FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS V - it’s crazy clown time… The stars have spoken & our gig has landed on International Clown Week… Embrace the wild shenanigans that will befall all who enter. 7 August at Shotkickers, Thornbury tinyurl.com/55fv4u5k Full lineup at link and next post…

Veronica Vae, the demoness divine, dancer of flames & flesh graces us with her dark arts in a collaboration with @ZClustermusic.com, in a celebration of the incoming new instalment of @Canto5Films.com HOMAGE series. FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS V Shotkickers 7/8 tinyurl.com/55fv4u5k

Vintage_Vixen, the arbiter of appalling arousal, bringer of bloody burlesque & disquieting dance returns & brings with them a fresh flesh incantation… We await their horrific magnificence with the deepest anticipation… FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS V Shotkickers Melb 7 Aug tinyurl.com/55fv4u5k

The Omega Point bring the ritual to a close, brooding electric hymns resonating in the sonic temple. Join them in the invocations of a paradise in decay, visions of a new world of splendour. FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS V Shotkickers 7 August tinyurl.com/55fv4u5k

@ZClustermusic.com careen onto the stage dragging chaos, blood &circus along with them to their first show for 2026. Fronted by @SaiJaidenLillith.com & joined by @TheEveX.com stage to entwine their voices & flesh, as Veronica Vae wreathes the stage in flame. SHOTKICKERS 7.08 tinyurl.com/55fv4u5k

Cheap Coffins grace us with engines of art, pain and transcendence, bringing a new invocation of beautiful mayhem of multitudes from a single soul. @InfernalDesireMachine.com join once more unto the dance of ropes and binding of the demons. SHOTKICKERS, Thornbury - 7 Aug tinyurl.com/55fv4u5k

CAITLE, a deranged eclectic ride through the heart, mind and soul of the voice of Free Entertainment and Asylum Sisters in their solo debut. It’s been a long time since the @ZClustermusic.com album launch at The Tote, and we’re excited to welcome them back to the fold!

@Zclustermusic.com & @mistresstokyo.bsky.social In sufferance… Photography: @bonniequeans.com From Flesh Rituals & Siren Songs IV @ Darling Nikki's

All hail the bat queen Performer: Bettie Bandit Photography: @bonniequeans.com Flesh Rituals & Siren Songs 4 - Darling Nikki's 2025

The mesmerising webs woven by @infernaldesiremachine.com and captured by @bonniequeans.com from FRSS IV at Darling Nikkis.

HEY WE'RE BACK! FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS V invites you to a candy coloured chaos of industrial / electronica / alternative bands and erotic subversion... 7 Aug / ShotKickers, Brunswick, VIC Get in the clown car. tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event...

The embodiment of gleeful chaos energy in the shape of a deranged bunny, MyxiBun cavorted on stage and into our hearts, mostly through our chest cavities. FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV @australianschoolofsexuality ASSFEST S25 Photo: @bonniequeans.com Full thesoftmachineproductions.substack.com

Cheap Coffins took the stage with a new setup and a wildly overdriven sound, roaring through and shaking the underbelly of our vessels and venue... In this divine distortion all was made anew, strange artifacts unearthed and brought into screaming focus; a tortured vision of a deep underworld.

FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV | @australianschoolofsexuality.com | 29 Aug 2025 Kidskin in a wall of sound & rushing beats; a witch of the dance floor, calling out an ethereal invitation to writhe and move the flesh upon bones, shaking off the calcification of what we become. 📸 Rayveness Studios

A reflection on why we do, what we do. Art is resistance, sex is subversion. thesoftmachineproductions.substack.com/p/carnal-kno...

We’ve had some amazing bands go through The Soft Machine Productions, here’s a growing playlist of lovely humans who have made it through our ranks! TIDAL PLAYLIST because F*CK SPOTIFY - tinyurl.com/26bpcfrn You can also find it at our website thesoftmachineproductions.com

FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV - SET TIMES 29 Aug, Darling Nikki’s 7pm: Doors 7:20-8pm: MYXI BUN 8:20-8:30pm: BETTIE BANDIT 8:30-9:10pm: CHEAP COFFINS / INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINE 9:30-10:10pm: KIDSKIN / EM JADE 10:30-11pm: INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINE 11:10-12:10pm: ZCLUSTER / MISTRESS TOKYO 1am: Close

@infernaldesiremachine.com Von Riga / nest.of.ropes @zclustermusic.com Photos: Kierra Thorn At the Bendigo Hotel, 26 March 2023

Throwback to Sex Ropes & Rock’n’Roll #1, the first of its name. Never did I dream that this weird little sideshow inspired by Industrial music, BDSM art and a general can-do fuck-you attitude would be filling up venues but HELL YEAH HERE WE ARE

A re-union of TSM soul brethren @infernaldesiremachine.com & Cheap Coffins, in an invocation of primal chaos and dissolution. TLDR Rope stuff loud dark feels FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV - 29 August at Darling Nikki’s, Sydney thesoftmachineproductions.com/frss4

An unholy union for the Rituals and Songs - Aerial dervish Em Jade joins sonic seamstress Kidskin on the stage for beautiful madness and mayhem. FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV | 29 August | Darling Nikki’s, Sydney thesoftmachineproductions.com/frss4

A delightful addition to the lineup, my old friend Bettie Bandit will be throwing their flesh magics into the ritual fires… Come forth to Flesh Rituals & Siren Songs IV on 29 Aug, marking the commencement of @australianschoolofsexuality.com ’s ASSfest in Sydney! thesoftmachineproductions.com/frss4

@theevex.bsky.social casting spells and raising hell at Sex Ropes & Rock & Roll III. 📸 photoyunist

@zclustermusic.com / @themistresstokyo.bsky.social in a rite of Ordeal at Flesh Rituals & Siren Songs I, The Vanguard Hotel. See them return to the stage in Sydney on 29 August at FRSS IV, the opening event for @australianschoolofsexuality.com 's ASSFest S25.

Delightfully unhinged bunny goblin creature Myxi Bun will be disgracing the stage for Flesh Rituals & Siren Songs IV! COME FKN WITNESS 29 August | Darling Nikki’s, Sydney thesoftmachineproductions.com/frss4

@infernaldesiremachine.com at the last Sex Ropes & Rock'n'Roll before it was transmuted to Flesh Rituals & Siren Songs... Beautiful video / edits by @luxxandlumens.bsky.social Shot at The Vanguard, Newtown

The sex magics of temple priestess @theevex.bsky.social weave through the night, on and off the stage… bear witness. 29 August | FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV | Darling Nikki’s, Sydney thesoftmachineproductions.com/frss4

@zclustermusic.com & @mistresstokyo.bsky.social unite once more on stage in service of sufferance. Witness @saijaidenlillith.com’s binding at the hands of Mistress Toyko, as she joins @shahaoul.bsky.social in the containment circle. 29 August | Sydney thesoftmachineproductions.com/frss4

Cheap Coffins blurs the lines between the witness and witnessed, stepping over the stage lines and into the fray. A one man chaos machine, as much performance art as they are an aural assault. 29 August | FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV | Darling Nikki’s, Sydney thesoftmachineproductions.com/frss4

Come let your eyes and ears be ravished by the deranged electro stylings of myxi bun, the masked aural avenger. 29 August | FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV | Darling Nikki’s, Sydney thesoftmachineproductions.com/frss4