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Kirin J Callinan Announces Album Tour
0 Comments. 259 Views. Posted 8 May 2013 @ 10:49am.
After a long gestation period, Kirin J Callinan is set to unleash his debut album this July. And to celebrate, he's hitting the road for an international launch tour. After a pair of excellent solo preview shows at The Grace Darling, Kirin will return in full band mode to showcase material from Embracism.   Support on the night comes from Standish/Carlyon.   Check out the clip for the... Read More
Kirin J Callinan @ Grace Darling
0 Comments. 190 Views. Posted 23 Apr 2013 @ 1:37pm.
As far as Kirin J Callinan performances go, the two-night return stint at Grace Darling was relatively conventional fare. Returning to solo mode, Kirin opened each set with a classic (Thighs Saturday, She Sunday) before showcasing material from his just-announced debut album.   Support came from The Shags Experience aka The Impeccable DJ Swim Between The Shags And His Moog, which pretty... Read More
Kirin J Callinan : Embracism
0 Comments. 191 Views. Posted 17 Apr 2013 @ 1:38pm.
The calling card for Callinan’s second album is an unapologetic spoken word performance reflecting on the making of manhood. Boys roll around in the dirt, beating each other into maturity, men front up to each other in bars, on sports fields, on the internet, in constant waves of physical love and physical violence. The instrumental bed for this track is thick and intense, full of warped... Read More
Kirin J Callinan Announces 2013 Solo Shows
0 Comments. 603 Views. Posted 26 Mar 2013 @ 9:48am.
Experimental maverick Kirin J Callinan has announced a pair of special Melbourne shows, returning to Grace Darling in solo mode in the lead-up to his much-anticipated debut album. After a series of shows with an amorphous backing band in the past year, Kirin returns to solo mode for two nights at Grace Darling - the first venue Kirin sold out.   These shows mark Kirin's first Melbourne... Read More
Sugar Mountain 2013 @ The Forum
0 Comments. 3,507 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2013 @ 12:57pm.
It’s hard to pinpoint just when Kirin J Callinan and Kris Moyes’ collaborative performance began. It culminated tonight at Sugar Mountain, but began with the production of last year’s stunning film clip for Way To War. Footage from the shoot, footage that didn’t make the cut for the video for obvious reasons, was projected above Kirin’s Sugar Mountain performance. Kirin pissing off the side of a... Read More
Kirin J Callinan, Forces, Gatekeeper @ Melbourne University Underground Carpark
0 Comments. 373 Views. Posted 19 Dec 2012 @ 8:59am.
Kirin J Callinan does his thing. He does it different each time, but there are recurring themes. The solo songs, the songs with backing band (different personnel each time), the brooding, awkward banter, and the inevitable removal of his shirt. This time was better than most others. His band featured Shags Chamberlain, like pretty much every other band at Melbourne Music Week. It also featured... Read More
Grizzly Bear @ Billboard
0 Comments. 369 Views. Posted 27 Nov 2012 @ 1:47pm.
Performing support duties tonight, Kirin J Callinan made his third Melbourne appearance of 2012. He must be a real cunt to work with or something, as each respective appearance has featured an entirely different backing band. After an elongated showcase of his wonderfully stunted banter, Kirin played his haunting paedophile-as-protagonist ballad Thighs in solo mode, with each sudden burst of... Read More
Bat For Lashes Announces Laneway Sideshow
0 Comments. 934 Views. Posted 29 Oct 2012 @ 12:13pm.
The ever-enchanting Bat For Lashes has announced a Melbourne show alongside her appearance at next year's stellar Laneway Festival. Fresh from releasing The Haunted Man, the solo project for Natasha Khan has enjoyed a wave of critical acclaim over the course of three albums. Australian audiences are in for a treat as Khan makes her long-awaited return to our shores.   Special guest for the... Read More
Sugar Mountain 2013 Lineup Announcement
1 Comments. 1,759 Views. Posted 17 Sep 2012 @ 4:19pm.
After a more than stellar sophomore outing at the start of the year, Sugar Mountain have unveiled a top-shelf roster of talent Taking over The Forum in early 2013 will be widely influential South Bronx outfit ESG, Queens gourmet chef turned rapper Action Bronson, darkly Melbourne-London duo HTRK, a team up between Kirin J Callinan and his Way To War clip (see above) director Kris Moyes, US... Read More
Kirin J Callinan Announces Headline Show
0 Comments. 939 Views. Posted 10 Aug 2012 @ 12:02pm.
Captivating solo performer and sometimes Lost Animal member Kirin J Callinan has announced his return to Melbourne. Ahead of the release of his eagerly anticipated solo LP debut, Kirin will perform a rare Melbourne show at Northcote Social Club.   Presenting an intriguing mix of charisma and downright creepiness, Kirin J Callinan puts on a show unlike no other.   Kirin's last Melbourne... Read More
Kirin J Callinan @ The Tote
0 Comments. 745 Views. Posted 10 Jul 2012 @ 11:45am.
It was a novelty for some, seeing Melbourne’s most venerable rock establishment being comprehensively absorbed by strobe, fog and deep house. My Disco side project Kangaroo Skull played against many of the ingrained conventions of a Melbourne gig, and it was refreshing to be able to have the option of kicking on into the early AM (even if it was a weeknight).   Before Kangy Skull smoked out... Read More
Kirin J Callinan
0 Comments. 1,019 Views. Posted 21 Jun 2012 @ 9:37am.
For a man who has been so prevalent – not quite omnipresent, but prevalent nonetheless – on the Australian musical landscape for something like half a decade, Kirin J Callinan has strangely forged a reputation as one of our best kept secrets. Over the years, you’ve probably seen him onstage with the now-defunct Mercy Arms, under the shadow of Jack Ladder, or most recently, adding his textural... Read More
Kirin J Callinan : Way II War
0 Comments. 838 Views. Posted 23 May 2012 @ 12:23pm.
The video for Way II War is upsetting. I couldn’t pee alone for a month after I saw The Ring, and have since tried to avoid surreal gothic tableaux involving creepy children and dead horses, but my editor liked this video and recommended I watch it. My editor will be accompanying me to the bathroom for a little while. (I'll do this, as long as everyone watches this video – ed.) Read More
Kirin J Callinan Melbourne Show
1 Comments. 1,440 Views. Posted 15 May 2012 @ 8:41am.
One of the country's most engaging musical figures has announced an all-too-rare Melbourne headline show, with Kirin J Callinan set to hit town to preface his upcoming full-length W II W. The tour will celebrate the launch of the album's title track on 7", which will provide an appetising sampler to Kirin's debut LP - due out later in the year.   Kirin kicked off 2012 with a standout... Read More
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