January at GoodGod Small Club

Mess & Noise Lunchbox Series #16

EXPATRIATE FRIDAY JANUARY 20th – DANCETERIA 1pm / FREE
For the second time in its short history, the M+N Lunchbox series will head to Sydney for a free lunchtime performance by Expatriate at Goodgod!
The band, who recently returned to Australia following an extended stint in Europe, will play a set of songs from their forthcoming second albumHyper/Hearts, including new single ‘Miracle Mile’. The follow-up to 2007 debut In The Midst of This, the album was recorded at Monnow Valley Studios in Wales with producer Andy Savours (PNAU, The Killers) and completed at Expatriate’s home studio in Berlin. It’ll be out through Dew Process in the first half of 2012.
In a soon-to-be-published interview with M+N, frontman Ben King said the title was a reference to the band’s experiences over the past few years, which included a 26-date arena tour as main support to Placebo; sold-out headline shows in Switzerland, France, Germany, UK and Greece; and a run of festival dates in the European summer.
M+N’s Lunchbox series made its Sydney debut with a performance by Gareth Liddiard as part of Sydney Festival in January this year. Other recent performances have included The Howling Bells, Adalita, The Panics, Henry Wagons and The Vasco Era.
As always, the performance will be recorded for later consumption on M+N TV.

ROUTE 66 Presents…
WOLF CALL FRIDAY JANUARY 20 – DANCETERIA 9pm / $10 on the door
+ MOTHER & SON
+ WAILING WALL
+ MADELAINE LUCAS does EMMYLOU HARRIS
+ FLASH & CRASH DJs
Presented by ROUTE 66, it’s another Wolf Call to rally you into the depths of wild Americana…
SEE and HEAR! LIVE and IN PERSON!
Mother & Son~ two-man band clangin’ ‘n’ bangin’ som’ garage swamp surf!
Wailing Wall ~ Instrumental 1930s Chicago blues! We found these gems playin’ on the street!
Madelaine Lucas ~ One time only! For your eyes only! performing EMMYLOU HARRIS NUMBERS!
FLASH & CRASH DJs ~ Classics, rarities, all 45s. Get boot scootin!

CLUB AL
SATURDAY JANUARY 21 – FRONT BAR 9PM / FREE!
Question:
When AL is DJing, it means it’s time to…

a) Dance
b) Boogie
c) Grind
d) Nod ya head
e) Dagger
If you answered ALL OF THE ABOVE then you know the score! This saturday, the grand master chef of the Dip kitchen is stepping out from behind the deep fryer and into the Front Bar’s tropical DJ nook to thin your soles a little.
HE GOES BY THE NAME OF AL
Playing all that good stuff (aka whatever the hell he wants.) AL NIGHT LONG…

Subsonic & Techno Tuesday present…
CESARE VS DISORDER SATURDAY JANUARY 21 – DANCETERIA
10pm / $15 +BF through Resident Advisor
CESARE VS DISORDER (Vakant/Dumb Unit/Clink)
+ ANNA LEEVIA
+ GLITCH DJs
+ CHRIS HONNERY
+ MSG fest MARCOTIX

Calling all Techno fiends! Subsonic returns for its first party of the new year on Saturday 21 January, a joint venture with techno tuesday and headlined by Italy’s Cesare Marchese, aka Cesare vs Disorder, the force behind the Mean and Serialism labels.

Cesare vs Disorder is a resident DJ at renowned Berlin club Kater Holzig (formerly Bar25), and returns Down Under for the first time since his performance at the inaugural Subsonic Music Festival back in that acid-washed summer of ’09. Since that tour, Cesare’s club credentials have continued to grow markedly as he has released on labels like Vakant and had his tracks featured on Sven Vath’s ‘Sound of the Tenth Season’ Cocoon mix, Konrad Black’s Watergate compilation (under his Queen Atom moniker) and, most recently, Damian Lazarus’ acclaimed ‘Get Lost Vol.4’ on CrossTown Rebels.

As Resident Advisor lauded, “for sheer hedonistic exuberance and the type of body-pummeling rhythms that will have you dancing like a loon, look no further than Cesare Marchese”. So without further ado, Subsonic and techno tuesday invite you to do exactly that and experience the hedonistic exuberance of Cesare vs Disorder first hand in the intimate confines of Goodgod.

COMING SOON TO GOODGOD

SUN ARAW & PRINCE RAMA
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 25 – DANCETERIA 9pm / $20 + Booking Fee
PRINCE RAMA (USA)
SUN ARAW (USA)
+ HOLY BALM
+ RITES WILD

US psych-pop bedfellows SUN ARAW and PRINCE RAMA head down under this Summer! The bands will join forces for a kaleidoscopic show bringing their dubby dance jams and transcendental melodies into the heart of Goodgod country!

SUN ARAW has performed in the US, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand with hundreds of artists, including luminaries like Christian Fennesz and Konono No. 1. Sometimes compared to Animal Collective, Sun Araw’s music is trippy, organic and deeply psychedelic, drawing on inspiration from afrobeat, west coast ’60s psych, Neil Young and krautrock. But it’s more than mere imitation: present is a real contemporary sense of inspiration, which is why Sun Araw’s music is heads and shoulders above the pack.

Comprised of sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson and their friend Michael Collins, PRINCE RAMA were raised on a Hare Krishna commune in Florida, educated at an art school in Boston, and now make noise in Brooklyn. The music of Prince Rama sifts through the global landscape of trance-induction, drawing inspiration from Krishna chants, horror soundtracks, revelatory psychedelic explorations, and the codeine drone of slowed and chopped rap. Their latest album Trust Now, which was produced by Scott Colburn (Arcade Fire, Animal Collective), is an epic shrine of swirling synths, pulsing guitars and thunder drums. An ethereal chorus of voices and anthemic melodies create a reverb-washed mine of sonic artifacts drawing from southeast Asian rituals, krautrock legacies, chopped and screwed homages, hallucinatory operas and dance hall psychedelia. Prince Rama’s live set, honed by ceaseless touring throughout the last three years, is a terrifying, celebratory and transcendent experience.

DEREB THE AMBASSADOR
THURSDAY JANUARY 26 – DANCETERIA 8pm / $18 +BF
DEREB THE AMBASSADOR
+ Asthmatix

Dereb The Ambassador’s repertoire unites a classic jazz-fusion sounds of 60’s-70’s Ethiopia now becoming increasingly popular around the globe, as well as shoulder-shakingly rhythmical incarnations of traditional Ethiopian tunes, and of course a swagful of spicy, hypnotic originals.

Born in Ethiopia, Dereb Desalegn (aka Dereb the Ambassador) grew up surrounded by a family of musicians, and from an early age was completely immersed in his home country’s richly unique melange of sounds, rhythms and musical styles. Now based in Sydney, Dereb’s musical career has gained considerable momentum over the past year with the release of an acclaimed debut album and several Australian performances at venues in Sydney and Melbourne as well as at larger festivals such as Womadelaide.
As word about Dereb continues to spread, his mind-blowing vocal talents and addictive brand of Ethio-soul enthrals a growing fan base of happily music-savvy folk who know there’s more to life than three-chord guitar rock. Backed by a ridiculously tight seven-piece ensemble that boasts some of the hardest-working musicians on the Sydney scene, Dereb the Ambassador taps into territory hitherto uncharted on local stages, and in doing so breathes a kaleidoscope of texture into the possibilities for music in Australia.
And as if that’s not enough: supporting Dereb are the cheeky, self-proclaimed 21st-century diasporic hip-hopsters, the Asthmatix. This energetic four-piece perform daring feats of genre-crossing to create a dizzying mash-up of klezmer, hip hop, middle eastern melodies and good old-fashioned turntablism that’s more than worth checking out live.
Sounds hot? You betcha. This one is set to strike the musical motherlode – definitely not to be missed.

BONZA MATE!
THURSDAY JANUARY 26 – FRONT BAR 7PM / FREE!
DJs
ERIC SHORTBREAD
DJ HEY MAN
HARRY BLANCHE
JESSE COREY

This Straya day falls on a Thursday. You’d be a drongo not to chuck a sickie the next day!
SO, put on some SHORTS and head to GOODGOD for an evening of fair-dinkum frivolty.

DJs Eric Shortbread, Hey Man, Harry Blanche, and Jesse Corey playing beer guzzling anthems and dancefoor thumpers til heaps late.

If you get hungry there’s no need to eat the arse out of a low flying galah. Shove one of them tasty AUSSIE WORKS BURGERS down your hatch instead. And for desert – LIME MILKSHAKE ICECREAM! Thanks to the true-blue legends at The Dip.
Abso-bloody-lutely FREE in the Front Bar from 7pm. It’s Bonza, Mate!

LOW MOTION
BASS MUSIC FRIDAY JANUARY 27 – DANCETERIA 11PM / $5
HYPERCOLOUR
GIELIS
SWINDLE
MAX GOSFORD
PREACHA

Low Motion Is back for 2012 with the best bass heavy business Sydney has to offer! Join residents Preacha and Max Gosford along with a BIG line up of Guest dj’s Including Gielis, Hypercolour, Swindle and Zeus.

Expect to hear the best Forward thinking Garage, UK funky and Dubstep that is still primed for the dancefloor.

Low Motion at Goodgod January 27th. QUALITY BASS MUSIC!
Check out Preacha’s summer mix – choc full of cheeky R’n’B edits and sub rattling goodness!

HOOPS
SATURDAY JANUARY 28 – DANCETERIA 10PM / $10 before Midnight!
HOOPS ~
BAD EZZY
ANNA LUNOE
NINA LAS VEGAS
The Hoops girls know how to throw a party! They’ve been making it rain with party jam euphoria for as long as we can remember. But the loveable miss Anna Lunoe is about jet set off to the USA, so the girls are squeezing in one last Sydney party together for who knows how long!
Yeah you heard, THIS MAY BE THE LAST HOOPS PARTY FOR A WHILE 🙁

So put on your sexiest shirt and prepare yourself for heaps of microphone usage, too much dancing, and lots of hands in the air-yuh like you just don’t care-yuh as we we bid Bon Voyage to Lunoe!!!

GoodGod Small Club

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Sydney NSW 2000

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