Thursday 20 May at The Capitol the WAMi Awards for 2010 were announced. The night included performances from Hayley Beth, Black Poet, The Brow Horn Orchestra, Will Stoker and The Embers and a big closing set from Sugar Army that kept the crowd amped up and eager right till the end.

Peter Barr and Triple J’s The Doctor were excellent as co-hosts for the event and special thanks should go to Paul Bodlovich and Sarah Norton from WAM for making the this most unique of music events happen.

Now there are some people who would say you would have to have something seriously wrong with you to want to go and spend your valuable weekend time in a park in Bunbury. Now you should listen to people who say things like that most of the time, but not when GROOVIN THE MOO is in town!

Cornelious is doing some planning, trying to work out who he should dance his little plastic ass off to at Creamfields…read on to find out how you can be there for FREE…

Try to imagine a your favourite band holding a gig without a piece of poster art or a political movement trying to rally the masses without the special combination of image and text that print allows.

The history of the Modern Olympic Games can be told through the posters used to advertise and inspire people. The technology has changed and the RISO Machine has its limitations but it’s those limits that make the creative possibilities all the more exciting.

Love is My Velocity have teamed up with BENCHPRESS, a small studio established by local creative types Claire Wohlnick, Daniel Bourke and James Vinciguerra. This collaboration has produced the first edition of RISO – Limited Edition Poster Publication.

Keeping the exclusive theme going LIMV is launching the publication at a private party in Northbridge. If you want to go it’ll cost you $15 and you will get a copy of RISO.

The launch will be supported by bands Astral Travel, Taco Leg and Is Swan.

We’ve been giving you little bite size morsels from the Issue Nine DVD, but just in case you want to catch up with all the snippets, here’s a little tasting plate for you…all the Issue Nine bites in one bit!

Launching on Fri 19th March and running until April 18  is this years’ FotoFreo: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography.

Each year this unique festival brings together photographers from a wide range of photographic disciplines- War which is the subject of the the South exhibition to Another Story: Chinese Contemporary Photography which spans decades, styles and subjects.

Simon Obarzanek has created an exhibition called Untitled Movement in which he explores ideas of weight, gravity and shape of figures in space. The eerie atmosphere created by these prints resonates through Stranded, Amy Stein’s exploration of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the breakdown of support structures in U.S. society.

In total there are twenty-five exhibitions taking place in locations as diverse as the Rottnest Island Salt Store gallery and Turner Gallery in Northbridge.  Works are drawn from local and international artists and each visiting artist will be presenting a ‘floor talk’ about their works during the festival.

The Festival includes a program of fora called Incite. These events are set to open debate and dialogue between photography professionals about key issues in the industry today, topics include The Tall Poppy Syndrome in Australian culture and Crossing Over that examines the boundary between photojournalism and art photography.

Magnum Photos are presenting their first ever workshop in Australia. Trent Parke, Bruno Barbey and Chien-Chi Chang are leading workshops with photographers from Australia’s eastern states, New Zealand, Japan & Europe who are exploring stories of local interest the results of which are to be projected at the Festival Opening Night on Friday March 19 at the Fremantle Arts Centre.

With so many exhibitions in so many locations Foto Freo has something for every photojunkie.

Visit the Foto Freo website for full details and to book for events

The Gaslamp Killer gig at the The Bird in Northbridge was a truly excellent experience.  Cut and Paste were able to record a portion of that gig  because our good friend Naik was playing the support slot. We were really lucky to get a high quality audio feed of Naik’s performance which we hoped at some point in the future to be able to use in some way.

Incidentally we captured the Gaslampkiller’s performance as well. Later we were listening to that recording of  Gaslampkiller’s set in our offices. The set included some mixes and tracks that were incredibly special. In our excitement a clumsily worded tweet was issued. The intention of this tweet was to express our satisfaction at the music we were hearing. Unfortunately, because of the wording of that tweet some people thought that we intended to make this recording available for download. It seems also that people additionally inferred that we would give this away free of charge. We need to take this opportunity to make sure that people understand that at no point were we in a position to offer any portion of the Gaslampkiller’s performance for download in any capacity.

We have been in contact with Gaslampkiller’s representatives in Australia and have rectified this situation by supplying all original recordings from that gig. We sincerely apologise to Gaslampkiller and all concerned over this misunderstanding.