27/05/2020
Wowser! Back where it all started for Solidarity Külture Ćlub!
Animated Spaces project in what was the recently vacated Underworld Games basement in Top of Town, Ipswich QLD 4305, run as an unofficial Fringe program to the 2011 Ipswich Festival.
Co-incidentally our current home at Goleby's Basement is next door to this space : ) What goes around...
So looking forward to drenching the walls of Goleby's with sound, art & conversation as soon as we can open the doors properly post-Covid.
10th Anniversary next year for SKC!
5th Anniversary next year for Goleby's Basement!
FYI This is MSG hosting one of the pilot event ideas - 'Brand New, You're Retro' - (thanks Tricky), an informal Record Club discussing new & re-issued releases as the blossoming vinyl industry began it's accelerated rise from the ashes of the physical media funeral pyre.
In the US alone, unit sales for vinyl increased from 3.9m in 2011 - the time of this photo - to 16.9m in 2018! [Source: Nielsen]
PS For the record, the Zed Digital radio show of this idea never eventuated but within about 18 months SKC would start regular events in earnest at our next home, Cactus Espresso Bar.
As a prelude to the forthcoming radio show for 4ZZZ FM's new ZED DIGITAL digital community radio station, Solidarity Külture Ćlub hosted a special public premiere of the 'Brand New, You're Retro' record club for vinyl lover's, downstairs in The Speakeasy at Animated Space on Wednesday 25th May 2011.
*Photography by LeAnne Vincent