Sulumi (China)
Qua (Australia)
Australian Premiere
China’s king of 8-bit techno, Sulumi is a
purveyor of some of the finest, take-noprisoners electro-glitch-house this side of
a souped up Sega Mega Drive. Built on a
bedrock of hurtling four-to-the-floor and
surrounded by jagged curtains of 8-bit
gurgle and wonky acid synths, Sulumi’s
music sounds not entirely unlike a Gameboy
and an 808 being sucked through an angle
grinder in the middle of a Berlin club.
Pounding, chaotic, euphoric.
Once regarded as Australia’s pre-eminent
exponent of synth-revival dreamscapes,
the Qua of 2011 has swapped the sleepy
ambience for a world of techno beats,
swirling psychedelia and dance-ready
electronica.
Event Information
Will Sheff (USA)
(Okkervil River)
Jimmy Stewart
(Australia)
Will Sheff, the much-acclaimed lead singer
of alt-country heroes Okkervil River, is a
man capable of both immense bombast and
haunting intimacy. At this year’s Festival
Sheff will be showcasing the latter in a
one-off sideshow in the cosy surrounds of
the Toff in Town. Playing songs written
for Okkervil River as well as a number of
original compositions, this will be a rare
opportunity to witness one of the great lyrical
storytellers of our age raw and unadorned.
Jimmy Stewart plays country music for the
Australian city. One of Melbourne’s hardest
working live musicians – he once played 51
gigs in two months – Stewart sings blackly
comic and gently honest acoustic tales of the
fleeting moments that make up a life.
Event Information
The Toff in Town
Second Floor, Curtin House
252 Swanston Street
The Toff in Town
Second Floor, Curtin House
252 Swanston Street
Sun 9 Oct
Doors open 8pm
Sun 16 Oct
Doors open 8pm
All tickets $25
Transaction & booking fees may apply
All tickets $25
Transaction & booking fees may apply
Save up to 20%. See page 73 for details.
Save up to 20%. See page 73 for details.
Over 18s event only
Over 18s event only
Moshtix 1300 438 849
thetoffintown.com
Ticketmaster 1300 723 038
melbournefestival.com.au
Moshtix 1300 438 849
thetoffintown.com
Ticketmaster 1300 723 038
melbournefestival.com.au
Image John Vanderslice
Supported by
Supported by
Lucky Dragons
(USA)
Geoffrey O’Connor
(Australia)
Electronic experimentalists of the most
endearing order, Lucky Dragons’ live shows
are the epitome of coming together – less
performance, more all-in, collaborative
jam session where the shape of the song is
dictated by the audience as much as it is the
band. Incorporating a bewildering array of
instruments, percussive elements and other
music making devices for which no names
yet exist, a Lucky Dragons gig is in essence
an entirely new form of social music making,
an improvised free-for-all where the barrier
between artist and audience ceases to exist.
Frontman of local heroes Crayon Fields,
Geoffrey O’Connor’s solo sound is a quiet,
artfully distilled incarnation of that group’s
brand of naive pop. Intimate and familiar,
this is the music of old AM stations made by
a man entirely captivated by the now.
Event Information
Bachelorette
(New Zealand)
Rat Vs Possum
(Australia)
The music of Bachelorette (AKA Annabel
Alpers) is what might happen were you
to toss 70s psychedelia, 80s electro-pop,
90s shoegaze and 00s electronica into a
blender and turn it to ‘high’. A strange,
enveloping tangle of synthesised melody
and claustrophobic texture built around
Alpers’ raw and endlessly multi-layered
voice, Bachelorette will take you on a sonic
journey to a universe sustained by the logic
of androids, cities, waveforms and love.
Tribal, quirky, anthemic and rambunctious,
Melbourne four-piece Rat Vs Possum
make jumping electro-rock. Filled with
psychedelic synth warps, dance-ready
drums, offbeat harmonies and a ready-toparty attitude, they are the sound of the
future filtered through the riffs of the past.
Event Information
The Toff in Town
Second Floor, Curtin House
252 Swanston Street
The Toff in Town
Second Floor, Curtin House
252 Swanston Street
Wed 19 Oct
Doors open at 8pm
Wed 12 Oct
Doors open at 8pm
All tickets $25
Transaction & booking fees may apply
All tickets $25
Transaction & booking fees may apply
Save up to 20%. See page 73 for details.
Save up to 20%. See page 73 for details.
Over 18s event only
Over 18s event only
Moshtix 1300 438 849
thetoffintown.com
Ticketmaster 1300 723 038
melbournefestival.com.au
Moshtix 1300 438 849
thetoffintown.com
Ticketmaster 1300 723 038
melbournefestival.com.au
Supported by
Supported by
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