Documentation: Default Jamerson cassette launch

Mitchell Brennan


MV


Dick Threats


Default Jamerson



Thanks to the folk at KIPL for hosting.

Sabbatical Presents: DEFAULT JAMERSON CS+launch

Recuerdos de 3232: a short run double A side cassette of 2008 material from Marcus Cook's Default Jamerson project. This release bookends the considered processes Marcus was employing during 2007-08, seen often in the live setting during this period.

Sabbatical Presents
Default Jamerson: Recuerdos De 3232 Launch
Saturday 27 November 2010
Featuring:
Default Jamerson
Dick Threats
Bleach Boys (Maya Victoria solo)

Mitchell Brennan
Live at KIPL
136 Roden Street
West Melbourne
From 3pm
Six dollars

Sabbatical Presents 241010

Sunday 24 October, Melbourne based advocates of buried sound Sabbatical present a fascinating lineup of local explorers at The Workers Club (Cnr Brunswick and Gertrude Streets Fitzroy). Opening the evening is the duo of Mitchell Brennan and Fjorn Butler, pursued for a Melbourne outing after an excellent set centred on junk instrumentation and digital signal processing at Vox Cyclops in Newcastle over the TINA weekend recently. Judith Hamann follows with a solo cello performance, exploring the timbral and sonic possibilities of the instrument through preparations, alterations and alternative methods of physical engagement. The duo of James Rushford and Joe Talia then offer works that are part instrumental concréte, part ambient drone. This accomplished duo uses prepared viola and tabletop percussion to create sounds more akin to a modular synthesiser than acoustic instruments. Closing the evening is the Dead Boomers industrial harsh noise duo of Mark Groves and Leith Thomas, accompanied in this instance by Dan Crow of local grindcore unit Odiusembowel on drums. A virulent close to proceedings is assured, ideal when bracing for an impending Monday morning. 7pm / $6.50

Sabbatical Presents: SCUM NIGHT IV

Saturday 24 July Sabbatical presents our fourth ‘Scum Night’, bringing together local groups with a common thread of seductive filth and nasty sonics. Previous Scum Night alumni include Kristkrvstoffiston, Pissbolt, Collapsed Toilet Vietnam, Pathetic Human,Odiusembowel, Fuck, The Retarded Girl, Occult Blood, John Butler Fucks Kids, Screwtape, Ebola Disco, Super Fun Happy Slide and Cult of the Placenta Head. An arousing selection of disgusting projects awaits you on this occasion: Flesh World,Pneumatic Slaughter, The Psychward Cult and Dead Boomers. Hosted by the enablers resident at 717a High Street Thornbury, with doors opening at 7:00pm. A golden coin to enter.

Sabbatical Presents: 3X2

Sabbatical Presents: CURED PINK

“Cured Pink is a discomposed mess of underdeveloped ideas, glorifying civil sickness before finding anything that actually sounds good. Self-releasing hand-made material out of Brisbane for the last few years, the mess, usually summed as ''psychotic performance art'', ''post-industrial noise bliss'' or ''bored at 3am'', appears to have its strengths in the alienation of pub owners, the forcing of early closures and alienation of most band members. Maybe it is just irritating”.

Sabbatical presents the first release by this constantly evolving Brisbane based project overseen by Andrew McLellan. To launch this self-titled limited run cassette release Sabbatical provides three opportunities for Melbourne residents to witness Cured Pink live.

Friday 25 June 2010 at The Empress Hotel
714 Nicholson Street Fitzroy North

Tuesday 29 June 2010 Makeitupclub at Bar Open
317 Brunswick Street Fitzroy
[McLellan/Groves/Thomas trio]

Wednesday 30 June 2010 Stutter at Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne

Full lineups for these shows will be announced shortly.

Also during this visit to Victoria:
Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 June 2010 Psycho-Subtropics at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
Part of the 'Always Moving' event series.
Information at www.gertrude.org.au and www.otherfilm.org

Sabbatical Presents: ISOMER 230610

Wednesday 23 June at Horse Bazaar (397 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne) Sabbatical presents a rare live performance by South Australian resident Dave Tonkin’s long running Isomer dark ambient project as a part of the weekly exploratory music series Stutter. This show comes almost exactly a year after Sabbatical’s first attempt at hosting an Isomer performance, which resulted in a disastrous evening marked by a blown PA, an evacuated venue and aborted performances. Within a discography spanning a decade, Isomer material has surfaced on iconic industrial imprints such as Tesco Organisation and Cold Meat Industry, as well as local labels such as Cipher Productions, Shame File and Smell the Stench. An infrequent live performer, Isomer has supported such legends as Merzbow and Death In June. Sabbatical is proud to present this rare live opportunity in Melbourne. Also performing on this occasion are Dead Boomers (the vicious electronics duo of Mark Groves and Leith Thomas of True Radical Miracle), Ebola Disco (the long running industrial noise mission of Ben Taylor and Mathew Casey) and the severe electronics of Andrew McIntosh’s formidable Screwtape. Action starts at 8:30pm, 5/10 bones entry.

True Radical Miracle at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival

As part of this year's Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the creative minds behind the Make It Up Club and Stutter have curated a festival within a festival. Overground is a one day event held in the many nooks and crannies of the Melbourne Town Hall.

"Overground celebrates the rich diversity of the underground music culture in Melbourne in a day long event set in the many lost spaces of Melbourne Town Hall. It will be an event where new sounds can be made and heard as the outer limits of jazz and improvisation are explored, incorporating avante garde, grindcore, big band, expanded cinema, contemporary classical and performance art installation."

In what is possibly the largest stage the group will ever play, True Radical Miracle will perform a special one-off collaboration with contemporary classical/noise trio, Golden Fur. It's happening on the big stage in the main room - you know, the one where they do the Comedy Festival Gala thing.

It's happening this Sunday. Tickets are $30. Kick off is 2pm sharp. The full, ridiculous line-up is available here. It is advisable not to miss this event, it's unlikely they'll let anything like this happen again.

Sabbatical 2010

Distant Horizon / Formative Stages:
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Matthew Brown 2xCS
Cured Pink CS
Dead Boomers CS
Knife Culture: Buried Melbourne 2010 2xCD

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We have been taking a break from organising live actions since the end of our tenure at The Old Bar, but there should be some more shows within the next couple of months. These include a second attempt at launching the Dead Boomers label release (venue suggestions are more than welcome at this point), and a number of shows surrounding our Cured Pink cassette release.

That said, artists and projects with past Sabbatical label releases continue to perform live in a range of contexts: Absoluten Calfeutrail is kicking around as a two piece for the moment, Pikelet is launching a new album on Chapter/Love & Mercy across Australia, James Rushford and Joe Talia are off to Europe shortly, and True Radical Miracle is again lurching into life.

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Dead Boomers launch shut down, new show coming soon

Unfortunately, the attempted launch of Dead Boomers' Family Money got shut down by the police last Thursday. A new launch show will be announced soon.

Dead Boomers launch 'Family Money'

This Thursday, 25 February 2010, Dead Boomers launch Family Money, the latest Sababtical series release. Cut from an extended live session recorded for Paul Kidney's Ear of the Behearer show on PBS FM, Family Money is the first full length recording of the recording duo of Mark Groves and Leith Thomas.

Sabbatical will be launching this gloriously low-brow release at the new (as yet unnamed) gallery from the former operators of Gulag Projects, one of our favourite former DIY gallery spaces. The show is part of a series of No PA shows the boys are doing in the lead up to the spaces' opening.

Dead Boomers Family Money album launch
No PA Show
136 Roden Street, West Melbourne
with Snuff Budgies, Ian Wadley and Yev Kasem
Doors at 7pm, six dollars gets you in

New release: Dead Boomers 'Family Money'

The fifteenth release in the Sabbatical CD-R series is out now.

Dead Boomers is a duo comprised of Mark Groves and Leith Thomas, both members of True Radical Miracle and operators of the Sabbatical label. Conceived initially as an easy outlet for the duos interest in contemporary nasty noise and binge drinking, recent activity has expanded the sound palette to take in additional repulsive capabilities of the selected instrumentation. This instrumentation is essentially comprised of accumulated analogue junk and garden variety rock apparatus. The resultant smut is centred squarely on metal abuse and screaming distortion, with cruelly minimal compositional ideas employed to establish structure. Family Money follows a short run, no sold out double cassette on Sabbatical from 2009, titled Sharon Stone/Michael Douglas. Expanding on ideas from this earlier release, Family Money is comprised of edited live takes recorded at Melbourne’s PBS Studio 5 for broadcast on the program Ear of the Behearer. Recurrent throughout these pieces is a sinister narrative concerning a boomer seachange, and the abuse of privilege.

Available now on the Sabbatical website or via the PayPal button below.

Available in shops around Australia in coming weeks.

You can listen to the track 'Tight and Fearful' on the Sabbatical Myspace page.

Documentation: 21 January 2010

Some shots form our last monthly show at the Old Bar.

Recent UK import MV brought the beautiful analogue sounds of the cassette. The buzz and hiss of the multiple walkmans was woven together beautifully.



Sean Baxter schooled everyone in the possibilities of the drum kit. The master extended technique percussionist highlighted you don't need big amps or manic flailing to create intense sounds, bending enamel plates and creating tuned rumble from the skins of the drums.



Ethic Cleansing, the first time collaboration between Screwtape and Ebola Disco, brought an angry, confrontational edge to the evening with their painfully descriptive explanation of the horrors of dementia.

Watch the video here.



Rounding out our final night at the Old Bar was the now iconic Australian grind trio, Agents of Abhorrence. Flat out grind for 15 minutes. Nothing more to say.



A big thanks to all the folk at the Old Bar for the last year and bit. The boys have been huge supporters of what we do at Sabbatical, first hosting our monthly shows at their previous venue, The Afterdark, giving Sabbatical a monthly platform to present the various musical happenings we were interested in. Thanks for everything.

We will continue to present shows at various spaces around town and will soon find a new home for regular nights. Watch this space for all the news.

Absoluten Calfeutrail / Dead Boomers 16/17.01.10

Dead Boomers new release: FAMILY MONEY

Dead Boomers Family Money (SBB015)

Dead Boomers is a duo comprised of Mark Groves and Leith Thomas, both members of True Radical Miracle and operators of the Sabbatical label. Conceived initially as an easy outlet for the duos interest in contemporary nasty noise and binge drinking, recent activity has expanded the sound palette to take in additional repulsive capabilities of the selected instrumentation. This instrumentation is essentially comprised of accumulated analogue junk and garden variety rock apparatus. The resultant smut is centred squarely on metal abuse and screaming distortion, with cruelly minimal compositional ideas employed to establish structure. Family Money follows a short run double cassette on the Sabbatical label from 2009 titled Sharon Stone/Michael Douglas. Expanding on ideas from this earlier release, Family Money is comprised of edited live takes recorded at Melbourne’s PBS Studio 5 for broadcast on the program Ear of the Behearer. Recurrent throughout these pieces is a sinister narrative concerning a boomer seachange, and the abuse of privilege.

Available from Sabbatical.