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Cloud Ice 9’s first East Coast Tour is but only weeks away, a rare flight of Naarm/Melbourne’s dark clowns.. don’t miss on tickets! Cheap presales available now through the @happytapes bio 🎪🌀 15/05 Eora/Sydney Botany View Hotel @bvhnewtown W Cold/Heat @cold____heat & Neis @getaneis 16/05 Ngunnawal Country / Canberra Gang Gang Cafe @ganggangcafe W Olivia’s World @oliviasworrrld & Edda 21/05 Meanjin / Brisbane Season Three Space @seasonthreespace W Mercy Please @mercypleasemusic & Dawdle @glenschenau 23/05 Bandjalung Country / Northern Rivers Clunes Coronation Hall W Mercy Please, Speeding Vehicle, @speedingvehicle Solar Mudra @solarmudra & Super Carry @superxcarry Don’t get lost in the shell 🐚🎶🐜🐜

🌩 Thurs, May 21st —>> CLOUD ICE 9 + MERCY PLEASE [NAARM] @happytapes w/ local guests DAWDLE live at @seasonthreespace ! — Very stoked to present the inaugural Meanjin sojourn for Melb/Naarm wonk-lords Cloud Ice 9 and Mercy Please. Hailing from the long Naarm lockdown and a slow, fruitful gestation in the barns and attics of sharehouses, Cloud Ice 9 has blossomed into one of the most adventurous and bewildering bands of the post-covid Antipodes. “We were out the back just playing with these little keyboards for hours and hours and sort of growing the hive mind and building the weird, like, sound world or whatever.” ~ Howling brass and electronic psychedelia peppered on top of a rock n roll beat, Mercy Please reflects the blues into the modern age. They have quickly built a reputation for their powerful live shows — a mix of soaring vocals, gyrating grooves, and an undeniable energy that fills the room. Local trio Dawdle on opening support duties! 🎫 $20 - $30+bf (pay what you can) 🔗 in bio **no charge for First Nations or trans people of colour**

🌬 TONIGHT // VOICE ACTOR @noakurzweil & CHANEZE live 📍 @seasonthreespace . ~ This will be the final Australian show for Voice Actor's debut down tour under. Join us this evening for an intimate, veiled A/V performance from what we consider one of the most exciting new projects in the wide-world. Ineffable & restrained electronic soundscapes punctuated by hypnotic vocals sounding halfway between audio memos and verbal dream journaling. 9pm CHANEZE 10pm Voice Actor 🎫 $25 - $35+bf (pay what you can) 🔗 in bio **no charge** for First Nations guests or trans people of colour wishing to attend. 🖥️ Artwork by Matthew Deasy @no.7_printhouse

Tonight’s set times! Open from 7pm @theblackbearlodge 7:30pm Jeani @jeani9910 8:15pm Fatshaudi @fatshaudi 9pm James K @___pet___ We’re nearly sold out! Last tickets available online🫶 So excited ~ see you this evening

For our next support, we have the near universally beloved queen of ethereal pop dreamscapes that is Fatshaudi. A supremely accomplished artist, she marries a love of traditional pop songwriting and structure with an experimental sonic approach, melding a distinctly Soundcloud-coded sensibility with some of the dreamier, lush moments of 80s dreampop. Yearning, intimate, and soft, to enter her musical world is to love it @fatshaudi

📞 🌐 𝙰𝙽𝙽𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙲𝙴𝙼𝙴𝙽𝚃 🌐 📞 𝚅𝙾𝙸𝙲𝙴 𝙰𝙲𝚃𝙾𝚁 @noakurzweil 𝚠/ 𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚐𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚉𝙴 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚝 @seasonthreespace 𝟶𝟼.𝟶𝟹.𝟸𝟼 — We are ecstatic to be presenting a Meanjin/Brisbane show for one of our favourite new artists in the world; the mysterious and magnificent Voice Actor. Voice Actor is the enigmatic music project of-Sheffield-based artist Noa Kurzweil. Voice Actor has established herself as one of contemporary electronic music’s most distinctive voices, blending her haunting, deadpan vocals with dream-pop, IDM, trip-hop, and lo-fi aesthetics with hypnagogic soundscapes. Their genre-defying debut was quietly released by Stroom in 2022. Sent from my Telephone spawned a mammoth of a record, made up of 109 songs; it is over three and a half hours long. In it, we find words are mirrors, reflecting soundscapes that recall memories both specific and universal. In the coming years Sent From My Telephone was followed by the more curated Fake Sleep (2023) and latest LP offer Lust (1) created in collaboration with Welsh producer Squu. "Lust (1) follows the narrative arc of a slowly depixelating image, and anything even approaching language, logic, or clarity only begins to gather by the last song (...) It’s the kind of thing someone says aloud exactly halfway between REM states and waking: logically sound but contextually absurd. That’s the sort of register needed, Kurzweil and Squu have found, to convey the essence of dreams. It’s a mode of communication beyond words." - Emma Madden, @pitchfork 🎫 $25 - $35+bf (pay what you can) 🔗 in bio **no charge** for First Nations guests or trans people of colour wishing to attend. 🖥️ Artwork by Matthew Deasy @no.7_printhouse 📸: @daviddbarajas , @marek.rygielski.photo

💻 🍧 𝔸ℕℕ𝕆𝕌ℕℂ𝔼𝕄𝔼ℕ𝕋 🍧 💻 james K [USA] @___pet___ w/ @fatshaudi live at @theblackbearlodge 02.03.26 pres. by Roused At! x Contort Yourself ~ JAMES K returns to Meanjin-Brisbane on her sophomore Australian tour, celebrating her landmark new LP 'Friend' (2025) out via AD93. 𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃’𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈……𝓈𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓉……𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎 (𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎). "The third james K album, Friend, is remarkable enough as a piece of pop craftsmanship, but its real achievement is in how beautifully Krasner is able to chart a path from her private realm into our own. She distills the musical eclecticism of her earlier work into a crystalline interpretation of dream pop, using the surface blur and forward motion to keep weighty ideas in flight. Her production is still suffused with mist, but it’s grown bigger, brighter, and more fun. The pillowy atmosphere supporting her voice now has a rapidly shifting and dynamic ground floor beneath it, one that veers from drum’n’bass to downtempo, IDM to G-funk. With some slight tweaks, the musician preserves the signature hazy dream logic of her lyricism while coming more fully into her own complications." - Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork 🎫 $38 - $50+bf (pay what you can) 🔗 in bio **no charge** for First Nations guests or trans people of colour wishing to attend. 🎀 Artwork by Matthew Deasy / @no.7_printhouse

🪩 ⛓️‍💥 Roused At! Year-Killer 2k25 // Saturday, Jan 3rd at @mirrorballministeries77 — Lucas Abela @granpa_abela Kitchen's Floor @kitchensfloorband kunt @kunt_noise Pure Gratis @chivalrymusic @tristan.o.murray @glittering_prize + more TBA! Attend the first ever Year-Killer to take place not inside the hallowed halls of the late Beardo (eternal RIP) but rather, right next door to it. Mirrorball Ministries is located in AHEPA Hall, and they *really* aren't fucking around with the titular mirrorballs. Come fill the joint out. 🎫 $18-$28 sliding P.W.Y.C (the economy sucks) **no charge** for First Nations guests or trans people of colour wishing to attend. 🔗 in bio. Artwork by Matthew Deasy / @no.7_printhouse

🌺 MEANJIN TONITE 🌺 June Jones @june__jones w/ Scraps & Cleo (live) at @seasonthreespace // 8pm - 11pm 8:30pm - @cleo____________________ 9:20pm - @s.c.r.a.p.s 10:10pm - @june__jones 🎫 $20 - $30 (🔗 in bio) **no charge for First Nations or trans people of colour** Happy to cut deals on the door if yr truly skint, otherwise please pay whatcha can to support the performing artists 🎭 thank you! See you tonight! x 🪭 📸 (1) @bronte_godden (2) @dj.spooner.art

☀️ POWERPLANT [UK] SUPPORT ANNOUNCE ☀️ Sat Oct 25 (3pm) —>> We at RA! HQ are stoked to announce that @powerplantxx will be joined by En Kernaghan Band (!!) + Speeding Vehicle @speedingvehicle for our afternoon show at @blutesbar presented in collaboration with @blow_blooddd 🗡️🩸 En Kernaghan Band (formerly En Kernaghan Projekt Experience Banned 1997) is the live project of prolific recording/visual artist Ethan Kernaghan + friends. Trvly one of the most talented songwriters in town -- fiercely committed to DIY and deeply informed by 4-track recording, eastern spirituality, plus over a decade of experience writing/performing across different projects in Meanjin. This will be the grand return of thee En Kernaghan Band after years of inactivity! We've heard the follow up to their 2019 CS 'Deep Listening' (@tropicalcancerrort ) and it is trvly stunning. Not to be missed. We are being deadly serious and don’t know how to articulate it. Speeding Vehicle are a new group based mostly on the Gold Coast, also w/ members in Sydney. Their debut CS ‘Rubble’ from last year is something else - an expansive lo-fi document of ‘garage’ & ‘post-punk’ music ft. prominent melodica, synths, and some real solid songwriting chops. Reminder that this is an AFTERNOON SHOW beginning at 3pm, because we’re not about to try and clash with The Saints later that night. You can go to both~! 🎫 $20 - $30+bf (pay what you can) 🔗 in bio **no charge for First Nations or trans people of colour** Poster by Matt Deasy @no.7_printhouse

🗡️ NEXT SHOW 🗡️ @june__jones at @seasonthreespace w/ @s.c.r.a.p.s + @cleo____________________ // Friday, October 10th 🌺 — June Jones (Naarm) is touring the country to launch her new (self-released) EP 'Would That It Were A Fortress' ~ a gorgeous offering of 5 playfully melancholic, vulnerable & hook heavy electro-pop tracks. Roused At! stamp of approval on this one. Wouldn't miss this one if I were you, Meanjin 💃 🎫 $20 - $30 (pay what you can) 🔗 in bio **no charge for First Nations or trans people of colour** Poster by June Jones 📸 (1) @arkie.com.au (2) @gangajan (3) @marek.rygielski.photo

🏠 🪕 West End house show tonight! DM for address, arrive from 7pm. Distinct possibility of post-show karaoke 🎙️ 7:30 Angela Dowling @angagram1d 8:10 Dan Lewis @rainbowtakeaway 9:00 Andrew Tuttle @tuttscorp Lesbian Merzbow is unfortunately not able to join in tonight. Send her psychic rays of love & positivity! 💗 📸 1+3 @marek.rygielski.photo