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quick shots latest local, national & international news Are you it?? Have you ever dreamt of playing alongside international acts such as De La Soul and Billy Bragg, or Aussie icons The John Butler Trio or You Am I? Last year proved that dreams do come true when a swag of local acts stepped up to the mic at the inaugural Falls Festival.

The Falls Festival is calling for submissions from local Tasmanian acts for the chance to be included in this spectacular 2 day camping festival held over the 30th and 31st of December in Marion Bay, Tasmania. To be a part of the selection process, send your contact details, bio and any recorded material by Nov 1st to The Falls Festival Tasmania, P.O. Box 184, Lorne, VIC 3232. All Tasmanian acts, representing all styles of music are welcome.

The Falls Festival selection process is starting afresh, so if you made a submission last year (and even if you landed a spot on last year’s line-up) please do re-apply.

The Falls Festival believes that playing live is what it’s all about, so submissions will be reviewed from the demo’s provided and then a shortlist of performers will be invited to strut their stuff at a live event in Hobart (Nov 24th) or Launceston (Nov 25th). 6 Tasmanian acts will be selected from these showcase events to play The Falls Festival Tasmania at the beautiful Marion Bay. David Bowie is releasing his new DVD 'DAVID BOWIE - A REALITY TOUR', marking his first LIVE CONCERT FILM in over 15 YEARS. Filmed in Dublin, Ireland, November 22-23, 2003, this release commemorates David's first major world tour in nearly a decade.

Pete Murray, Guy Sebastian and the John Butler Trio, are locked in to join Jet in the line up at the 2004 ARIA Awards.

Little River Band will join the likes of AC/DC,

John Farnham, Olivia Newton John, Cold Chisel and INXS when they are inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame at the 2004 ARIA Awards on October 17. “I guess the real issue is why LRB, like so many other Australian artists, have not yet made it into the Hall of Fame” said Mark Pope, ARIA Awards Event Producer. “One down, and about 200 more to go.”

The 2004 ARIA awards nominations have been announced, Melbourne outfit Jet have scooped the pool with seven nominations including Breakthrough Artist, Best Rock Album and Best Group.

With five nominations each, nice guys Pete Murray and John Butler, continue to reinforce the growing popularity of roots music in Australia, up against each other for Best Male Artist and Single Of The Year.

Freshly platinum selling lads Eskimo Joe shed more light on the strength of talent coming out of Australia’s West, joining hip-hop-pop collective The Cat Empire, Delta Goodrem and Missy Higgins with four nominations each.

Missy Higgins has shot to fame in the past few months with her hugely successful single, ‘Scar’, receiving nominations for Breakthrough Artists Single, Best Pop Release, best Female Artist and Single Of The Year.

With three nominations Kasey Chambers, Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males, Dallas Crane and The Dissocitives highlight the diversity in the Australian music charts over the past year.

BOND, the UK-based string quartet have achieved unprecedented success with their latest album CLASSIFIED going No. 1 on this week’s ARIA Chart while retaining the No.1 position on the Classical ARIA chart.

Cog have hunkered down in Radio Star Studios in Weed, Calfornia to record their long awaited debut album, with Sylvia Massy at the helm

(System of A Down, Tool, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers). To be released early 2005, Cog are the first signing to ex-Universal head honcho Paul Krige's new label, Difrnt Music, When they emerge from the studio the trio return to their loyal fans around the country with their "Running The Gauntlet" tour in November and December.

EPICURE: With the release, available in stores October 11, Epicure head out on the road on the "Self Destruct In Five" Tour in October and November taking in Melbourne, Newcastle, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, Margaret River, Fremantle, Brisbane and Hobart.

Multi-platinum artist Eminem is readying his upcoming album, Encore, for a November 15th Encore will be the first full album of new Eminem material since 2002's The Eminem Show, which spawned the hit singles "Without Me" and "Cleanin' Out My Closet." That album went on to sell over 19 million albums worldwide. He followed up in November 2002 with Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture '8 Mile', which featured the Academy Award winning song "Lose Yourself" and sold almost 9 million copies worldwide. Earlier this year, Eminem's group D-12 released D-12 World (global sales over 3 million) and scored hits with "My Band" and "How Come".

IN AN UNPRECEDENTED MOMENT IN ROCK HISTORY, JET HAS JUST BECOME THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN ACT TO WIN BEST ROCK VIDEO @ THE MTV AWARDS IN MIAMI ON SUNDAY, 29TH AUGUST. Jet's debut album 'Get Born' has now sold a phenomenal 2.2 million copies worldwide.

Come along and check out the best campus bands in the State, October 7th 2004 from 7pm

: When the Uni Bar, Launceston hosts the State Final of the National Campus Band Competition.

The evening promises to be a an awesome night for the talented young musicians from both the Hobart and Launceston Congratulations to the eight bands who made it through to the final; Ballpoint, Durden, Loquacious, Rocket Noodle, Spankpaddle, The Deeds, The Fat Band and The Styles.

MTV International, Island/Def Jam Records and Universal Music Australia have announced a global promotion for the release of Sum 41's upcoming 3rd album, CHUCK. As part of the promotion, the band will be circumnavigating the globe and performing 6 live shows across Asia, Europe and of course, Australia, The very special Sydney performance brings the band to town for 1 show only at The Metro on October 8, 2004.

This summer, POWDERFINGER will perform their first Australian shows in over a year.

In January 05, the nation's favourite quintet will headline three spectacular East Coast shows off the back of not one, not two, but three special releases. These extraordinary one-night stands will take place in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and will be the band’s only solo headline shows before they disappear, take a break and then start work on their next studio album. Tickets to Powderfinger’s Rock and Soul Revue will go on sale FRIDAY OCTOBER 1ST and are expected to walk out the door due to limited venue capacities – so be quick!

PJ Harvey's first ever national headline tour of Australia this November with concerts in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, her fans across Australia will have their memories refreshed as to just why she stole their hearts at past festivals and sideshows.

Space Like Alice

by David Williams Well, it happened to Prince.

(Laughs) Yeah. Didn’t he write “slave” on his head or something … It’s a funny thing that side of it. We may have been naïve at that point, I don’t know, but it happened and we found ourselves in a place we didn’t want to be … we had a single out and everything was going so well. All we wanted to do was release the rest of the record and due to things beyond our control, that just wasn’t possible. Two years down the track we were still pulling our hair out, wanting to do something.

Finally, we’ve got this EP out and we’re out on our own and it’s really cool.

Interview with Scott from Space Like Alice and Dave Williams So what have you been up to today?

Working. Home now, checking the old computer, ‘cause I manage the band, so I’ve gotta keep on top of all that sort of crap. We’re self-managed these days.

Right. So you’re not a full-time musician?

older uncles who were into Pink Floyd all the time and that’s what gave me an open mind towards all sorts of things and I had a cousin who used to play all these really bad, big-hair, metal bands. A bit of cockrock was always around, so I fell in love with the guitar. Then I started listening to bands like Radiohead. I’ve always been a hugeYou Am I fan, from the beginning, right into that guitar rock and been playing in bvands since I was 15.

Can you hear any of those bands in the music of Space Like Alice?

I’d say you can hear some Radiohead in there for sure. I think everyone in the band has different influences, so that’s nice. I guess that’s what being in a band is all about. You put all your influences in a bowl and make something that sounds a little bit different. Especially when the other guys are into something really different, you can come up with something really interesting.

No, unfortunately, it doesn’t pay the bills.

Does the name of the band habve anything to do with Alice Springs?

So what do you do it for?

(Laughs) Nah …

What do I do music for?

‘Cause I was thinking, there’s a lot of space out near Alice …

Yeah.

Well, basically … I’m a song writer, the same as the rest of the guys in the band.

We’re always writing songs and you can’t really switch it off, and you want to keep releasing stuff. We’re just obsessed with music and want to get our music out to as many people as we can. We’ve got this EP out at the moment and w’re actually writing at the moment for an album for next year and we love to tour and play different places. That’s the good thing about music.

It does give you the opportunity to travel, which is a really cool thing. Coming to Tassie for the first time is really cool.

Never been there myself, so I’m really looking forward to it.

What’s the impression of Tassie that you have or amongst the music industry in Melbourne?

Music-wise?

Yeah.

Nah, it’s an Alice in Wonderland reference.

We were in another band and we had our name taken by an English band, so we picked something really obscure so it wouldn’t happen again.

What was the band’s name.

We were called Transistor.

And how did you guys get together originally?

Christian, the bass player and I were school friends, but I was in another band with the drummer, Chris and the singer, Damian, but the singer (of that band) and the bass player got together, got married and went crazy. That was the end of the band.

I’ve heard you guys were exposed to the “dirty” side of the music business. What is the “dirty” side of the music business?

I’ve had a few friends travel there before in other bands and they’ve always said they’ve had a great time down there. I guess these days with flights a lot cheaper, you probably get a lot more bands coming through. I just hope we get to go down there and get a few people to show and hopefully get to come back again.

The side where you’re not playing music and not writing songs. So not the music side, the business side, I guess.

Sometimes things don’t work out the way they’re supposed to. What can I say without getting into trouble?

What sort of music did you listen to growing up?

Yeah, I think we just didn’t see eye to eye anymore. They were trying to make us something we didn’t want to be and then you realise you’re stuck and to get out of those things takes a lot of time. Certainly, we couldn’t release anything for a long time.

Kiss was the thing that got me. I was an Ace Freely fanatic. I wanted to be the spaceman. That’s what caught my attention, then the Ramones. I had a few

I understand the management company that you were with disintergrated.

That’s always the hardest question. I dunno. The funny thing with this band is noone has ever said “You sound like such and such,” and I think that’s a good thing.

But if I had to compare it to anything, there are influences in the background from radiohead to Pink Floyd, REM to New Order. I don’t know what that means …

Why would someone choose to go to one of your gigs instead of a cover band down the road?

Yeah … a lot of it was waiting around … we did a lot of writing … It’s funnylike that.

A lot of bad experiences can produce good songs.

‘Cause we put our heart and soul into it.

We wear it on our sleeves and we get out there and put on a full-on show .. we’ve got good songs, the people we play to seem to enjoy it and we get out there and play as hard as we can every night …

110% every night, that’s what we aspire to.

Artists suffering?

What are the goals of the band?

Yeah, the old cliché is true sometimes.

What advice would you give to avoid getting into that situation?

At the moment we’re so happy to have released this disc, to have music out there, to be able to travel around the country. If we can travel around the country and play to 100 people every night, we’d be wrapped. It is really nice to be able to go places and play to people and we really respect that and hold that up high, at the moment .. the dream of becoming rock stars is a fantasy, but if you get lucky it could happen, but I don’t think you should make that your main ambition. You may as well play Tattslotto.

Two years that you couldn’t record or release?

The first single off their debut album due out in early 2005 is called Holiday.

It comes out in stores on the 25th Oct thru Shock records. It features a cover version of the Shihad classic "Home Again" Once again they produced, mixed and recorded it themselves.

The Tassie dates are the kick off to a national tour for the new single.

The guys said they had a great time in Tassie last trip, the ep tour, so they are looking forward to coming back soon.

How would you describe your sound to someone who hadn’t heard your music nut was interested in going to a gig?

Sometimes you can’t see it happening. As much advice as you get, you never really know. I’d just say always research as much as you can about the people you’re getting involved with and don’t jump at the first thing you ever get offered. And go with your gut instinct. Always go with your instincts.

And how has your music evolved from those days?

It’s definitely changed. It’s matured a lot, I think. I think the song writing, in general, has improved a lot …

Or you might end up in the Psych ward …

Yeah (laughs)

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OPENING OCTOBER Dave Williams interviews The Dead Abigails’ frontman, Carl Fidler @ Irish Murphy's

How are the lounge nights going and what has been the reaction?

Carl, what am I meeting you here to talk about?

Yeah, I've played two and they're going really well. People are liking it. I had an old couple up dancing last night. Slow dancing. it was lovely.

My new project, called Sexy Bossanova, which is playing lounge music at Irish Murphy's (Launceston) every Saturday night in the restaurant from 7 to 9pm.

What is lounge music?

(Laughs) Well, it can mean a lot of different things to different people, but to me it means playing a few standards and a few original tunes that are written in that style, a sort of latin style of lounge. I play a lot of Antonio Carlos Jobim, who wrote "Girl From Ipanema" and that sort of stuff. Very sweet and sensuous and it's a pleasure to play.

And why are you doing this?

Basically, I wanted a change from playing in pubs for a while, as much as I enjoy it, I enjoy playing lounge music for something different. It's a pleasureable experience for me . I love the music and I love that environment.

So what's happening with the band (The Dead Abigails)?

Taking a little bit of a break. We've just completed our separation from our ex-manager.

We've gone through a couple of options from some other companies. We're a bit reluctant to get involved at the moment, because of how scary the last situation was.

So, I think we're just going to take a break from it, write some music, practise those tunes. We want to come out with a recording soon. We've just got to decide whether we go with a company or do it independently. At this stage, it's looking like an independent release, which will be much better for us. We can produce the album that we really want to produce, instead of having to make allowances for producers.

So what's the difference between what you're doing at Irish Murphy's on Monday/Tuesdays and Saturdays?

But it's still in a pub.

Still doing pubs. Irish Murphy's is my new home.

We've just started something new. I'll be playing every alternate Monday or Tuesday and I'll be playing a mixture of covers and original tunes.

As well as Saturday night?

As well as Saturday night.Irish Murphy's - my new home.

Why are you doing it solo instead of anybody else?

The only guys that I want to work with are already really busy. All the boys in the band (The Dead Abigails) have their own side projects at the moment, so I'm doing this to make some money. My real passion is the band.

The Saturday night is just lounge, 2 hours of dinner music and the Monday and Tuesdays are a collection of my favourite covers and originals, songs that the band didn't want.

"Covers" seems to be a bit of a dirty word at the moment, though.

It is, but you've got to do it. That's what the punters want to hear and if they accept the odd original that I slip in, then we're both happy. But I won't play the standard (covers) that the punters expect. I select covers that are interesting and good quality material.

Like what?

Like "Got Sold On Heaven" by Snout. Yeah, it's great. they're an Australian band and they're excellent, underrated.

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The Fuzzy Zellas - Interview with Dan Stonehouse few songs together. Some of our latest stuff we've written on-the-spot in the jam room. We've got our permanent jam room set up in North Hobart. It costs us $300 a month, so we've got to do at least one gig a month to pay for that. (laughs) So we get down there a fair bit, but most of the songs I write.

What sort of support is there for original bands and ori8ginal music in Tassie?

I think it's a pretty strong scene at the moment, but lacking venues. The support is there, but if we could get some better venues happening I think it could kick ass. 'Cause you get really good bands playing in really small dives. Most of the pubs, being so old, they were'nt designed for it, so we need to get something happening down here along those lines.

We need some new venues, especially in Hobart. I don't know what Launnie has got at the moment. We played at O'Keefe's when we were there and that was the same as most of the pubs in Hobart - very small. We had a hard time getting the six of us up there.(laughs)

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- Vocals - Guitar - Guitar - Bass - Harmonica

Dan, you're based in Hobart, how long have you been playing as The Fuzzy Zellas?

We formed in 2001 and started playing around the traps not long after we formed. We've had a few lineup changes since, but the latest lineup is probably the best one. It's going really well.

What were the lineup changes?

WE had to sack our original singer, 'cause he couldn't sing and it took us a while to get a good singer. We got one and he's an absolute ripper. He's a sensation.

We got him, then we got our harmonica player and then our bass player left to go around the world for a year. We got a new bass player and then we sacked our drummer, 'cause he was in about seven bands and we got a new drummer.

Trout. We've done a few down at the Wagon. We've been to Cygnet and a few country towns.

by Dave Williams There seem to be a few more places in Launceston with original music.

We really want to get a manager who can organise us along those lines and get us into some better gigs.

We need to get some good supports. We'd really like to support someone like the Datsuns ... hard rock, you know.

With a name like The Fuzzy Zellas, I guess somewhere along the line, you guys were into golf?

Yeah, we took on the golfing theme as ... we dig the fashion and all that. We sometimes get up there in our tartan pants and whatnot. It's a bit of a laugh.

We've got a few golfing songs and, personally, I'm a bit of a golfing fanatic, so I find it really easy to write music about it. (laughs) Not all our songs are golfing, by the way (laughs) We've just got a few in there. We though it'd be funny.

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How long have you, personally, been playing music for?

I took up guitar twenty years ago and i've been at it ever since.

How old were you when you started?

About 14. I'm 33 now.

What are the goals of the band?

We want to record as much music as possible, 'cause we've got a crapload of material. We've got over 50 original songs. We've got one CD out, with nine songs on it. We've been rehearsing the next one, which is going to be more of a rock album, and keep going from there. The problem is we all work, so it's a part-time thing at the moment. In Hobart, you can't rely on the music (to support you) that much.

The sky's the limit, I suppose. We've just got to get our music out there and see where it takes us.

Who are the artists that you most admire?

How would you describe the music of The Fuzzy Zellas?

We started out as a bit of a bluesy band, 'cause we wanted to play original music and get paid well, 'cause that's the problem with original music in Hobart, you just don't get paid. So we thought if we played blues we'd get gigs at The Republic and places like that and charge them whatever we want, so we did that thing for a while, but we've developed into a rock band, 'cause that's what we've always done. I've played in bands with a couple opf the fellas before and we've been in the music scene for over ten years in Hobart ... been in some hard-rockin' bands in the past, but the Zellas are pretty rockin' with a bit of bluesy, roosty influence.

Where do you guys play?

We still play at the Republic a bit, at the Lewisham,

One of my favourite songwriters would have to be J Mascis from Dinosaur Jnr. He's playing with Fog these days. And I really like Tommy Iommi's guitar playing from Black Sabbath. Really dig Ben Harper's stuff - most of it. A lot of old school stuff - early ZZ top, and the old classics like Zeppelin and Floyd and Hendrix and all that, but really love the reggae, Bob Marley and all that sort of stuff as well. I'm pretty versatile and most of the guys in the band are as well.

Who writes the songs and where does the inspiration come from?

I do most of the songwriting, 'cause it's a major hobby of mine. I usually don't bring a song to the table until it's finished and there might be a few changes. We might do a bit of arranging with the band, but I like to bring a finished song to the table 'cause, as there are six of us, it makes it a lot easier. We have written a

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Friday 17th at the Uni Bar; another rock packed night featuring two Launnie bands and Melbourne’s Dallas Crane.

set. However, with the noise levels these guys were rockin’ on, earmuffs would’ve been nice.

The night started out with a rocky blues group; The Rakes. The two-piece, guitarist and drummer, rocked out a few tunes to standing and sitting watchers as the bar slowly filled.

There was an interlude as Dallas Crane seemed more interested in the footy semi final, but as they hit the stage heads turned.

From what was audible the Southern Fried Baptists (It was about 200 decibels), a rough edge rock group, had the crowd standing. On first inspection the four-piece appeared to have no singer, but a closer view revealed a yelling drummer.

The Melbourne band on Tour, dropped in on the Uni Bar and had the room packed with fans. They impressed with their old school rock’ n’ roll style and had the crowd cheering for more.

Overall a good night and positive for Tasmania’s music scene.

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I feel about Brisbane the way you feel about Sydney.

Yeah, but Brisbane is on the up though. Sydney's been on the way down for about fifteen years.

You guys have a reputation for putting on a rockin' live show, have you heard that?

Yeah, we like to play live. We've heard that we're pretty good live, but I've never been able to see us play (laughs) certainly, it's very important to us and if we are any good at it, I guess it's because of where we've (yawns) come from and we've all done lots of shows with lots of different bands before we played together. The chemistry of us playing together was really strong when we started and still is strong musical chemistry, so hopefully that shows when we play together.

Since the success of the single, "Being Followed", we haven't really heard a lot about you in Tassie.

Did how you record it have much of an influence on the sound of the album?

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Yeah, definitely. We went to an all analogue studio and Jim Diamond produced it. He's got his own particular way of doing things and that studio suited him and so the sound is influenced by Jim and his way of doing things.

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The rest of the band are: Roman Tucker - vocals, organ, theremin, guitar Kit Warhurst - vocals, drums, percussion, guitar Dave Gray - bass guitar, guitar 11.00 am, Thursday 30th September What have you been up to today?

Not much. Just waking up, actually.

Do anything last night?

Ah, yeah ... kind of.

Kind of? What do you mean?

I just met my wife after work and had a few drinks after work, then I brought her home and watched her sleep on the couch, while I couldn't get to sleep until about 5.am.

How happy are you with the new album, "Eternal Holiday"?

Very happy. Fantastic.

Did you think it was finished when you stopped, or was there anything you would like to have changed?

Any recording, that always happens. You'd like to re-do a couple of things, but that's just the nature of the thing. It's a snapshot of time, so that's what you get in a record, really. In answer to your question, yes, but it's just part of the medium. You can't do anything about it, so it's best to let that stuff go.

How did you get to where you are now, as a musician?

I started playing guitar at about 17 when I used to live in Sydney. Started playing with friends straight away, formed bands with other people who were learning at the same time, in high school.

So we learnt by putting bands together and learning how to play "Wild Thing" or "Stepping Stone" or things like that and I've been playing in bands since then and teaching myself how to play as I went along.

Making friends when I was about 20 or something that hooked me into bands like The Stooges, MC5 and all that sort of Detroit, noisy scene.

At the time, my musical history went back as far as Mudhoney at that point and that introduced me to a lot more music.

The next big influence was that the house I was living in, someone had broken into the animal labs at Sydney Uni and stolen a whole lot of Ketomine and we used to listen to Santana records at halfspeed. That was another milestone for me, introducing me into the concept of stoner rock, before it was invented - the slowing down of Black Sabbath and Santana records.

Then I moved to Melbourne in 1984, 'cause Sydney was the dead, festering hole that it was and still is. I met a lot of musicians, very quickly, and it was easy to put bands together.

You could put a band together, break it up after the first gig and do it all again next week. Just get gigs and play and do whatever you want. A good idea at

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Yeah, that's from the previous record. We've been really busy since then, but unfortunately we haven't been to Tasmania, which is a sad fact of the economics of the situation. So we've been touring our asses of and making a new album.

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When you knew you were playing in Tassie, whatwas the first impression that came to mind?

Well we've got friends in Tassie, so we're looking forward to catching up and there's a lot of Tasmanian musicians in Melbourne. I think my impressions will be accurate. I've been there. I know, roughly, what it looks like and we'll be doing gigs, which is pretty much the same wherever you go.

What do you guys do in between gigs, when you're touring?

It depends on how big a night we've had before, I guess. I like to do a bit of sightseeing, go the markets or a second-hand music shop or something. It just depends on where you are. if we were playing in Lithgow, it might pay to stay in your hotel room, so you don't get lynched, but if you're playing in Hobart, it'd be a nice place to walk around.

How do you guys write new material?

Everyone in the band writes a bit. I probably write the least. Roman and Kit have been writing together for the new record, which is a first. So it changes slightly for each record. It's been a developing process, but it's, pretty much, an open book. The best songs, that we enjoy the most end up on the record.

What are the goals of the band?

In the short term, to get through another large-scale tour without killing each other. Beyond that, hopefully, get back touring overseas and not kill each other and if we can do another round of all of that on this record, I guess we'll be trying to make another one. That's a little prosaic, but I guess that's about all there is to it, being in a band. Just a cycle of recording and touring and trying not to kill each other.

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L i t t l e B i r d y - p l a y i n g 2 Ta s s i e S h o w s Interview with drummer Matt How would you like to get massive radio play for the first song you wrote?

This is the incredible story of Katy Steele, lead singer of Perth (WA) band Little Birdy, who are swinging down to Tassie for shows in Hobart and Launceston, as part of a national tour to launch their new album, "Big Big Love." The first single off their new album, "Big Big Love," "Beautiful To Me" – has already reached #2 on the Triple J Net 50 and was released on September 13. Like all the tracks on ‘BigBigLove’, the single was produced and mixed by Paul McKercher (Eskimo Joe, Pete Murray, Augie March, You Am I). The band have been rehearsing non-stop in the lead up to the tour; taking fine keyboardist and vocalist Fergus Deasy on board to help them create a fuller loving sound!

The quartet is fronted by 20 year-old singer/guitarist Katy Steele. Her vocal range, songwriting, and sartorial splendour have attracted comparisons to Kate Bush, PJ Harvey and Chrissie Hynde. Katy’s bandmates are Simon Leach on the big ol’ blues-tinged guitar, Scott O’Donoghue on bass and backing vocals, and Matt Chequer laying down a wall of drums. The group formed in Perth during early 2002 – emerging from a vibrant local scene that had already delivered exciting new groups like The Sleepy Jackson & Eskimo Joe. In October that year they released their self-titled debut EP. The disc spent ten weeks at #1 on the indie charts and two tracks from it – “Relapse” and “Baby Blue” – were voted into Triple J’s Hottest 100 at year’s end. This unprecedented feat lead Rolling Stone to pick them as one of their “Top 10 Artists To Watch” in 2004.

us for "the road" until the album finishes or dies or whatever. Really looking forward to adding that to our live set and making it nice and big and how we want it to be.

How much rehearsing are you doing?

We rehearse during the day. None of us are working at the moment, so we rehearse during the day when it's nice and quiet. The rehearsal rooms over here, not many bands rehearse during the day, so we like to have it to ourselves and a nice quiet environment. Just work on stuff as we go, digging new things out, go over and over it and find a good groove and enjoy it as much as we can.

What do you guys do during breaks?

I'm always go for a ciggie every five minutes. I'm the only smoker in the band. I'm always popping out for a smoke, which annoys them a bit, but you've got to keep the nicotine up. (laughs) Last time you were in Tassie was as support for The Dissociatives. What was that like?

That was great fun. Unfortunately four of the gigs were cancelled because of Daniel's voice, but it was really good fun and we got along really well with the whole band. it was, just, a really good party, the whole time, pretty much. it was really good playing with a band that we got along with a lot. Not that we haven't got along with other bands we've toured with, but we really "gelled" with them quite well, which was good.

Where is home for you?

In March this year, the band dropped the ‘This Is A Love Song EP’. It reached #22 on the national chart and became the most requested song on Triple J. The group sold out their own national tour and then travelled around Australia as special guests of The Dissociatives. In between all of this gigging, Little Birdy set up camp in Sydney for about six weeks and created their forthcoming debut album “BigBigLove”. The disc was produced

by Paul McKercher (You Am I, Eskimo Joe, Augie March,) at Big Jesus Burger Studios and mixed at Studios 301.

For a band that’s barely been together for 12 months it’s already been quite a ride for Little Birdy.

Sydney’s Drum Media calls them ‘one little band about to fly’, while UK style bible “The Face” calls Katy Steele “a prodigy” and describes the band as “Lucinda Williams meets Kate Bush via Beck”.

I spoke with drummer, Matt Chequer, to find out more.

What have you been doing today?

Rehearsals. I just got back from rehearsals.

You've got to be happy with the success of, "So Beautiul"?

Yeah, very happy. I haven't been keeping up, much, with what's happening on radio, but I've heard friends of ours saying they're hearing it all over the airwaves, so that's a good sign. Really happy with it .... looking forward to the next single on the album to come out, now.

How was, "Beautiful to Me" written?

It's one of Katie's really old songs, from about three years ago. i think it was the first song she wrote.

She recorded it on her computer, a demo, and we worked on it a bit a while ago and we never, really, quite got it to where we wanted it to go. We were going to put it out on our first EP, but it wasn't quite right, so we just waited for a while and kept working at it. Then Paul, the producer, had a lot of input as to how the song sounded and really made it work quite well.

Is the song a love song?

I'd see it as a love song, I suppose, for anyone's partner. It's nice and honest about being in love and finding a person totally beautiful, I suppose. It's quite simple, really.

In North Perth. In a share house with three other guys.

You're bringing bands, The Panda Band and Evermore with you to Tassie, how were they selected?

We really like The Panda Band's music ... we thought it'd be a good opportunity for them to come along and expose themselves a bit. Evermore is a band suggested to us by our management. We had a listen to their CD and enjoyed it and they were keen for the tour.

Your new album, Big Big Love, is out on October 4th, how would you describe that album?

How would I describe it? It's pretty hard describing your own music. I think it's a record of really nice melodies and interesting, soulful music, I think.

How would I describe it? Nice, lush sounding pop sounds.

People tend to listen to music that they feel like. What sort of mood would best suit listening to BIg Big Love?

Any kind, I suppose. It's got some really heartfelt, almost sad songs, but they could cheer you up as well. Yeah, listen to it when you're happy, when you're sad, when you want to have a bit of a dance. I think it's an album for all moods, or I hope so, anyway. I hope that's how people will find it.

How do you prepare or psyche up for a live show?

Lots of cigarettes and a couple of beers. (laughs) Nah, just relax. We hang aroun and check out the support bands, get a vibe happening and just go out and enjoy ourselves as much as we can. We don't think about it too much, and try to calm the nerves as much as we can.

What can Tassie audiences expect when you come down to play?

We're just talking about it at the moment, trying to get our production happening and what we're going to do during the set. We're going to make it a really fun, fun night, entertain , play the songs and have a really good time. That's what we try and do when we play live, make everyone happy and have a good night. That's what it's all about, having a drink and having a good night.

You mentioned before you'd been rehearsing, I assume for your upcoming tour. How are rehearsals going?

Do you guys ever smash your instruments or bite the heads off chickens?

Yeah, really good. We've got a keyboardist joining

No, there's definitely none of that. Not yet, anyway.

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by David Williams

Avril The first time I rang French electronic artist, Avril, his phone rang out. With his song, "Be Yourself" from his recent album, "Members Only" on high rotation on Triple J and touring in Europe, Fred (Avril's first name) was catching a few Z's. The second time I rang, I woke him up. This was just the start of problems.

Bonjour.

Hello.

This is David from Tasmania. Is that Avril?

(Cough. Cough. Splutter. Cough) Yeah, definitely. I'm just waking up.

Oh, ok. I thought it was quite early for you. What time is it there - eight o'clock in the morning?

No it's 10. But it's cool. I was just on tour for five days and we got back yesterday. Then we're on tour again tomorrow for five days and it goes on and on and on and on...

What genre do you see your album and your music fits into?

Uhh..ooh...uunh..well...ummm...aaah..welll, do you know Jack Brenner?

No I don't.

Oh, right.

Do you think it's electronica, pop, hip hop, rock?

Aaah, I think it's...aaah...like..aah...post...aah.....post something...post everything.

Where does the name Avril come from?

It' s my...aah...well..aah... (unpronounceable)....middle

name I think you call it. Yes, my middle name.

Why choose your middle name?

(No not really) Yeah. So this album is a product of touring?

Well, you know..it's just because I...you know...well... we were many french in an apartment in New York and ....aaaaaaah........you know, we had to aaaaah...to ah...define each other because (there were) many "Fred's" in that flat, you understand?...it was simple for everybody and it just went on like that.

A product for touring?

Aaah, a product OF touring. (LIke deaf again) TOURING HAS INFLUENCED THE PRODUCTION OF THIS ALBUM? Definitely yeah.

How did your time in New York influence your music?

Quite a lot actually...aaaah... one of the places with a so called underground...it's not what it was in the early seventies, but ... here in Europe the United States (the influence) has been very important and ... aaah .... I mean, you know, ..... it has all the older "know how" ... you know what I mean?

(Not really) Uh huh. ......In the US it's got to work, you know what I mean, whereas in Europe we're more experimental, which is much more interesting...but I love New York as well.

What are your plans for the European summer?

Aaaah....what...sorry?

You use a lot of everyday sounds on the album, gates squeaking, fire crackling - how do reproduce these live?

(Laughing) Aaah, we use a russian instrument...a theremin. Do you know that?

Around the world Rock (with a capital "R") is more popular than dance at the moment, is that true in France also?

Aaaah ... it's more complicated than that, more intricate. I think people are very willing to hear something different ... and that people are bored with the format of records and everything... people are going more for different stuff and they want to be surprised, you understand?

(Meaning it) I think you're right.

That's what's happening with (my) new album, just out ... it's a spreading buzz ...

I don't think your album fits into any genre ... which is refreshing.

Yeah The Theremin goes inside a sampler...well not exactly a sampler...it goes through some great software... it goes down with the nature stuff and I can trigger samples with my hands, you understand?

Ha hah. Maybe what the world needs now is refreshing. Hah ha! (Sound of running water - making coffee?)

Thank you very much.

(Yawning) Aaaahyeaaa. I'm just having my tea now.

It's going to be fabulous. What time is it in Austria?

(Actually understanding most of it) Yes. Why do you use these sounds?

I wanted on this album ...every track to be like a room and the noises to be like references...

Ummm.... chaud...summer?

Do you know of MC Solar and I am?

Where am I touring this summer?

Is that the French stuff that you have?

Yes. Yeah.

(Translation, shortened version) A couple of big jazz festivals in France and...we tour every day. Every day a new town ...it's really a ball...the first album was really electronic and then I started touring and everything changed, because it all became very tiring, you know. And I'm sure it very much influenced this album, you understand?

MC Solar was part of a very interesting French Hip Hop movement in the very beginning. That's why they lasted so long...they were discovered because of their originality. What made them known was this very strong identity and originality and ... it's something to be proud of. (Sound of toilet flushing)

Down Under Beats Crew Dave Williams spoke with DJ Codeks for the latest on this emerging Hip Hop Crew from the Blue Mountains.

So, what's it like growing up in the Blue Mountains?

Definitely been good having a bit of contact to nature ... but at the same time, it's a pretty isolated place and so you have to be pretty selfmotivated, track down action, but overall it's a ... pretty supportive community for the arts and music. And our parents have been pretty active in the music and arts scene in The Blue Mountains.

Congratulations on (your debut album) 'Hiphoperation' and being Unearthed. It must be unfolding for you now. What's it feel like?

Cheers. It's been a really big thing for the crew.

Coming from The Blue Mountains, we're a bit regionalised and haven't had the access to the city other Hip Hop crews would, but its given us the opportunity to play alongside some of our favourite Hip Hop acts and given us the opportunity to get our album out there which is a real positive.

How much of your music do you record and how much do you sample?

It's a combination process. Being Hip Hop production, a lot of it is sample based production, but DJ Platterpush is a bass player as well and a lot of our bass production is due to his bass talents. i play the guitar myself and quite often sample our own instrumentation, but generally our production is pretty sample based ... I like to keep it an ode to the original Hip Hop production aesthetics. I find if we deviate too much into our own instrumentation ... sometimes lose the Hip Hop sund we're after.

all studying electronic arts at uni and majoring in music technology. So we spend part of the week there, studying at uni and the rest doing our Hip Hop production and rehearsal and stuff at home.

Did you guys meet at uni or where did you get together?

Through the Hip Hop scene in The Blue Mountains. We come from slightly different mountains. Platterpush, myself and MC Immune come from the upper mountains and Dialectrix comes from the lower mountains and ... just met at Hip Hop meets.

What was it like recording at Rub A Dub Studio?

Well, Rub A Dub is our homebase of Down Under Beats Crew and it gives us the opportunity to record in our own space without any commercial pressures or anything.

We had to do it in periods. We'd storm it for two weeks and then ... go off into our lives for three weeks and then we'd come back an storm it for two weeks ... but all up, a year and a half process, including mastering and that sort of thing.

Who writes the lyrics?

It's a combination process, but all the music is written by DJ Platterpush and myself, DJ Codeks and then all the lyrics is up to the MC's, Immune, Dialectrix and Joe New. So, they exclusively write their lyrics, but sometimes it's a cross-influence thing. They might come up with a lyrical idea and then present that to us as Producers and then we'll try and come up with the music that supports that idea or the theme their trying to express. And other times they might just like the groove of one of our beats and start freestyling and take it from there.

Local, national and international bands Live music 7 nights a week

So, where is that? Your loungeroom or your bedroom?

Lunch 12-2pm, Wed - Sun Dinner 6 - 9:30 every night

It's in our house. We've got a studio section in our house at Katoomba. it's the pride and joy of the crew. Keeps us all busy.

Why did you form your own record label?

Aren't there enough out there ... ?

Just found it the only way to get our stuff out there and also(we) want to maintain a certain amount of independance with what we do. With Hip Hop production you've got unique opportunities to maintain some of your independence and then, also ... we didn't think we had a market to chase up label investment into our product and (we) want to build up our product organically. We're pretty committed to staying independent for the long haul.

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by David Williams

Rainer Truby What have you been doing lately?

Taking care of my little son, djing a lot here and there, doing two remixes with the Trüby Trio, one for Rosalia De Souza “Fica Mal Com Deus” which will come out on Schema Records soon and another one for the newly-signed project out Of Freiburg, Intuit (Compost Records), a remix of “Planet Birth”. In the pipeline there also is the Trüby Trio remix album which will be released on Compost later this year.

music, too.

Some big names in the DJ world, like LTJ Bukem and Gilles Peterson,list you as their favourite DJ. Who is your favourite DJ and why?

I´ve been really influenced by Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge from the UK but there are so many good Djs these days so I find it a bit difficult to pick one.

What is your process when in production?

Are there any overall trends in the European dance music scene?

Electronic music with an 80s touch is still quite big in Europe these days. When it gets too dark I´m not really feeling it so I´m trying to stick to the soulful side of things.

What have you got planned for your shows in Australia?

---(over already) I really enjoyed the 3 shows in Australia. I hope people had a good time.)

The three of us just jam in our Munich studio, messing around with beats, samples, and harmonies. After that we try and get musicians or even vocalists involved which usually help to get the soul into the whole thing.

Then we try and check the sound of the productions on a big system in a club. If we dig it, we just release it the way it is, if not we have to lock ourselves in the studio again and put some finishing touches on the tracks.

Where do you source your samples or do you create original melodies?

What do you know about the Australian electronic music scene?

There are quite a few talents down under. I´m really into this label called Equatorial Records. A 12” by Los Cabrones featuring a great No Comply remix.

Another really good series are the Local People 12”es featuring a lot of soulful talents.

How did you become interested in the jazz sound?

When started in 1997 we were a bit more sample-orientated whereas these days we rather work with musicians and vocalists to create original melodies. Sometimes we still use a sample for inspiration but then we skip it and try to do it in our own way.

What does success mean to you?

Success means to be happy. I´m very happy to have been able turning my hobby into my profession. It pays the rent and that´s great.

What are your main goals for the future?

Via the samples that were used in Hip Hop I got into old Jazz, Soul and Funk from the 70s. After listening to a few Gilles Peterson radio shows, I really digged straight ahead 60s Jazz and Latin Jazz as well. After that I fell in love with Brazilian

To continue to be happy.....

Reason David Williams caught up with Reason to have a chat about his new album”One Step Ahead” Politics seems to play a role in your music, how important is it to you and do you really think it's entertaining?

Highly important to me. Not aligned to any political party , but we are ruled by these types of forces and, unfortunately, some of them impact with our everyday lives and the type of lives we want to lead. I feel it's very important from a HIp Hop perspective because Hip Hop is about trying to spread a message and it's a great opportunity to be able to do it.

If techno is for dancing and heavy metal is for headbanging, what is Hip Hop for? is there a political role for Hip Hop? Hip Hop is about a sense of community, appealing as an individual and appearing as an individual. Hip Hop people aren't ruled by prerequisites or looking at the way it was once done. We try and create and recreate all the time. At the end of the day, Hip Hop is for the everyday person who has a passion for social issues and partying and a whole lot of diverse activities.

Cangratulations on the new album, One Step Ahead. What were your goals when you went into production with that?

I really tried to, in the context of previous releases, make this one a bit more acceptable to a wider audience, and in doing so, kind of, refined my lyrical content and try to focus it more on a global perspective rather than make Hip Hop for a particular taste, as such. Really wanted to make it appealing to a wider audience and in doing so, making sure that, not only the music, but the lyrical content was (received) by the people out there, the everyday people out there who, kind of, want to listen to what someone's got to say.

Will you be releasing a single from that or will you be promoting it as an album?

by David Williams No, we have plans for two singles off that actually. The first single will be coming out at the end of August, early September, and it's going to be "Have You Ever".

And why did you release through Obese Records? is it that larger labels are ignoring Hip Hop and concentrating on Rock?

Obese Records started in the mid nineties ... and I was the first artist signed to the label ... I have no interest in dealing with people outside of Obese records. mainly, we knocked on their door for so many years, our formula hasn't changed all that much and they weren't very receptive to us, so I'd rather work with people who have a passion for what I'm trying to do.

Apart from the accent, how does Aussie Hip Hop differ from other countries?

Aussie Hip Hop makes a concerted effort to appeal to a local audience. I don't think a lot of people in Australia are aiming for a world wide market. I think we see enough health in our own music scene here to try and make music for our local audiences. in doing so, a lot of the content is very relevenat to the everyday lifestyle here in Australia. So, to rap about "bling" and doing stuff on "4th Ave" and sporting gold chains .. not really Australian. I think the average Aussie knows that is not representative of what we're trying to do. We try and make it sound Australian. We just try and be ourselves and in doing so, hopefully, invoke an Australian sound.

Ok. With tags like "veteran" of the Aussie Hip Hop scene and, you've been doing this for something like 17 years, what keeps you motivated?

Hip Hop has inspired me from an early age, taught me a lot of moral values, taught me a lot

of ways in which I can better my life through the wrongs that I did in the past and by living those types of ideologies, enabling me to grow as a person. I'd be nowhere without it and, very much, it comes with my everyday lifestyle.

Did you get into a bit of trouble when you were a young lad?

Look, I've been expelled from schools. i've been in trouble with the police . I left home when I was 14. One thing that I maintained through all that hard time and adversity I was going through, was my education. I wasn't going to go out like a sucker and get in trouble, go through the detention system and progress to nowhere.

I had aims and goals I wanted to achieve and it kept me nice and focussed. Even though, I still enjoy going out, having fun. Throughout my life I've enjoyed quite an active lifestyle, I'm very focussed on my day job.

Bangin Beats Tassie’s DJ Ari

Ari’s a bit of a jack-of-all-trades. He DJ’s, MC’s and can beat box like only a wild man should. He enters pretty much any competition that has the remotest whiff of hip-hop, and more often than not, wins. His DJ’ing styles have earned him some not so bad support gigs. You probably haven’t heard of any of these crew but I’ll drop a few names anyway.

He’s supported Hilltop Hoods……… ring any bells? Ever heard of Dexter? Ari was there too.

He’s also supported Mark B and Delta and very recently, Bias B and Bigfoot.

So I guess Ari’s doing all right then. But did you know Ari also makes one of the meanest bloody sushi hand rolls in town. I can’t say where though, coz of the DJ privacy act which was put in place in Hobart about 30 seconds ago. I did have a chat to him though, so I’ll tell you what I got out of him.

(Huw): “Ari, how are you?”

(Ari): “Good thanks. You?” (Huw): “I’m good too. Seems like your keep’n busy with all things ghetto. So you won the August MC battle (under the name MC dribble on the mic), and you also won the Beat Box battle earlier this year. Can we expect to see you in the DJ Battle on October 15th.”

Reason on October 8th and I play at ‘On Point’.

Apart from that I’m saving like mad to get equipment so I can start making beats.”

(Huw): “Awesome, have you thought about where would you might wanna take that ambition?”

(Ari): “I really wanna go over sea’s at some point and get mad inspired, and just go nuts producing music. I’m so keen, I’m almost fu#@’n bursting. Music/hip-hop is such a big part of my life, I really wanna make a living out of it. That’s my dream.”

(Huw): “That’s great dude. With an attitude like that, and skillz I know that you’ve got.

You’ll bloody get there. Aussie battler, remember that shit!”

(Ari): “See what happens. In the mean time, I’m just staying focused on what’s in front of me.”

(Huw): “Good attitude bro. I know this is a little of topic but I’ve gotta ask. I saw this ad on TV where this little peeing tom kid is watching 2 people hugging through the window of their lounge room. I can’t remember what the ad is for, but the guy in it looks identical to you. Is it you? Are you the fella getting peeped on?”

(Ari): “Nah it’s not me. I’ve had a few people ask though. I should charge them for royalties or something.”

(Ari): “Yeah, I’ll probably enter it. It sounds like fun, and I usually go to all the hip-hop nights anyway.”

(Huw): “Totally. Well, nice one mate. You’ve got your head screwed on and I wish you all the best with getting o/s and doing your thing. Any shout out’s?”

(Huw): “Have you got any other gig’s coming up?”

(Ari): “Shout out’s to anyone who needs to be shouted out too that I can’t think of right now!”

(Ari): “I’ll be one of the local supports for

(Huw): “That’s the spirit. See ya Ari.”

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by Huw Joseph (Huw): “Hey Al. How ya going?”

(Al): “Hey Huw, I’m awesome bro. We’re just kick’n in the sun, watching some footy.”

(Huw): “Nice one. Wish I was in the sun, it’s god damn freezing down here. Not to put you off coming though.”

(Al): “Nah, it’s all good.”

Good Buddha are going to be heading down South for a couple of Tazzie shows in November.

They’ve just released their debut LP ‘Futurhistrix’ and will be touring the country.

They’re heading our way to play gigs at the Saloon Bar in Launceston on Thursday the 5th November and at Huon Quays in Hobart on Friday the 6th November.

They’ve played and collaborated with so many rad artists. Some of the shit I love are crew like Resin Dogs (Hydrofunk smashes it), TZU, The Herd, Katalyst, just to name a few.

So you get the picture of this album, Al Young (vox, keys, guitars, bass) told me they where trying to bridge the gap between hip-hop and old funk with this one.

(Huw): “Yeah rad, that’s gonna be tight. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a live act do that. So what else are you guys doing? Tell us a bit about Good Buddha.”

(Al): “Well we’ve just finished a video clip for ‘Face The Music’, It’s gonna be blow out, it looks hot.

Because we’re on an independent we had hardly any money to do it, but we just do it for the love anyway. Wait till you see it bro, it’s awesome.”

(Huw): “I really like the album Al, I noticed you guys had some pretty interesting inspirations listed. Jimi Hendrix, Monkey Magic, ACDC, James Brown, Russel Coight, heaps of hip-hop acts and then Brazilian soccer.”

(Huw): “When’s it out?”

(Al): “Yeah, they all had an impact in one way or another. Russel Coight makes me laugh, that’s cool.”

(Huw): “Living the lifestyle bro!”

(Huw): “Gotta love Russ!”

(Huw): “Alright Al, thanks for the chat.

Everyone is definitely vibed to come and rock out at your show. I guess we’ll catch you soon.

Have fun with the rest of the tour.”

(Al): “That’s it. We really wanted to bridge the gap between hip-hop and old funk with this album. So we have a lot of inspiration coming from everywhere. We work really hard making everything original, we always loop our own recordings and the drums are live. Gett’n funky and fun but always hip-hop.”

I really like these guy’s, they have a really different sound. You can tell there’s heaps going on production wise and you get the feeling they could be a very influential Aussie crew to bring something different.

(Huw): “I noticed that all of you guys seem to play a shit load of instruments. What kind of live set can all the TAZ heads look forward to seeing for their hard earned dole checks?”

I spoke to Al about a few things and picked his brain about the Buddha. Here it is ladies and gents!

(Al): “Man, we love play’n live. We’ve got the full live percussion/rhythm section, a female singer. We play live sets like a DJ set, we flow the whole thing.

We decided we don’t like the idea of stopping and starting, so we just keep the beats rolling.”

(Al): “Probably be end of October. Yeah but apart from that I’m a mad soccer fiend, and if we’re not playing music we’re basically just chilling.”

(Al): “That’s it.”

(Al): “Thanks Huw, we’re all excited to hit Hobart.

I’ve heard it’s amazing down there. Looking forward to it.”

H o b a r t V s M e l b o u r n e - Tu r n t a b l e B a t t l e !

Hobart is about to host the first round of full fledged war between Hobart and Melbourne on Saturday October 23rd at Mobius in Hobart.

(Matt Hofman): “Always, I love Tazzie. This will be the 3rd gig I’ve played out there this year, and the Tassie locals always seem to blow me away, always keen to party!”

Some of Melbourne’s finest breakbeat DJ’s have been out to Tazzie recently, and word has spread that some of the local heads out here had some skillz ie; SpinFX, Adam Turner, Seb, amongst others. So some crew came together and thought……….. “Lets smash it up and see what Tazzie is all about.”

(Huw): “How do you feel about going up against SpinFX?” (Matt): “SpinFX is a great Dj, I saw him tear shit up last time I was there, he had me dancing away to his top tunes and A1 skills, so I am a bit nervous. But I have been diggin for the most dirtiest and slammin breaks there are and have loaded myself up with some of the freshest unrealesed weaponry around, So I’m sure I will be able to hold my own!!”

So, lucky for us, the first round is in Hobart and we can get behind our lads and support them before the battle heads to the mainland.

I had a chance to catch up with a couple of the DJ’s coming out from Melbourne to see if they’re scared or cocky as f….k!

Apparently there’s a bit of both going on.

The line up is: (hob) Seb 9pm – 10.30pm (melb) Benzai 10.30pm – 12pm (hob) Adam Turner versus Shane Ford(melb) 12pm – 2.30pm (hob) SpinFX versus Matt Hofman(melb) 2.30pm til close.

The ‘versus’ battles consist of the DJ’s playing a few records each continuously for the whole set, work’n each other.

(SF): “He’s played down there a couple of times and has been good friends with Nic (Ruffcut) for the last couple of years. Loves his progressive but has started getting into breaks a bit more lately. He’s got a couple of aces up his sleeve and he’s a really tight dj but you’ll have to come and check him out on the night.”

(Huw): “Wicked Shane. Everyone down here is pumped and I know this will be a crazy party. Thanks for the chat guys, we’ll catch ya down here on October 23rd.”

(SF): Yeah, it’s gonna be a great night, we’ve all been diggin’ hard for this and I know Taz will give us a run for our money. Fully psyched!!”

(Matt): “Thanks mate, catch ya soon. Werd Up Hobart, we’re coming for you.”

There it is crew. You have to come and get behind your local DJ’s and see some nasty action as they get crazy against some of Melbourne’s best. Saturday October 23rd at Mobius.

(Huw): “Very TuFF… Shane, what’s going on for you? Have you ever been to TAZ before?

Are you pumped for this shit?”

(Shane Ford): “Fully pumped, I’ve heard heaps about the scene and I’m looking forward to getting amongst it. I hear Adam’s got skills and it’s been a while between drinks for me (too busy/lazy to practice) so I’ll be having a cram session before I go down there so I’m not left behind – s’posed to be representin the mainland after all” (Huw): “The mainland. I love how it’s referred to as almost another country. Tazzweigans have had a pretty hard wrap for a while, so I hope you‘re prepared for the locals to get behind their lads and see em bang it out.”

Spinfx vs Hoffy

Crazy Shit!!!!!!!!!!

Between Benzai, Matt and Shane, they have played along major acts like Infusion, Nubreed, Phil K, Soul Of Man, Luke Chable, Alex Patterson(orb), Scrambler, Chris Carter, DJ Ransom, Kosheen and a shit load more. So this is what the Melb’s punks had to say!

(SF): “ Yeah, so long as they don’t throw full cans of Cascade at us I think we’ll get along just fine.”

(Huw): “Shit Bro, no one can afford to waste a full can down here, you’ll be fine.”

(SF): “I won’t need to bring a helmet then?”

(Huw): “Matt, how are ya mate. Are you pumped to come out to Tazzie and smash it up against the locals.”

(Huw): “Maybe bring it for fun anyway. So what’s up with Benzai?”

Adam Turner vs Shane Ford

Cougar Premix. now in ready to drink glass Let Cougar put the growl back in your fun!

Eric Powell @ The Saloon

by Shane Now I don’t know if that was s’pose to happen or not, but is sounded shithouse and the whole room went WHOA!.

And it all just went fucked after that, The sound system was distorting like a bitch and sounded unbearable, luckily not as bad as the noise you had to walk through downstairs on the way to the toilet.

Eric Powell did sound good and it was clear that he was having difficulties and if it was at a better location it may have sounded really good.

The Saloon is just not the place, it really spoiled the event and I left feeling I’d rather had stayed home.

I was a little dubious about the location of this event, but I thought, ìno go along it could wind up being great.

Ha, makes me laugh...

Arrived at the Saloon close to 12pm, only to then have to pass through the main room where some particularly bad karaoke was hitting the stage. Upstairs was sounding much better upon approach, the environment looked more relaxed, if a little empty.

Some nice sounds were being mixed by Simon C and the crowd was starting to get into it. As Eric Powell entered the booth the pace was really starting to build and so was the human presence on the dance floor.

Just as Powell was peaking a big build up, something happened, really bad too.... the sample dropped out and some other random shit started playing.

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Maroon 5 Jo Jo Nelly Seether Usher Missy Higgins Ashlee Simpson Hilary Duff

She Will Be Loved Leave (GET OUT) My Place / Flap Your Wings Broken Confessions Part II SCAR (EP) Pieces Of Me Our Lips Are Sealed

TOP 8 SINGLES / NET TOP 50 Carus & The True Beleivers Evermore Kischasy Something With Numbers Eskimo Joe Little Birdy Gyroscope Greenday

01. Ain’t No Crime 02. It’s Too Late 03. Reminder 04. Against The World 05. Older Than You 06. Beautiful To Me 07. Confidence08.

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TOP 8 SINGLES Danzel Shapeshifters Sylver Beam Commander Tom Beatheadz Dj Sammy Simon & Kitty PO

01. Pump It Up 02. Lola’s Theme 03. Love Is An Angel 04. Amun 05. Attention 06. Razzia 07. Rise Again 08. Dreams

TOP 40 Girls Aloud Nelly Jo Jo Greenday Brian McFadden 3 of a Kind Donny Osmund Twista

01. Love Machine 02. My Place 03. Leavel 04. American Idiot 05. Real To Me 06. Baby Cakes 07. Breeze on By 08. Sunshine

Hermitude HOTTEST 100 Terror Squad Lil Flip Feat Lea Ciara Feat Petey Pablo Nelly feat Jaheim Kivin Lyttle Juvenile Christina Millian Ashlee Simpson

01. Lean Back 02. Sunshine 03. Goodies 04. My Place 05. Turn Me On 06. Slow Motion 07. Dip it Low 08. Pieces Of Me

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01. Slow Hands 02. A Decade 03. American Idiot 04. Killers 05. Somebody told Me 06. The New Kid 07. Walk Idiot walk 08. Fit But Dont You Know It

Interpol Taking Back Sunday Greenday Guided By Voices Killers Old 97’s Hives Streets

Simon’s Reccomended Destroy Rock & Roll Heath Durden EP Breaks 04 Six Feet Above Yesterday Automato Styles EP

Mylo Durden Kid Kenobi Infusion Automato Styles

Ruffcut Recommended Albums 01. All Out War 02. Flowers in the Pavement 03. One Step Ahead 04. A Hero’s Turf 05. Milk Me 06. Distant Sense of Random Menace 07. Showtime 08. Sunset Scavenger

Turntable Jedi’s Bliss n Eso Reason After Hours The Beatnuts Urth Boy Dizee Rascal DJ Zeph

Triple J's Home and Hosed presents The Splendid Menace Tour featuring URTHBOY & OZI BATLA (THE HERD) and HERMITUDE.

The two groups are recognised across Australia as being some of the tightest most engaging live acts in the music scene, not just the hip hop scene.

Celebrating the release of Urthboy's debut album 'Distant Sense of Random Menace' out now through Elefant Traks/Inertia, Urthboy is heading out on the road with label-mates Hermitude.

The lads are coming to Hobart the same weekend as Bliss N Eso, so can we maybe expect an all out f..k off show with all these crazy heads getting together and smashing it up?

Heading around the country from Adelaide to Brisbane and Sydney to Melbourne and HOBART (on the 21st of October at The Venue).

I’ve been told at both ends …………Maybe!

The two groups combine a top notch level of musicianship with finely honed mic and turntable skills to perform entertaining, dynamic sets.

Keep your eye’s peeled people, for some crazy shit coming our way.

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LIFE BYTES DVD

‘Starsky & Hutch’

‘Barbershop2’

‘On the Attack - The Cat Empire’

‘Van Helsing’

After their hilarious last movie together “Zoolander” I was curious to see how Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson would go tackling the remake of the 70’s cop show Starsky and Hutch. The film starts with the pairing up of the two cops Starsky (Ben Stiller) as the straight down the line righteous cop and Hutch the much more laid back and kinda cool guy who is willing to bend the rules a bit.

Barber Shop 2 follows on from the hilarious Barber Shop starring Ice Cube. The film again depicts the little guy's struggle for survival and is loaded with references to the black American struggle of the 50s & 60s. The opening credits visually outlines the history of the black American, from Martin Luther King, Mohummad Ali to Michael Jackson and the transformations that have occurred in modern history of the black man.Once again we see the familiar faces of Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Leonard Earl Howze and the gang of barbers. The same slinging matches and one up verbal tussles pop up through the film with some added conflict surrounding love and healthy competition.Calvin's (Ice Cube) barber shop is again in danger of closure, threatened not only by Calvin financial difficulties, but also with Nappy Cuts, a hair cut chain, opening across the road. This is part of a larger development proposal that is threatening the livelihoods and homes of many black community members and we are taken through the new black American struggle for survival.Barber Shop 2 is an entertaining flick made special by Cedric the Entertainer's wise-cracking, half legible chatter and is certainly worth a couple of hours on a rainy day.

The Cat Empire's ON THE ATTACK dvd is a great mix of music with funk and soul for a bunch of white boys. In true Aussie cruisin' and musing style their touring antics are revealed to their music. Felix Riebl (vocals) croons and raps with style and grace throughout the dvd and shows off his and the band's versatility. These talented musicians have filmed their US and UK tours and as we are taken through their sets, we see the audiences rockin' out hard. These boys obviously live to play music. Whether it is one handed trumpet jams by Harry Angus or double bass brilliance by Ryan Monro, their musicality will impress.

From the outset let me just say that I liked this movie. It is bright and flashy and doesn?t require any brainpower at all, but then I was rather stoned when I saw it.

Their first mission involves the two uncovering a massive cocaine sale masterminded by a druglord Reese Feldman (Vince Vaugn) With the help of a police informant named Huggy Bear (Snoop Dogg), Starsky and Hutch work together to bring down the druglord.

With lots of laughs the whole way through, and some really cool American muscle car stunts this movie is a definite must see.

Crazy little interview clips of the guys talking about the tours, about themselves and their progressions give us some brilliant insight into the band. They all seem to be in awe of each others' many talents and none is limited to one skill. They believe in the power of live music and the magic that can arise from it, and this dvd says it all.

F1 04 - Game Review for 2004 with one of those being the career mode.

This mode joins World Championship, Arcade and single race but it is the career mode which gives it the depth required to keep it running on your console longer then previous titles.

World Championship allows you to take control of one of the official drivers and fight for the title across all the tracks, while arcade is very much a Daytona style game where you get congratulated for passing moves and its more dodgem' cars then proper racing.

The Career mode is something that the developers have put a large focus on this year and it is very much a welcome addition to the game.

Basically it starts with you beginning as a test driver and working you way slowly up the ranks to be challenging drivers like Schumacher for the title.

There was some apprehension when Sony announced that it had the F1 licence exclusively till 2007. I mean that Sony has proved in the past that it can make great Formula 1 games, and unlike some rival companies who have specialised in the ultimate driving simulations, Sony have stuck to the mainstream formula with an arcade style driving game. This has enabled the developers to an unprecedented level of access to all the teams, drivers, tracks and basically everything to do with Formula 1. As far as complete packages go, Formula 1 2004 is by far the most complete F1 racing game to date.

There are a few notable additions to the game

Don't expect to be racing a Ferrari or BMW quickly as you begin with either Jordan Minardi or Toyota and have to impress the big boys in a few races before being even considered. The career mode is incredibly tough and just like in the real sport, getting a break out of the back end teams can prove to be the toughest area of the game.

Some people will also frown at the fact that Sony has once again gone with arcade style physics. You can run into cars and not get penalized other than damage if it occurs but generally it feels closer to something like Daytona rather than a Grand Prix.

It is clear that this is a game for the mainstream and there is nothing particularly wrong with that other than the fact hardcore fans of the sport

by Matt C really won't get their fix with this game.

The presentation of the game is incredibly slick and as expected it contains all the real world, teams drivers and tracks from the 2004 season.

After each race there is a podium cut scene including the traditional champagne spray. One nice touch is that during hot lap qualifying you can watch the AI drivers on their laps complete with full commentary.

“Basically it starts with you beginning as a test driver and working you way slowly up the ranks to be challenging drivers like Schumacher for the title.”

However the other major addition to the game along with the career mode is the two brand new tracks, which have been added for the 2004 season. This is the first opportunity to see the Chinese track with cars on it and also the first to drive it in a virtual format.

As far as a racing game goes, this is by far the most complete F1 game to date, but that’s just what it is, a game. It’s not a driving simulator; so die-hard sim fans will be disappointed. If you’re a F1 fanatic then you will love it.

Graphics ***** Sound **** Game play *** Multiplayer Yes Overall ***

I was getting the strangest feeling of Déja Vu, until I realised I had seen it all before.

The whole movie is stitched together from the grave-robbed corpses of other plots and characters into some kind of clumsy monster with no brain but huge balls and more cameos than Zoolander, (I particularly liked the scene where Van Helsing is thrown off the belltower of Notre Dame Cathedral by Shrek).

The elderly professor Van Helsing played

by Peter Cushing in numerous 1960?s Hammer Horror movies (and more recently by Anthony Hopkins in Bram Stoker?s Dracula) has been reincarnated as the bastard child of James Bond and Buffy.

The ‘Boy from Oz’ Hugh Jackman plays a monster hunter working for The Vatican, with a license to kill and an arsenal of silly weapons and gadgets.

He’s a tough, plays-by-his-own-rules loner searching for his identity and plagued by vague, disjointed memories of his previous life (re: X-Men).

Kate Beckinsdale plays a leather clad vampire slayer from a dusty old family with dubious ancestry, set against a subplot of werewolf / vampire feudal rivalry (re: Underworld), and the actor playing Dracula is doing his very best Gary Oldman imitation (though he is neither sinister nor tortured and doesn?t even seem particularly interested in drinking blood).

Even Frankenstein?s Monster seems familiar, looking unnervingly like the creature from Young Frankenstein with a lava lamp stuck in his head.

It never pretends to be Lord of the Rings but for what it is, a no-brainer with lots of stunts, CGI and pyrotechnics, gothic castles, mad scientists, sexy vamp chicks, monsters, slime and fangs (but not too much gore for the kiddies), it works great.

The conspicuous gaps in logic, (like why a punch can send someone across the room but not leave a bruise), unexplained behaviour (like why the baddies, given the chance, don?t just gut their enemies like any normal monster would) and the clumsy, obvious plot are all just details.

You ride you out,

go along with it because it?s a fun and because there is a slight chance will see Jackman get his throat ripped (oh please, oh please).

Basically, if you like comics, X-box and special effects but don?t like French expressionist cinema, character development and big words, then you will probably like this flick.

Albums

by Kris, Elle

& Shane

‘Destroy Rock & Roll’ MYLO

‘HARD NRG VOL 6’ John Ferris + Jason Midro

‘Bigbiblove’ Little Birdy

‘Back To Basics’ Beenie Man

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This is a bloody wicked album, nuff said. I had never heard of this guy before so I wasn't sure what I was going to hear. Mylo aka Myles MacInnes was hails from the Isle of Skye in Scotland and as hard as it is to believe, whipped up this genius on his trusty G4.

Another one....

I saw Little Birdy at the Princess Theatre back in June and I thought they were awesome, so getting to hear their debut album was exciting to say the least.

I put the cd on and pressed play... wow, the first ten seconds of the first song was enough to compel me into a complete listen. Rarely does an album do this. Taking some edgy, choppy synth riffs, some thumping beats, interesting vocal samples and mixing them into some great songs. Moving from fast passed disco hits to something smooth, atmospheric and relaxing.

Mixed by a couple of familiar names, John Ferris and Jason Midro, Hard NRG belts out the beats, not really one for a leisurely Sunday drive.

They have a fresh, cruisey sound and Katy Steele's husky vocals add great texture, what a great voice.

Jamaican veteran Beenie Man releases his latest effort Back to Basics as Dancehall continues to see a worldwide resurgence through the success of Shaggy, Sean Paul and the influence it has shown over others like Dizee Rascal. The album strives to integrate mainstream Hip Hop at times displacing it from the initial heyday of Dancehall in the 80’s, although the song Pride and Joy sounds like it belongs in that era, although in the less than desirable quotient of music that came out of the decade.

Makes good alarm clock music though, nothing gets the blood pumping better than 20Hz pummeling you at 250bpm, is there.

The new single, Beautiful To Me is a soft and sweet listen and has a fun video too.

Its good to see someone taking this genre to a new level, sure its been done before but this is better. Take track 5 ñ In My Arms, Mylo takes Kim Carne's ìBetty Davis Eyesî and creates a standout track, one of my fav's.

As always, slick production from the guys.

Some good songs get a spin too.

There isn't much to say about this release really... If you like your dance hard, fast, trashy and HARD then this album is gonna make you hard!

The more you listen the better it gets.

Being said as having a honest, sexy rock sound is evident as the cd plays through.

Their classics have also been included on the album and are always worth a spin A refreshing sound from an Aussie act.

Bold and exciting, definitely one to see live. Gotta hear her voice live... so good.

This is one of the best albums I have heard this year, I highly recommend a listen.

The album has an array of tunes that are well suited to summer scenarios with a drink in your hand and the sun blazing especially the infectious tune Good Woe. There are also some songs that may want to skip right over like Set Away that eventually becomes annoying and reverbs the high sexual content of the album.

Thankfully Beenie Man avoids the traditional homophobic tendencies of dancehall records but at times it still becomes a bit tedious.

Overall the album is best suited to a preprogrammed format that can be set and replayed each time you go to refill that drink of yours with an umbrella in it.

‘Flowers In The Pavement’ Bliss n Eso

‘Six Feet Above Yesterday’ Infusion

‘Head In The Clouds’ Juggernaut

‘Killing Heidi’ Killing Heidi

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Aussie Hip Hop act Bliss n Eso put out their first full length album Flowers in the Pavement, displaying the reason they won the ‘best hip hop act’ at the MusicOz awards in 2003. The album begins with a great intro, Evolution indicating the listener is for more tunes than idle chit chat all too common on albums these days.

Immediately, you recognise the skills of DJ Izm that complement the duo’s obscure lyrics that continue to impress throughout.

Australian electronic trio Infusion put forth their second full length album Six Feet Above Yesterday to complement the large catalogue of 12’ singles that they have churned out since the mid 90’s. The trio have developed a large following throughout the world and have hit success with the release of the single Girls Can Be Cruel, contained within.

Sydney band Juggernaut release their latest EP ‘Head in the Clouds’, building on their recent success and inclusion on soundtracks for films The Sixth Element, a biography of the surfing legend Ross Clarke Jones (for which a CD Rom trailer is included) and the collective Channel [V] DVD chronicling the Billabong DeTour where they provide some of the backtrack sounds accompanying the skateboarders and additional acts contained therein.

Killing Heidi is making a well deserved killing from their self titled, third album. With the success of their hit song I Am from Spiderman 2 and the recent release of Calm Down, Killing Heidi has simplified musically and they are being rewarded.

Throwing in odd references like blowin’ smoke with Gandalf alongside the oft required sexual references and self promotion of hip hop albums, the duo interlace their lyrics in great fashion with Izm’s broad range of samples and backbeats, sounding like Cypress Hill on one Track, Kool Keith on another while carving out their own niche. Even using non-funk beats on ‘Hip Hop Blues’ hit the mark creating a great follow up album to their EP The Arrival of four years ago.

Having honed their skills opening for acts like The Roots, Jurassic 5 & Blackalicious, expect this act to be headlining local shows, while they continue to explore diverse genres and lyrical stylings. The CD also contains extras like a visual; freestyle, additional track and crew bios educating the listener further.

The album offers a step away from the traditional electronic sound that some may associate with the group, but also shows a willingness to experiment and not work within boundaries.

There is an ever-present grinding guitar on the album on many tracks, evident immediately on the opening track Better World, in conjunction with Manuel Sharads vocals.

There are also purely synth sounds on the album like Rattlewasp and mixed sounds like We Follow. I Fly to level out the industrial sound of many tracks, creating an interesting blend that should please those who have seen the band live in a sweaty dance floor environment yet still offer surprises with the somewhat new direction for Infusion with the inclusion of more instruments than previously utilised.

The band, originally known as Juice who opened for acts like Radiohead, Silverchair and The Tea Party, are most comparable to Soundgarden through driving guitar riffs and solid bass lines and drumming accompanying the vocal stylings of brother duo Krishna & Amarnath Jones.

The EP is a good sampling of the progressive talents of the band, with a Brit based rhythm section.

Coupled with the guitar wielding talents, the album merits a visit and provides insight into the likelihood of a great live show. The title track will likely be the first song to stick in your head, but the EP as a whole offers a range for all listeners who will likely be able to find traces of favourite acts of recent years.

Ella Cooper's rich vocals have matured into smooth and sexy notes which sway from her lips and the band has come a long way from their first album Reflector.

The first three songs, I am, Not for Me and Way Home are followed safely with the remainder of the album.

Killing Heidi's sound continues along rock lines and with a bit of spunk on the side. Ella's distinctive voice is soundly backed up by her brother and the boys, all of whom are still young and have real potential to be one of Australia's great rock bands with time.

This well rounded, self-titled album pumps out the Killing Heidi sounds we have all come to recognise. Some of the tunes are pretty straight forward rock riffs, but mixed with the articulated Ella Hooper, the album offers both cruisin' and some bruisin' tunes that anyone who enjoys rock 'n' roll will appreciate.

Four Wheel For Real…

‘All-4-Adventure’ 4wd Motorbike Tours in Coles Bay by Got up early today. We’re taking a day trip out of the city to go 4 wheeling at Coles Bay. Gotta leave at 9am from Hobart to make it there by 11.30am...I had to get my mate to busta move when I went to pick him up, cause he’s scared of motorbikes and was hiding in his Pj’s.

Rob &

Joe

I have ridden motorbikes before - my mate hasn’t. Still, we both found it really easy to get the hang of. Our speed gradually increased as we began our journey.

We were heading to a lookout at Cape Tourville. It took about half an hour. A few lumps and bumps on the way up, but that is what 4wd is all about.

Expecting a boring 2-hour trip. We soon found ourselves entertained by Tazzie’s no: 1 asset.

Beautiful scenery! By the time we rocked up, my mate was shit scared of the machinery I was about to force him to ride through the country side.

As soon as you rock into Coles Bay, the first thing you see are the 4wd motorbikes, so we found Tim (From All-4-Adventure) and then he introduced us to Adam, who was to be our guide for the day.

It was an awesome spectacle, with huge panoramic views of Freycinet Peninsular and Wineglass Bay. This is real deal Tassie, watchin the sea mist roll’n over the granite mountain peaks. Rain or shine, you will be amazed by the forces of nature.

We had a chat with our guide about local secrets and fun things to do, and we where blown away by the large granite chunks coming out of the ocean.

Couldn't have met a nicer bloke. He gave us a quick safety demo and took us around a training course with some f#%k off huge puddles that proved we were ready for the road.

This vain of granite runs all the way to Melbourne and has spectacular colour changes when it meets the ocean.

So we decided to go check out the ocean.

We jumped on the bikes and booted down the track, eventually finding our way to a little in-cove, where we got off the bikes and poked about the beach check’n out all the nooks and crannies.

If we didn't have to go back to the city, we would of camped out next to All-4-Adventure and ridden dem bitch’s every day! Five stars!

Then we got back on the bikes and picked up the pace a bit. By then we were fully comfortable with how the bikes handled. We headed over hills and through gullies bouncing along through the bush.

(1.) 2 hour Adventure. Departing up to 3 times a day at 8am-11.30am and 3pm.

Price: $90 p/p.

We were eager to have our next spectacular date with nature. So we were fully spewin when we realised that our 2-hour tour was over.

All 4 Adventure have 3 different 4wd motorbike tours to choose from.

(2.) Half-Day Explorer. Departing daily at 8.30am. Price: $160 p/p (3.) Twilight Tour. (Available from December through to April) Departing at 6.30pm. Price: $60 p/p Contact Tim @ ‘All-4-Adventure’ on 0438 509 022/6257 0018.

Book review

by David Williams "Fornication emphasises the merit of the Chilis' later work as well as their early, much-lauded oeuvre...however Apter has plumbed the depths of the [band's] LA background. Fornication is worth the time and investment."

Record Collector October 2004 *** 3 Star Review Uncut Magazine How can a band that started as a joke become one of music’s most unstoppable forces? These sonic soulmates have endured death, addictions, an unstable line-up and have still managed to produce some of the most vital rock ‘n roll of the past three decades. Here is the extreme story of the indestructible LA group from their days as funk-loving punks wearing little more than smirks to their current status as one of America’s top-selling bands.

Despite an epic reputation for exhibitionism, drug taking and drunkenness, through it all the Chili Peppers have continued to produce records that shock, challenge and intrigue their fans.

Jeff Apter tells the complete Red Hot Chili Peppers story, from their first meeting at a Los Angeles high school to the creation of such career-defining albums as BloodSugarSexMagik, Californication and

By The Way.

The Golden Age Ta s m a n i a n T h e a t r e Set in Tasmania during the period 1939-1946, it follows the events that result from the discovery by two university students of a lost ‘tribe’ of Europeans in Tasmania’s southwest wilderness.

The few remaining members of the ‘tribe’ are descendants of a group of utopians, escaped convicts, adventurers and dreamers who fled a nineteenth-century colonial civilisation they found wanting. The group’s matriarch takes the opportunity of this chance meeting to lead her dwindling tribe out of the wilderness, but upon arrival back in ‘civilisation’ they are immediately put into detention in New Norfolk Asylum to hide them from publicity, and to avoid any possibility that they may be used to confirm Nazi eugenics.

Francis, one of the discoverers of the group and himself a social ‘outsider’, becomes infatuated with the tribe’s charismatic young Betsheb, and we follow their relationship against the backdrop of World War Two and the tribe’s incarceration.

The Golden Age Louis Nowra’s The Golden Age - Challenging, Confronting and Thought-Provoking Theatre As part of the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of Launceston’s Three River Theatre, the Company will stage Louis Nowra’s The Golden Age. Directed by Stan Gottschalk, designed by Garry Greenwood and with a talented cast of sixteen, it promises to be an unforgettable theatrical experience.

In 1984, a Monash academic told Nowra a story of how a strange group of people was discovered in the wilds of Tasmania just before the Second World War. Fascinated and inspired by the tale, Nowra crafted this remarkable play.

At its core, The Golden Age is about culture and belonging, and Nowra uses the device of presenting us with those who do not fit with the prevailing culture – outcasts – in order focus our thoughts. But just as with the mental patients of Così, Nowra does not provide us with simplistic views of ‘sane’ and ‘mad’, or ‘right’ and ‘wrong’.

The Golden Age is not some naive plea for society to return to Rousseau’s state of noble savagery; Nowra instead uses the tribe to sharpen our perceptions of what might be missing in our own culture. And ultimately, the measure of our worth as a society is how we treat people, be they insiders or outcasts. As Francis sums it up, ‘…we’d sooner …block our ears and pretend we can’t hear the cry of pain.

If we heard that cry, then our sense of ourselves would be deeper, then we shall have reached home’.

Unfortunately, it is a lesson that we as a society, and indeed as a world, have still to learn.

Fornication includes the never-before-told story of the debacle that was the Peppers debut album from the band?s attempts to sabotage the sessions to their producer?s collapse from testicular cancer, and his refusal to surrender the finished tapes.

The legendary "turd in the box" incident is related by the unfortunate victim of the prank.

As a former band member reveals, the band prowled the back alleys of Detroit in the quest for crack cocaine while recording Freaky Styley with George Clinton, which would then be consumed in vast quantities.

The overdose death of guitarist Hillel Slovak is documented in intimate, heartbreaking detail, as told by one of the first people to arrive at the death scene, as well as his girlfriend at the time.

Sydney based author Jeff Apter is the former music editor of the Australian Rolling Stone. He is the author of Tomorrow Never Knows: The Silverchair Story.

Fornication The Red Hot Chili Peppers Storyr will be published in Australia on October 13th, by Omnibus Press.

SPOTLIGHT EXHIBITIONS Josh Foley Opening 30th september. Guest speaker, Sir red dot.

Exhibition dates: 30th sept to 25th Oct Highfield Gallery, 68 Elizabeth st, Launceston Exhibition title: Josh Foley - The Wit of Painting According to Josh, the paintings in this exhibition explore the ironies that surround the contemporary painter. It takes up the challenge set by Installation which is constantly questioning the inadequcies of traditional art forms. The works have a surrealist quality yet their development owes more to conceptualism.

Foley has pushed a case with this show for aesthetics and the continuation of that old oil on canvas convention.

SHIPS IN THE NIGHT Works by: Mark Hoban, Teena Benefield and Linda Barker Photographs, Painting and Sculptural works.

Arts Alive Access Space, 178a Charles St. Launceston September 27- October 8, 2004 11am to 5pm Opening: Friday October 1@ 6:30 pm with Poet, Tim Thorne. Music by Allan Williams Once again Teena Benefield, Mark Hoban and Linda Barker are drawn together by their shared intrigue with river and island life.

General Stompin Youth Dance Company AUDITIONS FOR 2005 Sunday 28 November 2004 11AM - 2PM Stompin's studio.

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General C:43 <TALENTtime> 2004 The CATCHMENT43.NET is promoting October 2004 as <TALENTtime> 2004. In line with this venues in ‘The Catchment’ are being encouraged organize events to flush out the latent talent in the Tamar Esk Catchment.

While <TALENTtime> 2004 most obviously relates to the performing arts it need not be restricted to that. The Metz on the corner of St. John’s & York Streets will be organizing a series of events for <TALENTtime> <TALENTtime> 2004 will run from Friday Oct 1 to Sunday Oct 31

Film CAR PARK CINEMA November 5th, 6th & 7th Nov 5 & 6 - Bathurst St Carpark, Hobart Rated M Nov 7 - Princes Square Rated PG To enter a film contact: Kim Reynolds 0402 840 560 Kim Schneiders 0437 003 200

Theatre The Golden Age Presented by Three River Theatre Earl Arts Centre, Launceston Thursday 14 - Saturday 16 at 8pm Saturday 16 at 2pm Wednesday 20 - Saturday 23 at 8pm Adults $20, Conc $15, Groups 10+ $15 Matinee all tickets $15 One Day (2) Earl Arts Centre, Launceston Saturday 30 at 8pm Adults $15, Conc $1 Door sales only

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