyone has a happy new year!
It’s been a huge 2012 for us and we want to thank you for your support, FB love and gig attendance.
To tie off the year, here’s [...]

[ 28 December, 2012 to 31 December, 2012. ]

So once more with feeling for the last time in 2012.

What’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra this weekend and on New Year’s Eve?

Share your wisdom in the comments.

Christmas Is The Time by Finnigan and Brother
Following Babyfreeze’s unexpectedly catchy contribution to the Christmas Single genre out of the local original music scene we have a second entrant.
Finnigan and Brother have put the above entry onto Bandcamp with this note:
Composed in Medellin, Colombia, in celebration of that drowsy figure of American folklore, Papa [...]

[ 21 December, 2012 to 23 December, 2012. ]

The last regular weekend of 2012, what summer fun is to be had in and around Canberra?

Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

[ 21 December, 2012; 9:00 pm; ] Hear them on 666 Breakfast in the morning, then see them LIVE at The Basement!

[ 22 December, 2012; 8:00 pm; ]

News Flash ! :

Cell Block 69 to carry out a totally awesome post apocalyptic feat !

Sure, by the time that December the 22nd comes around the world will have already ended. But don’t let that get you down. Why not loose those apocalyptic blues by spending a night with Corey ?

Laugh it away with Corey. [...]

The Canberra Symphony Orchestra has announced a rather clever partnership with Cochlear to bring music to the hearing impaired:
Cochlear was approached to provide seed funding for a trial involving Better Hearing ACT and members of the SCIC Music Group who work specifically with people with Cochlear implants. Cochlear agreed and a group of musicians were [...]

[ 22 December, 2012; 10:00 pm; ] One of Canberra’s less spoken of traditions is Christmas Eve at The Phoenix.

People who’ve moved interstate come back to see their families and by Christmas Eve already need a break, so they go to the Phoenix to catch up with old friends and Fred Smith plays a killer set before the bell is rung vigorously [...]

Babyfreeze is an amalgam of some of Canberra’s most exciting musical talents.
For Christmas they’ve gifted us with three videos made in recognisable locales. Above is “Christmas Number One”.
They sent it in with this note:
THE ELECTRO YULETIDE IS HERE!
Merry Christmas to all the Boom-bapaholics- The Babyfreeze Christmas Video EP is available right here, right now! Cameos [...]

[ 19 December, 2012; 7:00 pm; ]

Carols by Candlelight has been bringing the joy of Christmas to Canberran families for more than six decades, and Woden Valley Youth Choir would like to invite you and your family to share in the spirit of Christmas at Commonwealth Park on Wednesday 19 December 2012.

Ian McLean will again host the event, and Woden Valley [...]

Smiths Alternative Bookshop on Alinga St in Civic is about as intimate as a music venue can get.
For last night’s show it worked beautifully.
Fans moved the hot summer air around the pillars, cold cold Coopers Pale went for $6 a bottle, and people walking down the street heard the music and just came on in. [...]

[ 14 December, 2012 to 16 December, 2012. ]

2012 is showing no signs of going quietly into that good night.

What’s do you know about that’s worth seeing and doing this weekend in and around Canberra?

Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

This in from the local Dream Damage label:
The new album from Danger Beach is now available online for free download and on CD at dangerbeach.bandcamp.com
Dream Damage is happy to announce the release of the long awaited sophomore album by Danger Beach, Pacific, which is out now on CD and digital download.
This marks the first release [...]

The Music ACT Music Awards (MAMAs for short) kicked off for the first time last Friday and MartyO has kindly sent in a swag of photographs from the night.
The winners were:
PUBLICALLY VOTED CATEGORIES
ACT Artisit of 2012 – Super Best Friends
ACT Youth Artist of 2012 – Natalie McGee
Live Performer of 2012 – Super Best Friends
ACT [...]

[ 16 December, 2012; 2:00 pm; ]

This just in and well worth your consideration:

Canberra?s top music promoters Kicks Entertainment, Pang, Sub Squad and Party By Jake are bringing the local dance music community together and hosting a benefit on Sunday the 16th of December at Trinity Bar Dickson, for the Azzopardi family.

The Azzopardi?s recently lost a son when Josh Azzopardi passed [...]

[ 7 December, 2012 to 9 December, 2012. ]

As the year draws down everything seems to be kicking off around Canberra.

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

Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

Canberra’s much needed return to hosting Music Awards is on this Friday at the Albert Hall with the MAMAs.
Tickets are available on their website.
It should be a great night.

[ 9 December, 2012; 5:00 pm; ]

It’s unavoidably Christmas now. But one of Canberra’s nicer seasonal elements are the Carols at Lanyon.

I reviewed it back in 2008 and the Lanyon website has this to say:

An evening of magical Christmas fun. Bring your own picnic to enjoy in the beautiful
Lanyon gardens. Listen to the festive music of the Sing Australia Choir and [...]

I love Corinbank.
I love going to Corinbank, I love coming back from Corinbank, and I love being up there at Corinbank.
If you’ve been living under a rock and have no idea what I’m talking about it’s a music and arts festival held in the mountains outside Canberra. They have a website.
There is art, and there’s [...]

[ 16 December, 2012; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] All welcome to COZMO’s Annual Summer Concert, featuring the COZYMO Learning Group

WHEN: Sunday 16 December 2012, 4–5pm
WHERE: Atlas Room, Hellenic Club In The City (13 Moore St)
TICKETS at the door: $10 Adults, $5 Concession*, Free for under-12s.

*Seniors 60+, Health Care Card holders, Full-time students, Children 12+

Come and enjoy COZMO’s beautiful program of classical [...]

The National Film and Sound Archive are letting us know about their latest acquisition:
Fractured Heart is an interactive sound and light sculpture designed and built by illuminart (Cindi Drennan, Craig Laurendet and Luku Kukuku) in collaboration with Wally de Backer (Gotye). It was first presented as the backdrop to his live performance of Somebody That [...]

This very important news just in:
We Large Productions presents
My Private Jet
– the latest dope-ass release from Belcompton’s finest MC, Coolio Desgracias!!
Featuring some of Canberra’s finest musicians, My Private Jet is the definitive statement of mature, sensitive gansterhood from your boy, Coolio Desgracias. Across 11 party-ready tracks, Coolio pours out his heart and soul and [...]

[ 30 November, 2012 to 2 December, 2012. ]

The year might be drawing to a close but there’s still much to be done.

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

Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

[ 8 December, 2012; 8:30 pm; ]

This very exciting news just in:

Five years ago Waterford first mounted the Phoenix stage. The band had formed two months prior, a last ditch attempt by Pete Huet to scratch that insistent rock itch before proper adulthood and its constraints arrived. He coerced his friend Glen Martin to finish the tunes he’d half-written over [...]