Intro Comp winners

Throughout December we’ll be featuring the winning entries of the Tinderbox Intro Comp, woohoo!

December 1st: Julio and Mick duet (taking away a nice little voucher for romantic meal at L’espresso ; ))

December 8th: Dave Myers brings us some beats (and for his trouble gets cheese and wine for 2 at the Bridge Hotel, sweet!)

December 15th: Karl Schenk, performance poet (takes away the voucher for Readings Books Music and Film, awesomeness)

and December 22nd: Dan Rolls musician extraordinaire (gets to go to a gig of his choice at the Toff in Town)

Big thanks to all the entrants and our supporters, you rock!!

November 24th Playlisto

Try Colour: Jezabels

Chat with Nathan Curnow- get along to the gallery today!

Across 110th st: Bobby Womack

Mariah Carey and weather (Nathan’s secret shame!)

Damn Your Eyes: Jo Jo Smith (playing Babushka Saturday night)

Interview with Jo Jo

Storm Warning: Jo Jo Smith

Television Man: Talking Heads (for Raymond)

Moves: Gold Fields (playing Karova saturday night)

In Colour: Hunting Grounds (playing at upcoming Rock the Valley)

Peastraw: Earl Leonard (playing at Part 2 of the Ballarat Songwriters Night at Portico on Saturday

Mr Lee Taylor chat with Mark and Vinci from Gold Fields (will put up audio soon!)

The Woods: Gold Fields

Breathing In: Arkie Williams

Some Girls: Rolling Stones (for Lou)

Mini gig guide (re-listen here)

Stranded in Your Love: Sharon Jones and Lee Fields

Treehouse (Gloves remix): Gold Fields

: )

Sparks ahoy!

Good fun was had by all on Tuesday night with our first Art Sparks Creative Gathering featuring the fabulous Lily Parker, Nathan Curnow and Amie Brulee. Here’s some pics taken by local photographer Aldona Kmiec:

Enjoy the Jade show tonight! with visits from local musicians Birahny Lawrence, Matt Malone and Aaron d’Arcy. And next week we’re chatting to Jo Jo Smith and the lads from Gold Fields. Sweet!

Music, Art and Sunshine, Amen!

I have been lucky enough to get along to the Straight to You Nick Cave tribute and Harvest Festival in the last week, and been treated to a feast of local and international stars!

Despite the obvious flaws of: in the former- a distinct ‘Variety Show’ feel, someone calling Ballarat ‘the outskirts of Melbourne’ and perhaps the complete uniqueness and inimitability of Cave himself ,and in the latter- long queues for food, drinks and amenities, how wonderful it is to gather and share this great live music and energy.

Portishead were amazing, wowing us all with their singular and emotional sound and fantastic visuals (including an image of lasers coming out of Tony Abbot’s devil eyes!). Glory Box and Roads, ah my heart! I also really dug TV on the Radio who I didn’t know very well, and well done to all the beautiful artist installations. Who knew Werribee could be so stink free?!

Highlights at Straight to You were definitely Kram on the drums, and Adalita in all her rocking out glory. I’m also a fan of Lanie Lane though the cape was a bizarre costume choice, and thanks to Alex from Sparkadia for his beautiful voice and daggy dancing. Keeping it real yo. Check out a great review from ABC’s Jarrod Watt here.

Me and Loz watching The National

& Me getting my Kram on

Giddeup!

Musica!

Playlist November 10th

Scream to the West: Puta Madre Bros (coming to the rat in January! also check them out as part of Melbourne Music Week)

Dance to the Music: Sly and the Family Stone (the latter half featuring at Harvest Festival)

Aint Hungry: Lanie Lane (one of the artists featured in the Straight to You Nick Cave Tribute)

The Coward: Ben Salter

The Cat: Ben Salter

Borderline: The Flaming Lips (for Heidi)

Cast that Devil Out: Abbe May (for Amie)

Perfection: Adalita

Straight to You: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Round the World with Mick Trembath:

Life: Doctor John w Allen Toussaint

Jonkoloni: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba

Tanguedia III: Astor Piazolla

The Adventures of Pee Pee the Sailor: The Bad Livers

Moroccan music from Gnawa Night Music

Nightwalk (from Songlines sampler)

Bahamut: Hazmat Modine

Street 66: Linton Kwesi Johnson

When the Levee Breaks: Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha

love this song!! Catch you next week groovers : )

Don’t forget to join us at Portico next Tuesday eve for the first Art Sparks! Creative Gathering, more deets here

Surf, Soul, Strums and Sparkles!

Playlist

These Days: Joy Division

How Come You Never Go There?: Feist (new album Metals)

What the Water Gave Me: Florence and the Machine (new album Ceremonials)

Wolves: Little John (supporting CBBR at the Hi Fi on Nov 12th- don’t miss this awesome live show!)

chat with Clairy Browne about new album Baby Caught the Bus and launch tour

Love Letter: Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes

Lets Get it On: Marvin Gaye (for Jade)

You Don’t Owe Me Nothing: Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes

Ship Song Project (taken from Uncovered Vol 3)

Personal Jesus: Johnny Cash

First Light of Day: Speed Orange (& there’s a new recording out- check it out here)

We Float: PJ Harvey (for Papa)

In Dreams: Roy Orbison

visit from The Indian Skies’ Tim and Samm (launching 3rd album Sunflower at Karova tonight, get along- apparently they need more ladies in the audience, it’s all getting a bit “too beardy”! Also don’t miss Juan Alban there tomorrow night)

Crystalline: Bjork (new album Biophilia)

Glory Box: Portishead

Inspector Longboard: Mikelangelo and the Tin Star

Mini gig guide Nov 3rd

Whatta Man: Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes

Hope you all enjoyed the show! Catch you next week : )

Coming Up

Another great month of awesome creative stuff on the way!

Thursday Nov 3rd: Chatting with Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes, and live performance from the Indian Skies‘ Samm Beulke

Thursday Nov 10th: Catching up with Ben Salter, featuring Harvest Festival and Straight to You artists, and taking a journey through some sweet new World music with Mick Trembath, ye-ha!

Thursday Nov 17th: It’s the Jade show! Jade will be programming and presenting, with a range of live local guests to stoke the Tinderbox fire

& Thursday Nov 24th: chat with the divine Jo Jo Smith and visit from local heroes Gold Fields.

Sounds pretty good ha?!

The weekly Tinderbox mini gig-guide will also be keeping you up to date with all the artistic adventures happening around town.

Don’t forget to rsvp for Art Sparks- a night by and for the local creative community, hosted by The Tinderbox! (good tunes and good times guaranteed!)