So Hot This Week: April 14
Saturday
Heaps Good Friends ‘Huge Me’ Tour at The Chippo Hotel
Adelaide trio, Heaps Good Friends, are known for delivering lyrically playful, synth pop treats. The Hug Me EP is a pocketful of fireworks, a six-track explosion of synths, catchy hooks and undeniable beats. Tonight, they bring their exciting live show to the Chippo Hotel for just $12 + a booking fee.
Sunday
What She Said Comedy
What She Said is a weekly all women comedy night packed with stand up, storytelling, sketch and musical performances from Sydney’s best comics. To celebrate the first show, entry is free! This week features performances from Thao Thanh Cao, Madeleine Culp, Nina Oyama and Kate Iselin, as well as a line up of exciting emerging performers. MC: Sophie Long. This is all happening at the Chippo Hotel, kicking off at 6pm.
Monday
New Orleans Beats at LazyBones Lounge
Catch New Orleans Beats, a jazz, jungle, kitsch group for just $15 at Marrickville’s iconic LazyBones Lounge. Restaurant and doors open at 7pm.
Tuesday
Garifuna Collective Featuring Umalali
Since its inception the Garifuna Collective has consistently provided a uniquely rewarding experience – Garifuna music and dance performed by composers and musicians who push the boundaries of their dynamic, centuries old musical traditions and make it accessible to an enthusiastic worldwide audiences. And now the Garifuna Collective featuring the Umalali women singer continues to break new ground with performances showcasing dance and music of the Garifuna people of Central America. This is a collective representing the cream of today’s Garifuna musicians and dancers, demonstrating some of the most original and refreshing roots music to ever come out of the Central America and Caribbean region. Catch them play at Casuala Powerhouse Arts Centre for just $30.
Thursday
Sampa The Great Sydney – The BBEE9 Experience
To celebrate the AMP-award winning mixtape “Birds And The BEE9”, Zambian-born, Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist Sampa The Great invites you to delve into The BBEE9 Experience where she will bring her captivating 2017 release to life, transforming Sydney’s The Basement into a multi-sensory world of creative energy. The event will bring together special guests for one-off intimate performances and will gift audiences with an unforgettable evening of an aural and visual dream world. From projections, video, visual art and poetry, The BBEE9 Experience promises a rich multi-form realisation of the spiritually minded, healing messages and no-holds-barred social outlook conveyed throughout the refreshingly honest and awe-inspiring mixtape.
Friday
Melbourne locals 30/70 released their full length record ‘Elevate’ late last year, to great acclaim. It proved to be the UK label’s biggest release of 2017 and received praise from international tastemakers such of Gilles Peterson, Neil Bopperson (First Word Records), Mr Scruff and Rich Medina. The collective are now hitting the major cities around Australia to share their latest offering, on the ‘Elevate’ National Tour. This Friday they play the Chippo Hotel for just $17.85 + a booking fee.
