May 5, 2012 8:00 pm

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May 6, 2012 6:00 am

A night of fire acts, juggling, burlesque, music, piercing, and suspension.

Featuring: Calamity Hawkins, Venus Vamp, The Imperial Melodists, Cybridian, Mz Sharon, Deviant Dee, and Dan Lovett.

This event is extreme, and is 18+ only.
We feature acts that range from tame to …perverse. Some acts could cause offense, so their content will be announced before they perform, so that any patron who would be offended can make their own decision to observe.

Located at the Midian, in Marrickville.
Doors open at 8.00Pm. Entertainment is from 9.00Pm till 1.00am
Tickets are available from: In Visible Light for $15.
Entry on the night is $20 on the door.

Questions may be asked on the event’s Facebook page.

Two years ago we went to the MICF showing of John Robertson’s A Nifty History of Evil,a delightfully macabre little show.

John is back in town with his new show Blood & Charm,which was a smashing success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

It’s an amazingly grim, yet somehow very amusing mix of bedtime stories and personal anecdotes for very fucked up people (i.e. regular readers of this blog…. or as regular as you would be if there were more regular posts, but I’ll still blame you for this… somehow). Jokes about being a child’s entertainer that gets to punch a child in the face at a party. Childrens’ fairytales about how little matchstick girls fall into solipsistic doubt before freezing to death. Anecdotes about his previous girlfriend that liked razors more than Johnny Depp or how his father that happened to be a massive fan of slipknots (not the band). The kind of thing that would make a genuininely good childrens book for adults like Go The Fuck To Sleep.

Even without the manic grin that can only be likened to Death putting on a flesh mask, it is all genuinely funny. There is no need for nervous laughter or the “I’m laughing because the only other option is crying” sort of chuckles because John has managed to find a perfect form of self-deprecation that can only be termed “autoschadenfreude”. If you are going to see a show at the comedy festival, it better bloody well be So You’ve Decided To Host An Orgy, but if you’re going to see more than one, then this better be on the list as well.

Shows are only daily at 10pm at the Victorian Trades Hall in Carlton.

Tickets ($20/$15conc) are available through the MICF website and box office or at the Trades Hall box office.

February 11, 2011 9:00 pm	to	February 12, 2011 3:00 am
March 11, 2011 9:00 pm	to	March 12, 2011 3:00 am
April 8, 2011
12:00 am	to	3:00 am

NEO fetish/gothic is, for want of a better word, and interface point between fetish and gothic nightclubbing.

Every 4th Friday at ABODE, 374 St.Kilda.rd, St Kilda, the club offers a variety of activities for the curious, the regulars, and the members. Originally starting upstairs in what was the members only area, it has since expanded and moved downstairs, allowing for a larger number of people, and a wider variety of displays.

Displays, you ask? (more…)

May 15, 2010 10:00 pm

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May 16, 2010 4:00 am

For over a decade now, the man behind Cyberball has been running a few irregular BDSM/Fetish costume theme nights. Achtung is one of those, with a uniform (particularly militaria) bent to it.

By and large I’m a fan of these events provided they’re in a good venue. Sadly, this one isn’t, being held at Inflation, 60 King.st, Melbourne, with $15 entry fee.

There are a lot of things that Dark Events does right. They’re good with promotions. Find nice DJs. Are ok at not pissing off too many of what I like to call the “fractional scenesters”. It’s just the venue thing seems to be a real bugbear. Since the Paladin effectively became closed down, and goths are effectively persona non grata at what it’s become, it’s been hard for Dark Events to become situated at a venue that is cost effective for the promoter, and not a massively overpriced, understocked shit hole.

DJs include Schism, Doctor D, Robert Cyberman, Iggy D, and Onya Box.