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GALLOWS A tour de force of Soundwave artists are teaming up for a sideshow with all proceeds going towards the Tasmanian bushﬁre appeal. Armed with a slab of working class anarchy, Gallows will lead the charge, ready to unleash the next phase of their punk rock attack on the world with the highly-anticipated release of their follow-up to 2009’s Grey Britain with their latest self-titled record. They’ll be joined by Shai Hulud, Confession and Milestones. It all goes down at the Corner Hotel on Tuesday February 26. Tickets available from The Corner box oﬃce and website.

NEIL FINN + PAUL KELLY THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM Following on from the triumphant 2012 release of Handwritten, The Gaslight Anthem have announced a sprawling Australian tour in 2013. Rising up from punk knockabouts to one of the most respected rock acts to emerge from contemporary New Jersey, The Gaslight Anthem have taken the world’s stages by storm with their uplifting body of work. The Gaslight Anthem perform at The Palace on Wednesday May 15. Tickets onsale 9am Friday February 1 from Ticketek.

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One of the most celebrated American songwriters of all-time has announced a headline Melbourne arena show alongside his appearance at the 2013 Bluesfest. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the landmark album Graceland, Paul Simon will arrive in Melbourne to perform material from all eras of his illustrious career – including certiﬁed classics from the Simon & Garfunkel cannon. Support on the night will come from the one and only Rufus Wainwright. Paul Simon performs at Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday March 27. Tickets onsale 9am Wednesday January 30 from Ticketek.

To the delight of Split Enz, Crowded House, The Finn Brothers and ALT fans, Kiwi great Tim Finn has been added to the lineup of the 37th Port Fairy Folk Festival. Skipping Girl Vinegar, Jackson McLaren, Allana & Alicia, Shaun Kirk and Rusty Berther have also joined the bill, which already boasts Arlo Guthrie, Xavier Rudd, Gurrumul, Kate Miller-Heidke and many more. The third round of tickets are selling fast as the festival prepares to welcome nearly 30,000 folk lovers of all ages. This year, the Port Fairy Folk Festival will kick oﬀ on Friday March 8 and run until Monday March 11. The full line-up along with ticketing information can be found through the festivals’ website.

After selling out seven Palais Theatre shows, Melburnians' love aﬀair with Neil Finn and Paul Kelly is set to continue. Due to the overwhelming demand, A Day On The Green has announced an additional Victorian winery concert, at Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley, with both Finn and Kelly to perform. The tour’s special guest singersongwriter Lisa Mitchell will also perform, with another support artist to be announced soon. It all happens on Saturday February 23. For more information, head to adayonthegreen.com.au.

SYLOSIS + SIX FEET UNDER British metal boys Sylosis are joining American death metal crew Six Feet Under for a special Soundwave sideshow. Fresh oﬀ their new record Monolith, metal quartet from Reading, Sylosis have been labelled as the UK’s greatest metal export. They’ll team up with Six Feet Under (featuring the legendary godfather of death metal Chris Barnes) who have been pleasurably punishing our eardrums since 1993. Their latest album Death Rituals sees them delivering bludgeoning slabs of death, doom and destruction that enforces their position as one of the most important bands in death metal history. Sylosis and Six Feet Under play The Corner Hotel on Wednesday February 27. Tickets on sale now from cornerhotel.com.

FREE SHIT HOW TO DRESS WELL Following on from the recent release of the very excellent LP Total Loss, Tom Krell has announced the return of his How To Dress Well solo project to Australian shores - this time in live band mode. Striking a chord with a sincere, aﬀecting blend of electronic and organic tones, plus the projection of a stunning falsetto, How To Dress Well has commanded the attention of the world since the project’s emergence in 2009. How To Dress Well performs at The Corner Hotel on Friday February 22. We have some double passes to give away.

EL-P Independent rap icon El-P has announced two headline shows to accompany his performances with the Laneway Festival. Touring Australia for the ﬁrst time since 2009, El-P will be bringing beats from Brooklyn and promoting his critically acclaimed 2012 album Cancer For Cure when he visits early next year. The Corner Hotel will be hosting his Melbourne show on Wednesday February 6.

BEATLEMANIA After taking Australia by storm in 2011, the world renowned musical biography Beatlemania is returning with a new production in 2013. Exploring everything from the band’s humble beginnings, rise to fame and cultural change to the Beatlemania phenomenon, the show will take eager audiences through all the eras of the ‘Fab Four’. Coupling authentic instruments, ampliﬁers and costumes with perfect renditions of your favourite Beatles’ classics, Beatlemania – On Tour is sure to delight fans. Since its Canadian debut in 2009, the show has sold out tours in Canada, Australian Scandinavia, South Africa, Dubai, Hong Kong and the US. This magical mystery tour will be taking hold of Melbourne’s Athaneum from Thursday March 14 until Sunday March 17. We have a double pass, a programme and a shirt to give away. Hit up beat.com.au/freeshit to win. Beat Magazine Page 20

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MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE Yet another addition to the recent slew of sidewaves has been announced. The New York four-piece Mindless Self Indulgence will be visiting Australia with their ever unique brand of musical mayhem and stage-destroying live performance, promising a diverse oﬀering from their distinct ten-year back catalogue. They’ll be joined by The Blackout and Cerebral Ballzy. It all goes down at Billboard on Tuesday February 26. Tickets through Ticketek.

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ST KILDA FESTIVAL AT THE ESPY As a proud live music supporter, The Espy has jumped on board the St Kilda Festival excitement and announced a diverse line up for Festival Sunday, Sunday February 10. The front bar sees local hip hop legends TZU, Brisbane party boys Dune Rats, Viking metal lads Barbarion, up and coming rock outﬁt Kingswood, energetic garage six-piece Money For Rope, glam rockers The Mercy Kills, and the respected DJ Mu-Gen grace the stage. In the Gershwin Room there’s Aussie icon Daryl Braithwaite supported by their Sunday residents Dale Ryder Band, Nudist Funk Orchestra, Bad Boys Batucada and Ms Butt. The Basement will feature The Relatives, Volts, and Swamp Moth. Open from midday.

The bountiful supply of 2013 Soundwave Festival sidewaves just keeps on providing the goods, with Fucked Up, O’Brother and The Dear Hunter teaming up for one hell of a sideshow. Last in the country supporting Foo Fighters on their massive stadium tour, Fucked Up invariably put on an unforgettable live performance and they’re sure to impress again. Fucked Up, O’Brother and The Dear Hunter perform at Prince Bandroom on Tuesday February 26. For ticketing and more information jump on the Prince Bandroom website.

BEATLEMANIA

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After taking Australia by storm in 2011, the world renowned musical biography Beatlemania is returning with a new production in 2013. Exploring everything from the band’s humble beginnings, rise to fame and cultural change to the Beatlemania phenomenon, the show will take eager audiences through all the eras of the ‘Fab Four’. This magical mystery tour will be taking hold of Melbourne’s Athaneum from Thursday March 14 until Sunday March 17. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketek.

Australia is a massive fan of heartthrob crooner Chris Isaak, and with the announcement of a huge national tour, it appears the feeling is reciprocated. Already announced for the massive 2013 Bluesfest, Isaak will head south for a Melbourne stopover at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Tuesday March 26. Joining him on the night will be support act Kasey Chambers. Tickets through Ticketmaster.

WHITE NIGHT MELBOURNE The Yarra is set to shine with the inaugural White Night Melbourne releasing their full program. The Yarra River will play host to the largest laser, water and light show ever seen in Melbourne. The laser and light show, entitled From the Deep, would feature a 40 metre high water fountain, lasers tracing the lines of the Princes Bridge and surrounding buildings, all set to an evocative soundtrack. Over 300 local and international artists performing in more than 80 free events across more than 40 CBD sites will transform Melbourne’s city streets, laneways and landmarks from 7pm ‘til 7am. White Night Melbourne will be the ﬁrst ever event of its kind in Australia, inspired by the Nuit Blanche phenomenon that began in Paris in 2002. With so much going on, you best jump onto their site, whitenightmelbourne.com.au, to check out the dozens of events going on around town. White Night Melbourne takes place on Saturday February 23.

THE WONDER YEARS American pop punk crew The Wonder Years have announced a sideshow alongside their appearance at Soundwave. Following on from their critically-praised piece Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing, the boys from Pennsylvania have announced a huge show alongside genre buddies Living With Lions (whose album Holy Shit perfectly describes how many critics have reacted to it) and melodic hardcore band Such Gold. Featuring members from Lagwagon and The Ataris, Versus The World will also be joining this powerful bill. The Wonder Years, Such Gold, Living With Lions and Versus The World play the Corner Hotel on Thursday February 28. Tickets on sale now from The Corner Hotel box oﬃce and website. CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU

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MY DISCO, HTRK HTRK have been announced as special guests at My Disco’s 10th anniversary celebrations. HTRK are torchbearers in a proud lineage of experimental Australian music that stretches back some three decades, from the trailblazing post-punk of The Birthday Party to the jagged EBM of Severed Heads. Their music is layered with pools of murky noise suﬀocating the guitar and bass, with an overwhelming atmosphere that is at once malevolent yet seductive. It all goes down at the Corner Hotel on Friday February 8. Tickets available from cornerhotel.com.

LONDON CRIES

FORCES Industrial dance act Forces are returning with their new single Overland (In My Mind). Taken from their brand new self titled EP, via Siberia Records, Overland (In My Mind) was produced by the band and mixed by Kim Moyes of The Presets. Forces will launch the release of their new single in Melbourne at The Liberty Social in Melbourne on Friday February 22.

LOVE LIKE HATE

ANTIBALAS

Brisbane’s dark pop outﬁt Love Like Hate have released a second single Not My Heart from their successful 2012 EP, Rabbit Hole. The debut EP, produced by Lachlan Mitchell (The Jezebels), saw the ﬁrst single 21 warmly received both here and in the US. Keeping busy on Valentine’s Day, the duo will be breaking hearts at Grumpy’s Green and the Vineyard on Thursday February 14. They will follow up with a show at The Wesley Anne on Friday February 15 and one at the Cornish Arms on Saturday February 16.

Brooklyn’s warehouse born 12-piece Antibalas will be bringing their unique Afrobeats to Australian shores this March. Already credited with introducing Afrobeat to a wider global audience, the group has collaborated with the likes of Mark Ronson, TV On The Radio and The Roots. 2012 saw them release their first album, self-titled, in five years with the world famous Daptone Records. Catch them on Wednesday March 6 at The Corner Hotel. Tickets from The Corner box office and website.

BORED NOTHING, POPSTRANGERS Spunk have announced a series of March shows featuring New Zealand’s Popstrangers, along with Melbourne’s Bored Nothing. Popstrangers will be making their ﬁrst journey to Australian shores, bringing with them the excellent Heaven, which will precede the release of their debut LP Antipodes, due out on Friday March 1. Bored Nothing is Fergus Miller and his Melburnian cohort. They have played over 30 shows nationally including alongside internationals such as Best Coast and Beach House. Popstrangers and Bored Nothing will be appearing at The Gasometer on Sunday March 10. Tickets through Oztix.

GANGBUSTERS Boasting previous success in Canberra, GANGBUSTERS will be taking its new home of Melbourne by storm this February. Hosted by record label Birds Love Fighting, GANGBUSTERS will feature Jonny Telafone, Cat Cat, The Ocean Party, Grand Prismatic, Zone Out, Orbits, From The South, Day Ravies and Anonymere. Birds Love Fighting are an independent label known for their penchant for working with really good artists. Past collaborations include Crayon Fields, Royal Headache and Popolice. GANGBUSTERS will be hijacking The Grace Darling Hotel on Saturday February 9 from 4pm. Tickets can be purchased at the door. For more information check the Facebook event, which you can ﬁnd on Birds Love Fighting’s Facebook page.

London Cries is the reincarnation of Aussie rock band Juke Kartel, who have toured around the globe with the likes of Slash, Nickelback, Ozzy Osborne, Linkin Park and heaps more. They’re playing a handful of shows at The Espy, including the Gershwin Room on Sunday February 3 and Thursday February 14 and the front bar on Wednesday February 6 and Friday February 15.

RYAN FRANCESCONI, MIABAI PEART Best known for their work in Joanna Newson’s Ys Street Band, Ryan Francesconi and Mirabai Peart are joining forces for a visit to Melbourne for two shows early next month. The inspiration behind current album Road To Palios was a trip that the couple made in 2010 to the Greek island of Lesvos. The duo will play free instore on Friday February 1 at Polyester Records, Flinders Lane, and at the Toﬀ In Town on Thursday February 7. Tickets through the Toﬀ’s site.

GREENTHIEF Psychedelic rockers Greenthief have announced a massive European tour set to kick off in April this year. The Brisbane/Melbourne based group will play no less than 30 shows across the European continent over April and May and with a debut album nearing completion, they will be back for its release and a subsequent Australian tour in the second half of the year. Showing their social conscience, the group will also be playing their final Australian shows before heading overseas to raise money for the Sea Sheppard Conservation Society. Catch them before they take off when they play their final Melbourne show in the Espy’s Gershwin Room on Saturday March 23.

TEX NAPALM DERO

COUNTING CROWS Due to overwhelming demand, Counting Crows have added a second and ﬁnal Melbourne show for their upcoming run of Bluesfest sideshows. Their second performance is at Hamer Hall on Sunday March 31, with tickets on sale from 9am, Friday February 1. For all tour and ticketing information, head to the Live Nation website. Beat Magazine Page 22

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DIMI

With the release of their upcoming album Party Animals set for February, German wolfman Tex Napalm and French brother in arms Dimi Dero will team up for a tour of Australia for the ﬁrst time together. Rather than repeating the garage blues of 2007’s Sticky Singers album, the two have dived deeper into ‘70s rock, soulful Stoneslicks and creepy Kraut-ambiences shattered by massive Stooges sounding feedback-orgies as well as heartbreaking ballads. Joined by Brian Henry Hooper (Beasts of Bourbon/Kim Salmon & The Surrealists) plus some very special guests, Tex Napalm and Dimi Dero play The Tote on Friday February 22, Lyrebird Lounge in Elsternwick on Saturday February 23, The Labour In Vain on Sunday February 24, The Public Bar on Saturday March 2 and Cherry Bar on Sunday March 3.

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BLANK REALM Brisbane cult act Blank Realm will be dropping their third record this summer, celebrating with a string of dates down the East Coast. Consisting of three siblings, Daniel, Luke and Sarah Spencer, and Luke Walsh on guitar, Blank Realm are renowned for their ecstatic live performances and boundary-pushing records, all within a comfortable Fleetwood groove. Having supported the likes of Kurt Vile, Wild Flag, Zola Jesus, Sun Araw, The Clean and Robert Forster to name a few, fans can expect a clean-cut live show rid of any over zealous bullshit. Blank Realm play The Gasometer on Saturday February 9. Head to the band’s Facebook page for more information.

ALLEN STONE Rising soul-singer Allen Stone has announced his ﬁrst-ever Australian tour. Combining socially-charged lyrics, R&B vocals with a dash of Southern Soul all set against a backdrop of uplifting horns and driving keyboards, Allen Stone will bring his unique style to Melbourne while in the country for Bluesfest. Allen Stone performs at Northcote Social Club on Thursday March 28.

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THE WOODEN MUSIC TOUR The Perch Creek Family Jugband, The Quarry Mountain Dead Rats and The Bearded Gypsy Band will be taking to the road this February on The Wooden Music Tour. Boasting a unique blend of country, bluegrass and old-time jazz, these bands will satiate your hillbilly dreams. The Wooden Music Tour will play the Caravan Music Club on Friday February 1, and the Northcote Social Club on Saturday February 2 and Sunday February 3. Head to the venues’ respective websites for ticketing and more information. CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU

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TOURING

WHO'S ON TOUR, WHERE AND WHEN

PROUDLY PRESENTS:

For all the latest touring news check out beat.com.au PERIPHERY/CROSSFAITH The Espy February 25 BLINK-182 Sidney Myer Music Bowl February 26 LINKIN PARK, STONE SOUR Rod Laver Area February 26 MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE Billboard February 26 KYUSS LIVES The Palace February 26 FUCKED UP/O’BROTHER/THE DEAR HUNTER Prince Bandroom February 26 GALLOWS Corner Hotel February 26 OF MICE & MEN The Hi-Fi February 26 THE WEDDING PRESENT Northcote Social Club February 26, 27 SYLOSIS AND SIX FEET UNDER Corner Hotel February 27 TOMAHAWK Billboard The Venue February 27 SLEEPING WITH SIRENS The Hi-Fi February 27 FLOGGING MOLLY The Palace February 27 SICK OF IT All The Espy February 27 GARBAGE The Forum February 27 PUSCIFER The Palais February 28 THE WONDER YEARS Corner Hotel February 28 DUFF MCKAGAN’S LOADED The Espy February 28 BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR Arrow On Swanston February 28 CYPRESS HILL The Forum February 28 THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH Melbourne Recital Hall February 28 BRING ME THE HORIZON/PIERCE THE VEIL Billboard February 28 SUM 41/BILLY TALENT The Palace February 28 SOUNDWAVE Flemington Racecourse March 1 DEEP PURPLE/JOURNEY Rod Laver Arena March 1 DEERHOOF Schoolhouse Studios March 3 THIN LIZZY Billboard The Venue March 4 KISS, MÖTLEY CRÜE Etihad Stadium March 5 FUN. The Palace March 5 ED SHEERAN Festival Hall March 5, 6 THE OFFSPRING The Palace March 6 ANTIBALAS Corner Hotel March 6 CAT POWER The Forum March 7 THE STONE ROSES Festival Hall March 7 DINOSAUR JR Corner Hotel March 7, The Espy March 8 PURITY RING Corner Hotel March 8 GOOD LIFE 2013 Flemington Racecourse March 8 WOMADELAIDE Adelaide’s Botanic Park March 8 –March 11

INTERNATIONAL PERFUME GENIUS Northcote Social Club January 30 HIGH HIGHS The Toﬀ January 30 JESSIE WARE Prince Bandroom January 30 THEE OH SEES The Hi-Fi January 31 SLEEP ∞ OVER The Liberty Social February 1 NOBUNNY The Tote February 1 JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Castlemaine Theatre Royal February 2, Corner Hotel February 3 ST. JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL Footscray Community Arts Centre February 3 DIVINE FITS Corner Hotel February 4 POLICA Northcote Social Club February 4 NITE JEWEL The Workers Club February 4 BAT FOR LASHES The Palais February 5 KINGS OF CONVENIENCE Hamer Hall February 5 CLOUD NOTHINGS Ding Dong Lounge February 5 HOLY OTHER Workers Club February 5 THE MEN Northcote Social Club February 6 JULIA HOLTER The Toﬀ February 6 YEASAYER The Hi-Fi February 6 MS MR Northcote Social Club February 7 GIN BLOSSOMS The Hi-Fi February 7 DESCENDENTS Festival Hall February 9 DEER TICK AND TWO GALLANTS Northcote Social Club February 9, 10 DIRTY BEACHES February 10 DAVID HASSELHOFF Corner Hotel February 14 I AM GIANT Ding Dong Lounge February 14 SWANS Corner Hotel February 15 CONVERGE Billboard The Venue February 15 RINGO STARR Festival Hall February 16, 17 ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES Westgate Entertainment Centre February 16, 17 FATHER JOHN MISTY The Hi-Fi February 17 NEIL FINN AND PAUL KELLY The Palais February 16, 18, Rochford Wines 23 EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN The Palace February 19 DR. FEELGOOD Corner Hotel February 21 NORAH JONES The Plenary February 21 HOW TO DRESS WELL Corner Hotel February 22 MY BLOODY VALENTINE The Palace February 22 JOSE JAMES The Hi-Fi February 22 MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK The Hi-Fi February 25

The Toff Stage and Carriage 2nd Flr Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne, 3000 ~ 9639 8770 ~ www.thetoffintown.com WED 30 JANUARY LANEWAY FESTIVAL SIDESHOW

HIGH HIGHS (USA) with special guests CITY CALM DOWN

THURS 31 JANUARY

GOLD FIELDS

with ELIZABETH ROSE, TWINSY, RAT & CO & ANDEE FROST SAT 2 FEBRUARY

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SINGLE LAUNCH with RY, ELECTRIC ELEMENTS & BMAC MON 4, 18, 25 FEBRUARY

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PAUL GREENE & THE OTHER COLOURS

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DANNY BHOY (UK) WARM UP SHOW

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LOVE STORY

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WED 13 FEBRUARY

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CRAIG SCHUFTAN

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IN THE CARRIAGE ROOM FROM 11PM

SAT 16 FEBRUARY

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PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Port Fairy March 8 – 11 TORO Y MOI Corner Hotel March 9 GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC Billboard March 9 GOLDEN PLAINS Meredith’s Supernatural Amphitheatre March 9 - 11 MXPX Corner Hotel March 10 WILD NOTHING The Tote March 11, The Toﬀ March 12 REDD KROSS The Espy March 12 BOB MOULD Corner Hotel March 13 BLOC PARTY Festival Hall March 14 BEATLEMANIA Athaneum Theatre March 14-17 NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE Rod Laver Arena March 15 OPETH The Palace March 15 JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION Corner Hotel March 16 DAMIEN DEMPSEY The Hi-Fi March 16 GUNS N’ ROSES Sidney Myer Music Bowl March 17 THE JACKSONS Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre March 19 WANDA JACKSON Corner Hotel March 20 THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Northcote Social Club March 21, 22 MUTEMATH Billboard March 22 RODRIGUEZ Hamer Hall March 22 ROBERT CRAY Hamer Hall March 24 FRED WESLEY Corner Hotel March 24 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Rod Laver Arena March 24, 26, 27 Hanging Rock March 30, 31 CHRIS ISAAK Sidney Myer Music Bowl March 26 WILCO Hamer Hall March 27, 28 KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS Billboard March 27 PAUL SIMON Rod Laver Arena March 27 BONNIE RAITT, MAVIS STAPLES State Theatre March 27 IGGY AND THE STOOGES Festival Hall March 27 ROGER HODGSON The Palais March 28 ALLEN STONE Northcote Social Club March 28 BYRON BAY BLUESFEST Byron Bay March 28 – April 1 EMILIE AUTUMN The Espy March 29 COUNTING CROWS Hamer Hall March 30, 31 THE LUMINEERS Corner Hotel April 2 DROPKICK MURPHYS Festival Hall April 2 BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Hamer Hall April 3 ROBERT PLANT Rod Laver Arena April 3 THE XX Festival Hall April 4, 5 THE SCRIPT Rod Laver Arena April 6 BEN HOWARD Corner Hotel April 6, 7 BIRDY The Palais April 8 PUBLIC IMAGE LTD The Palace April 11 MICK TAYLOR Ferntree Gully Hotel April 19, Corner Hotel April 20, 21 EXTREME The Palace April 19 BRYAN ADAMS Rod Laver Arena April 20 COHEED AND CAMBRIA/CIRCA SURVIVE The Palace April 21 BLACK SABBATH Rod Laver Arena April 29, May 1 HAPPY MONDAYS The Palace May 5 THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM The Palace May 15 DEFTONES The Palace May 17, 18 LOCAL NATIVES The Forum May 18

STAN RIDGWAY Corner Hotel May 18, The Caravan Club May 19 P!NK Rod Laver Arena July 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, August 27 AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA The Forum September 20

NATIONAL THE NECKS Corner Hotel January 30, 31 GOLD FIELDS Toﬀ January 31 TOKYO DENMARK SWEDEN The Espy February 1 ST KILDA FESTIVAL St Kilda February 2 – 10 THE UV RACE Ding Dong Lounge February 2 LONDON CRIES The Espy February 3, 6, 14, 15 DEAD CAN DANCE The Palais February 6 THE PRESETS The Palace February 6, 7 STRANGERS Workers Club February 8 MY DISCO/HTRK Corner Hotel February 8 BLANK REALM Gasometer February 9 SARAH BLASKO Hamer Hall February 14 RIVERBOATS MUSIC FESTIVAL Echuca-Moama February 15 – 17 SOMETHING WITH NUMBERS Northcote Social Club February 15 BART WILLOUGHBY The Espy Friday February 15 ROCK THE BAY FESTIVAL The Espy February 16 CIVIL CIVIC The Tote February 19 JULIA STONE St Michael’s Church February 20 FORCES The Liberty Social February 22 THE SMITH STREET BAND Reverence Hotel Saturday February 23 KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Corner Hotel February 23 BETWEEN THE BAYS Moorooduc, Mornington Peninsula February 23 DRAPHT La Trobe Bundoora February 27 LOON LAKE Corner Hotel March 1 TIM ROGERS/THE BAMBOOS Melbourne Zoo March 1 NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Sidney Myer Music Bowl March 2 BIRDS OF TOKYO The Forum March 2 THE DEMON PARADE Workers Club March 3 MOOMBA The Yarra March 8 – 11 PETE MURRAY Ferntree Gully Hotel March 9, Corner Hotel March 15 POP STRANGERS/BORED NOTHINGS Gasometer March 10 PUSH OVER Sidney Myer Music Bowl March 11 CLARKEFIELD MUSIC FESTIVAL Clarkeﬁeld Hotel March 17 THE CAT EMPIRE Prince Bandroom March 20, 21 GRINSPOON The Hi-Fi March 22 PVT Corner Hotel March 23 GREENTHIEF The Espy March 23 BOOGIE 7 Bruzzy’s Farm, Tallarook March 29-31 THE SEEKERS Hamer Hall May 14

RUMOURS The Knife, Blur, Wu-Tang Clan = New Announcements = Beat Proudly Presents

IN THE STAGE ROOM FROM 9PM

POPROCKS

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PROUDLY PRESENTS:

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17/2 21/2 23/2 24/2 27/2

THURS 7 FEBRUARY

12/3

with SPECIAL GUESTS

STIFF DRINK

SUN 10 FEBRUARY

with THE ORBWEAVERS & DEAR TIMES WASTE (NZ) + DJ KING SIM

RYAN FRANCESCONI & MIRABAI PEART (USA)

IN THE CARRIAGE FROM 8PM

'SELL OUT' ALBUM LAUNCH with FRANCOLIN & DOT.AY

HIGH HIGHS The Toﬀ, January 30

2/3 26/3 1/4 8/4 15/4

JOANNE'S REAL WORLD KRISTA POLVERE JOSEPH PAUL HOLLOW EVERDAZE SHELLEY SEGAL BUKE AND GASE (USA) WILD NOTHING (USA) THE SHELF: SEASON 6 MICF EDITION

with BISH & NHJ + GUESTS SATURDAY

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THE HOUSE DE FROST with ANDEE FROST

IN THE CARRIAGE ROOM FROM 8PM

with J'NETT + GUESTS

SUNDAY FROM 4PM IN THE CARRIAGE ROOM - FREE ENTRY

THE SUNDAY SET

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THE LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH - FROM 4.30PM

DR SKETCHY’S ANTI ART CLASS

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First held in 1980, the iconic St Kilda Festival is Australia’s largest free annual music festival and a community cornerstone to boot. It returns again this year with a nine day celebration of Australian arts and music. There’s three main bits. First is the Yalukit Wilum Ngargee program; a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music and arts, including performances by Archie Roach, Kutcha Edwards, Lady Lash and more. Second is the Live N Local program which sees St Kilda venues, shops and restaurants open their doors to emerging local talent for intimate performances, with the talent on offer including Suzie Stapleton, Little Wise, Ella Hooper, The Scarlets and dozens more. Music acts are joined by comedy, art exhibitions, theatre and outdoor cinema adding a definitively St Kilda buzz to the summer season. And thirdly, the iconic Festival Sunday – a gigantic final day party with big name Australian acts playing a range of stages around the foreshore, including The Cat Empire, Oh Mercy, Pez, Hiatus Kaiyote and Madre Monte. Hundreds of acts, nine days of insanity, one pearler of a suburb. The full program is at stkildafestival.com.au.

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One of Australia’s most buzzed-about exports is also one of its most freewheeling. Creating soul music in the most literal sense possible, Hiatus Kaiyote is a four-person collective of both classically trained and self-taught musicians. Explosive vocalist and former acrobat Nai Palm has become renowned particularly for her incredibly powerful voice and her ability to control it. However, she revealed to Beat that she is also completely self-taught. “It’s funny, I’m completely not classically trained, as far as my musical understanding, and vocally,” she says with somewhat of a chuckle. “My mum studied contemporary choreography at the VCA and she used to bring home a lot of ﬂamenco and West African stuﬀ. Predominantly I was raised on soul music, which is where I get my voice from, singing along with my idols.” In their relatively short time together, Hiatus Kaiyote has been on quite a journey, which has seen their soundscapes travel from Melbourne to the ears of discerning music fans around the world. Their musical excursions, which sound like neo-soul meets jazz by way of Pluto, recently led the enigmatic singer to the UK, where she accepted the award for Breakthrough Artist Of The Year at the Worldwide Awards in

London, on behalf of the band. “It was amazing, I’ve never been before and to go and be welcomed into the community was really awesome,” Palm says gratefully. Only just getting started for the year, Hiatus will next be heading to Austin, Texas and the South by Southwest festival for their ﬁrst overseas performance as a full band, an opportunity the group are clearly energised by. While much of the band’s plaudits have centred around their naturally gifted singer, Palm is always quick to extol the virtues of her equally talented bandmates, “I’m very lucky with the guys I get to work with.” The 23-year-old singer and guitarist, who began her career as a solo performer, is now joined by one of the ﬁnest ensembles in the country, which features Paul Bender (bass, laptop), Simon Mavin (keys) and

Perrin Moss (percussion). The undeniable chemistry between the band members has been forged over the past two years and is on display for all to hear on their highly acclaimed debut Tawk Tomahawk. After hearing her perform future Hiatus Kaiyote compositions such as Nakamarra and Mobius Streak, her future bandmates were impressed enough to invite the up and comer to join forces with them. Much of the material was written by Palm prior to meeting the rest of the band, however the fully fleshed compositions we hear now would not be possible without the sonic gifts of her bandmates. “Working with such incredible musicians and being active with that, day in day out, definitely broadens your skill levels.” Palm reveals that her overall songwriting approach has been affected by her fellow band members. “Working with other people also makes you more comfortable to explore and write in a way that’s beyond you, writing from the point of arrangement rather than just accommodating your voice with guitar.” This exploration has made the band one functioning unit, allowing the writing process to be as organic as possible. “Now we’ve got this chemistry where we can write from scratch, which is really exciting.” As good music is supposed to do, Hiatus Kaiyote has drawn an emotional response out of seemingly everyone who has been lucky enough to hear their album or witness them live. Palm admits to having a similar emotional experience when in the writing phase, as it very much reflects her state of mind at the time and where she’s coming from. “Music is very therapeutic and medicinal. That’s why people feel it and why people have had such an emotional response to it. The intention there is for therapy,” says Dr. Palm. “Not everybody has the skill to express what’s going on with their lives. I think the beautiful thing about music is you can listen to it and you can get something from it.” Doing her part to spread the positive vibes to music listeners, she says she is proud to be part of what she describes as the “sonic medicine of the world.” Music fans are not the only ones who have been caught under the spell of this transcendent band, as the likes of Erykah Badu and ?uestlove of The Roots have been singing their praises for some time. The door to collaboration she says is “open” with each member given the freedom to collaborate and reach out to other artists. Despite the labels you could place on the Hiatus Kaiyote sound, many would simply describe it as timeless; Palm sees herself setting out on a lifelong path. “It definitely feels like there’s longevity with what we’re doing because it’s coming from a pure place and the guys are like my family.”

HIATUS KAIYOTE play St Kilda Festival’s Festival Sunday on Sunday February 10 from 3.30pm at the O’Donnell Gardens Stage.

Q&A SHIPS PIANO Describe your sound in five words or less: Tin can boogie punch. Tell us why you love St Kilda: No one else has a theme park, we don’t go there but we have one. Favourite bar or pub in St Kilda? Pure Pop. Favourite place to eat in St Kilda? Edgewater Rooftop is good for a burger or mi goreng on the pier.

Who is your favourite band on the St Kilda Festival lineup? The Pretty Littles. Why should everyone come and see your band? ‘Cause if they don’t we will ﬁnd out where they live and cut them. What advice would you give to bands that are new on the Melbourne scene? If you don’t brush your teeth they will fall out. Where are you playing and when? Thursday February 7 at The Espy Front Bar, 9pm.

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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN Have you ever gone to the cinema and felt so uninspired by what’s playing that you instead just buy four choc tops and cry while you eat in the foyer? Not this week. Opening for a general release this Thursday will be Denzel Washington in Flight (a brilliant ﬁlm about an alcoholic pilot who drunkenly lands a malfunctioning commercial airplane with 102 people onboard and the aftermath of the crash), Zero Dark Thirty (based on the Bin Laden raid, nominated for ﬁve Academy Awards) and Silver Linings Playbook (a romantic-comedy drama nominated for eight Academy Awards). You can’t go wrong.

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The Melbourne International Comedy Festival will be here in only a few months, but in the meantime you can check out some up-and-coming comedy talent as part of Raw Comedy at The Espy this Saturday February 2. Past contestants on Raw Comedy include brilliant Aussie comedians such as Chris Lilley, Tom Ballard and Josh Thomas. This Saturday will be MC’d by steadfast superstars of the Australian comedy scene Joel Creasey and Felicity Ward. Doors open at 12.30pm.

ON DISPLAY Roll up to Gasworks Arts Park for the Premier Midsumma Exhibition Roller Derby Saved My Soul, a photographic exhibition of babes in action and their adoring fans. The exhibition was conceptualised by ﬁne art curator Tracey McIrvine and captured by photographer Zina Sofer. It journeys beyond blading bouts to explore the culture of camaraderie, female empowerment and character that underpins the unique sport. Catch the derby on display in the Gasworks Foyer Gallery during Midsumma until Sunday February 3.

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While there are some Shakespearean classics that are interpreted and reinterpreted a hundred times over on both a local and international scale, the proliﬁc wordsmith has a number of plays, narrative poems and sonnets that seem to have fallen by the cultural wayside. The Rape Of Lucrece is one such poem that, with the help of the Irish performer Camille O’Sullivan, her musical accompanist Feargal Murray, director Elizabeth Freestone and the Royal Shakespeare Company, has been dusted oﬀ and brought onto a contemporary stage. The poem draws on the tragic story (told by both Ovid’s Fasti and through Livy’s history of Rome) of the rape of Lucretia (Lucrece), wife of Collatinus, by Tarquin, the son of Sextus Tarquinius, the then king of Rome. The Rape Of Lucrece will be on at The Sumner, Southbank Theatre, from Thursday January 31 to Sunday February 10.

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CONSTELLATIONS BY KRISSI WEISS

Cultural tragedies like the film Sliding Doors (as well as gritty art house films like Run Lola, Run) have skimmed the surface of multiple possibilities and the rabbit hole of “what ifs” in a boy meets girl scenario, but none have combined these concepts quite like British playwright Nick Payne in his award-winning show, Constellations. Last year, Payne won the Harold Pinter Award following the show’s critically acclaimed Royal Court and West End runs and he has been commissioned to develop the story into a screenplay. Constellations takes the concept of freewill, good, bad and indiﬀerent as well as life and death to a scientiﬁc and emotionally charged level through complex characters and an ever more complex concept – that of the existence of the multiverse. After enjoying a stellar run in the UK with enough dazzling reviews to wallpaper Payne’s house, this truly unique story is coming to Melbourne via the Melbourne Theatre Company. When speaking with the charming Alison Bell, the actor who is tackling the character of Marianne, onehalf of the two-handed cast, she admits that rehearsal has been exhilarating and it’s clear the reputation that precedes the show is somehow managing to stay out of her mind. “It’s a show that we all had a great deal of trepidation about because its structure is so unique, but it’s coming together well and it feels like it’s not impossible,” Bell says, punctuating her sentence with a laugh, something that she does often. “In some respects, our egos are slightly protected because we’re so far away, geographically, and very few people will see both productions and be able to make direct comparisons. The positive that you take away from doing a piece that’s been wildly successful is that you know it’s a great play. We do kind of joke about the fear of not being as great as they are but I

don’t think it’s very real. We can only do it in the way that makes sense to us; none of us in the room have seen it and because of that, we’re not guided in any way as to our approach.” Bell had been a fan of director Leticia Cáceres’ work in the past, while her and her co-star, Leon Ford, are no strangers to each other, having worked together last year in a play at Belvoir, cast as husband and wife. In Constellations, however, things are not as straightforward as their previous onstage relationship. The characters of Marianne and Roland meet, and then meet repeatedly, each time with a different outcome and each time highlighting a different aspect of their complex personalities. Their meeting is unlikely, their respective backgrounds seem to suggest that a pairing is even more unlikely (Marianne is a theoretical physicist while Roland knows a lot about bees) and Payne explores that in that one meeting, there are infinite possibilities. “I knew nothing about quantum mechanics and that was fascinating; it’s one of the best parts of my job really,” she says. “I get to step into, and learn about, worlds that I otherwise wouldn’t encounter. The physics part piqued my interest but the biggest factor is that Nick Payne has tapped into something that’s so very human – the idea of speculating the ‘what ifs’

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and how delicate relationships are – so I think it has a relatable quality while being a very unique piece of theatre. It holds very particular challenges for an actor given that you have to surrender what you’ve just done as the scene changes and there’s no chance to see anything through, so that removes any chance of emotional over indulgence.” The biggest challenges for Bell has been the unique structure of the show as well as maintaining some sense of consistency within her ever-changing character. “The tension between maintaining some sort of essential quality that makes up these characters while showing how disparate people can be is a challenge,” she explains. “People can be so extreme at times; in the wrong circumstances we can be dreadful and in the right ones we can be amazing. This play asks what happens when a couple are at their best, worst, and in between.” In life, people take various forms, with circumstance often dictating the essence of people at any given moment. While the nature versus nurture debate will continue to persist in biology and psychology, the fact remains that people display varied characteristics when presented with a wide array of challenges. Payne takes this idea, with the tool of the multiverse, and compresses it into a few, varied scenarios. “There are so many permutations of this couple, you see them at their best and at their worst and you get little hints that are a portal into the next part of the relationship,” she explains. “In most examples, this relationship is not going to work but in one it is. The play is also deeply philosophical; it’s dealing with death and notions of what happens when you die, asking bigger questions like how we cope knowing that our lives will end. It almost frames theoretical physics as an alternative to any kind of God-based belief system.” Constellations will play at the Fairfax Studio, the Arts Centre, from Friday February 8 to Saturday March 23.

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Hatred is a powerful emotion. Hate, the new production by the Malthouse Theatre, will explore hatred through the Gleason’s demise. It is a common story that pervades society: a successful family that appears ‘perfect’ to the public, but beneath the surface they’re ridden with deceit, lies and loathing. John Gleason, an aﬄuent businessman and politician, summons his family to the family homestead for the weekend where the story unravels. Here, everything crumbles down and money stops being a conversation topic. Everyone is pitted against each other. What initially was an innocuous family weekend becomes something more sinister. Sure to be a hit, Hate will be playing at the Malthouse Theatre from Wednesday February 20 – Friday March 8.

JOANNE’S REAL WORLD After a sell out show at The Butterfly Club last year, Joanne’s Real World returns for a one-night-only show at The Toff this February. Created by TaylorGalit Klas and Petra Glieson, Joanne’s Real World tells the tale of Joanne, a Centrelink worker with a severe altruism disorder. She wants to employ every unemployed person. Despite knowing this is unattainable, Joanne persists, neglecting her own responsibilities as a single mother. Raved for its witty insight into everyday Australian life, Joanne’s Real World is a must see before it heads over to Adelaide for the Fringe Festival there. Joanne’s Real World will be playing at The Toff In Town on Sunday February 17 at 4.30pm.

WITNESS Exploring the humanistic relationship between earth and us is Witness, Bridget Nicholson’s newest exhibition at The Abbotsford Convent. Held in the elusive Magdalene Laundries, Witness speaks of notions of place, land, individuals and relationships as a collection. Nicholson will use her ceramic works, and architectural training, to illustrate this. Similar to her past exhibitions, Witness will rely on human form. Witness is Nicholson’s contribution to the Touch This Earth Lightly series – a series of installations made from clay casts of people’s shoes and skin. Nicholson will attend a special artist’s talk on Sunday February 10 at 2pm. Witness will be on display at The Sacred Heart Laundries from Thursday February 7 – Thursday March 14. Admission is free.

LOVE Many people forget that jewellery is an art. Arbors Jewels’ newest exhibition love is here to remind you of the subtle beauty of jewellery. Created to display the artistry behind jewellery-making, love is themed around the notion of love, its meaning and how it’s misconstrued by society. Ten artists explore this concept, showcasing their discipline through carefully placed jewels and metal. Jewelryartist Ellinor Mazza will delve into the power, types, and manipulation of love, while Melanie Rice will illustrate the contemporary and traditional displays of love through colour and shape. Sure to tickle your thoughts, and create a few “It’s so pretty!” comments, love will be exhibited at Arbors Jewels from Tuesday February 5 to Sunday February 17. Opening night will be on Wednesday February 6. Admission is free.

THE WORLD’S GREATEST ORCHESTRA The Arts Centre will be hosting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the world’s greatest orchestra, this November. Heralding from Amsterdam, the orchestra will perform a selection of works that deﬁned and shaped the orchestra, including Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 that was written the year the orchestra was founded. Separated into two programs, the performances will be themed. Concert one is ‘Legendary’. This will tribute the great composers of Northern Europe, including Wagenaar and Stravinsky. Concert two touches the heartstrings with its ‘Heroic’ theme. Here conductor Marris Jansons and the orchestra, will re-create Beethoven’s tribute to Mozart: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor. Other tributes include Yeﬁm Bronfmn and R Strauss’ A Hero’s Life. The Royal Concertgebouw will play the Hamer Hall on Tuesday November 26 and Wednesday November 27. Concert one will be on the Tuesday and concert two on Wednesday respectively.

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IDENTITY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY

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Off the Kerb will be exploring identity this month in new exhibition Identity and Collective Memory. The exhibition will feature work from artists Claus Bredow, Paul Dew, Robert Mihajlovski and Kate Walsh. Exploring age-old questions of how we define ourselves, the artists examine the past experiences and collective memories that are embedded in our bodies, our psyches and our environments. The exhibition will open Friday February 8 at 6pm and run until Friday March 1 at Collingwood’s Off The Kerb Gallery.

Chapel off Chapel will be hosting an exciting selection of theatre productions and films that are absolutely enticing. Separated into two parts, Playing In The Raw and Sunday Scriptease, the series delves into relationships earnestly. In collaboration with Fly-On-The-Wall and Midsumma Festival, Playing In The Raw will explore gay and lesbian culture with exuberance. Loaded, a play by Elliot Ramon Potts, delves into the boundaries of being ‘fuck buddies’, while Playing Rock Hudson explores the death of Hudson and its impact on the AIDS campaign. To satiate all of your film penchant, Sunday Scriptease will present a selection of up-andcoming Australian screenwriters. Hosted over four Sundays, the sessions will give the audience times to provide feedback on the works and examine the screenwriting process. Included in the series is Julia Britton’s adaption of Maurice Guest, a tale of an English music student who succumbs to the wiles of passion. Playing In The Raw will finish its sessions on Saturday February 9 with Loaded, while Sunday Scriptease’s last session will be on Sunday February 17.

BAND4HOPE Band4Hope are spreading hope and arm candy around the globe, inviting Victorian artists and gallery goers to explore the theme of hope in a new exhibition at the No Vacancy Gallery next month. The not-for-proﬁt social enterprise is the brainchild of ‘entrepreneurial vagabonds’ Lachlan McWilliam and Lucie Galt. While traveling in Zimbabwe, the pair discovered a business that produces copper and zinc wristbands, believed to have empowering and healing properties. The idea was to give each band a unique ID so that owners can pass them on and follow their progress along a global chain of hope. The exhibition will feature a Tree4Hope installation made from 13,000 hope tags collected at British festivals, with visitors invited to add their own messages of hope to the growing tree. The exhibition will run from Wednesday February 13 until Sunday February 17 at No Vacancy Gallery, QV Melbourne. Bands4Hope can be purchased for $25 at shop.band4hope.com.au

DAVID COLLINS Edmund Pearce Gallery will present the work of David Collins as part of the Midsumma Festival’s Visual Arts program. Collin’s White Rhino exhibition references Greek mythology, biblical stories and contemporary pop culture to produce ultra rich photographs, which comment on the hedonistic mindset of a generation preoccupied with luxury and decadence. The works invite viewers to release their inner voyeur or, as Collins’ explains, to let the images “transform our deeply held desires into tangible realities.” Perth-born Collins studied at Curtin University, graduating with honours, while his works have been displayed in several exhibitions and solo shows. He also worked as Artistic Director on the independent ﬁlm Good Times For Oscar, featured at the 2010 Future Short Films Festival. The exhibition will run at the Edmund Pearce Gallery from Wednesday January 16 until Saturday February 9. More information can be found through edmundpearce.com.au

GUERRILLA GAMESHOW Do you like: Fun? Free stuﬀ? Having the best time of your life? If you answered yes to one or more of the above questions you should be coming to the next Guerrilla Gameshow on Thursday January 31 at LuWOW, featuring performances from Ali Barter and Tony Besselink. This one is tropical, we’re getting tiki-hot, bringing our band of ragtag Guerrillas with us! Join us for games, prizes, fun, laughs and some new features. Guaranteed mid-summer fun! Gather your friends, and join us for an evening of you won’t forget. We are Guerrilla, so it’ll get a bit naughty, maybe even dangerous (well, not really but you get the idea) Your team may get extra points for any dress up eﬀorts. Don’t have a team? Let us know and we’ll put you together with other amazing humans. Teams can be anywhere from 2-8 people. Presale tickets available through eventbrite.com or $10 on the door.

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THE LAST OF THE THREE BROTHERS The Last of the Three Brothers, an exhibition by Korean artist Park Sung Soo, has changed details. The opening night of the exhibition has been moved to Wednesday January 23. Hosted at fortyﬁvedownstairs, The Last of the Three Brothers is artwork that tells a tale. Through illustration, Sung Soo voices the tale of three brothers: one who is physically assertive, another who is headstrong and the demure third one. The brothers go on a journey in which each brother is tested, and their faults revealed. Deputy Lord Major of Melbourne, Peter McMullin, will be the guest speaker for the opening night. McMullin is currently a board member of the National Portrait Gallery and the President of the Geelong Gallery. The Last of the Three Brothers will be exhibited at fortyﬁvedownstairs until Saturday February 2. Admission is free.

CHECKPOINT CHARLIE COMEDY: EUROTRASH Charlie’s been wall-to-wall crowds watching next-level comics in Twenny 13, and on it goes. Tonight! John Conway, Adam Rozenbachs, Tegan Higginbotham, Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall and more! For just $5. So come ﬁll yourself with cheap piss and put your continence to the ultimate test as some pretty damn rad comedians spit funnies into the business end of a loud stick. Check in 8pm tonight at Eurotrash Bar, CBD. Get down early for a seat.

FELIX BAR COMEDY This Wednesday, Felix Bar Comedy hosts the ﬁrst lady of Australian comedy, Fiona O’Loughlin! You know her from Good News Week, the Melbourne Comedy Gala and more! Plus they’ve got heaps of the best of Melbourne comedy! It’s happening this Wednesday January 30 at 8.30pm for only $12, at Felix Bar, St Kilda.

COMMEDIA DELL PARTE Do not miss this week at Commedia Dell Parte! Claire Hooper will be hosting an awesome lineup headlined by Justin Hamilton featuring Gordon Southern, Bart Freebairn, Daniel Connell, Ryan Walker, Tegan Higginbotham, Sean Bedlam and Cam Marshall. 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 8.30pm at George Lane Bar, St Kilda.

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THE SECRET LIFE OF BIRDS In its new space, Synergy Gallery at Ceres has announced its first official exhibition of the new year, presenting Claire Chatfield’s The Secret Life of Birds. The ornithological exhibition is a collection of ink and watercolour drawings from Chatfield’s trips around Australia, which aim to capture the unique characters of the different birds she encountered. Previously a student of dynamic drawing, Chatfield was the winner of the 2009 Macushla Doyle Memorial Art Prize in Lismore and is currently studying design at Lismore’s Southern Cross University. Aiming to provide low cost, supportive art spaces, Synergy Gallery Inc. moved to CERES late last year. The exhibition will run until Saturday February 2 at Synergy at CERES in the Red Train at CERES environment park. More information can be found at synergygallery.blogspot.com

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What’s the worst experience you have had in your comedy career? I once died for an hour, like proper die i.e. silence (boos are better than silence). Towards the end I ran oﬀ stage and regrettably hid under some stairs to avoid the audience. It was the worst place to hide as I could hear every one of them saying how bad I was as they were walking down them. What’s the deal with politics? I don’t know man, like some f**king important thing. Politics are important. What is the meaning of life? The World Wide Web (how much better is that name for the internet). I love internet. Who in the world could you never make laugh? This magician friend of mine doesn’t have a mouth. If you could write the eulogy for your own funeral what would you say about yourself? John Conway was a badass. He died being ﬁred out of a cannon into another cannon. He made it like seven times, back and forth between the cannons. He kept giving the thumbs up. Where can we see you perform next? Checkpoint Charlie at Eurotrash tonight, The New Conway Tonight Show MICF Melbourne Town Hall at 11pm all of April. Where can we follow/stalk/find out more about you? @newConway Facebook.com/johnconwaystation YouTube.com/newconway Newconwaystation.com

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This Thursday, come and ﬁnd the absolute best comedy in the country for a low, low price! In the last month of shows, we’ve had special guests like Sarah Silverman, Wil Anderson, Todd Barry and more. Come and see who’s going to drop in this week! Find out this Thursday January 31 at 8.30pm, for only $12 at Five Boroughs (upstairs), 68 Hardware Lane, CBD. Dinner is now available before the show, downstairs.

RAW COMEDY If you want to catch a perve on who might be Australia’s next big thing in comedy, head to The Espy on Saturday February 2 for the next RAW Comedy 2013 heat. MC’d by steadfast superstars of the Australian comedy scene Joel Creasey and Felicity Ward. Doors 12.30pm. Details of future heats at rawcomedy.com.au

COMEDY AT SPLEEN This Monday, it’s yet another incredible lineup down at your old mate Comedy@Spleen! They’ve always got the best up-and-comers in town, plus special surprise guests dropping in to try out new jokes! And it’s always packed, so get in early! It’s this Monday February 4, 41 Bourke St, in the city, at 8.30pm. It may be free, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door!

CHECKPOINT CHARLIE COMEDY: LUCKY COQ Melbourne’s newest comedy room keeps kicking. Don’t miss out on its return next Tuesday when Melbourne’s best comedians, including Felicity Ward, Karl Chandler, Khaled Khalafalla and more head southside and make it rain at Lucky Coq. Plus The Coq’s famous $4 pizzas. Want more? Free entry. Done. Check in next Tuesday at Lucky Coq. cnr High St and Chapel St. Kicks oﬀ 9pm.

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EMILIE AUTUMN BY ALASDAIR DUNCAN

Emilie Autumn is in the midst of a flurry of activity when I speak to her – she has her phone in one hand and a hot glue gun in the other as she puts the finishing touches on a costume for her next tour. Autumn’s show is a highly visual experience, a mix of candy colours and gothic grotesquery, and this new piece, she says, is her most exciting yet. Her new album, Fight Like A Girl, features a song called Scavenger, about a Victorian-era grave robber, and the costume ties directly into this. “As I sing it, one of my girls will be coming out dressed up in this costume and scaring the shit out of people,” she says. A twisted rat monster, The Scavenger is a bold and highly theatrical take on pure evil – theatricality being a big part of Autumn’s overall aesthetic. “It’s a very frightening song, and I’m very excited about the reaction that the costume is going to get. I’m really hoping that it will give the audience nightmares!” The Scavenger, Autumn tells me, is inspired by Jim Henson’s creatures – especially those from the twisted world of The Dark Crystal, a movie she loved growing up. “That’s still my all-time favourite on the face of the planet!” she says. “Growing up with Jim Henson’s vision really affected me. I owe an awful lot to him, and I think that in terms of my visual sensibility and style, a lot of it comes directly from seeing The Dark Crystal at the age of five, and having my mind totally blown. The Scavenger’s look is based on the Skeksis, the bad guys from that movie.” I ask if we’ll be seeing The Scavenger at Autumn’s Australian shows, and she promises we will. “The whole show is completely different and completely new. It’s a bridge between the shows we’ve done previously and the Broadway-style musical that it will hopefully become. That’s the ultimate goal, and that is in the works right now … the show is the last thing before the musical actually happens.” These days, it seems, young musicians are unafraid to own

up to their love of musical theatre and its influence on their work. Autumn is a life-long devotee of the genre. “The musical has been embraced by the current generation,” she says. “I mean, look at Les Mis. I’ve seen the musical four times; I think it’s the best thing on the face of the planet, and now others do too. I think that’s great in creating an audience and a culture for the kind of musical that I want to write.” Of any musical out there, Autumn connects the most with Les Miserables. “It shows the depth of human character, and has this incredible moral centre,” she says. “That shaped me in a massive way, and I’m not ashamed or afraid to admit the influence of musicals in everything I do, the influence of the great writers and great people that put on these productions before me.” I mention to Autumn that when I was a younger, instead of practicing the piano pieces that I was meant to, I would usually goof off and play the score from Les Mis instead, and she explodes in laughter. “Oh my god, I

SILENT BY JOSH FERGEUS

Irishman Pat Kinevane is coming to Melbourne with his award-winning one-man play, Silent. The writer-star of the production has been praised by The Guardian for the “dazzling theatricality” of his performance, while Silent has collected multiple prestigious awards and been labelled “riveting” and a “must-see if ever there was one” by the British press. High praise indeed. But how does one go about creating an artistic tour-de-force? “It began to smoulder in my head really around 2008,” Kinevane reminisces. “Then it really took off after I had a trip to New York City. I was very depressed, and impressed in a strange way, at the amount of homeless people that were there. It made my first experience of New York City kind of hard, you know? “When I came back to Dublin, Ireland was just coming out of a very wealthy period, but there was still an enormous amount of homeless people on the streets. I was very upset by that. I wanted to challenge that, question it. So that’s how it started, that was the genesis of it.” So what does an experience like that become when it finds its way into a theatrical production? “It’s a story about a man named Tino,” explains Kinevane. “His grandmother was a huge Rudolph Valentino fan. Valentino was of course a massive film star in the ‘20s, and died at the age of 31. He was probably one of the greatest film stars ever, right up to today. Tino has had everything in his life that we would

consider normal. He’s had a teenage sweetheart, married her, had a kid, all the things that he thinks would make him happy. But through all this he feels dreadfully guilty and shameful about something which happened early in his life. His brother was a year older than him and took his own life after numerous attempts because of homophobic bullying in a small town in Ireland.” Tino, tortured with guilt over not standing up for his brother and his sexuality, enters a spiral of depression and dispossession, ending up on the streets of Ireland. “The story really is Tino’s struggle to remain alive on the street. His mental health lets him down, it’s a torturous struggle for him.” Kinevane treats this tragic subject with a mix of hilarity and darkness. Through Tino’s eyes we see the everyday humour of life on the streets. We see how strange the so-called “settled people” are to the disenfranchised, and how strangely we behave. “Tino observes us from below and takes the piss.”

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This is the ﬁrst time Silent has come to Australia, after a stellar season in Europe and America. “We’ve just come back from Los Angeles. Each region has its own particular sense of humour, its own particular sensibilities and eccentricities, but I’m really excited about going to Australia. The Australian sense of humour and my sense of humour are very similar and there’s a huge appreciation of storytelling there. I’m very comforted because I don’t think there’ll be any problems of understanding or interpretations.” A one-man show can be intensely personal, but Kinevane has not had any experience of homelessness other than interactions on the street. “The only experience I had was speaking to a lot of homeless people. I get down on my knees at eye level with people, talk to them and hear their stories. At the time I was thinking about how house prices in Ireland were so ridiculously over the top it was almost impossible for people to buy a house. People were hurting. They were on a knife-edge. They could risk trying to own a home or pay an enormous amount of rent. It was a big mess really that whole period. I was interested in the fact that there were a lot of people, and there are even now, who are one or two salary cheques away from being homeless.” Kinevane’s passion for social justice is what connects him to his subject matter. “I was very passionate about addressing the prejudices of people. Those of us that are lucky enough to have a house and those of us that are lucky enough to rent an apartment – we can be quite ﬂippant at times, we don’t actually count our blessings when it comes to possession. I wanted to challenge my thinking too. Why do I walk past a homeless person

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did the same exact fucking thing!” she says. “Kindred spirits! I’m not a trained pianist, but growing up, I was supposed to take piano lessons to supplement my violin. I instead, I’d play pieces from the score books of Les Mis and Phantom, because I just fucking loved them. That was probably the ﬁrst example of my rebellious streak coming through. I’d play those pieces instead of scales and things that I didn’t really care about.” As for a favourite song, she picks Stars. “It’s an amazing piece of music,” she says, “and yet, at the same time, you’re being let into the psychosis of this character who is so obsessed with pursuing an essentially innocent man and proving his guilt that it becomes his life’s purpose.” The song, for those who haven’t seen the musical, is performed by the policeman Javert, about his life-long pursuit of the escaped convict Jean Valjean. In part, Autumn is drawn to the song because she sees parallels between Javert’s determined outlook and her own. The stars in the song represent certainty, something for which she constantly strives. “I’ve always been afraid of change,

ever since I was small,” she says. “All the good things that have happened to me, all the big changes, have been happy accidents rather than things I’ve sought out. I thought I wanted to be a classical violinist, but I ended up on another path. My god, if I’d stuck with the original plan, I wouldn’t have my fans, otherwise known as my Plague Rats. I wouldn’t tour the world dressing up in monster costumes… What I’m creating and the audience that I have are so much more incredible than anything I could have hoped.” Autumn puts an awful lot of herself into her music and lyrics, but wouldn’t have it any other way. “Music can be very powerful in reminding you that you’re not the only one who thinks a certain way, or who has experienced certain things, and I think I connect with people on that level,” she says. “I respect the audience that I have – they’re rare and creative and wonderful, and I want to keep them for a very long time.” Emilie Autumn plays at The Espy on Friday March 29.

and not look at them sometimes? What can I do to help maintain their dignity? I suppose I also have a latent sort of anger in me about the mental health system in Ireland. We seem to be highly developed when it comes to dealing with matters of the physical body, but the penny hasn’t dropped that it’s perhaps even more vital to look at the medicine of the mind. We need to make sure that people feel safe and they feel nurtured and they feel that if their mind is broken, even temporarily, that there’s hope, that it can be ﬁxed.” Silent will show at the Southbank Theatre, The Lawler from Thursday February 7 until Sunday February 10.

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ENDPAPER SAMPLER

Hand Held Gallery presents a very special exhibition. Entitled Sampler, the exhibition is purely dedicated to the art of tapestry. Curated and created by Mardi Noawk the exhibition unravels the concept of the 21st century tapestry. Through this archaic art-form, Noawk illustrates its ability to tell stories, fashion tales of the modern world through references to popular culture. Noawk pays tribute to the wool itself, blending colours, creating austere pixelated images. Tapestry has been an imbued form of storytelling in European history for centuries. It captured the battle of Hastings, and The Crusades, while ancient tapestry capture the coronation of emperors and kings. So let Noawk tell you the modern story through her tapestry. Sampler will be exhibited at the Hand Held Gallery until Saturday February 16. Admission is free.

Rae & Bennett Gallery will be hosting a very special exhibition this February. Entitled Endpaper, it’s an anthology of the technological advance of photography. Through a series of images, coupled with annotated anecdotes, RMIT graduate Danny Digby explores the evolution of photography, its practice and art-form, since photography’s genesis. Digby pays tribute to Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Resson and Stephen Shore, displaying his intelligence of the subject. It is Digby’s ﬁrst exhibition since his 2012 graduate and will showcase the work that earned him the 2012 RMIT Rae & Bennett Gallery award for Excellence in Contemporary Practice. Endpaper will be displayed at the Rae & Bennett Gallery from Friday February 1 – Friday March 1. Admission is free.

THE LAST OF THE THREE BROTHERS BEA MADDOCK

The Last of the Three Brothers, an exhibition by Korean artist Park Sung Soo, has changed details. The opening night of the exhibition has been moved to Wednesday January 23. Hosted at fortyﬁvedownstairs, The Last of the Three Brothers is artwork that tells a tale. Through illustration, Sung Soo voices the tale of three brothers: one who is physically assertive, another who is headstrong and the demure third one. The brothers go on a journey in which each brother is tested, and their faults revealed. Deputy Lord Major of Melbourne, Peter McMullin, will be the guest speaker for the opening night. McMullin is currently a board member of the National Portrait Gallery and the President of the Geelong Gallery. The Last of the Three Brothers will be exhibited at fortyﬁvedownstairs until Saturday February 2. Admission is free.

STAGEARTXPOSTED FESTIVAL

Melbourne’s dynamic StageArt production company is proud to uncover an incredibly talented lineup for its inaugural StageArtXposed festival. Aiming to turn the spotlight on the high calibre of emerging and innovative Australian artists, the festivals artistic directors Katherine Armstrong and Robbie Carmellotti have expanded its lineup to nine works. Following the P2P (palm to palm) journey of a single dollar coin Girls Uninterrupted will kick things oﬀ with Good Value. Sugartown, Wild Eagles Fly Alone, Rumour Has It – Sixty Minutes Inside Adele, Swan Dive, High As A Kite, Melba and Life of Piaf will follow. Cass Mitchell will wrap up the festivities, with an intimate live performance on Friday February 15. All productions will take to the stage at Chapel oﬀ Chapel, checkout the StageArt website for full lineup details visit stageart.com.au

In an exhibition that will pay tribute to indigenous artwork and exploration, the National Gallery of Victoria will present Bea Maddock, an oeuvre of the artist’s work. Bea Maddock has been acknowledged for her contribution to the Australian art culture with her pieces that explore identity, place and reconciliation. Included in the NGC exhibition will be works from her past exhibitions, including forty pages from Antarctica (1998), a collection of sketches from when Maddock spent time in an Antarctic sickbay after fracturing her leg, and TERRA SPIRITUS... with a darker shade of pale (1993 – 1998). Bea Maddock will be on display from until Sunday July 21 at the National Gallery of Victoria. Admission is free.

CONFINED 5

CONFINED, number ﬁve, is the newest exhibition to open at the St Kilda Town Hall Gallery this month. It’s an exhibition dedicated to the artwork of Indigenous criminals. The project, which has run for four years already, encourages Indigenous Australians who have been incarcerated or are currently imprisoned to create artwork for the exhibition. CONFINED is a key feature to Melbourne’s oldest annual Indigenous cultural festival: Yalukit Wilum Ngargee. CONFINED serves as a therapeutic release for the individuals, giving them the chance to express their ideas and thoughts beyond prison bars. CONFINED 5 will be on display until Friday February 8 at The Gallery in St Kilda Town Hall. Admission is free.

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THE SECRET LIFE OF BIRDS AT CERES

In its new space, Synergy Gallery at Ceres has announced its first official exhibition of the new year, presenting Claire Chatfield’s The Secret Life of Birds. The ornithological exhibition is a collection of ink and watercolour drawings from Chatfield’s trips around Australia, which aim to capture the unique characters of the different birds she encountered. Previously a student of dynamic drawing, Chatfield was the winner of the 2009 Macushla Doyle Memorial Art Prize in Lismore and is currently studying design at Lismore’s Southern Cross University. Aiming to provide low cost, supportive art spaces, Synergy Gallery Inc. moved to CERES late last year. The exhibition will run until Saturday February 2 at Synergy at CERES in the Red Train at CERES environment park. More information can be found at synergygallery.blogspot.com

BUS PROJECTS

BUS Projects will have a new gallery space for the new year, announcing its relocation to a former paint factory in the heart of Collingwood. The new premises, transformed and redesigned by John Wardle Architects lie at 25-31 Rokeby Street Collingwood. Hoping to provide a new centre for Melbourne’s contemporary art community, they will incorporate three gallery spaces, a small screen space and two spaces devoted to studio residencies. In the count down to the space launch in March with exhibition Thank You Very Much, BUS Projects will present its Summer Series program of events, comprising an “Art Bar” in collaboration with Meyers Place Bar and an art market. More information will be released in coming weeks, so keep an eye on busprojects.com.au

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ELIZABETH COOK

BY PATRICK EMERY

“A lot of my peers rebelled against their parents and became musicians. Because my parents were musicians, when I rebelled I went to college and studied accountancy and computer science,” jokes country music singer Elizabeth Cook. “Studying was very structured, which was opposite to what I grew up with. I love maths, so doing accountancy was part of that. I’m a nerd, really!” Cook was born in Florida to parents who had been musicians for much of their lives. Prior to Cook’s birth, her father had also spent time in prison for his part in an illicit and lucrative moonshine operation on the America’s East Coast; while in jail, he decided to trade his criminal activities for a life on the straight and narrow. “He was out of jail by the time I came along,” Cook says. “When I was growing up, he was very honest about what he’d done – that was part of his healing and recovery.” While serving time, Cook’s father obtained a welding certificate – hence the title of Cook’s latest album, Welder. “One of my first bands was called The Model Prisoners,” Cook says. “My daddy learnt to weld, he was in a band while he was in jail, and he had a radio show. He was a really popular member of the prison population, and they even had a party for him when he left,” she enthuses. Cook had started singing occasionally in her parents’ band at a young age, performing in a variety of venues, including the odd licensed establishment “that wasn’t really appropriate for children”. When Cook was nine, her father quit drinking, and playing at bars was no longer on the agenda. At high school, Cook received good grades, and was encouraged by her teachers to go to college – much to the bemusement, and incredulity of her parents. “I graduated

with a grade point average of 3.5, so I got a lot of job offers after I finished college,” Cook says. Eventually Cook settled on a position at accounting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers in Nashville, Tennessee. “That was our dream destination because of the country music scene,” Cook says. “Even though I was working as an accountant, there was a bit of romance involved in moving there.” Once ensconced in the corporate world, Cook was profoundly disappointed. “The accounting job really sucked,” she recalls. “It was oppressive, and there was no room for my quirky self. I would get in trouble for the clothes I was wearing – there was no freedom to express yourself.” Serendipitously, Cook was offered a job writing songs as a staff songwriter for a local firm, proving the perfect catalyst to leave her job at the accounting behemoth. Cook has been quoted in previous media interviews saying she doesn’t enjoy drawing attention to herself. As a singer-songwriter, with a catalogue of songs that – perhaps unintentionally – suggests a window into her social and personal world, it’s a surprising protestation. “I’m not nervous when I go on stage, but I can be uncomfortable with the situation,” Cook says. “But once I’m in the music, it’s okay.” In 2000, Cook made the first of many appearances at the legendary Grand Ole Opry theatre in Nashville. “Playing

the Grand Ole Opry was a big thing for me and my family,” she says. “And getting to do it again was an absolute dream. I’m still giddy that I get to go back and play there pretty well whenever I want.” Since trading her dud accounting job for a career in music, Cook has released five albums, including 2010’s Welder, which featured Don Was in the producer’s chair. While Cook’s songs reflect the mix of pathos, tragedy and humour common to country music, Cook doesn’t necessarily use her music to expose her psychological machinations. “I think all of my music is personal, because if you’re writing from a pure place, it has to be personal,” she says. “I don’t deliberately sit down to write, I just do it. I tend to have inspirations. I write a ton of lyrics in a journal or prose style, and then it’s a separate process to put that into a song.”

Having released her second album, Hey Y’all’, on Warner Brothers in 2002, Cook chose to turn her back on the major label world. “It was my decision to leave, but it may have been just around the corner that they were going to drop me,” Cook says. “I saw where mainstream country music was, and where the label was going, and that wasn’t gratifying to me. Basically, they need people to come and sing dumb songs on the radio. There’s a lot of dollars to be made, but I didn’t want that for my music. I’d just as soon be an accountant in appropriate clothes!” she laughs.

new album out, or that you’re playing a show. We’ve been incredibly lucky, though. For all the hard times, there have been twice as many good times. We’re able to make a living off music – I feel like that’s pretty miraculous, really.” All of this means that when Campbell performs with Stars, he always does so as if his life and career depend on it. “Any time I’m playing in front of a crowd, I want to be just as good as any band they’ve ever seen,” he says. “There’s plenty of other music out there, and if you don’t put on a good show for people, they’ll quite happily move on to

something or someone else. I really don’t ever forget that, and I don’t take our fans for granted.” Unless they work for the Canadian government, I assume? Harper laughs. “I couldn’t possibly say who our typical fan might be,” he says. “I mean, they look like very nice people to be, they look quite sweet, and they obviously love music, but beyond that, I couldn’t speak for them, and I could never say who they are. I guess I can only speak for myself.”

McCauley has played several times with fellow countryhead Justin Townes Earle, most recently at the Winter Wonder Jam in Atlanta, which he describes as an odd experience for the pair of them. “It was pretty weird,” he chuckles. “It was in the middle of like, a shopping mall. It was not exactly a cool place to play, but you know, it was a good crowd. The crowd was great, but the environment, on the other hand... not what I’m used to, not what Justin’s used to. But they actually put us up, for our dressing room, in a restaurant that closed down.” It is a weirdly paradoxical scene, which is why it’s surprising McCauley seems to have something of a fascination with celebrity. He details meeting “gentleman” Billy Bob Thornton, whom he encountered at a ZZ Top show which Deer Tick opened, and it turns out there’s a slowburning project going on. “He was actually awesome, he was [instrumental] in us not getting removed from the backstage area after ZZ Top played; it was pretty funny,” he says. “He gave me a call the other day, just to say hey, and he offered us an invitation to go record at his studio in LA. I actually started talking with him because I saw his

band play a few years ago. He did a cool video thing for us: over the past few years we’ve been collecting video clips of celebrities talking shit about the band. You know, ‘Fuck Deer Tick’. When we’ve got a few more we’ll put it all together. We’ve had Dave the lead singer of Flogging Molly, we’ve had David Cross, Kirsten Dunst. It’s anti-promotional video,” he laughs. McCauley is also on a mission to get the attention of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, through Twitter. He hasn’t had much luck at this stage. “He’ll understand one day,” he says mock-sagely. “For now all I can do is just continually tweet, I think. It’s kind of funny, I’ve actually made some cool [connections] through Twitter. I thought Twitter was just kind of a bunch of BS until I actually started using it. You can actually talk to people that otherwise you wouldn’t be able to I guess. Like Adam Richmond, the Man Versus Food guy; we’ve got a little bit of a rapport on Twitter. And I ended up meeting Vanessa Carlton through Twitter.” Stay tuned for that anti-promotional video. DEER TICK play the Northcote Social Club on Saturday February 9 and Sunday February 10, with Two Gallants.

ELIZABETH COOK plays Northcote Social Club on Friday February 1 and then performs two shows in opening for Justin Townes Earle at the Corner Hotel on Sunday February 3 (1.30pm and 8pm).

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Torquil Campbell, of Montreal indie rockers Stars, may seem like the shy and retiring type on first inspection – but don’t let exteriors fool you. You don’t want to cross him, or you might end up on the receiving end of a hilarious and profane tirade – something one Andrew MacDougall has just discovered first-hand. Mr MacDougall works as Director of Communications for Canada’s conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. A firebrand leftie, Campbell is no fan of his country’s government at the best of times, but when the hapless MacDougall took to Twitter to mention that he quite enjoyed the newest Stars album, Campbell saw red. He was quick to reply, asking MacDougall if he would kindly stop listening to the band’s music until he quit working for the ‘sociopath who is ruining this country’. A heated exchange ensued, in which Campbell hurled a variety of colourful insults. With the incident still fresh in his mind, he has no regrets. “I think that part of my job, being in a band, is to be provocative and irritating and throw shit at fascists,” he says. “It’s all about fighting those who are abusing their power, and telling them to go fuck themselves.” Once your music is out there in the public arena, of course, it is impossible to control who listens and how – although Campbell still bristles. “Some people have the ability to completely divorce their personal morality from their public morality,” he says. “I think that’s one of the hallmarks of being a deeply right wing person: the ability to separate those two things. You can be a really lovely person inside your family, and in your personal interactions with people…

I know a lot of people in my family who are very kind and very sweet. It baffles me, though, how you can be kind in your personal life, and yet endorse ideas that leave out the most vulnerable people in our society; endorse lying and cheating and policies that are incredibly destructive to the environment.” He pauses, mid-tirade, to consider this. “In my opinion, the fact that a guy like this can support a government who do such terrible things, and then say that he enjoys sitting down with a glass of wine and listening to our music, points to a sort of sociopathic personality disorder.” Stars have been making music together for more than a decade now, and over the course of seven albums have become one of Canada’s most beloved indie rock bands. Even so, Campbell still worries about their precarious position. When our discussion turns to matters musical, he admits that, even as an established band, it can be difficult to get and hold people’s attention when there is so much other new music to choose from. “We’ve been around for a long time, which is both a good thing and a bad thing,” he says. “We have an established fan base, but at the same time, the focus of a lot of music media is on what’s new, on discovering the latest stuff, so as an older band it can be difficult finding ways to let people know that you have a

STARS play The Corner Hotel on Sunday February 10.

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John McCauley sounds a lot like Sam Rockwell, in that slightly lethargic manner of speaking which always sounds like it’s coming out of a half-smiling mouth, and dipping into lazy pockets of farmboy laughter every now and then. Captain of the excellent alt-country act Deer Tick, McCauley is bringing his band of Rhode Islanders to Australia to tour their fourth LP, Divine Providence. “The title of it came from the name of a song that we didn’t release, which is a very blasphemous anti-Christian metal song that we did,” he laughs. “You know, it was kind of tongue-in-cheek. But just in a way it kind of seemed appropriate because it’s got the religious thing to it and then the Providence thing – you know, our hometown and everything.” Deer Tick came together in Providence, Rhode Island in 2004, initially as a solo project of McCauley’s. Through a series of bandmember alterations (McCauley remaining constant throughout), the group has to date released four albums, three regular EPs and two split EPs. (You’ll be pleased to know that the aforementioned antiChristian track will be shortly released on another split 7”.) The latest album has generally been seen as sitting closer to the punk rock camp than previous more folk-indie efforts, and McCauley meanders contemplatively with his analysis of that consensus. “I think it’s been fairly the same with all our records; we are pretty well-balanced between kind of the harder rock stuff that we do and the folkier stuff. I guess there’s always just been a little bit more folkier stuff on the records, and this one we just kind of flipped it around and Beat Magazine Page 34

did a little more rockin’ stuff,” he pauses and then adds, “but I mean we’ve always been capable of doing both. I just think people were a little surprised we did so much of it on this record, you know.” The five-piece are also well known for their wildfire Nirvana cover sets, which they perform under the banner of Deervana. The tribute shows don’t happen often but they are always incredibly well received, even without the traditional instrument lineup. “It just wouldn’t work to have keyboards in Nirvana,” McCauley says. “Our keyboard player just plays another guitar. So it’s three guitars, bass and drums. And it’s fucking loud,” he laughs. The admiration for the ‘90s grunge icons is deeply set, with several videos online of McCauley playing Nirvana tracks on his acoustic in leafy surrounds. “My friend Carter runs this blog in LA called Rollo & Grady, and he does these video shoots now and then in one of the parks there. He usually does them in the cave that was used as an old bat cave in the Batman TV show,” he says. McCauley’s rendition of All Apologies in particular highlights the singer’s innate ache and rasp, but with an unmistakable folk twang that shows the colour of his roots.

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Kruse & Nuernberg: Lovers & Fighters

Germany based DJ and producer duo Kruse & Nuernberg have a habit of creating some of the most interesting deep house. Creating remixes for the likes of Dennis Ferrer and Groove Armada would be amongst a few of their highlights along with the success of their Lovers ‘n Fighters EP. K&N are at no risk of becoming complacent with their dedication to spending five days a week in the studio, and you are sure to hear some unreleased gems at this day rave. It’s all happening at the Rooftop Garden Bar, Colonial Hotel on Saturday February 9 from 2pm.

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The Breakfast Club Birthday: M.A.N.D.Y. & Maxxi Soundsystem

The Breakfast Club have hosted a multitude of amazing artists since their first party with Danny Daze, including Tiefschwarz, Crazy P, and Catz ‘n Dogz to name but a few. Now they’re bringing a double bill of which I’m sure will bring a double dose of happiness. To start things off for 2013, co-owners of Get Physical Records and producers of quintessentially classic techno, M.A.N.D.Y are coming together with Maxxi Soundsystem; whose praises are sung loudly by taste makers like Annie Mac, Pete Tong through to Tim Sweeney. With New Guernica receiving renovations set to be revealed on the night, it promises to be a birthday that will be spoken of for years to come. It’s all happening on Friday February 8 at New Guernica.

The Demigodz: Apathy & Celph Titled

Julio Bashmore And T.Williams: House Heaven

Two of the best crews are joining forces to bring two of the best artists in electronic music. Julio Bashmore is one of the freshest talents coming out of Bristol, moving away from the bass heavy hotbox he grew up in to pursue his first love, house. His most recent work on labels like Dirty Bird, Soul Motive and Ten Thousand Yen, not to mention Battle For Middle You and instant classic Au Seve proving he isn’t just a flavour of the month. Joining Bashmore will be T. Williams whose innovative take on house will surely make a match made in house heaven. Confronting genre limitation on his weekly Rinse FM show and mastering the art of moving a dancefloor, T.Williams is a name you should get familiar with and quickly. The Operative and Novel present Julio Bashmore and T.Williams at Brown Alley on Friday March 15.

Rebel Rave: Without A Cause

After last year’s spontaneous stint at the Metro which went off without a hitch with a mere 24 hours notice, Rebel Rave returns – this time with a little more time on their hands. DJ, label owner and now musician Damian Lazarus is headlining what is set to be a crazy night. Along with Lazarus, Subb-an (Live), Shaun Reeves, Francesca Lombardo and Brohn, all heroes in their own right, will fill Brown Alley with sounds that will be old and some that are yet to be encountered. Come and rave on Sunday February 17 at Brown Alley.

XXYYXX: Teenage Riot

In an era rife with producers in their early teens, XXYYXX (real name Marcel Everett), stands out with his exquisite sampling and songs that speak to a deeper, more mature listener. With a cult following on the internet and the release of an LP in 2012, Marcel is opening up a realm in music that is both fresh and innovative yet all from the humbleness of his bedroom. Songs that speak to the human condition; loneliness, love and heartbreak are all etched artfully in his music. Catch XXYYXX at The Liberty Social on Friday March 22.

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The Demigodz, the super crew made up of Apathy and Celph Titled, are embarking on a national tour and have Melbourne in their sights. Made up of Apathy, whose introduction to the world on Jedi Mind Tricks’ Psycho-Social LP is only matched by Celph Titled, making his debut with Equilibrium and Walkmen. Sparking the attention of fans and music critics alike since their first appearance in the late ‘90s, Celph Titled and Apathy’s solo careers have exploded. Successful solo albums, group projects with Jedi Mind Tricks/Army of the Pharaohs, Linkin Park/Fort Minor, Get Busy Committee, Buckwild of D.I.T.C. and their touring reach has crossed international regions from Canada, Europe and here in Australia. Devout and very patient fans will be excited to hear that after ten years, Ap and Celph are finally releasing new music with the focus now on their new album KILLmatic which is set to be released March 5. Catch The Demigodz at Prince on Friday March 29.

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DJ Profile: Francis Inferno Orchestra

Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up? Panorama Bar. Describe yourself using the title of a song. One Tony Lockett. What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child? Growing up with so many baseball movies coming out as a child, I thought playing the game would be magical. It’s not, it’s terrible. The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? Watching three full glasses of rum and Coke being poured into my friends record bag. What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat? Anything under this American ‘EDM’ banner is pretty bloody woeful, especially repeated. What’s the most played record in your bag? It’s hard to put it down to one, probably something by Soundstream. What question would you like to ask an omniscient, all-knowing being before you die? Can I have a pair of Google Glasses already? If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead? A weatherman. When and where is your next gig? The Bottom End/Survivor on Saturday February 2 as part of residency every second Saturday, Funf pres. Smallpeople boat party on Saturday March 16 and also a European tour midyear.

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Daniel Bortz: We’ve Run Out Of Bortz License Plates

Born in Berlin, brought up in Bavaria and now producing deep beats, grooves and tracks in Augsburg, Daniel Bortz is now on his way to Melbourne to share his thirst for reinventing music and sampling R&B in ways others would never have thought to do. While bootlegs have been a surefire way to kill one’s career, Bortz has taken the risk and ran with it, whether it be ‘80s new wave, ‘90s West Coast hip hop, disco or dance. With an infallible knack for reducing things to the simplest of forms, he prides himself in his ability to read a crowd and to get them dancing whether it be to Whitney Houston or Phoenix. Catch him at Revolver for the Summer Series on Sunday March 24.

Sound Lounge Series: Ali B, Son Of Kick And Flagrant

Returning by popular demand and following the success of the Sound Lounge series held in the Hamer Hall foyer last year, Arts Centre Melbourne present Sound Lounge Nuit Blanche as part of the White Night Melbourne program. The event will continue the Sound Lounge story while embracing its original philosophy to offer a cross genre musical experience with a laidback atmosphere in a very unique Melbourne space. The DJs set to perform include the UK’s Ali B, countryman Son of Kick, as well as a DJ Flagrant VJ show joined by Heavy Innit DJ team AFFIKS & A13 peddling their signature mix of dubstep and grime. Sound Lounge Nuit Blanche is on at Hamer Hall’s Foyer on Saturday February 23.

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Panama are set to head on their first national tour this year on the back of their It’s Not Over EP released on Future Classic. A sound that brews up nostalgia, Panama are responsible for euphoric pop flavoured by the ‘80s. The band recorded their EP in LA with super producer, Eric Broucek of DFA Records fame as well as getting Holy Ghost/Hot Chip drummer Jimmy Orso to lend a hand. After a hugely successful 2012, where they received the all important tick of approval from Hype Machine with a #1 spot, big things are to be expected from the boys. Head down to see what all the hype is about at the Workers Club on Thursday February 14 with support from City Calm Down, Collarbones and more.

Hermitude fall nothing short of being one of the most exciting Australian acts right now. They already have a whirlwind career under their belts, from releasing their very first EP limited to 300 copies to taking out the FBi SMAC Awards for Best Live Music Act and Best Song. Having sold out all their dates in record pace on their Villain Tour, the duo have added a third and final show to their schedule. They might as well be dubbed the busiest act while they’re at it, squeezing in performances at Earth Frequency Festival, UTS O Fest and Big Pineapple Festival. If you’re itching to see them perform, you better be fast with the final round of tickets selling fast. Get a glimpse of Hermitude at the Corner Hotel on Thursday February 21.

DJs/live acts playing: DJ Matt Rad Sell it to us: Drown your single sorrows with your single opposite in the lead up to Valentine’s Day and see how the night unfolds. The rules: ladies bring that man to whom you’ll never say ‘I do’, and guys bring the date who’s a really good mate. Wallet damage: $35 per head includes canapés, oyster shooters and a welcome cocktail. Live DJ and drink specials until 1am. Where: The Botanical, 169 Domain Rd, South Yarra. When: Saturday February 9, 8pm.

Party Profile: Cymatic Society

It sounds like: A kaleidoscopic mash of funk filled dub hoppy glitchtasticness. DJs/live acts playing: Dysphemic, Wasabi, U-Wish, SK, Zuluflow, Missile, Kymaera, Alt Esc Del (visuals). Three records that’ll rock the floor: Dysphemic and Miss Eliza – Scripture Sickness, Wasabi – Persian Paradise, Elissim – Eye C And one that you’d rather die than play: Riff Raff – Sleepless in Seattle Sell it to us: This night don’t needa be sold, it’s absolutely free! And a massive mix of styles crammed into one night. Many original productions being played, along with live MCs and turntablism, all accompanied by Alt Esc Del’s amazing visuals. Eight incredible acts for the price of none! The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Having your head split sideways from the aural mastery of Dysphemic. Crowd specs: B-boys and B-girls! No heels or loafers. Wallet damage: Free! Where: Loop, 23 Meyers Place. When: Saturday February 2 (10pm-late). Cymatic Society is a monthly event running at Loop the first Saturday of every month.

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“I don’t want some kid to listen to those old tracks and then wanna go and try drugs. That was never the intention, I was just writing about my life; I wasn’t picturing a 13-yearold kid listening to those songs.”

NO REST: BATTLE AND CURSE Aussie hip hop has always played it fairly safe. The sound itself, within the mainstream anyway, has become more and more pop-driven and there has never been any Biggie Smalls-type slayings or senseless violence – until recently. An MC by the name of Kerser appeared a few years back armed with a street sound, bitterly humoured lyricism and a truckload of baggage and it seemed as though things were changing. Hell, there was even a drive-by shooting at Ferntree Gully Hotel last May with Kerser the target but luckily, they had a shitty aim. Despite the image that precedes him, and the lyrical content of his music that occasionally pushes beyond the edge of good taste, the Sydney-based MC’s latest album No Rest For The Sickest is doing surprisingly well on the ARIA chart, while topping the ARIA Urban chart. Even Kerser is shocked at the commercial success his latest offering has enjoyed, and under any hardtalking boasting lays a young man in love with music and just trying to get by. It all started when Kerser was 11-years-old in Campbelltown (not exactly the Sydney suburb they put on postcards), rapping along to Tupac who eventually moved from idol to influence. It wasn’t long before Kerser figured out he could write his own raps and by 18 he was recording his own songs. “I think a lot of Australian hip hop artists had that whole happy, BBQ vibe which was good for its time,” Kerser says. “A couple of years ago I was really into it but I think from the YouTube views I’ve got and other stuff like that, it’s clear people are getting sick of it all.” This street versus suburban hip hop war culminated

in a rap battle with none other than bad-guy-turnedgood rapper 360, generating an insane amount of YouTube views. Debate still rages over who won but the Kerser camp considered it a clear win by knockout. It was a great publicity stunt for two rappers that were about to embark on respective national tours and while the fans were suckered in by the venom of it all, the shit talk was hilarious. 360 got it going before the battle saying, “I’m gonna fuckin’ destroy the c*#t, let’s be honest.” While Kerser promptly responded after the battle saying, “I didn’t like some of his [360] tactics in the battle – he twisted the truth a lot and I thought that was a bit dirty.” Although it’s a far cry from The Waitress Song, it seems like everyone’s twisting the truth here. With his growing success has come some genuine hate (and the aforementioned bullets) but Kerser is dealing with it all as best he can. Someone was always going to take the eastside/westside shit seriously – angry young punks. Somehow though, Kerser’s a really humble guy, more humble than might be expected as he paves the way in a style of hip hop that is usually full of boastfulness and conceit, and seems to be putting his career ﬁrst. “I do get some shit on Facebook and my YouTube channel but as soon as it appears I have people working on those pages that just delete and block the users straight away,” he says. “They can go and have their say on blogs and other places but these are my spaces for my fans so they can enjoy what I do. We try to eliminate it but honestly, I don’t let it get to me and you can’t stop it. Plus the more things grow for me COVER STORY

the more it’s gonna happen, I know that.” The mention of having “people” begs the question of whether Kerser is being watered-down or censored in some way as his profile grows. After all, someone did try to shoot him and even if it was all for show, Kerser’s profile is continuing to grow and with it, his economic value. People have a stake in him now. “Not at all,” he says. “If I sensed that anyone was trying to curb me or change me I wouldn’t be a part of what they’re doing. A big part of joining Obese was that I keep total creative control and I think things would be quite obvious to my fans quite quickly if I had a team telling me what to say or do.” While gimmicky, offensive raps have always been around, Kerser at least acknowledges that some of what he says is simply to rile people up. “If I’m taking shots at other rappers or other music artists, that’s never personal, that’s just a tactic to turn a lot of heads, ya know?” he admits. “But when it comes to my personal stories, I never make stuff up to get attention; if I spill my heart it’s all true. I’m prepared for most stuff to come out about me and I write about a lot of it but I’d prefer, when I talk about my upbringing, that my mum and dad aren’t looked down on. They tried to do the best they could and I want to keep my family life separate to the media.” Even though Kerser stands by his opinions, he has grown up over the past few years and admits that he has a few regrets. “On the first album there was a lot of drug talk and party talk and funny shit but now when I write a track I actually think about what I’m gonna say,” he says. “I’m still gonna do the comedy

tracks but I’ll make it clear it’s a joke. I’m taking a more mature approach to things, I think things out and there’s more pressure. I get comments every day from young kids anywhere from the age of even 13 telling me they look up to me and I don’t want some kid to listen to those old tracks and then wanna go and try drugs. That was never the intention, I was just writing about my life; I wasn’t picturing a 13-year-old kid listening to those songs.” Kerser predicts that as the face and tone of Aussie hip hop changes, the violence that has plagued so much of the US scene might find its way here. “Those people that were making that BBQ, party music had a different upbringing to the people that are writing this gutter, street sound,” he says. “People are just expressing what’s really going on in their lives so there’s nothing wrong with that but there’s a street essence to it all where you’re watching you’re back. This style of music isn’t about portraying an image but you’re talking about real stuff and it brings out that street mentality in other crews where they’re like ‘Fuck that and fuck you’. I think as this grows there’s gonna be a lot more violence that’s for sure. Once I’m on stage though, I’m not thinking of that shit at all. I’m just so pumped to be there.” Krissi Weiss Kerser [AUS] plays The Hi-Fi on Saturday February 9 with an under 18s show at 3pm and 18+ at 7.30pm. No Rest For The Sickest is out now through Obese Records.

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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

Cymatic Society returns with a monster lineup to send your senses into harmonic bliss. This free monthly event returns to Loop featuring the incredible sounds of Dysphemic, Wasabi, U-Wish, SK, Kymaera, Missile, Zuluflow and Alt Esc Del on visuals. 10pm until late. Loop, 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne

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Whether it’s a DJ on the one’s and two’s side by side with a drummer hitting the skins while jammin’ away into the night, or soul singers gracing our humble stage performing Erykah Badu tribute songs over wonky future beats, or hip hop DJs cuttin’ up Serato records, we got the mid-week party. You know you wanna. Free entry Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

Dazzling disco lights? Check. Big dance floor? Check. Stage to dance on? Check. Music all night long? Check. We got Melbourne’s finest purveyors of music. You’ll get funk, boogie, disco, house, Latin, afro, techno and much more. Lounge-Club happens every weekend from 10PM and it’s free entry. Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

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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

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

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

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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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THURSDAY31ST BIMBO THURSDAYS 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

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

SOUND EMPIRE 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

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

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

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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

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

GET LIT Get Lit every Friday night with Mugen & D’fro slicin’ n dicin’ over jiggy beats and underground anthems. Bounce to the ounce, and get yer “drank” on! And kids remember one thang, in the wise words of Lady: this pussy be yankin! YOLO. Free entry. From 10pm. Lounge, 243 Swanston Street, Melbourne

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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

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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

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, Fitzro

Drown your single sorrows with your single opposite in the lead up to Valentine’s Day and see how the night unfolds. The rules: Ladies bring that man to who you’ll never say ‘I do’, and guys bring a date who’s only a really good mate.

SATURDAY 9TH FEBRUARY, 8PM AT THE BOTANICAL $35 per head includes canapés, oyster shooters and a welcome cocktail. Live DJ and drink specials until 1am.

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

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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

MONDAY4TH 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

TUESDAY5TH 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

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THE ART OF: SOCIAL ACTIVITY With the third volume of his popular The Art Of compilation already released, legendary Dutch electronic DJ Marco V is happy with the results. “I’ve done a lot of mix compilations in the past, but on this one I really wanted to show the people a reflection of my DJ set — the energetic stuff that I always play in the clubs,” he says. With remixes of artists like Fedde le Grand, Digitalism and Punk Ninja — to name just a few — it’s definitely a diverse collection of tunes. “There’s a few older tracks, and a lot of new stuff on it, but still, it’s a lot of music I play in almost every set, so it gives a good reflection of what you can expect when you see a Marco V DJ set.” With modern technology saturating the DJ landscape these days, showing diversity and building a brand is important for a DJ’s survival. “A mix compilation is a big help,” agrees Marco. “I think it’s important, because people like to link a DJ to a track, a concept or to a label, also label nights. It’s really the thing of the moment right now so yeah, I think it’s really important to have a link to a few things.” Social media is important to him as well. “The thing that I like about social media is that it’s so direct, you’re so connected now with people that like your music. Before you had to go through management and everything — you’re so connected now with people that like your music. It’s so easy, but I don’t like to spit out a lot of information. I’m in the studio you know.” Marco is a big fan of his Australian supporters too. “In general, the crowds in Australia are one of the best in the world,” he says. “They’re passionate about the music. When I play my own tracks, you already get a good crowd reaction

because they know them. That’s great as a DJ, because you don’t have to play the ‘same old same old’ stuff. It’s not always about the big tunes in Australia, it’s an educated crowd.” It’s probably just as well that we’re musically educated, with more music than ever before being mashed together. “I don’t know if there is a tech-trance scene at the moment, or a trance scene. At the moment the whole music scene is so blended — what’s called house is so trancy at the moment. Even the trance productions are more house influenced.” But that ever-diversifying nature of music is something that suits Marco. “It’s something that I always liked. If you’ve been longer in the scene, you like more diverse stuff. It’s also a reflection of my mix CDs and my DJing; it’s about every style of music. That’s what I like.” Clearly at ease with what he’s achieved, Marco will remain busy throughout 2013. “I got a couple of new tracks, some vocal tracks, some collaborations. I get a lot of inspiration when I’m DJing. My DJ sets are my biggest inspiration for producing music.” And that’s why his The Art Of releases are doing well, because essentially, it’s him doing what he loves most. “It’s fantastic as a DJ, when you play one of your own tracks and people go nuts — it’s what you work for in the studio.” Carlos Hurworth Marco V Presents T.A.O Vol 3 is out now through Central Station Records.

Canadian school boys DC (Dylan Mamid) and Hook (Zach Rapp-Rovan) used to wile away the hours making old school hip hop beats in Mamid’s parents’ garage under the moniker Mass Productions, releasing one album, entitled Fresh Beets. Ten years on and they’ve discarded hip hop for a new, bass heavy sound and a new name – Zeds Dead – a reference to Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. “We were kind of just making one style of hip hop more or less, really sampled bass, old school hip hop,” Mamid explains from his Toronto studio. “Then it just got to a point where we started listening to all sorts of different types of music. We were huge hip hop heads but then we started getting into drum and bass and electro house and wanted to start doing different electronic stuff that was so different to the hip hop stuff that we’d been doing that we thought we’d create a group that could use all of those different sounds.” This change in direction has seen the duo dropping some twisted, heavy bass, messing with glitchy sounds and turning up the BPMs in a way that would most easily be referred to as dubstep, but to Mamid the idea of genre is redundant. “We are definitely most often classed as dubstep and we are definitely lumped in with the dubstep scene and culture and that makes sense,” he concurs. “Our first tracks that were really big and popular were dubstep but for us, it just happened to be one place along the way where we were just happening to make dubstep. And obviously we still make it, but when we started Zeds Dead, we never had the intention of just making dubstep. It’s kinda just a musical journey, we keep moving. And it’s funny because we started the group because we wanted to be a group that did different stuff, not just one style of hip hop, and now it’s like we are almost coming back to making hip hop as Zeds Dead with the skills that we have learned through becoming electronic music producers and the maturity that’s come along with it.” Another thing the pair have developed since forming Zeds

Dead in 2008 is Bassmentality, a club they founded with The Killabits that started as a string of underground parties, which later turned into a force to be reckoned with. “We had just started DJing and were just starting to get a buzz around Toronto and wanted a place to play where we didn’t have to play dirt cheap for promoters at shitty parties, where we could control the environment and hone our skills. We made it free – we just wanted to have a good party, it wasn’t about wanting to be promoted and make money, we just wanted to become comfortable with rocking crowds. And it sort of just grew along with the scene – and as Zeds Dead grew, so did Bassmentality. It was cool and before we knew it, it got super crazy.” ‘Super crazy’ is a term that could easily be referred to their new instrumental EP Hot Sauce, out last week on Mad Decent, full to the brim with jarring breaks and electro-disco vibe. “It’s the most experimental EP that we’ve done so far. We almost called it The Experiment In Bass because there’s different kinds of sounds that we’re messing with. Three of the five tracks in there, I wouldn’t know how to classify or put a genre name on. Some of it is somewhat similar to our last EP, particularly Rumble in the Jungle. There’s some 135BPMs and weird sort of house inspired tracks, but apart from that I can’t really classify it.” Zeds Dead are coming to Australia for the Future Music Festival tour, where Mamid says he and his partner in crime will be getting hard and dark with their live set. “It’s really intense with lots of energy. It definitely errs on the harder side of things, we like to mix it up a lot and throw as many different genres in there and basically just rock out and have a party.” Jo Campbell Zeds Dead [CAN] play Future Music Festival at Flemington Racecourse on Sunday March 10 alongside The Prodigy [UK], Dizzee Rascal [UK], PSY [KOR] and more.

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LATE NIGHT TALES Friendly Fires The latest edition of the ultimate ‘after-hours’ compilation comes from UK 3-piece, Friendly Fires. Reaching deep into their record collection to compile the ultimate late-night soundtrack, the CD features tracks from the likes of SBTRKT, Junior Boys, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Dennis Parker and Iron Galaxy, as well as an exclusive track from Friendly Fires themselves. “A Must Have” Mixmag “The Rolls Royce of Compilations” GQ Magazine

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THE ART OF Marco V

The latest instalment of Marco V’s “T.A.O (The Art Of)” has arrived. One of the most inventive, diverse and creative minds in electronic music, Marco V traverses techno to trance, progressive to tech-house. T.A.O Vol 3 is hand-picked by one of the most sought after DJ/producers working today. Features exclusive mixes from Marco V, Fedde Le Grand, Zedd, Hard Rock Sofa, “Chop Suey sounds like an album from another universe – Digitalism & Hook n Sling. and maybe it is” –David Quantick. The pioneer of the bootleg, cut-up mixing and the master of the audio-visual DJ show, DJ Yoda’s star-studded debut album ‘Chop Suey’ presents hip hop and dance in his trademark fashion. Features appearances from Boy George, Man Like Me, Scroobious Pip and Action Bronson.

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VONYC SESSIONS 2012 Paul Van Dyk Featuring masterpieces from renowned producers (including Arty, Cosmic Gate & Jes, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Judge Jules, Alex MORPH & Lisa Lashes), VONYC Sessions 2012 combines the best of Paul van Dyk’s weekly worldwide radio show of the same name with an eye cast firmly into the future.

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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

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 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

We celebrate everything that has made Light at Red Love, kicking off with our after work drinks session from 4pm. Our DJ lineup includes each and every one of the Daddy Macks who have helped lead Light into our 5th running year of old school R&B. Harvey Yeah, Ripz, TMC and Stel Kar locking down that Old School Flava with

guest appearances by G.A.K. & The Seminar of Funk and Nick K. It’s all happening this Friday as we celebrate five years of doing our do and bringing that Red Love! 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

SATURDAY2ND 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

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 Australia’s newest and favourite R&B DJs, 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

GAPPY RANKS Gappy Ranks, the UK’s number 1 reggae/dancehall export, will be hitting our fine shores with the I Love Dancehall crew. Gappy Ranks was born and raised in Harlesden to Caribbean parents. Early support and recognition of this rising young talent (who had made his studio debut with the Ruff Cutt Band aged 11), came from local sound system operators and pirate radio stations and soon led to his link up and studio baptism with Stonebridge stars Suncycle Crew. Since then, Gappy Ranks has become an international star following the release of Mountain Top, Heaven In Her Eyes and Stinkin Rich. Laundry Bar, 50 Johnston St, Fitzroy

DJ DON Q TRAP MUSIC: DETROIT WARRIOR Hailing from D town – or Detroit if you prefer, DJ Don Q is bouncing back from a gig he had last night. “I’m recovering from it; there was a lot of ladies and a lot of spirits flowing! I got the chance to play a bunch of joints I haven’t played in a while too so overall I would say it was a great night. The crowd was very receptive as well.” While his hometown can be a little hardcore with all the violence and crime he suggests is going on, he admits for him it was easy avoiding getting caught up in it all. “Sports and music were my only alternatives,” he professes. “I did both, but the music was calling me! Detroit is basically a music mecca – all sorts of genres can be heard all over the city – and sometimes at the same venue! I grew up around a bunch of bars so I heard nothing but great music pouring out of these places. I would walk around the house singing Kiss or listening to John Lennon records. Even seeing hardcore drug dealers riding around in expensive cars playing house or techno music wasn’t considered odd or strange.” He even reminisces for a moment about how even his mom would throw parties and get togethers where he would DJ. “I would put on the songs and take a look to see what was going on. If the people who were there started dancing, I would get excited and be like, ‘Yeah, I’m doing a good job!’” And years later, the tour DJ for super group D12 is moving onwards and upwards, embracing the scene in the only way he knows how. Studio-wise, the man claims he is keeping things flowing as well, but not so much that things become routine and boring. “I try to spice it up with some cuts and scratches or a slick remix. And now that I’m making beats, I try to incorporate an exclusive song or remix that can shake things up when I play. That’s the whole thing with hip hop – it’s just great music! “The first time you hear hip hop it steals your soul. Your face gets all screwed up and you lose control of your arms and neck and you just start nodding your head to the beat. It’s uncontrollable! You have to have it all the time – like a drug! So you experiment with all four-corners of hip hop – whether it’s rapping, being a B-boy and break dancing or graffiti and being a DJ. I suck at rapping – even if Eminen wrote me a

rhyme and Dr. Dre made the beat, I would still suck – that’s how bad I am!” At least he’s honest. Musically, Don Q is playing some sets of pretty diverse music at the moment – and rather enjoying it. “Man, the world wants to move these days, so there is a lot of dance music but the crowds also love a bit of hip hop – guys like Big Sean, Young Jeezy, 2 Chainz, Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky. The scene in Detroit here too is big so playing songs from within the large local scene is a must as well. For me personally, I’ve fallen in love with trap music. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a cross between dubstep, EDM, and south style beats. I’ve even started producing it myself.” And with that, he explains that it isn’t impossible for the kids to kick start a career in music. It’s about determination and commitment. “You have to practice and practice,” he says. “Study your craft and learn from the best. When I was 16 I used to sneak into clubs and just stand at the DJ booth all night long! No girls, no dancing, just watching the DJ! I would go home and mimic the set until I had it down. Then I would make changes to certain cuts to fit what I liked. I was sincerely dedicated to being good at being a DJ. I think that’s the attitude you need if you want to succeed in any form of music.” Finally, he shares a few words on his return to Australia for another round of tour dates, this time minus Eminen and D12. “I had a ball last time I was out there. But don’t expect things to be different this time,” he chimes. “Expect to dance and have fun; I don’t know about you, but I’m coming to party! There is a lot of great music out there and I want to make sure people experience as much of it as time will allow – all while drinking a beer as well!” RK DJ Don Q [USA] plays Chelsea Heights Hotel on Friday February 1 alongside Yung Warriors [AUS] and The Bandit [AUS].

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WEEZER ON THE HARBOUR

While in Sydney, Weezer pumped out a playlist of their favourite songs for Channel [V]’s Island Parties at the Harbour.

DOC, DOBE, LINDY, GET OZ DAY HONOURS

The Angels’ singer Doc Neeson, Bushwackers member and educator Dobe Newton, and Sydney drummer, artist rights activist and national Support Act Ltd coordinator Lindy Morrison (Go-Betweens) were among those given the Order of Australia Medal (OAM). “First my cousin Ned Kelly gets a decent burial. Next, I get this remarkable award. What a week for the Irish,” Neeson told the Sydney Morning Herald from hospital where he is battling an aggressive brain tumor. Aside from his performing and lecturing at NMIT and RMIT, Dobe Newton was a board member of the Country Music Association of Australia and planned the setting up of the Australian College of Country Music. Veteran community radio presenter Ray Hazen, who began the Southern Community Broadcasting Association, was also honoured.

PPCA ANNOUNCES RECORD $29M DISTRIBUTION The PPCA (Phonographic Performance Company of Australia) which collects public performance fees for recording artists and labels, distributed $29 million to them in 2012. This set a new record, being an increase of 13% from the $25.6 million in 2011. It collects public performance fees for recording artists and labels, from 55,000 businesses around Australia, and from radio, TV and webcasters. The amount of PPCA licensors increased to 1200 last year.

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A Day on the Green celebrated its 300 show on Australia Day – with a rollicking, swaying, fist pumping set from Elvis Costello & The Imposters, at Rochford Wines in Yarra Valley. The bill included The Sunnyboys, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Tex Perkins and Stephen Cummings. The Costello set was totally different to the one at the Palais the night before. It was a fast paced 75-minute 18-song “hits” set ranging from 1977’s My Aim Is True to last year’s In Motion Pictures. Watching The Detectives morphed into a meet and greet when Elvis came down offstage amongst the audience to perform an awesome God Give Me Strength which certainly converted the non-believers. The faves Oliver’s Army, Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down, Everyday I Write The Book, Pump It Up and Alison were as intoxicating as the wine. Only drag was that with the Falcons on the bill, it would have been nice if he’d done Joe Camilleri’s So Young: years back, Costello encored with it each night during a world tour. But he did slip Waltzing Matilda into (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea. A Day On The Green, set up by Roundhouse Entertainment (Mick and Anthea Newton) does 40 to 50 shows a season, with new venues added this year. Over two million punters have attended the shows.

NEW FESTIVAL #1: TRUE NORTH The City of Darebin holds the inaugural Reservoir Arts Festival True North (Friday March 1 to Sunday March 3). See truenorthfestival.com.au for details. It includes a kite festival for 40,000, music, the Lounge Room Project and the Laneway Cinema, all to encourage people to leave their homes and enjoy their suburb.

The Federal Government at long last announced a National Live Music Coordinator for Sounds Australia. Dr Ianto Ware, from Adelaide, has to come up with plans to build and strengthen live music venues as places where musicians learn their craft. Dr Ware is a live music advocate and policy consultant but was a musician in No Through Road, an expert on ezines (he did his PhD on their cultural inﬂuence and co-directed the Newcastle Zine and Independent Press Fair, 2007), wrote a book about competitive cycling and blogs on how to renew Adelaide. “Live music has been a hugely positive inﬂuence in my life. I’m absolutely thrilled to take on a job that will allow me to give back to the Australian local music scene,” he said.

XX’S COEXIST GOES GOLD

Four months after The xx’s Coexist album was released in Australia through Young Turks/Remote Control, it has gone gold after debuting at #2 on the ARIA chart. It went platinum in the UK and sold 1.3 million worldwide. They tour here in April through Handsome Tours.

THINGS WE HEAR * Nearly 140,000 tickets have been sold in Australia from ten shows for Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band … all four Sydney shows by Red Bull Flying Bach sold out … Denver folkies The Lumineers’ Ho Hey is most played on national radio … Select Touring and Big Apachee had to axe the From The Jam visit after drummer Mark Brzezicki suddenly quit. * The triple j Hottest 100, topped by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ Thrift Shop drew 187,975 voters (up 11.71% on 2011), 1,516,765 votes (up 10% on last year) with 51% of votes via social media. 2702 Hotter 100 Countdown parties were registered in 55 countries. The peak age of voters was 21. * Is UNFD to announce a new metal festival called Singularity on February 21? * Big Day Out sacked an indie contractor after he flashed “get ‘em out” boob messages on the large screen at the Gold Coast show during Vampire Weekend’s set .. Chili Peppers’ guitarist Josh Klinghoffer’s mum and dad who decided to do some travelling through North Queensland after the Coast show got caught in floods … Word is that Anthony Keidis and model Lara Bingle struck up a relationship in Sydney, and she flew to Melbourne to catch up with him. The Carlton football club is investigating reports that midfielder Mitch Robinson got into a brawl at the Melbourne show with another man. The fight was filmed on a mobile and posted on social media … US actor Robert Pattinson, in South Australia to film The Rover, did his version of weekend vampire when he slipped into the Adelaide BDO. * Forget the drama about whether Beyonce sang live at President Obama’s inauguration concert. People are still wondering why Lupe Fiasco was asked, considering he once said that the Prez and the U.S. are “the biggest terrorists” in the world. Lupe performed a 30-minute version of his anti-war Words I Never Said and declared he doesn’t vote for Obama. Security told him to move on to his next song: he refused, so they turfed him off the stage. * Central Station Records is posting hints on Facebook about bringing back late ‘90s Sydney dance station Wild FM. * How much does Ruby Rose travel? She has 300,000 frequent flyer points. * Skrillex accidentally set fire to his trademark locks while blowing out the candle on the cake celebrating his 25th birthday. * The Sapphires musical was top grossing Australian film last year, taking in $14.5 million. It was followed by Happy Feet Two ($8.2m), Kath & Kimderella ($6.1m), A Few Best Men ($5.3m) and Mental ($4.1m). Australian films represented just 4.3% of the year’s total box office, said the Motion Picture Distribution Association of Australia. * Maude Garrett has moved to LA to become host of

Hot Hits Live. * At the Rolling Stone awards in Sydney, guests were oﬀered free tatts. 44 of them took up on the oﬀer. * Applications for APRA’s Professional Development Awards have closed, winners are announced on March 25. * Perth collective The Growl join Tame Impala on their USA tour through February and March, returning home in April just in time to release their debut LP What Would Christ Do??. The band opened for Impala on their Oz tour last year and expanded their fan base.

THE RUBENS SIGN TO WARNER BROS

The Rubens signed with Warner Bros USA for a global deal that sees their self-titled debut album released worldwide in June. It was recorded in New York with David Kahne (Paul McCartney, Regina Spektor, The Strokes). The Rubens are represented in Australia and NZ by Ivy League who last week announced the album and the My Gun single have both been certiﬁed gold.

GAGA COURT CASE HEATING UP

The case ﬁled in Chicago by singer songwriter Rebecca Francescatti against Lady Gaga – that Gagsie nicked from her song Judah for Judas – is heating up. The New York Post reported that Francescatti’s lawyer Bill Niro is in New York this week to get experts to testify that the two songs are similar, especially if you slow down the Gaga track. Niro says the violin riﬀs are similar. No coincidence, he told the Post, that Francescatti’s song engineer Bryan Gaynor “worked on 90% of the songs on Born This Way. And Gaynor’s close friend, DJ Whiteshadow, is currently on tour with Gaga.”

GROHL’S SOUND CITY FOR ONE NIGHT

Dave Grohl’s Sound City doco on the Californian studio – where classics by Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Metallica and Nirvana were made through analogue recording – will be screened for one night only. It’s on Thursday January 31 at Village Cinemas, Jam Factory, Southland, Knox. Grohl will visit Australia in March for promo duties behind Sound City.

NEW FESTIVAL #2: YARRA LIVE MUSIC A number of inner north music industry folks – including Jon Perring (The Tote), Jason Moore (Workers Club) and manager Justin Rudge – hold the inaugural Yarra Live Music Festival from Friday July 5 to Sunday July 21. Events will be held at existing venues and some set up for the festival to promote the area’s live music scene.

HUHA CASE ADJOURNED The court case between the owner of the Bendigo’s HuHa nightclub and Australian Liquor Marketers – set for last week – has been adjourned for a few weeks. The Supreme Court wants both parties to resolve before returning in a fortnight. ALM says that nightclub owner CPL Cooper owes it $44,507 (the debt is from the Flagstaﬀ Hotel in Maryborough which Craig Cooper sold last year) and put forward an application for a winding order. That would send into liquidation the nightclub which employs 15. HuHa continues to operate.

GANGNAM STYLE GENERATES $8M FROM VIEWS

Psy’s Gangnam Style reached a milestone one billion views on YouTube at the end of last month. It is its most popular video. Now YouTube reveals that the video has generated US$8 million alone in advertising for third parties. YouTube’s people said that the channel arrived as young consumers changed their viewing style to “multi-screen”. In 2012, viewers watched over four billion hours of video on YouTube a month. It’s now available across over 400 million mobile devices, gaming consoles and connector PDs in addition to desktops.

Q&A SPACECADET LULLABIES cultures as Shambala or Shangri-la. Favourite bar or pub in St Kilda? Claypots have nailed what a bar should be. My liver tingles in a mix of nervous fear and anticipation every time I enter that bar. I go there to hear amazing musicians and the food and drinks are great. Ernest Hemingway would have loved this place. Favourite place to eat in St Kilda? En Izakaya In St Kilda East. Seriously mind blowing Japanese food. Describe your sound in ﬁve words or less: Post trip-hop experimental pop electronica. Tell us why you love St Kilda: I love St Kilda because it is right next door to the East St Kilda/Balaclava area, which is known by some

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Who is your favourite band on the St Kilda Festival lineup? That is a tough question. It is hard to decide between Hiatus Kaiyote and Grey Ghost. Both acts are pushing at something diﬀerent and original. It is always awesome

to hear people write great songs whiles tweaking the living daylights out of the structures within the music. Why should everyone come and see your band? I am previewing some new songs oﬀ my next album that feature guest vocalist Tali Gal-on. The new material is a bit of a change in direction for my music. I am pretty excited about performing the new tunes live and see how the audience reacts. What advice would you give to bands that are new on the Melbourne scene? In the words of Napoleon Dynamite: “Just follow your heart. That’s what I do.” Where are you playing and when? I am playing at Iddy Biddy on Wednesday February 6. Start time is 9pm. Free entry. See ya there.

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LIFELINES Born: son, Milan, to singer and actress Shakira and footballer Gerard Pique. Born: daughter Shay Anna to Melbourne singer/ songwriter Kat Orgovany and partner Adrienne Laskowski. Ill: The Angels’ bassist Chris Bailey is fighting a “life threatening” cancer, the band posted on its website. He was diagnosed some months ago but continued to perform onstage. But he’s now stepped down to undergo another round of chemotherapy and has been replaced by John Brewster’s son Sam. His news comes weeks after Doc Neeson revealed his battle with a brain tumour. Recovering: Eagles member Timothy B. Schmit seems to be winning his battle against throat and neck cancer, diagnosed last October. In Court: N-Dubz rapper Dappy was found guilty of affray and assault following a brawl at a petrol station last year, caused when the rapper spat at two girls who refused to get in a car with him. A man who came to their defense put Dappy in a headlock. In Court: a woman who filed a $9 million lawsuit against Justin Bieber dropped the case. Stacey Betts claimed that at a 2010 concert, the popster “incited” the fans so much their screams caused her permanent ear damage. In Court: a Brisbane drug dealer who admitted selling ecstasy in Fortitude Valley nightclubs was put on probation for two years. Police said they checked his iPhone and discovered Facebook posts where Blake John Moore boasted about how much drugs he’d sold. Died: Claude Nobs, founder of the famed Montreux Jazz Festival, died after a skiing accident last month. He was 76. Many Australian jazz acts played the event. Ironically he was name checked in one of heavy rock’s best known songs, Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water. Purple were recording in Montreux in 1971 when a fire began at a Frank Zappa show and sang about how Nobs (“Funky Claude” in the song) pulled fans to safety. Died: a 33-year-old singer auditioning for The X Factor at Sydney Cricket Ground collapsed while he was rehearsing his song alone. The man, whose name was not available as this column was filed, was a New Zealander.

TWO PUSH OVER COMPS All ages music festival Push Over has two competitions going. A team up with triple j Unearthed could see your band playing at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Monday March 11 alongside The Amity Aﬄiction, DZ Deathrays, Violent Soho, Northeast Party House and others. Get your music up online at triple j Unearthed before Sunday February 10. The 21st Birthday VIP Competition sees winner and friend get the chance to go backstage to meet their fave artist. Submit an awesomely creative video telling them who your favourite Push Over artist is and why you should be the VIP winner. Upload your video to YouTube with the hash tag #PushoverVIPme and then email the link to push@thepush.com.au. The best entries will be posted on facebook.com/pushovervic and the winner determined by the most likes.

PBS DRIVE LIVE PBS 106.7FM and APRA team to present Drive Live for a second year from Monday February 4 to Friday 8 during drive time between 5pm and 7pm. There’ll be in studio performances with subscribers getting the chance to come down and watch the likes of Lower Plenty, Brothers Grim, Spinning Rooms, Pony Face and The Townhouses. See pbsfm.org.au.

FUNDING FOR GAMES DEVELOPERS Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher announced funding of $540,000 to support local games firms to develop and market highquality games for a global audience. Twelve local projects will be supported through the State Government’s new games programs, run by Film Victoria. There are two key elements. The first, ‘Screen Development – Games’ sees seven Victorian games companies share in more than $429,000 in investment support to develop commercially-focused games for distribution. In the second, ‘Screen Marketing – Games Release,’ five companies will share in more than $110,000 in grants to engage marketing and business services to help release their projects into the marketplace.

CASSAR-DALEY, BRITT, WIN COUNTRY AWARDS

Troy Cassar-Daley won four gongs at the Golden Guitars, held on the weekend in Tamworth. He took album of the year, male artist, song of the year (Home) and single (Country Is) and brings his tally to 25. Catherine Britt, up for seven, took the female category. Other winners were Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson (duo), The McClymonts (top selling album for Two Worlds Collide, video clip for Piece Of Me) Chelsea Basham (new talent) and 90-year-old Geoﬀ Mack – his signature tune I’ve Been Everywhere has had 130 covers including Johnny Cash and Rihanna – got a lifetime achievement award to a standing ovation, and Kevin Bennett did a tribute to the late Jimmy Little.

PBS DRIVE LIVE NO ZU BY ZOË RADAS

NO ZU’s ethos is the kind of thing that slots in beautifully with PBS radio’s simple pursuit of bolstering little heard music. A core of enthusiasm for traditionally underappreciated things brings the Melbourne band – led by the artful Nicolaas Oogjes – into the fold of PBS’s annual Drive Live program, which invites listeners into its studios to watch a collection of bands play live on air. Alternatively you can listen live, in the comfort of your own digs, wherever they may be. “I just ﬁnd radio exciting anyway, and I think we’ve only ever done one live-to-air before,” Oogjes says fervently. “I think they kind of capture a moment quite well. It’s just an interesting way of getting music out to people: experiencing music live but not necessarily watching it live.” It’s a great point, the truth of which gets a bit buried in the more obvious duality of being present at a live venue versus listening to an artist’s well-produced album on your stereo. “I love PBS and community radio stations, so it’s always good getting involved with people; no one’s making any money or anything, everyone’s just doing it for the music,” he explains. The songwriter and creative head of NO ZU considers interplaying with isolated, sidelined or supposedly unremarkable groups an important and ongoing post. “I’m really interested in engaging people that aren’t just, you know, inner city people that know about niches. I actually ﬁnd that... repulsive.” He’s momentarily surprised at the force of the word he’s chosen, and has a laugh. “That was a bit strong, but I really don’t like cliquey vibes or elitist ways of thinking about ‘What references are this band using?’ and whatnot.

I’m actually really interested in trying to engage more of the segregated [groups]. I’m not necessarily saying we have done that, but I always think about music – without getting too tacky – as a universal thing, which of course it is. And it’d be great to kind of expand on who music goes out to.” While NO ZU might not have achieved all there is to achieve in that realm, it’s clear that the band’s inclusive spirit is communicated through their music, clips and approach. Oogjes describes a photo shoot the band undertook late last year for Melbourne Music Week, and part of the deal was that the musicians could choose where they’d like the resulting pictures to be displayed. They decided on a Korean store, which sold DVDs, CDs and music-related paraphernalia. “And so we had our picture up next to like, some K-Pop stars,” he says happily. “But to me, that’s just common sense. No point in preaching to the converted, and some people you might need to reach out to moreso than the people that will just by nature discover you anyway.” The sentiment is reﬂected in the clip for Emotion, from 2012’s debut album Life; a simultaneously dreamy and totally real bit of video

described by Beat’s Chris Girdler as “Gummo through the lens of Darren Sylvester.” “I think I heard someone criticise something about it, making an ‘Other’ of people, but the intention of it was completely the opposite,” says Oogjes. “I’d like to engage with younger, and – like Gail in the clip – older people. And people that are close to home for most people; most people have stayed in caravan parks, and know their little cousins and stuﬀ like that,” he explains, referring to the clip’s setting and some of its primary characters. “There’s no reason why our weird music can’t maybe appeal to them or communicate with them.” When it comes to projects like Drive Live, Oogjes thinks it’s a combination of both listeners and dedicated staﬀ that ensures activities that aim to promote diverse music come to fruition. “I think it comes from both, it’s just people doing things for the right reasons, I imagine,” he says. “As I said, there’s not much money involved. Especially PBS [and] the community radio stations, they’re basically doing the same thing we’re doing with making music. We never expect to make any money... or to be popular or anything like that. And

that gives you a certain kind of freedom, and I think that’s why you can have lesser heard music, delve more into music for music’s sake. Salsa music, underground Melbourne music, or whatever.” Having had a primo lead-up to Drive Live with “the most incredible run of shows” that they’ve ever done with New York legends ESG, Oogjes says “things are really good in the NO ZU camp” right now. “This weekend we’re going to play Lost City Festival in Adelaide, and then we’re going to do Drive Live at PBS, and then we’re getting ready for Golden Plains. So it’s all very exciting at the moment.” Be sure to keep an ear out for the group’s spot during the week of Drive Live, accompanied by other stellar acts such as Lower Plenty, Brothers Grim and Spinning Rooms, as the band trip through another stepping stone in the ascent of their blossoming career.

rewarding. The exciting part, once an album’s done, is that I can then continue working on some other strand of material. At the moment I’m working on something new, and I have to be honest – I’ve never done something quite like this before.” Holter’s next album, tentatively titled Gigi, will be much more collaborative than previous releases. Exactly who is going to appear on the record is still something of a secret, with the lady herself not giving away any clues. “I will say I’m working with some friends that I know,” she hints. “It’s really great because I wrote most of the parts with speciﬁc people in mind, and so I think that gives us a bit of breathing room. Everyone knows what they’re doing in the recordings, and that creates this feeling of conﬁdence, which in turn makes me feel so incredibly supported. In

many ways it’s made my job easier, because I have more time to focus on the important things.” The most pressing issue at the moment, though, is ﬁnishing her scanning before lunch at the family home. “It’s really crunch time here,” she laughs. “Got to ﬁnish getting things ready for Australia, and then eat a whole bunch of food!”

is firing off. But it takes the physical place of a drummer in that it tells you where the drum sounds are coming from, and completes the illusion of a three-piece rock band rather than an electronic crossover act.” The band’s arrival in Australia coincides with the longgestated debut album from Civil Civic, an artefact which will encapsulate the full extent of the band’s lifespan so far. “A couple of tracks on the record have existed in recorded form since we started the band. The actual composition of the record took place over the first two and a half years of us playing. Then there was a little songwriting rush at the end when we wanted to get a record out. The whole recording and mixing took place over a two month period where Aaron came over to Barcelona, then I came over to London.” Making their debut in Australia alongside an iconic roster of talent at I’ll Be Your Mirror is an achievement not lost on Green. “It’s great. It was a real break, and kind of the

whole reason we’re trying to make this happen. Coming out to Australia just to do a small number of club shows then return to Europe is a pretty expensive thing to do. But who doesn’t want to play I’ll Be Your Mirror on the same day as My Bloody Valentine? It’s a great thing.” Despite the absence of vocals on the band’s repertoire, the band’s live shows manage to connect and engage in a powerful manner. “Most of the tracks have pretty strong melodies. Probably the biggest fanbase we have is in France, and the last tour we did there we had shows where people were singing along to the guitar and keyboard melodies. It seems like people are compensating for it in their own heads. Which is ﬁne, go for it,” Green smiles.

NO ZU play at PBS studios as part of Drive Live 2013, which runs from Monday February 4 to Friday February 8. Tune in to 106.7FM from 5pm ‘til 7pm to hear the live program.

JULIA HOLTER

BY BENJAMIN COOPER

Julia Holter is at home putting the finishing touches on her Australian tour plans, but she’s been waylaid by a pesky national holiday in America. She’s got her hands full – simultaneously trying to fix her scanner, while explaining the intricacies of home recording to an Australian writer – but she speaks with a calmness that belies the stresses of combining life as a successful independent musician with Thanksgiving’s necessary family commitments. “Oh, I’m doing fine, don’t you worry about me,” she says brightly. “Although I would appreciate some technical assistance, if you can spare the time… Is there any chance you can somehow magic-up a solution for this shitty scanner? I really don’t want to be prevented from coming to Australia because of some small technical problems.” Given her history of collaborations, it comes as no surprise that Holter isn’t shy about asking for help when she needs it. Fans of the Californian multi-instrumentalist were blown away by her upbeat and joyful What We See with Nite Jewel (Ramona Gonzalez) on the Light From Los Angeles compilation, which was released by internet radio station Dublab last month. “I always want to work with other artists, and I try to bounce ideas off friends and people I respect as much as possible,” she explains. “There are elements of what I do that are inescapably lonely, though. Writing is a very solitary process, so sometimes it’s nice to get input and to share.” Her second album Ekstasis, released earlier this year on

New York tastemaking label RVNG, was very much a solo effort: she spent more than three years working on it at home, while also finding the time to release her debut, Tragedy, in 2011. The sophomore release drew in reams of admiration, with the media quick to draw comparisons with other experimental multi-instrumentalists like Laurie Anderson and Joanna Newsom. Critical praise is all well and good, but Holter’s main source of pride comes from the hard slog that she endured to get the album made. “The great thing – or maybe it’s a terrible thing – for me is that I’ve always been writing,” she says. “I have so much stuff, so many ideas and partially-written bits, so when I get to see those ideas come through on an album, it’s really

JULIA HOLTER plays Laneway Festival alongside Chet Faker, Bat For Lashes and more at Footscray Community Arts Centre on Sunday February 3, as well as a show at The Toﬀ In Town on Tuesday February 5. Ekstatis is out via Spunk.

CIVIL CIVIC BY LACHLAN KANONIUK

There is guitarist/producer Aaron Cupples, an Australian expat living in London. There is bassist Ben Green, an Australian expat living in Barcelona. Then there is the box, a visually-endowed roadcase containing a drum machine. These are the components which form Civil Civic, an outfit on the eve of both their debut album release and their live debut in their mother country. While European audiences have been privy to an electrified live showcase for over two years, Australian audiences will get their first taste when the band arrive as part of ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror. Before the two human facets of Civil Civic make their homecoming, Green relays the tangible manifesto which dictates the band’s output. “Aaron came up with the original set of guidelines – mostly for what Civil Civic can’t be,” he explains. “One thing it had to be was compact. We’re a two-piece with a drummer that’s a roadcase full of gadgets. We can fit it all into a car. The idea when recording was that there wouldn’t be any sounds coming from the stage that you can’t visually place. There aren’t masses of backing tracks to compensate for us being two people – we’re playing everything apart from drums. It’s a pretty simple set of guidelines, but it’s been really limiting in a good way. It also helps us to be a strong live act that people can identify with, rather than just some production outfit that sounds like a CD.” As is the case in all great narratives, the establishment of a set of rules more often than not acts as a means for eventual concession. It’s a prospect that the band isn’t necessarily avoiding. “We’re already sort of talking about it. We’ve talked about things like getting a guest vocalist,

because being instrumental was one of the rules,” Green recounts. “It’s not so weird if you’re an electronic act, but if you’re straddling the space between a rock band and electronic act it’s a bit strange. I don’t know how [guest vocalists] would work live. We’re not rigid guys, I’m sure we’ll evolve in some way. It’s just that we won’t evolve into some overblown production nightmare overnight.” Taking centre stage at the band’s live sets is what is dubbed ‘the box’, a somewhat primitive case for a drum machine and various effects. Green gives a peek as to what’s inside. “It’s relatively set in stone. We have electronic drums, but we didn’t want them to be this big complex thing that takes over with lots of fills and loops. Most of the time it’s just a kick and snare bashing you in the head. That’s stayed pretty constant. The box itself, physically it doesn’t need to be as big as it is and it definitely doesn’t need flashing lights on the front of it telling you when each drum sound

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Billy Blue College of Design began as Billy Blue Creative in 1977, a magazine publishing colloquial Australian writing. In 1987, Billy Blue Creative decided to open a tiny design school to train people who would eventually work in the studio. A crowd of about four was expected. Sixty-six people enrolled and there was a long waiting list. Today the Billy Blue community has campuses in Sydney, Brisbane, with the newest addition in Melbourne. The school was created by industry for industry and has been building on that concept ever since. All of the teachers at Billy Blue are industry professionals –promoting professional teaching rather than teaching professionals and the students beneﬁt. Over the years, some of the college’s best graduates

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LATROBE COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN 301 - 303 LA TROBE ST MELBOURNE (03) 9606 0933 INFO@LATROBECOLLEGE.COM.AU WWW.LATROBESTREETCOLLEGE.COM.AU LaTrobe College of Art & Design was established as an independent art college in 1995. Students graduate with a developed, individual art practice as well as a comprehensive understanding of the industry. Many have gone on to successful careers in art and design, continued on to higher study, winning significant prizes, opening successful galleries, holding sell out shows of their artwork, working in graphic design and working in film. The Diploma of Visual Art course can be taken full-time over two years or equivalent part-time. The course suits beginners as well as those with experience. Students study both practical and theoretical subjects in studio, painting methods and techniques, sculpture, drawing, modernism and contemporary art history and theory, photography and digital imaging. Students are encouraged to pursue individual directions in their art whilst learning a range of both technical and theoretical strategies. Through small class sizes, concentrated one-on-one teaching, exposure to leading artists and innovative artwork, students gain intensive individual nurturing enabling them to rapidly develop their creative potential and identify their own independent individual direction. All staff are recognised art practitioners and acknowledged teachers in art and design. Along with fully equipped digital and art studios the course is further enhanced with optional subject units in New York or to

the Venice Biennale and exhibiting and gallery practice with the LaTrobe Street Gallery. Students are able to elect alternative units of study if they wish to strengthen learning outcomes in particular disciplines such as Photography or Graphic Design. The college has both full-time and part-time courses, with daytime, weekend and evening study available as well as single subject enrolment. Students who are considering continuing on to university can apply for direct entry into second year at many universities on completion of the Diploma of Visual Arts. New or inexperienced students are encouraged to apply. Applications are open to year 12, non year 12 and mature applicants. All prospective students are asked to make an appointment with the Coordinator to discuss their application or interest.

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“We’ve been around for nearly thirty years now moving with the times and adapting to new technologies so we’re constantly upgrading new equipment. Not to say that analogue is dead. Many applicants are attracted to the college due to our philosophy of providing both the traditional and digital experience. We maintain one of the few contemporary analogue ﬁlm processing and Beat Magazine Page 50

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darkroom printing facilities in Melbourne” says Coordinator Mick Sirianni. The Photographic Imaging College oﬀers a personal hands-on approach. Their aﬀordable courses are designed for people wanting to consolidate their photographic skills in order to enter undergraduate studies, or the photographic industry. For more information go to www.pic.org.au

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With no prior design experience their students graduate with an outstanding portfolio of work and an exceptional knowledge of design theory and industry software, which means they are extremely employable. Shillington also runs a Web Course and a Design Masterclass for experienced Graphic Designers. Places are ﬁlling fast for 2013 so enquire today to ﬁnd out more.

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SAE Institute and Qantm College in Melbourne offers a vibrant community where a student can interact with a wide range of people who share a passion for the craft, as well as getting mentored by top-notch academics who are also industry professionals. We also bring working professionals from successful local companies into the studio to lead our senior projects. SAE and Qantm offer five large computer labs featuring all the latest professional gaming, animation, audio, film, graphic design and programming software. Work and drawing rooms, a one hundred seat lecture theatre, green screen room and eight audio recording studios are available, as well as a vast range of equipment for hire. On oﬀer are courses in Games Programming, Games Design, Animation and Graphic Design from Qantm College and Audio and Film courses from

SAE Institute. Bachelor courses operate Monday to Friday for six 13-week terms over two years and Diplomas only take one year. Students will leave with a Bachelor Degree in Interactive Entertainment or a Bachelor in Creative Media, Bachelor of Audio Production or Bachelor of Film Production. We oﬀer three entry points in the year – February, May and September. All intake is via direct application and to apply, submit an application form on the website. All potential students must be 18 years or older. Programming majors need to have completed Math Methods or passed Year 12 with English. We also have post-VET and mature entry paths. For more information visit the campus: 235 Normanby Road, South Melbourne, Monday-Friday between 9:30am-5:00pm.

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The National Theatre Drama School in St Kilda has just launched a new training option for those taking a Gap Year (and others) who want to suss out what is actually involved in professional performance training. Before signing up for a three-year Degree or Advanced Diploma it’s maybe an idea to look at this part-time evening course which introduces all the areas of specialist training and gives participants

Beyond live performances, musicians contribute to several sectors within the economy, including ﬁlm and television, advertising, gaming and mobile digital content. Emerging trends in technology have seen an increase in self-publication, broadcast and distribution to a worldwide audience. The College consults with industry and government reference groups to keep abreast of advancing technology requirements, ensuring that their curriculum remains consistent with emerging trends. With journeys through all areas of the music industry to launching Beat Magazine Page 52

a group-produced CD with a live performance at a Melbourne venue, your performances will shine in their fully equipped recording studio, soundproof rehearsal rooms and state of the art digital work stations & multimedia Mac labs. Develop your song writing skills using instruments and computeraided equipment. Appreciate the practical use of instruments, ampliﬁers, sound and lighting systems to produce group and solo performances. Develop ﬁnancial, creative and promotional skills in event organization to stage a professional music event.

a chance to ﬁnd out what is really involved in an acting and performing career. Students work three nights a week over three terms for a total of 21 weeks. This year’s ﬁrst intake starts on Feb 25 and will be followed by another in June. Contact the School on 9534 0223 or by email at drama.nationaltheatre.org.au

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THE HARLOTS

BY GRAHAM BLACKLEY

At last year’s action-packed Queenscliff Music Festival, dramatic Melbourne sextet The Harlots played ferociously exciting live shows characterised by darkly evocative lyrics, visceral showmanship and serpentine grooves. As this high-energy combo are about to unleash their musical maelstrom upon the quaintly-named Spotted Mallard in Brunswick, it seemed a suitable moment to have a chinwag with the band’s articulate and friendly guitar-slinger Julian Spiller, who mentioned that QMF “was a watershed moment for us last year…we can’t wait to do it again. Hopefully we’ll get the chance.” Considering the tight and professional approach displayed by The Harlots at QMF, it is surprising to discover that the band has not been in existence for years. “We have just gone past our two year anniversary as a band…We played a lot of shows in 2011 and we tried to scale it back a bit in 2012,” Julian explains. “We have been feeling our way into the scene. We’re not formal musicians who have been in other bands before. We are a bunch of friends mostly who have been thrown together by coincidence. We’ve been ﬁguring out how to be a band and I think we have reached a few conclusions now and hopefully more people will know about us in 2013.” The Harlots showcase the type of deep lyrics that enthral and entrance without overshadowing the music. “The trick is to be dark and theatrical to some extent without being pretentious…I like to think we manage to strike a balance where you can engage

with the narrative without being excluded from the music. The groove is still there,” Julian says. A clever sense of humour underpins some of the band’s lyrics and certainly drives the astonishingly memorable and deliciously surreal video for Got No Soul which features the rather absurd talents of a small rocking horse. According to Julian, “If we made a literal video of one of our songs…it would be rather dark and might be difficult for people to engage with. So we thought, ‘Well, what would be a funny image?’… we had whole lot of semi-grandiose ideas and we realised that we don’t really have any money, film stock or back-lot or anything. So we scaled it back and back and back until we had the idea of a strange rocking horse which turned out to live in the garage of our film director. We said to him, ‘Look you have got two weeks to make something. We have a bunch of friends who are actors. Can you go away and do

it?’ He said, ‘Okay. I’ll see what I can do.’ In a couple of weeks we got ourselves an entertaining, nicely assembled piece of film…the lyrics will hook you in a certain way and hopefully the video will hook you in a different and original way.” Intriguingly, despite the humorous absurdity of the video, it manages to inspire the viewer to deeply engage with the thought-provoking lyrical content and bizarrely clarifies, in a decidedly left-field and off-beat manner, the central themes that lie at the heart of the song. This sparkling originality that runs through the band’s work is of the utmost importance to Julian. In considering how he would like The Harlots to be viewed in years to come, he thought deeply and said, “I think we would like to be remembered as original… there are not too many people at least in Melbourne who are trying to do what we are trying to do.” In a live setting, The Harlots hook the audience by delivering each song with maximum passion. Charismatic lead singer Tom Pitts sweats and gyrates his way theatrically through each song while the band brings precision and focus to their powerhouse performance. Each member appears to be totally ‘in

the zone’ as they live and breathe each lyric, melody and rhythm. For even the most casual observer it can be impossible to leave once the band hits the stage as the performance is both engrossing and compelling. When discussing the band’s approach to stagecraft, Julian laughed, “I’m one of the more reserved members of the band! I kind of cower at the back! It’s the most fun when people come up the front and dance around and they feed oﬀ your energy and you feed oﬀ their energy.” Other than the February residency at the Spotted Mallard, The Harlots are hoping to launch a double EP later this year and tour as much as possible. If you get the opportunity to catch this exciting band live you won’t be disappointed as their magnetic stage presence, sophisticated wordplay and infectious tunes are rare treats worth savouring.

I suppose we were also taking the piss in a way about people who are really righteous about language – you’re not supposed to take it seriously! And it’s not ‘L.A. Bastard’, it’s ‘La Bastard’,” Lienhop says. “The name is silly enough to get in people’s heads. But it’s a fun name, and it kind of fits our show.” La Bastard debuted in Lienhop’s former home town of Bendigo on a local festival, and a show at the Arthouse in North Melbourne before that venue’s initial demise. Having spent a year writing songs, La Bastard was able to start playing without relying on the odd or regular cover to pad out the set. Shortly after a show at Yah Yahs playing alongside a number of Off the Hip bands, La Bastard was approached by Off the Hip boss Mick Baty with the offer to release the band’s first album. “There was a whole suite of Off the Hip bands, like Midnight Woolf and The Painkillers, and maybe it was the next week when we’d played with another Off the Hip band, Harvest Smoke, and Mick approached us and said he’d be happy to put our record out – he said there was something in our sound, in our live performance, and the way we enjoyed ourselves that made him excited,” Murphy says. La Bastard already had an album’s worth of songs recorded – “it was basically an album of demos that we’d put down with Paul Mayberry at his studio in Fairfield,” Murphy says – but in Lienhop’s words, “we

weren’t quite sure what we were going to do with it”. By the time La Bastard’s debut eponymous record was released in early 2012, the band already had another album’s worth of material ready. “We just thought, ‘Let’s just hit the ground running, and take it from there’,” Murphy says. La Bastard has managed to get out and about, playing the odd regional Victorian show, and gigs in Sydney, Newcastle and Adelaide, with more shows to follow to promote the band’s latest record, Tales from the Beyond. “We’re starting to stretch ourselves a little bit more,” Lienhop says. Not surprisingly, the crowd reaction tends to differ between cities. “I don’t think you can account for how people are going to react,” Lienhop says. “I feel that Melbourne’s changing,” Murphy says. “There’s still that arms crossed thing you get in Melbourne, but there’s also this resurgence of bands like the Toots and the Brothers Grimm who have that revival thing going, or punk bands like Mesa Cosa who have a real party style. I don’t know if they’re bringing a different sound, but they’re certainly bringing a different vibe. And that’s good to see, ‘cause it’s great to see people dancing at shows.”

departure away from the music on previous albums. “With Spells there were things that I wanted to hear, that I knew I couldn’t execute, like this particular kinda style of guitar playing that I knew I was not capable of doing. Whereas with this record, even though I had never done any kind of beat making before, as I went on, I found I could manipulate the technology to serve the purpose I wanted. I’m not a purist, but I felt like it was working, it was doing what I wanted it to do, so I just thought ‘I will just keep doing it then.’” We move onto musical influences on the new record, and if there was certain music that helped inspire her during the creative process. “I was listening to a lot of early Cocteau Twins but they are a long running influence. But in particular I was listening to two of their early records, Garlands and Head Over Heels. They were big drivers, sonically but also conceptually, with the dycotomous relationship of there being really harsh, very abrasive sounds, and beautiful, sky reaching sounds.” Further musical listening influences are then revealed. “There were also two early Cure albums, Faith and Seventeen Seconds, but Faith in particular. Such a monotonous, slow, repetitive album, but

then has these highly emotive, melodramatic images and ideas, the vocals are just so pained and emotional, but the music itself is so monotonous, precise and cold.” Blonde Redhead and Bjork also get a mention in relation to the inﬂuence on beat making with Some Kind Of Eden. We then cover the Dear Time’s Waste aesthetic, the importance of tying the visual and aural together, a music video referencing Twin Peaks (do a search for Fortune), and the upcoming Australian album release shows in Melbourne and Sydney. This segues into the conversations conclusion, about her new relationship with Spunk Records, now on distribution detail in Australia. Duncan says of the signing, “It was really validating for me in a way, cause I feel like I have made the best record I have ever made, the album I wanted to make, and didn’t make any compromises at all.”

THE HARLOTS play the Spotted Mallard every Thursday in February, with special guests Major Tom & the Atoms, The Pretty Littles, Cherrywood and La Bastard.

LA BASTARD

BY PATRICK EMERY

The seeds of La Bastard were sown in the aftermath of a Six Ft Hick gig a few years ago. While Six Ft Hick put in its usual manic performance – presumably involving blood and acrobatics – the (now defunct and anonymous – “they don’t exist anymore,” says La Bastard guitarist Ben Murphy diplomatically) supporting band was a profound let down. “We were at a show, and we were bitching at the back of the room about the support band, and we came to the conclusion that we should make a band that was worth seeing,” says Anna Lienhop, singer with La Bastard. “We were just being precocious, and it is actually a lot of work, but it call came together pretty well.” Lienhop and Murphy, both of whom had grown up in regional Victoria before moving to Melbourne, had been toying with “a soul kind of thing” which had never completely got off the ground. With the concept of a soul-rockabilly-influenced band with a high level of audience interaction and general excitement now crystalising in their mind, La Bastard coalesced gradually, but securely. “We were writing songs for about a year, and then it was a case of getting the right band members,” Lienhop says. “We’d been friends for years, but we hadn’t ever had a band together, but we realised we had common tastes in music, especially old soul, rockabilly, punk stuff,” Murphy says. “We noticed that a lot of bands were bringing a lot of revival music out. And when we saw that support band that night, we kind of liked the aesthetic and the sound, but there were a lot of things that were a bit dull about it, so we thought we’d try and take those elements and make something that

was fun, and that’d allow us to go crazy on stage.” In contrast to the enigmatic on-stage style adopted by many local bands, Lienhop and Murphy wanted a band that would be in the face of its audience. “There’s a lot of bands in Melbourne where there’s no interactivity,” Lienhop says. “I don’t know if that was ever really spoken about, but it’s really about breaking through that physical wall with audiences. Whether it was conscious or subconscious, I’m not sure, but that’s how it’s gone down.” The next thing was the name: La Bastard. Notwithstanding its superﬁcially provocative edge, neither Lienhop nor Murphy think it’s something to dwell on. “I was working at a skate store, and I did all the online orders and processing, and one of the customers from France was called The Bastard,” Lienhop explains. “We were trying to think of a band name, and we were just being stupid. ‘La’ is the female connotation in French, so it was just being stupid, but

LA BASTARD play the Spotted Mallard on Friday February 8.

DEAR TIME’S WASTE BY SCOTT NICOLSON “It was a record that for me was, I guess, simultaneously really personal but also very almost conceptual. It was quite an intense part of my life. I became very immersed in what I was doing, I was only reading and looking for things that would inform it, and didn’t spend much time doing anything else. I was very submerged in the whole process,” says Claire Duncan, who is the creative force behind Dear Time’s Waste, talking about her new record Some Kind Of Eden. Two albums, an EP, and a short film soundtrack into her musical career, Claire Duncan creates music that creeps into your head, and she has a certain amount of the indefinable X factor when it comes to her songwriting. Auckland, New Zealand has been Duncan’s haven since starting Dear Time’s Waste in 2008, and we begin by talking briefly about her hometown, specifically the somewhat ‘before and after’ aspect of it since releasing Some Kind Of Eden. “When I did the Auckland release show, I was so blown away by the support, it was really crazy. Auckland has always been quite hard - not hard, but I don’t really fit in anywhere when it comes to the music communities as such.” To put Dear Time’s Waste in context, it has previously been a guitar-based band built around Duncan’s songwriting, and vocals that have an equally warm but haunting feel. The new album has stepped away from that successful band-styled formula, and is now a more solo affair. The feel of the lyrics and vocals remain intact, but the music is far more electronically Beat Magazine Page 54

focused. When asked about the diﬀerences in the process of writing, and what has changed between the 2009 Room For Rent EP, the 2010 LP Spells, and the new album, Duncan explains, “Initially I took quite a radical approach in that I was working on these beats and textures before I was even really thinking about the songs, whereas normally I would write a blueprint of a song – melodies, chords and whatever, then would kinda work on an arrangement to follow. “With this record there were more instances where I would just be playing around, which I guess is the process of experimentation and learning new things, which reverses the process in a way… I was drawing from these particular texts I was interested in, particular ideas that I wanted to convey, images that were much more purposeful, whereas Spells was much more of a record that was just a compilation of a bunch of individual bodies of music put together. Someone described the new album as a novel, whereas Spells was just a collection of short stories.” As mentioned, Some Kind Of Eden has been a

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DEAR TIME’S WASTE plays The Grace Darling on Tuesday February 5. Some Kind Of Eden is out now on Spunk.

JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE BY KRYSTAL MAYNARD

Justin Townes Earle speaks with the clarity of a man who has seen the darker depths of life but has come out a wiser and more self-aware being. Each record he releases sees Earle move further and further out of his father’s shadow to a place where the limelight is completely his own, and the singer/writer does so with a level head and a charming humility. “I’ve been fortunate in my career; I’ve yet to throw a clunker at the critics. They’ve been very nice to me, you know, and I’m proud that each of my records has sold a little bit more than the one before. That’s the goal,” says Earle. Last year’s full-length release, Nothings Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now has built on the more mainstream success that Earle hit upon with his third album Harlem River Blues. “My first two records were received well by Americana press; I got Americana praise but it was nothing outside of that, and The Good Life was definitely pretty obscure,” Earle explains. “Midnight At The Movies did a little better than The Good Life and I think it opened the door for Harlem River Blues and that was where everything changed you know? Letterman started paying attention and things like that.” Earle always knew from the onset that having a father so prominent in the music scene would herald both positive and negative implications. “I could tell people that I have nothing to prove but I think that if you’re going to be the son or daughter of someone a little famous for what you’re trying to do then you better get ready; it’s going to be a tough road,” Earle declares matter-of-factly. The road certainly has been tough for Earle with his younger days fraught with drug abuse, but turning 30 last year, those times are well behind him. “Really when I turned 30, it was the first time I was just like ‘Wow, it happened!’ I made it out of my 20s and, you know, it’s not cool to die in your 30s, and I find myself in a different mindset. I’m very interested in life now and I used to hate it,” Earle muses. Along with personal growth there has also been musical growth for the singer/songwriter, with his latest album Nothings Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now boasting a very obvious soul influence. While some might feel that soul and country are worlds apart, Earle gives his fans the credit to join the dots. “Well I think a lot of my fans probably own Gram Parsons records and that’s one of the things that sure as shit Gram Parson showed – that Nashville and Memphis are not that far apart. It’s just the little differences you know? You’re in front of the beat or you’re behind the beat and country players have always gotten mad at me for that, saying ‘You’re playing blues boy, you’re behind the beat!’. That’s what they always said to me! And then I finally said ‘Fine’, you know?” says Earle. With both country and soul evolving from the blues genre, it seemed a natural tangent for Earle to find himself exploring, explaining that. “Blues is where I started, I wanted to be an acoustic blues dude like Lightning Hopkins and I’m very interested since I made Harlem River Blues in early incarnations of rock‘n’roll that started off in Memphis,” he says. With a schedule that sees him fully absorbed in his craft, Earle places a great importance on stepping back to gain perspective. “I think it’s very important to escape sometimes, for all human beings, but especially from this life; you need to separate yourself from your work at some point or you’ll become your work. The only thing I’ve seen of people becoming their work in my business, is it just makes them assholes,” states Earle, going on to say how easy it can be to fall into that trap. “It’s really easy to not realise what’s happening around you and then one day you’ve elevated yourself above everybody. And you’re real insecure around people. And that’s not a way I want to live.” The singer has employed some unusual methods to help him keep his feet on the ground, more commonly practiced in his father’s times then here in 2013. “You know I try to meditate; I’ve also attended native American churches and I’ve experimented with small doses of LSD, for mediation purposes. I feel like it’s very healthy, as long as its clean; it’s a very healthy escape from reality,” comments the singer. While some might see Earle’s methods as questionable, it seems the experiences have certainly had a positive effect on his person. “I think I realised a little better where I stand.” It’s vital for Earle to keep in touch with all aspects of himself as a person, enabling him to embrace his current good fortune whilst not forgetting his checkered past. “You know as an example, I’ve won a couple of Americana awards over the years and I have them hung up over my desk and there’s a stack of yellow and pink papers that are stuck behind one of them and they are my denial papers from when I tried to buy a car just last year and I could not get a loan because I have such bad credit and not enough money in the bank,” he says. JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE plays The Theatre Royal in Castlemaine on Saturday February 2 and The Corner Hotel (early and late shows) on Sunday February 3.

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SICK OF IT ALL

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

The 2013 Soundwave lineup is a detailed exhibition of the history and progress of hardcore, metal, and neo-punk, with many associated sub genres, tenuously linked offshoots, and eras represented. New York’s Sick Of It All might be filed under any number of classifying headings. They’re suitably regarded as a pivotal force in the ‘90s hardcore resurgence, yet the heavy girth of their recent work pushes them onto the metal side of the playing field and the stated velocity of their latest album Based On A True Story puts them in the ‘happening now’ category. Either way, there’s no denying that their thrashing hardcore is not for the faint hearted. Frontman Lou Koller admits that their inception in Queens, NY in the mid-‘80s came about due to feelings that couldn’t be suppressed. “Our music was born out of frustration and boredom, which turned to anger. I think anger has a lot to do with different types of music. It’s a very powerful emotion.” Indeed anger is a catalyst of productivity but angry music can run the risk of being 2D if it’s purely cynical. Lou doesn’t approach songwriting flippantly, making sure to refine the initial hot tempered outbursts. “I might write stuff when I’m mad then look at it later and be like, ‘Well that’s just fucking stupid,’ and I have to go and refine it. Sometimes the spur of the moment stuff is great, especially musically. Lyrically I think it has to be better. Sometimes you can get some really good stuff right away but other times when you look at it might seem a little cheesy or dumb.” Aggression is a prominent feature of Sick Of It All’s onstage manner but this doesn’t mean they have to

channel a fury to give the songs an appropriate thrust. “Live for us is not always aggressive. It’s aggressive but we’re not mad at the audience, it’s an energy. If we come out full tilt and high energy we usually get it back from the audience and it makes us give even more. I remember being younger and trying to think about shit that made me mad and go up on stage and spew out all that stuﬀ but I don’t think I have to do that anymore.” Sick Of It All have spent the majority of their 25-year history touring the globe, existing in a time tunnel outside the realms of everyday structure. However, of late, family life has halted the band’s erstwhile relentless touring habits. “We did a bunch of small trips this last summer and we were supposed to come back and start writing but my brother Pete [the guitar player] and his wife had a baby and then they took

months off and moved to a new house. I guess life gets in the way a lot, but it’s a positive thing. It wasn’t a tragedy, he’s got a beautiful daughter.” Lou explains that maintaining healthy home lives involves making loved ones aware of the nature and responsibilities of the life they lead. “My daughter was born two years ago, [and] when she was barely a month old we had a tour booked that was over a month long and I had to turn to my wife and say, ‘This is what I do for a living.’ And she knew that before we got married, that this is what I do. I don’t think the band is more important than my family but I know my obligations to it.” Even though he’s out of town for much of the year, Lou verifies that the hardcore scene in NYC is alive and dangerous. His friends who are closely in tune with the local scene ensure he doesn’t fall out of touch and he professes that a few bands have pricked up his ears in recent experience. “Cerebral Ballzy, a band from Brooklyn, they’re really good. There’s a band from Jersey called Bored Annoying, they’re like skate and surf punk heavily influenced hardcore. It’s catchy and it’s got a little Black Flag, very East Coast hardcore, groove in it. There’s this band called The Last Strand who are more traditional straightforward New York hardcore but they’ve got their own take on it, which gives them a

little more originality than the others that I’ve been seeing around.” Despite the enforced limbo, a touring musician’s life is far from lonely. A travelling festival is an invitation for bands to mutually embrace the peculiar lifestyle they share and Sick Of It All will be hanging with some good pals when Soundwave comes to town later in the month. “Madball, Cancer Bats. We toured with Slayer, Tom is really cool with us. Every time we do festivals together now he’ll come and see us. It’s always good to see people like that.” Lou also explains he is looking forward to seeing headliners Metallica, a band they encountered very early in their career but haven’t had the opportunity to check out lately. “When Metallica first came to the East Coast to record Kill ‘Em All they stayed with a friend of our bass player Craig and Craig would hang out with them all the time when they were recording that album. We saw their first New York show, saw them open up for Venom when Venom did their first show in New York.”

of stuﬀ, and getting the word out. So it’s looking good, I’m really excited about it.” Back to the upcoming Aussie tour, the band and their management have selected a bunch of excellent bands to support them in each city, so an excellent evening of rocking entertainment is assured. According to Ben, the only diﬃculty has been selecting supports from the myriad of great bands that there are out there in this great rock land. “Yeah, [the lineups] are great,” he says. “The Dead Love, I’ve always been a fan of that band, they’re really good. And Further Earth, and some of the bands from Perth, there’s something about Perth. I was just going through my Facebook and listening to the support acts from Perth, and they’re all fuckin’ really good! It’s really tough to try and pick them out. In Perth, there’s so many great bands over there, and they’re all quite original. We picked those bands out of a few of them. It was really tough, but I’m really excited to get back over to Perth. “There’s so many great bands out there across Australia, great rock bands.” The Dead Love and The Pretty Littles are the bands

on the bill for the band’s Melbourne appearance, at The Workers Club in Fitzroy, making that an exceptionally strong lineup of modern Aussie rock. “Yeah, we can’t wait to get back to Melbourne, it’s one of our favourite places to play in Australia,” he says “The crowds are always good, and yeah that lineup is great.” Any parting words for your Aussie fans before you head oﬀ on the tour, and then jet across the other side of the world? “Just looking forward to the shows,” he says. “I mean, this tour’s going to kick some serious arse, we’ve got some cool stuﬀ going on, good lineups, it’s going to be some party shows man. Looking forward to it!”

do fall into these categories. A couple of them are almost interchangeable though. It’s not strictly a concept album. It’s loosely a concept.” The simplification of songcraft and simultaneous growth in production values heard on Biffy Clyro’s preceding two albums recurs with Opposites. Recording at The Village Studios in Los Angeles put them in an optimum locale for production experimentation. “We really went to town on this album, we went fucking crazy with instrumentation. We really just threw everything we could and the kitchen sink at it. Recording in LA, you can get a mariachi band at two in the afternoon if you need one and you can get tap dancers, you can get a piper, it’s an awesome place to be,” enthuses Johnston. There’s a fine line between grand ambition and grandiose exhibition and a self-aware restraint is integral to yielding successful results. Johnston expresses that they didn’t have much trouble incorporating multifarious textural enhancements. “I’m happy to say 99% of the stuff we tried worked. That’s why you’ll hear so many textures and so many instruments on the album. We like to do things in threes and I think since Puzzle we’ve been making kind of cinematic music and really going for huge production.” One textural supplement of particular note is the voice of Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell. According to Johnston,

Bridwell is a friend and fan of the band and happily added vocals to two tracks. “We just really wanted a tender Southern drawl on a couple of tunes. None of us have that American accent and that tone of voice so we asked him if he’d like to do it and he jumped at the chance. He’s a big fan of our band as we are of his. It was like a match made in heaven. He was actually on tour at the time, he had to record it in a hotel room with one of the members of his band but it turned out really cool.” Opposites is a roaming showcase of Biffy Clyro’s capacities yet, despite the broadened parameters, the Scottish sincerity that distinguishes the band’s radio-ratified hard rock is centrally present. “I think in a double album you get to show a lot more of your canvas as a band. Sometimes on other albums great songs get cut because they just don’t flow within one album. When you have two albums you’ve got a lot more time to explore different avenues. We have really gone to town on this and we’ve basically tried to explore every little nook and cranny of Biffy Clyro.”

SICK OF IT ALL play The Espy alongside Madball and Vision Of Disorder on Wednesday February 27, and the sold out Soundwave Festival at Flemington Racecourse on Friday March 1 alongside Metallica, A Perfect Circle, Blink-182 and more.

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Strangers are a Sydney heavy rock act in an enviable position, in more ways than one. Firstly, their sound draws influence from the old school of Aussie rock music, and channels it into a sound that is distinctly modern. This gives them a broad appeal – fans of classic and today’s rock alike can find something to appreciate in these guys’ full frontal but melodic assault. Late last year they released their debut album, Persona Non Grata, to much praise from both the industry and fans, and they are just about to kick off an extensive tour of the country in support of the record. They have also toured/shared the stage with the likes of Shihad (whose drummer, Tom Larkin also manages and produces them, which is a very nice position to be in), Unwritten Law, Calling All Cars, Closure in Moscow and others. Affable vocalist Ben Britton called in to have a chat about the album, tour and some enviable future plans that they have as well. “We have that tour coming up for the album,” he begins, “we get over to Perth, and back over to Melbourne and stuff. So we’re getting excited to get back on the road again. We’ve had a good break, we’re just getting over the Christmas hangover. So it should be good, I’m excited! “We’ve been writing new songs, we’re writing a lot, for a new record. And yeah, I think we might play a new one on the road, see how we go.” And in another exciting development for the band, shortly after the Aussie run, the band are off to the other side of the Pacific for a series of dates across North America.

The band are jumping out of their skin for this, a ﬁrst for them. “I think we’re playing some showcases in LA,” he explains. “Then we go to Austin to do South By Southwest. I think we’re there for about a week, and then we go to Canada and do Canadian Music Week. And then we ﬂy back to New York and do some showcases there. It’s going to be awesome! I’ve never been there, so we’re all pretty pumped on it.” It certainly helps a young band to have a very supportive and motivated team in their corner, pushing national and international exposure for them. “I think our label wants us to release the album over there as well,” he informs us. “They’re over there, and they hooked it all up for us. Leigh, our label guy, and Stu Harvey, they run Permanent/Half Cut Records. It’s awesome, they’re such great guys for the band, they got us on South By Southwest. It’s great to have someone on the ground, pushing promo and that sort

STRANGERS play The Workers Club on Friday February 8. Providing support are Sydney rock act The Dead Love, and locals The Pretty Littles.

BIFFY CLYRO BY AUGUSTUS WELBY Biffy Clyro’s 2009 record Only Revolutions was their biggest success to date, cracking the UK Top 5 and earning them a Mercury Prize nomination. Following such critical and popular acclaim, writing a new record might have been an intimidating task but the Scottish heavyrockers certainly didn’t suffer any sort of creative drought. Released this week, the band’s sixth record Opposites is a monumental two-disc, 20-song step forward and drummer Ben Johnston speaks with unwavering confidence about the quality of the record. “I’m really proud of the album that we’ve made. I think it’s really ambitious. Even now, when we’re playing the new songs live they really stand up as being super strong songs and also tonnes of fun to play.” Recording a double album has been a longstanding desire for the close knit three-piece but Johnston is quick to identify that many artists have fumbled with the dual-disc format. “We went back and did our research, we found out there actually weren’t that many great double albums. There were a few, London Calling and The White Album, but apart from that it’s tough. As a kid I thought I loved Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins, but I’ve recently listened to it and realised there’s only a few great songs.” Nevertheless, Johnston reveals the band believed they could be the exception to the rule and craft an entirely enduring set of songs. “We’re really trying to break the mould and make every single second vital. It’s not a really self-indulgent, really weighty album. It’s meant to be an enjoyable listen. We’re Beat Magazine Page 56

hoping to make the ﬁrst double album that’s not too selfindulgent and too heavy to listen to.” They didn’t actually set out with the intention to make a double album but a wealth of songs that couldn’t be swept aside necessitated the expanded format. “It’s not like Simon (Neil, vocals/guitar) said, ‘I’m going to write a double album,’ we just ended up with that many songs. We had 45 songs that he’d written over a couple of months and we demoed them all at home in our farm studio and they just all sounded so good. Even the 20-something songs that we took to America, it was so hard to whittle it down to that, never-mind to take another three or four oﬀ to make it 20,” says Johnston. The album follows a thematic progression; side one is a depiction of upset and injury and side two is much more hopeful. However, Johnston explains that when compiling the record they didn’t fastidiously adhere to the concept. “The worst thing to do would be make music that’s contrived and that’s been forced into a corner because of a decision we’ve made. I think it was more important the songs were strong and lyrically it just turned out that they

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Watching Against Me! at The Hi-Fi Bar last Tuesday, it was like nothing had changed. For all the hoopla about Laura Jane Grace and the unavoidable media circus that inevitably followed, it was apparent from the instant that she took the stage that really, nothing had changed. Of course we waited eagerly to see whether the vocals had varied, whether the passion had waned, but Against Me! remained one of the most cohesive and captivating live bands goin’ ‘round. If anything, there was a distinct warmth in the room that was only tangible when Laura Jane Grace beamed from behind the mic (Tom Gabel never looked so supremely happy) and when she sung those (retrospectively unmissable) words from The Ocean, “If I could’ve chosen, I would’ve been born a woman”. That’s when there was a sustained cheer, and finally an official confirmation that this Australian audience gave precisely no shits at their heros’ new identity.

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The Gasometer will be hosting a collection of local hardcore/metal bands this Saturday February 2 as part of the Generation X Tour. Check out The Storm Picturesque, Glorified, Graveyards, Ocean Grove and This Fiasco in the band room from 7pm. Tickets are available at the door.

CRUNCH! I’VE BEEN EVERYWHERE, NAMM Okay. So if you’re keeping count, last week I wrote this column from a Starbucks in LA. This week I’m typing on a train somewhere on the way to Santa Barbara. It’s just stopped because they have to “Clear up a car on the tracks,” which sounds pretty brutal. It’s a weird denouement from an incredibly intense and metal-ﬁlled week at the NAMM Show - the annual trade show where all the year’s new musical instruments are announced and where distributors from all over the world gather to place orders. It’s also a killer place to watch performances, get your photo taken with your heroes, and otherwise have a great time. My NAMM started with meeting Eddie Van Halen at the Fender VIP party, and during the next few days I had the chance to talk to Devin Townsend, Keith Merrow, Mick Thomson (Slipknot), George Lynch, Gary Hoey, Adrian Belew, Alex Skolnick, Feared/ Six Feet Under’s Ola Englund, Misha Mansoor (Periphery), new Queensryche singer Todd La Torre, Orianthi, Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares, Def Leppard’s Vivian Campbell, Steve Lukather and many more. And I managed to luck into catching a gig by Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) who was joined by Bowie guitarist Earl Slick and Orianthi. And even if you don’t get to meet them, it’s great for starspotting: if you were there this year you could have seen such legends strolling around as Stevie Wonder, Dave Mustaine, Nikki Sixx, Michael Anthony, Zakk Wylde, Bumblefoot, Mark Kendall, Michael Sweet (Stryper), Gus G… hell, I even bumped into comedian Andy Dick at the Seymour Duncan booth where I was helping out. Seriously, dude, if you ever get the chance to come to Anaheim and attend a NAMM Show, TAKE IT! It’s such an amazing experience and you’ll make lifelong friends.

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Just in case you were starting to feel as though you were on top of your ﬁnances, Soundwave’s gone and announced another batch of sideshows, and they’re almost irresistible. Gallows will headline a show at the Corner Hotel on Tuesday February 26 with Shai Hulud, Confession and Milestones. The Wonder Years will take charge of the Corner Hotel on Thursday February 28 with Such Gold, Living With Lions and Versus The World. Mindless Self Indulgence will play at Melbourne’s Billboard on Tuesday February 26 and will bring Brits The Blackout and 2012’s most exciting newcomers Cerebral Ballzy with them. If you’re after something heavier, Sylosis play with Six Feet Under at the Corner Hotel on Wednesday February 27. And ﬁnally, my pick for the new installment of sidewaves is Fucked Up over at The Prince Bandroom with O’Brother and The Dear Hunter on Tuesday February 26. Tickets are available now.

Soundwave will bring The Gaslight Anthem back to our shores this May for their ﬁrst headlining tour since they played at The Arthouse just as The 59 Sound was released. On May 15 you can see them at The Palace in Melbourne with guests to be announced. Tickets available as of Friday February 1.

Clearly ﬁnding his non-stop music output via Gaslight Anthem and Horrible Crows insuﬃcient, Brian Fallon has revealed that he’ll release a solo full-length during the band’s down time this year while he’s still “young enough and fortunate enough to have people listening”. Fair call, Fallon, fair call. Sydney deathcore dudes Thy Art Is Murder were pretty stoked recently when Katy Perry and Perez Hilton tweeted a video of a kitty drumming along to one of their tunes. Bet they’re goddamn ecstatic then that they’ve signed to one of the world’s biggest heavy metal labels Nuclear Blast. The head of the label explains, “After getting multiple calls and emails from various industry contacts telling me ‘you’ve gotta hear this band’ and seeing the online buzz…it was clear to me that something very real and organic was happening”.

How did the name The Khyber Belt come about and what’s the meaning behind it? The Khyber Belt is actually spelt Kuiper Belt! We misspelt it and stuck with it to get more hits on the net. It’s a belt of rock and ice in space. Scientists believe that the big rocks that

The Day Everything Became Nothing, Backwards Zombie, Dead Boomers, White Glove Test at The Reverence Up + Atom, Event Horizon at Next Strickland, Cavalcade, Idle Hands, Feverteeth at The Gasometer Upstairs FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1: Expire, Iron Mind, Colossus, Declaration at The Bendigo Battle Pope, Jesus Christ Posse, Seedy JEeszus, Fully Cooked at Gertrude’s Brown Couch We Lost The Sea, Agonhymn, Nontnuum, Batpiss at Public Bar SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2: Earth Crisis, In Trenches, Our Solace, Restless, Empire

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Californian stoner rockers Unida will join forces with Kyuss lead singer John Garcia when they headline CherryRock13 this May. The annual festival will also feature Sweden’s Truckfighters and locals King Parrot, Barbarion, Matt Sonic & The High Times, The Murlocs, Mammoth Mammoth, Gay Paris, The Surefire Midnights, Drunk Mums and Battle Axe Howlers. Organiser James Young insists ticket prices will be lower this year also. Jacknife Music have announced the launch of a new zine titled In Conversation With, which sees Australian local acts conversing with the bands that inspired them. The debut issue sees some massive internationals like The Lawrence Arms, Propagandhi, Descendents and H20 speak candidly with locals Outright, The Bennies, Grim Fandango and Jess Shulman.

at Corner Hotel Apart From This, Initials, Dirty Chapters, Hug Therapist at Bendigo Hotel Kujo Kings, Loonee Tunes, The Resignators at Cherry Bar Wish For Wings, Left For Wolves, Armourus at Bang Pack Bears, Grace Lawry, Chris Horry at The Reverence The Storm Picturesque, Gloriﬁed, Graveyards, Ocean Grove, This Fiasco at The Gasometer Foxtrot, The Hard Aches, Kill The mAtador, The Shadow League at The Public Bar SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3: Expire, Iron Mind, Frozen Over, Risk and Reason, Free World at Phoenix Youth Center

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THE CHARIOT RELEASE ONE WING TOUR EDITION The Chariot will release an Australian Tour edition of their new album One Wing with two bonus tracks on Friday February 22. They’ve been likened to At The Drive In, Refused, Nirvana and The Sex Pistols in spirit and vibe, blended with the Noisecore movement of the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. The tour edition of One Wing arrives just in time for the band’s Soundwave appearances, and you can catch them at The Hi-ﬁ with Bring Me The Horizon and Pierce The Veil in under-18 and over-18 shows on Tuesday February 28, as well as at Soundwave on Friday March 1.

DEATH AUDIO. THEY BRING THE AUDIO, YOU BRING THE DEATH. Death Audio play at Ha’Penny Bridge, Frankston on Friday January 25, and they’re at Inferno Nightclub in Traralgon on Saturday February 9.

SYLOSIS/SIX FEET UNDER SIDEWAVE Sylosis and Six Feet Under have announced Sidewaves in Sydney and Melbourne in Feburary. Here they’ll be at the Corner Hotel on Wednesday February 27. Featuring death metal vocal legend Chris Barnes, seven-string guitar demon Ola Englund and seven-string bass (yes, seven-string bass) virtuoso Jeﬀ Hughell (someone else I got to catch up with at NAMM), Six Feet Under’s latest is Death Rituals. Sylosis are touring in support of last year’s Monolith.

FOUR BANDS, ONE ASS-KICKING WEDNESDAY 13 MAKES 2013 HIS BITCH Wednesday 13 will release The Dixie Dead on Friday February 22 on 3Wise Records. “The year 2013 is kinda close to my heart,” Wednesday 13 says. “That’s my year to shine. It seems like over the last couple of years, with True Blood and Twilight and Walking Dead and all these TV shows, entertainment is all about horror movies now, so it’s ﬁnally caught up with what I’ve been doing since I was 15 years old! When someone thinks about horror punk I want them to always think about WEDNESDAY 13. I want to be that infamous household name! I want to keep putting out music and as long as I’m having fun, that’s it. I hope the fans keep enjoying it too!”

SLEEP PARADE escape the gravitational pull of the big gas planets collided with Earth and combined with already existing elements to form water and so on. They also believe that if any other big ones hit us they could end life on Earth. We dug the whole giver and taker of life concept and rolled with it.

The Wonder Years, Such Gold, Living With Lions and Verses The World are teaming up for a huge intensity-fest at the Corner Hotel on Thursday February 28. Living With Lions are promoting their latest album, Holy Shit, which is on 3Wise Records, while Verses The World - featuring members of Lagwagon and The Ataris - are touring on the back of their second album Drink.Sing.Live.Love.

CHEERS, ‘BOK Aussie thrash icons Frankenbok have released their new album, Cheers, Beers & Beards, and it’s a cracker. It features six new tracks and four live versions of some oldies, and the band is oﬀering an album pack which includes the CD Digipack, a sticker and a t-shirt for only $25 (with free postage in Australia or only ten bucks outside).

You recently supported Evanescence playing venues like Rod Laver Arena – was that fun? Yes we did and it will certainly be an unforgettable memory.

Do you like the Elton John song Sacrifice? Not as much as his hat and earring in the video clip.

Did you slightly pee your pants before you went onstage before the Evanescence crowd? We were all nervous, especially for the ﬁrst show in Canberra but the fantastic crowds with a positive response to our music made it more fun than nervous for the rest of the tour.

How did the name sleep parade become your band name? ‘Phil Collins’, ‘Seal’, and ‘Daryl Braithwaite’ were already taken.

What was the band rider like at the Rod Laver Arena? Tonksy (our sound engineer) actually put in a request for bottles of vodka, fruit platters, waters, soft drinks, a slab of Coronas, sandwich platters with dips and all sorts of goodness and got it for the rest of the tour. Not even Nostradamus could have predicted that happening. Yay Tonksy!

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How do you guys sleep when you still parade around? There’s never ever a great night’s sleep to be had on tour, but that’s where the good stories come from. I’m stuck in a porta loo at a job site writing these questions with no toilet paper, what do I do? Use your iPhone, they’re worth about as much. How did I solve the porta loo saga? Dan (drums) tried being a tradie for a while but he wasn’t one long enough to be stuck in a portaloo. The rest of us are unemployed. So who knows? iPhone? THE KHYBER BELT and SLEEP PARADE play Rock The Bay Festival, alongside The Beards, Electric Mary, Sleepmakeswaves and heaps more on Saturday February 16 at The Espy. Beat Magazine Page 57

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MAN THE CLOUDS Man The Clouds are a psychedelic blues band from Perth. After locking themselves away for four days in a small demo room in WA, the session culminated in 14 fuzz-laden songs including two standout tracks on their self-titled EP, A-side Hurricane and B-side Flotation. With their ﬁrst trip over to Victoria, Man The Clouds will use reverb to resonate, subsonic bass to move, and with dirty fuzz they will cleanse. They play at Yah Yah’s on Thursday January 31 with garage blues/rock hybrid Knloch Troons and pop folk Melbourner Tom Milek. Doors 5pm, bands start at 9pm, free entry.

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KYNETON MUSIC FESTIVAL Ready for one jam packed weekend? Kyneton Music Festival will turn its town’s historic buildings, bluestone churches, old watering holes, art galleries and cafés into live music venues. With over 40 bands, including Mick Thomas, Stoneﬁeld, Ramblin Van Walker Band, Major Chord, Perch Creek Family Jugband, Cherrywood, The Dead Salesmen Duo, The Resignators, Nigel Wearne and the beard and 'stash comp, Beardfest, they will take the stage from Friday March 1 'til Sunday March 3. Weekend pass is $45. For more info head to kynetonmusicfestival.com.au

SUZUKI NIGHT MARKET Now in its 15th year, the Suzuki Night Market attracts over 200 stall holders and showcases some of Melbourne’s finest artisans, producing locally made clothing, jewellery, prints and an array of cultural goods. The hawker style food stalls offer everything from traditional African curries through to the sweetest of honey dumplings. Don’t stop at one stall; take a trip around the world one dish at a time. If your legs tire from all that shopping, settle in with your favourite beer, wine or sangria and listening to some of Melbourne's finest musicians. Tonight there's Cookin' on 3 Burners with Kylie Auldist, Hof Brass and Stiletto Sisters.

NORTHCOTE BEACH PARTY The summer heat is here and it’s time to slip into your swimming trunks and head to the Northcote Beach Party for a co-headline tropical treat starring the exuberant and irresistible sounds of Flap! and the surf and western stylings of Mikelangelo And The Tin Star. Also featuring the sultry St Clare, Tas Fleming's Hawaiian Trio and gogo action with Go Girl Gadget Go Go!, the Northcote Beach Party happens on Friday February 8 at Northcote Social Club. Tickets are $15 at the door.

LACHLAN BRYAN The Wilde’s frontman Lachlan Bryan spent 2012 playing major festivals, supporting the likes of Steve Earle and John Hiatt and touring the USA. He’s written a pack of new songs, and has been debuting them, along with a selection of outlaw country classics, each Wednesday in January in the Retreat Hotel front bar with help from a diﬀerent special guest each week. Tonight is the last show for Lachlan's residency so be sure to catch him alongside special guest, indie folk rock artist, Tobias Hengeveld. They’ll be taking requests. Free entry.

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Midnight Caller, Dead River and Nun Of The Tongue are joining forces for a show at The Old Bar on Thursday January 31. Midnight Caller recently launched an online EP on Neumusak, with another EP and an LP on their way in 2013. They’re unashamedly grunge, which is code for good melodic and noisy music and a distinct lack of twee. Dead River are equal parts ex-Grey Daturas, Big Fun, Killerbirds and variable parts psychedelic noise jams, sonic grunge, and anthemic '70s rock‘n’roll; a powerful and entertaining live band. It all kicks oﬀ at 8.30pm, $8 entry.

THE LAUGHING LEAVES The Laughing Leaves are four dudes that play psychic bop-a-delica tunes that get all the ladies dancing and all the dudes trying to dance with those ladies. Known for their energetic live performances and catchy, danceinducing numbers, The Laughing Leaves will blow the top button oﬀ your dad’s best Hawaiian shirt. Their sound draws comparisons to Beck, Brian Wilson and The Flaming Lips, and is the perfect soundtrack to a beach stoner’s summer. The Laughing Leaves will be playing every Wednesday in February at The Old Bar, so grab a cold one and dance yourself dirty.

SYDONIA On Friday February 1, the mighty Sydonia return to Revolver in what will no doubt be a night of epic proportions. With a brand new album on its way in 2013, those attending will hear new tracks by one of Melbourne’s most loved and respected hard rock acts. Support comes from Shadowgame, featuring members of Engine Three Seven, the female-fronted LeBelle and Bendigo's Artilah. Tickets available from Moshtix or on the door.

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EL MOTH With the nights ﬁnally warming up and those sweet summer vibes rolling our way, El Moth are stoked to announce that they'll be playing the infamous Evelyn Hotel every Tuesday night in January and February. Expect some guest musicians and epic jams, and of course the mood-elevating blend of reggae, funk, rock and hip hop that the lads are known for. What better way to celebrate the summer than to have a kick arse two month party at the Evelyn? No better way, I hear you say. Good. Tuesday nights will feature a booty-shakin' set from drunken-reggae-funky-punksters El Moth with great support acts Band Of Frequencies, Lee Rosser and Tim O’Connor. 8.30pm.

DAN TROLLEY Having just released his debut cassette Hours Electric, Dan Trolley from the garage punk band Mass Cult will be bringing his solo synth/punk show to The Tote Hotel every Wednesday in January. Armed with only a guitar, drum machine and sampler, Dan Trolley creates a wall of sound of layered synths, reverb drenched fuzz guitars and repetitive '80s drum machine. Taking on inﬂuences such as Jesus & Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, Lou Reed and Tubeway Army, Trolley will be joined by very special guests every week. Catch him every Wednesday in the bandroom from 8pm.

KASHMERE CLUB Kashmere Club are a country bred, city living trio noted for their dual-frontman approach; they embrace ﬂamboyant guitar playing backed by a huge seventies-inspired rhythm section. Their folk-oriented lyrics are delivered with soaring harmonies entrancing crowds from The Espy front bar to The Hi-Fi bar and ballroom, where they played to a sold out crowd. Aligning their sound somewhere between The Living End and Band of Skulls, Kashmere Club have just been announced for St Kilda Festival 2013 and are ready to relentlessly attack the year ahead, starting with The Old Bar on Wednesday January 30 with The Fire Alive, and the psychedelic Perth blues of Man The Clouds.

THE CAT EMPIRE Melbourne’s favourite ska-hop sons, The Cat Empire, return to St Kilda Festival for the ﬁrst time since 2005, playing their beloved hits and previewing material from their new album, due out this coming May. Foxy Felix and the crew will bring the house down on the Main Stage on Sunday February 10.

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TABAS.CO If you love all those funky French records from the seventies with plenty of Brazilian, Caribbean and African inﬂuences by artistes such as Max B, Chocolats and Black Soul, then you will adore Tabas.Co. Led by the 'Charmante et Belle' Geraldine Rey of Port Montmartre in Guadeloupe, this is a tropical party band that would shake Napoleon from his grave. Their music oozes sunshine, sophistication and exotic rhythms. You can hear the YeYe pop busting through and the inﬂuences of the great French singers bubble below the surface as the congas and thumpin' bass get you jumpin'. Catch Tabas.Co at LuWOW's Forbidden Temple on both Friday February 1 and Saturday February 2. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Going to work during the day inspires you the most because it makes you want to get the fuck out of there and write some tunes. Why should everyone come and see your band? People should come and see Little Bastard because the live shows are always surprising even for the band members! We could probably be more prepared but the spontaneity in the songs and interaction between the band and crowd keeps it wild. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Legitimately having fun on stage and the crowd’s response being reciprocal. When are you doing your thing next? We’re going to play a lot of festivals this year, and we’re particularly excited about Boogie, I think it’s

gonna be wild. We also will be releasing our first album which will be hard work but we want it to be great, I feel the first release paves the way. Describe the best gig you have ever played. The Drunken Moon Festival at the Corner is definitely up there. Great crowd and response to a room of unfamiliar faces. How do you balance making and playing music with your other commitments? Very poorly – I think I need to be successful at music because I’m the worst employee in town. When’s the gig and with who? Our February Melbourne residency every Sunday. The first two weeks are at the Labour In Vain and the final two shows are at The Retreat.

CLARKEFIELD MUSIC FESTIVAL The Second Annual Clarkefield Music Festival will see some of Australia’s finest musicians join forces for a common cause, as they raise money to help assist children and their families living in poverty in Cambodia. The festival will feature renowned Australian musicians Tim The Roving Commission, Sal Kimber, The Toot Toot Toots, Charles Jenkins And The Zhivagos, The Stetson Family, San Gras And The Dead River Deeps, and local acts Paper Jane, Brother Johnstone, Jarrod Shaw and Sarah Wilkinson. Set on a vast grassy green lawn, surrounded by paddocks, trees, old wagons and the beautiful old bluestone buildings of The Clarkefield Hotel (Coach and Horses Inn, 1857), it’s the most surreal and ideal place to lay down a rug, sip a cold beer and enjoy some of the finest music the country has to offer. With BBQ food, cold drinks, market stalls, a jumping castle, good friends and great music, it’s a perfect way to spend a Sunday and raise some much needed funds to help the lovely people of Cambodia. The Clarkefield Music Festival takes place as The Clarkefield Hotel on Sunday March 17 from 12pm 'til 9.30pm. $30 presale, $35 at the gate, family tickets $70 and under 12s free. No BYO, drinks at bar prices. All money raised on the day will go directly to the running of a new school (which last years festival helped to build) for over one thousand children in the Kampong Thom province of Cambodia.

STRINE SINGERS Born last year, Strine Singers borrowed three vocalists, some lapsteel, some guitar, and some great songwriting from Canadian/Melbournian band IAMLOVEPROOF, and settled into the front bars of Melbourne’s pubs to play soft, harmonyrich versions of their songs. Breeding earnest country pop songs and broad accents with jazzjacked harmonies, this unlikely crossover has created a beautiful frankenstein. Catch Strine Singers when they play The Retreat Hotel front bar this Saturday February 2 from 7.30pm. At 10pm they’re followed by three-piece punk rock juggernauts Wolfpack, and then Burn In Hell, who have wreaked havoc throughout Australia and France over the last two years with their sensual, grinding rhythms and gravelly vocals. Free entry.

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STEREO ADDICTS After releasing two successful independent singles worldwide and touring the East Coast, including headline shows at The Metro in Sydney and The Hi-Fi Brisbane, indie-alternative rock sensations from NSW Stereo Addicts are preparing to hit Melbourne with a show at The Hi-Fi on Friday February 1. The band have been making waves on the Australian music scene since their ﬁrst single Goin’ Away was picked up by independent radio in Australia in June 2012. This led them on a tour between Brisbane and Sydney and a support with major triple j act Hunting Grounds. Their ﬁrst two singles are currently #3 and #4 in the country category on the triple j Unearthed charts. Don’t miss them perform when they bring their live show to Melbourne as part of their ‘In The Shadows’ Tour. They’ll be joined by special guests and notorious Melbourne indie band Red Ink. Tickets are available through the venue website.

SODASTREAM Six years after their last performance and a sweet 16 since they played their ﬁrst show way back in 1997, Sodastream come together for a special weekend at The Northcote Social Club. Playing songs from their four studio albums along with a few picks from assorted EPs and singles, the band hit their favourite Melbourne stage on Saturday March 2 and Sunday March 3. Support comes from good friends Oliver Mann (Saturday) and Anthony Atkinson & The Running Mates (Sunday). So now with an unﬁnished album crying out for attention, a batch of new songs on the boil and the Northcote stage beckoning, the boys are looking forward to a busy 2013. And all this courtesy of the failed Mayan apocalypse. $15+bf, or $18 at the door.

Melbourne three-piece rockers Chook Race are psyched to announce the release of their new cassette tape Power Nap and to celebrate they’re playing a launch at The Grace Darling with guests Pageants, Towelheads and DJ Riche 1250. After the release of a tape and debut 7” recorded by Mikey Young with a swag of sweet supports including Ty Segall, Sonny And The Sunsets and Kurt Vile And The Violators, the second half of 2012 was put on hiatus for the band when various members travelled overseas. Now they’re back and hitting 2013 with new songs of poppy and preppy energy; their new tape brimming with hooks, vocals harmonies and a love of scrappy pop. Get down to The Grace Darling from 9pm, grab a tape and start 2013 with some radness. $10 entry.

LongYard is a Melbourne-based band steeped in old time rockin’ boogie blues music. They’re teaming up with fellow blues performers Red Moon Duke and Catﬁsh Voodoo to bring you three hours of gritty blues music at The Bendigo Hotel on Sunday February 3. If you like your blues, head on down.

OL’ TIMEY WEEKLY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS Craig Westwood (ex-Headbelly Buzzard among other bands) brings his weekly ol’ timey music jam session across from The Lomond Hotel, its home for the past ﬁve years. BYO instrument or just hang out and enjoy the music in the beer garden. Every Saturday afternoon at The Vic Hotel from 4.30pm.

THE SWELL The Swell are a young rock-based instrumental trio established in Melbourne. Their music is inﬂuenced by the elements of the tempestuous ocean; serene, foreboding and thunderous, but most importantly their music is approachable. Adding to the aural delights will be dense visuals projected over the band. Catch the lads playing with seasoned garage rockers Sandcastle at Richmond’s Great Britain Hotel on Saturday February 2 from 9pm. Free entry.

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Garage rock’s ultimate mythical mischief-maker Nobunny is hitting Australian shores for the first time ever. With a career spanning over 12 years, Nobunny finally makes his way to Australian shores amidst the chaos of pink briefs, sweat, crowd surfing and wardrobe malfunctions. As the solo output for Hunx And His Punx guitarist Justin Champlin, his latest offering under the Nobunny monicker, First Blood, is full of quick and dirty blasts of lo-fi, but utterly charming garage rock proving this side project rips way too hard to be a gimmick. Nobunny plays at The Tote on Friday February 1 with guests Bits Of Shit.

The Blues Jam, a Sunday evening feature that was established at the Elwood RSL over the last 15 years, has now relocated to the Greyhound Hotel in St Kilda, corner of Brighton Road and Carlisle Street. The Jam is well known for encouraging new blues artists and supporting established musicians. Guests have included Dutch Tilders, Mike Rudd, Rob McKenzie and Robert Susz. The house band welcomes amateur and professional musicians to join them for one of several three-song sets. Celebrating the new era, the gig will be known as the Elwood Blues Club. It starts at 4pm every Sunday and entry is free.

THE MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Whether it’s western swing, hardcore country, Cajun, blues or rockabilly, The Moonee Valley Drifters have got all bases covered with their authentic crucial country style. The Drifters are back at The Vic Hotel on Saturday February 2 from 10pm, free entry.

DEAR STALKER It's all about three-piece noise at The Rochester Castle's Book Club Band Room this Thursday January 31. Dear Stalker will be smashing out their trademark grunge-pop tunes; some old, some new. Joining them will be post-punk/pre-apocalypse/alt-country rockers The Melanomads, who recently launched their debut album, Synthetic Voodoo. It's the perfect pre-weekend warm-up. It's gonna be fun. It's going to get loud. Entry is free. Does it get any sweeter than that? Starts at 9pm.

ANNA’S GO-GO ACADEMY Anna’s go-go classes are great fun, an excellent cardio workout, and have been described as “a retro hit parade… everything from Elvis’s Jailhouse Rock to AC/DC’s Jailbreak," and a “high energy dance party with the hostess with the mostest." Every Thursday night at The Vic Hotel from 6pm and at The Gasometer Hotel on Tuesdays at 7pm and 8.30pm.

SUZIE STAPLETON Suzie Stapleton plays her ﬁrst show for 2013, joining the St Kilda Festival Live N Local lineup on Sunday February 3 at St Kilda Bowls Club. Stapleton’s recently released EP Obladi Diablo has been said to carry “a depth of expression and passion you don’t ﬁnd in the ordinary record”. Drawing comparisons to Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, and Mark Lanegan, “she sounds like the devil convincing you to sell your soul”. Stapleton will be joined onstage by cellist Gareth Skinner (The Holy Sea, Wagons) with support from Waco Social Club and Mr Sippy. Bands start at 5pm, free entry.

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THE ROSHAMBOS The Roshambos, one of Brisbane’s freshest quirk-rock acts, will be hitting the Melbourne circuit for the ﬁrst time in early February. The whimsical foursome ﬂaunts a distinctive brand of songwriting ingenuity, crafting melodic and lyrical prose that will lodge itself in your brain and refuse to leave. Joining these bouncy Brisbane vagabonds on their Melbourne leg are Newcastle pop-rockers The Havelocks, who boast masterfully constructed Britpop and spine tingling harmonies on a backdrop of screeching single coil pickups. Local quirk-rock act Pensive Penguin round out the bill, weaving lyrical tales with quirky jangling pop stylings to craft music that is toe-tapping, thought-provoking and raucous. You can catch The Roshambos, The Havelocks and Pensive Penguin in action at The Brunswick Hotel on Friday February 1 and again at 303 on Friday February 8. The Roshambos will also be playing an extended set at The Edinburgh Castle Hotel on Saturday February 2 Beat Magazine Page 60

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Tasty Trios are on again at the Brunswick Hotel on Saturday February 2 for an early session, playing 5 'til 8pm. The Tasty Trios Collective is the brain child of vocalist/guitarist/ songwriter Bob Crain. First up at the Brunny are new kids on the block Pocket Perspective, followed at 6pm by Temple Of Tunes. The evening is capped oﬀ by one of Melbourne’s needs-to-be-heard bands, folk rockers The Likely Suspects. Get along for a great evening of original music presented by the Tasty Trios Collective.

ROSS HANNAFORD & THE CRITTERS He’s a national treasure. He’s a unique guitar player, is considered one of the greatest guitarists in the world, and he’s right at our doorstep in Elsternwick. He’s Ross Hannaford. Funk-reggae grooves, out of this world soulfulmelodious guitar playing and animated showmanship. Kick back, put your feet up, or dance the night away to brilliant funk-soul-reggae tunes. Flying Saucer Club, Saturday February 2, 8pm.

THE RUSTY PICKERS The Rusty Pickers are an acoustic trio that are about as bluegrass as you can get. Mastering the styles of country, bluegrass and roots music, these three are lightning fast on the ﬁnger front. If you want to see some of the ﬁnest bluegrass players going around then pop into Richmond’s Great Britain Hotel on Sunday February 3 for a taste of country gold. 7.30pm, free entry.

JOHN FLANAGAN & THE BEGIN AGAINS John Flanagan & The Begin Agains have been impressing audiences at gigs and festivals around Australia with their lush four-part vocal harmonies and delicate acoustic textures on banjo, guitars, violin and mandolin. Drawing comparisons to artists such as Gillian Welch, James Taylor and Alison Krauss, the four-piece Melbourne band has developed a stirring sound driven by strong vocals and deeply honest storytelling. In 2012 they embarked on their Young Minds EP tour around Victoria before travelling to the US as a duo where they performed at the Americana Music Conference in Nashville and the Watermelon Park Festival in Virginia. Catch John Flanagan & The Begin Agains on Thursday January 31 at The Retreat Hotel with support from Nigel Wearne in duo mode (who recently received a four star review in Rolling Stone Magazine for his new album Black Crow). Music starts at 9pm, free entry.

SKY MUSIC The year 2013 is shaping up to be the biggest ever for one of Australia's biggest music stores. Melbourne's own Sky Music has exploded onto the music retail scene over the past few years with a combination of competitive prices and an exciting range of product on display. The Sky Music crew specializes in high end guitars and has carved out a reputation for having the biggest selection of Fender and Gibson guitars in Melbourne, as well as a comprehensive range of amplifiers and guitar accessories. Sky Music is also committed to flying the flag for Australia's two major guitar companies, offering a wall full of Maton and Cole Clark guitars for guitarists to select from. Beyond guitars, the store also boasts an impressive display of pianos – at times over 100 of them – in particular second hand Japanese built pianos from Yamaha and Kawai. This year the company plans to further enhance its range of guitars by adding a large selection of Gretsch guitars, Fender basses, SWR bass amplification and more. Sky Music will also be adding a monster range of Fender Custom Shop guitars to hang alongside its comprehensive range of Gibson Custom Shop guitars currently on display in their showroom. If you haven't already seen Sky Music, or at least haven't visited lately, do yourself a favour and head down to the showroom in Clayton. You haven't seen a guitar collection until you visit Sky Music. 2181 Princes Highway, Clayton 3168 (opposite IKEA Springvale). Open seven days, 10am to 5pm.

SHANGRI LA The excellent Exhaustion, a weirdo depresso unit featuring members of Ooga Boogas, Deaf Wish, Lower Plenty and Snawklor & Keiths, are playing at The Gasometer tonight. Joining them are Chairman Meow and DownPat DJs (Mad Nanna, Sunshine & Grease, O’Tomorrow). Doors at 8pm and it’s all free. Yes, free.

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FLYYING COLOURS Flyying Colours are bringing their psychedelic shoegaze to Cherry Bar tonight for their last Cherry residency gig for the month. They’re joined by Lunaire and Cherry DJ who’s on the decks till 3am. 7pm, free entry.

THE RESIGNATORS The Resignators play roots punk like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. They’re playing at Cherry Bar on Saturday February 2 with guests Loonee Tunes and Kujo Kings, then DJs Adalita and Mary M take over 'til 5am. $13 entry from 8pm 'til 11pm, then $10 'til 5am.

CHRIS WILSON Australian blues royalty Chris Wilson is playing two special sets for Cherry Arvo Blues at Cherry Bar on Sunday February 3. Chris Wilson kicks oﬀ at 3pm sharp then at 6.30pm he hands it over to DJ Max Crawdaddy. Free entry.

DAN WEBB Melbourne singer/songwriter Dan Webb is back with twelve brand new songs, each to be released individually for free download throughout 2013. Webb’s new recordings feature Peter Marin (Paul Kelly, Bertie Blackman) on drums, Josh Jones (Dan Sultan, Gossling) on bass and Kieran Conrau & Ari Farrar from The Cat Empire horn section. Previously having toured Australia, the UK and New Zealand in support of his 2010 sophomore EP Hyperspace Clearance, Webb is now set to embark on his biggest national tour to date. Dan Webb plays at The Workers Club on Thursday February 7.

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GOLD FIELDS Following the recent announcement of Gold Fields debut album release Black Sun for Friday March 8 and upcoming 2013 tour, comes the news that the band have added an extra show on their upcoming East Coast Australian circuit. Known for their energetic pulsating live shows, Gold Fields will play The Toﬀ in Melbourne on Thursday January 31. Limited tickets are on sale now and available via Moshtix.

The Gasometer hosts a collective of punk rock music from four of Melbourne’s ﬁnest on Thursday January 31. Fresh oﬀ a bunch of shows opening for The Story So Far, Melbourne’s pop punk kings Strickland are playing a headline show with other local support acts. Also having multiple tours with international bands under their belts, Cavalcade are a four-piece that deliver fast and melodic technical punk rock to get ya head moving. First show back, Idle Hands come in second with a intense new live set bringing a heavy punk rock sound and rock’n'roll vibes with a stage presence to be reckoned with. Feverteeth open the night with energy-fuelled screamo music and a stage show not to be missed. Get down early, enjoy good eats and a few brews for what’s sure to be a killer night of local music.

PUBLIC BAR SUPER BOWL PARTY The Public Bar in North Melbourne are hosting their ﬁrst annual super bowl party on Monday February 4 starting at the sweet morning time of 9am. They'll be playing the game live on the big screen in the band room. There'll be some extra American beer on the beer list, and they're happy as hogs to announce that the amazing Gumbo Kitchen will be serving grub at the bar from 10am until they run out of food. Po'Boys, buﬀalo chicken, slow braised beef debris, soft shell crab, slow braised beef on fries with spiced mayonnaise and pickles, Cajun red beans on fries – now does anyone know how gridiron works?

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UNAUSTRALIAN The UnAustralians will be launching their debut EP Straight Up The Guts with support from The Record Boys, Townhall and Low Fly Incline at Yah Yah’s on Friday February 1. The UnAustralians are a bunch of familiar faces from Melbourne’s pub scene; the rock band features James Lomas, Clay Handley and Al Judd. It’s also been a while now since your ears have heard the fat ass pub rock sound of The Record Boys live and this will also be a comeback show for the lads. Be sure not to miss this hell of a wild and raucous night. Doors 5pm, bands at 9pm, $6.

THE OCEAN PARTY The Ocean Party continue to woo the not-so-general public with songs from last year's lauded debut LP Social Clubs. See them perform a free show at Yah Yah’s on Saturday February 2. Joining The Ocean Party in all their bittersweet pop elegance is Last Leaves (comprising members of The Lucksmiths and Great Earthquake) and the minimalist melodic invention of Totally Mild. Doors 5pm, bands at 9pm, free entry.

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OH PEP! Oh Pep! was formed in 2009 by songwriters Olivia Hally and Pepita Emmerichs. Since then, having picked up a sweet band along the way, they are creating a fresh blend of folk, pop, country and bluegrass that is exciting audiences and listeners all over the country. In this short time they have already performed with the likes of Liz Stringer, The Vaudeville Smash, Woohoo Revue, Saskwatch and folk festivals, including Maldon, where they won the songwriting award in 2011. In 2012 they took the plunge and recorded their self titled EP with renowned engineer Cam Trewin (Saskwatch, Stoneﬁeld, Kingswood) to rave reviews. With big plans ahead, be sure check out Oh Pep! They will be showcasing their songs as a trio at The Retreat Hotel front bar on Tuesday February 5 from 8.30pm.

Sticky's Paper City festival starts with a full-on 'do' at Yah Yah's on Thursday February 7, featuring bands-who-makezines, DJs-who-make-zines, zines, dancing and stuﬀ. From Melbourne are the left-ﬁeld hip-hopped technicolour sounds of Brothers Hand Mirror; from ACT & NSW is the riotous clamour of Madam Acne & The Screw-Ups; Sydney’s Bastian Fox Phelan/Carlin Dally/Di Drew rock triumvirate Moonsign; from France is a solo set from Giz Medium; and from the deepest of Brunswick is the noisy stoner raucousness of The Church Of Hysteria. There’ll be a zine stall and DJ sets until past your bedtime from Cassettes & Chocolate Milk, DJ Supernowoczesna, Project Bridget, Stitches In My Head and more. All of that for only $8 entry. For more information head to stickyinstitute.com.

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Australia's much loved and hairiest band, The Beards, return to Melbourne to headline Rock The Bay festival on Saturday February 16 at The Espy. Joining them are local heroes Electric Mary, Sydney instrumentalists and ARIA nominees Sleepmakeswaves, plus Bellusira, Engine Three Seven, King Of The North, Tim McMillan Band, The Khyber Belt, Moroccan Kings, Manatarms (Chile), Sleep Parade, New Skinn and heaps more. 30 amazing Aussie bands over three stages. Check out rockthebayfestival.com for the full lineup.

Jive. Whip. Rumble. Roussemoff are all of these things. 'How could these things be qualified by a three-piece minimalist psychedelic metal band?' I hear you ask. The answer is not a short one. It's approximately an hour in length and will occur at Bar Open tonight. Nor is the answer a quiet one. It is loud, abrasive, physical, groove-laden and partly elucidated in their recent album Special Long Decay Version. Joining Roussemoff in pontificating on the nature of their own shared musical partnerships on the night will be Spidergoat Canyon, having just recently returned from Japan, Chico Flash, having just recently returned from the U.S.A, and Carlyfern The Humicorn, recently returned from a lengthy sojourn through inner space to the border between mind and soul. Like all good wisdom, entry is free.

YEO Better grab your dancing shoes for this one. On Saturday February 9 Yeo is launching his fourth album Sell Out, and whether your musical tastes are for the spicier end of jazz and funk, or you prefer the straight-up sugary rush of bubblegum pop and hook-laden R&B, this guy’s got your dish. Think James Blake’s intimate prism of future garage songcraft combined with the playful work ethic of Prince and Chet Faker’s blue eyed jams, seasoned with a lick of Pharrell Williams’ cocky colour. With Brisbanite Dot.AY’s experimental Chipmusic jams and Melbourne party-starters Francolin joining the party, it’s sure to be one hell of a knee-bender. It's happening at The Toﬀ. Tickets $10, doors 7.30pm.

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AGENCY DUB COLLECTIVE Australia's live dub pioneers, Agency Dub Collective, return to Bar Open to do what they've been doing for well over a decade – provide an original voice on the Australian live music scene. Their music is steeped in classic tones and rhythms, yet constantly pushing into unexplored sonic territories, awash with spacey sounds and ever-heretical lyrics. In an era rife with politically correct mediocrity, Agency Dub have their collective shoulder to the wheel of heavyweight spaciousness. Blending cutting-edge live dub, reggae and hip hop with reverbs you'll feel alllll the way down. Feel good music for your soul. This will be the ﬁrst show back in Melbourne after an East Coast tour, so they're sure to be in red hot form. Come on down and join the house-party-in-a-bar upstairs at Bar Open this Saturday February 2.

MICHAEL PLATER Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Avoiding the pretentious nature of this response, we’ve received word that we have similarities to the likes of David Bowie and the Fab Four. What do you love about making music? The genuine enjoyment people receive from listening to our music If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuﬀ, who would it be and why? James Brown, he’d know what to do. If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? Simon Fuller for creating music contest shows. Although responsible for keeping the music industry aﬂoat, vastly more talented independent artists just can’t compete with the mass promotional tools of these sorts of shows. When’s the gig and with who? Friday February 1 at Brunswick Hotel, Saturday February 2 at Edinburgh Castle, Friday February 8 at 303 and Sunday February 10 at The Gasometer, with support from The Havelocks, Hiding with Bears and Pensive Penguin. Beat Magazine Page 62

What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Have a good product, be able to do everything yourself, be prolific, have a rigorous touring schedule and get to know people that know people. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? Ballyhoo and Noises from Hootchy – Kootchy available from Bandcamp or off our website roshambos.com, they also can be bought from our honesty suitcase at shows. When are you doing your thing next? We’re currently recording our third EP which should be released in the autumn months. If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why? A Crunchie, because once you’ve finished eating you still have honeycomb stuck in your teeth. When we’re finished playing you’re left with a song stuck in your head…hopefully. What advice would you give to bands that are new on the Melbourne music scene? Make good posters (not like us apparently) and use good fonts.

Local art-rock/indie-noir singer-songwriter Michael Plater will be bringing his team of sonic adventurers The Exit Keys to The Vic Hotel on Friday February 1 for what will be their ﬁrst show of 2013. There will be a special free CD giveaway of Blue Church Sessions on the night. Joining them will be psychedelic fuzzpoppers Astral Sunrise. The night kicks oﬀ at 10pm and entry is free.

ALTA Singer/song-writer Hannah Lesser and producer Julius Dowson have combined their varied musical backgrounds to create Alta’s unique mix of organic vocals and sample-heavy/electronic beats. For their show at The Gasometer on Saturday February 2, they’re supported by Wall Of Mirrors who return after a few months oﬀ from touring with other bands, jetsetting and/or falling in love in the Northern Hemisphere. Frontlady Emma Stuart has decided to make the move back to Berlin – so this could be the last chance to see this band with the current lineup. Rounding out the bill is Chela, the new disco heathen goddess on the block (she may be the ﬁrst, come to think of it). Or, head downstairs to see the Generation X Tour, featuring Newcastle metalcore band The Storm Picturesque and Adelaide’s Graveyards. It’s a big night of music on Saturday February 2 at The Gasometer.

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LA BASTARD Surf/rockabilly/'60s extravaganza La Bastard are back. Having quickly earned a reputation as one of Melbourne's wildest live bands – with antics ranging from playing on tabletops and bars to entire crowds storming the stage – La Bastard now deliver their sophomore album Tales From The Beyond. Recorded with Paul Maybury (Rocket Science) at Secret Location Studios and mixed by Jesse Booher (Looma), the new album infuses La Bastard’s energetic, reverb-drenched classic sound with a sultry, moody underbelly. La Bastard will launch Tales From The Beyond on Friday February 8 at The Spotted Mallard with The ReChords and Cherrywood as supports. Tickets are $12 at the door.

BLOOM Drawing heavily from the likes of Radiohead, Sigur Ros and Flying Lotus, Bloom are ready to turn heads. Forming in 2012 after late nights of swapping tracks while studying jazz at New York University, the quartet combines melodic elements of rock and folk with the sonic complexities of modern electronic and ambient music, all the while maintaining a core of virtuosic improvisation. Because of this, each song is approached with a completely new outlook at every gig and repeatedly made fresh, imaginative and exciting. They perform at The Evelyn Hotel on Sunday February 3 with Administrator and BTCollective. Doors at 8pm.

DREW’S DIRTY DOZEN Melbourne’s own Drew Downing brings his 12-piece stage band to town for Midsumma. Performing hits by Divinyls, Bryan Adams and Britney Spears to name a few, Downing fronts Melbourne’s hottest musicians for the ultimate live music event this Midsumma. With the gorgeous Anthony Bolger and Kyahl Anderson by his side, Downing is set to impress for two shows only at The Colonial Hotel in the CBD on Saturday February 9 and Sunday February 10. Both shows kick oﬀ at 8pm.

THE HARLOTS Quit sleeping! The Harlots are returning to Brunswick. Every Thursday night this February, they're unhitching our caravan at The Rare And Reclusive, Oft Neglected, Lesser Spotted Mallard. Thanks to a series of elaborately rigged poker games, months of bare-faced ﬂattery and precision-guided strategic groveling, they're bringing Major Tom & The Atoms, The Pretty Littles, Cherrywood and La Bastard along with them. Only ﬁve shiny dollars.

HIGH HIGHS Tipped as a band to watch by Pitchfork, NME and The Guardian on the strength of their debut EP, High Highs will be home in Australia to show oﬀ their wares at Laneway Festival. Melbourne fans will be treated to the hypnotic live experience with an intimate show at The Toﬀ In Town tonight. The Sydney natives have now relocated to Brooklyn; but the chaos and cold have done little to diminish their dreamy, atmospheric sun kissed pop.

ECSTATIC RITE The ladies of the Psychedelic Coven have promised to set your mind ablaze with Ecstatic Rite at The Gasometer this February. Formidable force Little Desert will be headlining, led by Esther Rivers' lupine howl and featuring Roman Tucker's ominous organ. Joining them for the night of primal psychedelic celebration will be Hex on the Beach, Asps and Psychedelic Coven DJs. Come ﬁght for your right to party at The Gasometer on Friday February 1.

VIRTUE Virtue are a three-piece rock/pop band from Melbourne. After having some time away from the music scene, they realised they needed to start up again. They’ve since been busy little rockers, writing six new songs in a little over six months and before their most recent hiatus they’d written a bunch of tunes. Hear Virtue perform their new material live this Friday February 1 with Fattyboomba and DJ Traﬃc Jam till 3am. Bands start at 9.30pm, free entry.

GARETH SOBEY Jerk City is a new band fronted by local singer-songwriter and ex-Tinsmoke guitarist Gareth Sobey. They’re bringing their brand of mope-rollick, slacker-twang and blackhumoured melancholy to The Retreat beer garden on Saturday February 2 from 4pm. Support from former bandmate and Tinsmoke frontman Ryan Nico who will be playing solo. Free entry.

THE HARD ACHES Adelaide's The Hard Aches and Melbourne's Foxtrot are joining forces to launch their split CD on Saturday February 2 at The Public Bar in North Melbourne. The split is a taste of what's to come from both bands' debut albums set for release later this year. Good pals Kill The Matador and The Shadow League will be supporting for the night. 8.30pm, $8.

A guide to eating out in Melbourne AIX Rosé This delicious rosé originates from Maison Saint Aix, situated just north of Aix-En Provence, France, also known as the “Paris” of Southern France. World famous for its superb rosé wines; rosé wines produced in the Coteaux-D’Aix-En-Provence region were the first and most appreciated in the world. Literally, it is AixEn-Provence were the Rosé wine was born. That fact inspired AIX to produce an award winning top class rosé and that is why AIX refers to the city of Aix-EnProvence. Now being imported by WEimport, you can get yourself a bottle of AIX rosé from Toorak Cellars in Armadale, Prince Wine Store in South Melbourne, Leos Fine Food and Wine in Kew, Wine Bins in Prahran and The Kent Hotel in Carlton North. Contact info@ weimport.com.au for more information.

ZAMBRERO Fresh Mexican food with a side of good karma? That’s what we call healthy eating, as Zambrero opens its second Melbourne venue at 374 Chapel Street, South Yarra. Ever been stuck on Chapel Street after midnight searching for something to eat that isn’t deep-fried? So has Mitchell Jones, the owner of new late night eatery Zambrero. Staying open from lunch until 3am Thursday-Saturday and late every other night, Zambrero will be a go-to for late night diners looking for tasty, clean food. The ingredients are fresh like you’d expect them to be; the garlic is purple, the onions are red, the avocado is smashed in front of you; the meats are slow cooked and most of the menu is gluten free. And the best part? When you eat a less fortunate friend will eat, too. For every burrito or bowl you purchase Zambrero will give a plate of food to someone less fortunate. Through their Plate4Plate program, Zambrero have donated over 1,000,000 meals to people who really need them. Zambero just opened last week. Hours are Sunday-Wednesday (11am-late), Thursday-Saturday (11am-very late).

The Tree Of Us BY JOANNA ROBIN The Tree of Us has been carefully cultivated by Christian and his two chums, Shaun and Anna. While the treesome had talked of venturing into business together for almost ten years, like many of the best ideas, The Tree Of Us first sprouted on a drunken evening in front of the television. Scrolling through Gumtree in search of home supplies, they stumbled upon a business for sale. While freshly painted street art gives the outside a distinctive edge, like any newly opened cafe, it might take a little while for the inside to gain the softness of a place oft dined. Tucked behind the building, however, is a cute courtyard, complete with Wallace and Gromit figurines. The openness and warmth of the owners is at once apparent, giving a familiar,

THE LAST JAR This sister venue of The Drunken Poet, located at 616 Elizabeth Street, is an authentic Irish Pub in Melbourne’s CBD, serving comforting and traditional Irish food. Choose from the delicious Goulburn Valley porterhouse with house cut chips and green salad, Irish stew, roasted Milawa chicken with butter roasted potato and hamhock coleslaw or whisky cured salmon, cream cheese and herb salad, to name a few. Open from midday everyday (except Monday) with full Irish Breakfast 12 noon - 5pm every Saturday and Sunday.

BOB EVANS HEADLINES GREAT AUSTRALIAN BEER FESTIVAL Bob Evans will be helping celebrate boutique brews when he headlines an impressive lineup at Geelong’s inaugural Great Australian Beer Festival. The one day festival, billed as Geelong’s biggest beer garden, will allow beverage lovers the chance to sample over 100 craft beers and ciders, along with seminars, food stalls and a live soundtrack. Joining Evans will be The Vaudeville Smash, Australia’s Got Talent semifinalist Adam Hynes, Byron Bay duo The Firetree and local songbird Izzy Losi. The Great Australian Beer Festival is being held at Geelong Racecourse on Saturday February 2 from 11am - 7pm.

MELBOURNE’S LATIN SUMMER FESTIVAL 2013 AT FEDERATION SQUARE Melbourne’s first Latin summer festival has been created to include all categories of art, culture and entertainment from Latin America. The festival will showcase Melbourne’s rich and diverse Latin culture through cuisine, art, music, night life (bar/fonda), family entertainment/activities as well as differing hand crafts, jewellery and fashion stalls. There will be a fully licensed site with bar and DJs, Latin cuisine, circus-inspired roving performances, parades of Latin music styles such as salsa, reggaeton, cumbia, bachata, including dance classes and a Zumbathon! There will also be a specialised area only for kids with different attractions like a jumping castle and other children’s activities. It’s on Saturday February 9 from 11am to 9pm at Federation Square, River Terrace. Check out melbournelatinsummerfestival. com for more info.

homely vibe; chef Shaun in fact lives on the premises. According to Christian, it’s Shaun, who worked at Neil Perry’s Rockpool, that is “the brains behind the operation” and who is largely responsible for the supplies. What can be made in house is made on the premises. With their roots firmly in the Mornington Peninsula, what can’t be made is sourced from a combination of family, friends and businesses based both on the Peninsula and locally. With the aim of creating Melbourne’s best burgers in mind, no part of the menu appears unexamined. The Mexican Burger, maintained an excellent balance between its contents and bun, sourced from Noisette in Dandenong and according to my companion “better than Huxtaburger.” It featured house jalapenos, guacamole and tomato salsa. “Sean has put a lot of time and effort into getting it right, every little bit of the burger he’s really thought about.”

A devout chippy fan, I have sampled many of Melbourne’s starchy offerings and The Tree Of Us’ twice-fried hand cut chips were certainly some of the best I’ve encountered. They accompanied a generous serving of the special roast beetroot salad, which was fresh and flavoursome, with a complementary mix of pistachios and orange. Obviously a labour of love, the three owners have succeeded in producing superior quality burgers and food, without prices climbing out of reach. The Tree of Us is sure to be a local favourite. The Tree of Us is located at 71 Church St, Richmond, 3121. Call them on 03 9077 3839.

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DROPKICK MURPHYS Signed And Sealed In Blood

1. Girls In The Garage LP VARIOUS

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Dropkick Murphys’ 2011 LP Going Out In Style saw the band put together a linear, focused concept album following the fictional life of one Cornelius Larkin. In 2013, the new album Signed And Sealed In Blood sees them relax a little. Stylistically, the band never strays from what they know, so the music (see traditional Irish folk, Oi! punk and rock’n’roll) itself is similar between the two efforts, but what’s different is the process of getting there. Where Going Out In Style feels measured, Signed And Sealed In Blood feels like a party; a bunch of simpler songs that a crowd can sing along to. The themes touched on in Signed… are everything you expect from a Murphys album. They are the amplified voice of every working class Bostonian. There are songs about getting drunk (Burn, Out Of Our Heads), good Catholic girls (Out On The Town), the Irish spirit of rebellion (The Prisoners) and their beloved Boston Red Sox baseball team (Jimmy Collins’ Wake). But it’s songs like Rose Tattoo and End Of The Night that really set this album apart. Rose Tattoo is an unconventional love song in a traditional Irish veil, while End Of The Night is a quintessential drinking song that will resonate with the rummy in all of us. It’s the type of song to have us arm in arm, clinking glasses and wiping tears away as we wail the chorus into the night.

2. Bazooka LP SHOES 3. Persecution Blues 10” POWDER MONKEYS 4. Aloha LP CUNTZ 5. Reality Is A Grape LP CHEATER SLICKS 6. Warehouse Songs 2xLP HUSKER DU 7. House Rockin’ LP GORIES 8. Bears For Lunch LP GUIDED BY VOICES 9. Luminous Groove 8xLP ROBYN HITCHCOCK 10. Friday At Yah Yahs DJ WET WAX

After 17 years and eight albums, Dropkick Murphys prove once again that while anyone can add a tin whistle, banjo or an accordion to punk rock, there’s only one band that does it best.

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1. Ready for Boredom LP BED WETTIN’ BAD 2. Live On PBS 8/3/07 LP STRAIGHTJACKET NATION

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The sooner I ﬁnish this, the sooner I get beer and tacos. Beer and tacos, beer and tacos, beer and tacos. YOLO.

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No Freedom (Sony) The words ‘feckless titmouse’ have just popped into my head. It seems harsh, I know, but this is how my brain defends itself against lyrics like, ‘No love without freedom/No freedom without love’. Surely we can all agree that those lyrics are the work of a feckless titmouse.

SOMETHING WITH NUMBERS

We Kill The Weekend (Stop Start/EMI) With a slight lineup change, Something With Numbers return and release a fourth studio album, some ﬁve years after their third. We Kill The Weekend is the lead single, a bombastic commercial rock strut-fest that is stadium-scale but also massively daggy – Foo Fighters if Foo Fighters were a little bit emo and a little bit Van Halen.

CONOR MAYNARD FEAT. WILEY

Animal (EMI) Britain’s answer to Justin Bieber teams up with London rapper Wiley for this grimy club pop tune, which has a warped beat but is otherwise indistinguishable from the work of Justin Bieber.

JAGWAR MA

The Throw (Future Classic) Sydney’s Jagwar Ma follow last year’s Come Save Me with this crafty psych rock epic. The Throw has a Madchester ﬂavour; a Primal Scream groove, a Happy Mondays swagger, a melodic Stone Roses kind of ﬂow. The tune has a grinning heart too, which carries you through seven long minutes in the blink of an eye.

ALEX WATTS & THE FOREIGN TONGUE

Warned (Astound Records) This unnecessarily long tune from Alex Watts & The Foreign Tongue features a flurry of horns by the Melbourne Ska Orchestra and a hugely drawn-out finale. Forming some sort of ‘song cycle’ with their previous single, This Haunting, Warned is about a guy drunkenly serenading a prostitute. Like the previous single, the story of the song is completely impenetrable without the press notes. And even when they tell you what it’s about, the lyrics don’t seem to mean much of anything. A lot of thought has gone into this work, judging by the press notes, but without much effect.

STEVE MASON

Fight Them Back (Domino/EMI) The Beta Band’s Steve Mason has a third solo album due out in March and this funky indie pop Beat Magazine Page 64

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tune to sell it. Those familiar with the Beta Band will recognise the trip hop beats and the layered, looping vocals, but Fight Them Back is somehow less sophisticated than that earlier work. Jazzy and melodic, it is Beta Band with a duller adult contemporary edge.

MATTHEW E. WHITE

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Big Love (Domino/EMI) Taken from the critically acclaimed LP Big Inner (due for release in Australia in late February), Big Love is a soulful, horn-peppered funk rock jam; an almost-formless tune that finds the lead player lost in the flowering tropical jungle of instrumentation, a warm tumbling river of bluesy psychedelia that has earned him comparisons to Bill Withers and The Band. Matthew E. White is the distant echo of these artists, mixed with a hefty dose of Curtis Mayfield and squeezed out through a hash pipe.

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Heartbreak Is Over (Alberts) Former Idol Paulini carved out a proﬁtable niche in the queer club scene with her 2011 single Fireman. She follows it with an equally glossy house tune that shows oﬀ her impressive vocal range while being totally trashy and unlistenable – unless you happen to like gay club anthems.

DESTINY’S CHILD

Nuclear (Sony) Nuclear is “when two become one on a quantum level.” As far as pop metaphors go, this is pretty ambitious. Sadly, they expended all of their songwriting energy on the lyrics, so anyone hoping for an R&B hit to rival Bills or Say My Name will be disappointed. Nuclear ain’t super combustible. (See what I did there, Destiny’s Child? I too can make a mockery of science.)

SUN CITY

High (Independent) Perth delivers yet another addition to the Midnight Juggernauts/Presets/Miami Horror melange, yet another second-generation synth rock band without the originality god granted a lemming.

5. Days Of Boredom LOWRIDER 6. Sunlight Streams Electric FUTURE LOVE HANGOVER 7. How We Live CLASSIK NAWU 8. What I Know THE HARLOTS 9. Old Parades ARCHERS 10. Red Light THE NEO

1. None Left 7” RAW PRAWN 2. Ready for Boredom LP BED WETTIN’ BAD BOYS 3. 20th Century Bricolage 7” RATSAK 4. Ahh...What an Ugly Face Every Face Is 7” AUSMUTEANTS 5. Do Me A Favour 7” HARMONY 6. Ways of Being LP RITES WILD 7. Ball Power LP COLOURED BALLS 8. Rough End of the Stick LP VARIOUS 9. Four Girls LP WOOLLEN KITS 10. Aloha LP CUNTZ

BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS ABOUT SAINTS 1. Saint Simon THE SHINS 2. St. Andrew (This Battle Is In The Air) THE WHITE STRIPES 3. St. Augustine BAND OF HORSES 4. Zed And Two Naughts THE MARS VOLTA

SINGLE OF THE WEEK THE DRONES

How To See Through Fog (Independent) The sixth Drones’ record is due for release in March and the opening salvo is a staid, tense and bitter lament. It has a broken soulfulness that is completely unaﬀected, piano notes that drop like rain and a ﬂat throb in the chorus. Atmospheric and angry and dark, the gravitas of this tune is immediately familiar; it could only be one band, and that band continues to be brilliant.

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Rather than expanding on 2010’s dynamic Black Noise, Pantha Du Prince reduces his sound down further for his latest release, Elements Of Flight. Paired with a Norway collective known as The Bell Laboratory, it’s basically one continuous song subtly broken down into ﬁve parts. The centerpiece is a bell carillon, a three-ton instrument made up of 50 bronze bells. It has all the markings of an experimental ambient masterpiece. And yet the end result doesn’t really break any new ground, opting to tastefully pay homage to classic electronica, but with echoes of the sort of modern-day classical music practiced by Philip Glass. It’s diﬃcult to grasp any continuity from Weber’s past work or hints at a new direction, just a delicate, somewhat clinical meeting of two minds. The constant chiming bell sound is something synonymous with beat-driven music from the classic Warp years, but it’s also already a familiar percussive element within Weber’s own back catalogue. You can’t help but will the exploration of music to be pushed further, go deeper, take us somewhere new. Some of the intricacies come through on repeated listens, but overall the lack of range is frustrating. Elements Of Light is an easy listen, ideal if you want some polite techno music to put on the background. It’s a step toward Weber becoming electronica’s prince Best Track: Spectral Split of lightness, but I’m more taken with the darker, If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Found Sound more eclectic Black Noise. SPOOKY, Glassworks PHILIP GLASS In A Word: Bell-Jaar CHRIS GIRDLER

NEW ORDER

Lost Sirens (Warner Music Australia) New Order’s 2001 album Get Ready was more than just a comeback – it set the template for pretty much every one of the band’s releases to follow. The formula goes something like this: they open with a banging track that makes you pump your ﬁst in the air while shouting ‘Fuck yeah, New Order are BACK!’ and from there, they settle into pleasant-enough, somewhat indistinct indie pop. Throw in another banger to make sure you’re awake, and some familiar, awful Bernard Sumner lyrical clangers, and there you have it. None of this is a bad thing – New Order are legends, and were right there leading the charge when dance music merged with indie rock, so they’re allowed to settle into a comfortable middle age. Lost Sirens isn’t exactly a new release – it consists of eight tracks, recorded around the time of Waiting For The Sirens’ Call, and featuring that album’s mixture of rousing guitars and gentle, unobtrusive electronic elements. I’ll Stay With You opens things on a rousing note, with a dance ﬂoor-ready pulse that recalls Crystal or Here To Stay. It’s a short but satisfying buzz, and one that quickly dissipates as the mid-tempo tracks pile on. There are a few surprises to come. Sugarcane merges the disco sound of Peter Hook’s Monaco side project with dubbedout guitar sounds, and adds some vintage New Order lyrical nonsense about stars riding in cars. For the most part, though, it’s elegant, sad ballads along the lines Best Track: Sugarcane of Californian Grass and Recoil. Once again, that’s If You Like These, You’ll Like This: MONACO, THE CURE, not a bad thing. PET SHOP BOYS In A Word: Gentle ALASDAIR DUNCAN

From The Black Keys to The White Stripes, The Mess Hall to The Cheats, two-piece bands are ultimately defined by their limitations. There is only so much sound two can make, so one thing these groups must strive for is an emphasis on performance and feeling. San Francisco’s Two Gallants are no different, blending unhinged ‘70s riffs and acoustic Americana to a not always cohesive whole. Following a split in 2007, a couple of solo records and a car accident, Two Gallants’ Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel regrouped in 2012 for The Bloom And The Blight. There’s several moments here where they’re an unstoppably powerful beast, fashioning a ruckus you might imagine coming from their eight-legged kinfolk. Taken individually, songs like My Love Won’t Wait and Ride Away are rock solid screamers, and reaffirm the tight musical bond between the two. Having played together since before puberty hit, the profound and intuitive communication is palpable. The softer and folkier side to the band, displayed on Broken Eyes and Song Of Songs is passable enough, but it’s hard to get excited about these tender moments when they only serve as a breather between the deranged rockers. Like soon-to-be touring mates Deer Tick, you get the sense that live they really could become something else, and make you wail along to the heavens as you spill beer on the person in front of you. With all this potential shown, it’s disappointing that on The Bloom And The Blight, Two Gallants are merely decent. Best Track: My Love Won’t Wait If You Like These, You’ll Like This: LED ZEPPELIN, NICK HILTON THE WHITE STRIPES In A Word: Shredded

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA II (Jagjaguwar/Inertia)

With her sword held to the sky, a naked woman dreamily leads Unknown Mortal Orchestra into battle on the cover of their second album II. Originally a solo home-recording project in NZ, ex-Mint Chick Ruben Nielson moved to Oregon to start anew. Joined by Greg Rogove and Jake Portrait, UMO quickly attracted international attention with their debut self-titled album. Now signed with Jagjaguwar, follow-up II is brutally honest with both its lyrical content and characteristic UMO soundscape. Drawn in by the tranquil guitar of From The Sun, you have two options with this album: you can listen to the music just for itself and have a harmonious time, or you can listen to the lyrics and have a moment inside your own mind. Both ways of consuming this record end up equally as wonderful. Written on the road, II lets you creep inside Ruben’s brain and sit patiently in the back seat. As the eﬀortless calm of psychedelic guitars take over, all elements echo a theme commonly explored by artists from the bottom corner of the world. The opening line “Isolation can put a gun to your head” pretty much sums it up. Title track Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark) takes you all the way to the “sweet cold bottom” of the sea for an underwater adventure – check it out online, it will get you oh so excited about the album’s Friday February 1 release (pre-orders include a temporary eye tattoo. Awesome.). There’s something about Ruben’s vocal and guitar tone that will always remain a little bit magical. Calm and truthful, he could probably convince me to Best Track: Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark) do anything. If You Like These, You’ll Like This: TAME IMPALA, MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER, OPOSSOM TANYDD JAQUET In A Word: Psych

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Fade (Matador/Remote Control)

ELLIE GOULDING Halcyon (Polydor)

English artist Ellie Goulding has recaptured the form of her dazzling debut album in style. Halcyon, a well-rounded contemporary pop record, is poised to leave listeners wowed, amazed and all-ears for more. Initially, Don’t Say A Word and the melodramatic My Blood lack definitive impact, instead easing listeners into the album. Primed for a pivotal single, though, Halcyon then ignites via euphoric pop anthem Anything Can Happen. The song shimmers excitedly, brimming with a certain electricity. Combined with its beguiling follow-up Only You, Halcyon buries its false start. Bombastic track Figure 8 seals the deal, snares lashing a ragged fuzz, fitting out an infectious chorus. Initially, Halcyon indulges in its own pomposity, but forgoes infatuation in favour of other murkier, more mysterious ideas and directions. Theatrical gem Joy surrenders its sweet serenity, ultimately opting for a symphonic, ceremonious outro. Meanwhile, gritty track Hanging On adds to the transition as a novel inclusion. There exists a distinct shift from the first half of Halcyon to its second. The record softens ever so slightly, encouraging a healthy diversity between songs. Sonically, Halcyon is simply gorgeous, its splendours springing forth from the album’s predecessor, Lights. It’s an album in which Goulding’s superb charisma once again collides with her intoxicating melodic prowess. The result is an emphatic example of clever contemporary pop with plenty to offer. Australia has not yet fallen to her charms but, at this Best Track: Anything Can Happen If You Like These, You’ll Like This: The Family Jewels MA- rate, Goulding cannot and will not be ignored. RINA AND THE DIAMONDS, Lights ELLIE GOULDING NICK MASON In A Word: Exciting

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Fade is only 45 minutes long, which might blow the mind of Yo La Tengo fans. The two last songs on their previous album, 2009’s Popular Songs, added up to half an hour on their own. This is shorter than we’re used to, getting rid of some of their lengthy guitar jam skronk-outs, but without playing up their hooky bubblegum pop side either. Fade opens with one of its highlights, Ohm, which layers a simple guitar rhythm with drums, claps, squealing and repeated lyrics that sound like an agnostic mantra, like religious music for people who aren’t very religious: “This is it for all we know/Nothing ever changes/ Nothing’s explained.” Well You Better is so quiet it sounds shy, but at the same time it’s a jaunty tambourineshaker of a song where Ira Kaplan calls you “baby”. Before We Run climaxes with sleigh bells and a horn section rather than guitar solos. Sometimes Yo La Tengo albums sound indecisive, like they’re a band who know every genre has the potential to be great and so try a bit of everything. But Fade doesn’t have any of their country songs, instrumentals, bossa nova experiments or even the ones where they sound like Neil Young (although it does have a couple of the ones where they sound like the Velvet Underground). Instead, it’s focussed on songs that sound mellow, that hum along gently and make you feel like you’re slowly sinking into a bathtub full of cotton wool. It might seem slight by their standards, but this Best Track: Before We Run gauzy introspection is still plenty enjoyable. Yo La If You Like These, You’ll Like This: PAVEMENT, Tengo just want to give you a hug. GALAZIE 500, GUIDED BY VOICES In A Word: Warm JODY MACGREGOR

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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY JAN 30 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS BODIES + BJ MORRISZONKLE + DUCK DUCK CHOPS + TEENAGE LIBIDO John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. COLLAGE - FEAT: DANCING HEALS + JUULY DAYS + SIMON ASTLEY Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. COMFORT CREATURE + THE GEORGIE DARVIDIS BAND Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DAN TROLLEY + SHIVA & THE HAZARDS + WILDING Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. FLYYING COLOURS + LUNAIRE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. HIGH HIGHS + CITY CALM DOWN Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $31. KASHMERE CLUB + MAN THE CLOUDS + THE FIRE ALIVE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. LEARN THE SPLITS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. MY LEFT BOOT + ALAN CAMPBELL + DRIFTER The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. OF STOLEN MOMENTS + DISASTERS + FRACTURES + TREASON + VALJEAN Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. PERFUME GENIUS + WINTERCOATS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $42. ROUSSEMOFF + CARLYFERN THE HUMICORN + CHICO FLASH + SPIDERGOAT CANYON Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SEXY/HEAVY + THE SPERMAIDS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $7. SUMMER OF CLASSICS - FEAT: OH PEP! Pure Pop Courtyard, St Kilda. 4:00pm. THE SPOILS The Resurrection, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BOHJASS + ROB SIMONE BAND 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

9:00pm. $14. JUDY BLUE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:00pm. THE GIANNI MARINUCCI NONET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20. THE NECKS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $27. THE SAM KEEVERS QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. XANI KOLAC & THE TWOKS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK HELEN CAT & CO Open Studio, Northcote. 9:00pm. JESSIE WARE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. KIM SALMON Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. LACHLAN BRYAN + TOBIAS HENGEVELD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. OPEN MIC Dancing Dog, Footscray. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. OPEN MIC Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. OPEN MIC Grind N Groove, Healesville. 7:30pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: CATFIGHT + RUTH LINDSEY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THURSDAY JAN 31 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS BELLA JABARA & THE MELLOWS + WHO DA FUNK IT Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5. BETTER THAN THE WIZARDS + LOW SPEED BUS CHASE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:30pm. BIG WORDS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BLACK FUEL + MOONSHIFTER + SELLING TIME Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $10. BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIC Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $15. BOHJASS UPAS MILITIA (ALBUM LAUNCH) + PATAPHYSICS + SPENCER P. JONES & THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30am. $15. BUSY KINGDOM (EP LAUNCH) + DAN KROCHMAL + DJ BEN RYAN + GOSSAMER PRIDE Workers Club,

Divine Fits

ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL St Jerome’s Laneway Festival has been renowned since its early origins in Melbourne as a festival with a carefully curated lineup that never fails to function as a forecast of acts that will be prolific in the year ahead. Lilted to no single genre, the festival aspires to showcase some of the more relevant experimental acts from a mix of both local and international scenes. Some of the big internationals this year include Bat For Lashes, Divine Fits and Japandroids, with locals that blew up in 2012 like Flume, Chet Faker and Snakadaktal. St Jerome’s Laneway Festival takes place at Footscray Community Arts Centre (ignore the lack of actual laneways for one minute, okay?) with acts like Alt-J, Cloud Nothings, Holy Other and heaps more on Sunday February 3. Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8. GOLDFIELDS + ANDEE FROST + ELIZABETH ROSE + TWINSY Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15. GREGORY PAGE + MATT BAILEY + SEAN SIMMONS The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10. INEDIA + CHARM + GOODBYE GALAXY + PIGTAILS + THE INSTINCTS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. MIDNIGHT CALLER + DEAD RIVER + NUN ON THE TONGUE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. RAH RAHS + JOUISSANCE + MONNONE ALONE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $6. RAINBIRD + MUSTARD + PROLETARIAN RIOT + UNICYCLE INVENTORS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. RECREATION WITH GUY CHAPPELL + CARLOS TURNER + ELEPHANT EGO + FLOUNDER + SMOKING TODDLERS + YES TESLA Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. SS BASS + ABSTRACT MUTATIONS + CARTOON + MENSTRUAL CYCLE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. STRICKLAND + CAVALCADE + FEVERTEETH + IDLE HANDS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5. THE DAY EVERYTHING BECAME NOTHING + BACKWARDS ZOMBIE + DEAD BOOMERS + WHITE GLOVE TEST Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. THE SECRET CITY Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THEE OH SEES + EASTLINK The Hi-ﬁ, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $41.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC AIRBENDERS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. ALWAN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:30pm. CHARLOTTE NICDAO & ADAM KATZ TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. JOE CHINDAMO & ZOE BLACK DUO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. OVEREASIES Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 8:00pm. REVEREND FUNK & THE HORNS OF SALVATION + DJS VINCE PEACH + PIERRE BARONI Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. STEPHANIE MONK BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. THE NECKS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $27. THE RETHINK PROJECT Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK AMY GANTER & THE LOVE & SQUALORS + ANTO YOUNG + DAN DINNEN Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:30pm. BLOW The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 8:00pm. BUTTERED LOAF Post Oﬃce Hotel, Coburg. 8:30pm. JACK PANTAZIS QUINTET Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. JOHN FLANAGAN & THE BEGIN AGAINS + NIGEL WEARNE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. LOUNGE THURSDAYS Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MAN IN THE CLOUDS + KINLOCH TROONS + TOM MILEK Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $6. OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. Beat Magazine Page 66

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OPEN MIC Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 7:00pm. RONIT GRANOT Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. SUMMER OF CLASSICS - FEAT: NICK BATTERHAM Pure Pop Courtyard, St Kilda. 4:00pm. TANE EMIA-MOORE + BROOKE TAYLOR Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

FRIDAY FEB 1 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS AMP LIVE - FEAT: HERMITUDE Federation Square, Melbourne. 6:00pm. AUSTRAL SUNRISE + MICHAEL PLATER & THE EXIT KEYS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. CHARLOTTE NICDAO + JAMES MOLONEY + OH PEP! Wesley Anne, Northcote. 2:58pm. CHOOK RACE + DJ RICHIE 1250 + PAGEANTS + TOWELHEADS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. DICE + POSEIDON + RUBBER DUB Ruby’s Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $5. EINSTEINS TOYBOYS Musicland, Fawkner. 9:00pm. $10. ELIZABETH COOK + THE SIDESHOW BRIDES Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $39. EXPIRE + IRON MIND Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. HERMITUDE + JONTI Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $25. HUMAN FACE Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. IAN MOSS + THE WORD Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:30pm. MELISSA MAIN BAND 303, Northcote. 6:00pm. NAHKO & MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. NOBUMMY + BITS OF SHIT Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. OILY BOYS + DRIBBLE + GUTTER GODS + MOB + SOMA COMA Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. PSYCHEDELIC COVEN PRESENTS - FEAT: ECSTATIC RITE + ASPS + HEX ON THE BEACH + LITTLE DESERT Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. SEEDY JEEZUS + BATTLE POPE + BODIES + FULLY COOKED + JESUS CHRIST POSSE Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. SERI VIDA Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 10:00pm. SLEEP OVER The Liberty Social, Melbourne. 8:00pm. SPRAY N WIPE - FEAT: HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGRY + ASTA SONS ET AL + LURCH & CHIEF + NEW GODS + PLUTO JONES + THE HOLIDAYS + TOKYO DENMARK SWEDEN Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $23. STEREO ADDICTS The Hi-ﬁ, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $26. SYDONIA + ARTILAH + LE BELLE + SHADOWGAME Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $12. THE DUB CAPTAINS + JUDE PEARL Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THE LUCK DRAGONS Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. THE ROSHAMBOS + THE HAVELOCKS + THE PENGUIN KINGS + THE PLAINS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE SINKING TINS + ADELAIDE CROWS + LOST VOLVOS + MIXED FEELINGS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. THE SPHERES + COLD HANDS WARM HEART + DJ LINK MEANIE + GHOST NOTES + JIMMY TAIT Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.

UNAUSTRALIAN + LOW FLY INCLINE + RECORD BOYS + TOWNHALL Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. VIRTUE + DJ TRAFFIC JAM + FATTYBOOMBA: TIN ALLEY PROJECT Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm. VOLTAIRE TWINS + LIMB + THE MCQUEENS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. WE LOST THE SEA + AGONHYM + BATPISS + NONTINUUM The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10. ZOO TWILIGHTS - FEAT: KATE MILLER-HEIDKE + KIM CHURCHILL Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. $55.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BABA YAGA ORKESTAR Open Studio, Northcote. 9:00pm. CANNONBALL Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25. KUNJANI Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. LA DANSE MACABRE - FEAT: BRUNSWICK MASSIVE DJ COLLECTIVE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. PAUL WINTER Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. THE ELLY HOYT QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK AWESOME WELLS + ACID WESTERN + KATHRYN KELLY 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $5. BLACK CEASAR Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm. BRONI Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10. HETTY KATE & 2020’S Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. NICK CHARLES Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. OPEN MIC & JAMM NIGHT St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 8:00pm. SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10. SUMMER OF CLASSICS - FEAT: NICK BARKER Pure Pop Courtyard, St Kilda. 8:00pm. THE 4-PEACE BAND Beaumaris Rsl, Beaumaris. 8:00pm. THE F100S Post Oﬃce Hotel, Coburg. 10:00pm. TOM CARTY + DEE VUKI The Wharf Hotel, Melbourne. 4:30pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm. WINTER MOON + GUESTS OF GHOST + VADGE DAGGAR Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. WOODEN MUSIC TOUR - FEAT: THE PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUGBAND + BEARDED GYPSY BAND + QUARRY MOUNTAIN DEAD RATS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $25.

Little Desert

ECSTATIC RITE Ecstatic Rite, presented by Psychedelic Coven, descends on The Gasometer this weekend to initiate the Midsommer Psychedelic Rite for those of willing body and open mind. The lineup includes a sure state of delirium with the likes of psychedelic connoisseurs Little Desert, Hex on the Beach, Asps and Psychedelic Coven DJs. Each act brings a different element of estactic pleasure to the evening so show up, indulge and party until the early hours of the morn’. Psychedelic Coven presents Ecstatic Rite featuring Little Desert and others at the Gasometer Hotel this Friday February 1. Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. SUMMER OF CLASSICS (CHARLES JENKINS) - FEAT: CHARLES JENKINS Pure Pop Courtyard, St Kilda. 4:00pm. THE LIKELY SUSPECTS + POCKET PERSPECTIVE + TEMPLE OF TUNES Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE RESIGNATORS + LOONEE TUNES + THE KUJO KINGS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. THE SECRET CITY Idgaﬀ Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. THE STORM PICTURESQUE + GLORIFIED + GRAVEYARDS + OCEAN GROVE + THIS FIASCO Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $15. THE UV RACE + DEAF WISH + PEAK TWINS + THE CLITS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12. TREAD + DESTROY SHE SAID + INVOLUME + MY SECRET CIRCUS Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. WOLFPACK + BURN IN HELL + DJ SEAN SIMMONDS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. WOODEN MUSIC TOUR - FEAT: THE PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUGBAND + BEARDED GYPSY BAND + MAX

HIGH HIGHS High Highs’ debut EP Open Season has made them a duo to watch in 2013 according to many tastemakers, including Pitchfork and NME, but the Sydney-born Brooklyn-based musicians remain somewhat enigmatic. The pair are playing headliners in Australia for the first time, alongside their stint at the Laneway Festival in the coming weeks. High Highs are revered for their endearing synths, and dream-like vocals which are sure to win over audiences, particularly in the more intimate solo show setting at Toff. High Highs play St Jerome’s Laneway Festival along with Divine Fits, Yeasayer and heaps more this Sunday February 3, and a headliner at The Toff in Town tonight. SAVAGE + QUARRY MOUNTAIN DEAD RATS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ALLAN BROWNE Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CANNONBALL Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. ELLY HOYT QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. EYAL & THE SKELETON CREW Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $20. LETTER B Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. RENEE GEYER Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30. RHYTHM OF AFRICA - FEAT: MUSIKI MANJARO Werribee Open Range Zoo, Werribee South. 5:30pm. SEXTETO ZONA SUL Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. ST KILDA FESTIVAL - FEAT: ARCHIE ROACH + ALLYSON WALKER + DEWAYNE EVERETTSMITH +

SATURDAY FEB 2 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS A HIGHER GROUND 2 - FEAT: CENTRE & THE SOUTH + AMY GANTER & THE LOVE SQUALORS + KASHMERE CLUB + LUNA GHOST + PURPLE TUSKS + SLOWJAXX & HIS FLYING BONG BROTHERS + THE INDIAN SKIES Barleycorn Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm. $10. ABOVE & BEYOND + ANDREW BAYER + NORIN & RAD Hisense Arena, Melbourne. 9:08pm. AGENCY DUB COLLECTIVE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. ALTA + CHELA + WALL OF MIRRORS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8. APART FROM THIS + DIRTY CHAPTERS + HUG THERAPIST + INITIALS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. BANG - FEAT: WISH FOR WINGS + ARMOURUS + LEFT FOR WOLVES Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20. CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT PARTY John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. CHEV RISE + ASTRAL SUNRISE + WARPIGS Idgaﬀ Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. CLAMPDOWN Rochester Castle Hotel, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. EARTH CRISIS + EMPIRE + IN TRENCHES + OUR SOLACE + RESTLESS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $35. FOXTROT + DJ KEZBOT + KILL THE MATADOR + THE HARD ACHES + THE SHADOW LEAGUE The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $8. FROM THE JAM + LITTLE MURDERS The Hi-ﬁ, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $65. GREGORY PAGE + DJ WHISKEY CREAM + LEON THOMAS + THE TEN IN ONE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. KATE ALEXA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $15. KINGS & QUEENS - FEAT: SENTIA + KILAMAINE + MOMENTS APART + ONE DAY MAYBE + SQUEAKER + TELLING SILENCE + VERONA LIGHTS Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $15. KUNG FU MONDAY + FLY YOU FOOLS + KAT ARDITTO + THE HIGH SUBURBAN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. LOST & LONESOME PRESENTS - FEAT: OCEAN PARTY + LAST LEAVES + TOTALLY MILD Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. LOW SPEED BUS CHASE + KASHMERE CLUB 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. RUDE BOY RIOT - FEAT: THE RESIGNATORS + DJ ADALITA + KUJO KINGS + LOONEE TUNES Cherry SUBMIT YOUR GIGS TO GIGGUIDE@BEAT.COM.AU

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ILLANA ATKINSON & THE DEANS + JOHN WAYNE PARSONS + KOORI TIDDAS YOUTH CHOIR & THE DHUNGALA CHILDREN’S CHOIR + KUTCHA EDWARDS + LADY LASH + THE SKIN CHOIR O’donnell Gardens (st Kilda), St Kilda. 8:00pm. THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR Open Studio, Northcote. 9:00pm. TRACY BARTRAM BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

JESSIE WARE Tonight, The Prince becomes its own Ware?House. Jessie Ware was a breakout artist of 2012 with her powerfully versatile voice not only lent to electronic producers (like SBTRKT) for that sought after element of fresh female vocal sophistication, but also to her own hit singles and the consequent slew of high profile remixes they inspired. With her debut album Devotion spawning seven singles to date, this is an artist that despite being early in her career already shows the promise of a strong UK songstress in the making. As well as performing at St Jerome’s Laneway Festival on Sunday February 3, she performs a solo show at the Prince Bandroom tonight.

SYDONIA This Friday January 1, the mighty Sydonia return to Revolver in what will no doubt be a night of epic epicness. With a brand new album on its way in 2013, those attending will hear new tracks by one of Melbourne’s most respected hard rock acts. Support comes from Shadowgame (featuring members of Engine Three Seven), the amazing female-fronted LeBelle and Bendigo’s best in Artilah. Tickets available from Moshtix or at the door.

BLUES AT THE BRIARS - FEAT: JIMI HOCKINGS’ BLUES MACHINE + ALEX BURNS + BLUES MOUNTAIN TRIO + BLUEZ DELUXE + CLAUDE HAY + DUKESY & THE HAZZARDS + FIONA BOYES TRIO + GEOFF ACHISON + LLOYD SPIEGEL DUO + MARISA QUIGLEY + ROB PAPPALARDO + THE KEVIN BUCKINGHAM BAND Briars Historic Homestead, Mount Marth. 11:00am. BOG LOG 111 Ruby’s Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $15. CITY SOUND Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:30pm. COLONIAL V-KNEES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. GARETH SOBEY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. GRAVEYARD TRAIN + KIRA PURU + LITTLE BASTARD Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 8:00pm. IAN COLLARD Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. JIMI HOCKING’S BLUES MACHINE Briars Historic Homestead, Mount Marth. 10:00pm. JOSH CASHMAN & HIS RIGHT-HAND MEN + ANTHONY YOUNG + DAVY SIMONY Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $10. KEITH URBAN Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:30pm. KING LEGHORN + EPSTEINS MOTHER Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. MR CASSIDY (EP LAUNCH) + DAVE LARKIN + THE LONG STAND Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $12. OPEN JAM Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. PACK BEARS + CHRIS HORRY + GRACE LAWRY Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. PHIL MANNING St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 1:00pm. ROSS HANNAFORD & THE CRITTERS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $20. SANDCASTLE + THE SWELL Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. STRINE SINGERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. SUMMER OF CLASSICS - FEAT: THE MUDCAKES Pure Pop Courtyard, St Kilda. 2:00pm. THE BREADMAKERS Post Oﬃce Hotel, Coburg. 10:00pm. THE MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. TOEJAMB St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 9:00pm. ZOO TWILIGHTS - FEAT: CLARE BOWDITCH + ROYAL JELLY DIXIELAND BAND Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. $45.

SUNDAY FEB 3 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS BEARDSHARK La Cannella, Kensington. 8:00pm. BLOOM + ADMINISTRAOR + BTCOLLECTIVE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ESPY ARTIST SHOWDOWN - FEAT: SQUEAKER + MOTIONLESS ME Espy, St Kilda. 1:00pm. $15. GREGOR FRIDAY + GLASFROSCH + SON OF SET Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. RAISED BY EAGLES Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. SHARDS + ANDRE + ZONE OUT Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL - FEAT: ALPINE + ALT-J + BAT FOR LASHES + CHET FAKER + CLOUD NOTHINGS + DIVINE FITS + EL-P + FLUME + HENRY WAGONS & THE UNWELCOME COMPANY + HIGH HIGHS + HOLY OTHER + JAPANDROIDS + JESSIE WARE + JULIA HOLTER + KINGS OF CONVENIENCE + MS MR + NICOLAS JAAR + NITE JEWEL + OF MONSTERS AND MEN + PERFUME GENIUS + POLICA + POND + REAL ESTATE + SHLOHMO + SNAKADAKTAL + THE MEN + THE NEIGHBOURHOOD + THE RUBENS + TWERPS + YEASAYER St Jeromes Laneway Festival Site, Melbourne. 12:00pm. TANGRAMS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE DAMES Post Oﬃce Hotel, Coburg. 4:00pm. THE WIKIMEN Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:00pm. WOODEN MUSIC TOUR - FEAT: THE PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUGBAND + BEARDED GYPSY BAND + MAX SAVAGE + QUARRY MOUNTAIN DEAD RATS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 7:00pm. CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS + CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. GRAND WAZOO Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $15. LACHLIN DAVIDSON/GIANNI MARINUCCI Uptown Beat Magazine Page 68

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ACCESS ALL AGES Wednesday January 30th, 2013 With Ruth Mihelcic

As school restarts for the year, so do the all ages gigs. The timetable below has everything you need to know to ensure you make the most of your weekend! Right now we’re on the lookout for young hip hop dance crews, MCs and musicians to be part of Push Underground at Push Over 2013. Music artists will get a 15 minute spot onstage to show off their talent, while for the first year MCs can take part in an Open Mic Session on the day. Hip hop dance crews will have the opportunity to compete in 3-on-3 Breakin’ Battles staged in heats and finals throughout the day - with cash prizes up for grabs! To apply head to our website thepush.com.au. Attention Victorian songwriters! It’s time for some new songs and here’s the songwriting shot in the arm you need! The innovative and inspiring song writing mentoring program Push Songs is back with one on one, 90 minute workshops to develop your song writing skills. There will be sessions with Charles Jenkins and special guest songwriters Mark Seymour, Adalita, Mick Thomas and Angie Hart. The all ages workshops are open to anyone in Victoria, but you need to fill out an application form by Friday to register! For more info call (03) 9380 1277 or email pushsongs@thepush.com.au. St Kilda Festival kicks off this weekend and we are pleased to be able to present The Push Stage once again. We’ll be set up on Cavel St from 12pm on Festival Sunday (next week, February 10), where you catch our smashing lineup of young talent. Headlining will local hip hop talent Allday and Soliloquy as well as emerging artists Red Rhino, The Vitriols, Stereo King and Elysium Fields on support. The full festival program is available at stkildafestival.com.au. Want great free music, cheap food and drinks? If you’re in Wangaratta then the place to be is the Gloria Jean’s cafe on a selected Thursday of every month, when they host Unbranded – a showcase of young local talent organised by a committee of local young people. It’s happening tomorrow from 4:30-8pm. Be there!

ALL AGES TIMETABLE Thursday January 31 Unbranded w/ various live local bands and open mic youth event, Gloria Jean’s Coffees, Murphy St, Wangaratta, 4:30 - 7pm, Free, Katy Hawkins on 5722 0819, AA DC Demo at Riverside Skate Park, Boathouse Drive, Melbourne, Free, skatepark.ymca.org.au/, AA Fed Square Live w/ Hungry Kids of Hungary and Asta, Federation Square, Melbourne, 6pm , Free, AA Friday February 1 Midsumma Rainbow Dance Party w/ DJ, canteen, and door prizes for best dressed and more, Wyndham Youth Resource Centre, 86 Derrimut Road, Hoppers Crossing, 7pm – 10pm, $5, Wyndham Youth Services on 8734 1355, U18 Saturday February 2 Rock Pool w/ Band - Uprising, DJ – James Gillard, Inflatables, Removable Body Art and Sausage Sizzle, Mansfield Swimming Pool, Apollo St, Mansfield, 4 - 8pm, $5 individual or $10 family, Jodie Bell on 5775 1654 or mansfield.vic.gov.au, AA Keith Urban, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, 7:30pm, $99 - $119.00, ticketek.com.au, AA Brimbank Family Fun Day w/ live music, BBQ, children’s activities, and face painting, Buckingham Reserve, Corner Buckingham Crescent, Sunshine West, 11am – 3pm, Free, Brimbank Youth Services on 9249 4496, AA Sunday February 3 Expire w/ Iron Mind, Frozen Over, Risk and Reason, and Free World, Phoenix Youth Centre, 72 Buckley St, Footscray, 2pm, $21.45, oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545, AA Keith Urban, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, 7:30pm, $99 - $119.00, ticketek.com.au, AA Generation X w/ The Storm Picturesque, Hallower, Glorified, and Graveyards, OLP 4 Wilana Street, Ringwood, 1:30pm, $15, AA Tuesday February 5 Bat For Lashes w/ Kirin J Callinan, Palais Theatre, Lower Esplanade, St Kilda, 7:30pm, $75, ticketmaster.com.au or 136 100, AA

Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. LADY BIRD Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. MARGIE LOU DYER TRIO + GIL ASKEY Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:00pm. MODHAN Open Studio, Northcote. 9:00pm. NUDIST FUNK ORCHESTRA + BAD BOYS BATACUDA + MS BUTT + THE DALE RYDER BAND Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. O’ZIRIGUIDUM O’donnell Gardens (st Kilda), St Kilda. 1:00pm. RHYTHM OF AFRICA - FEAT: AKOMA BEAT Werribee Open Range Zoo, Werribee South. 5:30pm. SUMMER CONCERT SERIES - FEAT: CANCIONES DE VERANO Fairﬁeld Park, Fairﬁeld. 5:00pm. TABAS.CO + KESHIE 303, Northcote. 7:00pm. THE HORNS OF LEROY BRASS BAND The B.east, Brunswick East. 5:00pm. WAY OUT WEST Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. ZELUS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK JEREMY GREGORY The Wharf Hotel, Melbourne. 2:00pm. ALISON FERRIER BAND Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. BIANCA & VAN 29th Apartment, St Kilda. 4:00pm. CHASE THE SUN + BACKWOOD CREATURES + CLAUDE HAY Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:30pm. $15. CHERRY ARVO BLUES - FEAT: CHRIS WILSON + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKENWALK + DJ RIPITUP + SEAN SIMMONS + THE HIRED GUNS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6. DOM ITALIANO Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:00pm. ELIZA HULL Fitzrovia, St Kilda. 4:00pm. HOMESICK RAY’S TRIPLE TROUBLE + RORY ELLIS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 5:00pm. JENNY BIDDLE Secret Garden Bar, St Kilda. 3:00pm. JIMI HOCKING Bay Hotel, Mornington. 3:00pm. JOSHUA SEYMOUR + BEN BLAKEY Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE + ELIZABETH COOK + ROBERT ELLIS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $50. JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE + ELIZABETH COOK + ROBERT ELLIS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 1:30pm. $50. KEITH URBAN Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $99. NICK CHARLES & BLUE STRINGS + MARTY KELLY & AUBURY MAHER Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. OPEN MIC Rose Hotel (williamstown), Williamstown. 3:00pm. PAUL BARRY + ALEXIS NAYLOR + KYLE TAYLOR Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 5:00pm. $10. SHAUN KIRK St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 3:00pm. ST KILDA FESTIVAL - FEAT: SUZIE STAPLETON + MISTER SIPPY + WACO SOCIAL CLUB St Kilda Bowling Club, St Kilda. 5:00pm. SUMMER OF CLASSICS - FEAT: BEN SALTER Pure Pop Courtyard, St Kilda. 4:00pm. THE F100S Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:30pm. THE FIRETREE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. THE LONGYARD BAND + CATFISH VOODOO + RED MOON JUKE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm. $10. THE RUSTY PICKERS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. TIM GUY Wesley Anne, Northcote. 4:00pm.

MONDAY FEB 4 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS DIVINE FITS + THE DELTA RIGGS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $47.

MANDEK PENHA + THE DO YA THANGS + THE JOKERS Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $8. POLICA Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $45.

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BENNETTS LANE BIG BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. PAUL WILLIAMSON NEW QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SUPERDARLING TRIO Iddy Biddy, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK DIVINA PROVIDENCIA Felix, St Kilda. 7:00pm. JANE CLIFTON & TRIO Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm. SONGWRITER SESSIONS - FEAT: SAL KIMBER + DAN LETHBRIDGE + NADINE BUDGE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.

TUESDAY FEB 5 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ALEX WATTS & THE FOREIGN TONGUE Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 7:00pm. BAT FOR LASHES + KIRIN J CALLINAN Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. CLOUD NOTHINGS + VIOLENT SOHO Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $42. DEAR TIME’S WASTE + DJ LOTION + EMMA RUSSACK + WINTER THIEVES Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. EL MOTH + AUSTIN BUSCH + LAMARAMA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. FREDDY FUDDPUCKER & GREG ANUS + LIGHT LIONS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. HOLY OTHER + FLASH FOREST + JPC Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $30. KINGS OF CONVENIENCE Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne. 8:00pm. LITTLE WISE The Vineyard, St Kilda. 10:30pm. LOWTIDE + LADYDREAMS Toﬀ In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $8. RIKI AND THE RANTS - FEAT: RIKI & THE RANTS + THE MOMENT POPS Habitat Hq, St Kilda. 7:30pm. ROCKING HORSE & THE BABY DOLLS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Why should everyone come and see your band? I’d like to encourage people to get out and watch live music in general and if you’re into blues and rock music, come check us out. When are you doing your thing next? We’re just finishing up a four-month residency at Cherry Bar and have been gigging relentlessly since we came together as a band a few months ago. In February we will embarking on the next phase of RedX and focusing our efforts on recording our debut EP. 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? I didn’t know Wolfmother was playing tonight! If someone made a movie about your life, who would play you? Phill (guitarist) - Disco Stu Riley (bassist) - Captain Caveman Eddie (drummer) - Scooby Doo How do you stop your pre-gig jitters? Beer is always a pretty safe bet! What can a punter expect from your live show? Energetic music and a dance floor to their disposal When are you playing live/releasing your album/ EP/single/etc? We are releasing our debut EP In April so keep your eyes and ears peeled!

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC KATHRYN KELLY + TURTLE & FOX Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. KIM KELLAART TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. MAKE IT UP CLUB Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. NICHOLE THORN TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK COOKIN’ ON 3 BURNERS Republica, St Kilda. 7:00pm. IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. JAKE JACKSON Iddy Biddy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. OF MONSTERS & MEN + VANCE JOY Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. OH PEP! Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. OPEN MIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:30pm. WAZ E JAMES BAND Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm. ZOE RYAN St Kilda Branch, St Kilda. 6:00pm.

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TABAS.CO

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Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? The first suck on an orange Calippo on a hungover, hot, summers day. What do you hate about the music industry? There’s not enough grannies and grandpas on the dance floor. What can a punter expect from your live show? Fire! Fire! Fire! What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Sega music, High-life, Calypso, ‘60s French pop, reggaeton, dancehall. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? Not yet! We’re putting an EP out in a couple of months. BUT you can find demo tracks on facebook.com/tabas.co.oz. Why should everyone come and see your band? FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! What part of making music discourages you? Apparently, being in a professional band requires having approximately seven drummers, four bass players and a couple of keyboardists. Describe the best gig you have ever played. Last week at Mojos Bar in North Freo was pretty cool. There was so much smoke coming off the dance floor the owner got concerned and called the fire department.

Describe the worst gig you have ever played. At the North Fremantle Bowling Club when we were doing an acoustic set with no drummer, but someone suddenly got up to play the drum kit that was sitting on stage and slowed things down to a snail’s pace – torture! Tell us about the last song you wrote. It is called Nyoka Musango, which is Shona for “Snake in the Bush” (no piss-take). Stu stole the chords from traditional Sega music and Hogany came up with a sweet melody and sang about a childhood memory in Zimbabwe. It is a story about how he was in a wheelbarrow watching his uncles work in the ﬁelds and a huge snake came out of the bush towards him. He started screaming and his uncles rushed over and killed the snake. Hogan was left thinking, ‘Why did the snake have to come out of the bushes at that moment just to die?’ How do you balance making and playing music with your other commitments? Don’t sleep. TABAS.CO play LuWoW in Fitzroy on Friday February 1 and Saturday February 2.

Describe your sound in five words or less: Enthralling, dynamic, energetic, captivating.

Who is your favourite band on the St Kilda Festival lineup? The Cat Empire.

Tell us why you love St Kilda: We love the St Kilda essence that consists of unforeseen adventures. The music, beach and food is where our heart is.

Why should everyone come and see your band? There is a musical connection on stage during our performance with a genuine love for music.

Favourite bar or pub in St Kilda? We should immediately say the Pretty Dulcie Bar but that would obviously sound too corny. We must say that we do love The Espy!

What advice would you give to bands that are new on the Melbourne scene? There are so many venues in Melbourne supporting live music, get on the net and local newspapers/ magazines, book and play play play!

Favourite place to eat in St Kilda? Lentils As Anything.

Where are you playing and when? Elephant & Wheelbarrow on Wednesday February 6 at 9pm.

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MONA FOMA Wednesday January 16 – Sunday January 20, Hobart

THE KILLERS Tuesday January 22, The Palace Theatre Brandon Flowers is a professional frontman. On stage tonight he looked filled with utter glee, gaping with incredulity at both the adoring fans and The Palace Theatre’s intricate architecture. His performance demeanour made the audience feel as if something about this particular show impressed the band, rather than it just being another night at the office. The Killers inspire devotion and there weren’t many people in the packed multi-level theatre who didn’t add passionate vocal accompaniment through each song in the hit-squelched setlist. They traipsed through their entire back catalogue, not surprisingly leaning heavily on 2004’s Hot Fuss and 2006’s Sam’s Town. Even though The Killers invoke heartland-rock references they’re not exactly dirty rock’n’rollers. They’re a pop band who work predominantly in broad strokes. It’s done in a secure ‘fun for all the family’ manner; the nuances are slim but seemingly they really believe in it. Flowers is a committed entertainer, who wore a beaming smile and reached an enthusiastic hand towards the audience. It could’ve been an affectation, but maybe he was genuinely on a high. After all receiving this sort of rousing appraisal night after night is indeed a rare blessing. The rest of the band had more of a peripheral presence. Bassist Mark Stoermer was in total affinity with his meticulously figured basslines. Ronnie Vannucci was an animal on the drums and increasingly looks like he’s been dragged off the set of Almost Famous. Guitarist Dave Keuning is an enigmatic character. His quiet behaviour hardly verged towards the flamboyance of his glam rock appearance and the regulated guitar solos were efficiently carried out to ensure they didn’t dent the tightly packaged pop goods. Backed by a second guitarist and a keys player (who handled the majority of backing

vocals) the constituent members were allowed to wholly occupy their token roles. Flowers’ Vegas showman aspect could have rendered it a schmaltzy occassion but thankfully The Killers have written several undeniable sing-along pop songs. The unity sparked by opener Mr Brightside and carried through to the night’s final tune When You Were Young made you compulsively submit to the spectacle. When sat side by side there was a noticeable difference in sound between the songs from the first album and the later material. The British influence that flung its head forth in Somebody Told Me and Smile Like You Mean It was like a remnant of youthful folly. However, even though their rootedness in a trend was evident, the songs themselves have a smoother consistency. The attempted entries into the American storytelling songbook, such as Dustland Fairytale, actually felt more forced. Some cuts from latest record, Battle Born, fell a little flat as the formula began to repeat itself too obviously. The Killers work within pretty strict confines and the calculated nature of the performance was underlined in duller songs. However, all it took was another dip into mid2000s nostalgia, courtesy of All These Things That I’ve Done or Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine, and everyone was waving arms in star-gazing unison.

funnest place ever”, the MOFO afterparty upholds the attitude of the festival – we’re just here for a good time. Like Camp A Low Hum for grownups, the lineups are kept secret (let loose on the day via the MOFO app) and each journey up or down a staircase seems to reveal a new slice of implausible bliss, from a band in a cardboard box seen only through peepholes, to an igloo made of oyster shells on a bed of salt, to a tiny nightclub in a nook under a staircase complete with DJ, lasers and a smoke machine that fits ten people at a time. There’s a solid lineup on the laneway stage turning it into a stand-alone late night venue. Hunx And His Punx create a high school dance vibe to sway with your sweetie, after the punch has been spiked with spiced rum. Melbourne noise favourites NO ZU make music to have fun to, wrapping up the final Faux Mo fiesta in a frenzy of horns and percussion. Other notables are DJ Ransom, Awesome Tapes From Africa, locals All Fires slaying the cinema stage with their New Order-esque sound and Chinese-Tasmanian Xiao Xia performing an opera song between bands that leaves people slack-jawed and glassy eyed, grasping the hands of those next to them. There’s a satellite event not involved with the festival at a church atop a hill on the Sunday, designed to alleviate the MONA FOMA coma with bean bags, Melbourne downbeat band Mad Nanna, distinctive Tasmanian trio Drunk Elk and a dude called Ragtime Frank – a howling Las-Vegas-Elvis-type with an electric guitar and a sharp tapping foot, screaming furiously about devils and kings and the wicked world. Epic. Let’s not forget the Museum of Old and New Art itself. There’s a dub step tunnel you play just by walking through it. There’s an installation with foam (FOAM-MO?) spewing forth from 16 wheelie bins. There’s a red velvet lined dungeon with exclusively over-18s art. Whether it’s the end of art or just an art gallery on acid, it alone is worthy of the hour plane trip south. “I fucking love Hobart,” a guy repeatedly screams during the breaks in Graveyard Trains rollicking set. And he should. MOFO is the festival of the future. It has a sense of humour and it speaks to us in a language we understand. It should never quieten down. TARYN STENVEI

LOVED: MONA FOMA MOFO FOMO FAUX MO COMA HOBA(RT) HAUXBART etc. HATED: A Friday arrival meant missing Death Grips on the Thursday night, but they were pretty extraordinary at Ding Dong Lounge. DRANK: Bottle upon bottle of champagne on the Faux Mo danceﬂoor.

AUGUSTUS WELBY LOVED: Dave Keuning is doing good things for the institution of palm-muting. HATED: I refused to raise the line “Are we human/ Or are we dancer,” to a moment of anthemic profundity. DRANK: Aluminum.

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Thursday January 24, The Corner Hotel Jeff The Brotherhood utilised just three guitar strings, a drumkit and one microphone to deliver an onslaught of jaw-wagging noise. The two brothers from Nashville, Tennessee covered a lot of ground within the two-piece blues rock domain. They slinked into Black Sabbath pyjamas on Heavy Days, playing the gestural riffs with trampoline-jumping enthusiasm; turned towards garage punk for Bone Jam, resembling The Stooges with the lighter la-la-la quality of The Ramones; and garnished it all with succinct melodies and lyrical silliness gleaned from ‘90s power-pop (exemplified on Hey Friend and Sixpack). Jeff The Brotherhood checked into these institutional sub-genres without even a tinge of a “we are the saviours of rock” self-signalling. The show was conducted in the name of fun and the mission was accomplished with drunken perspiration-drenched success. Even when Whatever I Want got deep into droning psychedelia it wasn’t an exclusive trip, it was a shared experience. For a couple of proud boozehounds, JTB have their shit together. Being a two-piece isn’t a restriction and you could feel the freedom of the arrangement. They’ve both got chops, which carried them through the designated areas for improvised fiddling. There was at least one instance when they lost their way amid the frenzy and fell out of sync but the odd misstep is an element of frivolous primal release. Because it’s intended to be bent in the

It begins at touchdown. My taxi driver is wearing a threepiece suit, spruiking the positive changes Hobart has seen in the last five years while blasting Dr Dre’s 2001 as we speed the 17 kilometres into the handsome harbour town, the immense Mount Wellington rising to greet us in the background. The PW1 wharf, where most of MONA FOMA’s musical program is housed, is a beast of a structure, a huge shed injected with some jazzy lights, a few choice food stalls, an art-ified entry region (with a movement-controlled theremin) and a kitschy medical themed bar with delicious espresso martinis served ice cold in blood bags that you can latch on to your belt buckle. A new take on the hip flask, I suppose. Friday night sees the elastic vocals and layered harmonies of Brooklyn’s Dirty Projectors, former collaborators of festival main-man David Byrne. Tinkering their way through ten years of material, they pull heavily from their most straightforward and accessible album, 2012’s Swing Lo Magellan. They perform Stillness Is The Move with a soulful near-R&B sway and they finish with the sugary sweet Impregnable Question. The group are like organs in a human body, full of natural wonder and working effortlessly in sync. Their influences are either unthinkably vast or non-existent. There’s nothing to reference. They’re a truly unique act. Saturday night sees Melbourne horror country outfit Graveyard Train smash out a successful set in a prime festival slot, maintaining their pace as one of the country’s most prominent rising bands. Graveyard Train ain’t so spooky anymore. Tonight they are gimmick-free, scaling back on theatrics and leaving the bare bones – a bunch of very good songs. Foot-stomping and hand clapping abound as the huge crowd gets extremely involved. Sunday night is the festival crescendo, with David Byrne, St Vincent and a full brass band Burning Down The House. In a performance that sounds, judging from reviews, not dissimilar to their other capital city stops, the two eccentric artists give it their all performing hits from 2012’s collaborative effort Love This Giant, as well as tunes from their inspiring individual back-catalogues. Ice Age sounds lifted from a St Vincent record, as she takes centre stage to perform it. The song chops and changes to frame her vocal range, teetering on the edge of discomfort as the brass band surrounds her to finish. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) is so on-point that it brings tears to eyes. The crowd is smitten. David Byrne is a genius. Annie Clarke is a genius. Their vision is perfectly realised right up to the end of the second encore. A highlight is Byrne dancing side of stage like a demented robot, every inch the devoted fan as Clarke performs Northern Lights. After the days are done, there’s a nightly party named Faux Mo expanding across an underground abandoned film theatre, an upstairs bar and a laneway alight with projections. Aptly described by some attendees as “the

first place things can’t go too far askew and JTB wouldn’t be half as much fun if it was a calculated venture. Meanwhile, there was an oddly scarce amount of activity during King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizzard’s support set. This didn’t stop the seven-piece drawing allusions to the Kelly Gang by making a gutsy amount of noise. The fearsome whip of their tuneful combat did garner unwavering attention from the almost-full room. Having only seen them in smaller/dingier environs, the striking power of the Corner PA was a welcome emphasis and it was hard to look away for much more than a cheeky swig of beer. It was a vocal affront, with guitarist Joe Walker and harmonica player Ambrose Kenny-Smith boosting the impact of the delay-soaked main vocals of Stu Mackenzie. The discernibly melodic Elbow and Muckraker imprinted their strength and the three-way vocal orchestration of Uh Oh, I Called Mum was a harassing high. AUGUSTUS WELBY LOVED: Roughly four guitar amps and a pounding chest of guitar effects that stretched JTB’s guitar volume far as can be. HATED: Big men standing on me. But it’s a’ight. DRANK: Ice cold ale.

SO FRENCHY SO CHIC Sunday January 20, Werribee Park When I was 11-years-old I once watched a documentary on ants at an art gallery. Throughout the film I spent the entire duration wondering what the fuck was wrong with the documentary maker. Twelve years after the fact I will eat my words. Ants are pretty amazing creatures. While sprawled across a picnic rug at So Frenchy So Chic I watched tens of tiny ants crawl over my brie, melting in the sun. They are quick. They can jump from stalk to stalk of grass. And more importantly I was happily content with a stomach full of baguette and French cheese that I took the time to notice. Situated at the picturesque Werribee Mansion I was soaking up the flowers, the sun, the culture, the music and decided I was in a state of equilibrium. I was thinking like what others sound like when they’re high. And for six hours I was no longer a cynical bitch. A fair drive up from South Melbourne, the trip to Werribee was beautiful. Smooth and Gold FM had me calm, even for the 20 minute delay caused by the traffic leading out of the Werribee South exit. The weather was perfect, and the venue stunning. The stage looked directly towards the mansion and to the side little white marquees and tents were flowing with various French produce. Wine, champagne, cheese, crepes, macaroons and other goodies – this was a festival for the foodie. Revolver was the first band up for their first performance in Australia. With their ‘60s inspired harmonies and bouncy indie-pop they were recently nominated best newcomers at the French Grammys. The group’s amazing voices and lush, exuberant sound have made them festival favourites across Europe. Each artist had an hour and 15 minute set, which allowed them time to talk to the audience and take things slowly. It was a day filled with

good food and drinks. Water was only $3 (that’s close to 7/11 prices) and there weren’t too many different food tents meaning you had variety but it wasn’t excruciating for indecisive fucks like myself. Melanie Pain was up next. With red hair, fishnet stockings, a sheer black turtle neck shirt and a soft silky voice, she oozed French chic. Her folk pop tunes sometimes flirted with darker lyrics, namely the song How Bad Can I Be? Carmen Maria Vega followed. A feisty performer her band played punk inspired tunes that met at the intersection of gypsy jazz. Charismatic, her voice has been likened to French class Edith Piaf. Closing the festival was Aussie-French-Paris based Nadeah. With a strong stage presence she first told the audience she can be French or Aussie, whatever we wanted to be her to be. She had golden locks that framed her face and in many ways she resembled Brigitte Bardot. Her voice was clear and surprisingly strong. Belting out cabaret and blues-inspired pieces she demonstrated flawless pitch and a charismatic personality. By dusk it was time to leave. It was fair to conclude that this was a festival like no other with something for everyone. Trust the French to choose a mansion, but props to them. Job well done. TAMARA VOGL

LOVED: The venue. HATED: That the calamari man had run out of lemons when I bought mine. DRANK: Water.

TWELVE FOOT NINJA Friday January 19, The Corner Hotel Sometimes you get the feeling you may have just witnessed or attended something important, a moment in time, an event that could change or shape the future. Such was the case tonight. A completely sold-out Corner Hotel (a marvellous feat in itself) bore witness to not one but two bands who could lead the Aussie heavy progressive alternative scene out of relative obscurity to the national and international profile it so richly deserves. Headliners Twelve Foot Ninja had the foresight to do something a little different with their bill and the night. The evening commenced with a solo acoustic artist by the name of Mike Mills, who is in the band Toehider. With a great voice and great guitar skills, Mike warmed up the crowd very nicely indeed, and his final number was a solo all acoustic version of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. You Beat Magazine Page 74

wouldn’t think this possible, but he actually pulled it off beautifully, each and every note and lyric. Miraculous. One of the ‘bands most likely’ on the Melbourne/ Aussie scene at the moment, Circles exploded onto the Corner main stage with their melodic, powerhouse djent-y progressive metal. These guys are like a precision machine, with electronic samples enhancing an already cutting edge, twin guitar driven sonic assault. They put out a massive wall of sound, but soaring above it all, and making it more palatable to a broad audience, was the mighty voice of frontman Perry Kakridis. He truly has one of the best set of lungs on him in Aussie rock and metal. Continuing the ‘different’ vibe of the evening, The Wasabi Girls took to the stage next, and smashed out a very cool 15 minute set of pounding Japanese percussion. They provided

a very unique and entertaining lead in to the main event. This has been building for a while for the guys in Twelve Foot Ninja, but tonight we witnessed the true beginning for these guys, where everything will start to fall into place. This night was a triumph in every possible way, starting with the ‘sold out’ sign on the window of The Corner. There was a vibe of expectation in the rooftop beer garden and inside the venue in the lead up, and the support acts set the stage beautifully. The Ninja boys were flawless in the execution of their relatively brief, classy hour long set, a set that left the huge crowd gasping for more. They belted out a large selection of tracks from their brand new album Silent Machine, and a few numbers from their two superb previous EPs. The sound was enormous and crystal clear, and they delivered their truly eclectic and enigmatic rock

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tunes with both absolute precision and a real engaging humour and spirit. These guys richly deserve all of this success, with plenty more to come. In fact, as stated, hopefully this is just the start. ROD WHITFIELD

LOVED: That I witnessed something potentially momentous. HATED: That lack of funds severely limited my beer consumption. DRANK: Not enough!

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