Love Is My Velocity

Bank Notes starts today (May 6, 2009) and continues until Friday May 8. Come on down and check out the bands recording at the Old Bank at the following times:

Wednesday May 6
12:00pm Abbe May
1:30pm Extortion
4:30pm Li’l Leonie Lionheart
6:00pm Boys Boys Boys

Thursday May 7
1:00pm 6s & 7s
2:30pm When the Sky Fell
4:00pm 7 Weapons
6:15pm Chris Cobilis/Chris Hudson

Friday May 8
11:30pm Astral Travel
1:00pm Wind Waker
2:30pm Carbuncle

At 214 William Street (opposite Universal Bar).

Of course if you can’t make it down, then check back at the website later that night for free downloads of the recordings produced that day on the Bank Notes page!

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Love is My Velocity is launching the LIMV Cookbook II in May. For the occasion, we’re hosting three events as part of the 2009 WAMi Festival – the LIMV Cookbook II launch and exhibition, the Bank Notes recording studio, and a series of band-artist Windows on William displays. What are all these things? It’s hard to explain. Please refer to the definitions below.

Love Is My Velocity: currently acts as a record label, publisher and developer of creative multi-disciplinary events. Its four directors have launched five split 7” vinyl singles, two full length CDs and two art publications over the past few years, as well as putting on numerous cross-platform gigs around town.

The Love Is My Velocity Cookbook II: is LIMV’s second attempt at gathering emerging Perth artists and musicians into an interactive biannual 60-page almanac of local creativity. A selection of musicians contributes recipes, which, along with their music, inspires artists to create a dynamic work decorating the back of each A5 recipe card. The Cookbook’s unbound format makes it unique – it can act as a regular cookbook or as a selection of prints to hang on your wall.
The Love Is My Velocity Cookbook Launch and Exhibition are a part of the 2009 WAMi Festival.

The Cookbook II Exhibition: is filled with the original drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, videos, assemblages and textiles created for the Cookbook II. More than 60 works will be on display and available to purchase from May 9-20 in 214 William Street (the Old Bank). Gallery opens 10am-4pm weekdays and 12pm-4pm weekends. (continue reading…)

Move aside Dorsogna, Love Is My Velocity is donning a butcher’s apron and a classy hairnet in order to present The Smallgoods -  not an array of meats but an awesome Melbourne folk pop group. The show happens at The Velvet Lounge in Mt Lawley on Thursday 19th February 2009, with Benjamin Golby & Bridget Turner, and Nat Carson in support.

This marks The Smallgoods’ first jaunt to Perth, playing in a stripped down three piece format, so we’re throwing them a welcome shindig. Also deserving of warm greetings is Perth’s prodigal son Benjamin Golby (from New Rules for Boats) who is playing his first show since his return from abroad, with a little help from Bridget Turner (from Boys Boys Boys). Nat Carson (from Smallgoods’ labelmates The Bank Holidays) also joins the welcoming committee to kick off the proceedings with a cracking solo set. All in all, it’s a veritable continental roll worth of meaty treats.

The Smallgoods’ music wanders between jaunty folk, spacious epics, dark ballads and gentle psychedelia. Standout proponents of intelligent harmony laden pop music, The Smallgoods bring offerings from Down on the Farm, their third and most ambitious album to date. Released on Melbourne label Lost and Lonesome Records, this album brings the band back to their country roots in the Victorian coastal town of Port Fairy, where they all grew up together.

Did we mention that entry is a mere $7…

Check them out at their myspace

Love Is My Velocity join their 7 inch single monkeys the Tigers and the Bank Holidays at the Perth leg of the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival this Friday, February 6, 2009.

The PICA Bar will be open as a chill out space for festival patrons during Laneway. While our brosephs bang out the kind of epic sets that inspired us to release their songs on vinyl, we’ll be in there spinning wax (aka putting on hastily made mix CDs) and laying on a spread of beanbags and games (board, card, video and Twister) for people who want to take a break from the heat and enjoy a drink in PICA’s air-conditioned, indoor-plumbing-festooned comfort.

DJing with us are friends and members of local bands the Burton Cool Suit, Bamodi, Mass Birth, Bermuda, Radarmaker and Astral Travel, as well as some other local chumlies. We’ll be playing music keyed into the bands playing. There’ll be punk inspired by Jay Reatard, top 40, indie and hip hop hits inspired by Girl Talk, bar band piano and sax solos inspired by the Hold Steady, and more. Then some people are gonna be DJing according to the themes of “video games” and “nightmares”, so there’s something for everyone, really.

The games we’ll be playing are Streetfighter, Columns, NBA Jam, Uno, Mousetrap, Twister, Boggle, Scrabble, Pictionary, Super Mario 3, Mario Kart 64, and some stuff we don’t even know about yet. We also have a Spirograph set. Remember that thing? You won’t even want to see the bands. We promise.

Love Is My Velocity’s Gameway Festival – in the PICA Bar from 4pm to 12pm, Friday February 6.