Kent Street

Recently found some chump change in ya share house couch that no one seems to know the origin of?

$4 isn’t going to get you anywhere these days. You live in the north and probably can’t drive so there goes using it for parking. We both know you don’t have a myki to top up either. Thought you could afford a single (1) dexy? Ha! Inflations hiked those prices up too. 🙃

Well lucky we’re here to solve all your problems.

Our coffee is $4, all day* every day. Come in and spend that chump change on a coffee made by one of our star baristas*. You can even have a ciggy at the same time and contemplate what you’re gonna spend your 5 finger discount on at the leading supermarkets*

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by “all day” we mean until 10pm
by “baristas” we mean bartenders with mid-average coffee experience
by “leading supermarkets” we mean money hungry, price gouging, profit over people driven pigs 😌

Open til 1am, 7 days a week (but you already knew that 😘)

Happy Hungover Sunday folks! 😵‍💫🥴

We’ve just received a homemade batch of pickles 🥒 from the big boss daddy. Come in and wash the guilt of last night away with a shot of Jamo followed by approx 30ml of salty, sour, spicy, pickle brine for only $11

-Emotional support pickle backs available at an extra cost-

12pm - 1am, 7 days a week.

It’s been a while…

KENT ST LOST PROPERTY
Item: Pjur Original (SUPER CONCENTRATED)
Date Lost: 02.08.24
Notes:
-Nearly empty, got about three more good uses in it or a couple hours of fun.
-Should I be wearing gloves?
-Why do they make the bottles so slippery?!

your favourite bar fly and your favourite dive bar are teaming up to bring you a new monthly spoken word night on smith st ✨ kicking off on the 29th of august, bloodletting will be your new monthly fix of spoken word, poetry and mulled wine fuelled emotional outpourings.

bloodletting refers to the age old practice of withdrawing blood from a patient to remove toxins or to prevent illness and disease. as every bleeding heart writer knows, writing is this practice reincarnated; a purge, an outpouring, a salvation for souls carrying too much. bloodletting is a salve, an act of purification, it’s a chance to cleanse yourself of the ghosts echoing around in your heart and mind.

this night is open to all - if you have a piece you’re wanting to share, come along and we’ll add your name to the hat of writers hoping to speak (shoot us a message too) or just come along and have a listen. we’ve got mulled wine on offer for a candlelit night of community sharing, connection and sad girl energy. kicking off from 7pm upstairs on the 29th of august, come join us in holy purification 😈

from the dome back home to this month for , with our first interstate act in a spell and a trio of local heavy-hitters..

has a suitcase full of digital samplers and analog synths en route from eora/syd where he makes sounds from plunderphonic hip-hop to contemporary dance and interactive art..
expect a sneak-peek of the follow-up long-player to his 2022 debut release Kismet..

and topping the bill : , .c.slumber, & combine to form WIZARD, naarm’s latest modular interactive improv collective, promising to weave voltages and subsonic frequencies into an immersive source of healing and magickal power.. should be a time..

can’t wait to chill back in our main-squeeze venue with y’all

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SIGNALS

31 JULY
doors 8pm / sounds 8:30pm

upstairs
201 smith st fitzroy
$15 entry with a free beer / for first 30 peeps
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Flier Artwork: .otoole

You wish you knew how to quit us.

We noticed how much you guys loved our mulled cider a few weeks ago so we said f**k it and bought us a new shiny urn.

We’ll be serving up both Mulled Wine AND Mulled Cider for the rest of this cold ass winter. Come in and let us pour ya a glass.

See youse at the bar x

Free Comedy Every Monday! With some of the BEST comedians in Melbourne 😍😍😍

Monday 15 July, the gorgeous will MC a perfect lineup full of hotties 🥵🥵🥵

bar 🍻🥂🍸

Hey lovely people,

Welcome back for another night at Kent st.!

Next up we have Naarm-based artists Vessa and Amla. May 29 will contrast classical instrumentation and ethereal vocals with a set of live hardware driven electronica. Come grab a mulled wine and a cosy couch to settle in for lush ride of harmonic intrigue.

Chilean-Mauritian hardware performer .a blends analog ambient melodies and vocal samples into a distinct sonic universe, merging classic drum machine house motifs with contemporary electronics and unconventional structures. The performance will feature video artwork “Narrative Baseline (2024)” by multimedia artist Rubyanna Edwards for an immersive audio/visual narrative journey.

is a multi-instrumentalist (flautist, violinist, and vocalist) and composer known for her original and improvised ethereal soundscapes. With a classical background in flute and experience across Celtic, Jazz, and Flamenco, she crafts improv looping structures like no other.

See you 201 Smith street (upstairs)

$15 Entry, doors at 8pm/ Music 8:30pm

One Free beer with entry. (First 30 people)

🎉WELCOME BACK JACK!🎉

Thats right, tonight our favourite trouble maker is finally back from his overseas travels and what a better way to celebrate than making him DJ for the FIRST TIME EVER in front of 150 of his closest “friends”. What could possibly go wrong?

Come on down, welcome him back, wish him luck, buy him a shot, and dance to his funky tunes.

Jack will be “spinning” from 9pm till late tonight. Trust us, you don’t want to miss this.

Mulled Wine season is here! Made with a blend of spices and served warm, it’s like a hug in a mug. Perfect for keeping you toasty during the chilly nights ahead and only $9.50 a glass.

Serving from 12pm to 1am every day.

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Extra special vibes coming thru April 24th..

channels deep connection to the body and her Filipino roots via field recordings, analogue synth and ethereal vocals.. coming from both music and cinema studies
backgrounds and fresh off a run of supports with Honeysmack and Elle Shimada, Mayari will take the stage in duo format alongside veteran Naarm electronic producer aka Warm Natural, taking ambient sound as breathing space and faded nostalgia.. they’ll also be taking control of the projector to present custom visuals for their set so this will be one to catch.

Lewis Gorham aka makes intense atmospheres via melancholic synth layers and brings a restrained minimalist aesthetic to ambient composition.. Come down and immerse yourself / Wednesday 24th April
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SIGNALS
24 APRIL
doors 8pm / sounds 8:30pm
upstairs
201 smith st fitzroy
$15 entry with a free beer
Artwork: .otoole
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Crew:otoole ruffles

Hop on in and try our new ‘Purple Haze’ slushy this Easter long weekend! Open right through till 1am every night. Dont forget to stay high-drated.

as the season turns cool we have some autumn tones coming to in March..

Norm Michailidis is a treasured mainstay of the naarm experimental scene, making improv drone and noise guitar with peeps like Bonnie Mercer, Sean Baxter and Godfire.. this month it’ll be the softer side of Norm exploring lap steel and delay in a special one-off solo outing..

is taking a left-turn from their heavier black-metal gaelic sounds to present dark ambient and drone soundscapes to welcome the winter..

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SIGNALS

27 MARCH
doors 8pm / sounds 8:30pm

upstairs
201 smith st fitzroy
$15 entry with a free beer
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Artwork: .otoole

Crew:otooleruffles

🚨 NEW FLAVOUR ALERT 🚨

🍉🍹 Beat the heat with our new $15 frozen watermelon daiquiri! 🍉🍹

It’s a brain freeze with benefits, it’s colder than the other side of your pillow, it’s… it’s… getting hard to think of things to put in this post okay?! Just come in and try it for yourself!

Open from 12pm to 1am every day throughout this scorching long weekend.

We’re so excited to host the release of this new collaboration between and .
Njarala - Native Botanical Lager
Niarala means to listen, to hear and collaborate and we couldn’t be prouder of this new beer and the collaboration that brought this to fruition. Come in and try some today.

Designed by local artist Madison , Madison is a proud and strong Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, and Gamilaroi woman, who embraces her rich heritage and traditions and allows them to shape her artistic approaches. In this can design, Madison’s connection to the environment shines through as she aims to embody the full essence of her heritage and make her mob proud.

As usual, on January 26 Kent St Bar will be open and donating 100% of profits. This is NOT a day to celebrate. This is NOT a day to profit. 100% of profits will be paid to The . We asked our tap suppliers to get involved too. So 100% of our keg costs will be paid to The Go Foundation as well.

Big Thank you to

Art by

Our suppliers giving back this year-

Coffee served from 12pm to 10pm. Whether you’re hospo, hungover or hangin’ for a caffeine hit... we got you. K x

Here’s tomorrow nights double feature film spectacular blurbs as presented by

-Cobweb (2023)

I’ll keep this blurb short because I really don’t want to spoil it, and not because the dark money PAC that funds this insta page stopped paying me by the word.

It’s been a real long time since a horror movie f**ked me up but this one got to me. I kept thinking I had the measure of it, I kept being wrong and ended up having no idea which way it was going to go, which is kind of weird for a movie with a plot.
Perfect for Halloween but.
Starring the cast and an incredibly divisive third act, I pinky swear that this will be the last movie with any merit I show for a while. At least until I can steal back my copy of B**b Avengers 4: the Deathening from the evidence locker.

-Dog Soldiers (2002)

This movie reminds me of that one time when my mate Deccas reckoned he was in a secret government program to hunt down werewolves, but it turns out he’d just been on the ice again and was biting the heads off rats behind the Coles at Northcote shopping center (the good Coles, not the s**t Coles).

Bless his heart.

For my money, the two greatest joys in life are laughing at the saddo neckbeards who pick apart movies for getting military stuff wrong, and scratching the beard on my neck while laughing at the Army guys in Dog Soldiers being s**t at doing Army. Because they’re so, so s**t at doing Army. This Halloween at Kent st, you too can enjoy one or both of those things as we watch the gunned-up werewolf madness of Dog Soldiers the way it was meant to be seen: on a biggish screen with audio thats like, ok.

Showcasing werewolves with a pretty squiffy understanding of their own lore, an even worse understanding of how anti-tank mines work (ngl, I’m probably going to yell) and that perennial staple of movie night: unlikable t***s being torn to shreds.

As always, movie night is always free because it’s sponsored by our lifelong partners: the s**t Coles at Northcote shopping center (not the good one)
“We’re not even worth stealing from!”

“Wow! It’s already been 3 months of Signals, featuring 7 spellbinding artists, 1 cassette launch and now 2 live albums released from our cute lil night! Big Thanks and shout out to all the artists and audiences who have helped make this night so special.

Next up! 25th OCT , Signals is proud to present the music of aka Aporetic- Modular synthesizers, suspended cymbals, and field recordings to generate ambient noise, drones, and textures.

Followed up by aka Emiel - Textural ambient electronic work using live guitar, software synthesisers, analogue synthesisers and sounds around their environment, including field recordings at the Merri Creek on Wurundjeri land.

Doors 8pm/$15 entry

This Wednesday 27th sept it’s that time again!
This month SIGNALS goes modular with altamore and justin in the upstairs bar at

Dominic altamore’s improv performance will mix modular synth & piano for introspective dreamlike atmos, and Justin Ashworth will unfurl a one-off generative quadraphonic modular rig made just for us.. should be a bit spesh x

SIGNALS
upstairs @ kent st
201 smith st fitzroy
wednesday sept 27th
doors 8pm, sounds 8:30pm
$15 on the door
free beer or soft drink for the early birds (first 30!)
.ruffles .otoole

S**t movie night pres. by /paul is back again tonight in our upstairs space!
Kicking off at 7:30pm there’s plenty of nutritional value and self awareness to be found this week, and unlike your landlord we’ll also provide you with free use of adequate heating/cooling and functional bathroom facilities (just please don’t use the basins for a sponge bath coz last time someone did that the bar flooded)

Open til 1am.

S I G N A L S

& ._ will be bringing accordion drones, harmony Vox and ethereal electronic folk soundscapes to new collaboration.

lectures in paint when he isn’t making albums, and he’s launching his new tape Sunset Roads II: breaking dawn with super-rare live performance accompanied by custom visuals.

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S I G N A L S

Wednesday

30 TH August

Doors @ 8 pm

UPSTAIRS BAR @ KENT ST

$15 on the door with a free beer for the early birds (first 30ppl)

SIGNALS - Live ambient music St (201 Smith street, Fitzroy)
Wed 30th AUG 8-11pm
$15 on the door + 1 free beer.

,@ nicholasices_,._

Artist info-

Max Lawrence and MxMars create ethereal songs and sound worlds which are vocal, visceral, and cathartic in nature. Often very genre fluid, their sound is idiosyncratic and expressive. In this performance collab they will create ambient landscapes through vocal improvisations accompanied by electro-acoustic accordion drones and keys.

NC IVES – Breaking Dawn 2023
Dagger Forest


Nicholas Ives (NC Ives) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary artist with creative work that traverses installation, painting & sound. Ives maintains this diverse practise of projects that interweave and inform each other, encouraging unexpected outcomes and collisions – into the imaginings of unknown worlds.

“Breaking Dawn” is a new cassette release for the artist presenting the audio ‘soundtrack’ of an emotional body of work incorporating his painting on the cover of the album.

Ives performs live sound experiments solo and with other contemporary artists, he has held numerous solo exhibitions & shown in over 40 group exhibitions within Australia, as well as Florence, Berlin and Los Angeles, and has been selected in national awards & received private and public commissions.

Ives is a university lecturer in Melbourne Australia, and brings a conceptual as well emotional drive to his work that aims to open and create new worlds of reflection.

Kent St is proud to be exhibiting a collection of artworks by ARROW /

Returning home after a stint in nipaluna, Arrow (they/them) utilises a range of mediums including ink and pen on wood/paper as well as bleach, paint and fabric to create a deeply personal series of works that explore themes of intimacy, both carnally and through the instinctive desire to seek comfort within nature’s womb.

Showing from tonight (9th Aug) until early September, all of the pictured works alongside others are available for purchase at the bar.

Open til 1am.

S**t movie night curated by the one and only Princess Di (see: Paul) is back again tonight from 7:30pm in our upstairs bar. You can dm Paul directly for info on the redacted content but we don’t recommend it.

Open til 1am.

At 8pm (20:00 AEST) tonight is kicking off again in our upstairs space! Dunno what happened in this pic to give old mate in the stripey shirt what seems to be a lopsided halo, but now that we know aliens are 100% legit I’m gonna run with saying that Stripey is the chosen one and that tonight is your opportunity to let the ring light of truth determine whether you too, dear follower, have been chosen (for what exactly has not been clarified at point of writing). Free entry!

Open til 1am.

KENT ST TALKIN’ IS HAPPENING NOW!! Here’s a cheeky bts of .t___ and setting up for this arvos live sets in our upstairs space, and is already on the decks downstairs. Come say hi!!!

Thank u to for putting us in this years program ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Sunday is winding up to be huuuuge and we can’t wait! Coupla lineup changes- very excited to have of Mix Up joining the party, as well as who will be gracing us with a performance upstairs in place of Mohini (who unforch is out sick 🥺💝)
Upstairs will be open from 3:30pm with a fully stocked tinnie bar of the best from , and , get down early coz its gonna be mad

Updated flier by ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 allll apart of 2023