EASTMINT X HOBBIES GALORE PRESENT

FIN HEALY "YET IT MOVES" EP LAUNCH / LOCAL WOMAN / SIA AHMAD

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7pm Doors

7:30pm Sia Ahmad

8:30pm Local Women

9:30pm Fin Healy ft Asher Elazary

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$5 Vegan Laksa / Bar / Card and Cash accepted

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pay what you can afford sliding scale tix $15-$60

Free First Nations tix

Free companion tix

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For a three-act lineup, we suggest $25, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $15–$60.

Fin Healy’s debut EP “yet it moves” (Hobbies Galore, forthcoming) was recorded and assembled over the course of 2022. Aside from the bell-like sounds of three house keys colliding on “stasis,” the EP is performed entirely by electric guitar and mandola. Though rockisms crop up occasionally—in the Verlaine-tinged histrionics of “stasis” or the Reich-via-Fripp riffs on “invariance”—Healy’s guitars tend to avoid distortion and song forms. Instead, the sonic qualities of electric guitar have space to breathe as harmonic changes gradually unfold within repetition.

The predominance of open strings, harmonics and arpeggiation invoke the influence of various 20th century composers and improvisers working with the instrument. Despite the occasional addition of music concrete techniques, “yet it moves” is an unashamed embrace of and contribution to “guitar music” in its many forms. For the launch she is joined by Asher Elazary to present the EP as a guitar duo.

From Murwillumbah to Melbourne and back again. Local Woman weaves lust for life on a sacred continent into post-pop anthems for our times. Telling stories of family, grief, and hope, with the practised hand of an intergenerational songwriter and courage of a lesbian DJ.

Sia Ahmad offers a rich and extensive background in Australian music, creating idiosyncratic sounds over the last 20 years. Using guitar, voice and electronics, she works both as singer/composer and improviser when performing solo work as Shoeb Ahmad, or in collaboration with artists such as Gwenno, Liars and Bree van Reyk. Many of these projects also feature her talent as a producer and engineer, with a unique sensibility to sonic space coming to the fore.

Once of acclaimed electronic jazz outfit Tangents and an APRA AMCOS Art Music Award winner, Sia has performed and released a diverse range of original music throughout Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Europe and South Eastern Asia while also working on sound design for dance/theatre, installation pieces and contemporary chamber composition.

ACCESSIBILITY

Eastmint is accessible via wheelchair through the non main entrance, there is a small sliding door frame that we can place a ramp over the top of. Please get in touch if you require this option via email eastmintrecords@gmail.com. Closest accessible toilets located at the Peacock Hotel 150m away. Please contact if you require any other info.

This event will be held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE