A hot club for a cold night! Set in the heart of the city, The Junc Room is the place to enjoy five days and nights of music, cabaret, dance, puppetry, circus, sideshow and much, much more.
Opening Hours: Wednesday 25 August- Thursday 26 August: 6pm-11pm; Friday 27 August:6pm-12am; Saturday 28 August: 4pm-12am; Sunday 29 August: 12:30 pm-5pm
Wednesday 25 August (Open 6pm - Late)
Mihirangi (6.30pm)
A one-woman show captivating an international audience Mihirangi's Maori roots and progressive techniques are portrayed by a unique vocal style and dynamic range that creates a band-sound live all with her voice looping-n-layering beat-boxing, bass-lines, harmonies, and riffs. From pursuing Japanese whaling fleets as a Sea Shepherd crewmember to performing to LA's highest-profile activists (including Dixie Chicks, Chilli Peppers, Pierce Brosnan, Martin Sheen), Mihirangi is a refreshing and revolutionary artist at the forefront of contemporary musical culture.
Rick Loves Anne (7.30pm)
Rick Loves Anne are named after an old, large, hand-painted piece of graffito in the Launceston Cataract Gorge. They are a folk-punk four-piece that sing, strum, pluck, blow and hit about a variety of topics including Tasmania, Archaeology, birds and relationships. We've been stuck inside a cocoon for a little while but what is about to emerge?...A cabbage moth? We're putting our money on a cabbage moth.
The Anorexic OIsen Twin (8.30pm)
Emotional, moody and catchy like a punch in the face. Punk, hard rocking tales of love, life, death and the zombie apocalypse told on an acoustic guitar, upright piano, violin and viola.
http://www.myspace.com/chrisburrows
PUTA MADRE BROTHERS (9.30pm)
Greasier than a deep fry of nacho cheese, hotter than a jalapeno in the desert sun, these three dirt-faced gringo brothers each strapped with a razor-edged guitar, a giant kick drum and a donkey-load of foot percussion pack a drunken punch of mariachi rock n roll soul music and lay claim to be the world's only surviving triple-one-man-band!. All at once, a three-headed one-man-band-band!
"weird, wrong, and loud!"- Anthony Morgan, Ex-Comedian
http://www.myspace.com/putamadrebrothers
Thursday 26 August (Open 6pm til late)
The wikimen (7pm)
The wikimen are an exciting trio that explores music from an era of cocktails and pineapples, hookahs and hulas and trans pacific holidays...Drawing influence from artist like Arthur Lymen, the mills brothers and Robert crumb and his cheap suit serenaders, the wikimen bring a breath of fresh sea breeze to the styles of jazz, Hawaiian swing and exotica. Combining ukulele, double bass, drums and outstanding vocal harmonies... this unique band is not to be missed...
http://www.myspace.com/wikimen
Chicada (9.30pm)
This audaciously accomplished Tasmanian based Samba outfit will whip you into a frenzy. Led by the irrepressible Franco Solis.
Friday 27 August (open 6pm til late)
Launceston Youth and Community Orchestra (5pm)
LYCO is one of only three community symphony orchestras in Tasmania. It has over 60 string, brass and woodwind and percussion musicians between its members. Under director Margaret Hoban, these disparate people all play together...mostly. www.lyco.org.au
Carl Fidler (6pm)
Carl's musical sojourn began at age 14 as a cabaret singer supporting some of Australia's finest crooners. At 17, Carl moved to Canberra to study Opera at the Australian National University and discovered his love for Pop Music. Carl has now flown away to Sydney with his new band Black Japan, but will be joining us back in Tassie this August for a whirlwind visit.
www.myspace.com/carlfidlercentre
Paint Your Golden Face (PYGF) (8pm)
PYGF are an independent two-piece band based in Hobart, Tasmania.
"Fruity it may be but consider me a fan of fruit. PYGF is doing something genuinely inventive. They've turned the traditional idea of back-up singers on its head and dragged it centre stage yet somehow managed to create a great live show without any back-up singers at all."
Kate Hennessy, Mess + Noise
www.myspace.com/wewillpaintyourgoldenface
Johnnie and the Johnnie Johnnies (9.30pm)
Wow! 4 ghosts! from 1963! Feel it! See it! The pulsating rhythms! The rapid fire low-slung E notes! The careering avalanche of bass! The heady swirls of speed demon Hammond organ! Be there! Bring your date to Johnnie and the Johnnie Johnnies!
www.myspace.com/johnnieandthejohnniejohnnies
Saturday 28 August (open 4pm til late)
University of Tasmania Community Music Program Wind Ensemble (5pm)
The WIRED Lab live... (6pm)
The WIRED Lab is based on Alan Lamb's sonic investigations into an æolian instrument called The Wires. Consisting of strained fencing wire spanning 100's of metres across open landscape the wires tap into a dynamic resonant universe of sounds. This is your chance to hear cult legend Lamb and Wired Lab members David Burraston & Sarah Last perform a live set of recent compositions derived from wire systems installed in regional NSW & WA.
Wired Lab has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and Arts NSW.
http://wiredlab.org
Out of the Blue Battle (7pm)
Hip-hop under the big-top!
Hosted by Indigenous Hip Hop Projects this event will see local hip hop crews and solo artists fight it out for prizes and prestige in the inaugural Out of the Blue Battle.
Nelson Mandoofa - DJ (8.30pm)
Hailing from the streets of Omdurman, Sudan, and fresh from his whirlwind tour of Japan, Nelson Mandoofa is the prodigal mash-up sensation taking the world by storm. His fast, fun, frenzy of modern classics will remain with you long after your legs are too tired to dance any more. The Gods would deem you crazy missing this.'
The Kurts (9.30pm)
This small scale orchestra is inspired by legendary German Pop Star Kurt Weill, who has influenced their specialised repertoire from Western Europe in the 1920s to the 1960s. Be sure to bring your dancing shoes as THE KURTS tango, waltz and swing you through an evening of story telling, operatic breaks and rich harmonies.
The Little Cubas - (11pm)
The Little Cubas formed in early 2009, and played their first gig a week later. Since then they have been in high demand playing 80 gigs in less than 12 months. They are a roots/hoedown based two-piece, consisting of J. Thomas on main vox/guitar and Kylie Souter on vox, congas and kit. They are well known for their incendiary and vibrant live shows. Delivering a formidable and highly enjoyable sound for a two-piece, they are guaranteed to get the party started with their danceable and hook laden indie rock n'roots.
www.myspace.com/thelittlecubas
Sunday 29 August (open from 12.30pm til 5pm)
Dewayne Everettsmith (1.30pm)
In just a few years, Dewayne's voice has taken him to American Samoa, New Zealand, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and many parts of Australia. Recently, it's put him onstage as John Farnham's support and in a duet with Paul Kelly during the Black Arm Band's dirtsong show - just possibly upstaging Mr Kelly in the process! Descended from the Aboriginal community of Cape Barren Island and the Gunai people of Victoria, his music can't be pigeonholed as Indigenous - influenced by his heritage, but shaped by his tough early years and love of so many styles and great singers.
Guthrie (3pm)
Guthrie have been achieving and turning heads all across this deep southern isle. They can be found stomping out their swamp grooves from north to south, east and west. Their unique brand of swamp blues/rock/hardcore is not to be missed. Give these young men the chance...and they'll spit fire! Brace yourselves!!!
www.myspace.com/liamguthrie
PUTA MADRE BROTHERS (4pm)Come and join us for one final Hoe-down.
Greasier than a deep fry of nacho cheese, all at once, a three-headed one-man-band-band!
"weird, wrong, and loud!"- Anthony Morgan, Ex-Comedian
http://www.myspace.com/putamadrebrothers
Throughout the Event:
Barry Morgan's World of Organs
Friday 28 August & Saturday 29 August
Barry Morgan, the ultimate organ salesman will delight and entertain you as he performs his original organ favourites, whilst demonstrating the many fascinating features of the 1981 Hammond Aurora Classic. When he says Morgan, you'll say organ.
POET LAUREATE TELIA NEVILE - WHILE I'M AWAY
You're invited to join a mighty expedition, set against a 1970s slideshow of the world's greatest sights. Fresh from an acclaimed 2009 Melbourne Fringe season, the awkwardly intrepid Poet Laureate Telia Nevile awaits your arrival for immediate departure on a deliciously ridiculous grand tour of life, love and lyricism for the modern daydreamer.
"Four stars. If the thought of a poetry reading terrifies you more than turbulence, relax: this flight soars." The Age
Hamlet - A tragedy in 20 min
A fast paced, highly physical and extremely funny retelling of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy in 20 min. Combining slapstick, melodrama, clowning and puppetry, two clowns juggle all the roles. Their set is like a pop-up castle, enabling them to make grand entrances and exits, as they run in and out of doorways, make lightning costume changes and flagrantly upstage each other.
Laugh at the comedy, cry at the tragedy, clap at the end.
The Biscuit Readings
Astrology meets Arnotts: Are you more Tim Tam than Barbecue Shape? Find out the truth - your inner biscuit revealed at The Biscuit Readings. Betty and Bert Bircher offer you a cup of tea, served in the family's best china, from their all-terrain tea trolley. Betty gives a "reading", divining what biscuit you are. Sort your inner biscuit out this year at Junction 2010.
www.thebiscuitreadings.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SOQr5_EC4I
One Trick Pony
With a distinct vaudeville charm, and absurdist sympathies, their range of short cabaret pieces have been delighting and confronting audiences around Melbourne and interstate. From Horse-headed carousel women, to gruff hyper-masculine Strongmen, to polite and repressed Housewives, each of their acts is beautifully realised and finished with a retro style that nods to Burlesque and Dance performers of the 1930's - 50's.
Terrapin Puppet Theatre - Bumface and Jeff's Duet
A digital Puppetry skit based on work for Terrapin's upcoming new school touring show the Gatekeeper.
Cecil Brown
Cecil Brown performs middle aged middle class hip hop. A beloved regular of Hobart's comedy scene Cecil has recently performed in the Best of Sydney Comedy Festival at the Comedy Store, Hobart Comedy Festival 2010 and at the legendary Manly Hotel. He is about to release a new radio and online series. Cecil Brown is the love-child of ABC radio presenter, actor and writer Ryk Goddard.
Slipstream Circus - FREAKS AND GEEKS
Based in Ulverstone on the North West Coast of Tasmania Slipstream Circus's highly skilled senior performance troupe the Freaks and Geeks have been amazing audiences all over their home state and the mainland with extraordinary feats of human capabilities.
Also featuring:
Local Poets, surprise happenings and collaborations, Resident DJ's and VJ's and much, much more!
