Last night’s Cinema Exotica was an unmitigated success! Many thanks to the Graveyard Tramp (check out his great blog) for delving into the archives and producing some great cinematic entertainment!

I’ve included a photo of our enthralled audience enjoying the b-grade horror feature “Homicidal”, but the barstaff’s vote for best part of the night goes to the incredibly classy and high-brow moving pictures of topless go-go dancers of the 1960s. Very artistic!

If you have photos of the event that you would like to share in our gallery please send them to photos@tikiloungeandbar.com.

We will be holding more of these nights in the near future – Keep your eyes on the event calendar.

Cheers,

Kev

Hiya!

We recently received an email in our photos@tikiloungeandbar.com mailbox containing 3 wonderful pictures of some paintings by Melbourne-based artist-on-the-rise Paul Hughes. Paul’s works are fantastically optimistic and nostalgic mixes of, as he says, “Sea faring,Surfing,Tiki Trading and Robot Art” – something like Shag meets the Brady Bunch. Below is one of my favourite pieces featuring a recurring robotic character with a nod to Gilligan’s Island and Lost in Space. Paul’s paintings have been shown at the Frankston Arts Centre, and he can be found lurking around Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/artofpaulhughes.

Thanks for sharing your art, Paul. Hope to see you round the bar some time!

Also, to anyone that has any photos of the bar that you’d like to share in our gallery, please email them to photos@tikiloungeandbar.com and we’ll see to it that they make it on to the gallery page.

Cheers,

Kev

Hiya,

You may remember me talking about a podcast that I do called SOUSED.  Well, earlier this year we shot a video for SOUSED showcasing a number of Melbourne’s prominent cocktail bartenders showing off the face they make when shaking a cocktail – popularly believed to be the face one makes when making love.

Anyway,  I thought I’d include part one of the video here coz it features the wonderful Tiki Lounge and Bar!  Enjoy!

Aloha!

We wanted to bring your attention to a great little art show that is opening here in Melbourne that is being run by “friend of the bar” and Tiki enthusiast Rohan Pugh. The show is called “Kustom Island” and will feature the works of Tiki Artist THOR (one of our favourites at the Tiki Bar – that’s his work at the bottom of this post), Ian McCausland (known for designing psychedelic festival and tour posters for rock acts such as the Rolling Stones and The Who), pinstriper Doug Dorr, and Stephen Prictor (a local Saint Kilda artist and darling of the local pub music scene).

It looks like a doozy of a show and it will run for a fortnight.

Where: Kuston Lane Gallery 8 Lutton Lane Hawthorn.

When: Opening Sunday May 4 (May the fourth be with you!) til Sunday May 18.

For further info email fauxpainteffects@bigpond.com.

Cheers,

Kev