No-Context Slide Nights
Description
You're invited to an evening of vintage 35mm slides — 1950s to 1980s — with a live improvised soundscape.
We've kept the things worth keeping: warm, imperfect Kodachrome images shot by everyday people; analogue projectors; unpredictable sequencing; the communal pleasure of shared sound and picture. We've left behind the plodding commentary. Instead, you'll hear dreamy live music from some of Melbourne's finest.
16 May — Oscar Toqui France · Piano & Keys
23 May — Simon Bailey (Pony Face) · Guitar
30 May — Alice Garner · Cello
These are one-of-a-kind events, with different images each night and the artists seeing the slides for the first time when you do.
VENUE
Unallocated seating · Accessible · Licensed bar · On-site parking.
TIMES
Doors 6pm — Show 6.30pm
Please arrive on time — once the slides begin, the doors close.
TICKETS
$25/ $15 (+fee)
Groups 5+ $20 (+fee)
(More show information on the Host Profile)
Lineup
Oscar Toqui France
Pianist and multi-instrumentalist Oscar Toqui France is best known as leader and composer of his eponymous contemporary jazz project, Toqui. The group's 2023 debut LP, Wire Owl, will be followed by a new album this winter. A fixture of Melbourne's jazz scene, Oscar performs and records with numerous groups, as well as appearing solo at the Ragtime Tavern. For Slide Nights, Oscar brings his emotionally tuned-in, playful virtuosity to Cross Street's baby grand and other 'surprise' keyboards. (Photo by @Bobbyjlh)
Simon Bailey (Pony Face)
Simon's been writing, recording and playing with his band Pony Face since 2008. Vast, gentle, drowsy, swampy, spaced-out, moody, hand-on-heart, droney, weirder, wilder: ten descriptions of the Pony Face sound from a Beat Magazine review of their album, Hypnotised. Bailey's latest release is Moonscapes, a solo album of instrumentals, all soundtracks to cinema in development. He describes it as "guitar minimalism and tones that evolve into slow-motion euphoric narratives".
Alice Garner
Alice started playing cello at age ten. After getting a classical grounding, she drifted into other musical realms, playing and recording with Melbourne-Cretan band, the Xylouris Ensemble, for 20 years, before joining Euphonia (a contemporary and Irish music trio) with sisters Dee and Mairead Hannan. These bands taught her to move off the page, improvise and be ready for anything (pretty much). Alice gigs regularly with acoustic outfit Sunshine Tip, playing locally-rooted alternative country; and plays with Sally Ford and the Idiomatics, bringing strings to their melancholic electronica. Alice loves slide nights. (Photo by Libby Chow)
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