Geniale Dilletanten exhibition RMIT

Penny Ikinger will be presenting a talk on Tuesday 17th November at 1pm RMIT Gallery (free) with Mathilde Weh (Exhibition Curator and musician from Berlin), in conjunction with the “Geniale Dilletanten” exhibition, a travelling exhibition from Berlin. Info is below. Please drop in on your lunch break if you are in the city! There are some other great public programs as well, for you to check out. RMIT Gallery address: Building 16 344 Swanston Street, City campus, RMIT University, Melbourne VIC 3000 (03) 9925 1717 “Geniale Dilletanten/ Brilliant Dilletantes Subculture in Germany in the 1980s + Australian ingenious amateurs” 13 November - 27 February 2016 www.rmit.edu.au/events/all-events/exhibitions/2015/november/geniale-dilletanten-subculture-in-1980s-germany/ Celebrating the radical movement and alternative artistic scene that exploded from Germany in the 1980s, the Goethe-Institut’s international exhibition explores the influence of German punk artists, filmmakers and seven bands including Einstürzende Neubauten, as well as Australian ingenious amateurs. PUBLIC PROGRAMS: Free / Bookings essential 03 9925 1717 / rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au • Friday 13 November 6–8 pm B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin Film Screening & introduction by Professor Alison Lewis and curator Mathilde Weh. Unclassified: Strictly 18+ RMIT Storey Hall Auditorium, Level 5, 342 Swanston Street, Melbourne BOOKINGS: https://b-movie.eventbrite.com.au

• Monday 16 November 1–2 pm 1980s Curating Subculture Gallery Director Suzanne Davies & Curator Mathilde Weh in conversation • Tuesday 17 November 1–2 pm 1980s Subculture: The Subversive Voice. Exhibition Curator Mathilde Weh & musician Penny Ikinger discuss women in the arts. RMIT Gallery

• Friday 20 November 2015 URSULA HOFF CONTEMPORARY LECTURE 5.30pm RMIT EU Centre reception & drinks / 6–7pm lecture Geniale Dilletanten – The influence & legacy of 1980s German Subculture RMIT Storey Hall Green Brain Seminar Room, Level 7, 342 Swanston Street. Moderator: Dr Stuart Grant. Speakers: Dr Motte, Jochen Arbeit, Mathilde Weh, Jenny Watson & Ash Wednesday BOOKINGS: https://ursulahofflecture.eventbrite.com.au

• Friday 20 November 8pm–late Automat LIVE IN CONCERT Berlin Post Industrial Concert with Jochen Arbeit, Achim Färber, Georg Zeitblom. John Curtin Hotel, 29 Lygon St, Carlton (ENTRY CHARGE)

• Thursday 26 November 5.30–6.30 pm The Klangbewegung Maschine Sound artist Darrin Verhagen discusses the legacy of 1980s subculture with sound designer & musician Ash Wednesday. RMIT Gallery

• Thursday 3 December 5.30–6.30 pm Berlin from the Outside In Australian writer & Berlin resident Stuart Braun discusses his new book City of Exiles: Berlin from the Outside In with Dr Peter Milne. RMIT Gallery

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ROCKTOBER - GIGS and RADIO INTERVIEW

Melbourne and Sydney in October!!!

PENNY IKINGER + MASAMI KAWAGUCHI (from Tokyo) at THE LYREBIRD, 61 GLEN EIRA RD, RIPPONLEA (MELBOURNE) this SUNDAY 11th OCTOBER 8PM. Free entry! Two solo sets.

MASAMI KAWAGUCHI and PENNY IKINGER will also be interviewed on PBS FM Melbourne radio at 8am on MONDAY 12th OCTOBER. http://www.pbsfm.org.au/

PENNY IKINGER + THE MALADIES + MASAMI KAWAGUCHI SATURDAY 17th OCTOBER - THE FACTORY FLOOR, MARRICKVILLE (SYDNEY)

PENNY IKINGER - Virtuoso guitar priestess with the primeval voice of a dark angel.

Based in Melbourne, Australia, PENNY IKINGER is a highly regarded international artist, with a reputation for both her solo and collaborative work with musicians here, in Japan, France and the USA. The charismatic chanteuse, world renowned for her incinerating sonic guitar sound, is an acclaimed singer and songwriter. She will be joined onstage by her energetic backing band, so enigmatic, priests would be hard pressed to dispute their prophetic textures and texts:

DENIZ TEK (Radio Birdman, New Race, The Soul Movers) - US Aeromaster of Blazing Rock Guitar. JIM DICKSON (Radio Birdman, New Christs) - Bloody Big Boy Birdman Badass Bass. JOHN FENTON (Crow) - Maverick steam engine skins’ whipper Drummer. MASAMI KAWAGUCHI - (Miminokoto, LSD March, and Broomdusters) Blue Cheer-meets-Rallizes-cum-Nuggets-style fuzz zone.

THE MALADIES - Support band - Sydney Blues based Rock ‘n’ Roll Their notoriously wild live shows swing erratically from tender croon to demented howl - hot headed and pedal drunk, expect to see something intense and abrasive!.

MASAMI KAWAGUCHI - Special Solo performance - Tokyo Guest, Psychedelic Machine Gun Guitarist. Masami is touring Australia to promote the release of his own solo album: “The Mad Guitar Sings” on Black Petal Records.

The Australia-Japan Foundation recently lent its support to a collaborative project in Tokyo with Penny, Deniz and Japanese musicians, including Masami Kawaguchi, resulting in an album of new songs. The highly anticipated LP, with the legendary Radio Birdman guitarist and songwriter injecting his trademark into Penny’s tunes, is sure to be one for the music aficionado’s collection.

Penny Ikinger - "All woman and all business - the Australian singer-guitarist - a graduate of the Radio Birdman school of axe warfare - unveils a fetching line of balladry here: black-hearted folk songs draped in fuzz, topped with a dark baby-doll whisper ... imagine Nico channeling Sandy Denny in front of Blue Oyster Cult - and you're close." DAVID FRICKE, Senior Editor, Rolling Stone (USA)

THE MALADIES - "The Maladies distil a fine drop of rock from a sour mash...steep dynamics and erratic bursts of pure joyous noise...strangled guitar feedback, wounded soul vocals and stuck-in-the-mud swamp beats" Mess and Noise (Australia)

MASAMI KAWAGUCHI - " Machine gun guitar… stutters in a polyglot tongue drawing equally from Rory Gallagher, Jerry Garcia and Lou Reed.” – The Wire magazine (UK)

Do not miss this explosive opportunity that will burst across the stage for one night only.

This is an exciting one-off, never-to-be-repeated event.

THE FACTORY FLOOR. Saturday 17th October 2015 at 8pm 105 Victoria Rd, Marrickville, Sydney.

Playing times: Masami Kawaguchi 8.30 - 9.00pm The Maladies 9.15pm - 10pm Penny & band 10.30pm - 11.30pm

TICKETS HERE: http://www.factorytheatre.com.au/events/2015/10/17/penny-ikinger

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TAGO MAGO SHOW 26 SEPT CANCELLED

Apologies everyone but this event has been cancelled. It will be re-scheduled for October. More info soon!

PENNY IKINGER and ROSIE WESTBROOK will play two solo sets 9pm-midnight. Guitar virtuoso, fuzz queen, sonic chanteuse, primal mistress of pop – it’s hard to pin PENNY IKINGER down in easy comparisons or simple terms. She has earned a stellar international reputation with touring rights in Japan, the U.S.A, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. She is considered by the toughest of critics to be one of the World’s finest. ROSIE WESTBROOK is a Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist and composer. Classically trained in guitar and double bass, she has worked with numerous Australian and international musicians. In recent years this has included Mick Harvey (ex-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds); Sean Kelly (Models); Kim Deal (Pixies); Thomas Wydler (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds); Beate Bartel (founding member Einstürzende Neubauten); Amaury Cambuzat (Ulan Bator/Faust); Dave Graney & Clare Moore; Rob Snarski (Black-Eyed Susans). PENNY IKINGER + ROSIE WESTBROOK -It's sure to be a sonically haunting and exhilarating experience for those of you who enjoy something exotic and a little bit different.

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Melb + Syd shows Sept-Oct 2015

FRI 11th SEPT - THE GASOMETER HOTEL, 484 Smith St, Collingwood Melbourne 8pm PENNY IKINGER will play a solo set at Pony Face's record launch. Pony Face's single ‘Love theme – 1984’ was recorded in Melbourne’s Head Gap Studio’s, produced by Casey Rice - holding the band to their promise to create rock’n’roll reduced to its purest form.

SAT 26th SEPT - TAGO MAGO 744 High Street, Thornbury Melbourne PENNY IKINGER and ROSIE WESTBROOK will play two solo sets 9pm-midnight (Free entry). Guitar virtuoso, fuzz queen, sonic chanteuse, primal mistress of pop – it’s hard to pin PENNY IKINGER down in easy comparisons or simple terms. She has earned a stellar international reputation with touring rights in Japan, the U.S.A, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. ROSIE WESTBROOK is a Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist and composer. Classically trained in guitar and double bass, she has worked with numerous Australian and international musicians. In recent years this has included Mick Harvey (ex-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds); Kim Deal (Pixies); Thomas Wydler (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds); Beate Bartel (founding member Einstürzende Neubauten. This event is sure to be a sonically haunting and exhilarating experience for those of you who enjoy something exotic and a little bit different.

SUN 11th OCTOBER – THE LYREBIRD LOUNGE 61 Glen Eira Road Ripponlea, Melbourne 8pm (Free entry) PENNY IKINGER joins forces with songwriter/electric guitarist extraordinaire MASAMI KAWAGUCHI from Tokyo, Japan. MASAMI KAWAGUCHI is touring Australia to promote the release of his solo album "The Mad Guitar Sings" (Black Petal Records). "Masami Kawaguchi's machine gun guitar, which stutters in a polyglot tongue drawing equally from Rory Gallagher, Jerry Garcia and Lou Reed." -- The Wire magazine (U.K.) "While there are slower, shadowy dreams, much of the disc is heavy riffage in a Blue Cheer-meets-Rallizes-cum-Nuggets-style fuzz zone." Mason Jones (musician, writer U.S.) Masami Kawaguchi will play a solo set and also join Penny Ikinger as guitarist for a one-off set. Here is a recent article about Masami Kawaguchi: http://www.brownnoiseunit.com/interviews/masami-kawaguchi/ And some live footage with his band from Tokyo “New Rock Syndicate”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj46cqwQVtg SAT 17 OCTOBER - THE FACTORY FLOOR 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville, Sydney PENNY IKINGER + THE MALADIES + MASAMI KAWAGUCHI 8:00pm Tickets: http://www.factorytheatre.com.au/events/2015/10/17/penny-ikinger PENNY IKINGER has just finished recording a collaborative album with DENIZ TEK. This LP is a bunch of new songs from the guitarist/songwriter, recorded in Tokyo with Japanese musicians with the legendary Radio Birdman guitarist and songwriter injecting his trademark into Penny’s tunes – quite something! For this exclusive Sydney performance PENNY IKINGER will be backed by DENIZ TEK (Radio Birdman) on guitar, JIM DICKSON (Radio Birdman / The New Christs) on bass and JOHN FENTON (Crow) on drums. They will be joined by special guest from Tokyo, MASAMI KAWAGUCHI on guitar. THE MALADIES distil a fine drop of rock from a sour mash of blues-based rock ‘n’ roll with all the modern filtering techniques of instancy, simplicity, steep dynamics and erratic bursts of pure joyous noise. Tasting notes include: strangled guitar feedback, wounded soul vocals and stuck-in-the-mud swamp beats Japanese psychedelic guitar monster MASAMI KAWAGUCHI will open the show with a solo set. MASAMI KAWAGUCHI is guitarist for PENNY IKINGER’s new album (yet to be released), recorded in Tokyo! "Masami Kawaguchi is a Japanese guitar monster who has done time in Miminokoto, LSD March, and Broomdusters, and played with Keiji Haino for a time... Its exceptional wailing, burning garage psych-rock grounded in Kawaguchi’s trademark heart-breakingly melancholic emotional intensity, instantly hummable, head-nodding toe-tapping riffs and melodies... and white heat guitar solos." Palindrone (N.Z.). DO NOT MISS IT!!

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Gig: Sat 27 June - Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.

Penny Ikinger and Andrew McCubbin are internationally renowned songwriters and guitar soundscapers and both divide their time between Australia and other parts of the world.

On Saturday June 27 at Yarra Hotel Abbotsford they join forces to present their music and songs in an afternoon of sonic landscapes and dark, smoldering lullabies.

Andrew’s set starts at 5pm. He’ll be joined by Melinda Pritchard on piano and Don Rogers (Fraudband) on drums. Penny will be on at 6pm and will be playing solo. It promises to be an afternoon of unique music by these rare talents. The food's pretty good too!

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Gigs! Melb + Syd June-Oct 2015

PERFORMANCES AND NEWS FOR PENNY IKINGER!!! MELBOURNE: This SUNDAY 14th JUNE Evelyn Hotel, 351 Brunswick St, Fitzroy “Before the World Was Made: A Musical Tribute to W.B. Yeats”. Penny Ikinger performs a Yeats poem with special guests Don Rogers (Frauband) on drums, Jeff Hooker (Midnight Scavengers) on bass and Andrew McCubbin on guitar. She will also perform with musician/thespian Ripley Hood (ex Sydney). “Before the World Was Made” is a special 150th birthday tribute to the great Irish poet, dramatist, folklorist, politician, occultist and mystic, W.B. Yeats. The show will feature performances from some of Melbourne's greatest musicians, poets, and writers, who will be putting their own music to a range of Yeats' finest works. SATURDAY 20th JUNE at Lyrebird Lounge, 61 Glen Eira Road, Ripponlea Penny Ikinger (solo) w/ Rosie Westbrook (solo) opening the show. Free Entry. Rosie Westbrook is a multi instrumentalist and composer. Classically trained in guitar and double bass, she has worked with numerous Australian and international musicians. SATURDAY 27 JUNE at The Yarra Hotel, 295 Johnston St, Abbotsford. Penny Ikinger (solo) at 6pm w/ Andrew McCubbin 5pm. Free entry. Penny Ikinger and Andrew McCubbin are internationally renowned songwriters and guitar soundscapers and both divide their time between Australia and other parts of the world. They join forces to present their music in an afternoon of sonic landscapes and dark, smouldering pop. It promises to be an afternoon of unique music by these rare talents. TUESDAY 7th JULY – Penny Ikinger plays a one off set of abstract guitar noise as part of a “Make It Up Club” event at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy on an evening curated by Lisa MacKinney. $10 entry /$5 concession SUNDAY 12th JULY – The Gasometer, 484 Smith St, Collingwood. Leaps and Bounds Music Festival presents, Living Legends: Dave Graney & Clare Moore with special guests Tickets $20 + BF / $25 on door. Doors 5pm until 9pm. Penny Ikinger will be performing with a special line up for this exciting event. As part of the Leaps and Bounds’ Living Legends series we are honouring Dave Graney and Clare Moore on Sunday 12th July. Dave Graney and Clare Moore are well known Australian musicians. Over the last 30 years, they have fronted numerous bands including The Moodists, The White Buffaloes, The Coral Snakes, The Dave Graney Show and currently, The Lurid Yellow Mist (aka the mistLY). SUNDAY 19 JULY – GUITARELAY at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Penny Ikinger performs at GUITARELAY, an audio-visual, improvised performance for the Closing Night of 2015 Leaps & Bounds Festival. The performance features umpteen guitarists responding and interacting to each other aurally in an un-pre-determined way. The performance is accompanied by improvised visuals, overlaid on and encasing the performance space. SYDNEY: Penny Ikinger will play in Sydney on SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER at The Factory Floor, 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville with Deniz Tek (guitar), Jim Dickson (bass) and John Fenton (drums) with special guest from Tokyo, Masami Kawaguchi (guitar). Australia's Queen of Noise guitar, Ms Penny Ikinger, has just finished recording a collaborative album with Deniz Tek. This LP is a bunch of new songs from the guitarist/songwriter, recorded in Tokyo with Japanese musicians and with the legendary Radio Birdman guitarist and songwriter injecting his trademark into Penny's tunes - quite something! Can't wait for this record to come out! Masami Kawaguchi is in Australia from Tokyo promoting his solo release on Black Petal Records. CINEMA Penny Ikinger made a cameo appearance in Jenny Ross' short film “The Hardest Night” with Sacred Cowboy’s vocalist Garry Gray.

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March 2015 solo shows Melbourne and Sydney

UPCOMING SYDNEY SHOW: SUNDAY 15th MARCH 2015 – Midnight Special, 44 Enmore Road, Enmore NSW Penny Ikinger (solo) for two sets. Show starts 6.30pm. UPCOMING MELBOURNE SHOW: THURSDAY 19th MARCH 2015 – Yarra Hotel, 295 Johnson Street, Abbotsford, VIC Penny Ikinger (solo) with Mark Snarski (solo). Show starts 8pm.

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"The Want" theatre play 5 - 8 Feb Melbourne

Penny Ikinger joins performance troupe The Stain for theatre shows this Thursday 5 FEB to Sunday 8 FEB 2015, La Mama Courthouse Theatre, 349 Drummond Street, Carlton Victoria, Australia. After sold out shows in the La Mama Explorations 2014 season, performance troupe The Stain present a slightly stranger, slightly more outrageous and courageous remount of their two new shows. A Piece for an Odd Place is a short, dark and provocative work exploring consciousness and memory in the face of life and death. The Want is a raucous homage to the feminist punk-rock movement of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s led by women who were punk by mindset and attitude, not necessarily by genre. Each story majestically told through puppetry, performance, dance, art, live music, strip and song. BOOK NOW ! TICKETS SELLING FAST! 5 – 8 Feb | THU-SAT 8pm, SUN 7pm | La Mama Courthouse | Full $25/Concession $15 BUY TICKETS | Phone Bookings 03 9347 6142 Directed by Anni Davey. Written and performed by The Stain with very special guests Penny Ikinger, Rebekah Zechner and the 50ft Queenie Choir. Danced by Tomoko Yamasaki and Cleo Cutcher, puppeteered by KT Prescott PENNY IKINGER - UPCOMING MARCH 2015 GIGS: MELBOURNE: THURSDAY 19th MARCH 2015 – Yarra Hotel, Johnson Street, Collingwood, VIC - Penny Ikinger (solo) with Mark Snarski 8pm SYDNEY: SUNDAY 15th MARCH 2015 – MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, 44 ENMORE RD, ENMORE NSW Penny Ikinger (solo) for two sets.

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Last shows for 2014

Penny IKinger - duo - Wed 19th November, Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. Not since they last played on a bill together in Madrid, Spain in 2006 have Mark Snarksi and Penny Ikinger shared a stage. Penny Ikinger will play at 8.30pm (with special guest Leon Storch on guitar) followed by the inimitable Mark Snarski. Free entry. If you haven’t been to the cosy Yarra Hotel before the food is great …not to mention the beer. This Friday 21 November PENNY IKINGER + band PLUS The Big Order @ Lyrebird Lounge, 61 Glen Eira Rd, Ripponlea Penny Ikinger “...a menacing mix of styles and influences from bluesy, dirty rock to swaggering '60s inspired pop, but it all hangs together with a dangerous edge.” + The Big Order was formed in St.Kilda by singer\songwriters Eddie Miller (son of rock legend Billy Miller) and Callum Ramage, The Big Order fuse soulful vocal harmonies with honest guitar tones. A powerful swamp pop-rock sound, reminiscent of Jack White and The Kinks. $5 on the door - Come Southside Children - Lyrebird Lounge 61 Glen Eira Road Ripponlea 8pm start

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Ikinger grabs Birdman supports

Coming down from her hurricane tour of Japan, Penny Ikinger kicks off November with a bang! Penny launches a new line-up with Leon Storch on guitar, Jim Richter on drums and Bec Anthony on bass for a secret warm-up show at The Town Hall Hotel, Errol St, Richmond on Saturday 1st November prior to her upcoming RADIO BIRDMAN supports at the Corner Hotel, Richmond, Melbourne on Sunday 2nd November (8pm) and Monday 3rd November (9pm). Also on the bill, in middle spot, and vying for The Coolest, HITS from Brisbane.

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