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"Ironic Lounge music before such a thing was ever thought popular."

After his previous band, Wild West, had started to dissolve Phil Turnbull began to experiment with a 4 track reel to reel and it was this humble piece of technology that inspired the creation of No Night Sweats, a band that allowed Phil and Patrick Gibson to join forces and challenge the conventions of live performance.

The accepted formula for a band was cast aside, as No Night Sweats would perform live without instruments. Instead its members used cassette players to back their vocal exploits, often singing from within the crowd or on top of teetering tabletops at venues and homes around Sydney.

Their openly experimental nature allowed No Night Sweats to largely improvise songs, cracking jokes and quoting from a variety of poets and artists throughout as audiences made up of close friends looked on in awe.

Introducing Record Club, a collective of well known musicians who meet to record a cover of an album in one day. In their own words "there is no intention to 'add to' the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens."

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Jaimie Leonarder is an Australian musician, archivist, social worker, film critic, radio announcer and DJ. In the 1980s, Leonarder formed an experimental noise rock band called The Mu-Mesons, and he now works as a DJ for the monthly "The Sounds of Seduction" night club.

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A day of free talks exploring early experimentation in music, film and video and the cultural influences surrounding one of the most creative periods in Australia's music history.

Key panelists including Tom Ellard (Severed Heads), Andrew Penhallow (Volition Records), Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire) and Roger Grierson (Thought Criminals) share their works, insights and experiences from the underground of Australian music.

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The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast were one of the first bands to have LPs recorded and released by the quintessential underground of label of the time, M Squared. Their aquatically inspired melodies radically broadened pre-conceptions of where music and noise overlapped.

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