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SLOW GRIND FEVER MPARNTWE #7 at RED HOT ARTS (MPARNTWE ALICE SPRINGS)

6/4/2026

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TICKETS: www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1588615
(NOTE! THIS EVENT IS IN THE N.T.)


RICHIE1250 (Stone Love, PBS FM) brings the cult SLOW GRIND FEVER dance back to Mparntwe, with a suitcase full of antique vinyl discs and the hardest working smoke machine in showbiz, this time with a special edition at RED HOT ARTS in collaboration with DESERT FRINGE and 8CCC. Enter the smokey dreamland and take a chronological trip through finger snapping rhythm 'n' blues, smoochy sweet soul, jazzy popcorn, dreamy disco, adults-only AOR, languid lovers rock, nymphomantic new wave and all manner of uncategorizable moody melters, from the late 50s to the late 90s and back again.

BYO DRINKS

DM for MOB TIX

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 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.
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NEXT SLOW GRIND IN MEL / NAARM

6/1/2026

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UPCOMING SLOW GRIND DANCES IN EUROPE

6/1/2026

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SLOW GRINDING THROUGH THE DECADES to celebrate Richie1250's 20 years on the radio! - Sat May 30 at BAR OPEN

5/2/2026

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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
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THIS SATURDAY! FAST GRIND FEVER #3 ('52-'72) at BAR OPEN w/ Richie1250, DJ Tanner, Twistin' Matt, Bob Voyage

4/25/2026

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​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
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SLOW GRIND FEVER '75-'95 EDITION at ANGEL MUSIC BAR - THURSDAY MAY 14

4/25/2026

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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
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SLOW GRIND FEVER 1976-2026 BYO WAREHOUSE PARTY (BRUNSWICK, VIC)

3/14/2026

 
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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.

SLOW GRIND FEVER #117 ('52-'72) w/ Richie1250, Miss Goldie, Diddy Wah, China Bone, Ella Thompson - SAT MARCH 28 at BAR OPEN (Fitzroy, VIC)

3/14/2026

 
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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

SLOW GRIND FEVER MPARNTWE #6: 1959-1999 EDITION (CICCONE, NT) - Sat April 11

2/18/2026

 
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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.

SLOW GRIND FEVER SYD EORA #4: 1952-1972 D.I.Y. / B.Y.O. EDITION (LEICHHARDT, NSW)

2/5/2026

 
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TICKETS: (NOTE THIS EVENT IS IN NSW) events.humanitix.com/slow-grind-fever-syd-eora-4-1952-1972-d-i-y-b-y-o-edition-leichhardt-nsw

SLOW GRIND FEVER returns to Wangal Land for another intimate B.Y.O / D.I.Y dance above an electrical wholesaler in Leichhardt. We play the slowest, slinkiest, spookiest, sleaziest, 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. 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 DJ Richie1250 (Stone Love, PBS FM) and special guests Dave Bowman and DJ Milky Tea
Saturday March 21st, 9pm-3am at Splinter Factory, 683 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt NSW.
This a BYO venue with no bar, so bring what you need for the night.
NOTES:
- This event is not easily accessible by wheelchair as there are two flights of stairs to climb. Please contact us if you use a wheelchair and want to come and we will do our best to accommodate
- The Splinter Factory is a queer space. It is clothing optional and sex positive. You can expect to see people connecting in whatever way they find meaningful. Consent is sexy and also mandatory
- 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, please do it in the hallway or on the balcony. (We don't mind you taking a quick photo or video to post up later on, but standing in the middle of the dancefloor looking down at your phone is poor Slow Grind etiquette)

- 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.


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