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GIGS…this weekend..
Here’s a fun one this weekend! Local tuff funk outfit ULTRAVIBRALUX are finally launching their 10″ ep on Sunday at the WORKERS club. Supported by another upcoming young funk band THE SEVEN UP’S and Chris Gill DJ’ing, this will turn out be be a fun day. Yes, it is held during the day. A good chance to bring some younguns though and see some live FUNKY music! 
Mulatu Astatke returns to Melbourne
Tickets are now on sale for the upcoming Mulatu show, featuring the one and only Mulatu Astatke, backed by Melbourne’s own The Black Jesus Experience. This time we’re in for a real treat with the tour being billed as ‘RARE GEMS FROM THE ADDIS ABABA CRATES’, hopefully that means all the classics and other masterpieces that we’ve all been hoping he might play during past tours. JOINTS LIKE THIS!
Tickets at Northside $40+BF. Don’t sleep –> and don’t miss Chris Gill bringing mad Ethio-heat, dancefloor action and the usual pulsating primitive rhythms that you be diggin…
this saturday! CACTUS CHANNEL launch
make sure you are there! This is history in the making. The funkiest instrumental band in the world just so happen to be the youngest instrumental band in the world.
Many years in the making, many many grooves were laid down to get their sound. The launch is going to be a great night. Doors open at 8pm and the whole things wraps up at 11pm, so get in early start dancing and don’t stop. I am VERY excited about this record release. 
same night MORE funk…..
after the Cactus Channel the SASKWATCH kids play at the john Curtain hotel in Carlton (Across the road from Soul A Go Go) - thats right a LOOOOOOONG night of funky soul baby!
New venue - NEW NIGHT - VOODOO SHAKE!
A new venue lurks in the inner North. Where once stood Baba, now glows a new animal - the B.EAST. It’s a licensed band venue that will be bringing the funk. Lauching this new monthly dirty funky soul night, VOODOO SHAKE!, are the local afrobeat magnates, THE PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA. I will be dj’ing alongside Mr Future Roots. The night looks like it might be free. DO NOT MISS THIS!
if you can’t wait and need some more funk. Check out the legendary DJ DEXTER (of the Avalanches) Fridays in JULY and Thursdays in AUGUST
SYDNEY COMMUNITY CUP 2012
Sunday 18th March will go down as the day of the INAUGURAL Sydney Community Cup. After two decades as an institutional spot on Melbourne’s sport calender, Reclink have expanded the footy love up to Sydney.
The day was great and the only real injury happened during the kick to kick at the start with a dad and his son. (broken shoulder!!)
The big winner on the day was THE SYDNEY SAILORS, the team made up of media peoples, defeating the WESTERN WAILERS (musicians). 7.4.46 to 5.7.37.
I went down to represent with a few Melbourne lads and we all had a great day! See some happy snaps….
more pics later!
STEPKIDS THIS SATURDAY
This Saturday US band THE STEPKIDS come to Australia for the first time. 
The Stepkids are three singer/songwriters. “A lot of what excites us about this band is this band itself,” says bassist and keyboardist Dan Edinberg. “It’s not either of us; it’s about creating an entity where the entity itself is what’s important.” As a result, every song on the Stepkids self-titled debut album is written with equal input from each member.
“All three of us write and all three of us sing,” says Jeff Gitelman, who resigned from touring as Alicia Keys’ guitarist to concentrate full-time on recording the Stepkids self-titled debut album. Drummer Tim Walsh continues, “There’s an equal split in the creative process. Any lyric, any melody, any idea could have been done by any of us.”
This approach comes from more than a decade of musical experimentation and experience. Raised on the East Coast jazz and R&B circuit, individual band members went on to share stages with 50 Cent and Lauryn Hill, tour internationally with indie punk band Zox, score movies and commercials and produce solo albums.
The Stepkids groove is a fusion of punk and jazz, West African and 1960s folk, neo and classic soul, classic funk and 20th century classical. The band produce, engineer and record themselves on a reel-to-reel.
There’s no singular icon, no singular sound, and no singular way of making it happen for the Stepkids. It’s psychedelia for the 21st century, where the focus is on the whole.
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Latest release
SASKWATCH "I Get Lonely / Your Love (Brain Children remix)"Saskwatch are taking giant steps now. Forging ahead into a brave new world, their new single has been recorded by Mikey Young (from Eddy Current Supression Ring) and he gives it a tougher sound yet on the vinyl recording (as opposed to the what you'll hear through computers) it is still swimming in big fat bass. The track I Get Lonely is a rolling funk anthem which results in Nkechi dancing and making you get down as well. Hand claps can sound all the way through. All the band get to star in this, with the horns out front and guitar driving it, but yet again its Nkechi who you have to hear. She is getting better with each release. Penned by Liam McGorry he is now known as Melbourne's Quincy Jones. The flip has Saskwatch walking in new territory with an electronic remix by Mikey Young (and Max Crumbs) who form Brain Children. It sounds haunting and spooky yet retains the soul of the song, as they flip octaves on Nkechi's voice. SOUL OF MELBOURNE: OUT NOW!
A diverse selection of Funk, Neo Soul, Northern, Afro and more. 18 hand-picked tunes (inc. 4 previously-unreleased exclusives) from the cream of the Melbourne soul scene. Featuring THE BAMBOOS, SASKWATCH, THE CACTUS CHANNEL, KYLIE AULDIST, ELECTRIC EMPIRE, CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES, HIATUS KAIYOTE & more. Compiled by Chris Gill (Northside Records) and Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos), this is the first compilation to showcase and expose Melbourne’s thriving modern Soul music scene. 18 TRACK CD & 12 TRACK VINYL (NR002CD / NR002LP) SASKWATCH: LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND – OUT NOW
This week marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship between you and your record store / record label. SASKWATCH "Leave It All Behind", is the first album released on Northside Records. More will be coming out on the label with plans up my sleeve. Look out for a dope local compilation very soon! But first SASKWATCH. Dropping on Friday – drop in to get it. Check the Saskwatch website for more details, show and more.
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