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As long as events are inspiring and tinged with an underground edge, we’ll have them covered: happening parties, spine tinglingly good gigs, the best underground art shows. Whether it’s a warehouse rave in England or a dance performance in Australia, we’ll let you know. Or we’ll see you there.

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World Pillow Fight Day in London captured on video

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By Joshua Bond in New Events on Thursday 23 May 2013

On Saturday April 6th, 2013, there were massive pillow fights in cities all around the world. This is footage I captured from the London, Trafalgar Square pillow fight. I was armed with a Canon 5D MII, a GoPro HD HERO 3 … and a pillow.

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Fragile Empire: Jeremiah Kille’s new exhibit at LA’s Project Gallery

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By Lost At E Minor in New Events on Monday 13 May 2013

Jeremiah Kille is a native of Santa Cruz, CA, who began his career as a custom surfboard builder. An opportunity working alongside renowned artist Thomas Campbell would profoundly impact him. He has since exhibited work extensively in Northern California, and currently has a Los Angeles show at PROJECT Gallery. The show runs through June 21.

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Want to fight cockney zombies in London? This way, please

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By Low Lai Chow in New Events on Monday 13 May 2013

Seemed like quite a while back since we mentally hyperventilated over the fact that Wish.co.uk actually organized zombie-fighting adventures in malls, so you can imagine how thrilled we were to find out that they’ve now emerged with even more zombie fun. There’s the Zombie Boot Camp, where you can learn how to shoot zombies down [...]

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SPONSORED: Tell Ray-Ban your life vision and it may well come true

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By Lost At E Minor in New Events on Friday 10 May 2013

We’re buzzed about the UK wide Ray-Ban Envision tour, which is part of the Ray-Ban Envision campaign (#ENVISION SERIES), celebrating the multiple facets of Ray-Ban’s classic lenses, and will take place across five cities in May and June – Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Birmingham, and London – with each event relating to a different Ray-Ban lens characteristic (Built to Move, Long lasting, Impact resistant, Outshine and Anti-Glare).

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OutsideIn Festival: Returning to Sydney in 2013

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By Cormack O'Connor in New Events on Friday 10 May 2013

We know that you all love to party, so it’s with great pleasure that we announce the return of OutsideIn Festival: an amazing day of mind-bending music at Sydney’s Factory Theatre. Curated by Astral People and Yes Please, last year’s inaugural festival saw a sold out crowd get down to the likes of Flume, HTRK, [...]

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VanityFair’s Impossible Interviews: Martha Stewart chats with Tom Waits

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By Low Lai Chow in New Events on Wednesday 1 May 2013

Vanity Fair recently had paired personalities who would probably never meet and imagined the conversations they would have. These are hilarious: Martha Stewart, for instance, moans about Tom Waits’ dismal gardening skills, to which he wisecracks, ‘I’m the killer, Martha, but you’re the one who’s done time’.

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HTC to host live music events in Australia with Birds of Tokyo and The Temper Trap

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By Lost At E Minor in New Events on Tuesday 30 April 2013

Our friends at mobile innovation and design company HTC are ramping it up over the next few months , hosting a series of live music events in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne to celebrate the launch of their new HTC One phone. And to make it all the more exciting, confirmed bands for the shows include Aussie upstarts, Birds of Tokyo and The Temper Trap.

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Going Down Swinging’s Melbourne warehouse launch party

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By Tristan Rayner in New Events on Friday 26 April 2013

Iconoclastic Australian publisher Going Down Swinging even do launches differently to everyone else. Instead of a boring bookshop speech with bad wine, they’re putting on a huge Melbourne warehouse party with live tunes from Joelistics and Florelie Escano.

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Photos from the International Pillow Fight Day in Trafalgar Square

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By Annie Churdar in New Events on Thursday 25 April 2013

It’s time to be a kid again! This year, in order to celebrate International Pillow Fight Day, hundreds of people gathered in Trafalgar Square in London to fight to the death. How have I never heard of this event before? These pictures tagged in Flickr really capture the joy and giddy excitement of all the participants.

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Review: Optus RockCorps at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion

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By Cormack O'Connor in New Events on Wednesday 24 April 2013

AdvertisementAfter a hard time working to earn their tickets, the Optus RockCorps volunteers were certainly an excitable bunch. Having to push my way through the packed out line of music lovers waiting to get in, I somehow found my way to the crew entrance and walked into the pavilion.

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Guy resigns from job with a message written in cake frosting

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By Low Lai Chow in New Events on Tuesday 23 April 2013

A guy working as an immigration officer for Stansted Airport Border Force recently quit by handing in a cake that had a resignation note scribbled with what looked like chocolate frosting. The 10” x 12” passion cake (which is a spiced carrot cake with pecans, sultanas and coconut in it) is a fittingly elaborate farewell [...]

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Kanamara Matsuri: Penis festival in Japan

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By Low Lai Chow in New Events on Tuesday 16 April 2013

In Japan, there’s actually an entire festival dedicated to the male appendage. Enough said. According to The Independent, one of the highlights of this annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki during spring is a giant 2.5m wooden penis carried by locals. Everything you’ll see at the special occasion is likely to be somewhat phallic [...]

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Fumi Nakamura and Don John’s art show in Galapagos

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By Don John in New Events on Tuesday 16 April 2013

It all started about a year ago when I wrote a post about Fumi Nakamura from New York here on Lost At E Minor. That started a correspondence between Fumi and I. We quickly agreed that it could be great to see if we could do a show together, either in Denmark or in the US. We [...]

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Desaturated Rainbow: a travelling show of work to be exhibited in New York

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Events on Monday 15 April 2013

Expertly curated by Amir H. Fallah and Colette Robbins, Desaturated Rainbow is a travelling show of work from New York and Los Angeles artists. The show revolves around context, stereotypes and originality of how artists use color on both ends of the country. Desaturated Rainbow will run from April 11th to May 18th at Field [...]

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Murakami releases his new book at midnight in Tokyo

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By Nathaniel G. Janowitz in New Events on Friday 12 April 2013

Literary rock-star, Haruki Murakami, released his new book hours ago in a a midnight opening in Tokyo. Only printed in Japanese, the title translates roughly to “Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and the Year of his Pilgrimage”. For the legions of Murakami devotees who failed to bone up on our Japanese prior to this release, we eagerly [...]

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