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. ISSUE 91 . APR 01 - APR 14 2009 . TASMANIA’S STREET PRESS

good conversation, good company, abandonment; often in the context of socialising while eating, drinking or with music. Quintessentially Irish, also meaning news or gossip, which influences the common expression “What’s the craic?”

Craic noun /pronounced - krack/ Fun, enjoyment,

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SAUCE STICKER WINNER

#91- April 01 to April 14

Contents: 4

Contents / News

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Havana Brown

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The Greenhouse

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Sirca / Coby Grant

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Ben Kweller

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Jimmy Stewart

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VulgarGrad

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Top Shelf

14

Gig Reviews

15

Entertainment Guide

16

Gomez

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CD Reviews

18

Dali & The Paper Band

20

Cinecism

21

Stranger Than Micktion

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Arts

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Arts

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Hot Mods

25

Zzapped

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Fashion

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Contributors: Chris Rattray, Carl Fidler, Glenn Moorehouse, Dane Hunnerup, Nick Hay, Tabitha Fletcher, Tiarne Double, Mick Lowenstein.

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IS THIS YOUR REGO? YOU WIN! If this is your car, email a pic of yourself in front of your rego to competitions@sauce.net.au, with STICKER WINNER in the subject line by Friday 10th of April @ 5pm to win some CDs or DVDs! If you don’t get to us in time, the prize will JACKPOT, so next edition there will be four CDs or DVDs to be won. And so on …

SHADOWS IN THE FOREST Upper Florentine Art Installations at the Still Wild Still Threatened Forest Blockade. Five cutting edge Tasmanian installation artists respond to the threatened forests of the Upper Florentine Valley.

If you’d like to experience contemporary art in this unique forest, containing Myrtle, Sassafras, Celery Top Pine, oldgrowth Eucalyptus, manferns and a diverse understorey bird habitat, the exhibition will be located at the Still Wild Still Threatened blockade site within Forestry Tasmania’s declared exclusion zone.

Therefore, visiting this site may be against the law, and entering this area may result in your arrest and legal prosecution. Full access may be subject to Forestry intervention at times.

If you are willing to risk it, though, drive through New Norfolk, then follow the signs to Lake Pedder.

Approximately 20kms west of Maydena on Gordon River Rd, you will find the Timbs Track car park.

The artwork installations celebrate the extraordinary beauty of this pristine environment, and were made to honor and pay respect to the ‘front-line’ activists and the community of people who support them. The exhibition will be open daily during daylight hours until the 5th of April.

SAUCE, the publisher, as well as the staff of SAUCE and contributors to SAUCE do not endorse or encourage actions which are against the law in Tasmania.

Any action which is taken by an individual who breaches the law is entirely of their own doing, and they must accept, entirely, the consequences, of any legal prosecution, judgement, or if injury is sustained, arising from carrying out an illegal action.

WIN TICKETS TO ORIGINS! Six double passes to see Origins are up for grabs to our loyal SAUCE readers! All you need to do is pop SAUCE TIX in the subject heading of an e-mail containing your name and contact details and fire it off to: originsmob@gmail.com for your chance to win!

Get a SAUCE sticker (email competitions@sauce. net.au with your postal address and CAR STICKER in the subject line if you want one!) and whack it on your vehicle! Check each edition of SAUCE to see if you’ve won. It’s that easy!

The tickets will be for the Friday, April 3 of the musical & theatrical performance pondering the eternal questions of world origins. For more about the show, head to page 23.

0 April 2-4 @ UTAS Studio Theatre, Hobart

PIANO MARATHON The piano marathon at Brookfield Vineyard will soon be upon us, and the team are looking for players to register. To be a part, simply call 6267 2880 to nominate a time slot between midday Friday and 7pm Sunday.

With a number of prizes on offer, and a busker’s bucket out for performers (with a portion going to charity), it also promises to be a great weekend.

0 May 1-3 @ Brookfield Vineyard, Margate STAR TREK PREMIERE TICKETS Calling all trekkies! Tickets for the Australian (and world) premiere of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek went on sale to the public on Monday March 30th, so hurry up and book now!

For those who can make it to Sydney, this is a sci-fi event not to be missed, with Abrams attending as well as the film’s stars Eric Bana, Chris Pine (Smokin’ Aces), Zachary Quinto (Heroes) and Karl Urban (The Bourne 0 www.sydneyoperahouse.com

Congratulations to Ben, who contacted us after seeing his rego in last edition. Ben’s going to receive 2 spanking new CDs.

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LONNIES’ NEW DIRECTION PURE GLAM is a new club night for Launceston, on Thursday nights, at a new-look Lonnies. According to management, it’s all about being glamorous, with something to suit everyone.

Pure Blonde will be on tap (Lonnies’ first beer on tap), making it an affordable night out for those on a budget.

Starting as of the 16th of April, you’ll be able to get 3 drinks for $10 and students will get a discount on the cover charge.

There’s something different about PURE GLAM for the Launceston scene. It’s going to have a look and feel of a mainland or even European club night - new set up, great drink specials and an atmosphere that will rival a Saturday night.

The music will be mainly from DJs – the best of our locals and from around the country. But, there’ll also be bands covering your favourite songs, as well as touring mainland acts.

There will be random ‘spot prizes’ too. While people are lining up to enter, free entry or a drink card will be handed out, to the best dresses and the most

glamorous people. Inside on the dance floor, there’ll be more giveaways, and good times to be had.

To start the night, get ya groove on with R’n’B, to shake your booty, followed by Top 40 dance, and then pure dance music later on. It’s going to be a great party vibe.

If you’re at Uni, look out for DJ sets by resident DJs, COLO & M4L, promoting the nights at both locations.

392 - 394 Elizabeth St. North Hobart Ph: 03 6234 5975

PURE GLAM starts Thursday the 9th of April with special guest Havana Brown, Australia’s #1 female DJ. Doors open at 10pm, Get in early, coz there’s going to be a lot of fun and free stuff straight up.

Go glam! On a Thursday night @ Lonnies, it’ll get you places.

So, get dolled up, put on your jewels and experience PURE GLAM. 0 April 9 @ Lonnies, Launceston WWW.SAUCE.NET.AU

DANCE - AUS // HAVANA BROWN

Get Down! “…If the crowd is open to it - I can go wild...”

Known as the number one female DJ in the country, Havana Brown is back in Tassie to spin her signature sexy RnB sound for clubgoers around the state. We talk to the dance world’s glamorous it girl about what’s in store for 2009 and how girls make the world go ‘round.

How did you get started as a DJ? Well I originally went to the UK to work with the guys of dance group Supafly, who are responsible for the recent hits ‘Lets Get Down’ and ‘Moving Too Fast’. Along with another guy we formed the group Fishbowl. We did quite well, we finished an amazing album and got signed to major record label Polydor but unfortunately not long after, the group came to an end before the release of our first single. This was a pretty disappointing time for me, but I knew I definitely wanted to continue a career in the music industry. It was a blessing in disguise because I started DJing and loved it. One of the guys from Supafly who is international DJ, and constantly touring, taught me some of the basics and I just ran with it, and haven’t looked back since.

What makes your sound stand out?

My sound is always evolving. When I started DJing it was just RnB all the way. I grew up with RnB so it was only natural, but the older I get the more I appreciate other types of music. I think the different flavours and mixes that I create makes my sound stand out.

You’re Australia’s number 1 female DJ, but what makes you better than the boys?

I think having a female ear gives me an advantage. I

know what the girls like to hear and what makes them feel sexy, which is very important; after all it is the girls that make the club world go ‘round.

Best time you’ve ever had while wearing your fabulous gold headphones?

I always have a ball when I’m out doing a show. Those gold headphones that I love dearly are only a fraction of how extravagant I could be! But the best time I’ve had would have to be in Beijing, China, doing a massive Hennessy event. I was DJing on a stage that was about fifteen metres high. There were thousands of people and the vibe was incredible and overpowering.

Do you have a dream gig?

As a DJ I think it would be so much fun to do a world tour with a major act. Lady Gaga would be so fun and interesting. She’s crazy and I love it.

You’ve supported some huge acts, who has been your favourite so far?

I have supported some amazing and inspirational artists but my favourite would have to be the Pussycat Dolls. I always mention this and I’m still not quite over it, but they were really sweet and down to earth.

Each and every one of them treated me like I was one of their girlfriends. With all the success that they have

thur 9th & fri 10th April

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British india

(the lemonheads)

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$20pre / $25door

What do you crave?

You really don’t want to ask a girl that question. I could give you a list a mile long, but I guess the most important thing that I crave for would have to be continued happiness. I am very blessed to have been able to create a life that keeps me excited, challenged and happy… Oh and I nearly forgot, I crave chocolate all the time, of course!

What can Tassie fans expect from your sets?

My adrenaline always elevates just before I start my sets. I go all quiet and find it hard to speak to people, because, still to this day, I get a little nervous. So when I get up with my heart beating fast, my sets tend to do the same thing. They are always up tempo, exciting and full of surprises. I do love incorporating different genres, because good music is good music and I don’t like to discriminate. So you may hear a little house or rock in amongst the RnB and Hip Hop tracks. And if the crowd is open to it - I can go wild.

How big do you expect 2009 to be for you?

What I have learnt over the last few years is that it is important to build from the ground up. Taking my time and trying to master each challenge that comes

sMEEGAN MAY

Crave - Love Edition is in stores now.

0 9 April @ Lonnies Niteclub, Launceston 0 10 April @ isobar, Hobart

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saturday 11th april

the basics

+ novella + lovista

+ linc lefevre

Anyone you’d like to work with in the future?

There are so many! I would love to make music with producers Diplo and Switch who produced M.I.A’s album Arular. It was so well produced, creative and it felt as they had boundaries. It would be amazing to jam with them in the studio. There are also some amazing artists that have been so inspirational to me like Janet Jackson. I grew up listening to her so it would be an ultimate dream come true to be able to do a song with her.

my way has built my confidence, and in turn, made me stronger. I will still continue to grow and look forward to my new adventures, but this year is going to be a huge step for me. Later in the year I will be releasing my first single. I have been working on original music for a long time now and it’s going to be extremely exciting to be able to play my own music in the club.

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achieved, it’s nice to see that it hasn’t gone to their heads. So sexy, beautiful and talented.

+ tina appleby

$15door

wednesday 15th april

SAturday 2nd may

ben kweller

LITTLE RED

+ linc & the insiders

10PM $32pre / $35door 10PM $20prE

10PM

Wednesday, 1 APRIL

coby grant (melbourne)

9pm

WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL

3 letter fish

Thursday, 2 APRIL

phil edgeley + matt southon

9pm

Thursday, 9 APRIL

british india + novella + lovista

$20 / $25 9PM

Friday, 3 APRIL

sugartrain

10pm

Friday, 10 APRIL

british india + novella + lovista

$20 / $25 10PM

Saturday, 4 APRIL

evan dand0 (the lemonheads) + Linc Lefevre $35/40

10pm

Saturday, 11 APRIL

The basics + tina appleby

Sunday, 5 APRIL

wahbash avenue

9pm

Sunday, 12 APRIL

holy cow

9pm

Monday, 6 APRIL

Carl Rush

9PM

Monday, 13 APRIL

quiz night

8.15pm

Tuesday, 7 APRIL

patrick & ruth

9pm

Tuesday, 14 APRIL

dali & the Paper band + Crystal & the middle C

9pm

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GREEN FINGERS All the freshest produce from The Greenhouse, Irish Murphy’s, Hobart.

Hello my little droogies. We’re just wiping the gunk from our eyes and wondering how a gnome snuck into our house and shat in our mouth when we were sleeping. Why? It was a Launceston invasion. British Battlegrounds and FatSmalls snuck in and rocked out when we weren’t looking and before we knew it we were shaking too hard to stop. Thanks guys, that was orright.

Now giving over, as the fizz increases, we’d like to announce our Good Friday Eve show, EPIC POP, Featuring: Chalky (live and solo) – yes that chalky Joni’s Plastic Sunday [ME] from Vic . . .and . . .

Enola Fall We caught up with ME to ask them the hard questions ME: play on windows ME, uber ‘we don’t need google’ ploy or subliminal cult of self reference?

Why ME!?

Haha, yep, googleability is a problem for us. We wanted something snappy that people could remember easily, bordering on inappropriately concise.

Umm so you have some pretty virtuoso piano in your tunes, how does that work live? Can you pull it off?

Soon we will have two and a half pianos on stage so it will be easy. At the moment we have one and a half.

The half is the synth, which our bass player/ sound warrior plays. Luke plays the 8-octave piano now and he works it.

Also, wow singing. Does that work live? Do you have separate singing rehearsals or moonlight as a barbershop quartet?

We have no problems pulling that off live and no we don’t do the vocal rehearsing separately but we are pretty nerdy when it comes to harmonies and they get written quite quickly. There is no Scrubs-acapella action happening on the side although we have plenty more to explore vocally in upcoming songs.

Can I call ME epic pop? Is that allowed?

Yes you can and that would be the first time that combination has occurred, as far as I know. We are definitely into the epic sounds, even if we have to stick on Verdi’s Requiem, Norwegian black metal, or John Williams Phantom Menace soundtrack for a fix. We are also lovers of the songwriting craft.

FatSmalls

What gives you fizzy pants?

I assume fizzy pants are a very good thing? If so,

getting played on the radio, playing at festivals, writing new songs and seeing new people & places does it for us. String arrangements and orchestral sections have generated some recent fizz in the pants department.

The fizziest of all however, comes about from hearing good melodies.

Are you a skinny legs band?

Fractionally. My legs are so skinny that I would look completely ridiculous if I adopted this fashion. Our drummer is the only true skinny jeans man, however you can’t really see his legs on stage.

Kingsmill pulled the Queen and Muse comparisons in his Unearthed comment, where would you say are your departures from these two band?

We loooove the Beatles, as well as heaps of classical composers, and definitely some more recent artists such as Rufus Wainwright, The Mars Volta and Radiohead. We have a dozen songs that are being finished up now, and I’m really not sure what their comparisons are going to be for people like the King.

Our latest single ‘Working Life’ did have a Muse and Queen styling behind it, so he was bang on there.

ME play Irish Murphy’s Launceston on April 8 & Irish Murphy’s Hobart on April 9. http://www.myspace.com/featureartist Soyaz.

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WORLD - ADELAIDE // SIRCA

Circa SIRCA

Adelaide’s funky fusion band SIRCA are bringing their musical circus to Tasmania. We spoke to guitarist Jaime Terreu about the best, the worst and the diplomatic aspects of touring with this vibrant seven-piece.

y e l l A Cat The Alley Cat Bar 381 Elizabeth Street North Hobart 03 6231 2299

Fri 10th & Sat 11th April

Describe SIRCA in 10 words or less.

An effulgent, dynamic, and energetic treat for the eyes and ears.

Are there any artists or genres that influence you the most?

The band we most commonly get compared to is the Dave Matthews Band, and they have definitely been an influence, musically speaking. I guess we are in the same sonic postcode as they are. We are 7 individuals working as a band and we vary hugely in regards to what we listen to, so influences are across the board.

How have you found the writing process with seven members? Do you all contribute?

Writing is normally a beautiful experience. I usually come in with a loose arrangement and a vague idea of what everyone will do, and then gradually everyone starts putting on their own touches. Usually what transpires is a beautiful mutant of a song compared to what I originally came in with. Each of our songs are formed as a collective of active and passive contribution; what is important is that we all exist within the music.

What political system would best describe the SIRCA dynamic?

I often think about this actually! The majority of the time it’s very democratic. Sometimes we can

resemble the UN, in that all members are able to vote on any given musical issue, as long as it doesn’t cross paths with interests held by those with veto power. Admittedly, I’m usually a war hungry despot in the studio. Ultimately though, the music itself is sovereign, it asks different things of different members at different times.

What do you think will be the best thing about touring with a seven-piece band?

Spending quality time with each other is awesome. We all know who we are in a musical context, but when you focus so hard on creating and performing it’s the personal facts of the person you miss out on. Finding out who the band alcoholic is will be lots of fun. It’s finding out these small intricacies of each member that will be heaps of fun. We are all trouble makers so just being on tour with these people will be the best.

And the worst?

I anticipate that where we eat will cause lots of problems. I’m a vegetarian in a band with people who consume meat like it’s going out of fashion. No doubt I will be that ‘annoying guy’ who can’t eat anything on the menu. Not looking forward to that.

Best gig you’ve played?

That is totally impossible to answer. We have done that many awesome shows its not funny. I would have to reduce it to one of our smaller shows where

it’s nice and intimate and people are going off their tree. Definitely one of those. Who knows? Hobart may become that one show we always remember.

Worst gig (or place) you’ve played?

Well that’s easy. A certain festival in Adelaide I won’t name and shame. It was possibly the most disorganised sorry excuse for a festival we have ever played. It was outdoors and 38 degrees at eleven in the morning.

Everything ran late, and worst of all the sound board decided to die at the start of our last tune. We quietly walked off stage to a sporadic array of claps from the bemused audience.

What can we expect from your gig in Tasmania?

You can expect to have an awesome time. There’s a lot of love at our shows and we just want to create a great vibe for all those attending. Worst case scenario, we blow your mind. sMEEGAN MAY See the SIRCA seven…

0 18 April @ The Alley Cat, Hobart

Bob Log III (US) + Bloodspots (QLD)

In Full Colour

Perth-born Coby Grant often has to foot the bill herself when it comes to producing CDs or touring around the country. As such, it has taken a lot of dedication and love of music for this independent artist to work on bringing her debut studio EP, Coby Grant is In Full Colour, to a town near you.

Coby struggled to find a producer who was a right fit in Australia and as such settled on Americans Peter Malick (Norah Jones) and Anthony J Resta (Elton John, Duran Duran). “There were these two producers that I particularly wanted to work with in the States.

Because I’m independent, I was paying for it all myself…so I wanted to do the research on the people I was working with. So I made sure that I did and I contacted other independent artists that had worked with them to hear about their experiences, and I really listened to all the material they had worked on and I knew that I wanted to work with those guys because I loved what they did.”

As our interviewer gets a bit gushy with praise for In Full Colour, he mentions that he would place her music in the pop category, though this is not something Coby shies away from. “That umbrella of popular music is huge. There’s a lot of music that defines it. I think a lot of people have a stereotype of pop music, like Britney Spears or something, but it’s not… [It’s] whatever a lot of people like.”

And for Coby Grant, people really seem to like her music, judging by the experiences she’s been having at shows and the responses she’s received online.

But the best support she’s received by far has been from her parents, who’ve been not only an emotional and financial help (“they’re like the bank that doesn’t incur interest”), they’ve also been the ones to provide Coby with her musical talent and training. Her father played saxophone for a number of bands in his youth and “he still plays a bit; actually he got up and jammed on one of the songs when I was in Perth…Both parents insisted I learn classical piano for ten years, which was WWW.SAUCE.NET.AU

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Do you have any big plans for 2009?

Continuous touring around the country and the official release of our album will see us a very busy band this year. We are really focusing on playing as many festivals this year as possible.

POP - PERTH // COBY GRANT

The sound she’s created has been compared to a number of artists including Natalie Merchant, Kate Cebrano and Kate Nash, but Coby admits that people find it hard to pin her down, something that she couldn’t be happier about. Regardless of who she may or may not be similar to, what Coby has put together is an EP full of catchy choruses, sweet vocals and emotional lyrics that is sure to be well-received by a wide range of people.

Morph

UPCOMING SHOWS: Wednesday 1st of April Aaron David Rodgers Band FREE 9pm Thursday 2nd of April Jimmy Stewart Friday 3rd of April Coby Grant Let the Cat Out Saturday 4th of April The Swell Tones B Circuit $5 9.30pm Thursday 9th of April Holy Cow www.myspace.com/iantreesholycow Friday 10th of April Morph www.myspace.com/morphmusicorg

good because it then made it easier for me to learn how to play the guitar, and that’s how I started writing songs.”

Though she’s studied psychology, Coby doesn’t use her powers for evil by targeting people’s emotions with the aid of her studies, instead opting for a more honest approach. “I just write songs about things that have happened to me and how I feel, and people seem to relate to that. I think it’s pretty common to get your heart broken, or to love someone and they don’t love you back and just general life stuff. And I think that people do relate to the honesty, because that’s what I am.”

As the interview draws to a close, with Coby having to catch a plane for the next leg of her busy Australian tour, the conversation turns to the specific experiences that inspire her honest and heartfelt songs. Though she also jokingly adds the film The Notebook as an inspiration for a good old-fashioned love song, she admits that the two times she’s been in love are the incidents that will colour the tracks Coby writes. “I think that if you’re going to go out with a musician, you should expect to

get a song written about you,” she laughs, “those two are my experiences of love, so anytime I write a song about love, that’s what I’m going to be drawing from whether directly or indirectly. They inspire the stuff that I write.”

So we leave Coby to the airport and her busy schedule which will see her in Tasmania for eight shows throughout April, beginning on April Fool’s Day. You’d be a fool to miss out on this honest and down to earth artist, who seems to have a bright future ahead of her. sDAVID WILLIAMS & MEEGAN MAY To pick up a copy of Coby Grant is In Full Colour and for a full list of dates, check out www.cobygrant.com 0 1 April@ Republic Bar, Hobart 0 2 April @ Irish Murphy’s, Launceston 0 3 April @ The Alley Cat, Hobart 0 4 April @ Stage Door Café, Burnie 0 5 April @ Brookfield Vineyard, Margate

Saturday 11th of April Morph www.myspace.com/morphmusicorg Thursday 16th of April Wishing Well www.myspace.com/thewishingwellband Friday 17th of April Bob Log III Bloodspots (QLD) www.myspace.com/boblog111 www.myspace.com/bloodspotsmusic Saturday 18th of April Sirca Invisible Boy The Ben Wells Band WEDNESDAY NIGHT SPECIAL 6PM - 9.30PM $10 Beaut Beer & Bonza Burger Night. Your choice of beef, chicken or vege Alley Cat Burger with a 10oz. of Cascade Draught or Pale Ale. . ISSUE 91 . APRIL 01 - APRIL 14 2009

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ALTERNATIVE - TEXAS // BEN KWELLER

Changing His Tune From punk-rock to pop and a few things in between, Texas-born Ben Kweller has finally hopped over to a more alternative-country sound with his new album, Changing Horses.

The switch to a heavier country influence didn’t come out of nowhere. Growing up in Texas meant he was exposed to country music from a young age, and then he would head home to a house full of 50s and 60s rock and roll. Later on his tastes progressed to pop and after Nirvana, alternative and punk. As a songwriter, Kweller’s first songs were “country ballads on the piano, like a little Southern girl would sing.” As he advanced and began to write in different styles, he would still write country songs once in a while, he just wouldn’t release them. “I’d save them for the right time, so now is the right time of my life.”

Whilst writing the album On My Way, Kweller had penned the track ‘Hurtin’ You’ and saw that it was so different from the other On My Way songs that it deserved an album of it’s own. Over four years and ten tracks later, Kweller has carefully pieced together Changing Horses; “as a songwriter, my whole life I was taught patience, because sometimes you have to go weeks before your next song, period… I knew Horses was going to be a good album, I just had to wait for the songs appear and you can’t force that, you can’t rush that.” Kweller continues, “because, for me albums are so important and they’ve just got to flow together. A song like ‘Fight’, yeah I could have put it on the Ben Kweller album, but it just wouldn’t have been as cool without its brothers and sisters.”

“If you’re not cheered up by this, you have no soul” The List, Edinburgh

‘Fight,’ the lead single from the album has recently been enjoying success on Country Music Television in the US, thanks to the power of Twitter and Myspace.

Kweller put the call out to his fans to vote for the video on CMT’s Pure 12-Pack Countdown, and has managed to beat out big-name country stars like Taylor Swift and Keith Urban, and top the list for the past few weeks. The video also stars Kitt Kitterman, an inspiration for one of the song’s characters, and also the man who played pedal steel and dobro on the Changing Horses album. The song itself “just came out of an observation – you’ve got to fight all the way.

Maybe living in New York for nine years taught that to me.”

The rest of the album features a lot of other great storytelling, including the opening track ‘Gypsy Rose.’

Not the famous Gypsy Rose Lee, the song instead is based on “this character that I made up, this prostitute.

There’s a really good friend of mine actually that lives in Mexico and sees the same prostitute every Monday morning at 9am, it’s like his appointment. He goes every Monday, chooses the same chick and he loves it.” Kweller too has had a personal (very personal) experience with a prostitute, but for him it wasn’t something worth repeating. “When I was a teenager, I really wanted to get laid and I was living in New York in the Chealsea Hotel so I got a prostitute and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. [laughs] So I’ve always been intrigued by the whole prostitution thing. It was kind of a dark song, but an interesting way to open an album, really bluesy.”

With Changing Horses out and the tour in progress, Kweller is now working on his next album. But don’t expect to hear any of the new material at his show, because as mentioned, Kweller knows the power of the internet. “The days of trying out material are over, unless you just want it out there on the internet for everybody. And I’m just a big believer in that feeling of going to the record store, picking it up the day it comes out, taking it home, opening it up, putting it in, that whole experience.” Though he’s still managed to have a lot of fun on the tour planning the set lists, with the majority being centred around songs from Changing Horses, “then bringing out a lot of old songs that I never really play anymore, like the ones that are a little more roots or just haven’t gotten much attention and meshing them in with the set and ‘Horsifying’ them, making them fit, so it’s been really cool.”

The songs for the new album probably wouldn’t fit into these sets anyway, as Kweller has once more done something different. “I think it’s going to be a really great album, I can’t wait to go in and make this new one, because it’s gonna be a special album of mine. Some of my best songs. It’s a lot different from Changing Horses, but it’s a lot different from all my albums.” So Kweller will be changing horses again and heading in a new direction. But for now, we’ll just enjoy the ride. sDAVID WILLIAMS & MEEGAN MAY

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Wednesday 1st April The Dog Line Carl Fidler

Touch Me! Clinkerfield singer and guitarist Jimmy Stewart is back in Tassie and begging for more.

Wednesday 8th April Me (Melbourne) Jason Lucas (My Escapade)

Why are you coming back again? Weren’t you down here just the other day?

Well, what the blazes are all youse doing down there still?! And anyways, Tassie’s such a pushover…

How can you expect people to pay their hard earned cash to see you again?

Well, I paid my hard earned cash to get me over to Tassie.

Why don’t y’all return the favour, eh? I’m quite exotic, too. Isolated rural Victoria upbringing, 10 years in Melbourne.

I’ve also been tattooed in Barcelona, lost in France, totally wired in Tokyo, and strip-searched in New Zealand... Come on and touch me.

So, you’ve ditched your mates in Clinkerfield, or did they ditch you?

We regularly be ditchin’ each other. It makes the relationship more exciting, healthier, and the reunions sweaty!

But right now? I’m loose baby! Come on and frickin’ touch me!

Will you be ripping-off any of the Clinkerfield songs, this time around?

It’s usually the other way around. I carry those miserable little bastards along on my shoulders, man, along with many other burdens of the world…

What is it with Melbourne musos that you think you can just show up here anytime you want? At least you could call first.

I did call. Heaps of times. And look, three shows!

Will you be keeping it in your pants, this time around?

Yes. I only take it out of my pants when the rest of the band is around to help me get it back in.

Guess what ya’ mum said!

It’s normally, “look after yourself ” or “don’t drink too much”. She’d probably say the same to you… or offer you a cup of tea.

I hear you’re going to tour the US. What makes you think you can make it there?

300 million people can’t be wrong, can they?

How long ‘til we have to put up with your stinky feet again, after this trip?

Not long enough for you to even catch your breath, buddy. sDAVID WILLIAMS

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Sometimes good men do bad things… or they at least sing about them.

“The songs are about drinking and stealing and going to jail. But it’s still a dance band in a way, we’ve got a very charismatic front man, but it’s still a dance band. People can’t help themselves.” As contrabass balalaika player and VulgarGrad’s founder Andrew Tanner explains, one can’t help but enjoy the energetic songs of Russian thieves. With Jacek Koman on vocals and a merry band comprised of musicians from bands like Zulya and the Children of the Underground and the Five Angry Men, VulgarGrad is definitely an experience not to be missed.

Tanner was at first interested in the Russian folk sound, but his trip to Russia opened his eyes and his ears to the true music of the Russian people. “This is just a lot more of a genuine expression of what people were into, especially back in the 60s and 70s. It’s actually a true folk music, because it was underground and didn’t get put into conservatoriums and things like that.”

The music he describes is what’s referred to as Russian thieves’ songs (called blatnie pesny or blatnyak), a tradition that goes back around a hundred years. The band play a mixture of the style’s incarnation from the 60s and 70s, when the sound was underground and frowned upon, traditional songs or covers of more recent music. The band has yet to produce original music but basically “we just pick the songs with that sort of angle of Russian culture, the seamy side.”

Whilst living in Moscow, Tanner begun to play music there and basically fell in love with the seamy side of things. “And when I came back to Australia, I knew I had to get something like that going, and somehow it all worked out perfectly, I got the right people on the job and here we are.” The right people include wellknown actor Jacek Koman, made famous by his roles in Moulin Rouge! (as the unconscious Argentinian) and numerous other films and TV series. Before they met through a mutual friend, Tanner was thinking about “scouring the Russian restaurants in Melbourne, to

see if I could find a singer.”

Luckily he found the right man for the job, and being an actor has helped the singer emulate the world of the songs, full of drinking, stealing and being criminals.

“He’s seen a few things in his life as well, but he’s first and foremost an actor, so even if he hasn’t been arrested for stealing, he can certainly convince you that he has.” Tanner also admits, that while some of the band have had these experiences to a greater or lesser extent, the songs are usually performed with tongue firmly in cheek. But also, as Tanner describes of the tradition, “the great singers in the genre in Russia have actually never really been criminals themselves, some have just been singer-songwriters, a lot have been intellectuals or actors or whatever.”

But with Russian lyrics, a lot of the surface meaning may be lost on Australian audiences anyway, “but they can fill in the gaps a bit, there’s a little bit of English here and there and there’ll be some Russians in the audience singing along. You kind of get the idea of what the song’s about.” It’s also the type of music that doesn’t necessarily need to be understood, because basically “it’s about having a good time.” Both the band and audiences alike seem to be enjoying the band’s unique folk-funk-polka-punk. The only band member they’ve lost was an accordionist who left to join the circus. With the VulgarGrad’s showmanship, rambunctious performances and toe tapping tunes, experience with band seems like a perfect steppingstone to the big top. Only, at least for grown-ups, the world of vodka, tattoos, guitars, jail and girls found in the VulgarGrad sound seems like a lot more fun. sDAVID WILLIAMS & MEEGAN MAY

Come and hear the kings of the Russian criminal sound.

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Shoe

OFF THE SHELF “No shit, Mötley Crüe are on stage!”

The previous quote was in a text sent on Wednesday March 18 while Launceston rock outfit Your Damn Neighbours were tearing up the Top Shelf stage.

By all reports this young kickin’ four-piece tore through their set leaving the crowd desperate for more and, like true rock pigs, they delivered an encore.

From the reaction they received we will certainly be bringing YDN back to Top Shelf in the very near future.

A massive thanks to Julz, Dane and Jase for running the night whilst Carl and I got drunk in Sydney. Gosh we work hard!

Shoe launched their debut EP last week playing a show in their hometown of D-Rock then gracing the Top Shelf stage on Wednesday March 25. With a group of diehard shirtless fans screaming the sing along choruses you could’ve been forgiven for thinking that these guys were an established radio friendly band, but nay, Shoe is just beginning their musical journey, a journey which we will be keeping a close eye on. The music encompasses elements of Incubus and Weezer while the energy coming off stage feels more like Nirvana (the band that is, not some transcendental paradise!).

If you’re interested in finding out more about their EP head to www.myspace.com/shinemyshoesbrother.

The Dog Line rears its ugly head on Wednesday April 1, after a short hiatus allowing Glenn and Coz to focus on Black Japan. It seems an eternity since they last played their own show (December to be precise) and fans of rock with a pop twist should be in for a treat as the guys are champing at the bit to be back on stage.

On Wednesday April 8, Top Shelf presents an exciting new band out of Melbourne called, ME. Describing themselves as “theatrical rock,” their sound sits somewhere between Queen and Muse, think classical progressions with operatic voices and some good old-fashioned rock n roll. They recently finished a 10-month residency at The Evelyn Hotel on Brunswick Street and have caught the ears of Triple J’s, Richard Kingsmill. For more info or to hear their music go to www.meband.com. Supporting we have Mark Edmunds from Foreign Films whose foray into the acoustic world a few weeks ago has shown just how well his songs communicate through both mediums.

Expect this to be one hell of a show!There’s plenty more great music headed your way in the coming weeks with Cruel Like That on April 15, Sole Stickers April 22 and The Tokyo Room (Hobart) on April 29. Also looking forward to announcing some great touring acts throughout the winter. Keep on keeping on. sCARL FIDLER & GLENN MOOREHOUSE sPHOTO BY SHEY BISSETT Reach for the Top Shelf!

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SOUNDCHECK - out and about in the hottest venues The Cat Empire + Paprika Balkanicus @ Moorilla Winery, 22 March

DOWNSYDE + DRAPHT + PEZ @ The Republic Bar, 25 March

Murder Rats @ The Alley Cat Bar, 20 March

The Aston Shuffle @ Syrup, 21st March

A beautiful location and a glass of pinot, the perfect ingredients for a Sunday arvo session. I am an ardent fan of The Cat Empire, but I was also ecstatic that I additionally got to see Paprika Balkanicus.

I arrived late so missed the Bone Rattlers unfortunately, but the moment Paprika Balkanicus hit the stage I knew we were in for a treat! These guys are exceptional. They mix up traditional music from the Balkans and Eastern Europe with a “spiced up” gypsy style. Their songs are passionate stories that take you to their homes of Slovenia, Serbia and Romania. Amazing violin at hyper speed and twin accordion blend supremely with the bass and guitar and the vibrant uplifting vocals of these guys. I will most definitely get me a Paprika Balkanicus CD, and be watching for their next visit to our island. This is a world class act.

The crowd was on its feet before The Cat Empire were anywhere near their instruments. Anyone who knows their music knows you can’t sit still, and invariably end up dancing till you drop. The cherished tunes were belted out, but as usual no song was played the same way it ever had been before from these masters of improv. They sing it and play it according to the mood, and the mood at Moorilla was way high and happy!

Front and centre vocals and drums (often at the same time) Felix Riebl was as usual, charismatic, energetic and skilled in the art of relating with the audience.

Harry James Angus (lead vocals and trumpet) sang like a man possessed. I would love to hear him have a go at operatic pieces, I’m sure he is more than capable.

Keyboardist extraordinaire Ollie McGill was on fire, totally uninhibited and sublime. The whole band was fresh, lively and totally committed to giving us their best. Playing at this venue, where good wines only get better, works so well for The Cat Empire who are musically just so rich and full bodied. sLALANI HYATT

Tonight three talented representatives of Aussie hip-hop descended on Hobart for a second sell-out show. Young and old were out for it, hands in the air and singing every song, which just goes to show how people all over are embracing our own unique sound, even on a weeknight. Pez took to the stage first, with the ‘Festival Song’ being a definite crowd favourite and beginning the frenzy that would continue for the next three hours.

Downsyde and Drapht performed together for one set as a non-stop show and the crowd went wild for it. This tactic worked really well. It was an impressive show of stamina; a smart move considering the heat, and it kept the crowd engaged for the whole show.

Downsyde performed their songs and then switched to acting as band for Drapht while taking turns to break from the stage.

They unite the crowd with their vibe and really convey the feeling that hip-hop is about connecting with each other and sharing the good times and bad. Their lyrics are smart and creative and yet they manage to encapsulate the thoughts of many at the same time.

Their sound is their own yet an excellent recipe of influences and samples.

If I had to say that anything could improve it would only be the acoustics, this was out their control anyway. The sound fell flat on the surrounding wall of bodies. But it’s all about the atmosphere at the Republic and there was no shortage of that. These guys are still humble in that they felt a mid-week gig needed to be in a pub, but they’re definitely suited to the big stage. sTABITHA FLETCHER

These cats rocked. Great guitar playing, especially, but all the members were good. The singer had a gravely voice that was beyond his years, (well, unless he just looked young). He held the group together, and was a good combination of offensive an entertaining, which made for an interesting spectacle.

Their opening song, ‘Murder Rats’ proclaimed that “We’re the Murder Rats, and we don’t give a f*ck”, and they didn’t give a f*ck about appeasing any ‘politically correct’ attitudes, but they obviously did give a f*ck abut how they performed. Most of it was pretty fast rockabilly, they call it punk/psychobilly, and that’s a pretty good description, but there were a couple of slower ones. I preferred it fast. Icon, Chris Isaak was covered, as they sped up the crooner’s ‘I Want You To Want Me’, as well as ‘Shang-A-Lang’ by the Bay City Rollers, but I really liked their original (I think) ‘Banned from The Pub’. I wanted them to play some of The Cramps, but apparently that was done 20 years ago, so they didn’t.

They asked if they should play another song, at the end, or “just f*ck off ”. I suggested they do both, but they told me to f*ck off, instead. They really didn’t give a f*ck. True punk style, in my opinion, more than many bands who call themselves punk these days. Sure, they were homophobic, xenophobic, sexist and racist in some of their comments and body art, but they were entertaining, and not doing or thinking the same as what they are ‘supposed to’ was good to see, even if I didn’t agree with it. sDAVID WILLIAMS

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Irish Murphy’s Covered: Brett Collidge + Damage Control City Hall Ten Days On The Island: “Dance Hall” - Armandito Y Su Trovason 9pm Playhouse Theatre Ten Days On The Island: Floating 8pm The Brisbane Hotel The Omen + Stand Defiant + The Turnaround The Alley Cat The Swell Tones + B Circuit 9:30pm Brookfield Vineyard Chris While & Julie Mathews Syrup Call It House: Parky + Gillie + Corney Republic Bar Evan Dando + Linc LeFevre 10pm UTAS Studio Theatre Origins 8pm sLaunceston

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Irish Murphy’s Pocket Rocket

SOHO John Craig 10pm

The Royal Oak The Titz 9pm

Republic Bar Carl Rush 9pm

The Commercial Hotel DJ Skip

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The Deloraine Little Theatre Pierre Bensusan 7:30pm

SOHO Hobarts Hottest Angel 11pm

Tuesday, 7 April sHobart Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse: Australian Songwriters Association Wax Lyrical - Melly Frank + Dan Hennessy + Josh Durno + Barry Jones Republic Bar Patrick & Ruth 9pm sLaunceston Irish Murphy’s Phil Picasso Wednesday, 8 April sHobart SOHO DJ Macca 9pm Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse: Abbey Doggett + NoFoTo + Lakoda The Brisbane Hotel The Foxhunters Return + A So Called Hero + Tokyo Room

UTAS Studio Theatre Origins 8pm

Irish Murphy’s Victor Charlie Charlie

Republic Bar 3 Letter Fish 9pm

Syrup Mash Up da Town : Stirlo 10pm

The Royal Oak Matt Southon & Phil Edgely

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The Commercial Hotel Off The Cuff

The Metz Midweek Metz: DJ Camo 8pm

Irish Murphy’s ME

Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery Ten Days On The Island: Siren 4pm & 6pm

Lonnies RnB, Commercial & Dance

The Royal Oak Frankie & Sheridan Smith 9pm

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Thursday, 9 April

Irish Murphy’s Coby Grant + The Stoics

Outdoor Event, Church Street Ten Days On The Island: “Dance Hall” - Jalsa Creole 8pm

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The Royal Oak Samuel Bester + Chris While & Julie Matthews 9pm Hotel New York University of NY Night: Long Way Home + Victor Charlie Charlie + DJ Doctor J Friday, 3 April sHobart Irish Murphy’s Covered: Michael Clennett + Selecta City Hall Ten Days On The Island: “Dance Hall” - Jalsa Creole 9pm

The Brisbane Hotel VulgarGrad + Undine Francesca & The Lonesome Bluebirds + Jimmy Stewart The Alley Cat Coby Grant + Let The Cat Out 9:30pm Brookfield Vineyard Open Mic feat. Gretel Templeton Syrup La Casa: Matt B + St.Nick + DJ G 11pm Republic Bar Sugartrain 10pm UTAS Studio Theatre Origins 8pm sLaunceston Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery Ten Days On The Island: Siren 4pm & 6pm

sBurnie Stage Door Café Coby Grant Sunday, 5 April

Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse: Chalky + Joni’s Plastic Sunday + ME + Enola Fall The Brisbane Hotel Toecutter + Chrome Dome + Enya’s Panic Room + Acid Casualty

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The Alley Cat Holy Cow

SOHO Open Mic w/ John Harwood + Nick Wolfe 9pm

Republic Bar British India + Novella + Lovista 9pm

Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse: Eclipse

Syrup Chris Fraser (RAW 09 Album Launch) + Gillie + Corney

City Hall Ten Days On The Island: “Dance Hall” - Full-Tilt Recliner 9pm Playhouse Theatre Ten Days On The Island: Floating 6pm The Metz Metz on Sundays: DJs Camo & Woodhouse 4pm Brookfield Vineyard Coby Grant Republic Bar Wahbash Avenue 9pm Raincheck Lounge Live Acoustic Music

sLaunceston Irish Murphy’s Tash & Caz Lonnies Pure Glam: DJ Havana Brown 10pm The Royal Oak Lonnie Tunes: Nick Hill +Little Cuba + Kasper & The Ghosts + Guthrie 9pm Hotel New York University of NY Night: Long Way Home + Victor Charlie Charlie + DJ Doctor J Friday, 10 April

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Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery Ten Days On The Island: Siren 4pm & 6pm

SOHO Long Weekend XXXX Angels 9pm

Irish Murphy’s Glenn & Jade + Nathan Wheldon + Kristy Tucker + 101 and Falling sDeloraine Meander Pavillion, Showgrounds Ten Days On The Island:

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Playhouse Theatre Ten Days On The Island: Floating 8pm

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The Brisbane Hotel Hit The Jackpot + The Native Cats + Paint Your Golden Face The Alley Cat Morph Brookfield Vineyard Dragon the Chain

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SOHO Open Mic w/ John Harwood + Tom Wolfe 9pm Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse: Thus Far . . .

The Metz The Summer That Was: Adam Turner + Rabb + Dave Webber + Mez 6pm isobar White Night Party Republic Bar Holy Cow 9pm sLaunceston Irish Murphy’s Ben Castles + Luke Parry + Long Way Home Monday, 13 April sHobart SOHO The Smashers 10pm Republic Bar Quiz Night 8:15pm The Backspace Theatre The Short Back and Sideshow 8pm sLaunceston Irish Murphy’s Two Strung Tuesday, 14 April sHobart Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse: Dan Hennessy + Kiss Whiskey + Priscilla Gorringe Republic Bar Dali and The Paper Band + Crystal + Middle C 9pm

The Alley Cat Bar 381 Elizabeth Street 6231 2299 www.myspace.com/ thealleycatbar

Hotel SOHO LAUNCESTON 124 Davey Street 6224 9494 The Commercial Hotel www.hotelsoho.com.au 27 George Street 6331 3868 Irish Murphy’s The Greenhouse Irish Murphy’s 21 Salamanca Place 211 Brisbane Street 6223 1119 6331 4440 irishmurphys.com.au www.irishmurphys. com.au Isobar Franklin Wharf Hotel New York www.isobar.com.au 122 York Street 6334 7231 The Loft 142 Liverpool St Lonnies Hobart 7000 107 Brisbane Street (03) 6231 6552 6334 7889 www.myspace.com/ www.lonniesniteclub. theloft142 com The Metz on the Bay 217 Sandy Bay Road 6224 4444 www.themetz.com.au Syrup 1st Floor 39 Salamanca Place 6224 8249 www.syrupclub.com

The Royal Oak 14 Brisbane Street 6331 5346 www.myspace.com/ leapinlimpout

The Republic Bar 299 Elizabeth Street 6234 6954 www.republicbar.com The Brisbane Hotel 3 Brisbane Street 6234 4920 www.myspace.com/ thebrisbanehotel

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ROCK - U.K. // GOMEZ

Accidental Heroes

For the band Gomez, success and fame came as a bit of a happy accident. Without meaning to, the band managed to make a great record, have record companies all over the U.K. fight for their sound, play big festivals and win the coveted Mercury Music Prize all within a year of forming. It’s something drummer Olly Peacock calls “accidental,” “amusing” and “absolutely bewildering.” Over ten years later, the band continue to do the same thing that landed them their early success, and that was “to make music that was interesting and original, not to sound like anybody else…We wanted to do something different.”

Whilst at University, the group of friends were playing together for the fun of it and the drive to create something new and different musically. Whenever they had time they would record bits and pieces at each other’s houses and by mid-1997 the band were fully formed. Not long after, they happened upon on success. But in the early days “it was all about trying to get out and make music for music’s sake, not to be a band, and it all stumbled into place and we fell into having a record deal, which was all very accidental and very amusing to us.”

The story of how the 4-track tape made its way around London’s musical elite, sparking a bidding war between record companies, is now the stuff of musical legend. Olly was quite cut off from all of it, only learning of the accounts second hand from band mate Ian Ball. Originally the tape had just been passed on to a man by the name of Steve Fellows, from a record shop, who eventually became their manager.

Having been in the band Comsat Angels in the 80s, Fellows passed on the tape to his connections, and

from there it spread like wildfire. “It just all seemed so fucking surreal that a bunch of idiots like us would get signed to a major record company. A few months later we were in bidding wars with 27 or however many labels and publishing companies trying to sign us, everyone’s throwing money at you, we were going for fancy dinners, staying in the nicest hotels in London, it was hilarious going from being students, it was just absolutely bewildering.”

Next came festivals, fans and huge sales of the record Bring It On, mainly recorded in a garage by a couple of students. “Everything we ever did at that time, the record sold a bunch more. It just kept growing and growing. And through all this time, we weren’t even a year old as a professional band.” It was just before heading to the studio to record the follow up album that the band was up for the coveted Mercury Music Prize, recognising the best album of the year in the U.K. They snuck into the award ceremony, avoiding the press, played what Olly describes as a really bad rendition of ‘Whippin’ Piccadilly’ and somehow managed to accept

the award despite being in total shock.

Now over ten-years later the band have just released their sixth studio LP, A New Tide. Despite often struggling with album naming, A New Tide “felt like it had some sort of relationship to the music. You can interpret it in many, many ways, obviously any title can be, but it felt really good and apt.” The reasons it felt right are probably to do with the band’s continued experimentation and evolving sound, always striving for the unique. “I didn’t consciously sit down and write songs that were weird or different, it’s just what came out.” It’s also the nature of the way the band creates, not being afraid to try weird things just to create a new sound. “We’ve always been geeks for new sounds, there’s nothing better than getting a couple of synthesisers, running it through a couple of pedals it shouldn’t go through then through some amps and then back out through a drum machine and in the end you just think, ‘that’s fucking ridiculous, that’s a great sound, let’s use it,’ it’s always something that we’ve been inspired to do.”

The band started hammering out the new record with sessions in Virginia and L.A., some more productive than others, and finally hit the studio in Chicago with producer Brian Deck. They worked in smaller sessions, which Olly saw as greatly helping the process of writing, because in between “we would leave the studio, get some perspective, listen to the song and then maybe at home Ian put some stuff down, send it to me or Blacky it was great. Then by the time you get to the next session, you have more perspective, more ideas, maybe written some more songs and everything’s rolling, you don’t have cabin fever. It worked out.”

It worked out indeed, with early reviews indicating that Gomez fans will definitely not be disappointed with A New Tide. The next thing on the agenda will be touring, and the band is hoping to make it to Australia in October. sDAVID WILLIAMS & MEEGAN MAY

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SYLOSIS Conclusion Of An Age

WEDNESDAY 13 F**k It We’ll Do It Live

XAVIER RUDD Dark Shades of Blue

THE MUDDY TURDS I Don’t Think They’ve Given It Any Thought Whatsoever

With a large number of heavy metal heads in the world, there seems to be angst towards the ever-popular modern metalcore era, which has for a few years plagued many metal fans that prefer the originators of metal. The bias view is that if it is new, blends several styles and hints of radio friendly quality, than it is not worth the listener’s time. The question is - how does a band playing heavy music survive without being compared to some style that has already been achieved?

That said, UK quintet Sylosis poses a cross breed of several genres molded in to one band from thrash, death metal, metalcore and any other ridiculous stupid label of a sub-genre some tosser wants to conjures up.

Revealed as a thrash band by their record label Nuclear Blast, there seems to be discomfort with this title among thrash metal devotees. Personally I think the band has more thrash/heavy metal aspects then any of the above-mentioned genres.

W13 and accompanying members J-Sin Trioxin on guitar, Nate Manor on Bass and drummer Johnny Chops bring you there first live DVD to the slaughter bench for long awaited fans. Lead man and guitarist Wednesday 13 who, for those that already know of his existence from bands Murderdolls and Bourbon Crow, clearly puts across that this recording is the closest thing you’ll get to the live sound of the band. The twin CD/DVD pack comes with a visual and aural version of the concert held in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on July 18 2007 at the Crocodile Rock In. The production of the film is only a step up from a bootleg quality. It gives off the sense of being gritty and of underground quality, which I believe was intentional on behalf of W13 in order to fit with the bands image.

Dark Shades of Blue, released late last year, differs from his previous material in that it feels much darker. The old John Butler Trio-ish, folksy, bluesy feel has been swallowed up by a more heavy, almost psychedelic sound. This new music still has the Xavier feel, and in fact many of the tracks have a very similar tempo and touch, but for me the passion was lacking a little. There is the haunting Aboriginal sound we have come to associate with Xavier’s music, but not so much of the hard driven drum, delicious didge, or the impassioned vocals I personally have come to enjoy. Don’t get me wrong, the tracks still carry the didge and of course the fantastic lap steel strings, but it doesn’t weigh up well with Solace or To Let.

This is a very good CD, one of the best produced by a Tasmanian band in recent times. It has good production, and contains songs structured and played well, with clever lyrics. It reminded me of Australian indie icons, TISM.

The Majority of the twelve tracks feature fast guitar and bass playing, thumping drums and guttural screeching vocal lines with a coating of melodic passages here and there. Jamie Graham’s melodious vocals in songs ‘Transcendence’ and ‘Last Remaining Light’ might not sit comfortably as the dominant style of harsh vocals, but all in all a great vocalist and the rest of the band drive each song exceptionally. The entirety of the album is composed under the idea of global warming, which clearly shows from the album title and track names. Conclusion Of An Age is an album that will be enjoyed by people who like their music combined with new and old fundamentals of everything heavy metal.

8/10 sDAVID WALKER

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After an intro of haunting noises, the concert hammers in to ‘Gimmie Gimmie Bloodshed’ with groupies in the crowd yelling in hysterics at the bands presence. With eighteen songs on the release, the band plays a broad spectrum of their album catalogue from all Wednesday 13 albums and a couple of songs of the Murderdolls, and Frankenstein Drag Queens. The band can put on a good show and definitely have a growing fan base.

The songs, in my opinion, display an unaltered change from song to song, which can become monotonous to listen too. I enjoyed a handful of songs from the set, mainly from the latest Skeletons album. This live album is for the fanatic of the group and for those that do not mind there lyrics drenched with deformity and death induced topics.

6/10 sDAVID WALKER

Having said that, I can play this as background music while I’m cooking and entertaining, or sitting quietly reading a book. It took a few spins, but Dark Shades of Blue has grown on me, and I find I’m quietly enjoying it. ‘Secrets’, the third track in, is kind of funky and catchy, and track four (the one we hear most on the airwaves), ‘Guku’, is solid, beautiful and soul-touching.

Choir vocals in the ‘Edge of the Moon’ are superb, but for me the Aboriginal backing vocals of Banula Marika, Goomblar Wala and Nori Murakawa in other tracks, are what pulls everything together, and gives the album cred.

The CD’s title refers to a comment made during an on-air conversation between announcers at Melbourne station, RRR, discussing their opinions on the worst names for Australian bands. It is typical of the cleverness and confidence contained in this release that The Turds should use the on-air conversation as their intro, and the comment as their title.

In direct contrast to the comment, there has, obviously, been a lot of thought and effort put into this release, and the band should be congratulated. I first saw them at a Freakshow gig about 3 years ago, and they have come a long way, though I liked them even back then. The music in the songs is original, but the lyrics are really what make an impression on me, such as the description of a lover, using comparisons with different fruit.

This is one I will take with me out bush. It doesn’t scream at you, but flows pleasantly along without intruding on your peace. Cheers Xavier and crew!

Tracks with titles such as ‘Ghost of My Dead Panda’, ‘ATM Machine’, ‘Dacks’ and ‘Mail Order Bride’ will give you a further idea of the style of this release. They obviously do not take themselves very seriously, but they do take their music, and the way they release it, very seriously, and with great thought. It’s fun and refreshing. Cool cover art, too. Lighten up, and get it.

8/10 sLALANI HYATT

8/10 sDAVID WILLIAMS

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ROOTS - TAS // DALI AND THE PAPER BAND

Daydreamer Young roots artist Dali Srhoj has just released his debut album Daydreamer, and talks to us about how he’s turning his music dreams into reality.

Why did you start playing music?

Well, in primary school it was compulsory to play an instrument, and ever since then I have been playing.

I started taking it seriously when I realised that that’s what I wanted to do for a career.

What drove you to begin writing your own music?

I moved to Perth in WA in high school where I didn’t have a guitar teacher and so had nothing to play. So I decided to make something to play and that’s how I started.

How does living in Tasmania influence the music you write?

The lifestyle and the experiences I have in Tassie are a big part influencing my music.

Are there any particular artists that influence you?

Yes there are heaps that influence me such as John Mayer, Dave Mathews Band, Incubus, Tool, Rage against the Machine Joe Satriani and heaps of others.

What’s the story behind the name of your band Dali and the Paper Band?

Well I was in my year 11 English exam for high school and I really didn’t see how I was going to benefit from doing it, so instead of doing the exam I just sat there and thought of band names and that’s the name I came up with. I thought it worked so I’ve been using it ever since.

In your song “Hard To Tell” you describe a girl who makes hot chicks look like mingers. Is there a girl like this out there for you?

Yeah. My girlfriend. She’s amazing.

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Does anything else besides love make you feel like you’re on pingers?

Yeah surfing snowboarding, skating, music, sex etc.

When I think about pingers these days, I think about how all those things feel a million times better.

What are you most proud of achieving in your musical career so far?

Well I had one of my songs released on a compilation CD called Home Groan Roots with John Butler, Paul Kelly, Ash Grunwald and heaps of other musicians. I’m really stoked about that.

What are you hoping to achieve musically in the coming year?

I would like to play at the Falls Festival, do a tour with the band around Australia, release another album and hopefully get a record deal.

Your debut album is called Daydreamer, what do you daydream about?

Everything, I always daydream about my music career and where it’s going to take me, I daydream about my girlfriend, I daydream about sports that I like doing, I daydream about things that I want to accomplish and about a million other things. I daydream a lot. sMEEGAN MAY

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CINECISM DRAMA // WATCHMEN

The Last Laugh REVIEW ANIME - // THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME

Time-Tripping Love Triangle

Anime is certainly no longer the cult cinema that teen boys swapped on VHS in the nineties.

Best known for playing recurring roles on Grey’s Anatomy and Supernatural, Jeffrey Dean Morgan is not exactly someone you’d expect to see in a superhero film. But then Watchmen is not really your everyday superhero flick though and Jeffrey’s character, The Comedian, is a far cry from Superman or Batman. I spoke to him recently about his role as a sadistic, amoral killer whose attempted rape of another superhero is at the centre of the film’s dark heart. He’s tired from numerous interviews already that day and jet-lagged badly but his sense of humour is still in fine form and he greets me with a strong handshake.

[Of the handshake] I’m not exactly sure whether or not that’s a good thing…

[Jeffrey laughs heartily] You play one of the most despicable characters…

Indeed… yeah …on screen, but I don’t hate you? Why not?

Isn’t that weird, and that was my initial response when I was first introduced to the question, “What is Watchmen?”. You know when they said it was a novel, I still [couldn’t] quite figure it out. Because obviously, what the comedian does; What Edward Blake takes part in and the damage he causes… There is just no way we should give a rat’s ass about this guy. Much less kind of oddly like him and feel sympathetic towards him almost and for me it was kind of trying to bring that to screen. To bring that humanity… Whatever that is, whatever little glimpse of humanity we see, it’s enough for us not to hate a guy who does some of the most horrendous things I’ve ever seen. And so whatever that glimpse is and you really, in the film, I really think there’s kinda two chances…

[There is the] scene with Moloch. And [there is] a scene with Carla [Gugino, who plays The Silk Specter] When I’m talking about Malin [Akerman]’s character.

Yeah kinda two chances to show sort of who this guy is beyond this… Bastard and bastard is a really nice way of putting it. But I think we managed to pull it off. And even when you’re reading the novel you don’t hate the guy either. And I thought maybe it was just me. I thought maybe it was because I was just getting ready to go on making the film. I thought maybe I just like this

guy because I’m gonna be him. So I’m doing anything, I might be really reaching here. But everybody thought the same thing, that no, we don’t hate him and nobody really knows why. Because he is everything that is dark [he] is just darkness personified.

You play a character called The Comedian what’s so funny? [a low chuckle] Is anything so funny?

And there is the joke… Is that there is nothing funny about that, you know. it’s the sarcasm of The Comedian coming to light there. I love that quote that Rorschach says after the funeral, the Pagliacci joke - that’s pretty awesome and it kinda sums up some stuff too (watch the movie - it’s too long to reproduce!) But, you know, I think The Comedian saw the joke in humanity. He saw the dark side and he understood it more than anyone else. It’s just… “What a bastard!”

There are action figures available of The Comedian…

I know!

How do you feel about there being a plastic effigy [of ] a mass murdering rapist…. With your face!

I don’t know how I feel about that actually [laughs]…

I’d be a little worried if I saw some twelve year old running around with it, but I’m sure there are gonna be twelve year olds with the damn thing in their hand…

I don’t know, I’m having an action figure and that’s all I give a shit about! [cracks up laughing] How cool is that?!

I do not know any single man over the age of 30 who doesn’t think that it’s the coolest thing in the world to have an action figure of yourself.

I have heard from people I haven’t heard from in 30 years who are like “You’re gonna be a fuckin’ action figure!” [laughs] that’s all the thing is, who cares about the movie? You’re gonna be an action figure!

Have you got one yet?

No! I don’t. I have not seen one yet, I haven’t gotten my hands on one so…

Dammit!

I know, otherwise I’d be like “Here” [pulls a hypothetical action figure from his back pocket and presents it] “Check it out!” [laughs].

You’re a closet action figure geek hey…

I think I must be yeah! [laughs] sDAVID QUINN

0 WATCHMEN IS OUT NOW. Check out the second half of this interview and a longer version of the review at www.coolshite. net or www.supanova.com.au. Also you’ll find interviews with the director of Watchmen, Zack Snyder, as well as Malin Akerman (The Silk Specter - II). Thanks to Supanova, Cool Shite on the Tube, Paramount and Network PR.

It is now shown daily on network TV, it is easily available in pretty much every major chain store and the characters have become the topic of dayto-day conversation in the schoolyard. Even the term “anime” which used to be applied to a certain style of movie that generally was aimed at teen boys, is understood now to encompass a huge variety of genres and style of animated entertainment. Films like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time are the catalysts for such changes in thinking.

Based on a novel, or more accurately a sequel to a live action movie based on a novel, the plot revolves around Makoto Konno, a girl about to graduate high school who has two close male friends. Early in the movie she unexpectedly gains the power to jump through time, quite literally by running and jumping as fast and as far as possible.

Initially she uses this ability to do small things like eating a pudding from the fridge, which her younger sister would have eaten later, or studying for a test. But then as her time leaps become more important she realises that she has a limited number and that she needs to make more use of the time she gains.

Eventually her time interference leads to one of her male friends being on a her bike with another girl and being hit by a train, a fate which she can’t avoid as she has run out of leaps. This then leads into the surprising finale in which her other male friend reveals a great secret about himself and her powers and she realizes her love for him.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a romance first and foremost with some very minor scifi elements. The central love story between Makoto and Chiaki with Kousuke always on the outside is cleverly played out and makes good use the time hopping conceit. It is appropriately awkward and uncomfortable while still feeling sweet and carefree in a way. Kousuke’s story of burgeoning romance plays out quite differently yet also comes to a satisfying conclusion. The other characters are all fairly secondary and are given very little development; they serve their purpose well enough though.

It is animated competently enough, although if you are unused to anime pacing it might feel a bit languid at times. The only real criticism comes towards the end of the film where it feels like the director has been told to “pad-out” the film to bring it to a time that would consider it a feature length. Just when the film should be kicking into a higher gear we are treated to minutes of “almost” still images. Meant to convey time having stopped it also stops the film dead and sadly lets the film end with a yawn as opposed to a cheer.

Cine-MEH sDavid Quinn

0 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is available on DVD from selected retailers.

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STRANGER THAN MICKTION

RAW TASSIE TALENT

There’s only one Mick Lowenstein.

I like to think of myself as being fairly well spoken. Not that I’m poncing about being phlegmatic concerning my verbalistic profundity. Especially as I think I made some of the words in that last sentence up. I can talk good. Most of the time. That’s why I get a bit flustered when my mouth decides to just take things in its own hands. Which is both grammatically and anatomically interesting. I have this weird habit of missing the ‘s’ off words, making commonplace plurals into never heard of singulars. Sounds quite harmless, but when put into action, you just end up sounding like a dickhead. Here are some resent examples: At a Café; Barista: Would you like sugar?

Me: Yes thank.

See? Thanks with the s firmly attached is fine. But Thank?

The Tasmanian heats for the Raw Comedy competition have been a battleground for up-and-coming comedy talent, and although it was all one big joke (after another), there is now only one comic left standing Tracey Cosgrove.

Ending a phone call; Me: Yeah, no worries, cheer.

Cheer?! I miss out one consonant and suddenly I sound like I’m demanding that a team of American College girls come out and go “Give me a C! Give me a Q! Give me a Z P J! What does it spell?! Light bulb.

Goooooooo dyslexia!!”

The 36 year old from Seven Mile Beach performed to an eager crowd at the University of Tasmania Hobart campus, where the Hobart heat was held. She laughed the other 17 contestants out of the room, and will now be heading to Melbourne to compete against the other finalist at the Raw Comedy National Grand Final as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

It’s stupid, but I do it all the time. I don’t know why.

I dropped something the other day and said “Oop.” Clearly it wasn’t that big of an accident as it only needed the one oop. Who says things like that?

I was going to have to do something about this; it was starting to give me the shit. Time to take the bull by the horn and look the problem right between the eye.

It was going to take ball and nerve of steel. But power to the person I say.

I was getting worried. What if I couldn’t do anything plural anymore? I was beginning to get a simple. What if I could only watch movies like Edward Scissorhand, X-man and One Dalmation? Or if I could only listen to music by The Bee Gee, The Scissor Only Child and The Tasmanian Symphony Soloist? I mean how far was this thing going to go? Was it going to make me sick?

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only being able to eat fairy bread with a single hundred and thousand on. The only way I would ever be safe verbally, would be to only refer to sheep and fish.

What if in conversation I started saying things like “It’s upstair” or “She gave birth to just one twin” or “Don’t step on the unipede”? Actually, to be honest, most people I talk to would be disappointed if I didn’t say something like that. So I should probably stop with the

worry bead. Sometimes, you just can’t see the forest for the tree. True Story. sMICK LOWENSTEIN

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0 17 April @ The Backspace Theatre, Hobart

Raw Comedy is all about 5-minutes of the funniest original comedy in Australia, and after narrowing down talent from over 59 cities and regional centres as part of the biggest open-mic comedy competition in the country, the 12 state finalists (including Tracey) will be competing for the chance to be the National winner on April 19. The lucky Grand Champ will win a ticket to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival!

For more info on the comp, or to book tickets for the finale, head to the Comedy Festival Website for Raw Comedy.

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ROCK - MELBOURNE // WARREN ELLIS

Happy Accidents

Best known for his work with Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, the eclectic multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis has also found his feet with compositions for film and theatre. Teaming up with Nick Cave, the two have been scoring popular films such as The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and now the work of Cave and Ellis is being heard on the stage of the Theatre Royal in Hobart, with Metamorphosis playing as part of the Ten Days on the Island Festival.

Since Ellis again teamed up with Cave to do the score of The Proposition (the film also written by Cave), they have produced the score to two more feature films, Jesse James and the upcoming film The Road, the documentary The English Surgeon, and a number of plays for Gísli Örn Gardarsson including Metamorphosis. Creating this kind of music is a completely different experience for Ellis than working with his bands. “When you’re going in to make a record with a band, you just all get focused and you’re trying to make an album… we’ll have some songs so there’s direction there and away you go.” But when it comes to composing, Ellis says that “it’s a very organic process, we never sit down and try and write like a 38second thing that’s going to follow the action or something like that, our music doesn’t really operate like that.

To be honest, it’s not even a skill that either Nick or myself have.”

While working on the film The Road both Cave and Ellis would be in the studio five days a week, from 10am to midnight each day, just creating “lots and lots of music, and as that process is happening, an editor helps us to kind of stick it in to spots in the film, to spots that it might work and we see what we may or may not need.” As such there tends to be a lot of music left over and a lot of experimenting with different moods, themes and instruments. “There’s this odd sense that the action is not just dictating the music and how it is, and you get these really wonderful little accidents that happen in there. We’ve written music without even seeing anything, and you chuck it on an image and it just does something.” Something amazing, if we judge purely by the success of his scores, with The Proposition picking up an AFI for Best Original Score as well as quite a few other wins and nominations.

accidents and leftovers that the pair came across Gísli Örn Gardarsson. Some of the music was able to find a home in his productions, the rest was formed with back and forth collaboration between the three. Gardarsson described the music as extremely interesting, especially with Ellis “playing with a lot of musical effects” which he saw it give the soundtrack “a buggy feel, insect like sometimes.” Which was perfect for the play based on Kafka’s short story involving a man’s transformation into a large insect and how his family reacts.

The play has been seen all over the world, there’s now talk of it heading to Broadway in New York, and it’s this expansion of the work that Ellis really appreciates as well as the “curiously liberating effect” of music that’s dictated by forces other than himself. Without having to do much follow up, say with promotion and touring as he would with a release from one of his bands, the music goes off and “just starts living, without you there… and other people are breathing new life into [it], when your work’s done. And that’s really great, because it just gives you more time to go and work on more stuff.”

And there will definitely be a lot more music like this.

Other than The Road, which will be released later this year, the two are working on Gardarsson’s upcoming adaptation of Faust, which is currently at around eight hours and in need of a little editing. “There’s a real thirst between the two of us to keep finding things that are really challenging and that go somewhere else. I think working in this whole medium of film and theatre is a great launch pad for that sort of thing.”

It was while sitting on a pile of these beautiful

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Metamorphosis plays its last show on April 1.

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Working It Out Inc

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“There’s a series of metal tripods, with rotating arms.

At the end of each arm are little loud speakers, which emit musical tones, and there’s also a red LED at the end of each arm. Two performers go around tuning the notes, with little electronic oscillators. They tune the notes to specific scale, the audience walk around the piece, they can see what’s going on, and it’s very functional, very mechanical, very industrial looking.

Gradually we get these arms rotating. As soon as it starts to rotate, the sound washes past you. There are twenty-four of these tripods in the space, ranging in height from about one metre up to three metres tall.

We do this until they’re all rotating, we then gradually increase the speed of rotation until they’re spinning quite fast and then we turn all the lights out. So you’re plunged into darkness with this huge immersive wash of sound, and then all you can see are these little red lights flying around, and it looks like a swarm of fireflies.”

Just the description of the sound art piece Siren is haunting and hypnotic. The installation, currently at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Ten Days on the Island Festival, has been transfixing audiences across the globe with its spectacle of movement, sound and light. Ray Lee, the artist, is an award-winning sound artist, composer and performer from the U.K., and describes his piece as “mesmerising” and something that will appeal to almost anyone, but not always in the same way.

Whilst working on a number of sound sculptures, exploring the way that sound moved, he developed a simple tripod with a motor and protruding arm at the top, with the arm ending with a loudspeaker, similar to the ones in Siren. “And as soon as I made this and turned it on, I was completely fascinated by what happened to the sound as it whizzed passed the listener. As soon as I built one, I realised I had to build two, and as soon as I built two, I thought that

three would be better. And it kind of grew from there, up to the point where I think the most I’ve had in an installation is about twenty-nine.”

The first big Siren show came when Lee had the opportunity to put together a work to be housed in a disused American air force base, Hanger 3022 of the U.K.’s Upper Heyford Airbase in 2004. It was an old F1 Fighter Jet hanger, and afforded Lee with a huge great space. “And my idea of using this was to fill it with a forest of these tripods. So that’s the first time it became a piece called Siren.” Now the forest of twentyfour has found its roots here in Launceston.

As an experience for the audience, from feedback he’s received, Lee describes it as very much a personal one. No too people seem to see or hear the same exact thing. “One of the key things about the piece is that the audience are allowed to walk around. You stand up or walk around during the piece; you find the place where you like it best. It’s a very personal listening and viewing experience.” With every place in the exhibit offering a different aural and visual perspective, some audience members will hear bells or singing through the tones, and some will see fireflies or stars moving in the lights. But whatever they see, hear or understand, Ray Lee says it doesn’t matter.

“For me, if it’s successful for a member of the audience, it gives them a space to stop thinking about things, it takes you away; because you can’t really say what it means, it’s about a space where you’re not having to literally understand it, you simply experience it.” sDAVID WILLIAMS & MEEGAN MAY

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Metamorphosis REVIEW @ Theatre Royal, Playing until April 2

FLOAT AWAY

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“Gregor Samsa isn’t himself today,” explains his mother Lizzie.

Well, that’s an understatement! After all, I’m at Metamorphosis, adapted for the stage from Franz Kafka’s now classic tale of alienation, and Lizzie’s son has morphed into a great big, hideous bug.

This co-production from the UK’s Lyric Hammersmith and Iceland’s Vesturport, seen in Hobart as part of Ten Days on the Island, deploys a whole series of inventive theatrical conceits in order to persuade us of this preposterous lie.

Why does the Chilean Barnacle have the longest genitalia in the barnacle world?

Welcome to the Samsa household. Downstairs, a conventional, if rather drab, living room from circa 1930s Europe. But look! Above it, in split-level, Gregor’s room is oddly skewed on its axis. His bed is flush with the back wall; a lampshade sticks out from it at 90 degrees; the floor is not where it should be.

The Ten Days On The Island Festival has offered a number of great theatre productions, and Floating is no different. This comic and beautiful tale about an island that floated away is brought to us by Welsh theatre company Holpolloi, via the mind of Hugh Hughes.

Gísli Örn Gardarsson, as the bug/man Gregor Samsa, is utterly at home in this gravity-defying space. A former gymnast, he swings and crawls and hauls himself from hand-hold to hand-hold around the topsy-turvy room.

It’s a thrilling display of physical theatre.

On 1 April 1982 the Isle of Anglesey is hit by an earthquake, the Menai Bridge collapses and the island is torn from the mainland of Wales. Hugh Hughes remains trapped on board, desperate to escape and discover life outside his small island.

The rotated perspective is equally clever - a sophisticated illusion that forces us to look down on Gregor, not across at him. It’s as though we’ve become flies on the (missing) ceiling of his bedroom and Borkur Jonsson’s design has made insects of us all.

His mother, father and sister don’t share our perspective of Gregor. And while we can understand him, they hear nothing but a rasping noise. He pleads with them but it’s futile, their horror quickly turning to revulsion. To them, Gregor has become ‘the other’ - in Kafka’s terms, “eine Ungeziefer” – an ‘untouchable’.

Some may find the non-naturalistic performance style in Metamorphosis hard to take, but this talented troupe administers Brecht’s prescription: slightly stilted delivery and larger than life portrayals put distance between us and the emotional landscape on stage.

Which helps us concentrate on the political and social message in the play.

David Farr and Gardarsson share direction, and both

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worked on this adaptation of The Metamorphosis. When Hermann Samsa proclaims: “We must find work. Work will set us free,” the play’s moral territory comes into sharper focus. But Kafka’s original novella, published in 1915, proved eerily prophetic about the fate of his own Jewish kind, who would first be marginalized, and then demonized, ahead of plans put in motion in the spring of ‘42, for that terrible, final solution.

The somewhat stylized movement in this production is choreographed to an effectively unsettling soundtrack, composed by Warren Ellis. The staging of this production, outstanding in every way, provides some memorable visual effects. But it’s the play’s devastating final image, and a lyric from the Dark Prince himself, Nick Cave, that stays with me as I file out of the theatre: “The dark days have gone, here is the spring.”

Have they, indeed? sEleonora Court

Together with his collaborative partner, Sioned Rowlands, Hugh colourfully reconstructs the island’s journey across the Atlantic, up to the Arctic and beyond. He cleverly and comically tells his story using a combination of slides, PowerPoint, overhead and video projection, dry ice and a never ending collection of instructional props in a quirky performance that will delight those with a fascination for all things retro.

There is something in the play that many of us here will relate to. At one point Hugh brings out a book with a map of Wales that is missing Anglesey, something that no doubt will get a few knowing laughs from us Tasmanians.

So let yourself go, float around for a while and see how it all ends. The show has now moved from the Ear Arts Centre in Launceston to the Playhouse Theatre in Hobart for a limited run.

0 2-5 April @ Playhouse Theatre, Hobart

If you think that’s a good question, you’d be in great company. Charles Darwin himself spent time musing on this very subject. It’s one of many quirky and unexpected questions put in Origins, a new show opening this week at the UTAS Studio Theatre.

Not that Darwin is the main focus – if there’s a message in Origins, it’s about getting in touch with your roots.

And it’s the medium, not the message that makes it much more of a gig than a theatre piece.

The show is billed as an “energetic mix of reggae, funky blues, gypsy tango and island music, the sounds of spoken voices, skins and stones, all wrapped up in stories about who we are and where we’ve come from.”

The band in Origins are four very seasoned musos who play on everything from bass guitar to banjo, ukulele to drum kit and rhythm sticks to a marimba made entirely of dolerite stones. And then some.

Lorrae Coffin, Matthew Fargher, Tania Bosak and Ruth Langford play, sing and spin yarns in a show they’ve written and wrought together over the past three years. It’s a hybrid of music and narrative that gives due props to their musical and ethnic ancestry.

It’s why they call themselves the Mongrel Mob and in Origins this motley crew say they’ll be riffin’ along parallel lines in history and jammin’ on grooves guaranteed to stir your soul, move your feet and make you think long and hard about your roots!

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Featuring some of the most critical naval battles in history, sequel to number one selling Battlestations: Midway™, Battlestations: Pacific™ reportedly takes the action/strategy game play to the next level.

Players will have a choice to be in command of the US Navy’s Pacific fleet through the Battles of Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima or, for the first time, take up post in the Imperial Japanese Navy.

The game will also involve an enhanced online multiplayer experience and hit XBOX360® on May 15.

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THE HOFF IS READY TO RUMBLE David Hasselhof recently appeared on late night television to pimp the new Atari game Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution available exclusively on Nintendo Wii. With an animated caricature boxer under the codename “Dewie Streudel” bearing his resemblance, the game features a further 18 similar characters based on celebrities from the worlds of sports, music and movies.

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MILANO IN GHOSTBUSTERS Alyssa Milano has signed up to voice the love interest in the upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Playing an archaeologist, Milano’s character will be folly for Bill Murray’s Dr. Peter Venkman.

PAA Ep 2 is brought to you by the loveable gamer fans turned internet celebrities Mike “Gabe” Kraulik and Jerry “Tycho” Holkins of Penny Arcade web comic fame. This is Episode Two, which you would correctly assume has an Episode One preceding which was released last year. Much in the fans’ favour PAA is the first episodic content title on XBLA so a next instalment it is to be expected being episode 3 hot on Episode 2’s heels.

In the same style as it’s predecessor PAA:Ep 2 is set in comic book style set in the 1920s. Why the 1920s? It’s all about the non-conventional with Penny Arcade and a refreshing change from sci-fi plots set in the future.

Join Gabe and Tycho after the utter destruction of your home sweet home by a giant metallic menace as an impromptu Startling Developments Detective Agency Agent. Through clever narrative, witty banter and humorous battles you hoe your way to saving New Arcadia from a startling foe and uncovering the mystery surrounding your misfortune. One of the mysteries you seek to reveal is about the menace of the “Harvest Buddy”, however, as you will discover in game it is more well known by it’s repugnantly apt and crude naming due to the pelvic extraction of fruit pulp and seemingly one track mindedness and desire to penetrate fruit… Again, more absurd and zany humour from the writers of the web comic have brought through to the game.

There is much to do in New Arcadia with detective cases for which you must search for clues, engage in compelling and mundane dialogues with non playable characters or have close encounter battles.

From your humble roots on Desperation Street where tragedy befell your home to the scientifically charged Symposium on the future of man you find the most interesting if not absurd characters along the way.

Battling with the sanatorium patients, thuggish louts, mathematic henchmen and notably the upper class is but a day’s work for the Detective agency.

You get to roam through panels in each of the map areas in New Arcadia and each zone is rounded up nicely with a smattering of puzzles and of course, minibosses to test your mettle. Sidekicks are a great

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Adventure style game play is nothing new for consoles.

PAA however brings it back from an older school by using D20 stats to mess with usual unseen calculations of battle initiative. The animated style is a lovingly diligent actualisation of the vision and bizarre, adult humour of the characters that make up the world of Penny Arcade. Gaming fans could be pleasantly surprised at the insurmountable in jokes that litter the game. Also this is not a game for those who are adverse to strong language. I think it outdoes GoWT and Killzone for use of coarse language however the delivery is different with wit and parodies. Surprisingly the game has no vocal dialogue between characters; an unseen character drives the plotline forward with the spoken narrative and the rest of the character dialogue is text based. This makes for a very literal comic book feel to the game and the cut scenes switch between animated panels for a genuine web comic feel.

Seamless 2d and 3d animation help to create a distinct and identifiable look to the game whilst game play is fairly smooth and easy to learn however the turnbased combat segments are a bit of a learning curve with subtle details and timing being things to watch out for. Seek and find and to-ing and fro-ing seem to be the adventure staple in this game however the monotony is thankfully broken up by a slathering of gags and random absurdist occurrences. It’s a worthwhile adventure romp with promising subsequent instalments being available in future.

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GAMEPLAY: 80% 0 Likeable 3d adventure that looks a little 2d. Edges and response time is a little annoying but generally tolerable.

The third-person shooter Resistance: Retribution has finally made its way to Playstation®Portable.

Now you can fight your way across Western Europe battling against the Chimera, wherever you are in real life.

GRAPHICS: 90% 0 Oozes fandom and is a very good translation of the source material to a game.

SOUND: 80% 0 Substantial sound effects and enjoyable music. However, battle sound effects are not distinctive enough for button mashing cues.

PLAYABILITY: 70% 0 Backtracking from point A to point B is broken up with some clever puzzles and a madcap set of characters along the way.

OVERALL: 80% 0 If you’re keen for a seek and find type adventure and have some hours to kill then this is likely something to fill that gap.

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