GET READY! STRAIGHT ARROWS ARE PLAYING THIS SUNDAY AT O.A.F. YOU GET FREE ENTRY & A FREE BEER! OW!
Straight Arrows - Something Happens
You are cordially invited to Oxford Art Factory's new regular Sunday night club.
Our second week sees infectious Sydney rockers Straight Arrows playing live, and DJ talent Soapbox, Ramona Spanx and Grumble Grumble taking to the decks to bring you the finest sounds from the 50s and 60s. Look forward to:
Lots of interesting stuff happens at the Oxford Art Factory when we're officially closed. Recently, Henry Rollins was interviewed for Movie Juice (a locally produced show on the Movie Network). That's him on the couch under the very bright light.
We have also recently played host to a taping for Australia's next top model.
Kick On after a day of festival debauchery at Oxford Arts with Chrome Dome headliner Edu K (Brazil) and the poor man's Spank Rock Gameboy/Gamegirl. Still burning hot in clubs across the globe, the video to Edu K's last single 'Gatas' has been watched over 120,000 times on YouTube. His current single 'Edu K Me Bota Pra Dançar' features Marina originally of Bonde Do Role - a raunchy ode to Edu K as an inspiration to her own work. Both these tracks appear on Ajax's recent Sweat It Out mix! Also: Kato, tha Fizz, 342 Cleveland St and Sleater Brockman. Tix $20 at Moshtix.com.au
And, because we know you love free music, click over to Onthefly.com.au to listen to a free Edu-K mix.
We are very excited to announce an intimate (but loud) evening with Something For Kate.
SFK will play a rare small club show in Sydney at The Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst on Friday July 18th. While deep in the midst of writing his solo album, frontman Paul Dempsey will take a break to play this special show with the band - one of the only SFK interstate shows for the year.
Australian fashion darlings St. Augustine's Academy held an off-schedule show for Fashion week in April '08 at the Oxford Art Factory, and topped it off with a party put on by our own Pet Cemetery.
Pedestrian.tv are currently featuring a nice interview with the St. Augustine boys, including footage of the show at O.A.F.
After duetting with Dave Grohl on the new Foo Fighters album, contributing music to Sean Penn’s new film “Into the Wild” and touring Australia three times in 2007… gKaki King presents her new album, “Dreaming of Revenge”. Produced by Malcolm Burn (Dylan, Midnight Oil, Etc…) Dreaming of Revenge sees confidant vocals blended with her trademarked guitar genius to create an album that Time Out NYC says “ Should appeal to fans of both Steve Reich and Jack Johnson alike”.
Kaki King will be touring with the Foo Fighters as support act and a duet with Dave Grohl nationally across Australia & NZ. She plays her only Sydney show at the Oxford Art Factory on Thursday May 1.
Black & Blue gallery present 'Sau Paulo. New York. Japan.' an exhibition of street photos from around the world, taken by Vlad da Cunha, Natasha Phillips, and Josh Raymond.
Opening night is on April 24, and the exhibition runs until May 11.
Ryan Styles - Performing artist, Tap Dancer, Puppeteer and Drag Terrorist, is currently in Australia, and we've been lucky to have him perform in the venue a few times - first with Sugartime Burlesque, and more recently on his own in the cube.
Sydney darlings Bird Automatic are supporting The Temper Trap at The Oxford Art Factory on Friday 11th April.
In the mean time they have a bunch of new tracks up on their MySpace, including 'Suburbs' which you can listen to above. You should go be their friend, because they are pretty darn great.
So, sure, we say that we're excited to see most of the acts who we talk about on our news page, but we're reeeaaalllllyy excited to announce that Eli Escobar is playing at the Oxford Art Factory on Saturday 3rd May.
He's well known and loved for resisting terrible fads and just dropping bombs, and we absolutely can't wait to see what he's got in his record bag when he plays here.
He has an awesome blog where he posts a bunch of stuff - remixes, YouTube videos and talk about various bits and pieces called Outside Broadcast that's well worth a visit.
Just when you thought that street art was starting to get a bit stale, along comes something that reconnects you with the reasons you fell in love with street art in the first place.
Prolific bloggers Wooster Collective have posted about an artist in NYC who has been making animals out of discarded plastic bags. They tie them to the ventilation grates above the subway lines so that when the subway trains rush through underneath, the animal jumps up and springs to life. Awesome.
