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A WORD FROM THE TEAM Hello Readers!

Well ... Easter is out of the way and we continue to burn through 2013. I don’t know if we are all suffering from time-lapse, but wasn’t it only a few days ago we were celebrating Christmas? As winter slowly begins to cast its shadow over the Sleepy Hollow, our nightlife becomes important as a refuge from the weather and early sunsets.

There is nothing better than waiting in a line for a band in a jacket and beanie, catching the show, then getting back to someone’s house and cranking up the heater and dissecting the live performance over a few drinks. It’s Parmy and Pot weather. It’s cold, windy Saturday watching the footy at your local pub weather. It’s getting out and catching your favourite band with friends weather. While you all may think it’s time to fatten up and go into hibernation, you must remember: with most bands not caught up with the summer festival circuit, there is actually an increase in touring for the next 4-5 months. More bands are setting up to come to Regional Victoria than at any other time of the year, so get set - it’s going to be a big winter/ spring.

There are plenty of fantastic things going on around the place at the moment. We have the wonderful Evermore on our front cover in preparation for their upcoming regional dates!

We have local act The Soulenikoes doing our Local Feature for a tour of which Forte is a proud presenting partner. We also proudly boast the Apollo Bay Music Festival guide in the centre of the magazine, something we feel honoured to have featured. We hope all those in attendance at any show have a wonderful time.

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is a blast on all levels. She’s funny, she’s humble.

She’s badass. She’s everything. She’s awesome.

We’re actually already working on an album with her.”

Aussies Heading to Lollapalooza

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Whether it is healthy buzzed caused at prestigious events such as SXSW or stand alone tours, Aussie acts continue to strike gold in the US. Now it is time for four more Aussie acts to shine with Knife Party, Atlas Genius, 360, and San Cisco being added to the Chicago festival, Lollapalooza. Both Atlas Genius and 360 showcased at SXSW this year so it looks as though they are already well and truly in the US good books.

Sound City Heads to Australia

Record Store Day

Earthcore 20 year anniversary!

According to an article in trade magazine Reel to Reel, David Grohl will be serving up a dose of Sound City in Australia. Sound City, as we know, tells the story of the L.A. studio that gave birth to albums by Nirvana, Neil Young, and Joe Cocker.

Now it sounds as though Grohl wants to turn the project into a franchise, kicking it off with the defunct Brisbane studio, Cyborg Studios. Powderfinger precursors The Eternal among others have roots there.

This Saturday, April 20, is Record Store Day. But you are a bunch of whip smart thangs so would know that already. Another thing you probably know then is that Russell Morris has been named as the local ambassador. The ARIA Hall of Fame inductee kicked off his musical career in the mid 1960s and is perhaps best known for his Johnny Young-written track, ‘’The Real Thing’. Further information can be found through recordstoreday.com.au.

Australia’s original outdoor music, arts and lifestyle festival, the return to where it all began , the original crew reunites. For 2 decades the last weekend of November was Earthcore weekend for thousands of party goers across Australia and the world. The Team at Earthcore are proud to to announce they will reunite for their 20th anniversary for what will be a simple no holds extravaganza show put on by the original crew that started it all back in 1993. Earthcore was one of the 1st dance music festivals in the world to push the boundries of radical self expression be it via music, performance, art, theme areas or just letting it all out that one time a year where one immerses themselves in a surreal world all in the name of fun. The 20th anniversary Earthcore returns back to its original roots with a all out assault on your senses the last weekend on November 2013. First round acts include Ace Ventura, Captain Hook, Perfect stranger, Angy kore, Piatto, Astrix, Freedom Fighters, Sesto Sento, Coming Soon, Ghost Rider, Moshic, Polaris + many many more to come Early bird tix onsale now via www.earthcore. com.au, Enquiries/Get Involved : admin@ earthcore.com.au Date: November 29 – December 1 – 2013

The Highlights: We’re on the drug that killed River Phoenix. Coming up you have…

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Finding Michael Hutchence Since hanging up their instruments last year, INXS has kept fans happy with several projects. One such project, Never Tear Us Apart: The INXS Story, is a two-part mini-series that tells the story of the band. It was announced recently that stepping into the shoes of Hutchence will be Luke Arnold who would be familiar to some through his work in Rush, McLeod’s Daughters, and Steven Spielberg’s The Pacific. .........................................................................

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Memories of Jen Cloher May 27 is the date to remember if you’re a fan of songbird Jen Cloher with the singer-songwriter set to release album number three, In Blood Memory.

Recorded between September 2012 and January 2013, Jen decided to dump an original collection of songs and start fresh. The songbird also took to Pozible to help raise funds for the album, something that she had no problem achieving.

Goodbye Pony, Hello Boney

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Do we know the awesome news about Pony?

Well, as some of you may know the Melbourne venue announced last December that they would be closing the curtain and this left many people suitably sad. Thanks to Camillo and Dan Ippoliti, father-son owners of Revolver in Prahran among others), the venue has been given new life. It will now be named Boney. The cool Dig It Up! music love-in kicks the new chapter off on April 25.

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Damage is the forthcoming new album from Jimmy Eat World and its due out this June. Speaking to Rolling Stone, singer-guitarist Jim Adkins spoke of a fresh approach. He said: “We used tape for the first time in a long time, as well as computer. I hate saying more raw, but it’s more raw and warm. We just set up all around Alain’s house. There were instruments in his bedroom and drums in his living room. Just noise all day long.”

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There is something about Ke$ha. And whatever that something is has led Wayne Coyne to announce that The Flaming Lips are teaming up with the pop star on a full-length album. Although they have collaborated before, this is a whole new beast.

Speaking to Spin about Ke$ha Coyne said: “She

Alice in Chains Mockumentary As a teaser for their forthcoming new album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, Alice in Chains made a small mockumentary to keep fans occupied until its release. Titled AIC 23, the short-piece follows film

studies professor Alan Poole McLard on his journey to track down the band’s members. Along the way he meets a handful of characters (played by Alice in Chains members) as well as names including Kim Thayil, Mike McCready and Lars Ulrich. .........................................................................

Bernard Fanning Teaser As fans may well be aware, Bernard Fanning is set to release his second solo album on June 7. Little knowledge has been made available about the album other than a 20-second teaser and that it will be full of “soulful rock” but on April 22 the first real taste of what to expect will come through its lead single. Fanning has been recording the album in L.A. with US producer Joe Chiccarelli (The Shins, Counting Crows). .........................................................................

Rolling Stone Magazine Exhibition Rolling Stone Magazine continues to stand strong at a time when print is giving way to digital journalism.

The magazine’s contribution to music speaks for itself and kicking off this month is an exhibition featuring the front covers of Rolling Stone Australia from 1972 to 2010. Titled Rolling Stone: The Covers, the exhibition will display 150 of the magazine’s covers spanning 40 years. Yarra Ranges Regional Museum - April 20 through July 7.

New De La Soul Nine years is a long time in between drinks but De La Soul has finally served up their first official song and video clip after nine years.

Titled ‘Get Away’, the song is to be the first in what is hoped to be a monthly series. At the time of writing no official release date had been given but it is due to appear through YouTube and social media sites. The band’s last official release was 2004’s The Grind Date.

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Friday April 19 CORNER HOTEL: British India on the Controller Tour with Love Junkies, tickets available from the Corner box office (Melbourne) SPHINX HOTEL: Trojan performing live ODYSSEY TAVERN & BREWERY: Cal Young THE LOFT: The Soulenikoes Recovery Tour (Warrnambool) BABUSHKA LOUNGE: Shaun Kirk on The Wick Sessions National Release Tour (Ballarat) CITY QUARTER BAR: Tom & Tayla THE GROVEDALE HOTEL: Good Faces 4 Radio TOAST NIGHT CLUB: The Ashton Shuffle 16

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Saturday April 20 CHERRY BAR: Australian Rock featuring Bob Spencer, James Morley, Peter Maslen, Ian Hulme, Alfi Rocker and special guests, King Of The North (Melbourne) WOOL EXCHANGE ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX: 28days on the Upstyledown tour, doors from 8pm, tickets $20 plus booking fee SPHINX: Elvis Show, Featuring Marcus Jackson.

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Monday April 22 BARWON CLUB HOTEL: $10 Parmis ELEPHANT & CASTLE: $20 Steak & Drink night SPHINX HOTEL: 11 Meals for $11 LORD NELSON HOTEL: Steak/Parmi & Pot for $15 on presentation of student I.D

Tuesday April 23 ELEPHANT & CASTLE: $20 Steak & Drink night THE SPHINX HOTEL: 11 Meals for $11, Poker Night (free) THE CARLTON HOTEL: 2 for 1 Tuesday, buy one main meal, get one free! (conditions apply) GEELONG RSL: Steak Night $13

Wednesday April 24 YARRA HOTEL GEELONG: Grinspoon with Kingswood & The Emperors KAROVA LOUNGE: Evermore on the Hero National Tour, for more information and ticket bookings visit www.evermoreband.com (Ballarat) CHINESE WHISPERS: Fortune Cookie, Timmy Trumpet, James Fave and more.

HOME HOUSE: Kalus DIGGERS ARMS HOTEL: Wednesday Night Wheel from 7pm, cash & prizes up for grabs!

ELEPHANT & CASTLE: Trivia Night from 8.30pm till 10.30pm THE SPHINX HOTEL: Steak Night from $16, Poker Night ($10 buy in) GEELONG RSL: Parma & Pot Night $13 beavs bar: Karoke, Open Mic & Andy Forster

Thursday April 25

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28 Days WOOL EXCHANGE ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX, 20th Of April

veterans and widows - HEADS! 2-Up is back from 1pm till 5pm YARRA HOTEL GEELONG: Evermore on the Hero National Tour, for more information and ticket bookings visit www. evermoreband.com (Ballarat) EUREKA: Cancun Party W/ Nina Las Vagas & Some Blonde DJ ELEPHANT & CASTLE: Drink promos & Giant Meat Raffle from 5pm till 8pm THE LORD NELSON: Live music Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays CITY QUARTER BAR: Unplugged featuring 30 acts over 6 heats during 10 weeks, major prizes to be won for competition entrants, every Thursday from 7pm till 10pm CLUB TITANIUM: Uni Night BLACK HATT: Open Anzac Day, from noon-11pm THE SPHINX HOTEL: Schnitzel Night from $13 THE MAX HOTEL: Parmi Night $12, InnQUIZitive Trivia from 7.30pm till 10.30pm, amazing prizes, call to book your team’s spot beavs bar: Dave Anderson

Friday April 26 SPHINX HOTEL: Regular Boys performing live BRIDGE HOTEL: Regional Roulette featuring King Parrot, Frankenbok, Heaven the Axe & Abreact from 6.30pm, tickets $15 (Castlemaine) APOLLO BAY MUSIC FESTIVAL: 21st Annual Event featuring

Skunkhour, Jordie Lane, Men In Suits, Livingstone Daisies, Ryan Coffey, Hussy Hicks, Aya Larkin, Ryan Coffey, Mal Webb, War Chief & loads more visit www. apollobaymusicfestival.com for more information (Apollo Bay) MYNT LOUNGE: The Soulenikoes Recovery Tour (Werribee) LIGHTHOUSE THEATRE: Diesel on the Velvet Curtain Tour, tickets available by visiting www.lighthousetheatre. com.au (Warrnambool) THE GROVEDALE HOTEL: 80’s R us THE MAX: Trojan CITY QUARTER BAR: Matt & Justin KAROVA LOUNGE: Spit Syndicate Sunday Gentlemen National Tour with special guests Jackie Onassis (Ballarat) EDGE GEELONG: Levi & Cody PIPING HOT CHICKEN SHOP: Claude Hay performing live (Ocean Grove) BARWON CLUB HOTEL: Neighbourhood Youth w/ others, Also - Friday Carlton Draught Footy promos plus Between The Wars, Nathan Seeckts, Japan For & The Shadow League performing ELEPHANT & CASTLE: Thank Guinness It’s Friday BLACK HATT: Drink promos from 5pm till 7pm (free entry) The Detonators performing live BAR PIZZA: DJ Merv & Drink Promos

LAMBY’S BAR & RESTAURANT: Live bands & DJs open from 5pm THE LORD NELSON: Live music Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays IRISH MURPHY’S: Live music every Friday & Saturday night AT THE HEADS: Live music from 5pm till 7pm (Barwon Heads) CLUB TITANIUM: FREE FRIDAY - RnB Relaunch - free entry DRYSDALE HOTEL: The Gems performing live from 8pm (Drysdale) beavs bar: Jesse Reid

Saturday April 27 SPHINX HOTEL: Elvis Show featuring Marcus Jackson APOLLO BAY MUSIC FESTIVAL: 21st Annual Event featuring Skunkhour, Jordie Lane, Men In Suits, Livingstone Daisies, Ryan Coffey, Hussy Hicks, Aya Larkin, Ryan Coffey, Mal Webb, War Chief & loads more visit www. apollobaymusicfestival.com for more information (Apollo Bay) THE GROVEDALE HOTEL: Wayne Thompson EUREKA: The Pulp, FREE before 11aM THE BARWON CLUB HOTEL: The Living Eyes CHINESE WHISPERS: 3D Party ft. Stevie Mink & Jamie Vlahos HOME HOUSE: Mexican Street Party W/ Peaking Duck, Down Stairs - Surrender KAROVA LOUNGE: Chance Waters on the Infinity Tour with

special guests Mind Over Matter featuring DJ Ntaprize (Ballarat) MARTIANS CAFE: Joe Forrester ELEPHANT & CASTLE: Live Bands 9:30- Midnight CITY QUARTER BAR: Jesse Reid EDGE GEELONG: Matt & Justin THE LORD NELSON: Live music Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays IRISH MURPHY’S: Live music every Friday & Saturday night LAMBY’S BAR & RESTAURANT: Live bands & DJs open from 9pm CLUB TITANIUM: Party Time with guest and local DJs YARRA HOTEL GEELONG: Pop Saturdays THE MAX HOTEL: Frequency beavs bar: Butters Live

Sunday April 28 BRIDGE HOTEL: Itchy Scabs from 4pm, free, kid friendly event (Castlemaine) APOLLO BAY MUSIC FESTIVAL: 21st Annual Event featuring Skunkhour, Jordie Lane, Men In Suits, Livingstone Daisies, Ryan Coffey, Hussy Hicks, Aya Larkin, Ryan Coffey, Mal Webb, War Chief & loads more visit www. apollobaymusicfestival.com for more information (Apollo Bay) CITY QUARTER BAR: Levi Anderson EDGE GEELONG: Good Faces For Radio BARWON CLUB HOTEL: Super Cider Sundays

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Monday April 29 BARWON CLUB HOTEL: $10 Parmis ELEPHANT & CASTLE: $20 Steak & Drink night SPHINX HOTEL: 11 Meals for $11 LORD NELSON HOTEL: Steak/Parmi & Pot for $15 on presentation of student I.D

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DIGGERS ARMS HOTEL: Wednesday Night Wheel from 7pm, cash & prizes up for grabs!

ELEPHANT & CASTLE: Trivia Night from 8.30pm till 10.30pm GPAC: Box Man THE SPHINX HOTEL: Steak Night from $16, Poker Night ($10 buy in) GEELONG RSL: Parma & Pot Night $13 beavs bar: Karoke, Open Mic & Dave Anderson

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Thursday May 2 BRIDGE HOTEL: Laura Imbruglia & Dan Salter from 8.30pm, tickets $10 (Castlemaine) GPAC: Boxman MUSICMAN: The Soulenikoes Recovery Tour (Bendigo)

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evermore

By Cameron Brogden

New Zealand’s second-biggest sibling act (second only to the legendary Finn brothers), the Hume brothers are back on an Australian national tour. The Gisbornebased Hume brothers are doing 31 shows

across the country in support of their new single, ‘Hey My Love’. I caught up with eldest brother Jon a couple of weeks ago to discuss life on the road and the new single.

Of course, I couldn’t help but tell them what a fan I was and that I remember seeing them play in Geelong for New Year’s Eve, 2007. “I remember that night,” Jon said. “I remember it being slightly wild and people having a very, very good time.

Geelong’s always good so we’re looking forward to it. It’s a pretty extensive tour we’re doing, something like thirty-one shows, so we’re getting to pretty much every corner of the country and Geelong’s pretty close to where we’re based, up in Gisborne, so it’s not too far away.”

With thirty-one shows in only thirty-nine days, I was worried that the boys might get a little burnt out. Jon had other ideas. “We’ve been doing this for over ten years now so if we were going to burn out, we’d have probably burned out before now. But we’ve done tours this extensive before but not for quite a few years. This is definitely our biggest Australian tour in a long time. I mean, we did like seven shows with

Pink in 2009-10, so it’s not quite at that level. But we’re getting there.”

Family road trips can be hard. Who hasn’t had a fight with their sibling in the second hour of a sixhour car ride? I asked Jon how they were going to cope on the long drives. “I don’t know. We usually get on really well but there’s more driving on this tour than probably we’ve ever done. I actually don’t know if we’ve ever driven all the way up to like, North Queensland before from Melbourne, so this is definitely a new level, but it’s going to be fun. Not many bands still do tours like this. Like, often an Australian tour is like, five shows, whereas this one is like, this is the real deal. We’ll be playing really well by the end of it. I can say that for sure.”

In the past few years, Evermore has supported some huge international acts in Pink, Matchbox 20 and Maroon 5. “It’s really cool. I mean, even just watching them. It’s such a challenge to get what we do to the next level. I mean, there’s obviously heaps of amazing Australian acts, but there’s something about seeing people who have done what they do on, like, a worldwide stage. Especially seeing how they do things. It can be quite inspiring and can be quite, ‘Whoa, OK. If we’re gonna do this ... They’re about to see this band, so we’ve really gotta take what we do to the next level and make sure we can hold our own here.’ I really enjoy it.”

The title track from their current album Follow The Sun has achieved a high- level of popularity. “It’s managed to work its way all around the world. It got on a movie in America and it’s quite surreal actually; going to the movie theatres and seeing our song on an animation that’s, like, voiced by Nicolas Cage and stuff like that. It’s like ‘Wow!’ It’s a bit different.

It’s cool.”

But it’s the video for ‘Hey My Love’ that stands out.

“The new song, ‘Hey My Love’, just went out, and the film clip went out, like, three days ago, and the reaction for that’s been good so far. It’s got a different concept. Basically, it’s like an Instagram video.

People can hashtag ‘heymylove’ on things they love and it actually makes part of the film clip.” And, like any true professional, it’s all work after this tour with the brothers Hume having their future planned out.

“It’s looking like we’re going to the States after this tour. We’re gonna be playing our best by the end of it, so we’re like ‘Ok, now’s the best time to go over there and see what happens in America.’ That’s kind of what’s on the cards at the moment.”

It’s the lucky few bands that can make it as big as Evermore has in the last ten years so I asked Jon if he had any advice for up-and-comers. “At the end of the day, it comes down to songs and what a band or an artist has to say, really,” Jon said. “What we’ve seen over the years is that people who are really passionate about what they do, and work hard at it, and have a clear direction for it, are the ones that sort of stick at it and make it in the longer term. It’s certainly not an easy job. Being a musician is a fulltime thing, but it’s possible.”

He continues. “The industry’s changed a lot so in some ways it’s easier to get your album made and things cost a lot less and you can kind of release it in a worldwide sense through social media. There’s so much music out there now so you’re definitely competing with more. But that’s cool. We definitely embrace the whole social media thing, so it can really work to your advantage.”

Evermore are playing Ballarat’s Karova Lounge and Geelong’s Yarra Hotel in April. Go check them out before they breakout in the States so you can tell everyone you saw them back when they were “just” national stars. And make sure you hashtag your Instagram photos of things you love with #heymylove to get into their video.

When&Where: The Karova, Ballarat - April 24 & Yarra Hotel, Geelong - April 25

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Ball Park Music

By Natalie Rogers

Fresh from sharing the stage with other Aussie darlings at triple j’s One Night Stand, Ball Park Music are heading out on their final headline tour for 2013—aptly named the Thank Ewes Tour. The fab five plan to go out with a bang, playing a handful of shows around the country before holing up in the studio for the rest of the year to work on their highly anticipated third album. Frontman Sam Cromack gave Forte the lowdown.

“We chose Eagle and The Worm to support us this time out. They are awesome and we’ve played with them a lot in the past. We all know each other quite well and we all love their music. I’m really stoked they’re coming along.” Sam continued, “Also, we’re really happy with our third support. He’s a guy called Jeremy Neale and is probably best known for being the main dude in Velociraptor. So altogether I think it’s going to be a really nice mob of people to tour with.”

“We’re really looking forward to it, although it feels like our millionth tour,” he admitted. “It feels kind-of weird that we’re going to do yet another lap of the country, but it’s exciting at the same time to know that there are people who want to see our band play; we just feel like five weird kids that hang out and play music,” Sam joked. “I think it’s going to be a little bit different for us, being only five dates, and we’re just doing the capital cities. I think it’ll be good for our bodies and minds and it will hopefully result in playing some good shows.”

It’s easy to see that Ball Park Music will miss not being on the road, but they’re itching to get back in the studio more. “We’re a fidgety bunch of people,” Sam laughed. “I can’t see us waiting more than a year and a half between releases. We’re a band that loves writing—we write a lot more then we rehearse!

Sam assures me every detail will be finely-tuned, from set lists to support acts, as these gigs are in dedication to all Ball Park Music fans. “We’ll be playing tracks from both records [Happiness and Other Surrounding Suburbs - 2011 and Museum - 2012], but my favourite song to play live is ‘Literally Baby’. It’s the first track off our first album. We always play it and I think it’s just an awesome way to finish the night off,” Sam explained.

Chance Waters

By Blair Hall

In the world of hip hop, the name Chance Waters is one that is attracting ever-growing respect.

Although we got to know him as Phatchance, it is through his birth name that things are reaching new levels. With things sitting pretty there felt like no better time to catch up with the wordsmith.

Friedrich Nietzsche posits the notion that “without music, life would be a mistake.” Do you feel that your work upholds this? (laughs) In terms of my personal happiness, and in terms of my personal experience to life, I think that music has been a really fundamental part of my experience. I think without music I still would have appreciated life. I know a lot of people who are deaf who have a very rewarding and fulfilled life, so I’m sure I would have gotten by without it. But I think maybe without the bigger picture, the bigger cycle of things that music represents, maybe life wouldn’t have meaning. Maybe you tap into something bigger with any sort of art, any sort of expression.

Would you consider what you do to be art? (laughs) Yeah, I mean it’s definitely an art form isn’t it. I mean, any kind of creative endeavour, I guess, is art, particularly in regards to the fact that a lot of the time you are doing it not for financial reward, you know. A lot of it is about the creation aspect, so yeah, definitely, I think so.

I’m interested in getting a deeper look into the very clear Black Eyed Peas influence on your lyrical style and musical productions. How much

Mind Over Matter

By Tex Miller

It’s a spot of fishing on Good Friday for Smiles Again from Sydney hip hop duo Mind Over Matter when I get the chance to have a chat with him about the band. Smiles is excited as ever when we chat about the upcoming few months for the band. With a new album to be released later this year, the second half of 2013 promises to be huge. “We’ve been working really hard on the new record and having worked in our own studios, it’s been really good because we haven’t suffered the creative pressure and physical limitations you get in other studio environments.

Saying that, I do love to work to a deadline because it gets it done. We’re also heading out on tour with Chance Waters on a national tour, so it’ll be great to road-test the new material,” Smiles says.

Having formed in high school through the cool skater crew, their reputation and identity has exploded in the Australian hip-hop scene through support slots and the opportunities that have presented themselves with each album release. Supporting the likes of Bliss n’ Eso, Drapht, Pez, 360, and Jebediah to name just a few, social media has also had a big impact on the band’s popularity in Australia since their first album.

“To have that technology available has been fantastic. I remember back around five years ago I was postering street poles in George Street, Sydney, and nowadays you just put a Facebook event page up and people know you have a show

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“We’ve started writing for the new album already.

We [the band] have actually just got a little place in our drummer’s house and we’ve been writing there.

I think there are about five or six that we’ve got fleshed out quite well, and a list of about twenty songs that are still quite rough for us to work on.

That’s the plan though, to take our time. We really want a short and coherent album, as close as we can get to being perfect!”

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has their work laid the blueprint for your career?

They’ve had a very interesting career. I like them more pre-Fergie, but that’s not to say that they haven’t had great moments with Fergie. Nor that she hasn’t had great moments in her solo career. In particular, I think they had some real magic.

What’s the most dissociative thing about touring? (laughs) For me, I think it’s the exact opposite and that really connects to me both in terms of meeting the people that otherwise are just, kind of, numbers in a social media system, and also just in terms of connecting with my band as a really social experience.

Did you end up recovering the Meinl Super Dry Series Brass Jingle Tambourine that was stolen during the stage invasion portion of your set at the Ed Castle in Adelaide in November last year?

How did its loss affect you and the band? What was so magical about this particular tambourine?

We were all very emotionally upset by the loss of our tambourine. It was a great tambourine. I called it the “Trash Can Tambourine” because it sort of sounded a bit like two trash can lids banging together, as opposed to your more brittle, usual, common timbre tambourine. It’s been a real blow—I really miss it.

It had a foam handle. It was really comfortable. It was like an $80 tambourine. It was the most ghetto thing about our set. Sometimes I’m going at it quite hard—I really tambourine with a vengeance. Having just the plastic handle on my regular tambourine, I don’t know man, it’s just not as comfortable. I feel less comfortable onstage now.

It certainly doesn’t show.

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on. I’m all for it–I love it. Not just because I don’t have to poster poles anymore, but you get to know fans a lot more and create a new style of connection with supporters that you wouldn’t have been able to do as easily previously.”

Heading out on the road with Chance Waters, whose popularity spiralled last year with the release of ‘Maybe Tomorrow’ and ‘Young & Dumb’, which resulted in the number 89 and 45 spots respectively in the triple j 2012 Hottest 100, Smiles can’t wait to get out on stage with his old friend once again. “We haven’t toured in a while despite the odd show and so to play some shows with Chance Waters and his band will be fantastic. As for what to expect? “Lots of shenanigans—and Kiki will be touring with us to sing ‘Real Life’.”

Over the years, many bands have requested silly and very specific things from the venues that they are playing, and raising the question to Smiles produces a similar sort of answer in relation to a private party they were once asked to play. “The girl emailed us about the gig and said, ‘What’s your rider?’ Do you need anything in particular to be able to play? We replied with, ‘We need 800 blue jellybeans in a clear hexagonal prism that stands 128 centimetres from the ground. On top of the jellybeans we also need an eight ball of cocaine. Otherwise, we refuse to play.’ At the end of the email, I stated I was joking and just some waters and beer would suffice. Yet, we rocked up to the gig to find a hexagonal prism with 800 blue jellybeans sitting 128 centimetres from the ground.”

When&Where: The Karova, Ballarat - April 27

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In Control with British India In addition to there shows at The Corner Hotel (April 19th), The Wool Exchange, Geelong (May 18th), The Pelly Bar Frankston (May 24th) and the Ferntree Gully Hotel (may 25th) - One of Melbourne’s favourite bands, British India, has added a show lined up at The Karova, Ballarat on May 17 as part of a tour celebrating their new album, Controller. Since the release of their debut album Guillotine, the band has put the smile on many a person’s dial. That particular album helped the band win an AIR Award for Best Independent Artist and snare a J Award nomination. Controller follows the good fortune of their previous efforts, becoming their third ARIA Top 10 release. The newie features the single ‘I Can Make You Love Me’ which came in at a mighty respectable #41 on triple j’s Hottest 100. Another single, ‘Summer Forgive Me’, is killing it on the radio. .........................................................................

Shining on the Gold Fields From Ballarat to the US is all part of life for Ballarat heroes, electro poppers Gold Fields. But before we get to the US of A, let’s go back to the beginning. The five-piece started jamming in a bedroom in 2010 and were so fresh that two of their members hadn’t been in a band prior to the Gold Fields gig. That meant nothing because since the band performed their first live show in 2010, it has all been go, go, go. The international market was also quick to catch on. The following year the band would release their self-titled debut EP which scored an impressive 8/10 from The AU Review’s Tanya Ali. 2013 has seen the band deliver their fulllength debut Black Sun which features the single ‘Dark Again (Lights Out)’. And now we move onto the US. The band not only performed at SXSW by also took in US talk show favourite Jimmy Kimmel Live where they performed ‘Dark Again’ as well as ‘Moves’. Speaking to The Courier from L.A. lead singer Mark Fuller said: “We got an email about three or four weeks ago and they asked if we wanted to be on Kimmel. Of course we said yes straight away. I got a tap on the shoulder just before we were about to play and he [Kimmel] said ‘where are you from?’ I told him Ballarat, near Melbourne. He said he didn’t know where that was and I told him he should visit.” The Karova, Ballarat - July 12 & Eureka Hotel, Geelong - July 18. .........................................................................

The Beginning of Tommy Fleming Irishman Tommy Fleming touches down on Australian soil at the beginning of next month and if you don’t know who he is, allow me to get you up to speed. Known as ‘The Voice of Ireland’, Fleming was a talent show regular from an early age. After completing secondary school in 1990 he tried his hand at the local scene but it wasn’t until a meeting with composer Phil Coulter that things really took off. Soon he was touring much of his homeland as well as the US. On his return he joined Irish folk group Da Dannan before venturing out into the solo world in 1996. He has released a string of albums and, following the release of Sand and Water (1997), spent six months living in Africa to work with aid agency GOAL. His new album is Begin. GPAC - May 14 & Lighthouse Theatre, Warrnambool - May 16. .........................................................................

Laura Imbruglia Awoooh!

Say a big warm ‘Howdy-do’ to Laura Imbruglia. If you have been to a gig the chances are you have seen Laura. Whether performing her own shows or warming things up for artists including Adalita, The Gin Club, and Sebadoh, Laura is one busy gal. She has a few shows coming up shortly which will put new single ‘Awoooh!’ front and centre. The newie is a taste of her forthcoming third album and according to the word on the street it channels Cheap Trick, T-Rex and Warren

Zevon. The accompanying film clip was shot on location in Prahran’s iconic Onesixone Nightclub and features, among other things, a fourteen-piece dance troupe. If her 2011 single ‘Why’d You Have to Kiss Me so Hard?’ is anything to go by, it is sure to be another golden moment. The Bridge, Castlemaine - May 9. .........................................................................

The Infectious Cariño Son With their red-hot fusion of Cuban Guarachas, Son and Boleros, six-piece Latin band Cariño Son is a band that is guaranteed to have you out of your seat.

It is practically impossible to listen to them while sitting down. Coming at you in a storm of infectious rhythm are a double bass, congas, bongos, guitar and Tres, saxophone, vocals and percussion. The band features Kaz Dalla Rosa who has been playing the harmonica for two decades. She was a founding member of The Mojos who spent some 16 years touring the Aussie pub circuit. Kaz now leads Cariño Son, lending a unique voice to the joyous sound. Rounding out the band are Marina Novelli, Emelia Wilmot, Henry Savvedra, Stephen Hornby and Kate Windress. The Piping Hot Chicken Shop - May 11.

The Aston Shuffle DJs Quick bite: Hopefully Geelong residents are ready to dance until they drop with the Aston Shuffle DJs set to play Toast Nightclub a visit on April 19. What a way to kick off a weekend!

It is not all that long ago that the duo of Vance Musgrove and Mikah Freeman were big fish in Canberra but their name hadn’t quite seeped into the rest of the country. Boy how that has changed. They are now edging towards the top of the electronic dance music pile. There will be merriment. There will be mirth.

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Conversation in the Key Of...

Courthouse ARTS’ fantastic music cum story sharing series Conversation in the Key Of... is back for another season. The series puts the spotlight on an established musician as well as giving time to an emerging musician. Hosted and accompanied by pianist Tim Neal, the Sunday afternoon session is a combination of music, stories and improvisation. It is a chance for the audience to get a little closer to the musicians behind the music. So, with that in mind you may want to jot down these names and dates: Guy Pearce - May 12, Chris Wilson - July 14, Rebecca Barnard - August 18, Stephen Cummings - September 1, Ross Hannaford - September 8 and Dave Graney - October 6. For further information please hit courthouse.org.au. You can also hit YouTube for some interviews with previous guests. .........................................................................

Joe Forrester’s a Free Man After being the stickman for several heavy bands for some ten years, Joe Forrester took a detour and headed down the solo path. It is a path that has served him very well indeed. The independent singersongwriter has released five EPs and one full-length album, his latest being 2012’s Free (available for free through Bandcamp). Speaking about a performance from earlier in the year, Melting Pot’s Roving Reporter wrote: “(Joe Forrester) impresses from song one, which you can tell he sings from the heart… Forrester is certainly a hidden gem in Melbourne’s vast array of singer-songwriter performers.” Taking influence from artists including Ani DiFranco and Neutral Milk Hotel, Forrester’s music is a balance of messy alternative folk and pop-catchy choruses. Martians Café, Deans Marsh - April 27.

The Blues Train Creative Design Market @ Wintergarden Head on down to Wintergarden this Sunday for the first Creative Design Market of 2013.

For those of you looking to find a unique and affordable gift for mum this Mothers Day and perhaps a little something for yourself, look no further. With items starting from just $10, most of which are made in Geelong by our very own creative artisans and crafts people, we promise you won’t be leaving this market empty handed. Alchemist’s Grove will be a stall holder at the market selling their luxury soaps, award winning Jeweller Victoria Edgar will also be setting up shop, plus some of Kristina Mallamace’s beautiful hand-poured soy candles in a variety of unusual tea-cups and glassware will be available to purchase on the day. Run from 10am till 4pm on Sunday April 21, upstairs at Art @ Wintergarden, browsing around the market will be the perfect way to spend your Sunday. Organisers are also calling out for applications for stall holders in the coming two markets - visit artwintergarden.com.au for more information.

Setting off on its 20th season this August, the infamous Queenscliff Blues Train is ready to continue its celebration of the best of Australian blues music. With a lot of venues coming and going over the years, proprietor Hugo T Armstrong says, “I’m proud we are able to continue to present such high quality blues music at Australia’s most unique venue, dedicated to the best in Australian blues.”

Hosting both successfully established and emerging artists on board The Blues Train, the travelling venue is renowned for its first-class blues artist line-ups. From Mia Dyson and Dallas Frasca to up-comers Spoonful, Blue Eyes Cry and the Blues Mountain Trio, The Blues Train acts as a showcase of Australia’s very best blues talent. With a 48% repeat visitation rate at this great Australian blues institution, and a forward line-up that includes even more world class acts, the 20th season looks set to be The Blues Train’s best yet.

Tickets are still available for the wrap-up of the 19th season, with tickets for the beginning of the 20th season (August, September) now also on sale. For more information including show dates, line up and availability, visit www. thebluestrain.com.au.

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The Sounds of Byron Bay Anyone who lives in Byron Bay will tell you - and indeed those who visit - that there is something pretty special about the chilled-out beachside town. And now a little slice of it is making its way to Warrnambool by way of The Sounds of Byron Bay tour. What you are getting is three of the best: Pacha Mamma, Andy Jans-Brown and JaFFer. You want to know more, don’t you? Combining roots, rock, reggae and funk, Pacha Mamma could easily be a pin-up band for the alternative lifestyle of Byron Bay. Check out their album Piece Together Peace. With music in his blood, Andy Jans-Brown sings from the heart. He is a triple j Unearthed favourite and early last year had three songs in the Top 10. If a cocktail of rock, funk and soul sounds good to you, JaFFer is the band for you. The Loft, Warrnambool - April 20.

Get Funked with Aurora Jane Aussie funk road warriors Aurora Jane spent the better part of 2012 showing their stuff throughout North America, Europe, India and Australia. What can we learn from their wide-ranging touring circuit? We learn that their funk knows no bounds. But that’s not all. They also put what little time they had in between gigs to craft their new album. And what can we learn from this? We learn that as a band they give and give and give. The funkafied three-piece features the smokin’ Jane Hole (aka Aurora Jane), the sizzlin’ Tim Bennett and the spankin’ Marley Berry-Pearce. Marley is the newest addition to the Aurora Jane team and takes his place on the throne behind the kit. In between all this, Aurora has launched a new project, an extension of her label. Speaking to Rolling Stone about the venture she says: “Mojo Junction will be a creative lifestyle website, a point where the international creative community intersects and can explore new music, culture, politics and art. I have been dreaming this up for years, and it is finally coming to fruition. My art and touring experiences have transcended simply making records for a long time.” Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn Springs - April 21.

It’s going to be smokin’. It’s going to be sizzlin’. It’s going to be spankin’.

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Wishing on a David Strassman If you do something for over 30 years the chances are you become pretty darn good at it. And ventriloquist David Strassman is pretty darn good at his craft. It all began following a visit to the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California as a kid. His old man purchased him some professional card tricks and Strassman was soon entertaining the kids in the neighbourhood. Later in life he would perform in New York nightclubs before making an appearance in the 1980 horror movie Humanoids from the Deep. With him was one of his favourite characters, Chuck Wood. Fast forward to his new show Careful What You Wish For and you have Chuck Wood, and fellow favourite Ted E. Bare, back together as re-imagined bizarro versions of themselves. GPAC - May 19 & May 20.

Applications for the 9th Annual Vic Hunt Memorial Grant are now open. The Grant was established to assist musicians trying to make a go of a musical career, and for those who deserve encouragement in doing so. Non-professional musicians and songwriters of any age and of any musical genre are invited to apply for this year’s grant. The infamous Vic Hunt was a great musician, mentor, and founding member of our very own Sleepy Hollow Blues Club and the Grant acts as a commemorative token of Vic’s great life philosophies, and encourages the continuation of his generosity of spirit for years to come.

Applicants will be judged on originality, technique, arrangement, presentation and how you intend on spending the grant. It’s not just a talent contest! All you need to do is include your resume, a CD/DVD of some of your recorded material and some form of web address linked to your online material, plus the entry form which can be found at w w w.sleepyhollowbluesclub.org.au. Get your entries in by May 21, and go on! Don’t be shy!

Australian Rock: Now with More Rock Quick bite: Last issue we mentioned that Australian Rock, a homebred supergroup featuring Bob Spencer, James Morley, Ian Hulme, Peter Maslen and Alfi Rocker would be hitting The Yarra Hotel, Geelong on April 21. Adding a little more bite to the night will be King of the North and Diehard Dolls.

King of the North is the hard-rockin’ duo of Andrew Higgs and Danny Leo while the Diehard Dolls spruik themselves as ‘Fair Dinkum Rock’n’Roll’. If you are sick and tired of watered down rock, then this show is for you.

Boxman Comes to Town There is a strong chance you would have heard about the one-man play Boxman. It has, after all, received a string of glowing reviews including from The Age’s Cameron Woodhead who writes: “It’s a tour de force. An extraordinarily moving work, it would be a crime not to tour this show, or at least plan a return season. Four and a half stars.” Written by Daniel Keene, directed by Matt Scholten, and starring the phenomenal Terry Yeboah, Boxman tells the story of Ringo. Displaced from his African homeland and disconnected from his new one, Ringo invites the audience into his new home; a home made in a local park made from the things people throw away without a second thought. COPACC - April 29 & GPAC - May 1 through May 4. *Note: Not suitable for primary school aged children. .........................................................................

Between You and Vanna “Sometimes, the road can actually feel like home for a band. It’s only natural as the bulk of a musician’s time is spent traversing the globe and playing countless cities in something of a whirlwind. Within that flurry, you’ll come across some genuine characters. In turn, they become a part of your story, enriching it with their own quirks and nuances. Vanna singer Davey Muise likes to think of those folks as The Few and Far Between.” That is the nice little introduction that welcomes people to Boston post-hardcore outfit Vanna. It also serves to welcome the band’s fourth full-length album, also called The Few and Far Between. With a strong respect and love for their fans - or friends as the band may say - Vanna formed at the end of 2004 and released their official debut EP, This Will Be Our Little Secret, the following year. The Karova, Ballarat - May 8. .........................................................................

To The Rescue Swan Song Bendigo pop-punk five-piece upstarts To The Rescue will play their final show at the Music Man Megastore on April 20. The local wonders made the following post on their Facebook page towards the end of March: “Hey so we have some bitter sweet news for everyone. We decided now is a good time for us to finish things up. We’re all proud of everything the band did and are keen to move on to our various other projects and passions. We’re celebrating this by getting drunk as f**k next month and throwing a last show. Cheers to all the dogs who’ve helped us in the

last year and we hope that everyone can come along and sink some beers at this one.” They will be joined by a handful of bands for a night that is sure to be an entertaining, if not somewhat messy, affair. .........................................................................

Kulcha Shift All-Ages Mini-Fest The fantastic team behind Kulcha Shift has put together a cracking all ages show this weekend and leading the way is SA outfit Sierra. Sierra formed in 2010 and endeared themselves to locals following their last show in the area. The infectious and passion-fuelled melodic hardcore act knows how to captivate an audience. They will be joined by a handful of ripping bands including Abreact, The Departed, Aradale and Ocean Grove. Melbourne outfit Ocean Grove opened the Red Stage at this year’s Push Over Festival after winning a competition on the festival’s Facebook page. Coupled with their debut EP Outsider, the band is on the way up. Aradale are one of Warrnambool’s hottest bands. The hardcore/metalcore band formed in the middle of 2012 and has already made a solid name. Fellow Warrnambool outfit The Departed is currently recording their second album, Steal the Crown. As a teaser the band recently dropped the single ‘Faithless’. Finally, Abreact will deliver the kind of hardcore that comes from living and breathing music. Kulcha Shift is dedicated to bringing music to those who may otherwise not get the opportunity to enjoy live music. Kulcha Shift @ Warrnambool April 19. Doors for the drug and alcohol free event open at 6pm. Tickets will set you back a sweet $10 at the door. .........................................................................

Scarf Festival 2013 Exhibition The scarf is one of those winter essentials. It is like a big warm hug. And at Geelong’s Scarf Festival 2013 Exhibition some 250 scarfs will be on display. Held between June 7 and August 25 when the weather is at its harshest, Geelong’s National Wool Museum will open its doors and bring a little warmth to those who step inside. Most of the scarves on display will be available for purchase, however, they will remain on display until the end of the exhibition. The exhibition gives the chance to those with a knack for craft to whip up a creation. Awards will be handed out in twelve categories including People’s Choice. If you want to be part of the exhibition you have until May 3 to submit your entry. For further information follow the links through geelongaustralia.com.au.

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APOLLO BAY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013 ARTIST PROFILES Abbie Cardwell & The Chicano Rockers

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APOLLO BAY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013 ARTIST PROFILES Briagolong Bush Band

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King Of The North

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Claude Hay

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APOLLO BAY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013 Maps & Timetables

Visit www.apollobaymusicfestival.com for the latest or download the mobile app at www.greatoceanroad.com

Shuttle Bus Service - Ticket Holders Only

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Friday April 26 Time

Apollo Bay Music Festival Precinct

5.30 pm

Opening Ceremony SP

5.45 pm 6.00 pm 6.15 pm

Time 6.45 pm 7.00 pm 7.15 pm

Main Stage Hussy Hicks SP Âą SP

7.30 pm 7.45 pm 8.00 pm 8.15 pm 8.30 pm

Side Stage

Catholic Church

Apollo Bay Hotel Tre Samuels SP Âą SP

Marshall Okell SP Âą SP

Mechanics Hall

Great Ocean Hotel

Garry & Georgia Rose SP Âą SP

Daniel Champagne SP Âą SP

Warchief SP Âą SP

8.45 pm 9.00 pm 9.15 pm 9.30 pm

Sandi Thom 6ROR

SP Âą SP

Bonjah SP Âą SP

Next Wave Competition SP Âą DP

Jess Ribeiro & The Bone Collectors SP Âą SP

9.45 pm

DJ Eddy SP Âą SP

10.00 pm 10.15 pm 10.30 pm 10.45 pm 11.00 pm

DJ Eddy SP Âą DP

11.30 pm 11.45 pm 12.15 am 12.30 am

11.00 am 11.15 am 11.30 am

Main Stage

Redcoats DP Âą DP

12.15 pm 12.30 pm

Jess Ribeiro & The Bone Collectors SP Âą SP

12.45 pm 1.00 pm 1.15 pm 1.30 pm

2.15 pm 2.30 pm

Catholic Church

Apollo Bay Choir DP Âą SP

Mal Webb SP Âą SP

Ukuholics SP Âą SP

Rapskallion SP Âą SP

2.45 pm

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Yoga DP Âą DP

Sandi Thom %DQG

SP Âą SP

1.45 pm 2.00 pm

10:00 am

Hayward Williams DP Âą DP

11.45 am 12.00 pm

Palace of the King SP Âą SP

Mustered Courage SP Âą DP

Ghost Orkid DP Âą DP

Saturday April 27 Time

Blue Eyes Cry SP Âą SP

Dubmarine SP Âą SP

11.15 pm

12.00 am

Hayward Williams 6ROR

SP Âą SP

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Mechanics Hall *DUU\ *HRUJLD 5RVH Briagolong Bush Band Bush Dance DP Âą SP

Blue Eyes Cry SP Âą SP

The Yearlings SP Âą SP

Tre Samuels SP Âą SP

Great Ocean Hotel

APOLLO BAY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013 TimetableS

Saturday April 27 ConTINUED Time

Main Stage

3.00 pm 3.15 pm 3.30 pm 3.45 pm

Chase The Sun SP Âą SP

Pete Denahy SP Âą SP

4.00 pm 4.15 pm 4.30 pm 4.45 pm

.LQJÂżVKD SP Âą SP

Pete Denahy SP Âą SP

5.00 pm 5.15 pm 5.30 pm 5.45 pm

Side Stage Catholic Church Mechanics Hall Electric Filth SP Âą SP Al Parkinson SP Âą SP

Redcoats SP Âą SP

Alister Turrill SP Âą SP

6.00 pm 6.15 pm 6.30 pm 6.45 pm 7.00 pm

Sideshow Brides 4XDUWHW

SP Âą SP

Aya Larkin SP Âą SP

Aluka SP Âą SP

Miserable Little Bastards SP Âą SP

Hiatus Kaiyote SP Âą SP

7.15 pm

Ryan Coffey SP Âą SP

7.30 pm 7.45 pm 8.00 pm 8.15 pm 8.30 pm

Candle Light SP Âą SP

Skunkhour SP Âą SP

Great Ocean Hotel

Matt Kelly & String Quartet SP Âą SP

Kate Wighton SP Âą SP

Daniel Champagne SP Âą SP

Alex Bowen SP Âą SP

Warchief SP Âą SP

The Attics SP Âą SP

Jordie Lane 'XR

SP Âą SP

Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes SP Âą SP

Abbie Cardwell & The Chicano Rockers SP Âą SP

8.45 pm

Lamarama SP Âą SP

9.00 pm 9.15 pm 9.30 pm 9.45 pm 10.00 pm

Bobby Alu SP Âą SP

King Of The North SP Âą SP

Marshall Okell SP Âą SP

10.15 pm 10.30 pm 10.45 pm 11.00 pm

OKA SP Âą SP

Ghost Orkid SP Âą SP

11.15 pm 11.30 pm 11.45 pm 12.00 am 12.15 am

The Woohoo Revue SP Âą SP

Sex On Toast SP Âą DP

12.30 am

SUNDAY April 28 Time 10.00 am 10.15 am 10.30 am

Main Stage

9:00 am

Yoga DP Âą DP

Side Stage

Catholic Church

Mechanics Hall

Great Ocean Hotel

Men In Suits DP Âą DP

10.45 am 11.00 am 11.15 am 11.30 am

Livingstone Daisies DP Âą SP

Church Service DP Âą SP

11.45 am 12.00 pm

Ryan Coffey SP Âą SP

12.15 pm 12.30 pm 12.45 pm

Jordie Lane SP Âą SP

1.00 pm

Mal Webb SP Âą SP

1.15 pm 1.30 pm 1.45 pm 2.00 pm 2.15 pm

Turin Brakes SP Âą SP

Pete Denahy SP Âą SP

Lachlan Bryan 6ROR

SP Âą SP

2.30 pm 2.45 pm

Katie Wighton SP Âą SP

3.00 pm 3.15 pm 3.30 pm 3.45 pm

Bobby Alu SP Âą SP

Claude Hay SP Âą SP

4.00 pm 4.15 pm 4.30 pm 4:45 pm 5.00 pm 5.15 pm 5.30 pm 5.45 pm

Abbie Cardwell & The Chicano Rockers SP Âą SP

Aluka DP Âą DP

After Party!!! *UHDW 2FHDQ +RWHO

Sideshow Brides SP Âą SP

Miserable Little Bastards SP Âą SP

Alister Turrill SP Âą SP

Alex Bowen SP Âą SP

Men In Suits SP Âą SP

.LQJÂżVKD SP Âą SP

Al Parkinson SP Âą SP

7:30 pm

Lee Rosser & Tim Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor

8:30 pm

El Moth

9:30 pm

Sex On Toast

10:30 pm

DJ Eddy

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APOLLO BAY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013 ARTIST PROFILES Livingstone Daisies

Miserable Little Bastards Ryan Coffey

Tre Samuels

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TALK OF THE TOWN! On the Road with Rory Ellis Alt-country singer-songwriter Rory Ellis released his debut album Ride back in 2001 and has since racked up the resume of a music journeyman. His first couple of albums led to fine praise from critics and the road soon enough became his second home. Once he had served his time in Australia he headed for the UK for the first time in 2004. There he performed over sixty shows over a three-month period. The tour was such a success that he returned late in the year for another 16 shows. Albums continued to flow with the songman dropping his latest, Twisted Willow, last year. 2012 also saw him work with renowned UK punk poet Attila the Stockbroker and working with his newly formed band, The Devil’s Right Hand. A live album from the outfit is due this year. Barwon Heads Hotel, Barwon Heads - May 10. .........................................................................

awesome time as well. The band is moving along like a well-oiled hardcore punk machine, scoring the #32 spot on Short Fast Loud’s Top 40 Releases of 2012 with their song ‘Eat a Gun’. Titanium LIve, Geelong April 19 & the Karova, Ballarat - April 20. .........................................................................

Red Eagle Soars High Quick bite: A little while back, in a different time and a different place, two brothers dreamt of making music. Sweet, unrelenting music they would later call ‘Garage Blues & Dancing Shoes’. The brothers in question: Jo and Jorge Gardner. They had the guitar and drums but it wasn’t until a year later, after meeting brother from another mother Brady Jones, that they had the final piece to their puzzle. Since that chance meeting at the Port Fairy Folk Festival in 2008, this Warrnambool outfit has become the little band that could. The Loft, Warrnambool - April 26.

Beware of Dear Stalker Inpress Magazine called energetic grunge-pop outfit Dear Stalker “one of this town’s most exciting new bands” and they are not the only who has this band in their sights. Since the release of their self-titled debut EP in 2010 the Melbourne band has been in fine form. Their second effort, Whole Other Kind, spawned the track ‘Trouble’ which found its way onto a US compilation series. According to their Facebook page the band is currently working on their debut fulllength album. Yahoo Bar, Shepparton - May 10.

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Clowns will be Clowns Quick bite: Hardcore punk rock n’ rollers Clowns took to the road last month for a 7” single release tour with the motto ‘if it ain’t broke, break it.’ In truth, I can’t be sure about their motto but the four-piece certainly love an awesome time and they want each and every person that rocks up to one of their shows to have an

The Karova Reminders

The gear is packed and the band is ready. 28 Days are set to let rip on their Upstyledown tour, taken from the band’s 2001 album.

Debuting at the #1 spot on the ARIA Chart, the album would achieve platinum status thanks to tracks including ‘Rip It Up’, ‘Sucker’ and ‘Goodbye’. Now they have decided to revisit the album. So, how does it stack up all these years later? You gotta make your own call on that one. However, the band offers this: “Remember the year 2000 when shorts were long, nobody had tattoos, and the thought of doing a backflip on a motox was ridiculous?

We do so to celebrate the 13th anniversary of our #1 album Upstyledown we have finally decided to tour the album from start to finish.”

The Wool Exchange, Geelong - April 20.

And now it’s time for a few friendly reminders for Ballarat’s home of music, The Karova. Evermore deliver their new album Follow the Sun on April 24. Released last year, the album has been going great guns locally and abroad. The New Zealand-born, now Melbourne-based outfit kicked off their tour a few days ago. Frankenbok will invade the venue on April 25 with an all-star support cast of King Parrot, Heaven the Axe and King Parrot. Remember: earplugs are for wimps.

The charming hip hop duo Spit Syndicate swing by on April 26 in support of their 2013 release, Sunday Gentlemen. And gentlemen they are.

And on April 27 Chance Waters will drop in to demonstrate why he is a name hot on everyone’s lips. Four glorious days of music in a row: you gotta love that.

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Bad Karma will serve up another rock power punch at The Newmarket, Bendigo on May 17. The hard rockin’ band is what happens when three misfits from Melbourne cross paths will a misfit from Perth.

Described as a cross between Guns N’ Roses and Disturbed (with touches of Pearl Jam thrown in for good measure), the band has shared the stage and held their own with Aussie rock royalty including Screaming Jets, The Angels and Rose Tattoo. They have a couple of EPs and a full-length under their belt.

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MONEY FOR ROPE If you haven’t been listening to Money For Rope, now is a ripe time to get started. The band recently slayed audiences at Golden Plains, Boogie, The Hills Are Alive, wrapped up a tour with The Bamboos and will be hitting the road with Saskwatch within weeks. Yikes! Money For Rope will be bringing their brand of soul rock n roll to The Torquay Hotel on Friday May the 3rd with local powerhouse Macondo Blowout and Underhanded weighing in as supports. Bands start at 9 pm sharp and entry is $15.

The Apollo Bay Music Festival has all but arrived, good readers. Taking place across April 26, 27 & 28 the festival enters its 21st year in 2013. And we all know what a special year the big 2-1 is.

Chances are you already know the line-up and have your tickets pinned to the fridge but there are always some things you need to know about the festival of your choice. So, away we go. The event is all-ages and two children under the age of 15 are allowed entry for free if accompanied by a parent or guardian per weekend pass. Those under 18 will be provided with a wristband which must be worn at all times. BYO alcohol is not permitted. If you are planning on having a drink or two then you must have the proper ID. Small personal cameras or phones are permitted but professional recording gear is a no-no. The festival goes ahead rain, hail or shine and as its Apollo Bay, all is possible in one day so bear that in mind. Hit apollobaymusicfestival.com for further information.

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down to business:

Tiger Pistols

By Tex Miller

Have you been brainstorming ways to increase your business’s revenue and thinking that a social media campaign would do the trick? Then give Tiger Pistols a call. Founded and run by Geelong local Troy Townshend, Tiger Pistols is quickly becoming one of the most talked about businesses specialising in one of the most ever-developing facets of the media industry today. Speaking at the eCommerce Conference & Expo in Melbourne in the last couple of weeks, I sat down with Troy to discover what all the hype is about and how they can increase the professional identity of the company, no matter how big or small.

Forming in June 2011, Troy feels that within two years Tiger Pistols has made a significant difference to their diverse clientele base. That said, there is still always a lot more work to be done for the local, national, and international media industries. Speaking about their origins, Troy said: “Being a social media technology business, the opportunities and facilities that we offer are quite varied. Users can come in and create promotions, contests, and stores for as little as ten dollars. With a focus on the small to medium business, we’re here to help. Starting the business with a big goal in mind, it is through previous businesses and finding a niche within the market that Tiger Pistols was born. There have been previous attempts from businesses around the world to try and create what we are doing, but no one until us within Australia.”

Studying Marketing and Commerce at Deakin University, it was through an opportunity of working in advertising abroad that Troy - as clichéd as it is - truly discovered his love for social media. “Working in London for three years in ad agency land with big brands, I then moved to Canada and the US. It was around this time that I really got into the digital side which included digital project management where I was building websites and promotional sites, banners, and everything else under that umbrella.”

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With a team of twelve other employees that includes some uni graduates, Tiger Pistols has over its short career worked with the likes of NAB, Census, and MYOB on numerous campaigns. From talking with Troy, there are two different avenues that you can go down to turn your dream into a reality. From DIY packages starting at $10 per month to Social Success packages (where Tiger Pistols takes over all the work) starting at $495 per month, it’s

never been so affordable to take your business to the next level.

Mainly dealing with Facebook as well as LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram, no idea is too big or too small. And no matter of the size of the corporation, Troy is more adamant and excited than ever to help out the small local business given his similar scenario within the industry not too long ago. Speaking about the

future of social media, it is an exciting time to be involved within the marketplace. “It will be interesting to see what the future of social media holds. Facebook has over a billion users, so for it to fail now, I would find that really hard to stomach. I think that Google and Facebook are going to be the two main networks into the future, and it will be interesting to see where it develops to next.”

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Bendigo Queer Film Festival Emotions are sure to run high when the tenth instalment of the Bendigo Queer Film Festival rolls around. After ten blissful years the festival is calling it a day – hopefully for only a little while. Set to go out with a bang, the time was just right to throw a few questions their way.

The Bendigo Queer Film Festival is now in its tenth year. Can you take us back to the start? How did this event come about? The festival primarily came about because the original convener wanted to run a GLBTIQ event that everyone could attend, was fun, and would be a great opportunity for people to meet other people. The original Convener (Chris Walters) always enjoyed Melbourne Queer Festival and thought that a film festival would be a fantastic idea. It’s also an event which appeals to all section of the GLBTIQ community; it’s not specifically a men’s or women’s event. She raised it through her friends and their contacts, and a committee was formed to run the festival.

A large committee organised the first festival and a lot of the work they did went beyond just the festival.

They had to do a lot of fundraising and publicity and it ensured the festival broke even (and even made a small surplus) in the first year.

Tell us about the evolution of the festival and the ways in which it’s grown into what it is today?

The festival’s had five conveners over the 10 years and each has put their own stamp on it. Chris led the festival for the first three years and built up a good solid base with regular attendees. Next Robyn took over and kept everything that had been achieved to date, and really focussed on increasing the size and presentation of the festival for 2007. We managed to secure some fantastic films and SBS News presenter Anton Enis as our patron, making it the most successful year in terms of ticket sales ever.

From 2008 to 2010 the festival had its third convener and secured significant funding, and moved from the Campbell Theatrette at the Bendigo Library to the La Trobe Visual Arts Centre opposite the Bendigo Art Gallery. Whilst a smaller venue, we were able to screen more sessions and repeat popular sessions.

The festival also moved more to become a more significant arts festival for Bendigo.

I took over as convener in 2011 along with Vikki Cameron. Unfortunately, the festival almost didn’t go ahead due to funding constraints, but thanks to the support of other community groups it was able to. The community really supported the event and ticket sales

increased over 50% on 2012 (although still down significantly on 2007). In 2012 we screened the hit film Cloudburst which sold out before our programs even hit the street. We arranged a second screening which also sold out, making it our most popular film to date, and total ticket sales came very close to our 2007 record.

In the last three years we’ve focussed on making it a community event/community festival, reducing our marketing (primarily due to limited resources), and focussing on making sure those that attend get to meet other people and enjoy their weekend.

In all years excepting for 2005, we’ve also held an art exhibition showcasing the works of Queer artists from regional Victoria. For six out of the 10 years we’ve had a patron and convened a patron’s breakfast.

The festival has gone from strength to strength over the years. Who are some of the people behind the event that make it possible? I can’t think of all of them but the most notable would be Chris Walters, the convener for the first three years, and a committee member for four years. We’ve also had five committee members undertake five years or more of service to the committee – all on a voluntary basis.

The festival (for its whole history) has been curated by Lisa Daniel who is also director of Melbourne Queer Film Festival. Lisa does an excellent job of selecting great films from around the world and negotiating with distributors to arrange a price that is affordable for a small festival. Lisa also does all the negotiation for Classification Exemption.

How important are festivals such as you own in giving the Gay and Lesbian community cultural and artistic opportunities? Very important – not just for the opportunities for artists, but more so for breaking down isolation barriers for many of our attendees. Over the years we’ve worked with other regional groups to offer discounted ticket packages to ensure it’s manageable for people from other rural and regional communities to attend. It also provides an opportunity for people to catch up with others they haven’t seen possibly since the last festival.

We’ve also tried to focus on reaching out to young people to break down the isolation barriers, but haven’t been as successful as we’d like. Unfortunately, that’s more challenging than we’d anticipated, particularly given geography.

Do you find the community of Bendigo to be supportive of the event, sponsorship and otherwise? Definitely. Sponsorship has tended to

flow with the economy, but there’s never been any issue with a Queer event. There’s never been any sort of a backlash, and I’m really pleased.

One thing I will never forget last year, we had a group of retirees drop by who were in town for the Grace Kelly Exhibition and had come into the La Trobe Visual Arts Centre. They saw our banner and said “We don’t qualify, we don’t qualify … but can we come in for a look anyway?”

Tell us about the actual structure of the event length, locations, parties, screenings, forums etc. How does it all work? We open Queer Country Art Exhibition at View Point Handmade Gallery (13 View Point Bendigo) at 6:30 on Friday, 26 April. It’s also open 10am-3pm Saturday and Sunday – no tickets required.

Following this, we have opening night film at La Trobe Visual Arts Centre (121 View Street Bendigo) at 8:00pm. Immediately after this attendees can stay for our 10th birthday party before heading down to our official opening party at Icon nightclub (Howard Place Bendigo), which is run by FAB-CV (Friends Alike Bendigo-Central Victoria).

We’re screening five films on Saturday between 11am and 10pm at the La Trobe Visual Arts Centre and two more on Sunday at 12:30pm and 2:30pm. Tickets are available online from www.bendigoqueerfilmfestival. com.au.

On Sunday morning we’ll hold our Conveners Brunch, where conveners will talk about the history of the festival. For further information, see our website www.bendigoqueerfilmfestival.com.au.

How does the committee and those involved deal with the costs of putting on an event like this?

Good question. In the past we were lucky enough to

receive grant funding to establish, run, and promote the festival, however we have been less successful in recent years. In some years this funding has been well over half our costs, but in other years, such as this year, we haven’t received any grant funding and rely solely on ticket sales for revenue. Fortunately, we have some small surpluses from past years.

What sort of films are on display and what actors and directors are involved? Is it more amateur movies or is there some well-known film makers on display also? The films are generally screened around the world at various queer film festivals. All films screened at our festival are also screened at Melbourne Queer Film Festival. MQFF Director also curates our festival and we select from a range of films screened there. We just are not resourced to curate the festival ourselves and liaise with distributors.

Highlights of this year are Kiss Me, a Swedish film, Bear City 2 from the US (the original Bear City sold out at our festival in 2011) and Monster Pies, a feature film shot in the Western suburbs of Melbourne that won the Audience Choice award at MQFF. What is the overall ‘aim’ of the event if you were to summarise? Basically to provide a fun social community event for the GLBTIQ community. The key thing we’ve found we do is break down isolation for people who’ve recently moved to regional Victoria from larger cities.

How can people get involved, attend, contribute or make submissions for their films? People can find out further information, volunteer for future committees and festivals, or buy tickets online at www.bendigoqueerfilmfestival.com.au.

Bendigo Queer Film Festival - April 26, 27 & 28. Hit the above website for full details.

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THE FIRE ALIVE

have played in some very different bands and have a very broad taste in music, so it’s more about taking a riff that Josh or Trav’s jammed on and drawing from everything we’ve heard to create something interesting and new out of it.

If we’d enjoy listening to it, it sticks.

The last two years have been pretty hectic for you guys with APRA Awards, Battle of the Bands finals and all that bizo. Tell us about your favourite experience in the industry so far? It has to be our East Coast tour last year and playing in places like Brisbane and Byron Bay and meeting people and forgetting their name as soon as they tell you.

When you guys tour internationally, which will be inevitable for you at some stage, where would you love your first point of call to be? Your first gig to be played? If we ever get to it’d definitely be London. Heard some bullshit stories about the music scene over there and it just seems like the place to be for music.

Tell us about releasing a debut EP in a world where online media now rules - has this put a lot of pressure on you guys as a band to get out there and tour as much as possible, as opposed to relying on potential record sales? Well yeah it’s hard as we all have to hold down jobs to put food on the table which leaves less time to concentrate on the music. If we were making anything from it we’d probably have a couple of albums under our belt already and be able to get out there and make more opportunities for ourselves but at the moment it’s just trying to find that balance.

Hailing from the Otways, one of the most beautiful areas in our country, tell us what you love most about being home, and the outdoors-y things you get up to while you’re there? It’s a great place to have time on your hands, growing up we’d just head out bushwalking if we had nothing to do for the day and beat each other with sticks or something. Drinking at the quarry is a big hit these days. We also love the peace and quiet and the inspiration one can draw from nature.

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We’ve been friends with John and Kim who run the studio for quite some time now and had used the studio for everything we’d recorded in the past so it was a no-brainer for us. It’s a great place to go for the weekend to record or what not, pristine location in Lavers Hill.

Your sound is described as progressive rock mixed with a bit of good old fashioned blues music. What is it you love about this genre?

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Hailing from the Otways, Josh, Travis, Warren & Tom are the four guys that make up The Fire Alive. With a debut EP up their sleeve, and more tracks set to be recorded at their beloved Otway Studios, it won’t be long until you’re hearing more of these guys on your airwaves.

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Let us know what’s coming up for you guys, where we can see you, hear you or get in touch - Funnily enough after 2 years of gigging pretty much every weekend there’s not much on the cards at the moment gigwise. Warren our bass player is busy getting a album ready for his other band Japan For and we are working on fitting in some studio time to record some singles or an EP. We’ve probably got 2 albums worth of songs so I guess recording them should be a priority and we look at getting some out about mid to late this year. In the mean time we’ve got some live studio sessions we recorded late last year that we’ve put together some footage for that you can check out on Facebook or Youtube.

Thanks for the chat guys! Cheers big ears.

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The Soulenikoes

By Cameron Brogden

Werribee four-piece The Soulenikoes have been playing locally for years, making a number of appearances at Geelong’s Yarra Hotel (formerly The Bended Elbow), Mulgrave’s Village Green, and Werribee’s Mynt Lounge, just to name a few. Under the management of Geelong’s favourite promoters, Spinning Half, these guys have embarked on a tour taking them all over

the country in support of their new single, ‘Recovery’. The tour (and single) was launched at St Kilda’s iconic Esplanade Hotel and has already taken them back to Geelong’s Barwon Club for two shows that went off by all reports. I caught up with drummer Taylor Douglas before they kicked off the tour.

“Oh man, it’s pretty much a dream come true to be honest,” Taylor began. “I’ve been in Soulenikoes since I was sixteen. I’m twenty-six now so it’s not something that’s happened quickly. It’s been a really slow, long process but I don’t think any of us ever stopped believing that it would happen. We’ve pushed really hard and we’ve got Steve Nicholls and Erin Marshall [of Spinning Half] on board. So it feels a bit surreal.”

And that long process had humble beginnings. I asked Taylor how the boys got together. “We all went to the same high school. The guitarist [Chris Douglas], bassist [Mitch Roberts] and singer [Simon Carmona] were in the same year level. I’m a couple

of years older than them. It started with our guitarist and bassist jamming together at my place and then I heard them play and I’m like, ‘Hey, I could play drums to that’. So then I started and then Simon came along a couple of years later. And yeah, it’s been going ever since. The current line-up’s been going for about eight years.”

Since I know it’s impossible for everyone to get to every gig in the area, I asked Taylor to describe their sound for anyone who hasn’t seen them before. “It’s such a tough thing to do, describe our band via sound to people who haven’t heard it, because as soon as you say a band, I think people automatically jump to that.” Taylor was cagey at first but he went on.

“We’re such a big composite of so many different bands and very distinctive in style. It becomes hard to describe. I think, at the moment, the bands that we’re sounding a lot like are bands like Karnivool and Cog. A lot of people say Butterfly Effect, but we don’t really listen to The Butterfly Effect, so go figure. Incubus is another one, I guess - people always say that - as well as new bands like Tesseract, The Mars Volta.

So, I guess it’s a blend of old-time riffs with distorted guitars and heaviness. But lots of really light, melodic parts as well. That’s all we’re trying to achieve; a nice contrast between heavy and light. It doesn’t have to be all screaming, all aggressive, or all just soft.”

I asked which show was the best they had played so far. Taylor was of a couple of minds about it. “There have been some highlights. I think probably one of our last EP launches at Ding Dong Lounge was pretty amazing. Just having the whole venue’s cool. I’ve seen some bands that I love there. It was a pretty amazing feeling that your work’s paid off. Also, when we supported Cog on their last ever tour in Ferntree Gully. We’re massive Cog fans so just to play that show was pretty killer.”

However, he also took my question literally. “I think in terms of our best show, I think playing live you just keep getting better and better ... I think our last show was the best played. We drove all the way to Bendigo for the first time, played for like, thirty people, but I think we earned thirty new fans. They loved it. They were on the stage by the end of the night hugging us and stuff. I think you’re only as good as your last show.” Hopefully the Bendigo punters tell their mates before this tour rolls around because, as Taylor puts, it: “I don’t want to play to thirty people and make twenty bucks again. That would be a bit depressing.

But I have high hopes that they’ll bring a few more mates.”

I managed to stumble my way into a bit of an exclusive, at least at the time, when I asked him which show they were most looking forward to on the tour. “Well, we’ve got one that we can’t announce yet which I’m actually looking forward to. It’s in Sydney, at a very historic landmark venue. So we can’t say it yet because we’re still waiting on a band … if they kind-of give us the green light to announce it.” But it’s not all bright lights, big city.

“We’re looking forward to heading to all the new places. “Like, we’re going to Adelaide which should be really good. I’ve never been on a band tour interstate so that’ll be great fun. And I’m really looking forward to hitting the road and getting out there. Our singer still hasn’t got his L’s so we’re hoping that he does so he can get his 120 hours driving us around, the hopeless bastard, but I’m looking forward to the whole collection of dates. It’s not just one gig here, one gig there. It’s this flowing tour. It’s like this living, breathing entity which is going to be incredible. I hope.”

So get out to those shows and make it as incredible as the boys are hoping for. They’ll definitely do their best to do the same for you.

When&Where: The Loft, Warrnambool - April 19; Mynt Lounge, Werribee - April 26; Music Man Megastore, Bendigo - May 2; The Bridge, Castlemaine - May 4; The Karova, Ballarat - May 9.

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Rats in the Big Smoke: Part 2

By Daniel Lock

Another month, another gig trip to Melbs—this time to catch The Electric SunKings playing with Rainbird in their support roles for The Caning at The Revolver Upstairs. I chose to drive this time, bringing my housemate, my brother, and a musical supporter and contributor, Matt Malone.

when they appeared on stage my initial thought was, ‘Dreadlock Holiday’. Three out of five members of the band all sported thick black dreadlocks and for some reason the Sesame Street song played through my head–‘Two of these things are not like the others, three of these things are kinda the same...’

I’d been to the Revolver before and knew the strange setup of the mixing desk being elevated and placed to the back-right of the room. There’s also a DJ setup to the front-left next to the stage, well caged-up with mesh and looking like it could double as a “naughty corner” for disruptive patrons.

Rainbird pleased the crowd with their darker side of prog-rock sounds with a few tom-tom drum-led songs and heavy guitar riffs right across the board, giving them SOAD-sounding intros. The vocalist has a good voice and uses a haunting reverb similar to A Perfect Circle.

TESK got up, picked up their instruments, played an improv jam session for a bit through their amps only, then got down to the dismay of the audience. The sound had failed to go through FOH and somehow the patching had been disconnected that afternoon, but it was promptly attended to by the resident sound tech and then TESK proceeded to play a well-received set to a pleasing crowd.

The Caning finished off the night with their classic rock style, playing their hearts out in the traditional fourpiece formation. Their website currently advertises ‘open position’ for a guitarist - which may explain why they sounded a little out on the night - but it was only enough for fellow musicians to notice and they rocked the venue regardless. The band really did fit the classic rock bill well, with a long-pitched vocalist emphasising his lyrics similarly to Bruce Dickinson and Ann Wilson.

A cover of ‘Barracuda’ by Heart was even thrown in and done well.

The Electric SunKings are a post-classic rock band that has been influenced by music from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and many others. The vocalist sounds raspy and rocky akin to Johnny Rotten but without the accent (TESK’s vocalist actually harmonises). Their music is a well-styled mix similar to the above mentioned influences. They’re currently claiming a big change within the band but haven’t publicly announced what it is.

The five members of Rainbird were up after TESK and

As far as the venue goes, The Revolver Upstairs is strangely setup but overall has a fun vibe to it. An out of town band was received well and every member of the audience seemed to get into the music at one point.

If all new bands got the treatment TESK got, I’d say it’s a good starting point in Melbourne.

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Spit Syndicate

By Cameron Brogden

Sydney’s own hip-hop duo Spit Syndicate are back with a new album (you can find my review of it in the last issue of Forte. Spoiler Alert: It’s awesome) and they’ll be in Ballarat as part of their national tour as well as the Melbourne leg of the Movement Festival. I caught up with Jimmy Nice just before the tour kicked off in Canberra.

Twenty dates, including touring with a major festival, seems like a lot but Jimmy was convinced they’d be able to take it. “Definitely man, this is kind-of what we train for,” he explained. “We spend two years making these songs and then really, once the album is released, it’s kind of out of our hands and it’s everyone else’s album to enjoy. Being on the road for twenty dates it seems like a long time, but really it’s just a mini-holiday with your friends. And you get to meet new people so it’s not a chore at all. I’m more than capable of doing it.”

And he’s really looking forward to getting back to Ballarat. “Yeah, I think we’ve played there before, actually at Karova Lounge once before during the Inside Story tour, which was Horrorshow’s album tour a few years ago. I think we did the Great Ocean Road and just made a weekend of it and it was just really enjoyable so we’re excited to come back.”

The album, and (therefore) tour title, Sunday Gentlemen, comes from Irving Wallace’s 1966 novel of the same name. The other half of Spit Syndicate, Nick Lupi, explains it best in the press release: “Writer Irving Wallace spent much of his life working for other people out of necessity, on projects he had no

Bob Spencer: Australian Rock

By Tex Miller

Have you always dreamt of playing gigs to thousands of people, throwing TV’s out of hotel windows, and the true rock star lifestyle—yet taken up a career as a lawyer? Then maybe Bob Spencer’s Weekend Warriors program is for you.

As the guitarist for The Angels and Skyhooks, Bob, over the course of a month, mentors and coaches the different bands that are formed throughout the month-long sessions. At the end of that time they finish up with a gig—without the TV’s or excessively large crowds. What a great opportunity to play with one of Australia’s great rock musicians!

Most recently though, Bob has been getting ready for the Australian Rock shows which is why I caught up with him for a chat. Featuring members of The Angels, Boom Crash Opera, Choir Boys, and Dirty Deeds, Bob speaks very enthusiastically about the band, which hits Geelong on April 21. In terms of what people can expect from the show? “It’s going to be rock. Straight out Australia rock. We’re not going to be playing Sherbet’s ‘Howzat’, for example, and we’re not going to be playing ‘Eagle Rock’. It will be nothing but AC/DC and The Angels—true-hearted rock and roll … and if my shoulder feels up to it, there may even be some Pete Townshend windmills. It’s a bloody good band and we can’t wait to get down to Geelong. I don’t think people will be walking away from the show feeling disappointed,” Bob said.

The Space Keys Geelong band The Space Keys, have been playing together for four years now, and continue to book shows and develop their sound. With a well received debut album up their sleeve, we caught up with them for a chat about what we can expect to hear from them in twenty thirteen.

Tell us about how you came up with the name ‘The Space Keys’? We’re a rock n roll band, and we have an electronic sound. We wanted to incorporate this into our name. Everyone uses a computer where there’s a space key - it seemed like a groovy, electronic name for us.

How long have you guys been making music together? We have been playing together for 4 years.

You’re from Geelong, is this correct? How do you find life in a band from Geelong Sure are. Geelong is a great place to live, and even better if you are in a band here. It’s close to Melbourne and Avalon airport, and gigs around Geelong, the Bellarine and the Surfcoast.

There’s also heaps of interesting young, original bands around here and a great heritage of young, wild original bands from Geelong. And we have some of the best surf beaches in the world!

How would you describe your style? Wild, loud, powerful. The Space Keys create a feverish, powerful, swirling dervish of wild rock, and modern electro riffs.

We have picked up where all of your favourite bands left off, the hybrid rockin’ guitars, vocals, electro flutes and keyboards are driven on by our drummer Mike McQuinn’s tough beats at all the speeds you love. The twin vocalists, Trish and Maria Richardson, power the songs in the styles of soaring rock divas, whilst their guitars bring all the strings into focus and make each song an individual experience. Howlin’ Winds’ unique electro

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personal interest in. But he would keep one day out of the week, Sunday, for himself to work solely on his own writing and articulate the world as he saw it. In 1966, Wallace published the results of several years’ worth of his Sundays, ‘The Sunday Gentleman’, which went on to become a best-seller. This album has been created in similar circumstances: writing on days off, recording after work. It is a juggling act; a reality almost every artistic or creative person must confront. This album describes the world as we see it. These songs are a reflection of the experiences, people, and stories that are important to us–on our terms and nobody else’s. We dedicate this album to anybody juggling their artistic pursuits with what must be done to stay afloat.”

I asked Jimmy to explain the practicalities of it all. “I guess the album came together over about two years but more intensely it took us maybe about one-year straight just in the studio … just a more intense, every night kind-of schedule. We took a couple of trips down to Melbourne to work with a few different producers and just slowly started gathering beats for the album and throwing ideas around. We stayed on Illy’s couch while we were in Melbourne and it was good to throw some ideas around with him and then we came back and started the recording. We recorded in a studio with Adit from Horrorshow and piece by piece these songs come together. Some songs come together in a week and other songs can take a year to be finished.

There’s no real rule to it; it’s just however these songs get done, they get done.” So head down to the Karova Lounge and see these boys in action.

When&Where: The Karova, Ballarat - April 26 & Movement Festival @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne - April 27.

Starting out playing guitar in his first band Finch, it wasn’t long before Bob joined Skyhooks. Reminiscing about those early days, Bob still speaks with enthusiasm about the first time that he saw the iconic band. Despite initially thinking that they were just another little pop band having previously heard ‘Living in the 70’s’, Bob was blown away by the professionalism that the band took towards their performance. “They’re one of the most together bands I’ve ever seen. They had their songs perfected—and the image. In the music business, everybody has got to have an image. They knew how they wanted to present their music to the public and what the Skyhooks brand was. The vibe was great when I joined them. There was a lot of attention to detail in rehearsal which I was previously unaware of. We rehearsed five days a week, eight hours a day and it was all taken very seriously.”

From Skyhooks, Bob moved to playing for The Angels for the recording of the Beyond Salvation album which, to this day, remains the most successful Angels release. At that time, Bob was unaware of the significance of his role within the band and only thought he would play with them for a few months. This is due to the fact of being a lead guitarist in a rhythm guitarist’s role. “I thought that soon enough they would find someone else that plays rhythm guitar all the time, yet I stayed and we worked through some of the songs that I had been writing since I was thirteen.”

With an Angels tour scheduled for later in the year as well as these Australian Rock shows, 2013 is going to be as busy as ever for Bob Spencer. Make sure you check out one of the true living legends of the Australian rock scene while you can.

When&Where: The Yarra Hotel, Geelong - April 21

flutes and 21st century synthesiser work surround the spacey elemental zone, turning your attention to another planetary plane. When hearing The Space Keys live the sky is the limit, and your rocking imagination takes you to a greater place.

Your debut album is called Wonderwhy, how has it been received so far? It’s been well received! Its had reviews in Forte, Tsunami and local papers, air play on Pulse F.M, RRR and FBI radio, Sydney. Friends and fans also love it.

The lead single, ‘Wonderwhy’, draws you in with a slow intro - and you can really feel the power of the lyrics, is that what you set out for making the song? Yes, ‘Wonderwhy’ is a beautiful song. The intro is timeless with electric guitar and magnificent soaring flute

by Howlin’ Winds; building up to the big rock song. Lead vocals are sung Maria Richardson, who has a very unique voice, and is backed by Trish Richardson’s powerful and distinctive voice.

You guys are currently on tour, how do you find touring? We love playing live. It’s great, we feed off our audience. They give us huge strength and energy. They give us the vibe to go on. Getting around playing live is a great vibe and gives us a great buzz.

What do you have planned for the band over the next 12 months? We plan to develop our sound. Much more rockier, with our twin female vocalists weaving their magic sounds, and telling stories about our lives, and the Australia we live in. We are a real Aussie band. We are recording a new album with dates to be announced to promote this in Geelong, Surf Coast, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. We are hoping to play at the leading Australian rock festivals coming up later in 2013!

Anything you would like to add? Thank you Forte.

Thank you to The Space Keys’ fans. We urge you all to come out and support all the young bands you’ve heard of, there’s so many rippers out there, including The Space Keys.

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There are alot of hilarious and truly whacky things going on in the world. Through the limitless exposure created by social media, the average Joe now has front row seats to the madness, all thanks to Youtube and other info-sharing media. This section of Forte has been dedicated to keeping you up to date with all the things (weird, wonderful or otherwise), going on online.

forte funny facts !

• Prince Harry and Prince William never travel on the same plane. This is so we are left with at least one King of the future if a plane crashes.

• If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to count to one trillion.

• The mumber of termites on the earth out weigh the number of Humans on Earth 10 - 1.

Youtube Vids of the Issue

• More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

• There are many sounds that exsist in the world that humans cannot hear, though dogs can.

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You might be an Alien. At least that’s the latest findings from a study happening in Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan you say? before you dismiss this, Kazakhstan are actually leading the way in alot of scientific research endeavour. Basically, it is claimed - our DNA appears to not make sense and there is apparently evidence of some intelligent changes that have been made along the way.

2 year old Dancing the Jive

Speed Painting on Anderson Copper

This kids takes centre stage and does not let the crowd down. Clearly he has been exposed to alot of MTV on Foxtel because he knows his moves. It looks unnatural how advanced this kids dancing skills are at the age of 2.

This video is amazing. A guy comes out and does some serious speed painting, it has an unbelievable twist at the end, you will be knocked out.

Score: 7/10

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Just search: 2 year old dancing the Jive

How Animals Eat Their Food These two guy’s are having the best time at their dinner party. One of them decides its time to show his mate how animals eat their food, he does so in a very entertaining way.

Score: 8/10 Just search: How animals eat their food

Just search: Speed Painting on Anderson Copper

There are two suggested ways in which this might have happened, one is the DNA was carried to earth by a Meteor, the other is we have have actually been messed with by Aliens who are using our DNA as a form of inter galactic communication.

In a nut shell - the report claims we were created “outside the solar system, several billion years ago”.

TOO HEAVY TO HUG PAUL S TAYLOR chris cruz

The Ultimate Dog Tease

The Letter B Prank

This is one of the funniest videos getting around on Youtube. It is especially good for dog lovers. Watch as this hungry pooch responds to taunts for his favourite snacks. It is hilarious, please check it out.

Who said the alphabet isn’t fun?

These guys use the letter B to send panic through unsuspecting victims.

Score: 10/10

Just search: The Letter B prank

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Just search: The Ultimate Dog tease

Blank Thankless Air Blair Hall

Blair Martin Hall: Daily Work Report: April 9th, 2013.

- “Redbird” John Zorn, Tzadik, 1995.

- “Duras:Duchamp” John Zorn, Tzadik, 1997.

- “Wolf” Tyler, The Creator, Odd Future Records, 2013.

- “Madvillainy” Madvillain, Stones Throw, 2004.

- “Four Lions” Chris Morris, Warp Films, 2010.

- “Skyfall” Sam Mendes, MGM, 2012.

- “Infinite Jest” (Portions therein) David Foster Wallace, Little, Brown, 1996.

- “John Constantine, Hellblazer: Hard Time.”

Brian Azzarello, Richard Corben, DC Comics, 2001.

Like all my love affairs, my interest in the arts is some sort of twisted, personal, unknowable ordeal that for some reason I keep wandering back into even though I know it’s for the good of the “other” and myself to just keep the fuck out of it and die alone amidst a mound of work, not worrying about being bothered by some renaissance man who has you in his sights as his next influence and won’t stop knocking on your door at night demanding to put a record out and get your opinion on liner notes he goes out of his way to refer to as “revelatory”. The guarantee that there’s only one person being pleased/damaged by the outcome is ethical, granted I take the option of lastminute death bed self-immolation. Seeing the world through this lens is one thing, but forcing someone else to view the world through a lens that came about

as a result of careless curiousity is sick and cruel.

The only parts of today that were notable were the ones where I’m not sure whether I’m the only one who noticed it happening or it just happened and no one cared enough to do anything about it. Certain European magazine sizes and paper gauges baffle me enough, but it’s when the unlikely scenario of a man decapitating himself in a freak, once in a lifetime paper cut accident while browsing in your store comes up that we really need to start considering at what 1000th of an inch we need to draw the line at in order to make sure nothing like this happens again.

And even worse is that through this unbelievable series of elegant swiping gestures and arterial spray there is a certain genre of person that exists in this world who buys conspiracy theory magazines on a regular basis, even after a lifetime of proof to the contrary, and every day of my working life I encounter at least one member of this loose organisation. Does the news not quench ones thirst for paranoia enough?

They are, without fail, white, male, over 40 years old and have no spouse or significant other of any kind.

They came of age in a time where the internet was yet to blossom into the expanse of misinformation and depravity that it has become, so they had to fashion their own idea of the world by reading poorly contrived hardbacks written by authors whose names could easily be mistaken for authors of greater repute. These books have titles along the lines of “Deception Point”, “Reconnaissance Assembly”, “Allied Propaganda Missionaries of the 20th Century: Beyond”. In their presence I am inhibited from giving anything other than straight answer and find myself referring to everything they’re searching for in the database as “not coming up” while my eyes dart about through no effort of my conscious mind.

On a good day I can muster up a glossy coat of perspiration and leave them, in a shrill, paranoid tone, “we’ve never stocked anything like that here before, sir. Are you sure it was here that you bought it?”.

Gaaaah!!! Henry Rollins has pretty much squished any hope of a third Black Flag (this one starring him) forming anytime soon by announcing plans to focus on his solo dance music project.

Oh dear. So his DJing at Hollywood parties and benefits last year WASN’T a phase. In sort of related news, Screeching Weasel bass player Dave Klein has joined the Greg Ginn/Ron Reyes version of Black Flag. Still, no word on Aussie dates for ANY of them, though.

It seems the breakup of My Chemical Romance isn’t being taken lightly by obsessive fans who have started an online petition demanding a farewell tour. Insiders close to the band have let slip, however, that the break-up may not be for real. I’m not sure what that even means, but then again, I don’t really understand the emo world. I still reckon they’ll pull a Fall Out Boy on us. Money talks in corporate punk.

NOFX and Rancid are looking like the likely front-runners to headline the Australian Vans Warped Tour this year. Nothing official, yadda yadda, but I’m pinning my hopes on it. Let’s just hope the rest of the bill is just as bangin’. In late breaking news, it seems a new incarnation of I Killed the Prom Queen will be taking part. Joy. The title track from the forthcoming Transplants’ album, In A War Zone, is currently being offered as a free download.

The band will also be joining Rancid and Crown of Thornz for a US summer tour. Yes, Thornz with a zed. FML. Does anyone remember the movie SLC Punk starring Scream’s Matthew Lillard? Well, almost

20 years on, there’s going to be a sequel.

It has the working title Punk’s Dead. No word on Matthew’s involvement, though.

Queensland punk rock boys and girl The Unprettier and Melbourne punks Hopes Abandoned have teamed up for a spur of the moment Victorian tour. So last minute and spontaneous that by the time you read this, the shows will have been played and many hangovers will have been nursed. If you missed out you can catch them when they tear Queensland apart together later in the year.

90’s pop-punk stalwarts Fenix TX are promising a new album and tour! I think I just peed a little. They were AWESOME! Ramonescore kids, prepare to shit: The Queers have teamed up with Italy’s Killtime to release a brand new split EP called Alive.

Track it down NOW! Melbourne hard rockers Roxy Wi-Fi and bassist Skyler Ashes have parted ways.

Hard to believe that next year will mark THREE YEARS of the Up The Punx! festival in Melbourne. It’ll be staged in a larger venue still and feature, for the first time, multiple international bands alongside Australia’s biggest and best.

A return visit early next year? Oh Teenage Bottlerocket, please don’t tease! If this rumour turns out to be true, I’ll plotz!

In bizarre band reunion news, Atom and his Package have a string of US shows booked this summer– without their frontman Atom! WTF? How do two hired hands go on tour without their boss?!

Tune in same time and place next time, kids. Somebody has to read this drech. It might as well be you!

After last issue’s column about crowd funding, guess what happened?

No, I didn’t get offered my kick-arse job at a big fancy record label, but instead Aussie hard funksters Twelve Foot Ninja jumped on the Pozible bandwagon to raise cashish for their new video clip. The video they made to get people behind their cause has pretty high production values and one can’t help but think that perhaps instead of making a schmick fundraising video, the band probably should have put that amount of time and energy into their actual music video.

But things just aren’t that simple anymore, especially when you’ve got the Periphery lads helping you realise your dream of putting together a video about CANNIBALISM and THE INTERNET PEOPLE and MURDER. That’s right. Twelve Foot Ninja wanna make a totes amazeballs clip about how some dude kills some internet troll and then cuts him up, cooks him a-la My Kitchen Rules style, and then feeds him to hungry beats …again, like MKR. How sweet would that be to see? Pretty sweet. And the best thing is you won’t have to see it on one of those shitty morning video clip shows (they are still running, aren’t they?) because I dunno where a video clip that contains all of that parental advisory-attracting kind of stuff would get played. The YouTube perhaps? Probs. Rage?

Totes.

At the time of writing this, the band has reached $16,500 in funds but they need another $38,500 to make their clip “pozible”.

(And yes, they use that pun in the clip too.) The clip is interesting and somewhat amusing, but is $45,000 really what it takes to shoot a video clip these

days? I understand inflation but to me that seems a bit much. I get that it’s all topical and controversial and is going to (probably) make Twelve Foot Ninja a bigger name because of this clip, and also because, as discussed in my seminal previous column, record companies are massive scaredy tight wads living in a digital age they can’t cope with, which means budgets for label approved video clips must be $15 or less.

Some of the best video clips ever have been simple ones. Bloodduster’s ‘Porn Store Stiffie’ is awesome.

TISM’s ‘Thunder Birds Are Coming Out’ is awesome.

Regurgitator’s ‘Kong Foo Sing’ is awesome too. And they were all made off budgets smaller than your nan’s pension.

On the other end of the spectrum, some of the most wicked clips have been pretty expensive. And then some clips have been ridiculously expensive but insanely good, like that Grand Theft Autoinspired one that went viral.

It’s always a gamble and Twelve Foot Ninja are looking to take that gamble with your money, and we all know gambling with someone else’s money is always more fun. Maybe some band should do a video about exactly that—with funds crowdsourced from yet another website. Or, to make it even more interesting, get a record label to put a shitload on the line for a band, like, you know, the olden days when fans didn’t have to pay for band’s video clips.

If you have any news about local metal bands, shows, or albums, let THTH know by emailing to tooheavytohug@ hotmail.com or get in touch via Twitter at @ TooHeavyToHug

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Audemia Booking gigs neally every weekend and developing a loyal legion of fans along the way, we caught up with local boys Audemia for an interesting discussion about what it’s like to be in a rock band, and how they maintain healthy friendships after playing together for so long.

Hey guys! Please introduce the four of you and let us know your role in the band - Well there’s Tony, lead vocals and bassist. He is the Eddie Vedder/Chris Cornell of the band. There’s Jake on backing vocals and guitar (Jake is also single ladies), Dave on lead Guitar and Pete Crossy on the Drums.

You guys have been playing together for close to 4 years now, is that right? You’re not ready to kill each other yet? We have a system of demerit points in place whereby when one loses enough demerit points they have to spend time in the naughty corner. This helps maintain a good workflow activity and general positivity within the band. Reasons for demerit point reduction includes drinking chai lattes, wanting to do that growl thing that all the silly metal bands do or driving too slow. If there was no system in place, yes, there may have been a murder or at least some sort of manslaughter already.

You guys recently played one of the headline gigs at Airey’s Inlet Music Festival, on the main stage, to some raving reviews. Tell us about the experience? What do you guys love doing more? Festivals or private shows? That was our first festival experience really, I loved it personally (Dave). Its a bit more exciting in that you have to

Sandi Thom

By Natalie Rogers

To most of the world she is known as the girl who wished she was a punk rocker with flowers in her hair, but as I found out recently there is a lot more to this multi-instrumentalist than you may think. “I’m like an onion, I’ve started to pull back all the layers”, Sandi said about her new album Flesh and Blood out now through her own label Guardian Angels Records.

To promote Flesh and Blood Sandi is heading down under for the first time. “I’ve never toured Australia, and the last time I was there was five years ago and so much has happened since. I want to soak up some culture – I’ll be playing some amazing places and I want to experience as much as I can.”

The highly anticipated new album radiates blues swagger: “I think there is a real maturity in the music on this record – not only because I’m older as a person, but because I worked with a fresh group of musicians on this record and I think they each brought something really special to the table.”

Flesh and Blood is Sandi’s fourth studio album and this time round she had a little help from her friends.

Produced by The Crowes’ Rich Robinson, Sandi was also joined by fellow Black Crowes’ past and present drummer, Steve Gorman and guitarist Audley Freed.

Nashville stars Mike Webb (keys/Dobro) and James Haggerty (bass) complete the line-up, with special guest appearances from acclaimed singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte Marie and famous Rolling Stones collaborator, the legendary saxophonist Bobby Keys.

“Working with them, the level of talent in the room

TIMMY TRUMPET Timmy Trumpet is a unique case. Whilst he is not the first DJ to incorporate an instrument into his live set, he certainly is the only one to use a trumpet. His love for Music started with Jazz and his unique style blossomed after he was introduced to house music by a friend. After his first gig as a house DJ - In his own words he knew, “This is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life”. So from humble beginnings to festivals with thousands of fans holding their hands aloft as he belts out a moody trumpet solo over a house break Timmy’s world has been crazy lately. whilst getting on and off planes he snuck Forte in for 10 minutes to let us in on what’s up in preparation for his show coming up at Chinese Whispers.

Timmy Trumpet, thank you for taking the time to have a quick email chat with Forte Magazine in preparation for your show at Chinese Whispers when and where did you start making electronic music, take us back to the start?

I’ve been playing the trumpet since I was 4 and started writing music on piano around that age also. It wasn’t until I got a laptop in high school when I was actually able to record and combine the two worlds.

You are obviously good on the trumpet, did the love for electronic music combine with your love for the trumpet, how did you unique style evolve?

I came up with the idea around 10 years ago. There wasn’t much money in the jazz scene so I tried something different and it worked. There are plenty of sax and bongo players doing something similar so I’m not the first to do it, but I don’t know of any other solo DJ / Trumpet combined acts here in Australia.

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quickly try and gauge the type of audience present and that may affect what you choose to play. At a private show there’s less of that, since all the bands probably play a similar style - unless the promoter didn’t give a s*** and just put 4 completely different bands on. Wherever it may be, we are always keen to play.

At a record store in Berlin, John Howard reportedly once said - “Audemia is the kind of music I would listen to if I actually listened to music at all.” Why do you think John was is a record store if he doesn’t listen to music? That’s a good question. Perhaps he got lost and thought it was a supermarket, German is a tricky language.

Power walking may have been involved shortly beforehand.

You guys have a unique approach to the idea of ‘influences’ - preferring to try and remain uninfluenced. Can you explain for us a little further? Well when we started we didn’t really know what style to aim for, obviously it was going to be some sort of brand of rock, but apart from that we didn’t decide anything. A couple of years later, we still don’t really know what we are, when people ask me what type of music we play Dave always just says “rock, hard rock” but I don’t think that sums it up (Tony). When we write music, we try not to think about other songs or other bands at all.

In summary, I have influences for sure, but I try to ignore them (Dave).

Tell us about the band’s name, ‘Audemia’. Is it really a mixture of your children’s names? And a slight mock to the band members without daughters? Yes there’s Audrey, Emily and Mia. Emily (Emmie) and Mia are Tony’s Girls. Audrey is the daughter of our original drummer, Elie, who unfortunately is not a part of the band anymore.

You guys have a couple of local gigs coming

WHEN&WHERE: FRI 19 APRIL at BARWON CLUB, GEELONG, SAT APRIL 27 at BARWON HEADS PUB, and FRI MAY 10 at BLACK HATT GEELONG up in Barwon Heads and in Geelong. What can punters expect from your live shows? 120 decibels of Audemia to niggle the cochlea, and possibly some nudity.

should be available some time later this year, but until then its mainly live shows and some audienceshot iPhone videos on youtube and our facebook page. www.facebook.com/Audemia

Tell us about where we can find you or listen to your music? At the moment the best way to find our music is at live shows. We have a few tracks at www.reverbnation.com/Audemia . We are working on some sort of release at the moment which

Anything else you guys would like to add? Not really, just thank you to Forte magazine for having us on a page somewhere. This sort of attention and appreciation is vital to our egos!

was taken up a notch”, Sandi said when asked about the stellar line-up.

These shows, however, will focus solely on Sandi, stripped back and raw. “It’s just going to be me, myself and I”, Sandi revealed. “It will be very different for me - normally I perform with a few other musicians. I think this way, especially as it’s my first time performing in Australia, it will be a good way to connect with people and show them what I’m really all about.”

Having been a professional singer-songwriter for more than half her life, Sandi fondly remembers the times before Punk Rocker broke: “I was playing in pubs when I was fourteen,” Sandi recalled, “drinking cider with old dudes. It was pretty rock ‘n’ roll to be honest. It was very much a time when I cut my teeth as a performer. I think those times helped me to not completely freak out when I started being recognised in the street.

“Since that time I’ve progressed and developed my sound a lot. It’s interesting for me to go back and listen to each of my records [Smile .... It Confuses People (’06), Pink & The Lily (’08) and Merchants & Thieves (’10)] because I can see and hear myself growing up.

From here on out I don’t know where I’m going next, but it’s going to be really interesting to see where I end up. My next record will have even more layers to it, so it becomes like a great film, you know? Where you see something new every time you watch it and that’s how I want my shows to be as well.

When&Where: 26, 27 & 28 April, The Apollo Bay Music Festival, Saturday 4 of May, The Caravan Music Club, Thursday 9 of May, The Melbourne Recital Centre

You are a producer/ DJ, is alot of time spent in the production phase with your music, how does that stack up against other aspects of what you do time wise?

It’s really difficult because I’m always on the road and when I’m home I’m either in the studio, catching up with friends and family or doing interviews like this. I’m only home for 48hrs this week! Production comes first though and I guess that’s why my last 3 records have gone #1 in the Aria Club Chart!

Things have been on an up for you lately, you have spent I think its now 5 weeks at the top of the ARIA dance charts, at what point did you really get the wheels in motion and start achieving some success with your music?

I’m absolutely stoked hitting Aria #1! I think it’s always been a goal but now that I’ve reached it, I know we can take this much higher. I’m hoping my next records chart on the international circuit like Beatport.

You are obviously a regular on the festival circuit and you have done some huge shows, including playing along side the likes of Carl Cox and Fat boy Slim, what have been some of your favourite places to perform?

Ibiza would have to be the place I’m most drawn too. I’ve played almost every year since my first gig for Pacha in 2006. That and playing main stage on the Future Music National Tour. There’s nothing like playing in front of your home crowd.

Have you been to Geelong before? What can people expect from a Timmy Trumpet Live set?

I have but I am particularly looking forward to playing Chinese Whispers. It’s run by one of my fav promoters James Fava and his crew ‘Love That Music’ can certainly throw a party. Anyone who comes down should expect a crazy night ahead because this party is going to be nuts!

When&where: Chinese Whispers - April 24th

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INSIDE SPLINTERS....

GIRLS ALOUD LIVE @ THE LONDON 02 AND LIVERPOOL ARENA MARCH 1 AND MARCH 20 , 2013 st

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Ending the entire show with the odd choice of their Brit Award-winning single ‘The Promise’, a canister of feathers exploded throughout the arena, the girls made their teary goodbyes, and then it was all over. We all had a fairly strong feeling just how over it was but what would happen next left a lot of fans incredibly angry, and to say the after-party was somewhat spoiled by the following events would be an understatement.

Picture this: a group of us Alouders are sitting in a Liverpool hotel room high on a buzz after what was to be the final ever Girls Aloud show.

As we all prepared to get ready for the afterparty, another Alouder came barging into the room and, judging by all of our happy-go-lucky party mode banter, announced we should all “Immediately check your twitter feed.” Within minutes we were all glued to our smartphones, reading an announcement via TWITLONGER that the girls had reached the end of their road together and would be calling it a day. No announcement at the final show. No waiting until the next day. Within an hour after that final show, that tweet appeared on the official Girls Aloud twitter and everybody was left to deal with their anger with binge drinking and smoking a lot of cigarettes.

The hours that followed were confusing, and although that is more than likely due to the excessive amount of cocktails that I sunk down, I sensed that it was general feeling amongst everyone that had come to the after-party. We all knew it was coming but felt we’d, perhaps, after 10 years of loyalty (technically, however, they only really gave us seven years), deserved a bit better. An announcement on the website even? Anything other than a fucking TWITLONGER.

But the show itself was nothing short of spectacular, easily slotting itself at the very top of my all-time favourite gigs. Leaning over the barrier at the very front of the stage, I screamed my little heart out as they opened with a magical trifecta: the Girls’ first three singles ‘Sound of the Underground’, ‘No Good Advice’, and ‘Life Got Cold’ rattled the arenas at both nights I attended, with fans screaming and smashing their palms on the metal barriers, filled with excitement and singing along with gusto to the Girls’ first three massive hits. It was nice to, finally after nearly 10 years of supporting them, be in a room packed to the rafters with like-minded fans who, seemingly, appeared to be as obsessive about the Girls as I was—and maybe more so.

‘Wake Me Up’, and their definitive cover of the Pointer Sisters’ ‘Jump’, followed before tourhighlight ‘The Show’ filled the sound system to deafening roars. Stylistically speaking, and also on a production level, ‘The Show’ was easily one of two pinnacle moments in the

The third act saw the girls move to the ‘B Stage’ which was closer to those in the nosebleed seat - to perform ‘Sexy’, ‘No No No’, ‘Untouchable’, new song ‘On The Metro’ (which Queen Nadine kept hilariously forgetting the lyrics to) and ‘Call The Shots’, the clear fan-favourite for the night. But it was the adrenaline-fuelled rendition of ‘Something Kinda Ooooh’ which really shook the crowd to its core with what was undoubtedly the absolute highlight of the show. Dancers swarmed the catwalk-shaped stage for a good three minutes of high-octane dance moves over a thumpingly familiar techno beat, all before the Girls appeared in a cloud of smoke on the stage to belt out one of their undeniable biggest classics.

The confusion that followed - a cover of Carly Rae’s ‘Call Me Maybe’ and a performance of the snoozefest ballad ‘Beautiful Coz You Love Me’ - the latter which comes without a single solo Nadine line and had her subtly giving the finger to Cheryl as she bopped about doing the backing vocals - was swiftly rectified with a performance of the last single they released, ‘Something New’, a high-energy trip into the twisted world of long-time producers Xenomania with its cheeky lyrics aimed at the influx of male artists and boy bands flooding the market since Girls Aloud’s hiatus.

It’s going to be interesting to see what happens over the next few months with each girl supposedly working on solo material already.

But to say the end of Girls Aloud came about messily is, once again, one of the biggest understatements you could print. This breakup is so juicy that the inevitable reunion reality series in ten years time is going to be so full of drama they might not even be able to air it.

That said, a phenomenal show that was well worth the airfare over there alone.

Adem with an E.

HIT OR SHIT!

finn harries

FINN HARRIES Let’s get on with this potential pop career, Finn.

NADINE COYLE The Queen of Girls Aloud became The Queen of Twitter with one simple tweet.

QUEENS OF POP TV Do a YouTube search for these ladies and introduce yourself to some of the best pop parodies you’ll ever hear. The Atomic Kitten one may very well be the best, but they’re all quite good.

CHERYL COLE The ‘leader of the pack’ when it came to the Girls Aloud split? #BlameCheryl was trending on Twitter the day Nadine broke her silence...

KIMBERLEY WALSH Kimba’s notoriously known for blindly following Cheryl and any decision she makes—was the split really any different?

NICOLA ROBERTS

SHIT!

Little did I know that the Liverpool show on March the 20th, the last of their tour dates, would see them tearfully say everything but ‘We’re splitting up!’ by the end of the show.

Management, costume designers, and behind-the-scenes workers were all thanked elaborately, and the girls thanked the fans quite long-windedly before vacating the stage, leaving hundreds of tearful girls and gays wondering what the future held for this dynamic pop force.

performance, complete with enough feathers and grand design to make even the campest of Drag Queens blush. A proper spectacle - and rightfully so for a song called ‘The Show’ - that was followed by another strong collection of hits: ‘Love Machine’, ‘Whole Lotta History’, ‘Can’t Speak French’, and my favourite, ‘Biology’, which was a right hoot to hear live and in the flesh.

@NadineCoyleNow speaks up less than 24 hours after Girls Aloud announce their split.

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Flying over to the United Kingdom in preparation for this life-changing event, I knew it was highly possible this really was going to be the last time Girls Aloud would perform together. After a near four-year hiatus, The Mighty Aloud returned to the arenas of the United Kingdom to celebrate their ten-year anniversary. It’s the main reason why I went on this trip. Having never seen my second favourite pop group of all time - the first being ABBA - actually perform live, I had a feeling in my proverbial waters that this celebratory tour was going to be their very last. No surprises that I was right.

So while it was amazing to have been a part of pop music history and to have finally seen my ‘Pop Queens’ perform live in the flesh, it was slightly hindered by the way the split played out. And if you noticed the Tweet of the Week in this issue of Splinters, you’ll see that the split wasn’t exactly amicable, which has certainly made things worse in PopWorld. Are we all well within our rights to ‘Blame Cheryl’ as Twitter’s trending topics had suggested on the day Nadine made her ground-breaking tweet? There’s always been a niggling sense that the original three-year hiatus was brought on by fame-hungry Cheryl, and not Nadine who copped the flack, from that original break.

Perhaps, with this tweet and her immediate alliance with the fans, Nadine has assured the backlash is directed at the right party this time?

“ You should know by now I had no part in any of this split business.

I couldn’t stop them. I had the best time and want to keep going.”

As a friend of ours claimed, “We are to blame for hyping Nicola up to be the Kanye West of Pop music.”

R.I.P. Girls Aloud.

The finale quickly swarmed through and, at both shows, this was the audience’s cue to start the hysterics. As the girls sang their cover of ‘I’ll Stand

By You’ whilst standing almost motionless in front of a big screen flashing high-points in their careers over the last ten years, everyone around me seemed to be in tears—myself included. As I sang along having a bit of a teary, I noticed the man filming the Tour DVD had his camera right in my face and, as it turns out, I actually now appear on the DVD recording of the tour (which aired on TV last week, both in the UK and here in Australia), singing away and looking a right mess. My work here is done!

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THE CITY LIGHTS MELBOURNE

The City Lights: One way or another we’re gonna getcha. Coming up you have… .........................................................................

Heart of St Kilda Concert The Heart of St Kilda Concert will serve up another top-notch night of music and laughs at The Palais Theatre on May 14. Graveyard Train, Kate Ceberano, Darren Carr, Russell Gilbert, Wishful, Rachel Berger, Lisa Miller and EVEN will perform. Everyone’s favourite gentlemanly MC Brian Nankervis will host. This fantastic night of entertainment supports the wonderful work of the Sacred Heart Mission. .........................................................................

The Source of Trail of Dead ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, or Trail of Dead for those who can’t be arsed saying the whole thing, will be performing their seminal album Source Tags & Codes in full next month.

Released in 2002, the band’s third album is widely regarded as their finest work. The album received a perfect 10 out of 10 from Pitchfork. Another set will serve up a little of this and a little of that. The Corner - May 22. .........................................................................

The State of Todd Rundgren There is not enough room in a small blurb to properly introduce Todd Rundgren. Here is a taste though. He has been releasing albums since 1970 and this year released his 24th effort, State. He has also engineered or produced by some of the biggest albums in rock including Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell and The Band’s We’re an American Band.

With a killer back-up band Rundgren will perform at The Corner on July 21. .........................................................................

Fields of The Black Angels Texan psychedelic rockers The Black Angels have endeared themselves to Australia pretty quickly.

They paid their first visit here in 2011 and sold out their Melbourne and Sydney shows and checked back in the following year for Harvest. And now they are coming back again. Better yet they have their new album Indigo Meadow to show off so there is a perfect reason to get a ticket right there.

The Palace - June 14.

Come Home to Martha Wainwright Being the daughter of Louis Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, there was a fair chance Martha Wainwright was going to follow the musical path.

She released her self-titled debut in 2005 but things didn’t really pick up until the release of her sophomore album, I Know You’re Married but I’ve Got Feelings Too. Her latest effort is 2012’s Come Home to Mama. Recital Centre - June 14 & June 15. .........................................................................

Flatbush Zombies Pray on Australia The Brooklyn-born duo of Meechy Darko and Juice sound like they’re an interesting pair. Together they are known as drug-hop duo Flatbush Zombies and at this year’s SXSW made quite the impression.

First up they caught the eye of WWE wrestler Mark Henry who introduced the duo at one of their shows. They also lead the crowd through a singa-long to Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. The Toff - June 1. .........................................................................

The Milk Carton Kids Fit the Mould The Milk Carton Kids is the indie folk brainchild of Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan. The English duo put their collective talents together after Ryan attended one of Pattengale’s solo shows. The duo released two albums in 2011: the live album Retrospect and their studio debut, Prologue. By the end of 2011 the albums had over 60,000 downloads. The Ash & Clay followed this year. Thornbury Theatre - June 6.

In Hearts Wake on the Road June is the month for hardcore lovers with Byron Bay’s In Hearts Wake hitting the road for a string of shows. The band had a golden 2012 which saw the release of their debut album Divination, shows with bands including House Vs Hurricane, Dream On, Dreamer, Enter Shikari, and Iwrestledabearonce, and a ‘Best Newcomer’ nod by Blunt Magazine.

Workers Club - June 22 & Phoenix Youth Centre - June 23 (AA). .........................................................................

Enabler Seek Redemption “The world is f**ked and this is the soundtrack to the demise.” That is a good enough intro as any and it is one that introduces Milwaukee hardcore/ metal/punk crossover act, Enabler. Following a European tour, the four-piece is set to descend upon Australia where they will be packing new album Shift of Redemption. Joining them will be Melbourne’s Urn who released a 7” last year.

Bendigo Hotel - July 11 & Black Goat Warehouse - July 12 (AA).

Lovin’ Love Like Hate

Timothy Nelson & The Infidels

There is a lot of love that goes into making Brisbanebased dark pop outfit Love Like Hate. LLH features Heather Cheketri, who provides vocals and guitar, and Sonja Ter Horst, who provides piano. Theirs is a fusion of instinctive rock with free-form arrangements, hints of early punk, and delicate piano swings. They have teamed up with Aimee Francis for a tour which includes a date at Revolver on May 4.

Perth folk and roll outfit Timothy Nelson & The Infidels kicked off a tour recently in support of their new single ‘Mary Lou’ and a date is lined up at The Toff on April 25. The single is the second to be lifted from their forthcoming sophomore release.

The band has taken out several WAM’s - WA’s own little music awards - but they’re keen to show the rest of the country that they have the goods.

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The Sorry Business of T.J. Quinton

Delta Heavy Down Under

With performances throughout Australia, New Zealand and the UK, 2012 was a fine ol’ year from Brisbane lad T.J. Quinton. Quinton first started plucking the guitar strings at the age of 12. In 2007 he commenced a Bachelor of Music Performance at QUT before later joining The Deckchairs. His debut solo album is Sorry Business and his new single is ‘What is Real’. His 12-string guitar work will mesmerise you. The Willow Bar - May 10.

UK drum and bass/electro duo Delta Heavy has locked in an Aussie tour next month for all you fine young cannibals. Comprised of Si James and Ben Hall, Delta Heavy met at Nottingham University.

Releases on compilations and the soundtrack to the film Harry Brown came first before the band dropped dance floor filler ‘Abort’ in 2010 and things took off. They’ll be joined by Fred V and Grafix.

Royal Melbourne - May 19.

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FILM REVIEWS

written by anthony morris

Scary Movie V

The Company You Keep When one-time radical turned modern-day housewife Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon) is arrested at an upstate New York service station for her role in a 30 year-old bank robbery, local newspaper reporter Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) is assigned the story. Pretty soon he has some pretty big questions: How did the FBI find her? What’s the connection between her and civil rights lawyer Jim Grant (Robert Redford, who also directs)? And how is Redford going to give his all-star cast – including Chris Cooper, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Jenkins, Sam Elliot, Terrance Howard and Anna Kendrick – enough screen time in a movie than runs under two hours? While more than a few of those big names are shortchanged as this becomes Grant’s cross-country search for redemption, there’s plenty of A-grade acting here to gloss over the plot’s occasional weak points. This is a rare thing: a thriller with no actual villains … unless you count Grant’s annoyingly perky pre-teen daughter (you probably wouldn’t). It seems the now-mellowed 70s radicals were just trying to do the right thing, while the FBI are just doing their jobs today, which does lead to a wishy-washy third act where what little tension this film had drains away. It doesn’t help that the solution to 70’s activism (violent or not) seems to be turning your back on politics and committing to your friends and family. It’s a conservative note – at least outside America; for a US film, even suggesting that terrorists, domestic or otherwise, shouldn’t be gunned down on sight is probably alarmingly left-wing to many – that rings a little false, and turns this film from an interesting exploration of radical thinking into a tin-eared apology for it.

Why, it’s fair to ask, does this film exist? Horror movies are pretty much dead, at least on the big screen (okay, they were until Evil Dead made US$25 million in its first week a fortnight ago), which means it doesn’t really have much to be parodying here outside of the Paranormal Activity movies. And parody movies are extremely dead, what with the last half dozen or so being so bad they burnt the genre to the ground. And yet here we are, with what presumably is a test by the cinemas to see if there’s any life left in the timehonoured tradition of cramming a few z-list celebrities and a bunch of actors not exactly known for their comedy skills into a film where simply reminding you of another film is half the battle. Judging by the almost full Geelong Village Cinema 7 session last Thursday at 1.15pm, chances are their gamble has paid off. Even if, in something of a surprise, it turns out that Scary Movie V is largely built around parodying the recent Jessica Chastain horror film, Mama. Did anyone go see Mama? And when it’s not sending up that film (which was about the perils of adopting kids with a spooky supernatural guardian), it’s ripping off Black Swan, just to be topical.

Though at least when the parents Jody (Ashley Tisdale) and Dan (Simon Rex) get the three kids home, there’s cameras all over the place for some Paranormal Activity jokes. And some Inception jokes. And an insane 50 Shades of Grey bit that stars someone called Jerry O’Connell – only his face doesn’t quite seem to fit anymore.

Not that any of the good jokes are all that funny, and most of the bad ones don’t even make sense. Some of the sequences have been edited so badly it’s almost impossible to tell what is supposed to be happening on the screen. Others seem to have been left in because there was nothing handy to replace them with. There’s a bit that goes “He’s got a mad demon in his house. Matt Damon, I love that guy!” And that is seriously one of the best jokes in this 75-minute (not counting bloopers) film that you should not spend a single cent on seeing.

Warm Bodies Sallow-faced teen R (Nicholas Hoult) doesn’t remember how he became a zombie. He doesn’t remember how the zombie apocalypse happened either. But he does remember that there used to be more to life than shuffling around a ruined airport collecting trinkets left over from the world that was. Not that all the humans are dead: the living have retreated to a section of the city that they’ve walled off from the zombie hordes. But with civilisation having collapsed, raiding parties still have to head out into zombie territory to scavenge for supplies and medicine, which is how Julie (Australia’s own Teresa Palmer) comes into R’s life. When R’s pack of zombies sniff out Julie and her friends as they’re raiding a chemist, something about her stirs what’s left of R’s humanity. Rather than devour her, he saves her from the pack – turns out if you smell like you’re dead, zombies will think you are dead – and shuffles her back to his hideout on a parked airliner.

Gradually she comes to realise that R isn’t all dead inside and the more time he spends with her the more his cold heart warms to her. Expect plenty more puns like that as the film goes on. Zombies are traditionally used as a metaphor for society’s conformity, but here the metaphor’s a bit more personal: R is a young man with feelings he can’t express (and dodgy personal hygiene); Julie can see beyond that and loves him for who he is inside. As subtext goes it’s pretty thin, but this does get a few decent laughs out of the comparison. It’s a big task to turn a zombie film – traditionally one of the more nihilistic genres out there, where the meaningless of life is pretty much a given – into a love story, but this one manages it – and without sacrificing the regular zombie thrills and chills either. Warm Bodies isn’t quite a classic, mind you, but the zombie twist does breathe new life into an age-old love story.

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Oblivion It’s the future and the world has gone into the toilet. An alien race known as Scavengers (or “Scav’s”) turned up one day and blew up the moon, sending earthquakes and tidal waves across the globe. Humanity won the war that followed, but at a high price: the planet is in ruins, everybody still alive has moved to Jupiter’s moon Titan and huge machines strip-mine what’s left behind to keep the colony there going. Jack (Tom Cruise) is the guy who flies around repairing the attack drones that defend the giant machines sucking up the Earth’s oceans, while his partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) stays back in their sleek modernist base / house as a link between him and ‘The Tet’ – the giant orbiting space station that runs things on Earth. They’re partners in their personal lives as well – joint showers and everything – but while she’s happy just sticking to the rules, Jack isn’t happy in a way he can’t quite explain. With his first film Tron Legacy, Joseph Kosinski established himself as someone who could come up with strikingly beautiful futuristic imagery. Having Daft Punk in charge of the soundtrack didn’t hurt either; here he’s teamed with M83 and while the results aren’t quite as impressive, the soundtrack certainly has its moments. That’s the problem with this film: Kosinski can craft striking and memorable moments, but he’s lost when it comes to doing anything with them. Koninski originally pitched this idea as a graphic novel and it shows in the way the story seems built up from a handful of striking images – New York buried in mud, The Tet looming in the sky, Jack’s base on a pylon sticking up through the clouds, Victoria’s art-designed work station. When he gets away from these images, the film breaks down: the action sequences are average at best, with none of the fluid movement or staging of Tron: Legacy’s memorable lightcycle battle. The performances might be aspiring to a Kubrick-like restraint, but they feel more like action figures being posed against a variety of increasingly pointless backdrops. And the script is a mess, bungling the reveal of various shock twists, underexplaining some moments and over-explaining others. It’s a pretty ride with a nice soundtrack, but the second you stop to think about what you’re watching the whole thing falls apart.

FILM WRAP The Host: It’s basically Invasion of the Body Snatchers, only the aliens have won but they can’t resist our hunky men but maybe they should because … love triangle. Why yes, it does come from the pen of the author of Twilight.

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much all there is to this film, but as any 12-year-old boy will tell you, that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun.

The Croods: CGI cavemen have wacky adventures as their world crumbles around them. Kinda like Ice Age, but on land.

And with cavemen.

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surprisingly fun and well-made fairytale film is the rare example of something that really is “fun for all ages”. That is to say, it’s funny and the action is cool.

Oz the Great and Powerful: On the other hand, this disappointment is little more than a bunch of brightlycoloured screensavers

with James Franco standing in front waving his arms around.

A Good Day to Die Hard: Taken simply as another incoherent action film, this has plenty of big explosions and moderately competent action set-pieces.

As a Die Hard film, it’s a characterless, humourless mess.

Director Danny Boyle has always been one to go for sensation over explanation (think everything from Trainspotting to 127 Hours), which works fine when he’s sticking to simple, straightforward stories: here her tries to get a little fancy and the results are mixed to say the least. Simon (James McAvoy) works at a London auction house that has a very expensive painting going under the hammer. Art robberies are rare but they do happen and there’s a very well planned out method of getting the valuables out of the way when the criminals arrive – as they do here, led

by Franck (Vincent Cassel). This time the bad guys get away with it, thanks to Simon being their inside man (gambling debts have him on the ropes), but Simon was too smart for his own good: mid heist he managed to get the painting away from everyone, then promptly got whacked in the head and now he can’t remember where he put it. His solution: hypnosis, under the guidance of sexy hypnotist – yes, it’s that kind of film – Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson). But she isn’t one to let herself be used and Simon might have more to hide than he first thought. As sexy thrillers go, this has plenty of energy and the first half or so powers along nicely. But once the twists and turns come into play and the whole question of ‘what is real’ starts being thrown about, Boyle starts to lose control of his material, leading to a few inadvertently funny moments and a story that starts to drift towards the absurd. It’s never a complete failure – the energy of those early scenes (the initial heist is especially well done) is enough to keep it at least watchable to the end – but after the strong start it does become increasingly difficult to care about what may or may not happen next. Surprisingly, Cassel comes out best here despite playing the least interesting character. It’s good to see someone getting out of this mess unscathed.

Identity Thief Movies where two very different individuals are chained together on a cross-country adventure are as old as – well, let’s say Midnight Run – but it’s a tricky genre to get right. Wacky cross-country hijinks are fine, but when the temptation to have the characters learn and grow creeps in that’s when the trouble starts.

Take Identity Thief: while Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman) is living on the straight and narrow with his wife and two kids in Denver, con artist Diana (Melissa McCarthy) steals his identity, creates a purseful of fake credit cards and proceeds to spend like crazy down in Miami. Patterson knows nothing of this until the bills and arrest warrants come rolling in. To make matters worse, he’s just starting a high-profile new job and quite frankly the start-up company can’t afford to keep him around if he’s going to be trouble. His solution: go to Miami, grab whoever it is that’s ruining his life, bring her back to Denver (the only place where the police will actually clear his name first) and get on with his life. As a glorified accountant, bounty hunter is not a role that comes naturally, so it’s surprisingly easy how quickly he grabs her; then the mobsters she pissed off, and a bounty hunter who’s a little bit crazy, turn up to make the return trip a little more eventful. Bateman’s well within his comfort zone here comedy-wise and McCarthy is doing just fine as a wild woman, but before long both of them are revealing some surprisingly deep personal issues (he’s always felt like a little man; she steals to try and buy the love she never had as a child) in some uncomfortable bonding session. And isn’t this meant to be a comedy? The story is pretty slipshod, which would be fine if this was full of funny scenes and interesting characters. It’s not. Both Bateman and McCarthy have been in much better films that you can easily check out instead of bothering with this one.

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Remember when the Logies had comedy categories? These days the best they can do is ‘Best Presenter’ and ‘Best Light Entertainment’, which you might take as a reflection of the sad state of Australian television comedy if you didn’t realise the Logies are aimed almost entirely at commercial television and these days comedy only gets a run on the ABC. Now, if Kath & Kim were back on Seven, or Chris Lilley jumped ship to Nine, or even if Talkin’ ‘bout Your Generation was still going, it’s a pretty safe bet that suddenly the comedy categories would return “by popular demand” or some other malarkey.

But, it does point out an odd fact of Australian television in 2013: comedy has gone from being something you build your show around to being a flavour you sprinkle on a show that’s about something else entirely. Put another way, these days most of the comedy programs on air are made not by saying “we want to make a comedy; let’s find some stuff that’s funny”, but by saying “we want to make a show about something serious; we better get some comedy in there if we expect people to watch it.”

The obvious example is the ABC’s new consumer affair show The Checkout (Thursdays, 8pm) which is little more than a giant weekly infodump regarding various packaging tricks and consumer law, lightened up by having a couple of The Chaser team throw in the occasional prank or give an over-astonished performance based around your rights when it comes to exchanging faulty appliances. That’s

not to say it’s a bad television show; far from it, as the Chaser’s work is often very funny and the show itself is informative about the kind of things most of us are actually interested in – how to avoid being tricked and ripped off. But it’s clearly a show where the comedy has been added a fair way into the production process. If it was going to be a pure comedy show, chances are it’d look a lot more like the Chaser’s other current show, The Hamster Wheel.

Not all the examples are so obvious. The ABC’s new sketch show The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting (Wednesday’s, 9pm) is, well, a sketch comedy show and surely that’s a show where being funny comes first and foremost? And yet, on closer inspection, it’s clear that the thing that usually makes a sketch comedy show funny – the writing – isn’t exactly the highest priority. Time and again sketches start out with a decent concept then fizzle out. The cast ham it up like crazy and the directors – produced by production company and ad agency Jungleboys, it features many of their inhouse directors – get to show off their directing skills, but the longer it goes on the more it feels like the actual comedy side of things is an afterthought. It’s something that takes care of itself once you have that first funny idea. The results don’t exactly back up that approach, but does it even matter? It’s not like the Logies even give out awards for comedy any more.

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Comedown Machine RCA New York’s biggest garage-rock act, The Strokes are back with their fifth record, Comedown Machine. It has been two years since the fivepiece’s last album, and their fans have been eagerly awaiting the new one. If you’re looking for something to rival their debut LP, Is This It, turn away now. What we have is a solid album, a good fifth release for a band that peaked far too early.

This is not the genre-redefining piece of art, this is just continuing to ride the wave. The lead single, ‘All The Time’, is a return to their older sound, which is a step in the right direction. As someone who lost interest after their first album, this was what I found familiar, and honestly, this is what I expected. A good jumping off point for the album.

Unfortunately, the first track, ‘Tap Out’ is not.

There is a certain 80s synth-pop feel to it, which is not what we want from a band that gave us one of the few glimmers of hope for music through the early 2000s. Track 3 ‘One Way Trigger’ continues the synth-pop sound, but the next track, ‘Welcome To Japan’ brings the guitars back. It’s not that classic Strokes sound, but it’s an improvement. ‘50/50’ is probably the best track on the album, much like ‘All The Time’ it has that garage rock feel that we love The Strokes for. ‘Partners in Crime’ is also one to listen out for. With only three really good tracks, this is probably not worth buying for anyone but a hardcore Strokes fan. BY CAMERON BROGDEN

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Cameron: I had said I was going to stay away from comics for a few weeks, but this one was special.

Polarity is a new mini-series from Boom!

Studios and, oh my god, it is my new favourite thing ever! This four-issue series comes from Max Bemis, lead singer of Say Anything, and not only is the first issue outstanding, but it comes with a download code for a free song! Polarity focuses on an artist by the name of Tim and follows his struggles with bipolar, medication, and wondering if the now numbed extremes are messing with his ability to create art. Plus, when he’s off the meds he has superpowers.

psychologist-turned-clown that’s cuckoo for cocoa puffs? You get Suicide Squad.

This was the first one of the New 52 titles I started reading, picking it up purely on a whim. Nineteen issues later and I’m still happy to see it pop up on new comic book day. Suicide Squad is essentially DC’s answer to the A-Team–only they’re all super villains press-ganged into working for the government and, well … Mr T is now a shark.

While the comic I’m talking about this week doesn’t cover any serious issues, or start any intellectual debates, it does have one main advantage–it’s just plain fun.

There isn’t really a clear story arc at first–the team just tries to survive being dropped into one hellhole after another. Deadshot acts serious, Harley Quinn flirts with everyone, King Shark eats a whole coop of chickens, and so on. It doesn’t sound impressive, but dammit, I enjoyed it. Writer Adam Glass (probably best-known for his stint on Marvel’s Luke Cage Noir) then turns the story on its head; the jokes are harder to come by in a deadly war against Basilisk that the Squad are (naturally) unwilling participants in.

Suicide Squad is by no means a high-profile title, but I’ve found it consistently enjoyable.

What happens when you team up the DC Universe’s best sniper, a shark-man, and a

… Did I mention that there’s a shark man in it?

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As someone who has bipolar, I was pretty worried when I first read the concept. I was worried that a serious condition would be played for laughs and cheapened in the process.

Further research told me writer Max Bemis has the condition himself and my fears were lessened. Superpowers aside, this comic book delivers a fair portrayal of bipolar that is aptly hilarious and sad. Normally slice of life is its own serious genre of comics, while capes get their fun multi-colored corner of the universe. But Polarity blends the two seamlessly. As someone who is mentally ill and un-medicated, I’ve had my fair share of feeling like a superhero and then crashing back down to reality. I have a sneaking suspicion all the super heroics towards the end of the book are leading somewhere darker, yet I’m tremendously excited at the same time. It’s confusing, and you won’t know how to feel, but that’s kind of the point.

Intelligent post-hardcore is rare to find these days since it seems every new young band out there is only concerned with mixing as many genres as possible into a three minute song which usually ends up being a disjointed djent attempt with some battling clean and screaming vocals. Northlane’s second album, Singularity is a prime example of what can be done if you sit and think about the music you’re trying to create. Singularity isn’t a rushed affair, it’s not jam packed with ridiculous amounts of riffs and in it’s 35 odd minute run time, Singularity gives you time to breathe. But even still, when it gets going, the album is a truly dark, pounding, stomping, twisting and churning ride. Adrian’s vocals go from a deep growl to a powerful yell then to screams in no time at all while Jon and Josh on guitar have their duelling riffage parts down to a fine art that requires more than a couple of listens. Alex’s bass and Nic’s drums thump along with more than enough force. There’s enough attention to details throughout the songs to prove these guys have a lot more to offer than the rest of their ilk. Whilst the lyrical themes and song lengths are typically post-hardcore, it doesn’t really matter in this case because the music is interesting enough to want to listen to again. Because they’re a bunch of young guys, the lyrics are focussed on simple existential quandaries perfectly suited to the equally young post-hardcore crowd. Northlane understands that to be a modern post-hardcore band you don’t have to throw in everything you’ve got and that sometimes not being as heavy as you can be simply shows off how. By Paul S Taylor

The world needs more rock chicks. Actually, just more rock in general would be fab. This isn’t a traditional rock album, it’s not that heavy, but there are rock elements. Hell, Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys even worked on a couple of tracks. There are elements of blues, and even a little funk on this one. Grace Potter’s vocals are great, perhaps just a little “pop” for my liking, but if that’s the cost of success so be it. The guitar throughout the album is pretty good, if nothing to write home about. The piano and keyboards throughout are solid as are the bass, drums and various other instruments that show up throughout.

The best track on the album is, of course, one that Dan Auerbach worked on, even providing the drum loop. It’s the second track, ‘Never Go Back’. It starts slow, but it builds at the chorus.

‘Keepsake’ feels like a decent rock track should, even if it’s still a little softer than you’d expect from an album Wikipedia describes as “Hard Rock”. The rest of the album lulls a little bit, it’s still quality stuff, worthy of a listen or two, but probably not worth your money. BY CAMERON BROGDEN

Walk Off The Earth R.E.V.O Columbia Remember last year, when everyone was covering Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’?

Remember how tired of it you got? Remember that one video with five people playing one guitar? That was Walk Off The Earth. Best known for their YouTube videos, where they, shock horror, perform a large number of covers, this is apparently their third album. Wondering what the title stands for? That would be the band’s motto “Realize Every Victory Outright”. Whatever that means. There’s no beating around the bush here, the best track on the album is their cover of our Wally. By not changing much of the song, they’ve managed to salvage one decent track.

Unfortunately, Sarah Blackwood is no Kimbra, and therefore the best part of the song doesn’t really shine. The title track sounds like some kind of weird boyband anthem, with a few country elements. The other single, ‘Red Hands’ isn’t too bad, by having multiple vocalists, they create an anthemic quality in their chorus. Not worth your money, just go watch the YouTube video of them playing ‘Somebody...’. BY CAMERON BROGDEN

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grogwatch One of the funniest things you can get up to in your daily life is to attend a party celebrating someone else’s success. Well, most parties are celebrating someone else’s success, even if it’s just the success that comes from avoiding dying for another year. I’m talking about a party that’s held purely to celebrate someone else’s success in an area in which you’re also hoping for success. You might know them as award nights, but once you leave school you start to notice that these events turn up every now and again at your place of work, or even in the things you do to fill in your spare time – if you’re stupid enough to spend your spare time doing something more organised than lying on the couch watching old episodes of How I Met Your Mother.

I’m talking about gatherings where you turn up to hear people talk about how someone else is better at something than you are, and once you start to look at them that way you start to realise that Western Civilisation has an awful lot of them going on. Okay, yeah, I went to one this week that kind of pissed me off but I’ll get to that in a moment because it made me realise that this whole operation top-to-bottom is pretty messed up. I mean, why would anyone think it was a good idea to get kids involved in sport where they’re not only going to be compared to each other, but they’re going to be told straight-out that other kids are better than them? Oh wait, that’s right: that’s what school is all about, right across the board. You take a bunch of kids who all want basically the same thing – to be good at school – and then spend half the time going around telling them that sure, they tried hard, but that other kid over there is better at this stuff than they are. You suck, get used to it, that’s life.

The thing is, of course, that despite all the crap claiming that school is meant to prepare kids for adult life, once you become an adult all this comparison crap goes out the window for the most part. Sure, you

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might have one of those hell jobs where they do performance comparisons and the like, but for most of us we get to do our jobs and at least pretend in our heads that we’re pretty good at them. Kids, on the other hand, get letter grades on their results so they know they’re only a “C” in a subject whereas their bestest buddy, who they always secretly thought was a little bit stupider than them, walked out with a “B” and you end up thinking this bizarre situation is normal – it’s no big deal. After a while you expect to be graded on the work you do and it’s not really a competition because everyone’s good at something, right?

Yeah, the thing you’re good at might be some creepy personal thing that you don’t tell anyone about but at least you can hang onto that while you’re hitting those “C”s in every class, right?

It’s important to know where you stand in relation to others – it’s the only way you can be expected to improve, blah blah blah, and then you step out into the adult world and if someone says, “Yes, I am better than you at something”, it’s perfectly acceptable to tell them they’re talking shit. I mean seriously, when you think about it schools are basically designed to train kids to be high performance athletes, or heart surgeons, or some other extremely rare profession where your performance is either life-or-death or closely compared to other people’s in minute detail. And who amongst us has a job like that? In fact, who amongst us even has a job where anyone gives a crap what we get up to?

For pretty much every one of us, the pressure at our jobs comes from simply having to get things done, not the high-quality manner in which we’re being expected to get it done because hey, how difficult is it to write up a purchase on a cash register? How difficult is it to process a bunch of forms? Or listen to someone else complain about something while nodding away like you care? Or checking that a bunch of gas tanks are full? Or making sure someone paid their bills on time?

Pretty much every job out there is based around breaking something moderately complex down into a series of boring menial tasks that almost anyone could do with a minimum of training – and

yet school is all about telling kids that they have to strive to be their best while comparing them endlessly to those around them based on a strict set of criteria. Who the hell has a job like that?

Let’s put it another way. We’ve already established that at school – even snooty private schools where the parents always crap on about the big reason why they sent their kids there is “to make the right connections” – you’re constantly compared against both other students and a general concept of quality. If everyone in your class is an idiot, the smartest idiot still isn’t going to get an “A” because there are people outside your class who aren’t idiots and you’re also being compared to some extent against them.

Yet once you wander into the outside world and score a job or two, you suddenly discover that pretty much the main requirement for getting a job is that the people at your workplace already know you and think you’re a decent person. As my somewhat surly grandmother used to say constantly, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”, and once you’ve made a few buddies in a field it suddenly becomes a whole lot easier to find work there – unless you’re a total dickhead, in which case you probably already have a whole bunch of other problems to worry about, what with everyone hating you. So wait, what is the point of school again? Yeah, sure, learning and all that, blah blah, but the whole training people to constantly compare themselves to others as a way of measuring their performance just isn’t something most of us ever get up to out in the real world. And here’s why: it makes you feel like crap.

If you’re in a profession where you compare yourself to other people, or even if you’re just someone who never got out of the habit of doing it once you left school, you fairly quickly realise a couple of unfortunate facts: firstly, that you’re probably not very good and so comparing yourself to other people is only going to make you feel like crap (and maybe spur you on to try better to avoid feeling like crap, but just as maybe you’ll hit the booze to try and forget how crap you are and how crap that makes you feel), and secondly that the people who are very good are usually people who are really driven to be good by a whole range of messed-up personal issues that mean that they’re never going to stop pushing themselves well beyond a normal persons comfort zone. Basically, if you want to be really good you soon find yourself comparing yourself to complete nutcases, or people who have no life outside work, or insanely talented freaks who are totally unbearable personally. And that kind of

sucks. Maybe you just give up at that stage.

Maybe you find a way around it by shifting your comparisons to a standard you hold inside yourself, but yet again, what the hell are we doing with all this comparison crap if this is the result? And this, dear reader, was the kind of thing that was running through my head as I hung around that party last week for someone else’s big time success.

Now, I didn’t feel bad for them: they’re a close friend and they’ve worked hard to get where they are today. I felt bad for me, and not just because the party was only serving free wine – not even beer, goddammit – which meant pretty much the only reason I was there was to provide “moral support”, which I could have done with a text message. I mean really, going to a party for a friend’s success means you spend maybe ten seconds with the actual friend while a swarm of hangers-on and people looking to sponge off their success pounce on them, which means you might as well not be there at all, which means only serving wine is pretty much a dick move I think we can all agree.

But I also felt kind of bad because they were successful in an area that I’d like to be successful in, and even though this area isn’t a zero-sum game – it’s not like the fact that my friend was successful meant that I wouldn’t be; it wasn’t like trying to be the leader of Nazi Germany or anything – it still kind of sucks when you see a friend being more successful than you, which is what I really felt bad about. This was a good friend of mine on one of the happiest days of their life and all I was doing was scowling in the corner pissed off that it wasn’t me up there.

Was it society’s fault? Was it the years of schooling we all go through designed to turn us against each other? Was it the conditioning we all have that trains us to see other people merely as yardsticks by which we measure ourselves rather than living, breathing human beings we should love and treasure? Or was I just still pissed off at them only serving wine? Yeah, I’m going to go with the wine.

Tony “God, I hate wine so much” Montana

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“Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead guitarist)”

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