cut'n'pasted from my own gig guide (NB my taste tends towards the noise/rock, skewed pop side of things):

· Guns are for Kids, Baseball - missing link 5pm
· Sun Moon Star, Daniel James Lewis, Maudita, Batlow - afterdark
· Grey Daturas (album launch), Embers, Dad They Broke Me, Default Jamerson - EBC
· Lost Animal, Barrage, Das Butcher - forepaw
· Always, Circle Pit, Justin K Fuller - hells kitchen
· Lindsey Low Hand, Circle Pit, Downtown - public bar
· Old Bar Birthday weekend - Ninety Nine, Vialka (france), The Diamond Sea - old bar
· Guns are for Kids (EP launch), Group Seizure, Mother & Father - pony
· The Gruntled, Leadfinger, The Undecided - IDGAFF

oh cool, thanks for that.

i dunno where any of those venues are, but i'll get searchin'

AK

yep -

the diamond sea

vialka

99 (duo)

midnight caller

$10 jugs all night.

$8.

thats at the old bar by the way, its our 7th birthday

what venue is that liamsnice?

i'm coming down from Syd for Weddings Parties Anything on Sat night, but haven't been to Melb for a long time, so don't know where any newish venues are!

oh cool! old bar

thanks

um, where exactly is that?

Missing Link is a record Shop in Bourke St in the city...

....wow! so many awesome gigs!

the old bar is at 74 - 76 johnston st fitzroy. in between brunswick st and nicholson st. where are you staying while in town?

pity things of stone and wook aren't re-forming.

yeah bummer bout TOSW...

thanks for the assistance!

and thanks for that liamsnice, will get along to that gig i reckon

staying in Richmond

easy trip there and back. ive walked it before, that kinda sucked though.

i think i better get a cab... the only times i've walked melbourne streets have been after gigs with about 20 beers in me. i'd need a GPS to find my way, i reckon

get a cab, arthur

will do

Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuesday?

true radical miracle at bar open

where's my postcard?

free comedy at the old bar

An evening of brutal improv Shitcore on the second night of the MIUC 10th Birthday Fest at Bar Open

sorted then, cheers.

True Radical Miracle? Really? I haven't seen them play yet.

why not? i like singa

wave back to rach.

Anything? I am itchy for sound.

Tuesday August 5th, 2008 The premiere of 2 new duos spanning the improv wastelands of drone, noise, free jazz and grindcore, and one of Jess' last shows before heading OS. Zac Kieller (guitar and pedals) and Sasha Margolis (drumkit and noise) Juarez aka Jess Pinney (noise machines and voice) Adam Simmons (reeds) and Brian O'Dwyer (drumkit) 8:30 PM doors $5/10

These doors.. where are they?

Sounds like Make It Up Club at Bar Open.

This is pleasing to me.

Make It Up Club like HWCT says.

THE LIGHTNING STRIKES + SCREWTOP DETONATORS + HOTEL WRECKING CITY TRADERS @ The Public Bar (Nth Melb) - 8PM Doors.

Tragic/Athletic at the Birmingham

I'm gonna skip the gigs and hang out and get stoned with my friend danny.

really, I just need to say hang out with danny. the rest follows.

oh! But I saw Duck Misique at 303 last night and they were charming as always. New vocalist since last I saw 'em but the new one is great.

and tonight?

the dacios
the bittersweet kicks
late arvo sons
the old bar
9pm $6

danke schon.

also judas priest is on i'm told.

whats on tonight?

i'm doing bible readings on high street and lectures about the evils of gambling. 6-10PM and you're all on the door.

except nicko.

nup im muslim, no good.

Deadbeat Club at the Birmingham!