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THE PRICE IS RIGHT REGULAR JOHN Don’t let the name fool you – Regular John are anything but regular. After an explosive 2009 debut that resulted in a Big Day Out slot and some ARIA nominations, the rocking Sydney four-piece all but disappeared. They’ve now reappeared with a new album, which they’ll be showcasing at The Toﬀ In Town this Saturday September 22. We have two double passes to give away.

ALABAMA SHAKES One of the most buzzed-about new bands in the world – Alabama Shakes – are gracing our shores for the ﬁrst time. Fronted by Brittany Howard, whose soul-drenched howl falls somewhere between Howlin’ Wolf and Janis Joplin, Alabama Shakes have had a meteoric rise to the top. Known for their electrifying live show, don’t miss them when they play their Big Day Out 2013 sideshow at The Forum on Thursday January 24. Tickets on sale at 9am Friday September 21 from bigdayout.com. New War

MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK After a mammoth ﬁrst announce that included international talent like Goblin and Teengirl Fantasy, as well as revered local acts Twerps and Crayon Fields, Melbourne Music Week have sweetened the deal with the addition of more local acts this week, including New War, Dick Diver, Pikelet, Forces, The Night Terrors, // This Thing//, Nick Huggins and band, Midnight Juggernauts DJs and Tehamatica. A number of these acts have been added to the Labels Live series, while Thematica and the Midnight Juggernauts DJs will join support act The Night Terrors at Goblin's spectacular Grand Organ concert. First release tickets for events are on sale now and the full program will go live on Thursday October 4. Head to melbourne.vic.gov.au/mmw for all available ticketing information.

VAUDEVILLE SMASH Vaudeville Smash want you to have the Best Night when they launch their single by the same name at The Northcote Social Club on Saturday September 29. We have two double passes to give away.

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KATCHAFIRE Katchaﬁre, one of the hardest working and most respected collectives to come out of New Zealand, have evolved into a formidable force on the international music scene. They've just sold out a string of their Australian shows, but tickets are still available to their show at The Forum on Friday September 21. We have two double passes up for grabs.

WINTER PEOPLE A short period but a long journey. Ex-triple j Unearthed winners and folk favourites Winter People are carting their new album A Year At Sea to a launch show at The Toﬀ In Town on Saturday September 29. We have two double passes. Don't say we never do anything for you. Head to beat. com.au/freeshit.

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MORRISSEY Turns out the rumours weren't too good to be true – Morrissey has locked in an Australian tour. The national run of dates will be Moz's ﬁrst visit to the antipodes in over a decade. Fans can expect to hear a hearty oﬀering from Morrissey's solo canon, as well as a selection of The Smiths' classics. Morrissey performs at Festival Hall on Wednesday December 19. Tickets on sale 9am Wednesday September 26 from Ticketmaster.

Jenny From The Block swiftly sold out her ﬁrst Melbourne show and has added a second and ﬁnal Melbourne show on her Dance Again world tour. The new show again takes place at the Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday December 12, and it is all ages. Tickets are on sale 9am Wednesday September 26, with Visa Entertainment pre-sale taking place from 2pm Friday September 21 and Frontier pre-sale taking place from 11am Monday September 24

GARY CLARK JR After being announced for the 2013 Big Day Out, ultra-hip performer Gary Clark Jr is giving fans the chance to see the budding bluesman up close and personal in a newly-announced headline show at The Corner Hotel on Tuesday January 22, with support from The Murlocs and Fraser A Gorman. Tickets are available from The Corner Hotel website.

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TREVOR. A MUSIC FESTIVAL Trevor. A Music Festival will be held on Saturday January 12 at Churchill Island Nature Park, an island, oﬀ an island, oﬀ an island. No kidding. Think Meredith. Think Mossvale. Put them in a big old pot, stir them up, and then ask all your mates over for a bit of a knees up. Acts so far include Ash Grunwald, The Bamboos, The Pierce Brothers, The Brow Horn Orchestra, Sweet Jean and Australian music legends, Icehouse. There will be some more stragglers added also. It's kid-friendly, with enough entertainment for them for the whole day. The best part is all kids under 12 get free entry. Oh, and free food. And free drinks. Just the olds have to cough up $99 each. Tickets are on sale now from Moshtix. See you on the island.

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GRIZZLY BEAR Announced as one of the headline acts of the 2012 Harvest Festival, indie titans Grizzly Bear have locked in a Melbourne headline show in a relatively intimate environment. Grizzly Bear have just released their highly anticipated fourth album Shields. Recorded over the better part of a year, the album represents the band's most charged and concise collection of music to date, as heard in the singles Sleeping Ute and Yet Again. Grizzly Bear will be playing Melbourne at Billboard The Venue on Monday November 12. Tickets are on sale now via the Billboard website.

DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT THE KILLERS The Big Day Our sideshows start rolling in. With their roll call of anthems The Killers are renowned for their epic stadium shows but, after a two year hiatus and a new album in Battle Born, the band are oﬀering Australian audiences a unique live experience. Fans can open up their eager eyes as the Las Vegas high rollers play an intimate gig outside of their Big Day Out 2013 shows when they hit The Palace on Tuesday January 22. Tickets on sale at 9am Friday September 21 from bigdayout.com.

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Heading our way for the Big Day Out, third millennium psychedelic heroes and recent Beat cover stars Animal Collective have announced a Melbourne sideshow. The enigmatic quartet have taught us to expect the unexpected across ten albums and more than ten years. Bursting with textures – radio snippets, advertising samples, broadcast static – and with a newfound rhythmic immediacy, their latest album Centipede Hz is enamored by experimentation. Don't miss their ecstatic live show when they play the Palace Theatre on Wednesday January 23. Tickets on sale Friday September 21 from Ticketek .

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SUGAR MOUNTAIN After a more than stellar sophomore outing at the start of the year, Sugar Mountain have unveiled a topshelf roster of talent Taking over The Forum in early 2013 will be widely influential South Bronx outfit ESG, Queens gourmet chef turned rapper Action Bronson, darkly Melbourne-London duo HTRK, a team up between Kirin J Callinan and his Way To War clip director Kris Moyes, US electronic artists Laurel Halo, producer-DJ Peanut Butter Wolf and psychedelic pop outfit Woods. Stay tuned for further act announcements and lead-up festival events. Sugar Mountain 2013 takes place at The Forum on Saturday January 19. Tickets onsale 9am Monday September 24 from Ticketmaster.

HIGH WOLF Fresh from multiple world tours, France’s everproliﬁc psych mystic High Wolf are hitting Australian shores. Mysterious and psychoactive, High Wolf’s music mixes cosmic loops, fuzzy guitars, droney synths, mystic vocals and tribal percussion, inspired by primitive and ritual music as well as adventurous modern music. A hyperactive artist continuously on the move around the globe, High Wolf has never stopped producing and collaborating since the project’s inception in 2009. High Wolf is bringing is hyperactivity to Melbourne on Sunday October 7 at the Gasometer Hotel in Collingwood, supported by Rite Wild, Secret Birds and DJ King Sim. Tickets avaliable through Oztix.

MALDON FOLK FESTIVAL At the 2012 Maldon Folk Festival, November 2-5, you can enjoy four days of folk music, dance, musical theatre and interactive workshops. The long-running festival – one of the oldest in the state – provides camping to ticket holders at the main festival site and at the Maldon Oval, whilst acts and events spill down Mt. Tarrangower and into the Heritage streets of historic gold rush town, Maldon. There’s a festival market, dancing, an instrument makers exhibition, workshops, poetry and yarns. There are live songwriting competitions, musical theatre, chalkboard venues and lots of busking and a dedicated alcohol free youth venue on the Saturday night. This year’s festival brings together The Whitetop Mountaineers, an old-time country music duo from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia; Australian blues and folk legend Margret Roadknight; popular Melbourne Celtic rock band Claymore and South Australia’s Country Express bluegrass band.. In an era of fallacy and computerised entertainment, the Maldon Folk Festival stands out for its commitment to genuine, hand-made, live music from the traditions that make up Australia’s musical soul and heart. Bookings and information at maldonfolkfestival. com.

RIVERBOATS MUSIC FESTIVAL After last summer’s inaugural Riverboats Music Festival proved a huge success with audiences in Echuca-Moama, Melbourne, regional Victoria and Southern New South Wales, it returns this February with a unique and memorable weekend of Australian music. The 2013 lineup includes Pete Murray, Clare Bowditch, Archie Roach, James Reyne, Tim Rogers, Mia Dyson and heaps more. It takes place between Friday February 15 - Sunday February 17, 2013 at Edhuca-Moama. Bookings and full lineup is at riverboatsmusic.com.au.

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Mojo Juju will take to the stage in November performing tracks from her debut self-titled album which is released this Friday September 14. Mojo Juju’s live performances are both mesmerising and memorable. Drawing inspiration from the jazz age, early blues and Latin American Pachuco culture of the ‘30s and ‘40s, there is most deﬁnitely something dark, dirty and seductive lurking in Mojo’s music and live performances. The ﬁrst single from the album, Must Be Desire, has already started receiving great reviews so strike while the iron’s hot and check her out at either the Northcote Social Club on Friday November 2 (tickets available through their website) or at The Bridge Hotel in Castlemaine the following night.

EVAN DANDO AND JULIANA HATFIELD After selling out their first Melbourne show in a swift fashion, lifelong buds Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield have added a second date at The Corner. Despite having a friendship which stretches back to the mid-’80s, this will be the first time Evan and Juliana will tour Australia together. Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield perform at The Corner on Tuesday December 18 (sold out) and Wednesday December 19, tickets on sale now.

THE B.EAST BURGER EATING COMPETITION The B.East are hosting a veggie burger eating competition to crown the inaugural Belly Of The B.East. Participants will be given 15 minutes to eat as many ‘sliders’ as they can, which are a smaller than average original veggie burger. There will also be a chili eating comp, entertainment and meal deals on the night for all to enjoy. It takes plac on Wednesday September 26 from 7pm and it’s free with pre-registration (spaces are limited). To enter register via the website theb-east.com/ eatingcomp.

CRYSTAL CASTLES Fiercely uncompromising festival favourites Crystal Castles have created a stir from their inception with shows that enthrall and excite an impassioned cult following. This year heralds the arrival of their third album with its ﬁrst single Plaque described as “dangerous, demented and utterly thrilling” by NME. The only place to catch them outside their Big Day Out 2013 shows is at Billboard The Venue on Tuesday January 22. Tickets on sale at 9am Friday September 21 from bigdayout.com.

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What's your favourite song, and why? Today my favourite song is Mommy, What's a Funkadelic? by Funkadelic and yesterday it was An Ending by Brian Eno. It’s always changing. I’m trying not to listen to a piece of music more than once now, listening to something again and again tends to inﬂuence your own music which I’m trying to move away from. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Our album Somewhere Elsewhere is being released nationally on Friday October 19. Anything else to add? Yes. Hello to all the amazing and wonderful kids at Williamstown Primary School – especially those who are in grade 5/6 G. You guys rock! ZOOPHYTE continue their Sunday residency at Wheelers Hill Hotel this Sunday Setpember 23, and finish it on Sunday September 30.

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The Bloody Beetroots is Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo: the masked Italian who’s capable of synergising sonics and sensibilities from The Damned to Debussy, the anthemic wistfulness of new wave and primal screams of hardcore punk. The Bloody Beetroots will be premiering their new live show at Big Day Out 2013 including latest single Rocksteady. Get prepared for an in-your-face sonic assault when The Bloody Beetroots play The Palace on Thursday January 24. Tickets on sale at 9am Friday September 21 from bigdayout.com.

We only have The Drones to thank for inviting Einstürzende Neubauten down to Australia for the hotly anticipated 2013 ATP I’ll Be You Mirror bash, and having committed to making the long trip south iconic and infamous German avant-industrialists are taking full advantage of the opportunity, announcing their own headlining show in Melbourne at The Palace Theatre on Tuesday February 19. Tickets are on sale now from Ticketmaster, Oztix and the Handsome Touring website. The band’s fearsome live shows have long been legendary for (mainly) all the right reasons, literally trying to bring down the house (with jackhammers) on more than one occasion. Shit yeah.

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Already announced as appearing on the 2012 Meredith Music Festival lineup, red-hot rising talent Fraser A Gorman & Big Harvest have announced a single launch tour. Hitting Northcote Social Club this October, Fraser will launch Last Four Dollars/Blossom & Snow with his band Big Harvest. To say it’s been a big year for Frase is an understatement, after supporting big name internationals as well as pulling off show-stopping performances at Boogie and Queenscliff Music Festival. Fraser A Gorman & Big Harvest perform at Northcote Social Club on Saturday October 27. Tickets from the box office.

Co-founder of The Go-Betweens, one of Australia’s most-loved groups, Robert Forster has announced his return to the stage. The tour follows on from the release of Quiet Heart: The Best Of The Go-Betweens, a compilation of material from the innovative Queensland outﬁt. As well as his work with The Go-Betweens, Robert has become a respected solo artist, as well as a highly regarded music critic for The Monthly. Robert Forster performs at The Thornbury Theatre on Friday October 26, at Castlemaine’s Theatre Royale on Saturday October 27, and at The Caravan Music Club on Sunday October 28.

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SLEIGH BELLS Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells are visiting Australian shores for Big Day Out, but the fun doesn’t stop there. They’ll also be playing a very special I OH YOU party in Melbourne to showcase their experimental and frenzied tracks. Don’t miss buzz artists Sleigh Bells when they play Billboard The Venue on Wednesday January 23. Tickets are on sale from Moshtix and Ticketek from Friday September 21.

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THE WAR ON DRUGS Already announced on the gigantic 2012 Harvest Festival lineup, Philly rockers The War On Drugs have locked in a Melbourne headline date. Following several lineup changes including the departure of founding member Kurt Vile, the four-piece released their second album Slave Ambient in 2011, as the follow up to their 2008 debut Wagonwheel Blues. The War On Drugs craft nostalgic anthems with their signature brand of rock, folk, blues and everything in between. The War on Drugs will perform at Northcote Social Club on Tuesday November 13. Tickets on sale now.

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COLLARBONES Deﬁne your genre in ﬁve words or less: Heavy folk. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Well, we’ve been compared to Cohen, Townes, even Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks album.

It’s not long until R&B proponents Collarbones drop what could well be one of the best local releases of 2012. To celebrate the launch of Die Young, the outﬁt will hit Melbourne for what’s sure to be one hell of a party. Support at the Melbourne show comes from Oscar Key Sung, Mount Napier and more. Die Young drops Friday September 28 through Remote Control. Collarbones perform at Liberty Social on Friday September 28.

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What do you love about making music? Doing it well and getting to the point, eventually. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Haha! Myself? Is that more narcissistic than the question? 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? Let’s go back and drink beers with those guys. What can a punter expect from your live show? A unique performance. We're really very musical, relying on the voice, guitar and double bass to carry everything. At The Toff In Town – which sounds so great – you’ll be able to inhale every nuance. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Our current single, our first album Motorsports and a 7-inch single. When’s the gig and with who? Tonight! September 19 at The Toff In Town with Angel Eyes and BJ Morrizonkel.

BAND OF HORSES South Carolina’s Band Of Horses are back with their high-lonesome harmonies and new album Mirage Rock. Produced by Glyn Johns (The Rolling Stones, The Who), Mirage Rock is arguably the band’s most cohesive and accomplished set of compositions and performances to date. See Band Of Horses play an intimate Big Day Out 2013 side show at The Palais on Wednesday January 23. Tickets on sale at 9am Friday September 21 from bigdayout.com.

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INTERNATIONAL FUTURE ISLANDS Northcote Social Club September 19 WHEATUS The Corner Hotel September 19 YELLOWCARD The Hi-Fi September 20, 21 GOOD CHARLOTTE Festival Hall September 20 NADA SURF The Corner Hotel September 21 MACY GRAY Hamer Hall September 23 MARIANAS TRENCH Corner Hotel September 24 LADY ANTEBELLUM September 25, 26 EL GRAN COMBO The Palace Theatre September 26 JAMES MORRISON Forum Theatre September 26 MYSTERY JETS The Corner September 26 SCISSOR SISTERS Hamer Hall September 26 GARY CLARK JR The Tote September 27 MARTIKA Trak Lounge September 28 FEAR FACTORY The Hi-Fi September 28 RUSSIAN CIRCLES, EAGLE TWIN The Corner Hotel September 28 TIM & ERIC The Forum September 29, 30 SNOW PATROL Regent Theatre September 30 KELLY CLARKSON Rod Laver Arena October 1 STEVE MALKMUS & THE JICKS The Corner Hotel October 3 CANNIBAL CORPSE Billboard October 5 JOE BATAAN & THE DEL BARRIO ORCHESTRA The Hi-Fi October 5 LITTLE HURRICANE Ding Dong Lounge October 5 PARKLIFE Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 6 STEEL PANTHER Festival Hall October 7 HIGH WOLF The Gasometer October 7 XIU XIU The Gasometer October 9 JOE BONAMASSA Palais Theatre October 11 MELBOURNE FESTIVAL Various Venues October 11 October 27 MAROON 5 Rod Laver Arena October 12 EVERCLEAR The Hi-Fi October 13 TORTOISE, GRAILS The Corner Hotel October 13 ALT-J (Δ) Ding Dong Lounge October 20 MATCHBOX TWENTY, INXS Rod Laver Arena October 20, 21 GOMEZ The Corner Hotel October 21, 22 MUMFORD & SONS Rod Laver Arena October 25 SMASH MOUTH The Palace October 25 WEDNESDAY 13 The Espy October 27 THE BLACK KEYS Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 31, November 1

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Prince Bandroom November 2 GREGORY PORTER The Toﬀ In Town November 3, Wangaratta Jazz Festival November 4 THE CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES The Corner Hotel November 5 TOUCHE AMORE The Reverence Hotel November 9, Phoenix Youth Centre November 10. BEN HARPER The Plenary November 10 HARVEST FESTIVAL Werribee Mansion November 10, 11 GRIZZLY BEAR Billboard November 12 THE WAR ON DRUGS Northcote Social Club November 13 COLDPLAY Etihad Stadium November 13 REFUSED The Palace November 15, 16 AUSTRALASIAN WORLDWIDE MUSIC EXPO Various Venues November 15 - 18 RON POPE Chapel Oﬀ Chapel November 15 RADIOHEAD Rod Laver Arena November 16, 17 ELTON JOHN November 18 Rod Laver Arena GEORGE MICHAEL Rod Laver Arena November 21 VILLAGE PEOPLE The Palais November 24 CHERRYFEST Cherry Bar November 25 NICKELBACK Rod Laver Arena November 27, 28 SIMPLE MINDS, DEVO Palais Theatre November 29, A Day On The Green - Rochford Wines December 1 RICK ASTLEY The Palace November 30, Chelsea Heights Hotel December 1 THE SELECTER The Corner Hotel November 30 NICKI MINAJ, TYGA Rod Laver Arena December 5 GRIMES The Corner Hotel December 5, 6 SPIRITUALIZED The Hi-Fi December 6 HOT SNAKES The Corner Hotel December 7 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre December 7 - 9 PRIMAL SCREAM The Palace December 7 TURBONEGRO The Hi-Fi December 7 LAGWAGON Corner Hotel December 9 JLO Rod Laver Arena December 11, 12 ALEXISONFIRE Festival Hall December 12 REGINA SPEKTOR The Plenary December 14 JB SMOOVE The Thornbury Theatre December 15 EARTHLESS Northcote Social Club December 15, 16 EVAN DANDO AND JULIANA HATFIELD Corner Hotel December 18, 19 MORRISSEY Festival Hall December 19 FALLS MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL Lorne December 28, Marion Bay December 29

GRIZZLY BEAR Billboard November 12 PYRAMID ROCK FESTIVAL Phillip Island December 29 - January 1 PEATS RIDGE Glenworth Valley December 28 - January 1 SUMMADAYZE Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 1 65DAYDOFSTATIC Corner Hotel January 4 NIGHTWISH Palace Theatre January 14 DAVID BYRNE & ST VINCENT Hamer Hall January 14, 15 WEEZER Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 16 SUGAR MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL The Forum January 19 SO FRENCHY SO CHIC Werribee Park January 20 THE KILLERS The Palace January 22 GARY CLARK JR The Corner January 22 CRYSTAL CASTLES Billboard January 22 SLEIGH BELLS Billboard January 23 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE The Palace January 23 BAND OF HORSES The Palais January 23 THE BLOODY BEETROOTS The Palace January 24 ALABAMA SHAKES The Forum January 24 BIG DAY OUT Flemington Racecourse January 26 DAVID HASSELHOFF The Corner Hotel February 14 SWANS The Corner Hotel February 15 ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES Westgate Entertainment Centre February 16, 17 EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN The Palace February 19 DR. FEELGOOD Corner Hotel February 21 NORAH JONES The Plenary February 21 LINKIN PARK, STONE SOUR Rod Laver Area February 26 SOUNDWAVE Flemington Racecourse March 1 ED SHEERAN Festival Hall March 5, 6 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Port Fairy March 8 - 11

NATIONAL DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST Various venues September 20 - October 7 THE ANGELS Corner Hotel September 20 KATCHAFIRE Ferntree Gully Hotel September 20, The Forum Theatre September 21 FEELINGS Workers Club September 22 MIA DYSON The Corner Hotel September 22 POND The Corner Hotel September 23 CHICKS WHO LOVE GUNS Workers Club September 27 EVERMORE The Toﬀ September 27 EAGLE AND THE WORM Northcote Social Club September 28 COLLARBONES Liberty Social September 28 SIX60 The Forum September 28 SETH SENTRY The Corner September 29 THE AMITY AFFLICTION Palace Theatre October 4, 5 CHOPPED ROD & CUSTOM FESTIVAL Newstead Racecourse October 5 - 7 SASKWATCH Corner Hotel October 5 SOMETHING FOR KATE The Corner Hotel October 6, 7, 8

KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD The Tote October 6, 7 REGURGITATOR The Hi-Fi October 11, 12 HUSKY Corner Hotel October 11 DAPPLED CITIES Corner Hotel October 12 ROCKWIZ Festival Hall October 12, 13 BRITISH INDIA Corner Hotel October 19 VELOCIRAPTOR The Tote October 19 CREEPSHOW The Espy October 20 OH MERCY The Hi-Fi October 25 LAST DINOSAURS Ding Dong October 21 (U18), The Corner October 25, 26 JOSH PYKE The Palais Hepburn Spring October 24, Karova Lounge October 25, The Bended Elbow October 26 CLAIRE BOWDICH The Regal Ballroom October 26 ROBERT FORSTER Thornbury Theatre October 26, Castlemaine Theatre Royale October 27, Caravan Music Club October 28 KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON The Regent Theatre October 27 LIOR Northcote Social Club October 31 LISA MITCHELL Athenaeum Theatre Wednesday October 31 MOJO JUJU Northcote Social Club November 2 MALDON FOLK FESTIVAL Maldon November 2-5 THE BEARDS The Hi-Fi November 3 HENRY WAGONS Thornbury Theatre November 5 TZU The Hi-Fi November 5 DEEP SEA ARCADE Corner Hotel November 9 YUNG WARRIORS First Floor November 16. MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK Various Venues November 16 - 24 ANGUS STONE The Palace November 21 BALLPARK MUSIC The Palace November 23 QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Queenscliﬀ November 23-25 MISSY HIGGINS Palais Theatre December 4 JEFF MARTIN Cherry Bar December 7, The Northcote Social Club December 8 GOTYE Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 8 SUNNYBOYS December 8 Corner Hotel THE LIVING END The Corner Hotel December 11 - 22 PARKWAY DRIVE Festival Hall December 22 TREVOR. A MUSIC FESTIVAL Churchill Island Nature Park January 12 RIVERBOATS MUSIC FESTIVAL Echuca-Moama February 15 - 17

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ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS BY TYSON WRAY

Antony Hegarty radiates an otherworldly sense of eminence. The transgendered lead singer of Antony And The Johnsons’ artistic work evokes startling imagery of the plight of the natural world, the power of the feminine and transformation within the past, the present and the future. As the Guest Of Honour of next month’s Melbourne Festival, Antony’s work will be showcased in all of its forms. Through the monumental musical performance Swanlights, the audiovisual explorative film TURNING and the intimate private visual works in Paradise, the festival will provide a rare multi-faceted insight into one of the contemporary world’s most compelling artistic minds. A collaboration with New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Swanlights is set to be one of the most spectacular music events of the year. A transcendent piece of multi-sensory artwork, Swanlights celebrates Antony’s captivating voice and work as an artist, backed by a 44-piece orchestra alongside the majestic and ethereal lighting and set design of Chris Levine and Carl Robertshaw. “I wanted to stage a concert in a less pedestrian way than I had in the past, where you really attend to the space between the songs and develop a sense of continuity,” notes the softly-spoken Antony. “The idea was to try and create a feeling of a concert that was set inside the centre of a mountain or a crystal cave. That was the basis and seed of the idea that evolved into Swanlights. I invited several amazing stage artists and designers to collaborate with me. It’s a series of curtains, sculptures and crystals which evoke this stunning sense of geometry. “It’s very clean. It’s quite analogue in a way. There’s no digital technology per se. It’s laser light and music with a symphonic orchestration. However, the symphony isn’t revealed until very late in the concert. For the most part it’s just me on stage in these different light environments. The songs [that are performed] in the piece are collected from all of my records. There are themes and threads that connect all of work, and obviously one of them is the desire to reconnect with the natural world and to reaffirm the natural world spiritually as a source of my own life and my own consciousness. There’s almost an indigenous sense to return of the earth as my primary parent in a way.” Originally intended to be a one-off piece, never to be seen again, Antony recounts the performance held earlier this year. “We performed at the Radio City Hall which is a gigantic theatre in New York City. It’s almost like an airplane hangar, it’s a very beautiful and round space. It held an audience of 6,000 people, the scale of it was not like anything I had ever done before. Because of the lights and the lasers, the piece is meant to be seen from quite far away. There are people who are used to coming to my concerts and really focusing on my facial expressions, but [in this piece] I’m really devoured by the movements of light. It’s quite formal in some ways. “At its heart, [Swanlights] is a concert of my songs

with a lot of attention paid to the sense space inside the room and between the performer and the audience,” he details carefully. “I’m trying to turn the space inside out as it were, trying to see inside the photons, trying to see the metaphysical space.” Alongside Swanlights, Melbourne Festival will also be presenting two screenings of TURNING, Antony’s collaborative film with director and dance filmmaker Charles Atlas. “The film is actually a document of another major staging. It’s a concert that I staged in collaboration with Charles in 2006 in a few cities in Europe. Originally I had developed the piece TURNING with Charles before the Whitney Biennial in 2004 in New York and we performed it on a very small scale. But after I won the Mercury Prize [in 2005, for his sophomore album I Am A Bird Now] everything sort of blew up for me, so I took the opportunity to take the whole cast with me on tour to about six or seven cities in Europe.” A culmination of documentary, concert film and visual artwork, TURNING harnesses the soaring work of Antony alongside Atlas’ sublime visual transformations and the stories of 13 women. “The cast comprised of 13 unusual women from New York who I felt were really beautiful and inspiring,” explains Antony. “For each song that I sang with my chamber group a different model would stand on the side of the stage on a turning platform and Charles would generate video portraits of that model live that would then be projected onto a giant screen behind the concert. 13 models for 13 songs. The reason I chose all female models, whether biologically female or transgender was the theme of everything moving towards the feminine. In some ways it does parallel the themes of Swanlights, this idea of a redemptive movement towards the feminine and also a futuristic vision of femininity and what the future might look like. A lot of the models in the piece are very frontier artists who have been a tremendous inspiration to me. “For each song there was a live video portrait of a different woman’s face slowly turning behind me. The other models would then sit in a row in front of the orchestra. There was a sense that we were a circle and that we were performing for ourselves. It

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was really powerful, and there was an alchemy to it that was really exciting. When we brought it on the road to Europe we had such a spectacular time and we decided to document it and this film is sort of the result, not just of the documentation but of Charles working with the portraits. It’s sort of a combination of an art film and a documentary of a series of performances. It’s an investigation into the personalities of the people who were a part of the cast. In the original concert, of course, you didn’t hear from any of the models who were a part of the show. But in this film we really did very intimate interviews with them and a lot of other themes and elements begin to emerge. The film is really another phase of the piece. I wouldn’t say it’s just a document of what had transpired.” Throughout the festival there will also be an exhibition of Antony’s visual artworks. Entitled Paradise, the works are a diverse collection of drawing, collage and sculpture which further explore the themes so evident within his music. “For the album Swanlights I also released a book of about 60 drawings,” he says. “This was the first time that I delivered a body of my visual work outside of my record covers. Since then I’ve been involved in a few shows in different parts of the world. I had a show earlier this year in the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, which was really the first time that I’ve shown my work by itself, as I’ve always been in group shows. It was really exciting for me, and I’m really thrilled to be able to bring a version of that to Melbourne. These are drawings that I’ve completed over the last six or seven years. The images are very process orientated, they’re very wrapped up in the sense of erosion and slow development.” Pausing to reflect, Antony provides a final insight to the bodies of work that will be explored within the festival, and the ethos he holds towards the contemporary cultural world. “There’s this sense of a dark line throughout as we’re currently in this time of crisis. We’re facing quite an apocalyptic period in the history of the natural world. We’re so quickly eradicating so many species and so much biodiversity. I mean, we’re anticipating a catastrophic rise in the temperature in the next 50 years. A lot of the work revolves around my long-attending ruminations on that as a member of our species. The idea of being able to move through it and dreaming of future scenarios but also acknowledging reality. Not just being statistically aware of it, but to be awake. Creatively awake, elementally awake, spiritually awake and biologically awake.” ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS will perform Swanlights at Hamer Hall on Friday October 12 and Saturday October 13. Both shows are sold out. TURNING will screen at ACMI on Tuesday October 16 (followed by a Q&A with Antony and guests) and on Saturday October 20 at Greater Union. Paradise will show at Gallery 1 at the Arts Centre from Thursday October 11 - Saturday October 27.

THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN Writers Bench: The Evolution Of Melbourne Graffiti And Street Art Culture. 1980 – 2011 is a first-hand journey through the historical timeline of graffiti and street art culture in Melbourne. It explores some of the revered artists who have helped to shape the city’s cultural identity, all the way from raw beginnings as political and radical slogans plastered on walls and colourful burst of murals splashed along train lines through to the rise of street art as tourist attraction, tracing an artistic movement. Hear stories of growing up graffiti, why each artist got involved and what has influenced their style. Writers Bench: The Evolution Of Melbourne Graffiti And Street Art Culture. 1980 – 2011 is back at ACMI by popular demand and has two screenings, Saturday September 22 and Saturday September 29.

ON STAGE Who is Lucizzle O’Brizzle? She has perfect pitch and ain’t afraid to use it whilst ridding the world of gentle pop-rock, one bland chord progression at a time. With an attitude as big as Lady Gaga’s costume budget and the head bows to prove it, Lucizzle O’Brizzle is anything but cliché. Come see what all the noise is about in Lucy O’Brien’s debut cabaret, Behind The Bow...A Cabaret; a story about a girl with her head in the clouds, trapped in a struggle with her sassy alterego and an evil head bow. A must see for all music theatre lovers and anyone who’s suﬀered an identity crisis. Behind The Bow...A Cabaret begins tomorrow on Thursday September 20 at Goodtime Studios.

ON DISPLAY Combining art and fashion, Melbourne Fine Art exhibits a series of rare post-war illustrations from the fashion house of French couturier Jacques Heim. In addition to MFA’s 2011 exhibition French Fashion And Design: The Art Of Fashion Illustration, the gallery presents over 60 illustrations of Jacques Heim’s women’s seasonal fashion. These exquisite watercolours accentuate the glamour of Parisian haute couture and the ingenuity of Heim. Each work exudes high fashion with unique and innovative designs, rich fabrics and modern relevance. The high-quality watercolours by French designers and illustrators are an exquisite example of how French haute couture is timeless and has inﬂuenced fashion worldwide. French Fashion Design - Jacques Heim is currently showing at MiFA Gallery until Friday September 28.

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MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL SATELLITE HUBS BY BELLA ARNOTT-HOARE

Temperamental ebullience is an expected trapping of a Melbourne spring, as is the annual Fringe Festival. This encompassing celebration of all things independent art unleashes itself across the city every September, but with a program that doesn’t limit itself to any one practice, form, or even a singular community, finding a place to start can be a daunting experience for first time Fringe flirtations. Independent Arts Manager of the festival, Felix Preval, suggests beginning with the Satellite Hubs. These hubs are an entry point, dutifully programmed by Felix and found as far reaching as Kensington, South Melbourne and Richmond. The central nerve is the Fringe Hub at North Melbourne Town Hall, but its tendrils of unconventional arts spread far. “We’ve got a really exciting program [at the North Melbourne Town Hall] this year with about 46 shows, not including the 14 nights of free entertainment at the club after you’ve seen your shows. It’s a really exciting array of work that covers all the different genres within the festival, from performance through to cabaret, music, live art and comedy of course.” His aim in programming this central hub is allowing as many artists as possible an opportunity to present work, showcasing the variety the Fringe is best known for. “It offers audience members who might not know exactly what they’re in for to have a place to come to, to discover the great many styles of performance that are happening under the large pink umbrella that is Melbourne Fringe 2012.” And there are many indeed, represented by the numerous art forms the satellite hubs present. Growing in number and prominence since last year’s celebration these hubs host a handful of large, diverse programs in venues outside North Melbourne, stretching almost as far as the city itself. Trades Hall is back as a hub venue to present comedy and performance, and pop-up venue Tuxedo Cat will bring “a great, different Fringe-y energy to the city centre,” says Felix. Rue Bebelons also have their biggest program yet, and he looks forward to seeing how they “bring it” for the Fringe this year. “One of the great things about Melbourne Fringe is that we incorporate a lot of venues that operate year round,” he says, these venues programming heavily during Fringe time. “It

means that audiences who live all over the city can engage easily with Fringe work and with the festival, and that the independent arts scene is not specifically located in the city centre as it is in other cities’ Fringe Festivals.” Outside of the city, Felix mentions Richmond venue Owl And Pussycat, South Melbourne’s Butterfly Club and Kensington’s Revolt, “who have an enormous program this year in the west that’s a hop, skip and a jump to 28 nights of amazing programming.” Carlton’s La Mama return as a satellite hub with a theatre and performance program, and “for people who are looking for some really high quality performance work La Mama is always a place to start, and that is no less true During Melbourne Fringe Festival, ” he says. Revolt and The Butterfly Club delve into dark contemporary cabaret, and Tuxedo Cat and The Portland Hotel will introduce new comedians in a distinctly Fringeworthy atmosphere, both in the heart of the CBD. Bloodlines, which will be performed at iconic venue The Butterfly Club, is a gothic Cabaret by Bradley Storer, a show for lovers of horror and dark cabaret which intertwines tales of familial dysfunction with music from dark artists like Nick Cave, Tom Waits and the Dresden Dolls. In its second year at the Fringe, Storer says his production “draw[s] the audience into an exploration and exposure of the hidden and darker sides of human nature, whether humorously or dramatically. Instead of looking at the time-honoured subjects of cabaret such as heartbreak or self-discovery, gothic cabaret is about the darkness which is inside all of us. “The Butterfly Club is a classic cabaret space, intimate and cosy with an air of the eccentric,” he says. “I’ve been there countless times and I instantly feel at home - but there are so

many little hidden secrets and crawl-spaces that I’m always constantly being surprised, which suits this show perfectly!” Another of the many countless satellite productions that will be featured at Revolt in Kensington is Medea. Given a new contemporary life, the story looks at “History’s Greatest Divorce” while examining disturbing instances of real life infanticide. The Fringe tries to retain the culture of the venues with the shows it’s programmed in each. Each have their own distinct voice within the arts community, and the acts programmed ﬁt with this. “I think it’s important for the venues to have a sense of identity that they’ve established for themselves and for the audiences that go there. But all of them are really in line with the spirit of the Fringe, which is about presenting new independent work by amazing independent artists.” Though the idea of a Fringe can be a troublesome term, especially where Melbourne’s is one of Victoria’s largest and most dedicated artistic organisations. Felix agrees that what it means to be on the Fringe has possibly changed, but what remains is their commitment to truly independent work. “The festival is still there primarily to cater to independent artists and to provide a platform for the independent arts community to showcase their work en masse. And hopefully by doing so, highlight the incredible work that they’re doing, not only during the festival but all year round. And I think that’s one of the really amazing things about Melbourne Fringe Festival, is that it brings out the best in an incredibly diverse range of artists who are practicing year round.”

The Melbourne Fringe Festival runs from Wednesday September 26 – Sunday October 14. For more information about the Satellite Hubs, shows or anything else Fringe, check out melbournefringe.com.au.

THE IMPRO MELBOURNE CLASSIC BY JOSH FERGEUS

“If you say ‘just make something up’, most people can’t do it,” says Glenn Hall, Artistic Director of Perth’s Just Improvise. “There are just some people in the world who seem to want to get everything right in their head before they even start. They don’t tend to do very well in improv.”

Louise is in her forties, happily married (more or less) and fairly content with her life. So why has she developed a desperate and passionate crush on her Chinese masseur? Months of daily manipulations have not brought her release from her infatuation or any closer to consummating it. The young man has her in his grip. From the writer of Malthouse Theatre’s critically-acclaimed Furious Mattress and The Spook, Melissa Reeves’ Happy Ending is a comedy about desire and misguided obsession. Happy Ending shows at the The MTC Theatre, Lawler Studio until this Saturday September 22.

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Hall is heading to Melbourne this week for the Impro Melbourne Classic, billed as a celebration of Australia and New Zealand’s best improvised theatre. The lineup is pretty impressive, featuring over 30 performers including Hall, Impro Australia Director and Sydney-sider Cale Bain, and former Creative Director of the Wellington Improvisation Troupe Christine Brooks. “The Classic has been big in Melbourne over the last few years,” says Hall. “It’s great – I’ve been taking trips to play with Impro Melbourne guys for almost ten years now and I just love it.” Improvisation seems to be either loved or hated by fans of comedy and theatre, but most can agree that it takes a pretty talented performer to make it come to life. “Think about the process of creating visual art,” muses Hall. “If you say ‘paint a picture’, people just go ‘what do I do?’ Whereas if you say ‘paint a house’ it often makes it signiﬁcantly easier. There are some people who want to get something right in their head before they even start, and they don’t tend to do very well in improv. I’ve been doing improvisation for a long time, and I do shows now not to get them right, but to see what’s possible. I think Edison said ‘I tried 100 times before I got the lightbulb right.’ It’s a bit like that.” As usual, the Classic is a big production. “It’s a really healthy scene – everyone works together,” says Hall of Australian improvisational theatre. As for the Classic, “for the impro community it’s a chance to get together and catch up with your mates. The artistic director of Impro

Melbourne I’ve known for about 16 years and we’re great mates – but if you add up the hours we’ve spent together it might not be that much because of where we live. It’s great though, we just pick up where we left off and spend a few intense days together working on a project.” Hall is directing one of three works to be held on Saturday September 22, and with him at the helm Zeitgeist promises to present a unique and intriguing approach to improvisation. “I was always a bit of a fan of Bertolt Brecht,” Hall reveals. “I’m an actor originally and I’ve always noticed that when you mention Brecht to young people you usually find that someone at high school has destroyed what it’s all about for them, a bit like Shakespeare.” Inspired in equal parts by Brechtian theatre and cabaret and vaudeville stylings of the British trio The Tiger Lillies, Hall decided to try incorporating some of these techniques into an impro show. “Basically the whole thing [with Brecht] is all the time you’re aware that you’re watching theatre – you break the fourth wall and talk directly to the audience. That’s kind of what we do in improvisation. We let the audience see the scaffolding which goes into creating the art. We ask – give us a scene, give us a character. In a way we’re kind of alienating the whole process.” A spontaneity coach, Hall encourages us all to just let go a little and stop trying to control every aspect of our lives. “It’s funny you know, we operate our daily lives by schemata, by a sense of rules. That often helps with things like not getting us killed or getting us to work on time, but it’s great to try things in an environment like

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mine when all that’s at risk is a minor public humiliation.” When asked if his services as a spontaneity coach could help politicians behave a bit more like real people Hall replies emphatically. “Definitely. The thing I wonder about politicians is are they ever going to put down the rulebook? That could be a story in Zeitgeist it’s so foreign to us now. A politician puts down the rulebook and what happens to him or her? It’s lost the passion of the oldschool oratory with a couple of Senators banging it out on the steps of Ancient Rome.” “It’s basically like a dirty German cabaret freakshow,” states Hall, when asked to describe Zeitgeist in more detail. “There will be dishevelled people, macabre stories. It’s a little bit edgy, a little bit twilight zone. We want to give people something different. A guy I know from Perth is now living in Melbourne – he’s a piano player who specialises in ‘prepared piano’. Before each show, the piano is ‘prepared’ by opening it up and sticking tape and pegs and bits and pieces on the strings so that when he plays it has this outrageous effect. It ends up sounding a bit like Phillip Glass and a little like Tom Waits.” The Impro Melbourne Classic is on from Friday September 21 until Sunday September 23 at The Space, Prahran. For more information head to impromelbourne.com.au.

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TALES OF THE BLACK FOREST Titillating fairytales will take to the stage at Red Bennies this September in Alex Shoeﬀel’s new work Tales Of The Black Forest. Choreographed and cowritten by Eden Read, the show brings burlesque to the fairytales of Grimm in a deﬁnitively adults only psychosexual circus. Who knew dwarves, maidens, wolves and bears could be so sexy? Performances will take place over three nights from Thursday September 20 to Saturday September 22, commencing at 7pm. Visit redbennies.com for further information.

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MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK FILM PROGRAM Melbourne Music Week have unveiled their film program for 2012, taking place at ACMI and Rooftop Cinema. The Cinemix program at ACMI bands creating never-before-heard soundtracks to classic films – live and exclusive to MMW and ACMI. The first of two shows will see Nick Huggins and band provide a rare experience as they play Nick’s score live to I Am Eleven. Free music docos will be showing at Rooftop for Melbourne Music Week, including Shut Up And Play The Hits; Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest), and Autonomy And Deliberation featuring local proto-punks The UV Race. More MMW acts, concerts and events will be announced when the full program and website goes live on October 4.

MALTHOUSE THEATRE 2013 SEASON Whenever a theatre considers their program for the next year, it’s often handpicked and duitfully considered, as each product should have the ability to transport its audience to unique realms of their imagination. The 2013 Season Program for The Malthouse Theatre does just that. Comprising of a collection of works that explore identity, relationships and take you on quests to the unknown, Hate will do this. Illustrating the story of a dysfunctional, megalomaniac family, Hate explores how power, corruption and greed aﬀect our relationships. 247 Days dabbles in various perceptions of the world and the dynamism of our world, while Dance Of Death explores the concept that anguish can fuel love in a dying marriage. A full program of the 2013 Season at The Malthouse Theatre and ticketing information can be found at malthousetheatre.com.au

FRIDAY ON MY MIND Friday On My Mind is a free weekly interview series consisting of directors, writers, producers, actors and other industry professionals. It is considered a great way to understand the constructs and operations of the film making industry and this month they’ll be presenting rising screenwriter Shaun Grant. Grant is particularly known for his award winning Snowtown, a film adaption of the Snowtown Murders in Adelaide during the ‘90s. It’s garnered positive reception nationally and internationally, and following its success it cemented Grant a place cowriting and developing his first TV series, Killing Time. Grant’s talk will cover developing the skills needed as a writer — particularly that of a screen writer — how to get your foot in the door and how to establish yourself in the industry. Grant’s talk will feature at Friday On My Mind at the ACMI Friday September 21 at 5pm. Admission is free.

FOREPLAY When a leaked phone call links local council bigwig Rod Chambers to an unknown sex worker his closest aide pushes him to spin the incident and seize the ‘victim’ window. The Minister, however, considers the matter private and the political implications moot: the Victorian trade is legal, out of the public eye and, frankly, a dead topic. What follows is the interconnected stories of men and women surrounding the sex industry, from feminists to gossips, health experts, sex industry representatives, the disabled and the parents. As part of Melbourne Fringe, Foreplay will run at Goodtime Studios from September 20 – September 29. Check out melbournefringe.com.au for more information.

IDIOTIC MONKEY BRAIN Local man and co-owner of The Old Bar Joel Morrison will be exhibiting more of his stupid paintings. Entitled Idiotic Monkey Brain the exhibition reﬂects on a day when Mr Morrison was sure people would ﬁnd out that his monkey brain was, indeed, idiotic. With musical guests Rich Davies, George Hyde & Josh Seymour and Eli Cash it’s sure to be the night of the cultural calendar. 7pm, Tuesday September 25 at Old Bar. Free entry, cheapwads.

DOCKLANDS ARTS & LAUGHS FESTIVAL The Docklands Arts & Laughs Festival will kick off in October for five days of blues music, cabaret, theatre, arts and laughs right in the heart of Docklands. The festival will feature Dave Callan and Jeff Green bringing the laughs, plus sets from Dream Boogie, Lloyd Spiegel and many more. Head along to docklandsartsandlaughsfestival.com.au for a full list of performers and locations. Docklands Arts & Laughs Festival runs Wednesday October 3 – Sunday October 7.

Forget about the Taco Truck, get your taste of Mexico at the 7th annual Hola Mexico Film Festival. After a successful tour through Los Angeles, the festival will hit Melbourne this October. The opening night party, which will include a screening of the feel good flick Mariachi Gringo, will take place on Friday October 19. The Australian Centre For The Moving Image is host to the festival as it combines the best of Mex in a week of fun, film and delicious foods. Adios boredom! It will run at the ACMI cinemas from October 19 until Sunday October 28, tickets can be purchased at holamexicoff.com

WITTENBERG Forget George Pell and Richard Dawkins, as Red Theatre presents the Australian premiere of Wittenberg, it’s Dr. John Faustus against Martin Luther in this entertaining exploration of reason versus faith. Set in 1517 in Wittenberg, Germany, David Davalos’ play blurs the space/time continuum to draw together three of the city’s most notable residents, Faustus, Luther and Shakespeare’s Prince Hamlet as their star pupil at Wittenberg University. Directed by Jane Montgomery Griﬃths, the result is a ‘tragical-comical-historial’ play in two parts. With previews taking place on Wednesday October 4 and Thursday October 5, the show will run from Friday October 5 until Saturday November 3 (not Monday or Tuesday) at the Red Stitch Actors Theatre, St. Kilda. Bookings through redstitchtheatre.net

POLISH FILM FESTIVAL ACCA ART BAR The first of what will be a regular event, ACCA’S all new Art Bar will kick off with an early night viewing of the two current exhibitions, Pat Brassington: À Rebours and Sculptural Matter, then a party! Lounge, drink and relax to the soothing sounds of local outift Superstar and Triple R’s Breaking & Entering DJ Lauren Taylor, who’ll spin the latest new releases from Icelandic reggae to altcountry and heaps of other genres. It will take place on the last Friday of every ACCA exhibition season, kicking off this Friday September 21.

VICTORIAN OPERA ANNOUNCES 2013 SEASON The Victorian Opera will be hosting its most exciting season to date, as new Artistic Director Richard Mills showcases a collection of works that herald classical masterpieces and our childhood. Stephen Sondheim’s Pultizer Prize winning, and broadway classic, Sunday In The Park With George features on the program, as well as John Adam’s acclaimed Nixon In China. Mills hopes to ‘introduce young audiences to opera’ and Victorian Opera is doing this through their adaption of Norman Lindsay’s classic The Magic Pudding. More information about the 2013 Season of the Victorian Opera can be found at victorianopera.com.au.

Melbourne will be hosting the 2012 Polish Film Festival this October, including the world premiere of My Father’s Bike, a poignant ﬁlm about a man who establishes a relationship with his long-lost son. Other highlights include the premiere of The Fifth Season Of The Year, a tale about a relationship fostered between a retired piano teacher and a coal miner; Rosa, a German-Polish widow who begins a relationship with a former Polish Home Army Man and how they recover from the War; and silent ﬁlm Mania that stars Polish actress Pola Negri. Hosted at the Classic Cinema in Elsternwick the Polish Film Festival is an event for cinema and polish lovers alike. Screenings, ticket purchases and more information can be found at classiccinemas.com.au.

SYDNEY ROAD SHORT FILM COMPETITION The sixth annual Sydney Road Short Film Competition will showcase all that’s great about the area in ﬁlm form over the course of three weeks. Highway 31 and Edinburgh Castle will host screenings on Wednesday and Thursday nights, with Rotana Café hosting the ten ﬁnalists on closing night. Films will be competing for a grand prize of $4000, plus a $500 encouragement award. The competition will be showing from Wednesday September 26 until Sunday October 14. Head to sydneyroad.com.au for more details.

Greg Fleet headlines Felix Bar Comedy tonight down in St Kilda! He’s a legend not only in Australia, but right around the world! And he’s on his home turf in St Kilda! Plus we’ve got Tommy Little, Michael Williams, Mat Kenneally, Karl Woodberry and Mick Neven! Come down and check out the biggest night of comedy in St Kilda, every Wednesday night! It’s happening this Wednesday September 19 at 8.30pm for only $12, at Felix Bar, St Kilda.

CHECKPOINT CHARLIE COMEDY Tonight Wednesday September 19, Adam Rozenbachs (Spicks & Specks, Rove) will rock the MC duties as Josh Earl (Spicks & Specks, Talkin’ Bout Your Generation), Bart Freebairn, Simon Taylor and more spit funnies into the business end of a loud stick. Plus the debut of bespectacled powerhouse Glasses & Glasser! For just $5. So come ﬁll yourself with cheap piss and put your continence to the ultimate test. Check in 8pm tonight at Eurotrash Bar - 18 Corrs Lane, Melbourne. Get down early for a seat

COMMEDIA DELL PARTE This week at Commedia Dell Parte Khaled Khalafalla will be presenting his new show Devious! Joining Khaled will be Johnny P, Robbie Taylor, David Ferrier, Toby Halligan and Ailsa Dunlop with your MC for the night Xander Allan. Make sure you get in early to secure yourself a comfy couch, see some amazing comedy 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. Commedia Dell Parte runs every Thursday from 8.30pm at the George Lane Bar, St Kilda.

SOFTBELLY COMEDY It’s the relaunch night of Softbelly Comedy at a brand new location! And to celebrate, we’ve got a massive lineup! We have Dave Callan (Triple J, Rove), plus Dave Thornton (Fox FM, The Project)! And the support crew include Luke McGregor, Don Tran and more! It’s going to be a massive night and a great chance to check out the swank new location. It’s all happening this Thursday September 20 at Pop Restaurant (upstairs), 68 Hardware Lane, City at 8.30pm, for only $13! Get in early!

SUPER COMEDY CRAZY SHOW This Sunday the Super Comedy Crazy Show is going completely musical. To ensure that this is the Super Craziest show yet, mega host and frequent nighty wearer Matt Burton has claimed that if over 87 people show up to this event he will Hitchhike from Melbourne to Alice Springs and back wearing only his favourite pink nighty. To make this unnecessary journey more wrought with crazy he will do this without money or a phone, relying completely on the goodness of his fellow man and the lessons he’s learnt watching all seasons of MacGyver. To make sure this happens, be at 303 High St this Sunday at 7:30pm. The stunningly good line up includes Ryan Coﬀey, Luke McGregor, Jason English, Daniello Conello, Tony Rodriguez and many more. Show costs $10. Memories last forever! Tram drivers free.

RUSSELL BRAND UK comedian Russell Brand has announced a huge Australian arena tour. The I Am A Walrus Tour takes its name from the similarly titled Beatles track, which Brand performed at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. Brand has emerged as one of the most electrifying comedians of the past half-decade, going on to take top billing in ﬁlms such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him To The Greek. Russell Brand performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday December 7. Tickets through Ticketek from 9am Tuesday September 25.

COMEDY AT SPLEEN Mondays at Spleen are always a full house and a great night! This Monday, we have Jonathan Schuster hosting for the ﬁrst time. Holy crap, who knows how the night will go. Plus Karl Chandler, Jason English, Steele Saunders, Shayne Hunter, Emily O’Loughlin, Karl Woodberry and heaps more! It’s this Monday September 24, 41 Bourke St, in the city, at 8.30pm. It may be free, but we appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door!

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Prolific iconoclast and king of weird multi-genre music Frank Zappa built and used his own studio, named The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, for many of his own recordings before his death in 1993. A small and innovative space (housing the famous ‘echo chamber’), it is still operating to this day under the management of Zappa’s widow Gail and son, Dweezil, whose dedication to authenticity has ensured much of its set-up is just the way Zappa senior left it. It was in this studio that Macy Gray, five time Grammy Award nominee and victor of one, recorded her latest album Covered. The aurally distinctive and highly respected singer is touring to promote the release, which sees her presenting 16 of her favourite songs in her own matchless way, and she is pretty excited to be playing two of the biggest venues in the land: Sydney’s Opera House, and Melbourne’s newly gussied-up Hamer Hall. “The last time I was [in Australia] I think we performed on [Australian Idol], and we rocked around a few radio stations. But I didn’t do a live performance,” Gray explains over the horrific telephone line with which we’ve been blighted. “Before that was way back, like 2003.” Since then Gray has released four studio albums, collaborated on multiple tracks with an absolute myriad of other musicians, acted in a number of films, opened her own music academy and raised her three, now teenaged, children. Not exactly putting her feet up, ol’ Macy. On a reel of behindthe-scenes footage during Covered’s recording, she mentions how fabulous Zappa’s studio was to work in, and it’s this that I ask her about first. “Oh, it’s awesome,” she says warmly with that same slow, overstated articulation of her singing voice “It’s just like, a perfectly built studio. You get the sound from the studio, the wood inside. The way [Zappa] built it, it’s so perfect. You’ve got to see it, it’s pretty amazing.” Hal Willner, who produced the album, is also a devotee of the way Gray prefers to record: with all musicians playing live together in the one room, as opposed to the more common method of isolation. “Well that’s how they used to make records,” says Gray. “So it’s actually the natural way to do it. You actually get a way better performance because you’re live, and you don’t want to be the one that messes up. It’s a way better way to record for me. It’s way more immediate.” Gray had wanted to record an album of covers for a long time, but no label she’d been with had ever considered it a viable project. It wasn’t until she signed with 429 Records last year that her design could come to realisation. “They thought it was a good idea and I played them some of the music that we were going to record and they liked it, so it’s kind of the right people who want to do what you want to do.” What Gray wanted to do was choose a pretty eclectic bag of tracks, including Radiohead’s Creep, Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters, and Arcade Fire’s Wake Up. The instrumentation and approach to vocals and their phrasing is markedly different from each original, making these tracks true reinterpretations rather than just rehashes. Wake Up in particular, the song which accompanied the recent adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s gorgeous story Where The Wild Things Are, is very apt for Gray as she’s always encompassed something of a childlike bearing. “Oh, I love the lyrics to that song,” she says. “What it’s about and the way [Win Butler] says it is so awesome, and it was really the lyrics of that song for me. It has that rebel yell in it. I just like it,” she concludes with the gravity of someone who knows the statement means more coming from her mouth than your regular human.

“YOU ACTUALLY GET A WAY BETTER PERFORMANCE BECAUSE YOU’RE LIVE, AND YOU DON’T WANT TO BE THE ONE THAT MESSES UP. IT’S A WAY BETTER WAY TO RECORD FOR ME. IT’S WAY MORE IMMEDIATE.” The childlike mien extends to Gray’s behaviour, as she connects with her fans in ways some musicians would never dream of doing. During recording for Covered she put her telephone number up on her site, so that admirers could ring up and chat. The idea came from the studio’s namesake himself, as Gray explains: “I was out with Frank Zappa’s wife, and she said that he got a hotline in the studio. He’d put the phone number on records and whenever he wasn’t busy he’d pick up the phone. And I thought that was the coolest thing: that people would just call through,” she says with real wonderment. “So I put up a Skype number. I was doing it for like two weeks straight; I would set an hour aside during the day to talk to people.” It’s almost like ChatRoulette, but less dicey (one would hope). In addition to her tour dates, a major studio ﬁlm which Gray has narrated is due to be released in October. “It’s called Paperboy,” she says. “Nicole Kidman’s in it, and John Cusack... it’s a pretty great movie.” As the crossmedium work keeps rolling forth, Gray certainly doesn’t look to be resting on her laurels at any near point, and her shows promise to be a lush aﬀair encompassing all of the soul, humour and verve that her fans have come to love. MACY GRAY plays the Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne on Friday September 21. Covered is out now on 429 Records. She also plays a DJ set at Red Bennies afterwards. Beat Magazine Page 28

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Anna Lunoe: Say No More

REAL TALK I have absolutely no greater guilty pleasure than looking over the photos from nightclubs in regional towns. I originate from a country town which will go unnamed, but let’s just say the local nightspot has been voted on numerous occasions as the worst nightclub in Australia. And the photos. Oh maaaaaaaan. Seriously, you’ve gotta’ try it. Tyson Wray

Summadayze: New Year’s Day Shenanigans It’s time to get set as Summadayze returns with a kaleidoscope of sounds, armed with an inspired lineup jam packed with “enough block rocking beats to leave you in a spin!” For more than a decade, Summadayze has ruled supreme as Australia’s most iconic New Years Day celebration. Year after year Summadayze strives to bring the best international live acts whilst also introducing Australian audiences to an inspired selection of the most talked about new acts from around the world. Once again, Summerdayze music festival will take to the picturesque setting of Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl for what will undoubtedly be another unforgettable New Years Day experience, featuring the likes of The Chemical Brothers (DJ set), M.I.A (who already ‘leaked’ herself to be performing yesterday), Mark Ronson and Kimbra, plus heaps more including Knife Party, Fedde Le Grand, Booka Shade, Eddie Halliwell, AN21 & Max Vangeli, Carl Craig 69 (Live), Maya Jane Coles, Disclosure (Live), Erol Alkan, Fake Blood, Adrian Lux, Breakbot Live, Hudson Mohawke, Araabmuzik, Icona Pop, Scuba, Aeroplane, Jesse Rose, Danny Daze, AC Slater and locals Stafford Brothers and Timmy Trumpet. Summerdayze hits the Sidney Myer Music Bowl is Tuesday January 1.

Big Daddy Kane: Still Gettin’ The Job Done One of the most respected lyrical legends in hip hop has announced his long-overdue debut Australian tour. Since breaking through in the mid-‘80s with Juice Crew, Big Daddy Kane has established himself as one of the most influential MCs of all time. Working with some certified legends throughout his storied career, Big Daddy Kane still reigns as one of the major players in the rap game. Big Daddy Kane hits The Espy on Thursday October 4.

Future Music: Bridging The Gap

EMI Music Australia and Future Entertainment have launched an exclusive label deal between the two major music companies. This new and exclusive label entitled Future Music will see the release of various compilations, artist signings from big international superstars through to the hottest emerging local talent, ticketing bundle offers, brand partnerships and much more to be announced soon.

Dance music extraordinaire Anna Lunoe is returning home for a very special east coast tour. After a hugely successful jaunt around the Northern Hemisphere, she has returned with some serious credentials to boot. Topping Beatport’s indie/dance chart for the past eight weeks with “Real Talk”, sporting six figure Youtube views and dropping beats amongst the northern hemisphere’s celebrity elite, Anna is back in Australia and ready to make you get on your feet. Catch her at Can’t Say on Friday September 21.

Above & Beyond: Around The World Giants of trance Above & Beyond have announced their return to Australia, taking on a massive run of stadium dates this January. The UK trio have established themselves as one of the most respected names in trance globally, with over 30 million listeners tuning into their weekly radio show Trance Around The World. The outfit were last in Australia earlier in 2012 for Creamfields. Above & Beyond perform at Hisense Arena on Saturday February 2.

Low B, Dirty South Joe, Major Taylor: Park Street Party Where?House: It Begins

More of the lineup for this year’s Melbourne Music Week has been announced, including three massive parties at the mysterious Where?House. Where?House will see an iconic Melbourne space transformed into a temporary cultural and multi-function hub, providing the flagship pop-up venue for Melbourne Music Week. The Marksthespot creative team of Kevin Karlberg and Starr Guzman are the driving force behind Where?House and are thrilled to be able to announce these first three major nights. Performing on the opening night of Friday November 16 will be Housse De Racket and Pillowtalk alongside New War, Harris Robotis and Bamboo Musik. Then on Sunday November 18 the Detroit master Mike Huckaby will take to the decks alongside Ben Sims, Four By Four and more, then on Thursday November 22 will feature homegrown heroes Spoonbill and Opiuo alongside Tipper, Eskmo and Beats Antique. The actual location of Where?House will not be revealed until Friday November 16, the opening of Melbourne Music Week. Tickets for these three events are on sale now. Check out where-house.com.au for further information.

Vic Bar have gone and announced that they will be hosting their second annual free block party. Local artists and DJs will team up with international stars such as Low B and Dirty South Joe to create one of the best street parties Melbourne will see this year. One half of the influential duo Hollertronix Low Budget, Mad Decent representative Dirty South Joe and Philadelphia turntable legend Major Taylor will join locals Slippery MC, Kev Fresh, M.A.F.I.A, Sammy The Bullet, Get Busy and more. The Vic Bar will host the Park Street Party on Saturday October 20.

Liknuts: The Alkaholiks & The Beatnuts

Combining two of the greatest hip hop party groups from the west and east coasts respectively, The Alkaholiks (Tash, J-Ro and DJ E-Swift) and The Beatnuts (Ju Ju and Psycho Les) are joining forces to bring you the rampaging supergroup Liknuts. If that line up isn’t enough by itself, ONYX (Fredro Starr and Sticky Fingaz) will also be making the journey down under to bring their energetic performance to the night as well. Liknuts perform at Prince Bandroom on Thursday November 1.

DJ Profile: FuntCase Delano Smith: Baby Wants 2 Ride #2

I guess when you read about another DJ from Detroit, their name is usually backed up with a bunch of respected and well seasoned names. First comes The Electrifying Mojo, who, along with those robots from Germany inspired the first wave, next usually comes the second wave, all of who in turn inspired the new and upcoming sprouts worldwide who are currently making their voices heard across the world. However a name you don’t hear so often is Ken Collier who, whilst inspiring a who bunch of Detroit DJs to collect as many records as they can and take to the decks like wildcats, also took time out to mentor young aspiring jocks like the one and only Delano Smith. One of the most respected and revered DJs amongst those early pioneers and with personal testimonies like those above, the words and love rings louder than a metal scrapper at the packard plant. Nuff said. Shit will be going down at New Guernica on Cup Eve, Monday November 5 with supports Andras Fox, J’Nett & Lil’ Frosty.

Riot Featuring Downlink: Day Party

Solar Empire, When In Rome and Kurk Kokane have combined forces to present Melbourne’s epic movement towards bass-heavy tunes. The first show will feature bass master Downlink, the international sensation whose roots in jungle and drum and bass and upbringing in the Canadian dubstep scene has led to his extraordinary, adrenaline fuelled style. He has been consistently successful on the Beatport charts, holding down four of the top 10 chart spots at one time, and was met with tremendously affirmative response to his sets on the Subsonic tour in the states. Doors open from 2pm until 10pm and tickets to the event include a BBQ feast on the newly renovated courtyard at RMH on Sunday October 14.

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EDITORIALDEADLINE - 2PM FRIDAYS NO EXCEPTIONS UP TO DATE

Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up? I once woke up in a hotel hallway in Australia after sleepwalking. I was only in my boxers and reception was closed until 7am and I think I was stranded at about 4am. I had to sit around doing nothing and eventually an hour or two later I heard someone wake up so I got them to call the manager! Describe yourself using the title of a song. Dangerous - Michael Jackson What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child? That WWF wrestling was fully real and that if those people walked the streets they would kill people. The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? It’s one of two: when someone said my set was amazing then they walked off, and I heard them say I was Skream, or I recently met DJ Zinc and he asked how old I was, I said 26, then he said I looked too young to be that age and pinched my cheek. What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat? The Cartoons - Witch Doctor What’s the most played record in your bag? 50 Caliber (Crissy Criss Remix) - FuntCase What question would you like to ask an omniscient, allknowing being before you die? Will mankind ever perish at the hands of an all natural disaster as the monks had predicted? Or will mankind simply destroy itself? If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead? Well if I had the choice I’d say in a record shop or music shop. I’d love to have the ability to play guitars or drums or make music when the shop wasn’t busy. I’d never be bored! When and where is your next gig? Saturday September 22 at Roxanne Parlour with Doctor P, Cookie Monsta and more.

HEY MATE, WE’RE RUNNING OKTOBERFEST FROM SEP 27 TO OCT 7 WITH A BIG PARTY & BBQ ON THE 30TH & 7TH. 6 GERMAN BEERS ON TAP & 1 CZECH LAGER.

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HUMPDAY ANIMALS From 10pm

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THE BLACK PANCAKE CLUB Richie 1250 (PBS) From 10pm

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BUHLOONE MINDSTATE It might blow up but it won’t go pop! D’fro & Mugen From 10pm

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EY:EM Boogs Who Dave Pham From 10pm

THE BIG MAG FOR CLUB CULTURE

NICK SENTIENCE

“Usually a good gig is inspiration, when you feel the energy of the dance floor it makes me want to write music straight away.”

FEVAH PITCH: IN SYNC Since crashing onto the EDM scene over a decade ago Nick Sentience has become one of the most in-demand DJs and producers around. He graduated from wideeyed young lad to weary-eyed veteran with ease. “I was 17 fresh from college, and I was signed to Nukleuz Records and ready to take on London,” Sentience tells us with reverence. A case of right guy, right place, right time, Sentience found his opportunity and took it. “As anyone will tell you, London 2001 was a golden era of clubbing and it really was incredible. The positive energy and enthusiasm that you got from the clubbers was

second to none.” At age 21, after learning the London ropes, he threw himself into the scene. Understandably it would be quite the lifestyle change for anyone, let alone someone just entering adulthood. “It was a whirlwind of gigs and tours and clubs and planes. The life of a DJ in 2001 was a great place to be.” Living the rock star lifestyle “and then some,” Sentience was able to indulge in five star hotels and limousines and enjoyed big pay packets. Like every bubble however, it was bound to burst. “This was before file sharing ruined the music industry. Now promoters are watching every

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penny.” While the glitz and glamour may not exist as much in the material form these days, many DJs such as Sentience still carry a rock star aura and remain the top choice for headlining gigs across the world. He has become acquainted with the road and is used to never being in one place for too long, but he wouldn’t have it any other way. In fact, he is fresh from a visit to his Italian fans. “I’ve just been to Ancona in Italy for a really great party that was full of love for hard trance. Such a beautiful country.” His international travels will next see him return to Australia, after a somewhat lengthy absence, especially in music years. “I’m really looking forward to coming over. The last time I was here was two years ago when I played in Sydney and I lived on the Gold Coast for six months.” Just as his fans feed on the intense energy of his psy trance epics like Sylo and Kinetic, Sentience feeds off the enthusiasm of the fans. “The Aussies are always up for it and are positive crowds, [they’re] always a pleasure to play for.” He will be heading back down under to ring in the second Fevah party in Melbourne with a massive lineup, following the highly successful 15th anniversary celebration in July. He is looking forward to the opportunity to bring the noise to his Australasian brethren once again and in fact has a long history with Australian and New Zealand audiences. “The Aussies and Kiwi’s in London were the main reason I enjoyed the Fevah and Frantic gigs because they were so up for it. We need more of them in London I think, like 2001.” Now established as one of the biggest brands in the EDM scene, Fevah and its associated events, including Frantic, have come to signify the ultimate live experience across the globe. Now a veteran, Sentience has a unique perspective as someone who was there at the early Fevah parties. Even in those formative days he felt a tangible energy that couldn’t be denied. “I’ve always loved the vibe at Fevah gigs. Back in the day Eamonn and Wayne would put on great parties and I’d always feel welcome when I turned up.” It wasn’t just the hand-picked selection of music that kept Sentience and everyone else coming back, it was the atmosphere and all the other ingredients that make for a great night out. “I’ll always remember Sambuca shots with Eamon at a club called Tube on a Sunday night after Solid Sunday. Hardcore.” Melbourne’s second Fevah bash, taking place at Room 680 next Friday, will find Nick joined by a host of fellow international globetrotters, many of which he has a long history with dating back to the early Fevah parties, including Danny Gilligan and Paul Robertson. “We all grew up together clubbing and DJing in London in the golden times, circa 2001. I remember when Camden Palace had its doors open every Saturday night.” He credits Danny Gilligan as one of the people that has kept the scene alive and the one that brought him on board for the upcoming event in Melbourne. “Danny [Gilligan] is a legend the world over for being the most up-for-it and energetic DJ and promoter you could find, and always has the party spirit within him. It’s Danny that made all this come together.” Fellow headliner Paul Robertson is another person who has had a significant role in Nick’s development as a DJ, a producer and a person. “Paul [Robertson] is a good friend of mine from years of clubbing and parties. He has just made a great name for himself in Oz.” In fact Sentience and Robertson helped established each other globally with their epic collaboration, the aforementioned Sylo. Two years after recording the track it was snapped up by Simon Patterson for his Night Vision label and went global, hitting no.1 on the Trackitdown chart. Another of his fellow Fevah headliners has been hugely significant in his life in many ways. That person is his wife and fellow DJ Nikki S. “I have real

respect for her as a DJ and promoter. She knows what the dance floor wants, how to fill a club in London, a very hard thing to do these days, and will work her socks off to make everyone’s night as good as it can be.” Just as the Fevah parties and the EDM scene in general has evolved over time, so too has technology. Gear is now easier to find, more affordable and much more streamlined, so DJs no longer need to lug around heavy analogue equipment. Sentience for one is enjoying the many benefits it provides, particularly in the area of social media. “Technology has improved a lot and there are more ways to connect with people than ever before, so there’s a lot more things to do.” With the ability to connect with fans and fellow DJs so easily and effectively, Sentience believes social media has made nothing but a positive impact on the EDM scene and live events. “The parties of today are more special I would say,” he says of the interactive element. As a DJ who is constantly on the road and a producer that creates highly emotive anthems his relationship and connection with his audience is highly important. The vibe he gets from the crowd can greatly influence his energy not just in the live setting but in the studio as well. “Usually a good gig is inspiration, when you feel the energy of the dance floor it makes me want to write music straight away.” This could help explain the frantic energy being exerted by someone who is otherwise quite mild-mannered. For a man that has created such floor thumpers as Digital Dialogue and Nocturnal however, Sentience looks to maintain his sanity and does enjoy his relaxation time. “You may be surprised to know that I write chill out music as well. I have been re-learning the piano and using music theory to write whatever genre I like.” While there are no indications on whether any of these tunes will be released, it is intriguing. “The music that gets released has been mainly floor fillers,” he says. As someone who is well schooled in the industry Sentience understands the concept of supply and demand, so he remains prolific in pumping out the intense epics. That is not to say that he doesn’t have other artistic ambitions. “That is just one side of me. I think variety in music is a good thing. I listen to Zen Connection CDs to wind down, they are great.” Keeping his fans fed and satisfied, Nick Sentience is currently working on the yet-to-be-titled follow-up to 2011’s Syncronized. Always remaining on the edge of technological advances in the EDM world he is working on putting together the live show for the new album, which will be an audio-visual presentation, sinking up graphics with the audio. In addition to his fourth studio album he is also looking at pushing things forward in other areas. Lending his considerable expertise and credentials Sentience is working on creating a sample pack for the Logic software platform, which contains construction kits “to work from and get inspiration from in the studio.” He also reveals that collaborations with Jordan Suckley and Simon Patterson are on the way. From the studio to the office Sentience takes a handson approach with everything he does, serving as his own website designer and video editor, as well as being an in-demand studio engineer for other artists. “So there’s always lots to do and lots more to look forward to,” he says with the nonchalant manner of a veteran. Andrew ‘Hazard’ Hickey Nick Sentience [UK] performs alongside Nikki S [UK], Paul Robertson [UK] and more at Room 680 on Friday September 28.

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WEDNESDAY19TH COQ ROQ Rocking Wednesdays at Lucky Coq are rotating DJs Lady Noir, Agent 86, Kiti, Mr Thom, Joybot and guests giving you nothing but the best new wave, punk, brit pop, bong rap and hair metal. Coq Roq takes place every Wednesday from 8pm with free pool downstairs from 9pm as well as drink specials. Roq out! Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

HUMPDAY ANIMALS Enter the middle of the week; for some it’s the beginning of the weekend, for others it’s a break from study, for those of us who are travelling, it probably has no real significance (unless you’re wanting to party with the hot European girls from the hostel, because any day is simply another day when you’re travelling). Your midweek stomping ground, featuring DJs Danny Silver, Manchild & Mu-Gen. Free entry. From 10pm. Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

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DUBSTEP THURSDAYS It’s Dubstep, it’s Eurotrash, it’s new, it’s the vibe, it’s Thursdays, it’s weekly and it’s free. So get down to Eurotrash and get your wobble on. Eurotrash Bar, 18 Corrs Lane, Off Chinatown, Melbourne CBD

FREE RANGE FUNK Funk up your Thursday nights with Free Range Funk at the Windsor favourite Lucky Coq. Grab a couch early and enjoy one (or more) of their famous $4 pizzas from 7-11pm. Meanwhile DJs Who, Agent 86, Lewis CanCut and special guests tempt you into the night with their eclectic bag of treats. Setting the mood early is delightful jazz, deep soul, and funk. Later it’s fruity disco, choice house, and hipster dance drops. Free entry every Thursday. Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

FUN HOUSE Celebrate Thursday night at Co. with club classics and dance floor anthems. Co., Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

With more flavour than a chocolate pizza, the Wednesday Soul Army throws down raw, uncut funk next to smooth soul grooves and rare blue jams. Bring that special lady because when the boys lay down the love it could be the difference between ‘we’re just friends’ to ‘let’s get it on’. PBS stalwarts Vince Peach and Miss Goldie accompany Prequel and Black Diamond Kicks weekly. Free. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

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Don’t have lectures tomorrow? Need a break from writing that last-minute assignment? Or simply just celebrating the end of hump day? Don’t miss Melbourne’s biggest mid-week party night – Wednesdays @ Co.! With free entry and discounted drinks for students all night long! Co., Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

LAUNDRY WEDNESDAYS Deep, dark, minimal dubstep and drum and bass. Laundry Bar, 50 Johnston Street, Fitzroy

THURSDAY20TH BIMBO THURSDAYS

Slow House Thursdays is just what Brunswick has been missing. Get down to the latest Thursday spot at Noise Bar, find a space with your bros and get into the as DJs Same O, David Bass and James Hurt spin bass laced tunes ‘til the early hours of the morning. Noise Bar, 291 Albert Street, Brunswick The Black Pancake Club is where disc-jockeys bring in their treasured record collections to share with yaw’ll. Expect undiscovered nuggets, lost gems, far out there covers, moog inspired themes, and a host of other eclectic delicacies and toppings for your black pancakes! Taste makers on rotation include Shags and Richie 1250. Free entry. From 10pm. Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

WONDERLUST Fate, karma, the yin and the yang, the balance between chaos and order or divine intervention? A new spiritual high has emerged from the cosmic energies of the universe and it’s called Wonderlust! As luck would have it you can come and experience the effects of this strange new phenomena every Thursday night at The Carlton! Carlton Club, 193 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Tigerfunk brings with him his full band of travelling gypsies, hipsters and middle class executives, all of whom are prepared to deliver the most excitement you can have this side of the weekend. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

“It might blow up but it won’t go pop” is the philosophy at Buhloone Mindstate and features Melbourne’s finest bands and DJs playing every Friday night, late. That’s just how we roll. We’re all about the late night boogie. Expect all things funk, hip-hop, soul, reggae, disco, boogie and house. Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

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Co. At Crown’s Saturday night party Sound Empire this week features mega sounds from resident DJs Tate Strauss, Miss Sarah, Nova, Johnny M, Matty G, Dean T, Joe Sofo, Marcus Knight, Dinesh, Chris Ostrom, B-Boogie and Sarah Roberts. Co., Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

The weekend starts here! Get on down for after work drinks from 5pm with DJs Marcus Knight, Mark Pellegrini, Nick Van Wilder & DJ Anferny getting your weekend started right. 5pm til 3am. CQ, 113 Queen St, Melbourne

FIRST FLOOR FRIDAYS A journey of international music from all over the world; past, present and future rhythms incorporating afro, soul, funk, world and deep house elements! First Floor, 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

FREEDOM PASS Friday’s at Freedom with 2 premier clubs, 5 huge rooms, 10+ local and international DJs blending their unique sets across countless styles of tunes – vocal house, smooth R&B, electro and commercial top 40. Throw in a few sexy podium dancers, a world-class lights show and drink specials, the Freedom Pass is your personal ticket to a night you won’t soon forget! Fusion, Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

FRIDAY NIGHT LOFT PARTY Kitty Schmidt couldn’t find quality dance music in Fitzroy so she’s decided to open up her bedroom doors. Living above Melbourne’s stalwart lesbian/gay Libation Bar, she’s now throwing a monthly party in her boudoir. Come into her renovated upstairs loft, cocktail bar, dance floor and smoking terrace. With quirky house, deep disco and erotic electronica being spun by Marvin Roland, Mr. Pyz and Kitty Schmidt DJs. Libation, 302 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

MEZZANINE & BACK ROOM Mezzanine gives you the freedom to enjoy the alternativesophisticated-opulence any way you like it. Journey into the realms of the Back Room where you can indulge in our intimate dungeon and play areas where you’ll be free to explore the many facets of your lifestyle in privacy. Dirty electro fusion by Mannequin and Xtian. Dress neat smart and sexy or alternative. ABODE Level One - 374 St Kilda Rd (cnr Martin St), St Kilda

DJ CKass will take you on a musical journey to the retro sounds of the ‘70s and ‘80s, followed by Top 40. One Twenty Bar, 120 Johnston St, Fitzroy

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STAR SATURDAYS Star Saturdays - smashing it every Saturday! Phil Ross, Scotty Erdos, DJ Ontime, LC, Nick James, Dane Gains, Ryan Hamill, Deja, Phil Isa, Nixon, Azza M, Scotty Nix, DJ Ryza, C Dubb, Alex-J, G-Funk, Dylisco, Achos, Az, Shaggz and guests. Star Bar, 160 Clarendon St, South Melbourne

TEMPERANCE SATURDAYS DJ Marcus Knight & DJ Xander James drop sexy house, dance and drum and bass all night from 8pm. Free entry. Temperance Hotel, 426 Chapel St, South Yarra

TEXTILE Saturdays at Lucky Coq tick all the boxes so start your night early and stay til close! Famous $4 pizzas from 7-9pm (that’s dinner sorted) then from 9pm spread over two levels with DJs playing hip hop, funk, disco, house and electro. Rotating guests on both levels keep the tunes fresh. Free entry. Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

WAH WAH SATURDAYS Just when you thought Wah Saturdays couldn’t get any better, this week Rob Pix (Beng) kicks off a new rotating residency down Waratah place. Get down early to avoid the queue or alternatively you could come down very late for the infamous recovery kicking off at 4AM! Wah Wah Lounge, 185 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

WEEKEND The brain child of the creative kids at 360 Agency and Seven Nightclub. The Weekend is here to put a smile on your dial every Saturday night. We want you to join the family. Dancing from 10pm weekly. Seven, 52 Albert Rd, South Melbourne

PANORAMA Start your weekend on a good note with Panorama Fridays at Lucky Coq. DJs Matt Rad, Mr George, Tom Meagher and Phato A Mano transform the upstairs area into one hell of a house party with Hip Hop, Funk, R&B, Disco and House. Meanwhile, downstairs gives you a secluded wind down atmosphere with cult films as background visuals and quality cocktails to sip on. Let the new coqtail list wash away a crappy week! Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

RETRO SEXUAL FRIDAY DJ Grandmaster Vicious spins Fitzroy’s finest mix of ‘80s and ‘90s pop, rock, new wave, hip hop, disco classics and cheese to please plus dance floor anthems from then to now. One Twenty Bar, 120 Johnston St, Fitzroy

SATURDAY22ND BLACK LABEL Black Label is a night designed for a stylish yet edgy collective who just want to dance. Resident DJs Syme Tollens, SmuDJ, Herc Kass and invited guest Freya presenting phat minimal and chunky tech house beats. ABODE - 374 St Kilda Rd (cnr Martin St), St Kilda

EDEN SATURDAYS Smashing it every week at Melbourne’s hottest looking venue! Top 40 dance, house and R&B 9-3am, then electro from 3am - 5am. DJ Ontime, DJ Ryza, Scotty Erdos and Azza M. $15/$20, free entry after 4am. Eden, 163 Russell St, Melbourne

EUROTRASH HOUSE PARTY Put your hands in the air with some of Melbourne’s best party DJs, including including Mu-Gen, Lace em’ Tight and more. Eurotrash Bar, 18 Corrs Lane, Off Chinatown, Melbourne CBD

EY:EM EY:EM at Lounge features residents Boogs & Who, who will host Melbourne’s top purveyors of club music, showcasing both local and international DJs playing the most upfront club music. With rotating DJs Dave Pham, Sleep D, Bryce Lawrence, Louis McCoy, Caine Sinclair, Glyn Hill & Toby Mackisack. Expect nothing but excellent house music all night long. And remember, clubbing happens in the EY:EM. $10 from 11pm. Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

FIRST FLOOR SATURDAYS It’s house, electro, dub, anthems, disco and funk with guest DJs Genetix, B-Two and Oohee rocking til the break of day. Doors open 10pm with $5 basics til midnight! First Floor, 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

HOT STEP Google Hot Step and you’ll get a bunch of Vietnamese game reviews and Balkanese dances on YouTube. But that’s nothing like what you can expect to find within the confines of Bimbo on a Saturday night. Developing

thick and heavy but altogether groovy, enjoy an eclectic mix of fairy floss funk, doom disco and monk movement minimal every week. Free. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

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SUNDAY23RD SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE The perfect Sunday soundtrack with DJs Askew, Peter Baker, Booshank, Paz, Miss Butt, Junji, Disco Harry and guests. They will be laying down disco, afro beat and deep house til 3am. For lovers of good music - South Side Hustle. Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

STAR BAR SUNDAYS The original and still the best Sunday in Melbourne. Star Bar, 160 Clarendon St, South Melbourne

SUNDAE SHAKE Our Signature serve. Each and every Sunday we play host to a self professed vinyl junkie caught between the golden years and boogie wonderland. A mouthful? Perhaps. Phato Amano perfectly sets the mood for an audio-adventure that redefines the dance floor weekly. Our Sunday aficionados Agent 86 and Tigerfunk stir up a full cream shake to the flavour of your liking. Forget everything you thought you knew about losing yourself to the grooves. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

MONDAY24TH IBIMBO Have you always wanted to be a DJ but been cruelly cursed with tone deafness and a general inability to version excursion? Well Bimbo Deluxe saves the day once again.. All you need is an iPhone and you’re set. Just download the free ‘remote’ application from the app store, log into the Bimbo DJ wireless network and you choose which song plays next. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

TUESDAY25TH BIMBO TUESDAYS Bimbo Tuesday’s have long been the discerning DJs midweek breath of fresh air. An opportunity to indulge in, and to each parade their individual takes on music. A night where by the weird and wonderful is not frowned upon but rather celebrated. Resident selectors Matt Radovich, Andras Fox and Henry Who draw from a colorful array of sounds that warm your midweek blues. From 8pm, free. Bimbo Deluxe, 376 Brunswick St (Cnr Rose St), Fitzroy

COSMIC PIZZA NHJ and friends host every Tuesday night upstairs at Lucky Coq. Playing uneasy listening, freaked out bass jams, romantic comedy disco, tropi-jazz, soundtracks and shit you won’t hear on the other nights. Lucky Coq, 179 Chapel St, Windsor

FRICTION RESISTANCE IS FUTILE: BASED BASS Brighton based DJ/Producer, Friction was last year voted into the Drum And Bass Arena Hall Of Fame, and so cemented his place into the annals of the genre. But don’t expect him to rest on his laurels, Friction is aiming to make the trip to these shores a memorable one. The career of Friction (AKA Ed Keeley) has been on an upward trajectory since he started to attract attention with his three deck wizardry and released his debut single Critical Mass (as Kinnetix) back in 1998, but over the last 12 months he seems to have switched into overdrive to burst into the public consciousness. Paradoxically though, his feet seem firmly on the ground and the Shogun Audio boss is humble when discussing his position as one of the prominent players at the moment. “I’ve worked really hard to try and get where I’m going and any props that I get it still doesn’t get old, it feels great to be embedded within this scene,” he reflects from his studio in the UK, grabbing a quick 20 minutes in between his hectic schedule. “Just being an artist, coming off the back of about 15 festivals this summer and being able to turn up and play to thousands and thousands of people that was my dream,” he continues “just playing to anyone, that was my dream. Being paid for doing the job I love, so having my music out there and having that released I just love it all and doing everything I do, I don’t want it to stop.” The primary factor to his emergence out of the underground into the public eye is his appointment to the controls of the BBC Radio One drum’n’bass show, replacing the legends that are Fabio and Grooverider. They’re pretty big shoes to fill and Keeley is confident, but not complacent, that he can make the show his own. “I’m really pleased with the radio show,” he explains “I’ve tried to push as much brand new music as possible, just really focus on the music and play the best tunes. I’m never going to have Fab and Groove’s banter but loving turning up every week and doing the show.” On top of this, Keeley is the boss of Shogun Audio, the respected label that since 2004 has released artists the likes of Commix, D-Bridge and Alix Perez, many of whom featured on last year’s excellent Way Of The Warrior

compilation and so has the credentials required to source and evaluate only the prime tracks for his show. “I try and keep everything fresh by constantly looking for new music from other artists,” he continues “I’m blessed and fortunate to have the record label that I have, so I’m very in touch with everything that’s new and I just try and make sure I’ve got the music to interest and excite people.” He’s also heading our way to showcase some of those tracks and sounds like he can’t wait, “Aussie audiences are unbelievably clued up considering they’re on the other side of the world from where the heart of drum’n’bass is,” he marvels. “It’s brilliant to turn up and do a two or three hour set, play a bit of everything and people enjoy it so much, the knowledge is amazing.” This huge following for the music is replicated worldwide, with Australia being just the latest stop in an exhausting schedule for the artist. It’s indicative of a healthy environment as a whole. “I think the d’n’b scene is ridiculously strong at the moment,” he explains. “We’ve still got so many vibes and influences going on it’s great to see them all in the music. Led Astray [his last single, released earlier this year] has got bass music and dubstep influences and I think there has been a lot more cross pollination of genres. If anything d’n’b went a little too drum steppy and dubstep influenced for a bit but I think it is very, very strong at the moment. There is a lot of good stuff out there with lots of different styles.” And the good news is that over the coming months a new release of his own looks to be on the cards. “I have been in the studio non-stop any time I can get in here. With touring and festivals and stuff, its crazy but I’m embedded deep into this album project at the moment which will be due for release hopefully early next year. I’m actually sitting in my studio now, about to begin work on a remix and hopefully some other tunes later, it’s a been a manic few months.”

“I try and keep everything fresh by constantly looking for new music from other artists. I’m blessed and fortunate to have the record label that I have, so I’m very in touch with everything that’s new and I just try and make sure I’ve got the music to interest and excite people.”

Andrew Nelson Friction [UK] performs alongside Commix [UK] and more at Roxanne Parlour on Friday September 21.

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PILLOWTALK WHERE THE PARTY AT?: MYSTERIOUS WAYS San Francisco has proved itself capable of producing very distinct musical styles and diverse scenes. Emerging out of this hub of musical originality is PillowTalk who, with their idiosyncratic style, have flagged the motto ‘D.A.G.’ (Destroy All Genres). Fusing rhythms of R&B, Boogie and Disco with the modern energy filled styles of Underground House and Techno they are a prime choice for Melbourne Music Week’s electronic filled Where?House. Sammy D speaks with me about PillowTalk’s influences, creative process and his childhood fascination with Australia. Michael Tello and Sammy D met Ryan Williams in 2007 through his brother. After hanging around Ryan’s apartment where a baby grand piano was suitably located, the early beginnings of PillowTalk began to form. “[We] come from different [musical] backgrounds,” Sammy explains. “[My influence] was from my parents. Dad was into soul and jazz and I played basketball and grew up on hip hop in an all black high school... Mikey grew up in LA in a Latin community and was into hip hop and dance culture at a really early age. Ryan was more into indie rock and acoustic style music then dance music later.” Their inspiring and beautifully unique music has a range of influences from The Beach Boys to Sam Cooke; from Freddie Hubbard to Harry Nilsson; from Larry Heard to Theo Parrish. These young musicians found their sound by what Arthur Russel would describe as ‘first thought, best thought’ compositions and three musicians hovering over a baby-grand piano, late in the night with Sammy tapping away at the Wurlitzer, Tello strumming his guitar and Ryan bringing in stunning piano melodies . It wasn’t long until these organic jam sessions took serious form and an iPhone recording app was introduced. After a little ‘lab work’, these musicians had created amazingly original sounds ready for the masses. With a unique style that wields together many different elements of various genres, it’s not all that surprising to learn they have a very relaxed creative process. “We go in with not too much planned,” Sammy says, “A lot of ideas are recorded into a song. We record melody vocals onto our phone then we will get together and mess around the piano then get to the studio and work on it from there. We have no set plan when we start making stuff.”

The solo electronic performer becoming more and more common, I had to question the perks and limitations of working with an extra two members. “First and foremost, it’s an odd number so we always have a democratic vote,” Sammy laughs. “But at the same time we can all have different ideas, and get bogged down in it all which can hold up the work process. Then again, being on tour with your friends is fun and makes touring more exciting.” On the topic of tours, Sammy indulges me with some crazy stories that have gone down at shows. “I’ve never fallen,” he warns. “But someone threw a pillow at me at an event. Our power went out once too. Every night out is pretty crazy. Mikey and Ryan and I like to get down, but we’ve never been arrested!” Proud of their logo “D.A.G.” concerns about PillowTalk’s ever-changing style isn’t at the forefront of Sammy’s mind. “We don’t think about it,” he begins. “It’s whatever comes up. We don’t plan we are going to make this type of music… [we are] not worried about what direction we are going in. We probably should start thinking long term though.” The San Fran sunshine has also left its mark on the music produced by PillowTalk, saying the fairer weather allows their music to open up and to become more intimate and softer. “Weather has a huge influence on our music,” Sammy says. “When it’s cold out you want to shut the windows and get under the blankets.” Sammy admits he is blessed to have had so many local and international musical highlights. The one that takes the plate is playing at The Garden Festival in Croatia. “We played the main stage,” he says. “The crowd was really receptive. It was the perfect night.” On the top of the collaborative wish list is James Blake, Dam-Funk, Mayor Hawthorne and Twin Shadow. Excited to hit our shores for the Where?House party in Melbourne, Sammy confesses a long lost love for our fine land. “My family was about to move to Newcastle in 1984, which is before the earthquake hit,” he explains. “We ended up living in Alaska instead and consequently never moved over. I really want to see Australia and take tons of pictures. I’ve always wanted to see it in real life – it’s been a childhood fascination.” Where?House will see an iconic Melbourne space transformed into a temporary cultural and multi-function hub, providing the flagship pop-up venue for Melbourne

“A lot of ideas are recorded into a song. We record melody vocals onto our phone then we will get together and mess around the piano then get to the studio and work on it from there. We have no set plan when we start making stuff.”

Music Week 2012. In the spirit of the days when the pursuit of electronic music culture in Melbourne resembled a seek and find mission, the actual location of the Where?House venue will not be announced until the opening day of Melbourne Music Week. The cutting edge ten day program at Where?House will showcase electronic and independent music, interactive arts and technologies, local and international artists, industry events, workshops and screenings. One of three acts headlining the show, Sammy says, “I don’t know where

we are playing, but I love warehouse parties!” Tamara Vogl PillowTalk [USA] play alongside Housse de Racket [FRA] and more on Friday November 16 at Where?House on the opening night of Melbourne Music Week. Stay tuned to facebook.com/melbmusic for clues and updates about Where?House’s location.

BOOKA SHADE SUMMADAYZE HONEY SLAVES: TOMORROW BELONGS TO US Arno Kammermeier and Walter Merziger are currently back in Berlin starting production on their new live show for their forthcoming tour. They’ve just finished their fifth, yet-to-be-titled, record which they recorded in Manchester. Now, it’s just a matter of finalising the track-listing for the album and getting their new live show in order before they kick off their next world tour which starts here down under with Summadayze. “2013 is going to be a great year,” Kammermeier begins. “We recorded a lot of analogue stuff and all the acoustic instruments so the whole album will have a little bit more of, well not an acoustic feel, but of a live feel so to speak. It’s still very electronic and quite dancey but I think sonically it will have a little bit more depth because of all of these instruments and because of the noise that they make. It’s straight from the laptop and everything ran through machines which add noise so we’re quite happy with it. That’s why it takes so long nowadays for us to make albums because we like to live with the songs for quite a while and then we think ‘alright, if they don’t bore us now after almost two years then okay’.” Kammermeier says many of the synthesisers on their forthcoming fifth album were played by hand which is where the ‘live feel’ comes into play. “I hope that you will hear – and that’s always the difficult thing now – on the fifth album, how do you progress and find something new for yourself and not repeat yourself but still give the audience or the listener the feel that he/she listens to Booka Shade? Of course, there are surprises but not complete surprises. I have a good feeling.” The lads have collaborated with vocalist Fritz Helder from Toronto group Azari & III and German DJ and producer Fritz Kalkbrenner. “For a minute we thought we should call the album ‘Fritz’, Kammermeier jokes. “We have a couple of other things like Andy Cato from Groove Armada; there are little things here and there. It all feels a little bit more musical.” Having recently released two exclusive tracks

(Honeyslave and Tomorrow Belongs To Us) for the All Gone Ibiza compilation alongside Pete Tong, Kammermeier says he and Merziger are still deciding on whether either of the tracks will make an appearance on their fifth album. “We don’t know yet,” he says. “At first we thought not and now we have had so much good feedback, initially it wasn’t part of the idea because we wanted to do something completely new but now that we’ve got all this positive feedback and because we have to still finish the track-listing, probably one of the songs will make it on there.” Regardless of whether the tracks make it onto the record, being involved with the compilation was a privilege and honour for the duo and bought them a rare opportunity to work with Steve Aoki, something they’d both wanted to do for a while. “We felt very privileged because Pete Tong is a great name in Europe and he has been a great supporter of Booka Shade but also of the Get Physical label when we first started it so to be invited to do the compilation was a great honour,” he says. “Steve Aoki came along, who always wanted to do a single with us because he’s a great man, he likes the music that we do. We already met last year on a five week tour of the U.S and he always talked to us and said ‘I want to do a single with you guys’ and we never knew how to do it with him really, we couldn’t really imagine how these worlds should come together but then there were these two songs on the Pete Tong compilation and we said ‘this could be a good idea, why don’t we mix universes up and just do this’ and many people were quite surprised by this when they heard about this collaboration. But that’s great for us, we always like to surprise people and do things a little bit differently.” It is these little surprises and challenges which keep the duo happy and, having handed over their A&R responsibilities to DJ T and M.A.N.D.Y for their Get Physical label which they started back in 2002, they’re feeling even more happy about life. “The thing that we

“That’s why it takes so long nowadays for us to make albums because we like to live with the songs for quite a while and then we think ‘alright, if they don’t bore us now after almost two years then okay’.”

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loved most about the record label was when we first started it and we could produce the music for the label, we basically did the first 13-14 records for the label itself which was DJ T or Booka Shade or M.A.N.D.Y… the more successful the label became and the more the individual characters did their own stuff and everybody was on tour, the more distracted everything became and it just got to the point where we said ‘this isn’t really why we started the label’, there’s so much politics involved and so much business. “We are musicians and producers basically so we care most about the music and not so much about the A&R

stuff. Working at a record label was never my dream; my dream was always to stand on the stage and present my own music and be very proud of it.” Annabel Maclean Booka Shade [GER] perform alongside The Chemical Brothers [UK], M.I.A. [UK] and many more at Summadayze, taking place at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Tuesday January 1.

THE PSYDE PROJECTS SHINE ON: PROST MATE “German culture and hip hop, it just goes hand in hand right? It’s a weird amalgamation but, you know, it is what is”. So says Mr Moonshine about Oktoberfest at The Lucky Coq, where he and his two buddies D-Fro and ILResponce will be dropping beats and spitting rhymes for unsuspecting beer drinkers. Collectively, Mr Moonshine and co. make up The Psyde Projects, Melbourne’s own party rockers and purveyors of hip hop that’s steeped in a golden of era of production value and rhymes by MCs that don’t take themselves too seriously. Having smashed their recent support slots with legends such as Public Enemy and The Pharcyde, the trio are getting ready for a headlining tour in November in support of a soon to be released single Re-Dizzle. As a bit of a warm up for the tour, the trio will be proving the entertainment for The Lucky Coq’s annual German Beer festival. “Well we’ve had a relationship with the venue for quite a long time last year we did it and we put on some blond pigtail wigs, sort of like Helga from Germany and you know nine pints of beer in one arm but yeah it was a bit of a laugh. The boys should have a couple of cordless mics and all the beats will be coming from the DJ console or the MPC and [the MC’s] will be roaming the room and spitting rhymes as people sort of sit around looking sometimes confused,” laughs Moonshine, although the laugh quickly turns to a cough, as he’s recovering from a nasty bout of the flu. With Oktoberfest just round the corner, having the flu has even got him considering sobriety. “I haven’t [been drinking] for the last two weeks ‘cos I’ve been ill. I’ve often heard people going on about dry months and taking a break from drinking and have never thought about it myself, but I think I might give it a go and see what happens more so out of curiosity than anything. But to answer your question yes, I’m a big beer

lover. All things beer, boutique beers, standard ones, I like beer a lot.” If you manage to catch The Psyde Projects as they cavort round The Lucky Coq during Okbterfest, it’s sure to be an entertaining afternoon, however, to get a real idea of what the guys are all about, it’s really worth catching them on a stage in front of a crowd of hip-hop heads. I can vouch for this as I saw them whip the crowd into high spirits when they supported The Pharcyde at The Espy last month. “That was great,” exclaims Moonshine with a cough. “You know, we exist only because of The Pharcyde and acts like that. It was our most pleasure to be there. You can’t ask for anything more when you’re supporting a group that were a big influence on each of our respective sounds. I think if we were to die tomorrow we’d die relatively happy.” The Pharcyde’s irreverent yet clever wordplay and organic, laid back beats can clearly be heard in The Psyde Projects’ music but according to Mr Moonshine the group have a wide range of influences. “Well if we’re talking strictly hip-hop terms, People Under The Stairs, A Tribe Called Quest, nothing that’s too steeped in hardcore gangster sensibilities, you know. All those sorts of acts were collectively a big influence on us at a younger age. There’s also a wide array of other influence that aren’t hip-hop. For instance, James is a pretty serious collector of music and he’s got a wide range of different styles in his record collection. He’s just a fan of music.” It’s the best way to be surely? “I think so,“ he agrees, “at the end of the day, there’s good and bad music.” If you want to catch the guys in action in their own live setting, you can do so in November when they tour Australia, starting in Melbourne in support of a new single taken from a new album which they will be ready to drop early next year, with a launch party in a BMX store of all places currently being planned. “It’s sort of

one of those unlikely choices for venues but it turns out it’s looking pretty good,” explains Moonshine. This constant forward momentum with a streak of creative innovation is what any local group, hip-hop or not, need to do if they want to stay afloat in a burgeoning local scene but it’s sometimes not enough, Mr Moonshine believes, if a band wants any real sort of recognition. That said, he believes the Melbourne hip-hop scene is in a healthy state. “I can’t really speak for other major cities or regions of Australia. From what I’ve seen around Melbourne it’s pretty healthy. There’s quite a few dudes that are active and are putting their own spin on it and their own interpretation on how it should ought to sound. So I think it’s a pretty good scene in Melbourne. But in saying that it’s definitely not as big as the European or American markets. It’s always been the case that you’ve

got to get recognition overseas before anyone sort of notices at home despite many acts grinding away touring and performing locally for so many years and not getting the recognition and then going overseas and being hailed as the next big thing. We’ve got so much talent whether it’s house producers or small rock outfits. There’s a lot of world-class talent right under our noses. But that’s just the way it is I guess.” Adam Robertshaw The Psyde Projects [AUS] perform on Sundays at South Side Hustle at Lucky Coq’s Oktoberfest, which takes place from Thursday September 27 until Sunday October 7. Full information at luckycoq.com.au

NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE MAKING A STAND: TALL ORDER With a focus on rhythms and beats to make you dance while distortion assaults your ears, Northeast Party House attempt to live up to their name through their music and live performances. Guitarist Mitch Ansell is winding down from a stint as part of Queensland’s Bigsound conference and showcase and while music conferences seem a bit like a product demonstration, Northeast Party House simply recreated their chaotic festival vibe in the venues of Brisbane. “We enjoy going to Brisbane mainly because it’s not as cold as Melbourne,” Ansell laughs. “We played The Zoo, which we’ve played before, on a tour with Ball Park Music and Jungle Giants and it was funny that our set and Ball Park’s were so close together, it was déjà vu.” Bigsound was essentially the first gig of the band’s Stand Tall Tour where they’re launching their latest single of the same name. Single launch tours are a strange thing, it seems that bands need to invent an excuse to tour, as though playing the music they love to a growing audience that enjoys it isn’t enough. Marketing creeps into everything in its own way. “That’s true,” he says, laughing in agreement. “We went through names for the tour and I think they were all a little bit rude so we just went with Stand Tall. I probably can’t say what they were.

A lot of nudity was involved.” In the middle of the Stand Tall tour, Northeast Party House will be supporting UK guitar/synth/pop turn Americana band Mystery Jets on the Melbourne leg of their tour. “We’re not too sure how we landed that one,” he says honestly of the support slot. “I’ve been a big fan of Mystery Jets since I saw them at Falls Festival. It’s awesome to play with them, I think. Hopefully they’re nice guys.” With a haphazard sonic approach, Northeast Party House are somewhat of a collision of influences. “Half of the band are heavily influenced by LCD Soundsystem and the Rapture, I guess they create a real atmosphere on their albums and live,” he says. “But it’s crazy because me and our drummer Mal (Besley) listen to hard rock so we all come with these different elements that inspire us musically. When it comes to writing that’s when it becomes a bit difficult. Together as a band we’re inspired by good bass lines and beats and things people can dance to.” As a band fights their way to a path that resembles a financially sustainable career and find their feet artistically, it seems inevitable that line-ups will go through a change and it seems that in that reshuffle, drummers are the first

to go. “Our drummer left and then we got Malcolm who recorded our first EP,” he explains. “That was a quick transition ‘cause he’d listened to those songs endlessly for weeks. We’re now a five-piece without a bass player. We’ve got a friend playing bass on this tour. “Things can get a little stagnant after a while,” he says musing on the reasons behind these changes. “Sometimes the music isn’t going in the direction you’d hope for, there hasn’t been any massive feuds or bad exits with us but it is a bit like a relationship in a way, things get old and you need a fresh start. As a fivepiece we’re all on the same page when it comes to writing and stuff like interviews. We’re all happy with where we’re heading musically and that we want to make this a fulltime focus.” Doomsdayers have been declaring the death of the album for years now but, as with the novel at the birth of film, it doesn’t look like a reality just yet. Ansell and co. are working on an album they hope to have out in early ’13. “We’ve got this house in Toorak that we sneak

into for a few days every couple of weeks; it’s become a little home for our writing sessions,” he says. “We’re writing for an album for an early release next year. It’s a tough process when you have tours and day jobs, finding that time to all be in the same place at once is tough. But having said that we get into smaller groups and get structures down and then bring it to the band as a whole. That seems to work best. We finish the tour and then play Peats Ridge, that will be the last gig of the year. The writing will get a lot more serious between now and then because we really want to get an album out as soon as we can.” Krissi Weiss Northeast Party House [AUS] will hit The Espy on Friday September 21 as part of the massive Spray ‘n’ Wipe festival. Their latest single, Stand Tall, will be out through Stop Start on Friday October 5.

GALAPAGOOSE GAMING THE SYSTEM: MASTER BLASTER It’s an impressive sight, watching local electronica composer and performer Galapagoose, aka Trent Gill, take to the stage and conjure an empowering rhythmic tapestry with a sampler, his tool of choice. After harnessing a reputation in the live setting both at home and abroad, Galapagoose parlayed his skills into the recorded format with Commitments, his debut album released earlier this year. Before he hits ACMI’s Game Masters for their Late-Bit program, Trent runs us through the eventful lead-up to the album’s release. “It started a really long time ago. I wrote the record in June-July last year, so over a year ago now. And before that it all came about through meeting Daedalus and hanging out with him at South By Southwest and playing a little show there. So he got me thinking about putting a record out,” he recalls. “The actual writing of the record was just like a typical bedroom producer, just locking myself up for six weeks and making music every day constantly – 16 to 20 hours a day, something stupid where you hardly sleep. It was a really long time to see a proper release, I think it was March of this year.” While his compositions are intricately crafted in his home, the tracks take on a cyclonic life in the live setting thanks to some sampler mastery. “I love performing that way. I come from that improvisational background so it’s really important to me that I can come up on stage and create something new and not necessarily play something like I did on the record. I can kind of pride myself on being

able to take my recorded songs and reconsider and recontextualise and hopefully let them make a bit more sense to an audience in the live context,” he muses. “I like improvising and coming up with new melodies and modulations with previously recorded things. People who have heard the record at home are still excited by it, and for other people it’s accessible and based around melody and harmony.” In the lead-up to the release of the album, Trent suffered a massive setback just as he was due to depart for New Zealand’s Camp A Low Hum festival. “It’s not something I really love talking about. Basically I got in a bike accident and broke my collarbone. That’s the long and the short of it,” he states. “I was out of action for three months. Sadly, it also happened in September last year, then the day before I was heading to Camp A Low Hum I did the exact same thing again. It was quite a bit of bad luck. I had my right arm in a sling so I was told not to move it at all. I made a lot of music with one hand, I put out a little cassette tape earlier in the year as well called Nuance, which is stuff I just made with one hand while injured. I tried to keep busy with it, but it was difficult to play guitar or play keyboard. There was a lot of time spent staring at a computer screen watching movies or chopping samples – stuff you don’t need two hands for.” There’s a tangible newfound appreciation for electronicbased music, with barriers being broken down particularly in the Melbourne scene. “I think it’s a

combination of finding my place and creating my own place,” Trent ponders. “I’ve been spending a lot of time working with the This Thing crew and trying to build up more of an electronic scene in the city. It’s not so much that the city is changing, it’s just that there are more opportunities opening up. Those artists you mentioned, Collarbones have a weird R&B-pop angle that enables them to connect with people in a different way. Seekae are a funny one for me, I’ve never been able to pick what it is that makes people latch onto them. They’re doing super well and those guys are doing a great job making some really good music and reaching a really broad crowd. I supported them a while ago at East Brunswick Club and it was the most varied crowd I’ve seen in a long time. I did my album launch at Phoenix Public House – again, another amazing venue that shut down – and that show was incredible, it had a whole cross section of the Melbourne community.” Performing at the Game Masters exhibition enables FEATURES

Trent to head down a little early and indulge in some videogame action. “I’ve been overseas so I haven’t had much chance to head down to the city. I’m really looking forward to going down and checking it out. I’ve always kind of been a bit of a videogame nerd at heart, so it’ll be fun to go down there and relive that a little bit. I guess mine were Mario-style games, but the crazier ones,” he reveals. “I was into Super Nintendo back in the day and would play Super Star Wars forever. The aim of the game is to get from the left of the screen to the right of the screen. Just a really simple task. I guess that’s why it captured my imagination.” Lachlan Kanoniuk Galapagoose [AUS] performs with DJ Zeal [AUS] and Kikuyu [AUS] from 6pm at Late Bit: Synthpop at ACMI on Thursday September 27.

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THURSDAY2OTH BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY Grammy Award winning hip hop legends Krayzie Bone and Wish Bone from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are returning to their “second home” Australia, having already sold out over 20 Australian performances in the past. Having reformed for a upcoming performance at Rock The Bells in August this year, the group have created their fair share of interest regarding the possibilities of a new album, and have been introduced to a new generation of hip hop fans thanks to the likes of Drake and Wiz Khalifa expressing their admiration. The Espy, 11 The Esplanade, St Kilda

MOTOWN THURSDAYS Kick start your weekend with Melbourne’s newest Thursday night! Motown Thursdays caters to all true music lovers. Join us on an eclectic musical journey of soul, funk and disco through to early R&B. A live Soul Band features some of Melbourne’s most talented musicians; Carmen Hendricks, Laurent Soupe, Duncan Kinell and Aaron Mendoza just to name a few. DJs keep the records spinning into the early hours; residents are Reg-e, Lee Davies, Kalepe, Dinesh, Suga, Rubz and Alwin Rafferty. Join us around a big, shiny disco ball or two, for free entry, soulful tunes, drink specials all night and a dance floor full of friends! Fashion Lounge, 121 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

RHYTHM-AL-ISM Start the weekend early with Fusion’s Resident DJs. Music for your funkin’ soul. Special guests every week! Fusion, Crown Entertainment Complex, Lvl 3, 8 Whiteman St, Southbank

FRIDAY21ST FAKTORY This is it. Faktory Fridays are open for business at Melbourne’s home of R&B, Khokolat Bar. Where else? Damion De Silva, Ken Walker, Durmy, K Dee, Simon Sez, Yaths and Jacqui Dusk spinning all night long. Khokolat Bar, Basement, 43 Hardware La, Melbourne

LIKE FRIDAYS Like Fridays at La Di Da serves up R&B and electro house across two rooms giving you a fun filled end to your week. DJs Dinesh, Dir-X, Sef, NYD, Shaun D, Shaggz, Broz and more. La Di Da, 577 Little Bourke St, Melbourne

LIGHT The buzz is Light at RedLove every Friday. Hitting out that R&B flavour of old, new and everything in between! RedLove

Resident DJs Stel, Harvey Yeah, TMC and Ripz on the wheels of steel from 6.30pm. If you don’t know, now you know! Check it! Red Love, Level 1, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne

THE LOOSE GOOSE The Loose Goose is focused on providing a wonderful array of cocktails and offers a great CBD location to lounge and relax in while overlooking busy Flinders Lane. A small plates menu is available to graze on whilst trying our delicious cocktails from the classics to contemporary, beer on tap and a wide range of beers, wines and spirits. Every Friday evening DJ Jumps of The Cat Empire will take to the decks at the bar spinning his rare afro Latin funk vinyl collected from around the world from 6.30pm until late. Papa Goose Cocktail Bar, 91-93 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

SWEET NOTHING FRIDAYS DJ Marcus Knight and DJ Xander James spin hip hop, R&B and house tunes all night from 8pm. Free entry and early drink specials. Temperance Hotel, 426 Chapel St, South Yarra

THE NICE UP Tom Showtime presents The Nice Up. All flavours of hip hop, ghetto funk and reggae niceness provided. Sailor Jerry nice up the cocktails, Dos Blockos nice up the $5 beers. Fridays done proper. George Lane Bar, 1 George Lane, St Kilda

including DJ C-RAM bringing video mixing to Melbourne and special guest hip hop band Yellow Cake. Set at one of the most amazing venues Melbourne has to offer with two levels, good music, great ‘Shaka’ atmosphere and cheap drinks, we are hoping to pack it out and create a night for people to remember. Level 2 The Club, 2 Arthurton Rd, Northcote

UPCOMING TONY TOUCH Tony Touch broke a lot of hearts when his most recent show at the Espy was cancelled a couple of months back – but the news you’ve all been waiting on with bated breath is finally here and a rescheduled date has been confirmed. The original b-boy has been kicking out jams since the early eighties, inspired by a love of artists like the Rock Steady Crew, Grandmaster Flash and Red Alert. His diverse range of titles also includes hip hop break dancer, rapper, DJ, producer and actor - a seriously multitalented approach to art that’s reflected in his impressive discography. Highlights include his legendary mixtapes, hugely successful record releases on labels like Tommy Boy, works with fellow kingpins Wu Tang Clan, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, and yet another upcoming release titled The Piece Maker 3. Count us excited. Friday September 28, The Espy, 11 The Esplanade, St Kilda

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SATURDAY22ND KHOKOLAT KOATED All new experience, same great location with a fresh koat of Khokolat. Restless Entertainment reloads your favourite Saturday night party. Damion De Silva, K Dee, Jay Sin and weekly guests playing R&B & ol’ skool sounds strictly for the urban elite. Khokolat Bar, Basement, 43 Hardware La, Melbourne

REDLOVE SATURDAYS RedLove Saturdays is all about solid classics from the ‘80s, ‘90s and into the ‘00s! Dropping beats of retro pop, disco classics, old school funk, and certainly some of that old school r&b and house to kick! RedLove Resident DJs Phil, HB Bear and Da Gato bringing down the house every Saturday night. If you’re looking for quality service, music to rock, sumptuous drinks and just a cold hard good time; look no further! Red Love, Level 1, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne

SHAKA SATURDAY The newest R&B Superclub Shaka Saturdays grand opening is set to hit Melbourne over two massive weeks. The northern suburbs newest, freshest club playing all of your favourite R&B, hip hop, old skool and reggae. Shaka Saturdays is showcasing Australias newest and favourite R&B DJs,

Those of you with an eye on the Australian hip hop scene will certainly have heard of Seth Sentry by now. First bursting onto the scene in 2003 after a series of genre-bendingly exciting shows with local hip hop/drum and bass outfit D.S.O.L, he’s worked with fellow Aussie favourites 360 and Pez, made his way onto Triple J rotation with singles The Waitress Song and Simple Game, and is now set to release his debut album This Was Tomorrow through his own label High Score. To celebrate, an extensive national tour has been announced, and Melbourne can get a taste of his groundbreaking new beats. Saturday September 29, The Corner Hotel, 57 Swan Street, Richmond

BIG FREEDIA Bounce-rap Queen Big Freedia will bring her orgiastic troupe of rear-wriggling Divas to Australia this October with a club show alongside her Melbourne Festival performance. The towering transvestite announced New Orleans sissy-bounce to the world, where it’s been part of the city’s cultural fabric since the ‘80s. Responsible for its acceptance into the mainstream she’s now been received all over as an ambassador for the ‘sissy bounce’ genre. The provider of dance floor anthems Azz Everywhere and Excuse will have you infected with motion. Saturday October 20, The Tote, 67-71 Johnston Street, Collingwood

Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up? In the dark on a deserted shuttle speedboat that had been anchored a fair way off the shore of an island in Thailand. I think I must have found a really secluded, shadowed spot, ‘fallen asleep’, and then they must not have realised I was still there when the shuttle stopped. It was actually a pretty scary place to wake up. Describe yourself using the title of a song. I was gonna go with the next track that came up on my iTunes, but that was The Full Retard by El-P. Let’s instead go with Ixlanaplaz. I don’t know what it means but it sounds well cool. Cheers to Milez Benjiman for that bit of lexicon. What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child? That adults always knew what was going on and would always know what was the best thing to do. The most awkward moment you’ve had as a performer? I once fell off the back of a stage. Luckily I had the turntables in front of me so I just climbed back up and pretended I’d been looking for a record under the decks. I think I managed to get away with not many people realising what had happened. What can we expect from your show? The True Vibenation live show involves the 3 of us running around stage between being a live horn section, two MCs and one DJ, and a three piece MPC band, transformersstyle to make hip hop that embraces elements of afrobeat, jazz, reggae and electronic bass music. And this time we’re bringing the entire Big Village Records family to Melbourne. What question would you like to ask an omniscient, allknowing being before you die? What does Ixlanaplaz mean? If you hadn’t made it as a musician, what job would you choose to work in instead? Probably hunting Higgs Bosons. I actually have a physics degree but I ended up turning my nerd powers towards producing music. When and where is your next gig? The Big Village Records ‘Big Things Tour’ rolls through Melbourne on Saturday September 22 at the Northcote Social Club with Tuka & Ellesquire, Daily Meds, True Vibenation, Loose Change and Sketch The Rhyme.

BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY LIVING LEGENDS: AT THE CROSSROADS Having recently celebrated their 20th anniversary, legendary hip hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are making their way down under to show us exactly why they changed the game and the way music was made. “Because what we do is still relevant to what’s going on in music today – maybe even more so,” Krayzie Bone begins. “When we came out, we changed the game with what we were doing. When we got into the business it was new. Right now, you look around and you see that people are only just starting to catch up on what we were doing all those years ago - artists like Drake and Wiz Khalifa, A$AP Rocky – you can really see how much of a big influence we were on their music. That is our legacy after 20 years – we can sit back, not only as artists, but as businessmen and entrepreneurs and enjoy what we brought to the game. It is a legacy – we are some of the few living legends and it’s a real blessing to have longevity in this business.” It’s not easy to make an impact on the music industry as significantly as Bone Thugs-N-Harmony did, Krayzie claims. In fact, it wasn’t just the industry itself that the group changed but also the rap game – it soon became obvious to the group that talent wasn’t the only thing required to ‘make it’, a sound business sense was perhaps at times even more vital. “It’s called the music business,” Krayzie Bone states. “I’m not sure many of the younger generation understand that. About 90 per cent of it is business, though it can present as music. You have to look at it like that and learn from your mistakes and turn every bad decision into a lesson learned. The key is to connect with your consumers emotionally – and that takes heart because fans relate to that, and if you’ve got no fans and nobody knows you, you’re not going to get anywhere.”

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With a new solo album ready to drop this year, Krayzie insists his music is pure passion and all heart. Titled Chasing The Devil, he explains how it’s been a difficult process having to select key tracks from a grand total of 75. In the end, the only thing that made sense was turning the project into two albums rather than just one. “I’ve been working on it for almost twoand-a-half years,” he says. “I’ve got at least 75 tracks ready to go, so it will definitely be a double album out, one released in November and then another one released in the first half of next year. Bone Thugs-NHarmony is also getting together and planning to do an album and a world tour soon, so that’s even more music to work on. The remainder of this year will be all shows, just reuniting with the whole group and getting those sparks flying. “ Despite prior ‘beef’ among the group members, Krayzie Bone claims it’s been much like a family reunion. “Family can be at each other’s throats,” he says. “But it’s always love - all of our differences that we ever had – they were always business differences, the love was always there and it was never personal. That’s the reason we’re able to make this reunion happen. Once everybody came back into the same room and started reminiscing about the old times, there was laughter and tears and it just felt so real. You can’t deny the love you have for each other.”

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WHERE TO NEXT?

Gypsy Bar 334 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 0548

Retreat Hotel 226 Nicholson St, Abbotsford, 9417 2693

HiFi 125 Swanston St, Melb, 1300 843 4434

The Retreat Hotel 280 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9380 4090

Highlander 11a Highlander Lane, Melb, 9620 2227

Revolt Elizabeth St, Kensington, 03 9376 2115

Hoo Haa 105 Chapel St, Windsor, 9529 6900

Revolver Upstairs 229 Chapel St, Prahran, 9521 5985

Horse Bazaar 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melb, 9670 2329 Iddy Biddy 47 Blessington St, St Kilda, 9534 4484

Rochester Castle Hotel 202 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9415 7555 Rooftop Cider Bar, Cnr Swanston & Flinders St, Melbourne, 9650 3884

Jett Black 177 Greville St, Prahran

Room 680 Level 1, 680 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, 9818 0680

John Curtin Hotel 29 Lygon St, Melb, 9663 6350

Roxanne Parlour Lvl 3, 2 Coverlid Pl, Melb

Khokolat Bar 43 Hardware Lane, Melbourne, 039642 1142

Royal Derby 446 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9417 2321

La Di Da 577 Lt Bourke St, Melb, 9670 7680

Roal Melbourne Hotel 629 Bourke St, 9629 2400

Labour In Vain 197A Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9417 5955

Ruby’s Lounge 1648 Burwood Hwy, Belgrave, 9754 7445

Level 2 The Club 2 Arthurton Rd, Northcote, 9482 3241

Saint Hotel 54 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9593 8333

Lomond Hotel 225 Nicholson St, East Brunswick

Sandbelt Live Cnr South & Bignell Rd, Moorabbin, 9555 6899

Longroom 162 Collins St, Melbourne, 9663 9226

Scarlett Lounge 174 Burnley St, Richmond, 9428 0230

Loop 23 Meyers Pl, Melb, 9654 0500

Seven Nightclub 52 Albert Rd, South Melb, 9690 7877

Lounge 243 Swanston St, Melb, 9663 2916

Some Velvet Morning 123 Queen’s Parade, Clifton Hill, 9486 5192

29th Apartment 29 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9078 8922

Cookie Lvl 1, 252 Swanston St, Melb, 9663 7660

The Lounge Pit 386-388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy 9415 6142

Spensers Live 419 Spencer St, West Melb, 03 9329 8821

303 303 High Street, Northcote

Corner Hotel 57 Swan St, Richmond, 9427 9198

Love Machine Cnr Lt Chapel & Malvern Rd, Prahran, 9533 8837

Spot 133 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9388 0222

Abode 374 St.Kilda Rd, St.Kilda

Cornish Arms 163 Sydney Rd, Brunswick

Lucky Coq 179 Chapel St, Windsor, 9525 1288

Standard Hotel 293 Fitzroy St, Fitzroy, 9419 4793

Albert Park Hotel Cnr Montague & Dundas Pl, Albert Park, 9690 5459

CQ 113 Queen St, Melb, 8601 2738

The LuWOW 62-70 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9417 5447

Star Bar 160 Clarendon St, South Melb, 9810 0054

Alia Lvl 1, 83-87 Smith St, Fitzroy, 9486 0999

Croft Institute 21 Croft Alley, Melb, 9671 4399

Mercat Cross Lvl 1, 456 Queen St, Melb, 9348 9998

Station 59 59 Church St, Richmond, 9427 8797

Alumbra Shed 9, Central Pier, 161 Harbour Espl, Docklands, 8623 9666

Cruzao Arepa Bar 365 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9417 7871

Mink 2 Acland St, St Kilda, 9536 1199

Stolberg Beer Café 197 Plenty Rd, Preston, 9495 1444

Back Bar 67 Green St, Windsor, 9529 7899

Cushion 99 Fitzroy St, St.Kilda, 9534 7575

Miss Libertine 34 Franklin St, Melb, 9663 6855

Sub Lounge & Restaurant 168 Elizabeth St Melb, 0411 800 198

Bar Oussou 653 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9384 3040

Damask 1/347 Burnswick St, Fitzroy, 9417 4578

Misty 3-5 Hosier Ln, Melb, 9663 9202

Sugar Bar (Hotel Urban) 35 Fitztroy St, St Kilda, 8530 8888

Bar Open 317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9415 9601

The Drunken Poet 65 Peel Street, West Melbourne, 9348 9797

Mockingbird Bar 129 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9534 0000

Temperance Hotel 426 Chapel St, South Yarra, 9827 7401

Baroq House 9-13 Drewery Ln, Melb, 8080 5680

Der Raum 438 Church St, Richmond, 9428 0055

Musicland 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 9359 0006

Thornbury Theatre 859 High St, Thornbury, 9484 9813

Bendigo Hotel 125 Johnston St, Collingwood 9417 3415

Ding Dong Lounge Lvl 1, 18 Market Ln, Melb, 9662 1020

Tiki Lounge 327 Swan St, Richmond, 9428 4336

Bennetts Jazz Club 25 Bennetts Ln, Melb, 9663 2856

Dizzy’s Jazz Club 381 Burnley St, Richmond, 9428 1233

Neverland 32-48 Johnson St, South Melb, 9646 5544 New Guernica Lvl 2, Hub Arcade, 318-322 Lt Collins St, Melb, 9650 4464

Bertha Brown 562 Flinders Street, 9629 1207

Double Happiness 21 Liverpool St, Melb, 9650 4488

Night Cat 141 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9417 0090

Tony Starr’s Kitten Club 267 Lt Collins St, Melb, 9650 2448

Big Mouth 168 Acland St, St.Kilda, 9534 4611

E:55 55 Elizabeth St, Melb, 9620 3899

Night Cat 279 Flinders Ln, Melb, 9654 0444

The Tote Hotel 67 Johnson St, Collingwood, 9419 5320

Billboard 170 Russell St, Melb, 9639 4000

East Brunswick Club 280 Lygon St, East Brunswick, 9388 2777

Noise Bar 291 Albert St, Brunswick, 9380 1493

Town Hall Hotel 33 Errol St, North Melbourne, 9328 1983

Bimbo Deluxe 376 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 8600

Edinburgh Castle 681 Sydney Rd, Brunswick

Northcote Social Club 301 High St, Northcote, 9489 3917

Trak Lounge 445 Toorak Rd, Toorak, 9826 9000

Birmingham Hotel Cnr Smith & Johnston St, Fitzroy

Electric Ladyland Lvl 1, 265 Chapel St, Prahran, 9521 5757

Old Bar 74 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 9417 4155

Tramp 20 King St, Melb

Black Cat 252 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 6230

Elwood Lounge 49-51 Glenhuntly Rd, Elwood, 9525 6788

One Twenty Bar 120 Johnston St, Fitzroy

Transport Hotel Federation Square, Melb, 9654 8808

Blue Bar 330 Chapel St, Prahran, 9529 6499

Empress 714 Nicholson St, Nth Fitzroy, 9489 8605

Onesixone 161 High St, Prahran, 9533 8433

Trunk 275 Exhibition St, Melbourne, 9663 7994

Blue Tile Lounge 95 Smith St, Fitzroy

Espy 11 The Esplanade, St Kilda, 9534 0211

Order Of Melbourne level 2, 401 Swanston St, Melb, 9663 6707

Tyranny Of Distance 147 Union St, Windsor, 9525 1005

Boutique 134 Greville St, Prahran, 9525 2322

Eurotrash 18 Corrs Ln, Melb, 9654 4411

Palace Hotel 893 Burke Rd, Camberwell

Two of Hearts 149 Commercial Road, Prahran

Brown Alley King Street, Melb,9670 8599

Eve 334 City Rd, Southbank, 9696 7388

Palace Theatre 20-30 Bourke St, Melb, 9650 0180

Union Hotel Brunswick 109 Union St, Brunswick, 9388 2235

Brunswick Hotel 140 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9387 6637

Evelyn 351 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 5500

Palais 111 Main Rd, Hepburn Springs, 5348 4849

Veludo 175 Acland St, St Kilda, 9534 4456

Builders Arms 211 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

Ferntree Gully Hotel 1130 Burwood Hwy, Ferntree Gully, 9758 6544

Palais Theatre Lower Esplanade, St Kilda, 9525 3240

Victoria Hotel 380 Victoria St, Brunswick, 9388 0830

Cabinet Bar 11 Rainbow Alley, Melbourne, 9654 0915

Festival Hall 300 Dudley St, West Melbourne, 9329 9699

Papa Goose 91 Flinders Ln, Melbourne, 9663 2800

Wah Wah Lounge Lvl 1, 185 Lonsdale St, Melb

Caravan Music Club 95 Drummond St, Oakleigh

First Floor 393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9419 6380

Penny Black 420 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, 9380 8667

Wesley Anne 250 High St, Northcote, 9482 1333

Caseys Nightclub 660A Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, 9810 0030

Forum Theatre 154 Flinders St, Melb, 9299 9800

Pier Live Hotel 508 Nepean Hwy, Frankston, 9783 9800

Westernport Hotel 161 Marine Pde, San Remo, 5678 5205

Caz Reitops Dirty Secrets 80 Smith St, Collingwood, 9415 8876

The Fox Hotel 351 Wellington Street, Collingwood, 9416 4957

Pony 68-70 Lt Collins St, Melb, 9662 1026

Willow Bar 222 High Street, Northcote, 9481 1222

CBD Club 12-14 McKillop St, Melb, 9670 3638

Fusion Lvl 3, Crown Complex, Southbank, 9292 5750

Portland Hotel Cnr Lt Collins & Russell St, Melb, 9810 0064

Windsor Castle 89 Albert St, Windsor, 9525 0239

Chaise Lounge Basement, 105 Queen St, Melb, 9670 6120

The Gallery Room 1/510 Flinders St, Melbourne, 9629 1350

The Prague Hotel, 911 High St, Northcote, 9495 0000

Workers Club 51 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 9415 8889

Chandelier Room 91 Cochranes Rd, Moorabbin, 9532 2288

Gem Bar & Dining 289 Wellingston St, Collingwood, 9419 5170

Pretty Please 61c Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9534 4484

Workshop Lvl 1, 413 Elizabeth St, Melb, 9326 4365

Chelsea Heights Hotel Cnr Springvale & Wells Rd,

George Basement, 127 Fitzroy St, 9534 8822

Prince Bandroom 29 Fitztory St, St Kilda, 9536 1168

Yah Yah’s 99 Smith St, Fitzroy, 9419 4920

Chelsea Heights, 9773 4453

Gertrude’s Brown Couch 30 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, 9417 6420

Prince Of Wales 29 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, 9536 1168

The Vine 59 Wellington St, Collingwood, 9417 2434

Cherry Bar AC/DC Ln, Melb, 9639 8122

Grace Darling Hotel 114 Smith St, Collingwood, 9416 0055

Public Bar 238 Victoria St, North Melb, 9329 6522

Chi Lounge 195 Lt Bourke St, Melbourne, 9662 2688

Grandview Hotel Cnr Heidelberg Rd & Station St, Fairfield, 9489 8061

Purple Emerald Lounge Bar 349 High St, Northcote, 9482 7007

Co. Lvl 3, Crown Complex, 9292 5750 Colonial Hotel (Brown Alley) Cnr King & Lonsdale St, Melb, 9670 8599

Great Britain Hotel 447 Church St, Richmond, 9429 5066

Railway Hotel 280 Ferrars St, South Melb, 9690 5092

Grind N Groove 274 Maroondah Hwy, Healesville

Red Bennies 371 Chapel St, South Yarra, 9826 2689

Commercial Club Hotel 344 Nicholson St, Fitzroy, 9419 1522

Grumpy’s Green 125 Smith St, Collingwood, 9416 1944

RedLove Lvl 1, 401 Swanston St, Melb, 9639 3722

Toff In Town Lvl 2, 252 Swanston St, Melb, 9639 8770

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with Christie Eliezer * Stuﬀ for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm REPORT: GROWTH FOR AUSTRALIAN LIVE, RECORDED, MUSIC Revenues for the Australian music industry will grow an average of 5% to the year 2016, predicts the PriceWaterhouseCooper’s Media Outlook 2012-2016. Live music, worth $635 million last year, will be worth $830 million in 2016. It will grow by 5.5% annually, faster than the 4.9% growth rate of the overall music and entertainment industry. This is attributed to the strong Australian dollar luring major overseas acts, and Aussie promoters getting smarter with better experience for their consumers, hitting target audiences through social media and actively drawing the over-35 market to live shows. The bad times are over for the recording market. The PWC report agrees with other reports that the decline in recorded music sales has bottomed out and will rise from next year. Digital sales rose by 34% last year and physical still accounts for 63.3%. Digital distribution grew 18% to $435 million and will have a 30% share by 2016. By that year, too, 17% of Australian consumers’ spend on entertainment will be digital, driven by video games and music. But our music industry is under the pump from the games sector, which will grow by 9.5% annually. Console and PC games will grow by 1% to $950 million, online games by 17.5% to $700 million; and mobile games 11.2% to $600 million.

FLEMING ARTISTS EXPANDS The Australian office of America’s Fleming Artists celebrates its first year by expanding its staff and roster. Jono Barwick, seven years at MGM, joins general manager John Sinclair, Chas Jagger and Chantelle Rogers. The agency also added five more acts to its roster – coastal buzz act bluegrass rock Quarry Mountain Dead Rats (who have a song covered on the new Kasey Chambers-Shane Nicholson CD), Adelaide’s Bearded Gypsy Band whose influences include gypsy swing, jazz and folk, Celt-punk outfit Ramshackle Army, Adelaide soul country Max Savage & The False Idols and blues singer Archer. Sinclair says that he signed them up because they’re all compelling live, adding that “Australia is about to go through its biggest boom since 1978 when we had the rise of The Angels, Chisel, Oils, Icehouse, Falcons, Sports and The Divinyls. In the last three weeks, five new venues have opened or about to, all committed to live music four to six nights a week. The reason: they know bands can draw crowds.” That Fleming Artists was set up in America has been a boon for some of its dozen acts: Graveyard Train have already created a buzz there will spend most of the northern summer 2013 in the US, as will Daniel Champagne.

OBSCENE EXTREME FESTIVAL HEADS TO MELBOURNE Another global festival heads to Australia. Obscene Extreme, set up in 1999 in Czech Republic, showcases grindcore, crust, punk, death metal, thrash metal and hardcore. Its organisers say the Australian show will be in Melbourne on April 12 and 13, venue to be determined. It is part of Oscene’s global expansion, next year staging for the ﬁrst time in Jakarta (April 6) and Mexico City (May 28-30) before its ﬂagship event in the Czech Republic July 3 to 7.

DID MUSE STEAL THEIR MUSE? “Complete nonsense, and categorically denied,” was the retort from Muse to a lawsuit ﬁled in New York. Charles Bolfrass claims that in 2005 he approached them about writing a rock opera Exogenesis about space travel after the end of planet Earth. Muse rejected his idea but, he insists, used the idea for Exogenesis I, Exogenesis II and Exogenesis III from 2009’s The Resistance album. Muse say they never heard of Bolfrass or his opera idea.

WHITE SKY ROYALTY ACCOUNTING LAUNCHES White Sky Music and Gerry McKenna at Royalty Accounting Services have created new business White Sky Royalty Accounting. They say royalties are a main source of income for acts but royalty statements tend to be misunderstood. So the new company will ensure clients understand the statements and get the most amount of money. White Sky Royalty Accounting will be run by Gerry McKenna who set up Royalty Accounting Services in 1998. White Sky founder Tom Harris knows about finances from managing acts (including Temper Trap for five years) while director Paul Luczak is a CPA qualified accountant whose clients include Gotye, John Butler Trio, Cut Copy and Eskimo Joe. White Sky is on 03 9482 6663.

THINGS WE HEAR * We’ve got word that Channel [V]’s heading to Melbourne on Friday September 21 for a [V] Guerilla Gig. An international act that’s in town this week will be performing for free. More info on when and where, check out the [V]Music Facebook page * EL James who wrote Fifty Shades Of Grey admits she listened to Black Eyed Peas’ Sexy in the background when she wrote its sex scenes. * Straight off a sold out NZ tour, Katchafire sold out most of their Oz shows. The Script’s one-off show at the Metro sold out in minutes. * After 24 years and 400 students, Swinburne University of Technology has discontinued the Commercial Radio course as financially unviable. * Californian producer Flying Lotus told triple j’s Richard Kingsmill he’s planning to be here “hopefully in February.” * Rumour of the week is Kanye West watches gapal Kim Kardashian’s sex tape from 2007 with other women in bed to get in the mood. * Apple is quietly signing up licensing with record labels for a new online radio. * To celebrate the international release of their debut album Vacation this week, Big Scary recruited Collarbones and Vorad Fils (John Hassell of Seekae) to remix lo-fi track, Bad Friends and make a floating dreamtronica version. * Foo Fighters played two songs at the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina which launched President Barack Obama’s bid to run for a second term. The Foos dedicated their 1998 single My Hero to the great man. Others performing were Mary J. Blige, James Taylor, Marc Anthony and Jessica Sanchez. In the meantime, R.E.M. warned the hopelessly biased Fox channel to stop playing Losing My Religion in its presidential coverage, saying their song didn’t “belong” with its “puff adder brand of reportage.”

FACE THE MUSIC RETURNING The Face The Music summit returns to the Arts Centre for its ﬁfth year on Friday November 16 and Saturday November 17. Its partnership with Melbourne Music Week will see this year’s key speakers Public Image Ltd member turned US label owner, entrepreneur and educator Martin Atkins and Primavera Sound Festival’s Almudena Heredero whose event in Barcelona draws 100,000. Topics to be covered include tour management, release strategies, making inroads in the USA, crowd funding and music in ﬁlm and TV. Other speakers include Fergus Linehan (Vivid), Jerome Borazio (Laneway), Jaddan Comerford (Staple Group), Johann Ponniah (I Oh You), Hannah Fox (Supplefox), Patrick Donovan (Music Victoria), Helen Marcou (SLAM), Henry Wagons with another 100 to come. This year there’s a Mentor’s Lounge where delegates can hang with speakers. Tickets are $45 ($30 concession) for one day or $70 ($50 concession) for two days. They are on facethemusic.org. au.

MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK TEAMS WITH EG AWARDS This year, Melbourne Music Week (MMW) expands its activities by teaming with The Age’s EG Awards to present the inaugural MMW Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2012 by a Melbourne Band or Artist. The short list will be announced on October 2 with the winner announced at the award ceremony on November 20 at Billboard. MMW is working with the local industry to reinforce the city’s standing as one of the great music cities. It works with local labels Chapter Music, Siberia Records, Two Bright Lakes and Cutters Records to bring acts in. Of the 200 artists in this year’s program (to be revealed October 4), more than 75 percent are from Victoria. It is also co-presenting ﬁve panel sessions. Welcome To The Music Business sees Martin Atkins share practical advice on how Australian artists can be successful on their own terms. Unique Festivals: Brand It And They Will Come includes Almudena Heredero, Fergus Linehan (Vivid), Nicci Reid (Sugar Mountain,) and Ian Jorgensen (Camp A Low Hum, NZ); and Tour:Smart, tips for touring and how to make your show an “event”. There’s also In Conversation with Almudena Heredero and a session to meet with Melbourne’s power shakers.

GUNN, DIMA SHAFRO, MERGE Melbourne booking companies Gunn Music Productions and Dima Shafro Entertainment have merged. From Monday September 24, the group will operate as Gunn Music Productions, with Dima Shafro as senior booking agent, and his team joining the Gunn Music ranks.

JOINT VENTURE #1: EMI, FUTURE ENTERTAINMENT, SET UP LABEL EMI Music Australia and dance promoter Future Entertainment have set up a record label together. Future Music will release dance compilations, sign international superstars and emerging acts, and oﬀer ticketing bundles and brand partnerships. EMI is active in dance, locally signing electro and dance acts Empire Of The Sun, Miami Horror, The Slips, Sam Sparro, Ricki-Lee, Gold Fields, Aston Shuﬄe and 360. Future Entertainment’s Brett Robinson says FE has, through tours and festivals as Future Music and Summadayze, forged close ties with EMI’s global acts and “It makes complete sense for us to come together to form a powerful collaboration with EMI.”

JOINT VENTURES #2: A&R WORLDWIDE TEAMS WITH CHUGG Sat Bisla’s US-based global artist discovery and development company A&R Worldwide teamed with Chugg Entertainment to set up A&R Worldwide Australasia. It runs out of Chugg’s oﬃces in Sydney, NZ and Singapore. They will work together to break overseas acts into the region and ﬁnd new acts from here for global markets.

PLAN B, HAWLEY FAVES FOR MERCURY PRIZE Plan B and Richard Hawley are favourites to win this year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize. Bookies give them odds of 4-1 each. Also up for the £20,000 prize are CDs by Django Django (5-1), Alt-J (5-1), The Maccabees (7-1), Sam Lee (10-1), Lianne La Havas (8-1), Ben Howard (8-1), Jessie Ware (7-1), Roller Trio (10-1), Field Music (10-1) and Michael Kiwanuka (8-1).

SUPPORT AMRAP FUNDING AMRAP (the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project) delivers music by 3,000 local independent musicians on 100 labels to 300 community radio stations. It reckons it facilitated a 5% jump in Australian music airplay on community radio to a national average of 37%. But the Federal Government axed its funding of $600,000 a year for its next budget, to an outcry from the music and radio industries. As the Senate meets for a budget review, it needs you to lobby Federal MPs to reinstate the funding. Go to amrap.org.

NEW SIGNING #1: MAMMOTH MAMMOTH WITH NAPALM Melbourne fuzz rockers Mammoth Mammoth signed a worldwide deal with Austria’s hard rock label Napalm Records. Distributed by Universal Music, Napalm is home to Monster Magnet, Kyuss Lives, Karma To Burn and The Sword. Formed in 2008, Mammoth Mammoth’s creed is “bigger than Jesus, louder than hell”. November sees their album out in Britain, the US, Canada, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Benelux and Eastern Europe. Singer Mikey Tucker says, “We have loyal fans in Europe, the USA and South America, so we’re looking forward to smashing stages outside of Australia with our ﬁrst European tour penciled in for March 2013.”

NEW SIGNING #2: ALPINE SCORE US DEAL Alpine scored a US deal with Votiv Records, releasing its debut album A Is For Alpine in January. Votiv acts include We Are Augustines, Gaz Coombe (Supergrass), Imagineray Cities and Cloud Control. Says cofrontwoman Lou James, “The Votiv people came to all ten of our SXSW shows and partied hard every night.” The act is with Ivy League in Australia.

GEOFF ACHISON DOMINATES BLUES AWARDS Geoff Achison dominated the Victorian/Tasmanian Blues Music Awards with five wins at the Royal Standard Hotel. He won male artist, band (with Souldiggers), solo, album (Live At Burrinja Café) and song (Train Ride) of the year. Other winners were the Marco Goldsmith Band’s self titled album (debut album) and Gerry Pantazis (producer, for Recorded Live At Guitars Across The Bay). The Alan Stafford Award for service to the blues music industry was awarded to Geoff Spiegel, artistic consultant to the Blues And Jazz Stage at Mordialloc Food And Wine Festival, and former president of the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society (MBAS). Organised by the MBAS, the judges were Helen Jennings (PBS), Max Crawdaddy (RRR), Werner Martin (3CR), Matthew Frederick (PBS) and Derek Guille (ex- ABC774).

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LIFELINES Ill: Mick Hadley, of ‘60s Brisbane band The Purple Hearts, being treated for cancer. He continued to perform with The Shakers and Atomic Boogie Band. Arrested: a man caught in the garden of Miley Cyrus’ LA house, armed with a pair of scissors, insisted to cops “I am a friend of hers. She’s my wife.” In Court: Sydney conman Dimitri De Angelis, 48, who claimed to run Emporium Music, pleaded guilty to 16 charges of fraud. By photoshopping pictures of him with Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Pope John Paul II and John Howard, he took $8.5 million from investors, and using it to hang out with pop stars. In Court: Velvet Underground lost their copyright claim against the Andy Warhol Foundation, for licensing the iconic banana image (designed by Warhol for their 1967 debut album) for use on iPhone and iPad products. In Court: Britney Spears denies claims by her ex-bodyguard she sexually harassed him (she’d walk in naked, drop her lighter and pick it up, deliberately showing her genitals) but paid him oﬀ to make the case go away. In Court: Akon has ﬁled paternity docs to become the legal father of two sons, 4 and 3, whom he had out of wedlock. He will pay for their care, they can take his name, and he insisted they be allowed to inherit his estate. In Court: Sleiman Khalil of Sydney got an appeals board to reinstate his job at Railcorp: they booted him out in February after he “forgot” to tell them he was also a club DJ on the side.

FESTIVALS #1: UPDATE ON CHERRYFEST The inaugural CherryFest is on Sunday November 25 with 14 acts over two stages at the Cherry Bar and ACDC Lane. Conﬁrmed are New Orleans’ sludge metal Eyehategod on their ﬁrst trip, the Omar RodriguezLopez Group, the reunion of stoners Dern Rutlidge, Henry Wagons, Boston ska punks, Big D And The Kids Table, I Exist, Gruntbucket, River Of Snakes, My Left Boot, Frankenbok, Dead City Ruins and more.

FESTIVALS #2: QUEENSCLIFF HOSTS ‘ROAD TO…’ The Queenscliff Music Festival is hosting the semi-final of the Telstra Road To Discovery on Saturday November 24 from 11am on the Hippos Stage. In the week before, 17 entrants from around the country arrive in Melbourne for a boot camp. The final ten will be chosen on the day.

FESTIVALS #3: LORNE SALES 50% UP The second Festival of Performing Arts in Lorne (September 7-9) sold twice as many as last year, reports Chris Tully, president of the Lorne Business & Tourism Association (LBTA) which organises the event. The Opening Night Cabaret was a sell-out, as were some other events.

REGIONAL VENUES UPDATE The City Of Bendigo green lighted the old gaol to become a $25.8 million 1,000-seat theatre to encourage the arts in the region. It got $12.3 million in federal funding, $11 million from the state and $3 million from the council. Building starts early 2013, and will include a large stage, ﬂy tower, dressing rooms, orchestra pit, music, dance and drama studios and learning areas … The site of the old Regent nightclub in Ballarat is being transformed into an upmarket three-storey metro-style café at a cost of $2.5 million … A report submitted at a Warrnambool City Council showed that the Lighthouse Theatre will be ﬁnished on time and under budget at $8.87 million.

ST KILDA FESTIVAL WANTS NEW MUSIC Are you in an awesome Australian band? But not signed to a major label? St Kilda Festival is looking for bands to play the New Music stage at the 2013 St Kilda Festival. You’ll get a modest performance fee, but more importantly your band will be in the running to win $5,000 and a bunch of other goodies in the New Music Stage ‘crowd favourite’ vote. Not to mention, your band will play to an audience of 300,000+ as part of Australia’s biggest and best beachside music festival. Entries close this Friday September 21, so get cracking! Head to stkildafestival.com.au.

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PETER PETRUCCI BY TAMARA VOGL

Firmly embedded within the Australian jazz scene and regarded as one of the most skilled guitarists within the nation, Peter Petrucci has established a distinct musical voice. Nominated for several ARIA Awards within the jazz category, Peter is renowned for uncommon refinement and fluency in his playing. After 25 years worth of collaborative effort, Peter has partnered with long time friend and fellow Australian music legend, Tony Gould. Due to release their new record The Journey Home Peter speaks about the labours of his art, independent music labels and his long spanning relationship with friend Tony Gould. Peter Petrucci has been regarded as a virtuoso, musical poet and one of few guitarists in the world that can play with such legato technique. With a progressive contemporary sound, his refined aural and technical ability produce many colours and melodic textures in his touching renditions of jazz standards and original pieces. Recognised here and abroad by many peers and noted music critics as having attained a high degree of talent and technical ability. Peter has been nominated for several ARIA Awards and Bell Awards including for Best Jazz Album of the Year and Best Jazz Artist of The Year. Having begun playing guitar at the age of 11, Peter gained an interest in jazz by 16. His attraction was based on the required talent, but more specifically its use of improvisation. “You need quite a big skill base,” Petrucci explains, “The idea of improvisation and spontaneous composition, that’s always a lot of fun. It changes things…[the] music remains fresh.” After auditioning and being accepted into the VCA, Petrucci mastered his craft. Now a professor at the same institution he recommends a considerable amount of practice for all his students. “If you’re passionate with what you’re doing, you will spend a lot of time doing it,” he says. “Practice is key. I would say if you’re a beginner [you should practice] at least a couple of hours a day.” The impromptu nature of jazz is an element that has scared many away from playing it, but Petrucci says it

keeps the music pure. “That pursuit of composing on the spot is exciting and exhilarating,” he explains. “Jazz is on the spot versus printed repertoire. I realised I liked improvisation the ﬁrst time I heard certain people play, like Keith Jarrett and Wes Montgomery. Hearing that music had me blown away by it. I had the connection from dot.” Performed both locally and internationally throughout his career he has done so as an individual artist and supporting many artists of repute. He has performed with artists in Canada, America, the U.K. and Europe including Scott Colley, Zak Danziger, Gene Jackson, Ray Piper, Antonio Ferone, Vasco Tonnello, Simon Spade and Mark Dzuba. “Every country has a special part to it,” he says. “In Europe, people come for anything and they are broad minded. New York is special, because of the improvisation. I also really like Montreal. It has one of the greatest jazz festivals in the world.” In terms of the Australian jazz scene Petrucci thinks it is quite strong. “There is a lot going on in Melbourne, but it is a minority art form,” he explains. Especially appreciative of Which Way Music, Petrucci says, “I have been associated with three or four labels and ﬁnally it’s about time a record label came together that understands the music and supports the artists fully… other labels don’t get it. They are fully supportive of the artist and [jazz] music.”

A friendship spanning over 25 years, Petrucci met renowned pianist Tony Gould during his time at the VCA. “I was interested in what he was doing as a student at the VCA,” he says, “I was intrigued by his harmonic approach and I was lucky enough to play with him at a young age.” Now the two are great mates with Petrucci saying it’s always a fun journey playing with him. “We always have a good time creating music on the spot,” he explains, “It’s a great thing to perform with people you really admire and get along with.” The Journey Home is their third collaborative recording. Petrucci says of the album, “It is quite subdued and mellow in sections. It is a melodic recording with three orchestral pieces on the album. There are beautiful compositions and it is a unique journey with little twists and turns.” The album was recorded back in March at Medici Studios in Geelong during the course of one day, but Petrucci doesn’t believe it will be the last time Tony and him collaborate together, with the possibility of another recording brewing at the end of the year.

“Due to the mutual respect and empathy to the process of music making and each other, Tony and I have gone on yet another journey in the pursuit of creating something new and unique for us as performers and for the listener,” Petrucci adds, “Instinct plays a big part in capturing the spirit of spontaneous music making. The end result I feel is less predictable and more personal in that we connect more with the soul of the music itself.” When asked of the possibility of jazz dying as a genre, Petrucci says, “I would like to believe it will constantly move, like any genre it will evolve. It is the only art form that has spontaneous composition and that’s important and unique….I think it will morph into diﬀerent things.”

PETER PETRUCCI and Tony Gould will launch their album The Journey Home at Bennetts Lane on Sunday September 30. The album is out through Which Way Music.

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TRACY BARTRAM

JOHN MONTESANTE QUARTET FEATURING EMMA FRANZ The John Montesante Quintet (or JMQ) is a stylish, horn-led combo formed in 1990, with a penchant for bebop and taking standards to another level. The band has gained respect in the Melbourne jazz scene because of its quality musicianship, versatility, entertainment value and ability to perform with any outstanding local or international artist. They return to Dizzy’s with the JMQ’s ﬁne rhythm section: John Montesante on trumpet/ﬂugel, Scott Lambie on drums, Dean Addison on double bass and Jex Saarelaht on piano. Emma has been fronting bands since the early ‘90s, working regularly in all types of venues, from jazz clubs to Australian embassies abroad; appearing regularly on live television, and sustaining international residencies across Asia, for ships’ cruises and in Switzerland. Now residing back in Melbourne, the John Montesante Quintet is delighted to reintroduce her to local audiences. It’s going to be a stellar evening with a very stylish performer, guaranteed. Early bookings are recommended, to avoid disappointment. Dizzy’s Jazz Bar, Saturday September 29 Beat Magazine Page 46

While Tracy Bartram is best known for her quick wit and hilarious slice-of-life anecdotes, at Dizzy’s they know her better as a wonderful jazz singer with a fantastic band. Her shows take you on a wonderful jazz journey through the ages with lots of laughs in between. Dizzy’s Jazz Bar, Saturday September 22

KRYSTLE WARREN Krystle Warren is an enigmatic and gifted folkjazz-soul singer and songwriter. She returns to Australia to support Rufus Wainwright and will headline this show of her own. Compared to Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin by various press outlets, there’s something alluringly familiar about Krystle Warren. Northcote Social Club, Thursday September 27 (as part of Darebin Music Feast)

JAMES MACAULAY’S NEW OLD JAZZ BAND New Orleans revivalist jazz and the primitive mysticism of bebop, from heart-in-the-basket blues to jump-tempo swing. Blistering soloists on top of burnin’ rhythm, featuring favourites from Louis, Duke, Jelly Roll and originals to move your hips and rattle your guts. Open Studio, Saturday September 29 (as part of Darebin Music Feast)

Define your genre in five words or less: Modern electric jazz, world, rock. What do you love about making music? Creating a strong groove, interlocking odd time patterns, expressing new musical ideas, playing music that is honest and true, and communicating that energy to an audience, and really challenging myself and the listener. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? It would have to be Miles Davis. He was a music trend setter and history maker and it would be interesting to get his opinion on my music, good or bad! When’s the gig and with who? Our next gig is at Bar 303 on Wednesday September 26 supporting Tom Fryer’s Quartet. Our ensemble features Kelly O’Donohue (trumpet), Emily Poole (bass clarinet), Jay Scarlett (trombone), Michael Mazziotta (piano), Matt Head (drums) and I’ll be playing electric bass. How long have you been gigging and writing? I have been writing and gigging for the past nine years. My first gig was in a local pub in a band with

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my dad at age 12. Prior to that I played piano for several years. Throughout high school I played in original funk rock bands as bassist and singer. I also started my own big band in high school as well, and arranged compositions for them. It was half way through high school I fell in love with jazz and improvised music, and since then I’ve been focused on developing my skills as a composer and musician, particularly through my music degree at NMIT. Where would you like to be in five years? New York has always been somewhere I wanted to be. I just recently came back from a month long trip there where I had the opportunity to study and hang out with some of my musical hero’s like Felix Pastorius, Panagiotis Andreou, Matt Garrison and Jason Lindner. Checking out the scene there has really given me a fresh direction and kicked me into gear. So hopefully in five years I’ll living and playing in New York! What makes a good musician? That’s a difficult question but I think someone who is a good listener, in every sense of the term. Whether it be to a record or their fellow musicians. Someone who can communicate feelings and ideas and someone who dedicates a large portion of their life to music entirely.

Our poor jazz musicians! Our chef is so good, her food steals the limelight. For the last 14 years Dizzy’s Jazz Club has become known for the best local and international jazz music. What you may not know is that our food is so good that we are making quite a name for ourselves. Don’t just take our word for it, we invite you to come down and experience it for yourself. Visit our ever changing music program and menu at:

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Dizzy’s Jazz Club 381 Burnley Street, Richmond Phone: 9428 1233 Email: dizzys@dizzys.com.au

Which Way Music is an Australian based record label founded in 2005 with a focus on jazz, classical and contemporary music. The principle objective of the label is to produce and promote new musical work by a growing family of artists. All are critically acclaimed performers who bring their musical and compositional skills to the recording studio in a variety of settings – from the sublime partnership between Tunisian oud player Dhafer Youssef and Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, to the stylistically indefinable compositions and improvisations of classical guitar masters Slava and Leonard Grigoryan. A reflection of the label’s success in nurturing and developing a diverse catalogue is the formation, recording and subsequent international acclaim of guitar trio MGT, featuring US jazz great Ralph Towner. Driven by an artistic ideal rather than commercial imperative, Which Way Music fills a gap in the Australian marketplace for the discerning listener.

Luke Howard, Janos Bruneel Open Road

Shannon Barnett Country

Wolfgang Muthspiel, Dhafer Youssef Glow

Grigoryan Brothers Distance

Muthpiel, Grigoryan, Towner From a Dream

Recorded at RainbowStudio in Oslo, Open Road is an achingly beautiful recording of original works from Australian pianist Luke Howard and Belgian double bassist Janos Bruneel in both solo and duo settings.

Debut CD from maverick trombonist Shannon Barnett. From the alt-country / pop-tinged title track Country, to the distinctly north coast ﬂavoured Abercrombie Byron Hippie Knife Fight, the album is a journey through many stylistic inﬂuences.

“Austrian guitarist Muthspiel and Tunisian singer and oud player Youssef create music that sounds deeply rooted in ancestral Suﬁ laments. The music spans the tightrope between the ancient and the present... fearlessly stepping into the void and ﬁlling it with sublime sounds and colours.” The Guardian (UK)

“These young musicians bring the same mastery and enthusiasm to both old and new in their expansive repertoire, and they illustrate in every bar what real guitar-playing is all about.” The Age

“This extraordinary album by MGT has a mesmerising quality of three powerful guitarists. The lyricism and innovation here is quite rare and should be savoured over and over again.” The Age

FGHR Going Home

Daniel Gassin Sextet: Reimaginings

Joe Chindamo & Zoe Black Reimaginings

Christopher Hale Sylvan Coda

“Going Home is a work whose beauty is instantly accessible, without a hint of shallowness or calculated emotional affect... an album that comes highly recommended.” All About Jazz (USA)

Australian-born of French and American parents, Daniel Gassin has a unique cultural heritage. These inﬂuences are evident in this self-titled ﬁrst release. Whilst recorded in the oft-sterile surrounds of a studio, it has the freshness and drive usually reserved for ‘live’ recordings. The ensemble playing is tight and powerful.

Joe Chindamo is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and arranger while Zoe Black is one of the leading classical violinists of her generation. Their collaboration on Reimaginings is a beautiful collision of musical styles resulting in a new genre that deﬁes deﬁnition. It is tempestuous, passionate, romantic and full of surprises.

An unconventional, free-thinking virtuoso of the acoustic bass guitar, Christopher Hale is widely respected. Sylvan Coda features a 10-piece band and was produced with Lachlan Carrick (Gotye, Lior, The Drones). It is an epic, widescreen vision: Cuban religious drums, Gian Slater’s angelic vocals, Flamenco brio and deep, insistent rock, and hardearned, heartbroken optimism.

For entire catalogue, visit www.whichwaymusic.com

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SETH SENTRY BY JOSHUA KLOKE

Seth Sentry sits tucked away in the corner of the Union Hotel. He’s casually working his way through an afternoon pot. Substitute the pot for “rubbish coffee” and a piece of “soggy toast” and you’d have the ubiquitous scene from the video for Sentry’s breakout hit, The Waitress Song. While the track gained widespread airplay in 2009, Sentry is out to prove that he’s no one hit wonder. “That song was bigger than me,” says Sentry. “That song wasn’t necessarily good for Seth Sentry so much as it was for The Waitress Song. It became its own beast.” Three years after the release of The Waiter EP, Sentry will release This Was Tomorrow, his debut fulllength. In doing so, Sentry aims to establish himself as an inventive voice on Australia’s hip-hop scene. This Was Tomorrow showcases the deft manner in which Sentry fuses genres within his tracks. What’s more, the record displays an uncanny ability for Sentry to pen lyrics that roll off the tongue with a light-hearted ease yet maintain an emotional weight long afterwards. Four years of writing went into This Was Tomorrow, and Sentry admits it’s been a long time coming.“This is the album that the EP was going to be. The plan was originally to do a full album, but we did an EP instead. So this is the album I wanted to release,” he says confidently. The four years of work eventually weighed on Sentry’s conscience, and he admits there were points in which he had to step away from the process. “I guess what made it hard was the fact that I had a song (The Waitress Song) which I wrote in just an afternoon, and a few mates of mine didn’t really like, that song did so well. That fucked my head up a little bit. I started questioning every song I wrote afterwards. I wondered, ‘Is this song any good?’ or ‘Is this song going to do the same thing?’ It’s no good to question things too much though, as I’ve learnt.” One question Sentry hasn’t had to mull over is that of a record label. Sentry’s decision to release This Was Tomorrow on his own High Score Records allowed him the freedom to focus on writing the record instead of worrying how to market it. “I like being my own boss. It suits my vibe. I did the EP on my own, to the point of mailing every single copy out myself.” Sentry’s DIY approach begins behind the scenes, before eventually manifesting itself onstage. “We got a few offers [from labels] awhile back, but they just weren’t for me. There’s that quote that goes something like… labels are good for fanning the flame, but they’re not good for starting the fire? I’m not after world domination, I just want to be able to do what I want to do and make enough of a living off of it so that I don’t have to work hospitality anymore.” Pausing to give thought to every question, Sentry carries himself with a thoughtful and eloquent honesty. His refreshing lack of pretence can be heard in spades throughout This Was Tomorrow. While Sentry admits over-questioning matters may not be healthy, he’s openly critical of the ills of various social groups on tracks like My Scene, though never degrading. If there’s one group of people Sentry is seeking to openly foster, it’s that of his fan base. His eyes light up when he talks about taking his debut LP on the road. His set, which he describes as “Very free and loose,” has been honed for close to ten years, including a memorable opening slot for Public Enemy on their last swing through Australia. But rather than borrow from Public Enemy’s intense and fairly professional live set, Sentry has crafted a more intimate approach. Once again, his affable DIY mentality shines through.

“PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO PIGEONHOLE ME, AND OTHER ARTISTS. BUT LIFE ISN’T LIKE THAT.” “A lot of my show is about getting intimate with the crowd. These people have bought tickets, they’ve bought t-shirts. I want to hang out with these dudes. I don’t come out super professional. I give the crowd a little shit, they give me some shit, we have a laugh. A bit of banter goes a long way.” As Sentry continues, the difference between perceptions based only on The Waitress Song and what will soon be learnt with the release of This Was Tomorrow becomes palpable. Having now conquered the curse of the massive radio hit, Sentry is ready to tackle any other challenges with a level head and a thoughtful demeanour. “People are always trying to pigeonhole me, and other artists. But life isn’t like that.” Instead, Sentry went into This Was Tomorrow with the desire to show off another side of himself and his song-writing abilities. And in the end, what he chose to focus on showed off his true nature. “I was overthinking what people wanted to hear,” he says. “I took a step back and just started writing songs that I was happy with. I didn’t think too much about the narrative, I just focused on the beat. I didn’t try to do anything special, I just went from song to song thinking about what was best for the album.”

This Was Tomorrow is out now on High Score Records/Inertia. SETH SENTRY performs at The Corner Hotel on Saturday September 29. Beat Magazine Page 48

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SCISSOR SISTERS BY THOMAS BAILEY

It was the tail end of 2010, and this lucky scribe was watching New York glam-queens Scissor Sisters tour their third album, the fabulous Night Work, in Oakland, California. Just before they launched into Something Like This, outspoken and lovely vocalist Ana Matronic took the opportunity to air some dirty laundry. “I don’t usually read our reviews,” she began, “but we read our review in Chicago. And that fucking bitch called us ‘shallow’!” Ana Matronic was pissed, and she proceeded to read the reviewer the riot act. “So maybe she thinks real life only happens from nine-to-five; but let me tell you, honey: it’s going to clubs that allow people to let their hair down and be themselves. It’s where love happens, it’s where dreams are born and magic is created. So let me tell you, bitch: it’s not fucking shallow!” Two years later, the Scissor Sisters have released their fourth LP, the gloriously rambunctious Magic Hour – and are about to hit our shores for a tour (giving Australia another chance after their show at last year’s Pyramid Rock Festival, where they “got bottled by a bunch of Aussie rednecks.”). Chock-full of their trademark humour, gaudy disco beats, snappy indie guitars and impossibly catchy pop confectionery, Magic Hour is quite possibly the Sisters’ best album to date. Matronic cackles over the phone when I remind her of her epic outburst in Oakland. When I make mention that the magic of going out seems to be a running theme in the Sisters’ oeuvre, Matronic agrees wholeheartedly. “Well,” she explains, “in the scene I come from, which is the drag scene, dressing up is about personal transformation and it’s about letting the person you want to be out, even if it’s only for an evening, or a few minutes! “So engaging in that transformation and becoming somebody else for a night is anything but shallow; it’s a really useful therapeutic tool and it’s a way of getting to know yourself that I think is better than paying somebody a hundred dollars to listen to you talk for an hour! So that’s really what I mean when I talk about the depth of a good time, and places like gay nightclubs have traditionally been the only place that a certain group of people can go to truly be themselves. They’re limited in their expression at their jobs and on the street, and in society and institutions. So a lot of people look at going out and dancing as something that is frivolous and shallow; and in my experience those times of the night are really good times for me and my friends where we can escape and truly be free!” Magic Hour takes that concept of the freedom of the night and expands on it immensely. Classic tracks such as Only The Horses, San Luis Obispo and the gay anthem of the year Let’s Have A Kiki burn with a maniacal sense of fun and adventure. “Jake [Shears, lead vocalist and songwriter] was particularly inspired by people in his group of friends and going out with them until the sun comes up,” Matronic informs me when I ask her about the album’s inspiration. “You know, that great feeling of being tired – but exhilarated and loving the coming of the day that’s coming on the heels of having had a great night out. That was really the inspiration of Magic Hour; it’s the inspiration that comes differently for different songs: some of them could be inspired by a conversation, or something could be inspired by what’s happened in the news – but all of them are pretty personal. You know, you put a little bit of yourself in everything that you do!” For the recording of Magic Hour, the Sisters brought on a whole slew of new collaborators, luminaries such as Calvin Harris, Diplo, Azealia Banks and Pharrell Williams. What did these folks bring to the proceedings? “Collaborating with people is always fun, and we live for it!” she exclaims. “We’ve done it on every album. We always try to work with different people and producers and what-have-you. It’s always great to work with somebody, and seeing them work – how they approach what you do in new and different ways! For instance, Azealia was an absolute force of nature, and – a lot like Jake – is a very instinctual songwriter, and it’s always great to be around that level of raw talent. Like on Shady Love – I absolutely love that song!”

“A LOT OF PEOPLE LOOK AT GOING OUT AND DANCING AS SOMETHING THAT IS FRIVOLOUS AND SHALLOW; AND IN MY EXPERIENCE THOSE TIMES OF THE NIGHT ARE REALLY GOOD TIMES FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS WHERE WE CAN ESCAPE AND TRULY BE FREE!” It would have been remiss of me to not take the opportunity to ask Matronic her take on the seemingly never-ending struggle for marriage equality for gays and lesbians, so I ask her. “Well, I think it’s never easy and it never comes as soon as we want it to,” she says. “The tide is really turning, I believe, and I’m very hopeful now that [President Obama] has spoken out in favour of gay marriage that it will start the tide of popular opinion. I think history always gets there – progress will be made! – and these rights that are currently being held back will be achieved. Gay marriage has been passed in New York, and I think that it will eventually get to where we want it to be. And I think it’s great. Slowly but surely we’ll get there, but it’s going to take some time.” She laughs, and her voice takes a mischievous edge. “And I know all about it; I’m a woman!”

Let’s have a kiki when SCISSOR SISTERS make their triumphant return to Australia next week at Melbourne’s new-fangled Hamer Hall Wednesday September 26. Tickets available at theartscentre. com.au. Magic Hour is out now through Universal.

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DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST

THE DEANS

BY WRITEY MCWRITE

The demographic profile of the Darebin council area – which takes in the inner northern suburbs of Northcote, Thornbury and Fairfield, through to Preston, Reservoir and Bundoora – is a sociological collage. On the one hand, there’s the iconic hipster scene – illustrated in the execrable and cynical marketing campaign adopted by the Cotery apartment complex in Northcote – on the other, there’s the suburban middle-class environment of McLeod and Reservoir. While the forces of gentrification may have pushed Darebin’s arts community further north, the fact remains that Darebin, with its above-average proportion of live music venues, is a major player in the Melbourne arts scene. Craig Rogers is in his fifth year as director of the Darebin Music Feast, an annual event that aims to celebrate the Darebin arts scene. Rogers sees the festival as about celebrating the empathetic and supportive live music scene, more so than showcasing the local arts residents per se. Venues hosting events at this year’s Darebin Music Feast range from the Northcote Social Club and Wesley Anne, Bar Nancy in Westgarth, Northcote’s Regal Ballroom, through to Tago Mago in Thornbury, Offbeats Music Cafe in Preston and Edwards Place and Wendy’s Music in Reservoir. The eclectic style of venues betrays a strong live music venue community. “I think Darebin has an amazing number of live music venues, and incredibly dedicated venues,” Rogers says. “And if you look at High Street, Northcote, they’re all located in close proximity, and they all support each other. And the number of live venues in Darebin, even out a bit further, is growing,” he says. “We’re trying to make sure the festival isn’t just based in High Street, but also includes venues further out, like Preston and Reservoir.” Rogers suggests that the Darebin Music Feast is “a fringe festival by nature”; as artistic director, it’s Rogers’ responsibility to find performers who present a more idiosyncratic, and occasionally confrontational artistic style. “We look for a unique voice or style of music,” Rogers says. “Something edgy – though we also have a balance of established and emerging artists.” In each festival he’s been responsible for, Rogers says a different theme has emerged, more by artistic happenstance than directorial design. “Every year you

can almost see what’s happening in the local community,” Rogers says. “This year we have lots of sea shanties and pirate music, so that’s showing up as a bit of a theme for the festival. The theme comes about really naturally.” The festival represents a balance between local and out-of-town musicians, with the latter including Victorian, Australian and international guests. “There is a balance there,” Rogers says. “Darebin has a large number of musicians, but because we also have lots of venues, we tend to feature artists from all over Victoria, other parts of Australia and even overseas.” While Rogers is responsible for overall coordination of the event, each local venue is free to come up with its own program of performers. “We put on our own shows, but the live venues also organise their own shows,” Rogers says. One of the new elements in this year’s festival is a school holiday program, titled Music Feast For Kids. While many other children’s music festivals succumb to the temptation to vacuous, red cordial pop music, the Music Feast For Kids is intended to allow parents to take children to ‘real’ music, performed in a child-friendly environment. Events include The Shivering Timbers performing “nautical, countriﬁed pop” and The Sunshine Sisters’ celebration of the Australian songwriting tradition. “The shows are kid friendly, and they’re held during the day,” Rogers says. “We’re encouraging mothers to bring their babies – everyone from one month to 50-years-old is encouraged to come along. It’s about real bands, doing real music – and taking out all the swearing,” Rogers laughs. While not wanting to pick favourites, Rogers nominates

Deﬁne your genre in ﬁve words or less: Melbourne soul: not always smooth.

the Up Late With Kate event as an event he’s particularly looking forward to seeing. “Up Late With Kate is a Kate Bush Tribute Night,” Rogers says. “We’ve got a great list of Melbourne musicians coming together to celebrate and reinterpret Kate Bush’s music.” And then there’s This Does Not Belong To You, a street-based performance in which ukuleles will be left randomly on streets and laneways in Darebin, with an open invitation to anyone to pick up the instrument and engage in impromptu performance. “We really want to make sure that everyone can get involved,” Rogers says. Or you can immerse yourself in the socialmedia-fuelled festival Pop Up Music. “Pop Up Music is basically a treasure hunt for live music,” Rogers says. “There’ll be various live performances in unexpected locations, and we’re not disclosing who, or where they’ll be performing, and the audience will be encouraged to track what’s happening via our Facebook page and Twitter feed.” Even with such a rich and diverse program, Rogers is matter-of-fact about Darebin’s unique appeal as a live music precinct; it’s about opportunity, not pretension. “One of the things that separates us from other parts of Melbourne at the moment is the large number of live venues in close proximity,” Rogers says. “And none of those venues are taking audiences oﬀ each other – they’re all helping each other.” The DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST runs from Thursday September 20 to Sunday October 7. The program can be found at musicfeast.com.au.

When are you doing your thing next? Our thing is getting done Friday September 21 at the Northcote Town Hall. Besides our own cranky soul we’ve also got some very special guests. Teen sensation Fatai V from The Voice; Koori songstress Illana Atkinson; dishevelled diva Lisa Spykers and to finish it all off, Australia’s answer to Solomon Burke, is he a man or is he a mountain? Kutcha Edwards. What part of making music excites you the most? I’m probably most excited about getting to perform with Kutcha again – even though it can be tough on the audience. People tend to get eyestrain if they try to look at him and me at the same time. You’ll see why for yourself at the gig. When, and why did you start writing music? I started making music in my teens. I thought it would impress girls. It might have done. Who could say? I couldn’t. If you could go on tour with any musician or band, who would it be? We got asked to tour with The Temptations last year. Sadly the tour got cancelled. I was – as the kids say – “devvo”. I wanted to meet people who’d effectively been on tour for 50 years. The Perfections have a sound that’s very complimentary to ours but I think the exceptional personal hygiene of Clairy Browne And The Bangin’ Rackettes nudges them to the top of the list. These things shouldn’t be overlooked. 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? Sadly – they don’t make it all the way to the bar. They discover us, become transfixed and then try to keep us to themselves. Don’t be so selfish, people!

SUSY BLUE BY KRISSI WEISS

Susan Hull aka Susy Blue was cocooned as a classically trained flautist before realising that her personality wasn’t entirely suited to the shackles of classical music. Crossing the floor into classical music’s mortal enemy, improvisational jazz, Hull found herself writing songs full of light and flight that were embedded in gypsy/jazz and cabaret folk. They’re free, fun, on the fringe and yet nestled in pop overtones. With a reworked set taking shape for her spot at Darebin Music Feast, Hull is a bundle of nerves yet charming energy in conversation. “Unfortunately I have a day job, which is slightly depressing,” Hull says laughing as she discusses the structure of an ordinary Susy Blue day. “Well the job itself isn’t depressing, it’s music-related, I’m teaching music, but it’s not playing full time. I’m saving up for recording. I’ve been arranging scores and stuff for this Darebin gig as well.” Fortunately Hull has received both an Australian Youth Council Buzz Grant and the Darebin Music Feast’s Songwriter’s Award acting as boosts to both her finances and her confidence. “It feels like the universe is going ‘Okay, it’s alright, you just keep going’, and I realise I shouldn’t give up just yet,” she says. “I’m sure you’ve heard a lot of whinging from artists about the struggle. I don’t know if it’s still the case but I went to uni with a fairly successful artist who, even when they were signed to Sony, still didn’t have much money. I think in Australia it’s a bit harder.” While it seems that playing live is a solid way to earn a living as a musician, sometimes playing too often can be as detrimental as not playing enough. “You could do gigs at

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PRIESTESSA Deﬁne your genre in ﬁve words or less: Enchantress electronica dramatic folk.

If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuﬀ, who would it be and why? Stevie Nicks, in December 1976, as Rumours was being completed. Stevie is the ultra exponent of yin power and mystique. She could evoke pure galaxy in three minutes or less. When’s the gig and with who? Friday September 21 at Bar 303 with Beth Knights, Winternationale and Great Earthquake; Friday

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least every week in Melbourne but I’m all for not playing too much,” she says. “I don’t want to drag my band through the mud because they’re all amazing musicians and I really respect them so I don’t want to make them play a gig every week and get paid $30 or something. I’m going for the more is less idea this year and playing gigs that are really nice and that we really enjoy.” While the Susy Blue project is a Hull creation, her band has taken on a greater level of importance to her. “I write all of the words and the chords and with the other instrumentation I just give them the charts and the feel and they play their own ideas,” she says. “I don’t play their instruments so I’m not going to tell them how to play their parts. If it’s a speciﬁc instrument like a clarinet or in the case with the Darebin gig where I have a string section, I will score out their entire part. I’m kind of a benevolent dictator.” The dictatorship is undergoing a change for the Darebin Feast set as some members of her band are unavailable and

she is bringing in a string section - a decision that is sure to further the light and quirky sound that is Susy Blue. The type of music an artist plays all too often boxes in their personality. Some assume heavy musicians are devilworshipping kitten killers while the personality of Hull is described with the same adjectives as her music – with the two seemingly inseparable. “I actually really kill kittens,” she laughs. “But seriously, it’s so hard for someone to objectively comment on their personality. I’m sure there’s things that I’m not aware of, but hopefully I’m vaguely aware of what I’m like. I think people would probably agree with some of those things of being light and playful and carefree. But there’s deﬁnitely another side to me where the scales tip. I’m a Libra, and in winter particularly, like anyone, I can be quite melancholic. I like philosophy and being serious and I think people probably wouldn’t see that side of me.” With a sound that seems so aligned with an international audience, Hull discusses her hopes for overseas touring and her plans for an album release. “I would love to go to

September 28 at the Velvet Lounge, Thornbury Theatre with Yeso and Lily Parker.

What’s your favourite song, and why? Wolf Song by Patrick Wolf. I was buddies with Patrick in London when he was a supremely talented and ambitious 16-year-old. I spent the weekend with him once and he sat down in front of his harp and asked if I wanted to hear a song. I said “yes!” and he played me this song. I am still fascinated by how good it is.

Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? Amanda Palmer. She raised over a million bucks in crowd funding and can’t aﬀord to pay horn and string players on her upcoming tour. Grrrrrrr. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? I have two EPs available from priestessa.com. I am working on a debut long player called Breaking Patterns to be released mid 2013. Tell us about the last song you wrote. You I. It’s about the search for the holy grail – the search for deeper connections with each other and our highest potential. Basically a love song to the Creator.

Where did you get your name from? I always felt inspired and connected to the High Priestess card in the Tarot deck. She popped up in most of my readings. She reminds me of taking time to forge a deeper connection to my subconscious and inner truth. How do you balance making and playing music with your other commitments? I don’t. I wish I had more time! The ideal is for every moment, deed, thought, word to be musical.

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Europe,” she says. “I get mixed feelings from people who go over there. At the moment I have two friends in Paris and I wanna go but I think it’ll be a matter of transitioning into a solo artist. I love my band and I love having a band and I don’t know if they could all come. That’s the thing really, I would have to change and work on getting a diﬀerent set together. I want to go to America as well so I’m weighing up where I want to go to more. With recording, we’ve already recorded the drums and I’ve been recording the rest at home; I really want to release it soon. So often, when you put an album out the songs have been around for two or more years and you feel like you don’t want to promote them because they’re so old. But hopefully I’ll put out a single this year and the album early next year. From there, well, I dunno,” she says trailing oﬀ. SUSY BLUE joins the Darebin Music Feast brigade at the Northcote Town Hall on Friday September 21.

SLEEPMAKESWAVES BY KRISSI WEISS

Sydney instrumental post-rock band sleepmakeswaves are on a musical comedown after supporting Karnivool on their national tour that rounded out a year of heavy gigging for the band including a self-funded SXSW appearance. Their music doesn’t fit into the standard formula of Aussie indie rock and even Karnivool, in all of their progrock experimentation and melodic greatness, seem predictable when put next to the sounds of sleepmakeswaves. The fact they have gotten this far is a testament to their music, their determination and the open-mindedness of their audience. The fact that they look set to go much, much farther is almost unbelievable. “It was one of the most gratifying things we’ve ever done,” bassist and general spokesperson for the band, Alex Wilson says. “When we started working seriously our manager asked us what Australian band we would most like to play with and we thought Karnivool would be fantastic. Then when they actually asked us to do it, well, it was a pretty incredible thing. On the one hand, we feel happy to be asked to do the tour as a relatively unknown band but we also feel pretty chuﬀed because we’ve worked our arses oﬀ for the past 12 months and to go on that tour we had the great experience of that experience on the back of all that we’d done. Karnivool and Redcoats were wonderful to us and their crew were amazing but we also got a lot more love than we expected to from the fans…There were a few guys who came up to me and they were like ‘it’d be sick if ya had some vocals, hey,’ but generally people were actually surprisingly receptive to us. We expected to be playing to fairly empty rooms and that the

people who came would be far more hostile but the complete opposite happened. The Karnivool fans came out in droves to support us and Redcoats.” With their own national tour about to begin, punctuated by a set as part of the Darebin Music Feast, it’s easy to assume that some of the recently converted might reappear in the audience for this headline tour. “We haven’t played any capital city shows yet but we’re hoping that might happen,” he says humbly. “It’d be great to see a few new faces come down who had seen us do the supports for Karnivool but I suppose we’re trying not to think about it that way. I don’t think we can ever delude ourselves into feeling entitled to those kinds of crowds yet. We just need to keep plugging away as the slightly weird and obscure instrumental band and maintain our hard-core fans.” SXSW can be either an expensive and wasted exercise or a sure-ﬁre rocket into the American music market and while

sleepmakeswaves had a solid response to their release, …and so we destroyed everything, on the CMJ Top 200, touring is still very much at the whiteboard stage. “Any headway we can make into the US would be fantastic but that all depends on what kind of attention these future releases get and what kind of tour oﬀers we can manage,” he says. “There’s nothing solid, as far as touring, we’re focusing on what we can achieve with this Australian tour and then focusing on getting some new material down. At the moment, with the Australian tour, we’re doing it to give the people who saw us earlier in the year or on the Karnivool tour one more opportunity to see us before the year’s out but also to road test some of the new material as a nice treat for the people who have come out to see us.” Road testing material is an ambiguous notion and while some bands will dump the songs that get the least applause, sleepmakeswaves hardly seem like that sort of band. “I think our fans are fairly open-minded, that’s one of the beneﬁts of being a slightly oddball group, the fans are along for the

journey and they expect us to try new things and spread our wings,” he says. “To be honest, when we’re playing new songs and ‘road testing’ them, we’re deciding for ourselves which songs we really want to go with. It comes down to which songs really get us going and excited and which songs get all of us firing on all cylinders. It’s searching for that moment when there’s an element to the performance that goes beyond the individual performers and beyond the song itself. That feeling is something that we want to bring to the next record; that energy that you get during a really good gig. So for us, it’s about going on that project of self-discovery and hopefully the audience will find some great riffs and awesome melodies and they’ll be able to enjoy the passion we have discovering that.”

bass and we quickly found ourselves with a band. Earlier this year we decided we wanted to expand our live sound and another friend of ours jumped on keys for us.” Although the band came together almost by accident the name has a more romantic story. “It all came from something I heard on the radio one day,” he says. “Apparently there was a governor in Alaska who tried to sell his mansion during the Depression in America but it just wouldn’t sell. At the time, I was also studying post-modern literature and had just heard about the concept gnomon. Gnomon is a mathematical concept that has been appropriated by literary geeks and is used to define characters by their absences, such as a man who is defined by his inability to love. I thought this concept related really well to the story of the mansion. It’s a house defined by an inability to be sold, its inability to do the one thing it was created to do — to be lived in.” With an obvious affinity for musing on the philosophies of life and the subtext of existence, Kruger still finds it hard to establish how his influences permeate his music. “Sometimes

we’ll bring a specific idea from a song or band we like as a reference point for a song that we’re creating,” he explains. “But by the time it gets through us incorporating that idea into our sound it will have morphed into something entirely different. Usually I’ll come with an idea, usually a finished or half-finished song and take it to the rest of the band.” The EP launch looks set to be Mansion, Alaska’s last gig for the year as a couple of members head off on a road of selfdiscovery – or just a piss-up, who knows. “Dom (Willmott) and I are actually going overseas with another mate for three months starting in November,” he says. “So we’ll have our EP launch and something of a going away gig before then. Hopefully, when we get back we’ll get straight into writing new material, set our sights on another EP and gig extensively.”

SLEEPMAKESWAVES are a part of the Darebin Music Feast, playing at the Northcote Social Club on Friday September 21. ...and so we destroyed everything is out on Bird’s Robe Records.

MANSION, ALASKA BY KRISSI WEISS

Inspired by a desire to bridge the gap between creative and facilitators, Darebin City Council initiated Decibel Records, a youth-led initiative aimed at giving young artists the experience of being signed to and working with an independent record label. Now in its second year, Decibel Records received an overwhelming response from musicians wanting to be a part of the program and a young, lo-fi band by the obscure name of Mansion, Alaska were one of the bands given that opportunity and who will also be performing at the Decibel Records showcase. “We’ve been friends with Natalie Taylor for a while now,” songwriter and guitarist Michael Kruger explains. “She does some great work for Decibels and Balcony TV. We had recently recorded a demo track and Nat suggested we submit it to Decibels and see where that took us. Thankfully, the guys at Decibels liked it, we got asked in to do an audition and then it all started from there.” The role of record labels in today’s ever-changing industry is hard to deﬁne and when that label is a government program, things become even more blurred. Kruger discusses the opportunities this young band has enjoyed as a result of this project. “Considering how uncomfortable we all feel with the self-promotion side of music, it was so incredible for us to have a group of enthusiastic, dedicated people helping promote us as a band,” he says. “And really, above all else, this label deal has given us the rare opportunity to make an EP and learn about the process of doing so.

We feel like we’re still developing our music and we were aware that we probably weren’t going to come out of the studio with an EP that was going to redefine music. But through the making of this EP we know that we’re a hell of a lot closer to finding a sound that we like.” The EP Kruger is referring to is their self-titles release that was refined and recorded with the help of Jim Maroudas (Kimbra, Eskimo Joe, The Living End) and Simon Lam and Hamish Mitchell from I’lls. Mansion, Alaska, came together as result of Kruger needing to dodge the exhaustive trail of copyright approval for a soundtrack he needed. “We actually started almost by accident,” he says. “I needed a soundtrack to a film I was making and not really wanting to deal with copyright issues. I asked a few of the guys if they wanted to record some tracks with me. We soon realised that we loved making music together so much that we should do something about it. Luckily, two of our mates from high school played drum and

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For the full Darebin Music Feast program, head to musicfeast.com.au

QUANG DINH Acclaimed Melbourne-based songwriter Quang Dinh sings songs inspired by the Vietnam War, Leonard Cohen, Charles Bukowski and his own personal madness. He brings with him a special knack for breathing energy and inspiration into even the most mundane aspects of life with an occasional hint of pop sensibility. See Quang Dinh at Bar Nancy on Saturday September 22 from 8pm. $10 full, $7 concession.

KATE MULQUEEN Equal parts cabaret, folk and heartbreak, Kate Mulqueen is a local singer-songwriter who has taken the northern suburbs by polite yet quirky storm. Her weapons of choice are ebony, ivory, irony and melody. She will cut through your skin and curl herself around your stillbeating heart. Bar Nancy, Sunday September 23, 6pm.

UP LATE WITH KATE Benn Bennett and friends bring together a selection of our ﬁnest music and cabaret performers to reinterpret and pay tribute to the songs of British artist Kate Bush. Featuring Rebecca Barnard, Wes Snelling, Tina Del Twist, Yana Alana and Scott Edgar, they’re performing at Northcote Town Hall on Saturday September 22 from 8.30pm. $23.

THE FEISTY FEASTY TRASH BAND The Feisty Feasty Trash Band is made up of people from the Darebin community who have come together to make music out of hard rubbish and trash from around the house. Led by Chris Lesser, this band is sure to put the bang back into the bin. Northcote Town Hall, Saturday September 22, 7.30pm.

SERI VIDA

ANNA SMYRK AND THE APPETITES

MANSION, ALASKA are playing as part of the Darebin Music Feast’s Decibel Records Showcase, Friday September 28 at the Northcote Town Hall.

Dramatic folk-pop band Anna Smyrk And The Appetites launch the video for their latest single, There’s A War, at Wesley Anne on Friday September 21 at 8pm. Exploring themes of love and war, the video presents evocative images of army boots, ballgowns and the alleyways of the northern suburbs. Support comes from Elephant Eyes. Tickets are $10.

An only child, a Cancer, a sometimes moody, otherwise confessional Seri Vida has been throwing tantrums on stages across Melbourne since fronting The Pang in 2009. The edgy songstress began writing music in the conﬁnes of her bedroom, from plunking notes on the old ebony and ivory to strumming sturdy strings of an electric guitar to accompany her vocal prowess. Seri Vida will be throwing another tantrum at Bar Nancy on Thursday September 20 at 8pm. Tickets are $10 or $7 for concessions.

ANDY WEAR

A CELEBRATION OF COUNTRY

Andy Wear’s “alluringly understated indie songs” (The Thousands) are highly personal accounts of both the minutiae and grand narratives of life – and all that lies between. His musical pursuits coexist (sometimes uncomfortably) with his work as both a visual artist and theorist. Catch him at Bar Nancy on Tuesday September 25 at 9pm.

Jenny Taylor is returning with Australia’s premier country choir, Lipstick And Spurs. Entertaining, funny and beautiful, they sing and dance through country classics and ﬁne Australiana, now with a new repertoire. Supported by Flower Frock ‘N’ Fiddle and special guests High Street Bells Choir, Thursday September 20 is set to be a truly inspiring night. 7.30pm, tickets are $15.

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ANNA SMYRK AND THE APPETITES Dramatic folk-pop band Anna Smyrk And The Appetites launch the video for their latest single, There’s A War, at Wesley Anne on Friday September 21 at 8pm. Exploring themes of love and war, the video presents evocative images of army boots, ball-gowns and the alleyways of the northern suburbs. Support comes from Elephant Eyes. Tickets are $10.

ASH NAYLOR AND FRIENDS Hailed as one of Australia’s greatest guitarists, Ash Naylor is the charismatic frontman for Australian pop’n’roll institution Even. He’s playing guitar alongside the likes of Paul Kelly and with the Rockwiz Orkestra. A talented singer-songwriter, Ash is joined by rockin’ balladeer Rick Swaney, and evocative storyteller Ruth Katerelos. They’re playing at Northcote Town Hall on Thursday September 20 from 8pm. Tickets are $20.

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FEAR FACTORY

BY SAMUEL J DILLINGER

Expecting creativity to provoke thought is a stretch. So much shit gets labelled as art that it’s hard invest your time into something that could easily be a waste of it. Metal seems to be a forgotten form because of this and unless a listener has a history of being in the thick of it, then you can forget them taking anything (they consider to be) valuable away from sitting down with the likes of Fear Factory. The problem isn’t the band. The problem is a listening demographic set up to take what is given. Turd’s wrapped in tinfoil and most dig it because it’s shiny. Through the last ten years it seems to be what people want to hear. Bliss in ignorance. Breaking oﬀ from a process line set up to steer thoughts and impulses. These concepts are at the core of what Fear Factory tells in their latest eﬀort The Industrialist as Burton explains, “Fear Factory has always been about survival. The fact that the band has survived two decades and inspired other people to express their own artistic endeavors from their own survival makes me proud. At its centre, in our story-telling we try and express that survival is what most things boil down to when most other things have been stripped back and we also try and apply that concept to the music, giving the story a much louder voice.” The second album to emerge after the 2008 reunion of the band’s founding members, The Industrialist goes one further than that of the band’s past work in taking the perspective of convenience transformed into threat. As Burton elaborates, “Story wise, it’s a concept. That’s nothing new for us. However, The Industrialist has not taken from the perspective of a human but instead of an automaton – a robot. It’s becoming a sentient being. When The Industrialist was created, it was the prodigal creation of all industries, of all things put together. It was the best they could do. However, technology moves on, so its creators want to dissemble all of its models. It became

sentient once it discovered the will to resist. It found the will to ﬁght for survival. It’s hard to break away and resist when you become what you’re told you are. Most people these days put it in the back of their minds because it’s easier to fall than to climb over and out.” Dino adds his piece. “It’s also about his perception, what the automaton sees, what he feels and what he learns. He’s basically a robot that collects memories and stores them. He’s ﬁghting for his life, and for other automatons. We as humans built the automaton to help us for everyday life, but he basically turns against humans.” It’s obvious when you look at the ground work that these

two had a keen distrust in mankind. When asked why, they were quick to respond. “What baffles us the most is how much we’ve needed to resort to the advice of lawyers instead of band members,” Dino begins. Burton quickly adds, “Yeah, it’s sad that some of the best advice I can give to up and coming bands is to get a good lawyer. As soon as a band makes a single dollar, they are a business in the eyes of many. A gear in a machine that makes money. From 1990 through to now, it has been an ongoing and unfortunate necessity.” The band have been around for just over 20 years. Having toured the world with eight albums worth of content it was expected that, with the reunion of Burton’s story-telling and Dino at the musical helm, their latest efforts would be compared to their greatest triumph, Demanufacture. “We get that a lot. It’s difficult not to make the comparison. There’s still no other record like it and that’s what makes it a classic. That’s what makes it stand out,” Dino says. “It set the benchmark for anything we would do from then on and many expect something similar now that Burton and I have had some time to advance in what we do. We put those same ideas and thoughts into what we do now; we want to make the same calibre of music. Obviously, the

technology gets better and better so we’re able to make higher quality sounding albums.” It’s rare to hear Fear Factory speak of technology in a positive light. Much of their content speaks of the evils that can come from it but on closer observation (and in this case explanation), Burton aims his weapon at the creators and not the creations. “I like to compare the music industry to the Titanic. It’s such a large ship and it’s going to take forever to turn around if you catch onto disaster too late. For example; if the industry ﬁrst picked up on where the Internet was going to take music instead of believing that they could harness it’s power then I think things would be a lot diﬀerent. I’ve heard that CDs as of next year aren’t even going to be manufactured anymore. They are going to become a rarity. But that is just another example of not being able to control the advance of technology that we create.”

“Red Hot Chili Peppers and Muse weren’t necessarily influences, but they were the first two bands that we as a band all identified with and may have even brought us together. There’ve been bands that we’ve bonded over since then. ‘90s hard rock was very important for us. We started out playing Muse covers,” he chuckles. Maher may have been a latecomer to the band, joining Monks Of Mellonwah after their previous EP, Stars Are Out, but he counts himself amongst the converted, and acknowledges what the band can learn from the energy of their predecessors. “I never really got it, until I saw them live. There’s so much energy onstage, sometimes they get naked, you never know what’s going to happen. They always leave it all out on the table. As a band we all look quite upon them very favourably. There’s that energy that we’re all addicted to.” Behind Monks Of Mellonwah’s energy is a conscious approach to the lyrics. Maher examines a breadth of topics including that of the creator of the atom bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, on the title track. Los Angeles may have primed the world for Monks Of

Mellonwah, but as Neurogenesis proves, there’s more to this four-piece than meets the eye. “I think it’s an interesting relationship; working for science and working so hard towards something and then when he ﬁnally ﬁnishes his masterpiece, it killed thousands of people. Working so hard for something that ultimately ended horribly; it’s about keeping focus on what you want. Nothing in my personal life comes across in the song, but it’s an interesting journey that this guy went through that I wanted to tell. “In a way I wanted to personify the story,” continues Maher. “I wanted to think about what he was going through. His frustrations, maybe he went to the beach when he retired, whatever. I wanted to try and get in his head. It’s not explicit or obvious in the lyrics, but I was trying to examine his journey.”

that heavy anymore. If you let things build, and then take them away, then build again, you notice it and it becomes that much more powerful. If you have that little oasis of quiet in the middle, the fuzz really stays with you,” he says, chuckling. The textured approach Regular John took towards Strange Flowers is all the more impressive considering how tempered and balanced each track sounds. While Adamson immediately defers to bassist Caleb Goman as the creative head of the band, he insists that Regular John operates as a democracy instead of a dictatorship. The layered sound of Strange Flowers was conceived with input from the whole band. Similarly, Adamson insists every member of the band must find a way to put their fingerprints on a song before it becomes a Regular John track. “Most of our songs can be broken down into a singular, acoustic performance. So we do have free reign to do what we’d like. We’re not as a free-flowing a band like, Architecture In Helsinki, but we do just try to jam and jam and jam and see what works. Maybe it’s a bit like cooking, where you have to spend time letting a good soup simmer.

“We’re into trying diﬀerent things and ultimately deciding what’s best for the song,” Adamson continues. As he speaks, his voice becomes steadier, underlying the focus both he and the band have gained surrounding the release of the record. “It’s much easier to be gratuitous, but we’ve had to be a bit disciplined at times. It might be a cool sound, but we can’t help but wonder if six months down the line, it’ll sound cheesy or dated. You’ve always got to keep one ear on the objective. It’s not about other people’s perception, but we have to keep a level head on things.” With Strange Flowers now ready for the road, Adamson is able to look back on the recording process. He isn’t giving away too much, but its clear Regular John understand how they discovered the sound that may very well end up deﬁning them. “You’ve always got to get outside your comfort zone if you want to grow. If it gets to the point where it’s not challenging, then it’s not fun anymore.”

FEAR FACTORY play The Hi-Fi on Friday September 28 with Thy Art Is Murder and Truth Corroded. The Industrialist is out now via Riot Entertainment.

MONKS OF MELLONWAH

BY JOSHUA KLOKE

Walk its streets long enough, visit enough dive bars and peer down enough alleys and you’ll realise Los Angeles is as much a city where dreams of stardom are crushed as much as it is a city where dreams come true. It’s a notion not lost on Will Maher, lead singer of Sydney-based hard rock troupe Monks Of Mellonwah. Maher and co. recently returned from a whirlwind experience in the city of angels, where they flirted with greatness. Perspective would eventually grace the band, but at the time, they soaked up the opportunity. “We got picked up on a web blog,” says Maher, reached on the phone from the band’s home base in Sydney. This show, the Artists In Music Awards was the whole reason. We were nominated and we were asked to play. So we flew out there, you know, being 20, 21, we were so excited. It was a blast; we ended up winning the award and we had a great week. It was very young and dumb though, to be honest,” he laughs. As much as it was an experience in indulgence, Maher admits that the trip served as a bonding experience for the young band. “We’ve all been close friends since high school and to experience that kind of city together definitely helped us form a closer bond. That social aspect was important to us.” Looking back now, Maher can speak about the trip with a level head. While Monks Of Mellonwah was lauded as upand-comers, he understands how long a road the band has ahead of them.

It’s that kind of maturity and perspective which may very well prove to be the band’s saving grace. “[The trip to Los Angeles] gave us insight into the Australian music industry and just how the industry in general works. The American industry is massive, and while the Australian industry is very healthy, it’s just on a much smaller scale. We did lots of interviews, lots of parties, and to be honest, we weren’t expecting any of that. As cool as it was to be there and pretending to be this big international band, we’ve still got some work to do.” Maher and the Monks Of Mellonwah won’t simply look at their time in Los Angeles as a story to tell their grandchildren. Instead, they managed to make ties with people close to those who inﬂuenced the band, namely Howie Weinberg. Weinberg, who has worked with Red Hot Chili Peppers amongst others, mastered the band’s latest EP. As Maher tells it, being able to work with someone so close to the Peppers brings things full circle. The seminal funk rockers may not necessarily be heard within Neurogenesis, but their impact on the band cannot be understated.

MONKS OF MELLONWAH set up shop in Melbourne for a weekend of gigs at Grace Darling on Friday, September 21, at Revolver Upstairs on Saturday September 22 before concluding at Pony at 2am that same evening.

REGULAR JOHN

BY JOSHUA KLOKE

With the release of Strange Flowers, their second full-length, Sydney-based psychrock outfit Regular John have truly found their voice. While The Peaceful Atom Is A Bomb, their debut record, drew critical acclaim it’s Strange Flowers that finds the band becoming more comfortable with their expansive, ‘60s R&B-influenced sound. And as guitarist Ryan Adamson attests, it took an appreciation for the recording studio to attain that level of comfort. “We think about bands like Pink Floyd, and how they used the studio as a tool,” he says, reached on the phone before performing a live-to-air session on 2SER in Sydney. “This time around we put more time into messing around with the arrangements and the sonics of it all. A lot more textures; we used a lot of what we call ‘Headphone trinkets,” which took some time to set up, but I think made the whole album a lot more rewarding in the end.” Indeed, Strange Flowers is a marked departure from The Peaceful Atom Is A Bomb; it’s a flushed, textured and most importantly, mature listen. Adamson insists the band couldn’t be happier with the results on Strange Flowers. “We wanted to use more instruments that we’ve acquired over the years, analog synths and stuff like that,” he says. “That’s what we’re into so it made sense to get them on there. We’re into the album as an experience so we tried to create a world that we could bring the listener into. As if, ‘Hey, this is what we do, come join us,’ kind of thing.” Many listeners had already “joined” the band after their previous full-length garnered critical acclaim. The risk of joining the corporate rock elite isn’t one that concerns Adamson, however. In fact, he insists the band wasn’t affected by the dreaded sophomore slump and felt very little pressure entering the studio to record Strange Flowers.

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“I can’t say there really was [any pressure]. It’d been quite a while for us, so what happened with the last record didn’t really enter our minds. We just got into our own little world so we didn’t think about anything outside the studio. The only expectations we had were our own.” Adamson continues, outlining the band’s motives when recording Strange Flowers. “We love albums, and the only question we asked ourselves at the end of the process was whether we were happy with it.” There’s a palpable enthusiasm in Adamson’s voice that insists both he and the band are indeed happy with the results. Where the enthusiasm truly speaks volumes is on record; Slume, the album’s first single builds slowly with Flaming Lips-influenced fuzz before crashing into a wall of guitars that pays homage to the better bands of the early 90’s hard rock explosion. It’s more enlightening than anything the band has ever attempted, but Adamson understands that balance of slow build and all-out sonic assault didn’t come easy to the band. “It was definitely easier a few years to just go full on with every song we wrote. But we’ve learnt that oversaturation can kill a song. If something is really noisy or really fuzzy, after about a minute you get used to it. And then it’s not

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I’m utterly incapacitated this week and unable to string a coherent sentence together so please forgive any rampant misuse of the English language in today’s column. Instead I’ll copy a post from Poison City Records’ Facebook page wherein they celebrated (and rightly so) the Poison City Weekender’s raging success- not just in orchestrating a bunch of bands, but in highlighting why Melbourne is Australia’s live music capital: “I don’t quite have the kind of grasp on the English language that would allow me to thank, let alone express my undying love for everyone involved this weekend. Whether you were playing, working backstage, working behind a mixing desk, behind a bar, behind a merch table, selling awesome baked goods, on a door, or there to see your favourite band – thank you so so much for participating. the amount of positive energy, good-will and support that has been floating around this weekend has been amazing.” If you’ve missed out on seeing Sydney metal powerhouse Northlane recently, then schedule in some all ages fun times this November. You can catch Northlane on Friday November 23 at Healesville Publc Hall or Saturday November 24 at Coburg Public Hall or November 25 at Ringwood Community Hall. All Ages FTW. Pour Habit have revealed the local supports for their upcoming Australian tour. They’ll play with a huge bill as part of Fest-Mas on December 1, followed by a headlining gig with Declaration and Up & Atom at The Evelyn on December 2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor will tour Australia for the first time in February thanks to Handsome Tours. They’ll play Melbourne’s Forum Theatre on Friday February 15. Tickets are available now. Godspeed You! One of the best bands to play at last week’s Big Sound conference in Brisbane was local band Violent Soho. Consider checking them out on their upcoming Tinderbox/Neighbour Neighbour tour when it arrives at The Tote on Saturday November 17. Tickets available thru Moshtix now. Ten Foot Pole will return to Australia for the first time in 15 years this November. Collateral Manage and Hysteria Magazine are presenting the tour which rolls into Melbourne’s Revolver on Saturday November 24. Perth’s Miles Away are coming to Melbourne this December to headline Make It Count 2012. They’ve got locals Hopeless, Iron Mind, Ill Vision and Outright along for the ride which makes it a rather tasty hardcore lineup

all-in-all. Pencil in Sunday December 2 at Phoenix Youth Centre. Tickets available now. The Amity Aﬄiction have managed to grab the Number 1 spot on this week’s ARIA Charts, beating indie favourites The xx and local dance dudes The Presets. Their third album Chasing Ghosts was released last week via Roadrunner Records. Catch them live at The Palace on Thursday October 4 (18+) or Friday October 5 (U18). Horsell Common have announced that they’ll come out of hiatus for some intimate club shows this October. Head to Plastic on Monday November 5 (that’s Cup Eve) to catch them once again. Finally the Big Day Out sideshows are coming! OFF! will play at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel on Wednesday January 23 next year. You can grab your tickets this Friday. UNFD are selling ticket/CD bundles at their website if you need the new self-titled album. One of the highlights of this weekend’s Poison City Weekender was Tassie favourite Lincoln LeFevre. He’s just revealed that Poison City will release his new album on Friday October 12 . He’ll then return to play at Melbourne’s Reverence on Saturday November 10.

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Who went to the drum clinic by Dimmu Borgir drummer Daray on the weekend? I couldn’t make it to the clinic itself (I was busy getting the house ready for my kid’s Adventure Time-themed sixth birthday party, if you must know) but I rocked up to DV8 that evening to check out his DJ set, which was killer. Daray is a cool guy with great taste in metal, and it’s always good to hear tracks by the likes of Sepultura, Ministry and Strapping Young Lad blasted at ear-splitting volume. Upstairs at the VIP afterparty the very excellent Manatarms played – have you heard these guys yet? They’re from Chile and they’re spending a bit of time in Melbourne. They shot the video for Turn Into Smoke here, and you can check it out on YouTube. They’re a very impressive live band with creative arrangements, a killer rhythm section and a pair of awesome guitarists.

The mighty Lord have just released a video for the track Betrayal Blind from their forthcoming album Digital Lies. Check it out on YouTube. Catch them at The Espy on Friday October 12 (or their all ages show at TLC Bayswater earlier that day), or at Karova Lounge in Ballarat on the Sunday October 14.

GIG ALERT: CREATE|DESTROY Progressive death/thrash metallers Create|Destroy will launch their debut album Organic Perception at The Prague on Saturday October 6. The album was recorded and mixed by Roman Koester (The Red Shore, Psycroptic) and mastered by Goran Finnberg (Opeth, Arch Enemy).

AEROSMITH: YOU WANT ‘EM, YOU GOTTA EARN ‘EM I spoke to Aerosmith bass player Tom Hamilton today about the band’s forthcoming album, Music From Another Dimension! and I asked about the possibility of Australian dates. Aerosmith have only ever been here once before, in 1990 in support of the multi millionselling Pump album. And Tom says they’d love to include Australia in their world tour plans but it all depends on how the album fares on the charts. So if you want to see these rock legends in person (without having to buy a plane ticket to do so), buy the freaking album when it comes out in November! Don’t give me an excuse to go into another of my rants about how the brilliant new Rush album didn’t make a dent in the Oz charts, and the eﬀect that piracy can have on your ability to experience the bands you like in person.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 19: Strangers, King Of The North at Cherry Bar THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20: The Union Paciﬁc, Sweet Teens, The Summervilles at The Reverence Yellowcard, Heroes For Hire, For Our Hero at The HiFi Bar Crowned Kings, Declaration, Mark My Words at Next FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21: Sleepmakeswaves, Ennis Tola, Marlow, Steering By Stars at Northcote Social Club Yellowcard, Heroes For Hire, For Our Hero at The HiFi SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22: Outright, Crisis Alert, Outsiders Code, Tigers at The Reverence Enter Shikari at Billboard SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23: Aitches, Bloodwolves, Jay Stevens at Gasometer Outright, Declaration, Crisis Alert, Ill Vision, Vors at The Place Enter Shikari at Billboard

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JOE STUMP GETS HIS REVENGE

Fans of neoclassic rock should check out Revenge Of The Shredlord by Joe Stump. Stump has a reputation as speed demon (Guitar One magazine named him one of the ten fastest shredders of all time), and Revenge sees him kick his technique up a few extra notches, believe it or not. “I always try to step up my game in every way with each record,” Stump says. “I try to take every aspect of what I do to the next level and outdo what I’ve done on past releases,” he says. “This record’s more intense, much heavier and quite a bit darker…”

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Swedish symphonic power metallers Sabaton are headed to Australia for the very ﬁrst time in January 2013 in support of Nightwish in Sydney and Melbourne only, and they’ll also be playing their own headliner with support from Eyefear and Black Majesty at The Prague on Saturday January 12.

PEARL TO RETURN TO THE STUDIO Pearl Aday is heading into the studio next month to record some new tunes. Her 2010 debut album Little Immaculate White Fox was a killer chunk of hard rock, and a rare opportunity to hear her husband Scott Ian playing outside of the metal genre he helped shape via Anthrax.

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The Ramshackle Army are shaking oﬀ the winter blues and hitting the beach early to warm their cockles at The Espy Front Bar on Monday September 24 with the amazing Max Savage opening the night. As an added bonus they’re getting The Brownlow Medal played on the big screen so you can be entertained whilst they count the votes. Free entry and doors open at 9pm.

THE NO REAL NEED

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To celebrate the 30th birthday of their frontman Steve Hewitt, Melbourne powerpop band The No Real Need will perform two sets at the Great Britain Hotel on Saturday September 22. For the second set, the birthday boy will ditch the guitar and sing 30 faithful versions of Guided By Voices songs – all carefully selected from the American band’s classic 1993-96 era – with The No Real Need behind him in full-fledged five-piece mode. Celebrations will kick off with a set from Sore Eye Shamble and tunes by DJ Thirsty Jerk. Entry is free and doors open at 9pm.

It’s with celebration and nostalgia-filled hearts that JK-Ruff are performing their last show ever on Friday September 21 at The B.East. The band has been together for many years and have played many shows to Melbourne crowds and beyond. They love the hell out of each other and it’s been an amazing journey, with memories and melodies combined, but as the wise wizard Gandalf the Grey once said, “all we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us”. Supporting JK-Ruff on the night is The Teskey Brothers. Bands start at 9pm and entry is free.

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ROAD RATZ

Sarah Carnegie brings her angelic solo show to The Great Britain Hotel to showcase velvet vocal melodies and ear-catching original tunes. With a vocal range to die for and a swag of beautifully penned songs, this will be the perfect soundtrack to your Sunday. Catch her play two intimate sets on Sunday September 23 from 7pm. Free entry.

The B.East is going rockabilly with one of Melbourne’s best foot stomping lineups headlined by Road Ratz and featuring other exciting rock’n’rollers including Faspeedelay, Dirty Harriet and The Hangmen. This night of reverberating rock kicks oﬀ at 8.30pm. Free entry.

Q&A GREENTHIEF What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? In the current climate I think it's very important for bands to embrace the whole DIY work ethic and to just believe in themselves and keep pushing. You won't get a whole lot of help from the outside world at ﬁrst so it's important to get up to speed on selfmanagement and promotion. Obviously you need to have a really solid live show too!

Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? People have said we have a very heavy bottom with a flowery top. To me this means we have solid grooves in the rhythm section with extravagant chords and melodies on the guitar and vocals. We also place a big emphasis on dynamics – light and shade. Big influences would be Rage Against The Machine, Tool, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, and Tame Impala. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? We each have our musical heroes from our favourite bands that we grew up aspiring to be like. They inspire us, and are probably the number one reason why we picked up our instruments in the first place. Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? Rage Against The Machine.

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After 12 months of touring Australia, smashing milestones from Meredith Music Festival to the world-famous Spiegeltent, Cash Savage And The Last Drinks have taken a month’s breathing time, secure in the knowledge that they are no longer one of Melbourne’s best-kept secrets. Excited to bring their eagerly-awaited second album to fruition, the band is gearing up for four straight shows at the Toﬀ In Town, in the band’s beloved hometown of Melbourne. After so many months of breaking new ground across the country, from regional theatres to time-honoured venues of the big smoke, it’s time to come back home. Join the troupes in September when Cash and her beloved band head up The Toﬀ, to be greeted by familiar faces, new friends, and the adoration of what has become one of Melbourne music’s most loyal followings. This Tuesday September 25 with special guests Saint Jude, tickets $10 from Moshtix or $12 on the door.

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Define your genre in five words or less: Psychedelic rock.

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What makes a good musician? I think a good rock musician is someone who's not necessarily a technical master but can interpret and 'feel' an idea or song and put their own flavour on it. This is why a band of average players can seemingly gel together magically and inversely a band full of prodigies might not work. Describe the best gig you have ever played. For me it's our first gig at Yours & Owls (Wollongong). It's literally a cafe and we were a little worried when we loaded our gear in. The place ended up being completely packed out with people getting right up in our faces, house party style. And they played non-stop Beatles during the changeovers and after our set. What've you got to sell CD-wise? We have two EPs – Annica and Retribution – with our full-length debut album to come in 2013. We also have a couple of singles up on iTunes. When are you doing your thing next? We are heading out on our first national headline tour this September, and we play Melbourne on Saturday September 22 at Pony Bar.

Hot oﬀ the back of their impressive appearances on the television smash hit series The Voice, Carmen Smith and Diana Rouvas will be sharing the stage to perform a series of intimate acoustic shows. Don't miss out on this close-encounter event at the Thornbury Theatre featuring two of the country's best voices. Sunday September 30, doors are at 7pm and the show starts at 8.15pm. General admission tickets will set you back $30 and reserved seats an extra $5. For those of you who want to make a night of it, dinner and show tickets are going for $70, all available through Oztix.

TERRA AUSTRALIS Raw Luciferian blasphemers Terra Australis desecrate the tomb of metal with unrivalled force. Their recently released EP Sorcery Of The Ancient and full-length Invocation Of The Infernal bring their harsh and hateful hymns to new depths of depravity. Their rare live performances and dark and ancient past are certain to drag crowds screaming into the pit of despair. Joining them is the ominous metal horde, Malichor, who are masters of the thrashened black arts. Their latest oﬀering, the Lurkers In The Crypt EP, truly deserves its own entry in the mountains of madness. With claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses, their live onslaught is an exceptional example of sonic plenitude and precision. See Terra Australia and Malichor at The Bendigo Hotel on Friday September 21 with guests Mardraum, Sewercide and Hordes Of The Black Cross.

GIRL INTERPRETED Girl Interpreted returns in 2012, bringing together Auslan sign language interpreters and fantastic musicians from Darebin and further aﬁeld. This year’s lineup includes Lucie Thorne, Mojo Juju, Georgia Fields and Tracy McNeil. See incredible lyrics come to life before your very eyes (and ears) in the lush Thornbury Theatre on Saturday September 22. Tickets are $22 through Oztix, doors 8pm.

BARRY SAVAGE AND THE LITTLE CAESORS The Bendigo Hotel, newly renovated into a veritable rock'n'roll banquet-hall, is proud to present four hot acts playing for your extreme listening pleasure on Saturday September 22. Barry Savage And The Little Caesars sound like they were raised by werewolves on the south side of Chicago after their school bus went missing in a blinding blizzard. They grew up on a diet of dirty sweaty rock and roll, rhythm and blues and dusty old 45s. Kit Atkinson (The Kits) has been performing his solo set around Europe and returns to Melbourne with his flaming guitar for a fireball of a special performance. The Electric Guitars Diminished will bring a heavy dose of droney psych music provided by whiz guitarist Richard Walsh (The Gruntled) and groove hound bassist Dave Gray (ex-Rocket Science). Rounding off the lineup is The Night Sky, whose country and folk influences combine with a psychedelic exploration of silence and noise to create a unique atmospheric performance.

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EZRA LEE Ezra Lee is the hot piano-playing, rock'n'roll sensation from Maitland NSW. He has performed all over Australia and has just come back from Europe where he played in London, Germany and Finland. Last year Ezra played the Viva Las Vegas festival in the US, Screamin' Festival in Spain and is already booked in for Germany in 2013. Ezra plays rock'n'roll, boogie-woogie and blues and he always gets the piano jumpin'. He’s heading to Melbourne with his band featuring Hank Green on guitar and will be playing tracks from his latest album Cashed Up 'N' Crazy. You can catch Ezra Lee and his band at The LuWow on Friday September 28.

WARMTH CRASHES IN After their band The Priory Dolls imploded in a perfect rock'n’roll cliché whilst working on their second album in Berlin, Rory Lampitt and Erin Taylor swiftly formed Warmth Crashes In. A result of two rockers having minimal tech blasted at them for a year, the band’s sound is ethereal to intense but always rhythmic, smooth and shiny. This spring they take to The Tote every Wednesday in September for their ﬁrst shows in Australia, joining them will be Melbourne’s best new bands such as Lowtide, Naked Bodies, Mutations and Flyying Colours. Tonight, 8pm, $8.

SEX ON TOAST Sex On Toast are back to The Evelyn in September for a month of vibrant and exciting gigs, each diﬀerent to the last. Tuesday nights will be your night to get on down and shake your nasty groove thang to the sounds of backbeats, brass-synth stabs, tasty bassoon and ﬂugelhorn blends, DX-7 rhodes, dry-ass stratocaster, falsetto licks and the occasional slapped bass note for a low, low price.

BAD VISION This September, Bad Vision are stoked to be playing The Tote front bar every Saturday afternoon (5-7pm), making a racket with their proto punk riﬀs and poptrashtic melodies. Helping them with the beer spilling and noise making will be a host of special guests including Dan Trolley (Mass Cult) with his one man punk/ new wave experience, lo-ﬁ popsters Messed Up, party starters Clavians, two piece sensation Valley Girls and trouble makers Quince. Entry is free.

PENNY HEWSON Having recently returned to Melbourne after ten years living and working in the US, Penny quickly set about recording the album she always wanted to make as a solo artist. That album is It's An Endless Desire and is out now through Popboomerang Records/MGM. Penny will play at The Wesley Anne on Thursday September 20 with The Killjoys duo and Hamish Cowan (Cordrazine). $10 from 8pm.

THE UNION PACIFIC Head to The Reverence Hotel on Thursday September 20 for a night of punk rock and indie kicks with The Union Paciﬁc. The Union Paciﬁc have been blazing a trail across Melbourne with their infectiously catchy punk rock stylings. Joining them will be Sweet Teens, who have nothing sweet about them, and newcomers The Summervilles. Entry is $5.

THE OCEAN PARTY This September The Ocean Party and From The South will follow in the footsteps of the great Hume and Hovell, celebrating, in the tradition of Aussie mate-ship, the aweinspiring expedition the legendary pioneers bravely took in 1824. The two bands come together to play a huge show on Saturday September 22. Opening on the night is Grand Prismatic, bands start at 9pm, free entry.

THE TIGER AND ME The Tiger And Me recently announced their signing to new ABC Music imprint Four|Four for the release of their second album The Drifter's Dawn. The band collaborated with ARIAnominated producer Steven Schram to create their new album and opening single Pantomime. The Tiger And Me will be playing a one-oﬀ special show at The Workers Club playing material old and new on Sunday September 23 from at 4pm.

THE JANE AUSTEN ARGUMENT The Jane Austen Argument are unleashing their unique mix of high drama, fierce wit and soaring harmonies this September, with a month-long residency every Monday at The Toff In Town. After touring with punkcabaret legends The Dresden Dolls, a triumphant Adelaide Fringe Festival season and releasing their debut record Somewhere Under The Rainbow to widespread acclaim, each week in September they will be joined by different special guests as they unveil brand new material, as well as rearranged originals and left of centre covers The Jane Austen Argument are not exactly known for their predictability onstage, so expect the outrageously unexpected as they up the ante each week – culminating in their Under The Rainbow – Spectacular! Spectacular! theatrical tour de fucking force at this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival. Tickets $10 on sale from Moshtix, $15 concession or $18 full fare on the door from 7.30pm.

TINSMOKE Tinsmoke are an Australian alternative rock band based in Melbourne. Initially the solo project of singer/ songwriter Ryan Nico, Tinsmoke traverse a variety of musical styles including psychedelic rock, folk and alt-country. Characteristics of their sound include fractured guitar lines over mid-tempo rhythms, plaintive lyricism, and four-part harmonies. Supported by seasoned swamp rockers Dead River Deeps, they play The Retreat this Saturday September 22.

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SWAMP MOTH Swamp Moth rises from the murky mists and revives hard rock's long forgotten masters of the unholy riff. Five of Melbourne's finest purveyors of swagger and groove dig deep to find the best of the rest of late '60s and early '70s psych and hard rock and proto-metal. And then bring them out of the cobwebbed archives, and electrify their remains live and dripping to the stage. Screaming lead, mammoth Hammond, crunching bass and sheer monolithic groove – it's a crate digging grave robbing party. No Sabbath, no Purple, no Zeppelin – no need. Get down to Yah Yah's on Sunday September 23 for a massive night of rock'n'roll. Free entry, music starts at 8pm.

LIVINGSTONE DAISIES Livingstone Daisies are a Melbourne super-group made up of talented hairy brothers, Van and Cal Walker, songstress extraordinaire Liz Stringer and WPA's Michael Barclay on drums. They play fantastic '70s power pop and are guaranteed to put a smile on your dial. Don't miss the chance to see Liz Stringer wigging-out on electric guitar and hear some mighty infectious tunes when they play at The Retreat, this Sunday September 23 from 7pm. Also on Sunday is Dave Larkin (solo in the front bar from 4pm) and Three Kings at 8.30pm. All free. All good.

JEMMA AND THE WISE YOUNG AMBITIOUS MEN For ﬁve Sundays in a row Jemma And The Wise Young Ambitious Men will be starring in I Forgot I Have A Job To Go To On Monday Morning: The Musical. Playing every Sunday in September at Old Bar from 8pm with so many new and old friends, it's going to be emotional. Joined this Sunday by Eaten By Dogs and Dominic Miller it’s a good way to punch Monday in the face. 8pm Every Sunday in September at The Old Bar, $6 entry.

REGULAR JOHN There are many lies in this world. Though, there are no lies here. Regular John's new album Strange Flowers is out this spring and they're dying to share it with ya'll. The album's ﬁrst single Slume is circulating nicely on national radio and is available for download now on Soundcloud. Catch them this Saturday September 22 at The Toﬀ In Town. Tickets are $12 through Moshtix.

MARISSA AND JONATHAN SKOVRON Melbourne brother and sister duo Marissa and Jonathan Skovron combine their considerable talents to present a unique double EP release party on at Red Bennies on Thursday September 27. Marissa’s cooly sophisticated Chasing Rainbows and Jonathan’s lyrical indie pop release In the Land will both be launched on the night. This is their ﬁrst joint venture in the unusual format of each sibling acting as lead singers of their own compositions, which always feature both Marissa's pianistic prowess and Jonathan's solid guitar work. Add bassist Jonathan Zion (Lior) and drummer Hayden Meggitt (Ross Wilson) and the result is a sweet and sophisticated mix of accomplished musicianship showcasing the Skovron siblings' ﬂair for colourful tunes splashed with lush brother/ sister vocal harmonies and augmented by alternately clever/mysterious lyrics. Local talents Lauren Glezer and Moshe Hendel will provide support on the night.

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BATPISS This September, The Tote Hotel sacrifice their front bar every Tuesday night for the sludge/punk trio Batpiss. Joining them on their slime wave before heading to tour New Zealand in October will be a heinous lineup of local legends Look At The Owl, Sun God Replica, Spermaids and Sheriff. Get on down for a cold frother and a bunch of shows that'll start your week off real nice. Kick off at 8pm and it's free.

COMMUNION The Communion music night has it's roots in London, having operated there since 2006. Established by Ben Lovett (Mumford And Sons), Kevin Jones and producer Ian Grimble, in it's time it has nurtured the likes of Laura Marling, Mumford And Sons, Noah And The Whale, Marcus Foster, Matt Corby, Boy And Bear, The Staves, Ben Howard and Michael Kiwanuka, just to name a few. Don't miss this one at The Toﬀ, Sunday September 23, $20 on the door (or $16.70 from Moshtix), doors 6pm. Artists include Battleships, Ainslie Wills, Packwood, Hayden Calnin and Grizzly Jim Lawrie.

THE AU REVIEW The AU review are putting on a free '50s and '60s themed party. It kicks oﬀ at 8pm and will keep going well into the night with live performances from Dan Webb, Martin Cilia, The ReChords, a very special secret headliner and MC Cash Savage will be taking you through the evening. Guests are encouraged to get into the spirit of the evening and dress up in '50s and '60s attire with prizes going to the best dressed of the night, courtesy of Logitech Australia. Thursday September 20 at The Evelyn Hotel.

Vaudeville Smash will be releasing their newest single Best Night at the Northcote Social Club on Saturday September 29 (did someone say Grand Final afterparty?!). This will be the band's ﬁrst release in over a year and the beginning of a new phase in the band's already illustrious career. Supported by Charlotte Nicdao and special guest. Doors open at 8pm.

Sons Of The Ionian Sea were forged from the loins of two warring tribes, deep in the jungles of Guinea more than a thousand years ago. Sun God Replica, Teenage Libido and the ﬁnger wizard Marcus DePasquale are pulling together to join SOTIS on a biscuit of love and other catastrophes at The Tote on Friday September 21. Drink from the cup of Christ or eat from the table of the devil, take your pick. Doors at 8pm and entry is $10.

CENTRE & THE SOUTH Centre & The South are a cosmic reggae four-piece band from Melbourne, known for their high-energy live performances emanating an aura of peace, love and freedom for all to enjoy. They continue their Thursday night September residency from 9pm at The B.East. Entry is free.

The Exotics only know how to rock'n'roll, and they like it raw. You will get all the stompin’, blood pumpin’, crazy chicken dancing, ripping guitar and pounding drums you want from this legendary band. Plus their special guests for the night, The Wardens, know how to deliver a genuine, sweaty, nail-your-balls-to–thewall performance with all the energy and grunt that rock‘n’roll is supposed to have. One show only – Yah Yah's, Friday September 21. Free entry, bands start at 9pm.

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THE SWAMP DANDIES & CARUS THOMPSON Previously of Things of Stone & Wood, The Swamp Dandies combine the permanent talents of ARIA Award winning singer-songwriter and APRA Songwriter of the Year; Greg Arnold along with John Bedggood (Bernard Fanning and The Wilson Pickers) and Monique Zucco (Canvas). Sunday September 30 in the afternoon, The Northcote Social Club will see The Swamp Dandies partner up with Carus Thompson to ‘oﬃcially’ launch their new label Mind’s Eye Records on which both of their new albums has been released. There'll be no shoegazing at this gig. Just great songs, energetic performances and though it's a daylight show, hopefully some dancing, as both Arnold and Thompson pride themselves on getting a crowd involved. Great way to spend an afternoon... and kids are free!

Travelling folk-pop troubadour Tané has settled in Melbourne long enough to lay down his debut selftitled EP and is delivering it with trademark streetstyle aplomb at The Evelyn on Sunday September 23. Running oﬀ an impressive amount of successes, including the Queenscliﬀ Music Festival's busking competition and Melbourne Fresh, the past year has seen Tané going all grass roots on the Australian music scene and building up a loyal following based on brilliant song writing, extensive Australia-wide gigging, and sheer hard work. He will be joined on the night by a full backing band, as well as supports Ca Va, Hudson and Tash Sultana. Doors 7pm.

DRU AND THE INTENTIONS Dru And The Intentions is the stage moniker of singer-songwriter Dru Chen. Dru creates 21st century soul music, a blending of the forefathers (Prince, Jeﬀ Buckley, Queen) with the new breed of digital musicians. In 2009, Dru released the You Just Might EP, performing all the instruments and writing every song. Dru toured Singapore, Brisbane and Melbourne, receiving glowing reviews from online and street press, and a reputation for being an electrifying frontman. Check Dru And The Intentions out this Friday September 21 at The Retreat from 9.30pm. Entry is free.

DEMIAN, CLEVER AUSTIN, KIRKIS Following up their triple debut at The Workers Club, Demian, Clever Austin and Kirkis will bring you their beats from screen and stave to stage once again every Wednesday in September at The Evelyn Hotel. Each band’s performance is a luscious, ornamental, uniquely interpreted illustration of the relationship between hip-hop and jazz. The lineup consists of wildcats from Hiatus Kaiyote, The Bamboos and The Operatives, all groups who beat-ﬁends all over Melbourne must have jived to at some point in time. Each week kicks oﬀ at 8pm and costs peanuts to get into, so get on it.

RICHARD CLAPTON Richard Clapton has teamed up with guitarist and emerging song writer Danny Spencer to record his 13th Studio Album Harlequin Nights. After 40 years in the business, his music remains fresh and the lyrics are just as poetic and engaging as ever. Perhaps it is the sold out gigs from Hobart to Darwin with Australia’s ﬁnest young musicians in his band that keeps him on top of his craft. Harlequin Nights is music for the times we live in. Richard Clapton performs next in Melbourne at The Palms, Crown Casino on Friday October 5.

THAT GOLD STREET SOUND That Gold Street Sound is a Motown funk, rock and soul band from Melbourne who will make you shake your tail feather. It is devil’s music with heavenly vocals that will make you want to dance, and put you in the mood for romance. This is funk, but not the type of funk where songs and chorus’ take a back seat. It is Motown with a modern twist. It is old fashioned soul with the inﬂuence of rock'n'roll. It is the most fun you can have with your pant’s on…until you dance your pants oﬀ. On Saturday September 22, That Gold Street Sound launch their debut single/video Get Up at The Evelyn. Special guests are Lyndal Barry and the Apollos and the Seven Ups.

Q&A SEX ON TOAST If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuﬀ, who would it be and why? Frank Zappa, because the dude could write or arrange anything and really understood how to be both individual and musically original.

So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? We're Sex On Toast, and I play the role of obnoxious lead singer, occasional guitarist and benevolent dictator. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? Making sweet love to a blue-eyed honey with the radio tuned to smooth sounds of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, with occasional ‘90s R&B detours, all with a ferociously absurd sense of humour. What do you love about making music? Writing something and hearing it come together in a rehearsal with a bunch of really terriﬁc musicians. Or just when Ben and Zak yell “Tony” during songs for no reason. What do you hate about the music industry? Its obsession with fashionable styles of music and the subsequent herds that mindlessly consume them. Beat Magazine Page 56

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If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? For some reason I'm struggling to think of people who I dislike… if you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all! I dunno… probably Slash. Or Sash. Adelante. What can a punter expect from your live show? Energy, male sexuality and synth-leaden sexgrooves. They can also expect their girlfriends to end up in the band room afterwards. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? We have one EP called Live @ The Toﬀ which showcases some of our more bizarre material. It has a tasty red cover and the CD looks like a record. We have recorded both an album and an EP and are waiting for the time to unleash. When’s the gig and with who? The gig is on Tuesday September 18 at The Evelyn, with the amazing Mangelwurzel & Rogue Wavs for our month-long September residency. Anything else to add? Yes, pmdmgf.

MOROCCAN KINGS Moroccan Kings are launching their new EP, Battlefrogs at The Evelyn Hotel on Saturday October 6. The band is putting together a very detailed and special show for the launch. Two singles have already been launched (Grizzly Bear and Superman) from the Battlefrogs EP so far, and the accompanying ﬁlm clip for the Grizzly Bear single has been getting a lot of attention on YouTube and Rage. The launch has two awesome support bands, two of Melbourne's favourites, King Of The North and Sheriﬀ. Pre-sale tickets are $7 presale or $10 on the door.

FLOUNDER After recording at the famed Grove Studios with acclaimed producer Andy Mak (Silverchair, Boy & Bear), Flounder are now set to release their honed funk/rock sound upon the world, beginning with the launch of their first single, Big Bird. The single is overflowing with raw, unbridled funk energy, bursting at the seams with screaming saxophone, juicy hooks and a distinctive Flounder groove. This will be the band's first performance in six months, after having rehearsed for countless meticulous hours. Needless to say, the five-piece (already known for their energetic live performances) are itching to get on stage and unleash their new material, in a slicker, tighter, crazier and funkier set than they ever have. Supported by the fantastic Better Than The Wizards and Rosencrants, missing this gig will be a costly mistake. Thursday September 20 at The Toff In Town.

JEFF LOOMIS GUITAR CLINIC Jeﬀ Loomis’s complex shredding has been a central part of the progressive but powerful and thrashy edge often attributed to Nevermore’s trademark sound. Taking the classic techniques he learned from listening to legends like Jason Becker and Yngwie Malmsteen as a teen and applying his own ingenuity, Loomis has carved his own niche and created an instantly recognisable style. Don’t miss your chance to see Jeﬀ Loomis live and be in the audience for your chance to win a Schecter SGR C7 electric guitar. Proudly presented by Allans Billy Hyde and Schecter Guitar Research, the Melbourne dates are Thursday October 4 from 7pm at the Allans Billy Hyde Bourke St store and an in-store appearance from 1pm at the Blackburn store. For clinic bookings phone: 9654 8444 or visit allansbillyhydes.com.au for more information.

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NAI PALM Nai Palm is lead singer and guitarist for Hiatus Kaiyote, known around town for their soulful polyrhythmic sounds and is playing a series of solo shows downstairs at Bar Open. This will be your last chance to catch Nai Palm before heading to New York and LA where she'll be performing at prestigious CMJ music industry event as well as appearing on inﬂuential radio station KCRW. Pop in to see what the fuss is all about. Accompanied by strictly vinyl DJ Percy Valentin, every Sunday afternoon at Bar Open in September, free entry from 4pm.

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MAD NANNA

Dirt River Radio have released their anticipated follow-up to 2010’s critically acclaimed Beer Bottle Poetry. The new album, Rock’N’Roll Is My Girlfriend, was released in August and new single Blackhearted is already being played on triple j and PBSfm. The boys have had a big year with UK, European and Asian releases, their song Chase The Sun becoming the theme song for NatGeo’s The Aussie Way Up on cable TV, countless shows and airplay around the country with All My Friends, and an increasing amount of press in the UK and Europe. Join St Kilda’s favourite roots/ rock underdogs in rare duo form as a special treat for Melbourne fans with Al and Heath at their home-away-from-home Pure Pop Records in St Kilda, every Thursday in September. Doors open at 6pm and entry is free.

Mad Nanna come to The Tote to launch their latest single I'm Not Coming Here, which has just been released by South German label Unwucht. The launch comes with generous support from Lower Plenty and Moﬀarfarrah. Thursday September 20, tickets $9, doors 8pm.

THE CARTRIDGE FAMILY Sarah 'Shirley' Carroll, sister Suzannah 'Laurie' Espie and wayward son Rusty 'Danny' Rich are The Cartridge Family, named for their breezy, sunshinefilled hillbilly songs of death, and for their strong affiliation to public radio, firearms and printing. Their three-part harmonies and two-part jokes are worth the long wait between shows. They play a Saturday afternoon friendly front bar residency this month from 4pm 'til 6pm at The Retreat Hotel.

KERRY MITCHELL QUARTET The Kerry Mitchell Quartet are a smokin’ jazz quartet that have managed to achieve the perfect blend of swing, Latin, and ballad styles of jazz for their live shows. The repertoire is built on classic Jazz Standards, derived from show-tunes, often played by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Michael Buble, Kurt Elling, Norah Jones, and Diana Krall. Head to The Hammy this Friday September 21, to see the Kerry Mitchell Quartet play some smokin’ tunes, while sipping on Melbourne’s renowned syndicate coﬀee and sampling an array of decadent desserts. No cover charge, doors open from 8pm till late

ROLLER ONE

STRAIGHT ARROWS

Before embarking on another extensive European tour, Melbourne deep-folk duo Roller One will be launching their new double A-side My Friend, Complication/Someone Like You in Melbourne and Sydney this September. After releasing their debut album Motorsports, touring overseas, supporting the likes of Okkervill River and playing Melbourne Festival in 2011, Roller One recently bunkered down to record their follow-up, due early 2012. Catch Roller One launch My Friend, Complication/Someone Like You with special guests Angel Eyes and BJ Morriszonkle at The Toﬀ and wish them well as they depart for a European Winter and extended tour. Tonight, 8pm, tickets $7 via Moshtix or $10 on the door.

They said it would never happen. But then it did. Straight Arrows will be heading south to visit their two most beloved Victorian cities, Melbourne and Geelong (now apparently the new centre of the universe). Straight Arrows have had a signiﬁcantly cultural year thus far. After touring nationally with their pals Thee Oh Sees and dazzling minds at the amazing Sugar Mountain Festival, they were invited by the Hoodoo Gurus to participate in the amazing Dig It Up! Festival then they were invited to perform at the Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid Live. They play The National Hotel in Geelong this Friday September 21, then The Gasometer on Saturday September 22.

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DUE OUT 24TH SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER @ Ruby’s Lounge, Belgrave w “The Blazin Entrails” + “The Jacks” SATURDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER, LAUNCH PARTY ON GRAND FINAL NIGHT @ Cherry Bar w “The Blazin Entrails” + “The Jacks” ON TOUR NATIONALLY WITH NEKROMANTIX SATURDAY OCTOBER 6TH @ Hi Fi Bar w Firebird

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OH PEP! After winning the songwriting award at Maldon Folk Fest for their track Fooling Around and supporting the likes of Liz Stringer and The Vaudeville Smash, Oh Pep! took to the studio with renowned engineer, Cam Trewin and have since taken the plunge and released their self-titled EP at The Toﬀ In Town. After a jampacked launch last week, Oh Pep! continue their spell of exciting gigs with a September residency at Pure Pop Records, St Kilda. Two sets from 6pm 'til 8pm on Saturday September 22 and Saturday September 29.

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THE WORKINGHORSE IRONS Melbourne psychobilly band The Workinghorse Irons have announced they are releasing a brand new self titled EP on Saturday September 29 through Airlock Records and to celebrate, the band is hitting the road! Coinciding with the album release the boys have just been added to the Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne Nekromantix shows. Head down to Ruby’s in Belgrave on the Friday September 28 and Cherry Bar on Saturday September 29 (Grand Final night) to have a few beers and help celebrate. Supporting acts are Perth rockabilly riots The Blazin' Entrails and Melbourne’s own rock'n'roll upstarts The Jacks, so be sure not to miss this out. Doors are at 8pm sharp.

THE PRETTY LITTLES The Pretty Little are about to release their second EP We Are Not From A Small Town which they recorded with Alex Markwell of The Delta Riggs and Paul Maybury. The band have played with an impression list of Australian acts including Bonjah, The Cairos, Kingswood, The Rubens, Children Collide, The Vasco Era, The Panda Band, The Delta Riggs, The Salvadors, DZ Deathrays even Jo Jo Zep and The Falcons reunion show at The Forum. The Pretty Littles are set to tour with Sydney kids Creo. The tour will only hit major cities. No small towns. It's just the way it worked out, and Ding Dong Lounge is one of them on Saturday October 6.

LUKE BRENNAN AND THE STICKY VALENTINES Luke Brennan is a compelling young singer-songwriter recording and performing in Melbourne. Backed by The Sticky Valentines, a restrained and soulful group which now appears as a six-piece, the band will celebrate at the much beloved Great Britain Hotel with a performance of slow dances, lucid post-rock and blue-eyed soul. Staffan’s Songs is the project of Staffan Guinane. Having just released the critically acclaimed Won’t Let You Down with his band Francolin, Staffan will take another chance to present the deep cuts from his prolific songwriting history. See them at The Great Britain Hotel on Thursday September 20 from 8pm. Free entry.

THE EXPLODERS The Exploders have returned for the release of their latest LP Orche.Stratos.Pheric, out now through Rubber Records. To celebrate the release the fivepiece band, featuring major Australian talents Louis Macklin (Jet, 67 Special), Malcolm Clark (The Sleepy Jackson) and J Cortez (The Sleepy Jackson), are hitting the road for their first shows in just over three years. Supported by Luke Legs & The Midnight Specials and The Pretty Littles, see The Exploders playing tonight at the Workers Club, Fitzroy, offering their usual honest and aggressive live show for any and all to behold. Don't wait another three years to see it.

BURN IN HELL After an enourmous 60 date marathon tour across Europe over the last four months, including France, Spain, Belgium, Germany and Czech Republic, Burn In Hell now set sails for Australia to launch their brand new album Dr Awkward (available on vinyl and CD through Beast Records) at the Ding Dong Lounge on Friday September 21 with the hioctane explosion that is the Bitter Sweet Kicks and the sultry songstress Suzie Stapleton. So head along, dance, get drunk as sailors and welcome home your favourite Aussie pirates, Burn In Hell.

DANE CERTIFICATE Dane Certificate will launch his new album called Well at Melbourne's new magic theatre called Dane Certificate's Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre located at 859a Sydney Rd, Brunswick (behind the computer shop), featuring close up magic tricks, music and a sword swallower and a popcorn machine at the bar. It's this Friday September 21. If you miss this, head along the following night to see magician Anthony Demasi, Aimee Volkofsky (Del Luna) and Dane Certificate's magic show. Check out danecertificatemagic.com. au for details and upcoming events including a UFO Hunter, hypnotist and mentalist. Now taking Christmas party bookings.

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OUTRIGHT The Reverence Hotel will be the stomping ground for Outright's 7” Dedication release on Saturday September 22. A night of fast hardcore and positive punk rock vibes shall be ﬁlling the pub’s brand new band room. Joining them on the night will be Crisis Alert from Adelaide who are also launching a 7”, Outsiders Code and Tigers. $12 entry.

BEN DAVID AND THE BANNED On Sunday September 23, The Reverence Hotel sees Adelaidian troubadour Ben David and the Banned yet again returning to Melbourne. Joining him for a free acoustic show will be Nathan Seeckts, Tim Hampshire and Dan Raw.

DC TUNES Who said coﬀee and music don't mix? Music is integral to Ducale coﬀee. DC Tunes is a program designed to give local unsigned artists the opportunity to do what they love – perform! The launch takes place across three exciting nights at Grumpy's Green on Smith St. Friday September 28 sees My Dynamit and Wilderbeast take to the stage, while Backwood Creatures do their bit on Saturday September 29. It is wrapped up on Sunday September 30 with performances from Bugdust and The Charge. Best bit? Free entry every night.

London-born Deb Herbert founded Rude Bookings in Australia in 2011 and has established a reputable agency for independent musicians based in Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, and Brisbane. Since its inception, Rude Bookings has delivered nationwide tours in Australia for Eran James (AUS), Kerryn Fields (NZ), Horse (UK) and Ruth Rogers Wright – Fabulous Diva (UK), secured major venues for album launches, and driven fundraising events for Cancer Research and JOY 94.9 Melbourne. To celebrate the ﬁrst year of Rude Bookings in Australia is a special event at The Empress Hotel on Sunday September 23 with some of Rude’s best talent, Allison Ferrier, Kerryn Fields, The Jed Rowe Band and Eran James.

SHERIFF What’s that? Spring is in the air? It’s only fitting to spring yourself down to Cherry Bar on Saturday September 22 to check out the return of Melbourne’s favourite southern-psychedelic-horror-blues-rockers Sheriff and let them rip your ears off – in the best way possible. Along for the ride are rising country superstars The Re-Chords, whose drawl will have you moaning for more, and the dirty blues of Hounds Hounds Hounds. If your idea of a good night is dripping in the sweat that gushes from a bar room ceiling then there’s only one place for you – a little strip called AC/DC Lane. The Sheriff will be waiting.

KIRA PIRU & THE BRUISE It's not an old time thing you're feeling. Gin martinis at 3pm are still a legitimate cure for ennui. You may not yet know what the 'mean reds' are, but Kira Piru & The Bruise will help you understand. Here's how it goes: you'll stand, arms-crossed and uncertain, while KP&TB unfurl an ode to modern sadness in 40 uncomplicated minutes. When you're there, you'll just get it – languid, sullen, sweaty, spine-tingling. Learn a lesson or two from Kira Piru & The Bruise on Saturday September 21 at The Tote from 8.30pm. They’ll be joined by Book Of Ships and Second Hand Heart.

AMANITA Four-piece experimental band Amanita are hosting Monday nights in September at The Evelyn, playing alongside friends both new and old, including Hollow Everdaze, Grunge Safari, Esc, Sunk Junk, Vibraphonic Orchestra, Howard and Matt Kelly. Doors at 8pm and entry is free.

MAMMOTH MAMMOTH After a successful tour of every bar, hoochie dive and strip club in Melbourne Mammoth Mammoth are back bringing their own brand of patented murder fuzz to The Retreat every Thursday night during September. Quoted as sounding like, "Motorhead and AC/DC doing mushrooms with The Butthole Surfers, channeling the Birthday Party at a Black Sabbath concert", we strongly advise you grab a knife, rob your dealer and call your lawyer coz this will go oﬀ like pack of marauding Vikings in an unsuspecting nunnery.

TAKA HONDA Taka Honda grew up in Japan, watching TV advertisements for Australian tourism about eternal sunshine on the beautiful sandy beaches. After completing his tertiary study, he moved to Melbourne in hope of surﬁng for the rest of his life. It wasn’t until then that he realised he came to the wrong part of Australia. So, instead of lying on the beach, getting tanned and chasing bikini girls, he learned to drink lattes, read books and play guitar. After eight years of living in Melbourne, Taka’s surﬁng skills never improved. Instead, he got a little bit more cultured and wrote many songs on his guitar. Come check out Taka’s dreamy surf folk music at The Resurrection every Wednesday in September starting at 7.30pm. Oh, and entry's free.

CITY VS COUNTRY City VS Country are a seven-piece alt-country band from Melbourne who recently launched their bangin’ debut single Please Don’t Talk To Me (I’m Fucking Wasted) at Yah Yah’s to a full house, so they have invited them back for an encore show on Thursday September 20. Support on the night comes in the form of Blind Valley and Hounds Hounds Hounds. Blind Valley are from Sydney and a dangerous, live three-piece blues, rock'n'roll band. Hounds Hounds Hounds are a rock swamp duo inspired by The Sonics, the Cramps and Screamin' Jay Hawkins. It's free entry. Bands kick oﬀ at 9pm.

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THE SCARLETS

Define your genre in 5 words or less: Purpleslam...it's a revolution!

After tearing The Espy Basement apart with their Back To Basics show last week, our favourite lean, mean, red and black machine The Scarlets are doing an encore strippedback performance in the even more intimate setting of the Lyrebird Lounge this Saturday September 22. Joining the fun will be the star studded Neon & Venom – featuring members of X, Dollsquad and Intoxica. Once again, it's free entry.

What do you love about making music? Slamming it, and the freedom of creating and hopefully not being sued!

SHAKY STILLS

Describe the best gig you've ever played. I was playing some of my keyboard remixes and I had a few couples grinding, dry-humping, getting’ jiggy with it in front of the stage. The best compliment I ever got! Heh!

The Shaky Stills band are back for their second residency at the Edinburgh Castle Friday September 21 and 28. They'll be playing two sets from 9-11pm its free to get in, so head on down and enjoy some good local alternative country and dirty blues in the warmth of one of Melbourne's great traditional pubs. Shaky Stills new album Cold Hands Warm Heart will be available at the show.

THE DUB CAPTAINS Melbourne's premier 15-piece pseudo-reggae act, The Dub Captains, are pleased to announce another show at the iconic Retreat Hotel, this Friday September 21. The Captains will be getting the party started performing their unique reggae-ish hits (complete with ﬁve vocalists, fourpiece horns section The Horns of Freedom, two guitarists, bass, keys, drums and percussionist). Supported the guys and girls on the night will be their own keys-man Dru, fronting his impressive Neo-Soul group Dru And The Intentions so get down early to catch him and his band in action. Free entry, bands start from 9.30pm. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES... BEAT.COM.AU/TV

Which band would you love to have a showdown with? Claude Debussy, Jimi Hendrix and Jonathon 'Sugarfoot' Moﬀatt. That'd be schweeet!

If someone made a movie about your life, who would play you? Chris Rock or my twin brother Antonio Banderas! One of those guys would be able to tell it how it is! What can a punter expect from your live show? Jamming and purpleslamming it. And plenty of songs in the key of the king of cheese George Michael. Do you have any releases to date? What are they? And where can I get them? My current release is Purpledomination. Look up Sunset Blush on iTunes and Facebook.

GUITAR GALLERY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS That's right folks! Every Monday night in every month bring your banjo, mandolin, washboard, fiddle, flatmate and join in the old time bluegrass jam session. Or just come down and watch as The Oldie gets transformed to a scene from an Appalachian mountainside. A band plays first then the jam starts. 8.30pm start and it's always free. Monday nights at The Old Bar. Cheap jugs all night.

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JAMES CARTER

WAYWARDBREED Waywardbreed began in late 2008 as a solo project for Justin Avery (ex-The Spoils). After recording his debut album of sweet, gothic folk titled Rising Vicious in early 2010, he spent much of the next two years touring solo in Europe. Since returning to Melbourne, Waywardbreed has sprouted more members, performing live through the winter, and has nearly completed a second album, entitled Gathering For The Feast to be released later in 2012. Waywardbreed marks the beginning of Spring by returning to the front bar of The Retreat Hotel for a short series of gigs and has invited some friends along. Tonight, sweet country songstress Alysia Manceau will warm up the room; and on the following Wednesday September 26, Waywardbreed will round out the month with two sets from 8.30pm. What's more? Entry is free.

KELLY BREUER A few weeks ago the plans for Kelly Breuer’s debut EP Smile, It’s Free tour were revealed, where she will be heading out on the road to intimate music loving venues along the East Coast. Another Melbourne show has been added in October, so Breuer will now be returning to Melbourne to play The Great Britain Hotel on Thursday October 4 with Annie and Higgsy.

James Carters’ quartet are about to perform a string of gigs across Melbourne to promote the release of their debut album, After All. The quartet features James Carter on saxophone, along with three really beautiful musicians whom James met whilst studying music at Monash University: Dan Sheehan on piano, Christian Meyer on guitar and James Gilligan on electric bass. You can catch them on Monday September 24 at Café 303 in Northcote as part of the Darebin Music Festival, and then on Wednesday October 31 and Wednesday November 7 at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club.

VAYER Originally from Townsville, Vayer's move to Brisbane in early 2009 has seen them play numerous venues across Queensland with a number of bands including Dead Letter Circus, The Amity Aﬄiction, Closure in Moscow, The Kidney Thieves and Dead Letter Opener. Backed by hardworking ethics and a determined, no-nonsense attitude, the talented three-piece are well-known for captivating crowds with passionate, seamless performances. They play The Bendigo Hotel on Sunday September 23 with locals Xenograft, Spidergoard Canyon and Montresor.

THE PRAGUE VENUE’S SECOND BIRTHDAY Gunn Music Productions and The Prague Venue proudly present the second birthday party for one of Melbourne's most atmospheric venues. With interstate and international tours, Foxtel ﬁlming and the work done to improve all aspects of the venue, Prague is set to continue this growth and development over the coming year. Help them celebrate two years of existence on Saturday September 22 with performances from Bellusira, Anna Salen, InVolume, Red Sky Burial, Apsis and Fenian. Doors open at 6.30pm and entry is $15 (or $10 on presale).

QUARRY MOUNTAIN DEAD RATS Catch Quarry Mountain Dead Rats’ final Monday residency gig at The Espy's front bar on Monday September 24. Taking it back to a simpler time where the pickin’ was fast and the banjo was king, this five-piece hailing from Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula bring their raw and gritty version of bluegrass kicking and hollering into the modern day. They establish an old mate-style affinity with their audiences while delivering a kickyou-in-the-face live show, setting the tone for a sing-along, drink-along, foot-stomping good time. QMDR's instrumentation of banjo, mandolin, acoustic guitar, double bass and washboard fits the bluegrass mould, but the influence of old-time mountain-music combined with rock‘n’roll sensibilities, give way to something different altogether. Free entry.

CREEPSHOW HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL 2012 Attention creatures of the night. Melbourne’s biggest Halloween party, Creepshow Halloween Festival, returns to The Espy on Saturday October 20. See the entire venue transformed into a haunted mansion, playing host to seductive burlesque dancers, creepy DJs and a horde of spine-tingling bands. Performing live will be Engine Three Seven, The Khyber Belt, Ten Thousand, Over-Reactor, Bronson, Anna Salen Vs Mario Bros, Sharaya, LeBelle, I Am Duckeye, Cloud City, Massive, Kettlespider, Arcane Saints and heaps more. Dress to kill and you may just win a prize for your eﬀorts. Be a part of Creepshow 2012, Tickets $21 available from The Espy website and all Oztix outlets.

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK VELOCIRAPTOR

3RRR SOUNDSCAPE

The World Warriors (Create/Control)

WEDNESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER RESIDENCY

DEMAIN

CLEVER AUSTIN KIRKIS DJ JACKSON MILES ENTRY $7, 8:30PM

THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER AU REVIEW’S 4TH BDAY

MARTIN CILIA SURF BAND THE RECHORDS DAN WEBB CASH SAVAGE MC SUPER-SECRET HEADLINER FREE ENTRY, 8PM $2.50 POTS, $5 VODKAS!

FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER ALBUM LAUNCH

MASSIVE CHOIR CARTE BLANCHE ZANE B WISE

ENTRY $16 DOOR, $11 THRU MOSTHIX, 7PM

SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER SINGLE/VIDEO CLIP LAUNCH

THAT GOLD STREET SOUND LYNDAL BARRY AND THE APOLLOS THE SEVEN UPS ENTRY $10 DOOR, $5 CONCESSION, 9PM

SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER MATINEE SHOW

T-BYRDS MARMOSET THE SHIFTIES CAPTAIN GROVE ENTRY $7, 1:30PM

EP LAUNCH

TANE EMIA-MOORE HUDSON CA VA (QLD) TASH SULTANA ENTRY $7, 7PM

MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER RESIDENCY - FINAL NIGHT

AMANITA HOLLOW EVERDAZE SUNK JUNK MAKISA SOOKY LA LA

DONATION ENTRY, 8PM $10 JUGS!

TUESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER RESIDENCY - FINAL NIGHT

SEX ON TOAST RAWMANTICS MANDEK PENHA THE CALL UP THE VAUDEVILLE SMASH DJS ENTRY $2, 8PM $10 JUGS!

COMING UP

TIX AVAILABLE THRU MOSHTIX: CLEVER AUSTIN (WED IN SEP) BIG WINTER – EP LAUNCH (27 SEP) KING PARROT (28 SEP) FRANCOLIN (MONDAYS IN OCTOBER) HOWARD (TUESDAYS IN OCTOBER JERICCO - SINGLE LAUNCH (5 OCT) MOROCCAN KINGS – EP LAUNCH (OCT 6)

Before I had even heard Velociraptor, their exquisite taste in music had already found them a place in my heart. Navigating my way around Rdio one day, I stumbled across their playlist featuring the likes of Ty Segall, The Hives, Dick Dale, The Stooges, The Sonics, The Kinks, Talking Heads plus many more quality rock‘n’roll and garage bands. Immediately I had thought, in the words of The Cramps, “Damn Velociraptor, you got goooooood taste.” I had yet to hear them, all I had was this play list and the DZ Deathrays association from which to base the assumption that I was going to dig to this mini album. Not much to go on really, but my instincts were dead on and digging this album is somewhat of an understatement. The World Warriors is a party album, recalling all that is good in the garage, pop and rock world. It’s about girls, good times and gettin’ down but it doesn’t limit itself to one feel. Velociraptor know where to get rawkus, where to throw in some harmonies, and where to keep it stripped back. Most importantly they know how to write captivating songs, entrenched in familiar time tested melodies that incite the party, making The World Warriors the perfect soundtrack to your weekend. Cynthia partners snarling guitar with pop awareness and a sing a long chorus, poking fun at the instant gratification generation of which they belong. It sets the tone for a vintage inspired album that keeps its energy and intentions with the here and now. The Walk On By owes much to the classic ‘60s bands The Kinks, The Small Faces and The Easybeats, its grooves work their way into your hips and its vocal melodies cement themselves in your head. Jnr Astronauts channels King Khan in his outfit The Shrines; its dynamic party rock‘n’roll with a grinding R&B core – making it a dance floor definite. Do The Ruby adds to the life blood of the album with its raw and unhinged garage punk attack, primal rock‘n’roll howls from who knows which of their many vocalists abound. Riot is more melodic in nature but features off the hook messy group vocals that inject some raw appeal into the verse. Classic surf/spy sounding guitar tones takes Mystery Man into more traditional ‘60s garage territory while pop affiliate Scientists is probably the most bubble gum track on The World Warriors, compete with handclaps and a chorus

NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE

Stand Tall (EMI) Much has been said about Northeast Party House’s ability to invariably tear shit up in the live setting. Things are a lot safer on record it seems, with Stand Tall presenting a pretty standard take on mid-2000s UK-style “indie”. The ﬂirtation with electronics is frustrating – they’re the most interesting part of the track, but are buried in the mix after the brief intro.

DAVE

Red Eye (Independent) The lead singer from Perth four-piece Dave can hold a tune, sounding something like the centre of a Paul Weller-Morrissey-Simon Le Bon Venn diagram. Tipping their collective hat to pretty much all of the postpunk greats, Dave are pretty content with entrenching themselves within the imitative. And hey, that’s all right by me.

ASSEMBLE THE EMPIRE

Like Teeth (The A&R Department) The ﬁrst verse to Like Teeth is pretty much the weakest thing ever. Pristine guitar licks, a withheld vocal display, and the irony-devoid line “What I’d give to be a child again.” Things get a little bit better come the chorus, but the payoﬀ of basic syncopation does little to excuse what came before.

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

I Am Sorry (Indochine/Warner) I fucking hate the Wainwrights. Well, Rufus has his moments, and I probably haven’t explored Martha’s work as much as I should have. But my distaste for Loudon more than compensates. But I Am Sorry, taken from Martha’s upcoming LP Come Home To Mama, is pretty fucking great. Soaring over a gritty guitar and drum arrangement, Martha carries us through an all-too-short journey into dizzying heights. But yeah, lumping all the Wainwrights into one group is a dick move and I am sorry.

POLIÇA

Dark Star (Inertia) Can’t say I’ve every heard anything like the vocals on Poliça’s Dark Star. It’s a little bit like a squeaky clean version of Zapp’s liberal use of vocoder, or Kanye’s masturbatory autotune breakdowns. It’s something both robotic and beautiful. The track itself is a chilled classic-R&B-style jam that builds up to a blissful release of horns. Cool as hell.

WILL AND THE PEOPLE

Holiday (MGM) Well I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t

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1.Centipede Hz ANIMAL COLLECTIVE 2. In Echoes Of Dawn MATT WALKER 3. Into The Diamond Sun STEALING SHEEP 4. Millions Of Moments TZU 5. Silver Age BOB MOULD 6. Putrifiers II THEE OH SEES 7. Pacifica THE PRESETS 8. Key To The Kuffs JJ DOOM 9. Rick Fights FIGHTS 10. From The Horizon DÉBRUIT

SYN SWEET 16 1. Mexico THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS that could comfortably sit in a ‘50s radio hit. It’s no surprise that closer Surf City Raptors is a salute to The Beach Boys as it celebrates the love between surfer boys and girls and the ability of the male voice to reach suspiciously high notes. There’s an ardent recklessness that runs thorough The World Warriors and while the album is steeped in ‘60s pop, it beats with a rock’n’roll heart and bares a punk soul. Velociraptor’s formula is far from complicated, but it doesn’t need to be, they wear their inﬂuences on their sleeve and I’m sure they wouldn’t be ashamed to admit the fact. Their songs are far from derivative, they merely echo some of the greats and the melodies and arrangements on The World Warriors boast craftsmanship of an undeniably high level.

2. Your Side NEW GODS 3. WIMLTM OSCAR KEY SUNG 4. Pentridge CHERRY WOOD 5. When I’m Dead THE DEAD HEADS 6. Come Along SOPHIA BROUS & ONUR CIFTI 7. A Maker Of My Time THE PAPER KITES 8. Work It Out TWERPS 9. Default ATOMS FOR PEACE 10. Rubric (Tyondia Braxton Remix) PHILLIP GLASS

KRYSTAL MAYNARD Best Track: Riot If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Ultraglide In Black THE DIRTBOMBS, The Supreme Genius Of King Khan And The Shrines KING KHAN & THE SHRINES, Family Tree BLACK LIPS In A Word: Rousing

PBS TIPSHEET 1. Mojo Juju MOJO JUJU 2. In Echoes of Dawn MATT WALKER 3. Country Funk 1969-1975 VARIOUS ARTISTS 4. Big Things Vol. 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS 5. Over The Sun TINPAN ORANGE

SINGLES BY LACHLAN I get really sad when I think about how I will never be into a television show as much I was with Lost and that Twitter wasn’t around at the time for me to share my astute observations.

TOP TENS

this. Looking like a bunch of emo brats in their promo shot, Will And The People instead put forth some pretty decent ska-infused indie rock. The close of each verses stretches out the word “stereo” that calls to mind Cliﬀ Richard’s Wired For Sound and that song is pretty much the greatest. Ska is ska, but I’d listen to this any day over The Cat Empire.

6. Algiers CALEXICO 7. Thrillah EASY STAR ALL STARS 8. Ozokidz OZOMATLI 9. The World Warriors VELOCIRAPTOR 10. In Another Time CATHERINE TRAICOS

AIRITNOW CHARTS 1. Ghosts THE PRESETS 2. Must Be Desire MOJO JUJU 3. Muckraker KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD

THE HONDAS

Cop Song (Small Empire) I think I get what The Hondas are about. Taka Honda started the outﬁt long before Little Red made their implosive breakup oﬃcial, attempting a subversive exaggeration of his national identity that then evolved into a bizarre transgender romp with the track I Am A Homosexual (again, the B-side here is titled Feel Gay). Cop Song is as dumb as an anti-authoritarian punk number can get. The Hondas make pretty basic Aussiepunk, nothing too shocking. Just a little strange.

CHARLI XCX

Stay Away (Atlantic) Sounding quite like nothing else coming out from her homeland, UK artist Charli XCX chooses her moments to soar into histrionic territory on the pulsating Stay Away. It’s an infectious, slow-burning grind that pays oﬀ in spades with and incredibly smart dance jam. Catch Charli XCX when she’s in town for Parklife.

RAINY DAY WOMEN

Runaway (Independent) In their tilt for rotation on “tha jays”, WA’s Rainy Day Women have crafted not so much a song but an amalgamation of tropes that deﬁne the youth broadcaster’s current local playlist. There are a few promising ideas trying to reach their way to the surface, but they’re anchored by an unengaging falsetto, a kinda Strokes-like shoehorned breakdown, and a fucking whistling solo. History has produced a lot of great songs called Runaway. This isn’t one of them.

SINGLE OF THE WEEK TWERPS

Work It Out (Chapter/Underwater Peoples) On He’s In Stock, the B-side from Work It Out, it means getting your drugs home-delivered to the suburbs while mum doesn’t stop giving you the shits. Or maybe not. On A-side Work It Out, frontman Marty Frawley rationalises his way through a breakup by taking the higher ground. Thing is, I don’t believe him. It’s the stunted, almost rushed phrasing. It’s the half-cooked couplets (the opening lines of the song rhyme “know” with “know”). It’s that stillfrail, contrived bravado in the delivery. When the unreliable narrator states in the chorus “You get back / what you put in”, it’s a declaration of emotional bankruptcy rather than a cry of aﬃrmation.

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WIZARD 4. Six Months In A Cast THE TROUBLE WITH TEMPELTON 5. Pills DAMN TERRAN 6. Happening For Us COMMUNITY RADIO 7. Waking Up Your House Again CATHERINE TRAICOS 8. Hold On Me DEEP STREET SOUL 9. Gimme Your Heat DONNY BENET 10. Into The Stream CHARITY ROSE TURNER

COLLECTOR’S CORNER MISSING LINK 1. The Seer SWANS 2. Putriﬁers II THEE OH SEES 3. Bright Lights GARY CLARK JR. 4. Coexist THE XX 5. Ghastly Spats GHASTLY SPATS 6. Dopethrone ELECTRIC WIZARD 7. Cherry Thing NENEH CHERRY & THE THING 8. Getting The Most Out Of Your Extinction IRONCHRIST 9. Highlights Of A Dangerous Life THE JOHNNYS 10. Idolum UFOMAMMUT

BEAT’S TOP TEN ABOUT SWANS

SONGS

1. Ride A White Swan T. REX 2. Black Swan THOM YORKE 3. Swan Song GRIMES 4. Swan Lake TCHAIKOVSKY 5. Swan Song LED ZEPPELIN 6. You Fucking People Make Me Sick SWANS 7. Swans (Life After Death) ISLANDS 8. Swans CAMERA OBSCURA 9. Turn It Up UGLY DUCKLING 10. Theme Song SYDNEY SWANS FOOTBALL CLUB

ALBUMS

THE SMITH STREET BAND

Sunshine And Technology (Poison City Records) FOR MORE REVIEWS GO TO

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Despite its period pretensions to gentriﬁcation, Smith Street will never completely escape its feral character. Sitting on the edge of the old Collingwood Flat, the bleak urban landscape banishes sunshine and beauty like a grumpy old man rallying against the so-called progress of the modern era. So when The Smith Street Band decides to invoke the modern day utopian imagery of sunshine and technology for its debut album, there has got to be a level of irony involved – or, given the Celtic enthusiasm and literary precision at the heart of The Smith Street Band’s music, maybe a robust quantity of alcohol

SETH SENTRY

This Was Tomorrow (High Score Records / Inertia) The most successful hip hop music from an artist standpoint is that which is not afraid to get personal. This Was Tomorrow finds Melbourne rising star Seth Sentry looking at society and his place in it, creating a picture of someone that is full all the same emotions, concerns and issues are everybody else. While we wait on such prophesised items as jetpacks and flying cars, as shown on the apocalyptic album art, we have to deal the current reality, which Sentry is not afraid to do. The relatable rapper takes us through a typical day, introducing the listener to many of the album’s running themes on opening cut Campfire. On album stand-out My Scene he tells outlandish yet believable tales about trying to fit into social groups. Almost serving as his reimagined version of the Hoodoo Gurus’ radio staple What’s My Scene? the track contains stories about unwittingly going out for drinks with business types and smoking weed with random hippies but still feeling dissatisfied. The theme of unfulfilled future prophecies from the cover art continues in a tongue-in-cheek manner on Dear Science. While he expresses his gratitude for the iPod and other technological wonders, he asks scientists about the whereabouts of our damn jetpacks. For this and many other moments Best Track: Dear Science If You Like This, You’ll Like: URTHBOY Spitshine, This Was Tomorrow is a triumph and easily one of Australia’s finest hip hop releases in 2012. DARK TIME SUNSHINE ANX In A Word: Triumphant ANDREW ‘HAZARD’ HICKEY

and a slab of wicked humour. The title track is collage of urban philosophy and post-modern existentialism, rounded out with a delivery of the street corner preacher of yore. I Want Friends is an exercise in adolescent denial – if age is going to defeat the enthusiasm of youth, then fuck it all – and What’s Changed is a brutal examination of comparative existence, warts, jealousy and all. Stay Young loiters in the shadows of Billy Bragg’s shadow, and the even longer shadow of adult experience, while the Tom Busby oﬀers a hard-edged ballad for a love that once, and may never be again. When I Said Us I Meant Them is the perennial narrative of devotion above and beyond the call of romantic duty; as the drives to its inevitable emphatic power-chord conclusion, there’s a sense of poetic futility. And then there’s the brooding Don’t Mention The War; denial is, just maybe, the original dysfunctional human emotion. The closest thing you’ll get to poetry on Smith Street might be the garbled spit of some bloke trying to scam spare change for a nefarious night out; or maybe it’s Best Track: I Want Friends The Smith Street Band, exposing the world for all its If You Like These, You’ll Like This: THE POGUES, THE naked imperfections. CLASH In A Word: Existential PATRICK EMERY

FRANCOLIN

Won’t Let You Down (Independent)

TZU

Millions Of Moments (Liberation Music) You wouldn’t be remiss at thinking that you were listening to an entirely new lineup when popping on Millions Of Moments, the latest effort from Melbourne five-piece TZU. The booming electro-funk opus is worlds away from the modest, down-tempo Aussie hip hop that this writer and many others initially knew them for with 2004’s Position Correction and its follow-up Smiling At Strangers. If you have followed the band’s transition into poppier sensibilities, which began with Computer Love, it comes across as less of a drastic leap. The album could be considered TZU’s 808s & Heartbreak moment, which also came out in 2008. There is no rapping to be found, unless you count the slightly spoken quality that can heard in some of the vocals from front-man Joelistics. Samples are another thing of the past, replaced with synths, guitar and drum machines. The more straight ahead social commentary gives away to vague universal generalities about love and oppression. One element that does remain is their rebellious hip hop spirit, which comes across on efforts like the uptempo, military-esque Criminals And Murderers. The equally as up-tempo Nowhere Home wouldn’t feel out of place on a Van She album and could surely become a club anthem. Joelsitics and co. even explore dubstep on the dramatic Beautiful. While still Best Track: Criminals And Murderers missing something, Millions Of Moments is a If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Pursuit of Happiness defining statement from an ever-evolving band. VAN SHE, Hyper Paradise HERMITUDE In A Word: Bold ANDREW ‘HAZARD’ HICKEY

THE XX

Coexist (Young Turks/Remote Control) The xx’s music has a hushed and intimate quality, like a private conversation between two people. It’s as if you’re not just listening to the songs, you’re intruding on them, hearing secrets that weren’t really meant for you. The songs on The xx’s self-titled debut were built around a bare minimum number of elements – murmured vocal interplay between Romy Madley Croft and Oiver Sim, spooky, echoing guitar tones, and crisp, precise beats, situating the songs at some indefinite point between indie and R&B – and their second doesn’t mess with this basic arrangement all that much. The best example of their ability to do a lot with a little may be in Reunion. The song opens with Croft and Sim’s voices circling each other warily over a backing wash of steel drums; it slowly fades out, and you think it’s all done, then a whooshing snare comes in to propel both of them to the song’s conclusion. It’s a simple but spine-tingling moment, the kind of thing The xx do better than just about anybody. They seem to have figured out that if they parcel the good things out in small doses – the achingly beautiful melody on opener Angels, the shivering harmonies on Try – they’re even more effective. As minimal as The xx’s music is, there’s an undeniable pop appeal – it’s no surprise that Intro worked so well when Rihanna repurposed it as Drunk On Love, or that Drake has made overtures to beat-maker Jamie Smith. Coexist hits all the right pleasure buttons Best Track: Reunion If You Like These, You’ll Like This: The xx THE XX, with the least amount of fuss, and is definitely one of the year’s finest. Walking Wounded EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL In A Word: Spooky ALASDAIR DUNCAN

WED SEPT 19TH

INTERNATIONAL ‘TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY’ WITH

JIMMY STEWART $6 SAILOR JERRY, KRAKEN AND MOUNT GAY RUMS TUES OCT 2ND

SEAN (THESIMMONS SPOILS) TUES OCT 16TH

ASH OFFICER

The debut album from Francolin is reminiscent of the first album from Fanfarlo, another group with a Swede at the helm. That London-based band have gone on to craft a darker, deeper second album, though it’s hard to imagine Melbourne’s Francolin heading down that same dark rabbit hole based on the light, leisurely Won’t Let You Down. This is a band with the dial firmly set on ‘summer’. Most songs called Let’s Stay Together would put this lyric forward as an emotional plea, but here it’s a measured suggestion. It’s such a relaxed, content delivery, it’s hard to imagine the answer being anything but ‘yes’. While most of the lyrics are bathed in sunshine, there are hints of a bleaker past. The joy of falling in love is celebrated with relief from a sad, lonely life: there’s “no more longing” and a surfacing out of “the same grey days”. Then things seem to fall apart completely by the end of the album, with the not-so-shiny-happy Singinging. But any notes of apprehension are invariably wiped out by waves of lyrics about drinking wine, getting stoned, swapping clothes and listening to Wilco. And the music remains resolutely ‘up’ throughout, with even the song about dying waltzing along to oldschool jazz and adorned with trumpets. The strongest criticism I could make of this album is Best Track: War On Summer If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Reservoir that it tends to float along on cruise control. But, hey, that’s kind of the whole point of it too. FANFARLO, The Flying Cup Club BEIRUT In A Word: Dependable CHRIS GIRDLER

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20 SEP 7 OCT

Darebin Music Feast (City of Darebin)

2012

The Darebin Music Feast, which returns in 2012 with a bountiful program featuring over 180 events, spawned this excellent 12-track sampler that provides the music fan with a taste of some of the sonic delights bubbling away in this fine city of ours. Even Dawn (The Kinship) kicks off proceedings with the serpentine rhythm of the atmospheric Oma Shanty which sways and rocks as if floating across a restless ocean. Although Susy Blue’s jazzy vocals and playful melodies on the excellent Circus conjure fond memories of Clare Bowditch’s old indie combo Red Raku, she also manages to weave in the type of magical quirkiness often associated with artists such as Kate Miller-Heidke. Black Flamingo by Tek Tek Ensemble is a romantic and danceable instrumental which boasts haunting brass and suggests a glint of old Hollywood glamour in its swinging grooves. The Part You Haven’t Learned by The Darjeelings, which features spine-tingling vocal harmonies, builds from a laid-back vibe to an unlikely yet glorious collision of sweet folk pop and catchy, jagged post-punk. Brilliant! The Deans bring a mellifluous Mod-tinged vocal approach to the quietly powerful Matters Of The Heart which oozes smooth vintage soul while Yeo’s Selma Blair is a folky toe-tapper characerised by an organic, stripped-back feel. 8 Foot Felix get suitably spooky on the creeping Halloween Blues which slithers seductively before embracing a groove-kissed lounge vibe propelled by a smokin’ horn section. The energetic Vardos, those talented exponents of gypsy music, will have you euphorically spinning around your lounge room, Polenta & Cheese in one hand and a glass of heart-starting firewater in the other. Komissar Kabaret’s Chopachop is wild, surreal and colourfully theatrical while the indie folk pop of Carried Away by Melody Moon is a charming gem filled with subtle and smart instrumentation. The imaginatively named sevenpiece Monkey’s Pirate effortlessly mesh roots and Best Track: The Part You Haven’t Learned THE hip hop on the funky Concrete Beast before this fine compilation is brought to a close by the gold-plated DARJEELINGS If You Like These, You’ll like This: Sound of Melbourne vocal harmonies of the Brunswick Women’s Choir on the stunning Mae Francis. Records-Sampler 2011 VARIOUS ARTISTS In A Word: Bountiful GRAHAM BLACKLEY www.musicfeast.com.au

THU SEPT 20TH

WED SEPT 26TH

EYAL & THE SKELETON CREW

THEYORQUE MIMICS EP LAUNCH AND THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR

FRI SEPT 21ST

FRI SEPT 28TH

MATT GLASS AND HIS GYPSY ORCHESTRA AND DAVID WYHOON

CHARLES BABY

STRANGERS FROM NOW ON AND CAT OR PILAR SAT SEPT 22ND

DICK DIVER

SUPER WILD HORSES AND LIQUID HANDCUFFS

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THURS SEPT 27TH

DAYDREAM ARCADE TURNER (QLD) AND THE SUNSLEEPERS BETTERJEHAN THAN THE WIZZARDS AND THE CHARLTONS SAT 29TH

GRAND FINAL DAY 2 BIG SCREENS, 2 LEVELS - COMING LATER 3/10 - MIKE MCCARTHY RECORD LAUNCH W CHAD MASON (WAGONS) 4/10 - THE HONDAS SINGLE LAUNCH 5/10 - WE THE PEOPLE EP LAUNCH W THE RED LIGHTS 6&7/10 - FULL TILD JANIS - JANIS JOPLIN TRIBUTE SHOW - FRINGE FESTIVAL SHOW 13/10 - COERCE / TOTALLY UNICORN 26/10 - TULLY ON TULLY SINGLE LAUNCH

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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 19 SEP

WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: MARILLA HOMES + LYDIA PHILLIPS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC

ROCK/POP FUTURE ISLANDS + RICK FIGHTS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $25. HOUNDSTEETH Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. KING OF THE NORTH + STRANGERS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SALTIARE Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. SCARCASM + MOJO JACKET JACKET + ROYAL MERCURY Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. SLOW DOWN EARTH + MYYTH + THE BLACK GALAXY EXPERIENCE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5. THE EXPLODERS + DJ PHIL GIONFRIDDO + LUKE LEGS & THE MIDNIGHT SPECIALS + THE PRETTY LITTLES Workers Club, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. TOM TUENA - FEAT: TOM TUENA BAND Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:00pm. WARMTH CRASHES + CREEP & HARP + HONEY BADGERS + STRANGERS FROM NOW ON Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8. WHEATUS + NOVA & THE EXPERIENCE Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $35.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CHARLES JENKINS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. JIMMY STEWART John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. K-LEE Bebida, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Dancing Dog, Footscray. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Grind N Groove, Healesville. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Elwood Lounge, Elwood. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Grind N Groove, Healesville. 8:00pm. PRITA + BRETT WINTERFORD + JEN BIDDLE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $6. ROLLER ONE + ANGEL EYES + BJ MORIZONKLE ToďŹ&#x20AC; In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $7. SEAN MCMAHON & MATT GREEN Kent St Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. TAKA HONDA The Resurrection, Brunswick East. 7:30pm. WAYWARD BREED + ALYSIA MANCEAU Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

DEMIAN, CLEVER AUSTIN, KIRKIS + CLEVER AUSTIN AND KIRKIS + DEMIAN + DJ JACKSON MILES Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $7. DIZZYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BIG BAND Dizzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. JULIUS SCHWING TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. LANIE LANE + THE MAPLE TRIAL Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $20. MARTIN ROTOLOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TRIO Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $5. TANGO DUO Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. THE JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. THE TOM FRYER QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

THURSDAY 20 SEP ROCK/POP 1AM LATE SHOW - FEAT: JULIAN Pony, Melbourne. 1:00am. ASH NAYLOR Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:00pm. $20. AU REVIEWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 4TH BIRTHDAY - FEAT: MARTIN CILIA SURF BAND + CASH SAVAGE + DAN WEBB + THE RECHORDS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BONNIWELLS (7â&#x20AC;? LAUNCH) The Liberty Social, Melbourne. 8:00pm. CENTRE & THE SOUTH + KASHMERE CLUB The B East, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. CERES @ LAUNDRY BAR FT. SKYWAYS ARE HIGHWAYS AND THE ELLIOTS + SKYWAYS ARE HIGHWAYS + THE ELLIOTS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. DAVE GRANEY & THE MISTLY Substation, Newport. 8:00pm. EIFFEL 65 & N-TRANCE + EIFFEL 65 + N-TRANCE + MR. 95 Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $53. EIFFEL 65 & N-TRANCE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $48. FLOUNDER + BETTER THAN WIZARDS + ROSENCRATS ToďŹ&#x20AC; In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. GOOD CHARLOTTE Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. $94.

KATCHAFIRE They started out as a Bob Marley tribute band, are named after a Bob Marley album, and over the years have played the coveted support slot for Bob Marleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band The Wailers a handful of times as well as supporting Bob Marelyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son Damien on his 2006 tour. In short, the only way these guys could be more reggae is if they were from Kingston. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not, mind you, which only makes it that much more impressive. Hailing from Hamilton, New Zealand, the all-Maori eight-piece have just finished up a monstrous headlining tour of the USA and Brazil, and will be popping into Australia on their way home to help us blaze our way into spring. Catch the fire at The Forum on Friday September 21, or for you burb-dwellers, the Ferntree Gully Hotel on Thursday September 20. GREG CHAMPIONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BEST 22 FOOTY SONGS - FEAT: GREG CHAMPION & THE A-TEAM BAND + CHAMPS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $20. KATCHAFIRE Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 7:30pm. $37. KINGS & QUEENS - FEAT: BLANSKO DISTRICT + THE PASSOUTS + TO LIGHT ATLANTIS + TRANSISTOR The Prague, Thornbury. 8:00pm. KINLOCH TROONS + FRAMELINES + THE STUTTERERS IdgaďŹ&#x20AC; Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. LANIE LANE Beavs Bar, Geelong. 8:00pm. $20. LIGHTS OUT AT HEATHROW + SHOOT THE SUN + THE BATTERY KIDS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. MAD NANNA (7â&#x20AC;? LAUNCH) + LOWER PLENTY + MOFFARFARRAH Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $9. MAMMOTH MAMMOTH + DON FERNANDO Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. MARIN & THE VAGUE SENSATIONS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10. MIMI VELESKA + CHK CHK BOOM + THE PRETTY LITTLES Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. MONGREL PUNT (BOOK LAUNCH) - FEAT: JOHNNY ZOCHLING + SEAN SMEATON Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. $5. NIKKO Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. PENNY HEWSON SOLO + HAMISH COWAN + THE KILLJOYS DUO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. RIFF FIST + MORTARIAN + MOTHERSLUG Pony, Melbourne. 8:30pm. RUBYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SHOWCASE Rubyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lounge, Belgrave. 7:00pm. SAROX Bar Nancy, Northcote. 9:00pm. $10. SERI VIDA Bar Nancy, Northcote. 8:00pm. SWIMSUIT + JIMMY TAIT + LAURA MACFARLANE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. THE ANGELS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $32. THE CALL UP (SINGLE LAUNCH) + GOING SWIMMING + HOLLOW EVERDAZE + TOYOTA WAR Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. THE EVENING CAST + SUNK JUNK + VON STACHE WINDSOR THIEVES Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE MAGIC BONES + GERARD SMITH Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE UNION PACIFIC + SWEET TEENS + THE SUMMERVILLES Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5. THOMAS CONVENANT (EP LAUNCH) + CHAOS KIDS + SCARAMOUCHE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $5. YELLOWCARD + FOR OUR HERO + HEROES FOR HIRE The Hi-ďŹ , Melbourne. 7:30pm. $55.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK A CELEBRATION OF COUNTRY - FEAT: JENNY TAYLOR + LIPSTICK & SPURS + CORINNA MAULE + FRANK JONES + HIGH STREET BELLS CHOIR + MAREK PODSTAWEK Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 7:30pm. $15. ACOUSTIC NIGHT 29th Apartment, St Kilda. 8:30pm. BLOW The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 8:00pm. CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN + JAMES MACKEY + JANE MCARTHUR Bar Betty, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

CITY VS COUNTRY + BLIND VAALLEY + HOUNDS HOUNDS HOUNDS Yah Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. CLANCY MILNE Bebida, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DAVEY D Elwood Lounge, Elwood. 9:00pm. DUCK MUSIQUE Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. EMLYN JOHNSON + THE MELWAYS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. EYAL & THE SKELETON CREW + DAVID WYHOON + MATT GLASS & HIS GYPSY ORCHESTRA John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. HUMPBACK CHAMELEON Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:00pm. KARIN SCHAUPP Wellersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hotel, Kangaroo Ground. 8:00pm. $49. LUKE BRENNAN & THE STICKY VALENTINES + STEFFANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SONGS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. MIC CLUB Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. NMIT SONGWRITING COMPETITION FINAL 2012 Yarra Edge Music Centre, FairďŹ eld. 1:00pm. OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 6:30pm. OPEN MIC Arcadia Hotel, South Yarra. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. SIME NUGENT Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. TIM GUY Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC COOKINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ON 3 BURNERS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THE WEATHER - FEAT: LASSE MARHAUG + OREN AMBARCHI + HUSBANDS + MARCO FUSINATO Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $12. JUDY BLUE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 10:00pm. KEREBOS & JOHN TURCIO (CD LAUNCH) Dizzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. MOTOWN THURSDAYS Fashion Lounge, Melbourne. 5:00pm. REFLEJOS + TRES CUERDAS Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. SALSA EXPLOSION - FEAT: DEL BARRIO First Floor, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. SOL HAUS & THE SPOKESMEN + DJ PIERRE BARONI + DJ VINCE PEACH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. THE NICK HAYWOOD QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. THE SCOTT TINKLER QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THOMAS LORENZO QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.

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BUNNY MONROE + THE COUNCIL & PUPPETRY OF THE PENIS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:01pm. $13. BURN IN HELL (ALBUM LAUNCH) + BITTERSWEET KICKS + SUZIE STAPLETON Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. CHARLES BABY + CAT OR PILAR + STRANGERS FROM NOW ON John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. DEADLY ARE THE NAKED + LAMARAMA + SILENT DUCK + UNCLE RUDEY Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DETONATORS + COLD HEART + SCAR TISSUE Lucky 13 Garage, Moorabbin. 6:00pm. FLOUNDER Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. FLYING SAUCER TERROR Bar Nancy, Northcote. 9:00pm. $10. FRIENDY’S FRIDAY COCKTAILS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. HUMONIC + INTERNAL NIGHTMARE + INVOLUNTARY CONVULSION + THE SEAFORD MONDTER Pony, Melbourne. 9:00pm. JACK STONE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 5:30pm. KATCHAFIRE + DJ ANDY ITES Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $52. KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:00pm. LA DANSE MACABRE - FEAT: BRUNSWICK MASSIVE DJ COLLECTIVE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LEONARDS BEARD + CURSING TOMORROW + IMMERSION + SEX ST Idgaﬀ Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. MARCEL BORRACK’S MINIBIKES Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. MONKS OF MEONWAH + BELLASTRADES + CLUB CRAIN Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. NADA SURF + THE GOLD HEARTED Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $48. NIKKO (ALBUM LAUNCH) + BODIES + DJ CISCO ROSE + HOODLUM SHOUTS + ON SIERRA Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. PRETTY DULCIE + MIKEY & THE ALIGNMENT The Hammy, Melbourne. 8:00pm. PRIESTESSA + BETH KNIGHTS + GREAT EARTHQUAKE + WINTERNATIONALE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $7. RED ACES + IOWA + LOST WEEKENDS + NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUTH DJS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $8. REPLICA Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10. SCARAMOUCHE + THE ART OF LATER Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. SEAN MCARDLE Pony, Melbourne. 7:00pm. SEEDY JEEZUS + AUTO DAFÃ© Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm. SINCERELY GRIZZLY + GOING SWIMMING + THE KEEPSAKES Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. SLEEPMAKESWAVES + ENNIS TOLA + MARLOW + STEERING BY STARS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $11. SONS OF THE IONIAN SEA + MARCUS DE PASQUALE + SUN GOD REPLICA + SWIDGEN + TEENAGE LIBIDO Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. SPRAY ‘N’ WIPE 2012 - FEAT: NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE + STRANGE TALK + BORED NOTHING + DJ ALISON

PENNY HEWSON Since returning home after a decade-long stint in sunny Los Angeles, silky-smooth songstress Penny Hewson has made damn sure we all know she’s back. Playing show after show, doing interview after interview, and generally just being present on the local music scene, our wispy-lisped lady has created a nice little buzz around her latest release It’s An Endless Desire. She’s already done an album launch, but since when do we need an excuse to watch someone we love play live? Get down to the Wesley Anne this Thursday September 20 to see Hewson play – for no particular reason – with guests The Killjoys and Hamish Cowan. Tickets $10, doors at 8pm.

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FUTURE ISLANDS As Melbournians, we really are spoilt when it comes to our live music scene. We’re so used to being an entry in just about everybody’s tour diary that sometimes it’s easy for under-the-radar bands to fall…well, under the radar. Baltimore-bred three-piece Future Islands are one such band. The masters of dark and moody synthpop are six years and three albums deep in their career, but have yet to visit Australian shores…until now. Their uniquely textured sound and hauntingly gruff vocals are sure to translate into one cracker of an experience on stage, so get down to the Northcote Social Club tonight and let the sensory feast begin. Doors at 8pm with support from Rick Fights.

BURN IN HELL

Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Burn in Hell has been described as a strange carnival blend of Berlin cabaret, the Dead Brothers, Tim Burton, Yom Waits, the Marx Brothers, The Pogues and Chopin. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? A brand new album titled Dr Awkward on CD and glorious gatefold vinyl, plus a few rare copies of our first album Spider Fight Cat Water Hate, plus t-shirts, lots of t-shirts.

A snickers. Because it’s dark, a little sweet but has lots of nuts.

What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording? We’ve played on beaches, on a boat, by the side of a lake, outside churches, in a convent, on a truck.. every day in Europe was pretty strange. And we record in a old secret vault.

What advice would you give to bands that are new on the Melbourne music scene? After one year, go play your music somewhere else. There’s too many bands here as it is. You’ll never know how good your band is until you play somewhere else.

Tell us about the last song you wrote. It’s called Les Merabbits De Bretagne and it’s a hommage to Bretagne, mermaids and rabbits.

Anything else to add? You know life is good when you’re doing an interview from the South of France.

If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why?

BURN IN HELL launch Dr Awkward at Ding Dong Lounge this Friday September 21.

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Susy Blue

DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST Now in its 16th year, the Darebin Music Feast has become a Melbourne tradition, bringing together the very best in local, independent, grassroots music. Having joined forces with Melbourne Fringe for the first time, 2012 is sure to see the Feast put on one of their best spreads yet. Starting tomorrow, every nook and cranny of the City of Darebin will be filled with nonstop musical goodness right up until Sunday October 7. With over 150 events featuring everything from Preschool Music with The Little Musos to Taste Of India, there truly is something for everyone. Head to musicfeast.com.au for the full program, and start filling up.

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THE DETONATORS

Define your genre in five words or less: Original roots rock’n’roll.

8, Cochranes Rd Moorabbin with Country Band Cold Heart as support.

Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? The funny thing is that the blues people say we are a rockabilly band and the rockabilly people say we are a blues band. But they all come to our gigs, we don’t counter to any genre to avoid being pigeon holed.

How long have you been gigging and writing? The Detonators have been gigging since August 1997. We’ve played almost every festival in Australia and most of the pubs and venues as well. We’ve also toured some parts of Europe and played festivals there. During that time we’ve put out six CDs containing mainly original stuff that the band members all write together. We are working on a new CD at the moment. It’s a drawn out but fun process that can also be frustrating at times.

What do you hate about the music industry? Band bookers that don’t call back, that you have to keep on chasing. It’s very frustrating! A common problem that isn’t getting better. It’s easier for us because we’ve been around since 1997 I’d hate to be a new band trying to get gigs these days. When’s the gig and with who? Friday September 21 week we play at The Lucky 13 Garage

When are you doing your thing next? Check our website or Facebook if you want to see us play around Melbourne our interstate. We are always out there doing something. It’s rare for us to have a weekend off.

FEELINGS BY TEGAN BUTLER

It’s morning on a grey Berlin day and Simon Berckleman, aka ‘Berkfinger’ from now disbanded indie darlings Philadelphia Grand Jury, is in high spirits. For one, he just received an original ‘70s drumset from Japan in the mail courtesy of eBay (at a very good price), and is gearing up to head back to Australia to debut his new project, Feelings to home crowds. With first single, One In A Million already notching high rotation since its release, Feelings is the result of 18 months producing, writing and recording, various artistic collaborations, and newfound creative freedom. After the shock split from his former band, Berckleman relocated to Germany with 300kg of home studio equipment upon the recommendation of the then Philly Jays drummer Suzie, and shortly after, splurged on a recording studio. For Simon, the move to Berlin was key in the creation of Feelings. Reviving an old collaboration in the form of Dan Williams; original member of the Philly Jays, and now drummer of Art Vs. Science, the timing felt right for their musical friendship to flourish yet again. “I don’t think it’s like when we’ve been jamming we’ve been writing songs just like we used to – Dan’s definitely gone on a bit of an electro trip. I think that has meant that it actually felt really fresh, it didn’t feel like a blast from the past at all, it feels like a new thing.” But however fresh, Feelings’ new material sounds like it could easily fit onto a B-side of a Philly Jays EP. “It all just sounds like me”, Berckleman agrees. “One In A Million and all the songs I’m working on, they still sound like me. I was always cynical that it sounded really different from Philly Jays because to me, I instil that in the songs”. Beat Magazine Page 64

With two thirds of the original band back making music together, it seemed it was a case of being all a bit too much for Berckleman and former co-frontman Joel Beeson, to hold the latest variation of Philadelphia Grand Jury together for a second album. “With the Philly Jays, it wasn’t necessarily a creative thing, it was just where everyone was at in their lives. Just practicality – it wasn’t like ‘I can’t work with you musically’, it was ‘I can’t work with you as a human being.’ Most of that was to do with me, I think. I pissed Joel off a lot”, Berckleman admits. “That was the main thing and then that then started to affect our writing because when you’ve been in close quarters with someone for three or four years and you know them intimately, you’ve driven each other up the wall in various ways, and then you get in a room to try and make an album, and then you realise the other album actually went pretty well and our new album better be good too or else we’re screwed – that’s when it became hard to write music.” But the latest incarnation of Berckleman and Williams wasn’t initially as appealing for some, despite the all-star

WONDERLAND + DJ BOSSMAN + DJ GAMEGIRLS + DJ I OH YOU + DRUNK MUMS + DUNE RATS + I’LLS + OSCAR & MARTIN + SURES + THE CORSAIRS + THE UPSKIRTS + TOUCAN Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $20. TERAMAZE + BLACKLIST + DAMNATIONS DAY + HARLOTT + SEPPUKU The Prague, Thornbury. 8:00pm. TERRA AUSTRALIS + HORDES OF THE BLACK CROSS + MALICHOR + MARDRAUM + SEWERCIDE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12. THE AFROBIOTICS + OUSMANE SONKO + SEYDOU SOW Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THE DUB CAPTAINS + DJ SHAKY MEMORIAL + DRU & THE INTENTIONS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm. THE EXOTICS + THE WARDENS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE IVORY ELEPHANT + LACHLAN BRUCE BAND + THE NEW SAVAGES + THE VELVETS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE MEDICS + BJ WINTERS + LES GARCONS Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. $14. TURTLE & FOX Elwood Lounge, Elwood. 9:00pm. WHITE SUMMER + WINTER MOON + YOG Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm. WILD TURKEY + DJ BARBARA BLAZE + VOLCANIKS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $5. YELLOWCARD + FOR OUR HERO + HEROES FOR HIRE The Hi-ﬁ, Melbourne. 7:30pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ALEXIS NICOLE & THE MISSING PIECES Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $15. ANDY BAYLOR & THE BANKSIAS BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. ANNA SMYRK & THE APPETITES + ELEPHANT EYES Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. BEN SMITH + BROOKE TAYLOR Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm. CLANCY MILNE Bebida, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DAVE GRANEY (ALBUM LAUNCH) Palais, Hepburn Springs. 8:30pm. $47. JK RUFF + THE TESKEY BROTHERS The B East, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. LOT 56 + WAYLAN JOES Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 10:00pm. NMIT ORIGIONAL BANDS Yarra Edge Music Centre, Fairﬁeld. 1:00pm. SUSIE BLUE Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSIONS - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm. WATLON JONES + LOT 56 Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC 8 FOOT FELIX Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. AETHER Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 8:00pm. ELLY HOYT & THE MICHAEL GRIFFIN BAND Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. KRISTINA OLSEN + HEIDI MCDERMOTT + HUGH MCDONALD Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $25. KUNJANI Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. PROJECT321EXPLOSION + ALTA + HALCYON DRIVE + THE SUNSLEEPERS Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. STONEFLOWER Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SWIMSUIT Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. THE DEANS PLAY SOUL Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15. TRIO AGOGO 303, Northcote. 6:00pm. YVETTE JOHANSSON & THE JOE RUBERTO TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25.

lineup which also includes David Rennick from Dappled Cities on guitar. “People weren’t interested in Feelings. They were like, ‘No we want Philadelphia Grand Jury. Can’t it just be exactly like that, or can’t you get the band back together or can’t you take the band name?’ And I was like, no way am I taking the band name without the other guy that was the key member of the band! All the music industry kind of stuff has changed for this project because the other people couldn’t get used a new thing. And that was surprising and really upsetting at first, because I wrote a new album that I was really excited by and I was like ‘let’s put it out, let’s do stuff’, and they were like, ‘yeah, I don’t know if it’s any good’. So I felt like it was all falling upon deaf ears. Now it’s on high rotation on triple j, so I don’t see what the problem was.” Berckleman recounts, “It was like when we started the first band, we got no offers from labels; we had to really twist our friend’s arm to become our manager and we started it all ourselves. And then by the time we were booking the second album, we had really good offers from every major label in Australia. But it’s just because they were like, ‘okay we can see that it works and it’s making money, we’ll get you on board’. And I feel like that’s been the same experience with starting this new band; no one wants to take a risk in the music business, no one wants to get behind you or champion anything. They will sit back and let you do the work, and if it’s working, then they’ll get involved.” Even though fans have been much more openminded to Feelings so far, Berckleman is still nervous about playing live to familiar crowds. “I’ll at least get a chance to show people my new thing because they’ll be interested based on what I used to do. I think I have one shot with everybody, and if I blow it then they’ll disown me.”

FEELINGS play The Workers Club on Saturday September 22. One In A Million is available digitally on iTunes.

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SATURDAY 22 SEP ROCK/POP 2AM LATE SHOW - FEAT: RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD Pony, Melbourne. 2:00am. BAD VISION + VALLEY GIRLS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. BANG - FEAT: WISH FOR WINGS + OUR SOLACE + TO THE AIRSHIP Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20. BARRY SAVAGE & THE LITTLE CAESARS + KIT ATKINSON + THE ELECTRIC GUITARS DIMINISHED + THE NIGHT SKY Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $6. BARRY SAVAGE & THE LITTLE CAESERS + KIT ATKINSON + THE ELECTRIC GUITARS DIMINISHED + THE NIGHT SKY Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $6. CHERRYWOOD + DJ KEZBOT + NATHAN HOLLYWOOD + PALM SPRINGS + THE DEATH RATTLES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. CLAMPDOWN Rochester Castle Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. COPSE + LUNG + MARLOW + POLICE & THE THIEVES + ROMEO KNIGHTS Espy, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $15. DANNY WALSH BAND Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 10:00pm. DICK DIVER + LIQUID HANDCUFF John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. DOTCOMS + MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + SILENT DUCK Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ELECTRIC MARY + DESTROY SHE SAID + PHIL PARA + SLOW CHASE + VIRTUE Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. ENTER SHAKARI Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $44. FEELINGS (SINGLE LAUNCH) + TOM LARK Workers Club, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. $12. GREENTHIEF + AIRCRAFTE + ASSEMBLE THE EMPIRE + THE SINKING TEETH Pony, Melbourne. 9:00pm. KIRA PURU & THE BUISE + BOOK OF SHIPS + SECOND HAND HEART Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. LIEUTENANT JAM + FIERCE MILD + THE WILD COMFORTS 303, Northcote. 10:00am. $5. MARIONETTES Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm. MATT DWYER’S LAS VEGAS GRIND + DJ MOHAIR SLIM + DJ SYE SAXON The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. MILK TEDDY + NORTHLANDS + TOWELS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MOTH + GROSSGOD + RIFF FIST + THE SUPERGUNS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. NUMBER STATION + MONKS OF MELLONWAH + RAIN PARTY + WAVERLY Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $10. OCEAN PARTY + FROM THE SOUTH + GRAND PRISMATIC Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. OUTRIGHT + CRISIS ALERT + OUTSIDERS CODE + TIGERS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $12. REGULAR JOHN (STRANGE FLOWERS LAUNCH) Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12. ROAD RATZ + DIRTY HARRIET & THE HANGMEN + FASPEEDELAY The B East, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. SCALEM + TEXAS JEDI + THREE QUARTER Idgaﬀ Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. SHERIFF + HOUND HOUND HOUND + THE RECHORDS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. SPACE ECHO + G.T.O. Town Hall Hotel, North Melbourne. 6:00pm. SUNSET BLUSH + BRONNIE COULL + RENAE BRENNAN + SARAH JEAN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THAT GOLD STREET SOUND (GET UP LAUNCH) + LYNDAL BARRY & THE APOLLOS + THE SEVEN UPS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10. THE BENGAL TIGERS + PEGAZUS + THEY Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. THE BIG THINGS TOUR - FEAT: DAILY MEDS + ELLESQUIRE + TUKA + LOOSE CHANGE + REVERSE POLARITIES + SKETCH THE RHYME + TRUE VIBENATION

Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $17. THE DUFRANES + COLD IRONS BOUND Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm. THE EXPLODERS + LUKE LEGS & THE MIDNIGHT SPECIALS + THE FIRE ALIVE National Hotel, Geelong. 8:00pm. THE FINAL CUT + MERCURY WHITE + SCALAR FIELDS + THE COMMUNISTS The Hi-ﬁ, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $15. THE NATIVE PLANTS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE NUDGELS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. THE PRAGUE 2ND BIRTHDAY PARTY - FEAT: BELLUSIRA + ANNA SALEN + APSIS + FENIAN + INVOLUME + RED SKY BURIAL The Prague, Thornbury. 2:30pm. $15. THE SCARLETS (BACK TO BASICS) + NEIN & VENOM Lyrebird Lounge, Ripponlea. 9:00pm. TINSMOKE + DEAD RIVER DEEPS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BURKE & WILLS Elwood Lounge, Elwood. 9:00pm. CISCO CAESAR Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. CITRUS JAM Bar Nancy, Northcote. 9:00pm. $10. CRAIG WOODWARD’S OL’ TIMEY MUSIC JAM SESSIONS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. DANNY WALSH BANNED Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:00pm. GEOFF ACHISON & THE SOUL DIGGERS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. GIRL INTERPRETED - FEAT: LUCIE THORNE + GEORGIA FIELDS + MOJO JUJU + TRACY MCNEIL Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $22. HEYLEY COOPER BAND + MESSED UP + SCHOOL GIRL REPORT Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. JAMES KEOGH Bebida, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. JIMI HOCKING’S BLUES MACHINE St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 9:00pm. JUDGE PINO & THE RULING MOTIONS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. KATHRYN KELLY (DON’T FIND ME NOW LAUNCH) + FARQUENHARSON + TESS GUTHRIE Fitzroy Bowls Club, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. LAKE PALMER Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. MANA + DIVINA PROVIDENCIA Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. MIA DYSON (ALBUM TOUR) + COURTNEY BARNETT Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $25. MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Highway 31, Brunswick. 8:30pm. MR BLACK & BLUES DUO Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. MUSIC JAM FOR BEGINNERS Oﬀbeats Music Cafe, Preston. 3:00pm. NICK LARKIN & THE BONES Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 4:00pm. OH PEP! Pure Pop Courtyard, St Kilda. 6:00pm. REECE DILLION & ZE JELEA BEBES Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. RUSTY PICKERS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. SATURDAY ACOUSTIC REVUE - FEAT: GIRL & BOY + HANNAH ACFIELD + INCEDO Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $10. SPOONFUL Post Oﬃce Hotel, Coburg. 10:30pm. STRINGYBARK MCDOWELL Grind N Groove, Healesville. 8:00pm. SUN RISING Palais, Hepburn Springs. 8:30pm. $25. SUNDAY SINGER-SONGWRITER SESSIONS - FEAT: ALICIA ADKINS + GENEVIEVE BRYANT Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 4:00pm. THE FEISTY FEASTY TRASH BAND Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 7:30pm. THE NO REAL NEED + DERIDED BY VOICES Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. THE SLINGERS OF SENTIMENT Wesley Anne, Northcote.

3:00pm. $12. THE STRING CONTINGENT The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. TIM WOODZ & THE DIRTY SHOES + ARTY DEL RIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. WAZ E JAMES BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC HETTY KATE & THE IRWELL STREET STRING BAND Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25. JULIE O’HARA SEXTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. JULIEN WILSON QUINTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. QUANG DINH Bar Nancy, Northcote. 8:00pm. SAMANTHA MORLEY (CD LAUNCH) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15. SHLIJVOVITZ ORCHESTRA + LADYBIRD Open Studio, Northcote. 4:30pm. SOUL POWER Tony Starr’s Kitten Club, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $5. THE BOMBASTICS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 10:00pm. THE MONTHS Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 2:30pm. $25. TINPAN ORANGE (ALBUM LAUNCH) + MILES & SIMONE Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $20. TRACY BARTRAM Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. YEO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:30pm.

SUNDAY 23 SEP

YELLOWCARD

“They say you don’t grow up, you just grow old…” sings Ryan Key on Yellowcard’s latest single Here I Am Alive. And for a Florida band borne of the late ‘90s pop-punk era, this could not be more true. In the space of 15 years, Yellowcard have changed lineups, released albums, changed lineups, broken up, gotten back together, changed lineups, released albums, changed lineups….well, you get the point. They’ve been through a lot. But despite the ups and downs, they’ve managed to notch eight albums to their name, all the while maintaining enough of a fanbase to keep them relevant. All grown up and returning to Australia for the first time in five years, Yellowcard will play two shows at The HiFi this Thursday September 20 and Friday September 21. Join them in proving to the world that pop-punk will never die!

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HOWLIN’ STEAM TRAIN

ROCK/POP AITCHES + BLOODWOLVES + CAVALCADE + JAY STEVENS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. ALTA + COLOURWAVES The B East, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. BEN DAVID & THE BANNED + DAN RAW + NATHAN SEECKTS + TIM HAMPSHIRE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. BLIND VALLEY + DIRTY ELVIS + FUZZBIRDS + THE IVORY ELEPHANT Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. $5. CHODES + PRIVATE RADIO + THE FUJIYAMA MAMAS + THE MIGRATIONS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. COMMUNION - FEAT: BATTLESHIPS + AINSLIE WILLS + GRIZZLY JIM LAWRIE + HAYDEN CALNIN + PACKWOOD Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $17. GRAVEY + AL PARKINSON + HOUNDSTEETH + THE ANTIONETTES Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. JEMMA & HER WISE YOUNG AMBITIOUS MEN + DJ MATT STABS + DOMINIC MILLER + EATEN BY DOGS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6. JIMMY BUFFETT + MAC MCANALLY Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. LA DANSE MACABRE - FEAT: BRUNSWICK MASSIVE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:03pm. LILLY ROUGE + BLACK TEA HOUSE + PRETTY DULCIE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. NAI PALM + DJ PERCY VALENTINE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. POND + PIKELET + SUPER WILD HORSES Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $20. RAISED BY EAGLES Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. SWAMP MOTH Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE EXPLODERS + SINGING IS FOR HUMANS Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 7:00pm. THE GROVES + LO PAN + PURPLE TUSKS Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. $5. THE MERCURIALS Town Hall Hotel, North Melbourne. 6:00pm. THE TIGER & ME + AL PARKINSON + JAMES KENYON Workers Club, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. $15. THREE KINGS + LIVINGSTONE DASIES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

Define your genre in five words or less Rock/blues/boogie.

“I’m pretty sure I just saw Jesus Christ wailing on guitar..... he’s left handed too.”

Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? We get told quite often that we actually sound like a Howlin’ Steam Train.

How long have you been gigging and writing? Around two years now.

What do you love about making music? The buzz we get when something comes together in the studio. What can a punter expect from your live show? It changes for each show mostly, we do enjoy climbing things. 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?

Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? Ace Of Base. When’s the gig and with who? Chopped Rod & Custom Festival, there’s a heap of great local acts on the bill (18), we’re really excited to be a part of it! It takes place at Newstead Racecourse from Friday October 5 - Sunday October 7. More info at chopped. com.au.

LEHMANN B. SMITH BY ALASDAIR DUNCAN

When it comes to Lehmann B. Smith, the word ‘prolific’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. The indie troubadour is preparing the official launch of Girlfriends, which is almost definitely his third album this year, although it’s getting a little difficult to keep track. “I guess I don’t throw away as much stuff as other people do,” Smith says, in typically self-effacing style, when I ask just how he’s managed to amass this body of work. “I find it hard to believe that I work as hard as other people, because I do spend a lot of my free time just lounging around watching TV and going to the pub and stuff like that. I put out a lot of album, but to me, that just seems like a natural part of playing music – if you love it, you’re going to leave this big trail of albums behind you.” He pauses. “I don’t know, though – maybe everyone else just has better quality control than I do.” Girlfriends is both buoyant and sad, featuring tales of love and failure over rambling acoustic arrangements. The subject matter, obviously, is girls – a nearuniversal preoccupation for a certain kind of lovelorn young musician. I ask Smith the extent to which the songs on the album are drawn from life, and he tell me the lyrics are a mix of real and imaginary. “Some songs, in my mind, are about girlfriends that I’ve had, or combinations of girlfriends in the one song,” he says. “I guess it’s the default position for a lot of song writers to write a song about a girl. You don’t even think about it, that’s just what it’s about. That ‘I love you/I hate you’ stuff makes for pretty immediate subject matter. Some songs are about real people, but there are some that are just more general break-up and love songs.” The album is also unique in that it feature backing

vocals from a choir of indie all-stars, singing Smith’s insecurities back at him in bright harmonies. “A lot of the choir were friends and people I’d played with on album in the past,” he says. “Prue from Hammocks And Honey came and sang with me, as well as Laura Jean and some of the guys from Rat Vs Possum. Getting them together was easy – I made sure everyone was well-hydrated with alcohol, and got a couple of packs of Doritos. It doesn’t take much to rally a choir,” he deadpans. Smith had most of the choral arrangements worked out ahead of time, and the rest, he just improvised in the studio. “A lot of them are in unison or two-part harmony – it was more just about trying to get a big sound, a raucous, fun sort of sound, which I think we achieved.” Smith delves pretty deeply into his own insecurities on the album, whose lyrics don’t hold back in their examination of inadequacy and self-loathing. When

asked about this, he tells me somewhat sheepishly that he doesn’t often pay too much attention to the lyrics in songs, so has been surprised to ﬁnd that others do, and have been grilling him on his mental state ever since. “I had no idea I was going to get my head shrunk when I released these songs,” he laughs. “I guess they’re a bit dark. Before I made this album, I was listening to the Beach Boys’ Party!, which is meant to be them at a party, but it’s all studio-manufactured – there are people in the background talking and clanging drink, and it has a really fun vibe to it. I thought it might be fun to do something like that, but when I wrote my songs, I think I got a big discombobulated, because they all turned out really dark. I’d like to make something lighter and happier, but it’s easy to be self-doubting … I’m working on it in my songwriting.” Though Girlfriends has only just made its way into the world, Smith is already planning his next four records. “I have three coming out next year,” he explains. “I’ve written most of the songs, I just need to polish them

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up. There’s also a triple album that I’ve been working on, and I’m thinking about maybe putting that out the year after. That should be interesting – it’s 50 tracks or something. It’s kind of fun, just a massive thing to work on while I have nothing to do.” When you think triple album, you can’t help but think of The Magnetic Fields, but Smith tells me he doesn’t take any particular influence from them – or anything else. “I can’t really think of any influences regarding triple albums. There’s George Harrison’s first solo album, but I haven’t really listened to that either. You don’t need influences to make a triple album though; you just need a lot of songs piling up.” LEHMANN B. SMITH launches Girlfriends on Saturday September 22 at Bella Union @ Trades Hall in Carlton, with special guests Evelyn Morris and The Ancients. The album is out now via Sensory Projects. Beat Magazine Page 65

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MARAINAS TRENCH - FEAT: MARIANAS TRENCH Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $40. MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: WHITE WALLS + COCKS ARQUETTE + COMFORT ZONES + JUSTIN FULLER Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm. THE JANE AUSTEN ARGUEMENT + PLAYWRITE Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.

KERRYN FIELDS

Define your genre in five words or less: Country and blues.

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Someone walks past as you’re playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? “You should ask her to say ‘fush ‘n’ chups’. And it’s your round next.”

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

ACCESS ALL AGES

BLUEGRASS NIGHT & JAM SESSION Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. JIMMY STEWART Post Oﬃce Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. THE RAMSHAKLE ARMY + MAX SAVAGE Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm.

The Push Beat All Ages Column Wednesday September 19, 2012 With Ruth Mihelcic

How long have you been gigging and writing? Writing and playing for most of my life, moved to Australia (from NZ) and have been playing here for about three years.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC

What’s been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? The standout this year was at the East Brunswick Club where I performed with my front tooth missing. Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? Mia Dyson – I’d come off second best, but it would be an awesome gig! What inspires or has influenced your music the most? I have a pretty intense life story, battling ill health since childhood has created a passion that definitely stands out in my personality and music. Artists like Janis Joplin, Tracy Chapman and Toni Childs have been my main influences of performing and writing. VICUNA COAT + EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE HANDLERS Tago Mago, Thornbury. 4:30pm. WAKEFIELD + ALEX LASHLIE + FIRE BEHAVING AS AIR Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $9. WAKING FATE Idgaﬀ Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. ZOOPHYTE & THE SCARECROWS Wheelers Hill Hotel, Wheelers Hill. 3:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK JIMI HOCKING The Barking Dog, Geelong West . 4:00pm. ARCHER Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm. BLASPHEMOUS SUNDAY’S Kent St Bar, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK + DEAN MULLER Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. CHRIS WILSON Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. CORAL LEE & THE SILVER SCREAM Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. DAREBIN SONGWRITERS GUILD 303, Northcote. 3:30pm. DAVE LARKIN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. DAVEY LANE The Resurrection, Brunswick East. 4:00pm. FIONA CLAIRE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 9:00pm. $15. GRIZZLY JIM LAURIE Bar Nancy, Northcote. 8:00pm. JAM SESSION FOR BEGINNERS Wendy’s Music Reservoir, Reservoir. 3:30pm. JAMS Musicland, Fawkner. 3:00pm. JIMMY BUFFETT + MAC MCANALLY Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $129. KATE MULQUEEN Bar Nancy, Northcote. 6:00pm. $10. NICKY DEL REY + THE SLOWTOWN SOCIAL CLUB Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. POET’S 6TH BIRTHDAY BASH - FEAT: VAN & CAL WALKER + CHARLES JENKINS + LILY & KING + LIZ STRINGER + RUTH LINDSAY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 2:00pm. REBELS WITHOUT A CLUE + MARTY KELLY & AUBURY MAHER Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. RENAE BRENNAN Elwood Lounge, Elwood. 6:30pm. RUDE 1ST BIRTHDAY - FEAT: THE ERAN JAMES BAND + ALISON FERRIER + JED ROWE + KERRYN FIELDS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 4:00pm. SARAH CARNEGIE Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 7:00pm. SHANNON BOURNE Post Oﬃce Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. SING INTO SPRING - FEAT: ARCAPELLA Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 2:00pm. $13. SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND Wesley Anne, Northcote. 2:00pm. $8. STAGE DOOR Red Bennies, South Yarra. 1:00pm. $20. START PLAYING DRUMS Wendy’s Music Reservoir, Reser-

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Do you have any record releases to date? What? Where can I get it? My Branches Of Life EP is out now on iTunes, and I have a full-fat delicious record being cooked right now for release in the New Year. Why should everyone come and see your band? I stand out. I play to the crowd, I sing my guts out, I give good hugs and have a funny accent. When I play with the band you’ll see just how very marvellous and handsome they are and probably want to hug them too. When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/ single/etc? Rude Bookings First Birthday and official industry launch at the Empress Hotel, Sunday September 23. Info at rudebookings.com. voir. 2:00pm. START PLAYING GUITAR Wendy’s Music Reservoir, Reservoir. 12:30pm. TANÃ© (EP LAUNCH) + CA VA + HUDSON + TASH SULTANA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $7. THE CHRIS DUFFY TRIBUE - FEAT: IAN TREDDINICK + PETER DAFFY + COOLGRASS + FAT CHANCE + JANE + KANE DOUG WALLACE + PAUL WOOKEY + PETE FIDDLER + RICK DEMPSTER Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 2:30pm. $25. THE HIRED GUNS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. THE RABALTHAZARS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 4:30pm. THE WILD COMFORTS + PRITA GREALY Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. TRACY MCNEIL BAND Carringbush Hotel, Abbotsford. 4:00pm. VIKINGO’S PENA + VARDOS Open Studio, Northcote. 4:30pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 7:00pm. LOUISA RANKIN Lui Bar, Melbourne. 3:00pm. NUDIST FUNK ORCHESTRA + BAD BOYS BATACUDA + THE DALE RYDER BAND Espy, St Kilda. 5:30pm. ORKEZTRA GLASSO BASHALDE Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 5:30pm. $10. SAN LAZARO The Night Cat, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE BOB SEDERGREEN BAND Doncaster Playhouse,, Doncaster. 2:00pm. $15. THE GROOVE TRUCK Ruby’s Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $10. THE LOST CLOG Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15. THE RETURN OF THE VOODOO SHEIKS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. THE TRISTANO MARSH & KONITZ PROJECT Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.

MONDAY 24 SEP ROCK/POP ACOUSTIC SESSIONS - FEAT: MICHELLE MEEHAN Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:30pm. AMANITA + HOLLOW EVERDAZE + MAKSIA + SOOKY LA LA + SUNK JUNK Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CHERRY JAM - FEAT: VLADISLAV BADOV + VICTIMS OF SIN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

HANDS ACROSS THE WATER - FEAT: MOIRA TYERS + WENDY EALEY Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 7:30pm. KLEZMER WORKSHOP - FEAT: ERNIE GRUNER Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 7:30pm. $20. LUNCHTIME CLASSICS - FEAT: MELBOURNE YOUTH CHAMBER STRINGS & THE PERCY GRAINGER YOUTH ORCHESTRA WIND ENSEMBLE Bmw Edge, Melbourne Cbd. 12:00pm. PAUL WILLIAMSON’S HAMMOND COMBO - FEAT: PAUL WILLIAMSON & SPECIAL GUESTS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10. PRIME + THE JAMES CARTER QUARTET 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $8. THE ALLAN BROWNE TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.

TUESDAY 25 SEP ROCK/POP ACOUSTIC SESSIONS - FEAT: BRITTANY PULLEN Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:30pm. ANDY WEAR Bar Nancy, Northcote. 9:00pm. $10. BAT PISS + SHERIFF Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. COLLAGE - FEAT: DOM COOLEY + BELT EATERS + CURTIS WHY + NISHLA Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. MELBOURNE FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. $15. PATRON SAINTS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SEX ON TOAST + MANDEK PENHA + RAWMANTICS + THE CALL UP + THE VAUDEVILLE SMASH DJS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $2.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CASH SAVAGE + SAINT JUDE Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. CHARLES JENKINS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. CRADLE MOUNTAIN + GUY KABLE + PETER SPARK Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST SONGWRITER’S SEMI-FINAL Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 7:30pm. IDIOTIC MONKEY BRAIN - FEAT: RICH DAVIES + ELI CASH + GEORGE HYDE & JOSH SEYMOUR Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. KEL DAY Bar Nancy, Northcote. 7:00pm. $10. LADY ANTEBELLUM Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $110. MELBOURNE ROCK SCHOOL Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 10:00am. $240. OPEN MIC Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. PETE CORNELIUS Royal Standard Hotel, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC DAR-E BEATS Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. MAKE IT UP CLUB Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MAL WEBB 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. THE ALISTAIR PARSONS QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. YURODIVYE + SALT LAKE CITY Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm.

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It’s the last week of school term / first week of holidays, spring is finally here are the underage events are staring to heat up. Most notably is the Good Life Boombox on both holiday Mondays, which will turn Melbourne’s Festival Hall into a full blown super club with huge a sound system, incredible lighting, lasers and décor. Some of Australia’s biggest DJs plus international guests Nari & Milani (Italy) and Tujamo (Germany) will be tearing up the decks for this drug, alcohol and smoke free event. Save a few bucks buying a twin ticket pack for both events. This is the last week to catch the FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands heats before the Regional Finals start in October. Stay tuned for regional event dates, but in the meantime you can check out the FReeZA website freeza.vic.gov.au for a list of the winners so far. There’s some news from our Opportunities notice board too. Push Songs is returning for its final songwriters program for the year, running from October 9 to November 28. Twelve applicants will be chosen to take part to develop their songwriting with Charles Jenkins and some special guests. Fill out the application at our website before Monday. The International Songwriting Competition has over $150,000 in cash and prizes to give away, so if that’s something you’re into then check out songwritingcompetition.com before entries close tomorrow! And lastly if you want to play at St Kilda Festival 2013, you have until this Friday to get your music application in. Details at stkildafestival.com.au.

SONGWRITING COURSE - 6 week course with singer/ songwriter Bobby Valentine. Starting October 9th, 2012. Places are limited. Book now! Visit www.katzmusic.com.au or call 9530 0984 / 0425 788 252.

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Sunday September 23 Lazy Sundays – Amped goes Acoustic w/ Some Time Soon, The Playbook, Daylight Hours, Way With Words, and Cruel To Be Kind, The Bardin Center, 8 Glenlyon Road, Brunswick, 1pm, $10, Sal Kimber on 9389 8642, AA Enter Shikari, Billboard The Venue, 170 Russell St, Melbourne, 3:30pm, $50.10, oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545, U18

Monday September 24 The Goodlife Boombox, Festival Hall, 300 Dudley Street, West Melbourne, 4:30pm, $35, ticketmaster. com.au or 136 100, U18 Rumours Underage w/ Slice N Dice, Shakers Lounge, 14 - 22 Lauderdale Rd, Narre Warren, 5pm, $15 - $25, underage.com.au, U18

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LIVE THE GROVES Saturday September 8, Revolver Having been around for awhile, it’s good to see Melbourne-based four-piece blues outfit The Groves finally beginning to make inroads into Australia’s thriving music scene. With a history that begins back in their high school days, the group’s self-titled debut EP launched at Revolver this weekend was an all-out aural assault from a group that shows much promise. Master Gunfighters, a collective of Melbourne musicians from acts such as The Thod, The Polites and Mass Cult formed in 2011 provided a welcome prelude to the headline act for the evening, mixing blues and countryinspired sounds with a distinctively Melbournian soul. Familiar feelings and locales from Swanston Street to Collingwood, accompanied by adept guitarists and an eclectic range of percussive and instrumental tricks were the subject of their up-tempo and inspiring set, As bassist Leigh Macdonald conceded during the evening, the group’s debut EP has been a long time coming – but now that it’s here, it’s clear that the Groves are very much maturing into a successful, surprising act to contend with in Melbourne. Bringing a set largely comprised of material from the EP launched on the evening, months spent rehearsing and recording, mixing and mastering the self-titled EP in vocalist Antoni Riccardi’s home studio with the assistance of Stevie Mayo have come to fruition with a remarkably self-assured sound. Taking to the stage to a reasonably packed-out front room at Revolver, the

group spent the following hour tearing through a wellpaced and groove-laden performance. What Else Can You Do, the song the band cites as being a turning point in their musical progression, written in a mere ten minutes, sounded revelatory in the confined and sweaty front room – a lowslung baseline and smooth, folk-rock oriented melodies sounded warm and lush, and the rest of their material matches their newfound niche well – from the fast-paced, electric rock of Deep Water replete with driving percussion and howling guitars to the more expansive, blues-inspired Davey Jones, The Groves’ energetic performance was a winning one, combining a refined and matured aesthetic with a youthful exuberance. An appropriately sleazy, slow-jam paced cover of Fever was the surprise of the evening, with vocalist Riccardi’s impressive vocal range given chance to shine backed by seriously funked-out rhythms and guitar, before wrapping things up with a rapid-fire take on three more tracks and a graceful exit from the stage. A decisive performance from a group set to become a well-known act in Melbourne very soon. MIKI McLAY LOVED: The crowded dancefloor. HATED: Spilled beers. DRANK: So much water.

PATRICK WOLF The Forum II, Tuesday September 11 Patrick, a violinist, an oboist. That’s the extent of the personnel that took to the stage in the intimate surrounds of The Forum’s upstairs theatre for this, Wolf’s curious diversion into an acoustic guise as he reflects on his first decade as a recording artist. The atmosphere was pleasantly informal, Wolf glided to the piano adorned with a gilded laurel wreath atop his crown and platform wedges under his feet, alternating between the arsenal of instruments decked out across the stage. While not seamless, Wolf managed to carry on with aplomb despite technical difficulties rendering his acoustic tenor guitar inaudible early on in the set. The acoustics of The Forum’s upstairs theatre aren’t all that desirable, but Wolf’s voice managed to shine regardless. The anxiety-inducing flourish of the studio version of Hard Times was exchanged for something more beautiful in the stripped-back setting, showcasing the frenetic bursts of violin. Wolf candidly explained the projected visuals at various points in the night, memories from Elizabethan fairs he was dragged to as a child and other home video footage. Bluebells was prefaced with a tale about how a Sydney reviewer misheard Wolf’s wistfulness for autumn in Great

Britain as spending autumn with Suede’s Brett Anderson. Wolf’s love-letter to Mondays, Magic Position, was joyous, nearly daring the seated audience to take to their feet and dance. Not quite though. Closing out the main portion of the evening, Wolf Song was dedicated to a now-Melbourne-based friend who Patrick ﬁrst performed the track to when he was 16-yearsold, a watershed personal moment, and perhaps the birth of the Patrick Wolf we know today. The City provided a triumphant close to the evening, retaining its bombast despite lacking its booming percussion. Unhinged, intimate, a little bit self-indulgent, but ultimately worthwhile. While the acoustic mode provides an aﬀable respite from Wolf’s grander theatrics, hopefully it is but a temporary respite. LACHLAN KANONIUK LOVED: The unanimous and organic claps from the crowd during the chorus of The City. HATED: The visual component was a little undercooked. DRANK: Nope.

R.L JONES Friday September 7, The Gasometer Bored Nothing – the stage name of young, lanky Melbournite Fergus Miller – has been delivering pleasant, scrappy college-rock sounds for a few years now. A handful of EPs with fuzzy bar chords and rudimentary, almost monolithic rhythms bear the band’s name, so it’s disheartening that after this many years the band (and particularly awkward wee Miller) are a vacuum when it comes to engaging with an audience. Wave after wave of low-ﬁ tunes are well-received by the respectable crowd, but only at the end of the third song does Fergus even address the audience with a forced “thank you”. We’re not asking for a magic show or world-weary banter here folks, just something to mask the sound of tuning instruments. While we’re being hyper-critical about superﬁcial things, the percussionist for D.D Dumbo just might be the Bez of the Melbourne music scene. He waits vacantly while his partner – already handling guitar and vocal duties – records and prepares drum loops; all Bez has to do is occasionally wack a bongo and dance like a shock victim. Regardless, D.D Dumbo’s enigmatic blend of droning hippie rhythms – he’s got a 12-string guitar and he’s not afraid to use it – and Afrobeat-tinged grooves is a crowd pleaser, even more so when he turns his attention to a brooding cover of Roy Orbison’s Crying. The crowd don’t dance as much as protrude hips generally in time with the polyrhythmic sounds, suggesting Bez might be ahead of the style curve after all.

Remember a few years ago when The Middle East unexpectedly announced their break-up at Splendour In The Grass, before ending their set with two minutes of fuzzy guitars and thrashing drums, possibly in an attempt to cast off their reputation as twee-indie folksters? The similarities are plentiful in the first few minutes of R.L Jones’ set, the former Middle East guitarist lashing out at his guitar alongside friendly backup band The Phony Mexican Diner. It could be announcement of intention, of retaining the past while turfing out a future path, or it could be to make sure he’s got your attention. Tonight’s show is foremost to road test songs for an upcoming album, and it’s an experiment in most senses of the word. Jones has an open canvas at the moment, so one minute he’s picking away at a wistful ballad, the next is fully of jangly chords with a nod to Tom Petty. The result is somewhat schizophrenic, but he’s like that jerk in high school with straight top marks and his pick of careers. Spoilt for choice, but he’ll do swimmingly in whatever direction he chooses. MITCH ALEXANDER LOVED: Jones’ beard – half hobo, quarter Crazy Horse roadie. HATED: How much I ended up enjoying dancing Bez. DRANK: It was cold and in a pint glass. These are the only two requirements.

STRUM-A-RAMA FEAT. CHRIS WILSON The Espy, Wednesday September 12 Vince, one of the guest vocalists at Wednesday’s Strum-ARama gig, is in his late ‘60s. He had some kind of African embroidered hat on, cargo pants, a thick mo’ and square bifocals; a very unassuming kind of fellow. When he started to sing, though, all thoughts of his resemblance to Heisenberg flitted out of my head and there was only this heavy, bald blues coming from the man’s throat. The array of performers that graced the stage for outreach collective Wild@heART’s monthly showcase was, in a word, phenomenal. It’s not just that the lyrical content was sincere and raw: the calibre of musicianship topped anything you might see at a North-side open mic. There’s absolutely no pretending for anyone here, and that made the joy of the evening so palpable. Each artist or band played one or two tracks, resulting in a completely original collection of real soul, jazz and rock vibes. Capped off by a performance from the harp man himself Chris Wilson, this was quite unlike anything I’ve ever reviewed or indeed seen. Lyn Mast from Warrnambool, who’d never performed for an audience before but whose Judith Durham-inspired, soulful vocals crooned “can’t let the black dogs sleep”, is a gifted songwriter. (Her second track, Jazz At The ‘Bool had me singing its melody and sweet message well after I’d left the pub.) Headline act The BiPolar Bears bashed out their sharpie, Meanies riffs with twangy vocals and hard rockin’ drums from newest member Paul. Byron, warm and informal ringleader, sang unaccompanied except for

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his electric guitar with beautifully deep, sand-fine vocals: it was very much like a Grinderman track, shot straight through the heart. Byron has those wiry muscles in his biceps and seems unsteady on his feet, but he plays the guitar with a nonchalant motor knowledge in the fingers that I remember from my dad playing flamenco guitar, a skill he still held in the alcoves of his heart from before his move to Australia. Gorgeously dimpled singer Heidi Everett played in a duo with Wild@heART’s exceptional founder, Phil Heuzenroeder. Steph’s sweet ukulele tune Three Little Words was pulled off with a perfect mix of beauty and eeriness. Guitarist Brett accompanied her, playing delicate, rippling plucks alongside. After the performance, Brett bent over to fiddle with the amp and inadvertently revealed his plumber’s cleavage. Amongst hollers and heckles he looked over his shoulder with a wry smile and said “I showed you m’ best side.” It was a hilarious, emotional, amazing night and I’m well looking forward to the next show from this incredible initiative. If you like your live music real, this is the place to be. ZOË RADAS LOVED: The Bears’ slap-rock verve. HATED: The Espy’s habit of punching you in the purse. DRANK: Vodka soda.

FRANCOLIN John Curtin Hotel, Friday September 14 Everything about this Francolin gig was blissful. Sandwiched in a weekend of gigs – entrée of Ingrid Michelson Thursday, a decadent, rich chocolate desert of Rufus Wainwright (literally the fourth best Wainwright) on Saturday – Francolin served up a perfect main course. They have a sound that is both familiar to the ear while being unique to them alone. A mariachi vampire weekend mix with a smudge of Paul Simon’s Graceland, some Chris Rea, remove the violin from Noah And The Whale and add a trumpet and you will start to get the idea. They sounded great in the John Curtin Bandroom on Friday night, attracting the kind of crowd in which you are likely to see multiple guys in bow ties. The only way it could be hipper would be if the band called themselves Francolin using punctuation – Fran: – but happily, they don’t. Apologies must go out to Kieran Ryan, the gig was billed as a double headline, however I only arrived in time to see him packing up and am unable to give him the high praise those in the crowd I asked said would be deserved. Francolin opened with a piece of unadulterated ragtime shuﬄe joy, When I Get To Heaven. They rattle through their album, The Hospital Song, with its infectious double handclaps, War On Sumer, Singinging and so on. Their tracks are bright, breezy and bounce along with the enthusiasm of a labrador

puppy. If Ball Park Music were younger and funner (and Ball Park Music are both very young and very fun), they would be Francolin. They are playing with reinforcements tonight, having added the youngest horn section I have ever seen, who appear to be brothers. Sadly I was unable to spot their parents, who I assume had to accompany them into the 18 plus venue. However, when they join second lead vocalist and lead trumpeter Aaron Silver in a threepart horn harmony, they are perfection. Lead singer and songwriter, Staffan Guinane has a great ear for a tune and an easy way on stage. An all round, polished, professional, top quality outfit who will do very well, very soon, so get along to a show. As the title of their album suggests, Francolin won’t let you down – six out of a possible five. JACK FRANKLIN LOVED: The lovely door staff, when the old faithful, “My name is on the door, I’m from Beat,” resulted in my name not being on the door, they took me at my word like gentlemen and waved me through. HATED: Not one thing – well maybe the bow ties. DRANK: Pints, always pints.

Q&A FLOUNDER

Define your genre in five words or less: A funky jiggity smut. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? We have just release our new single via triple j Unearthed which is free to download, and our EP should be coming out around December/January. Why should everyone come and see your band? We play with a lot of energy and have a huge sound without using effects or any modern day crap, it’s all raw and in your face funk rock. When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/ single/etc? We’re playing live on Thursday September 20 at The

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Toﬀ In Town to launch our ﬁrst single of the EP Big Bird, with supports from Better Than The Wizards and Rosencrants. What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording? We went on a tour in China at the end of last year which was pretty weird and we played some crazy gigs in some bowls of rice,. Also when we recently recorded the Big Bird single Max the sax player recorded the whole song naked. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? Our pre gig ritual is to all sit in a dark room together and just enjoy the boat with a little man. Why should everyone come and see your band? Fuck, everyone should come see our band just to have a real good time and enjoy some groovy music without getting bored or falling asleep, we have a raw old school funk element but still keep it fresh and exciting. How long have you been gigging and writing? We all knew each other in high school and even in primary school, the band was a progression in song writing and gigging since 2007 but it wasn’t really ‘til we got out of high school when it all started to really come together songwriting and gigging.