WE HAVE 5 DOUBLE PASSES TO GIVE AWAY TO SEE BELLES WILL RING THIS FRIDAY!
We have five double passes to the July 4 Belles Will Ring show at the Oxford Art Factory to give away!
To get your hands on a double pass, send an email to winstuff@oxfordartfactory.com with your full name and phone number, telling us who wrote 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'.
The comp closes at 5pm Friday afternoon - we'll phone you and let you know if you're a winner.
We at the Oxford Art Factory love our musicians with animals names! The Peanut Butter Wolf show here last month was amaaazing, and we're hyped for Sam Sparro's show on 16th July - which is now sold out!
If you slept on tickets and you're kicking yourself, quit your crying, 'cause we have one last chance for you to get your hands on a pair of tickets - thanks to the good folks at Good Vibrations Festival (not an animal name, but we still love it).
As well as the double pass, we have a copy of Sam Sparro's smashing self titled CD, and a couple of drinks on us!
To enter the competition, send an email to winstuff@oxfordartfactory.com with your full name and phone number included, telling us what your animal/musician name would be. Ours is Oafy Ponies, because we're tough like that.
The comp closes at lunch time on 15th July, and the winner will be informed by phone on that day.
We were very excited to announce an intimate (but loud) evening with Something For Kate., and then it sold out! Those of you who missed out can smile again, because we're now announcing a second show.
SFK will play two rare small club show in Sydney at The Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst on Friday July 18th and Saturday July 19th. 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 very few SFK interstate shows for the year.
Jay Z headlining 2008's Glastonbury festival has been a bone of much contention, with Oasis' Noel Gallagher being one of the loudest voices of dissent.
"I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong." stated Gallagher, and Jay Z's response has been to open his Glasto set with the Oasis song, Wonderwall.
Dude is so hilarious, we're happy to overlook the flip flops with socks.
Our sound girl Micaela has a blog! She goes lots of interesting places and takes photos of stuff. If you're into windows into other peoples' lives, check her out here.
Palmer Projects is an independent space and gallery at 238 Palmer St, Darlinghurst.
This week, they're having an exhibition featuring a bunch of extended family of the O.A.F. types - Mark Drew, Edward Woodley, Ben Frost, Luka de Chateau, Joseph Allen, DL76, Numskull, Trent Whitehead, Stephanie Anderson, Darko, Love Ariel, Jas Salisbury & Mark Alsweiler.
The show is on Thursday 19th June at 6pm, and of course we recommend that you make the trip up the hill to O.A.F afterwards to check out Exquisite Corpse in the Art After dark bar.
So, The Teenagers show at the Oxford Art Factory on Saturday 14 June is sold out! We're not surprised really, BUT because we love you guys, we have a nice little prize pack on offer.
Email your full name and phone number to winstuff@oxfordartfactory.com, with a photo of your favourite teenagers.
Best pic wins: 2 x copies of The Teenagers album 'Reality Check' 2 x tickets to The Teenagers at OAF 2 x free drinks on the night
Entry closes at 2pm on Friday 13th June, winners will be contacted by phone late Friday afternoon.
In the meantime, you can visit The Teenagers at their MySpace to get you psyched for the show, or just drool a bit while you watch their video, below.
Every Thursday from 8pm to 10pm, Oxford Art Factory presents EXQUISITE CORPSE; an exhibition of live performance, film and time-based art in The Gallery. Picking up where gallery hours finish, the night provides a central platform for artists from surrounding art schools and beyond to perform and display their work.
FREE ENTRY
12 June 2008: Performance; Leah McPherson Projections; Eamon Barling
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.
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.
