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The very visual and energetic style of drumming, often considered a performance art as well, is also a great way to learn more about Japanese art and culture. For more information, ncluding how you can join, simply head to www.taikodrum.com. The group are holding their annual series of concerts in September, as well as a planned performance at the Tournament of the Minds at The University of Tasmania Hobart Campus’ Burbury Theatre on August 30. 0 18-20 September @ The Playhouse Theatre, Hobart
The first announcement of the famed Falls Festival line-up has been released, and it’s a cracker. Acts (so far) include the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Moby, Hilltop Hoods, Grizzly Bear, Xavier Rudd, Little Birdy, Art vs. Science, Liam Finn, The View, and many, many more! The New Years Eve festival is held at Marion Bay here in Tassie, and Edge Radio are also sponsoring a stage for local performers, so go to www.edgeradio.org.au to get an application form for your chance to play at Falls!
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DRUM LINE The Tasmania University Union Taiko Society was formed in 2002 to create the opportunity to train, perform and teach the Japanese Art of the Drum. Since then, the Japanese drum movement has grown and spread, with groups popping up in Burnie and Launceston as well.
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HIP HOP - NEW YORK // DJ SPIN EASY
Life on Easy Street “…If you want to feel like you’re in a party in the best place in the world, New York City, you know where to be...”
A former corporate suit, DJ Spin Easy threw it all away to live the dream – to party, spin records, and tour with some of the world’s biggest musicians. His story is so intriguing that he’s even got a book coming out. So get a sneak preview here, and find out what makes Spin spin. So, what makes you one of “the worlds most exciting and entertaining party DJs”? Well basically I put on a show. I don’t just stay behind the decks and spin tunes. I talk to the crowd, I have the people participate, and I even show a few of the newest dances! I’ve heard that you’re really high energy when you get on stage. How important is putting in a real performance for you as a DJ? It’s very important. That’s why the day of my show, I have a ritual – eat healthy, get a lot of rest, and no sex! What’s the best time you’ve had wearing headphones? 30 thousand strong – Johannesburg, South Africa – Opening up for Snoop Dogg. The energy was amazing. When I said to the crowd to sing along or to say “Bring it on Snoop, bring it on Snoop, BRING IT!” – it sent chills through me Can you tell us a bit about your book? Sounds like an amazing story. I used to work corporate America – doing geeky BEN SMITH BAND press TAS:Layout 1
computer stuff for big corporations like Colgate, Pfizer, Chase Bank, B.E.T.,etc. While working corporate, a combination of events occurred in my life. I visited Brazil (and fell in love with it), and my long time in tehr NY friends either moved, got married, went to jail, or got murdered. So Brazil, along with my friend’s life changing events, were the ingredients for me bounce from NYC. I relocated to Brazil, taught myself how to DJ, met Snoop in Brazil, toured with him for a few years, toured the world as a DJ for the past 6 years, met the woman of my dreams while on tour (Once you go Aussie, you never go back!), and the rest is history. So the book basically tentatively entitled My Life is a Paid Vacation, chronicles my experiences during this journey. While reading this book, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to travel, you’ll be entertained , but most importantly, you’ll be inspired. Would you ever have guessed you’d be where you are today? I used to always want control of my destiny - my life plans. But as every plan I created never happened the way I wanted, I realized I had no control of my destiny. So I there’s addage I live by now – and that is “The
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best way to make God laugh is to tell him your plan”. Now I’m not that religious, but whenever things aren’t going according to plan – MY plan. I simply refer to that addage, and relax. So God has created a journey for me that I would have Never guessed I would be taking. Touring the world as a DJ? Opening for Snoop around the world? Ice Cube? Hip-Hop Honies? How could one even guessthat fun, crazy life?! Do you have any wild stories from the tour with Snoop Dogg that you can legally tell us? Hahaha, well Dogg doesn’t dabble in illegal things… but there are quite a few stories! I mean I have funny, dangerous, scary, sad, and thought provoking stories (See the book when it comes out). But as for wild, I would have to say The Live 8 tour in London – the concert benefit for AIDS. That was wild because there were SO many stars there. I met a LOT of celebs there – I mean everywhere you looked, there was someone. A lot of fun! I’ve read that you’d like to collaborate with the Hilltop Hoods. Have any other Australian artists caught your ears during your trips here?
Yeah man, I’m feeling the Hoods – Ima link up with them fo sho’! As for new artists, be on the lookout for these two groups – straight heat! Panjo 5 and Intalekz, pronounced Intellects. What do you like about Aussie hip-hop? I like all hip-hop, as long as they’re flowing, and have a bangin’ beat – I’m down. I have favourite artists from many countries. What can we expect from a set when you play here? Well I’m tellin’ you now, you will never experience a set like this. If you love music, then you need to come see me. if you wanna’ hear the classics, your current favorites, and joints you have never heard before, you need to come see me. And if you want to feel like you’re in a party in the best place in the world, New York City, you know where to be Launceston…PUT YOUR L’s IN DA’ AIR! sMEEGAN MAY Well, you heard the man! 0 29 August @ Lonnies, Launceston 0 5 September @ isobar, Hobart
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DANCE - QUEENSLAND // TYDI
On Top of The World
“…DJing and producing, it’s not something I do to try and be cool…To me it’s my passion, I just love the music and I don’t take it for granted...”
There are a lot of DJs out there that think they’re the best there is. But at the moment, there’s only one DJ that can legitimately claim that in Australia, but this modest 22 year old wouldn’t dream of it. Tyson Illingworth, better known by his DJ name tyDi, was voted the number one DJ in the inthemix Top 50 DJ poll for 2008, but as tyDi puts it, “ I was just lucky that I got a lot of big bookings the year before,” so he was able to get noticed enough to with the poll. But his success is also due to the fact that big name “trance legends” such as Armin van Buuren and Markus Schulz began playing his music and opening up his fan base to the overseas market, and that takes more than just luck. Beginning his DJ career at only 16, tyDi began playing gigs around his home on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, and managed to take out the Brisbane DJ Wars that same year. From there it was success after success, but it didn’t stop him wanting to be even better, as he enrolled at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music to study Music Technology. Two years later he entered his first inthemix poll and came in at #12, the following year #4, and now he’s on top. And he’s only just turned 22. WWW.SAUCE.NET.AU
“I started to do a lot more touring, playing at all the big festivals, and my music became a lot more popular overseas, and I think all that stuff added up to shoot me up to the number one position. It wasn’t like an instant, change in my career. I’ve just been steadily getting busier and busier.” Though his tour load has increased, it’s the production side of things that really gets tyDi excited. While he’s happy that he’s been able to perform at a lot of festivals and clubs all over the country, his main agenda right now is his original material. “I want to be writing music that is different and doesn’t copy a cheesy commercial formula, just challenging myself in the studio… Hopefully those tracks will stand out for that reason and do well internationally. I guess that’s my goal really, I just want to grow as an actual artist and really writing music that you believe in.” When it comes to taking these tracks into his DJ sets, the ratio is usually about 40% of the material being his
own, and each set is very carefully crafted to make sure those songs fit in. “I spend a week or a couple of days before each gig narrowing down my favourite tunes, or the best tracks that are really moving at the time… I’ve got a really good idea of what tracks will work at each part of the night, I do a bit of research about the gig: whether it’s a festival gig or a club gig, and what I think the atmosphere of the night is going to be like. It all determines what tracks I think will suit the night, then I just get up there and play my set.”
music is what tyDi loves, and he’s grateful that he’s simply allowed to do it, let alone get paid for it! “The main thing to remember is that it’s such a blessing to be paid to make music, and it’s something I’d never want to lose. Drugs and girls and egos and all that stuff… DJing and producing, it’s not something I do to try and be cool…To me it’s my passion, I just love the music and I don’t take it for granted.”
Having your research done doesn’t necessarily mean a definite plan is in order though, “a lot of DJs go to a gig with a plan from start to finish, and that’s the biggest recipe for disaster. I think the best thing in being a good DJ is to be able to do an impromptu show and improvise.”
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What also makes a good DJ is passion for their craft, which is surely rubbing off on all the club goers around the country who voted him their favourite. Dance
With an attitude and drive like that, tyDi is sure to be topping polls and charts for a long time to come.
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TURN THE DIAL TO 11
With Steve Lucas of X
It’s been over thirty years since X got together and started smashing out the rock, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be stopping anytime soon, with a current national tour and with a Tassie shows so rocking shocking, it’s lasting two nights in a row. So let’s turn the hard rock dial up to 11 and find out what Steve Lucas was doing… 11 years ago… Are you kidding? I can’t remember… I am X’s original singer and have been playing guitar for X for 32 years. X, Australia’s most notorious rock band. It’s not my job to remember. I’ve drunk oceans of alcohol and abused my self with just about every substance imaginable in order to forget. What ever it was, I reckon I was probably enjoying it…. 11 months ago… Still re-birthing X. Doing gigs. Having one more tilt at the windmill. Drinking, performing, living the dream that is more than often a nightmare. Traveling from Melbourne to Sydney and back again every other week,
living out of a suitcase. You know, it’s along way to the top… 11 weeks ago… Jesus, this is getting hard. I don’t do time lines well as I am living my life backwards. Gigging, drinking, hanging out with my friends… wondering what to do next in case I haven’t already done it. 11 days ago… Recovering from 30 odd years of decadence. Going cold turkey instead of doing Wild Turkey. Xpelling the demon alcohol from my sorely polluted system. Snapping at people and stuff like that.
Playing the music I love the best and watching endless amounts of DVDs. 11 hours ago… Sitting in a 12 seater bus abusing fellow commuters and preparing myself mentally and physically for this afternoon’s gig in Maitland N.S.W. Convincing myself last night wasn’t a dream. (We did an awesome gig at the Gaelic Theatre with Six Foot Hick the night before). It was bloody brilliant! 11 minutes ago… Wondering what to say when I read this list of questions…. How come there wasn’t 11 of them?
11 years from now? Breathing, hopefully. If I can manage that, I will most likely doing X, preaching the gospel of alternative thinking, music and attitude. That or pushing up the daisies.
The tour in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the release and re-issue of X-Aspitations and their live DVD, is on now. So get your rock out! 0 29 & 30 August @ The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart
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“…It’s an album with a lot of different colours, but also an album that we feel represents us now...”
HIP-HOP - MELBOURNE // THE MELODICS
Life in 4d
After a few years hard work finding the right collaborators, songs, and sound, the style bending new wave hip-hop act The Melodics are finally ready to release their “Best Of ” album. It also happens to be their debut. “We started it two years ago, so it has songwriting from even three years ago. It’s a body of work that shows our development, but the whole album fits into the same spectrum in terms of production, and the way that we went about the whole thing. So I think that it’s an album with a lot of different colours, but also an album that we feel represents us now.” Says vocalist Jeremedy; joking that “we should have just called the album Best Of The Melodics, our first record.” What helped the band finally complete the record, otherwise known as 4d, was the involvement of hiphop producer and musician Jan Skubiszewski, also known as J-Skub, who’s previously worked with Jackson Jackson, Phrase and Illy. “He used to come to our rehearsal and stuff, make suggestions for very small form choices. Interestingly though, one of the biggest things was what he recognised in us.”With
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Skubiszewski’s other experience in film composition, Jeremedy found that “he [was] perfect for us – he’s got musical ears, but he has the hip-hop influence. It’s that outside perspective that helps, it’s really interesting. It’s almost like we’re the artists, and occasionally he would come in and be the artistic director, but we were still the ones pushing that creativity. He was someone who really helped us discover our sound.” Finding their sound hasn’t always been an easy thing for the Melbourne five piece. They often go all out for special performances, when we speak to Jeremedy he’s in rehearsals with a Japanese drum group called Taikoz in preparation for the launch of the album 4d in question. “At the first ever show that we did as The Melodics, we had a string quartet, a four-piece minichoir, and our keys player is a real musical-genius type, and he wrote all of these hectic charts, and we only had
one rehearsal with the strings. It was too much…. We kind of learnt the hard way about going overboard with that sort of stuff.”
James the drummer have a lot on our shoulders. It’s about finding the balance between staying creative and keeping the business hat on.
The eclectic band has now learned to tone things down when it comes to “special features” being added to their performances. “We just feel lucky to be able to do those things occasionally…. I guess it’s just a privilege to have those nights, and it keeps you going and gets you excited,” but as Jeremedy adds, “it doesn’t make the other shows any less exciting. I guess it just keeps you inspired as an artist.”
We’ve been doing it long enough now to feel confident. We’ve had a lot of lead up, so we’re making all the right moves and I’m sure everything will go to plan.”
The big Melbourne launch show, and the other national dates following, have mostly been prepared and arranged by Jeremedy and the rest of the band themselves. “Well, we’re self-managed, so essentially everything falls to us, so yes. Me, and particularly
To see if The Melodics have pulled it off, head to their shows this August. 4d is out later this month. 0 21 August @ Republic Bar, Hobart
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ROOTS - PERTH // SARITAH
Moving Forward “…I’m really happy with the new album, I’m stoked. I still hear it and go ‘yeah!’...”
“I just felt this overwhelming sensation of how much you can move people and inspire people and make people feel anything’s possible, which is what I felt in that moment, and that’s what I wanted to give out into the world. Music chose me, I think.” This was the realisation that hit Perth roots artist Saritah at an Adelaide music festival, and so she began her musical journey, one that has taken her all over the world. Although music has always been a part of her life, it wasn’t until that experience that Saritah chose it as her lifelong career. Before this, she had completed a university degree in English and Asian Studies, and had ambitions of becoming a photojournalist. After things became clear for her, Saritah’s half-Korean family weren’t always as receptive. “It took my parents a while to warm to the idea of playing music as a life long career and a lifestyle, but now they’re so supportive. They come to all the gigs they can. It’s a beautiful thing.”
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Since dedicating herself to music, Saritah has performed over four hundred live shows, including big festivals in Australia, such as Woodford Folk Festival, The Big Day Out, West Coast Bloos n Roots Festival, and also overseas festivals in South Korea, Japan, Canada and New Zealand. As an artist that draws so much inspiration from world music, he global market is something that’s particularly important for her to break. “Most of the music I listen to is coming out of Europe or Jamaica or Africa. And there’s so many exciting new sounds… I guess I always think global and what’s really popular in Australia right now really doesn’t do it for me.” And although the Australian market will always be the most important to her, she’s hoping to tour Japan, Canada, The U.S. and Europe, where she’s already attracting a lot of interest, after her current Ancient Forward tour, in support of her latest album of the same name. “I’m really happy with the new album, I’m stoked. I still hear it and go ‘yeah!’ So yeah, I’m really happy to be getting that out into the world.” The collaboration with producer and bass guitarist Paulie B (George, The Beautiful Girls) was something that was particularly special about the songs and production of the album, and also the songs and the journey she took with them. “The choice of songs and where they sit on the album… Having known the songs from their birth through to what they became, and listening to them. Everything that happened with the collaboration…I just think it sounds really good!” The album is filled with the worldly influences she’s mentioned, as well as cameos from musicians including Jamaican vocalist Ranking Roger, Iranian refugee and musician Cievash Airen and South African vocalist/musician Aranha. A lot of the songs have an upbeat tone, like ‘Do What Lifts’, which progressed into “a full-blown upbeat skankin tune”, but there are also serious issues intertwined into her songwriting, including peace and environmentalism. In fact, it was only six months ago that Saritah was doing a tree-sit in hopes of protecting Tasmanian old growth forests from being destroyed. Whether or not she’ll be scaling a 40m tree on her next trip to Tasmania remains to be seen, if you’ve ever considered a career in music, perhaps this could be the gig for you. Because one thing is for sure when Saritah comes town– she’ll be aiming to move and inspire everyone in the room. sDAVID WILLIAMS &
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INDIE - MELBOURNE // THE LUCKSMITHS
Lucky Stars
After sixteen years of being staples of the Melbourne indie pop scene, The Lucksmiths run of luck has ended and they’ve decided to put the band to bed and concentrate on other projects. After the announcement of the band’s break-up caused such an outpouring from fans, the band has been adding farewell show after show, including one very special date in Tassie. Bass player Mark Monnone talks about the Lucksmith’s long journey and where they’re headed next. What led to you guys deciding to call it quits? Did the luck simply run out? Nice — way to lead off with a pun! Well, after this long, doing roughly the same thing, people’s priorities inevitably shift and there seemed to be a sense we were really just starting to squeeze the last gasps out of anything resembling fun. There have certainly been obstacles over the years, so it surprises me we made it this far. But Tali’s increasing dedication to his work as a teacher meant that he wasn’t really left with any room for touring or recording, or anything bandrelated really. So he made the tough call, and I think it was probably a good one in the end. It’s been 16 years since your first release; did you always know the band would last this long? We really had no plan, and I think that’s probably why we didn’t run out of steam earlier. You began with First Tape and ended with First Frost, how did the music change between them? Well, I actually had a listen to the First Tape the other day, and it really struck me how we were just busting to get everything out as quickly as possible. The songs are
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so short and immediate, and there’s no real darkness to them at all, other than in some of the lyrics. I think we’ve certainly learnt to let the songs’ moods wander a little more, and to be comfortable slipping them over the three-minute mark! Did you know First Frost would be your last? I actually thought Warmer Corners would be our last. And Naturaliste, before that. As I said, we’ve never really ever had that much of a steadfast plan, so things have just mostly come about quite naturally, though not without a fair bit of hard work. You guys have been such a fixture on the indie scene, especially in Melbourne, how have things changed since you first started out? It seems on the surface to be thriving more than ever. With the internet so important in today’s music, there seem to be a lot more mini-scenes inevitably sprouting up, and many of them mimicking each other. I think when we started out, there was a lot less selfconsciousness, and competition. But on the other hand, Melbourne seems to be overflowing with lots of really great bands these days. Or maybe it’s just
easier to find them on the internet now… Either way, my answer is simply, and unsurprisingly, the internet. What will you miss the most about being on the regular circuit? Having a reason to get out of bed. But hey, I also like staying in bed — don’t get me wrong. How does it feel to have had such an overwhelming response to the announcement you guys were ending the band? At first I thought, holy Jacques Lipchitz, what have we done?!… All these amazing letters and blogs and things that were really deep — I mean people really dug deep into their emotions to write some of these things! I was definitely humbled by the words and feelings, and it made me quite sad. At first I was thinking we’d really upset all these people, and maybe we could have thought up a plan-b: just kind of disappear into the background a bit… release an album every five years, do a one-off tour every ten… But then I started to feel grateful that we had built such a strong, loving fanbase and that somehow we had made a bit of a positive impact on these people’s lives. Maybe they’ll invite us
around for dinner sometime. After the last of the farewell shows, what will you be doing? I think I can speak for the other guys in saying we’re going to make a concerted effort to get through our entire drinks rider. The next day, I’ll be going to see the Saints take apart the Demons at the ‘G. And in the future, are separate projects you guys are moving on to? Yes, most definitely. Marty, Louis, and I all intend to keep playing lots of music, and I’m sure Tali will be back amongst it soon too. In the meantime, none of our other bands are currently planning a break-up, so keep your peepers peeled for Mid-State Orange, The Guild League and Monnone Alone. And, of course, The Australian Lucksmiths Show. sMEEGAN MAY The Lucksmiths will be playing their last ever Tassie show with good friend Darren Hanlon. 0 27 August @ The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart
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POP - ALBURY // LISA MITCHELL
A New Kind of Idol Known to most for her stint on Australian Idol, where Kyle proclaimed her as “the best thing musically that has ever came out of this country,” Lisa Mitchell doesn’t really fit into the Idol mould. Instead of churning out a few manufactured and mediocre hits shortly after the show, Lisa took her own path, and instead concentrated on her own music, writing and performing everywhere from London to her own backyard. She’s just recently released her first full-length album, Wonder, and will be heading down South to Tassie very soon.
“…I sing and play and do things the way I like to do them and the way I think is right...”
Being a singer-songwriter-musician, do you ever regret your time on Australian Idol? I don’t regret it at all! I mean, where would I be now if my managers hadn’t seen me on it three years ago? Somewhere good, but definitely not here and here is a very good place at the moment. I sing and play and do things the way I like to do them and the way I think is right. I am my own boss, which is a challenge in itself, but one I’d much rather. You’re not the typical Idol artist, was the format of the show difficult for you musically? I found the format challenging. Singing covers is fun sometimes but it’s a bit beside the point because I like to think I sing as a way of making the songs I write heard. I don’t think I’d necessarily sing much if I didn’t write. I didn’t really think that through when I tried out. I just gave it a go. Were you ever tempted to take a more mainstream approach after your success on the show? You can’t choose how things turn out - they usually just do though. You can choose to do things the way you like to though. I’ve spent the last two years on support tours in between releasing two EPs which was a pretty exciting and terrifying learning curve. I did a few smaller headline tours and a bigger one just a few months ago. I spent some time in London recording with some producers and fellow singersongwriters experimenting with recording techniques before recording my album, which has just come out in Australia. After all of touring, supporting some amazing artists, and releasing your EP Said One To The Other, how did you find that journey? I’ve toured with Old Man River, Ben Lee, Evermore, The Panics and Whitely over the last few years. I doing supports, it’s a ball! My headline tour is coming up very, very soon and we’re playing in Launceston in September. It will be a fun show, maybe not what you’d expect! After the success of the EP, what made you decide to go to London to write and work on new music? I just went over there to meet some friends and record some songs with a few different producers to find someone I really clicked with, in the hope of recording a full album. I met some amazingly talented and aweinspiring people – Anthony Whiting, Crispin Hunt and Ed Harcourt, who I wrote a song with (Ed and Crispin), and recorded with (Ant). I came back over here and re-recorded a lot of songs with Dann Hume of Evermore rhythm whom I recorded my two previous EPs with. How did this shape the second EP and your new album Wonder, compared to Said One To The Other? I used a song, ‘See You When You Get Here’ that I recorded in London with Anthony Whiting on my second EP and that was the beginnings of a slightly darker moodier style of recording which is definitely found in Wonder. You seem to have amassed a huge online fanbase, with your live shows on MySpace getting thousands of viewers, hitting number one on iTunes. What made you decide to focus on the web? Those Myspace shows I did a few years ago from my home in Albury, near Melbourne, had so many views! It’s incredible how many people I reached with those and when you think of how many live shows you’d have to play to get those numbers you see how easy the internet is. I think it’s a powerful tool but I think a live show is a live show – you can never get that same fix that you get from being in the same room. sMEEGAN MAY
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WHAT’S THE STORY? With Let The Cat Out Having supported bands like Symbiosis and the aptly named The Cat Empire, Let The Cat Out have just released their new album, Get It Like That. As one part of a jam packed line-up planned at The Pave we wasked Let The Cat Out - What’s the Story? Behind your band name? Shouldn’t we all let out the hidden cat inside us? – Release our inner feline? Crazy cat, mad cat, Kool Kat, and all that. It’s a philosophy to live by – an alter-ego. Cats are sassy and sleek and cool and slightly aloof and they live life exactly as they want, they always find the best places to hang out in the sun and if they feel like going absolutely nuts over a piece of string they just do it without consideration of what people might say! Ha ha! About how the band got together? Randy, Henry, Al and Gilly G had started a four piece funk/jazz instrumental band in early 2007. They had played but a handful of smokingly sweet gigs when Randy overheard a conversation about some songs Jane had up on MySpace. After checking it out and liking what he heard, the band agreed to get Jane on board to sing a few of her songs – a decision that would ultimately create the Let The Cat Out that we know and love today! Of the first gig you ever played together? Our first gig was at the Salamanca courtyard in the
middle of a Hobart winter. It was absolutely freezing but there was a smallish crowd of Courtyard diehards! We only had three original songs together that gig and by the end of the night the band and the crowd had warmed up substantially both inside and out. A very exciting time – the birth of something! Of the last time you were completely pissed off? Generally speaking, cats don’t really get pissed off, they just change their position until it is more favourable . . . . having said that . . . if you happen to be driving and you’re in the car in front of Henry – you’d better make sure you indicate – OR ELSE! And don’t ever EVER tell Randy that you love him and then move to Melbourne (Henry did that – Randy was very, very angry). Of the last time you were in trouble with the law? Well, Let The Cat Out actually is the law – we don’t get in trouble with the law. Cats don’t follow rules. But they also don’t interest themselves in causing trouble for other people, that’s so boring for cats, so they ultimately slip under the radar. They just want to find the fastest path of least resistance to the sunniest place to have a cat nap. (There was that one fine for the
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Of the last famous person you met? Had a good chat with one of Australia’s finest blue guitarists the other day – Pete Cornelius - you know had a couple of beers round the fireplace, shared a whisky, talked about fish – that sort of thing. What a top bloke! Conversations shared with other famous people that come to mind have been much shorter and less interesting and far less rewarding! Behind your most prized non-music related possession? Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo ? Oh that’s right – because you’re an Italian-made pimp box that doesn’t actually have a working gear box, actually nothing really works and you drive on love alone .. . Alfa Romeo that is . .. Needless to say, the bicycle in the shed comes in pretty handy. Behind your most prized music-related possession? I’m sure there would be some contention amongst the Cats on this one but we’ll take a punt and go with
We’ll be writing about your band in five years? Ok no worries! – We’ll be working very hard to make sure we have lots to tell you. We’ll start with a tour of the East Coast of Aus in early 2010 – pending funding (that should generate a few cracking tales!), then there’s the second album which we will record in late 2010. I think that’s enough planning for the next little while! Chat to you soon and catch you on the sunny side! Let the Cat Out will be performing with the Little Cubas, The Stoics, FATsmalls, Pete Cornelius and The Devilles. 0 22 August @ The Pav, Launceston
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one of ‘Henry’s beautiful things’ – which is either: his bubinga snare drum; his recently voted most prized possession of a 16 inch Sleishman floor tom; or his whole sleishman kit. Henry sleeps with his drums under the bed to keep them close by . . . it has been rumoured the snare drum might have even spent one lovely night actually in the bed. . .
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ROCK - MELBOURNE // GUN STREET GIRLS
Hit the Streets
“…It’s slightly leaner and meaner. It’s a bit rockier, and more straight ahead...” When The Double Agents toured Europe, they took along Dallas Crane frontman Dave Larkin as their stand-in bass player. Not long after they returned home, Larkin had convinced the other Dave, frontman of The Double Agents Dave Butterworth, to join him on a new project, this time as his bass player. The switching of roles was a little challenging for Butterworth at first, who’d been out front and on rhythm guitar for around fifteen years, but after throwing in Callum John Barter on drums, a new band was born, and the three Melbourne men became Gun Street Girls. But there’s nothing girly about this band. “It’s slightly leaner and meaner. It’s a bit rockier and more straight ahead, just by the nature of the fact that there’s only three of us,” says Butterworth, in talking about the obvious comparisons people are going to make to Dallas Crane. “It’s different songs, and a slightly more attacking attitude on stage, but at the same time we have some quieter mellow songs as well. It’s a difficult question to answer, but I guess that kind of stumbles around it.”
After Dallas Crane decided to take a break, Larkin was “at a loose end, and we needed a bass player.” So as the two had been mates for a number of years, Larkin decided to come along for the fun of it. By the end of the Double Agents tour, Butterworth recalls that Larkin was continually talking about all the songs and projects that he wanted to work on “and I just got sick of [it], so I just said ‘well, let’s do something!’ I rang up and said ‘I’m booking a rehearsal room,’ and that’s all that was needed, then he was off.” It’s only been about a year ago now when Butterworth simply, “returned the favour” and signed up as bass player. “I wanted to be a good bass player, not just a guitarist who plays bass. You can quite obviously do both, but there’s an art to being a member of the rhythm
section… It’s taken me a little while to get my head around it, but now it’s sitting quite easily.” Obviously easy enough to put the band’s first album together. It’s only been within the last few weeks that their selftitled debut was released, and now they’re on the verge of a national tour. So is he happy with how it’s turned out? “Yeah! Really happy. I think anyone in any good band wants to improve on what they’ve just recorded, the minute it’s finished. Otherwise you don’t bother making another record…but we’re really happy with it, we’re really happy with how it’s going.” It’s at least going well enough for the band to make a trip down to Tassie for a couple of shows, with dates lined up for early September.
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The last time Butterworth was down here was when he was donning another cap; doing a bit of roadie work for Magic Dirt. He tells us about some of his experiences of the place, including being dragged off for an inspiring surfing session down South, and adds that his “experience of Tasmania has always been fantastic.” Hopefully his next trip down will be no exception. Especially for audiences. sDAVID WILLIAMS & MEEGAN MAY
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Backlash + Battlrcat
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Republic Bar Dukes Of Windsor + Trial Kennedy + Midnight Youth
The Brisbane Hotel Born Of Kaos + Resilient + Solvent Intake Republic Bar Adalita Srsen + Sianna Lee Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse: Abbey Doggett + Agent Fontaine + NoFoTo sLaunceston Irish Murphy’s Top Shelf: An Evening With… Fat Smalls The Royal Oak Ben Castles
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The Brisbane Hotel The Lucksmiths + Darren Hanlon
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Thursday, 20 August
The Pav The Little Cubas + The Stoics + Let The Cat Out + Fat Smalls + Pete Cornelius and the Devilles
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The Royal Oak Open Folk Group
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Syrup Crack Taxi - Pimpz n Hoes: Texas + Soundwave + Parky + Adam Turner + Malakai
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The Brisbane Hotel Directions In Dub: Reso + Acumen + Kashishi + Grotesque + Ham + Prince Pazzy + Wax Dr. West
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The Commercial Hotel DJ Skip Irish Murphy’s Victor Charlie Charlie The Royal Oak Geoff Achison The Pav Ciaran Van Der Berg 5:30pm Saturday, 22 August
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The Alley Cat Eleanor Tucker & Friends + The Woohoo Revue isobar Little Black Dress Party: DJC Irish Murphy’s Covered Retro: The Wolfe Brothers + Dr Fink sLaunceston The Commercial Hotel DJ Skip Irish Murphy’s Long Way Home The Royal Oak Darren Lloyd The Pav Rueban Ellenburger 5:30pm Lonnies Miss Super GP: Heat 1
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The Brisbane Hotel Paint Your Golden Face + The Thieves
Syrup Call It…: Gillie + Tristan + Adam Turner
Republic Bar Snob Scrilla
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Sunday, 30 August
Irish Murphy’s Glenn Moorhouse + Nathan Wheldon + Sally Day & Ben Castles + ong Way Home
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Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse:Kiss Whiskey + New Saxons + Joni’s Plastic Sunday
Irish Murphy’s Victor Charlie Charlie
The Alley Cat North Hobart Jazz Festival
Republic Bar Geoff Achison
Irish Murphy’s Brief Illusion
Hotel New York KRAM
Republic Bar Hot August Jazz Festival
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Hotel New York Trilogy Tour: Dukes of Windsor + Trial Kennedy + Midnight Youth
The Commercial Hotel Hard Drive
Irish Murphy’s Tash & Caz
Lonnies Pure Glam
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The Brisbane Hotel X + Manchester Mourning
Raincheck Live Acoustic Music
Hotel New York Uni Night
Irish Murphy’s Covered: Jeremy Matcham + Damage Control
Hotel New York Snob Scrilla
The Brisbane Hotel Ozones + Tiger Choir
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Woohoo Revue 4.00pm
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The Royal Oak Evolve
Irish Murphy’s Covered Retro: Michael Clenett + Damage Control
Sunday 20th August
Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse: Grumpy Neighbour + James Parry
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The Alley Cat Eleanor Tucker & Friends + Foxhunters Return + Chi Roh + Munroe Seas
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The Royal Oak Live Music
Brookfield Vineyard The Woohoo Revue
The Pav Open Mic Night
Irish Murphy’s Covered: Katie & Ado + Detour
The Pav Open Mic Night
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The Royal Oak Open Mic Night
Republic Bar Red Eyes The Alley Cat The Woohoo Revue
sHobart The Alley Cat Cult Film Night: Goldfinger Republic Bar Patrick & Ruth Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse: Australian Songwriters Associaton: Prairie Nischler + Oberon Carter + Hannah Bartle + Heather Tuesday, 1 September sLaunceston Irish Murphy’s Nathan Wheldon Wednesday, 2 September sHobart Republic Bar Ben Smith Band Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse: Sam Cole + The Tokyo Room + Wintercoat sLaunceston Irish Murphy’s Top Shelf The Royal Oak Chris Jackson + TAFE Musician Showcase
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The Alley Cat Bar 381 Elizabeth Street 6231 2299 www.myspace.com/ thealleycatbar LAUNCESTON The Commercial Hotel 27 George Street 6331 3868 Irish Murphy’s 211 Brisbane Street 6331 4440 www.irishmurphys. com.au Hotel New York 122 York Street 6334 7231 Lonnies 107 Brisbane Street 6334 7889 www.lonniesniteclub. com The Pav York Town Square The Royal Oak 14 Brisbane Street 6331 5346 www.myspace.com/ leapinlimpout
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DANCE - ITALY // THE BLOODY BEETROOTS
Welcome to the Dark Side “…People need a bit of healthy anarchy....”
One doesn’t hear many Italian electronica duos these days, or at least not one that gets you grooving while wearing the mask of a supervillain…Enter The Bloody Beetroots, one of the guises of producer and DJ Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo. Add Tommy Tea to the mix and you’ve soon got one of the hottest acts on the dance scene at the moment, having recently turned up the heat with the Warp EP, featuring Steve Aoki. Their EPs have hit the top ten on the iTunes charts, and Sir Bob lets us know that the new album Romborama is next in line to save the day. So, what are you trying to cover up with your masks? It’s a game… We become anonymous superheroes saving the world from boredom. Is it liberating to play as masked men? Spiderman seems to be happy enough! How does it change things music wise? If you shut your eyes is the music the same? Try it. You wear the mask of Venom, but what are The
Bloody Beetroots - villains or superheroes? Definitely superheroes. But all real superheroes have a dark side. Batman angst…
people need a bit of healthy anarchy. If you wanna be happy, the first step is: stop pretending you’re happy. Get punk.
Venom is in some ways Spiderman’s dark alter ego. To what extent are the Bloody Beetroots your dark alter egos? BBR is my electronic persona. I am mostly dark side!
How intense do some of the performances get? What exactly is the unit of measurement? Don’t worry, we’re off the meter!
What do you think it is about the Bloody Beetroots that has people going crazy? Could it be our hairy chests? Joking apart, maybe
You’ve had a lot of success working with Steve Aoki. Who’s next on your list of people to work with? Steve Aoki
What can we expect when the album Romborama is released later this month? A real album of music that makes you laugh and cry. Raw and sophisticated. Blunt and honest. Take it or leave it… sMEEGAN MAY Bloody Beetroots’ debut album Romborama is unleashed 21 August (Digital) and 28 August (In store). You have been warned.
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ROCK - USA // DINOSAUR JR
Down On The Farm “…I guess we’re a bit more consistent now - we don’t fall apart as much these days...”
When Dinosaur Jr’s singer, guitarist and chief songwriter J Mascis invited estranged bassist Lou Barlow back to the fold in 2005 after a 16-year absence the initiative marked a first in the career of the veteran American trio. The original 1980s line-up, rounded out by drummer Murph, was suddenly back together and faced with a reunion tour. The invitation came as a total surprise to Barlow given the animosity surrounding Dinosaur’s split in 1989. He expected the band members to do a quick lap of honour on the grunge nostalgia circuit and then go their separate ways. What he wasn’t prepared for was for the Mascis-led group to remain a serious ongoing concern that has so far seen the release of two comeback albums, 2007’s Beyond and the latest, and ninth, epic Farm, released this month.
because of the touring,” he says. “When we toured for Beyond I think the sound came together even more somehow. I mean the reunion was cool but then by doing new songs it brought this whole new energy into it. Recording Beyond wasn’t as immediate and as satisfying as this new record but when we got it out on the road and starting touring it, it just revitalized everything and made the energy levels leap. It was great!”
“J really surprised me,” begins Barlow over the phone. “I just really didn’t think he wanted to go this far with it. I’m kind of shocked and really happy that he’s done the work.”
Behind Farm’s electric wall of over-amped guitars is a clever pop record. “It felt like J knew what worked about his songs on the last record and built upon that,” offers Barlow. “In my opinion his melodies were really strong and to me, the strength of his songs is in the melodies and in his incredible guitar parts that seem to come so naturally to him. They’re so beautifully fluid and easy to play when they come together.
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“He also tried some of these slower songs on this record and we’d never really played things quite like that. I thought J really rose to the occasion this time and brought a lot of energy to it.” Recorded and self-produced at Mascis’ home studio Bisquiteen in Amherst, Massachusetts, the dozentrack Farm was pieced together in the same fashion as
Beyond, albeit at an accelerated rate given the band’s self-imposed deadline. “I thought it was a little rushed,” admits Barlow. “I mean our work days were not rushed but we set a deadline with our manager and we were like ‘this record has got to be done by February 10’ or something like that, I can’t remember when exactly. So we started doing a month of drums and bass and then Christmas hit and J was in a full dash to finish the guitar parts and lyrics and vocals. “Towards the end I was a little concerned that we were spending more time doing the vocals so I did try to engage him in a conversation about his songs but he wasn’t really into it. Ha! He was like ‘whatever’. He’s not one to talk about where his songs come from.” That said, Barlow insists there was no calculated attempt to restore the monolithic Dinosaur Jr sound of their late 80s salad days. “What I play with Murph is so unique that that’s just part of the sound,” he reasons. “I could never come into Dinosaur and play any different. Immediately there’s just a wordless, physical reaction that I have that makes me play bass the way I play it. I mean
did anyone ever really want to hear The Ramones play anything different than just f#%ing bar chords? Nobody wants to hear them grab mandolins! You want to hear what was unique to those individuals and with Dinosaur I feel like the sound that we have is really something, it’s our thing to keep and preserve. There’s no thought of ever altering that.” Booked up until the end of the year with an Australian tour a possibility in early 2009, Barlow says the band is playing venues similar in size to those back in the 80s. But as guys now in their 40s they’ve invested in some small creature comforts. “It’s definitely nicer, we’re travelling in a bus,” he says. “We did a month long tour of the States before the record came out but in mostly smaller places we’d never been to like places in Mississippi and Arkansas. And we’ve done one-off things, we went to Croatia last week and that was cool, our own club show in Zabreb on a Tuesday. We definitely work hard and we log in a fair amount of time on the road, it’s really the most important part of what we do and I think it’s where the band shines.” sSTEVE TAUSCHKE Farm is out through Liberator. . ISSUE 101 . AUGUST 19 - SEPTEMBER 1 2009 17
ALTERNATIVE - MELBOURNE // PAUL DEMPSEY
Something For Paul
“…There are songs on this record that are much more open about love… because it’s a somewhat problematic thing to do with other people in the band...”
Something For Kate’s towering frontman Paul Dempsey constructed his second solo album from the ground up. Eighteen months in the making, Everything Is True finds the Melbourne multi-instrumentalist in a bona fide solo setting – he created every sound on the record. Still only in his early 30s, Dempsey has matured considerably since his 1998 debut solo set An Empty Flight on which he invited a select bunch of guests to write and sing their own lyrics to his musical scores. Here, he exudes greater confidence across eleven tracks that invite meticulously thought-out lyrics, the final step in a songwriting process he admits always brings out the perfectionist in him. “The music I write quickly, pretty much every time I pick up the guitar or sit at the piano something’s going to come out that I’ll end up using,” says Dempsey. “But then once I’ve got these songs written I need words and that’s just what takes me forever. I spend a lot more time on them because lyrics matter a lot to me and I want to be sure that what I’m singing is what I want to be singing and that I’m saying it in the best possible way.” He hasn’t the patience nor the inclination to spend an hour refining a bass part and yet when it comes to words, Dempsey is careful and considered, often spending weeks to perfect a single line. “I don’t need these arms anymore/ I don’t need this heart now, to
love I don’t need this skin and bones at all” he sings on ‘Ramona Was A Waitress’. “Lyrics are like conversations you have with yourself,” he reasons, “and for me just the act of singing the songs can really take you somewhere else and be very cathartic and therapeutic. I want them to be a true expression of how I think or feel so I guess that’s the reason I spend so much more time on them because I’m going to sing them 200 times or more.” Performing sporadic solo acoustic sets during breaks in Something For Kate’s album/touring cycles has partly informed Everything Is True, released last month. “I guess I have shown to people over the years that I also can do this thing on the side by myself,” says Dempsey. “So the basis to go and take it into a studio and make a record was already there. But having said that it turned out quite different because normally when Something For Kate writes together it’s all electrified instruments and drums. “But when you’re by yourself you don’t really switch
the amp on, you just pick up the acoustic guitar and by virtue of that the songs just naturally come out in another way again. So you don’t really have to think about it or have a preconceived notion of trying to do something different, it just is going to be different because you’re writing in a different way in a bedroom as opposed to a with a bunch of amps in a rehearsal room.” Produced by “a real audiophile” in Wayne Connolly (You Am I, Youth Group) and mixed in Los Angeles by Doug Bohem (Elliot Smith) the album eschews the sonic density and “claustrophobia” of SFK and will in all likelihood speak to an audience beyond the faithful. “When I’m in the band I feel very aware of the fact that I’m representing other people and not just myself and that makes me think twice about what you put across and how personal you get,” says Dempsey. “I guess with this I just felt like I could do whatever. There are songs on this record that are much more open about love because there are not many love songs in the Something For Kate back catalogue because it’s
a somewhat problematic thing to do with other people in the band.” Set to embark on a national album tour in September with a full band that includes a keyboardist and the former Dallas Crane rhythm section, Dempsey says above all else, he’s just grateful to have sustained a musical career that now includes five albums with SFK. “My favourite thing to do is just to play live,” he says. “Just putting on your guitar and turning up your amp and making noise. And just being able to do this for this long and still be as driven and inspired than I ever have, you know, I still feel like I’ve got a long way to go and I’m not anywhere near doing the best thing I can do. I would like to think you’re never going make your best record, every record you make is another step towards trying to make your best record. The day you say you’ve made your best record is the day you should probably give up.” sSTEVE TAUSCHKE Everything is True is out through EMI.
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Stranger than Micktion Enjoy a hot cup of Mick. Why is it that the plastic lids on take away coffee never seem to fit properly? Is it a design feature to frustrate an already twitchy caffeine junky so they end up spilling it and need to buy more? Or is Robert Timms just a bastard? Cleverly, most coffee establishments will locate their station filled with the ill fitting lids, soggy sugar sachets and mysterious assortment of plastic spoons in high traffic areas. Not only does this add a much needed challenge element to the already difficult process, but it also ensures that when you do eventually make a mess, there is a captive audience as well. Ordering and collecting your preferred barista-ed bean bevy couldn’t be more of a doddle. It’s not until you decide to add sugar that it all goes to hell. Yep. Sugar. The seldom mentioned fifth horseman of the Apocalypse. Why do we feel the need to add more buzz to this nest of bees in a foam cup? I suspect it’s because the sugar is free, and adding it feels like being upgraded to business class. So, if you’re lucky, you’ve got a cup with no lid. If not, the initial step is trying to prize it off. Don’t be tempted to use a plastic stirrer to lever it off as they always twong out of your hand and get caught in a passing dreadlock. Better to just use your hands. It’s a strange paradox that you know full well that getting a lid off shouldn’t take that much force, but there’s no way you’re going to be outsmarted by Styrofoam. It’s also a mystery why when the lid jettisons and scalding hot coffee lands in your lap, that this is somehow a surprise. Maybe the surprise is the thought that perhaps the barista has mixed up your coffee order with someone who ordered lava… with a dash of cinnamon. So what are your options, as you stand in front of the café full of eyeballs with steaming trousers and a slightly unsettling tic? Don’t cry. Even though you have third degree burned plums. An audience expects far more. Never remove your pants and fan yourself. Unless you’re the more permanent variety of hot, and then, I understand, it’s mandatory. And whatever you do, don’t simply sprinkle on some sugar and attempt to feign nonchalance. Apparently no one else thinks it’s as cool as you do. No, there’s only one response where you can still save face and possibly preserve plums. The best defence is distraction, so just point to some random woman and in an accusatory tone yell “Oh my God! What a quaintly unsophisticated choice of beverage!” That’s right. Just mock her mocha. I’ll pass on the sugar thanks. Brewed story.
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CINECISM - COMEDY // BRUNO
Ich bein ein Bruno!
Das ist der twei cinematic speilunk of Herr Sacha Baron Cohen…. And I can’t keep that up. “Amusing” German accent aside, Cohen’s follow up to his 2006 insult-fest Borat takes us from the high fashion runways of Europe to the heartland of America sparing no-one along the way. Borat grossed over $260 Million worldwide, and garnered Cohen and the Director a number of awards including an academy nomination for “Best Adapted Screenplay.” Bruno takes the concept of an outsider unfamiliar with social mores and attempts to up the stakes, with varying degrees of success. The film opens with Bruno’s fall from grace as Austria’s top fashion commentator. He soon becomes the social pariah of the haute couture scene, leading him to seek out fame and fortune in Hollywood. From there we are treated to about two hours of uncomfortable scenes of Cohen doing his best to insult, upset or mercilessly mock a multitude of unsuspecting celebrities, terrorist leaders and beer swilling rednecks. All the while the haphazard plot of Bruno and his fawning second assistant Lutz continues to play out. Their burgeoning romance leads to some of the most awkward scenes in the film and the finale, which can only be described as “brave”.
“…There are laughs in the film, no question, but they are interspersed with scenes which are staged to the point where you can’t help but lose the sense of truthfulness. ...” Cohen hasn’t really moved on from where we left of with Borat in 2006, he’s still plying the same shtick and its still getting some laughs, though here they are somewhat fewer and a little more tempered by cynicism. Some of the scenes feel just a little too ridiculous. The reactions also are a bit too over the top and at times totally disingenuous. Possibly it is the attitude of the main character that has changed the dynamic, or possibly the wizening up of the potential targets. But Bruno has to work that little bit too hard to achieve the same level of cringe. Borat’s essential innocence allowed him freedoms and liberties that the more sophisticated Bruno is unable to employ as tactics. This necessary extra level of subterfuge may be one element that makes the film feel less fresh and exciting. There are laughs in the film, no question, and moments where you cannot help but feel that Cohen and his crew were actually in real physical danger, but they are interspersed with scenes, which are staged to the point where you can’t help but lose the sense of truthfulness. It is that sense of truthfulness or documentary that makes these films what they are and when it is missing the film suffers. The plot too suffers when the documentary style runs out of steam and the crescendo comes out of nowhere and feels horribly manufactured. There is something here for almost every viewer, but to those who find cringe comedy or the comedy of embarrassment something to squirm over this film may be an uncomfortable watch. Bruno is at times likable and at times detestable, much like Borat. However, when Bruno falls there is less desire to see him pick himself back up. Cine-Meh sDAVID QUINN
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1st September Recently, we saw the return of The Little Cubas to the Top Shelf stage delivering a thumpin’ set of their finest songs. Joss and Kylie have been playing together for a while now as is evident in their live show. Whilst Joss (gat/ vox) holds the key to capturing the audience it is Kylie (percussion) who holds the key to the development of their live sound. Her ability to add sonic percussive depth allows Joss to hold down the chords and melody and deliver. The Little Cubas certainly are ‘El Presidente’ of the swamp stomp. Mick Attard opened the night with one of his finest and most relaxed shows I’ve ever seen. Mick cruised through his set with an ease that’s rarely seen, gliding effortlessly into another song he simply shifted atmosphere and took us down another path in his story telling. If this is Mick’s standard set then he is certainly one the best going round. Speaking of ex-embers members, Joel Delphin’s new act The Fat Smalls make their Top Shelf debut Wednesday August 19. Joel, whose fame stems from his days as drummer with The Embers, and The Fat Smalls have been playing around the state for a few months and with this in mind we have offered them our third installment of ‘An Evening With...’ Playing a blend of funk/jazz these guys tend to have a packed dance floor so offering them our whole night should provide for some tantalising moments. The start of August produced a night of firsts at Top Shelf, the first time Rick Loves Anne played and the rise of a new force in Summer Edmunds. Armed with an acoustic and her voice, Summer went into battle, commanded her audience within the first few bars of music then held sway for the rest of her set with her amazing and unique vocal delivery. As a female soloist Summer is a breathe of fresh air, exuding a warmth (as her name suggests) and glow that is often lacking in a performer. Her songs suggest a hope, an always look on the bright side, some would say too much. But it is
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between these moments that you sense the vulnerable human inside, this for me was where the magic lay. A breakthrough performance for Summer. My Escapade make their long awaited return on Wednesday August 26. Although we have featured Jason Lucas quite often over winter it’s been around six months the full band has played and we are delighted that they will be performing both sets on the night. If you like your pop with soaring vocals then there is none better in this state. A massive thanks to all the people who contribute to putting Top Shelf on every week. Without you we would be f#@!*d! Chris Veevers and the team at Frontline, Jase Howard, Toni Earl, Dane Leonard, Matt Neil, the hackers!, and all at Irish Murphy’s. Thank you. sCARL FIDLER & GLENN MOOREHOUSE
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Green Fingers All the freshest produce from The Greenhouse, Irish Murphy’s, Hobart. Oyka. So last November, The Greenhouse held our First Harvest. In partnership with Fosters, Diageo and Sing Sing studio, we were lucky enough to be able to offer a recording package to our most exciting Greenhouse band for 2008. Since then, Joni’s Plastic Sunday, the winners, have been quietly chipping away at it and have just returned from a massive recording session. Ferty here caught up Lockie the keyboard player to have a chat about it . . . Can you tell us a bit about each of the band members and what they bring to the Joni’s sound? Hamish the bass player brings great soul and really strong hearty fingers and he seems to be totally in love with Steve (our drummer), which is easy because he is always on it and in front of the beat. Josh our quirky front man is the main contributor as far as song writing goes, and I (the keyboardist) just tag along with my twinkle fingers.
we were doing without changing us, he is a gentle soul, with a heart like a falcon.
Shadow of a Doubt – and saying a hearty farewell to our own fella of the brillig, Nially Cyrus, have a great trip bloke!
If you had advice to give younger bands about the experience recording at Sing Sing, what would it be? Tell your drummer to practice to a click track with song in mind, be absolutely organised in terms of overdubs, and take whatever you need to the studio to stay fresh. Any parting shots? Thanks to the Greenhouse, was an amazing opportunity. I encourage everyone to back what the guys at Irish are doing because it moving the Tasmanian music scene forward for the better. You can catch Joni’s first gig back at the Greenhouse on Wednesday the 26/08 with Kiss Whiskey and New Saxons. sFERT
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You’ve been gigging around Hobart for a while, what have been your high-lights either playing or in witnessing live performances in the last year or so? Seeing the New Saxons, they are awesome and we love that band, we think they are the freshest talent in Tasmania. In November Joni’s won The Greenhouse’s First Harvest Prize which was a recording package with SingSing studio, what can you tell us about…: …your preparation to record? We basically practiced a lot without vocals to focus on getting our parts tight. Then we did dodgy home recordings to click track and experimented with overdubs so we didn’t waste time in Sing Sing. …your expectations going into the studio? We were thinking there would be a lot more time to get tracks down but we were very over ambitious. …what it was actually like in the studio? It was very comfortable and warm, amazing carpentry and a kick ass kitchen and games room. One mixing desk in that studio was more expensive than my house. It was a lot of hard work, 10-12hour days for 7 days straight made it very draining. …what the product will be? It will be a 6 track CD, with a very versatile collection of our songs. So I understand you’re launching in October, what picture does the band have moving forward into 2010? Retire. No actually we’d like to crack into the festival circuit and start pushing our name in Melbourne and beyond. If you were offered a record contract but first you have to get in a tub with either Molly Meldrum or Richard Wilkins, would you do it? And if so which one would you prefer? And if it was double or nothing would you do both? And if both would you prefer it at the same time or one after the other? All of the above, except for Richard Wilkins and Molly Meldrum. Have you been writing since the recording, what surprises are in stall in that direction? Country. If Joni’s was gonna do ‘like a version’ what would you do? Jailhouse blues-The Doors Angry Angry Guinea Pigs or Sweet but Sulky Guinea Fowl? Depending on your muffle mush, dooby dooby dowl. If Joni’s had a fork in the road before them, down one path was going full-on progressive and down the other was polished pop songs, which would you take? Probably a mixture of both, we’d definitely like to meet Delta Goodrem. Tell us more about the experience working with a producer and how that helped shape your recording? MATT VOIGHT is an absolute gun, we are close mates and we can’t imagine anyone better to do this for us. As for shaping, he really just got the best out of what 22
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Unfortunately I missed Kimbra, and most of the Hungry Kids of Hungary. What I saw of H of H was energetic, harmonious and enthusiastic. The crowd certainly seemed pumped. The gig was sold out and there was a good buzz while waiting for Bertie Blackman to come on stage. She arrived onstage looking like we had turned up at her house early in the morning after she’d had a big night. Oversized white shirt over black stockings, tie askew, and hair all over her face. She reminded me a little of Chrissie Amphlet, that same kind of F*ck You vulnerability and passion in vocal delivery. She certainly used the f word frequently between sets. Blaming watching a lot of Russel Brand videos for her “blue” language. Then in the same break she said hi to her Mum and thanked her for “driving me around”. She opened with ‘Thump’ and had the crowd enthralled. She played many tracks from her new album Secrets and Lies, including ‘Heart’, ‘Black Cats’, ‘Town of Sorrow’, ‘Valentine’ and ‘Sky Is Falling’. The crowd participated very enthusiastically in the percussion to heart and near swooned with the heartfelt rawness of ‘Valentine’. At one point while she was singing, she stooped down to gently lift the head of a young man who seemed so overcome that he had fallen asleep with his head on the stage, without missing a beat. She also gently turned aside requests from the crowd to sing her “old stuff,” but consented to marry us all. In an unexpected turn she did a cover of Phil Collins ‘In the Air Tonight’, handing the vocals of the chorus to us in true concert fashion. Was I impressed? Yep. I bought the album the next day. sCAROYN HAY July @ Lonnies
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Ah, the string quartet. Playing in a gazebo, perhaps, or in a town hall alongside a potted palm? Not this one. It’s Sydney’s FourPlay and they’re on stage in a pub. They’ve set up a sawing, screeching sonic barrier as they roar through Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’. The crowd are whooping and cheering and in a moment of self-parody viola player Shenzo Gregorio hitches one foot up on a fold-back speaker, guitar-hero style. The mixed crowd reflected the diversity of the music. Elderly quartet aficionados rubbed shoulders with rock-chicks as FourPlay delivered swirls of sound influenced by blues, trad jazz, country and reggae. Original compositions were interspersed with instrumental versions of The Strokes, Billie Holliday and The Cocteau Twins. Occasionally they sounded a bit too much like a novelty cover-band: they could be more adventurous with their interpretations. This was evident in the too-close-for-comfort version of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’, complete with vocals by Tim Hollo. It’s a quibble though: their rendition of Radiohead’s ‘2+2=5’ was mesmeric. The musicians used live loops and delay pedals, most notably in the psychedelic head-spin of ‘Bollyrock’ and the evocative ‘Venice Underwater’ from latest album ‘Fourthcoming’. It was a homecoming of sorts as the new material was written in Hobart in the spring of 2006. Beer and strings go well together. Punters sat on the floor and there was even the obligatory drunk, with slinky dance moves and glass held high to avoid spillage. I’ve been playing air-cello ever since. sCOLIN VARNEY Art Vs Science - 31st July @ Hotel New York
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CHIMAIRA The Infection
MINISTRY OF SOUND In the Club 2009
SKINTILLA King Of Kings
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW First Temple
Ohio five-piece Chimaira are apart of the new wave of heavy metal bands in America alongside acts Devildriver and Lamb of God. The Infection is the bands fifth offering, bringing a sense of space, groove and melodious lines, yet still keeping there blistering blaring sound that initiated the band in 1998.‘The Venom Inside’ starts with delicate tones of electric guitar and keyboard build up, and then unleashes into rumbles of heaviness and an infinite growl, which is classic formula for those who know the predictability of a metalcore song. Not to say it’s bad in any way, the introduction is promising, and you know you are in for a heavy belting of brutally crafted tunes.
Another offering from the Ministry of Sound factory. One is starting to feel slightly saturated. This new compilation offers nothing new. Don’t get me wrong, if you’re into the ‘there to be seen’ high rotation club scene, then this album is for you. Disc one in my opinion, reminds me of the local La La Land nights held at Halo. A grand display of Mardi Gras anthems, which are ace, however not my flavor of dance music.
Skintilla fans have been waiting a long time for their second full-length album, with the Adelaide bands first album Kranker being released back in 2001. The band openly admits that there power metal edge is heavily influenced by Iron Maiden, Dio and Judas priest, which is obvious. The album takes on those influences, but goes further with a Pantera/ Metallica onslaught of riffage, giving it an aggressive edge.
Closure in Moscow are a five piece progressive rock band from Melbourne, that formed in 2006 as a group of guys looking for something a little harder within the Aus Rock scene. Within 18 months they had laid down their debut EP The Penance and Patience and started to receive much acclaim within the Australian rock scene and an overseas following. May 2009 saw the release of their debut album First Temple.
This complication lacks in journey. Disc one comprises club happy hour favorites such as Calvin Harris, ‘I’m Not Alone’ (Hook n Sling remix), a lackluster version of ‘My Girl’ (The Temptations) and a remixed version of Tommy Trash’s‘Need Me to Stay’, which isn’t a shade on the original mix featured on Sessions Six.
With each listening of the album, I am finding myself enjoying the songs more and more, and though some power metal bands go overboard with their playing. This band plays what they need to, to bring forward the lyrical content of Darren Pretty. Which features a mixed bag of lyrical ideas from dragons, battlefields, to pole-dancers and insomnia.
The band made a permanent move to the USA to join label Equal Vision Records, where they have been afforded the opportunity of recording of their first album and the chance to join established bands such as Kiros, The Audition and Saosin as well as moshing out with over 1000 other bands at ‘South by South West’ music festival in the states.
The duel guitar playing of Jeremy Burgess and Chris Benyk on album opener ‘Sword for Sword’ displays the real talent these musicians have in playing their instruments. The tracks to follow offer solidly crafted songs, which sound huge pumping through a good set of speakers. The third track ‘Scarlet Eyes’ also caught my attention with its heavy chugging and effective licks throughput the chorus part.
First Temple is the band’s follow-up to The Penance and the Patience, and picks up right where the EP left off. Fast, aggressive, and highly technical guitars go hand in hand with soaring, constant vocal harmonies. The album is consistent with the hard rock anthem, laden with smack you in the face guitar energy, mixed in with some crunching vocal harmonies. The exception to this is the track ‘Sweet#hart’. Musically, it presents as muddled with no flow, however when they kick in the chorus and the misplaced but effective electro beat, my initial thoughts begin to fade.
Chimaira seem to be plagued by a particular trait faced by many metal bands, with every track on the album sounding as if it’s a part of one whole mega song. Although there are still some tracks on this album that have a stronger and more positive response on first listen. Track ‘Impending Doom’ is one song that is catchy and has light and dark aspects. Although the song is about wrongdoings and escaping the penalty of hell, it’s a positive highlight. Also, track ‘The Heart Of It All’ is a brilliant instrumental piece displaying the talents of all band members minus the vocalist. The production by Zeuss, who has mixed for countless modern metal bands, has brought out the full potential of what the band has to offer. The Infection is an album that is neither here or there as far as being classed as a great album, but presents wholesome slabs of metal to flog your ears off. I wouldn’t count it as a classic, but a definite leap in improvement from the humble beginnings of a band that will be accepted in to the metal society with open arms. 7/10 sDAVID WALKER
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Disc two is more my kind of scene, although featuring more commonly heard artists and song titles. This collection of tunes is remising of fun nights, typical of a balmy summers evening. The electric sounds of Mstrkrft feature on track two, ‘Vuvuvu’, followed by a somewhat disturbing version of Empire of the Sun’s, ‘Standing on the Shore’ (Hey Today! Remix) and featuring other current and dance worthy remixes featuring, Sidney Samson (Riverside), Data Rock (Give it up) and Tiga with Shoes. This album also a features a version of Dizzy Rascal and Armad Van Heldun’s ‘Bonkers’. Loathe to hate or loathe to love this song, there is something to be said for the repetition of the word BONKERS mixed with some heavy dark baselines. There is a journey behind the monotonal recital of BONKERS somewhere, cut the lyrics and I’m there, until then… 6/10 sGEORGINA FREEMAN
Considering this is only their second full-length album over eight years, there is vast improvement in their direction of music. The band is more a feature of the underground scene, but in due time this album should pave a successful path for the band towards a bigger fanbase. I am not too keen on power metal overall, but I thoroughly liked what Skintilla has created. 7/10 sDAVID WALKER
Tracks to listen out for are ‘Afterbirth’, which presents with a crazy riff laden Mars Volta influence, ‘I’m a ghost’, ‘A night at the Spleen’, and the metal driven ‘Had to put it in the Sand’. 7.5/10 sGEORGINA FREEMAN
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0 PIECES USED IN SHOT Top (Fantasia - vintage) – $18.50, eBay Skirt (Purple Patch - vintage) – $12.50, Vinnies Shoes (Sandler – Brand New)- $5, Salvo’s Beadss - $3, Vinnies
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Name: George Age: 30 Fave band/artist: Hoods What gives you the creeps? Spiders What did you want to be when you were little? Madonna
Name: Jonno Age: 22 Fave band/artist: Disturbed What gives you the creeps? Spiders What did you want to be when you were little? Teacher
Name? Jessie Age? 22 Favourite band/artist? Pink What creeps you out? David Cross What did you want to be when you were little? A fire truck
Name? Matthew Age? 23 Favourite band/artist? At the moment, Mastadon What creeps you out? People asking about creepy thingsâ&#x20AC;Ś What did you want to be when you were little? A fire man
Name: Krystle Age: 26 Fave band/artist: Pink What gives you the creeps? Hospitals What did you want to be when you were little? Bigger
Name: Lauren Age: 18 Fave band/artist: Lost Prophets What gives you the creeps? Bull Kelp What did you want to be when you were little? A fairy
Name: Pete Age: 22 Fave band/artist: Charles Du Cane What gives you the creeps? Cats What did you want to be when you were little? Adventurer
Name: Mandy Age: 29 Fave band/artist: Silverchair What gives you the creeps? Mice & Rats What did you want to be when you were little? A writer
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