BMA Mag 331 20 Aug 2009 by BMA Magazine

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1 Lost Gold Ever wondered what conquistadisco is? Unfortunately, we’re not really at liberty to tell you; and in fact, we wish we knew ourselves. Looks like all eyes and ears will be on the five men of Lost Valentinos when they hit our town Friday August 21. In the midst of their nationwide tour for their upcoming LP Cities of Gold they’ll be stopping by to shake our bones and psych out our dance floors like never before. And with the help of special guests Ghostwood, this show is sure to send you running straight from the floor of Academy to a synth store nearby. With three double passes up for grabs all you have to do is shoot us an email explaining your best disco moves.

2 You Screen, I Screen Did your parents ever talk to you about the importance of protection? Remember your high school teachers always harping on about it? Well, now we are, and we’re encouraging you to do it, for free! At the beach, at the snow, in the backyard, riding to the shops, hell wherever you may be going! Engrained from the ‘80s is that one simple message: Slip, Slop, Slap. Banana Boat are giving away five prize packs consisting of Banana Boat Dry Touch Sport SPF 30 + and a Banana Boat Sports sling bag. It glides like a liquid and dries like a powder! It’s non-greasy and no slip and has a clean fresh scent! Sounds pretty amazing so to get your nongreasy paws on your pack, tell us a great tale about sunburn. This is Australia, everybody has one.

3 It’s Only a Paper Moon You know those really lame as hell Hollywood films where there’s always a guy in love with a girl and he gets caught in an awkward situation and you spend two hours and $15 only to learn that despite your optimism it was a) a waste of money b) a waste of your time and c) a story you’ve seen a million times before? Paper Soldier might just knock you off your ‘seen one, seen them all’ pedestal. It’s a love story alright, except its got space cadets, a mission to the moon, a medical officer, Kazakhstan (sans Borat) AND the Soviet Union. Arc are giving away five double passes for either the Thursday August 20 session or the Sunday August 23 session. To score, tell us what you’d do if you were back in the USSR!

4 I See Red! If you’ve been looking for a way to help out while having a good time, the Red Party charity concert is for you. Taking place on Saturday September 5 at the ANU bar, the Red Party aims to promote awareness of AIDS/HIV issues.

The charity will raise funds for vital medical equipment, which is needed to monitor and treat underprivileged people affected by HIV/AIDS in the Phillipines. The lineup includes triple j Unearthed winners Hancock Basement, as well as The Trivs, DJs Team Wing, Sean Kelly and many more. There will also salsa performers and Bollywood dancers, along with fire twirlers! We’re giving away two white tickets to this awesome event. To win, tell us what you think is the ultimate party theme.

5 Watch Out! Action! Drama! Romance! Put these all together in an alternate version of 1985 with masked vigilantes and you get Watchmen. Based on the comic book of the same name, written by Alan Moore, Watchmen is full of everything a superhero movie should be, but with a unique dark twist to it. The movie features a group of former vigilantes, who attempt to uncover a conspiracy against them, and end up finding much more sinister plans. Directed by Zack Snyder, the movie stars Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre

II, Billy Crudup as Dr Manhattan, Patrick Wilson as Nite Owl II and Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach. We have five copies of Watchmen to give away. To score one of these awesome, action-packed two disc DVDs, just tell us what your super power would be.

6 Everything’s Better on Holiday If pirates are your thing, then you’ll love the new album from Holidays on Ice. Pillage Before Plunder will have your senses reeling as it takes you on an adventure out on the high seas. With the combined talents of five wonderful musicians, the album paints a picture of the open sea, with the waves lapping at the sides of your ship. It features tracks such as Great Big Old World, which tells us that the world doesn’t stop for anyone, and Out of the Mud, which suggests that we should shape a lover out of mud. Pillage Before Plunder is an album that every sailor or pirate can appreciate, and we have five copies to give away. To score one, tell us what your pirate name would be.

A friend studying psychology was telling me some controversial sexual selection theories. They presume that reproduction and survival of the species are our base concerns. Men want to increase their chances of survival by ‘spreading themselves’ far and wide. Women are more selective and concerned with commitment, to ensure the cultivation of healthy children. The book suggests men are attracted to younger women as they have a longer fertility cycle, while women are drawn to older, more successful men as they will make for better providers. Take THAT Valentine’s Day. I’m Dad Man and she’s a womb on legs! Screw you love, you’re nothing more than a release of serotonin designed to make us stay together and breed. On paper it’s threatening stuff, and gets your ego bent right out of shape - but it also gets me thinking. We go to a lot of effort dressing life up as a complex, multi-dimensional rollercoaster of hardships and glory, but how far have we outrun our primeval roots? What if every smart-alec thing we did could be subconsciously traced back to mankind, as a mammal, ensuring its survival? What if we were just as Bill Hicks suggested, ‘a virus with shoes.’ I started to have some fun with it and took each facet of life and traced it back to survival and reproduction. School and work: We become intelligent so we can get a good job to earn money to attract a partner and raise children. Art and creativity: We create art to appear more interesting so we can attract a partner and raise children. Religion: The concept of God provides an answer to every unanswerable question therefore we are less likely to be fraught with anxiety (so we can survive and raise children). Politics and laws: Without a governing body protecting us we would be more likely to degrade into anarchy, which would restrict our ability to survive and raise children. War: To prevent overpopulation of the earth? To maintain a level of fear in society which deters anti-social trends that may encourage anarchy. And the finale! For a million points: Homosexuality. If human biology is all about reproduction and survival of the species, then please explain this dodge ball? I turned to the modern day shamen – Dr Guyonablog. He said that it may be nature’s way of ensuring that earth doesn’t become overpopulated, which sounds a little homophobic to me - ‘hey, no sweat mankind, we’ll just be off being gay in the corner and make way for you child bearers.’ He then suggested homosexuality may be a form of superior evolution encouraging humans to do away with ‘antique’ heterosexual reproduction and allow scientific advances to create ‘healthy people’ in the laboratory. Well, we already have IVF treatment, and a woman no longer needs a man to ‘hunt and gather’ for her, so a homosexual relationship makes as much sense as a heterosexual one. Man, how funny would a society be where gay was mainstream? You’d have bogans driving around going ‘hey hetero, you like vaginas!’ A model family would be David and Keith from Six Feet Under. Why am I bringing all this up? I’m intrigued with the spiritual fallout between my sophisticated arty brain and my biological urges. I can be sensitive, intelligent and thoughtful and also just a horny guy on a bus. There’s parts of myself I’m not that comfortable with, so I’m happy to pick at some brutal psychology and pepper my stocks of self-understanding. As Oscar Wilde said – ‘life is too important to be taken seriously.’ JUSTIN HEAZLEWOOD www.bedroomphilosopher.com Reference: Notes on the Elements of Behavioral Science By Doris Zumpe, Richard P. Michael. Justin performs as The Bedroom Philosopher and writes for Frankie, Jmag and The Big Issue. New album Brown & Orange is out now. www. bedroomphilosopher.com

AnIMAL COLLECTIVE

Majority Rules

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Last year they released their debut studio album The Majority, and since then they’ve played many a sold out show. Now Mammal are saying goodbye to all their Aussie fans and are hitting the road to revisit places who gave them mass support before they head off to the UK. But before they go they’re doing a 20 show tour! The band will be performing in Canberra on Thursday August 27 at ANU bar. You can grab tickets from Oztix and Ticketek now, so don’t miss your last chance to see these guys before they go overseas!

Fuel Your Career In its ninth year, dedicated to unearthing artists from around the globe, the Diesel-U-Music Competition is heading our way. With a fistful of judges of Australian music royalty including Phil Jameson, Yumi Stynes, Maz Compton and Rolling Stone and Vice Magazine editors; there’s no better time to show your talent. Whether you be DJ, solo artist or a big ole band with a lot of noise to make they want to hear from you, then dress the winner in $2500 worth of clothes, all before showcasing them alongside other international winners and getting you on stage at a major music fest. Head to dieselumusic.com for more info.

Belconnen Flicks If you’re a film maker, then you should definitely check out Belconnen Flicks. The night of Thursday October 29 will be full of locally made films, from comedies to documentaries, and will be screened at Belconnen Theatre. Local film makers are encouraged to submit their films, which should be no longer than 15 minutes. Submissions close Friday September 4. For more info contact Simone Penkethman at simone.penkethman@bcsact. com.au .

MMM... Meredith The Supernatural Amphitheatre sounds like an apt arena for the mystical Meredith Music Festival. I actually levitated 40cm when I learnt the ethereal Animal Collective would be gracing us and leaving a trail of wild flowers sprouting spontaneously in their wake. Those blessed enough to pass through the ticket-ballot (open now) will be in awe of the other paranormal acts announced thus far - Jarvis Cocker (oh-sweetbaby-Jesus-yes!), Akron/Family (punctuation compulsory), Eddie Current Suppression Ring, Sia and Bag Raiders are just some of those astral-travelling to Aunty Mez’s this December 11, 12 and 13. Oh, and Paul Kelly said he’d meet you there too. For ticket details go to www.mmf.com.au .

Sneaker Pimpin’ As the last Friday of the month encroaches once again so do those rascals of Purple Sneakers; making the three hour drive to Transit for another evening of mayhem, madness and smack you in the face melodies. Looks like resident DJs M.I.T and Ben Lucid could meet their matches from Canberra competition Will Eat Brains, Talihina Shan and up-and-comers Architect DJs. Special guest DJs and local loves Hancock Basement will be dropping by for some spinning of decks and dresses on the dance floor, and there’ll be plenty of Zounds going around with the new Dappled Cities album featuring giveaways aplenty. From 8pm ‘til late, on August 28, Transit Bar is the place to be.

We Hope You Like Jammin’ Too Ozjam is the latest trend in internet networking

sites. Ozjam.com.au is a site for aspiring musicians, whether they are looking for other musicians to work with, or just want to jam. For just $9.95 artists can become VIPs and have their music reviewed by some leading names in the Australian music industry.

FALLSING AWAY WITH YOU And so it comes around again. The old December 31 rigmarole of making plans and not passing out before midnight. It seems as though the lovely lads and lasses of Falls Festival have once again gone out of their way to ensure you spend your evening with them. With the first lineup announcement promising the howls of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the dulcet drones of UK darlings Editors, synth rockers Midnight Juggernauts and the delightful Emiliana Torrini your two day bender is set to be a lot more than bad sun burn and a nasty hangover. Fear not, they’ve also wrangled in the likes of Moby, Grizzly Bear, The Temper Trap, Xavier Rudd, Sarah Blasko, Yves Klein Blue, The John Steele Singers and many, many more. Do you even need a second lineup? Head to www.fallsfestival.com to make sure your names are on the ballot before Monday August 24. YEAH YEAH YEAHS

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You’d be forgiven for thinking that 1976 was purely a year of importance in music because it’s the year punk became a viable commercial proposition for the major record labels worldwide. But of course, phlegm-based outrage aside, there was a whole lot more going on in ‘the underground’ in the mid-to-late ‘70s – and I don’t just mean busking. In England, heavy rock bands were transmuting the genre to new heights and, by the end of Johnny Rotten’s Annus Mirabilis, the likes of Iron Maiden, Saxon, Samson and Motorhead were joining already established acts such as Judas Priest and UFO and taking their first steps towards the foundation of a major new force in contemporary music – the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (or, for all you abbreviators out there, the NWOBHM). Amongst this group of na’er do wells and chancers were our heroes Praying Mantis, who you’ll doubtless remember have just released a new album, Sanctuary, which is the best thing they’ve put their name to in years. Amazingly, in 1979-80, those ‘in the know’ in the industry saw PM as a bigger chance for lasting success than the mighty Maiden, a fact seemingly borne out by the fact that, at one of the crowning moments of the NWOBHM – a show at London’s prestigious Music Machine venue (now named Koko, and the venue for ABC2’s series London Live) – it was Mantis’ moniker at the top of the bill, lording it over ‘Arry’s Irons and Samson – surely, though, for a bunch of mates just out for a laugh, headlining a London show must have seemed like just about the best a band could hope for? Did guitarist Tino Troy think, even in a wild moment of optimistic abandon, that he’d be gearing up, thirty years later, for another Japanese tour? “Haha, we had dreams! We had dreams… and we’ve realised a small portion of them I suppose (like playing the Music Machine for one!) but I reckon we’ve still got loads in us. My youngest daughter, who is seven, keeps on telling me (and everybody) that I’m a rock star so believe it or not, I’ve started acting like one again. She’s probably protecting her investment ‘cause she wants to play keyboards in the band…” But 30 years? What makes for the longevity? Hasn’t the golden era been and gone for you? “30 years! More than a third of the average life eh! The love of it I suppose. The trouble with Chris (Troy, Tino, brother, PM bassist and fellow band stalwart) and me is we’ve got pretty responsible decent paid jobs and mouths to feed. It’s a real shame we didn’t punt it around a bit more in the old days and get ourselves a decent manager to take the bull by the horns and steer it in the right direction. But the future looks bright – never before have we had so much positive feedback on one of our albums... We think that golden era is yet to happen.” See what I said about wild, optimistic abandon? Come on Tino – one golden memory then, from the good old days – just for me? “If there was a time I really remember, it was that long walk up the stairs to the Reading Festival stage preparing to meet our fate with the ‘Executioner,’ AKA the audience, who we thought were all armed with two litre plastic bottles filled with a strange cloudy yellow liquid… Hmmmm!! Actually none came our way and we went down a storm. Fantastic memories!” scott adams thirtyyearsofrnr@hotmail.com

Has someone yanked yer chain recently? Well send an email to editorial@bmamag.com and have your sweet vengeance. And for the love of God, keep it brief! [All entries contain original spellings] To the weak, cowardly, immature and unintelligent motherfucker who had the nerve to put a stick of dynamite in my neighbour’s letterbox tonight: WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU’RE PLAYING AT? What gives you the right to disrupt the peace of an entire suburb at 9:30 on a Thursday night? EVERY SINGLE PERSON in this street is either a child, or has a child. You have probably traumatized some very young minds, you fuckwits. And the second explosion just furthered your pitiful “fun night out”. And what pisses me off most is that you will probably go uncaught. But don’t worry, karma will most certainly catch up on you. And if not, I will stab you repeatedly with a large butterfly knife until there is nothing left but scattered, bloody remains where a pathetic excuse for a human being once stood.

FROM THE BOSSMAN It’s Saturday night in Chez Sko – a good six days after the official BMA editorial deadline – and I’ve yet to commit to concretion this ‘ere fortnightly ditty of random thoughts for my long-suffering editor. It’s been a busy week, y’see, and my mind has been basked in the beams of daily business machinations so long that when it comes to the task of being creative, my grey matter now resembles a shrivelled raisin. “What to write about?” I ponder aloud to my fiancé, giving the half-stubble on my chin a jolly good artistic scratch, hoping somehow the heat generated will travel up my head and kick start an electrical storm of unparalleled genius. From her sweet repose on our bed, my dearly beloved casually suggests “Why don’t you write about these?” revealing, with one swift expert tug of her nightgown upwards, the kind of landscape Constable always wished he could paint, a view that would make Hitler take a more positive spin on life, and a sight that would stop the finger-lickin’ GFC in a heartbeat. So I did. Hey, write about what you know, right? ALLAN “DEVOID OF INSPIRATION… AND LOVING IT” SKO

WHO: ANU MED STUDENTS WHAT: RED PARTY WHERE: BAR 32 WHEN: SAT SEPT 5

On Saturday September 5 medical students from the ANU will host Canberra’s first Red Party charity concert. The idea of the Red Party is simple – dance ‘til you drop in your most flamboyant red outfit whilst helping to raise awareness and funds for HIV/AIDS. The concert will feature some of the state’s best acts, including triple j Unearthed winners Hancock Basement, indie heavyweights The Trivs, and a total of 13 DJ acts such as Team Wing and Sean Kelly. Tickets ($15/$25) can be purchased from the ANU Bar or online at anuredparty.com .

WHO: DOUBLE ON HEARTS & CO WHAT: UNPLUGGED FOR CAMP QUALITY WHERE: POTBELLY BAR, BELCONNEN WHEN: FRI AUG 28

Like all good bands should, Double On Hearts was born after a messy drinking session at the pub turned into a rocking jam session one evening in early ’07. Matt (drums), Simon (lead guitar), Sean (vocals and guitar) and Jerome (bass) include Metallica, Guns N Roses and The Living End amongst their influences. They certainly have an original sound – whatever they’re doing, it seems to work – and after a few months of hibernation they’re back with a new name, a new sound and an acoustic set on August 28 at The Potbelly Bar, Belconnen, all for charity, kicking off at 9pm.

WHO: SYDNEY HARDCORE KIDS WHAT: HOMEWRECKER WHERE: BAR 32 WHEN: THURS AUG 27

In the midst of writing their debut LP, Sydney hardcore band Homewrecker are taking a quick break to head down the East Coast and road test the new tunes, bringing Carpathian-endorsed Newcastle pals The Hollow along for the ride. The Canberra stop on Thursday August 27 at Bar 32 will also feature Melbourne’s Collapsed, Canberra’s bongclawingest doom merchants I Exist who’ve just released their debut 7” EP Three Nails and a Book of Flaws - and Carcass Brains, some local guys from the internet. From 8pm, $10 entry.

WHO: TRAPPING YOUNG LADS, AND LASSES WHAT: SOUNDTRAP WHERE: TRANSIT BAR WHEN: SAT AUG 29

SOUNDTRAP is a night where a variety of sounds will not only entertain you, but trap your senses and take you to another dimension of deep, sexy, funky, even unexpected, head caving tunes. Expect slices of house, deep and techy, glitchy techno goodness, tech/prog, maybe some tribal or a bit of breaks, even filtered disco could sneak into the mix. SOUNDTRAP aims to provide the best local DJ Talent, with both established and fresh selectors gracing the decks, laptops, Midi controllers, you get the picture! DJ’s setting the SOUNDTRAP for the launch includes Mikey-G, James B-Tham, Gabriel Gilmore and Fourthstate.

WHO: LLIK LOVERS WHAT: LLIK LLIK LLIK’S 1ST BIRTHDAY WHERE: TRANSIT BAR WHEN: FRI AUG 21

This month the boys at Llik Llik Llik are extremely happy to be celebrating Llik Llik Llik’s first birthday at its current venue, Transit Bar. To lead the festivities, very special guest Simon Caldwell (Sydney) of Mad Racket fame, will be here to deliver his excellent take on quality dance music. Llik favourite Ronnie Gordon will also be playing, as well as the always lovely Mark ‘Shunji’ Davies. In addition, to say thanks for the exciting year, Likk residents Biggie, Gabriel Gilmour and Scottie Fischer have put together a nice little mix of their take on after hours house and techno, of which copies will be given away on the night.

WHO: LOCAL LATIN LEGENDS WHAT: UNA NOCHE EN EL BARRIO WHERE: SOUTHERN CROSS CLUB WHEN: FRI AUG 28

From the mouth of local legend Mario Gordon: Una Noche En El Barrio (A Night in the Hood) is a salsa dance musical tribute to salsa legend Ruben Blades. It was produced and directed in Canberra and is the first of its kind in Australia. Its purpose is to promote the Latin American culture through the joy of music and dance, to experience a day in the life of another culture and time, and to offer a fresh new cultural experience for not only dancers and musicians but all of the community as well. The show combines the talents of 16 local Canberra dancers and is set to the music of ten of Australia’s top Latin musicians.

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The five heavy-rocking lads from KARNIVOOL have spent most of the last 12 months bunkered down in an intense creative bootcamp in Perth’s Blackbird Studios, meticulously crafting a richly textured new album, Sound Awake. It’s been four years now since Karnivool’s debut Themata set a new benchmark for what melodic heavy rock records could achieve – blending experimental tunings, intriguing time signatures and sonically diverse guitar melodies, all bound together by a gifted, almost angelic new vocalist, Ian Kenny. When I catch up with the band’s guitarist Drew Goddard, he’s in a very relaxed place, satisfied that the months of studio labour have made for a fine record. Goddard says that despite the precision of the finished product, his band followed no set plan during the recording process. “The process of recording this album was a really strange and confusing one, and unorthodox to say the least,” Goddard says. “Most bands have different stages: they go from writing to preproduction, to recording, to mixing and so on, whereas with Sound Awake, it all sort of blended into one.” A four year break between albums gave Karnivool the opportunity to tour Themata relentlessly, watching the crowds grow ever bigger as word of mouth lifted the band from the local Perth scene to rock headliners across the country. “Themata was a real slow burner,” Goddard confirms. “We only did a local launch for that album, which was good and we had a good local following for it, but then we kind of sat on our hands for a few months and thought that the local response might be it. Then we sent Cog the album and they really liked it, so we ended up doing a national tour with them and then triple j jumped on it and suddenly we were getting a whole lot of gigs. We ended up touring that album for two or three years.” With an ever-growing list of concerts and festivals to play off the strength of one album, Karnivool could afford to take the time to hone Sound Awake slowly and carefully. The result is an intricately layered rock album that ranges across a vast expanse of sonic terrain; canvassing twisted, explosive punk to sprawling, explorative rock jams. Fresh from his stint at the head of Birds of Tokyo, Ian Kenny is in fine form, drawing Sound Awake’s wide array of differing sounds together with his impossibly pure, melodic vocals. As the creative masterminds of Themata, Goddard and Kenny made a decision to share the songwriting load this time around, making for a fuller, more collaborative album. “Everyone in the band respects each other’s opinion, so we decided to be passengers in the Karnivool vehicle and different people took the wheel at different points,” explains Goddard. “There’s really a piece of everyone on Sound Awake, as opposed to just me and Kenny as it was for Themata.”

Passing up the driver’s seat takes a good amount of trust in your fellow bandmates. This trust from Goddard and Kenny was rewarded with a much more diverse sound on Sound Awake, an album which takes Karnivool’s progressive rock sound to much fruitier frontiers. “One thing we all realise is that Sound Awake is bigger and better than anything that we could have done individually. There are things on there that I just would never have thought of doing. A lot of stuff came really spontaneously from jams and improv sessions. We record our jams and we’d occasionally lift whole sections of music straight onto the album. It’s a perfect example of a collaborative effort – it was nothing that any individual in the band came up with alone; it was a unit that wrote that section spontaneously, almost without thinking about it.” First single Set Fire to the Hive is something of a departure for the band and is a highly charged and strangely twisted punk anthem. Goddard says the song was born out of the frustration of waiting around the recording studio. “It came after a bit of a creative drought,” he explains. “So that song was us kind of gritting our teeth and lashing out and it’s got a bit of snarl to it. It’s this anarchic, kind of progressive punk song that is a bit different for us, which is why it really stands out on the album.” The themes of anarchy and political deception run throughout Sound Awake, encouraging listeners to question what they’re being told. “Lyrically it’s up to interpretation for people to make of it what they will, but that theme of anarchy does run through a couple of the tracks,” Goddard affirms. “More generally it’s an album about questioning the status quo and what we’re told. We all made the decision pretty early on that the difference between what people are told is going on and what is actually going on is absolutely huge, so Sound Awake was quite exploratory in that sense.” Returning to Canberra as part of Trackside Festival, Karnivool are ready to show fans that the new album has been worth the wait. “We’ve kept missing out on Canberra on the last couple of tours. We did all the big capital cities, but Canberra always seems to get the blunt end, which we know a bit about living over here in Perth. So we’re really itching to get back there and play again.” Be sure to catch Karnivool as part of this year’s Trackside Festival, held on Saturday November 21. Tickets can be purchased through Ticketek, Moshtix, Oztix and Landspeed Records.

ALL AGES Hey guys! Plenty to fill you in on this week! We’ve had an influx of bands heading our way and it doesn’t look as though it’s going to slow down until at least after Trackside! So get out there and rock on! Los Capitanes, Paqman, Pleased to Jive You, Astrochem, Slovac and some ultra-extrasuper-dooper special guests will be joining forces to bring us a night of music and fun at

Digbyfest #3. Los Capitanes are Canberra’s very own reggae/ ska band who will be playing their very first all ages gig since January. Having formed in 2002, these guys have fast made a name for themselves on the local music scene. This funky eight-piece are one of the most energetic, silly and catchy bands around. They’ll have you jammin’ out, pondering over

some of their delightful lyrics and maybe even bring the odd giggle to the surface. Joining Los Caps will be Paqman who are returning home from Melbourne just to play for us Canberran youngsters. Pleased to Jive You are Canberra’s second highest ranked band in triple j’s Unearthed. Also joining them will be the out of this world Astrochem and psychedelic funksters Slovac. And if that’s not enough for you, there’s going to be some extra special guests! So get yourself on down to the Woden Youth Centre on Saturday September 12, starting at 5pm. Tickets are on sale now; just send an email to tickets@

post-op.net, telling them your name and get ready to have a smashing time! Death metal aficionados The Red Shore will be tearing up the Weston Creek Community Centre on Sunday September 13. With their roaring vocals, shredding riffs and intense kicks, these guys are sure to knock your socks off. If you haven’t heard of these guys (I’m not sure if you’ve been living under a rock all your life…) it is definitely worth your while to check them out. Having played alongside some truly iconic metal bands, these guys have proven that they’re worth it. So for all you metalheads, get out there and check them out. Joining the lads will be The War and Shinto Katana. Tickets are on sale now through Moshtix or Landspeed Records. Hitting up the Woden Youthie on Saturday September 26 will be Canberra locals Point Of View, with special guests Zero Degrees, Fallsuit Theory and West of the Sun. And you know the best part about this show? ‘There’s more than a couple of mad-arse, awesome bands joining up to rock out, all for us!?’ I hear you say? Well yes, yes there is. This show, my friends, is 100% free! Yep, that’s right, zip, zilch, zero! So you can put your coin purses away and save your pennies. The festivities kick off at 6.30pm and don’t forget, guys and girls – it’s a drug and alcohol free event! Rapcore lads Deez Nuts are going to be tearing the roof off of the Southern Cross Basketball Stadium on Tuesday October 6. Deez Nuts are blowing Australia away with their unique sound and the churning pits that erupt wherever they perform. I myself have pretty much had their first album, Stay True, on constant repeat ever since I first heard it when it was released in October last year. So I give you my own personal guarantee that this is well worth your hard earned dosh. Joining Deez Nuts will be Miles Away, Antagonist AD, In Trenches and Blkout! That’s all we’ve got time for this week lads and lassies! LIZ ROWLEY elizabeth_rowley@live.com.au

LOCALITY No time for pleasantries, dear punters! This fortnight is jam-packed, so let’s get straight to it. We are pleased to announce that Kremlin Bar is again hosting Le Chat Noir – a showcase of fashion, burlesque performances and live music. Local four-piece Little Sister will be playing on the night and for those who aren’t in the know, this quirky and soulful group are well worth a look. Little Sister will be joined by Miss Kitka’s House of Burlesque, fashion designer Penny Murdoch, harpist Madame Q and DJs metaVirus and IDOC. The fun starts at 8pm on Thursday August 27 and entry is $10 on the door. The last ACT heat of the National Campus Band Competition is being held at the CIT Music Industry Centre on Thursday August 20 and the ACT final is being held at the ANU Bar on Wednesday September 2. The winning band will get $500 and a trip to the finals on the Gold Coast. Last year’s title was taken out by our own Rubycon and hopefully the ACT heats will produce another outstanding finalist this year. Canberra’s own jazz and blues merchants KarismaKatz are playing two local gigs this fortnight. You can catch them at Casino Canberra from 9pm on Saturday August 22 and again at the Hush Lounge in Phillip from 1pm on Sunday August 23. Last fortnight’s triple j Unearthed Feature Artists, Canberra’s own Hoodlum Shouts, are playing at The Front alongside Athol (Sydney/ Newcastle). Both bands are launching albums, so it promises to be a big night. Be there from 8pm on Saturday August 29 to hear the latest tunes from these bands. The incredibly lovely love, sage will also be launching an album at The Front this fortnight. The local duo are launching their Apricot EP on Friday August 21 and will be accompanied by the similarly lovely Remember Little Grace and ambient duo Mornings. Entry is $5 and the music starts at 8pm. You can also catch love, sage at the upcoming Captain, My Captain session at The Phoenix. The session is being held from 8pm on Wednesday September 2 and the lineup will also feature The Eko’s, Jonno Zilber, Ben Drysdale and Beth Monzo. Locality favourites Mr Fibby are performing a new piece entitled Ship of Fools at the Canberra Contemporary Arts Space on Sunday August 23. This performance is being recorded for posterity, so all punters in attendance will become a part of Mr Fibby history. Be there at 7pm to take part, tickets are $10 on the door. And last but not least, the fabulous Domus Adultus and Bootlegs sessions are still going strong, each with great lineups this fortnight. On Thursday August 20, Domus Adultus brings you Bridie Hill, The James Fahy Trio, Bec Taylor and the Kits and One Foot in the Gravy. The lineup for Thursday August 27 includes Jacquie Nicole, Amax, Big Score and Supernova. Both gigs are at the Hippo Bar from 8pm and entry is $7 or $5 if you’re a fancy-schmancy CMC member. The Bootlegs will present Greg Carlin, The Amazing Brainboy, The Feldons and The Blue Ruins on Monday August 24 and will feature Adam Cook, Drew Walky, Second Sun and The Glaciers on Monday August 31. Both gigs are at the Phoenix Pub from 8pm and entry is free. It’s a big fortnight, with plenty of great gigs to choose from, so have a good one and show the musicians some love. ‘Til next time, CATHERINE JAMES locality.bma@hotmail.com

DANCE THE DROP Hopefully you all had the chance to say bon voyage to Tim Galvin before he jetted overseas for two months of debauched club hopping. My name is Staky and I’ll be Dancing the Drop while Galvin is on the road. With only a few short paragraphs to dish out two weeks of gigs I unfortunately have no more time to lament his departure, but if you are reading this from abroad Tim please don’t surrey the good Canberra name. This Friday August 21 Academy is making the most of its sizable stage with indie-dance rockers Lost Valentinos playing with full band. I’m sure you’ve all bopped in your car to the Bang Gang 12” released Bismarck and now is your chance to see the Sydneysiders live. To beef up the lineup Los Vals will be supported by Ghost Wood as well as Bar 32’s Shakedown residents Celebrity Sextape and Skullss. If you are staying in the city that night you must also visit Transit for Llik Llik Llik’s first Transit birthday bash. Canberra’s premier techno crew have invited Simon Caldwell (Mad Racket) and Ronnie Gordon along for the festivities plus Canberra export Shunji. Get in early to pick up a free Llik CD mixed by residents Biggie, Gabe Gilmour and Scottie Fischer. Please save me one guys! Across town Pang! is bringing back Sam La More with locals Peekz, Cheese, Offtapia, Beat It and Hubert in support. Make sure you pass him your congrats for telling Miss Hilton to eff off! Don’t extend yourselves too much on Friday night because on Saturday August 22 IloveCBR is hosting the capital’s newest (and most contentious) dance festival, Playground. For a first effort the gang have managed to secure an impressive lineup including Hook N Sling (Syd), Acid Jacks (Melb), Elmo is Dead (Syd), Ivan Gough (TV Rock) and uber hottie Minx (One Love). Free buses will be heading to and from the warehouse in Hume and tix are available from the regular haunts. All the best guys, I hope the inaugural event goes off without a hitch. Univibes’ Mingle returns on Thursday August 27. Mingle at Transit is fast becoming one of the biggest student-focussed dance nights around. So if you are one of Canberra’s many academic paupers, make the most of the night’s cheap drink deals and free entry. Pang! luminary Hubert is throwing himself a massive birthday party at Lot 33 on Friday August 28. Not only has Hugh invited a host of local glitterati to bolster celebrations – including Exposed DJs (Staky, Beat It and Bobbin), Mingle DJs (Cheese, Yohan and Oli) and Llik Llik Llik DJs (Scottie Fischer, Gabriel Gilmour and Biggie) – he has also been fortunate enough to coax Zoo Brazil (Sweden) of techno mega label Get Physical along for the ride plus MaRlo of Armada Music. Two trance heavyweights are in town that evening with Alliance at Academy also staging TyDi. At only 22 the Queenslander has enjoyed a major release on Armin Van Buuren’s label Armada Music with hit Meet Me in Kyoto. Support comes from Pang! DJ comp winner Peekz and the tremendously talented Fourthstate. Mi favorito… definitely check out Hubert’s birthday bash! This gig has something for everyone – international clout, a national trance hero, and a gamut of local DJs. Decadent partying at its best. STAKY staceymanson@gmail.com

HANDS ARE TY-ED

ANIMAL INSTINCTS

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The last 12 months have been a dizzying experience for 21-yearold Queenslander Tyson Illingworth, known to everyone but his grandmother as DJ TYDI. Taking out the coveted number one spot in the Sony In The Mix top 50 DJ poll in 2008 led to a lot of recourse for the trance mogul – signing a record deal with Armin van Buuren’s label Armada, having his productions play-listed by international heavyweights like Above & Beyond, Sander Kleinenberg, Andy Moor and Markus Schulz and also touring around the country, playing in some of Australia’s biggest venues that had in the past predominantly only played host to electro house acts.

John Andersson, aka ZOO BRAZIL, has been producing music since the early ‘90s. Most club-goers would recognise his recent work with cult label Get Physical, but he has in fact been producing tunes since the tender age of eleven. “It was house, or some kind of ‘noise’ that I got from my first home computer which could only sample 0.5 seconds –mind-blowing back then!” says Andersson from his Stockholm studio.

“(It’s been) the best year of my life without a doubt!” enthuses TyDi. “I’ve been sharing my music to crowds as big as 40,000 and playing all over the place. I released my debut album this year too – that was pretty special for me.” TyDi’s production skills were honed whilst studying at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music where he focussed on music technology, incorporating his love for dance music with a desire to move forward in the industry. ”The study has been vital to my career and has really accelerated the learning process for me,” TyDi explains. “Electronic music has always been my main interest, melodic dance especially. I’d say that it was always going to be my focus but I am now branching out a lot into other areas of the music industry too.”

Canberra clubbers are very friendly and extremely open to music

Well known for the boundless energy and emotion he projects in his DJ sets, it’s interesting to divulge how he translates this into his studio work. “My own productions are an example of what I desire in a track; I create energy and emotion using certain chord progressions, rhythms, everything! The main way to create energy in a track is through ‘tension and release’ – building certain elements up until one massive peak and then releasing it into something beautiful.” With the rise and rise of other forms of house music dominating the club scene across the nation, he remains optimistic about the trance scene in Australia. “Trance in Australia is certainly getting bigger, and I am trying my best to make it massive!” TyDi exclaims. “We do have a very healthy dance scene and I have been able to play trance every weekend in different cities, so that’s a good sign!” The young master returns to Canberra for the Ministry of Sound Trance Nation tour, following the release of the much anticipated compilation of the same name. “Honestly, I love Canberra! The first time I played in Canberra was at a small club but the energy was amazing. I can still remember that gig like it was yesterday! Canberra clubbers are very friendly and extremely open to music.” TyDi will spin some magic on Friday August 28 at Academy. Tickets available through QJump, Parliament, Landspeed Records and inthemix.com.au .

The Swede has come a long way from the pre-teen banging away on his archaic PC. Outside of the club scene his most notable claim to fame is his track The One, featured on Kylie Minogue’s 2007 album X. “The song had already been written in 2001/02,” he explains. “It was finished in my bedroom whilst I was waiting for a new studio. It was too pop so I sent it off to my publisher in the UK. Five years later Kylie heard it through another songwriter on the album and fell in love with it and asked if she could use it on her album. It was really straightforward. Since then I have had a lot of offers to write more pop songs for artists, which is really fun.” Primarily a renowned techno artist, the slight change in musical direction gave Andersson a sniff at commercial success. He is pragmatic about the experience though and believes that dance music production has a crossover appeal that is becoming increasingly apparent. “Dance has a massive impact on the pop scene,” he asserts. “Just look now how much the US RnB and hiphop scene has changed. It has gotten much more electronic. Synths and strange sounds are not only found in the cool and underground scene, but are also becoming more and more prevalent in the mainstream charts.”

Only make music you like yourself and believe in

New producers shouldn’t jump on any particular flavour du jour. So if you are thinking of pumping out a crappy vocoder-riddled debut, think again. “Only make music you like yourself and believe in,” Andersson offers. “Don’t try to jump on a bandwagon. Ask labels if you can remix any act in the beginning for free, just to get your name out there and never give up.” As a DJ, Zoo Brazil has graced the stage at the world’s best clubs, including Ministry of Sound and Pasha. Now his finetuned show is coming to our shores. “I have lots of new songs that I have just finished in the studio. I’ll only be using CDs on this tour, with a lot of my own edits and stuff which is the best for travelling.” One last question remains – if Zoo Brazil owned a zoo in Brazil what exotic animals would it house? “Why, a Moog-a-phant of course!” Catch Zoo Brazil at Hubert’s Birthday Bash Friday August 28 at Lot 33. The night also features maRlo (Armada Music) plus Exposed DJs, Mingle DJs and Llik Llik Llik DJs.

THEY’RE ALL SO ARTY BEN HERMANN When I speak to Dan Mac – guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist for Australia’s burgeoning electro darlings ART VS SCIENCE – it’s just after midday and his hoarse, croaky voice and intermittent yawning are evidence of the previous night’s show and its proceeding celebrations. “We should be in Geelong, or at least on our way, but we’re still in Ballarat,” he mutters with a slight chuckle. “Everyone is still sleeping… I’m so hungover. It was a good show though. It was rowdy, but not too rowdy. It was just right.” Although the group has had to constantly placate the feverish, junky-like cravings of a listening public who have only demanded more of the three-piece dance-rockers since their rise to prominence shortly before 2008’s Splendour in the Grass festival, they’ve taken the sudden rise to recognition gracefully in their stride. As their name suggests, the songwriting process for Art vs Science relies not only on the instinctive, imaginative expression of personal emotions and feelings, but also incorporates elements of observation and deduction, honing their sound according to other people’s responses to it. “We want to write songs that people can get into and enjoy the very first time they see us,” Dan admits. “We try to write songs that you don’t have to learn. It might be risky to be repetitive and catchy, to be one-dimensional, but we try to make up for that with the creativity and originality within our music.”

Having a backing track would seem like cheating

With their self-titled EP having been lapped up by the electro/ dance-rock community, the release of their debut LP will be much anticipated. Although they’ve been together for barely 18 months and have been labeled by critics as a fly-by-night one trick pony, Dan conveys not even a flake of nervousness regarding the writing process for a whole album. “It’s going well,” he says declaratively. “We have about five or six cassette tapes full of strange noises and big beats. Now we’ve gotta sit down and throw them all together into some sort of pop song format.” Dan goes on to explain that he’s purchased a vocoder (voice distorter/synthesiser) but aside from that, the group will remain a ‘live’ band, refraining from the use of laptops, backing tracks and pre-recordings. “We come from a rock background and in that scene having a backing track would seem like cheating. A lot of bands doing the dance-rock thing have come from DJ backgrounds, so for them, adding extra drums, synths and loops is just a natural progression.” So when Art vs Science come to town later this month, pop along to the ANU and prepare to get rowdy. Despite Dan’s intimation that it is actually possible for a crowd to become too rowdy, it’s obvious he prefers activity over passivity. “Some crowds have too many indie types. We’ve been told that if they’re nodding their heads, then that’s a positive sign... but it’s still not that fun.”

Catch Art vs Science at the ANU Bar on Wednesday August 26. Tickets can be purchased through qjump.com.au .

E X H I B I T I O N I S T

Snowflakes has won a place in the top ten. Other well-trod ‘berra scribes, like Hadley, Bruce Hoogendorn, and Hal Judge have also made the cut. “It’s a nice showcase of local talent,” says Gibson. Among the directors can be found theatrical stalwarts Camilla Blunden, PJ Williams, Catherine Langman, Jordan Best and Fiona Atkin. “It’s a great way to get to work with new scripts, and to be able to involve the playwright in the production process, which is a bit of a luxury,” says Atkin, the director of Gibson’s play Snowflakes.

SWEETIE, DAHLING NAOMI MILTHORPE Nine or so years ago, the biggest little play festival in the world was born: Short + Sweet. Since it crawled into the light in Sydney’s Newtown Theare, Short + Sweet has grown – or more accurately, multiplied – with parallel theatre events in Melbourne, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as mutations in cabaret, song, and dance. This year, the play festival has expanded to include Brisbane, Adelaide – and Canberra. Short + Sweet has a tried and true formula: ten plays, ten directors, ten minutes. Writers submit their plays to a rigorous three-stage selection process, in which the S+S directors assess their quality. And with over 2,000 submissions to the festival each year, the competition is tough. Canberra’s first year in the festival sees some tested N.C. playwrights and directors rubbing up against emerging talent. 20 plays will be performed throughout the Canberra festival, with the Judges’ Top Ten playing at the CTC and ten Wildcard entries playing at The Street Theatre. “Because this is the first year it’s been run in Canberra, entry was limited to writers from Canberra and the surrounding region,” explains occasional Exhibitionist Emma Gibson, whose piece

Snowflakes is “a story told through letters,” explains Gibson. “Ed and Gina became friends as teenagers, but haven’t seen one another in the decades since. They reconnect and start writing letters to each other, and it’s slowly revealed that while life is good for Gina, Ed is in prison.” While it seems simple enough a story, Atkin is reminded of the challenges that face a director. “The two characters can’t really interact, at least not physically, so we need to find ways of making the text work without just having them both sitting at desks writing or some such. Directing as part of a festival offers a special set of challenges, too,” says Atkin. “You’re quite limited in terms of set, lighting, plot etc, so it requires a particular type of creativity. You have to be very clear about what story you’re telling - there’s just not time for multiple narratives in ten minutes. Having said that, ten minutes is really quite a lot of stage time, so you need to be sure that what you’re producing is a complete play - not just a scene.” Luckily, the plays in the festival have offered directors a lot to work with. While Snowflakes is a “challenging piece” about coming to terms with “how a good person can also be a monster” says Gibson, there is lightness to counteract the dark. Canberra playwright, poet and Mr Fibby frontman Hadley has a new work in the top ten, Wheelbarrow, Stoat & Mountain Man, Attourneys at Law.

...continued from page 21 Atkin, who was involved in the selection process, says Hadley’s latest is “up there with his insane best.” The selection process showed a few common themes: “sci-fi or speculative drama... lots of aliens, robots, possible futures, that sort of thing,” says Atkin. “But looking at the top ten, there’s obviously a very healthy diversity amongst our emerging playwrights.” One such emerging playwright is Joel Barcham, whose play Brain Crabs has been selected for the top ten. “(It’s) a satirical piece about easy quick-fix answers to difficult problems that may not actually always be problems at all, even though sometimes they are problems, but not always, however when they are indeed problems they are difficult problems and not the kind of problems that should have quick-fixes to them... and it’s about love.” If that sounds confounding, it may be deliberate. “When writing a short play you are forced to think very carefully about what exactly you want to say and the most efficient and entertaining way of saying it,” explains Barcham. “The time limit of shorter plays really forces you to focus and try and be as efficient as possible with your words and story. There’s also the risk of being too direct and just outright saying what your play is about, instead of letting it come out naturally.” Although Barcham has had work performed in BKu’s annual Damned if you Duo play festival, like many Canberra artists, has always had to take the responsibility of producing the work as well as writing it. “I’ve never actually had work of mine performed without being personally involved in the production of the piece. The idea of the script turning into a play behind my back then suddenly being in front of me on opening night is exciting,” says Barcham. Gibson agrees. “I’m really excited to see what would happen. It feels a bit like giving your baby away to a stranger. Really it comes down to trusting your director, and also hoping that as a writer, you’ve done the best job you can. I think the best part about Short + Sweet is being able to see your work performed,” says Gibson. “That’s what I’m really looking forward to.” Short + Sweet will run from Wednesday September 2 to Saturday September 5. The Top Ten perform at the Courtyard Studio, CTC, at 7.30 each night, while the Wildcards play at The Street Theatre for one performance only, on Saturday September 5 at 4pm. Bookings 6275 2700 for Top 10 and 6247 1223 for Wildcard.

The work has allowed other artists to push their boundaries as well. Renowned designer Michelle Jank was seduced into her first theatre commission, creating “ravishing” costumes that won Jank a design nomination at this year’s Helpmann awards. The costumes elegantly combine Jank’s signature ruffles and tulle frills across the women’s bodices with gorgeously light tulle skirts that reveal the athletic, lithe bodies beneath. Inspiration was fuelled through photos of the Australian outback with its unique colours and atmosphere.

YOU’LL COME A-WALTZING catherine woods In September the Sydney Dance Company will bring their major success of 2008, SID’S WALTZING MASQUERADE, to Canberra. The show is a dramatic and energetic work created by New York-based choreographer Aszure Barton. Longtime Sydney Dance Company artist Bradley Chatfield, whose performance as Sid earned him a 2009 Helpmann award nomination, has taken on the role of directing the Canberra remount of this dazzling production. Barton, described as the most innovative choreographer of her generation, had a strong vision for Sid’s Waltzing Masquerade, a vision devoted to contrasts and extremes, and to showcasing the individual personalities of the dancers. Chatfield is enthusiastic about Barton’s working style. “Aszure... had a very clear idea of what she wanted to do, rather than tasking and making it up. I loved it. I know the way I move, so moving the way someone else wants you to move is more difficult. I’d rather be pushed to my boundaries, otherwise you’ll never better yourself as a dancer.”

The lighting and colour palette, like Jank’s costumes, reflect the ever-changing outback environment, shifting from the pale tones of a placid sky to the vibrant and electric colours of sunrise and sunset. The sparse stage design allows full appreciation of the contrasts and extremes of the show’s palette, and more importantly, showcases the incredible movement and style of the dancers. There is an enormous range of dance styles at play: from acrobatics and hip-hop to flamenco flourishes. The dancers resemble curious outback animals, sneaking out from their overnight slumber to leap, bound, crawl and investigate the world; spinning, slinking and engaging in games and flirtations in a joyous and comedic foray. “There is a story, but it’s a non-narrative piece. That way it’s open to interpretation,” Chatfield says. “For me, the meaning and the story changes every night!”The show features the breathtaking athleticism of young dancer Reed Laplau, named Best Male Dancer at this year’s Australian Dance Awards. Chatfield himself is on stage for all but ten minutes – an amazing achievement, crowning a career that has spanned 20 years. “The role of Sid is very close to my heart,” Chatfield says. “It reflects my life and my emotions. It’s the story of my journey with the company.” Sid’s Waltzing Masquerade dances into The Playhouse from Wednesday September 2 to 5. Performances at 8pm, with a Saturday matinee at 4pm. Tickets $50/$43/U27 $35. To book call 6275 2700 or visit the CTC website.

ARTISTPROFILE: Hadley

What do you do? I am a playwright, performer and tutor. I work for Canberra Youth Theatre and have written their latest touring production Tank!. I am an award winning performance poet under the name Jacinta, and perform tall tales with local gypsy band Mr Fibby. When did you get into it? I started as a writer and performer with CYT in 2000, and have been making my sole income from writing, arts admin, tutoring and performing since 2005. Insert cliché about being poor and happy here, now buy me lunch. Who or what influences you as an artist? Writers like Edgar Allen Poe and Raymond Chandler, trashy ’90s action movies, Eastern European music and story cycles, all of the local artists in Canberra making great work. What’s your biggest achievement/proudest moment so far? Not to sound like Emilio Estevez from Mighty Ducks but it is the work I do with young people at CYT that brings me the biggest sense of achievement. Also winning Best Comedy at Short + Sweet in Melbourne 2007, winning the Woodford Poetry Slam in 2008 and being recognised by a bald man in a two dollar shop in Nowra were pretty great. What are your plans for the future? Continue making my living from writing and performing while also pulling off mighty feats such as paying rent. What makes you laugh? My new favourite show True Beauty. Can you believe they kicked off CJ?! He was the only one with heart! What pisses you off? That time they replaced CSI: Miami with a Hugh Grant movie. Fuck you, Channel 9, I thought we were friends. What’s your opinion of the local scene? Wonderful, energetic and full of surprises. Companies like CYT and Quantum Leap give young people a platform to create high quality art, and provide pathways into professional performance. It can be insular at times, but with all the music, theatre, dance and art being created it is difficult to spend a night at home. What are your upcoming performances/exhibitions? Mr Fibby are recording a live radio show called Ship Of Fools at Canberra Contemporary Art Space at 7pm on Sunday August 23! I have a short play in Short + Sweet which is on at the Courtyard Theatre September 3 to 5. Tank! presented by CYT will be at Floriade every Saturday and Sunday September 12 to 27! Contact info: thehumancannonballacademy@gmail.com myspace.com/thehumancannonballacademy mrfibby@gmail.com

Frederick McCubbin The old slip, Williamstown, 1915 oil on canvas, 92.5 x 117.5 cm, private collection

including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Charles Condor. So what set McCubbin apart from this esteemed company? Essentially, he kept it real: “McCubbin stayed in Australia, living most of his life in Melbourne and its surrounds. While the other artists lost their way in their efforts to become accepted in Britain, McCubbin stayed at home, and his art continued to improve.” McCubbin did travel overseas once in his lifetime: a six month tour of Europe in 1907 which enabled him to see the work of his favourite artists, such as Turner, Constable and Monet. “He realised, when he was in London in 1907, that ‘we have more colour in our landscape in Australia than they do in England, and more light’,” says Gray. “He returned home determined to capture this new vision in his paintings.”

HEIDE AND SEEK yolande norris In the late 19th century, in the spirit of the times, a group of artists in Victoria began working towards a new form of painting that they believed would capture the very essence of Australia. “Australian artists had usually depicted subjects that might be found elsewhere in the world. Now they wanted to portray a subject which they believed would distinguish Australian life from that lived elsewhere: the life of the station and the bush.” National Gallery of Australia curator Anna Gray is referring to the pioneering painters of the Heidelberg School, on the eve of a new NGA exhibition showcasing the works of perhaps the group’s most favourite member, FREDERICK MCCUBBIN: LAST IMPRESSIONS. The members of the Heidelberg School, named for the area in which many of the artists painted, are a who’s who of Australian art history,

This determination brought about a dramatic change in McCubbin’s work, and it is the work following this change that is the focus of the exhibition McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907-17. “The late works have more light, more colour, and more expressive paint. He also painted views of Melbourne as a modern place – scenes of public streets and of factories, trains, trams and cars.” But it was the Australian bush that he loved the most. “In his last impressions McCubbin made nature come alive on his canvasses,” explains Gray. “Many of the places he depicted were his own, those that he knew well and loved. He felt closely tied to the environment, in tune with the landscape, and he captured the spiritual essence of place.” Last Impressions is the first time audiences will be able to see these later works together; to view the brilliant colour and experimental use of paint that we might not otherwise associate with this Aussie great who strove to give Australian art its own identity. McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907-17 is on show at the National Gallery of Australia until November 1. Admission $12/$8.

IN REVIEW

UNINHIBITED Two questions: 1. “What traces will you leave behind?” 2. “What is there to say about someone who did nothing all his life but sit on his bottom and write reviews?” The first was asked by one of the performers in Canadian postcircus troupe, Les 7 Doigts des la Mains, during their show Traces. The question was asked of an audience member and the audience member replied: “I dunno… write a book?” The second was posed by my favourite dandified critic, Cyril Connolly, editor of the wartime literary magazine Horizon, on the subject of his favourite dandified critic, French writer Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve. These two questions have been floating about in my mind all week. Nay, longer; because every fortnight, as the black mist of writer’s block descends, I ponder the meaning, relevance, point – whatevs – of being a critic of the arts. Every fortnight I am able only to provide a stop-gap, never a satisfactory, satiating answer. What traces will you leave behind? A pile of reviews? And what can one say of someone who does that all their life? Connolly leaves the question comfortably unanswered. I think I also have to leave the question unanswered, despite reflecting on it for hours since seeing Traces (a dazzling display of skill and strength and, winningly, wit and freshness), and since reading that passage in Connolly’s biography. But the question came up again – like a bad prawn – after too many wines at the launch for Nick Cave: The Exhibition at the NLA (and then too much schnitty and beer at the Ainslie Football Club afterwards). The exhibition, touring here from Melbourne’s Performing Arts Centre, was fascinating, a bower bird’s hoard of papers and scraps, scribbled lyrics, figurines, statues, posters, notebooks, sound recordings and photographs; ephemeral fragments accumulated, by accident or design, through thirty years’ worth of great acts of creation and destruction. The man that emerged is one that, paradoxically, only becomes one after an extended period of time living a divided existence, as a polite individual, a workaholic artist, and – onstage at least – a divine, astonishing madman.

Twist Wall + Fever Richard Blackwell, Tim Dwyer, James Langer, Dan Lorrimer M16 Artspace, July 2 – 12 High expectations were set for Twist Wall + Fever, as Richard Blackwell, Tim Dwyer and James Langer are three guys who demand to be noticed. Paired with Dan Lorrimer, undergrad from the sculpture department at the ANU, the resulting exhibition was full of surprises. Firstly, Dwyer was a breakaway favourite. I knew he was a prolific maker with a penchant for techno-gazing, but here he has risen to the occasion with the most completely original and exciting body of work I have seen in a long time. His large-scale digital prints (pixel colour field computer mash-ups), which by definition should seem contrived, instead pack a mighty punch. But best of all was his work in the projection space. Analogue video spliced and diced into a reconstructed retro reality, spitting nostalgia and set to a soundtrack of Dwyer’s own (masterful) invention. Dwyer’s projection was shown side by side with Blackwell’s, an unusual approach (obviously to maximise on available space) that actually enhanced these works, rather than confused them. Blackwell’s austere monochromatic animation of an oscillating high-rise building sits quietly in complement to Dwyer’s flickering hyper-colour palette. Unfortunately Blackwell’s print and assemblage works in the main gallery space did not fare so well in holding their own against the crowd of commanding works. It is evident that his minimal, clean lines require a little more space and air, and have generated more impact in other settings. James Langer has come in leaps and bounds following a move to Melbourne at the end of last year; his printed canvases injected with a new-found energy and executed with a fresher, more lighthanded approach. Scattered throughout the gallery space, debutante Dan Lorrimer’s steel frames in a variety of angles and aspects are deftly handled and pull the show together while flying the flag for the third dimension. YOLANDE NORRIS

But Cave is still only an ordinary human being. The bits and bobs collected by the curators, while fascinating, are mere scraps, really. Bits of paper and nothing more. One spark on a hot day and the whole shebang would be up in flames. And while they tell us who he is, they give no real indication of why it is that we care. But then again, the answer stares out at us, from the gig posters and album covers and hardback novels flung amongst the rest of life’s detritus. They are what make Cave a figure of worth; they have a heaviness that weighs down the clutter, that stops the traces from scattering in a high wind. NAOMI MILTHORPE exhibitionist@gmail.com

Richard Blackwell: Grain Blur (3), print on plywood, 120 cm x 120 cm, 2009

bit PARTS WHO: Josh Thomas WHAT: Stand-up at The Street WHEN: Tuesday 25 – Sunday 30 August @ 7 & 8.30pm; Sunday 5pm WHERE: The Street Theatre He’s appeared on Talkin’ ‘bout Your Generation and The Age has called him “fiercely funny” – and if you can’t trust a politically moderate Melburnian newspaper on the subject of yucks, then who can you trust, we ask? Now Josh Thomas makes his way to The Street Theatre with his stand-up show, More Josh Than You Can Handle. If that isn’t enough (even though his show does suggest that it should be), The Street is offering plenty of chuckles, with Rod Quantock’s Bugger the Polar Bears playing the exact same dates. Meanwhile, tickets to Thomas are $28/$24, or $20 for the Tuesday preview. Call 6247 1223 for info and bookings.

WHO: Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh... y’know, those hacks. WHAT: Masterpieces from Paris WHEN: December 2009 WHERE: NGA The Musee D’Orsay is one of the most amazing museums in the world – but if you, like most people, can’t afford the plane ticket to gay Paree, then you are in luck. The NGA has snagged this blockbuster exhibition for the Oz summer, showcasing the Musee D’Orsay’s collection of Post Impressionist masterpieces – including the iPhonehijacked The Starry Night by van Gogh. “We are renovating our PostImpressionist Galleries at the Musée d’Orsay which means we are able to lend these works together for the first time,” said Guy Cogeval, president of the Musée d’Orsay. “Australia will be the first country to see these works outside France.” Oooh la la. WHO: Jessie Adams WHAT: CUBE3 Opening as part of Women’s Well Being Week WHEN: Wednesday August 26, 6-8pm WHERE: Teatro Vivaldi, ANU CUBE3 is an initiative of ANU Students Association proudly supported by Canberra Contemporary Art Space; a portable exhibition space with a brief to expose young, emerging artists. Launched in February, CUBE3 has had many adventures at ANU, Garema Place, Corinbank Festival, New Acton and the Sustainable Careers Expo. For this event, CUBE3 will feature photograms by ANU art student Jessie Adams meditating on the female body as a vessel of strength and defiance, but also as a site for danger and violence. There’ll be $3.50 beers until 7, live music from Ah, Pandita! and Lady Grey and fire twirling! Contact Jacquie on 0400 252 612 or Courtney on 0419 129 512. WHO: You! WHAT: Flying Colours at Belco! WHEN: Applications close August 28 WHERE: Belconnen Theatre Belconnen Theatre has HEEEEEAPS of stuff on at the moment, whether you like seeing, singing, making, doing, or playing. Per example, the Flying Colours youth variety night, which is seeking musos, comics, performers, artistes – and very importantly, budding technicians and backstage crew – to strut their stuff on stage on October 13, 14 and 15. Applications for Flying Colours close Friday August 28. For an application form please email: simone. penkethman@bcsact.com.au or phone 6264 0235.

WHO: You! (if you are an artist, that is…) WHAT: OzCo’s ArtStart initiative WHEN: Closing date early October 2009 WHERE: Info through: ArtStart@australiacouncil.gov.au Ozco are starting up a new scheme to help kick-start the careers of artists around Oz. ArtStart will provide grants of $10,000 to recent arts training graduates as a contribution towards the costs of establishing a practice as a professional artist. Says Kathy Keele, CEO of OzCo: “This program will kick-start the careers of hundreds of artists who have recently graduated from arts courses at tertiary institutions. We are very excited to offer this opportunity to newly graduated artists and encourage applications from all the artform areas”. It’s still in the planning stages so deets are forthcoming, but if you want more info email ArtStart@australiacouncil.gov.au .

WHO: Music For Everyone WHAT: Winter Warm Up Open Day WHEN: Sunday August 30 WHERE: Ainslie Arts Centre, Elouera St Braddon MFE is the ACT’s premier community music organisation and their annual Winter Open Day is an opportunity to check out performances from their programs… and for some hands-on fun. Woot. There are free ‘Come And Try’ sessions for some of their programs, refreshments will be on sale, and – ta da! – entry is free. For more info on the Winter Warm Up or on any of MFE’s activities or programs, check out www.mfe.org.au .

shailla van raad SNOB SCRILLA, a name that has become a staple in indie and new-wave households, is not surprisingly a pseudonym for a project orchestrated by a young Californian expat by the more ordinary name of Sean Ray. His visit to Australia eight years ago brought Ray to a halt in his worldly travels. “When I was younger I used the excuse to study in order to visit Australia,” explains Ray. “I thought it was a bit of a change. When I arrived the country just stuck with me.” Ray is an artist clearly influenced by hip-hop; a legacy ingrained into his consciousness by his birthright. He is also an artist who refuses to be restricted to a spectrum of just one genre. “Hip-hop has always been in my life; it was a staple at school where I used to stand around and freestyle all day,” Ray says. “I wouldn’t call myself a hip-hop artist, but it definitely has influenced me. I’d say the music I make is electronic RnB. At the end of the day my music scrapes the bottom of every genre bucket; it’s like a kid with ADHD, lost in space.” Ray’s fusion of hip-hop beats, rhymes and ‘80s-inspired rhythms and electro sounds has appealed to the growing new-wave crossbreed of music, which Australian audiences are lapping up by the earful. “I think Australia is a niche market in itself. It’s weird but in a good way. It caters to interesting sub-genres. I love immersing myself in the vibe that’s here.” With the release of his debut single There You Go Again in 2008 and the song officially titled ......... generating massive hype, Ray’s much anticipated debut album Day One is set for a rollercoaster of success. “Day One is an album created on the premise that I just wanted to go out and write about something that I felt at the time,” Ray explains. “The album is about figuring out what’s happening in my life, in a non-chronological order. It’s about just what Snob Scrilla is with a conscious regard to audience and the ideologies that young kids understand. It’s not about achieving a monetary market goal; it’s more about expression.” Setting off on tour to promote his new album from August 14, Ray discusses why the monkey mascot is such a centralised theme and why it is more personal than frivolous, as it might seem. “The Farewell Monkey Tour is all about getting the monkey off your back. It’s obviously a drug reference, which is a topic in itself but also in my case it was the end of my five year relationship. It’s about the end of a phase, peace out to the habit, whether it be drugs or a relationship.” It is clear to also see why Australia and touring this country appeals to Ray on such a grand scale. “I look forward to this tour. I miss Australian shows where I have random food fights on stage. I love it when people come up on stage and just become part of the band.” Who could blame him? Snob Scrilla, supported by Dash and Will, will be playing the ANU Bar on Friday September 4. Tickets through Moshtix and Oztix.

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With word of mouth it’s amazing what can happen

Travelling extensively and devoting long stretches of time to the road has a special significance for singer/songwriter PAUL GREENE. It’s a livelihood, a call of duty and an avenue for building enduring personal relationships, which in turn spur the creativity and messages behind his songs. “I hunt and gather when I’m on the road,” he tells me from his home in New South Wales’ South Coast as he anticipates his upcoming national tour. “I’ve got a whole community, a whole bunch of people I look forward to seeing.” Paul’s tone is friendly and forthcoming and while he seems grateful to be getting some rest, he is clearly enthused about getting his act back out there.

The former Olympic athlete turned full time musician is unequivocally committed to developing friendships and loyalties as a touring performer and this reflects closely on his longevity in the Australian music scene. Being entirely independent as an artist and having an image that binds his personality and attitudes to his music is central to this. “There’s more to it than the music,” he suggests. “I definitely come from the campfire and busking side of things... the people I meet know I can’t be bought and that I’m going to come back to town in six months and have a beer with them.” The reinforcement gained from positive experiences with people is evidently a contributing factor to his success. “With word of mouth it’s amazing what can happen,” he acknowledges. With his latest and fifth release Distance Over Time, Paul looks to consolidate what he has learnt from his journeys on the road. It’s an uplifting and accessible album with songs that draw on the immediacy of fetching hooks and laconic messages to connect directly with the listener. When our conversation touches on the inspiration behind the record, the singer hints that the songs draw more on his individual pursuit of happiness and wisdom than any direct advice he might have for his audience. “I’d hate to think it’s preachy, but I think a lot of it’s been self-help in a way,” he explains, and it occurs to me that the man’s own music provides a looking glass for him to view and understand himself. “It’s like I’m talking to myself… I’m trying to get myself out of a situation or look at the good side of a bad situation.” Fittingly enough, the act of observing and coming to terms with the influence of different people in his life provides Paul with the impetus to relate to himself through his songs. He is quick to credit his diverse and far-reaching support base as the inspiration for the optimistic spin on his latest material. “I have a lot of faith in humans,” he confides simply. “My existence is possible only through the efforts of incredibly passionate people.” Paul Greene plays Phoenix Bar on Thursday August 27.

METALISE Yo. Well, the interweb and word of mouth have spread the news – tickets have been on sale for a fortnight already for the thrash tour of ‘09. For those who have been hiding in a nuclear shelter for the last month, Slayer and Megadeth are touring together in October and are bringing their sharpened tools down on the heels of new records. World Painted Blood is the title of the new Slayer record, which guitarist Kerry King has compared to a more Seasons In The Abyss type of record, as opposed to the flat out Christ Illusion we got last time around. Megadeth’s newy, Endgame, is also due out in September in time for the tour. Both bands have posted video previews of tracks from the record and having toured Canada together, we can expect a pretty slick show. I’ve had a look at some of the production stuff thanks to super secret spies in camp Slayer and the show is looking fantastic. Buy a ticket if they’re still on sale for the Thursday October 8 show at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney or the Friday October 9 show in Melbourne at Festival Hall. Supports announced soon. Equally exciting and possibly as redundantly old news to some is the announcement just after the last column of the return of Kreator to the Metro Theatre in Sydney on Thursday September 24. Once again the metalheads of Australia get a right spoiling from three of the ‘80s undisputed gods of metal. Should make for some sore necks and ringing ears ‘til Xmas! Don’t forget September also connects hammers to faces with Cannibal Corpse at the Roundhouse in Sydney on Thursday September 24. Saturday September 12 marks the overdue welcome home show of Alchemist at the capital’s metal capital, The Basement in Belconnen. The boys played in Brisbane at a big prog show last weekend and we can all be looking forward to finally getting our longest running and biggest metal export home for a big show. Joining them fresh from an extensive tour of Europe and the much storied Obscene Extreme festival in the Czech Republic is Adelaide’s favourite grind sons Captain Cleanoff. Also along for this massive show is Templestowe to open proceedings. A huge night, be there. Stigmata have re-branded themselves with the interesting name of Never Trust A Bunny. They’ve got a couple of shows coming up, including a spot on the excellent all ages bill to celebrate the Hard ACT To Follow launch at Woden Youth Centre on Friday September 25 with Friend or Enemy, Corgi Crisis and Inpowered. Only 5 bucks for that show. The guys also have a show at The Basement on Saturday October 3 headlining over Friend or Enemy, Escape Syndrome, The Third Estate and Perpetual End, which is an 18+ show. Mudd Promotions have been beavering away with a few big bills coming up in the last quarter of ‘09 and the first is a show on Saturday September 26 at the ANU Bar. For a mere 20 bucks you can catch Paindivision, Switchblade, Our Last Enemy, The Vaine, Forgery, Never Trust A Bunny, Reign of Terror, Inside the Exterior and Black Eyed Gods. The good folks at Mudd have a mandate to make Canberra the metal capital again and we here at Metalise salute them. JOSH NIXON doomtildeath@hotmail.com Np: Cats,Mice – Big Business – Mind The Drift

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GOING GANGBUSTERS

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HEDONIX (aka Rob Dilley and Steve Zanuttini) hail from Sydney and have been producing music together since 2001. After being inspired by their experiences at forest parties, the first thing the boys acquired was a Roland JP8000 synthesizer and a copy of Cubase, all with the intention to start making their own psychedelic sounds.

Perth-based singer and digital musician TOMÁS FORD is embarking on a nationwide tour throughout August and September called the Bash Myself Pity Party, so I got him on the phone for a quick chat.

The music they produce is a direct reflection of their personalities in that it is funky, quirky and fun. Their highly original sound and versatility has seen them released on various record labels including Electric Power Pole, and perform all over Australia, Japan and Europe. Hedonix have recently released a debut album entitled Order Out of Chaos (EPP) featuring the Hedonix signature sound of constantly evolving tapestries of hypnotic rhythms, groovy bass lines, inspiring melodies, and twisted textures and sound effects. Their musical influences range from ‘60s rock to The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy to ‘90s psychedelic music such as Hallucinogen and the Suomi styles coming out of Finland. (Have a listen at myspace.com/therealhedonix). When they’re not making music, Rob and Steve spend much of their time being very, well... hedonistic. Rob is a uni student, and Steve has just returned from living in Tokyo and spends his time reading, educating himself on various topics and practicing meditation.

Violin, trombone and guitar were all learnt, but this wasn’t enough Local producer ANEURYSM’s (aka Mark Lightfoot’s) fascination with music began when he was just three-years-old after being introduced to the piano. This fascination with music continued throughout his childhood - violin, trombone and guitar were all learnt, but this wasn’t enough. He went on to learn the organ and the harpsichord and was still having piano lessons up until the age of 24. His preoccupation with music spilled over to the electronic world with the purchase of a Technics PR53 digital piano. Then, soon after discovering dance music, Aneurysm was experimenting with various genres including hardcore and drum ‘n’ bass, with his first major psytrance set at Liquid Sun in December 2007 opening up opportunities to play at interstate events.

Tomás has been playing as a solo act for almost six years now, but his biggest break came only recently. While joining the Lilyworld lineup at this year’s Big Day Out festivals brought his show to a massive new audience, Tomás is not surprised that it didn’t lead to an instant army of fans. “You don’t really expect the audience to remember you if you’re playing at a festival early in the day,” he says. “Everyone gets drunk and entirely forgets what happened before three o’clock.”

It’s like watching a punk rock show in a night club with a dance music soundtrack. What the Lilyworld gigs did do for Tomás was force him to lighten up his sound and develop a live set with a “peace, love and happiness” spin to it, to unleash on unsuspecting teenagers around the country. “I’d been touring a lot by myself and playing quite small shows, but with those shows it was nice to get in front of a mainstream triple j kind of audience and really freak them out.” Playing the Big Days Out also provides killer networking opportunities and in this case led to Tomás supporting Birds of Tokyo on their recent national tour. This let him play to larger crowds than ever before and consistently divide these audiences with his deliberately provocative live show. For Tomás, audience interaction is definitely a major part of the act. “A lot of what I do is about confrontation and finding humour in that and different ways to engage with the audience,” he says. “For some people it’s very shocking and it’s very hard for some to deal with, so it can be quite controversial at times.” Perhaps it’s just that most people expect stage diving and other similar onstage antics from punk and hardcore bands, not dance music acts. “I spend a fairly large percentage of the show in the audience – they’re the main focus of the show. In terms of the live act, it’s all about that interaction with the crowd and screwing around with people.”

Aneurysm has recently established the record label 30Hz Moth, the vision of which is to support and help develop emerging artists into successful ones - a vision which incidentally reflects the Servants of Sound mission statement. This launching pad is broken up into two main areas: psychedelic – 30Hz Moth; and ambient/house/techno – Sub 30. Artists currently on board include the likes of Aussie artists Quench, S.E.T.H, Satori, Gabriel Gilmore and Freaky Route. The label will be officially launched in September and anyone interested should definitely check out www.30hzmoth.com .

Tomás is well aware of how unusual his live show is for this style of music, which he makes mainly using a computer and his voice. “It’s a little bit like watching a punk rock show happen in a night club, with a dance music soundtrack.” At the same time, this intense audience interaction is enhanced by the costumes that Tomás and his mother create together for the act. “We sit down and figure out the most gaudy and glitter-encrusted things that we can possibly put together and make things as neon and hideous and shiny as we can. We draw inspiration from the most horrible places for costumes.” Look out Canberra; prepare to be confronted by Tomás Ford.

Hedonix and Aneurysm perform at the upcoming Dragon Dreaming Festival, October 3-5. Further details and ticket info at www.dragondreaming.net .

Tomás Ford brings his Bash Myself Pity Party tour to Gangbusters at Bar 32 on Thursday September 3.

LUCKED OUT peter krbavac It’s just past three on a Wednesday afternoon and as Little Ted and Jemima cavort across screens nationwide, the phone rings. With his young son safely positioned in front of the television, juice in hand, entranced by the successors to Noni and George, THE LUCKSMITHS’ guitarist and chief songwriter Marty Donald has been able to snatch a few minutes away from his parental responsibilities. Our chat is a bittersweet occasion as, with families and ‘real’ jobs taking priority, Melbourne’s favourite indiepopsters have called time on their illustrious career. As Marty explains, rather than allowing The Lucksmiths to trail off indefinitely, they wanted to do the band that had consumed so much of their lives justice and have a proper send off.

We’ve had some of our best shows at Tilley’s

“There are bands that seem to tread that sort of line,” Marty muses. “I read an interview with The Bats the other day where they talked about how they do things very sporadically and everyone thinks they’ve broken up all the time. The Lucksmiths have been such a big part of our lives for 16 years – this way it puts a full stop on things and leaves the door open for whatever comes next.” Over their tenure, The Lucksmiths have amassed a hefty back-catalogue – 11 LPs plus countless EPs and singles – and toured the globe extensively, which has earned them the impressive reputation abroad where they’re often mentioned in the same sentence as genre ‘titans’ Belle and Sebastian and The Field Mice. And throughout, they’ve always maintained a steadfastly independent ethos, of which Marty is very proud. “Much as it would have been nice to make millions and own tennis courts, what little contact we did have with the ‘industry’ aspect of the music business is not something I wanted any more to do with than we had to,” Marty says. “There are times when it would be nice to just concentrate on rehearsing and writing songs rather than having to book hire cars or design a shirt, but I really don’t think we would have done it any other way.” Of the final Australian tour, Marty admits he’s not quite sure what to expect. “We’ve just done a couple of weeks in Europe and those shows were quite emotional. Some shows were in cities that we’ve played in quite a bit like London and Stockholm, so that was a bit of a foretaste of it, but I imagine all those emotions and everything will be quite magnified for the Australian shows. A lot of these shows are in places that we’ve come to love. Tilley’s is somewhere we’ve had some of our best shows over the years, we love playing there. So, one last hurrah!” The Lucksmiths play their final Canberra show on Saturday August 22 at Tilley’s, Lyneham with Darren Hanlon. Pre-sales sold out long ago, but a very limited number of standing room tickets will be released at 8pm on the night. For complete tour dates, head to www.thelucksmiths.com.au.

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After years of being treated shabbily by WIN, fans of The Wire (ABC2, Tue Sep 1, 9.30pm) are finally about to see their beloved show hit screens at a decent hour on not one but two networks with the new Go! channel aiming to air the series later in the year. Shame the series has been traded around Canberra’s networks like blackmarket alcohol during prohibition. With DVD stores always out of copies, it has been passed on disks recorded by someone in Adelaide or Sydney where the networks had at least enough respect to show some eps. If you haven’t seen it, it comes highly recommended by TV critics worldwide and, of course, has the Blackbox seal of approval. Watch it on Auntie though – they deserve your loyalty after saving The West Wing from a similar fate on WIN. Auntie is starting with season one, while Go! promises ‘Australian premiere episodes’ of The Wire, Weeds and The Vampire Diaries later in the year. Ashes to Ashes (ABC1, Mon, 9.35pm), like the original series Life on Mars, is taking a while to hit its stride but Britain in the early ‘80s provided a brilliant backdrop to take this from a fish out of water story to a serious examination of Thatcher’s Britain – strikes, IRA terrorism and all, through a post millennial prism. A bit too deep for your nightly square-eyed session? Don’t worry - it works on the fish out of water level too.

on games People seem to get wet over the idea of storyline and gameplay choices, but who out there honestly goes back and tries out the other options? Freaks, that’s who! Freaks with either too much time, not enough money or who just don’t get out enough, which is probably what would explain their pale complexions. Why this annoys me, though, is that the developer’s time is valuable, so I would prefer they spend it on delivering one brilliant story rather than several mediocre ones. Be good or evil? You should tell me inFamous, you’re the one telling the bloody story.

inFamous Developer: Sucker Punch Productions Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Platform: PS3 Length: 20hrs Chances are, if you’ve looked over any kind of inFamous review recently, the word Prototype was probably mentioned somewhere nearby, and with good reason. Defining their own sub-genre, both games centre around a grizzly sounding prick who’s been granted superpowers so that he may freely run around and terrorise the general populous (or protect them, whatever). So the big question is, which is the better game? In short, inFamous and here’s why little Johnny...

Beast (ABC2, Tue Sep 1, 8.45pm) is an undercover cop show, and not one of the best, but thoroughly watchable. It’s saving grace? It’s perhaps the last role for Patrick Swayze. The show was cancelled in July following Swayze’s deteriorating health. But good old Aunty is bringing us the eps that were made. ABC2’s Friday sci-fi lineup continues with Being Erica (ABC2, Fri Aug 28, 9.20pm). Like recent efforts in this genre, it’s just as much about character based drama as it is about sci-fi and belongs more on the girl’s night in roster. Erica travels back in time to see if she can fix things in her life that lead to her being single and in a dead end job in her 30s. You get the idea. I Shows finishing up include Gavin & Stacey (Prime, Tue Aug 25, 11pm) and Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation (SC10, Wed Sep 2, 7.30pm), which has been a good watch, except when they had Ruby Rose on. Which, incidentally is what takes The 7pm Project (SC10, Mon-Fri, 7pm) off the Blackbox watchlist. Stick to the trash mag celebrity work Ruby. And if the 7pm Project needs a gay music expert – try Molly. He’s funny without even trying. With the Ashes over, SBS is returning us to regular programming – and that means Top Gear Series 13 (SBS, Mon Aug 31, 7.30pm). For complete dare devils who want a bit more than a sportscar, High Altitude (SBS1, Mon Aug 31, 8.30pm) is a six-part mountain adventure with Graham Bell and Ed Leigh, part Top Gear, part Long Way Round. SBS is also picking up pay TV fave Entourage (SBS1, Mon Aug 31, 10pm) so if, like Blackbox, you’re too stingy to shell out for Pay TV or the DVDs, you get to see it from the start on our special broadcaster. Don’t miss – My Name is Earl – Darnell Outed Part 2 (Prime, Wed Aug 26, 9.30pm) where Joy, Darnell and the kids are assigned new identities as Hasidic Jews from Columbus Ohio. Incidentally, the Prime folks are screening two eps a week – Wednesday and Thursday 9.30pm. TRACY HEFFERNAN tracyheffernan@bigpond.com

Unlike Prototype’s cut-and-paste job, inFamous’ city feels carefully crafted. Running around it is actually quite interesting, especially when you consider the amount of crap there is to do. Missions, side missions, collecting shit, as well as just blowing crap up – all make for an entertaining experience. Admittedly, it still suffers from long travel times, but even that’s more varied thanks to its did-I-leaveAssassin’s Creed-in-the-machine travel mechanic. Scaling buildings, gliding on wires and flying through the air are all fun, or at least they are once you’ve gained the ability to do so. However obtaining these abilities isn’t so enjoyable. Why? Answering this touches on the game’s main flaw: repetition. Instead of opting for a balls-to-the-wall, action packed eight hour gaming romp, the developers instead went for a watered down 20 hour experience. You’ve switched the power on main character Cole? Great, now just do it about a dozen more times. Likewise, another lame design decision they chose to make, as forewarned by my intro, was the inclusion of different gameplay paths. Why must I be either good or evil? Why can’t I be both? Sure, let the player have the ultimate choice, but why not make it that Cole fights between both, giving the player a chance to try out the full spectrum of electrical devastation, whilst also potentially making for a more interesting story. While on that topic, it’s worth mentioning that this game actually has a storyline, with some comic book cutscenes to boot. Sure, alone they’re not sufficient to have you coming back, but they never go amiss. I can’t help but feel that with some slightly different design choices, this game could have been really awesome. As it is though, it’s a fun experience that gives Prototype a big electrical kick to the balls. TORBEN SKO

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album of the week Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship [Spunk] As an insufferable music snob I take great pleasure in liking things that other people find difficult or outrightly despise. I also turn on bands once they start getting mainstream reviews or attention. I don’t listen to music on the radio and refuse to wear denim. I find it impossible to tell the difference between fact and fiction and almost every day is a never-ending stream of pithy, banal observations delivered to no-one in particular. Back in the day, Steely Dan were my band but they confused me somewhat – I didn’t know if they were taking pot shots at me or giving me coded messages regarding my superbness. Whatever, their guitar solos killed. Tortoise are my corduroy fantasy but with no complicated wordplay. ‘Postrock’ according to my milkman, like I knew what the hell he was talking about. It’s all hifalutin rhythmical sharp edges, synths, blizzard syncopation and un-rusted beats bridging the gap between 1970s Eastern European advertisement jingles and Canadian prog rockers Rush. Beacons of Ancestorship is therefore, tops. JUSTIN HOOK

Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues [Roadrunner] Fear Factory were one of my favourite bands of the ‘90s; their doomsday syntheses of brutal rifferama, automated beat madness and gothic vocal hysteria really soundtracked the end of the century to the Deliria ears, and main songwriter Dino Cazares almost revisits those dizzy heights on this, his second outing with Divine Heresy. In particular, the searing grandeur of Redefine brings back memories of the man’s glory days clocking on at the ‘Factory, whilst Darkness Embedded is easily the most commercial song the man has lent his talents to – and in a good way, too. Sure, there’s a lot of generic grindcore ranting and raving going on by the by - but those two tracks alone make this worth investigating. Nambucco ‘Edgecrusher’ Deliria

Dolly Rocker Movement Our Days Mind The Tyme [Off The Hip] These kooky Sydney boys are the result of breeding Bowie with The Violet Femmes and giving birth in the middle of a circus. Just when I think I’ve pinned down their sound, they go on a wild trip into other eras, other lands, and the only thing that I’m assured of is that it will be awesomely fun. Dandy Lyon is behind the gorgeously androgynous vocals, and the influence of Brian Jonestown Massacre and Marc Bolan is instantly apparent. This is their third album, a flawlessly produced invitation to psychedelic ‘60s revival. Sunshine, electric pop, garage pop: RSVP now! CATHERINE WOODS

Various Artists Leave Them All Behind III [Modular] I’m not going to lie; it’s pretty bland. It’s awash with the disco sounds that are set to make a glorious comeback in the coming year, but, from one of Australia’s best record labels, there’s nothing mind blowing. Short but sweet remixes of The Golden Silvers, MGMT and those crafty lads of Van She pick up the beat slightly, but it sounds like background music for public servants on a Friday afternoon. And the second disc is just songs we’ve all heard on the radio. I thought Rick James left a great enough legacy for people to know how it’s done… KATY HALL

Patrick Watson Wooden Arms [Secret City/Shock] The music in this album showcases amazing imagination and artistry, weaving together a patchwork of sounds. Instrument tones are morphed and vocal effects employed to give the album a mysterious, theatrical character. Some musical combos are intriguing. Strings are mixed with tinpot percussion in Tracy’s Water, while piano and bicycle sounds collide in Beijing (Jane Campion’s The Piano meets Dresden Dolls). This experimental potion of musical effects delicately embellishes vocals that are even more ethereal than Jeff Buckley’s. Whilst, beautiful passages of music appear throughout the CD (often from obscure instruments such as a charango or memotron), the wispy, overly dreamy vocal delivery detracts from the overall result. RORY MCCARTNEY

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David Guetta ft. Akon Sexy Bitch [EMI] Is the universe just all in on some scarily elaborate prank where we all pretend that A) David Guetta is still relevant B) Akon wouldn’t fuck a dead camel for a quick buck C) this is actually good? Nice one guys, but please knock it off already.

Duck Sauce aNYway [Fool’s Gold] A-Trak and Armand Van Helden team up to create Duck Sauce and with it, the duo bring forth some incredibly funked up disco gold. It’s all chikka-chikka guitars, driving beats and storming breakdowns. Add some decidedly French-touch effects and you’ve got one hell of an anthem.

Friendly Fires Kiss Of Life [XL/Remote Control] Expanding on the eclectic electro-funk that was their debut album, Friendly Fires manage to eclipse pretty much everything on that record with this new gem, Kiss Of Life. I loved that record. Here, Paul Epworth’s production is polished and perfected whilst the band are tighter than ever, casting forth an insatiable groove. It’s exciting to listen to, and that can only be a good thing.

The Sound Of Arrows Into The Clouds [Neon Gold] Former Labrador indie hopefuls The Sound Of Arrows are back and brighter than ever. With Into The Clouds the duo warp back in time to the birth of Euro pop, when big, sincere pop music ruled the world. Think Eurovision, think boy band aesthetics and Enya devotion. Brilliant.

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Les Paul – Chasing Sound

Decade in the Sun: Best of Stereophonics

Les Paul was responsible for one of the most instantly recognisable articles in the annals of rock. The Gibson Les Paul is the object d’art that prompts salivation in wannabe rock star saddos and delivers salvation for actual rock stars; a hulking lump of wood that delivers such tone, sustain and sheer grunt that it’s impossible to consider the birth of rock and its many schisms without it. Along with Leo Fender’s namesake it defines the look, feel, sound and soul of late 20th century music transgressing genres, tastes and demographics. Which makes it all the more remarkable how much of a missed opportunity this documentary represents.

ER KRBAVAC

Les Paul was not only a sixstringed technical virtuoso but also one of the greatest innovators of recording technology – inventing multitracking, phasing, overdubbing and delay to name a goddamn important few. Primarily a country player early on, the restless and inquisitive Paul quickly added jazz to his repertoire before moving onto backing Bing Crosby and Top 40 success with his wife, Mary Ford. All reasonably interesting and necessary exposition-wise, it seems the filmmakers either willingly or by force diminished his role in developing the solid body electric guitar by barely touching the Gibson Les Paul element of his life. Maybe the idea was to redress the balance, to remind us there was a vastly talented and driven man behind “the log,” as he called it. On that count, Chasing Sound works. It’s just there is way more to the story that should be told. In its absence hit the local music shop, strap on the most expensive guitar you can find – it’ll be a Les Paul – and grind an E major chord in honour of the legend. JUSTIN HOOK

little britain usa Catchphrase comedy is a capricious beast. It’s a fine line between playing to your audience and lazy repetition. As an audience we love being in on the joke, waiting patiently through the setup for the punch-line. We know exactly how it’s going to end, but we still react uproariously upon hearing that glorious assembly of words we’ve heard a thousand times before. Sounds vaguely like communism to me. If lucky, your witticism will enter the lexicon and echo through schoolyards and cubicles the nation over. And, if that were the measurement of success, David Walliams and Matt Lucas are solid gold comedy giants. However, it’s not – and they resolutely are not. Little Britain USA (and its antecedent Little Britain) is a collection of unendearing, fatuous non-sequiturs strung out over a very slim concept of gross-out sketch comedy played for the lowest common denominator. It has proven to be a very successful formula, with sell-out arena shows, Sunday evening puff pieces and celebrity hook-ups. But beyond Daffyd being the only gay in the village, fake vomit, fat suits and the computer still saying no, there’s no real core to this duo’s output; not the awkward heart of David Brent, the surreal menace of Papa Lazarou or the blithering ignorance of Alan Partridge. Comedy works when there is reason to watch, committing yourself to fanciful set ups or holding the mirror up to our own internal ugliness. But Walliams and Lucas are incapable of managing the risk. For this US jaunt of Little Britain there are some concessions for the local audience but nothing that corrects the imbalance of a show that has outstayed its welcome by a wide margin. Which is the approximate length I will continue to avoid it by. Fans, of course, will absolutely love it. I guess that’s the point. JUSTIN HOOK

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WITH MARK RUSSELL

Judd Apatow has created a monster. Ever since his films such as 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up, less-talented filmmakers have thought they could also do films that cater to both male and female demographics; and are both hilarious and sweet. This has led to four-letter words and crude sexual references being thrown around in a much greater abundance than ideas. We’re left with films that are inferior in both the comedic and romantic areas. I find the first aspect’s easy to judge. But for the romance I usually have to rate it by the amount of oestrogen I can feel fighting to expel my recipe for bbqflavoured beer.

quote of the issue “Well if it isn’t the man who shot PrettyBoy Floyd. Good thing ‘cause he sure wasn’t WhizKid Floyd.” John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) Public Enemies

The Ugly Truth

Public Enemies

<insert nasally, super-happy American voiceover>“Abby was looking for love in all the wrong places... ‘Til one day, she finally had to face: the truth...”

Ah, such high hopes. Johnny Depp. Christian Bale. A gorgeous, vaguely sepia-toned 1930s setting. Perfection, no? Unfortunately, Public Enemies didn’t really satisfy or engage me. While it is not exactly a wasted couple of hours, it does fall short of expectations. Notorious criminal John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) spent years robbing banks and outsmarting the authorities. As we follow Dillinger’s escapades, determined federal agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) hunts the elusive Dillinger and his cronies. Cue multiple shootouts. While Public Enemies is an interesting enough film, it felt slightly too long, and the story meanders around in the middle. Also, the Depp vs. Bale scenes didn’t zing as much as I had hoped, although Bale’s tight-lipped Purvis still delights me (unreasonably, I’m sure – his character is pretty flimsy). That being said, there are some interesting scenes. Director Michael Mann uses realistic, handheld camerawork for some effective shooting scenes, creating a gritty and authentic atmosphere. Unfortunately, he ruins all the good he’s done by not knowing when to ease up, and most of the film feels somewhat akin to being stuck in a blender full of machine guns. Luckily, the design of the film is pleasing – the sets and costumes wonderfully capture the era, even when occasionally lost in blurry camera jerks. All in all, the disappointing Public Enemies should have been so much better. A more solid exploration of the Dillinger story and less crazy camerawork would have gone a long way.

The Ugly Truth is the latest Katherine Heigl vehicle to emerge from the rom-com factory. The premise here is that she’s a television producer, forced to work with shock-jock misogynist Mike (Gerard Butler). Mike’s shtick is that women are their own worst enemies because they sit around waiting for a knight in shining armour, rather than just using sex to get a man. She teaches him the value of a woman’s intellect, while he teaches her to manipulate guys with her feminine wiles. There is some scope to this set-up. The sexual descriptions and language regularly thrown out clearly show the writers were given the green light to go all out. Unfortunately the ‘shock’ tactics just aren’t that shocking and Mike shows his manwhorewith-a-heart-of-gold colours before you know it. Director Robert Luketic (Monster-In-Law, Win a Date With Tad Hamilton) has played everything a little too safe and there’s way too little innovation before we’re on the downward spiral towards the inevitable conclusion. The two leads only really achieve chemistry in a few scenes and there’s not enough new here to do the trick. It’s worth a wry smile or a chuckle once in a while but it’d be just as easy to wait for the next cab off the rank. MARK RUSSELL

MEGAN McKEOUGH

G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra is unapologetic, balls-to-thewall, action. But this spinning top of chaos also occasionally manages to hold on a spot of style as it brings to life the G. I. Joe action figures and cartoons. Channing Tatum plays Duke, your classic gung-ho army boy. Duke’s thrown into the world of super-soldiers after he’s attacked while escorting newage, nano-technology-based weapons. But all this is really just an excuse to showcase some innovative and creative action sequences. We get super-suits, phaser-guns and lots of shots of Sienna Miller kicking things whilst wearing skin tight clothing. Tatum is shaping up to be one of the next-big-things of Hollywood and, though this isn’t exactly a master-class in acting, he brings some charisma to this piece. As eye-candy, Miller could give you toothache, and she does just enough of the moving and talking parts of her job to keep her character moving. The rest of the cast also does an admirable job considering most of them deserve better than the horrible dialogue coming out of their mouths. This is not true of Marlon Wayans however, who seems to have gone ‘method’ on us, by actually becoming an expressionless action figure. A slightly flabby script and some ill-advised subplots prevent this film from being spectacular. But it is spectacle, and it’s enough to keep you sitting down with a fistful of popcorn. MARK RUSSELL

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The Flaming Lips / Midnight Juggernauts Hordern Pavillion Tuesday July 28

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Happy tears were delivered to the faces of many after it was announced that The Flaming Lips would return to our shores to headline this year’s Splendour in the Grass. Hypothetical shockwaves from their triumphant 2004 tour remained dear in the hearts of many, and word about their monstrous live show spread faster than cold sores on a streetwalker’s sinful face. You hopefully know the drill – animal suits, jovial old men in giant transparent bubbles, confetti coming out the wazoo. Simply, they know how to impress. Often described as the best children’s party ever, the tickets to the show flew out the door quicker then Diana’s body from a crumpled Mercedes, and rightfully so. As the light grew after Midnight Juggernauts’ hardly worthy of mention set, the abundance of glorious freaks became apparent. Colourful face paint and feather-a-plenty donned the heads of most. In my opinion, a great crowd is one that makes an effort. By my side in the crowd was a bearded man in a floral dress, delightfully stirring his beer with his long blue nails; a totally acceptable getup in this setting. In any other occasion I would get away from him as soon as possible. Possibly the police would be involved. Eagerness shuffled the greedy crowd forward in anticipation as frontman Wayne Coyne came on stage to play the part of roadie. On one hand, it’s a little disenchanting when the band prance around connecting speakers and what-not in full light. On the other hand though, Wayne Coyne is in control; he does what he wants, when he wants. That’s what makes this band great. Hell, he could roger the Queen all night long in a Nazi uniform for all I care. With the drop of the house lights, a 20 foot LCD screen behind the stage came to life. Crowd roars joined the psychedelic patterns pulsating to and fro around the image of a naked lady on screen. The band are then ‘born’ onstage via the lady’s gigantic vagina (of course) through a tiny door that pops out from the centre of the screen. Cheers erupt for guitar-smith Steve (who, in contrary to my prediction, was not shooting up A-grade horse upon his entry), followed by bald bassist Michael. Wayne then comes tumbling from the side of the stage in his trademark rubber ball, gleefully crushing the heads and hands of the screaming pedestrians below. After some epileptic lights alongside two intro-specific songs, they break into Race For the Prize from 1999’s gorgeous Soft Bulletin. Confetti erupts like vomit from cannons everywhere and giant balloons rain from the heavens above. God’s pill must have kicked in. The setlist strongly favoured the last ten or so years of their catalogue, but still the mix was gracefully rationed. Three songs in and after a ‘George Bush sucks, yay Obama’ intro (which is the hip thing to do these days) we’re treated to ‘the Yeah Yeah Yeah song’ off 2006’s ho-hum At War With The Mystics. Whilst bland and repetitive on the album, this song really shows its tits live. Constant fist pumps into the air and subsequent beer spills on the blue nailed freak to my side made this a memorable moment.

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The onstage shenanigans were genius, going well beyond my already bloated expectations. Among the dancers were a team of lizards, some mice, a giant huggable sun, a giant caterpillar, a gorilla and some sexy pandas that questioned my inter-species sexuality. There was a giant Easter Island head thing, except a lot scarier. He frightened me a little. Wayne was popping nearby balloons with his guitar neck throughout the gig; a popular move with the kids. Fan favourites Fight Test and Yoshimi Pt. 1 (both title tracks off two early decade releases) sent the crowd into a fury, but not as much as 1992 classic She Don’t Use Jelly, a heroic sing-along in which the joy was

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plentiful. To conclude Jelly, Wayne filled an enormous tangerine balloon with an air gun until it burst and rained confetti. This was made all that much better knowing that Splendour didn’t get it. Before the lights dimmed one last time, we were invited to a very sweet and equally successful marriage proposal by some love-struck fool in a lizard costume. A true campus hero! Following the lovebirds was the band’s return to the stage, with Wayne delivering one last positive speech (there were many throughout the night). The opening chords of Do You Realise?? burst through the speakers to deafening applause; confetti yet again rained down upon us happy fools for the last time, totalling the amount to ten trillion individual pieces. Looking at the mess everywhere, I almost felt sorry for the cleanup crew. Should have studied harder if you didn’t want to be a janitor buddy!

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In closing, you wish Wayne Coyne was your dad (instead of that embarrassment that will fall into your wedding cake). Thank God (or Satan?) there’s still live bands like this out there today, beaming warmth and forcing smiles on even the grumpiest folk. Once again, The Flaming Lips echo will cascade through Australia and the myth will grow. Hopefully it won’t be too long before I’m jumping for balloons and picking confetti out of my hair again. If you didn’t go, take my word and save your clams for their next Australian adventure. If not, you’re a damned fool. TRAVIS HEINRICH

The Specials Enmore Theatre Monday July 27 Seemingly every middle-aged Englishman in Sydney is milling about in the Enmore’s august foyer this evening – and if there’s a single piece of Ben Sherman or Fred Perry clothing left unsold in town tonight I’d be very surprised indeed. Still, well dressed as we all undoubtedly are, there’s always room for more in the wardrobe and the merch stand does a roaring trade as we consume our six buck cans of Australia’s favourite full strength beer and wait for the entertainment to commence. After an hour or so of rock steady, ska and blue beat over the PA (there’s no actual ‘support’ tonight), a son et lumiere representation of Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think) alerts us to the impending appearance of our heroes – and the place goes spare. Despite the fact that frontman Terry Hall would appear to rather be anywhere other than on the Enmore stage (unless he’s singing, he spends the first three songs with his back to the audience, gesturing angrily at an unseen side stage lackey), it’s hard not to be sucked in as the rest of the band (in particular vocalist Neville Staples and rhythm guitarist Lynval Golding) go about their business like men possessed. They churn out all the hits and more in a high-impact 80 minutes (so high-impact in fact that Staples knackers his ankle two thirds of the way through – unsurprising since he doesn’t stay still for a minute – and has to apply an ice pack to the tortured ligaments). Highlights include Friday Night, Saturday Morning, a rousing sprint through Concrete Jungle and a brilliant version of The Pioneers’ Long Shot (Kick de Bucket), all rounded out by guitarist Roddy Radiation’s immaculate lead guitar work, which brings a marvellous rockabilly edge to proceedings.

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They don’t hang around for long, but by the time they sign off with a ‘proper’ version of Enjoy Yourself, even Hall has joined in with the mass grinning and as we leave the hall, all smiles, the lady wife remarks that she feels seventeen again, which is the whole point of these reformation things, no? Brilliant. SCOTT ADAMS

GIG GUIDE August 19 - August 22 wednesday august 19 Arts Arc Scinema: Moon Shots

Mark T Lemon: Space Movies. Celebrating space in cinema!

ARC CINEMA, NATIONAL FILM & SOUND ARCHIVE

Sense and Sensibility

Austen’s classic. Will either sister be able to find love? We won’t tell. Until Aug 22. CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE

Cloudgarden

Exhibition by Ann Holt. Until Sept 6.

thursday august 20 Arts Arc Scinema: Moon Shots

Paper Soldier (2008, 18+). Celebrating space in cinema!

Dance D’Opus

D’Opus & Roshambo’s new LP coming soon! KNIGHTSBRIDGE PENTHOUSE

Ashley Feraude

Sidney Nolan: the Gallipoli series

Trash Thursdays

TRINITY BAR

The Gallipoli series was completed by Nolan over 20 years and is a public and personal lament.

$2 drinks ‘til 2am and discounted cocktails. With DJs Adam, Esscue and Enz.

AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL

ACADEMY NIGHTCLUB

Material Sense

Live

STRATHNAIRN HOMESTEAD GALLERY, HOLT

Pod

An exhibition by Tye McBride. Until August 23.

CANBERRA CONTEMPORARY ARTS SPACE - MANUKA

Nick Cave: The Exhibition

Discover the sources of his iconic vision through lyrics, notebooks, artworks and more. ‘Til Nov 29.

Lowbrow Exhibition Opening and Concert

An exhibition of lowbrow, street, DIY, punk and rockabilly art. 6pm, $5. THE FRONT CAFE AND GALLERY

National Campus: Band Comp ACT Heat

South of the Border Tour

With The Conspiracy Plan and Final Lies P J O’REILLY’S, TUGGERANONG

Something Different

Ry-Fi

KNIGHTSBRIDGE PENTHOUSE

The Last Souled Out Friday

Minque is closing down. Souled Out is moving to North Bar. MINQUE

LLIK LLIK LLIK

1st Birthday Banga! Feat. Simon Caldwell, Ronnie Gordon, Gabriel Gilmour and more! Entry is free. TRANSIT BAR

Rev

TRINITY BAR

Hook N Sling

With support from Ashley Feraude and Rexy. Brujo’s in the Candy Bar. ACADEMY NIGHTCLUB

Shunji Masterclass

Mixin’ up an audible feast of aural delights, so you better be hungry. KNIGHTSBRIDGE PENTHOUSE

Minque Closing Party

Feat. Fabian, Pred, Richie Walton, Paul Wheeler, Downtown Brown, Hubert and more.

Canberra’s weekly alt club night with two levels of DJs playing rock/indie/ dance/punk/pop. $5.

MINQUE

Live

BAR 32

Shakedown!

Indie, alt, dance and electro with residents Skullss, Veda, Celebrity Sextape, Relay and M.E.R. $5.

With Philadelphia Grand Jury and Yacht Club DJs. $18/$22 at the door. Tix through Ticketek.

Mercury Switch DJs

HOLY GRAIL, KINGSTON

More dance for your un-dollar. Entry is free. TRANSIT BAR

DJs Peter Dorree and Matt Chavasse.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Weapon

Alta Volante

Something Different

Lost Valentinos

Aaron Peacey and The Snail Riders

Greenfaces: Akmal

ACADEMY NIGHTCLUB

HIPPO LOUNGE

Watch amateur comedians battle it out for the biggest laughs. CANBERRA IRISH CLUB

Uni Night Thursdays

Over studying and just wanna party!? We’ve got your Thursday night covered. Happy hour all night!

THE BASEMENT THE BASEMENT

On their Conquistadisco Tour, with Ghostwood. Tix through Moshtix.

Love Sage EP launch

With Remember Little Grace and Girl Sized Hands. 7-10pm. $5. THE FRONT CAFE AND GALLERY

Itchy Triggers

Free live music at King O’Malley’s.

BAR 32

KING O’MALLEY’S, CIVIC

City of Design Talkfest: Industry-Innovation

Something Different

Carry On Karaoke

Jemist

The beat chemist, Ugbeat Hall of Famer, and he of the silky smooth skin.

Live

Karaoke Night

HOLY GRAIL, KINGSTON

Dance

Final Lies

2 pizzas and a pint $15 all day. TRANSIT BAR

Dance

CUBE NIGHTCLUB

Domus Adultus

An informal talk examining Canberra and the impact and influence of contemporary craft on the city.

$5 Night @ Transit

ARC CINEMA, NATIONAL FILM & SOUND ARCHIVE

Candy Cube

THE FRONT CAFE AND GALLERY

WESLEY MUSIC CENTRE

Program 3. Haanstra is Dutch cinema’s Oscar winning doco maker.

Identical Strangers

Abstraktions 8

Terry Lam and Melody Zhang performing piano solo and four hands for piano. $2 entry.

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Arc: Bert Haanstra

ANU BAR AND REFECTORY

With Bridie Hill, The James Fahy Trio, Bec Taylor and the Kits and One Foot in the Gravy.

Wednesday Lunchtime Live

CUBE NIGHTCLUB

Arts

Charles Chatain

CIT MUSIC INDUSTRY CENTRE

Live

THE PHOENIX PUB

Cash prizes and 2 for 1 basic spirits and tap beer. DJ Peter Dorree from 11pm – 5am with FREE pool.

saturday august 22

Dappled Cities

KING O’MALLEY’S, CIVIC

The Barons of Tang

Karaoke

The winning ACT band gets a trip to Gold Coast plus $500 and the chance to win $5000 cash prize.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA

Panoptique Electrical, Zoe Barry and Tristan Louth-Robins. 8pm, $5.

PJ O’REILLY’S, TUGGERANONG

ARC CINEMA, NATIONAL FILM & SOUND ARCHIVE

CHAPMAN GALLERY

Exhibition and sale of woodfired ceramics by Lindsay Oesterritter. Opening at 11am. Until Aug 23.

Karaoke With Grant

CRAFT ACT

PJ O’REILLY’S, CIVIC

Cafe Scientifique: Climate Change Discussion

Nice wine and cheese + good conversation + relaxed atmosphere = enjoyable evening. 6pm, free. ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE

THE BASEMENT

THE PHOENIX PUB

Andrea Kirwin

Performing an intimate solo show armed only with guitar. $5, 7pm. THE FRONT GALLERY AND CAFE

Rupert Boyd – Classical Guitar Concert

Canberra-born classical guitarist Rupert Boyd returns from NY for his only performance in Oz. WESLEY MUSIC CENTRE

KarismaKatz

CASINO CANBERRA

Andy and the Roys HOLY GRAIL, KINGSTON

Oscar

Free live music at King O’Malley’s. KING O’MALLEY’S, CIVIC

GIG GUIDE August 23 - August 27 sunday august 23 Arts Arc Scinema: Moon Shots

Something Different

Live

Dance

Big Things in Store

Art vs. Science

Univibes DJs

A rare view of large technology items. WAR MEMORIAL CONSERVATION AND STORAGE ANNEX

Arc: Jerzy Skolimowski

Barrier (18+). By the Polish new-wave master. ARC CINEMA, NATIONAL FILM & SOUND ARCHIVE

Ship of Fools

CCAS and Mr Fibby present an original melodrama recorded in front of a live audience! Tix $10. CANBERRA CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE - GORMAN HOUSE

Dance Ashley Feraude and Hubert TRINITY BAR

Cube Sunday

Party on after the weekend is over with DJ TJ from 10 ‘til late. Free pool. CUBE NIGHTCLUB

Live Sunday Sessions: Timbuktwo From 5-9pm. ALL BAR NUN

Karizma Kats

Live music from 1pm.

THE HUSH LOUNGE, PHILLIP

Something Different Irish Jam Session

Come and have a fiddle. KING O’MALLEY’S, CIVIC

monday august 24 Dance Hospitality Night

Featuring Univibes DJs. TRANSIT BAR

Live Bootlegs

With Greg Carlin, The Amazing Brainboy, The Feldons and The Blue Ruins. THE PHOENIX PUB

tuesday august 25 Arts Rod Quantock

Bugger the Polar Bears, this is serious! Arguably the most important show in history. THE STREET THEATRE

Josh Thomas

More Josh than you can handle! Winner of Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. THE STREET THEATRE

Live Live Jazz

By Andrew Swift (New York), Brendan Clarke and Mike Price. TRINITY BAR

Hard ACT to Follow All Ages Launch

Hard Act to Follow is a compilation CD of live tracks from Canberra’s best bands. 9pm, $10. WODEN YOUTH CENTRE

Alex Springhair

He plays jazz, latin jazz, reggae, originals and covers and really does have springy hair! 7-10pm. THE FRONT CAFE AND GALLERY

Hard ACT to Follow O/18s Launch

Hard Act to Follow is a compilation CD of live tracks from Canberra’s best bands. 9pm, $10. THE BASEMENT

Something Different TNT: Tuesday Night Tunes (Karaoke)

Wednesday Lunchtime Live

Mingle

THE PHOENIX PUB

Terry Lam and Melody Zhang performing piano solo and four hands for piano. $2 entry. WESLEY MUSIC CENTRE

Waterford Acoustic Night with Voss Waterford are an energising breath of florid air in the urban stink. 7-10pm. Donation please! THE FRONT CAFE AND GALLERY

Something Different $5 Night @ Transit

2 pizzas and a pint $15 all day. TRANSIT BAR

Karaoke Night

HOLY GRAIL, KINGSTON

thursday august 27 Arts West Side Story

Presented by the Canberra Philharmonic Society. Bookings: www. philo.org.au.ticketing . ‘Til Sept 12. ERINDALE THEATRE, WANNIASSA

Rock/Paper/Scissors

An exhibition by Peta Jones. Until Sept 6.

CANBERRA CONTEMPORARY ARTS SPACE - MANUKA

Murmur

University of Canberra Graphic Design Art Exhibition opening. Fundraiser, $2 entry. THE FRONT CAFE AND GALLERY

Another World is Possible

Installations by Amina McConvell. Until Sept 14.

Trivia Night

Arc: Jerzy Skolimowski

HOLY GRAIL, KINGSTON

wednesday august 26 Arts CUBE3 Exhibition Opening: Jessie Adams

Trash Thursdays

The Wedded Bliss

Open up your pipes and murder the classics for your chance to win big. TRANSIT BAR

TRANSIT BAR

$2 drinks ‘til 2am and discounted cocktails. With DJs Adam, Esscue and Enz.

ANU BAR AND REFECTORY

Paper Soldier (2008, 18+). Celebrating space in cinema! ARC CINEMA, NATIONAL FILM & SOUND ARCHIVE

With Melbourne’s rather good electronic pop outfit Hercules in NY. Tix through Qjump.

TUGGERANONG ARTS CENTRE

Hands Up! (18+). By the Polish newwave master.

ARC CINEMA, NATIONAL FILM & SOUND ARCHIVE

Josh Thomas

More Josh than you can handle! Winner of Best Newcommer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

ACADEMY NIGHTCLUB

One of the biggest student-focussed dance nights around. Free entry. TRANSIT BAR

Faux Real

Reppin’ Canberra drum ‘n’ bass and dubstep crew. Faux sure. KNIGHTSBRIDGE PENTHOUSE

Live Domus Adultus

With Jacquie Nicole, Amax, Big Score and Supernova. HIPPO LOUNGE

Lulo Reinhardt

Legendary gypsy guitarist, son of Django Reinhardt. SOUTHERN CROSS CLUB

Mammal

Tickets through Ticketek.

ANU BAR AND REFECTORY

Le Chat Noir

DJs metaVirus and IDOC, Little Sister, Miss Kitka’s House of Burlesque, Penny Murdoch and Madame Q! KREMLIN BAR

Joel Harrison

Free live music at King O’Malley’s. KING O’MALLEY’S, CIVIC

Something Different Greenfaces: Kitty Flanagan

Watch amateur comedians battle it out for the biggest laughs. CANBERRA IRISH CLUB

Uni Night Thursdays

Over studying and just wanna party!? We’ve got your Thursday night covered. Happy hour all night! BAR 32

Karaoke

Cash prizes and 2 for 1 basic spirits and tap beer. DJ Peter Dorree from 11pm – 5am with FREE pool. CUBE NIGHTCLUB

Carry On Karaoke PJ O’REILLY’S, CIVIC

Karaoke With Grant

PJ O’REILLY’S, TUGGERANONG

THE STREET THEATRE

Photograms meditating on the female body as a vessel of strength and defiance. With live music. TEATRO VIVALDI

GIG GUIDE August 28 - September 1 friday august 28

Fight the Fall

Emily Scott

Cube Sunday

WODEN YOUTH CENTRE

ACADEMY NIGHTCLUB

CUBE NIGHTCLUB

With Astrochem, Pleased to Jive You and Adelle. 6-10pm.

Arts

Slamfest

An ‘Other’ Visions

Exhibition by Nicola Dickson. Until Oct 3. CANBERRA CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE GORMAN HOUSE

Deadman Monologue

An exhibition by Lily Hibberd. Until Oct 3.

CANBERRA CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE GORMAN HOUSE

Borderlife

Featuring Lamexcuse, The Optionals, The Quickening and Mr Vengeance. THE BASEMENT

Unplugged at The Pot

Final Lies, Escape Sydndrome and Double on Hearts. $5 entry, proceeds go to Camp Quality. 8pm. POT BELLY BAR

Blatherskite

With other acts TBA. Free drug and alcohol free all ages event.

An exhibition by Julia Boyd, Rachael Freeman, Rose Montebello, Tess Stewart-Moore and r e a.

AXIS YOUTH CENTRE, QUEANBEYAN

CANBERRA CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE GORMAN HOUSE

Josh Thomas

More Josh than you can handle! Winner of Best Newcommer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. THE STREET THEATRE

Bugger the Polar Bears, this is serious! Arguably the most important show in history. THE STREET THEATRE

TRINITY BAR

Tydi

With Hancock Basement, Will Eat Brains, Talihina Shan, Architect DJs, M.I.T and Ben Lucid. TRANSIT BAR

Rev

Canberra’s weekly alt club night with two levels of DJs playing rock/indie/ dance/punk/pop. $5. BAR 32

Feat. US plant poet Berkley Walker, and a performance by local acoustic duo Rex and Helen.

SOUTHERN CROSS CLUB

saturday august 29

THE STREET THEATRE

Arc: Tony Manero (2008, 18+)

OUT SEP 2

With Athol. 7-10pm, entry by donation. THE FRONT CAFE AND GALLERY

Improvised comedy in a battle arena. N.U.T.S v Impro ACT. Doors 6.30pm, tix $10/$5. www.impro.com.au . TRADIES CLUB, DICKSON

Lip Synch Championships Access all undergraduate and graduate programs, and campus and lifestyle information. AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

sunday august 30

More Josh than you can handle! Winner of Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Bugger the Polar Bears, this is serious! Arguably the most important show in history. THE STREET THEATRE

Indie, alt, dance and electro with residents Skullss, Veda, Celebrity Sextape, Relay and M.E.R. $5. BAR 32

Krankee

TRINITY BAR

NICK CAVE EXHIBITION THE FUMES BLUE KING BROWN

ALCHEMIST

…AND MORE

Live music from 1pm.

THE HUSH LOUNGE, PHILLIP

Reuben and Andy Jazz Duo

Playing original and contemporary compositions. Supported by Matilda Abraham. 4- 6.30pish. Gold coin. THE FRONT CAFE AND GALLERY

Something Different Winter Warm Up Open Day

Presented by Music For Everyone. Come and check out their programs! It’s free! AINSLIE ARTS CENTRE

Irish Jam Session

Come and have a fiddle. KING O’MALLEY’S, CIVIC

monday august 31

Tradies Impro Throwdown

Rod Quantock

ARC CINEMA, NATIONAL FILM & SOUND ARCHIVE

ALL BAR NUN

Something Different

Arts

MENTAL AS ANYTHING

Hoodlum Shouts EP Launch

Chilean thug Raul will stop at nothing to win a John Travolta lookalike competition.

Shakedown!

HOLY GRAIL, KINGSTON

THE PHOENIX PUB

ANU Open Day

Josh Thomas

KNIGHTSBRIDGE PENTHOUSE

Ginhouse

THE BASEMENT

ANU BAR AND REFECTORY

Dance

Live

The Dennis Boys

Nathan Frost

Appropriate this time of year, no?

KNIGHTSBRIDGE PENTHOUSE

Lip Synch Championships

More Josh than you can handle! Winner of Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Purple Sneakers

Sunday Sessions

The beat chemist, Ugbeat Hall of Famer, and he of the silky smooth skin.

Something Different

Hubert’s Birthday Bash With Zoo Brazil

LOT 33

Jemist

With Looking Glass and Buzzard. New album Submarine out now.

Arts

Staky, Beat It and Bobbin, Cheese, Yohan and Oli, Scottie Fischer, Gabriel Gilmour and Biggie.

From 5-9pm.

CUBE NIGHTCLUB

Rollerball

Oz’s no. 1 DJ (inthemix Top 50).On the Ministry of Sound Trance Nation Tour. ACADEMY NIGHTCLUB

Sunday Sessions: Naked

DJs Peter Dorree and Matt Chavasse.

KING O’MALLEY’S, CIVIC

A salsa dance musical in tribute to Salsa legend Ruben Blades.

D’Opus & Roshambo’s new LP coming soon!

Candy Cube

HOLY GRAIL, KINGSTON

Una Noche En El Barrio

D’Opus

Live

TRANSIT BAR

Ginhouse

Green Poetry Slam

Party on after the weekend is over with DJ TJ from 10 ‘til late. Free pool.

Launch of the new club night.

Free live music at King O’Malley’s.

THE STREET THEATRE

Dance

Soundtrap

Heuristic

ANU BAR AND REFECTORY

Rod Quantock

With Ashley Feraude, B-Tham v Team Wing. Dave’s in the Candy Bar.

Josh Thomas

THE STREET THEATRE

Rod Quantock

Bugger the Polar Bears, this is serious! Arguably the most important show in history. THE STREET THEATRE

Dance Scottie Fisher TRINITY BAR

Dance Hospitality Night

Featuring Univibes DJs. TRANSIT BAR

Live Bootlegs

With Adam Cook, Drew Walky, Second Sun and The Glaciers. THE PHOENIX PUB

tuesday september 1 Something Different Jumptown Swing Lindy Hop/ Swing

No experience or partner required. www.jumptown.org . HARMONIE GERMAN CLUB

Trivia Night

HOLY GRAIL, KINGSTON

SIDE A: BMA dj profile

DJ BRICKSTA

Where did your name come from? I was in Year 6 when I came up with the alias. I honestly don’t remember if this is right but I believe it had something to do with a Lego character called Brickster and as you do as an Eminem listening 12-year-old, I shorted it the gangsta way to Bricksta. Describe your sound: When I DJ its all about fun, funky/ fidget house and breaks is generally what I play but I played drum ‘n’ bass at the Dragon Dreaming festival last year. Who are your influences musical or otherwise? Fatboy Slim got me started on my journey. His energy in his sets and his Big Beat productions were the cornerstone of my life when I started. What’s the weirdest experience you’ve had whilst performing? An MC was hyping up the crowd, moved the mike towards me and chipped my front tooth. I remember being in the toilets with a mate going “Does it grow back? DOES IT GROW BACK?!?!??” What’s your biggest achievement/proudest moments so far? Definitely supporting the Aston Shuffle on the second night of INC at The Holy Grail. What are your plans for the future? Write heaps of music and do heaps of gigs and push something I believe in. I know I can make it. What makes you laugh? Those classic punters (generally young girls) at the decks: “Play something I can dance to” What pisses you off? People who only respect the music they hear on the radio. What’s your opinion of the local scene? By far the most supportive people I have ever met are the people running the Canberra scene machine. Upcoming gigs: Next school holidays I’ll be playing at INC Under 18s @ Meche and I also am playing alongside Tiga, MSTRKRFT and A-Trak as part of 360 on Friday September 25. Other club gigs are on the way too, stay tuned. Contact info: www.djbricksta.com www.myspace.com/djbricksta www.tinyurl.com/brickstafb djbricksta@Gmail.com 0423862809

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