The Blue Room Theatre in association with PICA presents
The lovingly handcrafted season of theatre, dance and performance at FRINGE WORLD.
SUMMERNIGHTS.ORG.AU
CONTENTS 04 – The Crossing 05 – Laura Davis: GHOST MACHINE 06 – Reasons to Stay Inside 07 – Girl in the Wood 08 – Awkward Con-nections – Hobo 09 – Resort Apocalypse 10 – 34,000 Forks – MEOW! 11 – MKA: Being Dead (Don Quixote) 12 – Snake/Bad Adam – 600 Seconds 13 – Ben Russell in The Tokyo Hotel 14 – The Road That Wasn’t There 16 – The Epic 17 – MKA: Unsex Me 18 – The Man and the Moon 19 – Labels 20 – Inside We Hide – My Best Dead Friend 21 – Perhaps There is Hope Yet… 22 – The Lounge Room Confabulators 23 – This Boy’s in Love 24 – Sleeping Beauty 25 – The Great Ridolphi 26 – 17 BORDER CROSSINGS 28 – Wil Greenway: Vincent Goes Splat! 29 – Under This Sun 30 – Grr Nights 32 – Experience & the Girl 33 – Blue Cow 34 – Wilting in Reverse 36 – Underground – The Ballad of Frank Allen 37 – Asian Ghost-ery Store 42 – Credits 44 – Festival Planner
FIND US We’re located in Perth Cultural Centre, 53 James St, Northbridge. Head to summernights.org.au for show information, tickets, and interviews.
FRINGE WORLD Tickets are available via fringeworld.com.au and from mid-January in person via FRINGE WORLD outlets - there's one in Perth Cultural Centre.
AT THE DOOR Tickets will be available on the night an hour before show time from The Blue Room Theatre and PICA box offices. These are subject to availability so it’s best to book ahead.
Spring into our yard for close encounters and striking stories. Find your own way or let us guide you - just be prepared to make the most of 30 days full to the brim of hand-picked theatre, dance and performance that's in store for you. We’ve (metaphorically) travelled the globe to present a program of 35 shows from artists as far away as Colombia, and as close as our very own backyard (literally, one of the shows began in a backyard).These award-winning productions promise to challenge, tease and entertain in ways you’ve never quite imagined. Curated by The Blue Room Theatre, in association with Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Summer Nights has taken out the FRINGE WORLD award for Best Independent Program four years running, plus a slew of other awards along the way. Book ahead and find out what everyone has been raving about.
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Open till late to all Summer Nights ticket holders on show nights. Enjoy the company of friends, other Fringe-goers and Summer Nights artists in our bar. It's a spot to rest, refresh, reflect and revel. Get the full Summer Nights experience where the drinks are cheap and the conversations are sparkling.
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All good things begin with a party, and Summer Nights is no exception. There’ll be surprises, convivial happenings, good music, dancing and everyone’s favourite game of rollfor-sangria. Roll the dice, and pay that price. Enjoy the company of old friends and new in The Blue Room Theatre bar, open till late. The Blue Room Theatre Free From 8:30pm
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THE CROSSING Sizzling suspenseful noir cabaret.
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Stella is a corporate fixer. She moves behind the headlines and parties of the fast-paced corporate world, making sure the right jobs are done and the wrong ones are buried so deep that no one would ever find them. A new work of noir cabaret by indie sensations The Last Great Hunt.
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GOLDEN GIBBO AWARD for Best Independent Show Melbourne International Comedy Festival
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Bold, boundary shifting stand-up. Winner of the prestigious Golden Gibbo Award for Best Independent Show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015, GHOST MACHINE is a show about life, performed by a ghost. Described as "phenomenal", "bold and extraordinary", "fiercely funny", and "totally hilarious", this is a constantly surprising show from a compelling comedian.
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LAURA DAVIS: GHOST MACHINE
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REASONS TO STAY INSIDE Heartwarming family comedy.
Pedro and Flora. Flora and Pedro. Best Friends. Until one day he stops going outside and starts building a gigantic pillow fort. Pedro has the best reasons to stay inside but Flora knows what he’s missing and will do whatever it takes to get her best friend back. You can’t stay inside your fort forever, can you?
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GIRL IN THE WOOD A spooky forest quest.
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In the clearing that sits at the centre of the wood dwells a beast of shadows and darkness. In this frightening forest fairy tale, a young girl ventures into the woods to save her brother from the shadowy beast that controls him. The woods are dark and terror lies in wait around every corner. Be brave. Not everyone is making it out alive.
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Intimately innovative contemporary dance.
How do we come to form bonds with one another? What can make – or break – a human connection? This double bill of contemporary dance debuts two innovative works from emerging West Australian artists. Inspired by social interaction, Rikki Bremner and Trihedral Sector explore and extract our innate desire for connection.
Laughter, tears, songs and beers. Fred’s lost everything. He’s got no wife, no job, no money, and to top it all off, he now lives in an alleyway with a homeless blackfella called Tank. Old Fred reckons the world’s gone to s*** at the hands of the young and seems content in his self-imposed exile until an unexpected visit from his estranged son. Hobo is raw, crude and packed with humour, taking a good look at what it means to be a man in an age of identity crisis. WESTERN AUSTRALIA World Premiere
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Tropical apocalyptic comedy. Sit by the pool, have a cocktail. You’re at a resort now. Just don’t look at the explosions. Yes, the sky was always purple. It’s fine. The world can’t end when you’re this relaxed. From the team behind the 2014 FRINGE WORLD hit The Pigeons comes Resort Apocalypse, a dark comedy that’s a sassy, wild, and sad goodbye to civilisation as we know it.
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MEOW!
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Psychedelic pussy passion, man!
Grief and laughter. Beer and spirits. Sam and Freddie were best mates for life, and then Freddie died. Death hasn’t slowed Freddie down much though. He’s still a lazy bum who drinks all of Sam’s beer. The only difference is now he’s a ghost. An alternative comedy about loyalty, grief and the share house from hell.
If Louis Wain the cat artist had a baby with Andy Warhol the pop artist, their progeny would be the adorable Ludi Clawhol. A madcap 1960s imagining with beat poetry and bongo drums. Add a litter of cats, some interpretive dance and a dead muse, and the fun gets psychedelic. WESTERN AUSTRALIA The Blue Room Theatre
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MKA: BEING DEAD (DON QUIXOTE) queer / femme / showgirl
A masterclass in literary theft, build-your-own identity and post-anarchy. Don Quixote steals from Netflix, online dating sites and instant porn. She’s the idol you deserve. She's Kerith Manderson-Galvin (after Kathy Acker / Cervantes / Amanda Bynes Twitter Feed), and she's going to die. VICTORIA West Australian Premiere PICA Performance Space Preview $22 / Standard $25 / Group 6+ $22 MKA | Theatre of New Writing 8pm (60 minutes)
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Snake/ Bad Adam
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Sex, dance and dirty poetry. One half dance, the other smut theatre, Snake/ Bad Adam is a double bill of two short works by creator Dosh Luckwell. Snake is an exciting new dance work exploring male bodies, ritual and sexuality. Bad Adam is strong, poetry-driven theatre exploring the ins and outs of cruising strangers for sex, validation and intimacy.Â
It’s a lucky dip.
600 seconds of magic. Sold out for three years in a row, 600 Seconds is back with all new performers in two packed programs sticking to one very simple rule, anything goes for 600 seconds. Comedy. Theatre. Dance. Performance art. Storytelling. Cabaret. Whatever. Check summernights.org.au for session and program details.
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THE TOKYO HOTEL Surreal noir character sketch comedy. Check yourself into the Tokyo Hotel. Take your room key and become Ben Russell’s guest as he guides you on a tour of LA’s oldest and most infamous hotel. Fresh from an international tour, the 2015 Golden Gibbo-nominated show blends characters, sketch and storytelling to create a surreal experience.
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THE ROAD THAT WASN’T THERE Award-winning dark fairy tale.
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This is a story about a girl who followed a map off the edge of the world… In New Zealand, there are some 56,000 kilometres of paper roads – streets and towns that exist only on surveyors’ maps. Or do they? From Trick of the Light Theatre (The Bookbinder) comes an award-winning dark fairy tale combining puppetry, shadow play and live music. NEW ZEALAND Australian Premiere The Blue Room Theatre Standard $25 / Kids $20 Family $75 / Groups 6+ $23 Trick of the Light Theatre JANUARY/FEBRUARY 6pm (60 minutes)
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A retelling of the most epic stories from around the world! Dash back to the beginning, uncovering myths in ways you've never heard before. Your hosts Finn O’Branagáin and Scott Sandwich are part-time performance poets, full-time story enthusiasts and double-time friends, returning with their 5-star show after sell-out seasons at The Blue Room Theatre and Sydney's Bondi Feast. WESTERN AUSTRALIA/ NEW SOUTH WALES PICA Performance Space Standard $25 / Groups 6+ $20 Finn O’Branagáin & Scott Sandwich JANUARY 6:30pm (60 minutes) M
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MKA: UNSEX ME cult / phenomenon / destroys Shakespeare
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Daughter of a theatre legend and a prima ballerina, award-winning actress Mark Wilson dissects her own story and her next job: being directed by her father as Lady Macbeth. Grand performances, whispered confessions, and booming self-mockery combine as she prepares, promotes and performs the role of her life.
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THE MAN AND THE MOON Jazz cabaret celestial love story.
Lunacy or a total eclipse of the heart? Either way, a hell of a love story. When a man realises he’s stuck in outer-middle suburbia, he heads out to see where the evening tides take him. This brand new solo cabaret stars St John Cowcher, smoky jazz, lamenting lyrics, evocative storytelling and a man falling in love with the wrong celestial body.
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Heartfelt, personal, politcal odyssey. A funny, moving and true story about mixed heritage. Joe Sellman-Leava charts his childhood in rural England in the 90s, examining curiosity, fear and where he’s really from! The show was a winner of a 2015 Scotsman Fringe First, the Holden Street Theatres’ Award, and was shortlisted for Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Award. Don’t miss this Edinburgh smash hit. UNITED KINGDOM Australian Premiere The Blue Room Theatre Preview $18 / Standard $25 / Groups 6+ $22 Worklight Theatre UK FEBRUARY 7:30pm (60 minutes) M
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My Best Dead Friend NZ 90s death comedy.
Thriller. Blame. Game. Trapped. Do you like to play the blame game? Mary, Louise and Andy love to play the blame game. Inside We Hide is a thriller about escape and those dirty little denials that we hide inside ourselves. When the blame can no longer be shifted, these people are forced to face their worst enemy, hardest critic and deepest problem - themselves.
“I am as constant as a northern star” and I said, “Constantly in the darkness? Where’s that at? If you want me I’ll be in the bar.” A new theatre show about a night of vigilante poetic justice, Bob Dylan, Karl Marx, the Backstreet Boys and my best dead friend. Grief and comedy combine through the story of one night on the streets of Dunedin in 1998.
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PERHAPS THERE IS HOPE YET… Captivating eco-apocalyptic circus.
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WINNER ORIGINAL NEW CIRCUS 2015 Melbourne Fringe
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Rockie Stone (Flight or Fright – Best Circus FRINGE WORLD 2015 and Adelaide Fringe 2013) returns to FRINGE WORLD, this time with Vincent van Berkel (Casus, Circus Oz) to present a new work exploring forward momentum in the face of a climatically changing world. Winner of Original New Circus Award at Melbourne Fringe in 2015.
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THE LOUNGE ROOM CONFABULATORS STUART BOWDEN AND WIL GREENWAY
WINNER UNDERBELLY EDINBURGH AWARD Adelaide Fringe WINNER ADELAIDE FRINGE AWARD Melbourne Fringe
Award winning theatre – at home. Upon invitation, two ragtag ramblers will amble to your residence with a suitcase filled with stories. They will knock on your door, wipe their feet and place down a tattered suitcase. In the comfort of your own home The Lounge Room Confabulators will perform a bloodsoaked comedy accompanied by acoustic folk songs and the flicker of a candle. UNITED KINGDOM/VICTORIA West Australian Premiere Your Lounge Room
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THIS BOY’S IN LOVE Gay rom-com cabaret. Why are gay love stories always so fabulously tragic? Ado is 35 and has never been in love. Ever. Until he meets Felix, a human rights lawyer who speaks like Hugh Grant and wears Italian suits. A one-man gay rom-com cabaret bursting with heart and hilarity.
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SLEEPING BEAUTY
Charming wake up call. The old cautionary tales and warnings of our ancestors are still relevant today, far beyond the happily ever after. Sleeping Beauty playfully unpicks and de-Disney-fies the familiar fairy tale in a quest to find its contemporary relevance, revealing the story of a mass-culture asleep to our own ethical responsibilities.
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One-man adventure caper. How do you hold onto the world’s greatest escape artist? Propelled by items left behind by his father, deceased illusionist The Great Ridolphi, Victor embarks on a quest that is part adventure, part mystery, and entirely enchanting.
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17 BORDER CROSSINGS Funny and poignant global travelogue.
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A trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent, 17 BORDER CROSSINGS starts with a man at a desk on an empty stage and ends up everywhere but. The itinerary: a worse-for-wear Communist-era train traveling from Prague to Belgrade, the wheel well of a transatlantic jet to Heathrow, and 15 other border crossings recreated with magnetic, offhanded charm by theatre director, designer, and raconteur Thaddeus Phillips in this inventive tour-de-force.
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VINCENT GOES SPLAT! Hilarious and heartbreaking poetic storytelling. Fresh from a sold out Edinburgh Festival Fringe, our master storyteller and Glastonbury poet brings you the story of Vincent: of two men who met falling forty stories, sharing tales of lost love, dropped pies, courage, failure, victory and geese. Too many geese. A heavy-hearted comedy, a tale of grisly death and unlikely escape, of bullies and bitter dreams. Sure it’s bleak, but for all the falling there’s also flight. It’ll do you good, this bounding comedy for that bitter heart. VICTORIA Australian Premiere The Blue Room Theatre Preview $20 / Standard $28 / Groups 6+ $22 deadman presents FEBRUARY 9pm (60 minutes) T
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Physical theatre, poetry and dust. WESTERN AUSTRALIA PICA Performance Space Preview $15 / Standard $25 / Groups 6+ $20 The Emergence Co. 6.15pm (6o minutes)
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“ It is by some margin the most exciting work on the Perth stage so far this year. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
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Cooper wakes to find himself abandoned in the bush. Grace retraces her brother’s letters into the desert. Jeremy, in the spirit of Jack Kerouac, travels to the heart of Australia in search of enlightenment. A visceral work about the annihilation of the Australian outback dream, returning after a smash hit season at The Blue Room Theatre.
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GRR NIGHTS Intimate mini-festival in a yurt.
Grr Nights is an intimate mini-festival in writer SJ Finch’s handmade yurt (Grr) where rituals are made, hearts reconnect, and magic grows. Expect phenomenal experiences in a lush backyard in the middle of your city. Take a punt on a show or find out full session details at grrnights.com. WESTERN AUSTRALIA World Premiere
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FEATURING ARTIST COLLABORATORS
SJ Finch // Menagerie Indie Pop Choir Free Open Kitchen Dinners // David Maney (VIC) Only The Human // Emma Fishwick // Magnolia's Late Night Live Ships in the Night // Josipa Draisma (NSW) // Loren Kronemyer Choo Choo Troupe (NSW) // Rachael Woodward Chloe Flockart // Illuminations curated by Bridget Bathgate 31
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EXPERIENCE & THE GIRL
A "sexy" Islamic clown show. Randa Sayed takes you on an experimental, provocative and raw journey that most people would only experience in private. WARNING: High level of audience participation and improvisation, with some sexual scenes (with or without tongue, depending on how you’re feeling that night), mild drug use and experts on the Qur’an.
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How do we survive contamination? What does it mean to live on soil that can poison and destroy? Based on research about communities living with these questions, Blue Cow explores what it means to be contaminated in a humorous and dark story that is both personal and universal. Praise for Waves
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STUART BOWDEN:
WILTING IN REVERSE Storytelling, music and a space colony.
A strangely compelling story with live music, vigorous dance moves, understandable words and a fair bit of profound (probably life-changing) body movement.
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From the internationally acclaimed maker of Before Us, She Was Probably Not A Robot, and The Beast, and collaborator on The Lounge Room Confabulators and Dr Brown and His Singing Tiger. Bowden’s unique style of DIY theatre blends “bizarre storytelling and perfect physical comedy” (Edinburgh Guide) with “a vulnerability that is not often seen in comedy” (Broadway Baby).
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The Cellar Bar must close and on its final nights, friendships are tested and secrets unearthed. Tormented by her past, Rhizzy hides from the sunlight, singing moody, heartfelt tunes. Esther, the pragmatic owner of the Cellar Bar, can’t understand what all the fuss is about. Meanwhile, her Uncle Zac still misses his daughter years after her death and claims to know who killed her. Underground, by writer Vivienne Glance, is a new play featuring original songs.
Comedy. Indie rock. Beard.
A comedy about a man who lives in another man’s beard. From the bizarre mind of Shane Adamczak (Trampoline, Zack Adams, 3x Canadian Just For Laughs Award Nominee and producer of the Award-winning Fringe hits This Is Not A Love Song and Vicious Circles) comes a brand new comedy about how even the smallest people can do big things. WESTERN AUSTRALIA World Premiere
WESTERN AUSTRALIA World Premiere
The Blue Room Theatre
The Blue Room Theatre Standard $25 / Groups 6+ $22
Preview $22 / Standard $25 Groups 6+ $23
Follow That Cat
Weeping Spoon Productions
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Underground The Ballad of Drama, secrets and songs. Frank Allen
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ASIAN GHOST-ERY STORE Late-night trolley ride.
Raised in the aisles of Asian grocery stores, the time has come for Shan and Yaya to escape – and haunt modern Australia. But how do a couple of ghosts conjure a stylish, post-racial image while stuffing their faces with Hello Panda? Shannan Lim and Vidya Rajan glide you through a late-night trolley ride of story, sketch and meandering rumination.
INNOVATION IN CULTURALLY DIVERSE PRACTICE AWARD Melbourne Fringe 2015
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The Blue Room Theatre Standard $25 / Groups 6+ $20 Only The Human
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Intelligent, witty and challenging in turns… an excellent piece of theatre. THE AGE ~
Endearing and honest throughout, delivering moments of ridiculous and spontaneous hilarity. PERIL MAGAZINE
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Ahilan Ratnamohan 24 – 27 FEBRUARY PICA PERFORMANCE SPACE
Image: Photo by Phillippe Smets
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THE BLUE ROOM THEATRE Executive Director: Kerry O’Sullivan Producer: Susannah Day Marketing and Communications Manager: Emma Poletti Venue and Operations Manager: Roger Miller Associate Producer: Jenna Mathie Office and Front-of-House Manager: Sally Martin Summer Nights Technical Manager: Joe Lui Finance Officer: Karen Connolly Graphic Design: Inland Studio A big thank you to all our Summer Nights volunteers, front-of-house and bar staff.
BOARD Libby Klysz (Chair), Philippa Maughan (Deputy Chair), Tanya Payne (Treasurer), Chris Donnelly (Secretary), Ilene Aveling, Humphrey Bower, Shane Colquhoun, Dr Vanessa Rauland, Dr Renee Newman
SUMMER NIGHTS PHOTO SHOOT Concept & design: Susannah Day, Jenna Mathie, Emma Poletti Featuring: Ayesha Katz, Vidya Rajan, Tristan McInnes, St John Cowcher Photographer: Tanya Voltchanskaya Lighting Assistant: Eduardo Martinez Thank you to Mary-Jo Harris for providing the location.
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The Blue Room Theatre Studio The Blue Room Theatre Grr Pg. M OPENING WEEKEND
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Resort Apocalypse
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Laura Davis: GHOST MACHINE
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34,000 Forks
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MKA: Being Dead (Don Quixote)
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Hobo
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Summer Nights Housewarming
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Ben Russell in The Tokyo Hotel
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The Crossing
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Girl in the Wood
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Reasons to Stay Inside
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Resort Apocalypse
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34,000 Forks
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MKA: Being Dead (Don Quixote)
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Hobo
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The Road That Wasn’t There
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Awkward Con-nections
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The Epic
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Laura Davis: GHOST MACHINE
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MEOW!
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MKA: Unsex Me
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Snake/Bad Adam
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Ben Russell in The Tokyo Hotel
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The Crossing
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Under This Sun
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600 Seconds
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Labels
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The Lounge Room Confabulators
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This Boy’s in Love
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Perhaps There is Hope Yet…
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The Man and the Moon
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Sleeping Beauty
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My Best Dead Friend
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Grr Nights
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Inside We Hide
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Experience & the Girl
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Wilting in Reverse
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Wil Greenway: Vincent Goes Splat!
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The Great Ridolphi
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Blue Cow
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The Ballad of Frank Allen
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Wilting in Reverse
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Asian Ghost-ery Store
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