Monday 4 April – Sunday 11 April

St Kilda Blues Festival
Friday – Saturday
Free across 20 local venues with 40+ artists
Street parade with Hoodoo Mayhem
Saturday 5 pm Acland Street plaza
and again Sunday 3 pm

This Week in St Kilda #260
Comedy Festival local gigs
Uprising Songs of Resistance @ Memo
Two more sides to the Triangle from Dick and Serge

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Rebecca and Billy’s Sing-a-long society @ Memo
Wednesday 7 April, 7 pm
Fun times with two talented good eggs. $25 for a seat
Tix

Uprising Songs of Resistance @ Memo live stream
Thursday 8 April, 7.30 pm
Live show sold out, but stream available. Amazing line-up including Paul Kelly, Julia Stone, Deborah Conway, Paul Grabowsky, & Sophie Brous, Harry Angus, Emily Lubitz, Shane Howard & Ernie Gruner, Kee’ahn, Arnold Zable, Jess Hitchcock, Maria Tumarkin and the Djirri Djirri Dancers. $18/$30
Tix

Tanya Lee-Davies – Kiss Someone Launch @ George Lane
Thursday 8 April, 7.30 pm 11.00 pm
Melbourne songstress Tanya-Lee Davies is a heart-seeking missile. She creates dreamy / pop country / psychedelic folk sounds: big on melody, lush vocals and lyrics that cast spells.
Tix

MICF: Damien Richardson It Could Get Worse @ Army and Navy Club
Thursday 8 – Sunday 10 April, 8.30 pm
Having just completed a four-year stint on Neighbours and filming the last series of Jack Irish, Damien is back with a new show.
Supported by Patti Fawcett and Bharatheon Bharatheon
$22/$15
Tix
And also
St Kilda Comedy Club open mic @ Army and Navy Club
Various nights during the festival. $10
Tix and details

Blue Velvet – 35th anniversary @ Astor
Thursday 8 – Saturday 10 April, 7.30 pm
David Lynch – need we say more – starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern.
Tix

St Kilda Blues Festival @ 20 local venues
Friday 9 April – Sunday 11 April, all gigs are free
Three days, 20+ venues, 40+ acts over 50 gigs.
Supported generously by Council, this free music festival is a great opportunity to catch some great blues in local venues. Wander from gig to gig, watch Hood Mayhem’s Band New Orleans Second Line Parade, see inside some unusual venues like Christ Church and cure your blues with Blues.
Gig guide | A4 PDF

Bayside Market @ O’Donnell Gardens
Friday 9 April, 5.30 pm – 9.30 pm
Craft stalls to shop, food trucks, beverages, cocktails and live music. Family and fur baby friendly.
Info

Lost Ragas @ Memo
Friday 9 April, 8.30 pm
Be treated to broken Hearted Alt Country which flies off into this amazing duel slide guitar meets lapsteel all centred around Matt Walker’s beautifully dark voice. $30/$20
Tix

Hot Glue @ Espy
Friday 9 April, 7:30pm,
Sisters Lily and Pearl Harnath create tracks with pulsing with a high energy guitar sound, punchy beats and catchy vocals, the band speaks of frustrations and reinventions that will double the size of your heart. $12.55
Tix

Comedy Pub Crawl – St Kilda (UK) @ Four bars, five comedians
Saturday 10 April, Sunday 11 April, 2 pm
Strut round St Kilda bars with a mystery top-class comedian at each venue! $40
Tix

Jeff Martin ‘Set in Stone’ Australian Tour @ Memo
Saturday 10 April, 7.30 pm
After several postponements, Jeff Martin (The Tea Party) will step out on his much-anticipated tour. $55/$45
Tix

Comedy Commutes (Early and Late Shows) @ Espy
Saturday 10 April, 6 pm and 9 pm
MICF Comedy Commutes brings laughs to St Kilda.
Early show: MC Bob Franklin, Bev Killick, Carl Donnelly (UK), Blake Freeman, Luke Heggie
Late show: MC Bob Franklin, Danny McGinlay, Danielle Walker, Daniel Connell and more
$35/$29
Tix

Fire up the arvo barbie comedy @ Memo
Sunday 11 April, 3.30 pm
Uncle Nev & Aunty Bev’s Sunday Arvo Aussie Barbie with a real sausage fest, including Dave O’Neil, Jeff Green, Simon Palomares, Richard Stubbs, Bev Killick, Angus Gill, Ben Knight, Oliver Clark, CJ Fortuna, Clinton Gin and Lehmo
Hung Le. $35/$25
Tix

Steve Hoy & The Subliminals @ George Lane
Sunday 11 April 11, 4 pm 8 pm
Steve Hoy is a prominent figure in Melbourne music, who emerged in 1985 with the Joe Camilleri produced ‘Anticipation’.
Tix

Repair Café @ EcoCentre
Sunday 11 April, 2 pm – 5 pm
Take your much-loved household items to be repaired instead of tossed.
Free but donations appreciated. Volunteers also encouraged.
Organised by the Jewish Ecological Coalition (JECO) and the Port Phillip EcoCentre (PPEC)
www.stkildarepaircafe.org.au

Maltese Falcon – 80th anniversary @ Astor
Sunday 11 April, 4 pm
Spend a dangerous afternoon with Sam Spade
Tix

On going

Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts @ Theatre Works
Until 10 April, various times
From the co-creators of ‘Thrones! The Musical Parody’ comes their latest parody. After two successful back-to-back seasons at The Edinburgh Fringe and The King’s Head in London.
Warning (15+): Coarse Language, Sexual References, Simulated Death
Tix are selling fast – sold as booths in the TW glasshouse style
sad face: no accessible seating

Exhibition: Female Empowerment @ Space2b
Until 6 April, 10am – 5pm
Face2Face is a series of collaborative works, painted by two artists from different cultural backgrounds teaming up to explore and share their chosen theme.
F2F March delves into the theme of ‘Female Empowerment’ featuring Humaira Fayazi and Vicki Soar.
More info

Three shows @ Linden
Until 16 May,
Moving on from the Postcard Show, Linden has works from three impressive artists:
Ash Keating > Duality; Troy Emery > Sonder; and Nicholas Folland > Burn Down The House
Linden New Art
Linden hours Tuesday – Sunday
Session 1 > 11.15 am – 1 pm
Session 2 > 2 pm – 3.45 pm

Soon

Meet the Artist > Troy Emery @ Linden Live on FaceBook and YouTube
Thursday 15 April, 6 pm – 7 pm
Join Curator Juliette Hanson for a lively conversation with leading mid-career Melbourne based artist Troy Emery to explore the ideas behind his work and practice. There will be opportunities for you to ask questions and get involved Free
Book and join

Outdoor Connections Youth Program @ EcoCentre
Friday 16 April, 11 am – 3 pm,
Join a beach clean-up and litter team challenge as part of the Outdoor Connections program for local young people aged 12 to 18 years. Facilitated by the Port Phillip EcoCentre in collaboration with Lord Somers Camp and Powerhouse (with funding from the City of Port Phillip Youth Access Grants Program).
Book your free place

Freya Josephine Hollick @ George Lane
Saturday 17 April, 6 pm – 11 pm
Freya comes to St. Kilda to play a rare intimate solo show!
Tix this will book out

A dozen years ago the Triangle dominated local politics.
And what a roller coaster of a ride it’s been!
Should we expect more than a car park?
This Week in St Kilda invited both former councillors to reply to Cr Bond’s bid to resume the triangle discussion.
Read their replies in full by clicking the links below
Dick Gross replies: We need scale to make it an attraction
Serge Thomann replies: We need a bipartisan approach
Next week we publish more comments from the community.
Tell us what you need by Friday COB to be included
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Do some time travelling reading The Age story from 2008 and source of the photo

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