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This issue of Forte see’s launch of our updated arts section Refining the Palette. You can find it from page 39 this issue. Our lead interview by Tex Miller for Refining the Palette is with Nilaja Sun. Tex talks to her about her play No Child being performed at GPAC Friday 31st of May. According to Tex it is a bold and stellar performance from Nilaja Sun, who plays a remarkable sixteen characters in the show - from the janitor to students, teachers, parents and grandparents! We also have a profile on the Geelong Illustrators project and heaps of updates on coming arts events. Check it out.

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compare to the almighty Steve Vai. He is a guitarist’s guitarist of the highest order. Vai was last in town with his G3 crew, but when he returns he will be delivering a two-hour show with a world-class backing band. His latest album is The Story of Light. The Palais – July 13. .........................................................................

Earthcore Entrée Do you feel like a little Earthcore warm up party? You bet your sweet bippy you do. On June 9, when we tip our hats to the Queen for the long weekend, La Di Da will host a little Earthcore teaser with the best in techno, prog and trance shaking their money-makers. MoGo, RickySixx, PakMan, Twisted Molecule, Left of Centre, Neshi, Blaumann, Killa and Azrin are your guests of honour. .........................................................................

The Courteous A Day to Remember Florida’s A Day to Remember were last out this way in 2012 for Soundwave but will return shortly in support of their forthcoming newie, Common Courtesy. In 2013 the rockers celebrate their tenth year as a band, in which time they have released a handful of albums as well as 15 singles and 11 music videos. Giving them a helping hand will be The Devil Wears Prada and Dream On, Dreamer. Festival Hall – July 14. .........................................................................

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Roll Up, Roll Up, Bliss n Eso Skip-hop lovers and dreamers Bliss n Eso will take to the streets in July for a handful of shows in support of their forthcoming new album, Circus in the Sky. The newie, set for released at the end of June, is the Sydney trio’s follow-up to 2010’s Running on Air. That particular release would knock Eminem off the number one spot, a position he had held for six weeks. Festival Hall – July 6.

When the National Indigenous Music Awards take place at the Darwin Amphitheatre on August 10, one band will receive a little extra attention: Yothu Yindi. Music NT’s Manager Mark Smith: “With so many artists across the country we look forward to an amazing celebration of Yothu Yindi and the bands legacy.” Yothu Yindi formed in 1986. The band was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame last year. .........................................................................

Wired Up Seja The Highlights: We’ll be there before you close the door. Coming up you have… .........................................................................

We Demand More Stereosonic Things are getting a lot better for dance music lovers with Stereosonic set to become a two-day event. Now into its fifth year, the event has arguably become Australia’s premier dance music festival. With the line-up set for release in July, promoter Richie McNeil gives this teaser: “We are pushing the envelope. Stereosonic fans will experience the greatest EDM line-up Australia has ever seen.” Royal Melbourne Showgrounds – December 7 & 8. .........................................................................

Glastonbury Awaits Saskwatch Led by the sublime vocals of Nkechi Anele, Melbourne soul/RnB outfit Saskwatch is one of the hottest bands on the circuit. The nine-piece continues to wow crowds at festivals around Australia but these days they have their sights set on one of the biggest: Glastonbury. They would love a little help covering expenses and have taken to Pozible to help raise funds. You have until June 1 to pledge. They also play The Curtin Bandroom on June 1. .........................................................................

Amorphis Make their Debut Those Fins sure know how to produce a decent metal band, don’t they? And sitting atop the pile is Amorphis. Formed over twenty years ago, the band has travelled a varied metal road. They released their debut album The Karelian Isth in 1993 and recently dropped album number eleven, Circle. Their absence on Australian shores has not gone unnoticed but that is all set to change. Billboard – October 14. .........................................................................

Something with Numbers Return Something with Numbers are back in the game with an album so good, they named it twice. Eleven Eleven is the newie from the NSW favourites, their follow-up to 2008’s Engineering the Soul. Yes, it has been a long time in between drinks and they’re sorry for that. It’s worth the wait though. Produced by Lachlan Mitchell (Jezabels, The Whitlams), the album is out now. Ding Dong – July 6. .........................................................................

Thy Name is Bass Kleph Stuart Tyson is Bass Kleph and house music is his game. That is an introduction that doesn’t nearly do him justice, however. He is a Beatport #1 act and remixer, he is an ARIA #1 artist, he is the head honcho of two labels and he is a successful dance-pop songwriter in his spare time. He is a free-flowing, live-jamming powerhouse with more than a decade experience under his belt. Levels Nightclub – June 22. .........................................................................

Laneway Welcomes Detroit Australia’s Laneway Festival has found an American audience that is just as enthusiastic about the festival as we are, and will make its debut in Detroit this year. Lucinda Treat of Palace Sports and Entertainment said this: “We were drawn to Laneway’s pedigree as a ground-breaker festival for indie music and we wanted to bring that here to Detroit, a place with its own incredible pedigree for musical innovation.” God Bless AustrAmerica.

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Community Digital Radio Dialled Down Following the Federal Government’s failure to provide $1.4million in funding, community digital radio services are facing an uphill battle to stay alive. The failure has caused great concern as a quarter of a Australian radio listeners turn to community radio stations each week for services including music, Indigenous media, ethnic language programs and educational services. For further information please visit committocommunityradio.org.au. .........................................................................

Last Chance for Thy Art is Murder Well all you good metal fans out there, Thy Art is Murder is so close to hitting the road that you can smell it in the air. Along for the ride are Cattle Decapitation (USA), King Parrot and Aversions Crown as well as latest addition, Internal Nightmare. Now, that is a whole lotta metal bang for your buck. Arrow on Swanston – June 14. The tour supports the band’s new album, Hate. The album follows 2010’s The Adversary. .........................................................................

2013 Deadlys® The National Indigenous Music, Sport, Arts and Community Awards, better known as the Deadlys® celebrates their 19 th year in 2013. The vision of the awards is to recognise the achievements and contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in our community. Nominations are open until June 30. To nominate hit deadlys.com. au. The Deadlys® take place at the Sydney Opera House on September 10.

After spending time in Sekiden and Regurgitator, Seja Vogel released her debut solo album We Have Secrets but Nobody Cares in 2010. The album touched a warm spot within the music community and fans were keen to know what was next. Well, that would be All Our Wires. Set for release June 21, the newie features singles ‘C’mon’ and ‘Like Fireflies’ which features Regurgitator bassist Ben Ely. The Grace Darling – July 6.

Dawn of a New Day Kimberley Dawn Lysons can do it all. She is a singer and a songwriter, an award-winning designer and a visual artist. She is also the almighty leader of Dawn, a collective of “neo-Victorian musical renegades.” New to the scene, the outfit has already made a solid name. The last year or so has seen Dawn working with Jeff Martin (who the band has also supported) on debut album, The Spinning Jenny. The Toff – June 19 & The Workers Club – June 20. .........................................................................

Tim Chaisson Returns Canadian singer-songwriter Tim Chaisson is back in the country for another round of charismatic performances. Part of a musical family, Tim began his professional music career at the age of 14 when he was asked to join Kindle, a Celtic/contemporary family band consisting of his two brothers and three cousins. Also a guitarist and fiddle player, Tim will be performing all your favourites. Spotted Mallard – June 13. .........................................................................

New Band for Cedric Bixler-Zavala Cedric Bixler-Zavala, he of Mars Volta and At the Drive-In, has a new musical project called Zavalaz. The band features Dan Elkan (Them Hills, Broken Bells), drummer Gregory Rogove (Megapuss) and bassist Juan Alderete de la Peña (The Mars Volta, Racer X). Cedric gave this Twitter teaser: “Be warned this new music we are doing is not for aggressive young bucks looking for odd time signatures or15min psych rock jams or hard core.”

Cover of the Rolling Stone There would be few who would argue against the importance Rolling Stone Australia has had within the music world, and until July music lovers will be able to check out the first-ever exhibition of the best Rolling Stone covers from the past 40 years. 150 of the best Rolling Stone covers will be on display at the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum until early July. Curator Kirsten Fitzpatrick: “The influence of Rolling Stone extends beyond music – this magazine has been the birthplace of some the greatest careers in photography, journalism, and design.” Until July 7. yarraranges.vic.gov.au.

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The Shady Tales in Space Luke Bert and ‘Pieman’ are behind Tales in Space, the Sydney duo responsible for the take no prisoners “electro-dynamo-pomo-disco rock”. Using loops, radios, keyboards and triggers, while not neglecting drums and guitars, Tales in Space has been receiving a fair bit of love from triple j and FBi radio lately. The lads have been touring their new single ‘Shades’ since mid-May. The Espy – May 31. .........................................................................

High Highs on a High Australian-born, Brooklyn-based duo High Highs have returned to their motherland for a few shows including a date at The Toff on June 6. The piano-led electronica dream-pop duo is the combined talents of Oli Chang and Jack Milas. Earlier in the year they released Open Season, their debut album. They have also recently supported Vampire Weekend in the US and will take to the stage as part of Vivid LIVE.

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A Little More You Am I

For those that love their music as if they were sitting on a beach around a campfire, the upcoming tour of Xavier Rudd is just up your alley. Xavier’s latest release is 2012’s Spirit Bird which features the single ‘Follow the Sun’. The tour gets even better, however, with Aussie regular Donavon Frankenreiter set to return. Nahko and Medicine for the People will also perform. The Forum – October 3.

Those lovable You Am I champs have tagged on a few additional dates to their Hi Fi Daily Double tour which kicks off in the not too distant future. The band already had a show lined up at The Forum on July 6 but has added a second show at the same venue for July 7. As the name of the tour suggests, the band will be rocking out their albums Hi Fi Way and Hourly, Daily from go to whoa. .........................................................................

Come Dance with Masketta Fall Melbourne pop rockers Masketta Fall have itchy feet. The five-piece has a new single floating around called ‘Do You Wanna Dance’ and they are taking it around the country to see who wants to take them up on the offer. Lending influence from bands including Panic! at the Disco, Good Charlotte and Simple Plan, Masketta Fall comes with more energy than the energizer bunny. Bang – July 20. .........................................................................

Passion Pit Sideshows Out here for Splendour in the Grass, Passion Pit is one of many bands playing a few sideshows around the country. The band has become a bit of a favourite in Australia since their formation in 2007 and last served in Oz as part of 2012’s Parklife. The best news is that the tour will be for one and all with the band hitting The Palace on July 30 followed by The Hi-Fi on July 31 for an U18 gig. .........................................................................

Shredding with Steve Vai As Jack Butler in Crossroads he may have battled it out against the dude who played the Karate Kid, and subsequently lost, but in real life few guitarists

Thirty Seconds to Mars Arena Tour

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Depending on the speed of the launch, it takes between 150-300 days to get to Mars. Unless you’re Jared Leto, in which case it takes 30 seconds. Yes, bad segue, but at least you learn something. Thirty Seconds to Mars will be touring the arena circuit when they hit Australian shores later in the year with new album Love Lust Faith + Dreams in tow. The album was produced by Leto and Steve Lillywhite. Rod Laver Arena – August 10.

A few Brits who can’t get enough of Australia: who’d have thought? Making a quick turnaround to Australia shores this year will be drum and bass quartet, Rudimental. The four-piece not too long ago released their debut album Home, and it has been doing very nicely in Australia. Singles ‘Not Giving In’ and ‘Feel the Love’ both featured in the Top 20 of triple j’s Hottest 100 poll of 2012, so there is a lotta love. Festival Hall – September 21.

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Shapeshifter – Delta

The Swim is Josh Abram’s first release in ten years. The EP is described as “not genre specific” and as “more mood specific,” whatever that means. Available now on ThirtyFive Music.

Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

Bobby McFerrin – spirityouall

Jinja Safari – Self-titled

The National – Trouble Will Find Me Ohio indie-rockers, and one of this year’s Splendour in the Grass headliners The National, have released their sixth album. Trouble Will Find Me has a big lineup of guests, including Sufjan Stevens and Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry. Available now on 4AD.

Jinja Safari has released their debut album, Jinja Safari. The guys have been producing dreamy folk music since 2010 and this release promises to be no different. Available now on Island Records.

Josh Abrams – The Swim

Fresh from the release party in Wee Waa, NSW, Daft Punk’s latest album, Random Access Memories, has finally dropped. Available now on Columbia.

Contrary to the popular rumour, Bobby McFerrin is not dead. In fact, he hasn’t even been inactive. Spirityouall (pronounced “Spiritual”) is his tenth album. Available now from Sony Masterworks.

Ben Folds Five – Live

Ben Folds Five are releasing their first live album. It contains the hits and a few lesserknown tracks. Available June 7 on ImaVeePee Records.

Arizona outfit This Century are releasing their second full-length album, Biography of Heartbreak, along with the lead single, ‘Slow Dance Night’. Available May 31 on Rude Records.

Bliss N Eso – Circus in the Sky

Finally, Bliss N Eso are back with their fifth album. It’s been three years since their platinum album Running on Air, so it’s good to be hearing from the hip hop trio. Available June 28 on Illusive.

This Century – Biography of Heartbreak, Slow Dance Night

New Zealand’s premier drum and bass outfit, Shapeshifter, are dropping a new album this week. It’s their fifth album, and could be their best yet. Available May 31st on Truestone Recordings.

The Cat Empire – Steal the Light

Melbourne ska/rock/jazz/ whatever else outfit The Cat Empire are back with their sixth album, Steal the Light. Available now on EMI/Virgin.

Queens of the Stone Age – ...Like Clockwork

Dave Grohl’s other band are also releasing their sixth album. Entitled ...Like Clockwork, this is the first album from the band in a whopping six years. Available June 3 on Matador Records.

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LIGHTHOUSE THEATRE (WARRNAMBOOL): W’Bool Collage, FAME! GLOBE HOTEL (BALLARAT): Lily and the Drum BARWON HEADS HOTEL: Music in the Bak Bar ODYSSEY TAVERN: Luke Pote OLD HEPBURN HOTEL: Performance Night, Followed by Pugsley Buzzard THE MAX: Trojan NATIONAL CELTIC FESTIVAL: Portarlington PIPING HOT CHICKEN: Gil Askey and friends GPAC: Heros THE LOFT (WARRNAMBOOL): The Loft Presents AROCKALYPSE 2013 Launch CITY QUARTER BAR: Friday Unwind launch night, live music + DJ Fabs EDGE GEELONG: DJ Patch BARWON CLUB HOTEL: The Murlocs, Living Eyes, Turtleneck ELEPHANT & CASTLE: Thank Guinness It’s Friday BLACK HATT: Drink promos from 5pm till 7pm (free entry) CORTEN performing live free entry from 9.30pm BAR PIZZA: DJ Merv & Drink Promos LAMBY’S BAR & RESTAURANT: DJs Upstairs - Joubin, Downstairs - Joe Joe, Band - Test Pilot Molly IRISH MURPHY’S: Live music every Friday & Saturday night AT THE HEADS: Live music from 5pm till 7pm (Barwon Heads)

Audemia. Free Entry Free BBQ from 7.30pm THE GROVEDALE HOTEL: James Carrigg EUREKA: The Pulp, FREE before 11am THE BARWON CLUB HOTEL: Elliots Band, Lindsay Tucker and Band, RDZJB, Jesse Lee, Culzean NATIONAL CELTIC FESTIVAL: Portarlington KOROVA LOUNGE: Reggae N Ragga Feat/ Rasta Unity THE GATEWAY HOTEL: Dirt Track Cowboys BRIDGE HOTEL (CASTLEMAINE) : Navaja Negra GPAC: Heros ODYSSEY TAVERN: Jimmy Graham MARTIANS CAFE: Lily and the Drum PIPING HOT CHICKEN: Gil Askey and friends THE LOFT (WARRNAMBOOL): The Loft Presents AROCKALYPSE 2013 PRELUDE BARWON HEADS HOTEL: Music in the Bak Bar CHINESE WHISPERS: Zoolanda & TVB HOME HOUSE: Upstairs: Kolors, Backyard Josh and Dale (from the Block) OLD HEPBURN HOTEL: Taylor Sherridan BEAVS BAR: Steve Pianto ELEPHANT & CASTLE: Live music with The Regular Boys - 9.30 till midnight TORQUAY HOTEL: Live Music in the Sports Bar from 9.30pm THE MAX: Frequency CITY QUARTER BAR: DJ Yas

Saturday June 8th SPHINX HOTEL: Retro Ago-Go BLACK HATT: 80s vs 90s Fistful of Steel vs

LAMBY’S BAR & RESTAURANT: Live band: Steller & Downstairs DJs Joe Joe and Upstairs DJ Mawry, open from 9pm EDGE GEELONG: DJ Fabs

Sunday June 9th BRIDGE HOTEL(CASTLEMAINE): The Exit Crowd THE BARWON CLUB HOTEL: Good Faces for Radio with DJ Bodz ELEPHANT & CASTLE: Des Cam band EUREKA: Massive: Stafford Brothers, James Fava, Sme Blonde DJ, Lesware, Matt Black, TVB, Dawson, Steve Toppa & more NATIONAL CELTIC FESTIVAL: Portarlington WOLSELEY WINERY: Carus Thompson GPAC: Heros BEAVS BAR: Jack Harman ODYSSEY TAVERN: Ash King HOME HOUSE: Upstairs Helena (Farewell tour), Downstairs Kay Z THE WOOL EXCHANGE ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX: The Superjesus OLD HEPBURN HOTEL: Rory Ellis LAMBY’S BAR & RESTAURANT: Queens Birthday Party w/ Live band Good Faces for Radio & DJs Downstairs Yas & Ustairs Fabs open from 9pm THE PIER: Reil Diamond, Good Faces for Radio Queens Birthday Bash 3pm to 7pm GEELONG RSL: Jazz EDGE GEELONG: DJ Adam

Monday June 10th 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 NATIONAL CELTIC FESTIVAL: Portarlington GPAC: Heros

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CARUS THOMPSON june 23 at the old hepburn hotel

Tuesday June 11th BRIDGE HOTEL: Trivia Night hosted by Lifon Uranus from 7.30pm, free event (Castlemaine) ELEPHANT & CASTLE: $20 Steak & Drink night THE SPHINX HOTEL: 11 Meals for $11, Poker Night (free) GPAC: Heros GEELONG RSL: Steak Night $13

Wednesday June 12th DIGGERS ARMS HOTEL: Wednesday Night Wheel from 7pm, cash & prizes up for grabs! ELEPHANT & CASTLE: Trivia Night from 8.30pm till 10.30pm BARWON HEADS HOTEL: Trivia Night from 7:30pm

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Thursday June 13th BRIDGE HOTEL (CASTLEMAINE): Mary Fairburn LIGHTHOUSE THEATRE (WARRNAMBOOL): St Josephs Primary Where in the World BARWON HEADS HOTEL: Open Mic Night w/ Dave Dorman GPAC: Heros THE KOROVA LOUNGE: Kerser + Rates COURTHOUSE ARTS: BLACK HATT: Tradies Night in the Bar from 5pm till 7pm, Open Mic from 8pm with acoustic, bands, solos & duets ELEPHANT & CASTLE: $20 Asahi Seafood & Chips Night

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CITY QUARTER BAR: Industry Night BEAVS BAR: Karoke, Open Mic and Andy Forster

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The Outside Track By Natalie Rogers

When&Where: Portarlington – June 7 through June 10. nationalcelticfestival.com

The beautiful township of Portarlington, on the northern tip of the Bellarine Peninsula, is once again home to the National Celtic Festival. The tranquil setting and warm, friendly locals make it an ideal place to celebrate all things Celtic. The seven nations of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Galicia and Asturias come together once a year for this much-loved event. Forte Mag was lucky enough to score an interview with the festival’s headline act, The Outside Track, on their first visit to Australia. I sat down with Ailie Robertson, the band’s harpist, who gave me an inside look into the award-winning five-piece, and the hot tip on what acts are not to be missed over the action-packed weekend. Ailie Robertson is a world-class musician, composer, arranger, teacher, improviser and harp virtuoso. Leading flautist Niall Keegan said of her talent: “Her

synthesis of Irish, Scottish and contemporary harping techniques into an individual style represents the realization of otherwise unimagined possibilities for the Celtic harp”. A five-time National Mod Gold Medallist, she was also 1st prize-winner at the inaugural London Harp Competition, and best overall musician at the Edinburgh Competition Festival. She has performed all over the world as a solo artist and as part of The Outside Track.

played at festivals across the globe including Celtic Connections, Celtic Colours, Goderich, Mémoire et Racines, Sidmouth, Mission and Whitby. Each member of the group is a master of their chosen instrument; they combine the fiddle, accordion, harp, guitar, flute, vocals and step-dance to create a performance that’s a feast for the ears and the eyes.

“We’ve been looking forward to coming out to Australia for a long time – it’s the first time here for all of us, “Ailie began. “We want to say thank you to the festival for inviting us. Although we all live thousands of miles apart – I live in Scotland, Norah lives in Vancouver and the others live in Ireland – we jumped at the chance to come down here to play and hear the Australian acts as well.”

“We love to make things fun and different; our act is a mixture of singing, dance and playing. We play traditional Scottish and Irish music. What I love about the traditional music is its pure simplicity. It elicits an emotional response straight away,” Ailie explained. “When I’m playing I have a direct link to my country, and playing tunes that have been around for hundreds of years, for generations; that’s a lovely feeling, but we also like to think we’re adding something new to the tradition. In The Outside Track I play electric harp. I love changing people’s misconceptions about traditional music.”

The Outside Track are on top of their game and it’s a real coup to have them appearing at the festival. Together they’ve spent five years touring extensively in the UK, Europe, Canada and the US, and have

As well as headlining the festival, Ailie and The Outside Track will be part of the various workshops running over the weekend – and everyone is welcome. There are workshops in dance, singing, Gaelic language,

poetry, song, bagpipes, guitar, fiddle and a range of other instruments, including Ailie’s favourite, the Celtic harp. “We’ll be doing workshops while we’re there too, so everyone will have a chance to learn something new,” Ailie smiled. Once you have your newfound talents down, put them to work at the social event of the festival – a colossal Celtic dance party with live music by Australia’s premier Ceili bands. If you’re craving a more relaxed experience, unwind in one of the wine bars or intimate acoustic venues, Guinness in hand. Or if you love a bargain, spend the day trawling through the markets that will boast a collection of Celtic wares, food and craft. The four-day event kicks off on Friday night of the Queen’s birthday weekend and continues on until Monday afternoon. Already renowned as Australia’s biggest and best Celtic event on the calendar, this year’s program has something for everyone – but be sure to catch Ailie’s picks of the line-up: “Eleanor McEvoy is playing – she is an idol for us. We are really excited to get to see her. We also can’t miss our friends from Scotland, Mairearad Green and Anna Massie.”

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Sons of Lee Marvin By Tex Miller

Having played around the Melbourne and regional music scene for the best part of a decade, Sons of Lee Marvin (SOLM) have built themselves quite a reputation for their energetic and everspontaneous stage show. With the release of their third album (entitled Cutthroats and Conjurors), I got the opportunity to sit down with Tedd Zeppelin to chat about the latest release, living the rockstar lifestyle and injuries. The Sons of Lee Marvin, apart from being one of the most hard-working bands in the local scene, is a secret society that was devised by award-winning and critically acclaimed film director Jim Jarmusch. With not much on the internet about the society, I queried Tedd to see whether he could shed any more light on the matter. “I think it sort of started from a drunk fishing trip, and although there isn’t an official members list, if you’re old, cranky and look a little like Lee Marvin, then you can join. We are old and cranky, so two out of three ain’t bad, right?” Formed out of the dissolution of Tedd’s old band Fez Perez, the band worked quickly in devising the material for their debut album Desert Kill Theme. “We got together and went down to Knuckles’ shed to try and do something different and experimental from Fez Perez. We spent 12 hours jamming in his shed and wrote the majority of the first record there and then. Over the last ten years, we have been in a certain frame of mind and really positive about the band.

Lily and The Drum by Brendan Dando

After over twenty years in the industry with their past musical projects, Lily & The Drum are a band whose main goal is to enjoy their music. Lily and John ‘Drum’ Yacka first played together in August 2011 and have since developed a solid fan base throughout the country. Their debut album Nobody Just Like Me has received national airplay on many community stations, so it’s no wonder they plan to tour the album throughout Victoria in June, including gigs in Deans Marsh and Batesford. Many people envision the rock and roll lifestyle to be all play and no work; however, this wasn’t the case for Drum who was busy putting up gig posters around town during our chat. “If you want something done right, you’ve got to do it yourself,” he laughs. “However, I can’t complain because I enjoy doing it.” The former Ironhorse drummer’s years of experience have taught him to make the most of every opportunity to make music, hence why the band already plan to start recording a new album in the coming months. “We’ve got our own little studio so we’ll be doing a lot of sketch work very soon. The studio is now rearranged how we want it to be, so we plan to have the second album ready by the end of this year.” Fans can also expect some new additions to the Lily and The Drum’s sound. “We’ll be bringing in an accordion and piano this time which should be fun!” Something notable about this duo is their choice to

From the debut, we have gone through a lot of living; toured around Australia and Japan, people have got married, had babies and there have been a few deaths. There’s been good and bad times in SOLM, but the music and the love of it is first and foremost why we’ve been playing so long.” The evolution of the band’s sound is primarily derived from their life experiences, and for those uninitiated with the Gonzo Rock genre, it is predominantly writing about what you know. In saying that, Tedd has kept tour diaries about the gigs that the band has done over the last ten years both here and abroad. Although you may not have heard of Sons of Lee Marvin before, the experiences that have been documented are soon to be published as a book giving a further insight and different aspect into the touring life of the group. “We were talking to a little publisher about maybe printing them up – yet we might need to seek some legal advice first (laughs). When I write lyrics to a song, they are very original and raw. It’s an idea that ferments, rots for a little bit, goes green around the edges and then expels itself.” Touring around the country, playing hundreds of gigs a year, Sons of Lee Marvin has truly ‘seen it all’. From touring on different continents with heavy language barriers, to sustaining a variety of injuries, Tedd feels that they are truly living the rock lifestyle. “My knees are really dodgy from going down in moshpits and been run over by people. I’ve lost a couple of teeth; Knuckles has a steel plate in the side of his hand from trying to punch a snare drum. There’s plenty more, and we’d be living the tour rockstar lifestyle if we were financially compensated for the injuries.” When&Where: The Reverence Hotel, Melbourne – June 7.

never use computers to tamper with their sound. “Lily plays guitar with a couple of old analogue pedals and I play the drums, occasionally with the harmonica, but that’s it,” reveals Drum. “It can be quite difficult bashing the drums in time with that thing in my mouth though!” However, at the end of the day this band produces music that’s simple yet effective. “There’s no backing tracks, no tweaks, no nothing. We just deliver a real sound which we love playing and our fans can appreciate.” Although he now goes by the name ‘Drum’, Yacka reveals this wasn’t always the case. “There was a time when everyone used to call me ‘Hooker’. I’ll leave it with the people to ponder as to why!” However, don’t be alarmed; he claims it’s not what it seems. “Believe me, it’s all innocent fun!” With the amount of kilometres they cover due to touring, Yacka explains how they choose to pass the time on the road. “Lily is a great travelling partner, and although I’m not supposed to say this, we really do a lot of song writing in the car.” This isn’t to say Drum isn’t a safe driver, since he ensures he goes to good measure to make sure both hands are always on the wheel. “I mainly only throw in the occasional ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’, but I always wear a brace when playing the harmonica behind the wheel.” The upcoming tour aims to include many rural Australian towns, so the band has been looking at investing in a Lily and The Drum tour van. “A formal decision hasn’t been made as of yet, however it’s tempting because we have so much travelling to do soon,” says Yacka. Now, although he may be the man in this pairing, Yacka suggests that he doesn’t necessarily “wear the pants.” “Lily has the final say over most decisions, so it’ll probably be up to her. If she says yes then we’ll get it; if not then we’ll go without!,” he laughs.

When&Where: Globe Hotel, Ballarat – June 7; Martians Café, Deans Marsh – June 8; Batesford Hotel, Batesford – June 9.

The Nerve By Tex Miller

Ezekiel Ox was born and bred in Geelong and when he graduated out of high school he hit the road with his band; first with Full Scale and then Mammal. Fast forward to 2013 and he’s back again with new band The Nerve for a date at the Sporting Globe on the 27th of June. Forming only in the last twelve months, the band has evolved in leaps and bounds. Recently I got the opportunity to sit down Zek whilst he was roadtripping to Bundaberg to have a chat about the upcoming tour which sees the band hitting all major cities and regional centres. Most recently, the band has just dropped their latest single ‘Down There’ on the metal/alternative rock site Andrew Haug (andrewhaug.com) which, although having only been available to stream for the last week, has been getting some positive feedback from rock fans and band followers alike. Things are starting to heat up in the band, and as the tour draws nearer, Zek talks excitedly about the next few months for the band. “Glenn Proudfoot (guitarist for the band) was in France the last time I spoke to him – he works most of the time overseas. He is coming back for the tour, and we will see each other next week for the first time in 88 days which is exciting. I have also been working with Seven Sisters who is a dance crew out of Melbourne to develop the film clip which I am directing. Although we have been apart doing other things and projects, there has been plenty going on to keep us busy.”

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The tagline on the band’s website is: ‘The Point Where Feeling Begins’, and from only a few minutes talking to Zek it is obvious that nothing in this band is done half-arsed and goes back to the ideal of ‘Go hard or go home’. “The way that I see it is you can either sit in your box and say you won’t try or you won’t give 110% to the project, or you can say I want this to be awesome, which is what we have done. The album is sounding really good. I can’t wait for everyone to get their ears around it”. Featuring Lucius Borich on drums, Davarj Thomas on bass, Glenn on guitar and Zek on vocals, it was a full-on year and a half to get the engine room of the band going. Trading song ideas and recordings over the internet, the band wrote 24 songs within two months, the majority of which can be heard on their debut record which is not too far away. Having only played one gig together thus far as a band (the infamous Esplanade Hotel Front Bar), the homecoming show at the Sporting Globe is definitely a highlight on this tour. “I have always made a commitment to return to Geelong no matter what band or project I’m playing in ever since I left Belmont High in ’97. Whether that is a small or big scale show, Overractor, Mammal or The Nerve, we love playing everywhere and Geelong is a part of that cycle. Everyone should come down to the Sporting Globe and see the hard work that we have been putting into the show. You won’t regret it.” When&Where: The Sporting Globe, Geelong – June 27

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Tip of the Black Hatt Open mic nights are time-honoured ways for musicians to get heard. Whether you are an aspiring musician seeing if you can handle the stage, or a more seasoned muso wanting to keep your skills fresh or road test some new material, open mic sessions are winners for all involved. At The Black Hatt, you’ll find the crème de la crème of these open mic nights settling down on the stage for Sunday’s Sunday Sessions. Coming up on June 2 you have the wonderful talents of Luke Biscan and Luke Beavis. Keep up to date with all Black Hatt news through blackhatt.com.au. Or simply drop in at 54 Little Myers Street, Geelong.

Collard Greens and Gravy For those who want a musical taste of a Mississippi Juke Joint, look no further than Collard Greens and Gravy. With such a rich roots scene in Australia, you have to be something pretty special to earn your name. And Collard Greens and Gravy is one of the best. Formed in 1995, the band features Ian Collard (vocals, harmonica and guitar) James Bridges (guitar and fiddle) and Anthony Shortte (drums). They have bagged an ARIA and several other awards and released a handful of acclaimed albums, but one of their biggest ticks came in 2001 when they took second place at the International Blues Challenge in Mississippi. Their latest release is 2010’s Juke Joint Boogie. Piping Hot Chicken Shop – June 21. .........................................................................

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The Beards Take on the World

June at the GPAC

The tour to end all tours is here: The Beards’ First World Tour. Those men among men known as The Beards have had a blistering start to 2013. Shows in the USA, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland have taken place, with one simple message to be had: Grow a Beard. Sure, it is not that easy for some. Some of you out there are beard-challenged. Luckily, the ‘net has plenty of suggestions for you. But no advice I tell ya, no advice comes close to that dished out by The Beards. They know what is involved. They know the commitment it takes. They know there are no short cuts. So, as you marvel in wonder at the beards of this Adelaide outfit, know that where there is a will, there is a way. Oh, and they have some fine tunes too. Theatre Royal, Castlemaine – June 14.

The Geelong Performing Arts Centre, or GPAC for those that love an acronym, is your place for the finest in theatre, film and music. Let’s take a look at the treats coming your way in June. The Gérald Sibleyras-written play Heroes will play out at the venue from June 7 through June 22. Directed by Jules Hart, and presented by the Geelong Repertory Theatre Company, Heroes is a comedy set in 1959 in a French retirement home for First World War veterans. Their reminiscing leads to friction when one of them eyes an escape. On June 11 a very special screening of the Australian-German war film Lore will take place. Directed by Cate Shortland (The Secret Life of Us), the film was Australia’s entry to the 2013 Oscars. The film takes place in South-western Germany at the end of World War II where five siblings must make a 900km journey to their grandmother’s home. On June 14, TV’s top medium Lisa Williams returns following a sold-out run of Australian shows in 2011. In her show Messages from Beyond, Lisa will perform live readings with members of the studio audience. Music wise you have Jonathon Welch (June 12 & 13), The Angels (June 15) and Foster and Allen (June 16). For further information on the above shows, please hit gpac.org.au.

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There is a whole lotta hooting and hollering when Clairy Browne & the Bangin’ Rackettes come to town. The band has been wowing the States in recent times but is back on home soil and will be performing their first Aussie dates for the year. They have kept us waiting, my hip-shakin’ friends, but now the time has come to let loose. Woohoo! Led by the too-cool Clairy Browne, the band came together in 2009 over a shared love of “nineties dance videos, early rhythm n’ blues records and big hair.” Their debut album, Baby Caught the Bus, was two years in the making, but worth the blood, sweat and tears. The yanks are lapping up their sound too, with the band signing to US label Vanguard. The Karova, Ballarat – June 1. .........................................................................

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Tigertown on the Prowl

What a Dick Diver

Tigertown kick off their tour next month and their first couple of stop-offs are at Beav’s Bar, Geelong on June 13 and The Bridge, Castlemaine on June 14. I think you should know a little more about them. Lead singer, Charlie, and guitarist, Chris, are the main songwriters of the band. They also happen to be married. The rest of the band is comprised of Charlie and Chris’s siblings, because, well, it’s all about who you know. Oh, and they also happen to be mightily talented. Their self-titled debut EP – pressed and released by the band – sold out its 1000-copy pressing within weeks; which, considering the love bestowed upon the band is hardly surprising, but still pretty cool. The band recently supported Bob Evans and is currently showing off new single, ‘What You Came Here For’.

Coming up in July, Melbourne’s Dick Diver will play some sweet-arse shows in support of their new album, Calendar Days. The band has already tagged another Melbourne show onto their tour itinerary, suggesting that there is a lot of love for this band. The album, the follow-up to 2011’s debut New Start Again, was once again put in the capable hands of Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring). The album includes familiar tracks ‘Alice’ and ‘Water Damage’. On her FasterLouder review, Victoria Birch simply writes: “Screw critical analysis – this is pure pleasure, the stuff that makes a mundane life worth living.” Now, I reckon that is reason enough to check ‘em out. The Bridge, Castlemaine – July 6 & The Barwon Club, Geelong – July 12.

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June at the Old Hepburn Hotel in Daylesford has a couple of top-notch shows for you. June 2 welcomes the Wooden Music Festival featuring the Perch Creek Family Jug Band, the Quarry Mountain Dead Rats and Max Savage. The Perch Creek Jug Band specialises in five-part vocal harmonies dancing across an eclectic mix of instruments including trombone, banjo, washboard, musical saw and blues harp. They even throw in a little tap dancing. On June 7 Pugsley Buzzard will help celebrate the 13th birthday of the venue’s Performance Night. Pugsley has performed in venues from the jazz cellars of Berlin to downtown New Orleans. With his huge voice and piano skills, Pugsley takes you from hoodoo blues to goodtime boogie; it is a touch of New Orleans in Australia. Two great shows; one perfect way to welcome winter.

National Celtic Festival It is almost here, folks; it is almost here. The National Celtic Festival takes place this Queen’s Birthday weekend, and oh what treats it has in store for you. As their website reads: “A smorgasbord of Celtic music, dance, song, language, poetry, pipes & drums, Celtic cuisine and all manner of quirky Celtic pursuits will be on the menu.” Some of the international talent on offer includes Outside Track, Eleanor McEvoy, Fiona Ross, Mairearad Green & Anna Massie and Tim Chaisson. Some of the national talent includes Anne Gasko, Siobhan Owen, McAlpine’s Fusiliers, Zeptepi, Ploughboys, Claymore, the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club, the Melbourne Ceili Band, Taliska and The Beenies. But wait, that’s all well and good, but I want workshops. Well, there will be a host of workshops in dance, singing, Gaelic language, poetry, song, bagpipes, guitar and fiddle. But wait, music and workshops are all well and good, but I like me some pipes and drums. Well, since 2010 the Celtic Piping and Drumming Program has been an integral part of the festival and it is no different in 2013. Portarlington – June 7 through June 10. For a full rundown on everything you need to know, please visit nationalcelticfestival.com.

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Red Truck, Big Heart We all know what a fantastic service the Country Fire Authority provides; the volunteer and community-based fire and emergency services organisation helps to protect over three million Victorians. On June 2 at The Barwon Club, Geelong, some 13 local bands and acoustic groups will take to the stage to help raise money for the Grovedale CFA brigade. The brigade is aiming to raise $50,000 for a new Support Vehicle. Some of the bands lining up at the Red Truck, Big Heart fundraiser are Vendetta, Diehard Dolls, Audemia and Insygnia. Entry is only $15 with all proceeds going directly to the purchase of the Support Vehicle. Help ensure they can do the best job they possibly can by helping purchase this vital piece of fire fighting equipment. Start time is 2pm.

ORIGINALS at the dog Ash Grunwald & Friends It’s a pretty special music world indeed when Ash Grunwald gets together with The Living End’s Scott Owen and Andy Strachan to make sweet music together. You may have heard their cover of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy; if not, it will be all too easy to find. Anyway, now they’re hitting the road together for a string of awesome dates. But before we get to that, how about the back story? Ash and Scott’s friendship formed around the coal pit in Ash’s backyard where a soy sausage or two was shared. Ash and Scott’s wives would form the band Mr Cassidy, and soon enough the gents would find themselves standing side by side. As three is the magic number, Andy soon joined the ranks. And that, my friends, is the story of how they met. Torquay Hotel – June 15.

The Barking Dog has put together a musically colourful show on June 7 featuring Two Coloured Koi, Murdena and Kyle Taylor. Let’s get to know the talent a little better. With catchy melodies and strong harmonies, Two Coloured Koi is one of Geelong’s own. A four-piece folkcountry-pop band, the young and talented outfit already has a well-established name on the touring circuit. They will make you stomp, clap, sing and dance. Murdena hail from the Bellarine Peninsula and are a mixed bag if ever there was one. Skipping from top-tapping country to urban blues to folk-rock, the band took out top honours at the 2013 Tamworth Music Festival’s Battle of the Bands competition.

QMF Warm Up Alister Turrill’s Has the Blues Quick bite: Alister Turrill is one of the country’s finest young blues talents. His accomplishments go back to 2010 when he won the Queenscliff Music Festival’s ‘Rip a Riff’ songwriting competition. He has since won the Melbourne Youth in Blues Competition (2011) and the Apollo Bay Next Wave Performance and Songwriting Competition (2012). Sharing the stage with artists including Lloyd Spiegel, Jeff Lang and Geoff Achison haven’t hurt either. His new album is Reverence and Resonance and he launches it at Beav’s Bar, Geelong on May 31.

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The Queenscliff Music Festival has become a must-attend event for many music lovers and waiting until November is not going to be easy. Good thing then that the festival has a nice little event to tie you over: Winter Warm Up. Darren Percival, Eagle and the Worm, Empra, Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk and The Frowning Clouds are the good folk behind the winter pickme-up at the Queenscliff Town Hall on June 22. While some may know him as voice-looping artist Mr.Pervical, others will know Darren for his performances on The Voice (2012). Darren has over twenty years in the music game and is known for songs including his #1 hit ‘I Believe’, Damage Down’ and ‘For Once in My Life’. Note: Not only will you get some brilliant music, but the 2013 line-up will also be revealed.

ballarat / bendigo / geelong / surfcoast / warrnambool / werribee You’re Invited to It’s My Party

Behold the Arockalypse

The COPACC’s drama season continues next month with It’s My Party (And I’ll Die if I Want To), Elizabeth Coleman’s comedy of family relationships. Meet Ron. Ron is the quintessential Aussie family man. He is also convinced that he is dying. In a gesture to his mortality he organises a party, giving his wife and children a chance to say their goodbyes. As the clock ticks down, all sorts of confessions and surprises come out, revealing a dysfunctional family that’s barely recognisable to the one we first met. It’s My Party was Coleman’s first fulllength play. It debuted in 1993 as part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Coleman has also written for The Secret Life of Us, Something in the Air and Police Rescue. COPACC – July 20.

When the Arockalypse comes, where do you want to be? Crying in the corner wearing the hand-knitted jumper your grandma made you? Or will choose to be at The Loft in Warrnambool, because at least there is going to be some Awesome with a capital ‘A’ music going on. Okay, so beware false prophets and all that, but something is going down at The Loft in June. Some that will change the fabric of music society. Yes, it is the Arockalypse. June 7, 8, 9 & 10 is all about music, glorious music. Hands reaching for the heavens music. Screaming ‘Halleluiah!’ music. You are getting a whopping 29 bands, good readers. That is twenty plus another nine. Some of the bands lining up to pleasure your aural senses will be Red Eagle, Lochi McGrath, Murdena, Benny Walker, The Alamo, Zuzu Angel, Tarryn Hawker Music, The Fire Alive and Joe Gardner. Now, that makes for pretty damn good reading in itself, so just imagine how good the rest of it is going to be. Let’s take a quick look at roots player Benny Walker. Walker started his first band at the tender age of 12, and spent a time finding his music soul before releasing his first EP in 2007. His self-titled debut full-length came the following year. His latest effort is the much-loved Sinners and Saints. Add facebook.com/theloftwarrnambool as your friend for all the news you need to know.

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Klezmania Hysteria You learn something new every day. In this instance, you’re going to learn two things. Klezmer music originated four- to five- hundred years ago among the Jewish inhabitants of Eastern Europe. The music reflects the history of the Jewish diaspora. Since the late 1970s, a revival has taken place on early recordings. During the Middle Ages, Yiddish evolved as the everyday language of the Jewish people of Eastern Europe and accompanied the Jewish immigrants as they travelled to new lands. Now, with that information in mind, say hello to Klezmania, widely regarded as Australia’s foremost exponents of klezmer music and Yiddish song. Performing instrumentals and songs in English and Yiddish, that band’s repertoire takes in klezmer music across diverse cultures. Theatre Royal, Castlemaine – June 22. .........................................................................

What So Not, So Hot Emoh, one-half of Sydney duo and EDM kings What So Not, kicked off a tour mid-May that shines the spotlight on their forthcoming EP, The Quack. The twosome, as I am sure you know, is the combined talents of Chris ‘Emoh Instead’ Emerson and Harley ‘Flume’ Streten. Yes, that Flume: the world conquering, everyone wants a piece of him Flume. The EP’s titular single features some fine names: NY rapper Action Bronson (aka Arian Asllani), beatmaker Blood Diamonds (aka Mike Tucker) and Brooklyn’s rising hip hop whiz D Mac all appear on the release. The EP, meanwhile, has been picked up by Skrillex’s OWSLA for overseas release. Eureka Hotel, Geelong – June 6 & Star Bar, Bendigo – June 7. *Please note: This is a DJ set featuring Emoh only.

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HuHa Parties with the Queen Bendigo’s HuHa has put together a show fit for the Queen on June 9. The Bendigo favourite has become known for its birthday bashes – this will be their tenth HuHa Day Party in three years. So, who do we have? We have Will Sparks, Joel Fletcher, Matt Lincoln (featuring Mandas), Some Blonde DJ, Jungle Jim, Shameless, Press Play, Stan Gravs, Matt Watkins, Ish Kariuki, Havoc, Brad Smit, Reycey Toll, Ethan Foreman, Jake Cowman, Mason Flint, Saso Pink, Jake Cowling, Femme Fatale, Kev Mitchell, Will Monaghan and Jarrah Wales, that’s who. At the time of writing a surprise guest DJ was also to be named. The show kicks off at 1pm. Tickets are available through Skin Ski & Surf, Red Chair Boutique and the La Trobe University Bookshop. .........................................................................

David Bridie Wide Awake Melbourne songman Davie Bridie is a muso whose name holds great respect. Bridie’s early career revolves around two bands: not drowning, waving,

which he formed with John Phillips in 1983; and My Friend the Chocolate Cake, which he founded in 1989 with Helen Mountfort. Both bands would win ARIAs. As far as his solo work goes, David released his debut album Act of Free Choice in 2000 and on June 7 will release his fourth studio effort, Wake. Speaking about the album on his website he says: “I wanted to forge my own direction on this record, write the best songs I could, joining together all the various influences, gathering together all the musicians I have an affinity with, to come up with something that I could say I was proud of.” The Loft, Warrnambool – July 18 & The Ararat Hotel Red Room – July 19. .........................................................................

Ben Ottewell Heads Out One Mr Ben Ottewell of Gomez has announced a run of Australian dates which will kick off at the end of June. Aussies have had a long love affair with the charmers that are Gomez so this tour should be a real treat. So, just what can fans expect? They can expect a whole lot of goodness from Ottewell’s debut solo album Shapes & Shadows (2011) for starters. However, they can also expect Gomez favourites plus some of his favourite covers thrown in for good measure. Supporting Ben on his tour will be Melbourne’s Matt Walker. The multi-instrumentalist, whose new album In Echoes of Dawn is winning great favour, has a connection with Gomez, having supported the band back in 2001. The Barwon Club, Geelong – July 4 & Theatre Royal, Castlemaine – July 5. .........................................................................

Moolana Yakama Exhibition Moolana Yakama (meaning: Come on Spirit/Coming Together in Spirit) is a celebration of the living spirit; of honouring ancestors, elders and oneself; of respecting the land and each other. The Moolana Yakama exhibition is your chance to share with artists from around Australia an afternoon of music, film, paintings, sculpture, storytelling, jewellery and much more. Artists include Aunty Rochelle Patten, Dixon Patten, Uncle Allan Parsons, Ben Laycock, Ann Berg, Juliann Fraser, Curt Mountain, Kim Simon, Spiral Domes, Jinari Mountain, The Hunky Dory Puppet Show, Stephen Robertson, Kinja, Roland ‘Black Wolf’ Can’t See, Liam Kelly, Allis Maun, Simeon Roberts, Peoples Pictures and Walpri Media. Lot 19 Gallery and Art Space, Castlemaine – June 1.

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TALK OF THE TOWN! All the Cool FReeZA News For all you young music lovers out there who either love the stage or the behind the scenes gig, this one is for you. The 2013 FReeZA calendar has a couple of ripper events you are going to want to take notice of: the Push FReeZA Summits and the Push Start Battle of the Bands series. First up, the Push FReeZA Summits gives an opportunity to young people looking to make a career in the music field first-rate knowledge about the ins and outs of the game. Not only is the free training session a fantastic opportunity to gain firsthand knowledge about the music business, but it is also a great way

to network. And networking, my friends, is a key aspect. It’s all about who you know, remember. The Push FReeZA Summit takes place in Bendigo at the Bendigo Exhibition Centre on July 2. Secondly, the 2013-14 FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands series is up and running. Established in 1995, the competition showcases the best in emerging young talent from around Victoria. The grand prize is a beauty and includes a day of recording, producing and engineering at Hothouse Studios, a pressing of 500 copies of your recording and a multi-camera studio film clip filmed, edited and produced by JMC Academy. Hit thepush.asn.au for further information. .........................................................................

Go Easy on Sheppard

Regional Roulette Tour The Regional Roulette tour has been popping up at venues around Victoria since the end of April and there remains only a couple more chances to witness the metal mayhem. The tour, in case you didn’t know, features King Parrot, Frankenbok, Dreadnaught, Heaven the Axe and Abreact. Why have they called it Regional Roulette? Well, the ‘Regional’ part comes from the fact the tour is touring, you guessed it, regional Victoria. The ‘Roulette’ part comes from the fact that the line-up will be rotating so you never really know which band will be playing at what time. The aim of this was to encourage people to come for the entire show rather than just to catch a particular band then go home. The Newmarket, Bendigo – May 31 & Yahoo Bar, Shepparton – June 28.

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Brisbane six-piece Sheppard are having a blast, and why wouldn’t they? Their catchy single ‘Let Me Down Easy’ is lighting up the airwaves and all signs point to this band being a breakout star. Perhaps it has something to do with the strong sibling showing of Amy, George and Emma Sheppard. Maybe it’s their mates Michael Butler, Jay Bovino and Dead Gordon that bring the magic. Far more likely it is the perfect combination of six souls who love to play music that people could love. Last year the band racked up time in the US, UK, Philippines, South Africa and India and now, with single ‘Let Me Down Easy’ becoming one of the biggest independent hits on Australian radio in recent times, all eyes are on Sheppard as to find out what is next. The Vine, Bendigo – May 30 & The Karova, Ballarat – May 31. .........................................................................

Strange Talk and Hey Geronimo Now, here is a tour sure to whet your music appetite: Strange Talk and Hey Geronimo are getting it on together. The Strange Geronimo tour (see what they did there) will kick off in mid-June and includes a Geelong date. The awesome foursome that is Strange Talk is running hot with their debut album, Cast Away. The album features a handful of wellknown tracks including the titular effort, ‘Climbing Walls’, ‘Falling in Love’ and ‘Picking Up all the Pieces’. The thrive-some five-some that is Hey Geronimo, meanwhile, will be giving their latest single ‘The Dan Kelly Song’ a working. Both bands are not shy when it comes to live performances, so strap yourself in for a rollicking night. Eureka Hotel – June 29.

Salon Sojourn Over the last 5 years Salon Sojourn has grown beyond our expectations. Jamie and Teena are incredibly proud to introduce an amazing team of award winning hairdressers back into the Geelong arena. The fire though unfortunate allowed the team to regroup and refocus. While the Newtown salon was being refitted, Jamie and Teena where blown away by the amazing amount of love and support offered by the their collegues in the industry, local community and clients, but especially from their incredible staff. Salon Sojourn want to thank all who helped and supported and the team can’t wait to see you at Salon Sojourn Newtown.

A Thank You to Volunteers National Volunteer Week took place earlier in the month and to mark the event Surf Coast Mayor Libby Coker acknowledged the invaluable role volunteers play in the community. She said: “Thanks to the more than 120 Visitor Information Centre volunteers, Surf Coast Shire enjoys a strong reputation as a friendly, vibrant place to visit.” She went on to say: “As the backbone of our four Visitor Information Centres, it is the volunteers who enable Council to continue to meet the ever increasing demand for tourism information and services, and who also support the capacity of local businesses to survive and prosper. We know how fortunate we are to have so many wonderful volunteers working alongside us. This is why I would like to say ‘thanks a million’ to all our volunteers, not just as the visitor centres, but providing many different services across the shire. You’re doing a great job and we look forward to you keeping up the good work.”

Mrs Hyde Mrs Hyde’s chef, Josh Bouwman (pictured) has already taken on more than most ‘nearly 21 year old’s’ could possibly handle. As Head Chef of Geelong’s premium Tapas and Cocktail Bar, Josh has created an enticing tapas menu that has captured the true sense of “sharing plates”. His menu offers something for all. The concept being individual items from “The Land”, from the “The Sea”, and “Lifestyle”…Lifestyle being options that cater for Gluten Free and Vegan diners. Following in the footsteps of his father also a chef, at 20 it isn’t experience that prevails, but his passion and raw talent, that is second to none. His culinary gift, has also landed him a place in the Apprentice of The Year “cook off” competitions, to be held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre on June 4th. With Mrs Hyde’s new Winter menu launching June 5th, come in and try some of his tasty tapas dishes such as the “Crispy pork belly, black pudding, cauliflower puree” or a Winter warming “Venison sweet potato pie”. Also available - 7 course degustation with matching wines – for bookings 5223 1228

Geelong Hospital Appeal Quick bite: The Geelong Hospital Appeal takes place this Queen’s Birthday weekend, June 7 through June 10. Times are tough and spare money is often a luxury, however, this is a fantastic cause. This year all funds raised will go towards the redevelopment of the Children’s Ward at the Geelong Hospital so if you have a little money tucked away in the piggy bank, this is a great cause to give to. A telethon, highway collections, tin shakes and other activities will all be part of the appeal. Keep an eye out and give what you can. Thank you.

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Songbook will see Katie exploring material from throughout her career including songs from George, Katie Noonan and the Captains, Elixir and her acclaimed solo album. This intimate performance mode is the perfect setting for Katie to revisit her most popular songs and also present some new material.

SAT 22 JUNE GEELONG GPAC - DRAMA THEATRE with guests Playwrite (Acoustic) www.gpac.org.au (03) 5225 1200 Voted in the Top 20 greatest Australian singers of all time SUN HERALD 2013

Songbook Album and Sheet Music Book available now at katienoonan.com

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PURPLE COW Cure the winter chill by visiting www. purplecowclothing.com.au. Browse 800+ styles, anything from denim in the latest colours, basics for layering and much more… and with overnight delivery, tomorrow night’s outfit will be yours.

Shooting for the Aveira Skies

Brooke’s Body and Skin Care Brooke’s welcomed Kristen to their team over 6 months ago and she is a young enthusiastic therapist who takes care in all her customers. She has over 18 months experience behind her and looks forward to many more years in the industry. Kristen welcomes new and old customers with some great specials over winter we have half price waxing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturdays. Also like Brooke’s Body and Skin Care on Facebook to keep up with more specials over winter.

There is no shortage of musical talent coming out of Perth and flying the flag for hardcore/metal is fivepiece Aveira Skies. The band made their live debut in 2011 and has since racked up shows with Northlane, Buried in Verona, Silent Screams and The Plot in You. Their year of formation also saw the release of their debut EP, Longer than Flesh, Longer than Ashes. The EP did rather sweetly, appearing on iTunes’ Bestsellers Metal Chart. 2012 saw the band continue to build their profile around Perth, but in 2013 they have their sights set on the rest of the country. The Karova, Ballarat – June 23. Local hardcore/heavyhitters Nicolas Cage Fighter support. .........................................................................

Old Hepburn Hotel News June at the Old Hepburn Hotel in Daylesford has a couple of top-notch shows for you. June 2 welcomes the Wooden Music Festival featuring the Perch Creek Family Jug Band, the Quarry Mountain Dead

If you find yourself down Pakington street on a Sunday afternoon, there is a new player in town for those Sunday session pioneers. Sebroso Tapas Bar and Grill have created an extremely popular outlet for those looking for a new cultural experience in Geelong. Drop by at 3pm and meet up with Salsa instructor Katie, who runs beginners Salsa classes every week. Many love to order a jug of house made Sangria, some afternoon tapas and get involved in the festivities. Sebroso is now open 7 days a week. With the kitchen open until 10pm from Monday to Thursday and Midnight on a Friday and Saturday, it’s the perfect spot for a late dinner. Call 52241888 for more info.

Rats and Max Savage. The Perch Creek Jug Band specialises in five-part vocal harmonies dancing across an eclectic mix of instruments including trombone, banjo, washboard, musical saw and blues harp. They even throw in a little tap dancing. On June 7 Pugsley Buzzard will help celebrate the 13th birthday of the venue’s Performance Night. Pugsley has performed in venues from the jazz cellars of Berlin to downtown New Orleans. With his huge voice and piano skills, Pugsley takes you from hoodoo blues to good-time boogie; it is a touch of New Orleans in Australia. Two great shows; one perfect way to welcome winter. .........................................................................

A Break for Kate Fundraiser Quick bite: Local gal Kate O’Keefe has had a bad run. Last year Kate was involved in an accident and has required two operations with a third on the way. We all know how expensive that can be so a fundraiser has been put together at The Vine, Bendigo this

Cucina One12 is a family friendly, exciting and modern dining experience. Providing traditional Italian dishes, along with affordable prices. Located in the heart of Belmont, be sure to grab a bargain on Monday to Wednesday where they offer a two course meal deal for only $25! Their $10 lunches have been a proven success with a full restaurant almost daily. Weekend breakfast start from 8.30 am- 12 pm and provides a fresh and healthy way to kick off your weekend! They offer dinner daily from 6pm, but be sure to book so that you don’t miss out! Or if going out isn’t your thing, why not order take away or even get it delivered, with their popular pizza and pasta take away! Their private function room caters comfortably for 45 people, with no room hire necessary! Come in and see what everyone is talking about, call on 52430333.

Saturday, June 1. Kicking off at 12.30pm, 10 artists will take to the stage to entertain you for a good cause. The day will also feature raffles, vouchers and games so there is plenty to enjoy about the day. Gold coin donation. .........................................................................

Best of the Rest Martians Café, Deans Marsh: The Wave – June 1 & Lily and the Drum – June 8. Piping Hot Chicken Shop: Gil Askey & Friends – June 7 & June 8. Gateway Hotel, Corio: Kasey Chambers – May 31 & Adam Brand – June 8. The Bridge, Castlemaine: Fourteen Nights at Sea – May 31 & Manny Fox – June 7. Theatre Royal, Castlemaine: Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be: The Story of Bon Scott – June 1. The Newmarket, Bendigo: My Fiction – June 1 & I am Duckeye – June 7. The Barwon Club, Geelong: Glitter Gang – June 1. Babushka Bar, Ballarat: Tim Hudspith (Goldentone) – June 8 & Geoff Achison – June 14.

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The Carlton Hotel When it’s cold and grey outdoors, head to The Carlton Hotel in Malop Street – the perfect place to keep warm and merry this winter. Over a delicious meal or glass of wine, enjoy the relaxed dining experience created by interesting décor, dim lighting and bold colours; whether it’s in the pub, casual lounge or a candle lit dinner in the restaurant.

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Kashmere Club

In the US, L.A. is the place to chase dreams; in Australia, it is often Melbourne – at least when it comes to music. With a song or two in their hearts and their eye of the big picture, three lads calling themselves Kashmere Club packed up their gear and headed from South West Victoria to Melbourne. You could say the move is paying off… Thank you for taking part in Forte’s ‘By Popular Demand’ section. Does it feel good to be nominated as one of Regional Victoria’s most popular bands? Hey Luke, no worries, glad to be here; sitting at my desk typing to you beats waiting on hold to my internet provider who keeps overcharging me lately. It does feel good to be nominated; I’m not sure how you ran the poll, but I’ll just trust you. We do play a lot of gigs in regional Victoria so there may be some truth to what you’re saying. Thanks regional Victoria! You can’t lay claim to the highly sort after ‘regional’ tag anymore though; you are Melbournites now, is this correct? It’s funny because in Melbourne interviews we are ‘country lads’ and in regional interviews like this we are ‘Melbournites’, so I like to think we are trying to sit on the fence if we are allowed. Maybe it’s not possible to be both, but we will try until we get completely pigeonholed into one or the other. We do all reside and work (the other two work more than me, haha) in Melbourne now, and have for at least three years. Obviously though, we would never want to lose our regional connections because no matter where we play, the warmest crowds and venues are always the ones in rural Victoria! Can you introduce each band member for the Forte’s readers and tell us a bit about each? Well, I’m Bill O’Connell and I’m the singer and guitarist in Kashmere Club. I’m not good at much outside of this band. I recently decided to get into mountain climbing and am going to do the Kokoda Trek at the end of June; which is fucking stupid because our EP tour starts the day I get back. But yeah, I’m a good guy. I probably sound like a dick in this interview, but yeah, I’m single. Okay, next is my best mate Jono Colliver. He is the bass player and other singer. You see, in this band, as we are a three-piece, it’s kind’ve like two front-men up front as we both sing a lot! Jono is a really poor choice to be in the band on my behalf because he’s really good looking. Girls have recently likened him to Leonardo DiCaprio, and as I said, I’m single. Are you following me? Anyway, he’s become a highly sought after bass player around Melbourne, most recently playing in triple j favourite Vance Joy’s backing band. Jono co-writes the majority of our tracks with me. Thirdly is the balls of this whole outfit, Nathan “Buddha” Johnston. He plays the drums, or to be more specific, he plays a signature John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) kit which is massively oversized! You need things like that in a threepiece to fill things out a little. Nathan tells us he can’t sing but he’s lying, and it’s starting to piss me off. But I can’t kick him out of the band because he’s probably the best drummer money could buy for our style (he doesn’t get paid). * Please note the above descriptions of members were not approved by the members themselves. Can we have a brief history of the band and how you guys came to be? Well it must have been mid-1989; a cosy night inside on the couch with some wine by the fire, and I’m hoping they had some Hendrix vinyl spinning in the room ... and then, yeah, 20 years after that I met Jono and Nathan! Those two grew up on a good diet of surf and wind in Portland. I grew up on a 1000-acre sheep property near Hamilton. You have described 2012 as “hectic”. What’s been going on for the last year and a half? Yeah. Well, we have this issue where we say yes to every email, phone call or text about a gig offer! The result is us playing a lot of gigs and rehearsing and writing and making money to eat somewhere in between. But that’s what it’s all about; rock and roll yeah? We aren’t as lucky as the city bands who live at home and buy Gibsons with their banker dad’s dough! Since the start of 2012 we have played with a heap of cool bands, done a mini summer tour with a couple of wicked bands from Warrnambool (Blackwood Jack & The Alamo), wrote the new songs for the EP which we are about to release, answered some interviews like this, done a few awkward photo shoots and had a heap more … People, start giving a shit about our band! Forgive us, but it’s the genre question. How would you describe you music? Think rock but not Airborne, blues but not B.B. King; and if you are now thinking blues/

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Chef Marty said The Carlton was a “warm” pub with open fires, friendly happy staff, and an extensive mouthwatering menu that will impress every taste. While there is an extensive delicious menu all year round – think trio eye fillet, seafood marina and Otway lamb cutlets – the art deco style pub is wellknown for its generous lunch and meal specials. Marty said the restaurant was currently offering a 2 for 1 meal deal, where diners pay for one main course meal and receive a complimentary main meal to the same value.

The restaurant menu at The Carlton is reasonably priced and features an array of entrée, tapas, mains and desserts to choose from which can be enjoyed with a glass of wine or beer in a cosy Turkish-inspired booth. Family and friends can get together in the restaurant or casual lounge and experience Marty’s kitchen talents; and the little ones can select off the children’s menu. The welcoming pub has long been a popular spot for a drink or feed, and weekends especially, Marty says, are always busy. But during the week the Carlton is an attractive destination with its $10 lunch specials offering a range of delicious meals. Since launching the lunch special over a year ago, the lunches have proven a hit, especially among long CBD workers looking for a quick affordable feed in a convenient location. Special events, birthdays, engagements, wedding receptions and other special occasions can also be celebrated at The Carlton, with large function rooms available to suit all needs. Bigger parties can be held upstairs where there is room for 170 people, or downstairs which holds 70. For a warm hearty meal this winter or a venue to hold a party, visit The Carlton Hotel, 21 Malop Street, 5229 1954.

rock, then don’t think The Black Keys! We could be indie, but only because we are completely ‘independent’ and don’t even have a manager. And we could even be ‘soul’, but only because we care about every note we play and mean every word that leaves our face at each gig! If I have completely confused you, then come to a gig or just refer to the following quote in reference to our latest single, ‘Soldier’, from music critic Jack Pilven: “Classic rock & roll with a chic modern finesse; think slinky lead guitar breaks drizzled over a sturdy 70s-inspired rhythm section, with plenty of warm harmonies and melodies peppered throughout.” You have recorded your second EP. How has the process been the second time around? Yes, we have just recorded our second EP, Lost & Sound. This was a very different experience from when we recorded our first EP Roundabout Girl at St Kilda’s Hot House Studios in 2011. We had Chris Cheney (The Living End) work with us as the producer on this EP. He took us into his Red Door Studios in Collingwood where we spent a week doing the 5-track EP. Having a producer is a completely different experience to producing songs yourself. Chris’ outside opinion and obvious knowledge and experience made for an awesome time and result! The EP is still very much our sound, but this time around there is a definite attention to detail and more trial and error to achieve the energy and sounds we wanted for the songs. You have played a lot of different live shows. Where are some of your favourite places to play in Vic? We have played a lot; I seriously get mentally ill if I don’t play at least once a week! It’s like, 11pm now, so I’ll get lazy and just list some of our favourites: Any gig at The Loft in Warrnambool. That place is an institution – never fails! Supporting Bonjah at The Espy in St Kilda. The Espy Front Bar is the tits! And that’s the gig where Chris Cheney first saw us and we organised to record with him. Bonjah are wicked! February this year at St Kilda Festival – probably our best gig ever! A lot of cool people came along to support us! Karova Lounge in Ballarat is another great Victorian venue which gets some great acts also! We have played the Hi-Fi Bar in Melbourne a couple of times which was fun because it’s like an 800-capacity venue and sounds like a stadium (even though we only played to like 250 people there). You guys did a set at the St Kilda fest. Was that up there amongst your biggest gigs? Yeah sorry, I just kind’ve answered this question above in the previous question about good gigs. St Kilda Fest was such a great gig to be invited to; it’s wicked exposure and St Kilda in summer is the best place to be and get drunk to music. After our set we got to go check out The Cat Empire and Loon Lake and all the other big bands! What should punters expect at a Cashmere Club live show? It’s actually spelt Kashmere Club, which is probably my fault. Our spelling is a hybrid of the fabric, ‘Cashmere’ and the place, ‘Kashmir’. We spell it the same as an underground music venue which used to run in London in the late 80s which closed down because it wasn’t viable to look after bands more than punters – a story I warmed to, hence our name! Oh, you asked about a live show? This band basically is just a live show; things like doing this interview and rehearsing are not natural for us! I won’t try and describe it, but I’ll just trust my mates are being honest and not just nice when they say we are a good live band! Would love yourself and all the readers to come along to the next one and I’ll buy you a Fanta! What are your hopes and dreams over the next couple of years? Meet the New Zealand chick Lorde who sings that ‘Royals’ song and convince her that I deserve her! Sell heaps of copies of our Lost & Sound EP, and have people tell us they like listening to it. Be able to afford a road case for my Twin Reverb amp; it’s starting to get really knocked around and it’s probably the closest thing I will ever have to an “asset”. Anything you would like to add? Kashmere Club and myself (Jono, Nathan and Bill) really appreciate you letting us do this interview, and we hope our answers are satisfactory and insightful. I’m now going to post our regional EP launch dates for July 2013: Mojo Bar, Hamilton – July 6; The Stump, Port Fairy – July 13; The Gordon Hotel, Portland – July 20; The Loft, Warrnambool – August 2. The single, ‘Soldier’, off the Lost & Sound EP can be found on sound cloud and triple j unearthed. Our band can be found at Facebook.com/kashmereclub Thanks for reading, see you at a show!

Dandos Icon’s by brendan dando

Beneath his trademark dreads lies the face of one of Geelong’s most respected and hardworking musicians. Lukey Luke, solo artist and frontman of Diehard Dolls, is someone whose passion for not only supporting his local music scene, but also everyone in it, is a true testament to the man we’ve all come to love. Born and bred along the coast in Barwon Heads, Lukey’s first memory of music comes at the age of five, hearing his father sing at parties. “He wasn’t a professional or anything, he’d just sometimes get up in front of a crowd at a party or dinner and start singing,” he explains. “I can always remember hearing him sing Elvis. He’d often invite me up to sing along with him, which is one of my favourite memories as a kid!” Now that he’s married with an eight-year-old daughter, this dedicated family man knows it’s not safe to expect big things to happen overnight. “I see my music as more of a creative outlet than anything; if I was a painter I’d be out painting every weekend.” Although, he did mention he has wasted no time in introducing his daughter to music. “She’s really good at playing the piano – guitar could still use some work though,” he laughs. Social media has become such a staple for success in today’s music industry, so it’s no surprise why Lukey takes full advantage of it. However, he is

now more known for helping to promote other local musician’s gigs online, rather than his own. “It doesn’t cost anything so I figure why not help each other out? No need to be competitive; the more people getting to gigs in our city the better!” It’s this positive attitude to life that makes it almost impossible not to fall in love with the dedicated frontman. “I try my best to be a positive person and look for the best in people. I don’t expect any praise for helping others; half of the time I’m not sure they even realise I’m doing it, which is fine,” he jokes with a cheeky grin. Formerly a deliverer for Forte Magazine, Mr. Luke now operates Lukey Luke Media, which specialises in filming and recording music. “It’s only freelance work really, so some weeks I may need to depend on gigs in order to earn some cash!” Fortunately for him, he feels lucky to live in Geelong where he feels it’s easy to find a venue to play music. “Geelong is great in the sense that there are so many pubs and bars around that are willing to book acoustic acts. We have a great scene here at the moment. It’s as if it has its own little family.” Through strong work ethic, willingness to help fellow musicians, and just a general loveable nature, Lukey Luke is one of our city’s finest musicians. With the recent announcement of his band Diehard Dolls releasing their debut album very shortly, he only has one goal in mind. “I don’t expect it to win any awards; I just hope the people who get to hear it are able to appreciate and enjoy our music.” ‘LIKE’ Diehard Dolls on Facebook – www.facebook. com/thedieharddolls. When&Where: The Sporting Globe, Geelong – June 27 with The Nerve.

Rock the Civic 2 By Daniel Lock On Saturday, May 18, the Ballarat music scene once again got behind the boarded-up Civic Hall in order to raise awareness about one of Ballarat’s overlooked centrepieces. The Civic Hall was once a well-used community venue but has been closed up since 2002. After being up for tender on several different occasions and receiving many different proposals toward making use of the site (all unsuccessful), Ballarat has found a voice and sung out for something to be done in the form of Rock the Civic. The first Rock the Civic established itself in front of the main entrance of the Civic Hall on Saturday, April 6. Appropriately placed between the art advocating bronze statues of William Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott, with the Civic Hall porch offering a little cover from the elements, the musicians listed played the first Rock the Civic loudly and proudly: The Jail Bird Jokers, Vinegar Hill, The Boggy Mountain Boys, Kingdom in Crisis, Death by Snu Snu and Soultown DJs. This second instalment hosted a different range of bands – with Soultown DJs again respectively filling the changeovers and delays – which was no less amazing than the first. The day kicked off at roughly 12:30pm with MC Krisdafari bringing his beats to Ballarat’s chilly air. His hip hop , which he tried to keep G-rated, often leaked into the PG-rated; and as his confidence in the crowd support grew, it even elevated beyond the M-rated, much to the amusement of the crowd who were often bent over laughing at his lyrical mischief. In an awesome “anything can happen” style, during his last song, a local, seasoned lover of the arts, Dot Cherry (Facebook alias), got up and took over Krisdafari’s support’s microphone and improvised some beats and pleas in musical form; supporting the push to resurrect the Civic Hall and giving her personal account of the history of the place. Dot Cherry showed she could drop

a MEANingful beat with the best of them. Navaja Negra was second on the list and their blues licks had the crowd engulfed in a head-bopping, toetapping, cruisey, electric atmosphere. Not to be outdone on the humour front, the guitarist, Mick Dog, got so involved in his last few songs he pulled the plug out of his guitar during one song and shorted his guitar out during another. But with a big cheeky grin he continued on and the crowd loved it. Next up to the porch was The Electric SunKings. Their brilliant blend of psychedelic rock perfectly covered all ages with their new takes on old sounds. Being in the crowd, one would just have to bend their ear a bit to hear people comparing their tunes to Frank Zappa, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Finishing their set with ‘Ballarat Blues Cruise’, a joyous account of unemployment and the many benefits of being in that situation, the audience responded with loud applause and many a fan was made that day. During changeover, Soultown DJs played Curtis Mayfield’s ‘Move On Up’ while The Electric SunKings got their gear off. In the meantime, Geoffrey Williams set himself up with his guitar and sound-checked. He began singing along with ‘Move On Up’, and after all of The Electric SunKings’ gear was removed, it became very hard to tell Geoffrey’s voice from the track, because either the DJ or sound engineer slowly faded out the track and turned up Geoff’s voice, syncing them perfectly together. Geoffrey is an incredible artist; his soulful songs are intentionally reminiscent of many old greats, but with creative spins. His shows are always filled with audience participation, and he’s viewed within the music community as a performer, an artist and a gentleman. Last up on the day was comedic self-deprecating cover band, Alive and Kicking. They were a great finish to the day, with ageist jokes in between loveable classics from The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Bee Gees. The organisers achieved everything they wanted on the day by raising awareness for the Civic Hall and providing an awesome day of entertainment. Kudos goes out to everyone who made the day possible.

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Diamond Eye Tattoo

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Whether you’re about to take the plunge into the world of tattoos, or already have every inch of your body covered in ink, the talented guys at Diamond Eye Tattoo promise quality artwork you can be proud of. Owner Jesse Dee, along with Kenno, apprentice Scotty, and well-known tattoo artist Natz Robinson, aim to make every experience comfortable, positive and fun at their new shop in Pakington Street. “We are really welcoming and always want to help people; it’s all about the customer at our shop,” said Jesse. “We have a laugh and like to have a good time, and we want customers to enjoy themselves too.” The shop’s convenient location on the popular shopping and dining strip means there is plenty of free parking. Since opening just over six weeks ago, the team has been busy tattooing people of all ages and backgrounds with a diverse range of styles and meaningful symbols. Jesse says tattoos are very much like fashion in the way they constantly revolve and reinvent themselves. “Styles come and go; one year it’s Japanese, the next it’s traditional,” said Jesse. “We had an elderly lady come in for her first tattoo last week. She was 84. It just goes to show you’re never too old to get a tattoo.” Jesse has “always been into tattoos” because his dad, he says, was into tattoos. This triggered his love for the art form and inspired his career in the industry. He spent the last six years working in Melbourne as a tattoo artist before the opportunity to open his own shop arose. Longtime friend Scotty, who he had known since high school, and Kenno, were keen to join him in his new venture. Semi-retired Natz, who has 35 years of experience, is a guest artist who only works on Tuesdays. Levi Barnett is another Melbourne-based artist who works at the shop as a guest every couple of months, specialising in realism and portrait designs. “We make a great team and have built this shop together,” said Jesse. “We offer a broad range, from traditional to realism to custom designs. We can do anything that people want.” When customers enter the shop, there is a portfolio of styles to flick through which gives many choices

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and ideas for creating a personally designed tattoo. “We are a custom shop. If someone comes in wanting a tattoo of a dragon and peony, it will be completely different to the next person who comes in wanting a dragon and peony. Everyone gets a one-off tattoo,” said Jesse. “That’s what makes us different to others.” The guys at the shop are dedicated to their work,

take pride in their service and care about the way customers feel when they enter and leave the shop. Customers can expect a clean, sterile environment, and can relax knowing they are in expert hands. “We support our own work. We definitely stand by it and you’ll see there is a lot of difference in the quality of our work when you compare it to others,” said Jesse.

FYI: For your dose of ink, Diamond Eye Tattoo is located at 124a Pakington Street, Geelong West. Open Tuesday to Saturday 10:30 to 7pm (Fridays until 9pm) and Sunday and Monday by appointment only.

Dialectrix By Xavier Fennell

When one of the most revered and respected figures in the hip hop world, The RZA, says to you, “Hey, you’re that kid with the flow, come and drink with us,” you’ve got to be doing something right. Dialectrix may have experienced what many in the world of hip hop can only dream of, but with a humble attitude and a will to create something new, his new album (nearly three years in the making) is set to turn some heads. During a quick chat, Dialectrix filled me in on the goings-on of the new album, as well as new family life and the world of hip hop in general. By the time you read this, I can pretty much guarantee that Dialectrix’s new album The Cold Light of Day, produced through Plutonic Lab, will have been released. Basically I asked Dialectrix to tell me as much as he could about the album, and I liked what I heard. “As far this album goes, I took a lot of inspiration from Pink Floyd; not so much in how they sound, but in their approach to creating music. Dark Side of The Moon was heralded as an experimental, progressive record. I’m not saying that this record is experimental or progressive, but we definitely tried to think outside the box, especially in terms of beats per minute. We’ve taken a more unorthodox approach in that part of the record for sure.”

release of the ‘Stop’ music video featuring DJ Bones. The video plays out in VHS format, giving an ultimately 90’s New York hip hop feel. Dialectrix spoke happily about this small tribute to one of the most prolific times in hip hop’s history. “With that video, we did it all in one take; 4 takes and then we picked the best one. Verses Media, who I’ve worked with before, are really awesome. I wanted something simple and that’s what they threw back to me – live video and vinyl mixing with a New York 90’s vibe. People are always referring back to that time in hip hop. The list of albums that came out of New York during that time that were influential is endless, and it’s something I and many others always try to pay tribute to.” 2013 has already been a big year for Dialectrix, most recently with the birth of his first child. “It’s kinda like, just when you think you’ve reached your threshold of being too busy, something else comes along and makes you busier. I used to always whinge about not being able to do all this stuff and tour. Having is a child is like the ultimate of compounding everything together.” Dialectrix explained that because of his increasingly hectic lifestyle, this album involves a certain amount of risk-taking. “I definitely think this is not a safe record. A lot of the subject matter has come from a much darker period of my life, things I’ve mentioned already and other. I’ve become a lot more serious about certain things. This is definitely a more risky record in terms of the techniques that we used. People might not be used to this kind of take on hip hop.”

It’s always exciting to hear an artist taking inspiration from genres often overlooked in their own culture. Dialectrix’s admiration also spread to the likes of Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley. This appreciation continues into video production with the recent

Coming into mid-2013 with some heat, Dialectrix and his new album The Cold Light of Day is something everyone should look out for. This fresh approach towards hip hop is not something anyone should miss out on.

Ms Mr

“I was a modern dancer all through university until I moved to New York City – that’s where I met Lizzy – but at first I was just writing music to choreograph. Lizzy has always been involved in music too, but on the other side. She started a record label – Neon Gold Records in New York City, and she was very busy working with other artists releasing their stuff.”

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After wooing us all as the stand-out act at the Laneway Festival earlier this year, NYC duo Ms Mr are headed back to our friendly shores as part of the always superb line-up at Splendour In The Grass. “We love Australia!,” Max Hershenow, one half of the talented duo, told Forte last week. “We played Laneway in February and had such a good time. It was one of the greatest moments of Ms Mr so far, and ever since we left we’ve wanted to come back.” Lucky for us their wish has come true, and not only will they perform their magic on the punters at Splendour, they’ll also be playing sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney. “I’ve heard only the best things about Splendour In The Grass. My Australian friends say it’s their favourite festival and we can’t wait to do the sideshows – we’re pretty excited, so we’re riding high.” Speaking to us only days after the release of their debut album Second Hand Rapture, Max was in the mood to reminisce about their meteoric rise to fame. “Honestly, we had no idea, no expectations that any of this would happen,” Max said humbly. “We’re blown away, and incredibly grateful for everything that’s happened; especially with the release of Second Hand Rapture because it’s such a personal record and I feel it’s an extension of me and Lizzy’s [Plapinger, the Ms in Ms Mr] relationship. To have people responding to it so positively is really legitimising.” It may be a match made in musical heaven, but only a few years ago they were living very different lives.

Although soon realising they should be working together, things haven’t always been easy. “We both had no experience writing songs with another person on such an intense level,” Max explained. “We went into it very green. Even with our backgrounds we didn’t really know what we were doing, but I think that made us open to our limitations as well as the other person’s ideas and contributions. We’ve been on a steep learning curve… “We hadn’t even played a show before a year ago!,” Max laughed. “But we’ve been really fortunate to play some fantastic supports lately with Marina and the Diamonds, Grouplove, The Beth Steel and Jesse Ware. Things have been gradually amping up and I think we’re getting better – so we’ll be at our best in Australia!” Personally, I can’t wait, but before we said goodbye I thought I’d ask Max for any recommendations for music or bands Forte readers should keep their eyes open for. “Absolutely, we are constantly listening out for new music! I don’t know how big she is in Australia but MØ – she’s a Danish singer and she is my absolute favourite [check out Ms Mr’s remix of her track ‘Pilgrim’ on Facebook]. Another band is St Lucia – we love them; and Magic Man is a new, young band we’re taking out on tour with us next week! Is that enough?” When&Where: The Hi-Fi, Melbourne – July 29.

The Red Paintings By Natalie Rogers

The Red Paintings, fronted by the charismatic, controversial, but never boring Trash McSweeney, are proud to announce the release of their longawaited and highly anticipated debut album, The Revolution Is Never Coming (in stores June 7). Fans of the band will appreciate the significance of this release, and although the band is now based between L.A. and Australia, Geelong-born and bred Trash chose Forte Mag to dish the dirt on his masterpiece. “It took five years for me to complete this album. A lot of people thought I was committing artistic suicide or that the band had disappeared, but when you’re a little skinny guy from Australia and you haven’t really had a lot of industry success, it’s like you’re a little fish in a f*cking huge pond – and there are a lot of big fish in that pond! “It was a complicated journey; I like to say it was like making the original Stars Wars movie,” Trash joked. “Nothing was digital, there was no C.G.I. Everything was done organically, and I wanted the visual artwork to go with it, and the production to be as big as a Muse record or a Radiohead record.” That is a huge call, but I can’t help admiring his conviction. “I didn’t want to be one of those bands that put out an album just to get a quick buck – I don’t make music to buy a house. I could make a nothing album with no substance but I wanted it to say something for the right reasons. It was always going to be a journey album. I’ve lived a pretty

dynamic life, and I’ve learned a lot about religion, politics and animal rights, and everything I believe in is in those thirteen songs.” A life changing moment came in 1999 which eventually led to a diagnosis of synaesthesia, a condition that dramatically influenced the way Trash listened to music. “I was in a supermarket in Geelong looking at the mincemeat when I had a seizure … when I woke it was almost like having amnesia. My mind was blank. Things slowly came back, but when I was released from hospital, I noticed whenever I heard music I could see colour with every note. The way I describe it is to imagine having a thick paint brush and somebody is painting across your brain. This experience created the Red Paintings. It was a natural progression of a medical condition that I fell into.” The Red Paintings are more than a band; their stage shows are a feast for the ears and eyes. All members don elaborate costumes and the stage is covered in artwork including human canvases. The Red Paintings are very good to their fans and are currently on the lookout for local artists to be part of their electrifying shows. Sound intriguing? Head to The Red Paintings’ Facebook page to find out more. When&Where: The Espy, Melbourne – June 15

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Never Lose Sight By Natalie Rogers

Brisbane lads Never Lose Sight are heading south with a slew of other emerging hardcore bands to play one epic show at Geelong’s Courthouse ARTS Theatre. I caught up with guitarist Steven French to discuss their new sound, studio sessions with a top-secret producer, and to announce a call-toarms to all the hardcore lovers out there to support their local scene. So who exactly are these cane toads and what are they all about? Never Lose Sight call themselves a “positive” hardcore band because their lyrics are created to excite and inspire fans. This five-piece band boasts two vocalists; one tackles the screamo sound, whereas the other sticks to “straight” singing. Band influences include The Ghost Inside, For the Fallen Dreams, Misery Signals, It prevails, A Day To Remember and Vanna.

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Since their formation in 2009, NLS have released an EP, followed by a full-length album (Pride Fighter, 2012). Together with support from triple j and the Brisbane hardcore community, they’ve toured continuously. After signing with respected international label Artery Global, they’ve cemented their place among their peers, and like all Aussies they understand the importance of supporting your mates. “As far as we see it, if you want to keep and grow a scene in your hometown, everyone has to keep going to shows – get out there and support your local bands! We loved playing the Nash before it closed down. Promoters want to see numbers, otherwise we won’t see any more shows.” Sad but true, and with live music venues closing all around the country (R.I.P. Hopetoun Hotel), the problem is not going away any time soon. But according to Steven, all hope is not lost. “Brisbane’s hardcore scene had a big downfall in the past two years and there were hardly any people coming to shows, but we’ve started

to see things pick up again lately.” In even better news, it seems the Southern states are leading the charge in the support stakes. “Actually, we’ve all noticed that in Sydney and Melbourne there are a lot more people going to shows. When we first played in Victoria we couldn’t believe our following down there!,” Steven admitted. “It’s more than we ever expected; whenever we see people singing all our lyrics it still blows our minds.” Speaking of lyrics, the guys are busy at work writing new material for the follow-up to their debut. “These songs have a bit of a twist compared to our first album,” Steven revealed. “Vera [lead vocals] writes the majority of our lyrics, but I’ve read some of his new lyrics and they’re different to what we did on the last album. We’re in the middle of recording at the moment, but I can’t say who we’re working with. I will say he is VERY high up in Australian hardcore and what he’s done with it is amazing! So far we’ve only finished the guitar tracking for one track, but tomorrow we go back up

to the Sunshine Coast [is that a hint?] to do more. It sounds huge compared to our last album. This is the song that will hopefully blow up for us, and we’ll probably play it at the Courthouse show.” In the meantime, head to their Facebook page to witness how being couped up in a studio till the wee hours can affect a band, and while you’re there check out the new clip for the track ‘Dead Weight’. Presented by FReeZA, the Courthouse ARTS Theatre is putting on an all-ages show on June 22. Along with NLS, the bill includes Bendigo’s Oh Pacific, Never Lose Sight favourites Sierra (Mt Gambier), Outlines, Searcher and Melbourne’s Head Check. For all the details go to: http:// courthouse.org.au/special-projects/neverlose-sight/ When&Where: Courthouse ARTS, geelong – June 22

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In the early 20th century, Howard Phillips Lovecraft combined science fiction and horror in a manner never seen before. His influence is seen in an innumerable amount of authors’ work; from Stephen King to Mike Mignola to Neil Gaiman to pretty much everyone who’s cool.

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What is the deal with Australia’s love affair with Adam Hills? Going by the latest series of his ABC talk show, now renamed Adam Hills Tonight (ABC1, Wednesdays, 8.30pm), he can do no wrong. Because if he could, he would have realised he’s been doing it wrong for the last two years: same old lightweight jokes, same old audience interaction. Of course, when your opening segment on your very first episode back is your sidekick learning – well, failing to learn – how to twirl the baton, either you don’t have a whole lot more in the tank, or you’re fully committed to doing whatever the heck you feel like; which would be admirable if it ever felt like Hills wanted to do anything more than a fairly bland talk show. Having as your big opening night show guests Denise Scott and Father Bob (both interesting people, mind you) makes it seem like you don’t even want to get decent ratings – no matter how many cute women in the audience you rope into segments. It’s interesting to compare Hills’ bland approach to his fairly average guests to what Andrew Denton did on Enough Rope. Not that Rope was a good show (zoom in on those tears, Denton!), but it at least showed the way to make a talk show work when you don’t have access to A-grade guests … and by “A-grade guests”, we mean people interesting or famous enough that audiences will tune in just to see them. Rather than the usual superficial talk show chat, Denton (and his team of researchers) dug a little deeper, and while the emotionally exploitative results weren’t exactly must-see TV, it did work ratings-wise. If you can’t get in famous people,

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One of the earliest stories I read of Lovecraft was Herbert West – Re-Animator, the story of medical student Herbert West and his insane desire to conquer death. More monstrous than Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein, Herbert West never has that moment of clarity regarding his hubristic nature; and failing with his first revived corpse, creates a number of abominations over the course of 17 years. Lovecraft infuses this tale with a humour absent in Frankenstein, but this does not make it any less creepy. get in regular people with really good stories – or make moderately famous people cry, we’re not fussy. Just give us something more than average chat from average celebrities. And shouldn’t all the non-guest stuff be funnier? You watch a US talk show and they’re firing off gags and doing sketches every ten seconds. You look at a UK talk show and they … well, they seem to get some pretty decent guests on. You watch Adam Hills and he’s just playing around with the audience like the nice guy he so clearly, painfully is, when what we really want is someone a little less nice and a little more funny. And yet, even after all that, the ABC should have a regular talk show. Australian television needs one, and it’s not like the commercial networks can be bothered. But after two years it’s clear that Adam Hills Tonight is not the show. The guests are rarely memorable before they speak, or afterwards, the comedy is hardly there – Hills, it seems, is not a man inclined to do sketches, bits, or much of anything funny past mild flirting with attractive women in the audience – and the show as a whole is so firmly on the bland side of safe it feels like nothing more than … nothing. It’s just nothing.

In 1985 Stuart Gordon adapted this story as H. P. Lovecraft’s Re-Animator starring Bruce Abbot, Barbara Crampton and the inimitable Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West. This film takes the gore and humour of the short story and takes them to their extremes. From the basic elements of Herbert West, his medical college friend, and the idea of re-animating the dead, Stuart Gordon updates the setting and re-jigs the story to make it more cinematic. While Lovecraft’s writing is superb, the types of stories he writes deal in unnerving tones and indescribable images that do not translate well to film. Gordon’s changes do no disservice to the original text; they are almost entirely different entities. Both, however, are nigh indescribable in how sublime they are, leaving unutterable changes to those who have witnessed them. (That’s an actual literary parody; I’ll get back to being lowbrow next column.) Alastair: It’s always interesting to see how comic book characters and stories translate into movies and TV shows. Some work – Smallville lasted 10 seasons, while the Avengers took the cinematic world by force. Others fail miserably – I’m looking at you, Green Lantern! Some of you may have

caught the recent appearance of a show by the name of Arrow on Channel 9, and despite a delay (it was initially supposed to air around Easter), it has been running for a few weeks now. Thanks to the delay, season one has just concluded in the US while Australian audiences are only up to episode four. If you haven’t been checking it out yet, I highly recommend giving it a chance. Arrow is a gritty, Nolan-esque take on one of my favourite DC B-listers: Green Arrow. There’s also a tie-in comic that fills in the blanks between episodes that has been pretty good to date. Don’t let the soap opera trailers fool you: if you enjoyed Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, Arrow might just tickle your fancy. I also recently got hold of a copy of R.I.P.D., a Dark Horse title that is due to be released as a movie in July. Written by Peter M. Lenkov (Hawaii Five-0, CSI: NY), it follows Detective Nick Cruz through his post-mortem induction into the ghosthunting Rest in Peace Department. Partnered with crime-fighting cowboy Roy Powell, Nick aims to hunt down and bitch-smack whichever lowlife ended his decorated career. Despite seeming very similar to the Men In Black series, R.I.P.D. is an interesting read. Combining off-beat humour and plenty of action, R.I.P.D. will probably make an interesting movie – providing Ryan Reynolds doesn’t butcher his role as Nick Cruz. I’m hoping that partnering him with Jeff Bridges (Roy) might make the movie good, but his last few forays into the land of comics haven’t been favourable. … Yeah, I’m still sore about Green Lantern. Oh, and that Deadpool imposter.

forte funny facts! • It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. • More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. • Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. • In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. • The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. • Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

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Inauguration 2013: A Bad Lip Reading The whole ‘A Bad Lip Reading’ series is a crack up. These guys do voice-overs for a bunch of stuff from NFL to Twilight; they are all hilarious. This is the pick of the bunch. Obama’s inauguration gets a makeover here as America’s fearless leader admits to wearing makeup and warns of the risk of ‘Crab Men’. Genius. Score: 9/10

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A bunch of guys, including the always over the top and sometimes funny Tom Green, get around L.A. with a fake bag of cash. They drop it in front of people, leave it on counters, and wait for the response from people in public.

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An American store owner has decided to use bizarre footage from a botched robbery as an advertising method. The rare footage shows the man, dressed in some very distinctive pants, breaking the Redding store’s window last month and falling over as he ran away. The owner of the store, called Kent’s Meats and Groceries, has since used the footage with the tagline for the ad: “Some people will do anything” to get one of their famous subs. In what would have to be one of the world’s more bizarre commercials, the fulllength of the security footage which plays in the background has already racked up 1000’s of views and received worldwide news coverage. It would seem as if this store owner might be on a winner.

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This vid has a whopping 66 million views and there is good reason why. This ghost prank is one of the best you will see. Of the 8-9 people pranked, all lost their shit when this little girl appeared. You have got to check it out.

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Man Chair This much is certain: she is beautiful. The fact of the matter is that it doesn’t make this exercise in patience and petty unsexy sacrifice any less unendurable. Maybe if he could see into the change-room and watch her maneuver those semi-transparent, summery dresses on and off her body then it would all be a lot less entropic for both his body and his mind. Everything about her was, as he observed it, gorgeous. On her he had discovered places of human anatomy that he never in his life would have known were elegant; like the little dip between the ankle bone and her protruding, athletic achilles tendon, or her nearglisten of an aura that was a result of a disciplined moisturising regime. Don’t get him wrong, he’s not the kind of fellow that would be caught dead using words like “goddess”, but there were times where he’d softly mutter it to himself as he viewed her from afar in their day-to-day life together. At the time he sat himself down in the chair he had not the slightest inclination that it was possessed; it’s not something one considers anymore when they’re out shopping. How the chair came to be possessed is something that the authorities involved would later discover; a simple matter of an Arnhem Land Witch Doctor seeking revenge upon the tree that collapsed on his shelter and crushed his wife and infant child to death. The log of which in question was stumbled upon years later by a hobbyist carpenter named Jeff who proceeded to lug it back to his shed and fashion it into a set of chairs that were sold to a family friend upon their completion. When he who is not “Jeff”, but, for all intents and purposes can hereafter be named “Jeff”, as well so as to stop having to refer to him as “he”, sat down on this man chair to seek sweet relief from the burden of standing in clothes stores all afternoon; all the while his female companion spending his hard-

earned money, the finality and severity of the sweet relief was more than he bargained for. Of course, being a bright young man, the fate he was to endure at the hands of this possessed chair became apparent to him the moment that the visions this chair routinely subjected its occupants to entered his conscious awareness. A staircase lined with shoe boxes was his first plot for escape, but the mechanics of attempting to disassemble himself and place a portion in each box seemed beyond his skill set; so death via the systematic decreasing of his internal organs was but his only option. Annual deaths by internal steam burns rank statistically lower than shark attacks and a mauling by the dreaded Polynesian Spider Capybara. You could even say that, having viewed the statistics, there have, in fact, been none-to-date. However, within arm’s reach of the possessed chair, there happened to be a garment steamer with a fully loaded supply of distilled water. Not since the Prahran clothes store had been a top-flight family-owned purveyor of smoked meats (and of course Jewish-owned – this was between 1968 and 1992 – the chair in relation to this being a refurbished leftover from the exodus brought about by receivership) had there permeated such a pungent odour of pork. Having viewed the surveillance tapes of the incident, it can be said that it was a cross between the scene in Men In Black where Vincent D’Onofrio’s bug-in-human-suit forces the witless exterminator’s poison down his esophagus, and the face-melting at the Ark of the Covenant opening scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Filmage, a film documenting the careers of the mighty Descendents and ALL, is finally in postproduction and will premiere at the North by North East Film Festival in Toronto on June 13. Bring on the DVD! June 25 sees Queens of the Stone Age drop their first new album in six years. It’s called ...Like Clockwork, and I have no doubt they’ll be doing the Big Day Out or Soundwave in 2014. Well, we’re nearing music festival season for the northern hemisphere and all the announcements have been leaving me sooo depressed that I can’t witness them for myself. I’ve filled you in on many of them in recent issues, so I’m going to cut back this time around and tell you about one last event to leave you drooling in your boots! RIOT FEST takes place in midSeptember each year in Humboldt Park, Chicago. Despite being headlined by Fall Out Boy and Blink 182, and thus making me throw up in my mouth a little, the rest of the bill is just too ridiculously amazing: AFI, Blondie, Flag, Screeching Weasel, Pennywise, Bad Brains, X, Bad Religion, Rancid, Motörhead, Against Me!, The Lawrence Arms, Quicksand, Bob Mould, Violent Femmes, Public Enemy, Yellowcard, Rocket From The Crypt, The Dismemberment Plan, Sublime with Rome and many, many more. Wanna hear the most depressing part? This is just the FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT – they’re going to add ANOTHER buttload of bands in coming

weeks. Dang, y’all! Henry Rollins revealed in a recent LA Weekly column that he no longer has any desire to tour or play live any more. At all. Ever. I, for one, hope this is not true and Henry eats his hat. I can totally understand not wanting to become a nostalgia act, but genuine fans care about their favourite artists and want to see them live. There’s integrity and there’s selfishness. No judgement call, though – I love Hank long time! At the time of writing this, Australian Vans Warped Tour news is still pretty thin on the ground. Cities have been announced (none in Forte territory), and other than Parkway Drive and I Killed The Prom Queen, nothing else is known about the line-up. Hmmm. December IS a while off, but since we’ve known about Warped since Soundwave, we must have some more information before we implode! I’m still holding out for NOFX and Rancid! KISS may have just toured here with Mötley Crüe, but whispers already suggest that they’ll be here in 2014. And NOT to say farewell like Mötley will be doing! This is one band I don’t think will EVER break up – the money’s too good! True to their word, US modern pop-punk combo The Wonder Years have recorded and issued their new album The Greatest Generation in the months right after Soundwave. It’s available to stream right now! Stay tuned for some pretty cool news and announcements next issue, kids!

Welcome to THTH, Forte’s premier source of all things heavy, hard, fast and metal. Remember that time a couple of issues ago I was telling you about Twelve Foot Ninja’s Pozible campaign to raise $45,000 in 28 days to make a film clip? Well, the lads did it. They raised $52,600 in total by the end. It seems Twelve Foot Ninja (TFN) fans are insatiable, rabid-hardfunk-mongers who can only be momentarily sated by BBQs with TFN. According to the press release, one overseas “superfan” pledged seven thousand dollars for a private performance and BBQ. A gang of Perthisian TFN “superfans” pledged five thousand dollars for a private performance and BBQ with the lads. Also, if words are to be believed, TFN have broken all sorts of global crowdfunding records when it comes to video clips and raising wads of dosh. To put it into perspective, $52,000AUD could, instead of paying for a video clip, oh, I dunno, probably feed half of starving Africa! Sorry to get all hippy on your arse here, but surely these days any awesome video clip, no matter how expensive, is always going to be outdone by some cute wet pussy pic or video with the words, “Yes I’z wet ... I’ll scratchz you wif my wet clawz”; or some dumb shit being shared around the world to constant reactions of oohs and aahs. As I mentioned a few issues ago, I saw a totally kick-arse video clip for some Russian band and it was shot in a first-person perspective and was super violent ala Grand Theft Auto. I can’t remember anything about it so Google something like ‘GTAstyle music clip’.

And that proves the point. Ultimately, what are TFN looking for here? More fans? Yes. Some ‘net cred? Probz. Awards? Do they even do music video awards anymore now that bands are bypassing the regular music industry? And if they still do music video clip awards, then surely video clips made to bypass the regular music industry would be excluded from nomination? So, no. Are TFN looking to become a marketing/new music industry model case study? Probably not, but that’s the way they’re going. This whole gig and BBQ thing for high pledgers has probably already got bands stroking their goateed chins wondering if they could get their entire tour crowdfunded. And why not? If anything, at least crowdsourcing mobilises a fan base enough to get together and bring a band to a region. This way a band can essentially cut out a handful of middle men when it comes to touring, charge a minimum pledge as a “ticket” with all costs factored in and hey presto, you’re on the road, playing to your targeted audience and profiting before you even leave your computer. To promote your own crowdfunded tour all you’d need is a Twitter account, a Facey account, someone to write a press release to send out to the likes of me, someone to draw up a small poster, and you’re your own business. Why aren’t more bands doing this? Wait, maybe they’re trying to but it’s not working. Pretty soon it may be the way of the future. 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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the angels By Cameron Brogden

Doc Neeson may have sung “Ask me questions, get no answers” in the band’s 1979 hit ‘Shadow Boxer’, but when I spoke to his former bandmate John Brewster, it was quite the opposite. In points, John was answering my questions before I got the chance to ask them. “Geelong’s a wonderful town,” he said. “We have a great time doing all this regional stuff, which we haven’t done for many years. So it’s a bit different, you know, The Angels in a theatre. It’s kind of a different way of doing it, but it allows us to do an intermission; you can still drink, they’ve got bars at all these places, which is a good thing, but the show’s fantastic.” You would think a band entering its fourth decade would struggle to do a big, national tour. John said otherwise. “It’s not. Not with this band,” he said, before explaining: “Dave Gleeson joined the band two years ago along with Nick North on drums. Nick’s a young guy; he’s in his thirties. And my son Sam’s playing bass – for very sad reasons, because we’ve lost Chris Bailey just five ... six weeks ago. He battled cancer and lost the battle. Sam’s been playing in the band for the last ten months and he’s doing a wonderful job, so the band is just a really happy team. It’s great, we’re really enjoying it.” The Brewster brothers especially are reaching an age where most people start thinking about settling down, but they’re still on the road. “It’s something we’re proud of. If I do say so, we’re a great live

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Jimmy Kyle made his name as the frontman of a number of punk and metalcore bands, including Bellevue and SULO, but recently he’s hit his stride as a solo folk artist under the name Chasing Ghosts. I caught up with Jimmy by phone while he was touring with D At Sea to discuss his upcoming solo tour. The tour brings him back to Ballarat and Bendigo, towns that he’s been to many times. “I think the two towns are absolutely beautiful and I think the feel out there can be really, really great. They’re really enthusiastic and they support heaps of talent out there. It’s a lot less pretentious than the city, and I really enjoy it,” he said. If you’ve seen the posters for the Karova Lounge gig, you may have noticed an overabundance of names under “Special Guests.” I asked Jimmy to explain. “There are four supports, but some of them are different people playing together. It’s funny, because when I first started playing out there, I was playing with metalcore bands. I first went out there, I think, with a Canadian band called Sights and Sounds. And now I play out there ... This time is the first time that it’s been a bit more of an acoustic line-up, or sort of a folky kind of post-punk sort of lineup.” It is a bit of a jump from hardcore to folk, but Jimmy went into great depth about the change. “I guess what the change was is essentially, bands I was touring with eventually, being five people, there’s a greater chance of one of those people in the five being pulled in a different direction; whether it be through lifestyles

Carus Thompson By Dani Shaw

After twenty years of taking his striking melodies and unrefined, uplifting vocals to the world – Europe and North America particularly – WA-born Carus Thompson has settled in Melbourne for now; and is anticipating a few gigs in his homeland, spending time with his son, and in August, embarking on a shorter than usual nine-day tour of Europe that will see him launch Acoustic at the Norfolk: Volume 2 in Germany, Switzerland and London. Carus, who credits a lot of his songwriting success to the introspection and emotional fragility brought by ‘being on the road’, is humbled and blessed by fatherhood, and when he speaks of his two-year-old son Lev, it becomes obvious that Carus’s best tunes are yet to come. “When you have a child, any love you have committed yourself to, and you’ve spent your whole life trying to do something, it makes you want to be better at that thing. You don’t want to waste any more time. You want to do it to the best of your ability … You learn so much about empathy and what people are going through in the world, all the joys and stresses that come along with parenting, and ultimately it just means you can make your characters better drawn within your songs.” It was at the tender age of 12 that Carus began writing the music that has grown into the heartfelt, sincere, and insightful observations he’s synonymous with today. Gigging the Fremantle pub circuit followed, before releasing albums and touring the country with his band the True Believers. Carus’s two solo studio albums, Creature of Habit and Caravan, were well-

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band, and we have an amazing singer now in Dave Gleeson; and the shows work for us, as well as the audience. It’s kind of a mutual celebration. We’ve got a big repertoire, which we’re very lucky; we’ve got a lot of big songs. So we do all those, and we do a few songs off our new album Take It To The Streets, and we never get bored with it.” Take It To The Streets is the band’s first album with their new lead singer, Dave Gleeson – formerly of The Screaming Jets – and the first without Doc Neeson. I couldn’t help but ask if there were more new albums in the pipeline. “Yeah, we’ve got one recorded already actually,” Brewster said. “It won’t get released until the new year, which will be our fortieth year of The Angels. It’s recorded. We’re actually going to the studio next week to work on finishing most of the tracks. As soon as Dave joined the band, the first thing we wanted to do was get straight in and record. I think it’s really important for a band to, no matter how many big songs we’ve got from the past, it’s very important to move forward.” Having spent his early career performing Angels covers, Dave Gleeson was the obvious choice to replace Doc Neeson after the latter went solo. “There was actually just a chance meeting. He came to a Brewster Brothers show in the Adelaide Hills ... I said: ‘Hey, do you want to get up and sing it ... Do you know any Angels songs?’He said: ‘I know them all.’ We kind of just looked at each other, and he became our singer.” The Angels are touring the country, playing all the hits and some new stuff too. They’re in Geelong on June 15, so come along and see how Gleeso does it. When&Where: June 15 at GPAC, GEELONG

or circumstances in life. I essentially always loved playing in bands, but the problem with the bands was, I guess, you relied on individuals, and so you relied on four other people. And coming towards the scene at that time, I think it was before Deez Nuts and those sorts of bands, the scene was really full of itself. It had turned into a real ‘Who’s Cool’ and it stopped being about the music, and it stopped being about people hanging out together, and it turned into a real kind of wank-fest, for lack of a better word,” he said. “So I stepped away from it all, and the bands I was touring with, like I said, four other individuals, with individual lives, they were pulled in different directions and it constantly seemed like an issue to get four other guys that could be on the same journey. At that point I’d been left on my own, and my mates who were in hardcore bands were all like, ‘Dude, you’ve always been able to sing, have you ever thought about not screaming and just singing and doing something like that?’” He continued. “I didn’t really know where to start, because I had never done anything like Chasing Ghosts before, and I didn’t really know what I was going to sound like, or where I was heading, or what direction I would take. I just started, and I just took a step to see what would happen, not expecting anyone to particularly like it, or even to play any shows or to sell a record. And now, I’ve had the privilege of moving thousands of records, which is far beyond what I ever anticipated. And now I’m back touring alongside some of my mates and it’s terrific; and I didn’t really expect any of it to happen. And now I’m here. It seems like the logical step is to just keep moving forward.” When&Where: The Karova, Ballarat – May 30 & Music Man Megastore, Bendigo – May 31.

received worldwide; but their laidback, organic vibe, heartfelt lyrics and passionate storytelling earned Carus a dedicated following throughout coastal Victoria, where he joined similar folk-roots and blues acts as Xavier Rudd and Ash Grunwald. Carus himself is a little more modest about the cause of his success here. “When I first arrived from WA, there were a lot of pubs that gave me a chance on the Surf Coast, and then I was obviously down this way because the surf’s so good; I’d have a surf in the arvo and play in the night.” Having already established himself as a local presence on the Surf Coast pub scene, and with our biggest festivals – Apollo Bay, Falls, Port Fairy and Queenscliff – under his belt, Carus is now embarking on a few gigs of a different kind, with an appearance at Wolseley Winery on June 9 being the first. The boutique vineyard, situated on the sloping hills of Paraparap, will allow Carus to “play to a certain crew that prefer not to be in a pub.” And as the selfconfessed troubadour – a term well overused to describe Carus, but one that fits the wayfarer well – hopes, “maybe the wine will be cheaper too.” Considered by his peers as one of the country’s hardest-working men in music, it’s legendary artist Paul Kelly, and more recently Mia Dyson, that influence and entertain Carus, as well as storytellers that are naturals on the stage. “I like anyone that is telling a story, and particularly can perform their songs to a crowd. I love anyone that can write a good song, but if they can’t put on a good show, I lose interest. A good performance is such a strong part of being an artist.” When&Where: Wolseley Winery, Torquay – June 9; Martian’s Café, Deans Marsh – June 22; Old Hepburn Hotel – June 23.

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WORLD TOUR DIARIES: PT II In last fortnight’s issue of Splinters I took you through the diaries from the first half of my recent pop-related world tour. If you missed it you missed out on being seated at the very front of the stage for Girls Aloud’s reunion show in London, Niall Horan from One Direction and I sharing a thumbs-up moment together, Liza Minnelli calling me “darling”, and having a few drinks with some legendary drag queens. But this issue? This issue sees me join an audience with Olivia Newton-John, behave like a character from Party Monster in various European nightclubs and sees the debut of Berlin as my favourite city in the entire world.

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After a house party on the day I arrived and a very lazy 24 hours that followed, I head out to my first Berlin nightspot of importance: the magical world of Golden Gate Nightclub. Think short-lived Melbourne clubs like Honkytonks or Third Class only much, much cooler (effortlessly so), much (but only slightly) bigger, with nicer people and a vibe that has been long-gone from Melbourne’s dance halls for almost a full decade. In my time running around Golden Gate, dancing to techno and undergoing acts that would make Sarah Harding from Girls Aloud blush, I manage to meet a total of four guys named ‘Max’ – IN A ROW (all isolated meetings but, nonetheless, in a row!), chew through two packets of cigarettes, and leave at the ungodly hour of 10am. I vacate Golden Gate with (surprisingly) almost all of my remaining dignity, two phone numbers (one of which I am very happy to still be in contact with) and one marriage proposal from a very drunk and heterosexual German man whose hands were bigger than my head.

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MARCH 17th For so many years I’ve heard travelling friends return from Berlin who tell me that the nightclub Berghain was right up my alley. Everyone had a story about their time at Berghain, undeniably the most equally famous and infamous nightclub in all of Berlin. Almost all of the stories are unprintable. Not surprisingly, almost all of my stories are unprintable too, so let me give you a relatively PG-13 version of events. In summary: I wait in a line for over an hour in minus-degree weather and am covered in snow; walk in, and the first person I bump into on the dance floor is an old acquaintance from Melbourne. No shit, what are the odds? But it gets better because then I go upstairs and meet two Australian sisters living in Berlin who adopt me for the day – and then the rest is a muddled and messy blur which spans over 24 hours. I spend these 24+ hours smoking cigarettes in the smoking lounge, meeting new potential lifelong friends on the dance floor whilst thumping techno (the kind of banging, proper techno I haven’t heard in Melbourne nightclubs for a bloody long time) blasts through our ear drums. The most insane nightclub I have ever been to in my entire life and, if you couldn’t half tell, I never wanted to leave it.

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Twenty-four hours have passed inside Berghain; I have been here since Saturday night, just before midnight, and it is now, technically, Monday morning, 12:10am. As trashy as things may have been in the most interesting nightclub of all time, I somehow manage to secretly stash 10 euro at the start of the night so as to get my arse home. And what a trek home it is. I am walking in what is at this point a complete snow blizzard. I hop into

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the cab and look back at Berghain, knowing it will be a very long time – perhaps even years – before I return. After six incredible, totally mind-blowing days in this miraculous city I still have one morning left here in Berlin, the most incredible city in the world. Mark my words Berlin: I will be back for you.

MARCH 20th I fly back to London from Berlin and immediately jump on a coach which takes me to Liverpool. It’s time for the final date on the Girls Aloud tour which, in turn, will officially become their last ever show together as a group. Tears and heartache ensue, but let’s not talk about all of that because in less than a week I’ll be lounging by pools in Singapore. After a full month of minusdegree weather and literal snowstorms it’s going to be nice to see some sun.

MARCH 26th After a stopover in Dubai for 100 duty free cigarettes (and almost running into Willam from Drag Race whilst there), I arrive in Singapore at around 8pm local time to what feels about as tropical as tropical weather can get. Scorching and sweating profusely, it’s not long before the incredible friends I’m staying with whilst here, Jaz & Sam, take me to their condo’s swimming pool. I am already in heaven and I’ve only had one drink. Eventually, as the days go by, I make my way to an assortment of stunning restaurants and bars, and although one particular evening in an “RNB” “themed” “bar” I almost commit mass-murder, generally Singapore nightlife is pretty amazing. I spend a good six hours at Universal Studios where I buy a bunch of faux Academy Awards (for real), go on my first rollercoaster ever (and then immediately go on it again right after) and meet the likes of Betty Boop and Frankenstein through the streets of the amusement park. My days in this wonderfully scenic country are numbered, and as much as I’ve loved it here, I’m happy to be going home soon.

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Walking through customs at Tullamarine, the anticipation of seeing my family and friends is all too much; as thrilling and inspiring as this holiday has been I can’t deny how much I’ve missed home and all of my creature comforts that come with it. Just as I begin to tell my parents how hideous the beef and meats are in the UK, I see us pulling into the drive-thru of a very familiar restaurant. An Aussie-based Maccas becomes a true sight for sore eyes to this traveller. Why? Um – how about these five simple words: 100 Percent Pure Australian Beef. It’s good to be home, and not just because I can start eating animals again. It was the holiday I had to have for so many reasons, with one of them being the realisation that I honestly live in the greatest country in the entire world. Too many of us take that for granted. By Adem With An E.

For hosting the best Eurovision in YEARS. Full coverage next issue.

SWEDEN For putting on the best intermission number in recent decades.

SWEDEN Let’s all move to Sweden!

Norway’s flawless Pop-Queen Margaret Berger’s “I Feed You My Love” almost took the trophy in Eurovision this year, and whilst it may have gotten my 12 points, 2013 was to be Denmark’s year of victory.

DENMARK’S SONG Not a winning song “tbh.”

VINE I’m with Michelle.

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Walking into the Royal Albert Hall is, much like most of this trip, an incredibly surreal moment. I’ve spent so many years watching concerts that were filmed in this truly iconic venue, and now I am finally a patron inside it. The humour of travelling to the other side of the world and then going to see an Aussie perform live is not lost on me, but really, what other opportunity am I going to have to see a living legend like Olivia Newton-John in a legendary venue like the Royal Albert Hall? Performing a full-throttle, no holds barred two-hour show full of HITS, HITS AND MORE HITS, HRH ONJ belts out more of her greatest singles than I honestly expect; not a duff album cut to be heard, just the tracks that made us love her so much over the decades. And in what was possibly the most incredible encore I’ve ever witnessed, Olivia then said goodnight to her enthusiastic audience with a medley of all her songs from Grease.

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After an insatiable weekend away in Glasgow, I fly back to London in one piece, with so many records from the Scottish Record Fayre that I will end up paying 170 pounds in excess baggage upon returning to Australia to bring them home with me. At this point, I’ve developed some bizarre strand of jetlagflu that’s neither here nor there. Weak, I am staying with my gorgeous longtime friend Clare, who is adamant in getting me to a nightclub in Brixton for an old school party session. By the time we get to the club in Brixton, I am already quite close to being blind drunk and can’t for the life of me remember its name; but I can tell you that I almost got pickpocketed at the bar, which somewhat slightly spoiled the evening, or at least my comfort with being on the dance floor. Superstar DJ Henry Saiz headlined the evening and, thankfully, after his set I was lucky enough to vacate the criminally-infused dance floor and head backstage with him, where we talked about the varying dance communities across the world and after dark crap. By 7am, Clare and I start making the dreaded trek back to her place and in turn sees me bear witness to my very first, of many, snowstorms.

I feel like I’ve spent so many years of my adult life wishing I were in Berlin. Today puts an end to the daydream, and I arrive safely at 10am. As I step away from the airport terminal and head outside for my first cigarette on German soil, the first thing I notice is everything and every car covered in snow. The second thing I notice? The fact that there is actually not one single person in Berlin who isn’t good looking; it’s at this point my hunt for a German husband begins.

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Nilaja Sun By Tex Miller

After seven years and hundreds of performances all around the world, including Edinburgh, America and Australia, Nilaja Sun is finally bringing her award-winning production of No Child to GPAC. Having performed in Brisbane and Melbourne at the Arts Festival in September, as well as last year’s Arts Festival, this time around the tour feels a lot more personal. I recently sat down with Nilaja to find out what all the buzz was about. “Last time I came to Australia, it was for a festival run and so I was here and then gone again. This time, I’m starting to feel like a local because I can sit down and interact with the audience a lot more after the show. The show is also featured in the VCE playlist, which means that by the end of the run a thousand high school students will have seen it; and being able to have post-show discussions with them is great given they are the target demographic.” From a quick Google search, it is easy to see the acclaim and the affect that the play has had on teenagers all around the world. At the time of devising the concept for No Child way back in 2004, Nilaja had no idea of the success that would follow her all around the world. “The fact that I am in Australia alone is testament to the saying ‘dreams do come true’. I remember doing the show in New York (over a year run), where I literally did three hundred and thirty shows in twelve months. I remember throughout that time there would be Australian tourists that waited to talk to me after the show. They would wait and say: ‘You have to bring this to Australia’. Initially I laughed at the idea because it was completely out of the question. Being here now is perfect; due to the subject matter of the play, it’s just so surreal”

Having taught in some of the roughest public schools in New York, the concept for No Child came easily to Nilaja. The plot primarily revolves around the idea of a play within a play, which features Our Country’s Good that tells the story of Australian convicts in 1788, and in turn reflects the scary social values and situations that faced Nilaja. “In New York City, there is what they call High Impact Schools. The kids at these schools have to go through twenty-minute security checks each day; and I have always felt like it is kind of like their future convicts, or in a scary way they are prepping them to go to jail. When I really talked to some of the teaching artists, we all came to the same consensus really. Years before that I had read Our Country’s Good, and I really felt that the play reflected how I feel about my students; it’s like convicts doing theatre. I definitely saw the parallels between the two and wanted to have a dialogue with the audience about those parallels.”

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comfortable between switching so rapidly; and getting them physically, emotionally and vocally correct as well,” Nilaja said. Performing at GPAC on the 31st May, Nilaja is excited to meet all of the local school pupils with the matinee performance. With a postperformance Q&A, the real excitement for Nilaja is within hearing the broad range of stories that the students are encouraged to share, and comparing it to the experiences of teaching within New York. “This show has been such a blessing and has many beautiful angels around it. It’s been great to perform the show all around the world over the past seven years, and I’ve always said that if there is a theatre that wants to see No Child, I will do it. There are definitely no signs of slowing down yet.” When&Where: May 31 at GPAC, Geelong

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arts news from around town – and beyond! Extravaganza - Eat Drink Discover Geelong

The Andrew Ward Fiasco “By using the Neckline Slimmer for just 10 days I lost over $20.00 and my dignity.” Subscribe to The Andrew Ward Fiasco www.youtube. com/Award80 Funniest thing. Ever.

MOOREGRACE ACTING STUDIOS Ever watched a TV ad or soap and thought, “I could do that”? Well, you can! Mooregrace Acting Studios is the place to go to hone up on all those skills you just knew you had, to enable you to channel your inner Brando or Stella! There are loads of regular workshops and classes available to all ages – not just kids. Fast paced improvisation activities make up a key component of the classes and are guaranteed to keep students on their toes! Actors learn to take direction while

WINTER SOLSTICE ONE ACT PLAYS As the nights grow colder and the days get shorter, The Potato Shed is proud to present two unique nights of entertainment to warm you up over the Solstice weekend.

workshopping scenes and recording them on camera. The studio provides a forum for students to discuss aspects of the film and television industry and make informed decisions regarding their career. Sarah Grace and Paul Moore (Mooregrace) have many years experience in the film and television industry. They have played numerous roles on top Australian dramas including Canal Road, Blue Heelers, Neighbours and The Secret Life of Us as well as working on various commercials, theatre productions and corporate films. Come and celebrate winter with fire, warm wine, music and two amazing one act plays. Guaranteed to stimulate the senses in more ways than one! Patrons will be welcomed with a warming shot, mulled wine, barrels of fire and fine music. Where: The Potato Shed, Peninsula

They are both currently playing Supporting Lead Roles on the Channel 7 show Winners & Losers. So, if you want to just “have a go” and have some fun, while contemplating that Logie you could be winning, then check out the Mooregrace fantastic and comprehensive website. Chookas! Where: 394 Pakington Street, Newtown, Geelong, 3220 When: Anytime! Phone: 5244 4061 Info: www.mooregrace. com or email: director@ mooregrace.com

Drive, Drysdale. When: June 20 and 21 at 8pm. Tix: From Potato Shed. Adult: $20, Conc: $15. Phone: 5251 1998. Info:www. geelongaustralia. com.au/potatoshed email: potatoshed@ geelongcity.vic.gov.au

Heroes Written by Gérald Sibleyras. Translated by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Jules Hart. “…If months were days of the week, August would be a Sunday… a pointless and paltry affair.” And so we meet Gustave, Henri and Phillipe, three WW1 veterans who pass their monotonyfilled days in a military hospital by engaging in verbal battles of long forgotten campaigns, grumblings about the staff, and reflections on their lives. But their camaraderie soon becomes strained when one of them conjures up an escape plan. Looking out to the poplars in the

distance, they dream of freedom. Will today be the day they finally make it over the wall? Tom Stoppard’s hilarious translation of Gérald Sibleyras’ Le Vent des Peupliers is a joyous fusion of the comic, sad and absurd. Winner of the Laurence Olivier Best new Comedy Award, Heroes takes a poignant look at life in our later years. Where: Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation Street, Geelong West, 3218. When: June 7, 8, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 at 8pm; June 9 & 16 at 2pm. Tix: GPAC. phone: 5225 1200 or www. gpac.org.au Info: www. geelongrep.com. au or email: info@ geelongrep.com.au

Take your tastebuds on a journey through the countryside of the Bellarine, along the awe-inspiring Great Ocean Road, through the rainforests of the Otways and majestic valleys of the Golden Plains and back into central Geelong. Offering the best of the region, Extravaganza - Eat Drink Discover, is a celebration of the regions finest produce, wines, boutique beers and ciders. The festival will boast a range of tantalising food and wine from the Bellarine, Geelong, Great Ocean Road, Otways, Golden Plains and Queenscliff. Come along - talk to producers, taste their wares and fill your basket with local discoveries. Geelong’s Extravaganza brings local chefs, baristas, media and professional ‘foodies’ along to educate, talk and dissect the regions produce through Master

KAT PENGELLY ‘Wear Art Now’ Exhibition of artful fashion including wearable art outfits and accessories. Includes a fashion parade on the opening night. ‘Racy Rascal’ Design and construction by Kat Pengelly. Hand painted fabric by Casey Tosh. Photo - Luke Prendergast (2013)

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The Surf Coast Art & Design Market An annual indoor Winter market on the Surf Coast of Victoria. This inaugural market will provide an opportunity for local Victorian artists and designers to showcase their quality work, and will provide locals with an opportunity to peruse or shop in a relaxed and elegant atmosphere at a time on our regional calendar when there are few other markets or events. The market

will also include live music to be enjoyed from the comfort of the lounge area in front of an open fire. The bar will be open for hot and cold drinks and light lunches. The aim is to support both emerging and established local artists and designers by providing them with an opportunity to display their quality work in an upmarket environment. Stallholders the market wishes to attract will include those with high quality artwork, sculptures, photography, handmade homewares,

Contemporary Australian Silver & Metalwork Award Bendigo Art Gallery is pleased to host the 12th Contemporary Australian Silver & Metalwork Award in partnership with BUDA Historic Home and Garden, Castlemaine. The Contemporary Australian Silver & Metalwork Award is a unique national biennial exhibition with acquisitive and non-acquisitive prizes, showcasing contemporary gold, silver, metalwork and jewellery practice in Australia, celebrating innovation and excellence in design. The award exhibition was established in 1988 by Buda Historic Home and Garden, to commemorate the significant contribution to Australian silversmithing by the noted colonial silversmith,

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jewellery, clothing, children’s products and much more, with an emphasis on unique wares from the local region. Food stalls will also be considered if the products are of a design nature. Applications for stallholders are now open. Where: Peppers The Sands Resort – 2 Sands Boulevard, Torquay When: Sunday July 14 from 9:30am2:30pm. Info: www.facebook. com/surfcoastartdesign Email: surfartdesign@ live.com.au

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Ernst Leviny. The Leviny family lived at BUDA for more than 118 years. Where: Post Office Gallery, a satellite space of Bendigo Art Gallery, at 51-67 Pall Mall, Bendigo. When: June 29-July 28. Open 9-5. Phone: 5434 6088. Info: wwwbendigoartgallery.com.au email: bendigoartgallery@ bendigo.vic.gov.au

ANDREW & IRENA SIBLEY ‘Sibley2’ Andrew Sibley (b.1933 - ) is a renowned Australian artist whose career has spanned over five decades. His artworks focus on the human condition and

the ways in which we interact and relate. Irena Sibley (1943-2009) was a renowned Australian artist, writer, illustrator of children’s books and art teacher. Irena’s artwork employed a range of techniques, including hand coloured linocuts and acrylic

paintings. Where: Gallery on Sturt. 421 Sturt Street, Ballarat, 3350. When: June 7-July 12, both exhibitions. Open: Mon-Fri 9-5.30, Sat 10-2. Phone: 5331 7011. Info: www. galleryonsturt.com.au email: info@ galleryonsturt.com.au

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Class sessions and demonstration cooking at the Kitchen Corner open stage hosted by Poh Ling Yeow. Runner up in the first MasterChef series and now host of hit ABC TV show, Poh’s Kitchen the Kitchen Corner line-up includes demonstrations from chefs Robin Wickens from Wickens Provedore, Andy Pye from Rue Cler Market, Dwayne Bourke from the Black Sheep and time on the couch with Tez Kemp from La Madre Bakery, Nathan Johnston from Coffee Cartel, wine gurus and more. There’s also the Kids Patch for the children to enjoy some foodie focused activities. An indoor event for the whole familyExtravaganza - Eat

Drink Discover is being held at Geelong’s iconic Cunningham Pier. Where: The Pier, Geelong, Cunningham Pier, Geelong. When: July 13 & 14. Tix: GPAC 5225 1200 or www.gpac.org.au. $30 Adults, $20 concession, $10 children (3-18 years), $50 for family (all activities mentioned above are included). Children under 3 are free. Info: www. extravaganzageelong. com.au for more information or follow Extravaganza Geelong on Facebook and Twitter. email: info@ extravaganzageelong. com.au

arts news from around town – and beyond! Jon Frank Untitled (Eastern Beach, Geelong #1) 2012

Seascapes – Jon Frank Seascapes is an exhibition of photographs by local artist Jon Frank who has focused his gaze on the majesty of the ocean as a means of contemplating the human condition. This special exhibition features a new series of work inspired by local bodies of water. Part theatre and part choreography the nine large format photographs contrast the ethereal glow of dark, crashing waves of evening with the

harsh summer sun and its luminous spotlight on bathers enjoying Geelong’s Eastern Beach in record breaking heat. As the artist Jon Frank explains, “The portraits, all shot on medium format film, expose in tremendous clarity our secret vulnerabilities. They reflect on how lonely our journey through this solitary world can feel [even] when surrounded by crowds of people. When compared to the grand indifference of nature, our lives seem so fleeting and fragile.”

Jon Frank is a photographer and award-winning filmmaker who is internationallyrenowned for his surfing imagery and cinematography. His work has been exhibited in Australia, the USA and Europe. Jon Frank is a resident of the Surf Coast. Where: Geelong Gallery, Little Malop Street, Geelong, 3220 When: May 18July 14. Phone: 5229 3645 Info: Free Entry. Open daily, 10-5. www. geelonggallery.org.au

Burning Geelong Production Company and Mad As Us presents a Victorian premiere of Verity Laughton’s Australian play, Burning. “A true gem… starkly written, highly nuanced work… an incendiary experience not to be missed.” Katrina Schwarz, Drum Media. A couple inherit an old family home. They find a body in the garden. This discovery opens a Pandora’s Box. Starring 2-time Logie Award winner, Libby Tanner (All Saints, Pacific Drive, Rescue: Special Ops, Fireflies, Headland), Stephen Macklin, Lauren O’Callahan, Scott Middleton and Edie Van Vriends. Where: Courthouse ARTS, Cnr Gheringhap and Little Malop Streets, Geelong, 3200. When: June 28, 29; July 4, 5, 6 at 8pm. Tix: GPAC. Phone: 5225 1200 or www. gpac.org.au Info: www. courthouse.org.au

Geelong Illustrators By Tex Miller

Geelong Illustrators is a project which is the creative child of local female artists Laura Alice, Morgan Connelly and Jenna Romando. Forming earlier this year, this new initiative offers artists a voice and a legup within the local arts industry by providing a whole heap of workshops and exhibition opportunities. Often it can be hard to put on an exhibition by yourself, given the logistics and costs of hiring the space, yet by forming together, Geelong Illustrators are making their mark on the Geelong arts industry. From being featured on the menus at Winters Café in Pakington Street, to the upcoming exhibition at Courthouse Arts, it was great to sit down with Laura and find out all about it. “Our latest and debut exhibition is entitled ‘A Thousand Eyes’, which is based on the famous poem by Francis William Bourdillon. It was a process in which we looked at poems and decided on one; and from that we got our artists to create a piece on the same paper stock, drawing influence from the poem. It created a sense of continuity as well as offering the opportunity to bring in your own interpretation and artistic style towards the piece.” In the ever-evolving arts media industry, where the reliance on social media has become more important, one of the main avenues of promotion for the group is through Facebook and the online world. Although the group only has a small social media presence at the moment with only 400 Facebook ‘likes’, it is becoming the avenue of contact to be published, as Laura relates. “A lot of our artists have contacted us through social media. It’s been a fantastic tool to get the word out about the group, and is really helping us promote ourselves at a grassroots level. It’s great to find out what styles of art people are interested in, and start forums and discussions about what we should do next.” Although Laura, Morgan and Jenna’s artistic styles are geared more to drawing, the diverse range of pieces and styles that will feature in the Courthouse exhibition has been quite surprising to Laura. “There is a lot of amazing drawing-based artists within Geelong. It is an emerging style that we have seen reoccurring over the past few months. The ability to be able to convey a story through the image is fantastic, and seeing the different ways in which people interpret your image is also a fresh and interesting aspect to being a local artist.”

You may or may not have heard of Geelong Illustrators, yet if you’ve walked through Westfield in the middle of the CBD, you may have gazed upon the work of Geelong Illustrators. Taking over a boarded-up shop, the brief whilst the shop was in its transition phase between owners was to ‘go nuts’. With each of the illustrators drawing a massive paste-up, the art spilled out across the shop, giving it a truly unique effect. Giving a voice to local arts, Courthouse Arts is proud to represent ‘A Thousand Eyes’, which opens on the 31st of May. As Jenna was the previous curator of the Kaleidoscope Gallery, the relationship that Geelong Illustrators have is quite strong. “It’s a great exhibition to use and a personal favourite of mine. It will be great to showcase the future of young artists within Geelong, so everyone should pop down and have a look!” When&Where: Opens Meraki Gallery @ Courthouse ARTS – May 31

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You deliver the Goods Molly Cusack

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Geelong’s Molly Cusack was a late bloomer when it comes to photography but she is making up for lost time. With an organic approach to the art, Molly is concerned with “preserving ambiguity and documenting spaces and places.” Forte had the chance to catch up with the talent to discover what life is like when viewed from behind a lens.

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Please introduce yourself to Forte readers and tell us a bit about your background? My name is Molly Cusack and I am a freelance photographer who has recently graduated from the Australian Academy of Design in Port Melbourne. Where is it you reside? How has living in that area shaped the art you have come to produce? I currently live in Geelong, but spent my childhood outside of Geelong growing up in Lethbridge, 20 minutes towards Ballarat. Growing up in the country was peaceful, spacious, plenty of open sky and also lots of old abandoned shacks. It was growing up in Lethbridge where my fascination for found spaces captured in natural light was born. How did you get into this art form? What has been your inspiration to continue to pursue this art form? I went to Ballarat University and studied Fine Arts initially. I did a unit of dark room photography and found that I could translate moments much more naturally than drawing, which is what I had previously been doing. Through photography, now I can document moments, spaces, places and people. I take my camera with me everywhere I go and road trip a lot in my spare time. If you were listening to someone describe your work, how would you like it to be described? I have had people look at my photographs before and try and pick the back-story to it. I love this; as sometimes there is not necessarily a back-story, but I love what they have come up with in their own minds. I’ve had people look at my images and ask whether or not someone had died, and if I was there to help move their belongings out and captured the space whilst doing so. I do think there is a connection between people and spaces, so it is nice that some people can see this within my work. Have you taken part in many exhibitions, displays, shows etc.? I have exhibited in group exhibitions at Brunswick Street Art Gallery in a collective photographic exhibition, and also one on the theme of “Spaces and Dwellings.” What has been your greatest achievement as an artist to date? I got to help on a photographic job and meet Bill Henson; and he told me to keep persisting with my passion and I’d get there. Briefly take us through your collection. Describe what

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people would be seeing? My collection of photographs belongs in categories. I have my spaces and places collection which I hope people would see a back-story to; then I photograph people and portraits, which are generally environmental portraits or people within spaces. I try and tell the subject’s back-story in these portraits through the space in which they work in/live in. I also have a fashion folio where I try to be as creative and resourceful as I can with collaborating with models, makeup artists, stylists, videographers, etc. They are all different to one another, but I take to them all equally. What is it you hope to gain from your work? Is it a hobby or are you looking for widespread exposure? Being creative for me was always a hobby, but even when asked when I was a child what I wanted to be when I was older, I had always said an illustrator. A creative career was always something I wanted to achieve, and being a photographer is the only thing I could think of being, so I will keep trying as hard as I can to get my name out there and to be recognised within the photographic world. Where can people go to check out your stuff? You can check out my stuff on my website: http://www.mollycusack. com/ or my blog: http://within-molly.tumblr.com/

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The sheer size of the place is surprising to say the least. At 1,500 metres square and full to each corner, you can be sure there’s something that will catch your eye. Karen was able to uncover a bit about the place and her plans for the future in her interview. Originally from Geelong, Karen moved to Port Macquarie for a period of time in which she and her husband enjoyed the local markets and antique stores. Since then, it had been a dream of theirs to bring that experience back to their hometown. When asked what kinds of things she sold, Karen’s response was: “Everything, including the kitchen sink!” With all manner of things for sale such as clothing, appliances, computer supplies, collectables, antiques, furniture, jewellery, toys, beds, tools, garden appliances, vinyl records and turntables (for those of you into the retro music scene), and indeed a kitchen sink, the response

One particularly interesting point whilst interviewing Karen was her stance on environmental sustainability. As someone who cares a great deal about the state of our world, Karen commented that the more we can do to recycle these things instead of letting them end up in a landfill, the better off our environment will be. The Geelong Tender Centre is not only a place for finding and buying things you’d never find anywhere else. They will also sell on your behalf and offer a cheap drop off/pick up service around Geelong. For those of you who find the idea of facing a big warehouse of endless items a bit daunting, the website catalogue will put your mind at ease. Neatly categorised into different groups, there is no need to search through beds, washing machines and violins to find that one bit of vintage jewellery you were looking for. The website is easy to navigate and even easier to find. You can find it at geelongtendercentre.com/gtc/ Open 7 days a week, and located at an easy turn off the Princes Highway in North Geelong, the Tender Centre is available when it’s easiest for you. For those of you moving out and looking for affordable furniture and white goods, those of you wondering where to buy vinyl records in Geelong, those of you who are avid collectors, or even those just looking to stumble upon something they didn’t know they needed until they saw it: this is the place to find it.

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by anthony morris

A Haunted House

The Hangover Part III Remember how in The Hangover Part II they kept the formula from the ultra-successful first film – bunch of guys wake up after a big party then try to retrace their steps – but changed the location from Vegas to Bangkok? This time, just to mix things up, they keep the location but change the formula. That’s right; no waking up drunk and trying to piece together the last night’s partying this time, as instead our story begins with Alan (Galifianakis) off his meds and being even more arrogant and annoying than ever. When he turns the eulogy at his father’s funeral into more of a me-logy, Doug (Justin Bartha) decides it’s time for an intervention, but is convinced it’ll only work if Phil (Bradley Cooper) and Stu (Ed Helms) are there. They say sure, the intervention works, and Alan says he’ll go to the clinic they’ve booked him into. So they hit the road and suddenly they’re kidnapped by a bunch of pig-mask wearing guys who work for Marshall (John Goodman). Remember drug dealer Black Doug (Mike Epps) from the first film? Marshall is his boss, and he wants our heroes because Mr Chow (Ken Jeong) stole a whole bunch of gold from him back in the day, and now that Chow has escaped from a Bangkok prison – oh right, we saw him escape during the opening credits – they’re the only people Marshall knows who could get in touch with him. And just to motivate them in their search, Marshall will be hanging onto Doug while they hit the road. This is surprisingly sanitised compared to the first two films – seriously, they track down Chow to Tijuana and the worst thing that happens to them is they get attacked by cockfighting roosters – but presumably with the focus on selfish man-child Alan and insane freak Chow, there wasn’t really any point to bringing out the shocking tattoos and transsexual hookers for a third time. Unfortunately, having one-note characters running the show doesn’t exactly make for one hundred minutes worth of hilarity, and without the flashbacks or the sleaze, all that’s left here is the vague sense that you’ve seen the first two films. What’s one more going to hurt?

Oh look, they’re using the Paranormal Activity font for the opening credits – looks like the Wayan brothers got a little annoyed about Scary Movie 5 and decided to reclaim their crowns as the king of the spoof movie genre. To be fair, while Scary Movie 5 only halfheartedly pretended to be a take on the Paranormal Activity genre before wandering off into the usual sight gags and wacky references that has made that franchise so long-lasting (a franchise the Wayan’s helped create, though they weren’t involved with the most recent instalment), this film is a straight-up parody of Paranormal Activity. It’s even fairly strict about getting the hand-held camera stuff right … right up until the moment Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) puts down the camera to try and save his dog who’s been run over by his moving-in girlfriend Kisha (Essence Atkins), and presumably she films him giving the dog mouth to mouth then trying to start its heart with jumper cables. From there the usual creepy stuff happens, and eventually Kisha admits she’s to blame: she has a demon that follows here from house to house. Enter a flamboyantly gay psychic (Nick Swardson) and a somewhat racist ghostbuster (David Koechner), plus an ex-con priest (Cedric the Entertainer), to try and exorcise her demon and get their sex life back on track. What follows is big on fart jokes and drug jokes, but not so big on funny jokes, even if the performances are clearly trying hard to make the whole thing work. If you’re a big fan of parody films, this might be worth a look. If you’re not, you’re probably not even reading this.

The Odd Life of Timothy Green Devastated by their inability to have children, Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Tom (Joel Edgerton) Green write down the hopes and dreams they had for their now never-going-to-happen offspring and bury them in a box in the backyard. That night during a freak storm, Timothy (CJ Adams), a mud-covered boy with leaves growing out his ankles, appears in their house. He calls them mum and dad, and rather than calling the police or just freaking out, they take him in, put socks over his ankle foliage, and raise him as their own. It’s no spoiler to reveal things take a turn for the bittersweet in writer-director Peter Hedges’ small town fairytale (Timothy’s story is a flashback told by the Greens at an adoption agency, so no prize for guessing how things turn out), but this is particularly methodical and by-the-numbers in its approach to relentlessly plucking at the heartstrings. A great cast (David Morse, Ron Livingston) are largely wasted playing caricatures that the film is never interested in fleshing out. Fortunately, both Garner and Edgerton are extremely likable as the believably non-perfect parents, while Adams shines when it comes to making the non-real boy seem plausible. That said, this is still a film with only one thing on its mind, and that’s ensuring there isn’t a dry eye in the cinema by the time the credits roll. Make sure you bring the big box of tissues for this one.

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Dead Man Down When crime boss Alphonse Hoyt (Terrence Howard) comes home to find a dead henchman in a freezer in his basement, he’s not happy. It gets worse: seems this is just the latest creepy attack on him by a mysterious killer who keeps signing his crimes with pieces of a chopped-up photograph. But the killer’s made a mistake, and one crack house gun battle later, Hoyt seems to have solved his problems – and had his life saved by one of his underlings, Victor (Colin Farrell). Of course, Hoyts’ problems are just beginning – turns out he just murdered the wrong drug dealer, and while all he knows is that he screwed up (and that his boss, played by a mush-mouthed Armand Assante, isn’t happy), we know that Victor is the real source of all his trouble and strife. Not that Victor seems to be taking much pleasure from things, spending as he does pretty much all of his spare time staring out his high-rise apartment window at the scar-faced woman (Noomi Rapace) who lives in the block next door. Turns out she’s on something of a mission of vengeance herself and, having seen Victor kill a man in his own apartment, she’s looking to enlist him on her side. Having two leads both driven by their need for deadly vengeance might seem a little over the top. Then again, this is a movie where a bunch of little kids call the lightly scarred Rapace a “monster”, which also seems a little excessive. But unlike those examples, the twin vengeance plots largely work because they provide two different takes on the same story. This tends to roll with the clichés rather than fight against them; and taken just as a crime thriller, Dead Man Down is trashy in a kind of silly way. But both Farrell and Rapace are excellent as deadeyed people barely holding it together after suffering terrible tragedies, and their performances are what you’ll remember here.

Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) is a true crime writer who’s struggling for inspiration. So, as you do, he secretly moves his family into a house that was the site of a savage family murder in the hope that he’ll be able to get a book out of it. It wasn’t just any murder either: while four of the family members died, a fifth, a young girl, (cue viewers thinking that ‘hey, aren’t young girls always the go-to when it comes to creepy ghostly figures’?) was never found. Oswalt doesn’t find her, but what he does find is almost as creepy – a series of old super 8 films stashed in the attic which seem to show a whole different string of family murders across the decades. Meanwhile, his family (who still don’t know why they’ve moved into the house) are slowly starting to freak out. Will the often drunken and increasingly self-obsessed Oswalt figure out he’s made a big mistake before it becomes a much, much bigger one? Movies like this either have the bare minimum of explanation or they explain things way too much, and sadly this eventually falls into the latter camp, leading to a final act that’s a bit of a letdown. That doesn’t mean the path to that letdown isn’t an occasionally scary one though; director Scott Derrickson (who directed the clumsy but manic Exorcism of Emily Rose) is more than happy to go full throttle when it comes to scaring an audience, and while this is hardly anyone’s idea of a subtle film, there are a few times where all the rapid edits and jarring music do pay off. It won’t haunt your dreams, but it may get you looking over your shoulder on the walk back to the car.

FIL M WRAP The Great Gatsby: It’s in 3D, it cost over a hundred million dollars to make, and it’s made by a director who doesn’t understand the word “nuance”: fingers crossed this at least leaves in some of author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s dialogue between all the partying. Star Trek Into Darkness: The old gang is back in this effort that feels a lot more like a retread than the last one did. If you don’t think about what’s happening at all, it’s a fun thrill-ride. If you can’t keep your

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mind blank, it’s actually pretty stupid and slightly insulting. The Place Beyond the Pines: Ryan Gosling is a motorcycle stunt rider who turns bank robber to support his son. Bradley Cooper is a cop who turns on his own to try and make a leap into politics. How are these two men connected? That’s part of the fun in this solid (but not as smart as it thinks it is) crime thriller. Snitch: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a trucking magnate

forced to try and entrap a bunch of drug dealers in the hope of getting his son out of jail. Shoot-outs follow. The Call: Halle Berry is a 911 operator scarred for life by a call where a young woman died. So when a teenager calls from inside the boot of a car while she’s being kidnapped, you better believe it’s on. Spring Breakers: Don’t be fooled by the bikinis and guns: this is an arthouse film; and a slow, meandering,

repetitive one at that. It’s still interesting, just not in the trashy way you might be expecting. Iron Man 3: Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has issues after all the action in The Avengers, so having to deal with super-terrorist The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) and a sleaze (Guy Pearce) hitting on his girl (Gwyneth Paltrow) makes for a pretty full schedule. Oh yeah, there’s a bunch of explosions and he flies around a lot in a robot suit.

Olympus Has Fallen: When evil North Koreans attack the White House just when everyone important happens to be inside, it’s up to Gerard Butler to use everything he learnt from watching Die Hard and save the day. Caution: everyone else in this movie is really stupid. Drift: It’s the 1970s, and a bunch of Western Australian surfies decide to take on all comers (including an evil bank manager) to live out their dream of getting rich off affordable surfwear. Oh, there’s also

evil bikies here. And some decent big wave surfing. The Big Wedding: There’s a wedding, it’s big, there’s an all-star cast of slightly faded and shabby names (Robin Williams?) and the comedy is not exactly on the cutting edge. Whatever your age, it’s the kind of thing that your mum would like. 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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Rock the Civic 2 On Saturday, May 18, the Ballarat music scene once again got behind the boardedup Civic Hall in order to raise awareness about one of Ballarat’s overlooked centrepieces. The Civic Hall was once a well-used community venue but has been closed up since 2002. After being up for tender on several different occasions and receiving many different proposals toward making use of the site (all unsuccessful), Ballarat has found a voice and sung out for something to be done in the form of Rock the Civic. The first Rock the Civic established itself in front of the main entrance of the Civic Hall on Saturday, April 6. Appropriately placed between the art advocating bronze statues of William Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott, with the Civic Hall porch offering a little cover from the elements, the musicians listed played the first Rock the Civic loudly and proudly: The Jail Bird Jokers, Vinegar Hill, The Boggy Mountain Boys, Kingdom in Crisis, Death by Snu Snu and Soultown DJs. This second instalment hosted a different range of bands – with Soultown DJs again respectively filling the changeovers and delays – which was no less amazing than the first. The day kicked off at roughly 12:30pm with MC Krisdafari bringing his beats to Ballarat’s chilly air. His hip hop , which he tried to keep G-rated, often leaked into the PG-rated; and as his confidence in the crowd support grew, it even elevated beyond the M-rated, much to the amusement of the crowd who were often bent over laughing at his lyrical mischief. In an awesome “anything can happen” style, during his last song, a local, seasoned lover of the arts, Dot Cherry (Facebook alias), got up and took over Krisdafari’s support’s microphone and improvised some beats and pleas in musical form; supporting the push to resurrect the Civic Hall and giving her personal account of the history of the place. Dot Cherry showed she could drop a MEANingful beat with the best of them. Navaja Negra was second on the list and their blues licks had the crowd engulfed in a head-bopping, toe-tapping, cruisey,

electric atmosphere. Not to be outdone on the humour front, the guitarist, Mick Dog, got so involved in his last few songs he pulled the plug out of his guitar during one song and shorted his guitar out during another. But with a big cheeky grin he continued on and the crowd loved it. Next up to the porch was The Electric SunKings. Their brilliant blend of psychedelic rock perfectly covered all ages with their new takes on old sounds. Being in the crowd, one would just have to bend their ear a bit to hear people comparing their tunes to Frank Zappa, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Finishing their set with ‘Ballarat Blues Cruise’, a joyous account of unemployment and the many benefits of being in that situation, the audience responded with loud applause and many a fan was made that day. During changeover, Soultown DJs played Curtis Mayfield’s ‘Move On Up’ while The Electric SunKings got their gear off. In the meantime, Geoffrey Williams set himself up with his guitar and sound-checked. He began singing along with ‘Move On Up’, and after all of The Electric SunKings’ gear was removed, it became very hard to tell Geoffrey’s voice from the track, because either the DJ or sound engineer slowly faded out the track and turned up Geoff’s voice, syncing them perfectly together. Geoffrey is an incredible artist; his soulful songs are intentionally reminiscent of many old greats, but with creative spins. His shows are always filled with audience participation, and he’s viewed within the music community as a performer, an artist and a gentleman. Last up on the day was comedic selfdeprecating cover band, Alive and Kicking. They were a great finish to the day, with ageist jokes in between loveable classics from The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Bee Gees. The organisers achieved everything they wanted on the day by raising awareness for the Civic Hall and providing an awesome day of entertainment. Kudos goes out to everyone who made the day possible. By Daniel Lock

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Rob Zombie Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor Universal Admit it, you read the title of that album and just knew it was Rob Zombie. That’s right; the king of horror-punk is back, having taken a break from directing horror films to bring us his fifth album, Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor. With track titles like ‘Teenage Nosferatu Pussy’ and ‘Behold, The Pretty Filthy Creatures!’, you know he’s back to his old tricks again. Rob’s vocals are unmistakeable – that growl is primal. The guitars are heavy, as they should be. This isn’t music to dance to. This is music to headbang to. This is music to mosh to. Rob Zombie takes all kinds of rock and melds them to his will. The second track, ‘Dead City Radio (And The New Gods of Supertown)’, has shades of Zombie’s classic ‘Superbeast’, as well as just a little bit of eighties power chords and spoken vocals. Rob Zombie also joins the likes of Poison, Kid Rock and The Village People, as track nine on this album is a cover of Grand Funk Railroad’s ‘We’re an American Band’. Sadly, there is no trace of irony in the power chords, cowbells and “Oh-ohohhhhh’s”. Definitely a low point in the album. In fact, probably a low point in Rob Zombie’s career. Still worth a buy though. By Cameron Brogden

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The Rubens The Wool Exchange Sunday, May 12 Upon arrival to The Wool Exchange (quite a nice venue as it turns out – had carpet and stairs and stuff), it seemed that every damn person in Geelong had given up his or her Sunday night to see the young and exciting indie-rock act that is The Rubens. The night was opened by a lovely young lady by the name of Ali Barter, opening her set with a sort of slow, dreamy rock melody, but moving into a more country rock feel immediately following. Using her powerful crooning voice, Barter commanded the attention of eager punters and gave an extremely enjoyable opening performance. Following Barter were American pop-dance group Walk the Moon, an extremely joyous group who immediately get an A+ for their bouncy cover of David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’. The lead singer danced around behind his synth/keys combo; involving the growing crowd at every possible chance whilst also contributing to the drums of every track by beating out jungle style beats on a floor tom conveniently placed next to his

keyboard. Walk the Moon kicked everyone into party mode, and as they left the stage the crowd swelled forwards in keen wait of the headliners. As soon as The Rubens stepped on stage and took up their prospective instruments the floor was wet with the melted hearts of every woman in the building (and probably a few men too). It wouldn’t really have mattered what this group of heartthrobs played; the entire venue was full of people that were completely taken from the moment ‘The Day You Went Away’ was played. With what was possibly an above average level of crowd involvement, lead singer Sam was given not one, but two shots of something alcoholic by the same guy; which may have gotten him drunk enough to pull one lucky girl from the crowd to play tambourine on stage (that girl is now the bane of every other girls existence). An honourable mention goes to Zaac Margin on guitar for some gnarly lead breaks whilst still avoiding the attention of the crowd. The Rubens gave Geelong their all once again, sharing a new track ‘Cut Me Loose’ and encoring with ‘My Gun’. Everyone had a blast. By Xavier Fennell

Anyone lucky enough to catch a JB gig in Australia last year understands why the bluesman’s star just keeps on rising. He’s the complete package of guitar, vocals, songwriting and rock star looks. He also knows how to assemble a crack backing band. This time, it’s quite a different ensemble to the one on St Kilda’s Palais stage. To say Bonamassa has been prolific of late is an understatement. Since 2011 alone he’s released Dust Bowl, Driving Towards the Daylight, two collaborations with Beth Hart, a live double-disc set and albums with side projects Black Country Communion and Rock Candy Funk Party. Longtime Bonamassa producer Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Black Crowes, Silverchair) is at the helm again on this latest double-disc package. The musos on board here introduce Irish banjo and fiddle, nyckelharpa, mandola, accordion, piano, harmonium and glockenspiel to the JB compositions. Lenny Castro’s funky percussion is icing on the rhythmrich cake. Fans likely own albums featuring songs like ‘Slow Train’, ‘The Ballad of John Henry’ or Robert Johnson’s ‘Stones In My Passway’ already; but this live acoustic outing delivers something else altogether. I initially wondered why we’d need another set of Bonamassa’s previously recorded songs so soon. In fact, this caters to the many moods that may drive a listener to select from their JB collection. There’s a lilt among the licks; an orchestral instrumental opening (‘Palm Trees’), the Celtic brew of ‘Jelly Roll’, ‘Helicopters and Gasoline’ with Stephen Stills-esque guitar. The flavours are many and varied, with plenty of raw rockers like ‘Black Lung Heartache’. You’d be mad to miss an opportunity to hear Joe Bonamassa live but, in the meantime, enjoy a nice night in with this considered and complete recording. By Chris Lambie

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Total Control Secret Warehouse Gig (w/ Rule of Thirds and DJ Michael Ozone) Oh boy was I excited for this one: a gig featuring possibly one of Melbourne’s greatest garage rock bands to date, Total Control, in a warehouse, with beer, for the small payment of only 10 dollars! It seems that I may have gotten myself a little too excited for this event, arriving only to find that I was the first punter there. Given the awkwardness of the situation, it seemed the only logical thing to do was buy a beer and listen to Rule of Thirds soundcheck as I contemplated what the night ahead would bring. Slowly the warehouse of 159 Sacksville St began to fill, and the crowd flowed as old friends greeted each other and discussed why their lives had no purpose until this gig. Rule of Thirds opened with their heavy grunged-out rock, allowing the crowd to get into the groove of the

night. Once the groove had been worked out it was time for Total Control to take the stage. And take it they did. Opening with their abrasive rifle-shot track ‘Retiree’, lead singer Dan took ‘Total Control’ of the now full warehouse (apologies for what may have just been the worst pun in history). Despite what appeared to be an unplanned skipping of ‘Carpet Rash’ and some microphone troubles, the set was exactly what a Total Control set should have been: packed full of screeching guitars, hypnotic swaggering lyrics and crackling machinegun drum attacks; the peak of the set being crowd favourite ‘One More Tonight’ which managed to coax the crowd into some sort of frenzy. My only disappointment with this gig was that it never really kicked off into what could have been an amazing night; as Michael Ozone started spinning his tracks, people began to make their way to the door. Despite this I definitely recommend catching any of the acts mentioned above as they are all damn good. By Xavier Fennell

INgrooves Lenka is back with her third studio album. The former Decoder Ring vocalist has struck gold here, with some clean, pure, adult-pop sounds. The album was written while she was pregnant with her first son and during the first few months of motherhood, and it shows. There is an almost lullaby feel to much of the album. That’s not to say it would put you to sleep, it’s just quite calming. ‘Heart to the Party’ is an exception; with its hand-clapping and almost Lisa Mitchell-esque sound, it has nice bright piano sounds, while the next track, ‘After the Winter’, continues the upbeat sound. Fittingly, ‘Heart to the Party’ is the first single from the album, and even if you don’t buy the album you should definitely buy the single, as it’s a highpoint. Another highpoint is ‘Two Heartbeats’, which features the in utero heartbeat of Lenka’s child. All in all, this album has beautiful vocals, great piano lines and a wonderful, serene feel. Worth a buy, for those calm moments when you just want to relax – at the very least, buy the singles. By Cameron Brogden

Patrick James All About to Change Create Control Patrick James is an indie-folk singer who has been slowly building a name for himself over the past few years. While his label calls this his debut EP, I have a signed copy of a self-titled EP somewhere that says otherwise. Patrick James is a poetic songwriter and talented musician. He’s supported the likes of Tim Hart (Boy and Bear) and Paper Kites, he earned the Unearthed spot at Festival of the Sun late last year, and is currently on tour with Emma Louise and Thelma Plum, so check him out if you get the chance. In the meantime, buy this EP. The EP opens with ‘Brighter Lights’, which builds to this powerful crescendo from a low piano intro. His harmonies are a little reminiscent of a Mumford and Sons song, especially when coupled with guitar and piano; his ‘Ah-ah-ah-ahs’ would not have been out of place on Mumford’s debut album. Next up is ‘All About to Change’, which has a bit of a Boy and Bear feel to it – with just a touch of Paper Kites. Basically, if you like any current indie-folk music, you’re going to love this EP. That’s what it comes down to. Patrick James is incredibly talented, and an all-around nice guy. Buy his EP. You won’t regret it. By Cameron Brogden

Jocelyn Storyline Independent This pop-rock outfit from Iowa City, Iowa, aren’t particularly well-known in this part of the world. I can’t see that staying the truth for much longer. Their sound is a little mid-2000s for my liking, but there is no real fault to their style. The vocals are clean and unique, the guitar hooks are quality and the songs are pretty much standard fare. There is just a slight chance that anyone in their mid-twenties will be dragged back to high school memories, because, like I said before, everything sounds like it came out in 2006. Storyline is their second EP and, unfortunately, doesn’t have anything that sounds like a single. The whole EP sounds like a collection of Yellowcard B-sides. They’re good, don’t get me wrong, they just don’t quite grab you like a single should. ‘I Can’t Be With You’ is the definite highlight, and probably the most single-worthy song, with catchy guitars and lyrics that are easy to sing along to. This release is a solid step in the right direction; it demonstrates the bands skills and sound. All they need is one song to breakthrough. A decent EP – and it’s only like, $5 on iTunes, so go buy it. By Cameron Brogden

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grogwatch So I got an invitation to a wedding this week and I don’t know if I can stand it. Not that I don’t want to go or anything; the people involved with the actual getting married side of things are really great people, and how often can you say that about both the bride and the groom? Seriously, I’d have to say at least 80% of the weddings I’ve been to have been on the “oh well, I guess [person X] makes [person Y] happy … so [person Y] must be an idiot because [person X] is a nightmare” side of things, but the good news with those weddings is that either the marriage doesn’t last all that long or the couple fairly quickly delete you from their address book; so either way you can act like a complete dick safe in the knowledge that there’ll be no lasting repercussions. But again, not the case here, and my freaking out has nothing to do with the fact that these guys are probably going to stay married and stay friends with me, so I can’t pull my usual wedding crap, which includes, but is not limited to, making a best man’s speech in which I suggested the groom had shower sex with his dog. No, it’s more that weddings are like a window into this strange other world that I have nothing to do with, and not in a “I’m never getting married unless it’s to a bottle, and even then I’d be cheating on it with a whole bunch of other bottles so what’s the point?” way; either because even if you do want to get married – heck, even if you are married – a wedding is this extremely weird distillation of a relationship between two people down to one really, really sharp point and seriously, something that sharp has got to be dangerous. Let me explain. Time was, marriages were arranged between two people who maybe kind of knew each other beforehand but not really – you got married, then you got to know each other (you know, like with sex and everything), so the wedding was like the start of something. It was a big deal, but the people actually getting married didn’t already have a

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bond so the pressure wasn’t really on so much – they had plenty of time to develop a connection, and if they didn’t, well, tough luck buddy. And today, we generally have the opposite when it comes to relationships: there’s no ceremony at the start; people just get together and see what happens, and sometimes before you know it they’re seriously together and other times they breakup and whatever dude. Again, there’s no pressure to make a given relationship work, because if it doesn’t you just go find someone else – or a bottle and crawl inside it for the next few years; whatever, stop looking at me like that. But this means now when there’s a wedding, it’s a Big Deal: two people have gotten together, decided they like each other blah blah, and then at the height of their “we really like each other”-ness, they put on a pageant to show everyone just how much they’re totally committed to becoming one entity. I am not joking here. Meeting people who are going to get married is like meeting insanely intense religious types – not the kind who try and convert you, because these people know that not just anyone can join their religion, oh no, their religion is super hardcore and it takes, like, a year or more of devoting yourself to their God every single day before you’re even ready for the big ceremony. And by the way, their God? IT’S THAT PERSON RIGHT OVER THERE. This is why we’re getting so many “check out our super cool hipster wedding”-type weddings these days. Weddings aren’t just something you do now, because loads of people don’t do them – and loads of people who do have them get divorced, which I’ll come back to – so if you’re going to do them it’s not just some average social event, it’s a massive ‘f**k-off check this shit out’ display of the awesome might of their love. And if that involves a bunch of bearded dudes in a forest wearing scoop-neck t-shirts under suits while the ladies look like 1920s flappers with bouquets of flowers strapped to their shoulders, that’s just how amazing love is and you have to respect that. Well, I don’t. I think they look like frigging clowns, but I do kinda of respect the underlying idea, which is that weddings these days aren’t just quiet little things you do to show your

love, because hey, everyone’s got quiet little love going on and they don’t need to get married to show that shit off. No, getting married is such a big statement in a world where living together is totally accepted that you have to make it LOOK like a big statement, otherwise what’s the point. But that gives these weddings – especially once you’ve been to a couple of them – their really weird energy where these people you know become like these hollow shells that look and act like the people you know and sometimes even crack the same kind of jokes you’d expect from them. But really the whole point of the day is to celebrate this – this thing growing inside of them that cuts them off from everyone else because it’s directed totally at the other person standing beside them. They’ve gathered everyone there to show them that none of them mean shit to them compared to the person they’ve chosen to marry. Which is all well and good – Lord knows I’ve invited people around to my house dozens of time to basically tell them that they don’t mean shit to me compared to that evening’s bottle of vodka, though by “tell” I mean “slur incoherently” – but my problem is that I’ve been to at least a couple of these super-intense weddings that haven’t worked out. Which makes it really hard to fully get into the swing of things when the next one comes around, because it’s kind of like watching people get superexcited about the plot twists in a movie you’ve already seen – you can get excited for them as they go on the ride, but you already know how it turns out and it’s kind of a disappointment. None of this would be a problem if weddings weren’t such a big deal these days. If it was just a bunch of friends getting together to celebrate a couple of people who really like each other, well, where’s the harm in that? And likewise, if it was something a couple of people were doing for the sake of the olds, again, fair enough, we can all take it with a grain of salt and just have a fun time. But nooooo. Weddings are now this massively intense ceremony that’s seen as the pinnacle of two people’s lives – the point at which they all-butliterally ascend to a higher plain of existence (and if that sounds like a joke, ask your single buddies how they feel around newly married people that used to be their friends) – and if you don’t like it at least as seriously as they do, you might as well go piss in the punch for all the death stares you’ll be collecting.

them that seriously. It’s not that you don’t take the people getting married seriously, or that you don’t believe they’re completely in love or what have you. It’s just that sometimes these things don’t work out … occasionally because the wife wants to become a stripper and the husband turns gay, according to one story I heard about a wedding I went to. But it’s hardly as if I can stagger up to the podium during the speeches and say: “Hey guys, don’t take it so seriously, it may never happen!”, because everyone I know knows I made that speech about the guy having sex with his dog at that other wedding so they’re not going to let me anywhere near a mic. And I would never do that anyway, because it’s their big day and their big choice to commit to each other in public, and like I said much, much earlier in this seemingly endless rant, this wedding I’m going to is between two people I actually like equally for once, so I won’t be sitting there thinking “man, [person X] is making such a mistake with this one”. No, I’ll just be sitting there freaking out under the psychic pressure of a room full of people thinking that this one moment is going to define their relationship for all time, when all it really should be is an excuse for everyone to get pissed and tell embarrassing stories that, for once, aren’t about me. Unless I start talking about that one wedding I went to that resulted in a marriage where the husband started having affairs six months in and they were divorced within a year. But I think that may have been my fault: wearing a pink shirt and a grey tie to the ceremony was never going to be a good look. Tony “In my defence, the tie did have a hula girl painted on it” Montana

And yet, I say again: it doesn’t matter how superpowered your wedding ceremony is, once you’ve seen a few marriages breakup you just can’t take

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