Competition.

There's some stiff competition for your attention this Saturday.
At Pony, Spitfire Parade are simultaneously launching their debut album...and splitting up.

Which seems to me an odd way of going about things, but there you go. Support from YIS, Deep Where All Drown and the Sunday Reeds.

But then again... Kim Salmon and the Surrealists are taking an ATP-style run through their 1988 album "Hit Me With The Surreal Feel", over at the Northcote Social Club. And that has supports from Sydney's Holy Soul, as well as Witch Hats, who are playing their last show for a while.

For a change of pace on Sunday, the National Gallery of Victoria is hosting a "Last Day Of Summer" show. Being broadcast live on RRR, it features Henry Wagon, Beaches, Crayon Fields and Ned Collette & Wirewalker. And it's free.

Local and/or General

Ryan Egan will be doing the last instalment of his excellent "Local and/or General" show on RRR on Monday 19th March.
Like all RRR shows, it will be available as streaming audio from here. Well worth a listen- check out this random sample from his playlists:
Dead Frenchmen - if only we could disappear
The Specimens - parasite head
Vanden - the river
Love of Diagrams - single cable
City Riots - signs
New Estate - while you were talking
Airport City Shuffle - when simians attack
About as local as you can get. Will be interesting to see what they replace it with.

EDIT: I forget to mention the fact that Diamond Dave Butterworth, of the Double Agents, is winding up his RRR program, "Galactic Zoo" this week, too.