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LOOK: Loaded

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +1000

WHAT
LOADED

WHERE
GAFFA GALLERY, 1/7 RANDLE STREET, SURRY HILLS

WHEN
RUNS UNTIL OCTOBER 14, MON-FRI 12-6PM, SAT 11AM-6PM

CONTACT
92811103 OR WWW.GAFFA.COM.AU

Next time you boil the kettle, stop and think about your relationship with it. Why? Because jewellery designer Shaun O'Connell says so.

When his grandmother's Kambrook stopped working after more than a decade of faithfully boiling water three times a day, Shaun was determined to fix it. This he did, and to grandma's delight, also replaced the switch with gold.

Shaun then set about repairing and rejuvenating all sorts of broken cheap appliances with gold, in a glorious sort of repaired service.

This collection, alongside photos and videos of their users, are part of an exhibition currently running at GAFFA. LOADED also features a series of collected personal objects from around the world by fellow jeweller Vernon Bowden. When your kettle goes clunk, you know where to go.

HEAR: Moody Motorcycle, Human Highway

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +1000

WHAT
MOODY MOTORCYCLE

WHO
HUMAN HIGHWAY

ON
SUICIDE SQUEEZE

There will always be a soft spot in my heart for those crazy pop assholes The Unicorns. The antics that they used to pull, trying to break up the band while playing a song, or purposefully screwing up a live performance just because one of them had a fight with another, well it was no surprise when they broke up. But out of that came Islands: just another sunny pop group that is a bit more stable and released their last record in 2007. Yet once again, Nick Thornburn has decided he needs a new outlet for his insatiable song writing urges.

Human Highway is that band. With another former Island-er Jim Guthrie, they have split the creative effort and spent time learning how to harmonise, listening to doo-wop, and drawing on all their folk backgrounds. Infectious and blissful, the songs haunt you, not like freaky ghosts or whatever, but in that good ‘I can't stop humming this and I could listen to it for days on end' way.

OUT: Extra Cheeese 2

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +1000

WHAT
EXTRA CHEEESE 2

WHERE
MEDIUM RARE GALLERY, 70 REGENT ST, REDFERN

WHEN
FRI OCT 3, 6PM-8PM
SAT OCT 4 & SUN OCT 5, 12PM-5PM

HOW MUCH
FREE

It's Sunday night, and time for the weekend debrief. Look at the living room. Pizza boxes everywhere - disgraceful. But have you ever seen that stack of cardboard and thought, ‘I can turn this into something arty'? That's the challenge Extra Cheeese put out last year. Now it's back, with the brief widened to include any found object - be it table, old book, or discarded clothing. With artists including Anthony Bartok, Matt Huynh + Will Loeng, Justin Lee Williams and Charles Dennington, things are going to get interesting. - VH

EATDRINK: La Piadina

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +1000

WHAT
LA PIADINA

WHERE
106 GLENAYR AVE, BONDI BEACH

WHEN
TUES-SUN 9AM-10PM, CLOSED MON

CONTACT
93000160

The Zizioli brothers (Damiano, previously of Pizza Mario, and Fausto, the barista from Paddington Alimentari), along with their good friend Sam, have turned the simple into the sensational...

This is something of a tradition, said to have its beginnings in Emilia Romagna many moons ago. From this part of northern Italy, variations have been passed down through the regions between families, and now it is here in Sydney's Bondi Beach.

La Piadina, is the name of the flat round unleavened, soft bread containing simple fresh ingredient (and also the name of the store where they are made fresh to order). Along with the best coffee in the neighbourhood, it really is a place with good taste.

OUT: Goldfrapp