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‘Thirty pieces in all (including a twenty-piece horn section), The Melbourne Ska Orchestra may be the largest aggregation of its kind ever gathered on one stage anywhere in the world'. - The Deep End, Radio National 2003
The Melbourne Ska Orchestra has become an institution in the Melbourne music scene. First started by Mohair Slim and Nicky Bomba in 2003, the first concert celebrated 40 years of Jamaican Ska music. It was an instant hit. 200 people turned away at the Eplanade’s Gershwin Room in St Kilda. Follow up performances at the Corner Hotel and Gershwin Room have all resulted in sold out affairs.
Conducted by Nicky Bomba in his ad hoc style, the music covers the golden ska period of 1963 (Skatalites/Wailers) through to the British Two Tone craze (Madness, Specials etc) and anything positive and significant in between. The show is an uplifting experience with audience participation big on the agenda. Members of the orchestra are from all the leading ska/reggae bands in Australia including Strange Tenants, Area 7, Bomba, Commissioner Gordon, 99%Fat, RedSand Shuffle, Ska Vendors, Loin Groin, Trojan Horns and more.
Featuring top Australian performers as guest artists, last year the Orchestra invited Jamaican singing legend Owen Gray (now residing in London) as their first international guest. The show was a huge sold out success with Owen pledging allegiance to the Australian style! A song was written and recorded while he was here 'INNA ONE YARD' which was included on Liberation Records 'Weekend Sessions 2' Compilation.
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Sitars n Bleeps - Melbournes first Eastern Electro and Dub festival! This Saturday 17th October at First Floor, 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. 9 PM!! Featuring Dub the Magic Dragon, Bulke, DJ Lord Lingham, DJ BP, with Visual Arts from Arnold Eye and Irons! It will be a call for racial harmony in the wake of recent violence towards Indian immigrants living in Australia! We will celebrate our cultural diversity and human likeness with performances from artists of a wide variety of racial and cultural backgrounds. One world, One people, One love!
New Slackers CD! New MP3! The Slackers' CD, "Lost & Found: Redos, Remixes, and Rarities 1998-2007" is gonna be out in mid-october on special potato records. See blog and sample mp3s at www.myspace.com/theslackers Available as of Oct 15 via www.interpunk.com, www.phonocaster.com, soon to be available in japan on Disk Union
New Downloads! The Slackers 2009 booze cruise available on www.whatevski.org 25 songs for $5 bucks! Favorites! Rarities! Special Versions! Soon to come, the Slackers at Slackfest 2009!
Oct 8 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place Oct 9/10 - Toronto, Ont - Lees Palace - 2 nights! Oct 11 - Montreal, Que - Club Soda
Oct 15 - Berlin - So36 Oct 16 - Jena - Kassablanca Oct 17 - Stuttgart - Universum Oct 18 - Schaffhausen - Kammgarn Oct 19 - Barcelona - Razzmatazz Oct 20 - Valencia - Black Note Oct 21 - Madrid - Caracol Oct 22 - Rome - Forte Prenestino Oct 23 - Athens - AN club Oct 24 - Istanbul - Jolly Roger Balans Oct 25 - Milano - Magnolia Club Oct 26 - Slovenia - Bala Hala Oct 27 - Zagreb - Kset Oct 28 - Graz - PPC oct 29 - Vienna- Arena Oct 30 - Wiener Neustadt - Treibwerk Oct 31 - Regensburg - Alte Malzerei
Dec 3 - San Antonio - White Rabbit Dec 4/5 - Austin - Flamingo Dec 6 - Houston - Meridian Dec 8 - New Orleans - one eyed jacks Dec 9 - Tallahasee - Engine Room Dec 10 - Tampa - Crowbar Dec 11 - Mia
Greetings from Tighten Up Radio Show, We wish to inform you about a brand-new 7 inch single from CARLTON LIVINGSTON and ECHO MINOTT published during this summer 2009, A wicked combination : CARLTON LIVINGSTON and ECHO MINOTT on the same 7 inch single !!!
Pama Intl-Happenstance is the first of 3 singles to be taken from Pama Intl's much anticipated forthcoming album Pama Outernational (scheduled for a Oct/Nov'09 release)
well i was at a party in the bush and this lady who i thought was sexy said to me out of the blue if you were an animal you would be a crab i am staring into a fire in the middle of nowhere and she says i would be a crab
now in the beginning this made me feel a little weird who did this woman think she was no man would be happy with a crab right give him a tiger a lion a horse and eagle but a crab
as the night when on i developed a crab dance that took the heat off me a little bit seems people can love crabs especially when they dance there was crab sex in a tent later that night who would have thought a crab could do such things
two things i have learnt about the crab one is that its teeth are located in its stomach so if i the crab happened to ask that sexy lady to just relax and rest her head on my stomach well you know the rest and secondly if a crab loses his claw in a battle he can just grow it back which would make piano playing interesting
if you want to see the crab dance or the man she says reminded her of crab you can see him and his wonderful talented band this SAT 25 and SUN 26 at the TOFF IN TOWN Swanston St MELB CITY show kicks off around 8 its 10 dollars cause of the recession see you there
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