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SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS LINEUP 2012 Well folks, this is the one you've been waiting for. After intense speculation and rumor-mongering, the time has come to bask our beady eyes upon the mighty Splendour In The Grass 2012 lineup. And 'tis a mighty one, indeed. Celebrating the return to the festival's spiritual home in Byron Bay will be a veritable galaxy of talent, a ﬁne mix of established veterans and red-hot rising talent. Well, enough of my yakkin', let's boogie! The full lineup reads as follows: Jack White, Bloc Party, Smashing Pumpkins, At The Drive-In, The Shins, Hilltop Hoods, The Kooks, Gossip, Miike Snow, Dirty Three, Lana Del Rey, 360, Azealia Banks, Tame Impala, Explosions In The Sky, Ladyhawke, The Afghan Whigs, Missy Higgins, Wolfmother, Metric, Kimbra, Mudhoney, Band Of Skulls, Spiderbait, Django Django, Gypsy & The Cat, San Cisco, Last Dinosaurs, Electric Guest, Muscles, Angus Stone, DZ Deathrays, Howler, Lanie Lane, Fun., Big Scary, Michael Kiwanuka, Seekae, Friends, Yacht Club DJs, Bertie Blackman, Jinja Safari, Blue King Brown, Youth Lagoon, Pond, The Beautiful Girls, Tijuana Cartel, Ball Park Music, The Rubens, Ben Howard, Bleeding Knees Club, Zulu Winter, The Medics, Shihad, Hypnotic Brass, Ensemble, Husky, Kate Miller-Heidke, Father John Misty, Emma Louise, Chet Faker, Here We Go Magic, Parachute Youth, Mosman Alder, The Cast Of Cheers, Wolf & Cub and Gossling. We'll be there for sure. Shit, a seven nation army couldn't hold us back. Splendour In The Grass 2012 will be held at Belongil Fields, Byron Bay from Friday July 27 until Sunday July 29.

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DZ Deathrays were designed to play at house parties, but they’ve stretched their appeal outside humble and slightly trashy abodes to a worldlier audience. Launching their debut LP at the Tote,a 14 trackassault titled Bloodstreams, the duo show oﬀ their last four years of hard work and high energy on April 27. Tickets are on sale now through thetotehotel. oztix.com.au, and from The Tote Hotel.

If Split Seconds were a football team their preseason preparation for the 2012 musical season could be considered impeccable. Entering the building on the ground ﬂoor in late 2010, Splits wormed their way into the hearts of local independent music fans on the back of their eminently likeable singles All You Gotta Do and Bed Down. With the release of their new single Top Floor they’re getting their game faces on to take it to the streets. See them on Thursday May 10 at The Northcote Social Club and Saturday May 12 at Karova Lounge in Ballarat.

FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Melburnians' taste for Bret, Jemaine and Murray appears to be insatiable, with our favourite Kiwis announcing a second Melbourne stopover. With tickets to their show at The Plenary selling like hotcakes, Flight Of The Conchords will be staying on to perform at Rod Laver Arena. The arena-sized show proves just how popular these unlikely Kiwi lads are, and how overdue their maiden Australian tour really is. Flight Of The Conchords will perform at The Plenary on Saturday July 14 and at Rod Laver Arena on Sunday July 15.

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As expected, fans went crazy trying to pick up tickets to Prince's upcoming tour. And as we’d hoped, a second and third show have been added as demand ran hot. Tickets for the recently released shows are sure to be equally coveted, so make sure you get in quick. Fingers crossed, Prince may even be able to extend his run with another show or two. Prince performs at Rod Laver Arena on Monday May 14, Tuesday May 15 and Wednesday May 30. Grab tickets through Ticketek.

Tour promoters 31Flavours have announced that R Kelly will be touring Australia for the ﬁrst time in September. The announcement went live on their website today. If this doesn't excite you then you are probably a virgin. Stay tuned to Beat for more details.

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STONNINGTON JAZZ Jazz fans rejoice, because the seventh annual Stonnington Jazz festival is upon us. The best of Australian jazz will come together over ten massive days across venues in Stonnington; including Malvern Town Hall, Chapel Off Chapel, TRAK, Red Bennies and a range of others. This year's program will feature over 40 performances from the likes of rising star Sarah McKenzie, the extraordinary Barney McAll, up and comer Josh Kyle, Rai Thistlethwayte, patron Allan Browne and jazz icons Vince Jones and James Morrison all joining in the festivities. For jazz fans and music lovers alike this is an unmissable event and it all kicks off on Thursday May 17 before finishing on Sunday May 27. Tickets available through www.stonningtonjazz.com.au.

Fresh from sold out shows at the Montreal Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Perth International Comedy Festival, America's funnyman Neil Hamburger will make a long awaited return to Australia in May 2012. It’s been two long years since we’ve seen him, best known for his work with Faith No More, Tenacious D, Tom Green, Tim & Eric and even on Fox's The Red Eye, and he returns to Australia for a selection of East Coast shows. Joining Neil on the night will be his partner in crime, Australia's premier parlor magician and DJ Dr El Suavo. Suavo's 2012 tour has seen him traipse the globe with UK's The Damned as well as appearing at this year's Adelaide Fringe Festival. Catch Hamburger as he plays the Caravan Music Club in Oakleigh on Friday May 4 and the Toﬀ in Town on Sunday May 6, tickets available through the venues.

HILLTOP HOODS After being announced for Splendour last week our favourite Hoods are back at it with a national tour announced to support their latest drop, Drinking From The Sun. This'll be their ﬁrst headline run of shows since 2009, audiences are no doubt gagging at the prospect of hearing Drinking From The Sun performed in entirety alongside all the fan-faves. Hilltop Hoods play Festival Hall Saturday August 25, tickets go on sale Monday April 30. They're also playing Splendour In The Grass on Saturday July 28.

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WAVVES Visiting in May for a national Groovin’ The Moo festival tour, undisputed Kings of the Beach – Wavves – will be playing a sideshow at The Corner, and we have a couple of double passes to give away. You may know them for their fun surf pop and noise punk such as tracks I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl and King of the Beach, or you may know them for their exciting and quirky live shows. Or you may also have read about them or are a friend or relative. Regardless, they play The Corner with Sures and The Murlocs on Wednesday May 9 and we have some passes to give away.

Touring Melbourne in July is Portland-based quintet The Shins, in support of their most recent album Port of Morrow. Having released their debut, Oh, Inverted World, back in 2001, Port of Morrow is the band's fourth album released in March this year. With this tour making the band's ﬁfth jaunt to Australia since 2003, they will also be performing at Splendour in the Grass in Byron Bay. Supported by Melbourne's Husky, The Shins will be playing Festival Hall in Melbourne on Monday July 23. For ticket information head to the Ticketmaster website, or the Splendour in the Grass website for all Splendour-related information.

THE BLACK KEYS We knew they'd be coming out at some point soon, and finally, confirmation has landed. The Black Keys are coming to Australia. After the raging mainstream success of their seventh and latest album release, El Camino, it seems our favourite purveyors of DIY garage soul are set not only to play down here, but play some of the biggest venues our fair country has on offer. Apparently the show will feature ridiculous visuals from 20 projectors, giant mirror balls, and all the hits from their deep and consistently awesome back catalogue. Are we excited? Hell yeah we are, and so should you be. This is not a show to be missed. The Black Keys play The Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Wednesday October 31. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.

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THE DARKNESS MISSY HIGGINS One of the nation's most loved singer-songwriters has announced a massive tour alongside her Splendour In The Grass appearance. The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle Tour will see Missy Higgins hit the road in the lead-up to Splendour. New single Unashamed Desire marks the first release from Missy in over five years, a period of time which included a self-imposed hiatus from music. Missy capped off 2011 with a barnstorming showing at Falls Music And Arts Festival, and 2012 looks set to consolidate her return to our musical landscape. Missy Higgins hits Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday June 16.

THE ENGLISH BEAT It's been a long time coming, but ska-reggae-pop legends The English Beat are ﬁnally making their way to our fair land this August. Their unique blend of ska, punk and reggae is sure to get Aussie audiences dancing with their killer live shows. Be sure to get along to the Corner Hotel on Thursday August 30 to watch these ska stalwarts strut their stuﬀ. Tickets available from metropolistouring.com, oztix.com.au and cornerhotel.com.au.

After causing a stir with the unveiling of an Australian tour a couple of weeks ago, British Glam band The Darkness have had to announce a second Melbourne show, selling out their ﬁrst at the Palace. Following their disbanding in 2006, original front man Justin Hawkins was admitted to rehab after a lacklustre response to their second album, however reformed with their full line up in 2011. The second show will also be at the Palace on Wednesday May 9, with special guests still to be announced.

DANIEL MERRIWEATHER One of our fair country's most dynamic talents has announced a swift return to Melbourne, this time performing in a very intimate surrounding. Currently based in New York, Daniel took the world by storm with the release of his Mark Ronsonproduced debut album, Love & War, in 2009. The album went Platinum in the UK and earned him an ARIA Award, as well as a reputation as one of the leaders of the soul revival movement. As well as supporting Kimbra on her national tour, Daniel will bring his full band to Phoenix Public House for a very special night. Daniel Merriweather performs at Phoenix Public House on Saturday May 12.

Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? "And so the beast awoke from its slumber; with a sigh, the mountains shook with great ferocity, raising the brow of the very Gods that breathed first life unto it; and so my eyeballs, they did oscillate." Someone captioned a photo of us with that recently. So, either that or the usual involuntary expelling of air that seems to happen. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? We draw a lot from the physical environment; places and spaces that we feel strongly about, from cities in Japan to mountain ranges in New Zealand. A lot of the time we try to do something that is new and totally different for us, subverting what we know as typical form and structure. We also just like being extremely loud in general. What's the strangest place you've ever played a gig, or made a recording? We recorded our upcoming album in the now demolished Amcor packaging facility in Alphington. It was this huge warehouse/R&D lab that had been absolutely gutted before demolition, yet the power was on in the building for the week before it went down. The room we chose to record in gave off this cavernous, swirling reverb; you could hear the transients throughout the whole building. Our

drummer even got electrocuted there! That album should hopefully be released online in the next couple of months. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? The handmade EP we are releasing on Tuesday was actually released digitally on our Bandcamp a while ago (you can order the limited edition handmade version from there too). But as is our grand philosophy, as long as it's 100 percent our stuﬀ, all digital downloads are 100 percent free. When’s the gig and with who? Tuesday May 1 at The Toﬀ in Town, with Deep Heat and White Walls. Both are really great bands; it's going to be the best Tuesday night out one’s had in a while! Anything else to add? "'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."

60 SECONDS WITH… THE KHYBER BELT 60 SECONDS WITH… Define your genre in five words or less: Old-School New-Age Space Rock (hyphens make two words one yeah?) Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? The Sun. What do you love about making music? Before you walk into the room, there’s anticipation and empty space. After you’re done, there’s a living, breathing something that has the ability to effect people on a soul level. And dancing. Dancing’s rad.

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What do you hate about the music industry? There’s no money in it. You can either sell your soul and work in the mines, drive a forklift or do something else that’s not your life’s purpose, or you can forfeit your ﬁnancial future and be in a band. It’s awesome.

Melbourne fans were over the moon when Zola Jesus announced that she’d be visiting alongside her Vivid LIVE appearance. With demand running hot, a second night has been added. As well as the previously announced Sunday night show at The Toﬀ, Zola Jesus will be performing on the preceding Saturday. Support on the Saturday show comes in the form of fellow Vivid attendees Light Asylum and Forces. Support on the Sunday night show comes from Fabulous Diamonds. Zola Jesus performs at The Toﬀ In Town on Saturday June 2 (on sale now), and Sunday June 3 (limited tickets still available).

If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuﬀ, who would it be and why? Frank Zappa would be so unimpressed with anything anyone would show him, surely.

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So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? “Man. I don’t know what just happened, but I’m nude, I’m covered in hundreds and thousands and I’m ﬂoating. Have you seen my keys?” Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? .hinge. They’d kick our ass, but at least we’d get to see them play one more time. Miss that band. When are you playing live/releasing your album/ EP/single/etc? Our self-titled EP is being launched this Saturday April 28, at The Espy Gershwin Room. And it’s blue. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? Vodka shots and band hugs.

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So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? BIG WORDS: K-Lee – MC/guitar, Will – MC, Cam – bass, Lawrence – drums. What do you think people will say you sound like? We don't really care what people say our music sounds like, we just do what we do.

CUT OFF YOUR HANDS, DIE! DIE! DIE! Making (radio) waves all over the web since earlier this year, online streaming service Rdio started with a bang, with a launch party featuring some shit-hot acts in Sydney. Now Melbourne audiences won't be feeling left out, with a corker of a lineup helping spread the Rdio word this May. Presented by Vice, the launch will feature the cream of local and Kiwi talent. The night will feature the ace lineup of Gold Fields, Cut Oﬀ Your Hands, Die! Die! Die!, Love Connection and Forces. Head along to the Rdio Facebook page to RSVP, and you may as well start your free seven-day trial while you're at it, eh? VICE Presents Chateau Rdio takes place at Workers Club on Thursday May 3. RSVP at facebook.com/rdio for your chance to attend.

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Fiend Fest is Melbourne's newest alternative festival, celebrating fashion, art, music and performance with a healthy dose of retail therapy thrown in for good measure. It’ll bring together some of the scene’s most beloved institutions: The Black Market, Carpe Noctum Fashion Parade (the successor to the incredibly popular Circa Nocturna), Cabaret Nocturne and Fiend Magazine. The spectacular all day event will host live performances by Hocico, Hanzel Und Gretyl, Shiv-R, Johnathan Devoy and a number of local acts including SIRUS, Witchgringer, Noize Bunny, The Resignators, Voltera, MissNic and many more. A fashion extravaganza, art installation and one of Melbourne's most popular markets will be brought together at Revolt in Kensington. Fiend Fest kicks oﬀ on Saturday June 9 at Revolt, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington. Tickets are on sale now and available from www.revoltproductions.com

The curtains have come down on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for another year, but there’s a cheer of a different kind just around the corner. Good Beer Week brings 100 events celebrating beer in every way you could imagine to venues across Melbourne and Victoria from May 12 to 19. The eight day festival sees brewers and beer lovers from all over Australia gather in Melbourne alongside stars of the international beer world for showcases, masterclasses, tours, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, beer-themed comedy, new beer launches and a lot more. It is the second running of Good Beer Week, which was created almost overnight in 2011 and ended up selling out events across the city. In 2012, it returns bigger and bolder, with more than twice as many events and a greater regional focus that sees events taking place from Bright in the north to Red Hill in the south. Around Melbourne, fine dining establishments, cocktail bars and beer-matching chocolatiers are among the venues joining those who hosted Good Beer Week events first time around.

What do you love about making music? That music is a universal language that brings everyone together. What do you hate about the music industry? The lack of soul and passion that isn't put into a lot of music these days, people are in the game for the wrong reasons. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuﬀ, who would it be and why? Would have to be A Tribe Called Quest because they are the illest cats to walk the planet, they keep it real. What can a punter expect from your live show? A bangin’ live sound, packed with freestyles, funky jams and a dope night out! What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? We've just ﬁnished an EP which you can purchase to bump in Mum's car at bigwordsmusic.com When’s the gig and with who? Friday April 27 at Noise Bar with the notorious RY and All Day, shit's going to get crazy! Anything else to add? Like us on Facebook, check out the website and SEE YOU AT THE SHOW. PEACE!

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WHEATUS As we previously reported, Teenage Dirtbag singers Wheatus are set to touch down in Australia this year. Now we have the dates locked in! The amorphous lineup is anchored by frontman Brendan B. Brown, continuing to write, record and tour 15 years after their inception, having released ﬁve studio albums since 2000 and currently in pre-production for their sixth. Now Wheatus are heading to Australia for their Still A Teenage Dirtbag Tour, baby. Wheatus hit The Corner on Wednesday September 19.

60 SECONDS WITH… THE OVALS Define your genre in five words or less: Philosophical psychedelic holst orientated asteroid So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? "Is it possible for Fascism to re-emerge?" said Jefferey. "Why so?" replied his friend at the bar. Jefferey replied, "Because I feel the need to stamp out mediocrity. I've felt recently after One Direction visited our shores, that perhaps Australian society is sliding on an 'ill' course because people are just willing to accept rather than to 'do'.” “Interesting statement," said his friend. "One must also build and not just tear down, however," Jefferey then replied. "This is true. Let us then uphold The Ovals for praise!" "Agreed," replied Jefferey's friend. "The I's have it". They drank merrily and with much fervent celebration for the remainder of the Eve. When’s the gig and with who? Good question. It’s at Cherry Bar Friday April 27 to launch our brand new single Beneath the Wheel, named after a fantastic Hesse book. The sublime Pony Face will

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be supporting, and the very slippery like Flyying Colours will be opening the night in a tremendous psychedelic fashion one would suggest. How do you stop your pre-gig jitters? We recall stories with solid and virtuous lessons – such as the battle between Captain Ahab and Moby Dick. Ahab placed within Moby Dick a notion of evil as if the evil qualities were inherit in the beast itself, which is absurd. Nothing is inherently evil. So this teaches us that we are not 'bad' human beings, hence freeing us up to go about our business in whatever loose fashion we choose. Anything else to add? HELL HATH NO FURY AS AN OVAL AT THE CHERRY.

Cherry Rock is SOLD OUT and Fu Manchu’s headline show on Sunday May 6 isn’t far oﬀ, so due to popular demand, a second and ﬁnal headline show for Monday May 7 has now been announced. Tickets on sale Wednesday April 25 via moshtix.com.au and the Hi Fi’s web site. Supports are Black Cobra (USA) and Matt Sonic and the High Times, doors 7pm (early show).

Jump on the bandwagon! Become a paid-up Music Victoria member today and do your bit to support the Victorian music scene. If you sign up before Monday April 30 you'll automatically go in the running to win some amazing money-can’t-buy prizes including coffee and biscotti with Henry Wagons; professional development with highly respected industry figures like Jen Cloher, Michael Parisi (Michael Parisi Management) and Karen Conrad (Karen Conrad Publicity); a Toff In Town membership; double passes to the legendary Blues Train; upcoming Frontier Touring shows and your choice of gigs at the Northcote Social Club and The Corner; books; CDs and much, much more. All members also score a personal invite to the Monday April 30 wrap party at The Corner Rooftop Bar, featuring special acoustic performances by artists including Dan Sultan and free food and drinks as you rub shoulders with some of Victoria's key industry figures. Membership fees range from just $22 for students to the newly introduced $550 Gold Membership - check out musicvictoria.com.au for all the details.

LAUGHING OUTLAW Independent music label Laughing Outlaw Records are presenting their ﬁrst label showcase gig, and boy is it a biggy. Melbourne surf'n'western sensation Mikelangelo & The Tin Star headline the proceedings with the band launching their oﬃcial clip for smokin' instrumental album track No Sign Of A Pipeline. Joining The Tin Star will be label mates and psychedellic pop purveyors The Autumn Isles, indie rock royalty Bambino Koresh, who will be showcasing their new album, and local lads Wilder. For all the action head down to the Northcote Social Club on Saturday May 5. Tickets available through the venue.

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INTERNATIONAL DIG IT UP! HOODOO GURUS INVITATIONAL The Palace April 25 MARK LANEGAN BAND Forum Theatre April 26 AN HORSE Corner Hotel April 27 RED KROSS Northcote Social Club April 27 SIX60 The Hi-Fi April 27 THE SONICS Caravan Music Club April 27 THE EXPLOITED Corner Hotel April 28 CHERRY ROCK Cherry Bar April 29 CITY & COLOUR Palais Theatre May 2 ANDREW W.K. Corner Hotel May 4 ORBITAL Palace Theatre May 4 DEVILDRIVER, DARKEST HOUR Billboard The Venue May 6 FU MANCHU Hi-Fi May 6, 7 THE DARKNESS Palace Theatre May 8, 9 WAVVES Corner Hotel May 9 FRANK TURNER AND THE SLEEPING SOULS The Espy May 10 THE MOUNTAIN GOATS The Toﬀ In Town May 9, Corner Hotel May 10 dEUS Corner Hotel May 12 PRINCE Rod Laver Arena May 14, 15, 30 PUBLIC ENEMY The Palace March 15 KAISER CHIEFS Palace Theatre May 16 THE MACABEES The Hi-Fi May 16 MUTEMATH Corner Hotel May 15, 17 NICKI MINAJ Hisense Area May 18 NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK/BACKSTREET BOYS Rod Laver Arena May 18, 19 BRIAN JONESTOWN MASACRE The Forum Theatre May 19 FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE Rod Laver Arena May 20 BARRY ADAMSON Corner Hotel May 23 S CLUB 7 The Palace May 23 VIVID LIVE Sydney May 25 - June 3 MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND Northcote Social Club May 28 YOUNG GUNS The Hi-Fi May 30 LIGHT ASYLUM Phoenix Public House June 1 SIMPLE PLAN Festival Hall June 2 ZOLA JESUS The Toﬀ In Town June 2, June 3 SISTER SLEDGE The Hi-Fi June 7 REEF Billboard June 8 TRAIN The Palais June 9

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NATIONAL STONEFIELD Northcote Social Club April 25 JOHN BUTLER The Hi-Fi April 25 EMMY BRYCE, KATE VIGO Thornbury Theatre April 26 DZ DEATHRAYS The Tote April 27 SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING Phoenix Public House April 28 BLUEJUICE The Hi-Fi April 28 SAN CISCO Corner Hotel May 1, 2 LAST DINOSAURS Northcote Social Club May 2 THE GETAWAY PLAN Corner Hotel May 3 DAPPLED CITIES Northcote Social Club May 4 GOSSLING Thornbury Theatre May 5 HUSKY Corner Hotel May 6 BEN WELLS & THE MIDDLE NAMES The Toﬀ In Town May 9 KIMBRA Palais Theatre May 9 SPLIT SECONDS Northcote Social Club May 10 CALLING ALL CARS The Hi-Fi May 11 JOSH PYKE The Forum May 11 MICK THOMAS The Regal Ballroom May 11 DANIEL MERRIWEATHER Phoenix Public House Saturday May 12 CATCALL Toﬀ In Town May 12 LEADER CHEETAH Northcote Social Club May 19

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CHERRYROCK012 FU MANCHU BY PATRICK EMERY

In the 1970s Leonard Nimoy held audiences spellbound with his sombre, occasionally dire, narratives of natural events and unexplained supernatural phenomena in the television series In Search Of…. At age six I was convinced a swarm of killer bees would descend upon my parents’ house, hopefully just after witnessing the inevitable invasion of aliens from outer space. At age 11, enthralled by the tales of planes and ships lost in the Bermuda Triangle, I made a pact with my then best friend to fly across that famed area of water, just to see what would happen. Nimoy had opened our eyes to a world of danger, and we were spellbound. Nimoy’s deadpan descriptions of such scenarios made enough of a lasting impression on Scott Hill, guitarist and vocalist with stoner rock legends Fu Manchu, to cause Fu Manchu to name its classic 1996 album after the television show. “I must have been watching it around the time we were doing the album,” Hill says. “I loved the Big Foot stuff, the UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle stories. I just loved the show!” Hill laughs. Fu Manchu formed originally in 1990 from the ashes of hardcore band Virulence. Originally led by Ken Pucci, Hill assumed vocal duties after the departure of Pucci’s replacement as lead singer, Glenn Chivens. Hill had grown up in Orange County in southern California, surrounded by the iconic Californian pleasures of surfing and skateboarding. “I grew up by the beach,” Hill recalls. “I didn’t really play computer games. I was usually out there surfing, skating, riding my bike and playing pinball. And when I got older, I started playing music as well.” Virulence was a Californian hardcore band in the classic SoCal tradition, playing music as fast and hard as its teenage members felt was commensurate with their attitude to life. “We formed Virulence at the end of 1984,” Hill recalls. “We were just trying to play as fast as possible.” By the late 1980s the musical landscape had changed substantially, and Hill and his band mates had been introduced to the sludgier sounds of the Pacific North-West punk rock scene. “We

started listening to bands like Tad and Nirvana,” Hill says. “And gradually we started pulling out rock records from the 1970s and listening to them.” Fu Manchu released its first album, No One Rides For Free, in 1994, setting the scene for its so-called ‘stoner rock’ sound. It’s a description that Hill finds amusing, and confusing. “I have no idea really what that term means!” Hill laughs. “I’ve heard that term being used to describe us for ever – I think I first heard it in an interview. I suppose when I hear it, I think of bands who’re influenced by bands like Sabbath and Blue Cheer. But for us, we don’t sing about drugs, so we’re not really ‘stoner’ in that sense,” he says. Fu Manchu has maintained a remarkable consistency over its 22 year career, eschewing any temptation to refine its sound to cross-over from the band’s predominantly cult attraction to a more mainstream audience. “When we started out we just wanted to play straight forward guitar,” Hill says, matterof-factly. “And we’ve remained pretty well true to where we started.” When, in the early 1990s, major labels began to approach cult bands with blank chequebooks, Fu Manchu remained aloof. “We never really thought about it, or even cared,” Hill says. “I really love that ultra fuzzy, over the top guitar sound, so it never crossed our minds to do anything different to try and sell more records.” Not withstanding any confusion surrounding the stoner rock descriptor, Fu Manchu is happy to use the live setting

to explore and extend a solid rock riff in whatever form seems appropriate at the time. “We do like to do things differently live,” Hill says. “We’ll play a part longer, and jam out a certain part of the song.” On the odd occasion, the jam can stretch out into unforeseen territory. “We played a show back around 1998 or 1999 with a band called Days Of The New, who were this weird acoustic Alice In Chains style band,” Hill says. “The crowd absolutely hated us, so we played Anodizer for about 20 minutes,” he laughs. In the studio, the band’s recording approach adapts the live modus operandi to the studio setting. “We always play live in one room,” Hill says. “But it’s really hard to capture the live sound in the studio. And by the time we’re done in the studio, there’s something we want to change. So we usually give ourselves about a week to go back and fix stuff up.” Fu Manchu return to Australia this month to headline Cherry Rock. It’s the band’s first Australian tour in ten years. “We’d love to get there more, but it’s pretty expensive to get down there,” Hill says. “Everything’s on the beach. I remember doing a soundcheck in Perth and looking out the back of the club and seeing the surf. It was amazing.” And while Fu Manchu has managed to get to Japan, touring China – where surely the band’s name would give them a ready-made audience – has proved elusive. “Yeah, that’d be great,” he laughs. “We went to Japan and people kept calling out for [Blue Oyster Cult’s] Godzilla, so we ended up playing it,” he laughs. FU MANCHU headline the freakin’ huge CherryRock012 on Sunday April 29, as well as performing a sideshow at The Hi-Fi Bar on Sunday May 6.

BLACK COBRA BY PATRICK EMERY

For some bands, a record is simply an entree into a live experience; for others, a live event can never capture the complexity of a studio output. In Black Cobra guitarist Jason Landrian’s mind, to truly appreciate the band it’s important to experience and appreciate both their live and recorded product. “I think if you just see the band live, that’s okay, but you’re missing out on the atmosphere that some of the artwork on the albums can create,” Landrian says. “There’s also something about listening to the music in a controlled way (on headphones or a stereo) that lets you experience it differently as opposed to seeing it live. Of course, you would also be missing out if you just heard the band on record. I’ve always seen the live show and the recorded output as equally important.” Landrian grew up in Florida. At age 12, Landrian started playing guitar, embarking on the usual high school quest to mimic the big metal rock riffs that permeated his peer group. “The first band I played in was a band with some other kids in my high school, and we were mostly playing (or attempting to play) Metallica covers,” Landrian says. About 15 years ago Landrian met Martinez through a mutual friend. Martinez joined fellow stoner-metal band Acid King, before hooking up with Martinez and Landrian to form Black Cobra in 2002. The name was both inspired by a 1970s exploitation movie, and an attempt to capture the dark, heavy and potent style of Black Cobra’s music. “We definitely wanted to convey the power and aggression of the music, but also have it be thought of as a force of nature – something organic,” Landrian says. “It’s also named after an old ‘70’s exploitation movie, and it just sounded really cool.” For their latest record, Invernal, Black Cobra took as its inspiration British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic adventures in the early 20th century. “I’ve known the overall story of Shackleton’s adventures for quite some time, but when I read the book Endurance a couple of years ago, that’s when I learned all the details,” Landrian says. “I’ve always thought Antarctica was a fascinating

place. To think that people were exploring the frozen continent 100 plus years ago is pretty amazing. I think it was Shackleton’s perseverance, and just the brutality of the environment that drew us both to want to write about it.” Having myself attend a high school named after another Antarctic adventurer, Douglas Mawson – who suffered amazing physical and psychological trauma in his expeditions – I’m interested to know whether Landrian’s interest derives from a particular fascination for the territory, or the explorers who’ve tried to traverse its landscape. “It’s both the territory and the explorers are extremely interesting,” Landrian replies. “It must have been almost like going to another planet for them. The hardships and drama are ultimately what make the subject so fascinating, and that it was all in the name of exploration. This wasn’t something that people did necessarily for financial gain. They did it because they were drawn to it or maybe because they wanted to have some sort of legacy.” While Invernal represents Antarctica as a post-apocalyptic setting, others see it as the world’s last genuine wilderness. Having spent so much time touring over the years in cities across the world, is it possible that Landrian is subconsciously attracted to the idea of an untamed

wilderness? “That could be,” Landrian says. “I love the idea of an untamed wilderness. As humans, we’ve left our footprint on almost every inch of this planet. Some people may think that’s a good thing. I’m not so sure.” Not withstanding the underlying theme of the record, Landrian says he and Martinez didn’t have a particularly different sound or style in mind. “We are always trying to evolve and are open to new things, but we didn’t deliberately set out to make a particular kind of record. We just wrote the songs as we saw fit,” he says. That said, it remains important that a record create a particular musical atmosphere, as opposed to a combination of riffs and beats. “It’s very important,” Landrian says. “It’s what makes a song a song. We’re always trying to look at the compositions from a more broad perspective as opposed to a collection of riffs and beats.” Black Cobra have kept up a tough touring schedule over the years. Despite the potential pressures of touring in a two-man band, Landrian says neither he nor Martinez are showing signs of permanent fatigue. “Touring can definitely be exhausting,” Landrian says. “The worst thing is getting sick. The best part is getting to play to new audiences every night. Touring in a two-man band is pretty much the same as touring with a regular band, just more streamlined. The only thing that sucks is not having more people to help with load-in and load-out.” As for looking into the crystal ball, Landrian has other things to occupy his mind. “I try not to think too far ahead,” he says. “Anything could happen, but hopefully, we’ll still be playing, touring, putting out records, and still having fun.” BLACK COBRA play CherryRock012 on Sunday April 29 and The Tote on Monday April 30.

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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN

The much-loved romantic-epic Titanic will once again wash up on our shores to commemorate the centenary of the tragedy in 1912. Follow the bumpy tale of love and loss and lost necklaces again and pray and wish and hope that Rose doesn’t let Jack go again. Titanic 3D is currently showing at all major cinemas.

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Everyone loves Australia day. If you’re not a vegetarian your mouth waters at the sound of sausages sizzling or if you’re 13 and have permission from your parents you’re wearing barely-there short shorts and oﬀ to the Big Day Out. Playwright Jonathon Biggins commemorates the barbeque, day oﬀ and confusion surrounding identity in his latest and current comedy, Australia Day. The play follows the events and interactions between members of the Australia Day Committee in country town, Coriole. If you like sausages, short shorts and swearing, Australia Day playing at the Melbourne Arts Centre is not to be missed.

ON DISPLAY The Heide Museum Of Modern Art is currently presenting Louise Saxton: Sanctuary, a collection of works inﬂuenced by natural history illustrations. Sanctuary includes pieces constructed from discarded needlework pinned to tulle, which aimed to represent the relationship between lost art and the vulnerability of threatened Australian species. A post-gallery visit to Café Vue at Heide is inevitable. Visit heide.com.au for more details.

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The relationships between renown psychologist Freud and Jung are explored in David Cronenberg’s (A History of Violence) latest ﬁlm starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley. A Dangerous Method is a tale of sexual and intellectual discovery, ambition and deceit. A ﬁlm encompassing the relationships between psychologists and patients and the involvement of seductive and unbalanced Sabrina Spielrein (Knightley) as Jung’s patient who manages to enchant both he and Freud. A must see for anyone interested in psychodynamics, fan of Cronenberg, Fassbender, Mortensen or Knightly. Even Margaret and David both liked it.

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RITES OF PASSAGE BY BELLA ARNOTT-HOARE

Tattooing may have been a custom nurtured in society’s grimy recesses, from wobbly homemade prison stamps to branding of salty seafarers, but it’s outgrown its fetid roots to experience a kind of renaissance. Getting inked is still divisive; to some it’s the mark of the rockabilly and hipster irony, to others it represents degeneracy. The craft, steeped in tradition, had its earliest beginnings in tribal allegiance, but there’s no doubt that modernity has adapted and proliferated it. Tattoo conference and exhibition Rites Of Passage looks back over the years and surveys how it’s evolved. With her newborn cooing and gurgling in her arms, Vashti Hadden explains why now, they’ve turned their artistic lenses towards a form once considered ‘low’ art, or in fact not art at all. “The increased popularity of tattoos is probably the main reason why we’re doing what we’re doing. Asking the question why people [have been] getting tattooed quite heavily in the last five to ten years – it’s a very interesting time in our history really. It’s so common now, you walk down the street and everyone’s got tattoos,” she said. In Brooklyn, the artisanal capital of the world, barmaids, coiffed musicians and schoolteachers alike all yank at their sleeves to reveal, well, sleeves, and as the cultural influence of this arty nook spreads, one of the most significant run-offs is the growing popularity of tattoos. Why? We may not have come so far from our most primitive existence in our yearning to belong to a subculture, Vashti explains. “It’s not

that people want to belong to a tribe but they want to brand themselves on a deeper level I think, they want to connect with their group, maybe like they did thousands of years ago.” What’s significant is that the ‘artist’ is becoming a more considered trapping of the tattoo. Before inking a permanent flourish many people will research not just what they want, but the right person for the job. Rites Of Passage puts these artists on display, acknowledging the road to becoming a well-recognised and skilled tattooist is long and arduous – but once established they’re held in high esteem. Ultimately, they don’t differ too much from their contemporary counterparts in their painterly skill and experience. One that springs to mind for Vashti is Oregon native Jeff Gogue. Attending the festival over its three days, his works represent a new trend in the realm

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of tattooing, a style of realism. “[Gogue] studied fine art and it looks like he’s painting with oil on canvas. There’s shading, and lines, and it’s incredible. You look at it and you forget you’re looking at skin. It’s quite amazing.” So skin, it seems, has become an unlikely canvas for contemporary art styles – another method that art is being taken out of its gallery confines. Danish provocateur and contemporary artist Wim Delvoye certainly delved into this idea with his 2006 work Tattoo Tim – Tim being a human man. Tim’s back is swathed in a Japanese-style tattoo mural, which was exhibited at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) until last month. As a work of art, he sits on a plinth for five hours a day while gallery-goers inspect the piece. What makes his tattoo unique though, is that is was sold to a collector for 150,000 euros, and will be removed from his back when he dies. It could be a sign of economic times, says Vashti, that tattooing is carving itself a niche in contemporary art. “I think it’s quite exciting in the sense that it’s hard for an artist these days to sell a painting. In [my] generation, I’m an X-er, I don’t know if we’re sort of a mass generation that would put art on our walls as much as maybe on our skin.” But the most obvious of tattoo purposes is self-expression. In these terms, the many inky potentialities of tattooing are certainly getting a good go-over (except for the elephant in the room, the drunken-mistake-tattoo). There’s nothing more ideal as an icon of counter-culture. Popular imagery like Japanese fish, Mexican Day Of The Dead skulls and pin-up insignia have all began as marks of their wearer’s discomfort with mainstream. Japanese artist Shige, another significant guest of the conference, is a self-taught tattooist and now one of the world’s most sought after, who subverts traditional Japanese imagery, ‘Irezumi’, with a modern colorful edge. But the ability for it to convey self-expression came of course with the initial and sanctimonious importance of life-long marks, which was often imagery of religious iconography and spiritual tattoos. “We’re trying to focus our show a lot on the significant religions – a lot of indigenous people get tattooed, so there’s that cultural view to the show,” said Vashti. And if anything, this idea of spiritual symbolism is signaled by the title ‘Rites of Passage’. According to Vashti, Creative Producer Claire’s vision for the show was the “spiritual journey within her art, she really likes to explore the reason why her clients are getting tattoos. She likes to see people getting in touch with their tribal nature and the community, and the ritual behind a rite of passage at significant points in one’s life.” This esteemed collection of works, artists and lessons brings the tattoos out of the back alleys and places it into an anthropological context, tracing tattoos as a part of human history, cultural evolution and longlasting fashion statement. Rites Of Passage is on at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton from Friday April 27 to Sunday April 29.

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Americans have been struggling with the role of corporations since before the birth of the republic. Unequal taxes, unequal accountability for crime, unequal inﬂuence, unequal control of the media, unequal access to natural resources—corporations have gained these privileges and more by exploiting their legal status as persons and by winning special protections that enable them to avoid the responsibilities that come with these rights. How did something so illogical and unjust become the law of the land?

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THE COMIC STRIP

With Tyson Wray. Got news, gossip, reviews, thoughts, tip-oﬀs, complaints, hate mail? Email tyson@beat.com.au or send by ESP before Friday.

SATIRE AND SENTIMENTALITY

EMERGING WRITERS FESTIVAL Writers and readers come hither. The Emerging Writer’s Festival will take place from Thursday May 24 – Sunday June 3, inspiring and encouraging budding readers, writers, kids with pens and paper and glasses alike. The festival provides individuals with the opportunity to create networks, delve deep into the experience of being a writer and receive advice, guidance and encouragement from some of the country’s writers.

MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL This August, the Melbourne Underground Film Festival will celebrate its lucky thirteenth year. The festival has acted as a platform of opportunity for budding and independent filmmakers and audiences craving something more than a Zac Efron romcom. The MUFF13 program will include local and international films, a short film program called MiniMUFF13 and the opportunity for audiences to recognise and reward participating filmmakers. Anyone interested in filmmaking and entering their own film into MUFF13 jump online and download a film submission entry form before June 22. For further details head to muff.com.au

THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER ACMI is proud to announce the Australian and exclusive premiere of Eames: The Architect & The Painter – a film following 40 years of creativity from powerhouse couple Charles and Ray Eames. The film explores the lives of the couple through interviews with family, designers and sourced content from Ray’s own notes, drafts and torn pieces of paper, which she never threw out. The film illuminates the couple’s talent and incredible influence over the design industry combining genius, beauty and practicality all at once. Eames: The Architecture & The Painter premieres at ACMI on Friday June 1 to Sunday June 17.

THE HUMAN RIGHTS ARTS & FILM FESTIVAL The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival will open this year with the highly anticipated documentary Under African Skies. Award winning Joe Berlinger’s documentary reflects on the events involving Paul Simon’s entry into South Africa to produce his album Graceland. The Festival both begins and ends with films of cultural importance portraying the efforts individuals go to blur the lines between race. The Festival will conclude with the screening of Jon Shenks’ Island President. Visit the Human Rights Arts and Film festival to immerse yourself in diversity in award winning film and captivating works of art from all over the globe.

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Russian-born performance artist Mayra Elimelakh will drink shot vodka after vodka till she hits the ﬂoor and watch personal YouTube videos until she is hysterical in NO NO Gallery’s latest exhibition, Satire and Sentimentality. The exhibition focuses on the themes of family, home and political isolation inﬂuenced by Elimelakh’s own experiences of immigration and dislocation. Satire and Sentimentality is open now until Sunday April 29, with opening celebrations taking place from 6-9pm at NO NO gallery.

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is over but Charlie is still celebrating like a boss. Tonight, Melbourne’s best underground comedy room has another great lineup including Michael Chamberlin (Skithouse), David Quirk, Tom Ward, Mark Conway and a few super surprise special guests. All for Charlie’s mates rate of $5! Not to mention cheap piss! 8pm at Eurotrash Bar, 18 Corrs Ln, Melbourne. Get down early for a seat.

CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE The Counihan Gallery in Brunswick is currently presenting Cut With the Kitchen Knife – a collaboration of collage work from local and international artists. A collection of pieces and paper, cut outs and cardboard collage art intended to comment on the society in we live in. It runs until Sunday May 13.

THE POWER OF ART The exhibition Controversy: The Power of Art examines the impact of art on society and the ways in which art has provoked and challenged perspectives and social values. Featuring nearly 100 works form the 19th century to present including the work of Duchamp, Kentridge and Whitley. Controversy: The Power of Art begins Thursday June 21 – Sunday August 12 at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.

FURY It’s time for us all to get behind our students. After all, they are the future. Written and devised by Melbourne Uni students, The Fury is a tragicomic riﬀ on a society suﬀering from terminal risk-aversion. Directed by Tom Gutteridge and inspired by Durrenmatt’s classic play, The Visit, a cotton-wool society is thrown into chaos by the arrival of Claire, who brings with her violence and danger. An exploration of the paradox of our contemporary culture, The Fury is a collaboration between student writers, the cast, the director and our city’s very own The Call Up, who perform live as part of the show. With all elements intact, all systems are a-go. Catch The Fury as it hits Guild Theatre on Thursday May 10 – Saturday May 12 and Tuesday May 15 – Saturday May 19. Head to the Melbourne Uni website for more details.

VERISMO What’s the ﬁrst thing that you think of when you hear the word ‘opera’? An overweight dude/chick blasting their vocal chords, right? Well, it’s time to leave those misconceptions at the door – for this event, anyway. Four of Australia’s operatic stars will perform in a joyous event featuring music of the great Verismo composers; Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Puccini and Cilea. With a passion and intensity that only Verismo performance can bring to the stage, this concert will bring together some of the best loved and most recognised works taking audiences into the heights and depths of human emotions. Get a bellissimo experience with Verismo as it heads to Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday June 23, 7pm. Bookings through Ticketmaster.

Two formidable gentleman of musical arrangement, Todd McKenney and John Foreman, will appear with the Australian Pops Orchestra in two shows this May. The ensemble present both popular classical and contemporary music, and in this show at The Palms at Crown, the legendary conductor and the Boy From Oz will liven up the orchestra with their many years of experience. The performance will include an ABBA medley and other special guest appearances. Catch these performances on Friday May 18 and Saturday May 19, and to snap up tickets head to ticketek.com.

LUCY AND THE LOST BOY

HEART REMAINS OPEN

ART OF ELEGANCE FAIR

Rather than being some awkward science experiment, the Heart Remains Open Project is a unique experiment in social media and art – all in the name of Aussie hip hop. The man at the centre of it all, Joelistics, is handing over his song Heart Remains to the public, asking fans, artists and ﬁlmmakers – actually, anyone from anywhere in Australia with a HD camera or video-phone – to submit 10 to 30 seconds of footage that will contribute to the new video clip for the song. So, contributors, get that snippet of love captured on ﬁlm in by Tuesday May 1, and the rest is history. Head to slamtv.org and follow the links to ‘Heart Remains Open Project’ for more information.

She’s the one you can thank for your life – literally. Now it’s time to give our mums back a little special treat. Treat that golden goddess and yourself to a country high tea on Mother’s Day and celebrate the splendour of elegantly adorned times. Dress in your ﬁnest attire, wear a hat and win a prize, or come prepared for a vintage makeover with Miss Lulu of Ballarat. Find vintage clothing at Fanny Flat’s boutique where the theme will be Breakfast at Tiﬀany’s, then have your portrait taken by Renegade Vintage Portraits of Bealiba and enjoy Mad Men style canapés and local wine. The Art of Elegance fair will be held in the Victorian Gardens of Maryborough Town Hall on Sunday May 13.

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The circus isn’t just for clowns. NICA’s stunning new production features the ﬁnal year circus arts students in collaboration with award-winning Australian physical theatre and circus director, Sally Richardson. Inspired by the evocative and bold street art of Melbourne’s iconic laneways, Lucy and the Lost Boy draws on the creativity of well-known street artists such as Vexta and Urban Cake Lady to create a circus experience like none other. National Circus Centre presents Lucy and the Lost Boy on Wednesday June 13.

FELIX BAR COMEDY MOONSHADOW Musical treasure Cat Stevens has turned his songwriting prowess to the theatre with a new musical Moonshadow, set for its eagerly-anticipated world premiere in Melbourne on May 31. The $5 million production, with an Australian cast and creative team, will take the audience on a musical journey through some of the most beloved classics from Cat Steven’s expansive back catalogue, such as Father and Son, Wild World, Morning Has Broken, Peace Train, and First Cut is the Deepest. The countdown has begun friends. Head to moonshadowthemusical.com. au for more info.

The festival is over, but comedy in St Kilda doesn’t slow down! They’ve always got Australia’s biggest names, and Melbourne’s very best up-and-comers every single Wednesday, all year round! It’s a two hour show, with up to seven comedians every gig! Come down and check out the biggest night of comedy in St Kilda, every Wednesday night. It’s happening tonight at 8.30pm for only $12, at Felix Bar, 11 Fitzroy St, St Kilda.

COMMEDIA DELL PARTE

Calling all creative-minded types: The Vault is a monthly salon creatively inclined folk to get together and talk all things, well, creative. With everything from arts, design, music, ﬁlm, writing, marketing, media and all things related, this month’s Vault discussion topic is centred on a person’s individual creativity. Is our creativity innate, or something we just need to lower our inhibitions and release our instincts? Or is it something we build up? If this seems like your cup of tea, RSVP to Nick Wilson at nicholas.e.wilson@ gmail.com or 0403 920 908. This month’s Vault session will be held at Loop Bar on Monday April 30.

The George Lane Bar has been packed for the last week! Come along this week for their ﬁrst show back from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. This week they have a fantastic lineup including, Doug Gordon, Sam Petersen, Jason Oberbichler, Michael Tancredi, Lisa Fineberg, Hayman Kent, Rez and headliners Elbow Skin. So join guest MC for the night Xavier Toby for a fantastic Thursday night of comedy. Get in early to secure yourself a comfy couch and go into the draw for some great prizes from Punchline. The room runs on a ‘pay as you like’ basis, so come along and have a great laugh, then pay what you believe the show is worth on the way out. So if you enjoy the show, chuck in a few sheckles and show your appreciation. Commedia Dell Parte runs every Thursday at 8.30pm at George Lane Bar, 1 George Ln, St Kilda.

G3 ARTSPACE

SOFTBELLY COMEDY

The City of Kingston has opened its new addition to the list of Melbourne’s contemporary suburban art spaces: the architecturally designed G3 Artspace. The gallery’s purpose is to not only display wonderful talent, but to also draw attention to the exhibition of speciﬁc and newer forms of contemporary art in the suburbs by both emerging and established artists. Installed with the latest in digital technology, the gallery gives artists the option of exhibiting digital or ‘moving image’ art. Taking residence in Parkdale, G3 Artspace is open from Wednesday-Saturday, and features this month’s exhibition – Requiem –running until Saturday May 19.

Thursdays are back at Softbelly Comedy! The best quality night of comedy in Melbourne returns every Thursday after the Comedy Festival, with heaps of special guests, and maybe a few hangover big names from the festival! If you’ve been, you know it’s the el primo comedy night in Melbourne with only the very best gracing our little stage. And this Thursday is going to be a great return gig with a super lineup. It’s all happening at Softbelly, 367 Little Bourke St, in the city, this Thursday April 26, 8.30pm, for only $12! Get in early for a good seat!

VAULT SESSIONS

THE HERETIC I think that it’s about time for the issue of climate change to be displayed to us in a stage production, don’t you? Luckily the cats behind The Heretic feel the same way. The climate change debate will come to the stage in Richard Bean’s funny, provocative and heart-warming family drama. The story centres itself around Diane Cassell, a serious scientist lecturing in what has become the “cool” uni degree to take: Climate Science. But – just like in SpiderMan – with great power, comes great responsibility. With the political getting personal, and the personal political, the play questions what is important to us. Catch Noni Hazelhurst in The Heretic as it heads to MTC Theatre on Thursday May 17.

THE LARAMIE PROJECT This is deﬁnitely one that’s going to tug on the heart strings. After a sold-out season in 2011, Red Stitch is getting ready to remount The Laramie Project – Ten Years Later. Returning to the shocking hate crime that led to the creation of one of the most performed scripts across the world, The Laramie Project – Ten Years Later heads back to retell the story of Mathew Shepard – a young gay student who was brutally bashed and left to die, and tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. It’s the play that investigates the ripple eﬀect of a single, senseless murder and exposes how we tell our own history. Be moved and a bit shaken, as The Laramie Project – Ten Years Later is performed at The Arts Centre from Wednesday May 16 – Saturday May 19 and Thursday May 24 – Saturday May 26..

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COMEDY AT SPLEEN Normal service is resumed this week, and Spleen becomes the packedest, most sought-after comedy seat in town! They’ve always got the best in up-andcoming local Melbourne comedy plus some of the best heavyweights dropping in. If you’ve been, you know you need to get down super early just to get in the door, so get in quick to guarantee a seat. It’s this Monday April 29, 41 Bourke St, in the city, at 8.30pm. It may be free, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.

GRAMPIANS GRAPE ESCAPE The 2012 Grape Escape is a food and wine festival held in the idyllic Grampians National Park that allows visitors to sample regional Victoria’s ﬁnest culinary produce. Celebrating 21 years of operation on May 5 and 6, this year’s Grape Escape cuts a musical jib, featuring performances from Monique Brumby, Bree-arne Chamley, The Still Trees and Buddha in a Chocolate Box. To ﬁnd out more or to buy tickets head to grampiansgrapeescape.com.au.

RACIAL, ETHNIC, CULTURAL, AND RELIGIOUS ACCEPTANCE Monash University are conducting a research project to investigate Australian racism in 16 – 20 year olds, and they want you to get involved. By completing a questionnaire you can go into the draw to win a $150 Coles voucher, and you also get to analyse your deeply seated views on cultural diﬀerence. Self-awareness is neat, huh? For more information about the research, or to volunteer, contact Kaine Grigg on kaine.grigg@monash.edu

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IRVINE WELSH’S ECSTASY BY MIKI MCLAY

A follow-up of sorts to Danny Boyle’s cult-cinema classic Trainspotting from ‘96, Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy as directed by Rob Heydon and featuring stellar performances from Adam Sinclair, Kristin Kreuk and Billy Boyd is a superb take on the original short story and is a remarkable demonstration of potential from a director who understands the wisdom in playing to your strengths. Ecstasy is the tale of Lloyd, an ageing clubber who begins to question his life and considers the possibility of falling in love after meeting Heather. Heather has left her suburban husband and starts a new life amongst the rave scene, where she meets Lloyd, forcing him to confront difficult questions about the illusory nature of happiness in substance use and trade, presenting a story of the transformation from the love of ecstasy to the ecstasy of love. Heydon worked closely with Welsh in adapting the short story to the screen, and the two radically altered the narrative of the original in adapting the story for a mainstream audience. Given the success of its predecessor Trainspotting, did Heydon find himself intimidated by the prospect of approaching this movie, I ask? “Yes and no – there’s an interview we posted on Vimeo where Irvine Welsh talks about the first twenty minutes of the film almost being like a nod to the style of Trainspotting, and that was something we deliberately did. But once the love story takes off, it’s a totally different film. There’s not just one film that’s a clear influence, but yes, Trainspotting, stylistically, is one because of the way the authentic voice of Welsh shines through. We had to address that in a certain way, and so as soon as the love story happens, it totally changes style. We hope that people will connect with that. Trainspotting was set against the backdrop of the eighties during Thatcher in the UK, and heroin, and this is a love story set against the backdrop of ecstasy.” Heydon’s background in filmmaking includes an extensive history in working with some of dance music’s luminaries, and when we talk about his background in working with labels such as Plus 8 and Ninja Tunes, I put it to him that this background in working in music videos lends Ecstasy a unique perspective, and he agrees. “I think with music videos young artists can really explore filmmaking techniques, tell stories and create artistic pieces to tell stories visually with music to evoke emotion,” he muses. “I learned a lot of filmmaking and how to put larger than the production budget’s value on screen. And then I started working with bigger record companies, and it got to the point where we were booked for big-budget music videos and these executives were not about the concept at all. What’s the artist gonna wear? What’s the hair gonna be like… which made me want to get back to

doing independent music videos. I started doing videos for DJs at Ninja Tune, like DJ Vadim and the Herbaliser and then John Digweed and other dance music artists - Richie Hawtin and so on. They gave me a lot more artistic freedom… In my mid-twenties I started DJing and throwing parties as well, I was very much involved in many aspects of dance music scene - from DJing events and making music videos - big fan. I love working with artists that take pride in their work, but know when to get other artists involved and give them some artistic license.” Heydon hasn’t quite let go of his fondness for the heydays of dance music’s emergence in the late eighties and nineties, and regales me with tales from early days of clubbing in New York. Putting together the soundtrack for the film was another way of expressing this love – moments where pulsing dancefloors occupied by Lloyd and Heather, friends and enemies, moving to the sounds of John Digweed, Mark Knight, Primal Scream and plenty more feels like a tribute to the hedonistic lifestyle of weekends in clubs. “The music is central to the storytelling to the extent where it’s almost an extra character,” he says. “It’s used to heighten emotions and also to tell a story in a very deliberate way.” On the limited budget that Ecstasy was made, licensing tracks became an exercise in calling in favours from old friends and colleagues. “To be able to work with these artists on the soundtrack was such an honour and privilege – the whole team were excited about who was getting involved – Tiesto, Primal Scream and so on. The rest of the team were really excited when they heard about who was getting on board, and so was I!” The vivid highs and crashing lows of using and abusing empathogenic substances, and its effects on the perception of reality and ability to form relationships is brought out in vivid, unreal detail during the film. The intensely immersive and visceral nature of Ecstasy is

possibly the best example so far of Heydon’s talents as a versatile and forward-thinking director. “The concept from the start was not to make a classic Hollywood film, stylistically amazing to watch - what we wanted was to use filmmaking techniques that shot are in ways like late fifties, late sixties cult-cinema - documentary filmmaking styles like handheld cameras, longer takes, on-location sound and incorporate that into the narrative, of how we wanted to tell the film,” he tells me. “How do you tell that story the audience will understand what it feels like, what it looks like and what it sounds like living within the electronic dance music scene in Scotland?” Ecstasy provides a short but utterly intoxicating account of that lifestyle – scenes in the cold light of day after spending the previous night out in the streets of the city are rendered in hazy, dreamlike manner

providing moments of brief relief from the spun-out, neon-coloured glow of a handful of pills and a sweaty dancefloor. “We used time-lapse photography sped up to show what it could be like on drugs or coming down from them in the morning. We had to think of visual techniques and cinematography to accentuate the scene when they’re making love, for example, because they’re supposed to be very high at that moment, and even in the colours we chose and transferred the film and video to accentuate that further and make it almost dreamlike. These filmmaking techniques tell stories - they’re ways to connect with an audience. I hope it does so, anyway.” Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy is now showing at Cinema Nova and Hoyts Chadstone.

ALMA MATER BY REBECCA HARKINS-CROSS

The realm of childhood is a liminal zone. Unable to fend for ourselves, we are beholden to adults to teach us about the world. Our character, our worldview and our values are already beginning to take shape, many aspects of which will stay with us through our maturity. And yet once we are fully grown, our memories of these formative years remain largely out of reach. UK performance duo Fish & Game take us back to the transitory world of childhood in their latest show Alma Mater, which will be showing at Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall from Wednesday April 18. Alma Mater is a one-on-one performance, where audiences are guided through a replica of a little girl’s bedroom. Rather than an actor greeting us, we are given an iPad and invited to watch a 20-minute video that is filmed in what appears to be the same location. But don’t expect Barbie-pink furnishings, posters of pop stars or stuffed toys perched on the bed. Audiences are instead confronted with an uncanny space — an all-white room stripped of humanity. “Is this the room that someone’s left?” asks Robert Walton, one half of Fish & Game. “Have they moved out of this room? Is it for sale now? The life is gone… and it makes you think, are you looking at ghosts that used to be in this room?” We soon meet the room’s occupant, a little girl named Lyla, who ushers us into her world. She seems to want something from us, but how do we discern what? Is Lyla a ghost? Or is Lyla in fact an incarnation of our former self — a kind of corporeal alma mater? Walton says the video’s surreal imagery will cause viewers to experience and interpret the work in different ways. “I’ve made a lot of work that are about dreams and dream logic and the subconscious,” explains Walton. “It’s about those dreams and where they take you… but it’s also essential to this idea… of how do we receive knowledge? How is knowledge passed on between generations? How are we open to growth and suggestion, and how hard do we have to fight sometimes to earn knowledge?” Alma Mater is the sister piece to an earlier production that Fish & Game staged at the Scotland Street School in November 2010. The iPad video guided you through a primary school and invited you to see the spectral traces that lingered there, exploring “how state architecture effects and disciplines this child’s body.” Engaging with similar ideas about the internalisation of knowledge and power, Alma Mater explores how this works in the private space of the home. “This piece is about how the architecture of bedrooms and small rooms effects us,” explains Walton, “and how children can enter a kind of parallel relationship with the room. They decorate it; they create the way it should look by putting things on the wall and that, in turn, effects their own image of themselves.” Fish & Game was formed by Robert Walton and Eilidh Beat Magazine Page 22

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MacAskill in 1998, who met while they were studying at Dartington College of Arts in England. They created their first of many works in 2000, all of which have explored the idea of the “encounter” between performer and audience. “I make living things,” says Walton, “and they’re things that you have to do or experience. You can only experience them in a certain place and in a certain time and with certain people.” Like much of Fish & Game’s work, Alma Mater skirts the boundaries between several artistic genres. “It’s a bit like a film. It’s a bit like a contemporary music thing. It’s a bit like a performance. It’s a bit like some kind of game. But at the same time, it’s not any of them.” Walton says it is up to viewers to decide whether or not it is theatre. This is the first time that Fish & Game have integrated iPad technology into their work, but Walton doesn’t think it’ll be the last. Walton also holds a Masters in Science degree in Information Technology, and has had an ongoing interest in the relationship between technology and performance. While several shows performed in Melbourne last year used video goggles, including And the Birds Fell From The Sky at Arts House and Half-Real at the Malthouse Theatre, Walton is fascinated by the interplay between physical space and video space that occurs when using iPads. “The audience member maintains some agency in the relationship to the screen,” he explains. “With the video goggles you become a baby — you can’t actually see anything except what the video is… It takes something away from you.” Walton is also excited by the flexibility afforded by using technology. Alma Mater will be showing simultaneously in London at the Arts Centre, and will also tour to Cologne in Germany later in the year. The intimacy of the “encounter” can be created without needing to tour actors, allowing more people to experience the work. “I’ve taken part in a lot of one-to-ones as well as making them, and it’s absolutely true that they effect you in a very deep way. It’s much more intense, it’s much more personal, you feel that you’re getting 100 per cent attention… When you get to be with an artist and have that kind of experience, it’s extraordinary.” Alma Mater is now showing at Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall until Sunday May 13. For bookings and further information, visit artshouse.com.au.

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STEVE REICH

DEAN JONES

BY SIMON HAMPSON

I first connected with Steve Reichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music through the many contemporary acts that owed a great debt to his work. Much of the repetition and the evolving structures in music nowadays are echoes from a group of composers whose music was dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;minimalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by Michael Nyman. Picture New York in the 1960s. Reich, along with his contemporaries such as Philip Glass, La Monte Young and Terry Riley, were working vigorously to create a new musical language. Their compositions featured systems or processes (other names that have been given to their music) and often featured gradual change, consonant harmony, drones or steady pulses, and motifs. Reich is in Melbourne next week for the Melbourne Recital Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Music by Steve Reich: A Conversation + Concert. It features Reich in discussion and performances of some of his work: Clapping Music, Vermont Counterpoint, Drumming â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Part One, and Different Trains. Reich is accompanied on the tour by the Chicago sextet Eighth Blackbird. His composition, Double Sextet for Eighth Blackbird and tape won the Pulitzer Prize five years ago. The performance in Melbourne will also feature the local group Speak Percussion. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a rare opportunity to get close to Reich, hear him speak first hand and enjoy his music as performed by world class musicians. Clapping Music and Drumming both illustrate Reichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in phasing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; literally different parts of the music running in and out of sync. Instead of the tape that he had used in his previous pieces, both of these compositions use real performers to achieve a similar effect. They are set against Vermont Counterpoint and one of my favourite Reich compositions, Different Trains, which both use tape in the live performance. Different Trains, marked a new compositional method, rooted in his earlier pieces Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gonna Rain and Come Out, in which speech recordings generate the musical material for musical instruments. On the phone prior to the tour, Reich speaks about the piece: â&#x20AC;&#x153;When it repeats, it sort of shoots out a whole lot of resulting patterns. They are sub-melodies that are created by the interlocking of the two identical drums, marimbas, glockenspiels,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your ear wanders, as it were, through this maze, which is actually there. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not

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hallucinating; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wandering in a reality, choosing, or just unconsciously finding, different patterns.â&#x20AC;? Different Trains is interesting due to its subject matter as well as its musical content: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first movement of Different Trains is very upbeat,â&#x20AC;? he explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s America before the war. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s American train whistles, which are basically perfect fourths or fifths. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Second Movement, when the Holocaust survivorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voices are there, of course it shifts to a much darker tone. There are air raid sirens in the background.â&#x20AC;? Reich is now in his mid seventies and he continues to show all of the enthusiasm and vigour for his art as ever. In 2006, when he turned 70, he was awarded the Preamium Imperial award in Music â&#x20AC;&#x201C; basically the Nobel prize for music â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and he joined other winners such as Gyorgy Ligeti. We wandered in our conversation to my initiation into his music, through new groups and through the Reich: Remixed album from the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s. Whilst Reich didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much involvement in the remix album he lets us in on a current project. Whilst he was at a festival in KrakĂłw last September, Reich saw Radioheadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jonny Greenwood performing Electric Counterpoint for guitar and tape. He enjoyed seeing Greenwood performing his piece from 1987 that he investigated further and opened a dialogue with the band. The conversations resulted in Reich selecting Everything In Its Right Place, from Kid A, and Jigsaw Falling Into Place from In Rainbows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to take the two pieces and create something new â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in my style.â&#x20AC;? Radiohead Rewrite will premiere in London in March 2013. So something between a remix and a refix, with sampling methodology thrown in? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well I find the melodies and chords interesting so it will be something completely new. You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hear much of the original songs in there but it will be interesting.â&#x20AC;? Music by Steve Reich: A Conversation and Concert is at Melbourne Recital Centre on Monday April 30 from 8pm.

For some, art is a piece of writing, a painting on a wall or simply a note played on a guitar. For Dean Jones, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all of the above. His eclectic mix of artwork is what sets him a part from others, as his large pieces of eco ply lathered in a mix of paper, ink and resin are matched with a one off, improvised performance with his band. And what better place for this style of art than that of Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favourite little rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll haunt â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cherry Bar. We caught up with Dean to chat about his installation/ exhibition/performance Boarded Up, which will be on display/performed ahead of the upcoming CherryRock012 Festival in Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AC/DC Lane. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am so humbled by the folk involved with Cherryrock012 allowing my exhibition to attach to the movement; providing the roll to the rock; for me a natural collaboration, as I am adverse to exhibiting in stale outdated galleriesâ&#x20AC;?, says Dean about his involvement. Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion for art began as a child at the age of twelve, winning an open division art prize, but due to having Air Force parents he was constantly relocating making it hard to fit in. So he did what most young boys do and that was play competitive sport. This led him to spend the next fifteen years living in Europe as an elite cyclist. A lifestyle much different to now, although he still immersed himself in the arts, seeking sketches and concept drawings from artists such as Rembrandt, and decided to pursue a new direction with his own work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My influences in the world of art was and still is the journals and ink sketches from Brett Whiteley, and the single rapid works from Picasso interwoven with Kerouacâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immediacy in story telling and rants of thoughts; I guess the pure honesty of each of these artists/entertainers has tagged itself in my workâ&#x20AC;?, explains Dean. Like him, Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artwork is bold, unforgiving and unique. Audiences can expect a personal, spontaneous â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;one night onlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; style exhibition, as Dean explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;As my work is all word based, I incorporate an improvised performance with the exhibition, which is never the same making each show unique, never to be repeated, so the audience are getting something personal. All my work is formed from original text from my poems, sonnets, songs, rants and raves, prose and short ditties, creating pages in the book that is each exhibitionâ&#x20AC;?. Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pieces are of considerable size, measuring at 2400mm x 1200mm each (plus one twice the size), all crafted on 12mm eco ply, and are available for purchase at the exhibition. The live performance by, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Gangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, are all unknown to each other, and there is no chance of a rehearsal to gain familiarity. Sounds like a musicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worst nightmare, huh? Well, for Dean the unknown in the improvised performance is, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The binding agent; the sweaty palm of fear of what might happen; creating

an intensity, which can never be replicated again. In a sense, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the conductor of this gang of Punk Jazz in that the words, which only I know, are the emotive trigger for the happening!â&#x20AC;? Each musical piece is matched to a specific painting, and to further his artistic adventure, once that painting is sold, the music can never be replayed again. Even the members of the band play some sort of role in the making of his art, as they are anointed a colour such as Mr. Pink, Mr. Red, Mr. Black and Mr. White, and picked for a specific role only known to Dean. To better explain his artwork, Dean says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each painting carries the power of text; the emotion of words firing like bullets through the visual weight of meaning. A truly improvised performance linking in with my artwork; creating a three tiered sense of seeing, hearing, and saying to the work. The performance acts as a mezzanine layer over the art, giving each piece itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own personality, explanation and movement!â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obvious that Dean takes great care in every intricate aspect of his work. Given the spontaneous nature of his art, Dean wishes audiences to make their minds up instantly regarding their love or hate towards it. First impressions play a major role in this exhibition, because you actually wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ever get a chance to witness it again! Along with his pieces of artwork, Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spokenword, improve-beatmusic performance is of an extraordinary value. Audiences are encouraged to, â&#x20AC;&#x153;stand back and see; stand up and read; absorb a message; take in a thought and hum a song; speak the spoken and echo to the point of stepping back, and getting what you need from each piece.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often hard to understand Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obscure insight into art, whether it is as the creator or the observer, but what is clear is his passion for what he creates, and the undeniable uniqueness of the end product. Covering all corners from the creative world, Boarded Up promises to have a little something for almost everyone. Come to witness an inimitable rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll style exhibition, stay to meet Mr. Pink.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;STAND BACK AND SEE; STAND UP AND READ; ABSORB A MESSAGE; TAKE IN A THOUGHT AND HUM A SONG; SPEAK THE SPOKEN AND ECHO TO THE POINT OF STEPPING BACK, AND GETTING WHAT YOU NEED FROM EACH PIECEâ&#x20AC;?

Boarded Up is exhibited at AC/DC Lane on Saturday April 28 (Cherry Rock eve!). The exhibition opens 6pm, with live music taking place at 8pm. Free entry.

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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP

with Christie Eliezer * Stuﬀ for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm MOG SERVICE COMING TO AUSTRALIA

VENUES #1: GALLERY NIGHTCLUB FOR SALE

THINGS WE HEAR

California-based ad-free subscription music service Mog is coming to Australia, via a three-year deal with Telstra. It is offering over 15 million songs through mobile phones and internetconnected devices as smart TVs and tablets. Any Australian consumer can sign up for Mog or download its application. But only Telstra customers (13 million mobile; 2.5 million fixed broadband) can stream and download music without affecting data plans. It has not announced a launch date but its executive director of media, applications and user experience, JB Rousselot says “within months”.

Warrnambool’s Gallery nightclub owner/managers Alison Bonjer and Paul Blain are putting it up for sale. They say they’ve been hands-on for 25 years, and the time has come for them to look at other interests. The Gallery and The Eden are the only two nightclubs in Warrnambool with a 3am licence, and as a result, local estate agents think it can sell for up to $3 million.

The highlight of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s headlining set at Coachella in America was a life size hologram (well, 2D reproduction really) of Tupac Shakur appearing to sing two numbers. Hip hopper Nas thought it was a “revolutionary” concept, especially as a huge amount of folks in the hip hop community think Tupac is alive despite reports he was shot in 1996. (Tupac’s record company boss Suge Knight tweeted last week he thinks Tupac faked his death.) Dre and Snoop are contemplating taking 2D Tupac on a joint world tour. And wait, there’s more. Actor Jamal Woolard, who played the Notorious B.I.G. in the movie Notorious, reckons B.I.G. should tour as a 2D. Maybe the two 2Ds could end up ﬁring at each other. The Jackson 5 have already suggested they could do a world tour with their golden goose Michael. Dre also wants to use technology perform alongside dead heroes as Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye. The question is, what do the estates of these rappers charge? As a guest? An act on the bill? A lighting eﬀect?

AD OF THE WEEK The online ads at Craigslist are usually for tracking down jobs, dates and live-ins. But a woman in the US (“blue hair, ﬁshnets, knee high biker boots”) is using it to look for the stranger (“red Mohawk, black pentagram gauges, viper piercings”) who got her pregnant at a Motorhead/Megadeth gig. They had a quick raw dog in the bathroom after she rubbed against him in the moshpit. “You had to gag me so I wouldn’t make too much noise,” she reminded him.

CD COVER OF THE WEEK US rapper O G Smoov poses on his latest CD cover with a handgun, kneeling over a body. Alas, local cops realised he was a convicted felon, and therefore cannot possess a ﬁrearm. So they raided his house and nicked him after they allegedly found a .25-caliber handgun and illegal drugs there.

JINJA SAFARI SIGN WORLDWIDE BOOKING AGENCY Melbourne’s Jinja Safari signed a global booking deal with Agency Group, the worldwide company which has 50 agents looking after 1000 acts like Foster The People, Amity Aﬄiction, The Gaslight Anthem, The Holy Fucks, De La Soul and Nouvelle Vague. The deal does not cover Australia and NZ where they remain with Artist Voice Queensland’s Busby Marou also just signed with the Canadian operation of The Agency Group.

BONJAH TEST UK MARKET Melbourne-based Kiwi band Bonjah are testing the UK market. They’ve just announced their ﬁrst UK shows in mid-June. On their current run of dates through Queensland and Sydney which ends at The Corner on June 8, some of the proceeds go to Make a Wish Australia for their work with sick children. The rest go to funding the UK date.

VENUES #2: ONE SET TO RELAUNCH One Nightclub in Albury will relaunch on Saturday April 28 after a $400,000 renovation which has given it a New York look. The danceﬂoor now has industrial vinyl, and the booths and light ﬁttings have also changed. Venue manager Bernard Zamiara says it now looks as good as anything in Sydney or Melbourne.

HARLEY HANGS WITH MATERA UK singer Steve Harley, best known for ‘Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)’ was in town recently to spruik up a 2013 tour. During the visit, he and local guitarist Joe Matera did some acoustic shows on TV and radio — the ﬁrst time he’d performed any of his songs here.

MUSIC IMMERSIVE LAUNCHES SUNDAY SESSIONS Music Immersive, the program that gets performers to Los Angeles to deal with agents and managers, is launching singing competition Sunday Session this weekend at the Temperance Hotel in Prahran. It runs until Sunday June 10. Prize is an all-expenses paid trip to Los Angeles. See facebook.com/ MusicImmersive.

BIG SOUND’S FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Brisbane’s Big Sound conference and showcase (September 12 to 14) announced Ben Lee, David Bridie and EMI Music Australia chairman Mark Poston as its first three keynote speakers. Among speakers are Charles Caldas, one time Melbourne-based GM of Shock now based in London as head of indie association Merlin. For a full list of speakers and first round of showcase acts, or to apply to showcase, go to www.bigsound.org.au. The launch was held in Melbourne, programmer Graham Ashton told a packed crowd at The Toff In Town, because the high level of Melbourne applications. In the crowd were lawyers David Vodicka and Darren Sanicki, APRA’s Kirsty Rivers, AIR’s Nick O’Byrne, booking agent John Sinclair, UNFD’s Jaddan Comerford and Wally Meanie.

Ten Network must be gritting its teeth watching rival Nine swoon about smugly with The Voice getting 2.177 million viewers on its first night and 2.541 million across the five city metro markets in the second night. But 12 months ago, when Lachlan Murdoch was ruler of Ten, he was offered The Voice but made a low bid — figuring Nine was too busy with its debts to make a decent grab for it. Nine reportedly paid $22 million for rights to The Voice. Ten is fighting back this year with four news reality shows. One, called I Will Survive sees a busload of singers who can act and dance will tour Australia on a Priscilla-type bus, with the winner getting a gig on Broadway. Flo Rida might have worn $200,000 worth of bling at the Logies, but backstage all he wanted was fried chicken and bananas. Meantime, Chris Brown asked Melbourne nightclub Secret Garden to have $500 worth of Nando’s awaiting him when he arrived. Bodyjar, who after sell-out Vic and SA date announced shows in NSW and Qld, admit that the tour almost didn’t happen. A band member broke his arm intervening on behalf of a young lady being accosted by some troglodytes. Tiësto earned $20 million last year, and deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia and Avicii get $1 million a show. But NY house DJ Danny Tenaglia is giving up his career. He wants to “smell the roses in my life”. But he adds that while people think he’s rich, the 51-year old can’t afford his New York loft. Natalie Bassingthwaighte and drummer husband Cameron McGlinchey sold their Sydney pad for $830,000 and snapped up a four-room house in Brighton that was on the market for $2.4 million, reports said.

P. DIDDY TOP EARNING HIP HOP MOGUL P. Diddy topped Forbes magazine’s list of 2012’s top-earning hip hop moguls. His US$550 million was made from his involvement in Ciroc Vodka, Sean John and Enyce clothing, Blue Flame marketing and Bad Boy Records. That fortune will grow next year when he launches his own cable channel Revolt. Diddy beat Jay-Z whose $460 million earnings were helped by a lucrative deal with Live Nation, the Watch The Throne world tour and business interests like the New Jersey Nets, the 40/40 Club chain and Rocawear clothing label. Dr. Dre made $270 million, Birdman whose Cash Money Records signed Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Wayne hit $125 million, and 50 Cent had $110 million more reasons why his bank manager loves him.

LIFELINES Married: Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons and Married: actress Carey Mulligan. They were serenaded at the church by none other than Adele (who last April turned down the offer to sing at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding because she’d already been invited to a BBQ). Dating: Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are the new buzz couple. Dating: former Powderfinger drummer Jon Coghill and TV host Kylie Speer, according to Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph. Ill: Bjork forced to cancel two shows after discovering a nodule in her throat. Arrested: a P. Diddy fan, Quamine Taylor, 30, after breaking into his empty mansion, dressing in his clothes and drinking his booze. He triggered off the alarm but initially convinced cops he was a family member. Arrested: a security guard at a rehearsal space in California, after five Tom Petty guitars worth $160,000 were stolen and some found in a pawn shop. Sued: Johnny Depp by a woman who claims that after an argument with him when she entered the VIP section of an Iggy Pop show, she dislocated an elbow. Cops said the disabled woman was heavily intoxicated. Died: Levon Helm, 71, throat cancer. The singer and drummer for The Band was also a major solo artist in his own right, with Grammy Award-winning albums, Dirt Farmer and the live Ramble at the Ryman. Died: Dick Clark, 82, of a heart attack. The producer of TV shows American Bandstand and American Top 40 shaped pop culture for decades. Died: Andrew Love, saxplayer and co-founder of the Memphis Horns, 70, Alzheimer’s disease. The Memphis Horns played on 52 #1 records including Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline, Elvis Presley’s Suspicious Minds, Sam & Dave’s Soul Man and Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together. Died: Steve Thompson, owner of Thornbury music store 8 Miles High. Died: British guitarist Bert Weedon, 91, whose instructional guitar books inspired Eric Clapton, Hank Marvin Paul McCartney and Brian May.

GOTYE, BARTON: TWO AUSSIES TOP US CHARTS Two Aussies were at the top of the US charts last week. Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra)’ went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, after selling 500,000 copies Stateside in one week (5 million worldwide; #1 on iTunes in 33 countries) while the Making Mirrors album entered the Top 10 at #7 and has sold 1 million worldwide. Gotye is the ﬁfth Australian to hit #1 in America: chart historian Ed Nimmervoll tells us that the others were Helen Reddy’s I Am Woman (Dec 72), Olivia Newton John’s I Honestly Love You (Oct 74) and Have You Never Been Mellow (Mar 75), Men At Work’s Who Can It Be Now (Nov 82) and Down Under (Jan 83), INXS’s Need You Tonight (Jan 88), and Savage Garden’s Truly Madly Deeply (Jan 98) and I Knew I Loved You (Jan 2000). The latter was the only track not recorded in Oz. At the same time, Lee Brice’s A Woman Like You which is #1 on the US country charts, was co-written by Sydney-born Phil Barton. In the ‘90s he was in ABC kids act The Flower Pot Gang and set up a songwriting and production company Juice Music with Scott Aplin. Now based in Nashville, he’s written countless songs including recent releases by Troy Caser-Daly and Rick Price.

APRA: NEW LICENCE SCHEME FOR COMMUNITY BROADCASTERS The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) is on Sunday July 1 introducing a new across-the-board licence agreement for community broadcasters. It covers broadcast, reproduction, web simulcast, AMCOS, and other online delivery including audio archives and podcasts. It is welcomed by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.

ISPs WIN OVER COPYRIGHT OWNERS JOY. 3AW, TEAM UP FOR ISSUES On Thursday May 3, gay and lesbian radio station Joy 94.9’s David McCarthy and 3AW’s Neil Mitchell will do a joint outside broadcast to tackle topics as depression, suicide, bullying and other health concerns. The ﬁrst-time event runs 10am to midday at City Square, Swanston St.

STARFISH POSTPONE Chocolate Starfish had intended to go ahead with shows this month in Melbourne and Geelong as a tribute to guitarist Zoran Romic who died on March 31. But they say, “this difficult time has had a greater impact on the band than first realised” so they are pushed back to mid-2012.

LAUGHING OUTLAW SHOWCASE It’s only taken 13 years, but Sydney’s Laughing Outlaw is holding its ﬁrst showcase in Melbourne. Mikelangelo & The Tin Star, The Autumn Isles (Perth), Bambino Koresh (Syd) and Wilding (Mel) play Northcote Social Club on Saturday May 5.

CHANNEL V LAUNCHING ‘BUZZ ARTIST’ Channel [V] is on Tuesday May 1 launching [V] Buzz Artist to give a nudge to those emerging artists making waves live or on blogs. One act will be selected each month and will be heavily proﬁled on the channel. Their videos will be screened, while vmusic. com.au will have a dedicated feature page with interviews, bios, downloads, gig guide and photo galleries.

ALL FEMALE SHORTLIST FOR IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS In a ﬁrst for next month’s songwriters’ Ivor Novello awards, all ﬁnalists for best album are female — Adele, Kate Bush and PJ Harvey. Adele’s Rolling In The Deep and Someone Like You battle Take That’s The Flood for most performed. Rolling In The Deep is up for best song musically and lyrically alongside Florence and the Machine’s Shake It Out and Ed Sheeran’s The A Team. Nominees for best contemporary song are Nero’s Promises, Lana Del Rey’s Video Games and James Blake’s The Wilhelm Scream.

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In a blow to the music and film industries, the Australian High Court last week dismissed the copyright infringement appeal against internet service provider (ISP) iiNet. The five judges agreed that iiNet “had no direct technical power” to prevent its customers from illegally downloading pirated content using BitTorrent, had “limited power to cut them off, and that infringement notices sent by copyright owners to iiNet did not provide the ISP “with a reasonable basis for sending warning notices to individual customers containing threats to suspend or terminate those customers”’.

VALE GREG HAM Like his school friend Colin Hay, Greg Ham also came from a background of music and theatre. In 1979 Ham joined Men At Work, adding sax, flute and synthesiser to their reggae-flavoured songs. The duo’s theatrical interest led to colourful and spirited videos which were embraced by MTV which had just launched in America. Men At Work sold 30 million albums around the world. They gained a hat trick when Down Under and debut album Business As Usual were at #1 simultaneously in the US and UK. He became a music teacher and joined the board of the Push, set up by the Victorian Government to help young people get into the music industry. Down Under remains iconic but the 2010 Kookaburra Sits On The Old Gum Tree court case left Ham devastated. “I’m terribly disappointed that that’s the way I’m going to be remembered – for copying something,” he told The Age. He went on a spiral: according to The Age, he drank heavily, took heroin, split from his wife Linda Wostry and moved from the family’s large home to a modest place in North Carlton where he died. “He felt responsible for playing the (flute) line even although it was innocuous,” Colin Hay said on radio last week. Greg Ham was 58. He is survived by two children aged 17 and 20.

CHIP MONCK GETS STONED Chip Monck, one time tour manager for the Rolling Stones, has a photo exhibition from his private collection of the Stones’ European tour of 1970 at the Colour Factory (409—429 Gore St, Fitzroy) until Saturday April 28.

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At five o’clock on a Friday afternoon, Tim Derricourt steps out of work and jumps into the beginning of a relaxing weekend, though not before a near-miss with an Audi and fielding a few obligatory questions about his band’s whereabouts. The relaxed and charming co-front man for Sydney quintet Dappled Cities expands on the excitement of releasing a new single, the slow coming-together of album number four and how no amount of space between he and his Dappled Cities comrades could keep them apart. With their third album Zounds now three years behind them, indie rock outfit Dappled Cities have returned with a new single. Called Run With The Wind, the song was penned earlier in the year when the band was in England, where they decided to road test the tune away from any familial audiences. “We figured we’d play it there first while we weren’t in front of people who knew us well, and it was one of those moments where we played that set and put that song in the middle of it, thinking that it would be crap,” Derricourt explained. “People would come up to us, people that had never seen us before, and were saying ‘That song’s your best song,’ so it was a really interesting thing to have people that had never seen us before think that a new song was the best one we’ve done.” Fans’ enthusiasm about Dappled Cities’ fourth album was ignited when they used their new single to close Death Cab For Cutie support sets earlier this year. Despite this anticipation though, Derricourt and his band mates are tight-lipped about the impending record, only suggesting the tentative release month of July, and with no hints at a name. “We’re kind of finishing it up and there’s just the last little things we’re putting together, so we kind of want to keep it all to ourselves,” Derricourt said. He does, of course, insist it will be worth the wait: “It’s going to be a bloody unbelievable record.” When asked about how much new material the band were planning to share on their May East Coast tour, Derricourt explained that it was the first album the band felt comfortable playing every song live. “On the other albums there were maybe four or five we could play live, and the rest were just album tracks. But on this one, they all just sound awesome. I can’t wait to actually get to that point where we get to play the whole album.” It’s no surprise that Derricourt is getting excited about it all; album number four has already taken them around the globe with recording time spent in Paris, Los Angeles and London (where the band were situated briefly), and includes a personnel list of Dan the Automator, hip hop producer and founding Gorillaz member; and Cenzo Townshend, who’s recently worked with both Tom Jones and The Horrors.

“IT’S FUNNY TO COME AND RECORD AN ALBUM WHERE YOU’VE GOT TO COMBINE A HUGE RANGE OF EXPERIENCES HAD OVER A COUPLE OF YEARS” Over the last two years, Derricourt and his Dappled Cities right-hand man Dave Rennick have moved themselves around, both together and on their own, to write and record the songs of the new album. “We’ve all been moving around a fair bit, just searching for that perfect place to record,” Derricourt explained, when asked about how travelling influenced the writing of the new album. “The first batch of songs we wrote, we were on tour for Zounds and were really stressed out for some reason. Run With The Wind came out of that, and a lot of the songs have this really succinct vibe to them. Then I came back to Sydney and moved by the beach, just chilling out. So we’ve got these other songs that are relaxed and happily blithe. It’s funny to come and record an album where you’ve got to combine a huge range of experiences had over a couple of years.” While Derricourt adores his sea change, he admits travelling keeps them on their toes, and constant touring ensures they all remain inspired to write. “I think for our band in particular, the only way we can really write songs is if we’ve got touring ahead of us. So, we really write songs to be able to get back on the road. Part of why it took so long to get this new record out is because we didn’t have a tour booked. Maybe in the future we’ll just book our album tour and that will force us to get out a new album really fast.” Over the next year or so, Derricourt explained that he’d be spending most of his time in New York, with Dave across the other side of the US in California. Though the band regularly spends time apart, Derricourt believes it could be what’s helped Dappled Cities stick together for over ten years. “We’re only a few hours flight away from anybody at any time. The same thing happened with the last record when Dave was living in Paris, and I was spending time in America. It seemed like it would be the end of the band, and in some ways it felt like there was a moment where that was going to happen. But like all relationships, a little time apart is healthy. We’re the old married couple of indie rock.” Dappled Cities will be playing The Northcote Social Club on Friday May 4. Tickets are $18+bf and available from The Northcote Social Club website. The new single, Run With The Wind is available from iTunes.

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VICE GRIP PUSSIES BY PATRICK EMERY

Melbourne band Vice Grip Pussies haven’t played the Cherry Rock festival before, but drummer Stacey Pommer is very familiar with both the event and the venue itself. “I’ve been to all of them, but I can’t really tell you much about any of them,” Pommer laughs. “I love the vibe at Cherry Rock, and I love watching Sixfthick playing in the laneway, and crawling up the walls.” Pommer might be struggling to put together his own Cherry Rock highlights package, but Vice Grip Pussies won’t be a stranger to the venue when they make their Cherry Rock debut on Sunday 29 April. “I’m pretty sure we’ve played Cherry Bar more than any other band,” Pommer says proudly. Vice Grip Pussies formed about 18 months ago, when brothers Stacey and Lewi Pommer moved down to Melbourne from the Gold Coast, joining up with fellow expatriates Maddison and Alexander. “We were all friends before we started a band, and that’s how it’s continued,” Pommer says. “We all still hang out together, and enjoy each other’s company.” Pommer gave the band its slightly ribald name after being inspired by a former housemate. “I sort of named the band, I guess,” Pommer says. “A housemate of mine from a few years ago was always referring to tight vaginas as vice grip pussies, and I thought that was pretty funny.” Despite the occasional suggestion to change the band’s name to broaden market opportunities, the Vice Grip Pussies have held firm. “Sometimes people will say ‘You should change your name, because otherwise people won’t want to listen to the band’, but we’ve never had any problems, so we’ve kept the name,” Pommer says. Vice Grip Pussies’ first gig was at the modern day celebration of St Kilda’s rock’n’roll tradition, tri-annual festival A Day By the Green at the St Kilda Bowls Club. Organised by Cold Harbour, they played alongside the Large Number 12s, Smoke Machine, Cold Harbour and the Patron Saints (which features Pommer’s father, former Johnnys member Billy Pommer, on drums). “We opened up at the first Day By the Green a couple of years ago, and exactly a year later we were on last,” Pommer says. “So that was pretty cool.” Later on the Vice Grip Pussies put together a set of swap cards, a full collection of which would grant a punter free entry to one of the band’s Cherry Bar gigs. “We ended up putting a whole lot of the cards on a mate’s fridge, which had all these pictures of cocks and balls on it,” Pommer says with a chuckle. “In the end we got rid of the fridge and left it on the street in St Kilda, but no-one took it, not even the swap cards off the front. Maybe everyone thought it was an art installation!” Pommer says his father Billy has provided plenty of moral support for the Vice Grip Pussies, but has steered clear of overt parental influence that might otherwise prove counter-productive. “My dad’s always hanging around, but he definitely stays out of our band,” Pommer says. “He just lets me and my brother do it ourselves, and doesn’t get too involved. But I do like it when Dad comes to gigs, because he’s a drummer, and I’m a drummer, so we get to compete about who’s the best – and I reckon I’m better,” Pommer laughs.

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“A HOUSEMATE OF MINE FROM A FEW YEARS AGO WAS ALWAYS REFERRING TO TIGHT VAGINAS AS VICE GRIP PUSSIES, AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS PRETTY FUNNY.” The Vice Grip Pussies style started out at the heavier end of the New York Dolls-Heartbreaker inspired punk rock spectrum. Pommer says the band is still on the same path, but the sound has certainly evolved. “We’ve definitely changed a lot since we first started,” he says. “We’ve now got a second guitarist, and we play hardly any of the songs that we were playing when we first started out. And I think at the start we were a bit shy, but now we all really get into it and have a lot of fun.” Indeed, it’s that sense of fun that Pommer says has probably been the only lesson the Vice Grip Pussies have learnt in its 18-month existence. “Fuck, man, you’ve just got to have fun,” Pommer says matter-of-factly. The band has recently taken its first steps toward recordfing a full-length debut, putting down some songs in Pommer’s house with a view to take it into a proper studio later this year. “We’ve done a little bit of recording, and we’ve recorded a split 7” with the Bitter Sweet Kicks, which is going to be released on orange Jaegermeister vinyl,” Pommer says. “And we’re doing more recording right now, and we should have something out later this year.” The Vice Grip Pussies don’t have a career plan, or any particular career aspirations. In fact, the entire notion of a five-year plan is greeted by Pommer with mirth. “In five years’ time I’ll still be in the Vice Grip Pussies,” Pommer says. “And I have to say that we’ll be very big. Actually, I’ll be retired, but I’ll be playing in the Vice Grip Pussies for fun,” he laughs. Vice Grip Pussies play the CherryRock2012 on Sunday April 29.

THE EXPLOITED BY KIM CROXFORD

Renowned for their influence, longevity, unshifting integrity and extreme brand of fast, hardcore punk, The Exploited have adorned loyal punk fans’ studded vests since the early ‘80s. It was seven years between the Scottish punks’ release Beat The Bastards and their latest album Fuck The System, and fans have been waiting even longer for The Exploited’s next offering. While it may have seemed the veterans have disappeared, frontman Wattie Buchan asserts that the band are still going strong, and that you can’t rush a quality record. “If I wanted to put out records to make money, I could do records every week, but that’d be shit. I don’t do this for money; I do it because of the music – because that’s my life. I’ll only put it out if it’s 100 percent true to what I believe, and so when I think I’ve got songs that people who follow the band can relate to, then we’ll do the next album... Everything’s got to be 100 percent Exploited. We write lots of tunes... but it’s not good enough for The Exploited, it’s not extreme enough, it’s not angry enough. For me to write songs I’ve got to be angry, because that’s punk rock – punk’s angry music. I’ve been happy the last few years, so I find it hard to write.” Keenly aware of what his band stands for, Wattie says the same things that motivated and inspired him back when the band formed in the early ‘80s still remain central catalysts for his song writing today. “I hate politicians, I hate liars, and I hate bullies. I hate people that pick on other people or take advantage of other people – try to exploit other people. That’s what makes me angry.” Wattie fell in love with punk early, when the social environment of Scotland during his youth saw him search for means of selfexpression. “There was so much unemployment and so much poverty among my friends – so much shit over here in Scotland – and punk music reflected that. It gave us something to put our anger and energy into. A lot of people thought our music was a lot of fashion, but it was underground movement, it gave us a voice. It was angry music. I was the first person to have a Mohican [Mohawk], apart from the great Indians,” Wattie laughs. “Back then having a Mohican was like having fucking four eyes or something, because everyone wanted to pick a fight with you or try to take the piss. I went for a job interview – I went for a lot of jobs – and they told me to fuck off, basically. You know, ‘Cut your hair, change, you’re a smartass,’ blah, blah, blah – so I started a punk band. I thought I could change people’s attitudes through music, but you can’t really. You try. But the only thing people that govern and that the people that are well off don’t understand that violence of the punk acts – that’s why I hate politicians because they make up laws and – not all of them, but a lot of them are unjust. They make up rules and conditions that, for people that are less fortunate, can suppress them. [But] that’s why I started a band.” Wattie says his love for punk music has never wavered, dedicated to lifestyle he chose when he was young. “To me punk is a way of life. It’s about fucking standing up for yourself and living your life the way you want to. Other punks that I love, the older punks, they life their life with it, and they brought their kids up. They live their life in society, but still they never conformed to what people thought they should be like. They don’t have any money, but they’re totally genuine.” Despite Wattie’s frank and persistent assertion of his beliefs, and unwavering, strong opinions, the vocalist has commonly been misunderstood throughout his career. One outward contradiction that often confuses fans is Wattie’s history as an ex-soldier, despite his controversial ragefuelled lyrics seemingly condemning war. As far as why he was motivated to join the army original, Wattie says he gave himself an ultimatum in order to clean up his act, and the army was a positive influence on his young self, before music eventually lured him back. “I joined the army when I was 17. I left school at 15... Over here if you wanted a job you got to fight for it. I was from a really poor family, so I ended up in gangs. I used to think I was hard but I wasn’t, I was a fucking little wee insect. I had a choice, keep hanging with the wrong crowd and end up in jail, or join the army, so I joined the army. Best thing I ever did.” A more recent controversy that saw Wattie brutally beaten by a gang in Madrid was the band’s position on race. Spurred on by a photograph that depicted Wattie posing with a group after a show, two people making Nazi salutes in the background, unbeknownst to the singer, vicious rumours circulated the internet, accusing the band of Nazism. “Everyone that says that is a fucking liar,” emphasises an exasperated Wattie. “The only thing that’s true is that I had a picture taken with a band named Screwdriver. I’ve had a picture taken with probably over a thousand people – people say, ‘Can I take a picture?’ and I say, ‘Yeah, okay.’ I don’t care who you are or what you are, I’ve had my picture taken with blacks and Jews, Chinese, Japanese... I’m not racist whatsoever – morally, my motto to life is that if someone is good to me, no matter what colour, or what view they are, then I’m good to them, if they’re shit to me, I’ll be shit them – that’s what I believe. I don’t care whether they’re poor, rich, fucking gorgeous, ugly – whatever. If I like somebody and they’re okay to me, I’m okay to them. If they try to fuck with me, then I’ll fuck them right back, that’s me.” Fuelling the rumours was often Wattie’s tattoo containing a small swastika symbol, but Wattie denies it has any racial significance to him. “My grandfather fought in the war, he killed loads of Nazis. Punk back in the ‘80s was about the shock. Just because you wear a cross, that doesn’t make you Catholic. It’s just a symbol. Punks like Sid Vicious and into the ‘90s like Jello Biafra, they all wore swastika t-shirts, I used to wear them as well. It was meant as a shock, a rebellion thing... I’ve never, ever been a Nazi.” Loyal fans were unaffected by the rumours, disregarding them immediately. “I appreciate the people that stick by the band from all those years ago... if wasn’t for all those people all over the world coming to our gigs there wouldn’t be any Exploited... I’ve got respect for all the punks, the people that I’ve travelled with, and people us that see us, because they kept us going.” The Exploited have unfortunately postponed their Australian tour due to a family situation, but hope DISCUSS WHAT? BEAT.COM.AU/DISCUSSION

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DRAGONFORCE BY PETER HODGSON

It’s always tough on fans when a singer leaves a band. Sure, Van Halen did fine with Sammy Hagar, and AC/DC didn’t exactly flounder when Brian Johnson joined, but there’s always that moment of “Oh jeez, will this work?” Post-Lane Warrant, heck, even post-Hagar Van Halen - there’s lots of scope for a misstep. Well the new Dragonforce album, The Power Within, will immediately shut up anyone who expects the band to lose some of its edge following the departure of ZP Theart. About a year after Theart walked, Dragonforce announced they’d enlisted Marc Hudson as their new voice. And what a voice. Dragonforce still sounds like Dragonforce, but even more musical, more powerful and more exciting. For a band who dishes out killer riffs and impossible guitar licks as easily as walking, kicking it up a notch is quite a feat. But The Power Within delivers. The band turned the whole recording process, the rehearsing, their entire way of working upside down for The Power Within. A change was on the cards anyway: after a decade together they felt it was time to shake things up. Theart’s departure just happened to coincide with this reorganisation. They even actually jammed together for the first time, rather than bringing in fleshed out demos and ideas. Guitarist Herman Li says the band wanted to avoid the rushed vibe of the previous two album cycles. “When we finished the Inhuman Rampage album in September 2005, we were still touring for the previous album. So it was all about going into the studio, writing the music,

recording it and then, guess what: you’re going out on another tour for the previous album! But this album, we got to play it together and transfer that energy with which we play the song into the album.” One of the goals for the new sessions was to integrate Hudson not only as a voice, but as a fully-fledged member. “It’s not just Dragonforce plus a singer,” Li says. “He’s actually in Dragonforce. This is definitely the great thing on this album: we were so open, so there’s no bullshit about upsetting anyone here. We talked about the music and said ‘ We don’t like that… we like that.’ With Marc we tried many things, many different vocal approaches,

SOUND OF TROY BY ROD WHITFIELD

In a very cosmic turn of events, it was a visit to a psychic some ten years or so earlier that informed singer Troy Lempriere that he would end up writing songs and performing in Sound Of Troy with its creative brains trust, guitarist Sam Labruna, as he explained to us recently from his home in Melbourne. “I’m not spiritual or anything, but I was actually told about Sam when I had a reading (from a psychic),” Troy recalls, “I was told that ten years down the track I would meet this large Italian tattooed man, who wants to redeem himself!” he laughs heartily. “So yeah, that’s a bit of a spin-out. At the time I thought ‘that’s all bullshit’, but when I met him I thought ‘Christ, maybe she was on the money!’” Now, approximately four years into their career, things appear to be taking oﬀ for the band. They have managed to recruit one of the best up and coming young drummers in the country, Damian Corniola, and their debut album Grip Or Slip was released and launched late last year. Their next show is a big one, and Troy’s getting itchy feet.

“Oh yeah, can’t wait for it mate,” he enthuses, “we’ve been itching for it, especially with the new drummer. It just brings a new life into the band. We rehearse every week, and every week it’s just more conﬁdent with the songs. People actually pay money just to come and watch him play drums, by himself. So I can’t actually wait to do the gig with him, and he’s excited. I wish it was tomorrow!” So what do people get from the Sound Of Troy live show, and what do you expect from the crowd in return? “If they like rock, they’re gonna get an awesome rock show,” he explains, “I’m a pretty good frontman. It’s a pretty in your face ‘bangin’’ show. A lot of people said last time, it blew them away. You’ll be walking away wanting more!”

and merging them together, all for the goodness of the album. For the music. The art.” But this shouldn’t be any surprise to longtime fans of the band. Dragonforce music is more than just guitar solos with songs around them. “People might get confused because we play a lot of solos, but really everything in the song - all the solos, the leads - they’re worked out way after we’ve got the singing down,” Li says. “It’s got to be catchy before we put it in. So then it’s not just about playing simple chords and soloing over it later! So it’s definitely concentrating on the music first.” Of course, Dragonforce are known for playing super-fast, 200bpm stuff, but on this album they also brought it down to some midtempo songs and an increased awareness of groove. Anything goes. “We also have a song which is faster than all our other songs. It was a way to make the music dynamic and explore the voice of Marc, because he definitely has a really wide range from low to high. On the last album we got a little obsessed with sitting there with the click and the music and trying to play every lick perfect. On this album we promised each other to not do that. And I can hear things that aren’t perfect. On this album we tried to approach it that way so it was more organic than our last album, where I was sitting there trying to get every sweep perfectly timed, and tried to get even the noises of moving the chords away.” Fans don’t need to worry about an absence of cool guitar tricks though. “We definitely have all the fast stuff,” Li assures us. “But on this album, it’s not like the old album where we threw in all the whammy bar tricks, sweep picking, taps, whatever, into every song. This time each song has its own theme. And on this one we tried to approach it so that every note fit every chord really nicely and created the right tension and the right feel. So “To tell you the truth, last time we had people singing our songs, so that was pretty amazing! That’s priceless that sorta stuff. Just to get a loyal fanbase, that’d be awesome.” Sam Labruna, guitarist and main songwriter for Sound Of Troy, is another interesting character. Outside writing tunes, playing guitar and performing with the band, he also trains one of Australia’s finest up and coming boxers. He joined the conversation and told us what was coming up for the band after the show at The Evelyn. “We’ve got The Butterfly Effect,” he states, “so whatever gigs they’ve got we’ll support them. Or the new band which we’ve supported before called Thousand Needles In Red. So we’re working close with the management there. So that’s what we’ve got coming up at the moment. “It’s been a bit hard,” he continues, “because I’ve got a kid at the moment that I’ve been training for five years, he’s actually the Australian champion in boxing. I do that full time. So it’s pretty big, what he’s doing. There’s a lot of money involved, a lot of sponsors and such. So it’s been hard. My passion’s always been that, and bands. I’ve always played in bands, I’ve got tons of songs.” The sound/style of Sound Of Troy is a little difficult to categorise, and it’s something that Troy and Sam have had difficulty with as well when they get asked about it by friends or punters. “It’s a difficult question,” he agrees, “because some of the songs that we’ve done, we’ve played them with just a piano and vocal. But then again, we’ve played the same song heavy. So it works

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we’re kind of going slightly against the scene. Because everyone is shredding now - y’know, eight fingers on the neck, six, seven, eight strings, necks left and right, loads of stuff - but I think notes that sit on the chords and that move and bend into the right chord, we go a bit more into that. Exotic bends and all that kind of stuff.” As one of the most respected and talented guitarists of his generation - seriously, the guy’s chops are insane - fans are clamouring for a Herman Li solo album. Is it ever going to happen? “The energy goes pretty much into Dragonforce, really,” Li shrugs. “If I do it with friends it’s a lot more fun, because you don’t want to sit there alone programming drums. It’s not really musical. I want some guy to trade off guitar solos with and do harmonies with.” But then he offers a glimpse of hope: “Maybe if it happens it’ll be in about a year or two.” The Power Within is out now through 3Wise Records.

both ways to be honest. So it’s hard, but I’d just say ‘rock’, really. Like maybe a Matchbox 20, although it’s a little bit heavier than a Matchbox 20. Maybe a Nickelback style or something like that.” “I believe in the songs, the songs are good,” he states in conclusion, “We’re only a four piece at the moment. Ideally we’ll branch out – we need keys, we need a full time piano guy in the band. But it’s working, for what we’re doing at the moment, it’s a rock show.” SOUND OF TROY support The Smart along with Bellusira (acoustic) at The Evelyn on Friday April 27.

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Dear Inexperienced Security Staffers Assigned to Various Venues When Bands of the Punk/Hardcore DESCENDENTS Persuasion Are Headlining, I hope this letter finds you well, and that it does not long distract you from lifting heavy things before your beaming reflection. I would like to suggest a couple points of basic etiquette that are expected from you at a show. Though a security expert I may not be, I am oft an impassioned punter who has too often been taken by your shitty behaviour at shows to the point of distraction. Firstly, please know your product. Surely it wouldn’t hurt to find out what kind of music you’ll be subjected TERROR to and what kind of band you will be ‘securing’. It would certainly save you that dumbfounded look of disgust as you push your lil earplugs further into their waxy cavern. Research may also provide you with information on what kind of crowd will arrive at this show. Just like the two-step shuffle you awkwardly employ at your pill-popping parties, punters at these shows have methods of expressing themselves to music. Sure it looks awkward and most of the time downright masochistic but this is the norm, so don’t lose your mind when things start to get heavy. Secondly, know the line! So some drunken git claws his way onstage, jigs awkwardly and reveals his burgeoning man boobs to the crowd. This guy does not deserve an instantaneous beatdown. One would suggest that he’d much prefer a half-arsed leap into the crowd than being lunged upon, headlocked ‘neath your musty pits and ejected from the venue, so maybe just let him know that his 5 minutes of bogan fame are up and he should depart shortly. Pretty basic stuff really. Hope you understand. Love and Kisses, Me Having already been announced for Resist Records’ Hardcore 2012 event, Terror have since revealed a run of tour dates including dates in Melbourne. Terror will join Iron Mind at The Corner Hotel on Saturday July 14. Tickets are available this Friday and Hardcore 2012 tickets are selling fast NOW.

Ceremony have also revealed some extra dates beyond the Hardcore 2012 shows. They’ll hit Irene’s Warehouse in Brunswick on Friday June 29 and The Bendigo in Collingwood on Saturday June 30.

Thursday April 26: Xibalba, Warbrain, Outsiders Code at Next Grim Fandango, Following Sea, The Gun Runners, Kill The Matador at The Bendigo Hotel The City Shake Up, The SPinset, RSZJB, Scalar Fields at Pony DZ Deatrays Velicoiraptor at Karova Lounge, Ballarat

Since they revealed they would be splitting up (cough, for a year or two at least) Trial Kennedy have revealed their final tour dates with friends My Echo. They’ll play one ‘final’ show at The Corner Hotel on Saturday June 23. Tickets are on sale this Friday.

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Wednesday April 25: DZ Deathrays, Velociraptor at National Hotel, Geelong The Smith Street Band, Grim Fandango, Maricopa Wels at The Old Bar Shitripper, Kids In Cults, The Patron Saints, The Unaustralians, late Arvo Suns at The Lyrics Bird Loune, Ripponlea

Sydney pop punk band Heroes For Hire have been rather busy of late. Not only are they recording their second album in under a year with New Found Glory’s Steve Klein, they’ve just announced a rather large national tour with Tassie favourites Luca Brasi and new band Carry Me Home. Catch the Just Shoe It tour on Wednesday July 11 at Karova Lounge, Thursday July 12 at TLC in Bayswater, Friday July 13 at The Evelyn in Fitzroy and finally on Saturday July 14 at the Thornbury Theatre.

Friday April 27: Union Pacific, Milhouse, Deep Heat, Being Amazing at The Gasometer Xibalba, Warbrain, At War With Gods, Ill Vision, Thorns at Phoenix Youth Center Bellusira at The Evelyn Hotel Alarum, House Of Thumbs, Desecrator at The Bendigo Hotel Shttripper, Gold, Declaration, The Kremlings at The Nash, Geelong Hallower, Brooklyn, Kontact, Dearly Divine at The Espy Gershwin Room Saturday April 28: The Exploited, Chainsaw Hookers, Wolfpack, The Worst at Corner Hotel Infinite Void, Useless Children, White Walls at The Gasometer Shitripper, The Tearaways, Counter Attack, Hailgun at The Bendigo Jamie Hay, Arrows, Grim Fandango, The Union Pacific, Milhouse at Gurtrude’s Brown Couch Sunday April 2: Toy Boats at Poison City Records from 4pm Shitripper, Vultures, Bear Witness, Declaration, Right Mind at Phonix Youth Center The Hawaiian Island, Party Vibes, Stockades, Milford Academy at The Gasometer The Smith Street Band, Grim Fandango, The Union Pacific, Milhouse at Bruce Gallery (AA)

GRUNTBUCKET LAUNCH EMPTY ROOM AT HOPEFULLY FULL ROOM Gruntbucket will celebrate the release of their album Songs From An Empty Room through Torn & Frayed with a huge gig at The Tote on Saturday May 5. The album itself is out on Tuesday May 1 and you can hear a teaser in the form of the song Didn’t Leave A Trace at soundcloud.com/gruntbucket

GIG ALERT: MOROCCAN KINGS Moroccan Kings will launch Grizzly Bear, the single and film clip from their forthcoming EP, at Revolver on Saturday April 28 with special guests A Lonely Crowd and Sheriff. Tickets are $10/$12 (pre-sales through Moshtix). Doors at 9pm.

GIG ALERT: FU MANCHU With Cherry Rock now completely sold out, and Fu Manchu’s headline show on Sunday May 6 almost sold out too, the time has come to announce and second and final headline show for Southern California’s legendary stoner rock lords! They’ll play at the Hi-Fi on Monday May 7 with supports Black Cobra and Matt Sonic and the High Times. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday via Moshtix and The Hi-Fi’s website. Doors open at 7pm.

GIG ALERT: THE OCEAN & SIDE PROJECTS The Ocean will tour Australia for the very first time in May, with four shows in Victoria - including one that will be a side project extravaganza. The band proper will play at The Karova Lounge in Ballarat on Saturday May 19, the National Hotel in Geelong on Sunday May 20 and at The Hi-Fi on Saturday May 26, but before the tour proper kicks off, if you rock along to The Tote on Thursday May 17 you’ll catch Oceans side projects Coilguns and K U N Z as well as DJ sets by band members, and other surprises.

2012 GUITAR FESTIVAL

NEW DIMEBAG DARRELL SONG! It kind of crept in under the radar in the wake of the release of the one vaulted full Pantera song, (Piss from the Vulgar Display of Power sessions) but Dime’s girlfriend Rita Haney has just released Twisted, a song Dime wrote and recorded for his own amusement back in 1996. The song is being used to help launch a new line of Dimebag Darrell tribute skateboards by Mike Vallely’s Elephant Brand Skateboards company and Dimebag Hardware. You can buy the song on CDBaby and iTunes and hear it in an official video on YouTube which features all sorts of skateboard hijinks at Dime and Rita’s place.

HardRoad Events, KustomShop Guitars and Blues Promotions present the 2012 Guitar Festival at Musicland on Saturday April 28, from 2pm to 11pm, featuring Melbourne’s blues legend tribute band Chained as well as John Williams’ Doubleshot Of Blues, Black and Blue, Bag O Nails, Blue Times Blue, Black Fuel, Freeloader, Day of the Eagle and special guests B.G.B. Tickets are $10, which includes entry into the lucky door prize: a KustomShop Telecaster guitar. Visit kustomshopguitars.com for more info.

GIG ALERT: WHEATUS Wheatus will play at The Corner on Wednesday September 19 as part of their Still A Teenage Dirtbag Tour. Brendan B. Brown have released five studio albums since 2000 and are currently in pre-production for their sixth.

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Recorded at Sing Sing South Studios in Melbourne, Mimi Velevska’s maiden release Damn from her upcoming debut EP The Bona Fide Electric unveils an artist furnished with a rare vocal aptitude, and the ﬂair to match. To celebrate the release of her debut single, Mimi Velevska and her band will launch Damn at The Workers Club on Saturday May 5, with support from rock duo Slow Chase and rock/ funk outﬁt The Charlies.

After ﬁve years as founding member, songwriter and vocalist for notorious seven-piece noir punk/garage swing band The Snake Oil Merchants, Mojo Juju has made a bold departure from the big band and set out on her own. Brace yourselves for a new band, new songs, and new threads as they hit the road on the infamous Ladykiller tour. Watch as Mojo Juju unveils a new posse of the slickest, suavest and deadliest guns on instruments yet, at The Toﬀ In Town, on Thursday April 26.

LAURA K CLARKE Over two years in the making, Laura K Clarke is finally ready to release her debut, five track EP Looking For Inspiration. She’s celebrating with a launch gig on Friday, April 27 at The Empress, and is giving a free copy of the CD to all those who come along. Laura launched the first single Do What You Say to a sold out crowd in September 2011, and with support sets from Shane Walters and Al Parkinson, this EP launch gig is looking set to be an evening of merriment.

SPERMAIDS LINDSEY LOW HAND Melbourne's favourite DIY grunge pop punksters Lindsey Low Hand return for their ﬁrst show in 2 years! After releasing their debut album Poached Egg the band took an until now permenant hiatus, playing in other bands Scott And Charlene's Wedding, Bitch Prefect, Peak Twins and Divorced. So don't miss this rare opportunity to see this awesome one oﬀ show. Also playing are the bangin' Jack Mannix Band and Angel Eyes. At The Gasometer Hotel on Friday April 27. Do it!

STEVE SMYTH

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Steve Smyth is one of those artists who draws you in even before you’ve heard him perform. There seems to be an energy that clings to him which reaps mystery and a deep, honest passion. Steve Smyth heads to Melbourne this week to open for Mark Lanegan at The Forum, but he’s also taking the time out to do a sideshow of his own. See him perform at Pony on Friday April 27, with able support from Hounds Hounds Hounds and local songsmith Jacky Winter.

On Saturday April 28, Pony are putting on a four-for-one deal. The Living Eyes, The Kremlings, Thrasher Jynx, and Goonbag Colostomy will all perform at the hallowed venue, in a gig that’ll have you hip-wiggling and body-giggling to their irrepressibly catchy tunes. Go spread the word to all your friends and enemies.

THE COCOA JACKSONS This Friday, April 27, will see Melbourne music scene newcomers The Cocoa Jacksons take to the Pony stage for a blues and garage rock late show, a dancing psych fest into the wee hours. With the band set to release an EP shortly, and with national and European tours on the horizon, this Friday night might be the most intimate setting in you’ll ever get to see them in.

CHAINSAW HOOKERS AND MUSCLE CAR Catch Chainsaw Hookers (WA) with Muscle Car tearing up the Pony bar stage at 2am on Saturday April 28. The Chainsaw Hookers are a hard punk rock act from Perth, known for their infectious lyrical hooks laced with horror movie themes. Their ﬁrst debut album combines their trademark twin guitar onslaught with gig hardened vocals and thundering drums. So get on down to Pony for a good old-fashioned punk rock late show.

Spermaids don’t seem to fuck around. Since forming less than a year ago, the two-piece from NZ have gigged relentlessly and released a unique EP that walks the line between playful experimentation and outright aggression. If you’ve not yet seen these guys live, then May is the month. They play every Wednesday night at The Tote, joined each week by only the dopest of local supports.

LADIES SINGLES One night. Five dynamite performers. Warning: May contain traces of Beyoncé and bad tennis puns. From electro-sound-art composer Karen Heath (Ennïs Tóla) to the swirling space oddity of international rock star Kim Boekbinder (The Impossible Girl), Ladies Singles is a rare opportunity to see ﬁve stunningly original and talented musicians on the one line-up. Conceived by Xen Pow (A Lonely Crowd), and Jen Kingwell (The Jane Austen Argument) as a night to showcase the solo talents of women musicians who front some of Melbourne’s most acclaimed bands, Ladies Singles will feature Kim Boekbinder, Jen Kingwell, Carly Fern, Xen Pow and Karen Heath. At Phoenix Public House on Thursday May 3. Doors open at 8:30pm, tickets $11+BF.

THE KHYBER BELT All warmed up from their recent national tour with Evanescence, The Khyber Belt are ready to launch their self-titled debut EP at The Espy Gershwin this Saturday April 28. The band is quite the local supergroup in the heavy rock scene, featuring members of Rook, Bushido and Sleep Parade. Also playing this massive ﬁve-band line-up will be The Evening Son, Shadowgame, One and Kettlespider. Doors open 8pm. Tickets on sale from OzTix. com.au, The Espy and all OzTix outlets.

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Clairy Browne And The Bangin’ Rackettes are getting ready to take their soul train on the road with an Australian tour to celebrate the launch of the Love Letter video and limited edition 7” vinyl. In typical Clairy Browne fashion, they’ll be kicking oﬀ the tour in Melbourne with a wild club show at the Prince Bandroom on Friday April 27 consisting of multiple stages, their in-house marching band, a special performance from exotica songstress Stella Angelico, soul kings the Putbacks, DJs and some of the cast of the video busting out some sick chorrie on the danceﬂoor.

MUSCLE MARY Head to The Retreat Hotel this Thursday April 26 for a banging good time. Catch Muscle Mary, with support from Dirty Harriet. Doors from 9pm.

SLY GROG Every Saturday arvo in April, The Retreat Hotel will feature boozy tunes of long ago: old time music by a genuine string band, Sly Grog between 4 - 6pm in the beer garden. Head along to enjoy the banjos, guitars, mandolins, ﬁddles, harmonicas, harmonies and all the rest.

THE STAFFORDS Produced by The Living End’s Chris Cheney in late 2011, The Staﬀords are proud to announce the release of their debut single Hollow To The Core/Flick Of The Wrist, and will celebrate this occasion on Wednesday May 2 at The Evelyn. The Staﬀords also play the St. Kilda Bowls Club Wednesday April 25, Revolver on Friday May 4, and The Worker’s Club on Monday May 28.

PLANET LOVE SOUND Ex-Dukes Of Windsor members Joe Franklin and Oscar Dawson have teamed up with lead vocalist Tina Stefanou to create Planet Love Sound. They’ve spent much of the past two years living in their adopted second home of Berlin, selfproducing two EPs amongst supporting many international acts, Planet Love Sound have returned home to Australia for the oﬃcial release of their EP Part 1. Now launching the second single My Shadow oﬀ the Part 1 EP, catch the divine Melbourne-based psychedelic/experimental pop act playing the John Curtin Bandroom Friday April 27, with special guest Timothy Carroll and others.

KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD One of Melbourne’s most shit-hot young bands are gearing up to release their debut full-length album, and to celebrate they’re hitting the road for a national tour. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard perform at Bar Open on Sunday April 29 and The National Hotel Geelong on Friday May 4. The band will be joined by friends The Murlocs. Get involved.

RAPSKALLION Those inimitable buccaneering troubadours, Rapskallion, are proud to announce the release of their brand new album Vagabond King this April, on CD and vinyl. Spawned in the back alleys of Melbourne’s bohemia five years ago, the ‘Skallions have been peddling their mixture of rustic romanticism, junkyard blues, pikie polkas, whirling waltzes, and vaudevillian rock n’roll vignettes, internationally and Australia wide, at far flung festivals, Spiegel tents, National galleries, and roguish soirees beneath bridges. Vagabond King will be released on Thursday April 26 at The Corner Hotel in Richmond, with support from Reflejos and Miss Friby.

ROUSSEMOFF Minimalist psychedelic doom trio Roussemoﬀ will launch the physical version of their live EP R(live.01) at Melbourne’s Toﬀ In Town on Tuesday May 1, alongside White Walls and Deep Heat. The EP in question is a run of handmade/hand printed CD packages (ink printed on recycled brown card with acetate liner notes, hand rolled and made by the band themselves), limited to 100 copies.

THE AFROBIOTICS The sound of West African funk medicine is administered directly to the soul by The Afrobiotics, your personal afrobeat doctors. Hailing from Senegal, Sonko (AKA Mister Fantastic) is a master of percussion and dance, but proves himself to be equally comfortable fronting this dynamic sixpiece. The Afrobiotics are joined by Ghana’s Asanti Dance Theatre, a troop of dancers that combine traditional West African dance with contemporary moves, accompanied by powerful drummers. Opening the show will be a performance by Seydou Sow’s dance school, showcasing some up and coming talent. Catch it at The Northcote Social Club, Sunday April 29 at 1.30pm.

DUNCAN GRAHAM & HIS COACCUSED Duncan Graham has been performing in Melbourne since 1984. After playing with the bands The Breaknecks and The Lost Highway (among others), he released his ﬁrst solo album in 2006. For the last few years, he has recorded and toured with his new band The Co-Accused, featuring Rex Watts, Paul Huntingford, Bruce Armstrong and Jan Palethorpe. He is currently demoing songs for a new album and is taking some time out to bring his juggernaut to the Pony night late show, on Thursday April 26. One well worth staying up late for.

THE OVALS The Ovals psychedelic fun fact 302: Recent astrological activity points to a new Ovals release of an earthly psychedelic magnitude not seen since their last EP Into the Eyes. It is confirmed. The Ovals release their first of the hyped eight track singles Beneath the Whee at Cherry Bar on Friday April 27. Supporting Melbourne’s psychedelic Tyrants will be the much-maligned Pony Face and the gloriously fresh and slippery star-gazers, The Flyying Colours. Get there and feast till your ears are sated with the sweetest sounds the solar system has to offer. Beat Magazine Page 48

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CABARET NOCTURNE Now in its ninth year, the gothic-industrial juggernaut that is Cabaret Nocturne enters another phase in its evolution as it moves to a new and exciting venue. From Saturday May 4, Cabaret Nocturne will be running on the ﬁrst Friday of the month at The Bottom End, Little Collins Street. With a massive open layout, multiple rooms and a state of the art audio-visual system, Cabaret Nocturne promises to take this monthly night of debauchery to the next level. Playing the music you love and all the usual amazing drinks prices apply and a few more to boot, so the opening night is sure to be huge. May the fourth be with you. Friday May 4 at The Bottom End, Level 1, 579 Little Collins Street.

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THE HAWTHORN HOTEL FREAKY G With a colourful past to draw from, Freaky G oﬀers appealing honesty in his rhymes and live performance. Mix this with his unmistakable black humour and an open reign of sarcasm and you’ve got the brutally frank and full throttle two-head that is Freaky G. With his recently released debut album It Shouldn’t Be This Easy, G’s on a mission to show the rest of Australia and the world that he can mix it with the best of them. Fresh from launching his album in Hobart, G is coming to Melbourne for one show only before he continues across Australia. Freaky G has a massive year ahead and his album is ﬁnally putting Tasmania on the hip hop map. Jump onboard and get amongst the trip that is Freaky G.

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READY STEADY GO DJ’S Ladies and gents of Melbourne: it’s time to set your hair, slip on your ﬁnest threads and slide on down to The Grace Darling Basement on Saturday April 28 for the next raucous installment of Ready Steady GO. Join your host DJ Emma Peel (Switched On, PBS FM) along with special guests Richie1250 (Stone Love) and Pierre Baroni (SoulGroove 66) for another huge night of original ‘50s and ‘60s mod sounds. For $10 on the door, you’ll be taken on a wild and untamed journey through some of the best music of the era. If the queues from last month are anything to go by, you’d best get there early. Doors from 9pm.

Monkey’s Pirate is a 7 piece roots-pop band sticking their ﬁngers in all the pies. With a busy year of gigging around Melbourne and country Victoria, accompanied by the recent release of their album Oceans Between in January this year, Monkey’s Pirate deliver a raw, swamp-stomp energy that’s seen their fan base steadily grow. Monkey’s Pirate will be at Noise Bar Saturday April 28, with support from Elsewhere. Doors at 8pm, $8 Entry.

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Brunswick’s finest psych-rockers Buried Feather are releasing In The Sun, the first offering from their forthcoming LP at the Grace Darling Hotel, on Saturday May 19. Anchored on an up-tempo kick and snare pattern, the song features the band’s hallmarks– fuzzed out guitars, swirling synth chords, vocals drowned in tape delay, all which condenses into a squelchy stomp. Joined by friends The Ovals and Heavy Beach, this will be one awesome night of fuzzy rock n’roll. $10 entry.

The Strums are getting ready to make play their way around the country by land and by sea in support of their second single Gimme Some Hope. The song’s oﬀ the band’s debut EP Are You Picking Up What I’m Putting Down, and will be released digitally with two bonus tracks. Don’t miss them at The Grace Darling, this Saturday April 28, with support from My Echo, Grand Preceptor and Rin & The Reckless. Tickets are $10 through Moshtix, or $10 on the door if still available.

After releasing their debut album Dear Universe, Canary kick start a season of live performances with a very special show at The Grace Darling on Thursday May 3. Sharing the stage with friends and local hot-shots The Twoks and The Universal, it’s likely to be a highly unique, energetic and enthralling night of music. $10 entry.

HELM HELM are currently preparing for the recording and release of their third full-length album, scheduled for release late in the year. Bullets, the ﬁnal single to be featured on the album, was showcased live by the band on the Under The Sun Tour, receiving an amazing response from fans throughout. Catch them at The Espy on Friday May 11.

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Rock ‘n’ blues outﬁt Howlin’ Steam Train are known for their wild live show, and Saturday April 28 at The Tote will be no exception. If you think these guys have gone wild before, you haven’t seen anything yet. With massive supports from Jackson Firebird and Ben Wright-Smith, this night is set to be a banger. Starts at 8.30pm for $12 -15.

Loveable dive Pony will host acts as for Dig It Up Festival, putting on a spread of legendary local bands as part of a great Melbourne line-up. Playing at Pony in the afternoon are Kim Salmon and Spencer P Jones, who’ll each do a solo set before coming together to perform as a duo – talk about Australia guitar royalty. Also onboard are Geelong locals The Murlocs. The main room of the festival, around the corner at The Palace, will host performances The Sonics, 5.6.7.8.’s, Red Kross, The Fleshtones, festival curators Hoodoo Gurus and many more. For full details and ticket sales, go to http:// digitup.net.au.

MICHAEL CRAFTER Everyone’s favourite PV jocks from Sydney, Michael Crafter, are coming to Melbourne for the ﬁrst time in two years to tear shit up. They’re supported by old and new mates R.O.S.S, Old Skin, Cabin Fever, Goon Soaked Rag. Come and party on Sunday April 29 at The Tote.

MESSED UP Come down to The Tote every Tuesday night in May and see Messed Up get messed up. Washed up onto the shores of Melbourne’s music scene, Messed Up are trashing out some Lo-Fi beachy garage tunes for free at The Tote every Tuesday night in May.

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THECITYSHAKEUP Unpretentious, energetic and with just a hint of swagger, Queensland’s TheCityShakeUp have made a name for themselves for their loud, passionate and rough-around-theedges punk rock. Born from the bowels of ‘90s punk rock, the band has evolved into a monster of hot, sweaty and loud live stage shows. You can catch TheCityShakeUp at their only Melbourne date, this Thursday April 26 at Pony, where they’ll be joined by RDZJB and Scalar Fields.

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H.M.A.S. VENDETTA

WIZARD OZ

On Anzac Day, Wednesday April 25, H.M.A.S. Vendetta will debut their Operatic Rock Epic entitled The Anzac Spirit: Australians in the Great War in a matinee performance at The Evelyn Hotel. The show will be in two parts: Gallipoli and The Western Front. H.M.A.S. Vendetta have a unique sound with electric violin, cello, piano, organ and semi-operatic vocals, added to the driving rock rhythm section of bass guitar and drums. Doors will open at 2pm, entry $12. Support will be provided by Citrus Jam and part of proceeds will be donated to Legacy.

A super fun launch party for Wizard Oz’s new cassette Flashing Lights is happening on Saturday May 5, in The Grace Darling’s Cellar. Joined by good friends and lovers Pop Singles, Grand Prismatic, and Big Tobacco DJs, for $8 entry, you’ll probably get your money’s worth. Lo-ﬁ electropop duo Wizard Oz will play new and old bangers from their sparkling tapes; pop/punk masters Pop Singles will blow your mind again, and sleaze-gaze bushrangers Grand Prismatic take you to a new plane of existence.

HIGH FANGS Melbourne 3-piece High Fangs are a blisteringly raw combination of dirty rock ‘n’ roll, ‘60s garage howl, ‘70s classic power pop hooks and Swedish punk energy, minus an allen key. High Fangs perform at The Retreat Hotel this Saturday April 28, with support from Bad Vision, who’ll be kicking oﬀ from 10pm. Get in early and head to the front bar to catch Lee Marvin from 7.30pm. Free entry.

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TRACY McNEIL STORE BOUGHT COOL Store Bought Cool bring their unique blend of garage punk, indie pop, and swamp to The Grace Darling Hotel on Friday April 27 to celebrate the launch of their new dream pop single Doing Fine. With support from The Clits, Peter Dickybird, and Wilding, it’s bound to be a high-energy show that’s nothing like you’ve seen. From April 28, Doing Fine will be available for download at storeboughtcool.com where you can name your price.

KUMAR SHOME Young Melbourne guitarist Kumar Shome and his powerhouse trio The Punkawallahs are coming back to The Evelyn on Tuesday May 1 to bring you Uncomfortable Kumar: colourful, psychedelic harmonic progressions that make clouds burst and pone. Their sounds takes you from the deserts of Ennio Morricone to the streetwise vibes of David Holmes, and ﬁnally to the prog-rock riﬀs that set the bar for 21st century music. Support on the night is from McGarvie, Tsui & Hirschfelder and Uncomfortable Science, with doors from 8.30pm.

JOEL MORRISON Local idiot and bar prop Joel Morrison is having another exhibition at The Old Bar all throughout April. Come witness sights that will make you mock all artists as retarded monkeys with wet sponges for brains. The gallery is upstairs and it’s open all day, every day.

CHERRY ROCK 2012 Californian stoner rock giants Fu Manchu have been announced as the headliners of the sixth annual Cherry Rock. Also adding to the festivities are Black Cobra, Matt Sonic & The High Times, Bitter Sweet Kicks, Vice Grip Pussies, My Dynamite, The Ramshackle Army and Valentiine with more soon to be announced. The sixth Cherry Rock takes place at Cherry Bar and in AC/DC Lane on Sunday April 29.

MOROCCAN KINGS Moroccan Kings are releasing a new single from their forthcoming EP called Grizzly Bear. The band is putting together a very special and detailed show to release the song at Revolver Upstairs on Saturday April 28. The launch has two awesome support bands, two of Melbourne’s favourites, Sheriﬀ and A Lonely Crowd. Tickets are $10+bf pre-sale, $12 on the door. Pre-sale tickets are available from Moshtix or the band themselves. Doors open 9pm.

THE SMART Fresh from the release of their latest single Cold Dark Room, independent electronic-rock four-piece The Smart are back on the road for a run of dates across the east coast. Armed with an abundance of lycra, ‘80s style guitar riﬀs, catchy bop along beats, and a collection of clever lyrical hooks, don’t miss The Smart’s launch at The Evelyn, this Friday April 27. Support is from Sounds Of Troy and the acoustic Bellusira. Doors open at 9pm.

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Skyscraper Stan And The Commission Flats oozed onto the Melbourne music scene in early 2010, and now they’re taking to The Old Bar stage every Sunday in April. Some weeks as a four-piece, others as a brass-fuelled, nine member strong, hip-shaking wall of sound. With fresh supports every week, attendance should be compulsory. 8pm, $5, every Sunday in April.

CHRIS WILSON Chris Wilson has been an essential part of blues and rock music in Australia since taking to the stage with The Sole Twisters 20 years ago. He’s appeared at every major Australian festival and his performances, ﬁlled as they are with his own brand of sensuality and the dynamic power that leaves his audiences so satisﬁed, are always a highlight. Wilson’s stage presence, voice and talent are all as big as the country he lives in, and he performs with his band at The Retreat Hotel on Anzac Day, Wednesday April 25 from 7pm. Free entry.

UNDERCOLOURS Melbourne band Undercolours reach for timeless songs and sounds. Moving from explosive rock to emotive story telling far beyond their years, they showcase their bold song craft. Having recently supported The Naked And Famous, and having scoring a spot on the Parklife bill, Undercolours are quickly emerging as a new force in the Australian rock scene, and will be playing their last show this week at The Evelyn.

Tracy McNeil moved to Melbourne in 2007 with only her suitcase and her acclaimed debut album Room Where She Lives. Melbourne was something of a risk, but it paid oﬀ almost immediately. Tracy worked hard, playing solo shows all across this formidably musical city, gaining the respect of her peers and critics alike, along with an ever growing fan base. She’ll be playing two sets in the front bar of The Retreat Hotel on Anzac Day, Wednesday April 25. Free entry, with Tracy from 4pm till 6pm.

THE SMITH STREET BAND With a swag of new material ready to road test ahead of album number two, The Smith Street Band have announced a series of intimate shows every Wednesday in April at The Old Bar. They’ll be joined each week by a host of great local and interstate supports. Entry is free for the ﬁrst three nights and a lazy $5 will get you in the door for the fourth and ﬁnal Anzac Day spectacular on Wednesday April 25.

DIG IT UP FESTIVAL - YAH YAHS Prize recruits in the Hoodoo Gurus Dig it Up! draft, ‘Super Rock’ pioneers The Fleshtones and former Dream Syndicate front man Steve Wynn buddy-up for a special show at Yah Yah’s on Friday April 27. Don’t miss this exceptional line-up: The Fleshtones and Steve Wynn, intimate and exclusive. Tickets on sale now.

EATEN BY DOGS Work getting you down? Lost all your money at the casino? Life getting so diﬃcult that jumping oﬀ a reasonably high bridge and swimming with actual sharks seems better than maintaining your existence with the actual scum you know? If this sounds like you then come see Eaten By Dogs. The greatest alternative country music that should and can be the soundtrack to your impending death and or next summer road trip. Nothing but hits. This Monday, April 30, for free at The Old Bar supported by Hayley Couper.

NUMBER STATION EP LAUNCH HOPE ADDICTS Having spent 2011 touring the European club and festival circuit, Hope Addicts have settled for a short while to launch the new album in Australia. This will be the last time you’ll be able to see Hope Addicts in their stomping ground – they’re making a break for Europe. Catch them this Friday, April 27, at The Old Bar.

SCOTDRAKULA If ScotDrakula were Jesus, and Jesus was Madonna then some fancy blogger would write about the success of their March/April Monday residency at The Evelyn. ScotDrakula and their amigos locos will be playing their ﬁnal show for their residency, this Monday April 30 night from 8pm. They’ll be there with pants on, hooks oﬀ, and ready to freak out.

Triple J Unearthed winners Number Station are back to release their long awaited debut EP Everything Will Change. The band has released three singles from the EP this year, backed up by a series of Melbourne and interstate gigs. The EP launch will be at The Grace Darling on Saturday May 26, where they’ll be supported by The Red Lights, The Raﬀaellas, and Sun. For $8 entry it is a bargain.

BIG WORDS Big Words blend the ethos of hip hop with the performance of indie rock, creating a wonderful musical bastard child you could describe as soulful indie rock infused hip hop. With powerhouse vocals from young singer Kieren, backed by William’s hip hop sounds, this unique fusion act are gratifying. Check them out at Noise Bar on Friday April 27 with special guests Ry and Allday. Doors at 8pm, $6 Entry.

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Name/Band: ‘Ladies Singles’ – Kim Boekbinder, Jen Kingwell, Carly Fern, Xen Pow & Karen Heath Define your genre in five words or less: SPACE (Kim), Haunting (Jen), Lucid (Carly), Quirky (Xen), Ethereal (Karen). What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Mistakes. I think mistakes are important and wonderful creative instigators. The best art comes when something doesn't quite work out as expected but ends up being better for it. (KIM) Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? Vocal warm-ups, meditation and my grandmother’s sore throat remedy – gargling with whiskey. She’s very insistent that the most important part is swallowing it afterwards. Thanks, Grandma! (JEN) What do you hate about the music industry? I don't hate the music industry, but I find it difficult to fit into a perfectly sealed, never-changing box of definite classification. Like with most of our society’s systems, there needs to be movement and fluidity to adapt with the constantly evolving artist. The more we define something with words, the less responsibility we put on the audience to use their imagination...and that's what it's all about right? (CARLY) If someone made a movie of your life who would play you? The best person for the job would be Bugs Bunny. Sitting around in the sun with a smirk, playing ridiculous songs on a log somewhere pretty much has me pegged. Occasionally Keith Richards would take over, recording absurd humorous commentary on his Dictaphone and playing it back on repeat over a scotch or 10…but sooner or later he’d have to morph back to Bugsy sitting around in the sun with a carrot. (XEN) If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? I'd go back to the Baroque era and try to show Bach my stuff. I know that he would laugh at me and be all 'Lo! Hark and yonder, I am but a genius who has written over 600 works! Women have naught a place in society but to bear children and be wenches (in my head, Bach might be a pirate), what is it that you seek from me? Begone! I shalt not listen to thy music you posit in mine direction. Herein and forthwith, come, be not foul of heart with mine rejection, but rather tell me your thoughts on my latest sonata!' (KAREN)

ALI E Having been involved in bands such as Little Athletics, Damn Terran and Ferry Tails, Ali E has now developed a solo project. Ali’s evocative and compelling music breathes tales of dark desire and metaphors of emotive and weathered landscapes. Ali performs in the front bar of The Retreat Hotel this Tuesday May 1. Support comes from WA singer songstress Rachael Dease from 8.30pm. Free entry.

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HOWLING DOLLHOUSE Howling Dollhouse is a self confessed “semi-automatic post-apocalyptic melodic hard rock” outﬁt who’ve just released their second full length studio album. Having launched the new album at The House Of Rock (Palace Theatre) in March, the band is now ripping up the local scene and amazing listeners worldwide. You can grab the new album from iTunes and check out www. howlingdollhouse.com.au for more info.

KIM BOEKBINDER The Impossible Girl is writing her new space-themed album here in Melbourne. She’ll be debuting the new songs with her Australian band during her April Wednesday night residency at The Evelyn. Synthesisers, guitars, large beats, and unexpected sounds to abound. Special guest Brendan Maclean is supporting this Wednesday April 25, with doors from 8.30pm.

THE PROCESS Songs of faith and failure bloom from the darkly hypnotic trio The Process, who reveal sounds both of post-apocalyptic noir and of deep, blissful sadness. Formed in 2006, in the gothic towers of Montsalvat on the outskirts of Melbourne, The Process have evolved and channelled the raw, chaotic energy of a ﬁve-piece into the streamlined mood of the three core members: August Skipper, Saxon Jorgensen and Vijay Singh. Thick pulsing rhythms erupt into glorious, cascading conclusion, from narcissistic rants, to sickly crooned anthems, from the outer regions of reality to the depths of the subconscious, and this is The Process. On Friday May 4, they’ll will be lighting up The Grace Darling for a $10 entry fee. Supports are Interzone, Machine and Ashley R Rivers.

Lachy Doley is an artist with a huge track record, having trodden the boards in the employ of some enormous names in Australian music (keyboard player in Powderfinger, Jimmy Barnes, The Beautiful Girls, Billy Thorpe). The launch of his first solo outing, Typically Individual Conforming Anti-Social, proves Doley is qualified to go it alone. Soulful, with a pop sensibility, Lachy’s new album packs the musical punch that those in the know have come to expect from one of Australia’s brightest musical talents. Lachy performs at The Retreat Hotel this Friday April 27. Free entry, with support by SiB. Doors from 9.30pm.

NIGEL WEARNE AND THE CAST IRON PROMISES After a stellar performance at the 2012 Port Fairy Folk Festival, Nigel Wearne And The Cast Iron Promises bring their swingin’ country tunes to The Retreat Hotel on Sunday April 29. Come along and hear some good ole’ country twang, honky-tonk and honest storytelling. Music kicks oﬀ at 7pm with the Heather Stewart Trio, and for an added bonus, entry is free.

SECRETIVE GEORGE Secretive George have managed to steer the school bus to venues along the East Coast of Australia and New Zealand, playing to numerous packed out rooms. After two years of constant shows and travel the end is nigh, the toll too high, so the secretive ones are ready to hang up their Bata Scouts. Thursday April 26 marks their ﬁnal show at The Evelyn Hotel. This will be an all-out mini-fest of celebration, also featuring eleven of their closest schoolyard pals: Francolin, 8 Bit Love, The Townhouses, These Patterns, Daydream Arcade and ScotDrakula included. Doors from 5.30pm.

SHIPS PIANO Four guys from the wrong side of the river. Never want to cross it? No problem. They’ll come to you. Ships Piano are thrilled to be back at The Tote. They’ll be road testing new songs for their debut album every Saturday in April from 5pm. Supported each week by a ﬁne selection of local bands.

SUI ZHEN Sui Zhen brings her colourful personality to the stage for the launch of her debut LP Two Seas. Sui’s delicate and soaring vocals are complimented by the intricate arrangements of her band, who bring the album to life with rhythmic force and oﬀ-beat backing vocals. Joining Sui on tour is charming folkabilly darling Fanny Lumsden. To begin the evening will be a debut performance from Elva, an alluring new duo project for the tour. $10 entry at The Grace Darling on Thursday May 30.

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THE RAFFAELLAS

The Songwriters Collective is a group of exceptionally talented singer songwriters who aim to bring community together through the celebration of music. Each artist is unique in style, with a magnetic stage presence that captivates and inspires audiences. This show features Jack Griﬃn, Jess Hieser, Peter Simonsen, Justin Love and Nathan Bird, located in The Evelyn Hotel side bar. This Saturday April 28, from 2pm.

Four Melbourne based song writers have come together as The Raﬀaellas. The group are drawn instinctively to raw, unfettered soul music, and they bring together African inspired poly-rhythms, ‘50s beat-pop harmonies and gospel high-tenor shrieks, with distinctly country guitar licks. Referencing the broadest of musical roots, they’ll be playing this Sunday April 29, from 8.30pm at The Evelyn Hotel. Support will be from Goodnight Tiger and The Pierce Brothers.

LET’S DANCE Molly Moonshine, the Melbourne Mistress of the Real Hot Bitches ‘80s Dance Troupe has committed to climbing Kilimanjaro this July, the highest mountain in Africa. Molly is raising money to support the valuable work of Amnesty International as she goes on her merry way. Let’s Dance will have you and your fellow D-ﬂoor hotties shaking your money makers in such a way that Mr Bowie himself would be proud, and it’s all for a good cause too. Head to The Evelyn Hotel this Saturday April 28, from 9pm, to support a worthwhile cause.

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From the man whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collaborated with everyone from My Morning Jacket to Bright Eyes to actress Zooey Deschanel, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no surprise that folk luminary M. Wardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest oďŹ&#x20AC;ering is superb. Wasteland Companion hits all the right notes, whether they are happy and poppy, mellow and evocative or dark and bluesy. Opener Clean Slate is typical M. Ward mellow acoustic strumming, but the following Primitive Girl is brighter and more consequential. Its fanciful melodies and dynamic lyrics contrast greatly with the dark, exotic Me and My Shadow that follows. However, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s I Get Ideas thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the most humorous and poppiest songs on the album. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sugary sweet and stands out as one of the happiest songs Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard in a long time, as does Sweetheart, the track that is most likely to be on a She & Him album. The title track is entirely diďŹ&#x20AC;erent though, demonstrating M. Wards versatility and creativity when it comes to songwriting. Its slow, twangy guitar gives it one helluva old-time blues feel, which is very welcome on an album of poppy folk. But, halfway through the song, it transforms into a transy, orchestral, lonesome melody of longing.

And now, Masterpiece Theatre, brought to you by the ever-verbose Tim Rogers, who doubles as historian and pseudo-intellectual in the Australian music community, second only to Nick Cave (who was busy).

HOT CHIP Night and Day (Domino/EMI)

Alexis Taylor trots out his customary new school Devo/pedo science teacher tones for the latest Hot Chip single, Night and Day. The sexier their electro disco beats, the more unsettling his voice becomes, and this is one sexy-ass Kraut disco tune. Taylorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice is all slithery, dreamy and calm, verging on creepsville. All very eďŹ&#x20AC;ective. The new Hot Chip album, In Our Heads, is out on June 8.

360 Child (Filth Collins Remix) (EMI)

Melbourne rapper 360 gets a spine-rippling dubstep makeover by Sydney producer Filth Collins. In a milder iteration of the Skrillex-deďŹ ned style, the track has booming beats and stadium-scale waves of warped robotic noise that fuse together in epic and joyful explosions.

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Luckily, the following songs are sweetly fun, particularly the closer, Pure Joy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tune that expresses the joy of love, sunshine and kisses. It sums up Wasteland Companion, really. M. Ward knows whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important in life and shares it with the world.

LOWER DENS Propagation (Domino/EMI)

Lower Dens turned in a spectacularly boring set when they supported Magnetic Fields at SXSW, so my enthusiasm has waned. Propagation isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t helping the situation. Leagues from the day-glo percolation that was Brains, their new track is a sparse, drifting electro tune that just barely rouses itself to a grimly atmospheric chorus. If this single is properly representative, their album (Nootropics, out this week) will be an art pop snoozefest, just like their live show.

JENNIFER LOPEZ Dance Again (Sony)

Tragically, Jennifer Lopez is now too famous to be told that her choreography is terrible. There was a brief opportunity somewhere in between Waiting for Tonight and Jenny From The Block, but sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never believe you now. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way too famous. Despite her terrible dancing.

You Broke My Cool (Modular/Universal)

This awesome tune from the debut Pond album opens with organs and spirals into a psych trip, a loose seventiesďŹ&#x201A;avoured prog excursion with heavy vocal delay and a warped, anthemic chorus.

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Lean On Me (Sony)

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You know what, ďŹ ne. You want to have your little culturedecaying reality series, you go right ahead. Get middle Australia to boo and hiss and applaud like bunch of Pavlovian Hunger Games-watching bitches while you trot out inanimate goofball after inanimate goofball with the presumption that Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Got Talent and Kyle Sandilands is the right pig to sniďŹ&#x20AC; it out. Go nuts, please. People out there in the world where McMansions are all four kilometres apart need to feel a sense of unity and community with their fellow man, and reality television would appear to be the last great connector. So ďŹ ne, do your thing. But, for the love of god, when you set oďŹ&#x20AC; the ďŹ reworks or release the balloons or roll out whatever tedious mechanism youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to signify the end of a Really Important Television Show, let the goddamn thing actually end. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t add insult to injury by letting some pallid 15 year old choir boy launch his doomed post-show career by shitting all over Bill Withers. Please.

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9. Blows Hot & Cool LP DEXTER GORDON

Unashamed Desire (Universal)

Hey, did anyone notice that Missy Higgins quit music for a few years? Sneaky little pianist. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been living in a share house, apparently, throwing oďŹ&#x20AC; her identity as Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular songstress in pursuit of greater meaning and happiness. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work out though, so sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back to singing. Unashamed Desire is a big old plonker of a piano tune with some dark muttering in the verse and arch wailing in the chorus. It also has cowbells. Nice, big sound.

MIIKE SNOW

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The Wave (Universal)

Released oďŹ&#x20AC; the back of last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Splendour lineup announcement, The Wave is a lovely cut from Happy To You, the second album by this idiosyncratic Swedish soul pop collective. A joyful, feather light blend of piano notes and skittering drums bubbling into vibrant electro pop, from a band that lifts the roof oďŹ&#x20AC; a live set. Bring on July.

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SINGLE OF THE WEEK DAMON ALBARN The Marvelous Dream (EMI)

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hurricane, spit and tornado growl over London today.â&#x20AC;? The ďŹ rst single from Albarnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forthcoming solo album is awash with poetic visions of Mother England, expressed in the sweetest honey croon and aching melodic drops against a softly strummed acoustic guitar. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a haunting mess of abstract ideas, lifted from a musical project called Dr Dee: An English Opera, which Albarn wrote last year to honour John Dee, a 16th-century mathematician, scientist and philosopher. The lyrics are noticeably diďŹ&#x20AC;erent, devotional, but the sound evokes the most delicate moments in the Blur cannon: Miss America, To The End, Strange News From Another Star and the aching No Distance Left to Run. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost painful to hear Damonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice so naked again, a bittersweet reminder of something young and beautiful that is lost.

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Gold Watch: 20 Golden Greats (Sony) It doesn’t take a compilation to confirm the merit of the Hoodoo Gurus’ contribution to the contemporary Australian rock’n’roll canon. Having started out as Le Hoodoo Gurus in 1981 (the ‘30th anniversary’ tag associated with both the Dig It Up! tour, and this compilation is somewhat misleading) as a three-guitar, bass-less purveyor of bubblegum pop infused ‘60s garage, Hoodoo Gurus have evolved into one of Australia’s most consistent and resilient pop-rock bands. Gold Watch: 20 Golden Greats is an adequate, if largely unsurprising compilation of Hoodoo Guru tracks. Grumpy old fart nostalgia favours the Stoneage Romeos material, including the original single version of Leilani (the sole track to feature the songwriting contributions of original guitarists Kimble Rendall and the enigmatic Roddy Radalj), Tojo, My Girl and I Want You Back; Bittersweet, Death-Defying and the perennial party favourite Like, Wow – Wipeout capture the Gurus’ break-through mid-‘80s period. By the time of Miss Freelove ‘69 and What’s My Scene the Gurus are a staple of Australian commercial radio, and the lucrative American college radio scene. The band’s early 21st century hiatus inadvertently sustained the Gurus’ career, culminating in 2010’s Purity of Essence, and the wry social commentary of I Hope You’re Happy. Despite the depth of material on Gold Watch, it’s easy to identify the unfortunate omissions: Let’s Turn On is arguably the definitive ‘early’ Gurus track, while Echo Chamber would have neatly captured the iconoclastic edge of the first period Gurus (not to mention more evidence of the troglodyte drumming brilliance of James Baker). Of the late ‘80s catalogue, Brainscan (featuring Rob Younger) would have illustrated the link macho-garage Australian Birdman scene and the Gurus’ radio-acceptable pop-rock fringe. And surely there would have been some archival live material lying around – maybe a cover of the Masters’ Apprentices Elevator Driver from the band’s live gig at The Tote in early 1983, or even a few songs from a set at The Trade Union Club in 1981? Such pedantic observations aside, Gold Watch confirms Key Track: Leilani – again – why we continue to love the Hoodoo Gurus. If You Like These, You’ll Like This: THE FLESHTONES, THE Here’s hoping this particular gold watch isn’t a prelude to VICTIMS and THE DUBROVNIKS retirement. In A Word: Groovy PATRICK EMERY

dEUS

Keep You Close (Liberator) The name literally means ‘God’. They are not yet so deified but are they bigger than Jesus? In Belgium at least they could well be. They are the biggest band in the land. So big in fact, that other pretenders to the throne such as Dead Man Ray or Zita Swoon feature past or present members of dEUS. On the eve of their first Australian tour, Keep You Close is timely. At least to Australian audiences, because it was released quite a while ago overseas. Not as volatile as some of their earlier material, Keep You Close is no less easy to pin down. While the free form embellishments are now mainly confined to live performance, the band remain irreverent and exploratory. Dragging along former Afghan Whigs vocalist, Greg Dulli, to help out on Twice [We Survive] and Dark Sets In is a masterstroke. This lets some dark intensity seep in between the cracks of some rather refined musicianship. The title track is all Bacharach orchestral peaks although the singing remains a little too pop to be on the edge of the vanguard. The Final Blast returns to more scab-picking sounds before the Dulli contributions reaffirm that the band understand the importance of the medium they inhabit. Ghost is exhilarating despite the macabre topic having some jagged wordplay. Now several records and years into their quest, dEUS are delicately seasoned. The End Of Romance could, with a little more sadness, be The Tindersticks, whilst Second Nature and Easy close out the record in a most venerable way with burgeoning noir intent. This record cements the view that dEUS know a thing or two about atmosphere. The gently rumbling and grooves are full of grace and life for shiny happy people looking for a little monochrome in Best Track: Second Nature their life. If You Like This, You’ll Like These: Air, Spiritualized, The Tindersticks BRONIUS ZUMERIS In A Word: Delicious

The unique rumble of Brooklyn art-funk-fusion outfit Battles has always been begging to be remixed. Now, thanks to the sweeping success of their sophomore album, the un-spoonerised Gloss Drop, their music undergoes a full makeover. Having been handpicked by the trio themselves, the sheer variety of producers and beat-makers on offer reflects the group’s eclectic tastes. Much like how its source material employed a global panorama of collaborators (electro godfather Gary Numan, Chilean orignalé Matias Aguayo), Dross Glop similarly features artists from all over the musical world. Sweden, Berlin and Japan all get a look in, while Brazil’s Gui Baratto gives a deep disco flicker to Wall Street, while Scotsman Hudson Mohawke embellishes Rolls Bayce with his brand of wonky beats. For better or worse, many of these new versions play closer to the spirit of the artists mixing them than the muscular approach to experimental rock that serves as their blueprint. For instance, Kangding Ray’s deep trance take on Toddler or the heavily cyclic house of Sweetie & Shag from The Field will certainly appeal to their respective fanbase, but are completely unrecognisable renditions to fans of Battles. Arguably, the very people this record is for. Many of these remixes alienate the most important element of Battles’ music: complex rhythm; with John Stanier’s titanic drumming all but removed from the majority of them. There are exceptions, such as Gang Gang Dance’s stripping back Ice Cream to its percussive core, or cult hip hop act Shabazz Palaces spitting psychedelic over the warped lines of White Electric. Both demonstrate that the best Key Track: Africastle (Kode9 Remix) of these mixes, are those that look at their originals If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Black Sands Remixed from a skewed perspective rather than rewriting their BONOBO, Silent Alarm Remixed BLOC PARTY, TKOL RMX foundations. RADIOHEAD BY AL NEWSTEAD In A Word: Hit-and-miss

SIMONE FELICE

Simone Felice (Warner Music) Saying that Simone Felice has had an eventful last couple of years is an understatement of the most perverse kind. Having taken the first cautious steps out from the shadow of his elder brothers with The Duke And The King, Felice wrote a couple of critically-acclaimed books, and made two ill-fated attempts to cross the Pacific to tour Australia, the second aborted trip after having been forced to undergo emergency heart surgery. With that mixture of art, business, travel and near-death experience, Felice’s debut solo album was always going to be something worth waiting for. Simone Felice is the type of record so rich and deep you can almost touch the emotion within which each song is enveloped. On Hey Bobby Ray and New York Times, Felice’s voice shudders with emotion as he recounts the tale of a lost friend and disconcerting memories. On You and I Belong the mood is upbeat, the closest track on the record to the bar room excitement of The Felice Brothers. Stormy-Eyed Sarah is lifted straight from the Cat Stevens’ folk tradition and Charade is the ideal metaphor for everyone’s emotional insecurities. On Dawn Brady’s Song, Felice nestles into the country rock tradition alongside the Drive By Truckers and any southern country rocker worth their salt. Gimme All You Got is so tender it’s almost oozing blood; Splendour in the Grass lays down in the grass with a copy of Nick Drake’s Pink Moon and gazes wonderingly at the stars. And then there’s Felice’s celebrity biographical narratives: on Courtney Love Felice wonders aloud at the Hole singer’s dysfunctional lifestyle and romantic existence; on Sharon Tate Felice offers vivid glimpses of a life of beauty and brilliance cut short by murderous psychopathy. It’s a story that’s been told a thousand times; in the hands Key track: You and I Belong of Simone Felice, it’s a poignant moment only very few If you like this, you’ll like CAT STEVENS, NICK DRAKE and THE songwriters can create. FELICE BROTHERS In a word: emotional PATRICK EMERY

LA SERA

Sees The Light (Hardly Art) Break-up albums are a dime a dozen, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a more lighthearted breakup album than La Sera’s Sees The Light. Opening song Love That’s Gone has all intentions of being an introverted, self-pitying song going by its title and musical style, but when Katy Goodman kicks things off with the lyric ‘I love my life without you’, it suggests something quite different. After this gentle opener, Goodman plugs in the electric guitar for a trio of striking pop numbers: the chugging album highlight Please Be My Third Eye, the aloof I Can’t Keep You In My Mind and the dancein-your-bedroom anthem of Break My Heart. The resigned It’s Over Now brings the tempo back down and marks the start of the album’s more varied second half, wherein Goodman flirts with sunny indie pop, retro calypso, cinematic road-trip rockers and reverb-washed epics. And then we’re back to where we started, with the soothing kiss-off Don’t Stay. Again, the message here is clear: it didn’t work, it’s over, let’s move on. This is the second solo album from Goodman and the Vivian Girls bassist opts for a more polished sound than what is expected from her full-time band. There’s a self-affirming steeliness to the subject matter that comes across in the crystal-clear production and effortless juggling of genres Best track: Please Be My Third Eye – proof that breaking up is hard to do, but fun to make If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Crazy For You BEST COAST, music about. Go With Me SEAPONY CHRIS GIRDLER In A Word: Reformed

LA BASTARD

La Bastard (Off The Hip) Once a derogatory description of a child born out of wedlock, bastard has long evolved into a commonplace reference to an acquaintance whose perceived bastardry is more than likely to be the consequence of a razor-sharp comic wit, or a demonstrated ability to consume vast amounts of alcohol. All of which probably means next to nothing for Melbourne’s La Bastard. La Bastard play the type of music you want to hear when your love life’s hurtling down the long sewage pipe to emotional oblivion, when your job is as rewarding as a festering shit sandwich and society is treating you with patronising contempt. That is, it’s suitably dark and emotive (Under My Eyes), confronting in a booze-addled Beasts Of Bourbon-fashion (Consumption Cowboy) and spiritually uplifting (So You Wrote Me a Letter) in a Passengers/Angie Pepper sort of way. And having solicited the listener into a state of lugubrious pleasure, La Bastard jumps in the driver’s seat, puts the foot on the floor and takes you to a world where the licks are sharp, the whisky single malt only and the air thick with psychosexual tension. This Town Is Dead is a surfabilly journey into a land of hip shakin’ grooves, Ah... is as down and dirty as a drunk stumbling through his rites of alcoholic passage and Get Up, Get Out is sharp enough to draw blood and leave no sign of a wound. Sierra Dance lives and breathes on a bass riff tough enough to fight ten men and live the tale; Black Threads is as sad and mournful as Spencer P Jones on a handful of downers. It’s Not Like I’m Telling A Lie sparks into life with the attitude of a bunch of stray cats looking for nocturnal violence; I Wanna Best Track: This Town Is Dead Tell You Something corners you down a dark alley and If You Like These, You’ll Like This: BEASTS OF BOURBON, demands answers. Treat this band with respect. GENE VINCENT, PASSENGERS In A Word: Tough PATRICK EMERY

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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 25 APR ROCK/POP BIG SCARY (ALBUM LAUNCH) + GEOFFREY O’CONNOR + MOSMAN ALDER Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $15. CARACTACUS + CLOWNS + FOXTROT + JIM LAWRIE + KEGGIN + KEV BRAVER + KMART WARRIORS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. $8. DIG IT UP - FEAT: KIM SALMON & SPENCER P JONES + THE MURLOCS Pony, Melbourne. 3:00pm. DIG IT UP! - FEAT: THE HOODOO GURUS + DIED PRETTY + REDD KROSS + THE 5.6.7.8’S + THE FLESHTONES + THE HARD-ONS + THE LOVETONES + THE SONICS Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 1:00pm. HAMISH ANDERSON + DAVE HAVEA BAND Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 6:00pm. KIM BOEKBINDER + BRENDAN MACLEAN Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. LOST & FOUND - FEAT: THE DEVINE FLUXUS: EP LAUNCH + THE ANOUSHKA + THE COLLECTABLES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. MATT SONIC & THE HIGH TIMES + HANDLEBAR + MARIONETTES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. OSCAR KEY SUNG + BANOFFEE + DJ LA POCOCK + MIDNIGHT MOOSE + OUTER WAVES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. STONEFIELD + KINGSWOOD + THE DELTA RIGGS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $15. THE SIMON ASTLEY BAND + AURIMOR + JAILBIRD JOKERS + ROYAL MERCURY Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. TWO UP ANZAC DAY PARTY - FEAT: THE STAFFORDS + GUESTS OF GHOSTS + LONE TYGER + MARY OF THE MOON + T-BIRD & THE LUMBERJACKS St Kilda Bowling Club, St Kilda. 12:00pm. $10. WALL OF MIRRORS + CHELA + ROHYPNOTISE + TEAM HARVEY Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CHRIS WILSON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. DAN WATERS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. GRIM FANDANGO + MARICOPA WELLS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5. GUSTAVO MORENO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 7:00pm. IVY ST + BALLADS + BLACK PADDOCK Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8. JAM SAUCE JAM SESS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.

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8:00pm. JOHN BUTLER + FELICITY GROOM The Hi-ﬁ, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $50. MELODY MOON + FRANKIE ANDREW + JAYNE WEST Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. OPEN MIC Dancing Dog, Footscray. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Grind N Groove, Healesville. 8:00pm. RUNNING AWAY WITH THE CIRCUS Bebida, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SAM LOHS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. SEDDON FESTIVAL IN THE PARK - FEAT: SUSAN LILY + THE HAZELMAN BROTHERS + WANDERING SPIRIT + ZIKORA + FOOTSCRAY GYPSIES ORCHESTRA + RAY PEREIRA TRIO + SOOPER DOOPER MUSIC SHOW + THE SWEETS + WHITEOUT Harris Reserve, Seddon. 12:30pm. THE STETSON FAMILY Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. THE TRACY MCNEIL BAND Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: MARISSA QUIGLEY + NICOLETTE FORTE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. GIAN SLATER TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. GIANNI MARINUCCI NONET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. JULIEN WILSON QUARTET 303, Northcote. 6:00pm. $5. THE ROLLING PERPETUAL GROOVE SHOW + DAVY SIMONEY + THE VITRIOLS Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.

THURSDAY 26 APR ROCK/POP 1AM LATE SHOW - FEAT: DUNCAN GRAHAM & HIS COACCUSED Pony, Melbourne. 1:00am. 29TH APARTMENT ACOUSTIC NIGHT - FEAT: TIM BRAUN 29th Apartment, St Kilda. 9:00pm. ACOUSTIC NIGHT! - FEAT: TIM BRAUN 29th Apartment, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

CHERRY ROCK

Cherry Bar is definitely up there with the Rialto Tower and Flinders Street Station as some of Melbourne’s mostrecognised cultural icons. Truth: you aren’t a Melburnian until you’ve danced a night away on those well-treaded floors to the sounds of Melbourne and beyond’s finest, and the sixth year of Cherry Rock is set to go down this weekend across two stages on Sunday. It’s been a long ten years since we last saw them, but Cherry Rock will be adeptly headlined by Californian stoner-rock outfit Fu Manchu, and will be joined by a stellar lineup with Black Cobra, Matt Sonic & the High Times, Bitter Sweet Kicks, Vice Grip Pussies, My Dynamite, The Ramshackle Army, Valentiine and plenty more ready to keep AC/DC Lane rocking all day long. Cherry Rock takes place at none other than Cherry Bar on Sunday April 29. BENEATH THE LIES + BREAKING TRADITION + ISIYM + SPEW N GUTS Idgaﬀ Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. CAIRO KNIFE FIGHT Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. EMMA BRYCE & KATE VIGO Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $15. GIANTS UNDER THE SUN + BEGGARMAN + MARK WOODFORD Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. GRIM FANDANGO + FOLLOWING SEA + KILL THE MATADOR + THE GUN RUNNERS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. INTERZONE + CUNTZ + LIVING EYES + THE CLITS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. JUNGLE JAMBOREE - FEAT: CHOP TOPS + DJ JAMIE DINGO + THE FIREBIRDS Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $35. MOB QUEENS + THE BLAMPS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MOJO JUJU + STELLA ANGELICO + SWEET JEAN Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15. MUSCLE MARY + DIRTY HARRIET Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. PENNIES - FEAT: ALICE D + METTALLIC + REFLEX REX + THE SUN SLEEPERS + WINTER YORK Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6. SECRETIVE GEORGE + 8 BIT LOVBE + A ART + ART I CHOKE + DAYDREAM ARCADE + ELLA QUINN + FRANCOLIN + HOWARD + KOKATSUNA ONANI + MATMOSET + SCOTDRAKULA + THE TOWNHOUSES + THESE PATTERNS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 5:30pm. $7. SEX FACE + SQUID SQUAD + THE CHARLIES Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $8. SIMON PHILLIPS - FEAT: SIMON PHILLLIPS Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:30pm. THE BIG ASK - FEAT: TEHACHAPI + EMILY SHOBBROOK + MOUTH TOOTH + STRANGERS FROM NOW ON Phoenix Public House, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $10. THE FCKUPS + CLOWNS + LAST-CALL + STREET FANGS The Prague, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $8. THE MCQUEENS (EP LAUNCH) + ALBERT SALT + SOUTHPAW Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $7. THECITYSHAKEUP + RDZJB + SCALAR FIELDS Pony, Melbourne. 9:00pm. THEM BRUINS + MR SPEAKER Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. WHO IS ZOE (EP LAUNCH) + SEA LEGS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $12. YOU & YOUR FRIENDS + MICHAEL ROBISON + SAVING CLEOPATRA Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK 8 BALL AITKEN Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. ADRIAN & CHRISTIAN Rice Queen, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. DAVID COSMA & DAMON SMITH Bar Nancy, Northcote. 8:00pm. DEAD RIVER + HANDLEBAR + MANNERS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. JEHAN GONSALKORALE Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:00pm. JIM GREEN + CHRIS HALE + CONUNDRUM + EWEN BAKER Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:30pm. $5. JIMI HOCKING’S BLUES MACHINE Fleece Hotel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. JOSHUA SEYMOUR Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MARK LANEGAN BAND + RON S PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $72.

MATT GLASS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 7:00pm. MELODY MOON Bebida, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 6:30pm. OPEN MIC Arcadia Hotel, South Yarra. 7:00pm. PHIL LYDDY TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. RAPSKALLION (ALBUM LAUNCH) + MISS FRIBY + REFLEJOS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $15. SAMMY OWEN’S BLUES BAND + ERIN IVAN PARKER Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5. SEAN SIMMONS + PAUL ESPY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. SWEET FELICIA Musicland, Fawkner. 9:30pm. $10.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC BLUESTONE UNDERGROUND JAZZ - FEAT: CYCLONE WARNING Bluestone Downstairs, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. COOKIN’ ON 3 BURNERS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. GIANNI MARINUCCI TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. MANDINGO - FEAT: THE AFROBEATS Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MOTION Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SASKWATCH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. TANGO RUBINO Cruzao Arepa Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. THE JACK PANTAZIS GROUP Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. WARREN WILLS & THE ROGER CLARK QUARTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.

FRIDAY 27 APR ROCK/POP 2AM LATE SHOW - FEAT: THE COCOA JACKSONS Pony, Melbourne. 2:00am. ALARUM (NATURAL CAUSES LAUNCH) + DESECRATOR + HOUSE OF THUMBS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. AN HORSE + I A MAN + LAURA IMBRUGLIA Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $15. BLUEJUICE + LOON LAKE + THE CAIROS Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. $27. CAIMAN + THOMAS KEFT & THE PAPERWEIGHTS Bar Betty, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CISCO CAESAR Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. DAVE EVANS & THE AUSSIE BADASSES + BANGAL TIGERS Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $12. DIRTY LITTLE WEST + BURN IN HELL + CONSTANT KILLER + MALCOLM HILL Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. DOG WITH WHEELS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:29pm. DZ DEATHRAYS + THEM 9’S + UDAYS TIGER + VELOCIRAPTOR Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. EMPRA + STELLAR GREEN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. GANGA GIRI + DUB THE MAGIC DRAGON + GALAMBO Phoenix Public House, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $15. HOPE ADDICTS (ALBUM LAUNCH) + JESS RUBEIRO + PLAGUE DOCTORS + ROLLER ONE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. HURRICANE FIGHTER PLANE + DJ SYE SAXON Luwow, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $5. INDIE VS ELECTRO - FEAT: SUPER MAGIC HATS + CHEV RISE + FRIENDSHIPS + READABLE GRAFFITI + THE SWEETS Noise Bar, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $5.

SAN CISCO

If you haven’t heard San Cisco’s breakout tune Awkward on airwaves across the country over the past few months, I’d suspect that you’ve been living underground lately - the Fremantle indie-pop outfit energetic and tough low-fi garage pop has proved a hit, with Australian audiences voting last year’s single to #7 in Triple J’s 2011 Top 100 tracks. Not to mention showcasing at both FUSE Festival in Adelaide and BIGSOUND in Brisbane, along with some tip top performances at Big Day Out, Laneway & Groovin’ the Moo, San Cisco also had a rad time supporting Architecture in Helsinki, The Grates, and Kimbra. Catch San Cisco at The Corner on Tuesday May 1 and Wednesday May 2. Beat Magazine Page 54

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AN HORSE

An Horse are making a return to Australia in the wake of last year’s critically-acclaimed release Walls. With a third video for single Airport Death fresh off the streets of Brooklyn, the two-piece indie crew from Brisbane have been up to all sorts over the past few months performing at Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Rolling Stone Weekender alongside local gigs at Falls Festival in Lorne and Marion Bay, continuing to refine their take on buzz-riddled guitar-pop. Catch them at the Corner Hotel on Friday April 27.

JO DAWSON + CHICKS WHO LOVE GUNS + COLD HIKER + STELLAR GREEN + THE SPIN Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. KALACOMA + CONRAD & COMPANY 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. LINDSEY LOW HAND + THE JACK MANNIX BAND Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. MURDERBALLS + 12FU Lyrebird Lounge, Ripponlea. 8:00pm. NEON KNIGHTS (EP LAUNCH) + LOST WEEKENDS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $12. PLANET LOVE SOUND (MY SHADOW LAUNCH) + TIMOTHY CARROLL John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. REDD KROSS + IOWA Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $44. SHIPS PIANO + CHICKS WHO LOVE GUNS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. SIX60 + SASKWATCH + THE MANK The Hi-ďŹ , Melbourne. 8:00pm. $25. STORE BOUGHT COOL (DOING FINE LAUNCH) + PETER DICKYBIRD + THE CLITS + WILDING Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5. TERRY MCARTHY SPECIAL Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THE DETONATORS + DJ GARY SEVEN Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm. THE DJ PLAZMA BAND IdgaďŹ&#x20AC; Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. THE FLESHTONES + STEVE WYNN Yah Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $36. THE LACHY DOLEY BAND + DJ FANTA PANTS + SIB Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm. THE OVALS + FLYING COLOURS + PONYFACE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. THE SMART (COLD DARK ROOM LAUNCH) + BELLUSIRA: ACOUSTIC + SOUNDS OF TROY Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $12. THE SONICS + FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $52. THE UNION PACIFIC (ALBUM LAUNCH) + BEING AMAZING + DEEP HEAT + MILHOUSE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. VALLEYARM A&R SHOWCASE SERIES - FEAT: REMISSION THEORY + SUNDAY CHAIRS + THE TWOKS The Vineyard, St Kilda. 10:30pm. VICTOR PENDER Cape Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. WILLIAM STREET STRIKERS + BRIDIE Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BRIEN + ERAN JAMES + RICH DAVIES The Prague, Thornbury. 8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BRAD RUMBERLOW + DANIAL REEVES + NICK TATE Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 10:00am. CRAIG WILLIAMS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8:30pm. DANNY WALSH & JOHNNY LIVEWIRE Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. JASMINE BETH + MELODY MOON + TOM FRANCIS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. JASON LOWE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:30pm. JESS HOLLAND + GRETTA ZILLER Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. LAURA CLARKE + AL PARKINSON + SHANE WALTERS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12. LOCAL BAND NIGHT Rubyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $10. MASKS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. MICK THOMAS (THE LAST OF THE TOURISTS TOUR) + SHELLEY SHORT Theatre Royal, Castlemaine. 8:00pm. MONIQUE BRUMBY BAND + KELLY MENHENNETT Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. STEVE SMYTH + HOUNDS HOUNDS HOUNDS + JACKY WINTER Pony, Melbourne. 9:30pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSIONS - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

JOHN BUTLER THE KHYBER BELT All warmed up from their recent national tour with Evanescence, The Khyber Belt are ready to launch their self-titled debut EP at The Espy Gershwin Room this Saturday night. The band is quite the local supergroup in the Melbourne rock scene; featuring members of Rook, Bushido and Sleep Parade. Also playing this massive five band lineup will be Newcastle ex-pats The Evening Son, Shadowgame (featuring members of Engine Three Seven), One and Kettlespider. Doors open 8pm. Cbd. 8:00pm. $20. BEN SALTER + JOE MCKEE + SINGLE TWIN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. BLUEJUICE + CAIROS + LOON LAKE The Hi-ďŹ , Melbourne. 8:00pm. $25. BLUEJUICE (U18) + CAIROS + LOON LAKE The Hi-ďŹ , Melbourne. 2:00pm. $25. CLAMPDOWN Rochester Castle Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. COTTON SIDEWALK + CHANNEL SWITCHER + THE SUNSLEEPERS + VULTURES OF VENUS The Prague, Thornbury. 8:00pm. DAMN TERRAN + BODIES + CHICKS WHO LOVE GUNS + SCUL HAZZARDS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. DOM DE BLASIO + ESSAY EDWARDS Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 10:00pm. ECHO DRAMA + THE KILNIKS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. GLEN & THE PEANUT BUTTER MEN + CHAINSAW HOOKERS + LAST CALL + THE WORST + WOLFPACK Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10. GOLDFISH BAND IdgaďŹ&#x20AC; Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. HELL BROTH & THE UBER CHADS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. HIGH FANGS + BAD VISION + DJ SHAKY MEMORIAL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. HOUSE OF ROCK Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15. HOWLINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; STEAM TRAIN + BEN WRIGHT SMITH + JACKSON FIREBIRD Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $12. INFINITE VOID (ALBUM LAUNCH) + USELESS CHILDREN + WHITE WALLS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

SATURDAY 28 APR ROCK/POP 2AM DOUBLE LATE SHOW - FEAT: CHAINSAW HOOKERS & MUSCLE CAR Pony, Melbourne. 2:00am. BANG - FEAT: DEEZ NUTS + BEAR WITNESS + CROWNED KINGS Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne

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Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bluejuice released their third album in the closing weeks of 2011 - Company was a last-minute but well-deserved contender for the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most wellreceived release. The stellar effort that was Company was appropriately named, a result of collaborative efforts with The Presetsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Julian Hamilton and Sparkadiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alex Burne, Â drawing inspiration from all over the place - classic radio hits, to R&B and dance, nineties house acts and modern pop and rock. The result is a glorious collage of sounds and feelings, receiving praise from critics and finding itself a hit with crowds at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Day Out. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re back for more - catch Bluejuice at The Hi-Fi on Saturday April 28.

JAMIE HAY + ARROWS + GRIM FANDANGO + MILHOUSE + THE UNION PACIFIC Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. MASSY FERGUSON + JOHN PATRICK & THE KEEPERS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. MISTRESS MONDAYS + SID Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;NEIL Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm. MONKEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIRATE + ELSEWHERE Noise Bar, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $8. MOROCCAN KINGS (SINGLE LAUNCH) + A LONELY CROWD + SHERIFF Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 9:00pm. $10. ROYSTON VASIE (SINGLE LAUNCH) + BRAINSWORTH + I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL + MESA COSA Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $13. SCAR THE SURFACE + BRONSON + DRIVEN TO THE VERGE + WHITE CELL Rubyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. SCOTT & CHARLENEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WEDDING (FAREWELL SHOW) + BITCH PREFECT + FULL UGLY + TOTAL CONTROL DJS Phoenix Public House, Brunswick. 9:00pm. SHITRIPPER + COUNTERATTACK + HAILGUN + THE TEARAWAYS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8. SONYA & THE INCINERATORS + DJ BARBARA BLAZE Luwow, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10. SPY KITE + EARL + STRIKERS + THE ATTICS + WILLIAM STREET Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. SUZIE HIGGIE & CONWAY SAVAGE + STARLING Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE FLESHTONES + BUNNY MONROE + THE PSYCHOUTS Yah Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE GREASY HAWAIIANS + THE FUTURAS & BEN ROGERS INSTRUMENTAL ASYLUM Town Hall Hotel, North Melbourne. 6:00pm. THE KHYBER BELT (EP LAUNCH) + THE EVENING SON + SHADOWGAME + ONE + KETTLESPIDER Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $13.

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Songwriter, record label owner and producer - John Butler is many things to many people. Head of the John Butler trio as well as a solo artist in his own right, Butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming tour is aptly titled Tin Shed Tales, decked out with a collection of personal art pieces, old-school skateboards and vintage guitars from his shed at home where he draws inspiration for his art and songwriting. Eclectic and intimate - just like the man himself. Catch him at The Hi-Fi on Wednesday April 25.

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Five words that describe your genre: Rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;roll garage pop When and why did you start writing and playing music? Like a lot of people reading this, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine not writing or playing music. To write is obviously to express, and rock music is one of the greatest methods of self-expression ever. Store Bought Cool have all been performers and players of music since teenage years, to stop now would be impossible, someone would have to stop for us! What do you reckon people will say you sound like? I think Store Bought Cool is not unlike a lot of modern bands in that we are a gumbo of inďŹ&#x201A;uences, we are a band that has boiled down the essence of garage punk, twee pop, lo-ďŹ and blended in a ďŹ stful of rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;roll and blues â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we are searching to make something pretty fresh from it. Our recipe is good. SBC are the full sensory experience. We look like a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s Polish circus poster, we wear like a vintage Paul Smith suit over a faded Cramps t-shirt, we drink like Old Crow or a 7 and 7, and we taste like falafels with chilli sauce and garlic with a fruit salad for dessert baby. Â THE LIVING EYES + GOONBAG COLOSTOMY + THE KREMLINGS + THRASHER JYNX Pony, Melbourne. 9:00pm. THE PERFECTIONS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. THE REBELLES + CHK CHK BOOM! Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm. THE STRUMS (GIMME SOME HOPE TOUR) + GRAND PRECEPTOR + MY ECHO + RIN & THE RECKLESS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. VICTOR PENDER Cape Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ADAM WALDRON & JOSH VERCO Bebida, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BEN CARR (ALBUM LAUNCH) + TOM FRYER Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. DAVID COSMA TRIO Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. DUNCAN GRAHAM & HIS CO-ACCUSED + TIM CROSSEY Lyrebird Lounge, Ripponlea. 8:00pm. EMMA WALL Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. GUITAR FESTIVAL Musicland, Fawkner. 2:00pm. $10. JESS HARLEN + RISEN EMBER + SALT LAKE CITY + SCOTT HANNAH Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 7:30pm. $10. LAWRENCE GREENWOOD Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:30pm. MATT DOL - FEAT: MATT DOLL + JEMIMA JONES Bar Betty, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MCALPINEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FUSILIERS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Lyrically this has got to mostly come from Dave D, who is writing from Bohemia, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Lennon style writer, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s using the 3 minute song as platform for his own experience, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talking about his own life and loves. Musically itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the complicated family recipe above, it draws much on our shared inďŹ&#x201A;uences, and in fairness thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of older stuďŹ&#x20AC; like 60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pop, soul, and rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;roll, but I think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of kinship in the shared music of all of our youth in the 90â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, so the blues is probably ďŹ ltered through Jon Spencer and Beck and the garage rock has resonance with the White Stripes and Libertines. When are you playing live next? Why should people come and see you? Anybody who is interested in seeing what people are doing with guitar music in Melbourne in 2012 should come and see us play at The Grace Darling on Friday April 27, have a drink and a dance to our songs; they have great hooks, there are multiple singers, we do harmonies, we have energy, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll leave with a smile on your dial, and hey â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you could even pick up a copy of our single released same day Doing Fine, a slice of lyrical dream pop which we are really proud of. The supports (The Clits, Peter Dickybird, and Wilding) are also eďŹ&#x192;ng good too. If someone made â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Store Bought: the Biopicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; who would play you? MICHAEL HICKINGS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8:30pm. MICK THOMAS (THE LAST OF THE TOURISTS TOUR) + SHELLEY SHORT Westernport Hotel, San Remo. 3:00pm. MON KERR + STEVE SMYTH Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm. $7. NATALIE CAROLAN Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5:00pm. OH PEP + WIRE BYRD Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $5. RDZJB Grind N Groove, Healesville. 9:00pm. RENEE GEYER Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30. SLY GROG Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. SONGWRITERS COLLLECTIVE - FEAT: JACK GRIFFIN + NATHAN BIRD + JESS HEISER + JUSTIN LOVE + PETER SIMONSEN Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. SONS OF LEE MARVIN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. TANK DILEMMA Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. TEK TEK ENSEMBLE + STEPH BRETT Rice Queen, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. THE BASTARD CHILDREN Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. THE MISERABLE LITTLE BASTARDS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE PHEASANT PLUCKERS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE SHIVERING TIMBERS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. YEO & LUKE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:00pm.

Okay. Dave D would like Gary Oldman to play him now, and Lou Taylor Pucci from Thumbsucker to play him as a youth â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but coincidentally Matt looks more like Gary Oldman (something around the eyes...or is it his mouth?) and he has that louche charm of new world meets old world wearinessÂ â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Cara is focused and hardworking â&#x20AC;&#x201C; think the kind of parts usually played by Anne Hathaway or Jennifer Garner. For me at ďŹ rst I thought Christopher Walken, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not so quietly menacing, so maybe Breckin Meyer, Jon from GarďŹ eld . Jeremy should be played by Renaissance playwright Kit Marlowe, if the band travelled back in time to Elizabethan London, Jeremy would be made court violinist while the rest of us would be trying to bring back the ruďŹ&#x20AC; whilst trying to avoid the pox. Store Bought Cool launch their new single Doing Fine at The Grace Darling on Friday April 27 alongside support acts The Clits, Peter Dickybird, and Wilding. From Saturday April 28 Doing Fine will be available for download at storeboughtcool.com where you can name your price.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC FISHCHER - FEAT: FISCHER Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. GALAXSTARE (CD LAUNCH) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. KESHIE + SUGARCRAFT Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LETâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DANCE (80S DANCE PARTY) - FEAT: KINSHASA EXPRESS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $12. REBECCA MENDOZA + DJ ARLEN DE SILVA Prince Maximillian, Prahran. 8:30pm. SANTIAGO SON Cruzao Arepa Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. SOULFEAT Tony Starrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitten Club, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $5. TAMARA KULDINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DIRTY MARTINI Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. YVETTE JOHANSSON & THE JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET Dizzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.

SUNDAY 29 APR ROCK/POP BALL PARK MUSIC (ALBUM TOUR) + THEM SWOOPS + YES YOU Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $17. CHERRYROCK - FEAT: FU MANCHU + BLACK COBRA + EVEN + MATT SONIC & THE HIGH TIMES + THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 12:00pm. $80. DEAD JAIL OR ROCK N ROLL - FEAT: DJ XANDER ALLAN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. HOLLIE SMITH + JESS HARLEN Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $20. HURRICANE FIGHTER PLANE + THE NAYSAYERS Yah Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. JUAN ALBAN (SUPERHUMAN LAUNCH) + STEVEN CLIFFORD ToďŹ&#x20AC; In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $8. JVG GUITAR METHOD Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. KING GIZZARD & THE WIZARD LIZARD + FACETIME + THE MURLOCS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. PRIESTESSA + SAVIDAS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. R.O.S.S + CABIN FEVER + GOON SOAKED RAG + MICHAEL CRAFTER + OLD SKIN Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. SUZIE HIGGIE & CONWAY SAVAGE Pure Pop Courtyard, St Kilda. 8:00pm. TAKING IT TO THE STREETS - FEAT: KYLE TAYLOR + BILL KNIGHT + BLIND BEATROOT + MARK GARDNER + TEKNIA + THE BROKEN SWEETHEARTS IdgaďŹ&#x20AC; Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 6:00pm. THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS + MILFORD ACADEMY + PARTY VIBES + STOCKADES Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE PURPLE POSTMAN + ANDRE CAMILLERI & THE NORTHERNAIRES Town Hall Hotel, North Melbourne. 6:00pm. TOMMY & THE FOG Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BARB WATERS & THE MOTHERS OF PEARL Carringbush Hotel, Abbotsford. 4:00pm.

DZ DEATHRAYS

Last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cover stars DZ Deathrays seem like nice dudes, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you reckon? The Brisbane-based thrashpop act have had a good run of late, busting out onto the international scene with recent slots overseas at SXSW, a string of shows in the UK and Canada, as well as an appearance at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Laneway Festival and a recent announcement that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be appearing at the muchadored Splendour in the Grass. We highly recommend you check out what the fuss is all about before theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re snapped up by the rest of the world - DZ Deathrays play The Tote on Friday April 27. BEN MEKLER Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 4:30pm. BLUE HEAT Way Out West Roots Music Club, Williamstown. 2:00pm. CHARLES JENKINS + RAISED BY EAGLES Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. CHRIS WILSON Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. CHRIS WILSON + JASON LUISSON Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. DEAN & CARRUTHERS Mentone Hotel, Mentone. 3:00pm. FRANKE ANDREW Wesley Anne, Northcote. 4:30pm. JAM NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. JIMI HOCKINGS BLUES MACHINE Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 3:00pm. JOUISSANCE + BRICK + SEESAW Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. LEXI DEROCK & THE SUGARFOOT BLUES BRIGADE Burlesque Bar, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. MANDY CONNELL Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5:00pm. MASSY FERGUSON Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. MELISSA MAIN 303, Northcote. 3:30pm. MELODY MOON Bar Nancy, Northcote. 6:00pm. MERRI CREAK + KEN MAHER & TONY HARGREAVES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 7:42pm. NIGEL WEARNE & THE CAST IRON PROMISES + THE HEATHER STEWART TRIO Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. OPA 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. OPEN MIC Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 4:30pm. OPEN MIC Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 4:30pm. RED MOON JUKE + THE LONGYARD BAND Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm. $10. SHANAKEE Bay Hotel, Mornington. 3:00pm. SIMON BRUCE Bar Nancy, Northcote. 8:00pm. SIMON WRIGHT TRIO Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 7:30pm. SKYSCRAPER STAN + JIMMY SAINT & THE SHINNERS + STEVEN SMYTH Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. SOPHIA BLACKBURN Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 4:00pm. THE DALE RYDER BAND + BAD BOYS BATUCADA + PHIL CEBERANO Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. THE DEATH RATTLES + THE MAGIC BONES + THE MERRI CREEK PICKERS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. THE PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUGBAND Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE RAFFAELLAS + GOODNIGHT TIGER + PIERCE BROTHERS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. THE RECHORDS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. VELVET CAKE GYPSIES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC ESTEE BIG BAND Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. FREO & THE DOC Rubyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lounge, Belgrave. 3:00pm. JOSE NIETO Cruzao Arepa Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. THE AFROBIOTICS + ASANTI DANCE THEATRE + SEYDOU SOWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SCHOOL OF DANCE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 1:30pm. $12.

MONDAY 30 APR ROCK/POP ANIMAUX + ALBERT SALT Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8. BLACK COBRA + HOTEL WRECKING CITY TRADERS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. HILARIOUS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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ARCH ENEMY Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $69. BAHAMAS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $28. BRUNSWICK DISCOVERY - FEAT: DAUS MOOPS + SINISTER MINISTER Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. KUMAR SHOME & THE PUNKAWALLAHS + MCGARVIE + TSUI & HIRSCHFELDER + UNCOMFORTABLE SCIENCE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. MESSED UP Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. PATRON SAINTS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. ROUSSEMOFF (EP LAUNCH) + DEEP HEAT + WHITE WALLS Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. SAN CISCO (ROCKET SHIP TOUR) + THE SWOOPS + VOLTAIRE TWINS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $17.

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ACCESS ALL AGES With Ruth Mihelcic After the stickiness from all the underage dance parties that have been happening over the past few weeks, it’s about time to blast your eardrums back into oblivion by getting along to one of the hardcore gigs playing this week. Xibalba and Warbrain are going to rip up the stage at the Phoenix Youth Centre on Friday, while over at the Wyndham Youth Resource Centre will be Hand Of Mercy and Hopeless.

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Dappled Cities have announced the release of their first new single in over three years. Run With The Wind has the potential to become their most loved track to date, and predicates how special the upcoming fourth studio album will be for Dappled Cities. To coincide with the release of the single, the band will host three very special live events in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney this coming May. The Dappled Cities Run With The Wind Melbourne party will take place on Friday May 4 at the Northcote Social Club. Tickets are available via northcotesocialclub.com $18 + bf (presale), or $22 on the door.

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Define your genre in five words or less: We own all genres haha What can a punter expect from your live show? Our live shows are always really exciting. It feels like anything can happen on any given night. We put every last drop of our energy into every single show. What makes a good musician? Someone who cares about the way the listener feels. It’s never enough to simply ‘understand’ music, it should be felt. What do you hate about the music industry? Some artists seem to have the perception that you have to shave off influences to refine your voice. Bands and singers get caged in by genre expectation and that’s always been a turn off for me. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? Everyone in SIX60 kinda has there own, but it’s all about focusing. I like to physically warm up and get my heart rate up so I never hit the stage stiff and cold. I want to give the best 90mins possible every single show. Also I like to kick or throw a chair... I have no idea why. When’s the gig? We’re playing at The Hi-Fi on Friday April 27. I hope they have some light but sturdy chairs backstage... Anything else to add? six60.co.nz plus Facebook and Twitter. Do it.

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LOST & FOUND Wednesday April 18, Revolver Upstairs

LIVE CHET FAKER Thursday April 19, Toff In Town Chet Faker is two things: a beard and a voice. According to his publicist, the much-feted electro artist hails from Melbourne’s “tight-knit disco and house music scene” (the first rule of Melbourne’s tight-knit disco and house music scene is you do not talk about Melbourne’s tightknit disco and house music scene) but there is little trace of these roots in his sound. There are beats, for sure – dreamy, pulsing things that echo the somnambulant rhythms of trip hop – but beats do not define Chet Faker. He’s a voice, a latte-smooth soul singer who floods the room with his sexually-charged utterances, and a beard. Chet and his two band mates took to the stage at The Toff last Thursday night for the first of three sold out shows, facing curiosity and the quiet weight of expectation. Barely out of the womb, just now launching his debut EP (Thinking in Textures, Opulent/Remote Control), Chet is already an artist celebré, a buzz act at SXSW whose last single topped the chart on Hype Machine and received airplay on BBC Radio 1. You could see why, the minute he started playing. The sound was lush and immersive, a rippling boom of silk that engulfed the audience. Chet’s voice was powerful, flowing with a preternatural kind of confidence and sounding almost exactly as it does on tape, which is quite an achievement. His talent was

obvious…so why didn’t I love him? He reminded me of Cordrazine, that’s why. Like Cordrazine’s Hamish Cowan, Chet commanded his voice like an instrument. He relaxed around the melody, shifting notes mid-phrase and running lazily up the scale. It wasn’t quite as jazzy as I’m implying, but there was a deﬁnite jazz undercurrent. No, jazz is too strong – the genre I’m searching for here is the nebulous Kenny Gand Luther Vandross-dominated space that is known as ‘adult contemporary’. As I was watched this newlyminted star woo the audience into a lusty thrall, I could feel myself twitching with adolescent impatience. It was all too smooth and croony for my taste, lacking angst or sharp edges or anything resembling vitality. Chet Faker’s performance felt a little hokey – not much, but enough to distract me; enough to make me think of this hip new kid as very slightly uncool. SIMONE UBALDI LOVED: Not much. HATED: Not much. DRANK: Slow, boring beers.

SUB ATARI KNIVES Friday March 23, Evelyn Hotel Another ripping night of Melbourne alternative music. An extremely varied bill more suited to the open minded among us. Thankfully, there are a number of those in Melbourne, and a very solid crowd jammed into the classic surrounds of the mighty Evelyn this cool early autumn Melbourne evening. Featuring two members of one of Melbourne’s best known alternative/heavy acts Sydonia, I Am Duckeye are a ‘side project’ that have absolutely no worries about being compared to the main band. They are quite the opposite in many ways. While Sydonia destroy all in their path with their intense, metal tinged alternative heavy rock, I Am Duckeye make you roll on the ﬂoor, pissing yourself with laughter. They are as much a comedy act as a rock’n’roll band, and their lyrics, antics and onstage banter put a constant smile on your face. At the same time, however, their brand of good natured thrashy/punky rock is tight, powerful and a whole lot of fun. Deﬁnitely a band to check out for a rollicking good time. Artilah are a tight, professional, punchy alt-rock band who combine well together and have an engaging stage presence. Their songs, and their overall presentation, are very well put together, they just need to start developing a signature sound that’s all their own. These days it’s not enough to simply be tight and powerful, you have to stand out in some way amid the overwhelming glut of bands out there clogging the scene, and with a bit more

work these guys will hopefully do just that. Sub Atari Knives are a diﬀerent beast altogether. Dancey, chaotic, alternative, punky and energetic all at once, this trio (consisting of a drummer, bassist and vocalist, backed up by tons of samples and electronic enhancements) create a vibe similar to that of the dearly departed and sorely missed MM9, although possibly even more frenetic; If that’s even possible. Not surprising, since the drummer Ben Ellingworth was in that Sydney based electronic rock act. This is one of those rare bands that can comfortably play at a doof club/rave or an alternative rock night, and this night the (open minded) rock crowd absolutely lapped it up. The night closed with the ‘mash-up’ DJ Esquire, who mixed up other people’s songs quite well, and good blend of heavy and dance music. Melbourne’s weather is cooling down again unfortunately, but there’s always her live music scene to warm the cockles of your heart this coming winter. Its quality just seems to get better and better. ROD WHITFIELD

LOVED: The diversity HATED: That I have to start wearing a jacket out to gigs again DRANK: The beers ﬂowed freely

Revolver on Chapel St means different things to different people. Colonel Tan’s Thai menu attracts a trendy, mid-week crowd, keen on curries, retro decor and funky tracks from days gone by. Original Banksys dot the walls, dating back to when only ‘cool people’ knew of the antagonist and his emerging form of graffiti. Shepard Fairey’s iconic Obey images paste the hallways to where The Living End once shot their video clip for Prisoner of Society and almost everyone is aware of the munters who stumble down the stairs to greet daylight each and every weekend. For now the Revolver crew intend on igniting some rock into the mix with a relaunch of Lost & Found. Tonight, they’ve enlisted The Latonas, Cavalcade, Damn Terran and punk-rockers Dangerous! It’s a tough task to build a Wednesday night crowd, let alone coax them away from their chicken curry, comfy couches and chilled out beats into a caged front band room. Cavalcade have a spirited and aggressive approach, think Future Of The Left. Bass heavy with two complementing, fast-paced guitars and impeccable, energised drumming. The music is tight with a no holds barred approach. The songs are forceful and precise and manage to hold the crowd’s attention. Vocally, however, the lyrics are indecipherable which begs the question, why write, produce or perform material with indistinguishable lyrics? One wouldn’t tolerate a set with muffled drums, so why

allow such clouded vocals? Shout and scream all you want but surely we’d engage more if we could work out what the hell you were shouting about. We may even agree with you. Lozenge anyone? Damn Terran are well-oiled and tonight won over the dedicated few. Lachlan Ewbank leads with guitar and vocals, brother Leigh handles drums while Ali Edmonds adds bass and vocals. You might not win friends with salad but you’ll always win fans with a female bass player! Most importantly, they gel extremely well and the music is head-turning. Wrong Things with its cool melody and chugging riffs throughout, Lust with some fast drumming; female backing vocals suited perfectly. Current single Rebels utilises Edmonds’ vocals further, musically it counteracts a frantic intro with a psychedelic instrumental jam before the floor toms ignite into a frenzy. There are elements of Silversun Pickups, Screamfeeder and even Bud. It’ll be the bands that benefit initially from the relaunch of Lost & Found, the test is to attract diverse acts of notable quality to benefit the rest of us. JOHN DONALDSON LOVED: The idea of bringing more rock south side. HATED: A dozen unframed drawings and photos clipped to a back wall constituting an ‘exhibition’? Hardly. DRANK: Malcolm Blights (lights)

THE POGUES Wednesday April 4, Festival Hall “In blood and death ‘neath a screaming sky / I lay down on the ground / And the arms and legs of other men / Were scattered all around / Some cursed, some prayed, some prayed then cursed / Then prayed and bled some more / And the only thing that I could see / Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me.” It was enough to send tears from my eyes; raw and haunting sentiments from a masterful songwriter and disheveled individual. Shane McGowan limped across the stage once graced by The Beatles; cigarette alight, sunglasses on. The jeers boomed from blokes and lasses, pinching themselves to witness a full Pogues lineup that has miraculously survived three decades of rough seas. They formed in London’s Kings Cross, 1982, amid the horrific bombings that protested British occupation of Northern Ireland. Not the best place for an irish outfit to begin their musical careers. However, if they could establish a following in an anti-IRA fuelled London, these Celts could succeed anywhere. Quite appropriately the military drums sounded, Spider Stacy’s tin whistle leapt to life and all eight members of The Pogues stood shoulder to shoulder, beneath green-tinged lights, to beckon Streams of Whiskey. Irish flags waved, small whiskey bottles did the rounds between half-drunken men and McGowan held his peace sign aloft before giving the crowd a thumbs up and muttering, ‘nice to be back, a real treat to be back’. If I Shall Fall From Grace With God saw die-hard fans unite, beer cups fly and the front few rows go nuts. From there

a back drop of stars lit up The Broad Majestic Shannon, Greenland Whale Fisheries hand-clapped to precision instrumentation and A Pair of Brown Eyes became our undoing. It was an unbelievable start. Stacy lead Tuesday Morning accompanied by banjo as McGowan returned to his beloved for The Sunnyside Of The Street, an immaculately uplifting irish tune. His muffled speech, direct contrast to the husky and forthright conviction of his singing. It no longer emits the youthful vibrancy of early recordings but the spirit remains; The Band Played Waltzing Matilda and The Body Of An American proof of that. Dirty Old Town, Bottle Of Smoke and the fluttering floor toms of The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn was the catalyst for a rambunctious conclusion to the main set. James Fearney slid on knees, launched himself and his accordion from the drum riser and we stood gobsmacked at the joy The Pogues shared during two encores with Sally MacLennane, A Rainy Night In Soho, Irish Rover and the final frenzy of Fiesta. How Shane McGowan is still standing, still sounding and how Spider Stacy repeatedly belted his own head with a beer tray; it’s the stuff you’ll be telling your kids about. Just don’t show them a picture of McGowan too close to bedtime. BY JOHN DONALDSON LOVED: All the rambling boys of pleasure and ladies of easy leisure. HATED: What’s there to hate when you’re witnessing musical history. DRANK: The shrapnel from beers being hoisted through the air.

MOROCCAN KINGS BY ROD WHITFIELD

Moroccan Kings are major up-and-comers on the Melbourne alternative rock scene. Though they fit fairly comfortably within our musical landscape, the outfit are doing things just a little differently. They’re set to release their brand new single, Grizzly Bear, with accompanying video, and while the song itself is ready to go, it’s been a mad scramble to have the self-made video ready for its launch. They’re working around the clock to have it ready for the day, singer and guitarist Declan O’Leary explains. “We’ve got the video launch, but we haven’t made the film clip yet,” he laughs. “So I’m pretty much flat chat doing that. Just trying to figure it out, each day we work on it we realise it’s going to look a lot different to what we imagined, so it’s just trial and error. A process of elimination. When everyone sees it, I’ll probably be finishing it that day,” he says excitedly. “We recorded the single a couple of months ago with Damian Charles,” he continues. “It’s the first show that we’ve run, we organised it – we’re headlining, we organised the venue, we organised what bands we want to play, the lighting guy and all that kind of stuff. Mainly for the last year or so we’ve been doing the bigger festival gigs, like Showdown and Creepshow, Rock The Bay. They’re all good, but we decided to do our own kind of shit, and see if we can pull the numbers. We don’t even know, we’ve never even had our own big show before,” he quips humbly. The band has some unusual add-ons planned for their first headlining gig, where they’ll virtually carry the night on their own. They also plan to offer punters a show free of rock clichés. “We’re kind of excited about it,” he enthuses. “This is the first time Beat Magazine Page 62

we’ve kinda got our own lighting guy. He’s more of a theatre lighting guy. We want to try and avoid the typical kind of pub rock lighting show, where’s it’s just constant colours ﬂashing all the time. We want someone who knows the music, understands where the changes are coming. So yeah it’s a big deal. “There’s a lot of energy in the show,” he describes. “We don’t take ourselves too seriously. We never ask the crowd to make some noise. I never put the microphone into the crowd and assume that everyone knows the words. We try to have it relaxed but not too unprofessional at the same time. You see pub bands, and even in big Rod Laver events, where they think that the music alone is enough, but if people are going to stop watching TV and leave their houses, they should be entertained. You get these bands who say ‘I don’t care what the crowd wants, I just do what I feel’. But if you didn’t really care what people wanted, you wouldn’t be doing live shows. We want to do something diﬀerent to what other bands are doing. We’ve got a sound now, all we need are the visuals.” And what do they expect from the crowd in return?

“I just want them to have a good time,” he replies. “I don’t want them to feel awkward. I don’t want their sympathy, I don’t people to think ‘Oh well he gave it his best shot!’ I want it to be as relaxed in the crowd as it is onstage. By the end of the gig I want people to think it’s a comfortable thing. I don’t want to give them too much, I want them wanting more. “I’ve seen a lot of gigs where it feels awkward, and you feel awkward for [the performers].” Declan goes on. “Often it’s because the lighting’s shit. Or someone’s hitting some bung notes. Or it’s just awkward in general. It feels like the people onstage don’t want to be there, or the people onstage are bored of their own music. I know bored’s the ‘new cool’ but you get a bit over it. I like people who get excited by their own music.”

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Post launch, Declan has some serious downtime in mind – a visit to his back specialist may be in order after sitting at a computer for so long, working on the clip. As for the band, it’ll be time to dive back into the writing process and the rehearsal room. “I need to take a holiday,” he laughs, “And go to an osteopath. We’ve been smashing out 15 hour days. But for the band? More writing. This is a test to see what works and doesn’t work for our own show, so we’ll know next time what we need to work on.” Moroccan Kings launch their brand new single and video clip with support from Sheriﬀ and A Lonely Crowd at Revolver Upstairs this Saturday April 28.