Tinderbox BAMF Part 2
Ballarat Acoustic Music Festival this Saturday! Don’t miss it!
Playlist & Proceedings-
Cities in Dust: Siouxsie and the Banshies
Clockwatching: Belleruche
Moon Over the Ruined Castle: Project Trio
Girl You Move Me: Seu Jorge & Almaz
BAMF warm up visit from Adam Simmons- get down to visit him as artist in residence at Backspace near the Art Gallery
(check out some more pics in our gallery)
Alak-ala: Adam Simmons
Little Star: Stina Nordenstam
Leila Au Pays Du Carrousel: Anouar Brahem
Great Waves: Dirty Three and Chan Marshal
Visit from BAMF artists Jacinta Dennett & Patrick McCabe
Open Your Eyes: Indian Skies (live in the studio next week!)
I Feel Possessed: Oh Mercy (double pass to giveaway next week to Karova gig on April 7th!)
Cicadas: Cowboy Junkies
The Glorious Land: PJ Harvey
Boogaloo: Mulatu Astatke
Them There Eyes: Billie Holiday (for Klaudia)
Jungle Blues: C.W Stoneking (for Louis J)
These Days: The Black Keys
First Light of the Day: Speed Orange
Don’t Know Much: Linda Rondstadt (Lauren’s dedication to Amy. I think she mentioned the word tragic…)
Get Up: Hot 8 Brass Band (Amy’s dedication to Lauren)
Okey doke folks- Also stay tuned for news on the upcoming Castlemaine Arts Festival. Have a great week!
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BAMF
Thanks to our guests last night Justin ‘Hap’ Haywood, Mick Trembath and Rex Hardware, helping to get us all in the mood for the Ballarat Acoustic Music Festival on Saturday 26th- from 7.30 at the Ballarat Observatory. Lauren & I will be there doing some interviews, photos and things on the ground, so come join us in your best dancing threads, shall be a special night!
Tinderbox Thursday!
Hello! Hope everyone dug the theme collection last week and another great show coming up tonight with live performances, interviews, new albums, and a bit of Irish stuff in there for old St paddy’s too! Hope you’ll join us.
I had the pleasure of seeing Joanna Newsom perform last night at the Recital Centre- she’s not everyone’s cup of tea but that is one talented and unique lady I’ll tell you! She had a band gathered who re-imagined some of her earlier material, ‘rocked out’ at points, and did some beautiful harmonies which was great but there’s nothing like seeing her just go for it with voice and harp, amazing.
Check her out here. I also just left thinking what an exhilarating yet exhausting life it must be for professional musicians, what with all the touring and whatnot. All hail! ; )
Speaking of which- we’ll also have a double pass to give away to see two great ladies on Saturday night in Melbourne town, Pikelet and Sophia Brous. Thanks to venue Toff in Town for supporting the Tinderbox!
Playlist from last week:
Buzzin Fly: Tim Buckley
Seven Nation Army: Nostalgia 77 Feat Alice Russell
Whole Lotta Love: The Dynamics
Baby I Love you: Angelique Kidjo w Martha Reeves
Lovesong: The Cure
Blue Moon Revisited: Cowboy Junkies
Take me to the River: Talking Heads
If you see her say hello: Jeff Buckley
Unison: Bjork
Daniel: Bat for Lashes
Birthday: Sugarcubes
Sexual Healing: Hot 8 Brass Band
Make the Road by Walking: Menahan Street Band
Respect: Aretha Franklin
Aint No Mountain High Enough: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
How Can you Mend a Broken Heart: Al Green
How my Heart Behaves: Feist
Alice: Cocteau Twins
Paradise Circus: Massive Attack Feat. Hope Sandoval
Hurt: Johnny Cash
Walk on By: Isaac Hayes
Can’t Take My Eyes off You: Lauryn Hill
Charlotte: Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
Take Me Back: Souixee & the Banshees
Sugarlumps: Flight of the Conchords
EVERYDAY TEMPLES
The renowned Tony Yap Company (tyc) descended upon Ballarat’s historic Mining Exchange last night to a large crowd drawn from near and far, for the Australian premiere of Eulogy for the Living.
The excited audience queued down Lydiard St, overwhelming front of house staff with the unexpected turnout. Once inside we readied ourselves, standing, sitting, sprawling where space would allow, in the impressive hall of historic traders and contemporary home to the arts.
In anticipation we marvelled at the creative transformation of the building, adorned with Pia Interlandi’s large white fabric installation set against the arched windows, letting in the last light of the day.
Resembling giant prayer flags, tyc’s ‘devotional work’ began, as the ensemble slowly wove through the space, dressed in individual dance rags and partaking in a silent ritual of cleansing. The centre of the flags became the temple, with Tony Yap (director and performer) presiding over proceedings. Five ‘movements’ followed, showcasing the company’s unique physical style combining Asian and contemporary dance practice and their spell-binding use of multimedia. This included a soundtrack of original & borrowed components designed by Gus Macmillan, stunning video work and live sound by Matthew Gingold and installation utilising the compartments of the building’s heritage architecture.
The tapestry of live bodies and voices (working at an amazingly precise and demanding level it made us tired just watching them!), recorded and live audio, projected imagery and installation, created its own language with which to communicate themes of transience and deeper connection, struggle and peace, ‘eulogising ourselves in each moment’ in order to move forward.
What to ‘make’ of the piece I imagine is quite a personal response for the many present, but the sense of contrast between the individual and group experience of modern life and a more spiritual connection to living played out in the various movements, coming to rest in a final cleansing.
A complex and moving work about making our way in the world, Eulogy For the Living was a creative offering to the people of Ballarat and beyond, that the audience will take and meditate on for a long time after.
Directed by Tony Yap Creative collaborator Yumi Umiumare Created & performed by Tony Yap, Yumi Umiumare, Adam Forbes, Janette Hoe, Yoka Jones, Geraldine Morey, Daniel Mounsey, Ben Rogan, Brendan O’Connor Video Design by Matthew Gingold Fabric installation by Pia Interlandi Lighting and production by Dori Dragon Bicchierai Sound by Gus Macmillan TYC Producer Kath Papas TYC is incubated by Multicultural Arts Victoria
March 3rd
La Certitude: Francois Breut
Long After Tonight is Over: Irma Thomas (soul queen of New Orleans, doing a Bluesfest sideshow at the Corner Hotel on April 20th)
St James Infirmary: Louis Armstrong
So Sorry: Feist
Hurt Me: The Jezabels
Sad Sun: Teeth and Tongue (new album out soon!)
Rhapsody in Red: John Steel Singers
Chat with Tony Yap re Eulogy for the Living, a multi-media dance work happening this Saturday, 8pm at the Mining Exchange, 40 Lydiard St Nth. Ph 53205858 $22/$15 concession
Rambling Man: Hank Williams
Here Comes the Sun: The Beatles (for Tony)
Blacky Joe: P.R.O (People Rock Outfit)
Magic: Joan as Policewoman
We All Get Exactly What We’re Asking For: Speed Orange (for Brendan)
Swim: Cooperblack
Little Woman You’re so Sweet (for Louis J and Rose)
The Sun is a Merry Go Round: Young Werther
Cars at Night: The Underminers
Anchor and Hope: The Dead Salesmen duo on UB live (for Billy)
The Horses Never Stopped Watching Them: Sean M Whelan and the Interim Lovers
Ember: Dirty Three
Jackrabbits: Joanna Newsom (For Kelly, playing at Golden Plains)
Helen interview with Amy from amazing young band Stonefield and their single Through the Clover
Hope you enjoyed! Check out the creative happenings page for exciting events happening around town : )