fortyfivedownstairs is a not-for-profit theatre and gallery based at 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia. We showcase independent, experimental and through-provoking visual art, theatre, live music and discussion.
Lukas Simonis has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical 'activist' in the industrial music and noise rock of the 80s. Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a Collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combos) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime and after he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W, Morzelpronk, AA Kismet, Liana Flu Winks, VRIL and Coolhaven.