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ED'S NOTE I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that I would be a rich woman if I had a dollar for every time someone said, ‘They’re so over winter’. Yes it’s been cold, rainy and it seems like it’s gone on forever, but that’s what winter is all about. Just think, once winter is gone there’ll be fewer chances to use drinking whisky as an excuse to warm you up, crank the heater up to its highest setting or to indulge in an extra serving of pie, because hell, it’s winter. When spring and summer come around, while it’s great to not rely on electronic items to keep us warm, we’ll also be smacked in the
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Lenny Kravitz’ Pants Give Way Lenny Kravitz fans got more than they bargained for during a performance in Stockholm a few weeks ago. The charismatic singer was dancing vigorously and as the track progressed toward reaching a pinnacle, Lenny dropped suddenly into a squat, leg split type pose. Unfortunately, his leather pants gave way at the seam and as it turns out, Lenny was rolling commando. The fans at the show and subsequently millions of YouTube watchers worldwide got a look at what Lenny is packing. Lenny could be heard singing, “My Flyyyyyyy gave Waaaaayyy.. yeah yeah” not long after the incident.
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Melbourne Festival Our friendly neighbours in Melbourne are always looking out for us regional folk if we have nothing to do down our way (which is rare, but sometimes it happens). One to put in the diary is the Melbourne Festival set for October 8-25 at various locations around the city. Those entertaining you over the weeks will be; Babylon Circus, Brandt, Brauer Frick, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Cut Copy Djs, Clint Mansell, Countries To Welcome, Flight Facilities & MSO, Future Classic Night: Charles Murdoch and HWLS, George Maple, John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension, Katie Noonan’s Vanguard, Kiasmos, Kirin J Callinan, Laura Marling, Patti Smith’s Horses, Rhye, The Basics, The Bombay Royale, The Fall, The Field and Visible Music Sessions.
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Time to stock up on toothpaste as you’re about to get a hell of the sweet stuff when Sugar Mountain festival returns on January 23 in 2016. The line up is still on the way, but with the likes of Ariel Pink, Nas and Swans previously playing the festival we have big hopes!
Courtney Does the Rounds It seems that Courtney Barnett can’t get enough of the stage, and following on from her performances set for Falls and Southbound festivals later this year, she’ll quickly back it up with a national tour. Courtney will perform alongside Cloud Control and hit The Palais Theatre in Melbourne on January 22. Tickets on sale now.
Flo’s Got the Love After playing to adoring fans at Splendour in the Grass, you’d think that was all Australia was going to get from the generous singer – you’d be wrong. Florence and the Machine have announced an Australian tour and for the Sydney Opera House show it seemingly broke the internet. An extra date at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on November 11 was also added to the Melbourne dates. Seems there’s a lot of love for the singer!
The Darkness are Coming So fans of the Darkness would have been a little broken hearted when their Australian tour with Joan Jett was cancelled two years ago, but never fear, they’re back. The Darkness will play the Forum in Melbourne on November 11 (time to decide between Florence or the Darkness!).
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Franco On the Porn Wire Anything associated to The Wire (what we in the Forte office count as one of the best TV shows around) is golden in our eyes, and pair that with James Franco and you’re onto a winner. When The Wire creator David Simon announced his newest show The Deuce, telling the story of the ‘70s porn industry in New York City we were smitten. James Franco is set to play a set of twins in the show too, it’s as if David was reading our minds!!
Tyler, the… creator? Frontier Touring have recently cancelled the upcoming Australian leg of Tyler, the Creator’s Cherry Bomb World Tour after controversy surrounded the musicians visa application for Australia. Activist group Collective Shout called for the rapper’s visa to be denied as they claim his music advocates violence against women. Tyler said of the cancellation: “We would much rather come to Australia when it isn’t surrounded in controversy. I love my fans there and hopefully I’ll be back soon. Don’t do drugs.”
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Proving they’re just the littlest bit of a Tame Impala fan, the HAIM sisters recently remixed/ covered ‘Cause I’m A Man’ and it is glorious. Give it a listen, though chances are your ears won’t hear something quite as beautiful for a long time to come.
How good was the original Ghostbusters movie? Good, right? Well with news they were doing a remake and even with the interesting female lead twist, it was still missing the Bill Murray factor. Alas, it’s just been confirmed he will feature in the remake, though how is yet to be determined.
Holy Moly! It wasn’t too long ago that Holy Holy released their debut album, When the Storms Would Come, and what quickly followed was a sellout Melbourne show of their supporting tour. The band have just announced a second date for September 6 at Howler, so make sure you grab your tickets to this one!
Jimmy Shows His Soul For 25 years in the making, it was only fitting to release Jimmy Barnes’ Best of the Soul Years a week earlier than planned. The album takes a look at the musical journey of the musician and also features seven of the original recordings (previously unreleased mixes) from hit album, Soul Deep. Get your copy now!
Three Times the David It seems American writer, humourist and speaker, David Sedaris is a lover of Australia, as he’s just announced his third Australian tour. Time to
spend an evening with David (writer of Me Talk Pretty One Day, Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls and more) at Hamer Hall in Melbourne on January 21 or 22 (or both).
Have You Met Vallis Alps? There’s a new band on the scene set for big things, and it’s in part thanks to the folks at triple j unearthed. The band in mention is Vallis Alps and fresh from a debut festival performance at Splendour in the Grass and with a triple j unearthed doco capturing the bands beginnings and development over the past month, they’ve just announced a set of shows this October. A performance at the Northcote Social Club in Melbourne on October 10 is locked into their diaries, so make sure it’s in yours too!
New Role, New Era For Films In Elle Fanning’s newest film she stars as a transgender teen Ray, who is transitioning from female to male. The film follows Ray’s journey and gives a new depth to previous LGBTI films. Australia is yet to have an official release date confirmed, but with
Absolute Paradise Set for November 27-29 in the midst of Lake Mountain Alpine Resort, you could easily say Paradise music festival is just that: paradise. Having just released their first line up it looks to be true for the musicians playing as well. Set for the festival so far are; My Disco, Lurch & Chief, Black Cab, Black Vanilla, Tired Lion, Kirkis, Cassius Select, The Harpoons, Smile, Dorsal Fins, Darts, Friendships, Totally Mild, Catlips, Oslow, Jaala, Null, Habits, Strict Face, Cale Sexton, Tiny Little Houses, Broadway Sounds, Andrei Eremin, 0.1, Marcus Whale, Amateur Dance, Good Morning, Asdasfr Bawd, Post Percy, The Completely Boys and Thomas Touché.
Naomi Watts, Susan Sarandon and Tate Donovan also in the film, About Ray, is set to be an award-winner.
Pull the Pit Due to singer Michael Angelakos’ ongoing health issues, Passion Pit have been forced to cancel their upcoming Australian tour. The band were also set to appear in Singapore, Indonesia, the
Philippines and Japan – all are also missing out. “It is with a heavy heart that we make such an announcement,” the statement read. “However, we are left with no choice. Michael Angelakos is devastated and would like everyone to know that he’s working to get healthy as soon as possible. No other tour dates are affected by this issue.”
Put Your Trust In Half Moon Run There’s no denying that the album Dark Eyes was a firm favourite amongst Aussie music lovers, and now Half Moon Run have just announced the follow up. Sun Leads Me On is set for release on October 23, and as a bit of a teaser the band have released the first single from the record, ‘Trust’, offering a new electronic sound from the band.
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BABUSHKA BAR (Ballarat): Singers of the Black Book BARWON CLUB: Amber Lawrence, Aleyce Simmonds, Lyn Bowtell BARWON HEADS HOTEL: Trivia Night from 7:30pm BEAVS BAR: Levi Anderson BENDED: Happy Hour 4-6 BIRD ROCK: Mexican Night; Mi Casa Su Casa, Taqueria and Tequila EDGE GEELONG: Live Music and DJ ELEPHANT & CASTLE: $20 Asahi Seafood & Chips Night EUREKA HOTEL: Eureka Thursdays with local DJs GOLD DIGGERS: Happy hour 5-6 KAROVA LOUNGE (Ballarat): SAFIA LORD OF THE ISLES: Trivia in the courtyard MARTIANS CAFE: $25 International Night including drink MAX HOTEL: Parmi night, Trivia Night MUSIC MAN (Bendigo): Megan Washington PISTOL PETES: Lounge Lizards THE SPHINX HOTEL: Schnitzel Night from $13 ST JAMES: Live DJs SUTTONS HOUSE OF MUSIC (Ballarat): AMPED Evening
FRIDAY AUGUST 21ST BABUSHKA BAR (Ballarat): Jessey Jackson BARWON CLUB: Famous Will, Patrick Wilson & the Bare River Queens, Rach Brennan and more BARWON HEADS HOTEL: Happy Hour 5-7pm, Meat Raffle & Members Draw BEAVS BAR: Luke Biscan BELMONT HOTEL: Levi Anderson BENDED: Happy Hour 4-6 BIRD ROCK: It’s Friday B!tches BLACK HATT: Detonators BRIDGE HOTEL (Castlemaine): Fierce
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Mild, Jack & the Kids CITY QUARTER BAR: Friday Unwind from 5pm. Live with live entertainment and DJ THE EASTERN: The Yard Apes, Doubleblack, Sarge & The Nuked EDGE GEELONG: Live Music and DJ ELEPHANT AND CASTLE: Thank Guinness It’s Friday EUREKA HOTEL: Live DJs FLYING SAUCER CLUB (Melbourne): Hugo Race and the True Spirit GOLD DIGGERS: Happy hour 5-6 GPAC: Gillian Cosgriff in Whelmed, The Tap Pack. WNTR Cabaret Festival THE GROVEDALE HOTEL: Dear Ivy HOME HOUSE: Darryn’s 50th Birthday Weekend Circus Spectacular KAROVA LOUNGE (Ballarat): Megan Washington THE LORD NELSON: Happy Hour 5pm-7pm MAX HOTEL: 3 On The Tree ODYSSEYTAVERN AND BREWERY: Live Music PISTOL PETES: Mick Dogs Boneyard ST JAMES: Live DJs TORQUAY HOTEL: Joss Russell WORKERS CLUB (GEELONG): Born Lion
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BABUSHKA BAR (Ballarat): Aimee Francis and Michael Yule BARWON CLUB: Veeped Lives ft Drunk Mums, Sun God Replica, Luke Legs and the Midnight Specials, The Underhanded, Chook & Moluck and more BEAVS BAR: Jack Harman BELMONT HOTEL: Cam Bruce BENDED: Happy Hour 4-6 BLACK HATT: Crosstrack, Elasticalpaca, Jordan Bailey THE BLUES TRAIN (Queenscliff): Geoff Achison BRIDGE HOTEL (Castlemaine): Lucie Thorne & Hamish Stuart
CHERRY BAR: Hydromedusa, Holy Serpent. THE EASTERN: Fierce Mild, Fabels, Ebonivory, Avora EDGE: Live Music and DJ EUREKA: $5 Night GEELONG RSL: Eagles Tribute GPAC: Chelsea Gibb in That’s Life, Makin’ Whoopee. WNTR Cabaret Festival THE GROVEDALE HOTEL: Dean & Jason HOME HOUSE: Darryn’s 50th Birthday Weekend Circus Spectacular After Party MAX HOTEL: Frequency ODYSSEYTAVERN AND BREWERY: Live Music OLD HEPBURN HOTEL: Weekend 4 Wayne Fundraiser PISTOL PETE’S: The Screamin’ Honkies ROCKABILLY ADVENTURES: Grand Opening @ Geelong Motoring Musueum SAINTS & SAILORS (Portarlington): Live Music SPHINX HOTEL: The Chantoozies, Mr Meaner ST JAMES: Live DJs: House, Hip Hop, RnB SUTTONS HOUSE OF MUSIC (Ballarat): Motor City Sounds UNWINED: Joss Russell
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BARWON CLUB: Test Pilot Molly BENDED: Happy Hour 4-6 BIRD ROCK: Sunday Sessions $9 Pizzas CITY QUARTER: Perfect Sunday Sesh Live music and DJ from 4pm THE EASTERN: Pop Culture Market EDGE GEELONG: Live Music and DJ ELEPHANT & CASTLE: Live Jazz from 3-6pm and Parmi Night GEELONG RSL: $13 Carvery lunch GROVEDALE HOTEL: Levi Anderson ODYSSEYTAVERN AND BREWERY: Live Music SAINTS & SAILORS (Portarlington): Live Music
ST JAMES: Live Music & DJs THE SPHINX HOTEL: Carvery from $17 SUTTONS HOUSE OF MUSIC (Ballarat): Shane Gilbert ZIGFRIDS: 8 Bit Buger Pop Up
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BENDED: Happy Hour 4-6 ELEPHANT & CASTLE: $20 Steak & Drink night CHERRY BAR: Jerry Jam Mondays GEELONG RSL: Members Draw, over $3000 in prizes to be won! GOLD DIGGERS: $14 parmi and rump steak night OLD HEPBURN HOTEL (Hepburn Springs): Parmi night THE SPHINX HOTEL: Meals for $11
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BENDED: Two Choice Tuesdays ELEPHANT & CASTLE: $20 Steak & Drink night GEELONG RSL: Steak Night $13 GOLD DIGGERS: $14 parmi and rump steak night OLD HEPBURN HOTEL (Hepburn Springs): Parmi night
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BABUSHKA BAR (Ballarat): Karaoke BARWON CLUB: Megan Washington THE BARWON HEADS HOTEL: Master of Dartness and Poker from 7pm BEAVS BAR: Open Mic, Karaoke, Dave Anderson BENDED: Parmi Paradise & pub Trivia BIRD ROCK: Drinks Specials, Ping Pong Challenge CORNER HOTEL: Gang of Youths ELEPHANT AND CASTLE: Trivia Night from 8pm. GEELONG (52 Garden St): No Lights No Lycra GEELONG RSL: Pot and Parmi Night $13
GOLD DIGGERS ARMS: Trivia Night GPAC: Shandelle Cooke in Divas Through the Decades, Tinderella, WNTR Cabaret Festival MAX HOTEL: Lukey’s Open Mic Night, $10 Burger night ODYSSEY TAVERN AND BREWERY: Live Music OLD HEPBURN HOTEL (Hepburn Springs): Roast night
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BEAVS BAR: Levi Anderson BIRD ROCK: Mexican Night; Mi Casa Su Casa, Taqueria and Tequila EDGE GEELONG: Live Music and DJ ELEPHANT & CASTLE: $20 Asahi Seafood & Chips Night EUREKA HOTEL: Eureka Thursdays with local DJs GOLD DIGGERS: Happy hour 5-6 GPAC: Country Song with Jimmy Little, Jackson Thomas, Lisa Hanley in The Songs of Joni Mitchell LORD OF THE ISLES: Trivia in the courtyard MARTIANS CAFE: $25 International Night including drink MAX HOTEL: Parmi night, Trivia night NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB: Megan Washington ODYSSEY TAVERN AND BREWERY: Live Music PISTOL PETE’S: LIVE MUSIC THURSDAYS: Kay & the Bluedogs THE SPHINX HOTEL: Schnitzel Night from $13 ST JAMES: Live DJs, SUTTONS HOUSE OF MUSIC (Ballarat): Pianola Party
FRIDAY AUGUST 28TH BABUSHKA BAR (Ballarat): Sergey BARWON CLUB: Deafwish, Powor, Cereal Killers and more BARWON HEADS HOTEL: Happy Hour 5-7pm, Meat Raffle & Members Draw BEAVS BAR: Jack Harman
C A L E N D A R BELMONT HOTEL: Zane Carroll BENDED: Happy Hour 4-6 BIRD ROCK: It’s Friday B!tches BLACK HATT: Acoustic Avenue BRIDGE HOTEL (Castlemaine): The JVC Guitar Method, Large Number 12s CHERRY BAR: Demon parade CITY QUARTER BAR: Friday Unwind from 5pm. Live with live entertainment and DJ EDGE GEELONG: Live Music and DJ ELEPHANT AND CASTLE: Thank Guinness It’s Friday EUREKA HOTEL: $5 Night, Live DJS GOLD DIGGERS: Happy hour 5-6 GPAC: Country Song with Jimmy Little, Rob Mills is...Surprisingly Good THE GROVEDALE HOTEL: Levi & Cody HOME HOUSE: Homehouse Fridays Party with DJs KAROVA LOUNGE (Ballarat): Northeast Party House THE LORD NELSON: Happy Hour 5pm-7pm MAX HOTEL: After Five ODYSSEY TAVERN AND BREWERY: Live Music PISTOL PETES: The New Savages SAINTS & SAILORS (Portarlington): Live Music SUTTONS HOUSE OF MUSIC (Ballarat): Month of Sundays WORKERS CLUB (GEELONG): Massive
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BABUSHKA BAR: Von Stache BARWON CLUB: The Hotdog Cup, The Dukes of Deliciousness, Sherrif Grindhouse BEAVS BAR: Jeff Malapit BELMONT HOTEL: Lachy Cartledge BENDED: Happy Hour 4-6 BLACK HATT: Toxicon THE EASTERN: Mesa Cosa, Scotdrakula EDGE: Live Music and DJ
EUREKA: $5 Night GPAC: Country Song with Jimmy Little THE GROVEDALE HOTEL: Luke Biscan HOMEHOUSE: Keesh, Tramp, Jungle KAROVA LOUNGE (Ballarat): Asta THE LOFT (Warrnambool): Lyall Moloney MAX HOTEL: Adventure Playground ODYSSEYTAVERN AND BREWERY: Live Music OLD HEPBURN HOTEL: Gabe Atkinson OXYGEN COLLEGE OPEN DAY 11am-3pm PISTOL PETE’S: Andy Phillips & The Cadillac Walk SAINTS & SAILORS (Portarlington): Live Music SPHINX HOTEL: Wooshka ST JAMES: Live DJs: House, Hip Hop, RnB WORKERS CLUB (GEELONG): Gang of Youths
SUNDAY AUGUST 30TH
BARWON CLUB: Good Faces for Radio BEAVS BAR: Boudicas Up Rising BENDED: Happy Hour 4-6 BIRD ROCK: Sunday Sessions $9 Pizzas CITY QUARTER: Perfect Sunday Sesh Live music and DJ from 4pm EDGE GEELONG: Live Music and DJ ELEPHANT & CASTLE: Live Jazz from 3-6pm and Parmi Night GEELONG RSL: $13 Carvery lunch THE GROVEDALE HOTEL: Levi Anderson THE LORD NELSON: Sunday Funday Live Music ODYSSEYTAVERN AND BREWERY: Live Music OLD HEPBURN HOTEL: The Resignators SAINTS & SAILORS (Portarlington): Live Music THE SPHINX HOTEL: Carvery from $17 SUTTONS HOUSE OF MUSIC (Ballarat): Callum Darke
MONDAY AUGUST 31ST
BARWON CLUB: $10 Parmis BENDED: Happy Hour 4-6, Steak night CHERRY BAR: Cherry Jam Mondays ELEPHANT & CASTLE: $20 Steak & Drink night GEELONG RSL: Members Draw, over $3000 in prizes to be won! GOLD DIGGERS: $14 parmi and rump steak night OLD HEPBURN HOTEL (Hepburn Springs): Parmi night THE SPHINX HOTEL: Meals for $11
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BEAVS BAR: FILM NIGHT! BENDED: Two Choice Tuesdays ELEPHANT & CASTLE: $20 Steak & Drink night GEELONG RSL: Steak Night $13 GOLD DIGGERS: $14 parmi and rump steak night THE LOFT (Warrnambool): Gang of Youths OLD HEPBURN HOTEL (Hepburn Springs): Parmi night
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2ND BABUSHKA BAR (Ballarat): Karaoke THE BARWON HEADS HOTEL: Master of Dartness and Poker from 7pm BEAVS BAR: Open Mic, Karaoke, Luke Biscan BENDED: Parmi Paradise & pub trivia BIRD ROCK: Drink Specials, Ping Pong Challenge ELEPHANT AND CASTLE: Trivia Night from 8pm. Have fun win prizes book a table GEELONG (52 Garden St): No Lights No Lycra GEELONG RSL: Pot and Parmi Night $13 GOLD DIGGERS ARMS: Trivia MAX HOTEL: Lukey’s Open Mic Night, $10 Burger night ODYSSEY TAVERN AND BREWERY: Crafty Burger Night OLD HEPBURN HOTEL (Hepburn Springs): Roast night PISTOL PETES: Food and Blues
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“Music saved my life many, many times,” drummer and lyricist Vinnie Fiorello admits. “Not to be melodramatic, but it has. It’s guided me the right way and helps me when life gets stormy – kind of like today!” he laughs and lightens the mood. “Seriously it’s been pouring here all day – I can’t wait to get to Australia.” When Less Than Jake wrap up their tour of sunny ol’ England, they’re heading our way with California’s favourite ska punks Reel Big Fish for their first co-headline tour in years. “This is the first time we’ll be down in Australia to play solo shows since the release
of See the Light (2013) and we’re sharing the top spot with our buddies from Reel Big Fish. We’ll both be playing full-length sets, so you can believe it’s going to be a good time.” Although Fiorello wouldn’t confirm a RBF/LTJ mash up or plans for an onstage collaboration, he was forthcoming when asked about backstage hijinks. “We all hang
out during the day and before the show when we’re on tour. Even though we poke fun at each other we’re part of a brotherhood, and that comes into play onstage. Less Than Jake would never put on a scripted show,” he continues. “What you see is what you get – we feed off the fun we’ve had together during the day and hopefully the crowd has fun too.” Less Than Jake were
pioneers of ska-punk when they broke out of the college scene in Gainesville, Florida back in 1992 – and 20 years on from their debut album Pezcore (1995, which featured one of their most enduring anthems ‘Johnny Quest Thinks We’re Sellouts’), Fiorello says that they’re as committed as ever and never get sick of fielding audience requests. “Yeah man, we still play ‘Johnny Quest’
every night. To me that’s so cool because that’s a 20-year-old song,” Fiorello says. “But at the same time we’re equally as excited to play songs off our latest record See the Light. Songs like ‘Good Enough’ or ‘Give Me Something to Believe In’ are equally as fun to play. Personally, I think it doesn’t matter if the song is old or new as long as it gets good crowd reaction – and at the moment we’ve got about 45 or 50 songs in our rotation, so we never have any trouble busting out an oldie.” While Fiorello concedes that he stole the idea of adding horns to the fold after listening to The Specials, an entire generation of ska and pop punk bands cite Less Than Jake as a
major influence – an honour that’s not lost on the band. “Any time that something you do has a ripple effect … that’s one of the coolest things about this job to be honest. Less Than Jake and punk music aside, I love the fact that music can resonate with people and bring them back to a time and place they’d forgotten,” he says. “Music gives people an anchor when things are bad or it can lift people up. To me, that’s the coolest thing and why I feel lucky to be able to do it for a living and be amongst people I consider my brothers.” As a father to a little girl and the co-founder of record labels Paper + Plastick, Fueled By Ramen and Sleep It Off – as well as
taking on the role of head designer for his company Wunderland War – these days his duties with Less Than Jake are a treat rather than a chore. “Touring is my vacation time and I need it! In my personal life, being a dad or just handling business stuff, there are all those little parts that make up the bigger picture. So when I get to tour all I wanna do is have fun,” he says. If fun is numero uno on the agenda for the Australian leg of their tour, I’ll wager that they made the right choice in picking the life of the Party! Party! Party! That’s right, The Bennies will support Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake at the upcoming shows. “It was a funny coincidence because
‘All My Best Friends Are Metalheads’ Hello Rockview 1998 ‘The Science of Selling Yourself Short’ Anthem 2003 ‘Look What Happened’ Borders and Boundaries 2000 ‘Johnny Quest Thinks We’re Sellouts’ Pezcore 1995 ‘Overrated (Everything Is)’ In With the Out Crowd 2006
Anty [lead singer of The Bennies] and I talk online and we’ve always said that we’d love to tour together, but our promoter thinks it was his idea. He said: ‘I’m thinking of this great band the Bennies to be your support’. Of course we jumped at the chance! I’m a big fan of the band and I love their attitude, so I think that Less Than Jake and The Bennies together will equal a lot of fun times! We can’t wait.”
WHEN&WHERE: October 1 - The Prince Bandroom. St Kilda - Australia
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LEAH FLANAGAN Written by Natalie Rogers
She is a timeless beauty and an exceptional talent, and while she’s been hibernating of late working on her next album, Leah Flanagan is planning a special show at the Lorne Arts Festival to welcome in the springtime and showcase her new tunes. “I’m so happy that I’ll have finished recording my next album by the time I get to Lorne!” Leah smiles. “This time I’m working with Niall Anderson – he’s producing the record and he’s an amazing musician. I’ve got a great band that features Jonathan Schwartz on double bass, Adam Pringle on guitars and Jim Moginie from Midnight Oil playing guitar. I’ve even got people like Benny Walker and Ursula Yovich singing on my record. We’ve worked together a lot – we’re like family these days. It’s my all-star band. I’m very spoilt. “And I’ll be playing new stuff at Lorne but in a different way,” she continues, “because most of the music I’m writing at the moment is heavily electric guitar driven – but at Lorne I’m playing with Melanie Robertson and she is a beautiful cellist. Melanie and I have arranged the new songs in a way so that the core is still the same, but they sound amazing with the cello.” Leah has Italian, Irish and Aboriginal ancestry. She was born and raised in the Northern Territory, and was inspired by the music around her at a young age.
“I grew up in a household with lots of music – my parents had loads of records and I was really heavily influenced by them. In Darwin there were lots of community events, and whilst there wasn’t a great deal of places for people to play live, and there wasn’t as many people living there when I was young as there is now, there was still a nice little community of artists that I’d go and see – and when I began performing they’d support me.” Determined to pursue her passion for music Leah left friends and family to study a Bachelor of Music at Adelaide’s Conservatory of Music, majoring in Classical Voice. “Studying at the Conservatory gave me some really great
foundations for being an artist. It’s made me a better singer – I’m more in control of my voice and it made me appreciate the art of song writing. “To me, song writing is an evolving art,” she continues, “and while I like to think that I have moments when the art comes naturally to me, I know as I’ve gotten older and decided that making music is what I want to do as my career and for the rest of my life, it’s something I have to make time for, and practising every day is the key.” Listening to other artists keeps Leah’s love for song writing ever present in her mind.
“I would kill to work with Neneh Cherry and I’m a massive Tom Waits fan – they both inspire me to work harder and be better, and that’s why I believe that it’s crucial for people to go out and support local musicians and bands In their community,” she says. “People really want to support others, and now more than ever they do it by watching reality TV shows. If they actually channelled that into what’s happening in their own backyard and around them, every town would be thriving with arts,” Leah explains. “The passion is there and people do care, and I know we
will see it at the Lorne Arts Festival. It’s an incredible event and a beautiful place.”
WHEN & WHERE: Lorne Arts Festival, various locations – August 28-30
IMMIGRANT UNION Written by Tex Miller
Brent DeBoer is currently touring around the country with his psych folk rock outfit Immigrant Union. Promoting their second release Anyway that was recorded in Altona and features the likes of Courtney Barnett (when she was still an active member of the band). As the frontman for this band, DeBoer is playing guitar and things are a little different from when he is behind the drumkit playing with American rock legends, The Dandy Warhols. “We’ve only played two shows on this tour so far man, but I think that the vibe we have been getting from everyone has been great. It’s been mind numbingly trippy and we have had a lot of fun and everyone that has come out so far has enjoyed themselves as well,” DeBoer says. It was in a bar in Melbourne in 2004 when DeBoer met Bob Harrow that the idea for Immigrant Union was originally floated. It may seem like a clichéd ‘love at first sight’ kind of deal, however, Harrow and DeBoer were in it for the long run – catching up and song writing when Deboer was in the country. It was a permanent move here in 2010 that saw the band really flourish and things start to take off for them.
“When I moved to Australia, I said to Bob that we should try and make something of this project that we had been working on,” he says. “We had a bunch of songs together and we decided to make a record and tour on the back of that. It’s been hard work since the beginning and I think we are finally reaping the rewards. We have been through a lot of change recently with Courtney and her rhythm section leaving to do other things, but I feel we are in a good place at the moment.” When Courtney Barnett released her debut EP I’ve Got A Friend Called Emily Ferris, in which DeBoer played drums, he knew that she really had something special with her own music and that she was destined for the big time.
“ She was in the group for a few years, so when we had the songs ready to make an album, she helped record them. I played drums on her first EP and right from that moment I could tell that she was going to make it as a solo artist. Her touring commitments made it difficult for her to be in the band but we are loving the fit we have with band members now,” DeBoer says. The band are set to play at Kennedys Creek Music Festival later in the year and DeBoer can’t wait to get up on stage and play tracks from their new album.
“I’ve heard really good things about that festival and I can’t wait to play man. At the moment, we are working on a new record and we might play some new tracks – I don’t know. It’ll be great and you should bring your friends down there so we can have a massive party man. This gig is going to be massive,” he says. With his workload split between Immigrant Union and The Dandy Warhols, DeBoer is constantly on tour playing all around the world. We can expect a new Dandies record in February or March next year, but until then check out this exceptional psych country outfit. WHEN&WHERE: Kennedys Creek Music Festival – October 24 & 25
PALACE OF THE KING Written by Natalie Rogers,
In the 20 or so years that I’ve been following the Australian indie rock scene, I’m not sure I’ve come across a band receiving as high praise for their debut album as Melbourne’s Palace of the King. In every street press, music blog and on many rock radio stations around Australia, White Bird/Burn the Sky is getting the attention it so rightly deserves. “Everything has certainly been ticking along nicely,” says guitarist Matthew ‘Harri’ Harrison, playing down the rave reviews they’ve received of late. “After we recorded the album we were happy with the results – but you never know what other people might think regardless of how you feel about it personally. Now we can’t wait to get out on the road and play in front of those people who have been giving us such awesome feedback – we couldn’t be more proud.” The six-piece blues-inspired roll ‘n’ roll band is fronted by singer and multi-instrumentalist Tim Henwood, formally of Rogue Traders, The Superjesus and The Androids. “Tim is the singer in our band, but he just so happens to be one of Australia’s best guitarists as well. Sometimes he makes me feel a little bit small in comparison, because he’s a much better guitarist than me!” Harri laughs. “He does a lot of recording and producing for bands on the side, and as a result we had the luxury of being able to jump into a studio whenever we felt like it. He mans the desk and we just get going – and he captures our attitude and live energy. That’s how we recorded our EPs and our LP. 22 FORTE
“As musicians we really love the improvisational aspect of playing music, and a really big part of playing in a band is the connection to other musicians and to the music,” Harri continues. “For me that’s something that really heightens the experience of playing music, and hopefully when we’re doing it right it heightens the experience for the listener. I love it when bands throw themselves off the deep end and venture into the unknown – and that’s something we hope seeps into our live set.” Due to popular demand Palace of the King will embark on their maiden voyage to Europe in October, but if you get in quick you can catch them in the support slot paying homage to the one and only Jimi Hendrix on the
WHEN&WHERE: The Experience: 45th anniversary of the passing of Jimi Hendrix, Barwon Club, Geelong – September 18
th 45 anniversary of his passing. The Experience, lead by Hendrix devotee (and POTK front man) Henwood, and a crack rhythm section featuring Dave Stevens and Michael Stangel, will celebrate the brilliance of a man whose brief time on earth changed the face of rock ‘n’ roll guitar playing forever.
“The idea to do the support made perfect sense. For us as a band Hendrix’s music has been a massive cornerstone and reference point for what we do, and the way we’ve individually grown up as musicians. I’ve even got a Hendrix tattoo on my left leg!” Harri smiles. “He’s almost single-handedly the reason for me picking up the guitar in the first place.”
Stayed tuned for the announcement of a national tour before the end of the year.
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8bit Burger Love
Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky
There’s something about biting into a good ol’ tasty burger, when the juice trickles down your chin a little, that is just so satisfying. If there’s anyone who knows their way around a good burger it’s the folk from Footscray burger joint, 8bit, and they’re coming to Geelong! As a one-off (at this stage) pop up the team will head down to Zigfrids Dining Hall (66 Pakington Street, Geelong West) from 11am-5pm and cook up some of their best treats. On the menu will be the Double Dragon, the 8bit with cheese and the Altered Beast. We also hear there’ll be some onion rings (yum) to accompany your juicy feast. Dig in!
On September 18, 1970, the world lost Jimi Hendrix. While there will be readers who will know little of the man, most will know of the riffs – Purple Haze, Hey Joe, Little Wing, Foxy Lady and Voodoo Chile. Then there is his performance of The Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock, widely regarded as one of the finest-ever live performances. To honour the 45th anniversary of his passing, RHR Music will host a couple of Jimi Hendrix extravaganzas, including one at Geelong’s Barwon Club on September 18. Taking on the challenge will be Hendrix devotee and guitarist extraordinaire Tim Henwood (The Androids, Superjesus, Rogue Traders), along with Dave Stevens and Michael Stangel.
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Stiff as a Plank Melbourne’s fearless duo, The Stiff ys, have a little September present for us – new EP, Art Rock One. Since they first donned their sailor costumes, the bodacious boogie-boarding bandits have made us believe in ourselves with their positive messages. They have educated us with their instructional videos. They have drunk our beers when our backs were turned. And they’ve also managed to give us plenty of tunes along the way. From the band: “We’ve decided to split our Art Rock record over two EPs because, honestly, we’re so far ahead of the curve right now we need to give everybody some time to catch up. Also, recording time is pretty expensive for an independent band … We can’t say too much about Art Rock One until it comes out but we can say that it contains our most bold work yet in the form of a song called ‘Space Blog’, which is basically about writing blogs in space … We’re so excited to go on tour again because when you are a touring rock and roll band people give you free drinks and interstate people think you are really exotic. It’s so great being in a band. Guys, never give up on your dreams.” The Loft, Warrnambool – September 18.
Gone Fishin’ Known as “The Band from the Spencer Street Dunnies”, The Resignators have all the proper psychoska nutrients one needs to maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle. The band formed around a decade ago, lending their name The Resignation, an album released by Rx Bandits in 2003. Taking out a chapter in the ska story of Australia, the band sits alongside the likes of local pioneers such as the Caribs, Strange Tenants, The Porkers and Area-7. While ska is at the heart of their sound, the band isn’t shy when it comes to taking a little of whatever else works. Earlier in the year they released a limited edition, hand-numbered EP titled Fish Outta Water. Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn Springs – August 30.
Ya Dirty Bums Statistics show that three out of five people will suffer from bum grubs at some point in their life. It could be your dad, your mum, your sister or brother. It could be you. When was the last time you checked your bum for grubs? If you have a spare moment, do it now. Have a friend do it for you if needs be. There is probably even an app for it. Now, all this talk about bum grubs is due to those punk rock 24 FORTE
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good blokes, the Cosmic Psychos. After rehydrating following their tour with the Dune Rats, the band is at it again, this time with new single – you guessed it, ‘Bum for Grubs’. The Barwon Club, Geelong – September 11; The Karova, Ballarat – September 12; and The Vine, Bendigo – September 13.
The Ocean Party Keep You Guessing Jeez, there is something about Aussie bands and a strong work ethic. When it comes to The Ocean Party you have four albums to choose from, beginning with their 2012 debut The Sun Rolled Off the Hills. And there are strong signs pointing to album number five. Exhibit A: their new single, ‘Guess Work’. City and Sound’s Leith Jacobs: “In typical Ocean Party fashion Guess Work is a guitardriven slice of indie pop. At times sounding similar to Brooklyn’s Real Estate, the Melbourne six-piece take things to the next level, with a saxophone and piano-led outro that’s roaring in comparison.” Make them feel welcome when the rock up to The Loft, Warrnambool on October 3.
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Falling for You Yeah, yeah, you know all about The Falls, don’t you? You have probably signed up for the ballot. You probably have your clothes picked out. You are probably planning some ingenious way to smuggle things in that you shouldn’t. And really, don’t do that. However, we’ll go through it again because we want to. The line-up for this year’s event includes Bloc Part, Foals, Disclosure, Gary Clark, Jr., Toro y Mori, Young Fathers, Django Django, Courtney Barnett, Halsey, Hiatus Kaiyote, Hilltop Hoods, Mac DeMarco, Meg Mac, Paul Kelly & Merri Soul Sessions, Birds of Tokyo, Gang of Youths and Little May. If you were snoozin’ on signing up for the ballot, general admission begins August 26. Good luck!
Introducing Marlon Williams FEATURE: We’re giving you plenty of notice for this one because you are going to need it: Marlon Williams (along with his band the Yarra Benders) has a date with Geelong’s Workers Club on December 10. The New Zealand crooner, who is currently based in Melbourne, is having a dream run at the moment. His self-titled debut album charted at a healthy #4 in its opening week in NZ, while its accompanying launch tour sold out across the board. He has also been making a solid impression on the international market, inking agent and label deals in North America and Europe. He made the move to Australia in 2013 from the town of Lyttelton, picking up a Tuesday residency in the Yarra Hotel’s front bar where, in time, he started to generate the sort of love he felt back home. As for his album, it’s an eclectic bunch of songs, as he told SMH’s Craig Mathieson earlier in the year: “The idea was to be as disparate as possible because it’s the first album of mine a lot of people will hear and I didn’t want to limit the scope of what I could do in the future. My hope is that my voice is the binding thread on these very different songs.” Once again, that is Geelong’s Workers Club on December 10.
Deaf Wish Bring You Pain Some eight years ago, four lovely people formed Deaf Wish. The story goes that back then they formed with the philosophy: “Let’s not make anything that’s going to last. If we’re together for just two shows, then that’s what it is.” Indeed they may have rolled with the punches had they been a two-show band, but instead they’re making good work of things – despite often being scattered across multiple continents, chiefly coming together for sporadic touring. This month welcomed Pain, their first album since coming together semi-permanently in Melbourne, and their debut full-length release for the folk over at Sub Pop. (They previously released the EP St. Vincent through the label.) Every track was captured in three takes or less. Guitarist Jensen Tjhung: “It’s a simple thing. Simple takes the worry out of it. If we try to step it up and go sideways, it just doesn’t seem to work. But we’ve grown up and been through some shit. To get to this point you have to bust through a few walls. It’s easy to be new, and I think, in the end, this is what it is. When you put these people in the room, it’s Deaf Wish.” The Barwon Club, Geelong – August 28.
Cheers for the Beers You may have heard that Oktoberfest is coming to Geelong. Perhaps someone told you on your morning commute; an elderly gentleman named Hans, perhaps, who was dressed resplendently and smelt like bratwurst. However you have received your Oktoberfest information, you would know that the Geelong Racecourse is set to host one of the world’s oldest and most popular festival traditions on October 10. Geelong has some serious connections, so they’ll be serving up a tasty selection of German brews including Hofbräu, Franziskaner, Spaten, Hacker-Pschorr, Löwenbräu and Paulaner. Music, a best beard competition, a strongman event and barrel races will be among the entertainment.
They Live! Where oh where have Veeped been? One rumour has it that following a troubled childhood, Veeped undertook a journey like no other. They attended the University of Alabama on a football scholarship. They met President John F. Kennedy. They enlisted in the United States Army. They were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. They began a famous shrimp fishing fleet. They inspired John Lennon to write ‘Imagine’. And
they helped expose the Watergate scandal. But you know what they say about rumours: leave it to Fleetwood Mac. In a world full of sinners, the folk at Veeped Bored Co. are the good guys. Formed out of Geelong in 2011, they’re all about fighting the good fight for local musicians and events. And now Veeped are back, and they have one hell of a show at Geelong’s Barwon Club this Saturday night, August 22. So come one, come all to Veeped Lives, the musical party of the millennium. Drunk Mums, Sun God
Replica, Luke Legs and the Midnight Specials, The Underhanded, Chook & Moluck (Barn closing set), Von Stache (single launch), The Mudge Brothers, DHUNT, Gonzo, Fazz plays Nirvana Loud, Old Feather, Bauer, Hakeem Cannons, Bound by Hound, The Dipsticks, Yeh, Nah, Bugg, Wallet Inspector, Strangelove, DJBK, Salad Butt, MC Rippington and 5’9 Fury will be among the guests.
Well, oh Welles If you have no plans this Saturday night, August 22, why not spend it with
Orsome Welles? They’re as good a company as you’re likely to find, plus they’re probably more entertaining than most of your friends (especially David). An ensemble requirement for their Bachelor of Music Studies is what brought them together. That was back in 2011. And although it was a requirement that brought them together, it was chemistry that made them stay. With their progressive and heavy sound and avant-garde show, the band has won favour with the likes of Israel’s Orphaned Land and Germany’s the Ocean,
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In Search of Cancer Bats I don’t know what it is with these hardcore punks wishing to wreak havoc on Australian shores, but I guess we just have to deal with it. Toronto’s Cancer Bats are on their way to town, with a tidy number of shows lined up on their ‘Destroy Australia’ tour. They have their new album with ’em in Searching for Zero, so start learning those songs. Of course, no good tour should go without a few words from the touring party, so here we go: “Australia, we are super fucking stoked to announce that we are coming to rip small headlining shows with ya! This going to be fucking sick! Don’t sleep on tickets cuz they will go fast!” That’s just so beautiful, man. The Barwon Club, Geelong – September 25.
plus a bunch of local acts including Ne Obliviscaris, Voyager and Caligula’s Horse. Erth News Bulletin is their debut.
Music without Barriers Aesthesis, the new album from Brisbane’s Dead Letter Circus, is now available for everyone to enjoy. With more than a few credits in the bank, the band was able to assemble the team of Matt Bartlem, Zach Hylton (The Getaway Plan, Jarryd James) and Forrester Savell (Karnivool, The Occupants) for their third release. Kim Benzie: “The journey of Aesthesis for the band was a process of remembering what it truly felt like to create music from the heart without barriers imposed by the mind. Writing this album made us realise how deeply we actually love creating music and more importantly, making music with each other.” Black Swan, Bendigo – October 8 & The Barwon Club, Geelong – October 9.
Chasing Aimee Francis If her past is any indication of where things are heading for rock/pop gal Aimee Francis, the future looks
very rosy indeed. Things got going back in 2012, when Aimee was invited to write and perform Equestrian Australia’s London Olympics theme song, ‘Dreams’. Good times continued in 2013, with a whirlwind tour of the US and a 30-date Australian tour among reasons to feel pretty good about things. Supporting Pink on the first four of these dates didn’t hurt, either. There have also been the tours with Pat Benatar and Steel Panther. As for this year, Aimee has played shows in L.A., Austin (as part of SXSW) and Nashville. Catch her at Ballarat’s Babushka Bar this coming Saturday, August 22.
Come On, Get Loud Hello there, frendos. I Am Duckeye, The Radics, Karly Jewell (and band), Fields of Reign, The Ivory Knives, City of Cool and Errol J Goulash are your guests for the next Live N’ Loud special, happily hosted by Bendigo’s Music Man Megastore this Saturday night. And for this, we’re going to get to know Melbourne’s Karly Jewell a little better. Karly held her first guitar at the age of five. It was that of her grandfather, acclaimed
country songman Tony Jewell. Since forming her first band in 2013, Karly has ticked off local venues including The Corner Hotel, Revolver and The Espy Gershwin Room, as well as international biggies including The Whiskey A Go Go. So, that would be Music Man on August 22.
Boom Goes the Dynamite There is a strong chance you would be hearing a lot of good things about Asta Binnie, the Tassie gal who simply goes by Asta. The former Rosny College student recently signed with Warner Music worldwide, announcing the deal via her Facebook page. There is also her track ‘Dynamite’ (featuring Allday) which has been setting the music world on fire. The pair also teamed up for a cover of Whitney Houston’s ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’ for triple j’s ‘Like a Version’, which also set the world on fire. If it is not already on your playlist, now is the time to check out the new video for Dynamite. A getting-to-know-you tour is underway, with Asta setting up a date with The Karova, Ballarat on August 29.
A little piece of the Melbourne International Film Festival is coming to Geelong next month (September 11 & 12) with four films screening as part of the special event at GPAC’s Drama Theatre. The films are Results, Song of the Sea, Neon and Putuparri and the Rainmakers. From the director of Computer Chess, Results is an off-kilter rom-com starring Guy Pearce, Kevin Corrigan and Cobie Smulders. When a recently divorced New Yorker (Corrigan) arrives in Austin to shape up with a fitness guru (Pearce), a love triangle develops as the pair competes for the attention of a gym instructor (Smulders). Single ticket and season tickets are available, with all you need to know available through gpac. org.au.
You’re Breaking My Balls Red Eagle and Crossfire Hurricane will be a part of a Silver Ball Records launch at The Loft, Warrnambool on September 4. Ben Russell, a former manager of the venue, put together SBR as a way to release seveninch singles from some of the region’s best and brightest. Speaking with local rag The Standard back in May, Ben said: “The aim is fairly low key – it’s just to create a bit of infrastructure for local bands to get out their music on vinyl. We won’t be signing bands. It’s more of a collaboration with the artist.” The beginning of the month saw their first release, veteran blues band Blue Heat’s ‘Traded In/Chicken Shop’. You can check ’em out through Facebook.
Department of Youths Like a smack in the face from a Smurf, regional Australia was left a little blue when Sydneysiders Gang of Youths
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announced a national tour earlier on in the piece that saw them visiting only the bigger cities. But whaddayaknow, the good times have found their way to us now. With their debut full-length album The Positions available for every good boy and girl, the band has every right to be feeling pretty good – especially given they have dedicated a good two years to its recording, not to mention its four-year writing period. Tap House, Bendigo – August 27; The Karova, Ballarat – August 28; The Workers Club, Geelong – August 29; and The Loft, Warrnambool – September 1.
A Little Bit Closer Back in April, Forte ran an interview with Liam Daly, otherwise known as Closer. In another life, Liam was a founding member of These Hands; these days he writes ambient music, driven by piano, guitar and static tape. “I can definitely only write music for Closer when I’m in the right frame of mind for it,” he said in the interview. “Having said that, the frame of mind has to be quite an open one; not overly driven by specific mood or intent …Whatever form the song takes, then so be it. This causes a lot of artefacts and other hidden elements to become more prominent as I build a song.” With a new mix in Moulded Mix available now through SoundCloud, now is as good a time as any to give him another look-in.
Tarerer Gundij Project Established in 1995, and based on the Great Meetings of local tribes, the Tarerer Gundij Project is a unique notfor-profit organisation which has been hosting performances since 1996. At the end of October, four of its original performers will once again share the
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same stage – Archie Roach (celebrating the 25th anniversary of Charcoal Lane), Neil Murray, Andy Alberts and Allen Edwards. Other performers on the night will include Fiona Kershaw, showcasing her latest release, Family Tree, and comedian/ artist/playwright Tammy Anderson, who will be your Master of Ceremonies. The showcase concert takes place at Warrnambool’s Lighthouse Theatre on October 31.
Wild World Tierney As a sixteen-year-old, Pat Tierney was drawn to the lap steel guitar. Once he had found his love, Tierney began crafting songs with touches of folk, blues and reggae – the sounds on which he grew up. While supports alongside the likes of The Beautiful Girls, Bobby Alu, Dustin Thomas and Horrorshow have done him no damage, thing have really come together in 2015. First there is his debut album, Wild World Blues. Later in the year, the songman will battle it out in the Blues n Roots category at the Queenscliff Music Festival. The Bridge, Castlemaine – September 27. Pat will be joined by Brazilian harmonica maestro Ronaldo Januario, who also appears on the album.
A Large Pizza to Go Quick bite: If you are to believe the man that runs the local kebab truck, legendary rock outfit the Large Number 12’s steal their name from the large number 12 pizza. Their story begins in Bendigo, but it’s currently told from Melbourne. The JVG Guitar Method features John von Goes (3RRR), Mark Ferrie from the RocKwiz Orkestra, Ash Davies from drum heaven and Dale Lindrea from bass hell. Catch the magic at The Bridge, Castlemaine on August 28.
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The Gigs Are Alright Guitar slingin’ party gal, Von Stache, provides the goods at Ballarat’s Babushka Bar on August 29. Massive returns to Bendigo tomorrow night, August 21, with a date at Music Man. Black Aces, Sudden State and Makeshift will also be there. Bendigo’s Golden Vine, meanwhile, hosts Fraudband on August 28. The Audreys (duo mode) will perform at Moyston Hall on September 6 as part of Ararat Live. The Piping Hot Chicken Shop is hosting an Elvis Presley Tribute Night on August 22. Fierce Mild’s ‘Test You’ tour hits The Bridge, Castlemaine tomorrow night, August 21. The next BallaRatCat Comedy showcase hits Ballarat (The Lounge @ The George) on September 4.
At the time of writing, tickets remained for Xavier Rudd & The United Nations’ show at Bendigo’s Capital Theatre on September 13 and Costa Hall in Geelong on September 18. Having long been a solo artist, with The United Nations Rudd finds himself in new territory – in full band mode for the first time. With his international all-star band, the songman has released the full-blown dub record, Nanna. Rudd: “I feel the spirit of this band is very important. This album, this tour, this family, The United Nations is an example energetically and spiritually of where we need to be as a people. We tour in order to deliver this message and celebrate the energy of one people.” Hit the venue’s website for tickets.
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Making Waves Songman Mat McHugh will begin a new touring adventure at Ballarat’s Karova Lounge on October 1. Forever the generous soul, the reason behind the tour is new album Waves, which Mat is offering up as a free download if you register for pre-order through his website. You may recall he did the same thing with his previous solo effort, Love Come Save Me. Mat: “WAVES is inspired by my father, who passed away when I was ten. One of my fondest memories of him is his love for his guitar, an old acoustic that he used to play around the house on a regular basis. When I was cleaning out some things last year, I stumbled upon that exact guitar and decided to see if I could fix it up … I wanted to see if it still had any songs in it. With a bit of tweaking and restringing I was able to bring it back to life, recreating that sound I remember so clearly from my childhood. That guitar is responsible for WAVES – every song was written on it and it made its way onto every track on the album.” The songman also has a date at Torquay’s Torquay Hotel on October 3.
October 10 is World Mental Health Day, an annual event focused on global mental health education, awareness and advocacy. Doing their bit to shine the light on Mental Health Awareness – or to “Kick depression right in the face” – is the team behind the Mane Event, a ripping festival that will bring together some 25 acts on October 17. The Badloves are your headliners, the Michael Spiby-led band that formed out of Melbourne in 1990 and coughed up a platinum debut in Get On Board. You may recall the song ‘Green Limousine’. Profits go to headspace Geelong. Hit facebook.com/ TheManeEventGeelong for further information. More on headspace can be found through headspace. org.au.
Detonate in 3, 2, 1… The Detonators are set to blow the roofs off Geelong’s Black Hatt Hotel on August 21 and
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Bendigo’s Golden Vine Hotel on August 29. The undisputed heavyweight champions of roots rock’n’roll came together in 1997 with a chargedup blend of rockabilly, blues and early rock and roll. Member Paulie “The Kid” Bignell developed his serious interest in guitar when he was 1415, and he has barely put it down since. Maybe at breakfast time, but that is about it. “Doghouse” Dave Philpots picked up his first bass for $100 at the age of 19, later switching to the double bass. “Rockbottom” James Moloney has been working the harmonica for over 30 years, a journey owed in part to The Doors’ ‘Roadhouse Blues’.
It Takes a Nation If you are a regular reader of Forte (and only the best-looking people are), you would have caught the recent interview Natalie Rogers undertook with the wonderful Sol Nation. The band recently released their debut album Melting Pot, an album a long time in the making. “It’s taken a while to get everything to fall into play because a lot of things have to go right at the right time, which is tricky to do – but it’s coming to fruition. We were holding out for the right songs, the right line-up, the best producer, studio, distribution and publicity – and it looks like it’s paying off.” Good news for them, good news for us. Suttons House of Music, Ballarat – September 4 & Theatre Royal, Castlemaine – September 5.
High as a Kite Let the good times roll with The Paper Kites, who recently announced their first tour of the year. Their lateness to the touring game in 2015 is due to the fact they have been busy with album number two, twelvefour. For the curious, the album is called as such because it was written
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entirely between midnight and four in the morning – pretty good shift work, if you can get it. To bring you closer to the band, they worked with filmmaker Matthew Cox, who followed the band across the world to document the creative process. The album is almost here, dropping August 28, so warm up with another play or two of ‘Electric Indigo’. Theatre Royal, Castlemaine – October 22 & The Workers Club, Geelong – October 24.
Lily & Her King Quick bite: Bendigo will receive a double dose of the musical junkyard known as Lily & King next month. Featuring Lisa Baird and Tony King, the duo has performed at festivals including Woodford Folk Festival, Queenscliff Music Festival, Bendigo Blues and Roots Festival, Wallaby Creek Festival and Cygnet Folk Festival. Gold Dust Lounge, Bendigo – September 19 & The Vine, Bendigo – September 20.
Viva la Dulce The idea of ‘Sweet Living’ will differ from person to person, but for those behind Viva la Dulce, it is an opportunity to celebrate the best in food and wine. Featuring a range of stallholders, demonstrations and masterclasses in the name of sweet living, the food and wine festival will take place at St Anne’s Winery on August 30, a familyowned winery situated in the Pentland Hills, Myrniong, 10 minutes west of Bacchus Marsh. Masterclasses include ‘Chocolate and Port’, a must for the sweet tooth. The onehour session will feature an array of chocolates matched with boutique Port and fortified wines. Truffleberry Farm’s truffle industry expert Chris Macquet, meanwhile, will host a twohour masterclass where you’ll learn all about “the diamond of the kitchen”. This special
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masterclass will include four truffle dishes, all matched to premium Victorian wines. The festival kicks off at 11 a.m. and finishes up at 5 p.m. Bacchus Marsh Coaches will be operating a complimentary bus service from Ballan train station to Viva La Dulce festival from 11.00 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. Proceeds from Viva la Dulce Food and Wine Festival are distributed back to the Ballan District Hospital and the Rotary Club of Ballan. For further information, hit vivaladulce.org.
Rainbow Serpent Festival 2016’s Rainbow Serpent Festival has announced its first lineup and because time is precious, here we go: John Digweed, Hernan Cattaneo, Ace Ventura, Dickster, Ticon, Emok, Oliver Schories, Monkey Safari, Secret Cinema, Pachanga Boys, Dunkelbunt, Logic Bomb, Atmos, Critical, Choice, MVMB, Altruism and JFB are first up. Some 200 local acts are also to be announced before the festival makes its way to Lexton, Victoria from January 2225. A little extra from festival organiser, Tim Harvey: “Rainbow is known for spectacular light and laser shows and we are taking it up another notch this year to have holographic projections during the Iboga celebration.” Tickets are on sale now.
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(August 19), Music Man in Bendigo (August 20), Karova Lounge in Ballarat (August 21) and the Barwon Club in Geelong (August 26). Tickets on sale now from meganwashington.com.
Time For Some Music Worship It’s in the name really, Holy Holy are a band you’ll want to be listening to Sunday, or any morning really. Having just released their debut When the Storms Would Come, the band are heading out and bringing their melodic, smooth tunes closer to your door. They’re set for shows at the Workers Club in Geelong on September 3, Karova Lounge in Ballarat on September 4 and Howler in Melbourne on September 5.
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Reminder: It’s been a little while since Megan Washington has come out to the regional bases and she’s doing so in one of her biggest tours yet. Already selling out her first Melbourne show (the second has been announced for August 27 at the Northcote Social Club), Megan will also perform at the Bridge Hotel in Castlemaine
Road warrior Ash Grunwald is at it again, hitting the road next month for a tour clocking in at 28 dates. As you may have heard through the grapevine, Ash is releasing a new album next month titled Now – and it has all the attitude of a classic power trio. Ash: “I wanted to go in there with a traditional power trio like Hendrix but use
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British India will use their dates supporting Imagine Dragons early next month as a tune-up for a nice little tour they have put together. The tour will take in various spots in Forte territory – including a Boxing Day gig in Lorne, which will hopefully shake off some of those Christmas downers. Shows also loom for the band in New York and L.A., so yeah, the band is doing okay. Theatre Royal, Castlemaine – December 18; Lorne Hotel Beer Garden, Lorne – December 26; and Barwon Heads Hotel, Barwon Heads – December 27. The band released their fifth album, Nothing Touches Me, back in March. Single ‘Wrong Direction’, as you may recall’, landed in triple j’s Hottest 100.
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a synth player instead of a bass. Ian Peres brought that and a whole lot more playing a fair bit of rock organ in there, which is something that he honed whilst playing in Wolfmother.” To keep you calm until the album hits the shelves on September 25, give single ‘Second Guess’ a spin. Hell, why not give it a few spins. Torquay Hotel, Torquay – September 26.
Anglesea Music Festival The Anglesea Music Festival website has undergone a bit of a makeover recently, and let me say it is looking pretty spiff y these days. I mean, if I was a single website, I would be all over it. As we know, I should hope anyway, the festival is set to return next year, with January 23 the date to keep in mind. As for the location, that would be the natural amphitheatre at the Ellimatta Reserve. At the time of writing, line-up details had not been announced, however early bird tickets will be available from October 1 so that should give you an indication that the line-up shouldn’t be too far away. The best way to keep up to speed would be to keep a regular eye on angleseamusicfestival. com.au.
THE CHANTOOZIES Q&A
Even with quite an extensive break in their career, the Chantoozies have returned and brought with them an extensive amount of personal experience to the band. We had a chat with Eve Von Bibra about new music, Geelong and their adoring fans. Hi Eve, thanks for taking the time to chat with Forte magazine. How are you and what are you up to at the moment? It’s a pleasure, thank you. Well, thank you. Of course, we are very busy being Chantoozies and playing gigs around
Australia, which we love to do. We get to hang out with each other and play with a fantastic band, singing, dancing and cracking jokes. Outside of Chantoozies, Tottie is touring Victoria in a play called ‘Sex With Strangers’ with Samuel Johnson. Ally is singing with Absolutely ‘80s in between her theatre work, and I am singing with other people, writing songs/music and also writing some stories for kids. Seems like you’ve all been quite busy gigging at the moment, how have all the shows been so far? The shows have been great fun, we are really lucky to be able to work with each other, as we are all close friends.
We have had a great reaction and fan support to being back on the road, so it’s been very positive which is great. Last year you all made the decision to reform as The Chantoozies, was it an easy one to make or was there a lot of deliberation on the matter? It was a no-brainer! The opportunity arose and we were all ready, so here we are! By the looks of recent gigs it’s certainly been a great decision. Has touring and the functionality of the band been a return to the good old days? What’s different about the dynamic now? Well, it does feel as if nothing has changed in terms of the vibe and the way we are with each other. Obviously
we have all had different experiences and adventures in life, so I guess we bring all of that as the different dynamic which adds to what we were, to make us what we are. Since reforming you have released a few singles, ‘Baby It’s You’ and ‘Black and Blue’, which both looked a lot of fun to film. They really were masses of fun to film! Where was Black and Blue filmed and how was it? Given it’s in an alley somewhere, we imagine there may have been a lot of interference! ‘Black and Blue’ was filmed in an alleyway near one of our houses. It’s a quiet street, so not much interference apart from our own laughter at nearly breaking our ankles in wedges on cobblestones! (Really, whose idea was that?!) And how have long time fans reacted to your new music? We are incredibly lucky, as we have a really great and supportive fan base. As far as we know, they have all enjoyed the new songs. They come to most of our gigs singing along to old and new songs – what more could we ask for? They are fantastic! We love that with a lot of the towns you’ve played at you’ve shared a little bit of the town on social media, do you try and get a bit of a connection with the places you visit? Always. We love getting to a new town. We check out the coffee shop, health food shop, op shop, any shop that looks interesting or fun. We meet people and talk with them, see if they are coming to the gig so we can send them a shout out or have a joke with them. Touring is fantastic as it enables you to see places and meet people that you wouldn’t otherwise meet.. then you would be missing out and then we would all have F.O.M.O (Fear Of Missing Out) and you don’t want that! You’ll soon be heading to Geelong, have you been before? And how have you found the crowd? Yes, but not for a while. By advertising! Hee hee! The crowds are always up for fun, just like us! Thanks again for taking the time to chat with Forte, is there anything else you’d to share with us before finishing up? Thank you! We are really looking forward to playing in Geelong at the Sphinx Hotel on August 22. I recently worked with JPY and he told me a story about two gigs he did at the Sphinx, I look forward to sharing that with our audience! WHEN & WHERE: The Sphinx Hotel, North Geelong – August 22
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WHITE BLEACHES Q&A Forte TV is back! We started things off with a chat with local lads White Bleaches and they’re cruisey, psych-rock stylings. How did the White Bleaches come to be? Anthony Lacarruba: We came to be about four to five months ago when we recorded a few songs with Stu from King Gizzard, we originally had another band but the sound changed and kind of went in a new direction so we thought we’d start fresh in a new band with some new songs.
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What was it like cross dressing for the video ‘Bad Character’? Tyler Slaven: Ant loves dressing up in women’s clothes... Anthoy: I do it all the time. Tyler: So it was kind of just natural for him, I always catch him putting lipstick and eyeshadow on. Anthony: As soon as I’d put the lipstick on I smudged it. Tyler: Oh mate, you did it perfectly!
We heard ‘Psychic Visions’ was recorded in a shipping container, how did that come about? Anthony: That was with Stu again and his dad has a place in Winchelsea and they’ve got a shipping container and he set it up. He’d recorded a few bands there before and he was like, ‘Yeah just come down’ and so that was pretty cool. What other places would you like to record?
Tyler: What about in here? Tyler can serve us some jugs of beer as we’re recording. Maybe in an office block or something... How would you describe your music? Tyler: I think it’s a mixture of all the different stuff we listen to... Anthony: We do a lot of different stuff. ‘Bad Character’ was originally inspired by psych stuff from the US. How have your gigs been going? Anthony: We played Ding Dong
Friday last week and that was good, we had a few people there. I didn’t expect there to be that many people. Tyler: Yeah it was a really good turn out... We did the Corner Hotel and that was probably the best gig. See more of the interview on Forte TV via our website or (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Qd0Kf7QLfaY).
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“I lost the ability to do anything for myself... I lost my privacy”
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On stage Isabella ‘Izzy’ Manfredi is a ball of energy. Adrenaline pulses through her, allowing her to contort her body, cover the stage and give the best damn show around. While her adrenaline is a blessing in front of the crowd, her high-energy nature has been something to overcome behind the scenes. When performing isn’t a possibility for release, Izzy has taken to finding alternative means. The most recent – and successful – of which was a natural horsemanship session in the Gold Coast. “I’ve been trying to find things to help with my anxiety – I just get so much fucking anxiety – each day and I just need something to help me and it’s been better than anything I’ve ever tried. And I’ve tried so much to get myself calm,” Izzy says. “Horses are just really intuitive and they pick up on what you’re feeling and respond to you. For me I have super high adrenaline and it just shoots through me all day and I’m one of those people who like to be really busy and just doing lots of stuff. “It’s really funny when you step back and realise how that’s affecting other people, and the horses
pick up on it instantly. It’s harder for me to actually get the horses to walk than it was to get them to canter because they’re just responding to my adrenaline. So I was like ‘All right, let’s go’.” You’d be lucky to run through life without having some sort of experience with anxiety, and unfortunately for Izzy hers just happened to start a bit sooner than some. “The first time I had really extreme anxiety I was 9 or 10 years old and I really didn’t know what it was,” Izzy says. “And then I had another bout of it when I was 11 or 12 and it was so bad I used to get up in the morning and be afraid of when it hit the afternoon because I knew when the sun went down I’d get really anxious – I’m an only child so I didn’t really like being alone or sleeping alone.
“But it’s just always been part of who I am. I think anxiety and depression are really interesting because by modern society they’re considered as disorders or illnesses, or a mental illness, but to me they’re just products of the body. The body is really intelligent and it’ll tell you if something is wrong, or if you’ve got something you need to address. Not wanting to dismiss clinical depression or chronic fatigue (as I’ve had both) but it becomes a ferocious illness or a debilitating state to be in, but it’s just really telling you that you’ve got shit that you’re not dealing with or that you’re not confronting.” Over the years through writing music, performing on stage and other means Izzy has learned to deal with what her body is telling her. The feeling that she gains from performing isn’t
something that she keeps to herself, Izzy shares it with her fans, as that’s what it’s all about. “Performing for me is really cathartic and the stage has always felt like my home. I’ve always felt safe, even when it’s been a struggle,” she says. “It’s really about getting to that moment when it’s transcendence, that’s really what you’re looking for. Even at an entertainment level, you’re just looking for transcendence. That’s what the audience wants, that’s what you want from your band, you just want to get to that moment where you're really free.” Izzy can be seen sharing this moment with her fans regardless o f her current mood, health or weather – the band are truly doing it for the fans. “I’ve seen a lot of performers where if they’re not 100 per cent they don’t go on. They
can’t disappoint them and they can’t handle that fear of not being good enough,” Izzy says. “But for me, performing isn’t about that, it’s about the night and the moment and who you are at that moment, because if people truly love you and the people that come to our shows love our music then they don’t really care if we play everything perfectly – that’s not what they’re there for. They’re not here to hear the record, they’re there to see us and experience something that they’re only going to experience that night and that night only. “The best gigs I’ve played in my life have been the ones where I’m literally
on my death bed before the show. They have always been my best gigs because you have to pull from so deep within yourself to do the show. And they’re great!” While you mightn’t come to hear the record, there’s good news from The Preatures as the band are currently in the works of making new music. Some of which, you may just hear in their upcoming shows.
WHEN&WHERE: 170 Russell, Melbourne – September 11, Theatre Royal, Castlemaine – September 12 & Karova Lounge, Ballarat – September 13
FAST FIVE WITH THE PREATURES What’s a book you’ve read recently that’s inspired you? I haven’t finished it yet, but I’m reading the Vivienne Westwood biography at the moment and it’s great. It’s huge, but fantastic! Favourite stage trick/dance move? Oh I have so many! I love the dorky ones; I do this man dance where I kind of pretend I’m an old white guy dancing. Which I think is kind of Patti Smith’s interpretation of Frank Sinatra. I also like the classic womanly bum shimmy. What band do you admire for their live performance? Pond, I think Pond are great performers. Something people are surprised to find out about you? I love video games; I’m a massive Zelda and World of Warcraft fan. I used to play Sinbad when we were on the road and go into this massive Sinbad vortex. What are your thoughts on Kurt Cobain’s death? Oh man I have no idea. I haven’t heard about that [rumour]. Man look, who cares!
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FROCK IT FINDING INSPIRATION
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Recently, I’ve been in a bit of a clothing rut. I find myself wearing the same damn thing day in and day out. This is extremely frustrating because not only am I wearing the same thing to work as I do on my days off, but I’m also fully aware that I own more clothing than anybody should in a lifetime and I know there are some really chic potential outfits sitting in there just waiting to be styled. The problem is, I am lacking in inspiration. This happens to most people every now and then. After they’ve tried all the trends and exhausted every existing outfit they can think of, everything just seems kind of blah. When this happens, inspiration can be difficult to find if you don’t already have an existing source. Lucky for you, I’m going to share with you the blogs that I gain my daily inspiration from. Starting off simple, the blog I’ve followed for the longest and been the most loyal too, is Sara Donaldson’s ‘Harper & Harley’ (http:// harperandharley.com/). I derive a huge amount of inspiration from her, in that her wardrobe consists of little else but basic, timeless pieces in the shades black, white and grey. She always seems to have a new way
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to wear simple silhouettes and somehow make them look like couture. If I could have anybody’s wardrobe, I would choose hers, purely because of the minimalistic nature of her personal style. Another close favourite, who has actually been mentioned in this column before, is Carmen Hamilton’s ‘The Chronicles Of Her’ (http://thechroniclesofher. blogspot.com.au/). Her style features a lot of simple patterns, neutrals and lots of feminine, flowing but also seemingly structured ensembles. Carmen is a woman who is unafraid to experiment with her style, constantly sampling small pieces over vast genres of fashion while making them completely wearable. This is something that I think we can all take from eclectic stylists such as Carmen. Finally, we have some sweet and classic smartcasual vibes from Anh Sundstrom’s ‘9to5chic’ (http://9to5chic.com/). Primarily Anh features her work personal style, with bits and pieces of weekend wear in the mix too. Slightly more trend driven, she definitely isn’t afraid of a little bit of colour. Cleverly, most of the colour she wears takes the form of classic
shapes and silhouettes, to aid the garment in being more wearable and timeless — which is an essential in a trend driven garment, particularly if you’re investing. As fashion bloggers are on the rise, fashion magazines are (sadly) becoming more scarce, as so may of them are paid out by brands to endorse their products. While fashion bloggers may also be endorsed from time to time, they risk damaging their personal image by promoting a bad product, hence why I find them much more trustworthy at the best and worst of times. For years, I’ve been using a site called Bloglovin’ (https://www. bloglovin.com/) to follow all of my favourites, so that I never miss an instalment of my favourite style icons.
6 Reasons Why You Must Go To Oktoberfest I think it’s a little bit obvious how much I love Oktoberfest. I love it! I think it’s fantastic! And I think you should go. No, not should, you have to go. Oktoberfest welcomes over five million eager visitors every year to participate in the festivities, and drink their body weight in beer. You should be one of those people! And here are six reasons why. 6. MEET NEW PEOPLE There will be a few tourists knocking about, but the majority of people around you will be Bavarians. Drinking with these people makes the experience so much more authentic, fun and enjoyable. Germans are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met. Maybe that’s the beer talking though... 5. THE MUSIC If you want to drink along to a huge brass band and raise your glass to some ‘oom pah pah’ music, then Oktoberfest is a must for you. The bands start playing at 12 o’clock inside each tent and instantly change the mood and atmosphere. Super!
4. THE FOOD You’ll be spoiled for choice with the options of eating traditional German pork knuckles, whole chickens, schnitzel, bratwurst, duck and a whole lot more. The food system at Oktoberfest is truly impressive. They’re serving thousands upon thousands of hungry drunken stomachs and carrying humongous trays of food through the crowds. 3. THE TENTS The tents start getting built 12 weeks before Oktoberfest, and it takes the same amount of time to take them down afterwards. These ‘tents’ aren’t like your typical beer fest marquee, these are wooden buildings filled to the brim with traditional decorations, rows and rows of tables and excited festival goers. Even the outsides of the tents are something to admire. There are 14 of them to explore, too! (Augustiner is my favourite). 2. THE GETUP Seeing everyone dressed up in traditional Bavarian clothing really gets me excited. It’s admirable how much their tradition is embraced and is still kept alive. It’s definitely worth it to invest in a dirndl or lederhosen if you’re going to be at Oktoberfest for a few days or more, as the prices range from 70 to over 100 Euro, which isn’t ideal for us travelers on a budget. If you don’t want to fork out that much for an outfit, I’d recommend buying a hat or a little vest at the fraction of the price. This will help you feel the part while making little effort and not breaking the bank. 1. THE BEER. DUH! This stuff is good. Real good. Each tent (the 14 that I mentioned before) is a famous brewery from across Bavaria. So, you have fourteen different beers to try. Hello?! Heaven? Is that you? If you think Oktoberfest might be a bit much for you, then there are other festivals to go to throughout Munich and Germany that aren’t as touristy, and would be a whole lot cheaper. However I think everyone needs to attend Oktoberfest at least once in their life. It is a fantastic experience with too much fun to be had. Beer, food, music, incredible people, an excuse to go to Germany, what more could you want? Prost!
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MY EUROPEAN WHIRL
On tour we stayed in unique accommodation – not just another hotel. We stayed in an Austrian Gusthof, and a Swiss Chalet amongst many others. They also arranged for us to see a live cabaret show in Paris, a Gondola ride in Venice, and even white water rafting in Austria! In Venice they told us to go and get lost in all the little streets and canals; that’s where you see the real beauty the city has to offer. Every night we had the opportunity to experience the night life of each city. BUT we had to be up and ready to go by 7am! Fortunately, there was usually some driving in the morning so we could catch up on those extra Zzzs and arrive at our destination energetic and ready to explore. Contiki was a fantastic experience for me and a great way to see Europe. There was enough organised so I knew what I was doing each day, but enough free time to immerse myself in the culture. I left Europe feeling nostalgic. Saying goodbye to new friends and excited to go home to start planning the next adventure!
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If you’ve got itchy feet and you’d like to head over to Europe and do a Contiki tour, or simply go it on your own, be sure to touch base with Hello World Torquay and let them do the hard work for you. Phone: 5261 9333, Shop 6/8 Gilbert St, Torquay.
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I never thought I would get to see and experience as much as I did in such a short time. To give you an idea of how much you can fit into a “Contiki Day”, this was my day in Rome:
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BASED ON EMILY DICKSON’S EXPERIENCE
18 days, nine countries and 50 new found friends, this is Europe Contiki. New to the travel industry, one of the first things I wanted to do was see Europe and ALL of it! I saved up my pennies, packed my bags and headed to Europe for the trip of a lifetime. Little did I know what I was in for… London had always been on my bucket list so I wanted to make sure I saw it first. It was much larger than I could have imagined and the underground system was incredibly easy to use. Unlike Australia,
you feel the long rich history down every street and alley. Seeing the classics – Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, and Trafalgar Square – was very surreal, having only seen them on TV and in the movies. Tasting the classics was even better – a Pint of Larger, Yorkshire pudding and Spotted Dick! Everyone had told me how beautiful Belgium was and when I made it my next stop I sure wasn’t let down. Bruges was probably my favorite place and it had nothing to do with the famous beer or chocolate. It was a charming little town with impressive Gothic architecture and lovely canals.
I then made my way to Amsterdam where my Contiki adventure was set to begin. Everyone in the group was so happy and excited – it was contagious and I quickly made some new friends from all over world. The tour director was great; ready to answer any of our questions and help us on our way.
• Breakfast • Train into Rome • Walking tour around city: visiting the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain & Piazza Venezia • Free time: I decided to see Maria Concezione, the Spanish Steps and Piazza Navona • Vatican City walking tour: including Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel & St Peters Square. • Free time: I decided to see St Peters Basilica, and went back to the Vatican Museum • Train back to accommodation • Dinner •“I love Roma” party!!
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BEYOND THE VALLEY A Day In The Life Of Beyond the Valley Festival Director, Nicholas Greco 7. When you’re on a really import business call and you end up in weird AF positions.
1. Starting the day answering emails on the toilet. Clean mind. Clean body. Clean inbox.
3. The BTV 2015 Spotify playlist is keeping me sane on the way to work. Personal fave right now is definitely Jamie xx’s “Loud Places”.
8. Today has been all about ticket sales and booking our second line up announcement! These are our remaining few 3-day tickets. Get in quick! 4. Weekly Monday meeting in the boardroom with my BTV partners #business Left to right: Fil, Mike, Tom, myself and Christian
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2. It’s 10:43 and this is coffee number three... I’m preparing myself mentally to crash and burn in a few hours time. Monday problems.
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10. We have Super Mario themed lighting throughout the office and a Super Nintendo for when we need a time out.
5. The real reason we go to work on Mondays, Monday lunch. Probably the only reason we actually get to work on a Monday. We’ve been doing this for 2.5 years now. Cute, I know. That’s my brother Alex on the far left who tagged along for a start of week feed.
6. Post food coma spent checking out the Twitter conversation we were having Sunday morning after a large night out with BTV pals Odd Mob and Brown Bear Entertainment. The pizza came and it was good.
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11. Checking in with BTV 2015 artist Ivan Ooze who FaceTimed me from W.A. today. Focus on the road Yung Ooze. 12. And here is the whole BTV team. We sit in a weird facing each other formation primary school style. It works for throwing ideas at each other... as well as objects and insults.
Visit www.beyondthevalley.com.au to get your tickets or more info to Beyond the Valley happening on December 29 – January 1 in Lardner.
TOP FIVE THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT ACCORDING TO TIM CARROLL FROM HOLY HOLY Here at Forte it seems we can’t live a day without listening to Holy Holy (okay that may be a bit extreme), but we thought it was the best chance to see what Holy Holy can’t live without. Turns out they can live without us... 1. My son. He’s a one-year-old. He enjoys strawberries and dancing with no pants on. He doesn’t like socks or sleeping in. He’s a real morning person. 2. My wife. She speaks three languages and works in the field of environmental management while also running bars for music festivals. She’s Swedish so I’ve had to develop a taste for raw pickled fish and flavoured vodka. Both of which I do actually like now. 3. Podcasts. Look. I wouldn’t die without them but I have got a bit of a habit. I listen to them all the time. Load of dishes? Planet Money. Walk in the mountains? Radio Lab. Can’t sleep? Something a bit boring is good, like BBC’s ‘In our time’, a history podcast so dry you never can stay awake through it all and you get to go to sleep learning about the pottery practices of ancient Rome. Bonus.
4. Coffee. I have a little wall mounted hand grinder and an aeropress. That keeps me going through the cold Tassie days. If you skip the coffee the headache creeps in and productivity is out the window. Lately I have been pulling my desk right up to the fire we have in the kitchen so I bang out emails with my back to the warm flames. It’s fucking freezing in Tassie. But it’s also super cosy and beautiful. 5. My crew. I’ve kind of ended up living in a bit of a commune. How did that happen? I’m not sure. Anyway There’s five of us (six with my son) and we live on 50 acres of forrest in Tassie. It’s the crew that make it fun. Lots of group dinners and breakfasts. Lots of chat and lots of laughs. You get to be a part of these different lives and we all help each other out. Although it’s not common, I guess in some ways it’s how we all used to live. When & Where: Workers Club, Geelong - September 3, Karova Lounge, Ballarat - September 4 & Howler, Melbourne September 5
FAST FIVE WITH PAUL DEMPSEY Ahead of his performance at Queenscliff Music Festival this year, we took five with Paul Dempsey and talked a little bit about life, daily habits and growing up. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child? No I didn’t but I spent a lot of my time in my own imaginary Star Wars universe. So I was pretty obsessed with Star Wars and the closest thing to an imaginary friend was imagining I was Luke Skywalker Who would be someone living or dead you’d love to have dinner with? Off the top of my head I think John Stewart – he’d be very entertaining company. Last thing that made you laugh? My wife yesterday was trying to come up with sign language, trying to pantomime CPR and did it really wrong. Who’s someone that just gets you? Definitely my wife. But also Clint (drummer of Something for Kate) the three of us have been a band for a while now and Clint is my oldest friend I’m still in contact with. Are you a tea or coffee person and how do you like it? I actually like both! I usually kick off with a tea and an hour later get a coffee and for both it’s white and one.
WHEN&WHERE: Queenscliff Music Festival, Queenscliff – November 27-29
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ANKLEPANTS Q&A This year marks the first time Anklepants, AKA Dr Reecard Farché, will head to earthcore and he’s bound to put on a good show, as there’s a saying, ‘once you go Anklepants, you never go back’. Hi Anklepants, AKA Dr Reecard Farché, thanks for taking the time to chat with Forte Magazine, how are you and what are you up to at the moment? Hello and facé to you, nicé to meet you. I have been enjoying the ever so nicé weather the sun has been producing over the last few weeks before the blizzard sets in. Preparing my facé for the next onslaught of nicéness in the coming months, tried my hand at socialising… that kind of thing. So we’ve heard that ‘once you go Anklepants you never go back’, what happens to listeners in that first experience of listening to your music? Yes, apparently The Darkness finally got nicé on twitter a few days ago and spilled the facé beans, but yeah, usually it’s pretty much a full body orgasm. Though it starts at the ears as opposed to the normal means . i.e. stimulation of genitals or other sensitive parts of the human body. I mean, everyone is different so it’s hard to speak generally about this experience. I don’t make advertising to sell people cool points, so be sure the music might change tempo and or content a few times within a course. I just say listen to as much as possible, as it’s changing quite drastically over each release – as humans generally change their ideas views and opinions so does people music.
You’re said to be a ‘shapeshifter’ as well, what other figures have you taken over the years? Aside from removing my human mask, thus shapeshifting into the form I’m mostly seen on stage and or to those closer to me on a daily basis, and aside from the pages in the book also shifting, the cover has once been a character referred to as “The Bear” which was already getting things pretty nicé in around 2005-2006 in NSW and QLD. But in true convict spirit The Bear was buried cause it just wasn’t cool enough for the colony, but it will be back heaps nicér than any human could ever imagine a bear to be. The sound you produce really is quite hard to define, though nothing should ever be pigeon-holed, and in the past you’ve even used animal noises in your tracks. What’s the appeal in these sounds and how do you select which animal noises make the cut?
I’m interested in sounds and animals so this is most likely how this phenomenon may occur. In the future I plan to use a lot more animal and nature sounds in my music. This idea came to fruition after not living in Australia for over five years and realising that really the only unique thing we have in Australia is nature, which should be looked after and documented. As for deciding what makes the cut, like any field recording if the desired content was recorded then it will be used in the part of the arrangement it was recorded for. And you’re no stranger to the festival scene and have been announced as one of the artists performing at Earthcore in Australia, is this your first time at the festival? Looking forward to it? Yes, cant wait for it, and yes it’s the first time for me at earthcore. I’ve heard it can be really hot and dry out there so I’m hoping I’m cloaked by night, or I’m really in trouble. But yes I think it will be one of the highlights of the tour for sure !!! Out of everywhere you’ve performed, who has been the craziest crowd? The definition of craziness obviously varies from place to place, but I think in the realm you’re asking Australia is definitely the most vocal and physically up for the task. Australians are the most aggressive and and not hesitant to throw things, so yeah pretty crazy. Thanks again for the chat, any last words of wisdom you’d like to share with our readers? No facé related problems … Pretty much leave the colony and stop playing string sticks, come and have a closer look at my facé in November and December. My last album is about to come out on double 12 inch and could be a really nicé idea to check that out. Pre orders are NOW available via the Love Love records website and will be released September 11.
WHEN&WHERE: earthcore, pyalong – November 26-30
WOODLOCK Written by Tex Miller
Zechariah Walters is shopping with his wife in Melbourne as we begin to chat about Woodlock, who have spent the past four years becoming one of the most successful independent bands in Australia, selling in excess of 25,000 copies of their two EPs Lemons (2013) and Labour of Love (2014). Now in August 2015, the band has been named as headliners for the upcoming Birregurra Festival and Art Show on October 10 and 11. “It’s been a crazy time man since when we started out playing music as a trio, we never expected it to blow up as big as we have,” Zech says. “Throughout our music, we try to stay as true to ourselves as we can and I guess that’s what people like about our music. We have never really seen where we are going and it’s always just happened step by step and we are really enjoying the ride as it happens.” On the verge of releasing their third EP entitled Sirens, the band is about to crank it up another notch. Stepping away from working with Wayne Connolly – who has worked with Australian luminaries such as Boy and Bear and The Paper Kites – Woodlock opted to work with Andy Mac who produced Winterbourne’s latest EP. The decision to work with Mac reignited a creative spark in
the band which led to a different sound altogether from past releases. Keeping quite tight lipped on the subject, Zech revealed that he is very excited to get out and play some shows with the new material, because it offers an energetic intensity to the live show that has previously been unseen. “We went into the studio with Andy and had such a great time. We really connected with him and over time he became the fourth member of the band. Every EP that we have done has been different,” he says.
influenced by life events rather than albums and artists on our iPods. I got married, we moved house, got new booking agents and managers and we are undergoing this huge amount of change. This EP is a huge coming of age for us I think.”
“This time around we went in with an idea of what we wanted but there was still quite a bit of artistic interpretation as well. These songs were
“When we look back at what we have accomplished over the past couple of years, we are completely blown away. Even if we get to be
The band have taken quite a big step from playing in pubs in Yarrawonga to busking on Bourke Street, however Zech feels that Woodlock with this roll of the dice are giving us the best music that the band has created thus far.
as big as Coldplay and play big stadium shows, we will still busk in Bourke Street, because no matter how big you get, you can never forget your roots,” Zech says. After 20 minutes of trying to get the illusive exclusive on the new sound, I tempt Zech with asking whether it sounds like a cross between The Paper Kites and Beyonce. “We have showed it to a few friends and they say that it’s very cinematic. I can’t wait to unleash it on the Birregurra festival so be sure to come down and see what we have been working so hard on,” he says.
WHEN&WHERE: Birregurra Festival and Arts Show, Birregurra – October 11 & 12
MOSES GUNN COLLECTIVE Q&A Hi Guys, thanks for taking the time to chat to Forte magazine, how are you and what are you up to at the moment? I’m very well and thanks for asking, I’m currently eating a crumpet. Congrats on the new album coming out! How are you feeling after all the hype and lead up to releasing an album? It’s very exciting business releasing new material and it’s our first real long player so we were super keen to get it out there. We’ve been attracting quite a bit of love and we’re all very chuffed! Were there any celebrations in order for you as a band? Yes! We’ve been treating ourselves all week, but the real celebration starts on tour! We’ve noticed the band has quite a love for tinsel and sparkly things, what draws you to the shiny things? We love dress ups and we always have. We used to always paint our faces and wear capes, now we do glitter and all things glam. Will there be many sparkly things coming out on stage for the tour? You’re in for a real treat x You are just about to kick things off, and it’s a nice few neat shows. But what are you like to travel with? We’re a mild mannered bunch by day, come afternoon we get a little rowdy, then we’re usually in bed by six. We’re lovers of your track ‘Back to the Womb’ which talks a bit about how simple it was way back when, if you had the chance would you take things back to life 36 FORTE
as a child (we won’t go quite as far as the womb)? Yeah for sure! No work. No rent. No stress. Just running round the park and napping in the sand pit. Music is often a great chance to really nut out any ideas and thoughts you have as a band, do you have any as a group that are too crazy/will be misunderstood if they were put in a song? Oh yeah we got a whole lot of crazy ideas that should probably stay under wraps. Lewis has fallen into the habbit of recording Aidan and Bella’s late night drunken rants - the ideas discussed there are as ludicrous as they are nonsensical... in a good way though. Thanks again for having the chat with Forte, any last words of wisdom you’d like to share with our readers? Que Sera xxxxx
WHEN&WHERE: Album Launch @ Shebeen Bandroom, Melbourne - August 21
Forte Columns
PULP Written by Alastair McGibbon
TOO HEAVY TO HUG Written by Paul S Taylor
It’s this time of year when the Soundwave rumour mill slowly begins to circulate; whispers and guesses which then ripple through the music community and music blogs. Being the type of guy who likes to start rumours and speculate, here’s a handful of bands who’ll be at the 2016 Soundwave shows. And forget impossibilities and improbabilities, as we know, anything can happen, including Soundwave bringing the same old bands back every second year. Next year’s Soundwave festivals will revert back to the one day format - according to rumour. For the punk/pop blast from the past category I’m betting Bloodhound Gang, Primus, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Presidents of The USA (lulz remember them) or Offspring, and am definitely going on record now saying TISM must be at SW2016. This is the category where everyone kinda goes ‘what the f*ck is that band doing on the bill?’ and then they become the joke band then they’re accepted. I can’t recall if Blink 182 have been here before but something tells me they have. There’s only so many decent ‘90s throwbacks that really stand up in 2015, I’m putting my money on Nine Inch Nails, Sepultura/Soulfly, Kyuss, Pantera with Zakk Wylde although that Pantera feat. Zakk Wylde, if it were to happen, I doubt strongly it would happen here in Oz. For the headliners Soundwave is really going to have to mix this up, my money is on The Prodigy, Motorhead, Slayer and one of them f*cking Queensryche bands, Megadeth and Lamb Of God. Every other rock and metal festival out there gets The Prodigy so it’s definitely our turn to witness them as a part of a more rocking festival. The random other bands due for a Soundwave appearance are Dethklok, The Ocean Collective, Tesseract, even though they’ll be here later this year, Within Temptation, Dead Letter Circus and or Karnivool as the local acts. In other news Ghost will release their third album Meliora on Friday August 21. The Dillinger Escape Plan will be at the Prince Bandroom on Friday August 28. Whoretopsy will be at the Bendigo Hotel in Melbourne on Saturday August 29 as a part of Living Death Fest. The band will also be at Melbourne’s Next on Thursday October 1. Grave Pleasures (ex Beastmilk) will release their new album Dreamcrash on Friday September 4. Atreyu will release their new album Long Live on Friday September 18. TesseracT will release their new album Polaris on Friday September 18. The band will play Max Watts in Melbourne on Friday October 16. Silent Knight will play Melbourne’s Bendigo Hotel on Thursday October 8. Devin Townsend Project and Periphery have sold out their Sunday October 25 show at 170 Russell. Second and final show added is Monday October 26 at 170 Russell. Nightwish will play only one show per capital city on their Endless Forms Most Beautiful Tour 2016 and the Melbourne show will be at The Forum Theatre on Monday January 11. Email @ tooheavytohug@hotmail. Twitter at @TooHeavyToHug
BLUES NEWS Written by John (Dr John) Lamp Proudly pesented by The Sleepy Hollow Blues Club
A few years back (well, quite a few years actually) I wandered down to Warrnambool to take in a gig at The Loft by Marco Goldsmith and Blue Heat – a band that makes the trip well worth it. In The Loft and doing a support for the gig was a very young harp player by the name of Eddy Boyle, who had billed himself as Fast Eddy. Initially I was interested to see how matter of fact the crowd was treating him. Usually if someone this young is playing, there’s comments about “youth prodigy”, “fast rising light” and the like. This crowd was treating Eddy as a competent, seasoned player, and I soon found out why. “Fast Eddy” is really no joke as a performance name – his playing was sensational! Yes, it was fast, but it was more than that, this was skill, a very high level of skill and his speed was just the icing on the cake. Tom Richardson (also coming from Victoria’s south-west) has often played with Eddy Boyle and they both appeared at the 2010 Australian Blues Music Festival. Eddy formed his band, Blues on the Boyle at the young age of 20. They specialise in rhythm and blues heavily featuring harmonica (no surprise there!). They play a blend of original material and classics from blues masters such as Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, William Clark and Junior Parker. Eddy gives a retro style to his song-writing and his harmonica playing adds a rich and vibrant depth to this jumping blues band. Eddy’s dad builds hot rods which is evident in some of his songs such as '51 Ford'. In 2010 they issued their first CD, Blues Harp Joyride. Their new CD, Tin Sandwich Stomp has featured in Anthony Moulay’s top 25 chart for five months straight. Their unique old school style covering a wide range of blues went down a treat at Broadbeach Blues in 2013. Eddy and Blues on the Boyle are appearing at Sleepy Hollow Blues Club on August 23rd. This should be quite a night! The band includes Phil Jones on guitar. Phil has played in Starliners, Flat Foot Shakers and Dusty Rhodes and the Dangerous Curves. They will be playing in Geelong later in August and some earth shattering bass will be provided on the night by Sweet Felicia. Regular readers of this column will be very pleased to hear that Greg Dodd’s event Blues for Lost Souls was standing room only. From a modest $5,500 raised at the first event in 2013, it looks like the event will raise more than $34,000 this year. Maybe we can get Greg an OAM! This is an event that the whole blues community has rallied round and the donations of items for the auction, along with musicians volunteering their time and virtuosity to the event has been wonderful. I am sure that Greg will put this on again in 2016, and maybe this is something that we should put on down here.
If there’s one thing that DC can do well – when they try, that is – it’s dark, creepy stories. Hell, their Vertigo imprint is basically just that, and has hosted some of the best horror titles in many a year, as well as boasting a roster of alumni titles that frequently populate “best of ” lists. While their content has dropped in quality of late (read: since the New 52 and its subsequent relaunch), DC can occasionally pump out a good story from the few writers that haven’t jumped ship to either Marvel or Image. One of their better efforts in recent months is Arkham Manor, written by Gerry Duggan (Deadpool, Nova) and to be perfectly honest, I’m disappointed it didn’t run longer than six issues. Arkham Manor is essentially just a Batman story with a twist, but it’s written in a way that emulates some of the better pre-New 52 Batman titles such as The Black Mirror. Following the events of Batman Eternal (which, despite being a lengthy read, actually does some interesting things), Arkham Asylum lies in ruins – the entire complex has been destroyed, and Gotham City desperately needs somewhere to keep its mentally ill and psychopathic supervillains., Unable to find a place to store the criminally insane Mayor Hady takes advantage of eminent domain and seizes Wayne Manor. Deprived of his home and with no other options, Bruce is forced to house the criminals he helps to lock up in his family home and seal off the house’s entrance to the Batcave. Things seem to be going swimmingly until inmates start turning up dead – apparently tortured to death. Determined to cleanse this stain on the manor’s honour, Bruce vows to track down the person responsible. His solution? Check himself into Arkham and root out the evil from the inside.
The Arkham name attracts some of the best horror-centric stories, and certainly seems to draw out the best in DC’s writers – Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth and Arkham Asylum: Living Hell come to mind – and while Arkham Manor’s atmosphere is more overriding creepiness and mystery than full-blown horror, it seems to share the same kind of tone. Duggan crafts an excellent murder mystery, but a lot of the credit for the tone of the book has to go to artist Shawn Crystal (various flavours of Deadpool). His art style is rather cartoonish – there’s lots of heavy, black outlines – and it matches the story surprisingly well. His use of light/ shadow is what makes his art really stand out – scenes both in and outside the manor could only be described as noir-ish. While Arkham Manor does require a little bit of prior knowledge to appreciate fully – nothing a quick Google search couldn’t fix – it stands on its own as a great Batman mystery. Having Bats deal with his greatest enemies literally on his doorstep makes for some great scenes – Mr Freeze seems like he’s having a grand old time, and is all the more endearing for it. It’s small touches like this that make Arkham Manor memorable and, despite their recent shakiness, shows that DC really can put out some quality content when they want to. If only they could extend that quality to the rest of their content! Ah, a nerd can dream.
PUNK! Written by Christopher Cruz
Okay, let's do this! The punk rock low-down begins in three, two, go! So the recent MxPx shows in Santa Ana, California, last month were kicked off by none other than Slick Shoes – the single greatest Christian pop punk band of all time. The downside being that they never got to achieve headliner status themselves at this level, despite having a killer back catalogue that even MxPx could never match. Better songwriters and musicians by a country mile. Here's hoping they stay together and bring their behinds out here to play some shows some day. Not likely, but a boy can dream. I'm not a religious man myself, but Slick Shoes were too good not to get into. They weren't (aren't) preachy or cheesey. The positive themes running through their records were nothing short of uplifting and inspiring, and pop punk fans could do a LOT worse than checking them out. Go on, do it. Google 'em, or Facebook them. You'll be so glad you did! Also on that bill, playing between Slick Shoes and MxPx, was Five Iron Frenzy! In case the name didn't give it away (hint: there are three words in it!) the band play spirited ska punk with a Christian slant. Are they any good? Yep, and I don't even particularly like ska! And by particularly, I mean I don't actually like ska. But as far as ska goes, these guys are every bit as
good as Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake, who also happen to be touring Australia soon! My dislike of ska is no big secret – just like it's no secret that I'm severely allergic to the sound of acoustic guitars! Folk punk?! Yeah, nah. Pass. Can you believe that there are plans to remake IT, the classic horror movie by Stephen King? Jeez Louise, Hollywood is running out of ideas and fast. Instead of something cool, new and original, they keep rebooting stuff that does NOT need to be rebooted. There are so many little known horror writers that could bring something fresh and exciting to the table. Apparently, that wouldn't be such a great idea since you can just recycle proven hits from the past. Oy vey. Enough already. You know what we haven't done in a while? Make fun of shitty emo/ screamo band names! Always so much fun, mainly because they're so shite! For this instalment, I'm just gonna name a bunch. As it is, you'll die laughing. Or wet yourself. Either way, a good time is guaranteed! Ready? Okay, here we go! City of Caterpillar. Destroy The Runner. Here I Come Falling. Pianos Become The Teeth. Funeral Diner (not even dinner, but diner. I mean, really?!). Nitro Mega Prayer. An Evening At Elmwood. Are they frickin' KIDDING? Jeez Louise! Anyone see the killer new Sleater Kinney filmclip, 'A New Wave'? It is frickin' BRILLIANT, and a must see if you're a Bob's Burgers fan. Soooo cute and funny – a match made in heaven! If that show was any more awesome, it would get taken off our screens! And just like that, we're done for another issue! Catch ya next time, kids!
POP CULTURE
THE NIGHT VIBE
Written by Anthony Morris
Written by Tex Miller thenightvibe.com.au
One of the more useful developments in pop culture over the last decade or so – especially if you’re the kind of fan that likes to see how the sausages are made, so to speak – has been the rise of the kinds of social media that you don’t have to be friends with someone to eavesdrop on. And not even for all the inside gossip about various big-screen disasters and celebrity meltdowns, though a recent semipublic Facebook thread on how tough an interview subject Amy Schumer was on her Australian tour did make for interesting reading. The real prize has been the way that social media now allows regular folk an insight into the thought processes of various bigtime Hollywood players, and it’s not always a pretty sight. While it’s no real surprise that many successful big-timers are still super-sensitive to slights and insults, it’s always depressing to see anyone respond to criticism – and this sentence could just stop there, because why would anyone want to respond to criticism on the internet? Especially with “I’d like to see you do better”. And yet, it still happens on a regular basis. Here’s some old news: you don’t actually have to know how a toilet works or be able to build your own to know when one is backed up, and the same applies to movies (or just about anything else). There are almost always dozens of better ways to reply to online criticism (if you really must reply at all), but the way a large number of creative types fall back on this one suggests the only kind of feedback they’re interested in is unalloyed praise. But that’s nothing new: more surprising (and depressing) is stumbling across scriptwriters on social media talking about how it’s their job to save movies from special effects and how great stories make for great careers. Sure, everyone likes to think their job’s important: everyone who’s watched any big budget movie over the last 20 years knows exactly how important a scriptwriters job really is. And pretty much all the films of recent years that have showcased really good writing are written by the director, because that way there’s someone on set sticking up for the script and preventing the actors from making up their own lines. These days writing an original script is a suckers game: Hollywood is all about remakes and outside properties (meaning those scriptwriters have to be very good at doing what they’re told), so anyone who has a really good idea for a movie is off writing it up as an adaptation-friendly novel or a comic book – or even a TV show – rather than dreaming it’s still 1986 and a spec script can earn a lucky writer a million dollars or more. Plus if you write your idea as a book or comic, you can make money off it even if the movies say no. A script without a studio is just a big fat calling card. Scriptwriters are meant to be great at creating dream worlds; seeing them talking about how they’re living in one is kind of sad.
Over the years, there have been several albums that have been incredibly successful. That’s true primarily as the songs are great and the album to a certain extent has a journey and some continuity throughout the 45 minute collection of songs. I hate to think how the industry is going, but is the idea of the concept album and having a solid set of songs that marry together really nicely gone out the window with the idea and the focus being on releasing single tracks on iTunes? Well no, I don’t think so. I think there are quite a number of artists that still retain the album’s journey as an important part of the process. Josh Pyke has just released his fifth studio album and thinks being able to decide how the album flows is still an important part of the creative process. In some small way, it allows the listener to be able to get into the head space and mindset of the artist and experience what the band were feeling at the time of writing that song. Looking back through the history of music, there are a countless number of albums that you could look at to see a perfect albums journey. If you were thinking about perfection to an album (and this is probably subject to public debate) you would have to include Sgt. Peppers and Dark Side of the Moon in the list. For many years, and it is quite funny to think about now, but I really didn’t see what the big deal with Sgt. Peppers was. Yes, it was in the period of the band where there was a lot of experimentation – just listen to the likes of the lyrics and instrumentation on ‘For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite’. However, having indulged in the record (listening to it on repeat for three weeks straight) I have to say that it is a solid journey throughout the album. Another great album from start to finish is Oasis’ second record. Yes, I am an Oasis lover and quite frankly think Noel Gallagher is a genius despite his attitude and temper sometimes, and their 1994 effort (What’s The Story) Morning Glory is perfect. Opening with ‘Hello’ the album plods along through both interludes and radio smash hits ‘Wonderwall’ and ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, to finish the backside of the album with ‘Cast No Shadow’, ‘She’s Electric’. Then there’s the seven minute album closer epic ‘Champagne Supernova’ featuring electric guitar solos from the best of them including the Mod Rock Godfather himself Paul Weller – it is up there with one of my favourite records and songs of all time. I sincerely apologise if this column seems to be coming across as self indulgent and opinionated, however, if you look at the pop hits of today, Ed Sheeran and Nicki Minaj as prime examples, it seems that albums today are filled with pop singles and a few B sides. There is a certain point as to why this is happening, but what happened to the good ol’ days of rock and roll and classic albums from start to finish? If you’re feeling a little nostalgic after reading this column, why not crack out the old vinyl records and listen to some greatness from start to finish without hitting skip on your iTunes library.
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TRIPLE R RADIOTHON WITH ‘ROUND & ROUND’ PRESENTER SARAH SMITH Q&A The Triple R Radiothon is on until August 23, to subscribe and show your support to the station visit www.rrr.org.au.
Listening to music in the car wouldn’t be quite the same without Triple R blaring through the speakers. In honour of the station’s annual ‘Radiothon’ subscription drive we had a chat to host of Tuesday drive show ‘Round & Round’, Sarah Smith. Hi Sarah, thanks for taking the time to chat with Forte Magazine, how are you and what are you up to at the moment? Thank you for taking the time to write these questions! I’m very well. I just finished up my show ‘Round & Round’ for the evening and am currently drinking a cup of tea, listening to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and getting stuck into this Q&A. First things first, how much have you changed since that 17-year-old punk wannabe who first caught on to Triple R? I still love The Stooges and secretly dance around my kitchen to The Ramones from time to time, but these days my record collection is much more diverse and I’ve definitely lost (most of ) that teenage ‘tude. Have your music tastes changed much over the years? So, so, so much. When I was younger I would go through phases
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obsessing over one particular sound – be it Britpop, punk or grunge – and just listen to the same few records over and over again. However, once I hit about 18 my whole world opened up and I discovered that not only is it entirely possible to love all kinds of music at once, but that life is a lot more fun if you can see the genius in both the Pixies’ ‘Subbaculture’ and Ginuwine’s ‘Pony’. How rewarding was it for you when you made that transition from listener to presenter with Triple R? Growing up in Melbourne I was in total awe of RRR and so many of the station’s intelligent, funny and insightful presenters. When I actually got the opportunity to sit in the studio and broadcast for the very first time it was kind of like that “We Are Not Worthy” scene in Wayne’s World - but with less Alice Cooper and more awkward pauses. And what was your first show at Triple R like? My VERY first show was a graveyard shift. I was wracked with nerves – scared that I’d either fall asleep or accidentally take the whole station off the air. I ate lots of bananas, drank an irresponsible amount of energy drinks and may have briefly lost my mind at about 4:38am. But I survived and had a stupid amount of fun while I was at it.
Have there ever been any funny radio happenings over the years? I think the funniest thing that has happened to me personally was on my first ever graveyard shift, when a particularly inebriated caller took it upon himself to help get me through the whole show. He just kept calling every 15 minutes or so to offer me a piece of advice or request a song. By the end of the night I couldn’t understand a word he was saying and was mildly concerned that he was just a figment of my delirium. What’s the biggest myth surrounding radio presenters? That we have a face for radio… J The Radiothon subscription drive is on at the moment, how important is this time of year for the station? It is THE most important time of the year for RRR. The station is run by over 200 passionate volunteers, but it needs the support of subscribers and the community to ensure we can keep broadcasting the same independent, creative and freethinking radio Melbourne has come to love over the last 40 years. And why should everyone get involved with Triple R? What sets your station apart? RRR is truly, hands down one of the greatest radio stations in the world. It is independent, not-for-profit community radio that supports the local music scene and offers an intelligent and entertaining alternative to the commercial networks. No matter what time of the day you tune in, you’re guaranteed to either learn something new or catch a killer tune. Thanks again for having the chat with us, do you have any last words of wisdom you’d like to share with our readers? Give everything in life a chance (even Ginuwine).
TELSTRA ROAD TO DISCOVERY: LOREN KATE Q&A
Winning $20 on a scratchie seems like an incredible achievement, but just think how it would feel winning $15,000 worth of opportunities to further your musical career? Loren Kate was luckily one of the few to find out after entering the Telstra Road to Discovery, a brilliant opportunity for musicians open now. Hi Loren, thanks for taking the time to catch up with Forte Magazine, how are you and what are you up to at the moment? I’ve actually been out bush in the Northern Territory for the last three weeks having some down time with my kids and good friends who live up there. I tried hard not to do any work while I was there but somehow I managed to write a grant application and book some shows for my upcoming EP launch tour…. So it wasn’t exactly a holiday. So the Telstra Road to Discovery is back up again, which you were involved in last year, how did you find it? Entering the Telstra Road to Discovery program was the best career decision I have ever made.
The Telstra Road team are such an amazing group of people to work with, and no matter how far you make it in the program, you learn an incredible amount of useful information. What’s the most important thing you’ve taken away from the experience? The most important thing for me has been learning to find the balance between your music and your career. Both need your attention, and without both there’s a chance you’ll go unheard. And while it is essentially a competition it is quite different from those you see on TV, what sets the Telstra Road to Discovery apart from other competitions? For starters, Telstra Road is a program for original songwriters and it aims to help you make a sustainable career out of your music. I don’t feel that any of the reality TV shows have that goal, not that I’ve really watched them, I haven’t had a TV for 10 years. Why is it so important for emerging musicians to take the time to enter the competition? Telstra Road is such an informative, hands on program. It’s honest and run by a team of people that love seeing emerging artists follow their passions. And most of all, it’s FUN!
You’ve said that music is a huge part of your life, how would your world look if music wasn’t a key part of what you do? I’m scared to think about that, it would be pretty dark. I use music as a therapeutic tool. All my songs are so honest and personal, without music I’d be paying some serious psychology bills!... Or I’d be living out bush, growing kids up on the land. And how have you found your progression in the industry has changed since entering the competition? Since Telstra Road to Discovery I have recorded a new EP due for release in October, I’ve made a film clip and I’m booking a follow up tour to the EP’s release at the moment. All of these things I probably wouldn’t have done this year if I didn’t have Telstra Road behind me. I have just had a baby and was planning on taking it easy – I’m now discovering I can do plenty of things with a baby strapped to my back! Bring it on I say! Would you say after attending the competition you’ve ‘discovered’ yourself as an artist? I think I’m always discovering who I am as an artist. It will be a life long process. Thanks again for having the chat with us, are there any last words of wisdom you’d like to share with our readers? Just to be yourself and go easy on yourself. The Telstra Road to discovery competition is open until August 23, simply follow the three easy steps on www. telstra.com/trtd to enter.
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THE SUMMER FOUNDATION GIVING A VOICE TO THE HIDDEN Bree Synot, early 20s, avoided going into a nursing home
Dom Coates, early 30s, lived in a nursing home for three years
Shaun Gulliver, late 20s, was at significant risk of living in a nursing home)
Paint Geelong There’s a new phenomena taking hold in Melbourne and it’s coming to Geelong tonight. Filling a pub on a weekday, a room full of people are given a stack full of brushes, some paint, a drawing to recapture and the opportunity to meet a whole bunch of new people. Held at the Carlton Hotel it’s a minimum cost when it includes all the tools and an artwork at the end of it.
Welcome Spring with Frank With the flowers slowly blossoming outside it’s time your indoors matched, and luckily Frank & Dolly’s in East Geelong have some brightly patterned new cushions to do the trick. Made by Together Design (aka Esther Sandler) the quirky designs have just the right level of colour for your couch (or bed) to handle.
It’s hard to imagine what it must be like to live in a part of society where you’re seemingly hidden from the world. Through 22 powerful stories, The Summer Foundation will help uncover the hidden lives of young Australians with disability living in nursing homes. They live in these homes because there is simply nowhere else for them to go. The Home to Home Digital Story Exhibition, presented by The Summer Foundation with thanks to the Sidney Myer Fund, features a collection of digital stories created during a series of workshops, including one in Geelong, across Australia in 2014. Storytellers developed scripts, narrated voice-overs and collated images and footage to produce insightful videos about their unique experience of living in a nursing home, being at risk of living in one or being a parent of a young person in a nursing home. Through these stories, we are invited to glimpse what life is sometimes like for young people living in residential aged care where the average age of fellow residents is 84, where there is no choice about what time to go to bed, what to wear, or what and when you eat. The emotions of grief, frustration and sadness are deeply present in this collection of stories. But so are the themes of perseverance, strength of character and hope. “As an Occupational Therapist in private practice, I have
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the privilege to work with young people in Nursing Homes through the NDIS and previously through the YPIRAC program. I have seen first hand how inappropriate these facilities are for young people to be living, despite all the efforts and care from the staff to make them feel like home. Therefore I was determined not to miss the Home to Home exhibition,” said a visitor to the Newcastle exhibition.
“I am sure that the exhibition has opened the eyes and touched the hearts of the people of Newcastle and will do in other cities that it travels to, so that this important social issue won’t be hidden away any longer.” The Summer Foundation was established in 2006 to advocate for changes to human services policy and practice related to young people in nursing homes. This will be the Summer Foundation’s third free exhibition for 2015, with
previous exhibitions taking place in Newcastle and Cairns. CEO Dr Di Winkler said, “The Summer Foundation has a strong role in speaking with politicians, policy makers and other agencies about the issue of young people in nursing homes. But what really matters is giving young people and their families the opportunity to tell their story, from their perspective, and be heard. “This is a group of marginalised and largely
WHEN&WHERE: Deakin University, Waterfront Campus – Open daily (9am-6pm) from September 8-15. Free admission
forgotten people, and these exhibitions are a chance to recognise and remember why policy needs to be changed to ensure there is an appropriate range of housing and support options available to give everyone the best chance of living lives of their choice.”
Take 2 of Everything The Take 2 Market is back with over 30 stalls of preloved designer, high street and vintage fashion items. Head to the Geelong West Town Hall on August 29 between 10am and 4pm to pick up something to give your wardrobe an upgrade.
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Static Body Q&A Make up and fashion often go hand in hand, but for the Static Body runway set for the Courthouse on August 28, things are a little bit different. We had a chat to make up artist Ally Barbagallo about what we can expect from her work with designer Ally Deam. How did you and Ally first meet? And how long did it take before the idea of Static Body became a reality? Ally Deam and I met in the salon – I’m her hairdresser. I have always wanted to put on a hair and make up show to show off my creativity. We pitched the idea to the Courthouse and they loved it and from there it became a reality. And what’s the idea behind the show? We wanted to create something that was new; something Geelong hasn’t seen before. We drew the inspiration from the idea that fashion is timeless and indispensable and the designs developed from there. Can you briefly explain to our readers the idea of ‘Fashion in Freeform’? Presenting a body of work in a non conventional runway show. Obviously Ally Deam is the designer, what’s the process been like matching up to her designs? We first had a meeting and came up with our theme and what we wanted it to be about and what certain elements we wanted to incorporate in each look. What do you find is the biggest difference between day-to-day make up and runway make up?
There are a few variations of runway make up; our show is quite avant-garde so the make up is quite full on and dramatic. Whereas when I was backstage for NYC fashion week the make up was quite neutral and soft and focused on showing off how flawless their skin was and not heavy at all. Day-to-day make up can be very neutral and soft as well or it can be slightly heavier depending on the desired result of the individual. What’s your background in the industry? I’ve been a hairdresser for eight years and make up artist for five years. I work at Salon Symmetry and I freelance for Blush Make Up Artistry. I’ve had experience in backstage theatre shows for local Geelong theatre companies doing both hair and make up. I was a part of New York fashion week in 2014 doing hair for EVO (hair product company) and also participated in various photo shoots. Early this year I was able to be a part of Sydney Fashion Weekend doing make up for Nude by Nature. Lastly, what are you hoping to be the response from the runway? I’m hoping that everyone enjoys our creativity and that it’s something that people will be more interested in and hoping to see again. I would hope it also helps get our names out there as a hair and make up artist and fashion designer and gain more work through this.
WHEN&WHERE: Courthouse Youth Arts, Geelong – 6-8pm Friday, August 28
Australian International Tea Expo: The National Tea Masters Cup
MIFF at GPAC The Melbourne International Film Festival have just lined up their regional screenings and GPAC has gained a few to hit their screens. Results, Song of the Sea, Neon and Putuparri and the Rainmakers will screen from September 11 to 12. Mark it in your diary!
Making a good brew of tea isn’t an easy task, and at times even the professionals can get it wrong. Launching as part of this year’s Australian International Tea Expo is the National Tea Masters Cup, a means at testing the who’s who of brewing tea. The competition also aims to create high tea culture, to develop professionalism, promote tea culture in the region amongst many other factors. Entering the competition isn’t something that’s exclusive to tea professionals, as anyone can enter, whether you whip up a few at home or at work. There are several categories that entrants will be judged on below:
Paper and Process Boom Gallery has a new exhibition on the walls, floors and smooth surfaces (at least it feels that way) and it’s a goodie. Running until September 5 will be works from Anita Beaney, Jiri Tibor Novak and Trudy White. Stop in for a coffee at Dirty Rascal and stay for the pretty things on the wall.
TEA BREWING Participants demonstrate the art of tea brewing and present two types of beverage: tea based at samples given by organisers and Master’s tea. Assessment criteria: taste, technique, presentation and time. TEA SET Participants demonstrate the art of composition - combination of tea and snacks. According to the rules of this category it’s possible to use any tea brewed in any way with any components. Assessment criteria: serving (decoration, tableware), taste combination and time.
Cycle Into Spring What better chance to celebrate the warming weather than with the inaugural Analogue Alleydogs Cycle Scavenge! Enter your team of 2-5 people for $20 per person and bring along a bike, a small day pack and a camera phone with an Instagram account and prepare for a day of hunting, photo challenges and surprise bonus point tasks. A charity BBQ lunch will follow the hunt. Keep September 5 at 9.30am free and head to Analogue Academy Cafe to book.
TEA TASTING Participants compete in skills to identify tea samples. Competition in this category consists of two stages: preliminary tasting and final competition with five secret samples which are randomly selected by Head Judge after the preliminary tasting. Participants should identify the samples according to the parameters (country/region/plantation). The Australian International Tea Expo will run from October 17-18 at the Pier in Geelong. Over 50 exhibitors from the tea expo will also be on site, as well as the chance to partake in nine tea education classes, High Tea Over the Bay, Frocktober Morning Tea and many more. Visit australianteaexpo.com.au to get tickets and further details about the expo.
COMING SOON TO THE CHYA GALLERY:
STATIC BODY.
Fashion in Freeform. WHEN:
WHERE:
Friday 28th August. Doors open 6pm. Runway starts 6.45pm.
Courthouse Youth Arts, 60 Little Malop Street, Geelong, Vic, 3220.
Fashion Designer:
Hair and Makeup Artist:
Ally Deam
Ally Barbagello.
WWW.COURTHOUSE.ORG.AU
Photograph courtesy of Dance Images
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WORD FOR WORD FESTIVAL: PROF FRANCES QUIRK Written by Amanda Sherring
In between the time it takes for the sun to rise and set, over 120 million acts of sexual intercourse have taken place. In a year, the average person has sex around 127 times a year, and yet when it comes to real conversations about the natural activity, the figures are surprisingly lower. One person who has great figures on talking about sex is Professor Frances Quirk, who will do just that when she hits the stage for her session ‘Lets Talk About Sex’ as part of the Word for Word national non fiction festival. “Talking about sex is pretty fundamental,” Frances adds with a laugh. “If couples are going to argue about anything it’s money and sex.” “Generally speaking we hardly talk about our own sexual functionality or sexual response with our close relationships. You don’t sit around the pub and say, ‘Wow, my genital arousal response is really not what it was, I don’t know what’s going on there. How about you, how’s yours?’ “We don’t have those conversations we’re not that open and part of it is we don’t understand.”
Working towards making the conversation all the more common and easier is just one part of the many roles Frances has undertaken, her biggest working with Viagra company, Pfizer, in the UK. “I’m a behavioural, scientist, researcher and sexologist. I was in the UK until about 12 years ago working for a role with Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company, on the developments of Viagra,” she says. “So I had about eight or nine years working in the areas of sexual dysfunction, sexual functionality and sexual quality of life. A lot of the work was with people who had sexual problems and exploratory, qualitative work talking about where sex fits. How much is having a good sex life a priority?” Frances’ work soon shifted to work on the research surrounding the potential for Viagra to work for women, and she soon found that
what came with it was a judgement for women and sex – something she is still helping to overcome. “We have this view that women are passive, less interested and aren’t really the initiators of sexual activity. That’s the kind of attitude that doesn’t really help sexual discussion about the impact of disease or sexual intervention on women’s sexual functionality,” she says. Part of Frances’ role was training sex professionals on the correct language when dealing with both men and women. Not using coy language like “down there” and sticking to the proper terms – which in turn helps empower the patient to have the discussion. “Once you create the space for someone to talk about their sex life they almost invariably will just go ‘whoosh’ and tell you everything, because no one’s ever asked,” she says.
With her contributions to numerous international text books on diagnosing and accessing sexual function, her knowledge on the topic is vast and naturally she’s made a number of revelations over the years. The biggest of which is that women are severely behind the eight ball when it comes to what’s available for men with sexual health. Viagra really opened the doors for discussions on sexual health with men and women are still waiting for the same opportunity. “There’s a lot of conversation about sexual problems, human biology and sex education but there are some fundamental points nobody really shares,” she says. “Things like, if you’re comfortable with your own body, the importance of sharing your body and how it works, the importance of feeling safe to say no – you’re in control of what happens for you – and placing a
value on sexual intimacy rather than sex almost objectivity.” Frances will be joined on stage with Rochelle Siemienowicz, Lee Kofman and Dr Michelle Smith and is open to see where the discussion goes. “I think having us talk
about something on stage that everyone does at some point in their life, whether that’s by themselves or with someone else, is sort of extraordinary really,” she says. To see Frances in her session ‘Lets Talk
About Sex’ on Saturday, September 12 visit www. wordforwordfestival.com. au to purchase tickets. WHEN&WHERE: Deakin University, Waterfront Campus – September 11-13
YANKEE SWEETHEART WRITTEN BY AMANDA SHERRING
Step into Yankee Sweetheart and it’s instantly unlike any other beauty parlour or vintage shop in Geelong. A teal blue wall scattered with pictures of vintage starlets and well-groomed men lines the far wall and the rest of the space is filled corner by corner with vintage goods for decoration and for sale. Lexi DeRock greats me and she’s everything you’d want in a beautician and shop keeper. She’s welcoming, an exhibit of her talent and a seamless conversationalist – something that’s important for Lexi with her clients. “I only take one client at a time, and that appeals to a lot of people because they know they won’t be in a shop full of people that’s busy with a lot of noise and without oneon-one contact time,” she says. “When I was first living in France that’s when I started going out on my own and I really loved it because I could actually chat to the customer and get to know them. You mightn’t in a normal shop because you put someone’s colour on and you’re expected to cut and clean and pass people around a bit.” With a background in theatre hair and makeup as well as special fx makeup, Lexi’s passion for vintage style developed over time but wasn’t something she came to love straight away. “I learned how to do vintage hair and make up in beauty school. I went to the Aveda Institute in Minneapolis, and every school has specific tasks that you have to accomplish,” she says. “I just think the text books were super outdated as they were teaching us pin curls, finger waves and marcel waves and at the time I thought, ‘This is stupid, nobody wears their hair like this’ and now I use it all the time.” The demand for Lexi’s skills initially came when she was living in Paris and working from home, and it’s now something that she uses daily on herself and on customers in the store. “It’s creative and it’s a challenge and that’s what I like about vintage hair – it’s a bit more of a challenge. It’s very technique based,” she says.
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“There’s this drama that comes with vintage make up and style, and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t look great dressed up like a pin up – it looks amazing.” Beyond doing vintage hair and makeup, colour correction, blow waves and trims, Lexi makes head scarves, coin purses and is working on a vintage bathing range to sell in store. “Bathing suits are my big project over summer. I bought back this vintage bathing suit that I got over in Paris.
It needed a bit of repair so I took it apart and then I thought maybe I could just use it as a pattern,” she says. Yankee Sweetheart also stocks vintage clothing sourced from local vintage stores as well as items made by local creatives. “If and when I can I like to buy local and support them, because there’s so many creative people in the area that are making incredible things,” Lexi says. Ultimately Lexi is doing what she loves and that shows
through in her interactions with everyone who steps through the door. If you’re looking to get dolled up for a special event, wedding, ball or just need a new look, Yankee Sweetheart is the answer. WHEN&WHERE: Where: 17 Church Street, Geelong West When: Tues-Weds 10am-6pm; ThuFri 11am-7pm; Sat 10am-4pm Website: www.yankeesweetheart.com Contact: 0407137699
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MELBOURNE MUSIC BANK: HELOISE Written by Amanda Sherring
The Melbourne Music Bank competition is open until August 23 and with each New Year it’s drastically changing an emerging musicians life. Last year Heloise was lucky enough, all due to her talent, to be the winner of the competition. Winning the competition meant that Heloise spent time recording at Sing Sing Studios, had a film clip made by Wilk, album artwork made, media training, her song played in a Bank of Melbourne ad amongst other incredible opportunities. Having freshly moved to Melbourne from Tasmania before the competition, Heloise lists even the fellow musicians and industry professionals met during the process as an incredible stepping stone towards her career. “Solely the people that I’ve met have helped me so much - I’ve had so much expertise and guidance that it’s pretty much priceless in an industry like this. Just meeting people who are willing to help you out is great, it can be such a big lonely world out there and the more people to help you the better,” Heloise says. “Also having that validation as an artist that what you’re doing is worth it. Not necessarily that you need to be validated, but it’s one of those career choices that’s creative and so personal and a lot of the time you can be filled with self doubt.
“Having the encouragement from people who have been doing this their entire life, and to pat you on the back and tell you it’s all worth it, that’s been the major thing for me and makes me want to work harder.” Heloise is currently in the lead up to releasing her EP and would love to work with Wilk again in creating the film clips to go alongside it – working with him the first time was so incredible once just wasn’t enough! “Wilk is so cool and such a good human being. He had us over for dinner and cooked us curry, just to get to know us and the music. We caught up a few times and he came to me with the idea of the train and I loved it and thought it was perfect for the song,” she says.
“I went out on a little train out in Moulden, which is the cutest little railway, and travelled from Moulden to Castlemaine. It was such a nice day and I had the hair and makeup artist pampering me. I hadn’t done a film clip before that, so it was interesting to see what it was like. It was an awesome experience and a great thing to have under my belt.” Really, all that Heloise hopes to continue doing is what she loves: making music, and the Bank of Melbourne
with their initiative have made it that little bit more possible. “All I really want is to be successful, and success for me is being able to do my favourite things; to perform live, record in the studio and record film clips and go on tour. So if I can do that full time for the rest of my life that’s a success in my eyes,” she says. If you’d like to follow in the steps of Heloise and change your pathway into the music industry, visit http://info.
bankofmelbourne.com. au/melbmusicbank/ for more information and be sure to enter before August 23. “YoXXXX
SUI ZHEN Q&A There’s a lot more to Sui Zhen than her electro-pop music. In fact, she’s even formed somewhat of a split personality in her newest clip. We had a chat to Sui Zhen, and possibly Susan, on what she’s been up to, wearing Kung Fu pants and her pastel world. Hi Sui Zhen, thanks for taking the time to chat with Forte Magazine, how are you and what are you up to at the moment? I’m eating kiwi fruit, strawberries and yoghurt whilst wearing my new Kung Fu pants and Feiyue shoes around the house. I’m enjoying how much better my new pants feel than what I had before and I’m slowly working through all the music and design tasks I have to get through this weekend. You sure have been keeping yourself busy with radio appearances and gigs and the like, are you someone who can’t sit still and has to remain active? I can definitely sit still, but I keep myself pretty busy most of the time and I probably pack my days a little tighter than most. Outside of music, I produce creative technology for museums and study design. My newest hobby is practising Kung Fu. So, when I sit still I feel like I’ve really earned it. Music has been the most constant activity throughout my life. What do you do when you have down time? I started Kung Fu to better maintain healthy balance between the various work I do and ‘mind and body’ wellness. Exercising is a big part of that. I tend to carry
tension and stress otherwise, and lose perspective of what’s really important. I usually aim to have one adventure each week, where I can stop checking emails and Wunderlist for a few hours. This week I went to the Rhododendron Gardens in Olinda and whittled the day away in the damp forests trying to find early blooms. So your first 12” vinyl is almost out, how important was it for it to be a vinyl release? It was very important to me. I collect records and enjoy listening to music on vinyl more than other formats. It’s a certain way to ensure your music will last a long time. It’s being produced in a limited pressing so there’s a greater value to it than a purely digital release that can have endless incarnations but then sits in a sea of endless incarnations of all the music that ever existed. Vinyl is a bit more special in that way.
With this new release is also the addition of ‘Susan’. Can you tell us a little bit about her, what does she love, long walks on the beach? Susan is not entirely real. Her personality has been cultivated from the collective anxieties, hopes and dreams of the digitally documented public. She’s someone’s digital doppelganger, meta-data manifested, and in this video she is trying to connect with her true self – the one that exists beyond the screen. She isn’t doing so great when we meet her. She’s a little uninspired and she’s turning to procedural pleasures to connect with her emotions. She’s looking for something more. And how long has Susan been waiting to show her face to fans? Fully formed Susan has been waiting to show her face to fans for several months now. Patiently waiting in the wings until her special moment
to shine in the spotlight arrived. I think Susan is locked in time, almost immortal. Her tear will forever fall into that yellow flower, like an aging star. You’ve certainly created your own ‘pastel world’ in the clip for ‘Take It All Back’, was that one a fun one to film? Yes, it was the most interesting because of my own transformation into Susan. I was very relieved to complete shooting, remove my wig and contact lenses and just be me again. It’s fun to dress up, but it’s a very strange feeling to walk around visibly as someone else. It’s a little uncanny valley, but then again something is always a little bit off in Susan land. Thanks again for having the chat with us, are there any last words of wisdom you’d like to share with our readers? Release your inner Susan.
RELEASE: Secretly Susan is available from August 28
JACKSON THOMAS Written by Tex Miller
Jackson Thomas has had a busy 12 months since becoming runner up on The Voice last year. Having supported the likes of Ricky Martin and Robbie Williams, Thomas is now breaking out on his own with the release of his debut six track EP slated for release in October. With a gig at GPAC on August 27 as part of the Winter Solstice show, Thomas is both nervous and excited to get up in his hometown to play. “I really want to share what I have been working really hard on over the past year and so rather than just play for 50 minutes,” Thomas says. “I’m going to be telling a bit of a story along with the show and hope to create an intimate environment with playing just piano and singing. I want everyone to feel a part of the experience of the new show that I have created. It will be the first time that I have played some of these songs to my family and friends, so that’s a little unsettling. It’ll be a great show though, I can’t wait.” Since starting out as a boy soprano in the Australian opera, it’s been a long journey so far in the career of Jackson Thomas. Travelling abroad and living in California for a year was just the right amount of inspiration to do something special with his music.
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“I lived in Lake Tahoe and taught snowboarding for a year and being completely honest with you I listened to hip hop for a year straight. Before living abroad I had no idea of the magic of Jeff Buckley and City and Colour – they are two of the biggest influences on my music,” he says. Throughout the course of a year, musical indulgence into a variety of different artists and genres paved the way to greatness for Thomas. Entering the Voice was, although at first a nervous experience, something that Thomas looks back on fondly. “I would definitely recommend going on The Voice or a talent show. I know that there are some stigmas surrounding that, but I think that you need to have a plan before you go on those shows,” he says. “If you already have stuff released digitally, that will help get your name to the masses. You can’t go in with a big ego and expect to become the biggest band in Australia, but it’s great for artist development and as I am sure you are already aware, you have to make the most of every opportunity.”
Having the opportunity to support the likes of Robbie Williams and Voice mentor Ricky Martin, has allowed Thomas to play to thousands of people in big arenas. The WNTR Cabaret show at GPAC can be likened to the Beatles Christmas show at the Sydney Opera House late last year. “I was lucky enough to pay tribute to The Beatles alongside Darren Percival, Ciaran Gribbin and Irwin Thomas. To date, that is one of my bucketlist gigs. Sold out at the Opera
House paying tribute to one of the greatest bands ever. It was a huge learning experience and something I’ll never forget,” Thomas beams. With the EP due for release in October make sure you catch this show because Thomas is becoming a rising star in the Australian music scene, and who knows when he’ll be back in Geelong again. WHEN&WHERE: GPAC, Geelong – August 27
JETTS Q&A WITH SCOTT DUMBELL
Been thinking about hitting the gym but simply don’t know where to start? Read on for all the answers to your questions, plus some honest truth on gyming it from Jetts owner Scott Dumbell. Hey Scott, please give us a brief background about yourself and your gym business, Jetts? I have been in the health and fitness industry in Geelong for about 15 years. I started out as a personal trainer, moved into group fitness and gym instructing over 10 years ago. From there I progressed through many different facets of the gym business from gym floor management to sales management and eventually onto club management – the next logical step was to start my own business. I was researching a lot of different gym models at the time and the one that I thought best suited my philosophy on business and health and fitness in particular was Jetts. The whole concept of no lock in contracts, come and train whenever you like – it really resonated with me. Especially as previously I’d been locking people into contracts they didn’t want or need and limiting their training to when the standard gym was open. Can you tell us about Jetts’ locations? Six years ago we opened Geelong’s first 24/7 gym “Jetts in Pakington St.” Over the next three years we opened two more clubs firstly in Torquay and then our most recent club in High St, Belmont. Also last December we bought Bootcamp Geelong which is Geelong’s largest and best outdoor training provider.
What are some of the unique differences that Jetts can offer? Apart from our locations, equipment, cleanliness and accessibility, I would have to say our team members are what really sets us apart. We have some of the most respected, talented and busiest trainers in Geelong working in our facilities. A huge focus when we opened was to hand pick the best talent I had seen in my years in the industry. We worked out that in the Geelong facility alone we have nearly 100 years experience in the industry, considering we only have seven trainers you can see that we have all been doing this for a long time! The fitness industry is booming ATM, why do you think fitness, particularly gyms and boot camps etc, are so popular right now? I think there are a few reasons; social media definitely has a role to play. Advertising is right in the palm of the consumer’s hand literally throughout most of the day. We also have a lot more to chose from. Gone are the days of people paying too much for things they don’t need. The market is niching, members now have yoga studio memberships, 24/7 gym memberships and also go to boot camps. The explosion of 24/7 gyms pulled people out of the big clubs, it also got a lot more people training who otherwise couldn’t, or wouldn’t, train in a larger gym. There are a lot of people who are thinking about joining a gym, what’s your advice in terms of tipping them over the edge to actually start? My advice is pretty simple, if you don’t make a change, you won’t make a change. In other words if you’re procrastinating then I can tell you that you are getting absolutely no results. If you give it a crack you have absolutely nothing to lose…..except some kgs!! It’s easy now, there are no contracts, if you don’t like it you leave no questions asked no hassle, but I’m pretty sure you’ll like it. Young people are often trying to find a balance in life, do you think study, party, work, friends, family and fitness can go together?
No doubt at all. As I mentioned before there is something for everyone. If you like training outside you can, if you like running you can, if you like swimming you can, if you like MMA you can go learn how to choke someone out. The key is to remember that there is no quick fix, baby steps are better than no steps – it simply has to become part of your weekly routine. If you’re telling me you cant find 3x30 mins to train I’m telling you, you’re a liar. If the president of the USA can train, you can train. We can’t all be Arnie but if you make some time it’s better than none. In terms of balance, how would you suggest people maintain a routine? I would have cancelled a lot more memberships than I’ve sold over the last 15 years. The key here is to make the training part of your life. Don’t go from no training to 5x per week and get jack of it in three weeks and never go back. Find something you enjoy doing that’s active and stick at 2x per week for the first five weeks. You’ll soon see it’s part of your life, you can sustain it and eventually you might build on it. It’s like anything; you don’t party five nights a week, once is fine…. Though I know some of you are partying five times a week! It also sounds cliché but it really is easier if you do it with a buddy also. It’s more fun, you are accountable to each other and you will push each other a bit more. If someone is sitting on their couch thinking, ‘I want to start but I find the gym intimidating and I’ll make a fool of myself ’ what would you say to encourage them to come in sign up, are there people that can help them find a rhythm? Without coming off too harsh I would say, ‘GET OVER YOURSELF’. I can honestly say that the other people in the gym are way too concerned with themselves to be worrying if your runners are cool enough! Seriously, I can understand some people may feel intimidated but in my experience “especially in our clubs” the people are awesome, encouraging, friendly and welcoming. As I mentioned before we have some of Geelong’s most
experienced trainers, they really know their stuff they will make you feel right at home and set you up for success. There is a sense with some people that it’s all or nothing. If I’m going out a lot, there’s no point training. If I’m over worked with my job I should rest instead of training, if I miss a week there’s no point going the week after. How important is regular training even if only a few times a week? You’ve nailed it in the question. All or nothing gets you nowhere, especially in the beginning. Slow and steady wins the race, you should be aiming for any amount that you can sustain for the rest of your life. That’s the reality; you don’t train for five weeks, look and feel awesome and then never have to train again – it’s not like that. It’s regular and over a sustained period of time. If we are on the run, what are some take away options you would recommend? Japanese can be really healthy; you just have to watch how much rice you have (depending on your goals and how much exercise you are doing). It’s fresh, clean and fish is an awesome source of good stuff. My advice would be to prepare your meals on Sunday night for the rest of the week. That way you save money by not eating takeaway. You save time Monday to Saturday also as you’ve set everything up on the Sunday. Is there a special deal for those who are reading this right now, that might help them start a routine at a Jetts Gym? Glad you asked! If you mention you read this article in Forte we will give you no joining fee and one month free. You’ll just pay $59 for your access pass. With no lock in contract you have absolutely no excuses…..get amongst it!! Jetts is located at 1/155 High St, Belmont, 63 Pakington St, Geelong West and 41 Bristol Rd, Torquay. Visit www.jetts.com.au for more information.
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5 KIDS MOVIES THAT WILL
MAKE MEN CRY Good family movies appeal to kids of all ages. Great family movies appeal to people of all ages. The best movies will often include elements that only the adults will understand, while still providing entertainment for the kids. As a result, there will be times in these movies that reduce parents to a quivering mess – here are five that get me in the heart button every damn time. The Iron Giant The Iron Giant is hands down the greatest animated film of all time. I cannot stress enough how brilliant yet under-viewed, this movie is. Admittedly, it can be hard to come across, but if you ever see a copy of it please buy it. Be warned, though, that you will cry an absolute bucket of tears at the end. The emotional power of the film’s final minutes, as the titular Iron Giant (SPOILER ALERT) sacrifices his life to save an entire town who moments ago had the army on hand to try and destroy him. It’s as heroic as heroic gets. What’s more, he does it with a smile on his face as he finally gets to live up to his best friend’s view of him as being a real-life Superman.
Up It’s a little easier to get a tear-jerker ending after spending 90 minutes investing us in characters, but it’s a tougher assignment to get a tearjerker opening. Pixar are clearly up to the challenge, showing us a full life in a little over four minutes, including some foreshadowing, but most of all, making us care for Carl. This scene is particularly powerful for how simple it is. With a flat tyre, a broken leg, and a whole bunch of ties, we are all reminded of our own inevitable mortality. Harry & The Hendersons If you love someone, sometimes you have to let them go. No truer words have been spoken in relation to this film. This is another powerful act of self-sacrifice, but this time of the emotional kind, not physical. In order to save Harry from the government, John Lithgow has to abuse him to the point of no-return. He knows it will destroy Harry emotionally and that he won’t understand, but he knows there is no alternative. Lithgow could have been forgiven for phoning it in for a family movie, but look at him here,
his face wretched with pain. In close up, it could just as easily be a scene from Schindler’s List. Toy Story 3 You either cried when you watched Toy Story 3, or you’re lying. It was damn lucky that this film was widely watched in 3D and the glasses provided some obstruction from view for any dates you might have had with you. I’m sure I’m not the only person who had an inner
monologue along the lines of “No, they won’t kill them. They can’t. It’s a Pixar. Oh…they’re holding hands. They’re saying goodbye. Oh man, the look in Slink’s eyes…they’re going to do it. Those sons of bitches are going to kill them.” Toy Story then doubles down with the final scene of Andy giving his toys up. Anybody who’s ever had to move on from something they love
will have felt dryness at the back of their throat and moistness in their eyes. Never Ending Story Forget the false advertising claim Lionel Hutz put in against The Never Ending Story, their ultimate act of betrayal was their cover; OK, fantasy movie. Pretty looking girl, probably to be saved. Some ugly looking troll dudes, and a boy flying on a magical dog/lizard. Can’t
possibly be anything too traumatic in that, can there? There might be some close calls, and a good bit of survival, but it’s not like they’re going to spend a good 3 minutes drowning a horse in a swamp or anything. You…bastards. Written by Mitch Grinter
6 THINGS I WANT TO SEE IN THE NEW DEADPOOL MOVIE With the recent release of the new Deadpool trailer, fans around the world have been thrown into a frenzy. It almost looks too good to be true. Do we dare let our imaginations run wild and actually get excited for it? Surely it can’t go wrong from here, can it? Regardless, it got me thinking about the things I personally would love to see in the movie, have a read and let me know what you think:
14 USELESS FACTS ABOUT ‘ROUND THE TWIST’ 1. The show’s theme song was in fact sung by the original actress to play Linda Twist, Tamsin West.
“creative differences”, nothing ever eventuated.
McLennan, joined the Australian Army in 1997.
7. Before creating the show, Paul Jennings worked as a teacher and speech therapist.
12. Jeffrey Walker, who played Bronson in Season Two, went on to be a director, working on over 30 episodes of Neighbours.
3. There was a three year gap between Season One and Season Two (1989-1992)
8. The Split Point Lighthouse in Aireys Inlet, Victoria (where the exterior shots were filmed) has become a popular tourist attraction. Tours can be booked to have a look around the iconic lighthouse.
4. There was an even bigger gap after Season Two. Season Three didn’t air until 2000.
9. Paul Jennings made a cameo playing Benjamin Byron in the episode ‘Without My Pants.’
5. After the show, the original Pete Twist, Sam Vanderberg formed an ‘80s cover band called ‘80s Enough.
10. Despite becoming one of the ABC’s most popular shows of the ‘90s, Round The Twist actually started on Channel 7.
6. A Round the Twist movie was nearly made, but due to
11. The original Bronson, Rodney
2. Tamsin West only played Linda in Season One.
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13. Round The Twist almost didn’t make it to TV. The show’s marketing manager Jenny Buckland has said that the scripts were declared ‘too rude’, ‘not for television’ and ‘outrageous’. 14. And finally, a fact that’s sure to bring a smile to all of your faces, the original Round The Twist website is still active and can be checked out at www. roundthetwist.com.au Written by Dando.
1. Pop culture references One of the things that makes Deadpool such an interesting read, is the many references to the world outside of his own comic book. With the trailer already revealing some not too subtle digs at the Green Lantern movie (Also starring Reynolds) we hope that it won’t just be a once off. 2. The many voices in his head One of Deadpool’s most unique characteristics is having conversations with the voices in his head. While the number, sex and race of these voices has changed, I know that for me, the Deadpool Movie will be incomplete without someone
like James Earl Jones playing a voice in Wade’s head. 3. Taking advantage of his healing abilities Although a healing ability isn’t anything new in superhero movies (Wolverine), no comic book character has as much fun with theirs as Deadpool does. Super powers are supposed to be fun. Deadpool gets that. 4. Something Spiderman-related It could be a team up, or even just Deadpool being mistaken for Spiderman, either way it needs to happen. Deadpool being mistaken for Spiderman and his bromance with him have been established in the comics since the beginning, and I for one would love to see it on the big screen.
5. A Superhero beatdown Deadpool is known for his gags, after all he’s a funny dude. But he’s also a highly skilled mercenary that isn’t above doing a little bad if it puts money in his pocket, or suits his own interests. This is sure to put him at odds with someone, why not the Hulk? 6. Destroy the fourth wall We know it’s a movie and so does Deadpool. I want him to single me out in the cinema, make references to camera men and the director, people that no one but he can see. If I can only have one of the things on this list, I pick this one, it is an absolute must. Written by Michael Loverdos.
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Film Reviews
Films reviewed by Anthony Morris
THE WR AP
Vacation
An Irrational Man
Southpaw Not every movie exists because it has a story to tell. Movies are made to show off special effects, to hammer home a point, or – in the case of Southpaw, a movie where the only surprise is how surprise-free it is – to win acting awards. Billy “Great” Hope ( Jake Gyllenhaal) is the [middleweight champion of the world]. He fought his way up out of a Hell’s Kitchen orphanage to a New York mansion, with his childhood sweetheart (and fellow orphan) Maureen (Rachael McAdams) by his side. He might not be good with words and his style of boxing – basically,
he lets the other guy pound on him until he gets angry enough to take him out – might not be good for his long-term health, but he’s got money, friends, and an adoring daughter: life looks pretty sweet for him. And then he loses it all in rapid succession, so much so that barely half an hour into the film the onetime champ is now broke, banned from fighting and living alone in a dingy flophouse. Is he going to fight his way back? Is he going to take back everything he’s had taken from him? Is local gym owner and straight-arrow trainer Tick Wills (Forrest Whitaker) going to teach him how to fight like a man, not a monster – and by doing so show
him how to live like a man too? You might expect there to be a twist or two along the way, so well-worn is this path, but this film isn’t about surprises. Instead what’s meant to keep you in your seat is Gyllenhaal: wiry, ab-tastic and playing a mumbling palooka with a burning temper, his performance has “award-winning” stamped all over it, even if the end impression isn’t quite powerful enough to make it actually feel like something worth throwing prizes at. He’s solidly made in a solidly made film, but if you’ve seen the poster – or any image from the film at all – you know exactly what’s in store.
Philosophy professor Abe Lucas ( Joaquin Phoenix) arrives at a small Rhode Island university, only to find that his rakish reputation proceeds him. The reality of this one-time womaniser and firebrand is bleaker: he’s a bloated, washedup drunk who flirts with suicide and reeks of despair. Despite all this, both a somewhat predatory co-worker (Parker Posey) and an idealistic student (Emma Stone) see something more in him, and their faith (and flirtation) is rewarded when he suddenly finds the will to live – by deciding to kill a complete stranger.
Woody Allen’s film for 2016 is firmly mid-level by his standards, lacking laugh-out-loud moments or real insight into his characters. Fortunately, the many dangling loose ends leave it feeling messy in a realistic rather than slapdash way, and the performances add a lot to the goings-on. Stone turns the cliché of an adoring student into something plausible and likeable, while Phoenix presents Lucas’ depression as weighty yet matterof-fact. His performance turns his formulaic character into a real person stricken with a real malaise, and makes the plot twist that this film hinges on into something more than a superficial joke.
A sequel rather than a remake of the original (better known as National Lampoon’s Vacation), this still manages to repeat many of the original film’s jokes without managing to improve on them in any way.
Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation Tom Cruise does what he does best – smile and run around in a suit – in this extremely entertaining series of high-concept action set-pieces (let’s steal a computer disc… underwater!) loosely held together by the usual spy stuff.
Last Cab to Darwin Michael Caton is a Broken Hill taxi driver dying of cancer who decides to drive to Darwin so he can legally kill himself. This is slightly less gloomy than it sounds.
Trainwreck TV comedian Amy Schumer’s big screen debut has a bunch of good moments, but director Judd Apatow’s obsession with bland relationship material and personal growth too-often plots stifles the laughs.
Paper Towns It’s more teen angst from the pen of John (The Fault in Our Stars) Green, as a high school good guy throws it all away to track down the wild child next door neighbour he’s had a crush on since forever.
Ant-Man
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Fantastic Four There are a lot of reasons why the latest Fantastic Four movie doesn’t always work, but perhaps the biggest is that the Fantastic Four themselves just are all that strong as characters. That’s not to say they can’t work on the big screen (they just haven’t yet). In some ways this does a pretty good job of trying, especially by focusing a lot of time on the four of them before they get their powers – but they’re basically a fairly bland team group and we already have plenty of them on the big screen. Plus, their big hook is that they’re “family” (tm the Fast & Furious franchise) and their big hook is that they have super-science adventures, which is a genre Hollywood has shown zero interest in getting right
for the last few decades (anyone remember Lost in Space)? So whatever the behind-the-scenes dramas with the studio ordering constant changes, this was always going to struggle; the big surprise is just how watchable large chunks of this still manage to be. Reed Richards (Miles Teller) figures out how to make a gateway to somewhere else while in high school, which attracts the attention of the Baxter Foundation, a scientific organisation very much interested in exploring wherever it is this gateway leads to. To just point at random at some of this film’s many problems: the alien planet manages to be both superboring and a place that gives you super-powers, three of our heroes
– Sue Storm (Kate Mara), Johnny Storm (Michael B Jordan) and Ben “The Thing” Grimm ( Jamie Bell) – end up working as would-be government hit-men for a stretch which makes them super-unlikable, they largely treat their powers as a curse which makes zero sense unless you’re The Thing, and tying their origin in to Doctor Doom (Toby Kebbell) is just pointless. But on a basic storytelling level things happen in an order that generally makes sense, the cast are better than the script, and the film as a whole doesn’t have that smug, smarmy tone that most Disney / Marvel superhero films can’t help but slip in there. It’s no classic but if this is the worst blockbuster of the year, then it’s not that bad a year.
In a year that’ll see at least three Bond-style spy movies (does your spy movie involve an extraordinarily handsome man in a suit? It’s a Bond movie), you really need to do something to stand out from the pack. Kingsman: The Secret Service went for comedic excess; Spectre has James Bond; and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is going for – once you look past the ‘60s setting, which is where Bond began – a buddy comedy. Of course, Napoleon Solo (Henry Caville) and Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) don’t start out as buddies, this being the Cold War and all, but when the only thing that could unite the USA and USSR turns up – Nazis with an atom bomb – they’re ordered to work together. Solo’s a slick sleaze and Illya is a stoic giant prone to fits of rage; fortunately Gaby (Alicia Vikander) is also on board, being the Nazi
Dope The time is now, though you wouldn’t know it from looking at Malcolm (Shamelk Moore) and his friends: hardcore devotees of ‘90s hip-hop, they walk the walk and talk the talk, which makes them stand out on the mean streets of South Central L.A. While those around them are dealing drugs and waving guns, these nerds just want to be left alone – with some time on the side for Malcolm to stare at local hottie Lily (Chanel Iman). But when that leads to a friendly chat with a local drug dealer who has a past with her, Malcolm and his friends soon find themselves sole custodians of a bag full of drugs, 52 FORTE
bomb scientist’s niece and their only way to infiltrate the eurotrash organisation behind him. It helps a lot to remember this is based on a TV series (it turns out to be an origin story, which would be fine if anyone had ever wondered about the origins of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), as this is never quite as spectacular as it needs to be. Likewise, the chemistry between Caville and Hammer is strictly TV level, relying largely on scripted banter than any real warmth between them (Caville’s usually smirking stiff performance comes just a little too close to seeming like a smooth sociopath). Having said that it’s still fun; there are a number of comedic set-pieces that are smart deconstructions of action clichés – or just plain funny – and handsome people in sharp outfits is always nice to watch. But this is a film that’s all shiny surfaces, even by blockbuster standards, it’s as memorable as a magazine ad for a too-expensive watch. and while the drugs owners don’t want them back, they do want what they’re owed – a whole lot of money. This fast-paced and charming film is a salute to the ‘90s in a whole range of ways: the music might be the soundtrack, but the film itself is a throwback to the independent films of the early and mid-’90s, back when low budget films weren’t afraid to be funny and still get a message in there. It’s a crime caper film with a lot of smart twists, it’s a character drama with a point to make, there’s enough tension to keep you in your seat and enough laughs to make you glad you came: as they said in the ‘90s, Dope is dope.
The Marvel movie formula goes back to basics and is the better for it in this (relatively) small scale saga of a guy (Michael Douglas) who invented shrinking technology and the nice guy thief (Paul Rudd) he brings on board to steal the technology before it falls into the wrong hands.
Mr Holmes Sherlock Holmes’ crimesolving days are well behind him – it’s 1947 and he’s a beekeeper in Suffolk – but that doesn’t mean his past doesn’t have a few mysteries lying in wait for him in this revisionist take on the Great Detective (Ian McKellen).
Inside Out Pixar returns to their tearjerking best in this often very funny look at what happens inside a little girls head – basically there’s feelings, and those feelings have feelings, and a lot of those feelings can be pretty sad.
Minions A fast-paced comedy caper film (and prequel to Despicable Me) this often very silly film is pretty basic stuff – but that doesn’t mean it’s not a lot of fun.
Far From the Madding Crowd This Thomas Hardy adaptation turns the source material into a relatively straightforward romantic drama, but the focus on the characters’ emotional lives makes the love triangle here come alive.
Music Reviews
Tex Perkins and The Dark Horses
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Mas Ysa
Frank Turner
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TUNNEL AT THE END OF THE LIGHT
BLOSSOM
Create/Control, Downtown Records
POSITIVE SONGS FOR NEGATIVE PEOPLE
International Death Cult / Kobalt
Dark Horse Records / Inertia
There’s no doubt about it – Frank Carter and co sure as hell don’t pull their punches. Their debut LP, Blossom, is down, dirty and ready to rumble; they’re so goddamn punk it’s almost unbelievable. There really isn’t anything quite like a pissed-off British bloke screaming into a microphone; it worked for the Sex Pistols et al, and it somehow still works in 2015. With growling, crunchy guitars, a scream that’ll blow out your eardrums and a truckload of good ol’ punk attitude, Blossom will knock your socks off. It’s not a clean album; it’s angry, grungy and sounds like the drummer was literally trying to hit his kit so hard it broke. When there’s the slightest lull in the audial assault (circa track 5, ‘Paradise’), you’re treated to the meanestsounding bass guitar I’ve heard in years, as well as Carter giving up singing and just plain yelling. All in all, Blossom isn’t particularly melodic; it’s all power chords, thunderous drums and a hell of a lot of energy. It’s hardcore punk at its best, really. While not unlike Carter’s previous work with Gallows, Blossom feels like it’s much more personal and a lot more on the raw side; it’s less polished and the underlying energy is very different. Carter has certainly thrown himself into his new project, and it shows – he sounds like he’s having an absolute ball, and overall the whole album fits together perfectly, despite the visceral punch to the eardrums it unleashes.
Up until the other day, I had no idea about Mas Ysa. Otherwise known as Thomas Arsenault, he is a man that creates sweet electronic music with traditional song writing elements. From listening to the opening track of this album though, you wouldn’t really know. ‘Don’t Make’, which opens the record, features Thomas on acoustic guitar while singing quite gently and you might be mistake it for a Simon and Garfunkel track – it’s really beautiful and gentle.
The open drone of acoustic guitar greets your ears as you start to listen to Tex Perkins’ new album with the Dark Horses, Tunnel At The End Of The Light. It sounds like it could be passed off as a Tom Waits record as Perkins brings what sounds like a whiskey soaked swagger to his vocals. It’s genuine and eerie and is quite a slow builder to the album. The chord progressions to this album sound a little dissonant and jarring at times but that lends to some indulgent listening. The song writing is powerful and majestic and it is an impressive follow up to 2012’s Everyone’s Alone. One of the coolest and bravest things on this record is ‘Slide On By’, which opens with rollicking electric guitar and harmonica, and talking about bravery the song goes for eight minutes. Who does that on a modern day album? Tex Perkins that’s who, and it is bloody brilliant at that. Well done Tex on a great new album and if eerie Australian rock with cinematic elements is your thing then look no further than Tunnel At The End Of The Light. Reviewed by Tex Miller
The next minute however, you are thrown into electric bliss with the track ‘Running’. It features synth breaks and some glorious drumming alongside the track. ‘I Have Some’ is a track that does something a little different, as track number three on the record it combines the quiet acoustic elements of #1 and the disco electro beats on #2 and mashes them together. It’s a concept that you might not appreciate at first, but give it a listen a few times through, you’ll see what is going on eventually. After supporting the likes of Deerhunter and Purity Ring, this album, the debut LP from Canadian Mas Ysa, is definitely an intriguing listen from start to finish. Combining lots of instrumentation and moods and soundscapes, you should check this album out if quirky out of the box kinda music is your thing. Reviewed by Tex Miller
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As soon as Frank Turner’s newest album kicks off it’s easy to see this is going to be another honest release. It’s a natural sound and even has recordings of him walking around a room before beginning the track ‘The Angel Islington’. It’s quite an interesting choice in the second track ‘Get Better’ as it’s the kind of in-your-face honesty that can come off as brash, especially after such a soft intro. But the gutsy decision has paid off, and with Turner’s lyrical talents – something he’s proven in his other albums and is well known for – it stands as one of my favourites for the release. Another track that follows in a similar style is ‘Glorious You’ but there’s a few gentler – and even some with a country twang – in between the two. It’s also another highlight of the album and if the pattern suggests anything it’s that his best are the tracks that don’t hold back, that don’t have a care for the repercussions of what they’re saying. What’s interesting is the tongue in cheek titling of the songs, Turner isn’t exactly singing of cheery subjects but the titles would suggest otherwise. Overall it’s another great release from Turner and another trophy to his cabinet of excellent song writing. Reviewed by Alexander Lightfoot
Reviewed by Alastair McGibbon
Nico Ghost
The Basics
Sui Zhen
The Rebelles
KAISHI
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Independent
The Three Basics Pty Ltd
Dot Dash/Remote Control Records
Listening to Nico Ghost I’ve got to admit I’m not the first to put my hand up to listen to a hip hop release, but Kaishi is one I would easily put on again. ‘Coolin’’ plays out much like the name suggests, Nico Ghost’s smooth rapping flows over a synth beat and while he’s talking about the usual hip hop subjects (bitches, joints, you know the deal) it’s a track that’s an easy listen. With the move for more and more electronically produced releases, Nico Ghost does a great job of pairing his hip hop stylings alongside a synth R&B beat. ‘Bound 2 Snow’ is a highlight for me as it’s a clear example of what Nico Ghost does best and what I’ve previously mentioned. ‘Daps+Pounds’ is a bit of a heavier track and the synth isn’t there quite like it is in the others, instead it takes a step back to old school hip hop and is purely about the beat and the lyrics – which are really something to appreciate. Rounding out the EP with something different again is ‘PWH’, a slower release, it has that kind of lovey hip hop feel to it but this isn’t a love song. All up Nico Ghost is a seriously talented rapper that you should get onto. Hell, Kendrick Lamar has already labelled him as a “promising up and comer”. Get on it. Reviewed by Amanda Sherring
It’s been six years since The Basics released a studio album and Age of Entitlement is their step back into it. The name says it all for this one and opener track ‘Whatever Happened to the Working Class’ is all about making a comment on the current political situation in Australia. The line “politicians sitting on their arse, whittling away at the few rights that we’ve got left” is certainly a line to kick politicians into shape. While I’m not a fan of the strum your guitar and talk about political issues type song, it’s still making a comment and that’s worth supporting. The Basics have said previously that they don’t make music for anyone in particular, it’s more a means to express themselves, and that comes through in their tracks. There’s quite a lot of variance with each song and the talent really lies in their ability to tell a story, or spread some sort of meaning through their lyrics. ‘Good Times, Sunshine’ has that cheesy sing-a-long vibe that sits well with many of the ‘80s classics that we still sing out loud to this day – a favourite for me on the album. Another thing that’s consistent about this album is the strong Australian rock vibe that’s felt throughout, it’s a little bit ‘80s and feels like you’re listening to one of your parents favourite records. Reviewed by Amanda Sherring
Look to the cover and you’ll see a vacant faced lady with a short blonde do looking off into space. Her name is Susan and she’s the character created and lived through in Sui Zhen’s new album Secretly Susan. It’s an interesting concept and proof that Sui Zhen lives and breathes the music she creates. The album starts of with the whispy, breathy single ‘Teenage Years’. It’s an elated song made possible with synth pops spread throughout the track. It slowly fades out into nothing and instantly has you thinking back to your own teenage years. Sui Zhen’s talent lies in her crooning voice paired with the heavy synth beats. In ‘Hangin’ On’ there’s a tribal rhythm, ‘Take It All Back’ is a bit more eletro-‘80s and ‘Dear Teri’ is a slightly sexy, slightly jazz-tinged number. The latter of which is a highlight for me, the kind of smooth love song dedicated to this so called Teri character that you can’t help but be intrigued by. The rest of the album wavers between these styles and helps build a story behind ‘Susan’. It’s almost like a diary captured in some sort of strange electro, futuristic ‘80s time warp, maybe that’s not the simplest way to define the album, but listen to it and you’ll know what I mean. Reviewed by Amanda Sherring
You know those old school songs usually from the ‘80s that make you want to get up and dance? The type that usually brings out the worst dance moves in people because they don’t care about anything except having fun? The Rebelles have that power, and if you’re not up for dancing I suggest you don’t put this album on, or, as they’re first track aptly says, ‘1, 2, 3, 4 Go!’. The album seems to flow by rather quickly, though ‘Spanish Fitzroy’, ‘Here He Comes’ and ‘(You’re Gonna Be) My Boy’ are highlights that make you want to click repeat. If there’s any downfall it’s that occasionally the tracks sound a bit like the band are simply looking at the sheet and hitting the spots when they need to. ‘Not A Chance’ feels a bit this way and it’s almost like the track is scripted. But that’s not a consistent fault in the album, more just an occasionally observation. If there’s one point I’ll also make, music aside, is that don’t let the album art fool you. It may look like something your mum or dad would want to pick up – that’s not necessarily a bad thing though – this is actually a great release for anyone who has a thing for the older tunes. Reviewed by Alexander Lightfoot FORTE 53
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KING PARROT KAROVA LOUNGE, BALLARAT SATURDAY AUGUST 15, 2015 When metal comes to Ballarat the Ballarat metal community come out in droves. Though, since there is only one real drove of metal heads in Ballarat, I can safely say every member of said drove descended upon Karova to witness possibly one of the most talked about live Aussie acts around; the mighty King Parrot. Wildeornes kicked off metal proceedings with their blues infused sludge that rippled and slowly surged over the crowd, engulfing all under its sticky, heavy weight. Their set exhibited their honed talents as their protracted songs ranged from rapid chugging to bluesy and jazzy interludes and seldom sung clean vocals all above a replete infectious beat and bass line that had heads nodding and toes tapping. For those who had never heard Wildeornes before I suspect they’ll be going back for more. For mine, they really give Pallbearer a run for their money. Next up came the heavily ‘80s thrash influenced Harlott. Hailing from Melbourne, though you wouldn’t know it what with a guitarist who looks strikingly similar to an ‘80s Kirk Hammett, hair and all, you’d think you were at “The Whiskey”. These guys kicked out a solid set of cookie-cutter thrash tunes. Call me jaded but I had been listening to a lot of early Slayer in the weeks leading up to this gig (massive re-visiting Slayer phase that is still going on, FYI). The band might have a bad taste in jokes but they have a killer taste in pure, straight up thrash that got the growing crowd head banging. King Parrot have named this tour the “Regional Rampage Tour” and let’s get one thing straight from the get-go, their set wasn’t just a rampage but it was what you could imagine a rampage being on a roller-coaster as it somehow got stuck circling a loop over and over again. There were no punches held during their set, this was full-on anarchy on and off stage. The energy from the band was palpable, the humour from the band was on point. I’m not going to list tracks they played because, quite frankly, that shit doesn’t matter. All that matters is if you want to live the King Parrot experience, if you want to feel like your arse has been kicked, then you’ve been laughed at as you bend over on your knees in pain then have it kicked again, laughed at again, over and over and over until your arse is swollen and red raw and you’ve been laughed at until the laugher has vomited, see King Parrot. If you want to be punched in the face a trillion times, see King Parrot. If you want to be afraid of a vocalist who comes across as completely f*cking insane and unpredictable on stage, see King Parrot. King Parrot. Are. Dead. Set. The. Absolute. Shit. Live. Band. Hands. Down. Reviewed by Paul S Taylor
SEINFELD QUIZ! STOP SHORT WITH THESE 12 MOVES!
1 - Newman is called in to settle a dispute between Elaine and Kramer, what item are they arguing over? 2 - How does George’s wife to be, Susan, die? 3 - What fast food item did Kramer become addicted to? 4 - George becomes embroiled in an altercation over a chocolate bar at a candy machine, what brand is it? 5 - What movie is said to be referenced or displayed in every episode of Seinfeld? 6 - Kramer stars in a movie with Woody Allen, what is his one line in the movie?
7 - George had a fake company, what was it called? 8 - Walking along a beach George impresses his girlfriend by doing what? 9 - George’s father is spotted with a man wearing a strange clothing item, what is this item? 10 - Who was the ‘re-gifter’? 11 – Elaine has a boyfriend Aaron, what is one of his uncomfortable social traits? 12 – Declared as ‘unacceptable’ by Jerry’s mother, what movie was Jerry caught making out with his Girl Friend during?
ANSWERS: 1. A bike 2. Licking a stamp 3. Kenny Rogers Fried Chicken 4. Twix 5. Superman 6. These pretzels are making me thirsty 7. Vandelay Industries 8. Pulls a golf ball out of a whales blow hole 9. A cape 10. Tim Whatley 11. He is a close talker 12. Schindler’s list
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