Sat May 30th we're celebrating the 20th anniversary of Slow Grind Fever host Richie1250's PBS FM radio show 'Stone Love' by going SLOW GRINDING THROUGH THE DECADES. Every hour will focus on a different decade and see Richie joined by a fellow PBS DJ. Turn up at 9 and stay until 230 for the full sultry time travel experience!

This is how it's gonna go:
9-930 Richie1250 (1920s to 1940s)
930-10 Palmtree Paddy (1950s)
10-1030 Richie1250 (1960s)
1030-11 Miss Goldie (1960s)
11-1130 Richie1250 (1970s)
1130-12 Ella Stoeckli (1970s)
12-1230 Richie1250 (1980s)
1230-1 Lady Love Potion (1980s)
1-130 Richie1250 (1990s)
130-2 ????? (1990s)
2-230 Richie1250 (2020s back to 1920s)

SLOW GRINDING THROUGH THE DECADES
with DJs Richie1250, Palmtree Paddy, Miss Goldie, Ella Stoeckli, Lady Love Potion and ????? 
Saturday May 30th at BAR OPEN
317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
9pm-230am, $15 (CASH ONLY)

NOTES:
- The door charge is CASH ONLY (you can use card to buy drinks at the bar)
- There will be a smoke machine going all night and it will get very smokey. The smoke is non-toxic but if you ain't into smoke machines this might not be the party for you...
- The dancefloor at Slow Grind Fever is for dancing. If you need to use your phone or have a proper conversation, please do it over by the bar or go outside and get some fresh air. (We don't mind you taking a quick photo or video or saying hello to your friends, but standing in the middle of the dancefloor looking down at your phone or talking loudly is poor Slow Grind etiquette and distracts people trying to focus on the music)
- Slow Grind Fever is not specifically a partnered dancing event. Some people dance with a partner, some with a group of friends, some alone with their eyes closed. You can do it how you wanna.
- The vibe of the night is very hazy and sultry, but the vibe is also about having good manners. Don't be all up in someone's personal space if they aren't inviting you.
- To avoid random late night drunks who may not understand this, we stop letting new people in at 1:30. If you are going to turn up after 1:30, the password to get in is LITTLE WILLIE JOHN

​Sat May 2nd, SLOW GRIND FEVER cuts the brakes!
Expect the same sultry, smokey atmosphere and mix of moody mid-century music styles, but with the tempo cranked up several notches!
From the sizzling hot r&b of the early 50s to the throbbing psychedelic soul of the late 60s, DJs Richie1250, DJ Tanner, Twistin' Matt McFetridge (Twistin Fever, PBS) and Bob Voyage will have you sweating out the sin in a vain attempt to shake off the FAST GRIND FEVER.

FAST GRIND FEVER #3 ('52-'72 EDITION)
DJs Richie1250, DJ Tanner, Twistin' Matt McFetridge (Twistin Fever, PBS), Bob Voyage
Sat May 02 at BAR OPEN (317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy)
9pm-230am, $15 (CASH ONLY FOR DOOR CHARGE BUT EFTPOS AVAILABLE FOR BUYING DRINKS AT THE BAR)

NOTES:
- The door charge is CASH ONLY
- There will be a smoke machine going all night and it will get very smokey. The smoke is non-toxic but if you ain't into smoke machines this might not be the party for you...
- The dancefloor at Slow Grind Fever is for dancing. If you need to use your phone or have a proper conversation, please do it over by the bar or go outside and get some fresh air. (We don't mind you taking a quick photo or video or saying hello to your friends, but standing in the middle of the dancefloor looking down at your phone or talking loudly is poor Slow Grind etiquette and distracts people trying to focus on the music)
- Slow Grind Fever is not specifically a partnered dancing event. Some people dance with a partner, some with a group of friends, some alone with their eyes closed. You can do it how you wanna.
- The vibe of the night is very hazy and sultry, but the vibe is also about having good manners. Don't be all up in someone's personal space if they aren't inviting you.
- To avoid random late night drunks who may not understand this, we stop letting new people in at 1:30. If you are going to turn up after 1:30, the password to get in is LITTLE WILLIE JOHN

Slow Grind Fever climbs the stairs at Angel Music Bar for another sultry '75-'95 slow dance on Thursday May 14. Enter the smokey dreamland and take a trip through red-hot r&b, druggy disco, adults-only AOR, languid lovers rock, nymphomantic new wave and all manner of uncategorizable moody melters aimed directly at the hips. DJs Richie1250, Brontesaurus Sex and Jethro (College Of Knowledge) steer the spaceship from 9pm til 3am.

Limited presales via RA or *CASH* on the door
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- There will be a smoke machine going all night and it will get very smokey. The smoke is non-toxic but if you ain't into smoke machines this might not be the party for you...
- The dancefloor at Slow Grind Fever is for dancing. If you need to use your phone or have a proper conversation, please do it over by the bar or go outside and get some fresh air. (We don't mind you taking a quick photo or video or saying hello to your friends, but standing in the middle of the dancefloor looking down at your phone or talking loudly is poor Slow Grind etiquette and distracts people trying to focus on the music)
- Slow Grind Fever is not specifically a partnered dancing event. Some people dance with a partner, some with a group of friends, some alone with their eyes closed. You can do it how you wanna.
- The vibe of the night is very hazy and sultry, but the vibe is also about having good manners. Don't be all up in someone's personal space if they aren't inviting you

TIX:
https://www.trybooking.com/DKOIB

Slow Grind Fever returns to the industrial back streets of Brunswick Sat April 18 for a classic DIY BYO warehouse party. Low light, deep smoke and the sultriest, slinkiest, spaciest of sounds, spanning 1976 to THE EDGE OF TOMORROW.

We are stoked to have Jeremy Spellacey (globetrotting research and licencing specialist for Soundway Records) back in town and in the Slow Grind Fever booth for the first time in AGES, alongside your host Richie1250 and special guests Bec Bartlett (Social Disco), Lou Rose (Love Sensation), Cong Josie (behind the decks and possibly leaping onto a table and crooning some if the feeling hits) and Kasinda Faase (Ella Thompson, Temporary Blessings, Owelu Dreamhouse) lacing up the records with LIVE FLUTE, cos we can't get enough flute here at SGF HQ.

Sat April 18 - 9pm til late (planning to go until 3am but you know how it go with these DIY things, there's always a possibility we could be forced to stop earlier or that we go a little later)

(LOCATION INFO: To make sure tardy ticket buyers still get the location, a mailout will be automated to be sent to all ticket holders at 11am, 5pm, 8pm, and then every half hour between 9 and 2)

BYO BOOZE & MIXERS (Plenty of cups and a couple tubs of ice to put in drinks provided, if you want to keep drinks cold throughout the nice BYO Esky or cooler bag)

DM for MOB TIX

NOTES:

- Location is in Brunswick, ticket holders will be sent address on the morning of the dance.

- There will be a smoke machine going all night and it will get very smokey. The smoke is non-toxic but if you ain't into smoke machines this might not be the party for you...

- The dancefloor at Slow Grind events is for dancing. If you need to use your phone or have a conversation, please do it over in the hallway or go outside and get some fresh air. (We don't mind you taking a quick photo or video to post up later on or saying hello to your friends, but standing in the middle of the dancefloor staring down at your phone or talking loudly is poor Slow Grind etiquette)

- The vibe of the night is very hazy and sultry, but the vibe is also about having good manners. Don't be all up in someone's personal space if they aren't inviting you.

Sat March 28 we invite you back to the smokey dreamland that is Slow Grind Fever for an evening of finger snapping rhythm 'n' blues, smoochy sweet soul, jazzy popcorn, sultry slow-funk burners and uncategorizable moody melters, all sizzling off of antique discs brought to you by DJs Richie1250, Miss Goldie, Diddy Wah and China Bone, plus live chanteusing from Ella Thompson.
We play the slowest, sleaziest, spookiest, sweetest, swinginest old records we can find, and people dance real slow in a haze of smoke and dim red light. It's a good time.

SLOW GRIND FEVER #117 ('52-'72 EDITION)
DJs Richie1250, Miss Goldie, Diddy Wah and China Bone, plus live chanteusing from Ella Thompson.
Sat March 28 at BAR OPEN (317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy)
9pm-230am, $15 (CASH ONLY FOR DOOR CHARGE BUT EFTPOS AVAILABLE FOR BUYING DRINKS AT THE BAR)

NOTES:
- The door charge is CASH ONLY
- There will be a smoke machine going all night and it will get very smokey. The smoke is non-toxic but if you ain't into smoke machines this might not be the party for you...
- The dancefloor at Slow Grind Fever is for dancing. If you need to use your phone or have a proper conversation, please do it over by the bar or go outside and get some fresh air. (We don't mind you taking a quick photo or video or saying hello to your friends, but standing in the middle of the dancefloor looking down at your phone or talking loudly is poor Slow Grind etiquette and distracts people trying to focus on the music)
- Slow Grind Fever is not specifically a partnered dancing event. Some people dance with a partner, some with a group of friends, some alone with their eyes closed. You can do it how you wanna.
- The vibe of the night is very hazy and sultry, but the vibe is also about having good manners. Don't be all up in someone's personal space if they aren't inviting you.
- To avoid random late night drunks who may not understand this, we stop letting new people in at 1:30. If you are going to turn up after 1:30, the password to get in is LITTLE WILLIE JOHN

TICKETS: (NOTE THIS EVENT IS IN THE NT) https://www.trybooking.com/DKAHR

Slow Grind Fever teams up with 8CCC radio to bring SLOW GRIND FEVER #6: 1959 TO 1999 EDITION to Arrernte country, Saturday April 11th at The Black Wreath. Naarm's cult slow dance party hits Mparntwe for the SIXTH time with another mountain of antique vinyl discs and the hardest working smoke machine in showbiz. Enter the smokey dreamland and slow grind all night long. It's a DIY / BYO affair at The Black Wreath, so bring what you need. See you in the smoke x
(Free entry for Mob, message us to get on the list)
NOTES:
- There will be a smoke machine going all night and it will get very smokey. The smoke is non-toxic but if you ain't into smoke machines this might not be the party for you...
- The dancefloor at Slow Grind events is for dancing. If you need to use your phone or have an extended conversation with somebody, please do it over in the hallway or go outside and get some fresh air. (We don't mind you taking a quick photo or video to post up later on, but standing in the middle of the dancefloor staring down at your phone is poor Slow Grind etiquette)
- The vibe of the night is very hazy and sultry, but the vibe is also about having good manners. Don't be all up in someone's personal space if they aren't inviting you.

Sat Feb 28 we invite you back to the smokey dreamland that is Slow Grind Fever for an evening of finger snapping rhythm 'n' blues, smoochy sweet soul, jazzy popcorn, sultry slow-funk burners and uncategorizable moody melters, all sizzling off of antique discs brought to you by DJs Richie1250, Aperol Ritz, James Ellis and Brenda In The Bath .
We play the slowest, sleaziest, spookiest, sweetest, swinginest old records we can find, and people dance real slow in a haze of smoke and dim red light. It's a good time.

SLOW GRIND FEVER #116 ('52-'72 EDITION)
DJs Richie1250, Aperol Ritz, James Ellis and Brenda In The Bath
Sat Feb 28 at BAR OPEN (317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy)
9pm-230am, $15 (CASH ONLY FOR DOOR CHARGE BUT EFTPOS AVAILABLE FOR BUYING DRINKS AT THE BAR)

NOTES:
- The door charge is CASH ONLY
- There will be a smoke machine going all night and it will get very smokey. The smoke is non-toxic but if you ain't into smoke machines this might not be the party for you...
- The dancefloor at Slow Grind Fever is for dancing. If you need to use your phone or have a proper conversation, please do it over by the bar or go outside and get some fresh air. (We don't mind you taking a quick photo or video or saying hello to your friends, but standing in the middle of the dancefloor looking down at your phone or talking loudly is poor Slow Grind etiquette and distracts people trying to focus on the music)
- Slow Grind Fever is not specifically a partnered dancing event. Some people dance with a partner, some with a group of friends, some alone with their eyes closed. You can do it how you wanna.
- The vibe of the night is very hazy and sultry, but the vibe is also about having good manners. Don't be all up in someone's personal space if they aren't inviting you.
- To avoid random late night drunks who may not understand this, we stop letting new people in at 1:30. If you are going to turn up after 1:30, the password to get in is LITTLE WILLIE JOHN

TICKETS:
https://events.humanitix.com/strictly-romance-1956-2026-smoochy-slow-jams-valentine-s-day-byo-house-party

Saint Valentine called and said that cos Feb 14 is a Saturday this year he wants an extra romantic edition of Slow Grind Fever with all smoochy songs and no "you broke my heart you tore it apart" business. And he wants all the guest DJs to be actual romantic couples playing record for record, heart to heart. And he wants that adorable SIMONE PAGE JONES who sings the sultry version of HOT STUFF that everybody loves to sing some romantic songs. And he wants me to pull out the special ice cooled smoke machine for a blanket of magical low lying fog. And also he wants it to be a BYO house party cos that's the best way for people who don't have some romance to find some romance.
And when a legend in the field of romance who's been dead since the 3rd century calls you on the telephone, you don't say "how did you get my number?." You say, "Yes sir, your wish is my command sir."


So we have assembled a crack team of DJ couples (Ria & Sofia, Ginger & Dan aka Ginger Hair & Carpet Dan, Nai & Dom aka Nai Palm & Cazeaux OSLO, Nik & Steph aka DJ Earl Grey & Steve) who know the meaning of romance to trade sets with your host Richie1250 throughout the night, we have engaged SIMONE PAGE JONES to work her magic on the microphone, we have procured the low lying fog fluid, we have begun compiling a list of romantic films to screen in the lounge room, and we have begun finessing the lighting in the kitchen so it's bright enough to see who you're talking to but not so bright that you can inside their pores.


May Saint Valentine smile upon us.


100 tickets only so don't sleep.


Sat Feb 14th, 9pm-3am
GALLERIA CROCODILLO
738 Plenty Rd, Reservoir 3073 (ENTER THROUGH BACK ALLEY)
(No bar, BYO booze and mixers if you wanna drink. Ice and cups provided.)
NOTES:
- There will be a smoke machine going all night and it will get very smokey. The smoke is non-toxic but if you ain't into smoke machines this might not be the party for you...
- The dance floor at Slow Grind is for dancing. If you need to use your phone or have a conversation with someone, please do it over in the hallway or go outside and get some fresh air. (We don't mind you taking a quick photo or video to post up later on, but standing in the middle of the dancefloor staring down at your phone or having an extended loud conversation is poor Slow Grind etiquette)
- The vibe of the night is very hazy and sultry, but the vibe is also about having good manners. Don't be all up in someone's personal space if they aren't inviting you.

TICKETS:
https://events.humanitix.com/strictly-romance-1956-2026-smoochy-slow-jams-valentine-s-day-byo-house-party