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Young Love Tape is out everywhere.

Join me at @miscellania_ tonight from 10 PM to help me launch miss thing. Listening party starts from 11 PM.

Many thanks to @slamross1000 @morgherita @11downloads @dol0rres @jupita @julesbramley @m00ngb4b4 by @primarythug

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Out now 🙅🏽‍♂️ Soundcloud 🙅🏽‍♂️ Bandcamp 🙅🏽‍♂️ only

1. The UnderVorld (Brown Suga Princess remix)
2. I Need It ft. DoloRRes (Marroushti & 芝麻 (Zhī Ma) remix)
3. So Hateful (Mirasia remix)
4. Me Tengo K Ir X Chulo pt.2 (Three mothers remix)
5. Vybes Break
6. Umbrellas in the Sky
7. Washed Away Re-Drum
8. Dougie Riddim

@marroushti @mirasia @sweet__sesame @brown.suga.princess @phallo.centric

Mixed by bbsanii @bbsanii , 芝麻 (Zhī Ma) @sweet__sesame and Three mothers @phallo.centric
Mastered by Three mothers @phallo.centric by @primarythug

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JULAI moves through Australia’s music landscape with a grounded, intentional presence, shaped by years of learning how to hold space through movement and voice.

A proud, Queer Pasifika fa’afafine artist, he draws from his Samoan heritage, Ballroom, and chosen family to create music that serves as both a documentation and celebration of life. His work carries the weight of community and the shimmer of self determination in the energy that surrounds the spaces he has helped build.

Ballroom is where JULAI’s artistic language was first forged. Years within the scene refined his sense of presence - precise, unapologetic, and charged with collective spirit. His ballroom background and dance training gives him a performer‑first instinct, allowing him to enter music and rap with a fluidity and command developed long before the mic was in the picture. Not to mention a childhood soundtracked by 90s female rap and RnB. Onstage, he folds movement, voice, and community engagement into a singular experience. As the founder of The Kiki House of DIESEL (@_houseofdiesel_ ), founded in 2023, this practice has become a cornerstone of his creative world and the anchor of his stage decorum.

He’s supported Cakes Da Killa, Mykki Blanco, VVPete, Jamaica Moana, and Pania to name a few, and festival appearances at Dark Mofo, Gay Times, Perth Festival, Midsumma and Sydney’s Gay Lesiban Mardi Gras. These performances grew his reputation for live sets that are dynamic, often supported by choreography and dance provided by his ballroom family who become part of the live dialogue and story told on stage. They also drew attention from Complex, ACCLAIM, triple J, Astrophe Magazine, Converse and others, positioning him as a distinct voice within Australia’s evolving club rap movement.

JULAI’s work is a universal offering. Shaped by strong family bonds, Pasifika storytelling, and self empowerment through music, his dynamic take on music places him at the forefront of new emerging artists in Australia. His voice is grounded and his vision is unapologetic, opening space for those who walk the same path and keep creating in spite of the structures built to hold them back.

Vee is a dynamic sel taken in The Tote by @primarythug

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This Saturday, Kerfew joins the most insane line up for @tessellate.club at the Abbotsford Convent

Repping Kerfew DUCHESS, Primary Thug and Kāmna

@duchesshalo @kammudoll @primarythug 🌙❤️ taken in Abbotsford Convent by @primarythug

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-ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈SNIP! SNIP! -ˋˏ✄┈┈┈

DOUBLE INCISION is a one night event in Naarm, crowd funding for The Mob Strong Fund and Spider’s Top Surgery Fundraiser 🪷

Curated by a grassroots group of BIPOC and queer young people, this event will be featuring some of Naarm’s best underground artists. Including ballroom Icon and live artist, Julai, from @_houseofdiesel_ who will be joined by a lineup of incredible DJs: Brown Suga Princess, Girl Whatever, Primary Thug and CTRL-V.

There will also be:
Henna by @natasha.tareen and custom Screen Printed shirts by @miramiramiart

⋆⊱༻𖥸༺⊰⋆ All the money raised from this event will be split equally between Spider’s Surgery and The Mob Strong Fund ⋆⊱༻𖥸༺⊰⋆

Spider (@spideristrap) is a south asian visual artist, musician, filmmaker, and live sound engineer based in Melbourne. They are physically disabled, unsupported by the NDIS, and currently in transitional housing. Their goal is to raise enough money for their top surgery and for any leftover funds to go to urgent mutual aid and to gender affirming surgeries in the community.

“The Mob Strong Fund is an ongoing mutual aid fund set up by Mob, for Mob. This makes supporting mutual aid and mob easy and allows multiple requests to be met. The Mob Strong Fund was created to quickly and directly respond to financial support requests from Blakfullas. Whether it's rent, groceries, health costs, or crisis needs, we see the requests and we move funds straight to community, no strings attached or state involvement.”

October 16th @thetotehotel | 6pm-12am

Club Rap˖᯽˖ GAAAYYY ˖᯽˖ Electronic Pop ˖᯽˖ Jungle ˖᯽˖ Ballroom beats˖᯽˖ Heavy Bass ˖᯽˖ Footwork˖᯽˖ Cunty ˖᯽˖ Percussive ˖᯽˖ world club ˖᯽˖

Poster Design by: @veetangri

Please message if you would like to come but cannot afford the ticket🎟️

18+ | Free for First Nations Peoples and Companions♿️ taken in The Tote by @primarythug

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LAST NIGHT WAS A MOVIE FOR REAL. TY 2 everyone who showed out to Veil for some srsly crazy sexy times !!! Our gorg djs @rattyatty @nat.wahid @primarythug @duchesshalo @kammudoll our henna diva @miramiramiart and @miscellania_ as always !! Until next time …. 💋💋💋💋 by @primarythug

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Last and arguably most gay (???) announcement of VEIL’s line up (meant in the most c*NT way)!! Duchess and Primary Thug aka brothers in lungis and party hosts extraordinaire, will be bringing sexy hot bouncy solo sets to the club on Sat Night in a full circle moment. Lehan and Finnigan’s journey with Kerfew started when we asked them both to play at our very first Naarm party at Misc back in 2023 ! By the time our first certified VEIL party happened in Sep 24, they were embedded in our fam and helped to throw the bash of our dreams. It was a night we all replay together all the time and the start of something truly special!!

Last year they both helped to throw VEIL 2.0 but tragedy struck when Leh was too sick to come and play and see Finnigan’s epic hybrid set !! This year, nothing is stopping them!! Both are ready to party at VEIL 3.0 and also bask in queer joy. Come through and see what they have to offer - Primary Thug has been rinsing bhojpuri realness and Duchess, well we know he’s been planning some mischief !

Also 20% of all profits will be given to Nepal Red Cross Society to support efforts in response to the devastating floods.

9pm-3am
Sat 12 Sep
@miscellania_

MOB FREE ENTRY / TIX LINK IN BIO
Early cheap entry ! by @primarythug

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It’s that time of year again…..💋💣 ☆

𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓮𝓻 𝓯𝓪𝓶 𝓽𝓸 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓮𝓻 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂

Kerfew is back with its sexiest night of the year - VEIL. A night of club classics, sweaty dancefloor energy and that signature South Asian queer swag we love to bring.

We’re rolling out the carpet for Boorloo’s finest party selector Nathaara and Goa’s Bass Queen Ratty Atty and bringing back DUCHESS and Primary Thug to round off the iconic lineup ! Mira will adorn your hands with henna while Kammudoll brings her RNB baddie alter ego on the rooftop. Strap in …..

At @miscellania_
September 12th 2026
8pm - 3am
MOB FREE ENTRY

ALWAYS WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE ABORIGINAL LAND. END THE OCCUPATION NOW.

Link for tix in bio.

Miscellania is not wheelchair accessible, other accessibility information available on ticket page.

Artwork by @primarythug taken in Miscellania by @primarythug

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Welcome @primarythug to the lineup for our transmedia takeover with @nowornever.melb 🔴

Broken, dark and sexy: Primary Thug blends South Asian and Latin rhythms with hard drums, breaks and global club into some of the most rhythmically pleasurable music in the local scene. Multiple releases from 2023 to 2025 have established them as a vital voice in the club zeitgeist.

📍 Max Watts, Melbourne 🗓️ 21.08.26 // Fri // 8PM Onwards 🎟️ link in bio

@blaide.live @primarythug @nowornever
#skipabeat #nowornever #melbourne taken in Max Watt's House of Music by @primarythug

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Gabriella Bartolo-Kanellopoulos is a curator and multimedia artist exploring the potentials of contemporary folk-based art praxis.

Finnigan Edwards is a visual and sound artist specialising in painting, sculpture and soundscape; drawing from diasporic and queer personal frameworks, and the ‘human’ in the digital-industrial age.

'Pith and Seed' continues until Sunday 16 August.

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Image credit and description:

Pith and Seed, Finnigan Edwards, Gabriella Bartolo-Kanellopoulos, Jack Sam, Joanna Pham, Maïténa Etchebarne, Mandeep Singh & Shayna Dahya, curated by Gabriella Bartolo-Kanellopoulos, 2026. Documentation photography by Sebastian Kainey.

[1] A photograph towards the corner of two gallery walls. In front of the left wall, a bamboo stick hanging from the ceiling supports an oil painting on canvas fabric, and translucent rice paper. In the corner is a large metal bowl on a wooden stand, with seeds underneath on the floor. On the right wall is a painting on paper, and a video displayed on a TV.

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23 JULY – 16 AUGUST 2026

① GALLERY ONE: 'Pith and Seed,' Finnigan Edwards, Gabriella Bartolo-Kanellopoulos, Jack Sam, Joanna Pham, Maïténa Etchebarne, Mandeep Singh & Shayna Dahya. Curated by Gabriella Bartolo-Kanellopoulos.

② GALLERY TWO: 'Do you remember?,' Panisa Ongwat.

③ STRAY VOLTAGE: 'Surplus Pleasure: Load from last checked point.dat,' Barcode People (Qihao Liang & Tong Shu).

@jack.sam._ @joannanart @gabismelting @etxegram @nap.enthusiast @primarythug @shayna_dahya
@nina_panisa
@1barcodepeople1

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🍻🧃 drinks kindly sponsored by @littlebrunswickwineco and @heapsnormal

#cityofmelbourne
@whatsonmelb

In 2026 KINGS is supported by the @creative_vic 'Creative Projects Fund'

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Pith and Seed, Finnigan Edwards, Gabriella Bartolo-Kanellopoulos, Jack Sam, Joanna Pham, Maïténa Etchebarne, Mandeep Singh & Shayna Dahya, curated by Gabriella Bartolo-Kanellopoulos, 2026. Documentation photography by Sebastian Kainey.

[2] A photograph towards the corner of two gallery walls, in the opposite direction to the previous photograph. In the centre foreground, there is a slab of solid ghee resting on a wooden pallet. On the l A photograph towards the corner of two gallery walls. In front of the left wall, a bamboo stick hanging from the ceiling supports an oil painting on canvas fabric, and translucent rice paper. In the corner is a large metal bowl on a wooden stand, with seeds underneath on the floor. On the right wall is a painting on paper, and a video displayed on a TV. by @primarythug

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