After the great success of Collective Cacophony 2.0 We’re gearing up for the next one which will be even bigger and better with 25 artists working in a range of mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, jewellery, and glasswork.

“A visual Cacophony of local art”

From Thursday May 22^nd – Tuesday June 3^rd, Cardboard Charlie will host the Collective Cacophony @ The Front Gallery in Lyneham. The mission is to plaster the place with art by multiple artists, in all media, making the exhibition an artwork in itself.

As well as producing music and visual arts events, Cardboard Charlie has produced three seasons of short plays from the collection to whom it may concern and other plays by Melbourne Playwright, Daniel Keene. The third - Seasons of Keene - Below the Line, Starring Pat Gordon and Matt Borneman -recently toured to the Melbourne Fringe Festival before returning to Canberra for a week long season at The Street Theatre.

CC’s first season of Keene’s plays, Seasons of Keene – The Given was performed at the Street Theatre in 2005 and consisted of to whom it may concern, starring Matt Borneman and David Ives, and neither lost, nor found, starring Tain Stangret and Naomi Milthorpe. We then produced and directed a second season for the National Multicultural Fringe Festival in 2006 entitled Seasons of Keene – I Alone, consisting of two monologues from the collection, kaddish, starring Peter Damien Hayes, and the rain, starring Lilliana Bogatko. Pics Articles and Reviews coming soon.
Canberra Times review of Seasons of Keene - The Given

More reviews and Pics available soon…

For more information on Daniel Keene click here

Cardboard Charlie has branched out into cd distribution for independent artists. As well as setting up stalls at events such as Indyfest, Youth Interact’s ‘Take Off’ conference, and CD launches, we’ve now made our stock available at your fingertips from this very site.

NOW AVAILABLE… CC’s Online Independent Music Store…. click here to enter

Thats right, local independent CD’s are no further than a few clicks away. Our entire range is available from this site with artists such as Pete & Fiete, Fire on the Hill, Casual Projects, Dubba Rukki, Dahahoo, Andi & George and so much more, all at your fingertips.

To get your CD on the Cardboard Charlie stocklist… contact Ben at Management@CardboardCharlie.com

If you’d like us to take care of CD sales at your launch or event click here and send us the details, we’ll do it free of charge as long as we can bring the rest of our stock along.

Welcome to Cardboard Charlie Online. CC is dedicated to bringing independent art, in all its forms, to a wider audience. In future, you can look forward to an array of music, theatre and visual arts information on this site (for more info see out “About CC” page)… but for now, lets focus on the music.

Cardboard Charlie has been promoting Local, Original, Live music events around Canberra for a number of years… including the Bootleg Sessions, StreetSound, Full Frontal, The Red Sessions, and (our most recent) Live from the Underground. We’ve also just begun a CD distribution venture which is now available, at your fingertips, from this website in order to help independent artists from Canberra, Australia, or any other country, bring their music to you. See below for details.

If you want to receive Cardboard Charlie’s gig guide e-mailout or for any other enquires, click here.

An ad to kick things off…

As you probably know, Loadedog offers many services to local bands, through the on-line and email gig guide, Culturazi, through the Backyard Backanalia, and by documenting the local music scene in photographs, video and the weekly podcast, Insatiable Banalities.

But did you know that Loadedog also has a top quality mid-sized vocal p.a. for hire? And that we have a lovely little digital recording studio hidden in  Canberra’s suburbs? We’re also happy to build web sites for bands, do graphic design for posters, CD’s etc, shoot scenes for music videos and do photo shoots for promo.

All the above are available at very reasonable prices. Loadedog is an exercise in ’social entrepeneurship’. We don’t want to make lots of money. We just want to make lots of good music and art. Email us to discuss your project (contact details on the site).