Tom Ellard

After hours, the room hosts one-off sessions, talks, and listening parties from RISING artists who you wouldn’t usually get to see up close. The lineup has been curated by Yasmine Sharaf host of Cease + Desist on Triple R and Robin Fox, co-founder and artistic director of MESS.

Tom Ellard is best known as the mainstay of electronic band Severed Heads, first as part of the ‘Australian inner city’ independent label movement of the late 1970s before moving into the ‘industrial dance’ realm with commercial successes and world tours throughout the 1980s.

For the Listening Room he’s presenting half-CD half-vinyl, and acetates from radio that are made to wear out, locked grooves that make them unplayable—the symptoms of decadence in recorded music.