KISS FM, Glamorama and Walpole Events are teaming up to bring you a very special KISSMAS Party, whilst raising money for a great cause.

KISS FM will be broadcasting live from the Glamorama from 4pm on 87.6 – 87.8FM, via the free KISS FM AUSTRALIA app and live streaming on the KISS FM fanpage, with guest mixes from Walpole residents and KISS FM’s Friday night team.

Free beer and Chippies from 4-6pm thanks to MoonDog and Lord of the Fries. And an amazing hamper raffle!

It’s going to be a hell of a time, sunset drinks, your friends and some friends of friends, great tunes, maybe even some dancing and all safe in the knowledge that it’s almost the holiday season and that you are raising money for charity.

Stay tuned for ALL the prizes in the special fundraiser raffle – the charity we are raising money for is the VACCA – Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency. If you would like find out more information or make a donation you can check their website here https://www.vacca.org/

As the sunset turns to night Walpole will be taking over Glamorama for the evening from the main room running from 10pm – 5am. It is free entry before 11pm.

We can’t wait to see you all there

The Zoo is back for 2019!

Full International Lineup 🐢🐷🦁🐦

Franky Rizardo
Weiss
Route 94
Tube & Berger
Amine Edge & DANCE
Solee
Mat.Joe
Late Nite Tuff Guy
Noizu

Local Animals 🐨🐶🐱

Jordan Brando
Brian Fantana
The Journey
Luke Vecchio.
Handsdown
Leigh Boy
Laura King
Bec Grenfell
Francesco Castelli FRNK
Madalaine
Chriss Marinetti
Matteo Freyrie
Etwas
Andrea Guadalupi
Trentøff
Dean Turnley
Adam Metwally
Elliott Creed

🌳 New Location announcement coming very soon 🌳

Tickets are flying 🦅 Click here to buy > $100 – $127

Keep an eye on the page for updates & make sure you have clicked ‘going’. 🐘🐊

Love the Zoo Crew xx 🐎

Civilization: The Way We Live Now at Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Exhibition opens 13 Sep 2019 and runs until 2 Feb 2020.

Civilization: The Way We Live Now is an international photography exhibition of monumental scale, featuring the work of over 100 contemporary photographers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe with over 200 original photographs being exhibited.

In this increasingly globalised world, the exhibition explores photographers’ representations of life in cities as its key theme and presents a journey through the shared aspects of life in the urban environment. The selected works create a picture of collective life around the world and document patterns of mass behaviour. The exhibition looks at the phenomenal complexity of life in the twenty-first century and reflects on the ways in which photographers have documented, and held a mirror up, to the world around us.

A major publication is being produced by Thames & Hudson in parallel with the exhibition.

Open 10am-5pm daily.

For tickets [$10 – $18] and information click HERE

Kaws: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness at NGV International.

Exhibition opens 20 Sep 2019 and runs until 13 Apr 2020.

Open 10am–5pm daily.

Tickets and more information HERE –

In an Australian first, this exhibition is a comprehensive survey of 25 years of the oeuvre of the New York artist known as Kaws, full of humour, hope and humanity, celebrating his ability to connect with broad audiences.

The full range of Kaws’ artistic output will be on display, featuring more than 100 works including iconic paintings reappropriating pop-culture figures to his more recent large-scale abstract works, and an impressive collection of his celebrated sculptural figures.

Kaws engages with universal feelings of isolation and loneliness through his works, in reaction to the turbulent world we live in today. His larger-than-life sculptures are playful, toy-like figures. However, at a closer look, they reveal a fragility and darkness in the vulnerable poses of the characters.

Brian Donnelly (born 1974), aka KAWS, is one of the most prominent and prolific artists of his generation. His body of work straddles the worlds of art and design to include paintings, murals, large-scale sculptures, street and public art, and graphic and product design. His work is infused with humour, humanity and affection for our times. Admired for his larger-than-life sculptures and colour-filled paintings, KAWS’s cast of hybrid cartoon and human characters are drawn from pop-culture animations and form a distinctive artistic vocabulary.

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic is the first major survey exhibition of photographer Petrina Hicks. Over her fifteen-year career, Hicks has gained a strong reputation for her large-scale, hyperreal photographs that subvert and disrupt the photographic language of advertising and portraiture. Hicks photographs children, animals and young women against simple backgrounds, returning to the same models and motifs frequently to define and hone her distinctive style.

Hicks’s photographs are notable for their duality; pristine and benign at first glance, the works are undercut with a sense of the uncanny. The tension between seduction and danger, familiarity and strangeness, intimacy and distance are present in many of Hicks’s works, which are rich with mythological and historical symbolism.

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic includes more than fifty photographs and video works spanning the period 2003 to 2019. Seen together for the first time, Hicks’s shimmering, enigmatic and surreal compositions convey the inherent ambiguity and complexity of the female experience. At a time when issues of gender and representation are more culturally relevant than ever before, Hicks’s photographs interrogate the cultural and visual representation of women and children in contemporary society and throughout history.

The NGV is publishing a monograph to coincide with the exhibition, detailing the artist’s work to date.

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic at Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Exhibition opens 27 Sep 2019 and runs until 29 Mar 2020.

Open 10am-5pm daily. Entry is Free

Click here for more information

KEITH HARING | JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

CROSSING LINES

In an unprecedented, world premiere exhibition, the National Gallery of Victoria presents the work of two of the most significant and influential artists of the late 20th century. Exclusive to Melbourne, the exhibition offers new and fascinating insights into the artists’ unique visual languages and reveals, for the first time, the many intersections between their lives, practices and ideas. The exhibition surveys each artist’s tragically short, yet prolific career through more than 300 artworks, including works created in public spaces, painting, sculpture, objects, works on paper, photographs and more.

Exhibition opens 1 Dec 2019 and runs until 13 Apr 2020.

Open 10am–5pm daily.

Click HERE For tickets and more information

Melodic techno powerhouse Tim Engelhardt returns to Australia in December.

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White Noise pres. Tim Engelhardt (GER – Poker Flat Recordings | fryhide)
Friday December 13, 2019
My Aeon, 791 Sydney Road Brunswick
10PM til LATE
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What better way to celebrate our final event of 2019 than with a MyAeon debut, and an artist who needs no introduction to Melbourne!

The Cologne-based DJ and producer artist will perform his unique LIVE show for one night only, and exclusively in Melbourne for White Noise.

With support from all-Melbourne locals:

Muska – AUS | Le’bruh | DJ Moe Aloha | Doakes | Luke Lawrence | Stevie Strafford

TIM ENGELHARDT
(Cologne – Poker Flat | Fryhide)

One of Cologne’s youngest and brightest electronic music stars on the rise, Tim Engelhardt didn’t gatecrash the scene out of leftfield, but started his path to connoisseurship fairly early on: trying to rewrite the piano pieces he had to practice at the tender age of eight, he showed an independent creative mind from the get-go – a character trait that would prove extremely helpful for a later career as electronic music producer. But it was only when Tim later discovered the releases of Cologne techno luminary Robert Babicz that synthesisers and bass drums moved into focus – a brilliant producer, live performer and mastering engineer with a keen sense for sonic detail, Babicz became the perfect role model for young Tim, inspiring our hero to seek out his own place in electronic music while honing a concise understanding for all facets of production.

Part of a diverse new breed of young producers that get their cues from all sorts of genres and listening situations, Tim still stands apart, having released his very first record when he was just 14 years old. Combining profound musical knowledge with intuitive playfulness, his solid pianist background becomes rather obvious in the great care he takes over harmonies and an expanded melodic structure. Pair that with the organic fluidity and atmospheric dexterity of his music and you’ve got yourself a winning recipe. Consequently, Tim grew his portfolio with plenty outings on labels such as Traum Schallplatten, WIR, Babiczstyle, Amuse Gueule, Ostwind Records, Popart Music, PMP Playmusic Productions, Parquet Recordings, Manual Music / MNL and Steve Bug’s iconic Poker Flat Recordings– an impressive amount of label royalty that he’s amassed in only four short years.

Stay tuned for more Tim Engelhardt on key imprints such as Dixon’s Innervisions or Cityfox… exciting things are coming your way.

MUSKA
(Bushtechno)

LE’BRUH
(Pelican Villa)

MOE ALOHA
(Melbourne Dance Music Academy)

DOAKES
(Suckmusic)

LUKE LAWRENCE
(White Noise Music)

STEVIE STRAFFORD
(White Noise Music)

Our 2019 summer series is in full swing and this week we’re proud to present a very special guest DJ, Melbourne’s very own Tahl!

Famed for his cracking sets that leave the crowd’s jaws dropping, not being stroked. Tahl has some serious technical ability that glides seamlessly through a stylised blend of Tech House, Breaks, Electro with a splash of hip hop to top it off.

Since discovering the outdoor festival scene he’s played Strawberry Fields, Subsonic, Chi Wow-Wah Town, Rancho Relaxo, Forgotten Kingdom and a famed set at Rainbow on the chill stage. His most important and loved residency is at Melbourne’s hottest running weekly party… the acclaimed Breakfast Club.

Support will be provided by our faithful residents from Groove Haüs and Spectrum Melb, get ready for a large one!

Proudly brought to you by Groove Haus, Spectrum, Craic Collective and The Tea Party

The Vineyard – 71A Acland St, St Kilda
4pm-10pm, every Sunday

Green Velvet | Claptone| Michael Bibi | Rebūke

SATURDAY JANUARY 4, 2020 | Burnley Circus Park, Richmond

Tune in to CLAPTONE’s Clapcast Radio Show on KISS FM every Friday from midday

Following the one hour sell out of this years Beyond The Valley Festival, Untitled Group.,Thick As Thieves and Pitch Control are thrilled to announce the official Beyond The Valley 2019 sideshow featuring Green Velvet, Claptone, Michael Bibi and Rebūke!

These four international heavyweights, supported by a handful of top local talent,

will be taking over Burnley Circus Park for the first day party of 2020!

Burnley Circus Park (the largest designated event site in the City of Yarra) will be transformed for one very special day of world-class music in the sun making this the perfect start for the 2020 summer season.

Doors will open at 2:00pm, kicking off what promises to be the recovery party of the year.

TICKETS ARE ON 3RD RELEASE $114 [FINAL RELEASE WILL BE $130]

BUY NOW HERE

BABYLON ~ a music and lifestyle festival deep in the heart of the Australian Wilderness

Friday Feb 21 – Sunday Feb 23
Carapooee West, Victoria

Across three magical days (Friday Feb 21st – Sunday Feb 23rd) Babylon returns for its 4th year with a collection of breathtaking international and local music acts; from techno & house to psytrance, magnificently orchestrated to create a spectacular visual and audio sensory experience.
A festival where attendees travel to from all over the world, not only for music but for the unparalleled world of visual art, freedom of expression and mindfulness, that is the entirety of the Australian Bush-doof experience. Offering a vibrant atmosphere, revellers can meander through the Marketplace & Food Village, participate in a variety of Workshops, and be free to explore their own sense of self and
self-expression.

BABYLON 2020 LINEUP
Ace Ventura
Alan Fitzpatrick
Andhim
Ann Clue
CAP
Carl Cox
Christopher Coe
Cosmic Boys
Culprate
D-Formation
Dickster
E-Clip
Eat Static
Enzo Siragusa
Flip Flop
Haywyre
Headroom
Hidden Empire
Jeremy Olander
Kasper Koman
Koan Sound
Lauren Lo Sung
Mees Salomé
Menog
Misstress Barbara
Pan-Pot
Priku
Quivver
Reinier Zonneveld
SIT
Skyfall
Smokesign
Spektre
Stan Kolev
Talpa
The Illustrious Blacks
The Librarian
Thomas Schumacher
Tongue & Groove

BABYLON Tickets: ON SALE NOW | CLICK HERE

First release tickets start at $269.95+BF.

Early Access tickets start at $60+BF per person
Our early access ticket allows entry to the event from the 20th of Feb, which will allow for premium campsite selection and the beginning of our musical programme for the weekend.

In order to provide a more sustainable event, car-pooling & taking the Babylon Bus is further encouraged with car park passes on sale for $25+BF and are available at ticket point of purchase.

www.babylon.net.au