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............................................. Australian Culture Now... ...is a huge exhibition currently showing at the National Gallery of Victoria (Federation Square, Melbourne)until September some time. 2004,the book/catalogue has four pages with silent army stuff. It's a splendid print and is available at the show and other fancy book stores. 11:11 a.m. Friday, July 16, 2004 On 28th July at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Silent Army kids Fikaris/Mangan/O'donnell have illustrations that are included with 21 others on over 50 decorated chairs. Yeah, chairs. They're wood, well designed and part of an invite only show...then they're off to Tokyo fer something else. Just thought we'd put this up anyway... 02:01 p.m. Tuesday, May 25, 2004 OUTLANDISH The next Silent Army group show is a huge collaboration of over fifty artists using paintings/sculpture/stencils/live performances and of course comic books and illustrations. Including - 'chopper' read, ha-ha, james dodd, LTMP, civil, vexta, monkey, tai snaith, lachlan conn, kieran mangan, mikal fikaris, carol wood, susan butcher, tim danko, aaron o'donnell, peter savieri, nick potter, neale blanden, heller, kirrily schelle, textaqueen, amac, deven, albo, sync, reka, rype, chiller, porno priestess, sid, dan sinley, rone, the paper girls, tower, rohani osman, flora, sarah, grant, marty, jacob smit, ben marsh, pox girls, braddock coalition publications, ash keating, e3, the cleaners & lcd. The thing opens at 6pm June 4th 2004 Traumatic Art Galleries, 8 lyon street, north coburg. 06:46 p.m. Friday, May 7, 2004 Braddock says... braddock.com 06:36 p.m. Friday, May 14, 2004 Harvey Pekar in Melbourne...that's right look! FIkaris uses his public speaking skills with Next Wave to interview Harvey Pekar in front of a live audience. 06:11 p.m. Friday, May 01, 2004 spit polish Old man aaron o'donnell has just finished a package of goodies (album/poster/shirts/other novelties) for the latest tim rogers release 'spit polish' by tim rogers and the temperance union. It is of course a stellar production and can be previewed here. 09:43 p.m. Saturday, April 17, 2004 EMPTY BBQ Meeting tomorrow 2pm at Smith Reserve, the park next to the Fitzroy Baths, before walking to the gallery. 09:42 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, 2004 AND the empty show is happening in melbourne again...so stay tuned for details available here on the 16th of april... 09:11 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, 2004 THINGS *soonbooks* -------SPARKS-------- -----TRUE FANTASY---- *nowart* 'free' braddock coalition are joining in with the"GOO"show this -----Wed.(tomorrow)------ -----7/4/04 at 6pm.------ early space - upstairs at Kent st. cafe in Collingwood, Vic. *it is nearly ready* ----THE NEW PAGE HERE---- 8:08. Monday, February 16, 2004 THE BRADDOCK RAINBOW CONNECTION They’ve been around fer a while now, the Braddock coalition, you mighta heard of this lot... makin’ little books,like PURE EVIL or SILENT ARMY, writing manifestos to leave in public places, contributing unnecessarily to public events and congregations of all sizes, you may even have seen one of their many public displays of the comic book lifestyle…it is likely that you may have met one of them, or even know someone from this esteemed group,the Braddock Coalition. Summoned back in 1996 with the slogan ‘WE WILL CRUSH YOU’ thrown across their comic books, they now carry the humble ‘BEST DARN COMIC BOOKS IN THIS HOLE COUNTRY’ banner to their name. AS BRADDOCK RAINBOW IS SMALL BUT BRADDOCK RAINBOW IS NEVER ENDING With every issue an unsung prototype to the meaning of life, the Brad dock coalition comic book artist is virtually unstoppable in the pursuit of pride, parody and progression through releases in their chosen medium. These comic book articles are often noticed with passing glares but rarely organized for the intention of ‘art’, more ideally suitable as communication invoices to their war torn colleagues of outsider ways. FOR BRADDOCK LOVES TO FIGHT AND BRADDOCK FIGHTS TO LOVE. And as Braddock started with a wind that will never end, so does the Braddock Rainbow stretch over many lands and reach very high, eventually reaching the silent armies of minds atwar – leading them proudly to create their destiny,and destined to lead them selves with creativity. One such group has been using this Braddock term for some time now as a constantly evolving version of hope in an otherwise hopeless fight with art at large and the equivilant to writing new chapters in an unfound book. BRADDOCK IS RICH BUT BRADDOCK HAS NO BANK ACCOUNT And so, with various new comic book titles being released, many pages to ‘read’ from some eighteen soldiers through their packaged communication invoices,we are sure when we say “this show’s gonna’look real good ‘aye” and would now like to personally invite you to witness this, the ninth show from the braddock coalition, live at- ****************** ****************** Early space Upstairs Gallery - 201 Smith street colllingwood, victoria Australiaah. ****************** ~ Opening Friday February 20 at 6pm ~ w/NudieSuits playing discs. ****************** ~ closing Friday March 12 at 6pm ~ w/ AmazingBoy doing sound and visual. ****************** ****************** 12:21 a.m. Monday, February 2, 2004 THE DARK WOODS A handful of silent army veterans are part of a new exhibition, the dark woods, which will be travelling around Awstralia this year. It opens 12 February at the Carnegie Gallery, 16 Argyle street, Hobart at 6pm. There is a stunning catalogue of the event in production also, soon to be available here. 08:22 p.m. Tuesday, January 27, 2004 'ubiquitousthreads' Look at this neat lil interface from Kirrily Schell. 10:33 am. Sunday, January 18, 2004 BIG DAY UP Big Day Out 2004 has commissioned a Dirty Dozen of Melbourne's finest to put up some murals at Gate 1 of the festival. If there, be sure to look for black and white pieces from SilentArmy privates : Mangan & Fikaris. And keep an eye out fer those free comic books kids! 06:11 p.m. Friday, January 16, 2004 JUST MAKE IT OUT The fourth annual MAKE IT UP day is here again on SAT.24th JAN. at the Lower Melbourne Town Hall, from 10:30 - 5:00pm. To attend such an event not only enables you access to a stunning room in one of Melbournes finest buildings, but the pleasure of rummaging through a selection of stalls promoting many self published items,aswell as the chance to encounter inspiration from staged panels of discussion within groups of like minded chatty people - including some punks from Silent Army. 8:33 Thursday, January 8, 2004 ******BRADDOCK RAINBOW****** The next silentArmy group show will be at - Early Space, Above Kent st. Cafe : 201 Smith st. Collingwood, Melbourne (www.earlyspace.cjb.net) OPENING Friday Feb 20th 6pm and CLOSING Friday March 12th 1200 hrs Thursday, January 1, 2004 HAPPY NEW... comicslifestyle.com 06:44 p.m. Tuesday, December 2, 2003 SEVENTH 'From the Hands of Braddock' is the seventh show from the Braddock Coalition and will have new comic books from Mikal Fikaris / Stefan Neville, Tim Danko and Aaron O'donnell. Opening 6-9pm Tuesday 16th December at seventh gallery inc: 155 Gertrude st. Fitzroy w/ very special guests Pumice (nz) playing live and hands on experiences from the famous Nat 'n Ali. + Closing Party 3-9pm Saturday 20th Dec w/ performances from Devilshark, Stepchild, Strunt, Lachlan Conn, Kieran Mangan and the collaborations of L.C.D cultural industries... ...if you're able to attend either of these events you will undoubtedly see, hear and maybe even feel the motivation and divine ammunition of this silent army. 1:11 a.m. Saturday, September 27,2003 PRO-ACTIV8 What can you make of this? Frustrated artists WILL create. {Don't ask why we keep putting shitty musick projects along side our quality comic book releases, it's mandatory ideals really, a bit of unintentional 'creative outbursts' along the ways and lots of subdued angers toward society now...not that that is important, haye?} Deep, yes very deep. 07:53 p.m. Friday, September 5, 2003 BANDIT FOX Alice Mrongoviuos (Silent Army Infermary, How Comics Can Change the World and others) has her site up for us to look at. Click here to look at it and then write to her askin' fer one of those hand printed tops before they run out. Now! 12:07 p.m. Friday , August 29 , 2003 OATS COMICS Main stays and mantra rays, Stefan Neville & Clayton Noone(Pure Evil/SPX/Fink and many others) have released the new CITY OF TALES collection PIPIS. It is, as usual, a feast of tasty little insights and has draweens of tiny muscles and stories on dogs...look at da oatz comics site to fulfill other desires. 011:11p.m. Friday, August 22, 2003 SHOTS FIRED Braddock attacked STICK 'EM UP show, along with many others last night - you should do the same! Up until October 6th at Revolver Upstairs, the last show was in Manchester and there is another book.very noice! 04:42 p.m. Tuesday, August 19, 2003 MANGAN SITE hey ho's, Kieran Mangan [silent army co-hort, mandolin wanna-be and mummy's boy] has his own little site. it's b&w, it's simple and will probably rarely be up-dated! click on this text to see it. 01:09 a.m. Friday, August 15, 2003 Australian comics suck! (...all of your time up) and no-one reads'em here!...but people read VOICEWORKS (our favourite local magazine), don't they? the latest issue has an interview with Mikal Fikaris,general braddock enthusiast and makerer of FROTH comics. Read the article (in the shop) and find out how futile this stuff really is. 03:59 p.m. Friday, August 8, 2003 67% SAY THEY WERE MISLED (refers to a survey published last week about the new war catostrophy set-ups and) is a travelling paste-up poster show some of silent army(Kieran Mangan, Michael Fikaris, Tim Danko, Aaron O'donnell and Peter Savieri )are a part of with other such roadside prophets as: Amac, Guy Benfield, Richard Butler-Bowden, Lane Cormick, DLux, P.Dutch, HA-HA, Ash?, Vladimer Kanigler, Marcsta, Nat n Ali, Emile Zile, Pandarosa, Peter Salmon-Lomas, Syn(c) and more. be there, streetside, underlights, lookin for 'em in Melb-Australia-Aug03, Vienna-Austria-Sep03, Budapest-Hungary-Oct03, Dublin-Ireland-Nov03, Jakarta-Indonesia-Dec03, Auckland-New Zealand-Jan04,Brisbane-Australia-Feb04. more spots coming! Information for any particulars can be sought by writing to silentarmy. started by citylightsproject.com and anyminutenow.com. with assistance fromqdcomic.com. check out their style! 3:13 p.m. Sunday, August 3, 2003 WILL DRAW FER FOOD Apparently the SilentArmy barracks are so broke they are drawing comics for food. Well Aaron (Vexed) O'donnell has anyway, and he's saying that any of us can get a meal for two by continuing the black and white comic he's started as the first in a series of ads for an indian restaurant on chapel street, windsor. Aaron has also painted a large colour mural depicting the history of the taj mahal (not for food this time) out the back section of the same restaurant,the Taj Mahal- 'Australias oldest indian restaurant'.YUM! 09:33p.m. Friday,July 25, 2003 THE EMPTY SHOW The Empty show is here again with a whole stack of Melbourne's poster artist's, stencillers, muralists and SilentArmy members doing up an old building in Canterbury.The once off opening/tour is this Sunday, July 27. Be at Canterbury station at 3pm for more directions(the last train from Flinders st. station is at 2:28). Look at the last show here 04:13 p.m. Friday, June 20, 2003 BARBIE IN THE 'BURG Tomorrow evening there will be bands and drinks at a barbeque in Coburg for the housewarming of 24 Glengyle st. Come one ,come all to witness 'do you mind if i stab this?'(with Lachlan Conn) LIVE! with special geusts 'a band called life'. Starting at 6pm, the night is sure to be one of masterful mystery and will no doubt be talked about for many moons...so don't be slow joe! 06:37pm Friday, June 20, 2003 ORD IN FRANCE Comic book artist stalwart, SilentArmy contributor & all round good person, Mandy Ord, is getting ready to leave for this years International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France. Her five minute masterpiece 'Suit Yourself' has been chosen for the festival next month. .www.annecy.org 03:33p.m. Friday, June 13, 2003 SPEAKIN' OF WHICH ...stepchild to play at special improv. night w/ Tape Phylum and Dr.David Nicholls(& others) at the Make It Up Club this Tues. 17th at the Planet Cafe in Fitzroy from 9:11pm - be there or be square! 03:01pm. Friday, June 13, 2003 ANOTHER CLUB To small press publishers...for many reasons, take yer book down to these guys visiting Aust. this month, who are gathering the good stuff as part of travelling book reading club - clubsprojectinc@bigpond.com. Karin will accept your stuff over the next coupla' weeks and tell you were to go... 09:33pm Friday, June 6, 2003 STEPCHILD vs DEVILSHARK Our first official suburban noise battle will take place tomorrow 060703 at the Eisenberg Gallery of Experimental Art in East Brunswick from 3:33pm.Special geusts include Ben Butcher(jihadagainstamerica), Nick Potter(l.c.d) and Creegs. Photo's coming soon! 04:55p.m. Friday, May 23, 2003 THOUGHT STORIES... The next SilentArmy groop imprint will be a full colour comic book anthology with stories from people who've been told they have a terminal illness. These 'short stories'(working title) will be conducted one on one with patients by the drawerers and then illustrated into four or five pages. Not to be ready until mid 2004, the process has started and a publisher has been found, more details soon. 02:02 p.m. Friday, May 2, 2003 GO K - ROAD!! Thanks to the fine and dandy people at 155 Karangahape rd. in Auckland fer givin' us a room over the past coupla' weeks.Especially to our host, the honest to goodness genius - Stefan Neville, for not only treating us to his world but the sharing of many fine moments and close personal friendships (not to mention the hot dinners). Thanks also to all the other fine folks we shared time with,(too numerous to mention here) you know who you are... 11:39p.m. Friday, April 4, 2003 NEW ZEALUND! SilentArmy represents at this years Armageddon 'pulp culture expo'(www.pulpexpo.com) in Auckland over three days at the Aotea Centre. Our stall is on the bottom level, down the stairs, past the laminating booth(for all of your laminating needs!),between dragonballz cinema and the wrestling ring. 11:22 a.m. Wed, Mar 19, 2003 belgique ....as some are aware the kind people of Galerie Ziggourat in Belgium have offered to print a special australian edition of their tabloid-sized bandes desineees comic thingee..... niiiiiice... ...thanks to the gracious efforts of "the natural man" Mister Blanden we now have a deadline of sorts and news that our efforts will be hosed down and shaved off and then placed into an exhibition in swinging old London town...... veeeeery niiiiiice........ so here we go ... DETAILS: address: Jean Marie Derscheid Galerie Ziggourat rue dejoncker, 34-1060 Brussells Belgium dimensions: live area: 35.5cm x 26cm bleed / page size: 42cm x 31.5cm eeeemail: derscheid@pandora.be rough deadline: early April ....yes, we can all quizz them direct about niggles and specific worries, let them know how keeeny mustard you are... they asked neale how many comic arteeestes might contribute....don't know if its limited to one page each or not.... watch the skies... 01:14 p.m. Sat, Mar 15, 2003 zombatics ...I folded the corner until it said comics... go to the corner ...scroll down the chat room page until you hit a big long article/reply that begins with..."...we come into the studio and you're always reading... and readings good, Zombo ...but you're always reading comics." ...the head of Zombos' first art school explains the difference between 'real' reading and... some other kind of thing. (1983) 12:14 p.m. Fri, Mar 7, 2003 "being zine" I don't know what that's sposed to mean either. Anyway, the Tasmanian Readers' & Writers' Festival will be hosting two free workshops on zine & comics creation on sunday the 30th of march and sunday the 6th of april, 10am-4pm in the Sidespace Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart. Participants include fuckin mainlanders Dillon Pop Culture & 2 Minute Noodles Naylor & Lachlan Punkin Moon Conn, alongside locals Leigh Zombievideo Rigozzi and comics historian/witch Andrew Harper. The plan is to have a finished comic containing work by all involved at the end of the two workshops. Should be fun coupla Sundays. Visit the festival's "events for young persons" page for more info and registration details. 11:36 p.m. Thurs, Feb 27, 2003 STEPCHILD HIGH ON AIR Listen to the subliminal ten year coincidence of mikal fikaris (stepchild) through folk death ramblings of historic soundscape experimentations on 3pbs fm next thursday-6th of the 3rd, 03 from 3 to 6. Starting with the one hour manifesto at 3am(when all self respecting 'artists' are hard at work)narrated by 'creegs' the rest of the time will be spent getting stoned at the station and talking to each other all night regardless of the amount of people listening...(sound familiar?) The show is webcast live alsoClick here 05:46 p.m. Tues Feb 25, 2003 GEE-MACK PHOTO BLOW!! Gregory Mackay strikes blow for comix photography!!! See the real image from behind the eye of the brain behind the vision above the bones between the suburbs that make 'Francis Bear', 'Deep Black', 'Terminal' and so many more fine comics.... ..........group exhibit of five contemporary photographers (including the afore-mentioned Gee-Mack) at ARTHOLES, upstairs 128 Gertrude St. Fitzroy. Feb 21st - Mar 5th, Mon - Sat, 9am - 5pm. Fight your way through the maze of mirrors to the real representations of reality... 05:35 p.m. Tues Feb 25 2003 AUTO-TRANSLATER GHOST "....Graduating from a world of childhood teenagers are ambitions and edge toward the unfathomable mystery-world of adulthood. Two good friends who attempt to live together but both walk a way towards the other ends. Under the criticize rules of the adults. Rebecca steps on the way heading her goal with fading dreams whereas Enid insists a way she chooses. Heres a story of these two young teenagers, or yours....?" blurbed from the back of the asian "Ghost World" V.C.D. ....the auto-translater ghost in the machine nails poetic clarity again!!!! 05:11 p.m. Mon Feb 24, 2003 SPXPO 2003 SUB-MISSIONS TIME!!! yesssss... goddammit its small press expo book (SPX for those shorthanders out there!!) submission time again... be rejected by the best, wait in muted panic and unreasonable hope for eight months till the book reaches our shores and flick the pages in sweaty desperation as you slowly realised you haven't missed any pages... you just aren't in it this year... no really it can be a bit of a lottery and depending also on how many 'names' are going to be in any particular years book... as always we will look at some of the winners and wonder how they got in, and not Mandy Ord... maybe narrative will always win over 'art'... but maybe not this year.... the deadline is April 25th and the theme is 'travel'... so go to Click here for all the excact specifications... maybe at the very least if we mass all our comic troops along their borders they will take our comic threat seriously and dissarm their narrative missiles... with or without U.N. resolutions... 12:19 p.m. Fri Jan 31, 2003 the empty show A bunch of fine Melbourne poster artists, street colourers, stencillers and muralists, including a few Silent Army members and associates, have done up a vacant hotel in Williamstown. There is a once-off opening of the doors this Sunday, Feb 2. Your Mission: Catch the 5:25 Werribee train from Flinders St, to meet at Williamstown station 6:00PM SHARP, where you will await further directions. 09:17 p.m. Thu Jan 30, 2003 welcome ...to the newly revamped Silent Army online world HQ. We're still busy updating the site, so please don't email us telling us how it doesn't quite work yet, cos we already know. Okay? Things will get better, trust us. We're kinda busy with the Hush-Hush show at the moment, so give us a break, huh. Coming very soon:
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