Newtown What's On: Week Ending July 12

Here's the latest Newtown What's On, your weekly guide to what's going on in Newtown. I welcome suggestions: email the mayorofnewtown 'at' gmail.com. If you run a venue, please add me to your mailing list. New this week - In The Hood - a recommendation in a neighbouring suburb.

Mayor Recommends

Newtown local MJ Woodbridge supporting Melbourne Trio 'Me and the Grown Ups'
Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown
Thursday July 9 @ 8pm

Music

Wednesday July 8
Daryl Beaton Band + Rosie
Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown

Thursday July 9
Me and the Grown Ups + MJ Woodbridge
Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown

Friday July 10
Gest8
Sound Lounge at Seymour Centre, Corner City Rd and Cleveland St

Vic Chesnutt and Victoria Williams
Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville

Johnny Cass and the Dukes
Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown

Saturday July 11
The Idea of North (Acapella)
Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville

West End Composers Collective
Sound Lounge at Seymour Centre, Corner City Rd and Cleveland St

Urban Dance Centre
Seymour Centre, Corner City Rd and Cleveland St
2pm and 8pm

Wildkatz
Marlborough Hotel, Corner King St and Missenden Road, Newtown

Butterfly Effect (sold out)
Enmore Theatre, 119-132 Enmore Road, Newtown

Sunday July 12
...nothing yet ... email me !

Theatre

Wrong Way Up
Newtown Theatre, Corner King and Bray St, Newtown
July 28 - August 15

Horrific Acts for Charity
New Theatre, 542 King St, Newtown
July 22 - July 25

Unit 46
Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville
June 25 - July 19
8pm, Sunday 5pm

Exhibitions

Roni Feldman - Collective Resolve
Wilson Street Gallery, 30-34 Wilson St Newtown
Until July 12

Other

Regular Events
Funky Cafe, 256King St Newtown
- Live music Mon - Sat night

Madame Fling Flong
- Tuesday night movie $20 with drink/mezze. Bookings advised.

Sandringham Hotel
- Live music every night and Sunday afternoons

Town Hall Hotel
- Local DJs Friday nights 11pm - 4am

Eveleigh Markets
- Farmer's Market every Saturday 8:00 - 13:00

Addison Rd Centre, 142 Addison Road Marrickville
- Marrickville Organic Markets every Sunday 8:30 - 15:00

In the Hood

Tuesday July 7, 7:30pm, Friend in Hand Hotel, 58 Cowper St, Glebe, $10/5, 9660 2326.
Something special...

Word in Hand plays host to a massively chewy treat when spoken word legend Tug Dumbly fires up the Barbie to unleash his Banjo Paterson award winning epic ode to meat Barbeque Bill and the Roadkill Café.

Tug’s tale pits the locals of a sleepy north coast hamlet famed for its magnificent meat up against a horde of nefarious New Age invaders, whose plans for remodeling the town include the removal of the famed Big Steak, as well as stifling the trade of the town’s most celebrated son Barbeque Bill – it’s cleavers at ten paces!!

Newtown What's On: Week ending July 5

Here's the latest Newtown What's On, a (more or less) weekly guide to what's going on in Newtown. I welcome corrections or suggestions to mayorofnewtown 'at' gmail.com. If you run a venue, please add me to your mailing list.

Mayor Recommends


Stevie Wright - Spoken Word
The Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville
Thursday July 2 @ 8pm

Music

Wednesday July 1
The Bain Maire Tour $12 for 4 unsigned bands
Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown

Thursday July 2
Paul Capsis
Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown

Friday July 3
The Translators
Sound Lounge at Seymour Centre, Corner City Rd and Cleveland St

Paul Capsis
Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown

Saturday July 4
Lamplight and Jordie Lane
Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown

Wanderlust
Sound Lounge at Seymour Centre, Corner City Rd and Cleveland St

Winter Jam 09
Enmore Theatre, 119-132 Enmore Road, Newtown

Sunday July 5
Anyone got anything they want to recommend ?


Theatre

The Return
Newtown Theatre, Corner King and Bray St, Newtown
June 17 - July 4

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
New Theatre, 542 King St, Newtown
June 4 - July 4

Basic Training
Seymour Centre, City Road, Newtown
June 23 - July 4

Unit 46
Factory Theatre,
June 25 - July 19
8pm, Sunday 5pm

Exhibitions

Roni Feldman - Collective Resolve
Wilson Street Gallery, 30-34 Wilson St Newtown
Until July 12

Other
Stevie Wright - Spoken Word
The Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville
Thursday July 2 @ 8pm

Marly Markets
Saturday July 4 11am- 5pm
Marlborough Hotel, Corner King St and Missenden Road, Newtown

Eveleigh Artisans Markets
Sunday July 5 10am - 4pm
Eveleigh Markets

Regular Events
Funky Cafe, 256King St Newtown
- Live music Wed - Sat night

Madame Fling Flong
- Tuesday night movie $20 with drink/mezze. Bookings advised.

Sandringham Hotel
- Live music every night and Sunday afternoons

Town Hall Hotel
- Smells Like Townie Spirit - Local DJs Friday nights 11pm - 4am

Eveleigh Markets
- Farmer's Market every Saturday 8:00 - 13:00

Addison Rd Centre, 142 Addison Road Marrickville
- Marrickville Organic Markets every Sunday 8:30 - 15:00

Newtown What's On: Week ending June 28

Here's the latest Newtown What's On, a (more or less) weekly guide to what's going on in Newtown.

I welcome corrections or suggestions to mayorofnewtown 'at' gmail.com. If you run a venue, please add me to your mailing list.

Mayor Recommends

The Specials Pre-Tour Party
Vanguard
Sunday June 28

Music

Thursday June 25
Firebird
Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown

Friday June 26
Alex and Eve - The Wedding - Sold Out
The Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville

Ford + Theak Band
Sound Lounge at Seymour Centre, Corner City Rd and Cleveland St

Saturday June 27
Martin Rappeneau
Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown

Alex and Eve - The Wedding - Sold Out
The Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville

The World According to James
Sound Lounge at Seymour Centre, Corner City Rd and Cleveland St

Sunday June 28
Specials Pre-Tour Party (Mayor's Pick)
Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown


Theatre

Theatre Sports Schools Grand Final
Enmore Theatre, 118-132 Enmore Rd, Newtown
Sunday June 28 2pm / 5pm

The Return
Newtown Theatre, Corner King and Bray St, Newtown
June 17 - July 4

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
New Theatre, 542 King St, Newtown
June 4 - July 4

Basic Training
Seymour Centre, City Road, Newtown
June 23 - July 4

Steel Magnolias
Seymour Centre, City Road, Newtown
June 23 - July 4

Unit 46
Factory Theatre,
June 25 - July 19
8pm, Sunday 5pm

Exhibitions

Roni Feldman - Collective Resolve
Wilson Street Gallery, 30-34 Wilson St Newtown
Until June 14

Other


Regular Events

Funky Cafe, 256King St Newtown
- Live music Wed - Sat night

Madame Fling Flong
- Tuesday night movie $20 with drink/mezze. Bookings advised.

Sandringham Hotel
- Live music every night and Sunday afternoons

Eveleigh Markets
- Farmer's Market every Saturday 8:00 - 13:00

Addison Rd Centre, 142 Addison Road Marrickville
- Marrickville Organic Markets every Sunday 8:30 - 15:00

Mystery Photo I - Revealed

Congratulations to Twitterers Glebe2037 and Portek, and the blogger Stubborn Mule for correctly identifying the first Mystery Photo as the old Majestic Theatre on the corner of Wilson St and Erskineville Road. The picture from the Register of the National Estate captures the destruction of the Majestic Theatre (later Elizabethan Theatre) in 1980.

Not so majestic today

The Majestic Theatre had quite a history. It was built in 1917 by the Fuller family, had a capacity of 1642 (roughly) and was a popular venue for variety shows and weekly melodramas. According to Alan Sharpe in his Pictorial History of Newtown: "In the late 1920s a season of Shakespeare opened to the guffaws from residents of other suburbs but it ran for 16 weeks."

It switched to movies with the arrival of 'talkies' in 1928, and was the location of a John Curtin inspired labor party 'Unity Conference' in the late 30s. After brief wartime service as a military showroom, the Theatre came of age in 1955 as The Elizabethan, home of Australia's first national theatre company, the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. Among many others, The Elizabethan was the scene of the Sydney debut of Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll in 1955, and Doug Stewart's Ned Kelly, starring a young Leo McKern and with set design by a certain Sidney Nolan, in 1956.

However, the location of the Elizabethan, off the beaten track in a working class suburb, put it at a disadvantage, and shows were less and less well attended. Amazingly there was little protest when the Theatre suspiciously burnt down in January 1980.

There are some more photos of the insides of the theatre here and here - I'm waiting for permission to publish them directly. There is also a collection of posters of performances at the Elizabethan at the Powerhouse Museum.