Tanzer Vinyl EP Launch

Tanzer is the dark and dazzling solo project for Melbourne-based musician and composer Hayley Foster. Named for her maternal German family (and not a European dancing career), Tanzer spins tales of OTT love affairs and fabulous heartbreak with a haughty glare and a swelling, thumping soundscape. Equal parts dreamy, stark and seductive, Tanzer conjures 60s film soundtracks, new-wave divas and otherworldly exotica – but ultimately lives in a genre all her own.

Hayley, what do you think is the key to making a “great” song?
I think ‘great’ is so open to interpretation that it’s impossible to formulate. I’m never completely satisfied with my own music – and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

What has been your inspiration behind creating this EP?
Life and love and the loss of. Like billions before me.

How did it become that you are now working in music, what do you most love about the form?
It found me – I was discouraged...

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First Melbourne Show for 2016

Australia Day Eve – MEMO Music Hall

ARIA Award-winning singer-songwriter, Clare Bowditch will perform her first show for 2016 at MEMO Music Hall Monday 25 January– a kick start to Australia Day celebrations the next day. It will be a big day for Clare, performing on the same night as her first shift as the new Afternoons presenter on 774 ABC Melbourne. Clare’s performance will be fresh from the recording studio where she is currently writing and recording her eighth album, whittling down the 150 songs she has written since 2012’s “The Winter I Chose Happiness”. The multi-talented Clare is also an actor (she played Rosanna Harding on Channel 10’s hit show “Offspring”), speaker, writer and creative-business mentor. She’s had Top Ten albums, been named Rolling Stone Woman of the Year (Contribution to Culture), Yen Young Woman of the Year (Music), co-written with Gotye, toured with Leonard Cohen, written for Harper’s Bazaar and...

SELL OUT SHOWS last year and a plethora of RAVE REVIEWS we are pretty damn excited to have the uber talented JOHN WATERS and STEWART D’ARRIETTA at MEMO THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 3PM, SEPT 27th, to perform their theatrical interpretation of the JOHN LENNON STORY.
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Wish you could increase your range to hit those high or low notes you thought weren’t possible? Wish you could sing for longer without hurting your voice? Want to be trained by the same person who has helped over 100 Grammy Award winners?
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TAGG the alternative gig guide celebrating the launch of it’s hard copy, pocket sized entertainment guide on Sunday at St Kilda’s Sports Club.

This very special event rocked in with SLAB centre stage with Nelson Fuller on lead guitar / vocals, Ben Blaak on bass and James Pacholli rocking on drums; all looking and sounding like very hot stuff.

TAGG is a state-of-the-art, multi media pocket sized gig and entertainment guide which will soon to be hitting the streets throughout Port Phillip. It offers readers eight pages of what’s on in localised areas, complete with convenient QR code portals to online sites and an A3 sized glossy poster on the back, all in full colour!


Slab – Nelson Fuller on lead guitar and vocals, Ben Blaak on bass and James Pacholli on drums


Nelson Fuller


James Pacholli


Ben Blaak


story & images by Kerrie Pacholli @ pationpics.c...