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Future Music Festival have dropped a huge lineup for the 2013 incarnation of the festival. Headlining the proceedings with be the likes of Deadmau5, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Knife Party, alongside Hardwell, Eric, Prydz, Kaskade, Paul van Dyk, Baauer, Markus Schulz, ATB, Dada Life, Chuckie, Arty, Martin Garrix, Chase & Status, Rudimental, Tinie Tempah, Naughty Boy, 2 Chainz, Cut Copy, Sub Focus, Netsky, R3Hab, Bassjackers, Adventure Club, Carnage, Deniz Koyu, Dannic Dyro, Monsta, Timmy, Trumpet, Walden, Tenzin, Will Sparks, Sven Vath, Paul Kalkbrenner, Dubfire, Gesaffelstein, Maya Jane Coles, Brodinski, Gorgon City and Kaytranada. It all goes down on Sunday March 9 at the Flemington Racecourse.
BRIANA COWLISHAW
Sydney jazz pop artist Briana Cowlishaw has announced a national tour to accompany the release of her new single, Paper Mache City, from her forthcoming album of the same name, due out October 4. Cowlishaw, a former Australian Institute of Music student, will be touring with her six-piece band on a nine-date national tour. Paper Mache City, written and recorded while Cowlishaw was living in the US, was born out of the multi-dimensional musical frenzy of NYC. Influenced by legends of the game such as Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, the album is a collection of stylistically and sonically diverse songs, fusing elements of pop and folk with an underlying jazz language and all its delicacies. Briana Cowlishaw plays Bennetts Lane on Saturday October 26 and Sunday October 27. Tickets $25 from the venue. The new single is out on iTunes on Monday September 16.
OLYMPIA
Fresh off the back of their mesmerising solo performances this month supporting Josh Pyke, Olympia has announced their final headlining show for 2013. In what has been an incredible year for Olympia, signing a management deal with Winterman and Goldstein, joining Select Music, flooring the room at a Sydney Industry Showcase, which resulted in multiple major Australian label offers, and stunning the audience of City and Colour earlier this year, Olympia’s headline Melbourne show will feature the full five piece band supported by electronic duo Alta. Having been described as featuring one of the most incredible voices in Australian music, Olympia play The Grace Darling Hotel on Saturday September 20. Doors at 9pm. Tickets avail via stickytickets.com.au
Following his surprise return from supposed retirement for this year’s Splendour In The Grass, Whitley has announced a national headline tour, his second of the year. The tour will celebrate Whitley’s new LP, Even The Stars Are A Mess, following on from the irrevocable warmth, beauty and intimacy found in both his debut and sophomore.Catch him on Thursday October 17 at the Caravan Music Club and on Friday October 18 at Howler.
BONJAH
Melbourne favourites Bonjah have announced their 2013 return with a new single Blue Tone Black Heart and a national tour to coincide. Springing from the breakthrough success of their national radio hit Evolution from earlier this year, which received high rotation on a multiple of stations including Channel V, Rage and Radar Radio. Bonjah’s new single is laden with world-class riffs, driving rhythms and melodic hooks which we have grown accustomed to hearing from Bonjah and thanks to the production efforts of Australian producer Jan Skubiszewski (Owl Eyes, Way of the Eagle, The Cat Empire). With thousands of independent album salse to their name and multiole nominations, Bonjah have carved an acclaimed reputation as a captivating band, and proving themselves as a must-see act of the summer. They kick off their Blue Tone Black Heart national tour this October and November. Blue Tone Black Heart is out now via iTunes. They play Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday November 2. Tickets via bonjahmusic.com.
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THE SEEKERS
The Seekers’ Golden Jubilee Tour, which was unfortunately abruptly halted a few months ago due to the sudden illness of Judith Durham, is set to resume following medical advice from her doctors. Judith was admitted to hospital after the first Melbourne show in May and diagnosed with a cerebral haemorrhage. After three months of rehabilitation, The Seekers have started rehearsals and the group is eager to complete the tour, which celebrates their 50th year. The iconic Aussie group will draw from their collection of hits including I’ll Never Find Another You, Morningtown Ride and A World Of Our Own. They will also dig deep into their best stories, memorabilia and video clips on the big screen.We wish Judith and the band a safe tour and can’t wait to see them again in Melbourne. Tickets remain valid for the rescheduled dates at Hamer Hall as follows: May 15 is valid for November 7, May 22 is valid for November 8, May 23 is valid for November 28. Head to Ticketek or more information.
IRON AND WINE
It’s already been revealed that Iron and Wine will be visiting Australia again in 2014 when they were announced in the initial batch of acts for Bluesfest, and it’s Beat’s pleasure to confirm that they will be playing two very special headlining theatre shows while in the country – with the Melbourne performance taking place at the ornate Forum Theatre on Tuesday April 22.
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Twin Beasts (formally The Toot Toot Toots) are set to head out on a huge single tour. Twin Beasts are stalwarts of the Australian music scene. Over the past year, they’ve played Meredith Music Festival, Rock It Festival, White Night Melbourne and a sold out season at Melbourne’s famed Spiegeltent. Produced by the ARIA nominated Burke Reid (The Drones, Oh Mercy), Badlove is a raucous, genre-bending track that summons the same intensity and grab as Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Beck, and East Brunswick All Girls Choir. Catch Twin Beasts at The Northcote Social Club on Saturday October 26. Tickets available from northcotesocialclub.com
FACE THE MUSIC
Face The Music returns for 2013. Featuring Michael and Matt Gudinski. For the first time this father / son team discuss the Mushroom Group and views on the music industry here and abroad. Plus Vice Music’s General Manager Jamie Farkas direct from Brooklyn for a keynote address. A series of talks, workshops, and meetings bringing together music labels, musicians, promoters, agents, festivals, publicists and more. Face The Music will take place on Friday November 15 and Saturday 16. Tickets available now at facethemusic.org.au
PARADISE FESTIVAL
A new boutique camping experience is set to join the ranks of Victoria’s festival circuit this season. Paradise, as it’s called, will take place over three days late November early December nestled amidst the lush Victorian Alpine Forest a couple of hours north of Melbourne not far from Marysville, with the festival organisers stating “Paradise seeks to transplant the modern, city-based bands of urban Australia into the picturesque alpine setting of Lake Mountain.” And with a lineup featuring the who’s who of Australian indie party starters looks like they’ll do just that. Headlining Paradise are Sydney-siders Glass Towers, electro solo artist Elizabeth Rose, Brissy based popsters Millions, chill-hop smoothy Oisima, audio visual extraordinaires Naysayer & Gilsun (DJ set) and Melbourne’s own favourite disco dudes Client Liaison. They’ll be joined by Albert Salt, Alta, Animaux, B.O.O.M.A, Dark Arts, Darts, david, DEER, DEJA, Donny Benet, Electric Sea Spider, Forces, friendships, Glass Mirrors, GodWolf, Hollow Everdaze, House of Laurence, Hug Therapist, I’lls, Kate Martin, Leaks, LUCIANBLOMKAMP, Michael Ozone, Mugen, Namine, NO ZU, OSKR, Planete, Post Percy, SILENTJAY, SOCCERLEGENDS, Squarehead, The Demon Parade, The McQueens, The Red Lights, The Supporters, Them Swoops and Wafia. Paradise takes place over three days from Friday November 29 to Sunday December 1, tickets and information are available from their website.
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Get ready to take the cookie out of your asses, because Limp Bizkit have announced their return to Australia. With over 35 million album sales, Limp Bizkit are one of the most iconic bands of the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s-early â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;00s, and they will finally be bringing their crazy (and controversial) live show to Australia this October. There are no extra shows so donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fuck around. One of our favourite jokes here at Furst Media is answering the phone like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hello Durst Media, Fred speakingâ&#x20AC;? so we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to get on this. Limp Bizkit play Festival Hall on Sunday October 27. Tickets on sale Friday September 20 at 9am from Ticketmaster.
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As a prelude to its 3rd annual cinema program, The Shadow Electric is once again cranking up the bandroom for 14 sweet live gigs over ten days and nights this November. The Shadow Electric bandroom is located in the oldest building at The Abbotsford Convent, offering a truly unique, intimate and surreal setting for live music. Boasting the high quality aesthetic Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s come to expect from The Shadow Electric crew, the room manages to retain the charm of its Berlin communist-era warehouse stylings, making it an unforgettable party spot. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s series features a raft of awesome acts from across Australia including Pluto Jonze, Little Scout, Palms, Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newcomer super group The Ape (featuring Tex Perkins, Pat Bourke, Raul Sanchez and Gus Agars), local legends Courtney Barnett, Bored Nothing, The Spoils, The Bombay Royale for a special Hopetown Recordings showcase and Ben Salter, with more to be announced in the coming weeks. The Shadow Electric Bandroom will run daily from Friday November 1 to Sunday November 10, head to shadowelectric.com.au for tickets and more information. Stay tuned to Beat for more announcements.
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Strap on your Bluetooth headset, clip on your fanny pack, and letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s get weird this October, because the David Liebe Hart Band will be landing in Australia. Straight from the Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! the puppet master will be joined by his very own band performing old school punk rock about his love for Reba McEntire, getting bad service at the grocery store, and Liebe Hartâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s many ex-girlfriends. Support for the tour will come from The Stiffys, Ten Thousand Freemen and Their Families, Mandek Penha along with I Am Duckeye.It goes down at Northcote Social Club on Friday October 11. Tickets through the venue website.
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THE BASTARD CHILDREN The Bastard Children launch their new album Historia at The Caravan Club this Saturday September 21. Historia is a landscape littered with the multi-instrumental wreckage of sea-shanties, celtic punk, dirty blues and gypsy. We have two double passes and copies of the CD to give away.
OWL EYES Owl Eyes has announced an east coast tour in support of her latest single Hurricane. Hurricane is the forth single from Owl Eyes’ debut album Nightswimming, which was released earlier this year. Emerging electronic acts Willow Beats and The Kite String Tangle will take on support duties. Catch her at the Northcote Social Club on Thursday October 17, Friday October 18 and Saturday October 19. We have some double passes to the Friday night gig to give away.
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CHOPPED ROD & CUSTOM
Chopped Rod & Custom is a throw back in time to a '50s and '60s, featuring 100s of cars and bikes rattled by the sounds of over 25 bands belting the roots of rock music to 1,000 of rockers, petrol heads, hipsters and greasers. The 2013 incarnation of the festival will feature Graveyard Train, Hard-Ons, Gay Paris, Pat Capocci, Twin Beasts (formerly The Toot Toot Toots), Mesa Cosa, Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, Jade Idol, Cherrywood, La Bastard, Los Tones and many more. Chopped Rod & Custom 2013 will take place from Friday October 4 until Sunday October 6 in Newstead. Tickets and more information are available through their website.
IRIS DEMENT
Iris DeMent has returned with her first album of original music in 16 years, Sing The Delta, and to celebrate she has announced a visit to Australia. The upcoming tour will be her first shows in Australia since 1998. Sing The Delta presents 12 songs written by DeMent, whose first three albums established her as one of the most beloved artists in American music. With support from a talented lineup of first-call musicians including Al Perkins, Reese Wynans, and album co-producers Bo Ramsey and Richard Bennett, it’s very exciting to have the opportunity to hear new tracks from Iris in a live setting. Iris DeMent plays Thornbury Theatre on Thursday December 5. Tickets via Oztix.
THE JUNGLE GIANTS
The Jungle Giants are getting ready to release their debut album Learn to Exist and playing some shows to celebrate, including a bunch for the under 18s. They have also released a shiny new single Skin To Bone, which proved a fan favourite at their 2013 Splendour in the Grass and Spin Off festival appearances. The album, recorded at Brisbane’s Applewood Lane Studios, will be out on Friday August 30. It also includes the infectious tunes I Am What You Want Me To Be and last year’s She’s A Riot. Catch the Jungle Giants at The Hi-Fi Bar on Friday October 4, or for a special all ages matinee show on Sunday October 6. Hit up the The Hi-Fi for more details.
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RIVERBOATS FESTIVAL
From Friday February 14 to Sunday February 16, the Riverboats Music Festival returns to the banks of the mighty Murray River at Echuca Moama for three laid back days and three rockin’ nights of Australian musical talent. The Riverboats 2014 lineup includes The Cat Empire, Tim Finn, Ian Moss, Paul Dempsey, Don Walker, The Basics, Dan Kelly’s Dream Band, Wagons, Thelma Plum, Tinpan Orange, Mojo Juju, Sweet Jean and Liz Stringer. Visit riverboatsmusic. com.au for more information.
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You may not recognise the name Bec Laughton as yet, but soon enough you’ll know Brisbane’s indie soul songstress. This tiny redhead with a giant voice is set to take over stages around the country this October, November and December, for her Darkest Love tour. With an EP along the way, showcasing her sweeping ballads to those grooving RnB tracks, and recorded in high-end studios in the US to bedrooms in Brisbane with indie house/nu disco producer Buré Godwin and Graham Ritchie (Emma Louise, Skinny Jean) here is your chance to witness the songstress in all her glory. With recent performances at Red Deer Music and Arts Festival and a finalist of the coveted International Songwriting Competition, you can be sure that it’s a name you will be familiar with very soon. She hits The Paris Cat on Friday October 18.
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INTERNATIONAL AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA The Forum September 20 HUGO RACE FATALISTS The Workers Club September 20 CORY BRANNAN The Reverence Hotel September 20 LAMB OF GOD, MESHUGGAH Festival Hall September 22 UK SUBS The Bendigo September 26 FOALS Palace Theatre September 26, 27 SWERVEDRIVER Corner Hotel September 28 RIHANNA Rod Laver Arena September 30 STEVEN WILSON Billboard October 2 DISCLOSURE Prince Bandroom October 2 THE CULT Festival Hall October 5 ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES Corner Hotel October 5, 6 BRING ME THE HORIZON Festival Hall October 9 WOLF MAIL Northcote Social Club October 10 T.I., AKON Festival Hall October 10 DAVID LIEBE HART BAND Northcote Social Club October 11 MELBOURNE FESTIVAL Various Venues October 11 - 27 THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall October 11 DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT The Palace October 13 COSMO JARVIS Northcote Social Club October 15 FLIGHT FACILITIES Foxtel Festival Hub October 18, 19 KATCHAFIRE The Hi-Fi October 19 EVERY TIME I DIE Corner Hotel October 20 THE POLYPHONIC SPREE Foxtel Festival Hub October 20 - 22 LORDE Corner Hotel October 21, 22 BEYONCÉ Rod Laver Arena October 22, 23, 25, 26 FUCK BUTTONS Foxtel Festival Hub October 25 BEHEMOTH The Espy October 25 FALL OUT BOY Festival Hall October 26 THE CRIBS Ding Dong Lounge October 26 ATP: RELEASE THE BATS Westgate Entertainment Centre October 26 LIMPBIZKIT Festival Hall October 27 YELLOWCARD Palace Theatre October 29 LIGHTNING BOLT Corner Hotel October 30 VERONICA FALLS Northcote Social Club October 31 THE SEEKERS Hamer Hall, November 7, 8, 28 AUSTRALASIAN WORLDWIDE MUSIC EXPO Various Venues November 14 – 17 FACE THE MUSIC Various Venues, November 15, 16 MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK Various Venues November 15 - 24 LEONARD COHEN Rod Laver Arena November 20, Bimbadgen Winery November 23 BLACK FLAG Palace Theatre November 22 CHERRYFEST Cherry Bar November 24 FLEETWOOD MAC Rod Laver Arena November 26, A Day On The Green November 30 JUSTIN BIEBER Rod Laver Arena December 2, 3 PASSENGER The Palais December 4 METZ Howler December 5 IRIS DEMENT Thornbury Theatre, December 5 MUSE Laver Arena December 6, 7 BON JOVI Etihad Stadium December 7 VAN’S WARPED TOUR TBA December 7 ALICIA KEYS Rochford Winery December 7, Rod Laver Arena December 8 DEERHUNTER The Hi-Fi December 11 MAC DEMARCO Corner Hotel December 11 NILE RODGERS Billboard December 13 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre December 13 - 15 TAYLOR SWIFT Etihad Stadium December 14 CITY AND COLOUR Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 14 MELVINS The Hi-Fi December 17 HELMET The Hi-Fi December 18 FALLS FESTIVAL Lorne December 28 - January 1, Marion Bay December 29 - January 1, Byron Bay December 31 - January 3 PARAMORE Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 12 SO FRENCHY SO CHIC Werribee Park January 12 BIG DAY OUT Flemington Racecourse January 24 THE NATIONAL Sidney Myer Music Bowl February 9 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AAMI Park February 15 SOUNDWAVE 2014 Flemington Racecourse February 28 FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL Flemington Racecourse March 9 BILLY BRAGG Palais Theatre March 13 BLUESFEST Byron Bay April 17 - 21 IRON AND WINE The Forum Theatre April 22
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NATIONAL TUMBLEWEED The Espy September 21 JINJA SAFARI The Forum September 27 THE PAPER KITES The Forum Theatre September 28 TWELVE FOOT NINJA Ferntree Gully Hotel August 30, Corner Hotel October 4 DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST Various Venues September 18 - 29 OLYMPIA Grace Darling September 20 PARKWAY DRIVE Palace Theatre September 21, 22 CALEXICO Athenaeum Theatre September 24, Corner Hotel September 25 THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS Northcote Social Club September 26 PAPA VS PRETTY Howler September 26 SEABELLIES Workers Club September 27 RÜFÜS Corner Hotel September 27 WAY OF THE EAGLE September 27 Ding Dong Lounge THE BASICS Northcote Social Club September 27, 28, Corner Hotel September 29 TIGERTOWN The Workers Club September 28, 29 THE PAPER KITES The Forum September 28 REGURGITATOR The Hi-Fi September 28 A SHOW FOR CASEY Simonds Statium September 29 XAVIER RUDD The Forum October 2, 3 THE HOLIDAYS Northcote Social Club October 3 THE GOOCH PALMS The Tote October 4 THE JUNGLE GIANTS The Hi-Fi October 4, 6 CHOPPED ROD & CUSTOM Newstead, October 4-6 LOON LAKE Howler October 11 THE APE Ding Dong October 11 ELEVENTH HE REACHES LONDON The Evelyn October 12 DEEP SEA ARCADE Corner Hotel October 12 JAE LAFFER The Toff In Town October 12 ADALITA Corner Hotel October 13 OWL EYES Northcote Social Club October 16 LACHY DOLEY Bar 303 October 17 BEC LAUGHTON The Paris Car October 18 WHITLEY Caravan Music Club October 17, Howler October 18 MATT CORBY Festival Hall October 18 CALLING ALL CARS Ding Dong October 19 ESKIMO JOE Ferntree Gully Hotel October 18, Forum Theatre October 19 SPRUNG FESTIVAL Kevin Bartlett Sporting And Recreation Complex October 19 THE TIMBERS The Espy October 22 THE AMITY AFFLICTION The Palace October 22, 23 PAUL DEMPSEY Corner Hotel October 23 EMMA LOUISE Ormond Hall October 25 CREEPSHOW The Espy October 26 TWIN BEASTS Northcote Social Club, October 26 BRIANA COWLISHAW Bennetts Lane October 26 - 27 PETE CORNELIUS Northcote Social Club October 30 BABY ANIMALS Corner Hotel October 31 THE SHADOW ELECTRIC BANDROOM The Shadow Electric November 1 - November 10 BONJAH Ding Dong November 2 DAN SULTAN Thornbury Theatre November 2, 4
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THE CULT By Jody Macgregor
Three years ago, The Cult did the All Tomorrow’s Parties classic-album concert thing, touring their 1985 album, Love, and playing its collection of theatrical post-punk bravado from start to finish. That tour went well enough that they’ll be repeating the trick, only this time moving forwards in time to their 1987 album, Electric. The thing is, Electric was a very different album to Love, and deliberately so. For their first attempt at recording a follow-up they went to work in a manor house in Oxfordshire owned by Richard Branson, but the 12 songs they came up with in that genteel setting weren’t what they were looking for. Instead, the British band had to fly to New York to find it. For lead singer Ian Astbury, an Englishman who’d grown up in Canada, New York in the 1980s was fascinatingly grimy and dangerous. “I mean, I walked around the corner one night after there’d been a mob hit in the street on 6th Avenue,” he says. “I didn’t know until I got in the studio. Someone said, ‘A guy’s been shot around the corner.’ The place where we used to get ice cream got held up; Billy Idol got arrested when we tried to cop dope in Washington Square Park. There were muggings. It was winter, it was filthy, going down Alphabet City to after-hours clubs – it was pretty exciting.” As well as spending time with Billy Idol, they got to work with producer Rick Rubin for the first time. He had only recently become an associate of the Def Jam label, and was hanging out with the Beastie Boys, steering them away from their punk roots and into hiphop. “Being in New York making the record had a real incredible impact on the record,” says Astbury. “Being around the whole Def Jam family, hanging out with people like LL Cool J and Run-D.M.C. and Slayer and Beasties. They were omnipresent, they always used to come over and hang out in the studio, so it was like a different scene in the studio every day. Strangely enough, they used to always come by when it was dinnertime,” he says with a laugh. “Pizza boxes would be open and beers knocking around, everyone would get stuck in and then disappear. But they knew where Rick was and everybody wanted to find Rick. Rick was in the studio 24/7. He was in the studio every day with us, which I think is a bit of a rarity now. But it was great.” Rubin obviously didn’t want to push The Cult in the same direction as the Beastie Boys, but he did have an influence on their shift from the post-punk sound that had seen them labelled “goth rock” (Astbury bristles at the words even today), and into hard rock and heavy metal revivalism. Astbury was already a fan of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and especially the Doors – he’d eventually go on to join them, fronting the Doors of the 21st Century, a.k.a. Riders On the Storm – but it was Rubin showing them American metal pioneers Blue Cheer that had the biggest impact. “He wasn’t ‘Rick Rubin’ then,” Astbury says of the superstar producer who now works with the likes of Kanye West and Jay Z. “He was in his dorm room when we met him. He basically showed us a Blue Cheer video, said, ‘Do you want to do this or do you BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 20
want to do fluffy English alternative music?’ We were looking at Blue Cheer and MC5, and we were 24 years old. We were like, ‘We want to do that!’
“THERE’D BEEN A MOB HIT IN THE STREET ON 6TH AVENUE. THE PLACE WHERE WE USED TO GET ICE CREAM GOT HELD UP; BILLY IDOL GOT ARRESTED WHEN WE TRIED TO COP DOPE IN WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK. THERE WERE MUGGINGS. IT WAS WINTER, IT WAS FILTHY.” And they did. You could mistake guitarist Billy Duffy’s riffs on Electric for Angus Young of AC/DC and songs like Love Removal Machine were a million miles away from “fluffy English alternative music.” Their hard-edged new sound helped them break America, and Electric eventually outsold Love and was certified gold. Being big in America wasn’t just important to Astbury because of the financial rewards, but because when he’d been a kid in Canada, American culture was unavoidable. “A lot of the TV shows I was watching were broadcast from New York,” he says. “Its sports teams were very dominant, the local channel was from Buffalo, New York. I mean we had 48 channels of TV and most of it was from the States. I kind of grew up with a real strong North American influence on me, which is great. When I went back to England everybody goes, ‘Why are you talking in an American accent?’ It’s because I’ve grown up in North America!” One of the things that made the move from rural England to Canada so formative for Astbury was
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that they had FM radio when that was still a rarity, and record stores you could lose yourself in. “The FM Radio in the ‘70s was unbelievable,” he says, “because a new album would come out and they’d play the entire album, both sides. There was a record store, a shopping centre not too far from where I lived that had a record store called Sam the Record Man, which was – I’d never seen so many records in my life cause where I grew up you’d go to like Woolworth’s or something for your records. And here I am in an actual chain store that just sells records and 8-track tapes. I spent a lot of time in there.” During that time in Canada Astbury’s family moved around a lot, and he attended “11 or 12 schools”. One of them he describes like something straight out of the Victorian era, a school where they still taught Latin and came down hard on anybody who was different. “I got thrown out of school when I was like 11 for having blue food colouring in my hair,” he says. “Trying to emulate, being a glam kid. It was just food colouring, it wasn’t permanent, but I got thrown out of the class immediately. And that definitely sets a boundary right there, you know? That becomes a division. I love Bowie, I get thrown out of school because I love Bowie’s music and I want to affect his look so obviously I’m going to side with Bowie as opposed to side with school.” Being a recent immigrant to the country as well as a bit of a troublemaker, the young Astbury had difficulty fitting in at first. “I got ostracised by most of the other white kids at school, like the landed natives, but then my peer group was like all the other immigrant kids, native American kids, indigenous Canadians – my best friend was from Kingston, Jamaica, I had a friend from Ankora, Turkey. So that was my crew. I ran around with all the kids who were misfits, who didn’t fit in. That was a good education.” A love of music helped to form bonds between kids from very different backgrounds, who might otherwise not have had much in common. Astbury’s fonder memories of the era come from that, from the way music forged connections with others. “The environment was constantly shifting but what wasn’t shifting was my taste in music,” he says. “The first thing I ever bought was David Bowie, Life on Mars, when I was like ten or something. And I’ve probably bought everything he’s ever released since, so that was a constant. The bedroom and record player was a refuge, and also a point of reference for the kids you meet kids and say, ‘What do you listen to?’ ‘I listen to the Sex Pistols’. You go okay, that’s instant rapport, instant bond.” That stayed true throughout his life. In the early 1980s when his first band, then called Southern Death Cult, were opening for Theatre of Hate that same kind of instant rapport grew up between him and the headlining band’s guitarist, Billy Duffy, who would go on to join his band as they evolved into Death Cult and finally just The Cult. “One of the first things Billy and I did together when we joined the group, we went to see Johnny Thunders,” he remembers, “and then pretty quickly we went to see Iggy Pop at The Venue in London, like 1983? It’s a bit foggy!”
THE CULT play an all ages show at Festival Hall on Saturday October 5.
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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN Salinger is an unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher In The Rye. Featuring interviews with subjects including Salinger’s friends, colleagues and members of his inner circle who have never spoken on the record before, as well as film footage, photographs and other material that has never been seen. Additionally, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, John Cusack, Danny DeVito, John Guare, Martin Sheen, David Milch, Robert Towne, Tom Wolfe, E.L. Doctorow, Gore Vidal and Pulitzer Prize winners A. Scott Berg and Elizabeth Frank talk about Salinger’s influence on their lives, their work and the broader culture. The film is the first work to get beyond Salinger’s meticulously built up wall: his childhood, painstaking work methods, marriages, private world and the secrets he left behind after his death in 2010. Salinger is currently showing at Cinema Nova.
ON STAGE This week The Australian Ballet will be tackling the classical masterpiece Cinderella. This ethereal production will feature the work of award-winning costume designer Jérôme Kaplan and the choreography of Golden Mask Award winner, Alexei Ratmansky. The pair has previously collaborated to create Het National Ballet’s Don Quixote and the world premiere of Lost Illusions at the Bolshi Ballet. This will be the second time Ratmansky has worked with The Australian Ballet. Cinderella will feature over 250 costumes, 40 costume designs, 68 dancers, six wigs that took around 30 hours to make each, and much, much more. This decadent adaption of Cinderella is currently being performed at the Arts Centre until Saturday September 28
ON DISPL AY Heide Museum of Modern Art are currently hosting Stephen Benwell’s latest exhibition, Beauty Anarchy Desire: A Retrospective. Regarded as an embodiment of his work, the exhibition features some of his renowned works, including Owl form, lidded container (1982), Large Vase (2004), and his dimorphic piece Statue, Athlete (2011). Beauty Anarchy Desire: A Retrospective is currently on exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art until Sunday November 10.
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PRETTY THINGS PEEPSHOW By Liza Dezfouli “We’re the world’s most glamorous sideshow,” says Go-go Amy, burlesque dancer and producer of the Pretty Things Peepshow. Go-go says the show, which describes itself as ‘Broadville’, is in a class of its own amongst burlesque performances and sideshows. “We have the beautiful girls and fab costumes,” the performer says, “and we’re the world’s most dangerous burlesque show.” Dangerous how? “We have glass-walking, a bed of nails act, fire-eating, sword-swallowing, hula hooping and a contortionist. Our acts are dangerous or beautiful, or both.” The troupe is in Melbourne for the Gangsters Balls which took place last weekend, and are performing two shows of their own at Red Bennies this week as well. Although they’ve been to Australia before, performing at the Port Mcquarie Wintersun Festival in 2011, this is their first visit to Melbourne. “Everyone in the show was pushing me to figure out how we could get back to Australia. Now we’re here as part of our world domination tour,” Amy says. The team’s been on a whirl travelling since the end of last year. “We’ve been touring the States, we’ve been in the UK and
now we’re here,” she continues. “I haven’t seen my dog in five months. I’ve got this really whacky sleep pattern.” Amy Go-go put Pretty Things Peepshow together herself five years ago when the show she was previously working in closed down. “I was with the Brothers Grimm Sideshow and when that shut down I decided to do one myself,” says the native New Yorker. “ I’m sure there was a job out there for me somewhere but I was impatient, I was used to the lifestyle of touring and playing big festivals and I didn’t want to wait around for it.” With classic North American optimism she says, “If life isn’t
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FESTIVAL OF IDEAS By Liza Dezfouli The Melbourne Fringe Festival is the longest running arts and culture festival in Melbourne. Encompassing over 4,000 performers, over 300 shows and over 100 venues, the 2013 festival is set to be the biggest yet. This year will see the festival add digital media to its program, including a special presentation of works by animators, video artists and filmmakers in Fitzroy, and feature its usual highlights of gallery exhibitions, theatre production and public arts performances. Another highlight of this year will be Fringe Furniture, the festival’s muchloved event showcasing innovation and creativity within art, furniture and design. The Melbourne Fringe Festival will run from Wednesday September 18 – Sunday October 6. Check out our lift-out guide to the festival in the middle of this edition of Beat.
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Heart disease and diabetes are first world problems brought about by a sedentary lifestyle and poor eating habits – right? Not so, says Alessandro Demaio, doctor, researcher, lecturer and founder of NCDFree, an organisation dedicated to educate the world about non-communicable diseases (NCDs), namely mental health problems, cancer, heart disease and diabetes. “The classic myth is that sufferers are fat white lazy North Americans,” says Demaio. “The stigma around these diseases is huge. But the truth is that the prevalence of NCDs is a global issue and the causes are poverty and populations living in cities with little opportunity to lead a healthy life. Lower income people contract these diseases at a higher rate than in westernised states; it is a problem for very poor and marginalised populations world-wide. Governments and health authorities aren’t seeing the need to invest in change. There is a link to poverty,” he insists. “There are so many common misunderstandings about NCDs and they are leading causes of death. They kill more people than HIV, malaria and TB combined.” He compares the prevalence of NCDs to HIV in terms of being a global health issue: “They cause 36 million deaths annually.”
Working in Sri Lanka after the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2005 alerted Demaio to the problem of NCDs in the third world. “When I arrived the acute medical problems had been solved and I expected to find infectious diseases but what I found were people with mental illness, uncontrolled heart disease and infections due to diabetes. I saw diabetic ulcers and terrible infections resulting in amputations.” Demaio has also worked in the area of public health in Cambodia and Mongolia and now lectures in Copenhagen. He believes that he’s very fortunate to work with a group of ‘very interesting people’ in NCD Free who are passionate about changing society’s perceptions of NCDs. “We’re trying to put NCDs on the map,” says Demaio. “To show that these are not diseases of the future. We want to get rid of the stigma; we want positive focus on solutions, forward thinking and
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giving you what you want, you make it yourself.” She’s been doing burlesque now for 14 years. “I started off very young, performing in nightclubs,” she notes. “I was always going to get into those pretty underpants.” Those pretty underpants come at a cost: the dangerous side to Pretty Things acts means they travel with ‘a lot of first aid.’ Accidents do happen. “No-one’s hurt themselves that badly,” Amy continues, “but we’ve bled a bit backstage.” One of the most enjoyable aspects of being a Pretty Thing for Amy involves meeting people after performances. “Once the show starts I’m so busy getting changed or doing sound checks, and it’s often hard when you’re on stage to judge how the show’s going, hard to catch the audience’s reactions when you’re in the zone. So it’s really fun to see people after the show, talk to people who say they’re really amazed, that they haven’t seen anything like us before. We’re out there selling merchandise, selling our wares so we can afford to get back home.” The show’s host is Donny V who used to host the Coney Island Sideshow; he’s been with PTPS from the beginning. “Donny has this amazing knack for creating the perfect set list,” notes Amy. “He puts together the flow of the show.” The troupe also includes Rachel Renegade and Audacious Miss Vivacious (not their real names). “Rachel and I have worked together for ten years. She worked her way up from selling tickets,” Amy recalls. “She wanted to learn the act and now she’s the star of the show. People start small. We’ve never had to do a cattle call or auditions; it’s all happened organically. Occasionally we get some amazing performer coming from the website.” Amy has some advice for anyone out there wanting to join the troupe: “Mainly I have to like you. Be nice to me.” Besides meeting audience members after her performances, what does Amy enjoy most about the show? “It changes every night,” she answers. “I like the Bed of Nails act because there are three of us in it. Donny can’t pull funny faces at us from the sides.” Pretty Things Peepshow takes place at Red Bennies this Wednesday September 18 and Thursday September 19.
optimistic discussions about NCDs. We have the skills and technology to make changes, to create cities that are more conducive to cycling and walking, and make fresh fruit and vegetables cheaper and more accessible. These are fun things.” Melbourne will get to hear Demaio and six young international change-makers launch the NCDFree movement at the University of Melbourne’s Festival of Ideas in the first week of October. The NCDFree launch includes three short films Demaio has been involved in making about global health concerns. “We can overcome these problems if we choose to,” he says. “We want to look at how to make cities conducive to health, to invest in an even playing field for everyone to achieve a healthy life, to show that the answers could possibly result in a society that is fun, that is richer culturally and socially. We can retrofit cities to that a healthy life is a path of least resistance.” This year the Festival of Ideas looks at the question of public and planetary health given the enormous stress on resources facing a world which will have to feed a population of ten billion by 2050. Each day the Festival program will deliver sessions from over 80 academics, activists, researchers and public figures exploring a particular theme - human rights, social equity and health; climate change and population growth; food and nutrition; contemporary families; neuroscience and healthy minds; and democracy. The talks are all free and book out quickly. Anyone missing out on a seat inside the Melbourne University venue will be able to watch in the panels by watching on a giant screen outside. As well, audiences are invited to participate in discussions and contribute to live polls via mobiles, Twitter and the net. Findings from the polls will be published in the Festival report as an outcome of public consultation and deliberation. The educational elements of the Festival panels will be balanced by lighter moments courtesy of musicians and comedians and a ‘surprise element’. The 2013 Festival of Ideas will take place from Tuesday October 1 - Sunday October 6. Visit ideas.unimelb.edu.au for more information.
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CAMP ROCK: THE MUSICAL
This October, Stage Masters will present CAMP ROCK: The Musical. Based on the original Disney Channel movies (CAMP ROCK, CAMP ROCK 2: The Final Jam) starring Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers, CAMP ROCK: The Musical will recapture the fun and joy of music through the fast-paced story of Mitchie and his friends who attend Camp Rock for the summer, to jam and compete in music competitions. CAMP ROCK: The Musical will be performed at the Randall Theatre, St Martin’s Youth Arts Centre from Thursday October 17 – Friday October 27.
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SQUARING THE WHEEL
As part of Darebin City Council’s School Holiday Program, European circus performer Jens Altheimer will take stage in his exciting production, Squaring the Wheel. Inspired by the versatility of everyday household objects, Altheimer will transform these items into apparatuses for his circus tricks, including a juggling ball dispenser created from baskets, wire clothes hangers and pullies. Squaring the Wheel will be performed at the Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre at 10.30am on Monday September 30.
MOREART PUBLIC ART SHOW
The City of Moreland returns with its annual public art show, MoreArt Public Art Show, this October. Inspired by the architecture and environment of the council region, MoreArt will feature koalas made from plastic bags, created by artists Aaron James McGarry; a recreation of The Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt by Phil Soliman, an interactive furniture installation, created by Bush Projects; and a series of human-sized cocoons made from polystyrene cups by The Winged Collective. The art pieces will be displayed along the Upfield train line from Brunswick to Coburg and art enthusiasts are invited to attend three free guide bicycle tours throughout the exhibition — Welcome Spring Ride, Sound Ride and Story Ride. MoreArt Public Art Show will be exhibited along the Upfield line from Sunday October 6 – Sunday November 10. Information about the free guide bicycle tours, head to thesqueakywheel.com.au.
WEDHUS GEMBEL
If you don’t like puppets, please stop reading now. If you’re a masochist, please continue reading. This October, Federation Square will host the return of Snuff Puppets with Wedhus Gembel, a cross-cultural collaboration between Snuff Puppets and Javanese artists. Part ritual and part performance, Wedhus Gembel will illustrate the tensions of social change within Indonesia as it grapples between contemporary Indonesian and traditional Indonesian. Prior to the performance, Snuff Puppets, six Indonesian artists and 20 local artists will host a Pre-Production Workshop in Footscray, allowing attendees to participate in creating new puppet productions created by them and the artists. Wedhus Gembel will be drop at Federation Square from Wednesday October 2 – Saturday October 5. The Pre-Production Workshop will be hosted at The Drill Hall, Footscray from Saturday September 28 – Sunday September 29. More information about both events can be found at snuffpuppets.com.
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On Monday night the Melbourne Theatre Company unveiled their 2014 season in a launch at Hamer Hall the second under the reign of current Artistic Director Brett Sheehy. The 2014 season features 11 mainstage plays, two add-on productions and two education shows. This includes five world premieres and three Australian premieres. Some highlights include Mike Bartlett’s Cock, Lally Katz’s Neighbourhood Watch, David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Brendan Cowell’s The Sublime, John Logan’s I’ll Eat You Last and Joanna Murray-Smith’s Pennsylvania Avenue. Building on the success of the pioneering success of the inaugural NEON Festival of Independent Theatre, five Melbourne-based independent theatre companies will participate in 2014, including Angus Cerini/ Doubletap, Antechamber Productions & Daniel Keene, Arthur, Little Ones Theatre and Sans Hotel. For the full 2014 program, visit mtc.com.au.
Be prepared to contemplate your mortality this October at La Mama’s newest production Two Mortals. Devised and performed by Mike McEvoy and Rachael Dyson-McGregor, Two Mortals will raise the question: ‘How can we talk about death, and if we could, would it enrich our lives or not?’ It will dive into the anathema that is mortality through conversations made in churches, funeral parlours, palliative care wards, blogs, YouTube videos and even an old Michael Jackson interview. Two Mortals will also include input from Roslyn Oades (I’m Your Man) and director Geoff Pinifield (Theatre Beating). Considered a production of pure existentialism, Two Mortals will be performed at La Mama Theatre from Tuesday October 8 – Sunday October 13.
TROUBADOUR
The Southpaw Gallery in Elwood will be hosting New Zealand illustrator Kelly Spencer’s latest works, Troubadour, this October. Inspired by the contrast and poetry of graphite on paper, this is the first solo exhibition that will see the NZ artist move away from the watercolour creatures she is renowned for. Troubadour will be on exhibition at The Southpaw Gallery, Elwood, from Wednesday October 2 – Friday October 18. Admission is free.
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Melbourne artist Dean Jones new solo exhibition BOARDED UP!….and Threw Away the Key at Brightspace is an eclectic mix of writing, painting with an improv beat. The ethos behind Jones’ exhibits are ‘one night only’ shows. Incorporating an improvised performance with the exhibition, which is never the same, makes each show unique and never to be repeated. The one off unique performance means the audience is experiencing something personal. The exhibition is a conversation between objects; a threetiered sense of seeing, hearing and saying to his work. Jones’ large pieces of eco ply lathered in a mix of paper, ink and resin are matched with the one off live performance by The Gang performing improv-beatmusic to Jones’ spoken words.It’s currently showing at Brightspace until Friday October 3.
OKTOBERFEST BURLESQUE
After sell out shows in 2012, this year Poppy Cherry’s Oktoberfest Burlesque returns bigger and better than ever with eight shows in a Melbourne tour of eight venues in October. A high energy, audience interactive comedy/cabaret/burlesque/circus event, Oktoberfest Burlesque features performances from some of Melbourne’s most prominent entertainers, including renowned comedian Geraldine Quinn, circus pocket rocket Anna Lumb, cabaret misfit Dirk Hoult, burlesque comedienne Honey B Goode, flaming temptress Vesper White, reigning Miss Burlesque Victoria Becky Lou and burlesque strumpet Poppy Cherry (as Frida Bompalot). The tour commences with an intimate preview show at Burlesque Bar in Fitzroy, before kicking off a suburban tour of six large pub venues - The Village Green Hotel, Manningham Hotel, York on Lilydale, Milano’s Tavern, Chelsea Heights Hotel and Skyways Hotel. For the main event, on Friday October 18 the Fitzroy Town Hall will be transformed into a burlesque beer hall, complete with pop-up bar, German beer, pretzels, sausages, roving beer maids, plus the spectacular Oktoberfest burlesque show. Head to oktoberfestburlesque.com.au for more information.
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LOL Comedy during the Melbourne Fringe goes super special with ‘Hot Night in the City – Comedy and Variety Showcase.’ This week hosted by Xavier Toby with one of the first and still the best to perform stand up comedy in Australia – Rod Quantock on Wednesday September 18 at The Portland Hotel in the city, and Thursday September 19 at The Provincial Hotel in Fitzroy. Melbourne Fringe festivities fizzle forward at The Local in Port Melbourne on Tuesday September 24 with host Dilruk Jayasinha along with the top comedians and snack-sized samples of magic, circus, music, puppetry, burlesque and improvised comedy. Tickets from lolcomedy.com.au or at the door.
PUBLIC BAR COMEDY Get to Public Bar Comedy tonight for another $5 all killer no filler lineup. If you don’t already know that Claire Hooper, Daniel Connell, Bart Freebairn, Karl Woodberry, Mick Neven and Kevin Lim is one hell of a line up, you need to come down and find out. In only its first month Public Bar Comedy has earned a reputation for packed crowds and shows so good that people have actually offered to pay more on the way out. Get down and be about it.
COMMEDIA DELL PARTE: ST KILDA This week Charles Barrington hosts a great lineup of comics featuring Simon Taylor, Tony Besselink, JMAC, Russell Wigginton, Alisia Dunlop and David Cronin. The room runs on a ‘pay as you like’ basis, so come along and have a great laugh, then pay what you believe the show is worth on the way out. Commedia Dell Parte runs every Thursday from 8.30pm at the George Lane Bar,St Kilda.
FIVE BOROUGHS COMEDY Tom Gleeson headlines Five Boroughs Comedy this Thursday. They’ve been selling out, and this week should be no different, since Tom will be joined by Asher Treleaven, Raw Comedy winner Demi Lardner, Henry Stone and two awesome surprise guests off the television. It’s all happening this Thursday September 19 at 8.30pm for only $12 at Five Boroughs (upstairs), 68 Hardware Lane, CBD.
COMEDY AT SPLEEN It’s another amazing lineup at Comedy at Spleen this Monday. There’s Josh Earl as host plus Pat Burtscher, Karl Chandler, Demi Lardner, Daniel Connell, Laura Dunemann and much more. It’s on this Monday September 23, 41 Bourke St in the city at 8.30pm. It may be free, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.
SUSPENDED
The Rooftop Cinema will combine its cinematic character with a more dance-inspired feel this October with the addition of Yahna Fooke’s newest choreography, Suspended. Inspired by Trisha Brown’s Roof Piece (1971), Suspended will integrate live dance with pre-recorded footage; it aims to challenge the way we traditionally perceive dance and film. Suspended will include Australia’s best emerging talent, including performers Jessica Wong and James Shannon, cinematographer Rudi Siira, sound designer Matthew Brown, costume designers and winners of the LMFF National Designer Award From Britten, an post-producer Ana Jimenez. Suspended will grace the Rooftop Cinema from Tuesday October 1 – Thursday October 3.
TRAFFIC
Australian artist Roz Avent returns with her latest collection of works, Traffic, at Tinning Street Gallery this month. Traffic is a depiction of the immigration and movement of people from their place of origin, creating a poignant portrait about the socio-political issues of refugees, asylum seekers and indigenous Australians. Traffic will be exhibited at Tinning Street Gallery from Thursday September 19 – Sunday September 29. Admission is free.
ANNA ROSE Author and Environmentalist Anna was recognised by Cosmopolitan magazine in 2013 as one Madlands: A Journey to Change the Mind of a Climate Sceptic based !
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DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST SPECIAL By Patrick Emery
Every year, Melbourne’s thriving music community comes together to celebrate music in all its forms at the Darebin Music Feast. This rich and diverse collection of musical events of all genres is built on the philosophy that music brings people together; it is a joyous means of engaging and uniting the community. The 2013 Darebin Music Feast runs from Wednesday September 18 – Sunday September 29 and presents over 150 events, in over 15 venues throughout Northcote, Preston, Thornbury, Reservoir and Fairfield, including loads of free and kid friendly events. Here are just a handful of the diverse acts you can catch at The Feast this year. For a full look at the lineup, head to musicfeast.com.au.
ANDREW FINEGAN
YORQUE
AURORA JANE
GINGER AND TONIC
Show: Songs from the End of the World Friday September 20 “Songs from the End of the World” is a solo cabaret song-cycle, exploring humanity’s relationship with its own demise. Written and performed by Andrew Finegan, this one-hour show is partcomedy, part-tragedy. What are you most looking forward to about the Darebin Music Festival, and why? Not wanting to sound too egotistical, but I’m really looking to performing my show to a home crowd on my home turf in Northcote. What have you liked about previous Darebin festivals? I like that the Music Feast is a celebration of the musical diversity in Darebin - whether it’s rock, electronic, folk, a cappella, cabaret, jazz or sacred music. We live in a community that embraces a diversity in arts, If you were programming the Darebin Music Festival, what would be the overall theme (if any), and who would you want to play? Community and Collaboration. I would focus on involving local musicians in the community, developing community arts projects, and creating opportunities for them to share, collaborate and create new music with others. Whilst there would always be a program of performances, I would also see more workshops and interactive activities that stir that musical creativity that lies in all of us. In recent years, the affordability belt has moved from Fitzroy through to Northcote and Thornbury, and is now through Preston and Reservoir. Will musicians, and music venues, follow that affordability belt? I think that the challenges grow for live music the further you go out into suburbia, especially with noise restrictions, liquor licensing costs, etc. Places like High St in Northcote and Thornbury have that inner-city vibe going for them, but I’m not sure that I see it stretching much farther North.
Show: Decibels Records Artist Showcase Saturday September 21 Darebin City Council’s Decibels Records initiative is a youth development program, providing young people with practical industry experiences in establishing, maintaining and being signed to an independent record label. See Decibels Records’ 2013 artists Miss Eileen & King Lear and Yorque launch their new releases at this special showcase event. What does the Darebin area have that other areas don’t, in terms of support and opportunities for live music? Well for us this is an easy question! We are releasing an EP through Decibels Records during the Music Feast, which is a youth led music label run by the Darebin Council – that’s the definition of support and opportunities! What’s your favourite venue in Darebin, and why? The Wesley Anne is pretty cool and relaxed. It’s like watching a band perform in your living room. Do you think there’s a danger that people can take the music scene for granted in Darebin, and elsewhere in Melbourne, especially given the difficulty for musicians to make a living from music and the pressure of rising rental and venue operation costs? The danger is very present! Many people expect to see a band for free or virtually nothing these days, some people find it hard to part with $10 for entry where in reality $10 is a pint. Have a punt (on a band) over a pint. Something has to change, whether it starts with the musician or how much the people actually value live performance. In that context, what could be done to improve the opportunities for live music in Darebin? It is all about the people! Many people have the ‘FREE’ mentality. If this begins to change, opportunities will improve as musicians have more financial backing. It all starts with the people. And a bit more government support for contemporary music never hurts!
Show: So She Says Saturday September 28 So She Says is proudly hosting a performance of some of Melbourne’s finest independent female singer-songwriters, set to stamp their mark on Melbourne’s local scene. Come on down to the beautiful forecourt of the Northcote Uniting Church and enjoy a relaxing afternoon of great music and energy. What does the Darebin area have that other areas don’t, in terms of support and opportunities for live music? The area is known internationally for quality and diverse music. Last year I was touring abroad for 5 months, and found no other place with such a thriving scene. In Darebin there are suitable venues for music of any genre and audience demographic. What’s your favourite venue in Darebin, and why? I like a few for different reasons… NSC is great for launch shows. Quality sound, stylish set-up. For smaller shows, Open Studio has an incredible vibe – and goes off like a bigger venue when the time is right! Do you think festivals such as this should be about showcasing local musicians, or focusing on the opportunities for all musicians to play in Darebin? I think a good combination of both allows audiences to experience a diverse program, and allows artists the opportunity to connect regardless of geography. If you were programming the Darebin Music Festival, what would be the overall theme (if any), and who would you want to play? I would keep the programming diverse – one genre is too limiting! Having been abroad last year, this year was a real rediscovery of the Melbourne scene for me. The artists I saw live this year that impressed me so were: The Lovely Days, The Imprints, El Moth and Dru Chen. They would all be on the bill for sure.
Tuesday September 24 Three of Australia’s best young a cappella girl groups come together for a special night of vocal music. Although Aluka, The Nymphs and Ginger and Tonic are all joined by a common theme, they present very contrasting takes on the genre. In recent years, the affordability belt has moved from Fitzroy through to Northcote and Thornbury, and is now through Preston and Reservoir. Will musicians, and music venues, follow that affordability belt? As a Thornbury resident I love diversity in the suburb and hope that any gentrification of the streets doesn’t lead to a loss of artists having access to great spaces and venues - there are so many great places in the northern suburbs that continue to support live music so I don’t see that the gentrification necessarily has to mean a loss of live music. Do you think there’s a danger that people can take the music scene for granted in Darebin, and elsewhere in Melbourne, especially given the difficulty for musicians to make a living from music and the pressure of rising rental and venue operation costs? I think it’s always going to be hard for musicians to make a living to some degree as you always have to rely on an audience showing up - it’s the name of the game! But one of the best things about Darebin is that it is known for its music scene and with so many venues all the way down High St, there is a real culture of going out to support live music. In that context, what could be done to improve the opportunities for live music in Darebin? The most important thing is for Darebin to continue to hold public events such as the Darebin Music Feast and ensure that venues continue to be accessible to musicians, as well as accessible audiences by supporting good public transport initiatives and safe public spaces.
QUARRY MOUNTAIN DEAD RATS
DAN PARSONS
THE ROYAL JELLIES
OLIVER MANN
Thursday September 19 A natural musician who played the majority of instruments on his gorgeous, self-titled album; he accompanies himself with a deft acoustic guitar style. Playing with his band however, you can expect twin guitar solos, extended jams and driving grooves all set to the everyday triumphs and anxieties of the human experience. Do you think festivals such as this should be about showcasing local musicians, or focusing on the opportunities for all musicians to play in Darebin? I think the idea of local musicians playing the shows is important. The idea of ‘representing’ your area/locale is something unique, I believe. If you were programming the Darebin Music Festival, what would be the overall theme (if any), and who would you want to play? No theme, just a really solid, eclectic mix of artists. I’d probably get Dan Kelly, Yeo and Darling James to play. In recent years, the affordability belt has moved from Fitzroy through to Northcote and Thornbury, and is now through Preston and Reservoir. Will musicians, and music venues, follow that affordability belt? I think if rent becomes too high, then musicians will definitely go somewhere else to live cheaper and inevitably, over the years turn ‘somewhere else’ into the ‘hotspot’. I can’t really speak for music venues- but I think they’ll be OK.
Wednesday September 18 (Opening Night) Melbourne meets New Orleans old school in The Royal Jellies. Currently touring their debut album Burrows St. Poolside, this consummate eight-piece band delivers a sound that is brash, brassy and infectious; modern-dapper songs textured with horns, Hammond, banjo and stride piano. What have you liked about previous Darebin festivals? Community vibe, fun atmosphere and great performances. In recent years, the affordability belt has moved from Fitzroy through to Northcote and Thornbury, and is now through Preston and Reservoir. Will musicians, and music venues, follow that affordability belt? I hope so! I’m moving out from Coburg to the west soon. There better be good places to see live music when I get there. Do you think there’s a danger that people can take the music scene for granted in Darebin, and elsewhere in Melbourne, especially given the difficulty for musicians to make a living from music and the pressure of rising rental and venue operation costs? Definitely. When the gentrification of Northcote and Thornbury is complete and drives musicians and artists out, most of the band venues and pubs will become apartments or snooty gastro pubs with no pulse. See the Birmingham Hotel on Smith St as an example. In that context, what could be done to improve the opportunities for live music in Darebin? Make more funding accessible for arts and music related projects. Make housing more affordable in the inner suburbs.
Sunday September 29 Oliver Mann is something of an anomaly in the music world. Working across various musical strands and languages, the Melbourne bass-baritone’s output is defined by its adherence to the classical canon as much as its re-imagining. Do you think festivals such as this should be about showcasing local musicians, or focusing on the opportunities for all musicians to play in Darebin? All musicians. It’s more important where you experience the music – not so much where the musicians are from. If you were programming the Darebin Music Festival, what would be the overall theme (if any), and who would you want to play? No theme – as diverse as possible. Do you think there’s a danger that people can take the music scene for granted in Darebin, and elsewhere in Melbourne, especially given the difficulty for musicians to make a living from music and the pressure of rising rental and venue operation costs? Most definitely. In that context, what could be done to improve the opportunities for live music in Darebin? Increased funding for quality live music spaces from local and federal government, and protection for live spaces from un-reasonable noise complaints. Look after the music and it looks after you.
Wednesday September 18 (Opening Night) Taking it back to a simpler time, where the pickin’ was fast and the banjo was king, this five piece bring their raw & gritty version of bluegrass kicking and hollering into the modern day. Quarry Mountain Dead Rats establish an ‘old mate’ affinity with their audiences while delivering a kickyou-in-the-face live show, setting the tone for a sing along, drink along, foot-stomping good time. What are you most looking forward to about the Darebin Music Festival, and why? Howlin Steam Train, they rule the school! What’s your favourite venue in Darebin, and why? NSC, awesome pub. If you were programming the Darebin Music Festival, what would be the overall theme (if any), and who would you want to play? Rock, rockabilly and old timey and get trampled by turtles. What could be done to improve the opportunities for live music in Darebin? Open more venues, burn the pokies to the ground.
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on tour R.A THE RUGGED MAN [USA] Thursday September 19, The Espy HERNAN CATTANEO [ARG] Friday September 20, Prince Bandroom KENNY LARKIN [USA], STIMMING [GER] Friday September 20, Brown Alley SNAKEHIPS [UK] Friday September 20, The Liberty Social ERIC CLOUTIER [GER] Friday September 20, Mercat Basement DJ FRICTION [UK] Saturday September 21, Brown Alley RUDIMENTAL [UK] Saturday September 21, Festival Hall ROBERT HOOD [USA] Saturday September 21, The Liberty Social PETER VAN HOESEN [BEL] Friday September 27, New Guernica RAMPA [UK] Friday September 27, onesixone ANTHONY NAPLES [USA] Friday September 27, Boney LAUREL HALO [USA], OBJEKT [GER] Saturday September 28, The Liberty Social PÁLE [UK] Sunday September 29, Boney TALIB KWELI [USA], HOMEBOY SANDMAN [USA] Thursday October 3, The Hi-Fi HUNTER/GAME [ITA] Friday October 4, New Guernica OLIVER $ [GER] Friday October 4, onesixone JAY LUMEN [HNG] Friday October 4, Revolver Upstairs SANDER VAN DOORN [NED] Friday October 4, The Palace LISTEN OUT: DISCLOSURE [UK], TNGHT [UK], AZEALIA BANKS [USA] + MORE Saturday October 5, Observatory Precinct, Royal Botanic Gardens ROGERSEVENTYTWO [NED] Saturday October 5, Brown Alley FABOLOUS [USA], CHINGY [USA] Sunday October 6, Forum Theatre ADANA TWINS [GER] Sunday October 6, Revolver Upstairs SHIFTED & SIGHA [UK] Friday October 11, Mercat Basement DJ QUIK [USA], KURUPT [USA] Friday October 18, Billboard MICKEY AVALON [USA] Friday October 18, Corner Hotel PORTER ROBINSON [USA] Sunday October 20, Billboard BOOKA SHADE [GER] Thursday October 24, Prince Bandroom BEN SIMS [UK] Friday October 25, Brown Alley DAVE CLARKE [UK] Friday November 1, Roxanne Parlour CHOPSTICK & JOHNJON [GER] Sunday November 3, Revolver Upstairs AME [GER], MATTHIAS TANZMANN [GER] Sunday November 3, Brown Alley SALT N PEPA [USA] Saturday November 16, Palais Theatre FINNEBASSEN [NOR] Sunday November 17, Revolver Upstairs PANTHA DU PRINCE [GER] Monday November 18, Melbourne Recital Centre DAVID AUGUST [GER], JOHN TEJADA [USA] Friday November 22, Brown Alley STRAWBERRY FIELDS: CARL CRAIG [USA], MOODYMANN [USA] Friday November 22 - Sunday November 24 , TBA NOSAJ THING [USA], JONWAYNE [USA] Saturday November 23, Melbourne Music Week Hub - Birrarung Marr EARTHCORE: ANGY KORE [ITA], PERFECT STRANGER [ISR] + MORE Friday November 29 - Sunday December 2, TBA STEREOSONIC: DAVID GUETTA [FRA], ARMIN VAN BUUREN [NED], CALVIN HARRIS [UK] + MORE Saturday December 7 - Sunday December 8, Royal Melbourne Showgrounds JON HOPKINS [UK] Thursday December 12, The Hi-Fi MEREDITH: TIM SWEENEY [USA], DERRICK MAY [USA] + MORE Friday December 13 - Sunday December 15, Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre MIDLAND [UK] Sunday December 22, Revolver Upstairs KOLOMBO [BEL] Sunday January 19, Revolver Upstairs RAINBOW SERPENT: DONATO DOZZY [ITA], MICHAEL MAYER [GER] + MORE Friday January 24 - Monday January 27, Lexton BRUNO MARS [USA], MIGUEL [USA] Tuesday March 4 & Wednesday March 5, Rod Laver Arena FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL: DEADMAU5 [UK], KNIFE PARTY [UK] + MORE Sunday March 9 and the Flemington Racecourse
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Well over a decade into the journey of actively spreading their musical message, Aviram Saharay, Itai Spector and Matan Kadosh have clearly made it their life mission to live and breath music. Catching the lads at the airport in Switzerland, we get the low down on what’s been happening for the trio. “Things are going really great,” explains Matan. “We are on our way to do a couple of shows in Brazil, so things are going really well for us. I can definitely say it is one of the best years we have ever had,” he professes proudly. Indeed, growing up together in a small city named Afula, in the north of Israel, Matan was already making a name for himself as a DJ from the tender age of just 16. “I met Aviram, we had already experimented with the idea of making music,” explains the second member of the crew, Itai Spector. “We sort of all started to play around with the idea of making music and when we came to Matan to get a little more experience and expertise, he just loved the potential of what we showed him,” he says. And with that, the lads afforded themselves the opportunity to sit down in order to make some tunes together. “The first tune we did that way was also our first tune released,” chimes Matan. “The track was called Soap Bubbles. To be honest, we were very excited to have been able to release the first song we had produced,” he says. “In Israel, there weren’t too many bands that produced their first song and got it released onto CD. I guess some things were just meant to be,” Matan says, as he giggles in jest. And with the ps-trance movement continuing to tear things up in their native Israel, the boys remain as motivated as ever to continue pumping out tunes. Aviram continues with the gossip: “these days, the scene in Israel is just on fire. There are huge raves as well as a lot of clubs and a really good variety of outdoor parties that help people totally get inside our culture. Like any movement though, there are always ups and downs – especially between
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styles – and when one scene gets smaller, another gets bigger and better in another place. It’s not something that familiar to us, but we’ve been making it happen like that during the 12 years we have been around in the scene.” Musically, the lads are excited about being in the final phase of wrapping up their next full-length release - and they plan to deliver the output sometimes towards the beginning of next year. “We always try to push ourselves forward,” says Matan, “but we never
forget about the Sesto spirit and happy vibes. I really think our true fans will love our new album,” he professes. Continuing on, he adds “we always like to share our studio with good producers and collaborators; you can learn something from
Sesto Sento play at the Earthcore 20th Anniversary alongside Ace Ventura, Perfect Stranger and more, which takes place from Friday November 29 - Sunday December 1 at a yet to be disclosed location in country Victoria. soundcloud.com/sestosento
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almost anyone if you really want to. But if I had to pick one name, it would have to be Daft Punk; these guys are just so funky, we love them. For us though, we’ve always done what we think is good electronic music with some psy elements – and always in the belief that if you do good things, the rest will follow. We don’t like to limit ourselves with words or genres or styles; we think that as musicians, firstly, you need to be loyal to yourself and to be free to do what you feel is right, without letting any rules stop you from doing that. We are also committed to working hard and non-stop. As musicians, you have to reinvent yourself and your music, while staying true to what people loved about you in the first place. You have to stay active while touring the world. If it’s a huge party or a small party, your music needs to be heard.” So between being on the cusp of their 30s and enjoying the odd rave party or two in between drinks, the lads also enjoy spending the time that they’re not travelling in the studio. And with that, they are heading back to Australia to hit up the Earthcore festival one more time with a fresh batch of studio tracks and edits. “We’ve played at that festival before,” Itai jumps in. “We’ve been to Australia many times and we love it there. You can expect the very best from Sesto Sento. It will be a party full of good vibes, happy music and completely epic moments. We look forward to seeing you all there.”
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space tribe
A living legend of psytrance, Olli Wisdom will be playing sets around Australia to celebrate 20 years making music with his solo project Space Tribe. From being the singer in the glam rock group Specimen, Olli Wisdom found himself producing psytrance in the 9’0s and some would say, he’s found his niche. After 20 years and many monikers including Esp, his collaboration with Electric Universe, Alien Jesus his collaboration with GMS and making tracks with the likes of Dick Trevor, Laughing Buddha and Max Maxx. With 20 years of experience and over 13 albums to date, this icon of the psytrance scene continues to electrify dance floors worldwide with his futuristic, full-power, psychedelic dance music infused with incredible production techniques. It’s all happening at Brown Alley on Friday November 8.
future music festival earthcore
Earthcore have just revealed the headline act for their 20 year anniversary. In what is a massive coup for the festival, psychedelic legends Shpongle will grace the festival alongside a Raja Ram Tip World 20 year anniversary closing set. They will join the likes of Ace Ventura, Perfect Stranger, Sesto Sento and loads more. The Earthcore 20th Anniversary takes place from Friday November 29 - Sunday December 1 at a yet to be disclosed location in country Victoria.
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Future Music Festival have dropped a huge lineup for the 2013 incarnation of the festival. Headlining the proceedings with be the likes of Deadmau5, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Knife Party, alongside Hardwell, Eric Prydz, Kaskade, Paul van Dyk, Baauer, Markus Schulz, ATB, Dada Life, Chuckie, Arty, Martin Garrix, Chase & Status, Rudimental, Tinie Tempah, Naughty Boy, 2 Chainz, Cut Copy, Sub Focus, Netsky, R3Hab, Bassjackers, Adventure Club, Carnage, Deniz Koyu, Dannic Dyro, Monsta, Timmy Trumpet, Walden, Tenzin, Will Sparks, Sven Vath, Paul Kalkbrenner, Dubfire, Gesaffelstein, Maya Jane Coles, Brodinski, Gorgon City and Kaytranada. It all goes down on Sunday March 9 at the Flemington Racecourse.
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PAGE 6 Digital Gardens and Digital Creatures Simon Taylor: Funny Spoilt Asher Trevealen: The Experiment Pretty Peepers: The Untraditional Cabaret When We Were Idiots Social Needia: The Epidemic
PAGE 8 Fringe Furniture Raiders Of The Temple Of Doom’s Last Crusade 3, 2, 1...Impro! Classical vs Jazz: The Ultimate Harp Battle Julius Caesar Water Torture John Gabriel Borkman
PAGE 10 Hairy Soul Man Wizard Sandwiches: The Last Lunch Danny Stinson’s Don’t “Mind” Me Valentine Presents: Love On A G-String Not Axel Harrison Squid Stamp: The Technology Show Andy & Darcy Are: Home Alone
PAGE 12 - 13 Maps The Fringe Hub The Fringe Club The Warren
PAGE 14 The Last Temptation Of Randy Safety First The Woolgatherer Stuart Daulman Is The Principal Together As One Exodus A Sequence From The Homecoming
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OLA MY HOMBRES! Fancy seeing you here. The Melbourne Fringe Festival creates an atmosphere within this fine city like no other. Since it was first established way back in 1982 following the closing of the legendary Pram Factory in Carlton, it has flourished and evolved into Melbourne’s longest running and most popular independent arts festival. One of that launched the careers one some of this nation’s finest artistic and creative minds.
Simon Taylor: Funny, Asher Trevealen: The Experiment, Pretty Peepers: The Untraditional Cabaret, When We Were Idiots, Social Needia: The Epidemic, 3, 2, 1...Impro!, Classical vs Jazz: The Ultimate Harp Battle, Water Torture, John Gabriel Borkman, Hairy Soul Man, Danny Stinson’s Don’t “Mind” Me, Valentine Presents: Love On A G-String, Not Axel Harrison, Squid Stamp: The Technology Show, Andy & Darcy Are: Home Alone, The Last Temptation Of Randy, Exodus, A Sequence From The Homecoming, Here Comes Your Man, Darkness and Light, Love In The Key Of Britpop, Into The Darkness, Papillion, The Kangaroo Killer, Beau Heartbreaker, In The Interests Of Peace, Moving Scores, Dr. Lala Loulou Is Coming Out, Keira Daley: Ladynerd and 3 Little Gigs. Clickity-clack onto beat.com.au/freeshit to win.
Last year saw the Fringe celebrate its 30th birthday, and in 2013 it returns bigger and better than ever. This year the gigantic open-access event will see over 4,000 artists from Victoria’s thriving and diverse arts scene present their work in over 100 independent venues city-wide. So – let’s get on with it. Flick over the page and immerse yourself in the 2013 Melbourne Fringe with our guide to the festival. We’ve scoured high and low through the immense 2013 program to find the absolute most daring, bold and extraordinary shows to allow you to make the very most of the festival. See you in the Fringe Club afterward for a drink or six!
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DIGITAL GARDENS AND DIGITAL CREATURES “Melbourne Fringe can seem like this huge amorphous thing,” says Emma Mayall, Melbourne Fringe’s new Creative Producer. “There are so many different artists, shows, creative talent and performances that not everyone realises Fringe has this stand-alone component – the Creative Program – an important sister program to the festival and a keynote event each year.” Mayall, who’s in her first year as Creative Producer, is keen to make the event something that enriches the whole festival experience. “I want to make it different,” she continues. “There are always two elements to the Creative Program: Fringe Furniture and one other.” The ‘one other’ this year is Digital Gardens (not to be confused with Digital Creatures; more about that below). Digital Gardens is an initiative which brings together independent artists presenting work at the Festival Hub and independent games developers to collaborate in creating immersive digital experiences unique to Fringe. These will be sited in free pop-up playgrounds in the CBD (City Square) and the City of Stonnington (in a
yet-to-be confirmed venue). The original games developed for Fringe’s Digital Gardens are non-combative, says Mayall, focussing instead on performance, exploration and sensation in experiences that allow an audience member to see a show then participate in encounters or become involved as a protagonist in a multi-player game based on that show. Digital Gardens is a uniquely self-referential element of Melbourne Fringe where reality and virtual worlds collide. Images, text or pieces of performance playing at the Fringe Festival Hub in North Melbourne feature in the various digital experiences. “The shows at the Hub are the best of the best,” notes Mayall. “Shows like Dropped and They Saw a Thylacin...there are some very poetic elements to the scripts and they are embedded in the game.” Mayall is quick to acknowledge the work of her predecessor, Neil Harvey. “It was his idea,” she says, “to use aspect of Fringe shows in the games. He asked the question of how to tie this beautiful game in with Fringe shows. It uses voice-over, iconography, script taken from shows, all embedded secretly in the game.” Digital Gardens
even introduces new technology: “Ocular wrist is a virtual reality headgear,” explains Mayall. “It allows this immersive experience.” This year Melbourne Fringe also involves the vibrant community of local animators in the festival: Digital Creatures introduces digital art to the whole shebang with a presentation of new works by independent filmmakers, video artists and animators. Digital Creatures will run all day and night on a big screen at Little Creatures Dining Hall on Brunswick Street. “Melbourne has so many wonderful filmmakers, animators, digital creators,” enthuses Mayall. “Digital Creatures is open-access, not curated, so everyone can be a part. It’s surprising to see what’s been submitted. We didn’t know who we were going to get. That’s the beautiful thing about Digital Creatures. It’s a public forum. Both established and emerging artists get to be part of an arts festival. We’re openly giving all these different artists an opportunity to be public with their work.”
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Venue: Imperial Hotel, 2 - 8 Bourke St, CBD Dates: September 18 - October 6 Time: 8pm Tickets: $15 - $18
ASHER TRELEAVEN: THE EXPERIMENT The Experiment aims to discover if Melbourne’s best alternative comedians can be more entertaining than a small dog. Each night there is a ‘best small dog’ competition with a cash prize of $15, but if no dog is present or all are too enormous then the prize will jackpot to $30! After the best small dog is chosen, it is taken backstage and then released at a random point in the show from the stage, if the dog is more entertaining than the show, we lose. But we won’t lose. The cast of The Experiment is the best of the best. They are the hardest hitting, most dangerous, most outspoken danger people of alternative comedy in the whole country. Gathered together for two weeks of comedy destruction where audiences will be ‘destroyed’ ‘smashed’ and ‘killed’ with entertainment each night. There’ll be sketches, music and comedy, but mainly it’s about ze dog.
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Dripping in satire, SPOILT, holds a mirror up to contemporary society to display some shattering results. Comic actress, Liz Skitch plays a myriad of everyday Australians who all have one thing in common: they are SPOILT. Parodying everyone from inner city workaholics to suburban dog owners, self-improvement junkies to newly-weds, no one is safe in this comic exploration of humanity’s over-indulgence.The characters in SPOILT are on individual quests to achieve happiness. But they have all been taken in by the rhetoric of the selfhelp industry; self-improvement, self-love, selfindulgence, selfishness. SPOILT is underpinned by an examination of the negative effects of advertising and commercialism and the overwhelming volumes of adverts that encourage us to ‘to indulge our senses’, ‘treat’ ourselves and to spare no expense for these ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunities.
Venue: La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton Dates: September 19 – 29 (except Mondays and Tuesdays) Times: 6.30pm (Wednesday and Sunday 8.30pm) Tickets: $15 - $25
PRETTY PEEPERS: THE UNTRADITIONAL CABARET Pretty Peepers cabaret, the sellout success of the 2012 Melbourne Fringe Festival, is back in Melbourne with their brand new psychedelic variety show. The grotesquely gorgeous variety show creates a space where parody is the recipe for fun and fury. Spooky characters, adult illusion and absurd strip art as you’ve never seen it before. The fairy godmother of quirk, Glitta Supernova steers a beautiful demented trip into the underbelly of the human psyche. Peepers own special brand of camp comedy and absurd theatre is dished with lavish servings of humor, nudity and pizzazz then bluntly diced with the absolute unexpected.
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Venue: Lithuanian Club, 44 Errol St, North Melbourne Dates: October 1 - 5 Times: 7.30pm Tickets: $18 - $30
Venue: Lithuanian Club 44 Errol St, North Melbourne Dates: September 20 - October 5 (except Mondays) Time: 10.15pm Tickets: $23 - $28
WHEN WE WERE IDIOTS When’s the last time that you followed around a penguin from the future armed with a megaphone? Set in 2113, it’s a century since it became socially unacceptable to read anything longer than a tweet. Soon afterwards, society collapsed. Obviously. Follow your penguin guide around a North Melbourne that’s remained unchanged since late 2013, when it disappeared under a mammoth mound of rubbish that was mostly take away coffee cups, stale cupcakes and hipsters. Featuring actual artefacts from a time when there were ‘cars’, ‘mobile phones’, ‘beef ’, ‘pop music’, ‘sport’, ‘the stock market’, ‘advertising’ and ‘reality television’. A time when people actually denied the existence of climate change, gay marriage and vampires. Hard to imagine, isn’t it? Comedian Xavier Toby will be taking groups on an exciting and intriguing comedy walking tour: discovering the murder, mystery and mayhem of North Melbourne. At the same time marvelling at the stupidity of the people, products and practices of 2013 – When We Were Idiots. Tours run rain, hail or shine. Umbrellas are welcome if you feel the need!
Digital Creatures will screen from 6pm until late each night of the festival at the Little Creatures Dining Hall, 222 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. Admission is free. Digital Gardens will take place at City Square from Thursday September 19 - Saturday September 21 and then at the City of Stonnington from Saturday September 28 Sunday September 29 and then Saturday October 5 - Sunday October 6. Visit melbournefringe. com.au for more information and exact locations.
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Venue: Start point is the Lithuanian Club, 44 Errol St, North Melbourne Dates: September 20 - October 5 (except Mondays) Time: 6.30pm (2pm and 6.30pm on weekends) Tickets: $10 - $15
What happens when a social media addict embarks on an online detox to try to cure her obsession? This comedy show. If you get anxious when nobody comments on your Facebook status updates, Instagram your food before eating it, wake up in the middle of the night to tweet, express all feelings through emoticons and believe that hashtags make everything cooler...you’re probably suffering from Social Needia; an epidemic that’s gone viral. Jordana Borensztajn suffers from all of these symptoms and more. In Social Needia: The Epidemic she delves into her addiction to social media and technology, plus a range of neurotic characteristics that all feed her obsession. Please note: The use of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram throughout this show is not only permitted, it is encouraged. Doctor’s orders.
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Venue: Portland Hotel, Cnr Russell & Little Collins St, CBD Dates: September 19 - October 5 (except September 20, 21, 25, 28, 29, 30 and October 2, 4) Times: 9.15pm (Sunday 7pm) Tickets: $16 - $20
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FRINGE FURNITURE “Fringe Furniture has been part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival for 27 years,” notes Emma Mayall, Fringe’s Creative Producer. “It’s a core part of the festival. We’ve had double the entries this year, from 50 in 2012 to around 90.” Fringe Furniture, an annual showcase for new works in art, furniture and design, is one of the stand-alone events that form part of the Creative Program of Melbourne Fringe. “Melbourne design is very strong,” continues Mayall. “The Australian design community is pretty significant overall, here and internationally, with incredible designers. Marc Newson, although he’s from Sydney, is now designing interiors for private jets. Really good design is something that everyone can recognize and you get such beautiful, resolved pieces in Fringe Furniture.” This year the designers in Fringe Furniture are responding to the idea of ‘Make It True’. “I’m very excited,” says Mayall. Fringe Furniture, in keeping with the ethos of Melbourne Fringe, is an open
access event and covers all aspects of interior design. Over the years Fringe Furniture has been tailored to create opportunities for new artists – previous initiatives have included the establishment of residencies, mentorship programmes, designer development programs as well as the annual Awards. The non-curatorial foundation of Fringe Furniture means that emerging designers get to exhibit and engage in dialogue with more experienced and established practitioners. Careers have been launched at Fringe Furniture, an important event in Melbourne’s design calendar. Designers from various disciplines are invited to submit work; everyone gets a chance to display their creations with participants returning year after year to be involved in various ways in a showcase of a vast cross-section of local talent. Fringe Furniture event was held at the Abbotsford Convent for the first time last year, in intriguing spaces that Mayall sees as the ideal place to show off Melbourne’s emerging design talent. “There are two sites at the convent, the Sacred Heart Chapel, and the
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former Industrial School – the oldest surviving building on the Convent grounds – is an enigmatic space, it’s slightly ruinous, falling apart slightly; it has a raw quality which creates a complete dichotomy with the refined design objects on display.” Fringe Furniture looks to be staying at the convent. “Our relationship with the convent is incredibly strong and we hope to build it,” Mayall continues. “It’s a beautiful location. There are a lot of studios, private studio spaces, public forum spaces, public program spaces, sites are used for short-term exhibitions and for theatre with bump-ins and bumpouts happening; over 300 people work here every day ...it’s the perfect forum and venue for Fringe Furniture.” Is there anything in this year’s Fringe Furniture exhibition that Mayall wants to take home with her? “Oh, yes,” she answers.” There are several. With so many of the objects I think, ‘I have to have that’.” She’s not naming any favourites although she will say that there are some incredible lighting designs in this year’s offering.
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RAIDERS OF THE TEMPLE OF DOOM’S LAST CRUSADE Three classic adventure movies. One man. 60 minutes. Stephen Hall performs the first three Indiana Jones movies in an hour. All the characters, all the thrills, escapes and hugely expensive special effects, with little more than an obsessive knowledge of the films, a knack for accents and an office chair on wheels. In 1981, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford defined adventure movies for a generation, with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Its two sequels Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade continued the globetrotting, swashbuckling adventures of everyone’s favourite whip-cracking archaeologist. Now, in 2013, the people behind the hit show Bond-A-Rama! Every James Bond Film Live on Stage bring you the original Raiders trilogy...as you’ve never seen it before. If you’ve got a ‘Raiders’ DVD box set, but no time to watch them all, this show is just the ticket!
Venue: North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry St, North Melbourne Dates: September 20 – October 5 (except Mondays) Times: 8pm (Sundays 7pm) Tickets: $16 - $23
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Venue: The 86, 185 Smith St, Fitzroy Dates: September 19 - October 6 (every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday) Time: 7.30pm Tickets: $10
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It’s the age old debate; is classical better than jazz? Which one goes deeper? Does improvising jazz in the moment play out more infinite possibilities? Or has classical already found the very best sounds and melodies? Is fusion possible between such different musical languages? Join Michelle Smith - one of the worlds’ very few jazz harpists, and Catherine Ashley - an international classical harp performer as they take you on an aural journey of melody, rhythm and cross genre rivalry.
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Venue: Revolt Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington Dates: October 2 - 5 Time: 8pm Tickets: $25 - $30
WATER TORTURE
Conspiracy is alive and well in our government. The tension and tragedy of ancient Roman politics are not so far from our own. Minus some murder. This classic text resonates today with a brutal combination of ambition, pride and patriotism that overthrow rational thought and give way to bloody vengeance.
Venue: Revolt Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington Dates: September 18 - October 5 (except Mondays) Times: 9:30pm (Sundays 7pm) Tickets: $18 - $25
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Boom! Exploding heads Impro blasts onto stage with a different show every night, and no idea what’s coming next. Bang! The show is created from your suggestions, meaning anything could happen. This spectacular-looking cast will lead you on the ultimate journey to reawaken the imagination of your inner child (with some very adult humour). Kaplow! This Fringe Festival we are exploring improvisation in a film context – movie based games and genres with 5 actors and one very serious director!
CLASSICAL VS JAZZ: THE ULTIMATE HARP BATTLE
Just another 40 degree day in the life of two bored Inner Melbourne lifeguards: ethnic tensions, sexual harassment, lap lane abuse and blood in the water. Just your typical Northside melting pot of cultures, with plenty of chlorine. Tensions rise along with the heat and maybe, just maybe, one lifeguard might actually get wet.
Fringe Furniture will be on exhibition at The Abbotsford Convent through the festival from Wednesday to Sunday, 11am - 5pm. Admission is free.
Twin sisters replay an ancient feud over a man, a miner’s son, who paces incessantly in his room above them. He is the husband of one and the former lover of the other. He has been disgraced following a fraud and has served time in prison. He is now destitute. A young girl plays the piano to him. The former lover comes upstairs to torment herself and him. The wife appears to claim ownership of her son. Downstairs, the three wrangle over the love of that son whose own lover comes to take him and the girl away. The three go out into the storm...or is that the mine? John Gabriel Borkman - written by Henrik Ibsen, translated by William Archer and directed by Peter King.
Venue: Revolt Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington Dates: September 18 - 29 (except Monday) Times: 7.30pm (Sundays 5pm) Tickets: $15 - $22
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Venue: La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton Dates: September 18 – 29 (except Monday and Tuesday) Times: 8.30pm (Wednesdays and Sundays 6.30pm) Tickets: $15 - $25
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HAIRY SOUL MAN What influences and experiences growing up shape a performer? There’ll be as many different answers to that as there are performers but for Kai Smythe, it all began in the kitchen. “As a child my mother used to play a lot of Prince and Michael Jackson and D’Angelo in the kitchen and she’d always turn it up really, really loud and I’d know that if she was turning it up loud, she was dancing,” he recalls of his childhood in Queensland. “So me and my brother would run to the kitchen and we would all just dance, which is a really fond memory of mine and also one that makes me think, now that I’m doing this show, that’s where I was brought up: listening to Prince in the kitchen by my mother,” says Smythe. Now 30-years-old, and having called Melbourne home for the past seven years, Smythe is about to stage Hairy Soul Man as part of the 2013 Melbourne Fringe Festival. He says it’s the artistic culmination of the various shows he’s been performing for the past few years. Originally Smythe was an actor but once he “got sick of the whole thing” turned to filmmaking and music. “It’s
only been in the last three years I’ve started performing live comedy wise,” he says. Performing in the duo Mager and Smythe, which he calls “an action adventure comedy duo best described as a mix between Tenacious D and Indianna Jones,” their show, In Search of Atlantis, toured nationally in 2010, winning the Melbourne Cabaret Festival Award at Melbourne Fringe and a nomination for Best Cabaret at the Adelaide Fringe. The pair played all the characters and performed all the music. The following year, he was in another collaborative effort, Sexytime, which was a physical comedy based on the history of attraction that played at festivals here and in Edinburgh. Then last year he tackled solo stand up in his show Big Hairy Fun, which had some songs in it, and it was in doing that he realised how much he loves performing music. “Every night I’d look forward to singing the songs in the show and the stand up bits I was like ‘oh yeah I’ll breeze past that to get to the songs’. So this show I went ‘just focus on the songs, that’s what you love doing’”.
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The result is Hairy Soul Man, which combines anecdotal patter, dance and his own original songs as he fronts a tenpiece band every Friday and Saturday night of the Fringe. “I’ve been down a few different paths and I think now I’m getting to a point where the pendulum has swung all the different ways and I’m finding a balance of all my different artistic endeavours,” he says. “Because I have the music background I do have a lot of music friends,” Smythe says of being able to pull together such a large band, which is being overseen by Musical Director, James OBrien (ex-The Boat People). “We’ve found this opportunity to be able to play together, which is awesome”. The original music will be all soul. “Some (songs) span to R&B, blues, there’s a little bit of reggae in there but mostly based on soul music but no particular soul era. Because I love northern soul, all the stuff from the ‘70s, and neo-soul and the new stuff that comes out now,” he says.
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Venue: Lithuanian Club, 44 Errol St, North Melbourne Dates: September 20 - October 5 (Fridays and Saturdays only) Time: 9pm Tickets: $15 - $20
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Wizard Sandwiches premiere absurd sketch comedy for the Melbourne Fringe in The Last Lunch. With their varying degrees of facial hair, split second character changes and perfectly crafted comedic timing, these five diversely talented comedians are definitely the ones to watch. Critics have likened their work to acts such as The Pajama Men and Tim & Eric, receiving acclaim for their unique ability to combine intelligent satire with intense playfulness. The Last Lunch will be directed by Lliam Amor - founder of Impro Melbourne and as seen in The Hollowmen, Thank God You’re Here and The Micallef Program.
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Venue: North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry St, North Melbourne Dates: September 20 - 27 (except Monday) Times: 10.30pm (Sunday 9.30pm) Tickets: $15 - $20
From the creator of Confessions of a Psych Nurse and Interview with a Psych Nurse comes Danny Stinson’s Don’t “Mind” Me. Join Danny for a rolling hour of stand-up comedy and storytelling as he takes you into a world in which everything is filtered through his comedic mind to distil a show that’s big on laughs with a pleasant after taste.
VALENTINE PRESENTS: LOVE ON A G-STRING A delectable delve into the delights and disasters of love. Welcome to a tour of hearts with songstress and hopeless romantic, Valentine. Meet a myriad of real-life and imagined lovers as Valentine exposes the hopes and fears, tragedy and elation, brave admissions and daggy confessions hiding inside a variety of hearts – exploring many different types of love. This brand new indie-pop cabaret features funny, charming and whimsical original music with a delicious fusion of romanticism and cynicism. Delightful accompaniment provided by Sam Bennett (guitar), Barnaby Reiter (keys) and Emily Bennett (piano accordion and novelty percussion instruments). Complimentary candy will be provided to all audience members to ‘sweeten’ the deal. Hold on to your heart and prepare to be smitten!
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Fresh, fast-paced, futuristic fun for the whole family! Join the attendees of a Technology Anonymous meeting on a buzzing ride through their lives as they delve into their technological addictions. Google and iPhones and Facebook, oh my! Could you be addicted? The Technology Show is a dynamic, high-energy, sketch show exploring how technological gadgets of the 21st-century are used, and sometimes abused, in everyday life. Geared for children aged eight – sixteenyears-old this show asks the question, “does technology really help up to communicate better, or just faster?” Squid Stamp delivers theatrein-education for kids and adults alike through entertaining performances, memorable characters and wonderfully silly sketches!
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NOT AXEL HARRISON A florist must impersonate notorious hitman Axel Harrison for 60 minutes...after resourcefully strangling the real Axel with a telephone cord in scene one. As long as he doesn’t take out another contract on the scapegoat that the bent cop nailed for his own murder, or fall for the loan shark’s daughter, or make eye contact with his unhinged goon, nobody should see through the fake moustache. Not Axel Harrison is a fast paced, tightly woven, relentlessly funny homage to every gangster flick. Razor sharp dialogue propels the play through its many twists and turns, as the larger than life characters dig their own graves.
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Venue: Revolt Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington Dates: September 18 - 29 (except Monday) Times: 10pm (Sundays 8pm) Tickets: $10 - $25
Venue: Gertrude’s Brown Couch, 30 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy Dates: October 1 - 6 Time: 6pm Tickets: $15 - $20
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Venue: Portland Hotel, Cnr Russell & Little Collins Street, CBD Dates: September 19 - 21 Time: 8pm Tickets: $10 - $12
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Venue: La Mama Courthouse, 349 Drummond St, Carlton Dates: September 28 – October 6 (except Monday) Time: 2pm Tickets: $12 - 15
The world is a scary place; full of monsters and potential arrests, so Andy and Darcy decide to stay inside for the evening, spending it singing silly songs, telling tall tales, and aligning awesome assonance. They guarantee at least one laugh with a variety of comedy and music in this musical comedy variety hour. Puppets! Magic! Music! Jokes! What more do you people want?!
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Venue: The Greyhound, 1 Brighton Rd, St Kilda Dates: September 26 - 28, October 3 - 5 Time: 7pm Tickets: $16 - $20
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WHERE THE FRINGE AM I? THE FRINGE HUB North Melbourne will once more host a brilliant selection of Fringe Festival shows as the Fringe Hub will showcase a diverse cross-section of the indie arts scene in Melbourne. Covering all genres, from theatre to dance to comedy, the Fringe Hub program amalgamates work from both emerging and established artists. The Fringe Hub has been serving the festival for years, and there’s a reason why. Check it out.
THE WARREN Sharing a name with legendary rapper Warren G, American billionaire Warren Buffett and Beat’s favourite Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren, The Warren is a cozy little place to enjoy a beverage before or after your Fringe show. Find a comfy corner downstairs from the Fringe Club or explore the fascinating installations and performances throughout.
THE FRINGE CLUB After filling up on the freshest shows from all around the festival, the place to digest and unwind is the Fringe Club. With music, circus, comedy, colour and a touch of magic, the Fringe Club is the place to kick up your heels and dance the night away. Featuring 12 nights of incredible talent from across the Fringe, you’ll be coming back time and time again to celebrate your Melbourne Fringe Festival experience.
FEELING A LITTLE LOST? Feeling a little lost? No idea where your show is? Not sure how to get there? Slow down! Deep breaths. Okay? Here we go. Check out the map. Baby steps. We’re going to get you there.
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THE LAST TEMPTATION OF RANDY Newly-sober stand up comedian Randy has made a series of claims that include explosive allegations and shock revelations. Speaking from the inside of a cow, Randy gave these exclusive scoops to Beat, and we have not bothered to substantiate or verify them in any way. “I am currently sitting in a small tee-pee style tent in a paddock in Sale,” Randy says at the start of our phone interview, explaining he is there to think, write and learn his script for his upcoming Melbourne Fringe show The Last Temptation of Randy. The make-shift structure, he says, is “made from cowhides, and just has a threepronged stick arrangement”. Did he construct this retreat with his own tiny fabric arms? “Absolutely. Maybe you have visions of it being a grand sort of large tee-pee with enough room for a fire but it’s probably only 700mm off the ground, so it’s not even a metre high. I just crawl in there like a frightened dog and learn my script. Me and a torch inside a dead cow,” he says. Randy has been a regular fixture at festivals in
Melbourne, Adelaide and Edinburgh plus is no stranger to having his purple felt face appear on television screens. The Last Temptation of Randy is the third instalment of a trilogy that began with Randy’s Postcards from Purgatory and this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival offering, Randy Is Sober. All three shows have been directed by Alex Papps. “I met him on a cruise ship in Vanuatu, I was doing table-to-table close up magic and he was there as part of a Home and Away reunion tour,” the puppet recalls. However, a raucous late night card game led to the pair being kicked off the boat. “They left us in port because we were being ‘too obnoxious’ so we ended up having to live in this little cabana on this beach in Vanuatu, stranded for two weeks and we became very good friends. Ate a lot of pineapple.” Randy has also worked extensively with musical comedian Sammy J at past festivals but why not for this Melbourne Fringe? “He has a terminal illness and so it’s making it difficult for us to spend a lot of time together,” claims Randy. “He just doesn’t have time for the Fringe festival. That being said, he is doing his own show”.
“The 50 Year Show should be good and unless it goes into remission, this could be his last 50 Year Show so I think it’s definitely one to come check out,” Randy says of Sammy J’s concept show, which is being performed once every five years for fifty years, and will feature Randy as one of the many guests on the line-up. So tell us, Dr Randy, what exactly is Sammy J suffering from? “He has a chronic case of syphilis which has gone into his lungs. Apparently it’s a hereditary thing.” Really? Isn’t that usually sexually transmitted? “It’s funny because that whole thing of sexually transmitted diseases being passed from mother to child during childbirth, I mean, I’m not saying in the press that Sammy’s mother has syphilis. But I am sort of saying that”. An allegation so outrageous, it does call into question the veracity of the claim he is now sober. Are you drunk right now Randy? “No, I’m high on life,” he responds. “You know what I did, I got rid of one vice. Thing is, when you get rid of one vice, what happens is all the other vices float to the surface. So this show is probably more about me lining up all my ducks of my other vices and seeing whether
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Venue: Lithuanian Club, 44 Errol St, North Melbourne Dates: September 20 - October 5 (except Mondays) Times: 7.45pm (Sundays 6.45pm) Tickets: $18 - $25
Venue: La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday St, Carlton Dates: October 2 – 6 Times: 7.30pm (Wednesday 6.30pm, extra matinee show at 4pm on Sunday) Tickets: $15 - $25
Venue: The Tuxedo Cat, 17 - 23 Wills St, CBD Dates: September 18 - 24 Times: 7pm (Sunday 6pm) Tickets: $15 - $18
TOGETHER AS ONE Together As One is an analogue and eco-friendly performance creation merging live art with choreography at Artshouse’s The Warehouse on opening date Friday September 20. Set in 1975, the work, in three short acts, moves through the frames of mind of troubled youth amidst the Australian constitutional crisis. Through dance, live music, and art installation seven performers explore themes of inhibition and freedom in a time of constant political and cultural change. This work is Jonathan Homsey’s debut full length work featuring a cast of contemporary and street dancers.
2013 RAW Comedy State Finalist, and one fifth of the acclaimed sketch comedy group Wizard Sandwiches, Stuart Daulman premieres his one man show Stuart Daulman is The Principal. The principal of a high school has a lot to deal with, expulsions, kids smoking, sick teachers, overbearing parents and bad cups of tea. Watch the sketch and standup comedian explore the dizzying highs and crushing lows of a suburban school headmaster.
Venue: The Warehouse, 521 Queensberry St, CBD Dates: September 20 - 27 (except Monday) Times: 7.30pm (Sunday 6.30pm) Tickets: $20 - $25
Venue: Revolt Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington Dates: October 1 - 5 Time: 10pm Tickets: $10 - $15
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Kerry Armstrong makes her directorial debut with a production of The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone. Armstrong is well known from her roles in Lantana and Seachange, making history by winning an AFI for both productions for Best Actor in film and television in 2001. With a vast experience in film, television and theatre, Armstrong’s career has spanned more than 30 years. Winning an acting scholarship in 1982, Armstrong studied with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Bergof Acting School in New York and worked with Tim Robbins, John Cusack and Helen Hunt as a member of The Actors Gang in Los Angeles.
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Exodus is a new work of theatre explores three intriguing narratives inspired by Australia’s policies and perceptions of asylum seekers. Exodus bravely tackles this sensitive and contentious topic head on. A debut production from exciting new theatre company Bone Marrow Theatre, Exodus is devised collectively using movement as the primary device for creation and storytelling. This story is weaved in with works of fiction about a contemporary Australian family, in addition to a psychological journey of an Iranian refugee living in Melbourne. A cast of five performs the 60-minute production, with the story being told through gestural evocation of images using the mimodynamic approach. This method allows the actor to discover physical movements through the use of colours, materials and the elements to transpose images and create characters.
I’ve got the balls to shoot them or not. There’s a frickin’ quote for ya.”
THE WOOLGATHERER
SAFETY FIRST In a parody of workplace training, comedian Dylan Cole plays safety expert Tim Lock, a questionable instructor who awkwardly tries to deliver an OH&S course in Safety First, presented by Wizard Sandwiches. Learn about emergency evacuation procedures and avoiding workplace injuries as the audience become company employees in this comprehensive seminar. This one-man character piece is a must see for anyone who has undergone any degree of workplace training. Safety First not only makes fun of workplace training but also the workplace in general; the cliché office language, the banality of procedure and policy and the idea that people can be genuinely excited about their seemingly mundane jobs. It explores the relationship between home and the office as we watch one man unsuccessfully try to juggle his personal and professional lives.
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One woman. Three men. Sexual tension. Notso-happy families. What happens when one man brings his wife home to meet the family? Will the relationship survive or will a new one begin? Bring a nice girl home to an all male household and they all want to jump her – she doesn’t seem to mind either, in fact she has much the same idea. So it should all work out fine – except she loses her husband who bought her home in the first place – though he doesn’t seem to mind either in the end. Curious? Come and see it for yourself and try and work out what actually happens here!
Venue: Revolt Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington Dates: September 25 – October 5 Times: 5.30pm (Sunday 3.30pm, October 1 - 5 7.30pm) Tickets: $15 - $23
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john gabriel borkman
the woolgatherer
September 18 – September 29
October 2 – October 6
Written by Henrik Ibsen Translation by William Archer Directed by Peter King Performed by Cory Corbett, Jim Daly, Ezel Doruk, Will Freeman and Russell Walsh Designed by Peter Corrigan
Written by William Mastrosimone Directed by Kerry Armstrong Performed by Laura Wheelwright and Lee Beckhurst Design by Gina Gascoigne
Venue: La Mama Theatre
Venue: La Mama Theatre
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squid stamp: The Technology Show
September 19 – September 29 Written and performed by Liz Skitch
September 28 – October 6
1 ACTOR 60 MINUTES 6 SPOILT WOMEN
Written and presented by Squid Stamp Directed by Mark Samual Bonanno Performed by Isabelle Clara Mason and Samantha Wojcik
Venue: La Mama Theatre
Venue: La Mama Courthouse
All part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2013 at Australia’s home of Independent Theatre
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HERE COMES YOUR MAN How about doing an honours thesis on audience reactions to your cabaret show? “It’s a study of the phenomenon of audiences in performances using story telling techniques in an intimate setting,” explains writer and performer Alex Roe. In the interests of academic research Roe is bringing his cabaret show Here Comes Your Man about a serial killer for hire to this year’s Melbourne Fringe. Sounds like he’s created himself a good time in disguise. But a show about a serial killer - how will that be fun for his audiences? “He’s not one of your drunken foul-mouthed troubadours of cabaret,” says Roe, of his character, Mr X. “I take a look inside the head of a serial killer to find the person in there.” What leads a nice boy like Roe to delve into the mind of a murderer? “I’ve always had a soft spot for the lone warrior,” he explains. “I’ve always been interested in the eastern-western tropes surrounding him. You see him in comics, literature, film, animation, pop culture...the wandering warrior, the anti-hero who’s
good at what he does, the fringe-dweller walking that line on the edge of the societal norm. To him the perfect kill means good quality work; he wants to be the best.” Roe has made his character if not sympathetic then at least acceptable by including the audience in his conceit. “He’s teaching,” explains Roe. “He comes on stage to deliver a corporate seminar to would-be assassins. He brings the audience on a par with himself, to the same level. He’s a sophisticated predator and that type of relationship can be intimidating to an audience so he speaks to them as though they’re all killers, as though he’s teaching the next generation of the killer elite.” While we’re getting in touch with our inner Dexters, Roe is exploring what happens in the story of the anti-hero archetype when he finds he has a human side after all. “Something changes in him,” continues the performer. “The realisation of his humanity makes him vulnerable, it brings him down and he’s undone. The noir hero treads a similar path: after years and years of defying his humanity, cutting off all emotion, he finds it’s not what he wants any
more. Here Comes Your Man’s not glorifying X’s life. He realises it’s a really bad thing to make your life a pursuit of something that goes against your real nature. There’s a heartbreaking moment when his facade of the predatory misanthrope starts to crack.” Being everything at once Roe says, has been the greeted challenge in putting Here Comes Your Man together, given that he wrote and is performing the show himself. “I’ve initiated all parts of the process. It’s really complex stuff for a one-man 60 minute show. Being dynamic is the hardest part, adhering to character. There are moments when I am walking into the audience, talking to them, I’m ad-libbing a lot. It’s really interesting to hear how people respond.” Roe is particularly concerned with how being close to a performer, as audiences often are in a cabaret setting, affects them. “The smaller space and intimate image is in service to the storyteller and vice versa. The exchange with the audience is more evident in that environment. You lose that when everything gets bigger, you’re missing that interaction with the audience.”
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Venue: The Tuxedo Cat, 17 Wills St, CBD Dates: September 19 - October 3 (except Wednesdays) Times: 8.15pm (Sundays 7.15pm) Tickets: $14 - $18
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Venue: Tuxedo Cat, 17 Wills St, CBD Dates: September 18 - 24 Times: 7pm (Sunday 6pm) Tickets: $18 - $22
…WE SHOULD QUIT
Venue: Gasworks Arts Park, 21 Graham St, Albert Park Dates: September 18 - 21 Times: 7pm (extra matinee show at 1pm on Saturday) Tickets: $18 - $23
An impeccable union of traditional circus and contemporary clowning provides the structure for the physical comedic feat, ...We Should Quit. Award winning circus performer Avan Whaite provides the direction for this compelling show, which incorporates Chinese pole, corde lisse and acrobatics to tell the story of two cogs who are stuck in the daily routine of life. When their habitual schedule of life becomes unstuck, chaos ensues.
Venue: Gasworks Arts Park, 21 Graham St, Albert Park Dates: October 1 - 5 Times: 9:15pm (extra matinee show at 3.30pm on Saturday) Tickets: $15 - $20
ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW
INTO THE DARKNESS Follow Sassafrass Into the Darkness on a journey to the other side of the bridge. Haunted by her past, she confronts demons she didn’t even know she had. A piece of story telling perfection from Think Blink Theatre which uses a magical mix of animation, aerial and puppetry to bring one woman’s nightmares to life. This is the story of a woman in need of no- one, who goes out into the world seeking a life less ordinary. The piece explores the gaps between independence and isolation, adventure and loneliness, and ultimately becoming what we fear the most. The story is told in a one-woman monologue format, with puppetry, physical theatre and an animated set to help bring the piece to life.
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Anglophile Aussie girl meets English boy in a Melbourne indie disco in the early hours of New Years Day 2006. A blur of love, gin and tonic, and passionate Britpop debate ensues. But is singing along, hand on heart, to all the same favourite songs enough to sustain a relationship? Britpop fanatic Emily Andersen performs bittersweet poetry for anyone who wishes it was still 1995. This show is an ode to Britpop, nightclub romance, visa marriages, and anglophile love.
LACRIMA
Gasworks invites you to enter the world of a ‘50s circus family and watch as the happy family façade of a contortionist wife, her clown of a husband and a new baby unravels before your eyes to reveal a darker reality. Accompanied by a selection of evocative ‘50s inspired songs, Lacrima uses captivating circus, physical theatre and clowning to explore themes of love and loss.
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LOVE IN THE KEY OF BRITPOP
DARKNESS AND LIGHT If you’ve ever experienced bullying, mental illness, racism, coming out, grief, substance use, chronic illness, a broken heart or just had a really bad day, you’ll find you’re not the only one, as some well known faces share some very personal postcards from the edge in a show that will make you laugh and cry – but mostly laugh! Sometimes confronting, but always funny, the line-up changes every night, and features a stellar selection of comics and storytellers at the top of their game, including Dave Thornton, Cath Styles, Luke McGregor, Nath Valvo, Lori Bell, Richard McKenzie, Bart Freebairn, Geraldine Hickey, Simon Taylor, Girls Uninterrupted, Laura Davis, and many more. You won’t want to miss Darkness and Light!
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Venue: Revolt Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington Dates: September 18 - 29 (except Monday) Times: 6.30pm (Sundays 5.30pm) Tickets: $15 - $20
Revolving around the whimsical existence of two sisters living a toy box life of solitude, Another Point of View presents the curious turn of events that occur when an unexpected phone call comes through from a phone that never rings. An enchanting mix of aerial hoops, contortion, aerial rings and hula hoop, Another Point of View is an absurd tale of sisterhood, the struggle for freedom and the binding power of love.
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Venue: Gasworks Arts Park, 21 Graham St, Albert Park Dates: September 24 - 28 Times: 8pm (Tuesday 8.30pm, extra matinee show at 2.30pm on Saturday) Tickets: $15 - $23
Andy & Darcy are:
Home Alone
The world is a scary place; full of monsters and potential arrests.
Perhaps itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best that Andy and Darcy decide to stay inside for the evening, spending it singing silly songs, telling tall tales, and aligning awesome assonance. They guarantee at least one laugh with a variety of comedy and
music in this musical comedy variety hour!
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PAPILLON “I work with another woman and I do all the throwing her around and she stands on my head and on my shoulders and does handstands on me,” Elena Kirschbaum says matter-of-factly about her full time job. When growing up in Canberra, her parents would often take her to see the circus and she has grown up to literally, run away and join one herself. She started training 12 years ago, which the 27-yearold says is fairly late compared to a lot of other physical performers, but she’s now performing acts you’ll rarely see other women do. “I’m kind of a circus strong woman, stunt woman,” she says of her form of acrobatics, known as adagio. Adagio is performed in pairs and involves acrobalance poses and movements, with one (the ‘base’) remaining in contact with the floor, while the other (the ‘flier’) balances on them. “I really love being strong and doing things that people don’t expect to see from a woman, so that’s one of the really exciting things about our show: there really aren’t female duos doing the things my partner and I do, the
high level, hand to hand acrobatics that you see a handful of duos doing all over the world but there’s almost none of us who are actually pairs of women. There’s only a couple around the world. That’s something that really excites me, to do something a bit different that people don’t really expect,” she says of working with partner Amy Nightingale-Olsen. The pair are two of the six performers who will feature in the circus-cabaret show Papillon. The five night season, being held at the Wonderland Spiegeltent in the Docklands, straddles both the Melbourne Fringe Festival and the Docklands Arts Laughs & Blues Festival and marks its world premiere. Acrobat Kirschbaum, who along with clown Idris Stanton, are also the co-Creative Producers of Papillon, and plan to tour the show to international arts festivals and the Spiegel circuit for the next six months. Filling out the cast of Papillon are Joshua Phillips, Claire Andrews and Vincent van Berkel. The show title in French means butterfly. “One of the driving forces behind the show is it’s about transitions and all sorts of transitions, so as simple as doing quick changes of costumes, or changes
THE KANGAROO KILLER Australia’s biggest hydro electric dam is being opened in Kangaroo Valley but when Frank Smith is introduced as the engineer, rumours of sabotage begin. With a one in 200 year cyclone predicted and no one to help him, Frank must risk his life to confront the eco-terrorist rumoured to be planning the attack. But to save his town Frank will have to confront something more dangerous than a saboteur, his dark past and a community that demand he pay the ultimate price for it.
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of character or emotion throughout the act. So it’s a circus cabaret show, primarily circus with an element of music and singing,” says Kirschbaum. She says the aesthetic of the show, costuming in particular, will pay homage to their influences, primarily the “glamour age of live entertainment” of the ‘20s and ‘30s when the touring vaudeville circuit flourished. “That was the golden age of carnival and variety entertainment, that was when people came out in droves and that was the most popular form of entertainment,” she says. The show will feature acrobatic stunts, comedy acts, soulful melodies and a memorable finale. But they’re also hoping to make a deeper connection with the audience as well. “It’s made to be really entertaining the whole way through but also with some really touching emotional moments within the show, which I think circus is so great for because circus is pushing human bodies to the absolute limit of what they can do,” she elaborates. “It’s doing things that ordinary people can’t do with their bodies, so the tension and spectacle you can put into an act through just the tricks and
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Venue: Wonderland Spiegeltent, 120 Pearl River Rd, Docklands Dates: October 1 - 5 Times: 7pm Tickets: $18 - $25
Venue: Norm, 34 Breese St, Brunswick Dates: September 18 - 19, 24 - 28 Time: 8pm Tickets: $20 - $27
HOT NIGHT IN THE CITY
Venue: Lithuanian Club, 44 Errol St, CBD Dates: September 20 - 27 (except Monday) Time: 10.15pm (Sunday 9.15pm) Tickets: $15 - $20
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Drink me! Eat me! Watch me! You are invited to enter Wonderland, explore its intoxicating wonders and meet those unique characters. A taste of vaudeville, physical theatre, carnival and burlesque presented in an immersive theatre environment. This world created by 10 visual artists working in installation art, sculpture, sensorial art and interactive art will delight all who enter, transporting them into this fantasy filled world. Samantha Wojcik and Timothy Christopher Ryan present a modern performance that is fuelled by fantasy, dazzling performance, sexuality and exploration. Come share a cup of tea at a delightfully mad party.
BEAU HEARTBREAKER
This rollicking puppet play will flip your contrary evening into a warm world of delights and hilarious ruckus spirit, whilst the undercurrent will lead you into deeper thought. In the interests of peace is a comical satire that unhinges the dilemma of combat soldiers carrying out peacekeeping roles. Set in Timor Leste, East Timor, during the 2006 crisis, this quirky show features a cross-cultural cast of finely crafted puppets and bilingual narrative. Featuring, the beautiful warm traditional music of Timor Leste sung by the Timorese performers. This show is a sharp insight into the untold local community experience of peacekeeping. In the interests of peace celebrates laughter against adversity and reveals the twisted reality of political circumstance.
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A F*#KING MAD TEA PARTY
Venue: Revolt Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington Dates: September 18 - October 5 (except Mondays) Times: 8.30pm (Sundays 6pm) Tickets: $15 - $20
One woman, performing as one very endearing bloke. Written and performed by Selina Jenkins, the award winning character Beau Heartbreaker is back. Packed with hilarious tales of worldly adventures and brilliantly composed songs, this seasoned performers astonishing vocal ability and depth and sincerity as character Beau Heartbreaker is remarkably convincing. Oh, and he’s a bloody nice bloke too. After some significant time away from the stage, Selina Jenkins anticipated return as widely loved character Beau Heartbreaker will not go unnoticed. Beau may be returning with guitar in hand and the same intoxicating smile he’s always had, but his striking facial hair is not the only thing that’s changed and matured. It doesn’t take long for the intricacies of this character to emerge. The experiences and challenges he’s faced since we last shared a yarn with him have left their mark. Beau has grown into a man of real substance. Somebody you’d be proud to call your brother, son or friend. No small feat for a woman in a beard, but one this artist has worked tirelessly to achieve.
the stunts that circus performers are doing, then layered with beautiful music and lighting. We’ve worked really hard to have those production values on it to create a really immersive experience that will hopefully touch people at the same time as being entertaining.”
The finest comedians from the Melbourne Fringe Festival, peppered with snack-sized samples of magic, circus, music, puppetry, burlesque and improvised comedy. Who’s got time to see eight full one-hour shows? Not this guy, and I don’t even have a real job, girlfriend, or a place to live. So why not see eight top quality acts, all in under two hours? If you like ‘em enough, maybe you’ll commit to their whole show, but no pressure. Hosted by Xavier Toby with special guests including Rod Quantock, The Big HOO HAA!, Micah D Higbed and Dilruk Jayasinha, don’t miss the all-conquering meganight, or miss it and have trouble sleeping for the rest of your life, as you try to overcome the feelings of regret and disappointment. The choice is yours.
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Venues: The Local, 22 Bay St, Port Melbourne (Tuesdays), The Portland Hotel, 115 Russell Street, CBD (Wednesdays), The Provincial Hotel, 299 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy (Thursdays) and The Hawthorn Hotel, 481 Burwood Road, Hawthorn (Saturday October 5) Dates: September 18 - October 5 (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursday and Saturday October 5 only) Time: 8pm Tickets: $10 - $12
WHOLEMEAL OR MULTIGRAIN
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Venue: Revolt Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington Dates: September 24 - 29 Times: 8pm (Sunday 7pm) Tickets: $12 - $20
Wholemeal or Multigrain features a little bit of theatre and a whole lot of song. With Kensington as their shared homeland, mature age men and women drawn together by a love of musical storytelling have written songs about ‘love, hate, an empty chair’ and sandwiches.
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Venue: Revolt Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington Dates: September 20 - 22 Times: 8pm (Sunday 7pm) Tickets: Free
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DR. LALA LOULOU IS COMING OUT
MOVING SCORES Moving Scores is an exciting collaboration between new music ensemble 3 Shades Black and visual artists. New films made by composers and visual artists will be screened and performed live as graphic scores. We’ve taken experimental music notation and put it in motion; taken the map and made it a GPS. Come hear the image and see the music! Graphic scores take traditional music notation and remove the rules. These scores are traditionally static images. This show is exploring how the scores and interpretations will change when the scores are in motion. John Cage said that “music is all around us” and this project takes that a whole step further. How does a road at night sound? Or fish in a tank, or the distant sky?
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Venue: Tuxedo Cat, 17 - 23 Wills St, CBD Dates: October 3 - 6 Times: 8.15pm (Sundays 7.15pm) Tickets: $19 - $23
Following on from a wildly successful debut at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the 3 Little Gigs format is taking on its second round of local young comics for a tilt at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Arielle Conversi, Cam Tyeson and Rose Callaghan have joined forces to bring you stories from the wilds of Tampa, Florida, the apple lined avenues of Launceston and the mean streets of Port Melbourne. Melburnian, Rose Callaghan, is a comedian and writer who you might know from the Triple J debate night, or heard on 3RRR FM and SYN FM. She’s also interviewed Justin Bieber, invented the #Goslingwatch hashtag and appeared on The Project. Floridian, Arielle Conversi, hosts comedy podcast, Baking Rad. She’s appeared on Open Mic Life and live podcast, Persuasion. She’s also really great at baking. Tasmanian, Cam Tyeson, has written for Junkee, The Vine, MusicFeeds and SBS. He runs the AFL podcast The Pressure Cooker with CT & The Chef, and has appeared on The General Consumption. Once, he appeared as a contestant on Letters & Numbers.
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Venue: The Imperial Hotel, 2 - 8 Bourke St, CBD Dates: September 18 - 27 (except Sunday) Time: 7pm Tickets: $12 - $15
NOT DEAD YET
ELIXIR
Head First Acrobatics catapult into the Gasworks to debut their astonishing new acrobatic extravaganza, Elixir. This Melbourne based duo mix an extraordinary blend of high intensity acrobatics, live music and strong images to share the story of two enthusiastic scientists attempting to create the elixir of life. The result is a dynamic, adrenaline fuelled contemporary circus show.
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Venue: Club Voltaire 14 Raglan St, North Melbourne Dates: September 23, 24, 27 and 29 Times: 7.30pm (Friday 6pm) Tickets: $15 - $18
Venue: Bluestone Church Arts Space, Hyde St, Footscray Dates: October 3 - 4 Time: 8pm Tickets: $12 - $20
KEIRA DALEY: LADYNERD Piano bar meets Sega Megadrive! Indulge your inner (or not-so-inner) nerd with this award-winning cabaret tribute to some of history’s brainiest ladies – from Marie Curie to Ada Lovelace, via that woman who invented Liquid Paper. Amazing true stories and intriguing real-life characters interface with quirky rants and inventive song arrangements – some old, some new, all in the key of nerd. LadyNerd sees Sydney-based performer and lifelong nerd Keira Daley join forces with musical director and piano nerd Mark Chamberlain in an unashamedly brainy celebration of women who’ve changed the world. Long, long ag the nerd emerged as a pop-cultural (and playground) punching bag. Now, with “geek chic”, it’s a marketing vehicle used to sell gadgets and copy paper. But a nerdy state of mind can be inventive, powerful, and a bit adorkable. And so, employing music and a dash of time-travel, LadyNerd sets out with one simple task: To reclaim nerd.
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Dr. Lala Loulou does not intend to entertain, or teach or give you prescriptions primarily...but be a real artist on a stage with a sound person, curtains, lights and real people in the audience like the professionals. You are invited to join her as a participant-witness in her exploration of coming out. This experiment-meets-performance-ritual involves mostly improvised movement, music, poetry, and delicious moments of medicinal benefit. Described as an ‘uber’ personality of sorts, ‘she’s what would happen if Alice and the Mad Hatter had a kid’ and becoming known for her loop-box story-singing, djembe rap-poetry and improvised group vocal orchestras.
Venue: Gasworks Arts Park, 21 Graham St, Albert Park Dates: October 1 - 5 Times: 6.45pm (extra matinee show at 1.15pm on Saturday) Tickets: $15 - $23
When passions for the obscure and unknown take hold, innovation in death defying stunts makes risky business, deadly business. The Sword Swallower’s death had been foretold to him again and again. Confronting and cheating death, this striking performer is back from the dead to reinvent the sideshow. Inspired by the ‘learned freaks’ of the sideshow, shaolin monks, vaudevillian mind readers and a handful of daredevils, this is the show for the 21st century and the YouTube generation. With a mix of extraordinary abilities and dark humour, Aerial Manx shares his stories and shows no fear of the unknown. Not Dead Yet provides a visual feast of knowing how far your body can go after almost losing everything.
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Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Pl, CBD Dates: October 1 - 6 Times: 8pm (Thursday - Sunday 9pm) Tickets: $20 - $25
ASHER TRELEAVEN presents.
Are Melbourne’s best ‘Alternative’ Comedians more entertaining than a small dog?
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"A delightful narrative of lust, love and loss built on the soundtrack of the greatest indie music there ever was. Heartbreaking, funny and lyrical." The Brag “Andersen’s poetry has that magic ability to err between pithy one-liners and something more honest and bleak“ **** Broadway Baby “A must-see for anyone who grew up in the 90s and enjoys playing ‘spot the lyrical reference’” The Scotsman
18-24 & 26-28 SEPTEMBER, 8.15pm (7.15 SEPTEMBER 22) TUXEDO CAT 17 Wills St, Melbourne
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SATELLITE VENUES Taking place around the Fringe Hub in North Melbourne and spreading out into Melbourne’s suburbs, the Melbourne Fringe Festival is a program of new ideas across a range of art forms including comedy, music, theatre, circus, dance, design and visual art. This year, several venues are hosting multiple Melbourne Fringe shows, showcasing a broad cross-section of the program.
GASWORKS ART PARK 21 Graham St, Albert Park
THE SUBSTATION 1 Market St, Newport The Gasworks art complex in Albert Park features a strong circus contingent this year, with eight shows as part of the Circus After Dark program.
REVOLT ARTSPACE 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington
The Revolt Artspace provides a hub for theatre and other arts lovers, with 15 shows across performance, music and visual art.
THE BUTTERFLY CLUB 5 Carson Pl, CBD
Over in the west, The Substation represents Melbourne Fringe with six strong shows across music, theatre and visual art.
The Butterfly Club is an inner city cabaret haven – and also has an eclectic roster, with nine shows of cabaret, comedy, dance and more.
TUXEDO CAT 17 - 23 Wills St, CBD
Comedy lovers rejoice! With 25 shows taking place this festival at The Tux, you’ll be spending several nights down in Wills St getting a few daily-doses of much needed comedic relief.
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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS WHO DON’T BLEND IN Presents:
Moving Scores New films by visual artists and composers, performed as graphic scores by Melbourne’s exciting ensemble of contemporary music specialists.
Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th October 8pm. $20 full, $15 Conc, $12 group Bluestone Church Arts Space Hyde st, near Napier st, Footscray,
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Berlin born and based producer Oliver $ has been releasing on the Made To Play imprint for the past 3 years. Working alongside label head Jesse Rose on several productions his most recent success comes in the form of Doin’ Ya Thang which was the top selling track on Beatport of 2011. Oliver $ plays at onesixone on Friday October 4.
dj quik and kurupt rampa and james silk kazbar
It’s been quite a ride for Rampa over the last couple of years. When it comes to DJing, he never really cared about the diehard dedication to the four to the floor-aesthetic, one can find among most Ttchnoheads. He preferred to be diehard dedicated to a whole lot more, be it punk rock, be it hip hop, be it any other suitable outlet for his genuine passion for music. He’ll be joined by James Silk at onesixone on Friday September 27.
Considered to be two of the West Coast’s biggest icons, Quik and Kurupt have retained such a formidable position by staying at the forefront live hip hop. Quik was recently named the Number 1 West Coast Producer in the history of hip hop ahead of Dr. Dre, DJ Muggs and The Alchemist by LA Weekly. Quik’s longtime collaborator and friend, Kurupt is by no means less celebrated, as an integral part of the Death Row Records family, as one half of Tha Dogg Pound with Daz Dilinger and as a Grammy nominated solo artist. Make sure to head down to Billboard on Friday October 18.
pále quantized music
Quantized Music has again delivered what it does best: upfront, dance floor focused deep house. Pumping and melodic, Dirty Urban comes to life by returning producer Kostas Georgoudis and co-owner of Quantized Music, Lex. The duos creation brings light to that rare summer shaker as three unique remixes only expand on the originals ability to move our body. Alongside the serene vocals of Danish singer Wiveca Hartmann, the EP screams talent on all levels of creativity. Funky and full of deep delight, the original mix of Dirty Urban combines melodic bass and whimsical percussive groove that creates an overall aura of warm summer beats. Wivecas vocals hit the groove on time, adding a humanistic element to an otherwise brooding dance floor bomb. Nikolas Gale provides a jazzy rendition with his mix, perfect for opening the floor or sunset at one of the many beach parties to be held this year. His use of clarinet harmonies calls attention to a smoky house tune with Eastern European flair. Next come three stellar remixes. The first is a glamorous and spacey rendition by French talent Damien Raud. Now a new member of the Quanitzed family, Damiens debut EP will be the next release from the imprint. His remixes leaves much to anticipate from his EP as soaring pads and clunky cowbells paint a picture of organic fun. After his successful debut on Quantized, Softcash is back contributing what he knows best, perfectly tuned and arranged house music with subliminal notes of classic swing. Finally, another new name on the Quanitzed catalogue, Elias Kazais works Dirty Urban into a pumping and straightforward mix that eventually strips down into a bass jacking monster. Covering all sounds that are currently making waves in club land, Quantizeds newest EP again shows their ability to cultivate fresh and consistent sounds. Visit quantized-music.com for more information.
mefjus., soulware and organikisimness Fragmented Sounds is set to be a party with fragments of almost every style of electronic music. Brown Alley is set to be shaken by the very best in glitch hop, live music, drum and bass and much more. Run over three rooms, the night will play host to the likes of Mefjus. Soulware and Organikisimness as well as a the best in local support. It’s all happening on Friday October 18 at Brown Alley.
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UK beatmaker Pále is making his debut trip to Australia. When it comes to young producers making a name for themselves, Pále is at the top of that pile. With xlr8r backing his production and more specifically his use of synths and vocals in his inimitable style, the 19-year-old appears to be one to watch. With an upcoming set for Boiler Room where he’ll play alongside Bonobo, Pále’s star is only set to rise. Head down to Boney on Sunday September 29.
dave clarke
Known as The Baron of Techno, a title bestowed upon him by BBC Radio host, John Peel, Dave Clarke is set to return to our city in a time when techno is on the rise again. A hard working purist, forward thinking futurist, technology geek, part Gothic and gadget lover who embraced the digital revolution in an early stage while his peers were lording over vinyl - a format he hasn’t used professionally in 11 years. A digital pioneer, Clarke was the first techno artist to release an internet only single in 2000 despite receiving criticism for being a futurist. His main motive was, and still is, to deliver music to the ears of his global audience oblivious to pigeonholes, politics, prejudice or other people’s opinions. Catch the legend at Roxanne on Friday November 1.
david august and john tejada
David August has come from producing house anthems circa 2010 to now being regarded as one of the key tastemakers of our time. His ability to create melodic, electronic music that grasps its fingers around the very depths of your emotions is no easy feat, yet he does it so effortlessly. Joining him will be John Tejada who’s music can only be described as an unexpected synergy between classical training, expressive rock and synthetic played against non-synthetic rhythm. Make sure to head down to Brown Alley on Friday November 22.
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Having come together in 2010, our local boys from Canberra, Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles, reminisce about the water that has passed under the bridge since the early days: “I pretty much started out listening to my dad playing Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix records around the house,” explains an eloquent and circumspect Adam Hyde. “With Rueben in bands and things, I kind of dabbled with the guitar and then progressed into hip hop - which I’m a little embarrassed about,” laughs the proud youngster. “I was making these terrible beats on Garage Band on the computer and then ran into Reuben who was doing pretty well with his band Rubicon at the time,” Adam says. He explains that as the lads turned 18 and got a taste of the club scene, later becoming somewhat obsessed with it’s energy and vibe, they decided to start producing. “We got our hands onto Reason software and Reuben covered off on that really quickly. Then we bought some really crappy $50 decks and started jamming on those; we didn’t actually learn to DJ on them; it was when we got to DJ at the club we were told that if we couldn’t make people dance, we’d lose our jobs.” But dance they did and the people came – and continue to do so. It didn’t hurt them either, releasing tracks like The Way You Are and Feels Like, both of which have gone on to become bona-fide smash hits. “Musically, we decided when we started out writing electro and even more funky stuff – and then pondered some of the stuff we were producing now - we’ve evolved onto a sort of indie tip Maintaining that broad appeal without being pigeonholed then appears to be their very raison detre. “And as well as that - more than anything, we are just music lovers, 100%,” chimes Adam. “Between the two
wo rd s / to m k i t s o n of us, we spend so much time listening to and appreciating music. I love getting inspiration for the music we write from everywhere. I have to admit though, we don’t necessarily listen to the sort of music we create – for example, I’m getting into cheesy hip hop like 2 Chainz; and I’m constantly on the lookout for new music; I’m always browsing through blogs and trying to seek out inspiration in order to find new ways of doing things.” Finally – and lets be frank - the lads are about to hit the big time. Not only are triple j supporting them heavily, but Big Day Out has invited them along to their annual music-fest – amongst some rather big names - and they are super pumped. “Yeah, we’re both really, really excited,” says Adam. “We’re working hard on a really cool visual show with lots of props and fun stuff on stage. Hopefully, we can bring Gareth, the new character from our film clip onto the stage as well and have a bit of a laugh – it’s going to be a good, sweaty time. A lot of the crews playing at this gig are our favorites – groups we’ve both followed for a long time. To be giving something back, being at the other end as it were, that’s a really rewarding feeling. We’re both completely stoked to be honest.”
Peking Duk will play at Anyway at The Palace this Saturday September 21. soundcloud.com/pekingduk
As he prepares to head our way for the first time, breakthrough LA producer Valentino Khan wants to “do everything and do it well.” Khan’s work with Diplo on the twerk-worthy track Bubble Butt last year has seen him go from remixer to headline performer – a result of hard work, dedication and a whole ton of talent. “This is my first time visiting Australia, so I’m excited to be kicking it off with a tour of my own,” he says. “Perth is my first stop so I’m definitely going to go hard. I’m bringing a bunch of unreleased stuff from my own library and some amazing tunes from my producer friends. “I tend to play across a number of genres so you can expect to hear a bunch of crazy different sounds throughout the night.” Utilising the same creative spark he finds when producing, Khan is inspired by discovering new sonic territory. “I think it’s really cool when you make something unexpected that sounds great,” he explains. “That could mean taking an artist’s sound and making it unconventional or approaching a remix and steering it in an entirely new direction. I think if you produce a track that’s leftfield but organically sounds good; you’ve done a good job moving music forward.” The success of Bubble Butt has led to more opportunities as he progresses his sound from early hip hop influences towards dance music-centred ideas. “I think the fact that the song has been getting a lot of radio airplay is significant for me,” he says. “I knew the song would have appeal and people would gravitate
towards it because of the hook, but to see it have commercial success is remarkable.” Khan was drawn into producing after being influenced by the impressive work of hip hop producers such as Timbaland, Dr. Dre and The Neptunes. “I started producing hip hop as a teenager and then eventually evolved into dance music after I heard Waters Of Nazareth by Justice. I think I’ve stuck with it because dance music gives you the freedom to literally create whatever you want and it’s always refreshing to be able to sit down and produce something that’s as crazy as you want it to be.” Grateful to his hometown for its bountiful creative opportunities, Khan chats about the hard work required in order to have a career in the industry. “I’ve said many times before that being born and raised in LA definitely has an advantage as far as starting a career in music,” he explains. “Living in a particular city can give you a leg up, but you have to perfect your craft. At the end of the day, your music now lives on the internet so you can blow up no matter where you live. “I want to do everything and do it well – it’s a lofty goal to set out, but I think I’d honestly be bored if I made the same thing over and over.” Valentino Khan will play at Laundry Bar this Saturday September 21. soundcloud.com/valentinokhan
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THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. FLASH - VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 10pm HAPPY - VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 10pm
club guide wednesday september 18
COQ ROQ - FEAT: AGENT 86 + DJS LADY NOIR + JOYBOT + KITI + MR THOM Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. COSMIC PIZZA - FEAT: NHJ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm DADA LIFE Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. DUBSTEP GRIME DRUM & BASS - FEAT: DJ BADDUMS + DJ CARMEX Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. HALFWAYS Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. HOODRAPZ - FEAT: WEDNESDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. LOST & FOUND - FEAT: DJ SPIDEY + DJ RUBY FROST Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. MO’ SOUL - FEAT: DJ VINCE PEACH & MISS GOLDIE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. NEW GUERNICA WEDNESDAYS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SOUL ARMY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE DINNER SET Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.
thursday september 19
3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + JAKE JUDD + NIKKI SARAFIAN + HEY SAM + JESSE YOUNG + JOHN DOE + SEAN RAULT Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 5:00pm. BANG N MASH Word Events Warehouse & Lounge, Melbourne. 8:00pm. BILLBOARD THURSDAYS - FEAT: MATT DEAN + MATTY GRANT + PHIL ROSS Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10. CHI BEATS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. DJ KRONIC + MS BUTT Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DO DROP IN - FEAT: DJ KITI + DJ LADY NOIR The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DON’T THINK I’M ALIVE THURSDAYS The Vineyard, St Kilda. 7:00pm. FREE RANGE FUNK - FEAT: AGENT 86 + LEWIS CANCUT + WHO LUCKY COQ, WINDSOR. 6:00PM. GOOD EVENING - FEAT: DJ PEOPLE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. GRAD PARTY THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. LE DISCO TECH Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm. LOVE STORY Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: DJS PREQUEL & EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. MOOD - FEAT: NUBODY Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. NEW GUERNICA THURSDAYS - FEAT: CONDUCTORS + JAMES KANE + NEGATIV MAGICK + NU BALANCE + POST PERCY New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. RADIONICA Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. THE RITZ THURSDAYS - FEAT: NARI & MILANI + CARRICK DALTON & SAM COHEN + CAUC-ASIAN DJ’S + ED WILKS + JOSHUA GILILAND + KEN WALKER + LUCILLE CROFT + MAX KRUSE + TIM
LIGHT + ZACK ROSE Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $20. TIGER FUNK LIVE - FEAT: DJ MOONSHINE Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TROCADERO Match Bar & Grill, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
saturday september 21
friday september 20
ANYTIME Workshop, Melbourne. 8:30pm. BADABOOM FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. CANT SAY Platform One, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. CHI FRIDAYS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne. 8:00pm. CRUCIAL SOCIAL ACADEMY - FEAT: DJ A13 + DJ JELLYFISHWORKSHOP, MELBOURNE. 8:00PM. discotheque - feat: elana musto + greg sara + scott t MATCH BAR & GRILL, MELBOURNE CBD. 7:00PM. FRIDAY NIGHT COMMERCIAL HOUSE DJS - FEAT: HIJACK + LIVNBEYNG + MAGIC HOUSE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:30pm. I LOVE OLD SCHOOL - FEAT: SHAGGZ & PUPPET + DJ TEY + MERV MAC Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $10. JUICY - FEAT: CHAIRMAIN MEOW + COBURG MARKET + MR. FOX + TIGERFUNK + WHO Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. MEET YOUR MATES FRIDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MIDNIGHT MIDNIGHT New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MR VEGAS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. PANORAMA - FEAT: DJS MATT RAD + MR GEORGE + PHATO A MANO + TOM MEAGHER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. REMEMBER ME The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. RETRO SEXUAL One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. REVOLVER FRIDAYS (ANTARCTICA REMIX LAUNCH) - FEAT: DJ LEWIE DAY + DJ MIKE CALLANDER + DJ ALEX THOMAS + DJ KATIE DROVER + DJ WHO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: DJ SUNSHINE + DJ BUTTERS + DJ HEY SAM Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00am. SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 10:00pm. SVELT + BISCOTTI + MANGELWURZEL 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10. THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. WEEKENDER! Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 11:00pm.
VENICE MUSIC - FEAT: DJ ALI E Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. BILLBOARD SATURDAYS - FEAT: FRAZER ADNAM SCOTT MCMAHON + JAMIE VLAHOS + MR MAGOO + ZIGGY Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. CHI SATURDAYS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm CLUB FICTION - FEAT: KITTY ROCK & THE BAD LADIES Red Bennies, South Yarra. 2:00am. DJ PLAZMA Idgaff Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. FIRST FLOOR SATURDAYS - FEAT: BILLY HOYLE + DJS DUCHESZ + MZRIZK + WASABI First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. GLITCH THIS - FEAT: SATURDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. HOT STEP Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. LAB 22 Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MIXED DRINKS SATURDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MOTEL SATURDAYS The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. NEO SACRILEGE - FEAT: DJ NERO Abode, St Kilda. 8:00pm. NEW GUERNICA SATURDAYS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. ONESIXFIVE - FEAT: DJ COURTNEY MILLS + DJ HOOPS + DJ OLLIE HOLMES + DJ JOSH PAOLA + DJ WILL CUMMINGS Onesixone, Prahran. 3:00am. POISON APPLE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. SATURDAY CONFIDENTIAL Galley Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SATURDAYS - FEAT: ACTION SAM + DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SATURDAYS @ LEVEL 2 - FEAT: DJ BOOGS + DJ CHESTWIG + DJ LUKE MCD + DJ MIKE HUNT + DJ ROWIE + DJ SPECIAL K Level 2 The Club, Northcote. 9:00pm. SATURDAYS AT ONE TWENTY BAR One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SOUND EMPIRE - FEAT: DJ TATE STRAUSS + DJ JOE SOFO + DJ MATTY + DJ MISS SARAH + DJ PHIL ROSS Fusion, Southbank. 9:30pm. $25. SOUTH SIDE SHOW - FEAT: EDD FISHER + KNAVE KNIXX Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $15. STAR SATURDAYS Star Bar, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. STRUT SATURDAYS - FEAT: COLLECTIVE + ANDREAS + DANNY MERX + HENRIQUE + JASON SERINI + MARK PELLEGRINI + MC JUNIOR + NICK VAN WILDER Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $22. SUNDAY NIGHTS - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ JAY J + DJ KEN WALKER + DJ LIGHTING Co., Southbank. 8:30pm. TEMPERANCE SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ MARCUS KNIGHT + DJ XANDER JAMES Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm. TEXTILE - FEAT: DJS PACMAN + JEAN PAUL + MOONSHINE + TAH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. THE FOX SATURDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: DJ ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. TOO MUCH 4TH BIRTHDAY - FEAT: MOSCA + DAVID BASS + NAISE + SAME O + WOZ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. WHAT’S DOING? - FEAT: DJ CITIZEN.COM Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. WHY NOT? - FEAT: SATURDAY Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
sunday september 22
COSMIC TONIC Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:30pm. DANGER - FEAT: GEORGE HYSTERIC & ROHAN BELL-TOWERS The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. GUILTY PLEASURES Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm. MOTEL SUNDAYS The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. NO MORE-BANG-FOR-BUCK BURLESQUE SHOW! Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: DJ BOOGS + DJ SPACEY SPACE + DJ RADIATOR + DJ SILVERSIX + DJ T-REK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:30pm. SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE - FEAT: ASKEW + BOOSHANK + DISCO HARRY + JUNJI + MISS BUTT + PAZ + PETER BAKER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. SUNDAE SHAKE - FEAT: AGENT 86 + PHATO-A-MANO + TIGERFUNK Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: DAN BOWDENA ND MAYFIELD + FOUNKSHUI Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 4:30pm. SURRENDER - FEAT: DJ SERGEANT SLICK + DJ ADAM TRACE + DJ ADRIAN CHESSARI + DJ CHRIS OSTROM + DJ SEF Fusion, Southbank. 8:00pm. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJS ANDYBLACK + HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.
monday september 23
IBIMBO - FEAT: LADY NOIR & KITI Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. KOOL AID - FEAT: DJ MU-GEN Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. STIFF DRINK - FEAT: DJ MICHAEL KUCYK + DJ MICHAEL OZONE + DJ ROMAN WAFERS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. TWERKERS CLUB - FEAT: DJ FLETCH Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
tuesday september 24
BIMBO TUESDAYS - FEAT: ADAM ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. COSMIC PIZZA Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. DJ JAGUAR E55, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. NEVER CHEER BEFORE YOU KNOW WHO’S WINNING - FEAT: REPETER FONDA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
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wednesday september 18 Compression Session - Feat: Cassawarrior + Dd + Ricka E55, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. Soul Ensemble Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
thursday september 19 Pennies Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $6.
friday september 20 Chaise Fridays - Feat: Soulclap + DJ Claz + DJ Dirx + DJ Peril + DJ Sef Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 4:30pm. Crew Love - Feat: DJ Tony Sunshine Sub Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $15. DJ Thaddeus Doe The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. Faktory Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 2:55pm. Faktory - Feat: DJ Damion De Silva + DJ Durmy + DJ K Dee + DJ Yaths Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 9:30pm. Get Lit Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. Like Fridays - Feat: Broz + Dir-X + DJs Dinesh + Nyd + Sef + Shaggz + Shaun D La Di Da, Melbourne. 8:00pm. Rnb Superclub - Feat: Young Men Society Rnb Superclub, Southbank. 8:00pm. Studio Chasers, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $20. Sweet Nothing Fridays - Feat: DJ Marcus Knight + DJ Xander
James Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 9:00pm.
saturday september 21 Chaise Lounge Saturdays - Feat: DJ Andy Pala + DJ Kah Lua Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. Cheap Sober + Maggot Mouf & Gutz + Pete Mc + Planz The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $26. Laundry Saturdays Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. Saturday Nights - Feat: DJ Damion De Silva + Dj Jay Sin + DJ K Dee Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 9:30pm. The Dojo Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. The High Society Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
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monday september 23 Freedom Pass - Feat: Phil Ross + B-Boogie + Chris Mac + Dozza Co., Southbank. 10:30pm. Hip Hop Open Mic First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
tuesday september 24 Can I Kick It? Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH
MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP
With Christie Eliezer * Stuff for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm
HARVEST DRIED UP?
JOB INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK
CHRISSY AMPHLETT LANE UPDATE
Promoter AJ Maddah is expected to have cancelled November’s Harvest festival after three years by the time you read this. He revealed sales had dropped considerably after Big Day Out announced its first lineup in July. “As a small boutique festival with emphasis on arts and experience we can’t compete. We’re heartbroken seeing our favourite child get sickly and are doing everything to make it work” he twittered. “(But) unless we see some kind of sign in the next week we’ll have to consider the worst.” Maddah told Fairfax Media that low sales – only 18% of Brisbane’s 17,500 tickets, and “30-40 per cent” of Sydney’s 20,000 although Melbourne had shifted “70% to 80% of 15,000 tickets" – saw him face a loss of $5.5 million. He’ll try and reduce it by spinning some of the headliners Massive Attack, Franz Ferdinand, Primus, Goldfrapp and Neutral Milk Hotel into individual tours.
A 21 year old Welshman, Alan Bacon, was one of nine who got to the final job interview at the Cardiff branch of UK retailer Currys. He studied up for a week on the company and what he could offer it. Imagine his astonishment when told that the final decision would be made on how he and the other eight danced to Daft Punk’s 1997 Around The World. Currys later apologised and asked him to return. Bacon, umm, turned them down.
On Tuesday September 10, Melbourne City Council voted unanimously in favour of naming a thoroughfare Chrissy Amphlett Lane. There’s still a lot more work to be done, but planning officers are working at finding an appropriate location. Check out melbourne.vic.gov.au/AboutCouncil/ Meetings/Pages/10September2013.aspx. Audio from 11.00 - 17.00 covers the Chrissy Amphlett Lane item.
EIGHT MELBOURNE ACTS GET SIGNED The buoyancy of the Melbourne scene is shown with seven acts doing signings in the past week. Daryl Braithwaite is back with Sony after 20 years with a new EP, NSW booking agency Select added Eagle And The Worm and Apes, the new 123 Agency added Drunken Mums, Harmony is with Fitzroy-based Poison City Records, Iron Mind are with Resist Records, The Cat Empire’s Ollie McGill assigned his publishing to Alberts and singer songwriter Eden Mulholland signed management with Brisbane label Footstomp with plans to head to New York next month. See Industrial Strength Online at beat.com.au for full details of all these signings.
VANCE JOY HITS DOUBLE PLATINUM While Vance Joy is up for Breakthrough Independent Artist and Best Independent Single at AIR’s Carlton Dry Independent Music Awards, his Top 10 single Riptide has gone double platinum.. After his sell-out Oz tour (including three Corner Hotels), Joy is currently playing Canada before a month-long US run opening for Tom Odell and then UK dates. His debut EP God Loves You When You’re Dancing, which is close to gold in Australia, was released in the US and Canada through Atlantic, and issued in the UK in November via Infectious Music home to The Temper Trap and alt-J.
MUSICIANS PLAN INDUSTRY CAMPAIGN The newly formed Australian Freelance Musicians Alliance (AFMA) held a public meeting in Sydney to canvas ideas on what key issues face freelance musicians, and how to put together a plan of action. AFMAA is an offshoot of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance which got into the fight to get musicians’ fees after the Peats Ridge Festival went belly-up. They’re on Facebook at: facebook.com/ ozfreelancemusos or on 1300 656512.
JIM GRIMWADE LAUNCHES DESIGN COMPANY In between playing bass for Buried Feather, The Gun Barrel Straights and The Dub Captains, Jim Grimwade also worked as freelance artist/ illustrator doing poster designs. The retro-designs were used by scores of acts including Twin Beats, Baptism Of Uzi, Nymphs and Rebecca Barnard. Now he’s set up his own company, Jim Grimwade Design, with posters starting from $65. Grimwade cited a lack of quality gig posters out there, adding, “I basically decided it was about time to go public with it all and set up a new (affordable) design business catering specially for the music industry.” He’s contacted at grimwadejim@gmail.com, check out facebook.com/jimgrimwadedesign.
THINGS WE HEAR * Melbourne gets some (more) status with the international metal community. Black Sabbath’s live CD and DVD Gathered In Their Masses, out November 26, was recorded and filmed at Rod Laver Arena on April 29 and May 1. * A 23-year old man from Victoria died at Sydney rave The Defqon.1, which drew 18,000. About 20 overdosed, and up to 84 were busted for drugs. * He took his time getting here but US rapper The Game is the latest import wanting to buy a place in Sydney. “Sydney has been beautiful, love it,” he told Nova radio, adding he would have kangaroos on the property. * Arctic Monkeys, who’re heading to Oz next year, could end up having the fastest selling album of 2013. Their AM sold 97,000 copies in the first two days, which if that keeps up, could beat current leader Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories which clocked up 165,000 in its first week. * Comments made on panels at Big Sound: “First time I was nude on stage? …What ‘kind’ of stage?”(Amanda Palmer). Commercial radio quota is “far too low” and “should be more like triple j” (Michael Chugg), “Triple J plays a minimum of 40% Australian content, often up to 50% (j’s Nick Findlay). “Don’t wait for a call from Simon Cowell. The only way to do it is to fucking do it!” (Billy Bragg). From the International panel, “Don’t suck!” (courtesy MusicSA) * Machine Head singer Robb Flynn was not impressed when Avenged Sevenfold’s Hail To The King reached #1 in the UK and US. He “congratulated” them on their “latest covers album” and added: “Who knew that re-recording Metallica, Guns N’Roses and Megadeth songs could be a worldwide hit? Ba-dap psssss!”
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NOMINATE FOR [V] OZ ARTIST AWARD Back for its 17th year, the Channel [V] Oz Artist award is asking viewers and readers to vote for the Top 50 list of fave Aussie acts, and also to nominate a Wild Card as to who should be in the Top 50. Nominate at vmusic.com.au until Friday October 4, it’s announced the next day at 10.30 am on The Riff.
OLIVIA HALLY WINS MELBOURNE HEAT Nu-folk singer-songwriter Olivia Hally 22, won the Melbourne heat of Telstra Road to Discovery, at The Toff in Town. She joins 16 others at a three day mentoring boot camp in Sydney, and then competes at the Semi-Finals. Hally, a Fitzroy North resident is also in the running for a development opportunity with Bon Jovi. The performance winner and one songwriter winner receive a 12 month music mentorship program, a $14,000 tailored music development fund and a set at Americana Music Festival. Visit telstra.com/trtd.
SUBCULTURE REUNION AT DV8 The DV8 club is holding The Subculture reunion on Sept 28, with many of the old DJs to man the decks. Subculture ran every Saturday night between May 1996 and 2000, which brought alternative 3JJJ listeners, Punks, Goths and Indie music culture types together in one building over three levels. Old staffers, patrons and entertainers are invited to CBD Nightclub 12 McKillop Street, city (same venue) for the first Subculture Reunion Party in 13 years.
RISING O/S SALES FOR TAME IMPALA Tame Impala continue to attack the overseas markets. While the Lonerism album streaks towards platinum in Australia, it has gone gold in Europe (sales of 80,000) and silver in the UK (60,000) where it debuted at #14. In the US, where it had come in at #34, it won Record of the Year at the inaugural Record Store Day Adapter Prize and placed in US Rolling Stone’s Greatest Live Acts In The World list. Lonerism has sold 285,000 copies worldwide.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS #1: SEARCH FOR BEST PRODUCER/DJ Budweiser has teamed up with the Australian Independent Music Awards (AIMAs) to launch a nationwide search for the country’s next superstar producer/DJ. Winner gets a tour of nightclubs around the world and guaranteed media coverage. Go to BudweiserMadeforMusic.com.au.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS #2: SONY MUSIC RECORDING SESSIONS Four Sony Music Recording Sessions are up for grabs in health food maker Sanitarium’s Weet-Bix ‘Bix’ incentive program. The sessions allow aspiring acts the chance to record up to five tracks in a state of the art studio with the help of Sony’s team who’ll also produce cover artwork for the resulting EPs. Go to weetbix.com.au/ Bix.
MILEY’S NAKED WRECKING BALL VIDEO BREAKS RECORD To no one’s surprise Miley Cyrus swung her way into the history books with her new Wrecking Ball video … the one she’s nude in. In 24 hours it racked up 19.3 million views on Vevo. It stomped over previous champs, One Direction, whose Best Song Ever got 12.3 million views in a day in July. Define your genre in five words or less: Southern Psychedelic Horror Blues Rock. What can a punter expect from your live show? Toe tappin’, knee slappin’ good time rock and roll with a musically tight but wildly unpredictable approach to playing live. When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/single/etc? We release our new EP Roughhouse Hymns this Saturday night at The Tote hotel. When’s the gig and with who? This Saturday night at The Tote Hotel with an all star cast of supports including Bitter Sweet Kicks, YIS, I Am Duckeye, Vice Grip Pussies, Don Fernando, Sons Of The Ionian Sea, Them Bruins and Swamp Moth! Why should everyone come and see your band? Have you seen the line up to this Saturday’s launch? It’s a ROCK AND ROLL EXTRAVAGANZA! We also don’t do too bad ourselves and you should come see us. When are you doing your thing next?
This Saturday night at The Tote Hotel! 9 bands over 2 stages! Doors are at 7pm. It’s going to be one hell of a ride. This show of epic proportions will be followed by an East Coast tour in October. Describe the best gig you have ever played. After inciting local workers in the Western Australian mining town of Port Hedland to act in a manner that was too rowdy, we were asked by the venue not to return to the following evening although we had already been booked for a repeat performance. Members of the crowd were too enthusiastic and things got broken. We were then asked by a local gentleman to play at the Port Hedland speedway the following day. We thought the races were on but instead we played on the back of a flatbed truck to the gentleman who asked and about 15 of his mates. They sat on lawn chairs and drank tins. It was the best! Anything else to add? Head to facebook.com/wearesheriff for more info on this Saturday’s event.
IHEARTRADIO APPS ARRIVE A month after launching free digital radio service iHeartRadio, the Australian Radio Network (ARN) introduced its app on iPhone and Android. The app allows customers access to 1,000 live stations from Australia, NZ and the US, the chance to create personalised stations from 16 million songs by 400,000 artists, and choose from thousands of curated stations based on their moods and activities. The app was downloaded 210 million times in the US.
PLAYING FOR CHANGE DAY On Saturday September 21 musicians around Australia gather to perform and raise money for the Playing For Change Foundation – committed to creating positive change through music and arts education. See playingforchange. org for details. After opening nine schools abroad, the PFC Foundation intends to set one up in Australia, in an indigenous community in NT or SA.
CHANGES FOR BUTTERFLY EFFECT The Butterfly Effect have a new manager, Tom Larkin of Homesurgery (Calling All Cars, Strangers, Cairo Knife
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LIFELINES Divorced: Ben Harper and actor Laura Dern. They got together in 2000, married five years later, and he filed for divorce in 2010. They tried to give it another try last year but will now share custody of son Ellery Walker, 12 and daughter Jaya, 8. Married: John Legend and supermodel Chrissy Teige in Lake Como, Italy. Married: Brit rapper Professor Green and MIC actress Millie Mackintosh. Hospitalised: Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres for emergency appendectomy in Mexico City, forcing them to reschedule four South American shows. Hospitalised: Melbourne manager and agent Adrian Anderson, at the end of BIGSOUND in Brisbane, was involved in a head-on crash after dropping off a fellow delegate at the airport. He ended up with broken ribs, reduced lung capacity and the need for a neck brace. Ill: UB40 had to cancel their tour of the UK due to a RSI wrist injury suffered by drummer Jimmy Brown. Ill: record producer Jack Osbourne’s wife Lisa Stelly suffered a late-term miscarriage. Osbourne who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2012, was announced as a cast member of Dancing with the Stars. Sued: Nicki Minaj by reclusive US electronic producer Clive Tanaka who says that her $7 million selling Starship (2012) was nicked from his Neu Chicago (2010) which had 100,000 YouTube views and was used in two TV ads in Scandinavia. Two of the song’s three songwriters, and producer RedOne, live in Scandinavia and would have heard the song, Tanaka’s lawyer insisted. In Court: the Lady Gaga vs. her former personal assistant Jennifer O’Neill case will be heard on November 4. O’Neill reckons she was underpaid. A jury will decide if the singer was “so demanding” that she was on call 24/7 and had no time for herself. O’Neill claims Gaga made her sleep in her room on tour so she could attend to all her demands, including waking her up once to change a DVD. She got paid US$50,000 for the first year, and $75,000 the second. In Court: Village People singer Victor Willis got back rights to 33 songs he wrote or cowrote, including YMCA and In The Navy. Under a copyright law from 1978, he’s exercised his “termination rights,” which allow creators to establish control over works they had signed away after a 35-year period, which went into effect Jan. 1, 2013. He was the first successful writer to do so, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty have similar cases pending. In Court: Gold Coast nightclub Howl at the Moon was told by the Brisbane Supreme Court to pay almost $1.4 million in damages to a patron assaulted by a barman on December 8, 2006. Jon Lamble was attending a work Christmas party there when scuffles broke out between staff and his workmates. He was hit with a long-hand metal dustpan, which left him a fractured jaw, vision impairment, on-going headaches, neck and back pain, mental health problems and, he claims, loss of job and marriage. Died: Irish music journalist Linda Duff, of Smash Hits and Hot Press fame, 53, instrumental in launching Take That, Westlife and Pet Shop Boys. Died: multi-award winning Dolby Laboratories founder Ray Dolby, 80, Alzheimer’s disease and leukemia. He pioneered the noise reduction in audio recordings that produced clearer sound for music and cinema.
Fight) and new agent, Wildfire Agency’s Mark Lackey.
DAREBIN FEAST COMES UP WITH HOUSE HOODS Darebin Music Feast has come up with a new ‘fun’ competition called The House Hoods aimed at non-professional musicians. You get together with your family or flat mates or pets or friends within your Darebin neighbourhood and put together a music act. Stand-out collaborators get to perform at the Feast finals. Prizes include a children’s workshop at your house, a VIP massage voucher, a tailor written song for your loved one and cinema club memberships. Head to musicfeast.com.au/2013-program/ introducing-househoods/, deadline is Monday September 23.
THE HANDSOME FAMILY By Krissi Weiss Alt-country/Americana duo The Handsome Family (made up of couple Rennie and Brett Sparks) are an ethereal pair. With a career spanning 20 years, they’ve managed to forge a successful career with a back catalogue that reads more like Darwin’s The Origin Of Species than any self-informed emotional purge. With Brett Sparks tackling the music, Rennie Sparks has consistently delved into her dream-state and explored all manner of weird and wonderful creature that inhabit, or have inhabited, the earth. The thing about Sparks is that this fascination is in no way a manufactured caricature; she talks in the same way she writes and despite the fact she’s incredibly warm and welcoming, you can’t help but get the feeling she’d be more at home speaking to Yann Martel’s Richard Parker than any human being. “I’ve been able to rest for a few weeks and have been making guitars,” Sparks says from her home in Albuquerque. “I’m doing this whole series of guitars and right now and I’m in the middle of doing one with eels swimming across it.” True to her love of nature, when asked about the band’s return to Australia after a long absence, it is our wildlife that piques her interest. “It’s so lovely to be back there,” she says with a gush of joy. “We love everything about
going there and it seems exciting from start to finish; everything from the littlest bud to the biggest tree. We have had some amazing shows and we always say when we’re there that Australians are somewhat like Americans but without the puritans.” As Sparks chats about what she’s most looking forward to seeing while on our fair shores, she explains that it’s still the animals of her dreams that inform her writing more than just the places she visits. “I think I’m more like an auteur of nature,” she laughs. “I don’t have any eels but I read a lot about them on the internet, watch them on YouTube and then I dream about them. I haven’t written about the animals that are around me here even. We have roadrunners and all sorts of snakes and spiders but I think I’m far more inspired by the animals in my dreams than anything around me. Who knows what will inspire me over there though? I remember last time being inspired by your green parrots; you cannot have a bad day with green parrots flying around you. They’re so
beautiful; I wonder if I can get enough of what they like to eat can they fly me up into the air.” With all of this almost peyote-like animal imagery, is Rennie Sparks hidden anywhere in the metaphor of her stories? “I try not to write anything about me; I know me,” she says. “I think ‘me’ is the voice that I hear all day, every day in my head so I’m eternally trying to find a different voice. When a song seems mysterious to me and when I don’t know what it means I feel like I’m really working on something important. I do want the songs to seem mysterious to me because I feel that’s when the deepest truths can be found.” Don’t be mistaken though, Sparks isn’t trapped by her own creativity or drowning in her art pollution – she seems to be an incredibly smart and witty women who enjoys occupying her mind with the mysterious rather than the negative drone of modern life. She’s certainly not Facebooking away her existence like many, many others.
The Handsome Family have been afforded a long career thanks to an army of fans who enjoy the escapism of their art as much as they do. Sparks does, however, mention that the process of song writing can be a struggle for both Sparks. “After a few years I can find myself listening to our songs and enjoying them,” she says. “But that’s the sad part about writing songs; you begin the song with this connection to something so big and mysterious that it’s so powerful and wonderful and that gets slowly diluted as you complete the song. The only way you can see it again is by looking away for a while … Somehow we have something that works but truly, each time we finish a song it seems like a miracle to me.
freewheeling spirit. In the prevailing two years, Chris and the band took to shooting memorable videos, including a knee-slapping Broken Heart for Christmas, a “ridiculous ode to being a drunk idiot and letting down important people.” It notably features the extended Cherrywood family necking whiskey, smoking cigarettes by the pack and dancing like utter madmen. “We wanted to make a cheap video and we had a bar tab,” Chris recalls. “We bought heaps of slabs for everyone. The aim was for everyone to relax and have a big night. At first it was really awkward. Then everyone was just drinking and it turned into a big party.” Parties rolled on as Cherrywood holed up in their van to hit small country towns around the nation. The sad reality is live venues in the city and suburbs are threatened with extinction. Rural pubs and clubs on the other hand “are screaming for it.”
“They’re really wanting it,” Chris cheerfully reports. “It’s great playing in those tiny towns. They love it. They get up and dance and they go mental! We’ve had some of our best shows in those tiny country towns.” Are the rural towns more appreciative than their city folk when bands wind through? “Absolutely,” Chris affirms. “It’s great in Melbourne because we have so much live music, but people can get blasé about it. In a country town, if there’s a band coming from anywhere, they get so excited. They’ll buy everything that you have, they’ll talk to you, they’ll drink with you, and it’s great!”
sometimes we’ll have rockabilly guys with neck tatts rock up, other times we’ll have old farmers and really random people coming to our shows. Hopefully there’ll be people coming to this festival who haven’t seen us before – it’s always good to make new friends.” I first saw Graveyard Train a few years ago, at the Port Fairy Folk Festival, which regularly offers up a diverse and enjoyable lineup. “That was more of an older crowd,” Finch remembers. “People who wire into sitting down while watching shows. That weekend we also went and played Golden Plains where tons of kids were chewing their jaws off. We play lots of different crowds and people don’t seem to hate us.” When asked about the band’s place in the musical spectrum, Finch reflects on his experiences through his day job. “I work at the Old Bar in Melbourne and I see a million bands a year. There’s some really interesting stuff out there. This country is producing some really interesting, really good music but it’s not necessarily going to be popular. There’s incredible bands playing to ten people but it is what it is.” He believes that part of the fun of music from bands like Graveyard Train is that it’s very much “on the sidelines” of the mainstream. It’s different, and sits alongside a swathe of other
Melbourne bands Finch sees on a regular basis. “There’s a band called The Infants – they’re doing a kind of music which is new to me,” says Finch. Graveyard Train is gearing up for their next phase of evolution. “We’ve always been pretty DIY and homemade and take things as they come,” says Finch. “As the band gets more professional I guess – you should put that in quotation marks! – we’ve never considered ourselves to be incredibly professional but as we’ve played bigger shows a few of us take care of that side of things. At this stage we’re just writing little bits and pieces.” “We released our last album halfway through last year and that was fun. We’re still getting together and working on stuff. We have a concept album in mind that we’ve been writing stuff for, so hopefully we’ll do that next. If not, we’ll see what happens. One week we’ll all get drunk and come up with some amazing plan but we’ll generally forget it the next morning. We’re having fun.”
THE HANDSOME FAMILY will be at The Hi-Fi on Saturday October 12 as part of the Melbourne Festival.
CHERRYWOOD By Tom Valcanis The only way for punk-inspired country band Cherrywood is up. Drummer Chris Drane used to clean toilets at the Corner Hotel, and now he’s sweeping up friends from all corners of Australia. Cherrywood is a bit of a head scratcher. They’ve written scarring acoustic tunes about Pentridge Prison, throbbing heads and bleeding hearts with hands as calloused as stockmen. But how do you figure a country band from Melbourne? “Rod’s from Ireland, Josh is from Geelong, Tim is from Tassie and I’m the only one from Melbourne,” Chris says, introducing their double bassist, mandolinist and guitarist respectively. “We all had pretty similar music tastes. We were coming from a punk background, which leads into country music quite a lot.” Dusty, old-time country from the American heartland rank chiefly among Cherrywood’s influences but they’re undeniably True Blue. “I hate that thing where Australian bands put on a fake American accent,” Chris chides. “We hear people just imitating their favourite country acts all the time. It’s embarrassing, really. There’s a lot of Australian country that’s has its own character.” With support growing for their authentic Aussie sound, Cherrywood laid down the foundations for their first album. The session for the upcoming Book of Matches LP took place two years ago. Chris recalls the
band “smashed out sixteen songs in a day.” They weren’t on the clock or anything. They desperately needed to, for their fingers’ sake. “We were in this freezing cold farmhouse and we played as fast as we could to keep warm, pretty much,” Chris laughs. With songs in the can, they “started touring a lot.” The recordings sat for a year before the band tinkered with them. “We finally did some overdubs,” Chris admits. “We got Erica from Harmony to sing on Pentridge and Josh Crawley from Graveyard Train to play some slide guitar. We sort of finished it up but didn’t mix it for ages. We finally got it mastered and finally, two years later, it’s going to be out!” The Grand Canyon sized gap between recording and release didn’t gnaw at Cherrywood. Their jangled guitars and plinking mandolins embody their fun and
CHERRYWOOD launches their debut Book of Matches LP at the Northcote Social Club this Friday September 20.
GRAVEYARD TRAIN By Josh Fergeus Hot rods. Choppers. Drag racing. Vintage, vintage, vintage. That’s the Chopped Hot Rod & Custom Music Festival, to be held in the small town of Newstead, just past Castlemaine on the Pyrenees Highway. And just in case you need more convincing, the excellent horror country outfit Graveyard Train are headlining the bill, playing their first show for quite some time. “We had some time off which has been great,” vocalist and guitarist Nick Finch tells me. “We haven’t played a gig in about five and a half months – it will have been six months between gigs by the time of the festival.” Why such a hiatus for a band on the rise? “We worked really hard for two years before that and our lives were nothing but Graveyard Train,” explains Finch. “So we’re just chilling out momentarily and experimenting with some other things. I just produced a record for Cash Savage, I thought I’d try my hand at that sort of stuff. I had a baby as well about five months ago so just thought we’d kind of slow down a touch.” “This gig is going to be fun,” says Finch. “We haven’t all been in a room together for the last five months, we’re all looking forward to it.” Graveyard Train have played the Chopped Festival twice before, years ago, despite the fact that Finch doesn’t even drive. “It’s pretty zany,” he says. “Both times we’ve rocked up in a Volkswagen
despite the sign saying ‘no Volkswagens allowed’. We know the dudes that organise it and one of them has always been really helpful to us. He lives up in Sydney and in the early days when we used to tour we’d crash on his kitchen floor.” Finch has enjoyed the odd drunken conversations with these contacts over the years. “They like their rockabilly but they’re not quite as obsessed as the hotrod following, which leads to really interesting line-ups. They don’t go for the straight rockabilly lineup. It’s pretty rad this year – Hard-Ons, Twin Beasts (formerly the Toot Toot Toots), Gay Paris. They’re car nerds. They’re really into their cars, but they’re also really into interesting music.” Over the years the band has built a diverse following, both in its hometown of Melbourne and elsewhere around the country. “We’ve kind of been real lucky,” says Finch. “We’ve played gigs all over the place and
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WESLEY ANNE 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECTACULAR By Augustus Welby Northcote’s invitingly quaint live music venue and epicurean pub kitchen, Wesley Anne, celebrates its 10th Anniversary this Sunday with plenty of good food, drinks and a long list of local talent appearing throughout the day. Wesley Anne might best be described as a friendly pub with an air of sophistication, offering a variety of dazzling original music - and as venue owner Nathan Muller suggests, “it’s the sort of place where you can catch up with your mum, your grandfather and bring your kids along as well.” Along with Noel Fermanis, Muller set up the venue on High Street Northcote in 2003 with aims to create an accessible setting to showcase the area’s thriving music community, something he believed was lacking in Melbourne at the time. “When it started it seemed like not many places were really doing an intimate original band/music [venue], certainly not in the suburbs – Northcote was the suburbs back then, people didn’t realise how close it was,” he says. In contrast to ten years ago, Northcote is now a well-known cultural hot-spot and the Wesley Anne indubitably had a role in stamping High Street into popular regard. Despite its seemingly unshakeable eminence, Muller indicates that running the venue wasn’t always a successful enterprise. “Don’t get me wrong, the first couple of years it was like there were tumbleweeds rolling down the street and you could
park there if you wanted and there was many a night where I’d have a tear at the end of the bar thinking ‘What’s going on here, what have I done?’” Nowadays people are more than willing to ride the 86 tram up to Northcote, but Muller recalls a time when the journey north didn’t exert such wide appeal. “Friends used to suggest that they’d come out and visit if we had a courtesy bus!” However, as word about the casual vibe and intimate setting began to permeate the community, Wesley Anne quickly became known for offering an impressive standard of diverse entertainment. Muller recounts some of the artists who came to the fore in the venue’s early years. “Everyone started to realise how many talented people there are around Northcote and the surrounding areas. In the early days we had great acts like Holly Throsby, Ned Collette, Jordie Lane, all those guys.” One notable onstage regular at Wesley Anne over the last decade is musical humourist Justin Heazlewood, AKA The Bedroom Philosopher. The Bedroom Philosopher is perhaps
best known for the 2010 album Songs From The 86 Tram, which contributed to Northcote’s alluring mythology, but most recently he was behind ‘Politics in the Pub’, a series of live broadcasts from the Wesley Anne for Radio National in the lead-up to the Federal election. Along with a stack of rising local talent, such as Sal Kimber & the Rollin’ Wheel and The Bon Scotts, The Bedroom Philosopher is certain to make the 10th anniversary celebration a night to remember. Muller discusses how throwing a big party is actually somewhat at odds with the venue’s prevailing ethos. “It’s been interesting trying to celebrate the 10th Anniversary because it’s never been a place that we’ve wanted to push on people, but more a place of discovery, which I think has worked in its favour. We do definitely appreciate that it works well as a humble place – it is what it is and people come there because it is what it is, rather than trying to be too pushy.” Wesley Anne’s distinguished modesty looks set to endure into the future and Muller reveals plans to uphold a diverse
entertainment roster and thus further encourage the venue’s unique atmosphere. “There are a few things happening around at the moment which seem to be more involved with community and people in general. One of those things is the ‘Politics in the Pub’ radio show, another night is a night called Fluid Learning, which is basically like a TED Talks night but in a pub by local people who would like to engage in an interested conversation, [then] there’s some cabaret performances, one called The Moulin Beige, which has been running once a month on a Tuesday night, all mixed in with the music performance and intimate setting of the band room that’s become synonymous with the place.”
Melbourne indie darlings, seven-piece Mesa Cosa are the house band for what will be an exhilarating four week run in the old nightclub that was formerly a theatre. Mitchell discusses the appropriateness of the band and the location, “We’re keeping it trashy and we’re keeping it rock’n’roll. It’s very different to the stylised vintage aesthetic of Red Bennies jazz club feel. The decor is inspired from the decor of Titty Twister with flame machines and the band is raised up in the corner. But everything has our own bizarre spin on it. We’re not trying to create a themed restaurant,” laughs Mitchell before adding, “Mesa Cosa are just the perfect band for it because of their trashy and thrashy take on garage rock and that their lead singer Pablo Andres is of Mexican descent!” Those familiar with film From Dusk Til Dawn will remember Titty Twister’s simmering seductress and head vampire, Santanico Pandemonium played by Salma Hayek. Well this version of Titty Twister has its very own queen vampire, none other than Miss Burlesque Australia 2011. “Our headline act Sina King will be doing a stirring transformation and burlesque performance and in addition to the performers we also have a mechanical bull that will be ridden by our performers but there will also be opportunities
for the general public to have a go. You know, we will do competitions involving tequila shots!” Additionally on the night, and again in dedication to the film, James Grim from The Brothers Grimm, is taking on the role of Razor Charlie which will be awesome as this bearded fellow cuts quite a figure (pun implied). Finally, Mitchell attempts to wrap up what else will be happening at Titty Twister’s opening night and throughout its four week run, “On the opening night, singer Nancy Dancer will be performing with each week a different guest vocalist, real icons from the carnie, blues rock world like Duke Baritone. Pony legend Leopardhead is our DJ, and Sparkarella, a burlesque performer from back in the day, is doing this amazing angle grinder sort of thing. Miss Fili is one of Australia’s pole dancers and she is riding a motorbike through the venue. Also we have a chainsaw and machete juggler, and that’s just to name a few!”
well, because we meet once a week at the Northcote Town Hall, and then we’re able to host the event there every year.” Claire strongly believes that programs and events like these, as well as art and music in general, are very important for the wellbeing of the young people of Australia. Both from the point of view of getting a start in the music industry and as a distraction from the stress of study and generally being a young person trying to make your way in the world today. “I think they’re really really important,” she states with conviction, “it’s really great to have an outlet that is so practical. Especially trying to get a foot in the door of the music industry, it’s so hard. Practical experience is the best. You can sit in the classroom, there are so many degrees…most of the committee this year are Year 12, a few of us are at Uni. “But it’s really good to have that practical experience, and
we get various industry professionals to come in and help us out throughout the year. So we’ve had Jimi Maroudas the producer, Nick O’Byrne from AIR, so we’ve had some really great people come and help us. And I think it’s really great to have it integrated into the community, to meet other like minded young people is really important. Especially with people in the committee finding Year 12 stressful this year, it’s really nice to have something that is just completely separate from all your studies. It’s just a really positive environment.”
THE WESLEY ANNE celebrates 10 years with an Anniversary Spectacular on Sunday September 22 from 12pm.
TITTY TWISTER By Denver Maxx Attention Melbourne punters who like things gritty, punky and sexy Titty Twister is here to alter your perceptions of entertainment. Over four weeks the pop-up club is taking over the remains of A Bar Called Barry, warping it into a theatre slash club slash rock bar. In 1996 the audience’s conception of Hollywood was given a royal mind-fuck by the film From Dusk Til Dawn. This film was directed by 28 year-old horror buff Robert Rodriquez and written by an equally youthful Quentin Tarantino who was cinema’s anti-hegemonic wunderkind after the mainstream success of Pulp Fiction (1994). Even now in 2013, the film still presents itself as an exhilarating thrill ride as it mutates from ‘road movie’ into a ‘horror flick’ with the location for this alteration the fictional bar of Titty Twister. In the film Titty Twister is ostensibly a strip club but when the sun goes down it is the lair of blood thirsty vampires who feed upon the unsuspecting punters – who in the movie are characters played by George Clooney, Juliette Lewis and Harvey Keitel. This Friday night Titty Twister for Melbourne has its opening night that will feature psych-mariachi rockers Mesa Cosa and cabaret performing vampires Sina King, Sparkarella, Skopalova, L’amour, Miss Filly, Ell Bella, Nancy Dancer and host James Grim (Brothers Grimm Band), Titty Twister visionary Chris Mitchell explains the essence of this project: “Myself and Gareth having done events mostly on south-side saw this event as a chance to really push the limits and perceptions of the bar / nightclub experience
in Melbourne.” Mitchell is a film-maker and Gareth Holt a stage producer with the pair having collaborated for the last three and a half years at Red Bennies – a Prahran venue renowned for innovating burlesque and theatre into the bar and nightclub setting. “With Red Bennies having recently changed hands it has freed up Gareth and myself to focus on other projects. We have always wanted to do something on the north side so when this space on Smith Street became available with a late license [4am] we saw the perfect opportunity to do something of this scale,” explains Mitchell who was hard to get hold of for this interview because he is wrapping up production on an indie film called Start Options Exit that features Ron Jeremy and Chopper Reid. Still on the topic of the new project and Red Bennies, Mitchell is quick to state that Holt and he will continue guiding Red Bennies down its merry and theatrical path of entertainment. Mitchell’s instinct that Melbourne’s north was ready for a concept like this was confirmed when in only a couple of weeks, Titty Twister’s Facebook page garnered close to three and a half thousand ‘likes’.
TITTY TWISTER is located at 64 Smith Street and opens this Friday September 20 until Saturday October 13 – 9pm until 4am. Call 0423 531 333 for booking and ticket info or visit tittytwister.com.au
DECIBELS RECORDS By Rod Whitfield The recent election had Australian artists, musicians, film makers and most other creative types shuddering in their boots a little. The Liberal Party, never a big supporter of the arts, are back in and consequently, little to no help will be coming from that quarter. Decibels Records is a local government funded initiative designed to give young people in the Darebin Council area a leg up in the music industry. Claire Barley from Decibel isn’t absolutely certain how the change of government will affect her place of work, but is confident that they will be ok for the time being at least. “I’m not sure how it will affect us,” she admits, “but I think we’ve already secured our funding for the next year or so. So we’re good for a while I think.” This coming Saturday September 21, Decibels Records are putting on a showcase event for a couple of its artists at the Northcote Town Hall as part of the Darebin Music Feast, and Claire was only too happy to give us some background about the initiative and tell us all about the upcoming event. “We’re run by the Darebin Council, this is our third year,” she begins, “it’s basically a program, a youth led committee where we run a record label. All the members of the committee are about 16 to, I think, 22. It’s all young people who are interested in pursuing a career within the music industry. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 38
So throughout the year we run through the various aspects of running a record label, and each year we sign a few artists, and we work with them to record an EP, promote it for them and promote their EP launch. “So everyone on the committee has a bit of a designated role, we break off into different groups, we have people working on media and communications, artwork and design, technical production and so on.” And the event itself? “It’s our artist showcase launch,” she explains, “it’ll be the EP launch for both of our signed artists this year. This year we’ve got Yorque, who are a four piece band from NMIT, they’re pretty cool. And we’ve also got Miss Eileen and King Lear who are a brother and sister duo, and they’re a bit folky and cute, so that’ll be very exciting. The event is annual, and is basically the climax of the year of the program, when everything comes together for the label and the artists. “We hold this event towards the end of the program and it’s sort of a culmination of all our efforts throughout the year. It works
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THE DECIBELS RECORDS’ showcase is on this Saturday September 21 and features up and coming acts Yorque and Miss Eileen and King Lear.
LOU DOILLON By Isabella Ubaldi
Lou Doillon paints an interesting picture when she recounts the days of sitting in her apartment in Bastille overlooking the streets of Paris… waiting. Like a bohemian fairytale princess, she lay low for 15 years drawing, writing stories, reading poetry, learning every instrument that lay in front of her waiting for Prince Charming to come and write an album about her. In her own words, slight problem was: “Every single person that proposed it to me, I was like, ‘Who the fuck do you think you are?’” Such is the dilemma when you’re the daughter of British actress/singer/Hermes Birkin bag muse Jane Birkin and revered French indie film director Jacques Doillon. “It’s true that, as a little girl…I wanted to be a muse and at the same time I had so much ego that I couldn’t stand the idea of being a man’s object. I’ve always had a strange time deciding if I was a muse or if I was a creator. For me a muse is a woman, in a strange way, or a creator is a man.” After having been the face for Givenchy, featuring in campaigns for some of the world’s largest fashion houses and starring in over 20 movies, Doillon now sits firmly in the creator’s seat with the release of her debut album, Places. It’s a brooding, intimate folk collection about love, obsession and regret. The album has already been met with critical acclaim collecting her the award for Female Artist of the Year at the French equivalent of the Grammy’s, Les Victoires de la Musique. Not bad for an album sung entirely in English. This whirlwind success has shot from strength to strength as Doillon gushes it’s “absolutely insane in the year of your 30th birthday when you thought it was over” to receive a second award. It was merely two weeks later when the French government extended to her an invitation to be a knight of the L’Un de l’Etre: The Knighthood of French Authors. Not bad for a student who left school at 15. On growing up, she cites a big regret about not having finished her studies. “If I’d done the studies I wanted to do, I think I’d be a kind of strange researcher. A bit like my uncle, Andrew Birkin. I love mathematics and history and learning so I guess I would’ve been a scholar one way or another. Which is strange because I was a very, very bad pupil but in fact I have always fantisised about University.” The embodiment of yet another contradiction, a scholar she is. An avid reader of poetry and literature (citing Dorothy Parkins as one of her favourites), Lou insists that there’s a level of curiosity to be maintained among us. “I think that’s the real thing: It’s to be inspired to be inspiring and be inspiring to be inspired and that’s it, I mean it’s this kind of circle,” she says. Following the death of her cousin in early life, Doillon went on to a highly publicised period of adolescent ‘wild child’ ways. It’s clear that this album, among many things, marks the end of that chapter: some closure to a time when she admits to being too hard on herself. “It’s true that if I was to do it again I would do it exactly the same because I think that Places, for example, would’ve been impossible without the past 15 years. People say to me ‘Why didn’t you do an album when you were 18?’ I had nothing to say when I was 18 and I would’ve had a stupid little shrill voice trying to please whoever was in the room…”
“PATTI SMITH BACKSTAGE... SHE LOOKS LIKE A GRANNY ON CRACK, SURROUNDED BY SIX OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MEN YOU’VE EVER SEEN, WHO ARE ALL IN LOVE WITH HER AND YOU THINK: ‘MY GOD, PATTI YOU’VE GOT IT!’” Forever in control, the Lou Doillon of today is confident and unaffected on the phone. Perfectly unsuppressed, in an English accent that puts a reformed Eliza Doolittle to shame, she explains the process of maturation. “The success of this album is based on the fact that I never tried to seduce anyone. That I did, what I found, was the best for me. That it was an album that’s not cool, or hyped or trendy. I thought, ‘it’s not now that you’ve got success that you’re going to start pleasing people’.” Since its release and subsequent success, the album has reiterated Doillon’s influence as somewhat of a role model for women. There’s lament in her voice as she talks of the perception of women and beauty in today’s cultures. “Society is making us completely paranoid and shaky. Everyone is scared by someone who’s scared,” she notes. Instead of beautiful models, she offers we should be taking heed from other less typically feminine types: “You go and see Patti Smith backstage, who nearly has a moustache, she’s got one eye looking out the opposite way to the other eye, she looks like a granny on crack, surrounded by six of the most beautiful men you’ve ever seen, who are all in love with her and you think: ‘My God, Patti you’ve got it!’” And what’s her advice for that girl that waited all those years ago atop the streets of Paris? “Just give me a French kiss and say ‘It’s all going to settle. It will all make sense one day’”, she laughs. LOU DOILLON will be performing in Australia in January 2014, headlining for the So French So Chic In The Park events. Places is out now through Cartell/ Barclay records. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV
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AMORPHIS By Rod Whitfield This Finnish melodic death metal band have been around for well over twenty years. During that time they have released 11 superb studio albums, four live albums, toured most of the world many times over and generally achieved much of what can be achieved in the world of heavy music. One thing they have never done, however, is tour the land Down Under, and this fact is quite amazing considering the extent of their worldwide success and the amount of international heavy acts we habitually have through here each and every year. Even several of their own country’s heavy acts have been here at least once, such as Nightwish, Children of Bodom, HIM, Ensiferum and more. The band’s long time drummer Jan Rechberger has only vague ideas as to why the band have never ventured our way before, but is very happy that it’s finally happening anyway. “That’s a very good question actually,” he admits. “There have been plans to tour Australia before, but they always got cancelled for some reason, maybe economic reasons or something else. We seem to have a lot of fans in Australia so it seems kinda weird to never have been there before, but I’m really glad that it’s actually happening now. So maybe we can come there more often.” So it’s a case of better late than never, yeah? “Yeah exactly,” he enthuses. “We’re really excited, it’s going to be a great experience for all of us, I’m really looking forward to it. It’s going to be excellent.” With the aforementioned 20 plus year career and 11 studio albums, the band have a heap of ground to cover for hungry
Aussie fans who have never seen the band before. But Yan is very confident that the band will make a very good fist of constructing a set that will satiate those appetites. “Yeah, it usually depends on the length of the set, but we’re playing a headliner in Australia, so I would say it will be a longer set,” he predicts, “so it’s going to be a ‘best of ’ from the whole career of the band. So there’s something for the old fans and something for the new fans, and pretty much something for everybody that likes Amorphis.” That said, he agrees that it’s very difficult to write a setlist that will please absolutely everyone, including the band members, especially after so long, “it is almost impossible, to be honest,” he laughs. “I mean, there are six guys in the band
and we are a democratic unit, and sometime like I said it’s almost impossible. But we have to do it every night.” “So of course there are lots of songs that somebody would like to hear and somebody would like to play more than others,” he continues, “but usually we can come up with a pretty good setlist that actually covers the old stuff and the new stuff to make a good live show for people.” In fact, the band is set to break a heap of new ground for themselves across the world during the back half of 2013. Australia won’t be the only country they visit for the very first time on the current tour. It speaks of the burgeoning popularity and influence of the band, even after so long, and Jan cannot wait to see a bunch of places he’s never been to before. “Yeah of course, it’s maybe the widest tour so far that we’ve done,” he reveals. “We’ve never played in Australia, and also we’ve never played in China, we’ve never played in South Korea and stuff like that. So it’s going to be really exciting. And we’re also doing 12 shows in Russia and The Ukraine, and Belarus as well, so we get to play some new places, and it’s going to be exciting for sure.
“Of course there is the down side as well,” he goes on, “because some of us have families and stuff, so it’s a bit rough on them. But it’s our job, and that’s what we do.” Ultimately it must be a great feeling to have the band in such high demand across the world after such a long time? “Yeah of course,” he agrees enthusiastically, “it feels very rewarding after all these years and all this work we’ve done, to see that there’s actually people out there who want to see us live and that they buy our albums and stuff. When you start playing as a kid, that’s everybody’s dream. I have no complaints, let’s put it that way.” Amorphis come to Australia in early to mid October, and the tour pulls into Billboard in Melbourne on October 14. Lending strong support is Melbourne band The Eternal, who themselves have been around for a decade and have just released a superb new album When the Circle of Light Begins to Fade, so make sure you arrive early to catch them as well.
to get to this show. I’ve watched it a couple of times and honestly tears well up in my eyes, because it’s just so incredibly overwhelming to think that someone so far away, that I would have never otherwise come into contact with, are such big fans and are so connected,” he divulges. “They’re so passionate that they would go through so much just to see a show. That’s incredible that our music has that kind of effect on people. It’s humbling to think that I’m part of something that has that sort of impact. “I’m not sure if it is just metal. I’m sure fans of lots of other genres of music – hip hop, bands like Radiohead, anything – they do have that loyalty and connection to the music they listen to. I don’t think it’s something exclusive to our genre. But I do know that metal is very much a lifestyle kind of music. We’ve talked about it before, but people don’t listen to metal and put it away. Metal fans tend to wear it, talk it, walk it, live it and breathe it. For the diehard metal fan, it becomes part of their lifestyle and it bleeds out of everything they do. That part of metal if not unique, but one of the few genres you could say that about.” This year marks the tenth anniversary of the album As The Palaces Burn. While the band is at the stage of the career
where they can contextualise their body of work with such milestones, Morton doesn’t feel the need to dwell on such occurences. “It’s the tenth anniversary of As The Palaces Burn, but a few years ago was the tenth of New Amercian Gospel, and then we’ll have the tenth anniversary of Ashes Of The Wake. But we’re still making records, goddammit. It’s cool to recognise and acknowledge those records, but at the same time, I think our best record is Resolution,” he reasons. “And that just came out, what, a year and a half ago? But I’m still proud of the work that we did ten years ago. But I honestly believe, for better or worse, our most dynamic and well-crafted record is Resolution. So I’m proud that we continue to evolve and just get better as a band. How long can that go on? I dunno. Most of us are in our 40s now. I don’t know what the future holds for us. I don’t mean to sound like it’s over, because it’s certainly not. I don’t know if there’s another 20 years in the band. But I would like to think that as long as we continue to engage this project that we’ll continue to evolve and do different things.”
started, and by now it’s probably the biggest drum sampling program that’s out there, between all the different releases ranging from jazz to Latin to metal to pretty much anything you could possibly want in a drum set. It’s a really cool thing that the company grew big. And for us it’s an extremely useful tool. We use it every day when we’re writing, and for me as a drummer, sometimes I’ll just start programming from an idea I have in my head without even trying to play it. And sometimes it’s the other way around: I mess around on the kit and come up with something I think sounds cool then I go off and program it. When it comes to the odd cycles that we do it’s way easier to do that in the computer environment. I don’t even think that we would be the same band we are now if we didn’t have that tool because it definitely opened up avenues for us to create our music.” Meshuggah has their own studio, which used to be shared with the band Clawfinger. It’s now shared with a few other bands. “It has a couple of different recording rooms and a mix room in an old industrial building,” Haake says. “It’s kind of beat up but it really works for us, for what we’re doing. There’s plenty of space, and since the I EP in 2004 everything
we’ve done has been recorded here. It definitely works for us, not just as a demo studio.” Haake has his definite favourite albums in terms of mixing and production, although you might not necessarily hear their influence in Meshuggah. “There’s a few maybe obvious ones, like the first Bob Rockproduced Metallica album - the Black Album - and Motley Crue’s self-titled album from 1994. That’s the most brutal drum sound I’ve ever heard to date. There’s a couple of really, extremely well-produced albums. I mean, there’s different ways of looking at it but to have that modern kind of sound in the early 90s is mind-blowing. If you listen to it now, it’s still up to date and it’s still accurate as far as what people are aiming at now, 20 years later, so that’s crazy! I’m not a Motley Crue fan but that album, as soon as you hear that burst of drums kick in on the first song you’re like ‘Ho-ly shit.’ And I still feel like that about that album.”
AMORPHIS play Billboard on Monday October 14.
LAMB OF GOD By Lachlan Kanoniuk Following on from the release of last year’s excellent Resolution, and a crushing run at Soundwave Festival, Virginian metal titans Lamb Of God endured what turned out to be the band’s most eventful year of existence. The album’s touring cycle was fractured by the arrest of frontman Randy Blythe (the details of which have been covered to the point of exhaustion), but is now back in full swing following his subsequent acquittal. As such, Lamb Of God are returning to Australia this September along with contemporaries Meshuggah. Long serving guitarist Mark Morton runs us through the band’s upcoming filmic vision, Lamb Of God’s legacy, and the global resonance of metal in general. “It really just follows us along what wound up being a very, very eventful tour cycle for Resolution,” he understates. “It picks up with the idea that the band is going to some pretty exotic places in different parts of the world that not a lot of bands go to, and doing character studies on a series of people and the impact that heavy metal in general has on their lives. The film evolves into a more candid look into some of the things going on with the band.” As well as featuring selections from the band’s canon, the documentary (titled As The Palaces Burn, taking its name from the band’s 2003 album) will showcase original score compositions from Morton. “There’s certainly some Lamb Of God music in there, because of the fact it shows us on tour. I would say I composed and performed most, not quite all, of the original music for the score. It was different, which is
why it was such an exciting project for me. You’re not writing a heavy metal song, you’re really setting the mood for a scene,” Morton states. “A lot of the time I would use a key word or emotion, how I would sum up a scene, and write with that in mind. I didn’t really sit in front of a screen and write to the visual, but I would now what was happening in the scene and write with that in mind. It’s really a different approach than anything I’ve done before, which is why I got so much out of it.” The film articulates how Lamb Of God’s music, and metal in general, has resonated with fans from all reaches of the globe. “There’s a scene in the film where they’re talking to fans outside and around the show in India. And you see parents with their children, young people in their late teens and early 20s, who have travelled 24 hours, 36 hours on trains
LAMB OF GOD and MESHUGGAH play Festival Hall on Sunday September 22.
MESHUGGAH By Peter Hodgson “While we all have lots of bands who influence still... we all rip off Meshuggah!” So sang Devin Townsend in Planet Of The Apes from his Deconstruction album. It’s the perfect statement because it’s freaking true. Meshuggah are one of those bands who changed the face of metal by being so utterly original, so creatively sincere, that the tendrils of their influence were bound to creep through the wider metal community and out into the wide world. Meshuggah were last in Australia for the 2012 Soundwave festival (including Sidewaves with Devin Townsend): now they’re back in September with Lamb of God - hitting up venues in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth - and drummer Tomas Haake can’t wait. “We’ve done the Soundwave festival a couple of times and that’s a good thing to do because you get to play in front of a lot of people, but the sideshows have been really good, so we have only good memories of Australia,” Haake says. “We’ve never toured with Lamb of God before or did any separate shows with them. We’re good friends with them and we’ve been talking about it for a few years but we never really got around to it. They’re a great band and we’re expecting a big turnout of people.” Townsend wasn’t wrong when he spoke of Meshuggah’s influence, but it goes even further than that: a huge number of modern metal bands and producers are using Haake as their drummer without him even knowing it, via software called Drumkit From Hell. It’s built around samples of Haake’s drum kit: 127 different hit strengths for each drum, through BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 40
a multitude of microphones, allowing musicians to program drum parts in the computer and effectively have Haake playing on their album - even if it’s just him performing the individual hits that make up the programmed performance, rather than playing the rhythm from the ground up. Many other drummers like to use a real or electronic kit to trigger DFH sounds live and in the studio for sonic consistency. “It’s been an ongoing process since the late ‘90s,” Haake says. “For us it was something that we wanted to do for ourselves as a tool for us when we write music. Prior to that we used drum machines. We all had the Roland R5 and we used to program drums on that, then use portable studios to add guitars to that, and it was kind of a hassle. But the mid to late ‘90s when we all started using computers we felt like we wanted to do things differently to make it easier for us. So that’s how it
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MESHUGGAH and LAMB OF GOD play Festival Hall on Sunday September 22.
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LIVING DEATH FEST AT THE BENDIGO
Following the success of two Living Death events throughout 2012 and 2013, Kiss Or Kill presents Living Death Fest. On Saturday September 21, seven of Australia’s heaviest bands take over the Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood for a night of absolute brutality. Headlining the night will be none other than the Queensland kings of aggression, Disentomb. In addition to their extreme slams and face melting technical riffs Disentomb will be giving their Melbourne fans a sneak peek at tracks from their upcoming release, Album II. Living Death Fest will also showcase some of Melbourne’s finest heavy acts including Internal Nightmare, The Seaford Monster, Broozer, Myridian, Involuntary Convulsion and, making their way to Melbourne for the very first time, Disentomb’s label mates Seminal Embalmment. Proudly sponsored by Kiss Or Kill, HEAVY Magazine, All Things Metal, New Standard Elite and AUDM.
SCAR THE SURFACE HIT THE ROAD
Dream Theater release their new, self-titled album this week via Roadrunner. It’s their second with drummer Mike Mangini and it’s an outright monster. If you’d like to hear it, I’ll be streaming it exclusively on my blog, iheartguitarblog.com, for a week thanks to Roadrunner Records and Dream Theater. I asked guitarist John Petrucci if there were any plans for the band to tour Australia, since we missed out on the last album cycle. Here’s what he said: “Not right now but I’m hoping we will get to Australia, because we haven’t in a few years. We had a great time when we last went. It’s been a while. And not only was it great playing there but it’s such a beautiful country and I just remember all of it – the sights, the weather, everything was amazing and I would love to get back there. Hopefully we’ll get back there.”
Melbourne’s own very slick modern metal outfit Scar The Surface will release their debut album, From The Shadows To The Fire on October 4 and they’ll be doing a major tour in support of the release. Here are the Victorian dates, although there are plenty of shows in other states too: From The Shadows To The Fire Tour 2013 October 12 - The Tote, Melb (Album Launch) October 24 - Next, Melb November 1 - The Sound Bar, Werribee November 2 - The Newmarket Hotel, Bendigo November 30 - DV8, Melb December 6 - The Newmarket Hotel, Bendigo
INTRODUCING BLUES PILLS
FIRST TIME IN OZ: AMORPHIS
NEW DREAM THEATER THIS WEEK
Hey, you should totally check out the band Blues Pills. This American-Swedish-French quartet create a very unique, intense and extraordinary rock atmosphere while at the same time having a major mainstream appeal that takes you right back to the time of their musical ancestors Aretha Franklin, The Original Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Cream. They’ve been signed to a worldwide record deal with Nuclear Blast, who will release the band’s new 4-track EP Devil Man on Friday October 18. There’s a lyric video for their song Devil Man on YouTube right now that’s really worth a high-volume blast.
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OUR LAST ENEMY HIT #2
Our Last Enemy released their long awaited remix album Engineering The Enemy last week and it immediately rocketed straight into the charts debuting at #2 in the iTunes Metal and #34 in the iTunes Rock Charts.
FHTTS SCORE OCEANO OPENING SLOT
Melbourne’s metalcore monsters, FHTTS have secured the opening slot on Oceano’s long-awaited national tour. Catch them at Bang on Saturday October 5 (18+) and at Phoenix Youth Centre on Sunday October 6 (all ages).
In October, Amorphis will tour Australia for the very first time in their illustrious career. Amorphis has been at the forefront of the scene for well over two decades. Encompassing a large and loyal fan base they have been able, and continue, to win over fans of all genres. They will be here performing tracks off their latest release Circle but will also perform classic and fan favourite Amorphis tracks across their comprehensive discography. They’ll be at Billboard The Venue on Monday October 14 with The Eternal and Datura Curse. Tickets from metalmassacre.com.au, moshtix. com.au and ticketek.com.au
SKOLNICK JOINS ESP
Here’s one for my fellow guitar nerds: Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick has just announced that he’s joined ESP Guitars, and they’ll be releasing a signature model at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California in January 24. “Alex is a guitarist who inspires the highest level of respect among musicians around the world,” says Jeff Moore, ESP Senior Vice-President. “We are proud and excited to have him as one of ESP’s top-tier endorsees.” “My new signature guitar is the culmination of years of combined experience – mine as a player and ESP Guitars’ as one of the best-run companies out there,” says Skolnick. “I look forward to playing it for many years to come.” You’ll no doubt see this new beast in action when Testament plays the Soundwave festival in 2014.
LIMP BIZKIT RETURN TO OZ
With over 35 million album sales, Limp Bizkit are the undisputed champions of rap-rock, and they will finally be bringing their ground shaking live show to venues around Australia this October. There are no extra shows so don’t fuck around. Tickets for Limp Bizkit go on sale from Ticketmaster on Friday September 20 at 9am. They’ll be at Festival Hall on Sunday October 27. Presented by Triple M, Channel V and Soundwave Touring.
RECOIL VOR RELEASE VIDEO Sydney prog-inspired metal band Recoil VOR have received some fantastic reviews for their recently released album Sleep For The Masses, and have just released a new video for their track Breathing.
PERPETUAL END HAVE A BLOOD COMPLEX
Apocalyptic Canberran metallers Perpetual End have released a seriously dystopian album in Blood Complex. It’s out now and available from iTunes.
PUNK, SKA, HARDCORE NEWS, REVIEWS & GOSSIP
By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com Whatchoo doing on Grand Final Day? If you’re like me you’ll be stewing over your team’s inability to get to the bloody Grand Final, while directing all your spite and envy at the teams that did. Anyway, best drown your misery over at The Reverence on Saturday September 28. The footy will be playing and so will Lincoln LeFevre, The Union Pacific, Grenadiers, Kissing Booth, Toy Boats, TNNLCNTS, Lucy Wilson and heaps more. It all kicks off at 2pm. Local up and comers Tonight Alive and Violent Soho have enjoyed ARIA chart debuts of #5 and #6 respectively this week. Both are gigging constantly in support of their new releases so do seek them out. Interesting to see Rise Against pretty successfully cash in on a B-Sides and covers album, too. Long Forgotten Songs: B-Sides & Covers 2000-2013 debuted at #16. Oh hey Bodyjar! Welcome back! Our fave local rock dogs have announced a triumphant return with a new album on the way and an accompanying national tour as well. They’ll bring Poison City’s Luca Brasi with them when they play to their home town crowd on November 2 at The Corner Hotel. Tickets on sale now. New UNFD signing Saviour will tour on the back of their new album First Light To My Death Bed . See what kind of hardcore Perth’s been busy producing over at Phoenix Youth Centre and Bang on Saturday November 2. Supports courtesy of For All Eternity and Anchored. Those still raw from the loss of punk rock nice guy Tony Sly will be stoked to hear that Joey Cape and Brian Wahlstrom will tour Australia in October in tribute to the No Use For A Name frontman. Raise a glass at The Reverence in Footscray on Saturday October 26. Tickets available now. If that’s not enough for you, Fat Wreck have revealed they’ll be releasing a Tony Sly tribute album featuring contributions from Mad Caddies, Strung Out, Rise Against, Bad Religion, The Bouncing Souls, The Gaslight Anthem, The Flatliners, Frenzal Rhomb and heaps more. It’s due for release at the end of October.
LIMP BIZKIT’S IN THE HOUSE YA’LL. Keepin rollin! Chocolate starfish! Hot dog water! ETCETC. It’s actually happening. The Bizkit will be in Melbourne and headlining Festival Hall next month. Lock in Sunday October 27 for this aural feast.
CORE GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 15: River OF Snakes, The Loveless at Cherry Bar THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16: The Bombadiers, Road Ratz at The Bendigo Hotel Jericco, MAsketta Fall, Pyrene, Driveby Epic at Next Whitehorse, Pivixki, Magda Mayas and Tony Buck at The Gasometer Venom Eyes, Risk and Reason, Machina Genova, Ghosts at Gasometer Upstairs FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17: The Ramshackle Army, The Tearaways, Cavalcade, Road Rats, The Furrows at The Gasometer Kill The Matador, Ben David and The Banned, Strathmore at The Gasometer Upstairs The Bonniwells, The Kremlings, The Heirophants, The Living Eyes at The Bendigo Hotel SATURDAY FEBURARY 18: La Dispute, Harmony, Hoodlum Shouts at The Corner Hotel Underground Lovers at Northcote Social Club Brat Farrar, The Meanies, Mesa Cosa at Yah Yahs Hometown, On Pacific, Who Invited The Wolf at Bang Kromosom, Unknown To God, Debacle, Pneumatic Slaughter, Havattijat at The Bendigo Hotel Life and Limb, Wicked City, Palisades, Bat Yoghurt at The Gasometer Collapsed, Shit Weather, Urns, Grim Rhythm at The Gasometer Upstairs SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19: La Dispute, Infinite Void, White Walls at Corner Hotel (U18) Darren Gibson, Ben David, Maricopa Wells, Luke Smith at The Bendigo Hotel MONDAY FEBRUARY 20: La Dispute, The Smith Street Band. Palisades at The East Brunswick Club CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU
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WEDNESDAY SEP 18 VELMA GROVE
Roots Of Music is a weekly live music night Wednesdays at Revolver Bandroom. With a fresh selection of the finest emerging and established bands each week, Roots Of Music Wednesdays is the best place to discover new local and national talent. This week's edition of Roots Of Music Wednesday's presents you...Velma Grove. Velma Grove is the sweet scented sounds of Melbourne's Maxie Roberts. Following the release of debut EP, Head For Heart a live band was formed which headlined shows successfully around Melbourne throughout 2012. With support from their good friends Butterscotch Blonde and Fakepath it is sure to be another fun night in the bandroom. Doors 8pm, entry is free.
EAST BRUNSWICK ALL GIRLS CHOIR
Sometimes it's folk, others just plain abrasive, it can sound like the old dainty blues and even “quite pretty”. East Brunswick All Girls Choir have been dormant, hiding, waiting, shedding in the dark. In this time they have also spent their energies recording a debut due for release in the near future. Having stored up the shred juices they will be hitting The Tote each Wednesday of September for a Spring Break Residency spectacular. Come feast on the fruit of their collective loins.
HEADS OF CHARM
Heads Of Charm is the new band for David Gagliardi, Sam Whiting and Sam Reid. Their debut EP, titled If I Was Still General Manager of the World You Guys Would Be Fucked! was quick to be featured on triple j's Unearthed radio with their alternative grunge sounds and now you can catch them playing every Wednesday upstairs at the Tote. Doors at 7.30pm and entry is $8.
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JACKSON FIREBIRD
Catch Jackson Firebird‘s sweat fuelled rock‘n‘roll every Wednesday in September at Cherry Bar. Featuring a different support each week. Doors 6pm, bands from 9pm, free entry, Cherry DJs until 3am.
THURSDAY SEP 19 THE TATTERED SAILS
The Tattered Sails emerge from the winter of their discontented hell to play the Great Britain Hotel on Thursday September 19, blinking like a newborn and ready to break some hearts, glasses and strings. Expect a serving of lush country, cynical folk and bitter pop (sometimes all within the same song). Joining The Tattered Sails for the evening will be the honey voiced howler Ben William ready to sing to you, his sweetheart and the next vodka. Kicks off at 8pm. Free entry.
SACRI COURI
Italy’s Sacri Couri are self described ‘romantic villains’ who play ‘mostly instrumental music with a cinematic feel’. Apart from being amazing live, they have incredibly impressive credentials with appearances on their last album from Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian, Mark Lanegan), Marc Ribot (Tom Waits) as well as members from Calexico and Los Lobos.This is the very first show of their first tour of Australia. They are also playing in support of Hugo Race Fatalists (ex-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/Wreckery). Sacri Couri play at The Spotted Mallard this Thursday from 8.30pm, free entry.
ACOYLTE
Thursday September 19 will see Acolyte return to the stage at Yah Yah‘s following their show in August. With new material in the air and free entry, this event is not to be missed. This time they will be joined onstage by the mighty Riff Fist and the amazing Ben for a massive night of entertainment. Doors open 7pm. Free entry.
KIM SALMON
Catch a more intimate one on one dose of solo primal punk, grunge, rock‘n’roll from one of Australia’s finest singer songwriter guitarists – Kim Salmon, the Godfather of Grunge. Forming The Cheap Nasties in 1976, then seminal band The Scientists and founding member of Beasts of Bourbon – Kim will straddle the stage at Tago Mago this time round solo - just a man, his smoking guitar and his awesome songs. This will be one intimate rock experience on Friday September 20. $5 entry, music from 8.30pm.
SONGS IN THE KEY OF TOM WAITS
It’s raining hammers, it’s raining nails. A troupe of Melbourne songwriters conjoin to present a junkyard of original music inspired by the distorted, contorted, twisted tales of Tom Waits. Presented as part of the 2013 Darebin Music Feast, Beautiful Blue – Songs in the key of Tom Waits is on at The Wesley Anne on Thursday September 19. Curated by Nigel Wearne, featuring Luke Watt, Sarah Carroll, Lachlan Bryan, Jeb Cardwell, Alanna & Alicia, Marisa Quigley and Jim Green. Expect a hearty bazaar of inquisitive songwriting and unique interpretations of Tom Waits. Doors open at 8:00pm, General Admission $15+bf, Concession $10+bf.
O LITTLEBLOOD
O Littleblood, dark-psych two piece, debut their live performance with a residency at the Tote's ‘Slow Club’ every Thursday in September. Combining a love of gloomy lyrics, heavy drone noise and minimalistic structures, the band formed when Adam Bennett and Samantha Arthur created a side project to explore influences such as My Disco, Swans, David Lynch & Blood Brothers. Their songs are dark, loud and layered with swelling looped guitars, heavy repetitive beats and floating lyrics. Joined by Miles Brown, Dead (7" Launch), Hex On The Beach, Psalm Beach, Premium Fantasy and more, expect heavy strobes and intense onslaughts of sound. Entry is $6, doors at 8pm.
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SLEEP DECADE
The students of RMIT Tafe’s Diploma of Visual Art are hosting a night of music and merriment at The Evelyn Hotel on Thursday September 19 to raise money for their end of year exhibition. Come swoon over Sleep Decade’s dreamy pop, sway to the sweet and noisy jams of Mallee Songs, and drink up the honeyed acoustic sounds of Pascal Babare and Teeth. Entry is $7 and pots will be $2.50.
A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS
On Thursday September 19, three bands will give you a new insight of what the world really is and what sounds can be created from instruments when you provide rocking tunes with dollops of prog, psychedelica, funk and metal. It‘s not a night to miss. Headliners A Gazillion Angry Mexicans are to provide a show with rock, chilli and party. Their sh*t's smoking, baby. Supporting act Electric War Babies will provide a funky fusion which they describe as the child raised by James Brown and biologically connected to Tool and Muse. Opening the night at The Bendigo Hotel will be A Basket Of Mammoths; this will be their debut gig and they are described as progressive psychedelic.
THE SHAMBELLES
Taking over The Retreat with their hilarious brand of ‘60s and ‘70s inspired rockin’ sounds are The Shambelles on Thursday September 19. With a promise of an infectiously fun night out you couldn’t be miserable at this gig if you tried. Get down from 8.30pm to catch Steve Lucas and Joey Bedlan earlier in the night. Free entry.
WILLOW DARLING
Willow Darling features artists who have all individually been involved in other projects from, Jack William, Lands, Alligator Creek and Redcoats forming to produce this somewhat super group. They'll be performing their unique sound Thursday September 19 at 161 and also Saturday September 28 at The Tote with Toyston Vasie, doors at 9pm.
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FRIDAY SEP 13 ALBERT SALT
Albert Salt returns to the Revolver Bandroom to release the latest addition to an already highly credible music catalogue with his fresh single Maybe, I. Since being announced as a triple j Unearthed High finalist in 2011, Albert Salt has continued to climb his way up - and through - the crowded Melbourne music scene. His willingness to learn and develop his ‘strange yet unique and addictive blend of alternate rock, classical and electronic genres’ and live show has seen him gradually alter his sound for the better, whilst retaining the vital elements that truly define him as an artist. With a musical CV including appearances at Parklife, a hugely successful month long residency at The Toff and support gigs for Boy & Bear, Jinja Safari, Cut Off Your Hands, Owl Eyes and Julia Stone, it is no surprise he has experienced substantial development in his music. He will be joined by two special guests in Back Back Forward Punch and Pinn'd. Tickets $12 pre-sold via revolverupstairs.com.au and $15 door.
FIRE AND THEFT
Made with the double cream of Circus Oz, Prayerbabies, Checkerboard Lounge and a sweetened, condensed ilk, the debonaireheads of Fire & Theft whip sounds til they’re a suede sensurround. Fire & Theft tip their fez’ to create the reoriginal '40s & '50s nightclub experience. Dancing guarantee. This Friday September 20 at Tago Mago. Music from 8.30pm, $5 entry.
THE ORBWEAVERS
Much loved and ever-bewitching Melbourne band The Orbweavers follow their North-of-the-river launch for their transcendent new single Match Factory/Ceiling Rose at The Northcote Social Club last weekend, with a South-of-the-river seated show at Caravan Music Club this Friday September 20. All Caravan Music Club attendees will receive a limited edition, illustrated CD single complimentary with entry. Joining The Orbweavers for the launch will be Jacky Winter. Tickets on sale now from caravanmusic.com.au.
Heavy Judy presents ace rock bands and DJs every Friday night at The Retreat. On Friday September 20, you’ll catch Warmth Crashes In at 10pm, who have developed a sound like My Bloody Valentine covering the Top Gun Soundtrack, at 11pm you’ll be able to see post-grunge and punk group The Dead Love. Collectively they have shared the stage with Closure in Moscow, Gay Paris, Redcoats, British India, New Gods and Nick Allbrook so you know they’re in good company. DJ Dave the Scot plays until 3am.
TITTY TWISTER
Inspired by Robert Rodriguez’s '90s cult classic ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ comes your dose of all out debauchery in the form of the most outlandish honky-tonk to ever hit Melbourne; the Titty Twister. The Red Bennies team raise the stakes with MC James Grim (The Brothers Grim) presenting eight shows over four consecutive weekends filled with striptease, live music and full throttle demonic Mexicana. Highlights include: go-go dancers, rolla waitresses, mechanical bull ride comps, chainsaw juggler, snake dance, Mesa Cosa as resident band and performances by Skopalova, Sparkarella, Ell Bellam Nancy Dancer and more. For bookings and more info visit tittytwister.roller.net.au. Opening night is Friday September 20.
LED ZEPPLIN CELEBRATION
A one-off celebration of Led Zeppelin this Friday September 20 at Cherry Bar. Featuring a unique local one-off all-star band with Ashley Naylor, Danny Leo, Stephen Hadley, Bruce Haymes and guest vocalists Chappy, Pat Carmody, Talei & Eliza Wolfgramm and Fiona Lee Maynard. Support from Fional Lee Maynard & Her Holy Men and Bec & Ben. Doors 5pm, Door charge $20 from 8pm to 11pm then $10 for DJ Max Crawdaddy until 5am.
LES THOMAS
Local troubadour and activist Les Thomas is pleased to announce his Survivor’s Tale album launch at Thornbury Theatre at 7.30pm on Friday September 20 with Justin Bernasconi and Cat Canteri (The Stillsons)! Les, already well known for his activism through music fundraisers like These Machines Cut Razor Wire, in support of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, and as the founder of Unpaved, a Melbourne music website dedicated to supporting great original music, is excited to release his first long player. The focus of the album is on strong lyrics that hold up as poetry, complemented by a world class lineup of supporting musicians. Tickets options for the night include $15 standing room only, $20 seated show and $55 dinner and show.
FUCHSIA
Cult UK acid folk act Fuchsia have reformed to perform a handful of shows in Melbourne and Geelong to celebrate their new album, Fuchsia II : From Psychedelia To A Distant Place. Described as ‘a masterpiece of art rock and folk rock stylings’ they play The Empress Hotel on Friday September 20, Saturday September 21 at Edinburgh Castle and wrap up the weekend at Armageddon Cakes in Geelong on Sunday September 22.
SiB
SiB is the stage name of French-born Australian singer/songwriter Adrien Siboulet. SiB has released independently two EPs Drifting Part One (2008) and Hunter Street (2010), both available on CD Baby, iTunes and all good Melbourne independent record stores. SiB says “It all comes from the blues for me. I think there’s a healing process through the song, there’s salvation.” He'll be playing at Yah Yah's this Friday September 20. Also on the bill is one of Melbourne‘s finest country rock bands, Lonesome. They play original music with some old western swagger. Also on the bill is Nick Murphy from the much loved Melbourne power pop group the Anyones and openers are the folk rockers with an amazing vocalist, Lucy & the Diamonds. Doors 7pm. Free entry.
CHERRYWOOD
Cherrywood’s music features tales of lightning strikes, broken hearts, bar stools and prisons; all brought to life through an array of battered acoustic instruments and a bunch of bar-room vocals. After touring around the country solidly for the last two years and selling out of their first two singles, Cherrywood is finally releasing their debut album, Book Of Matches. Join them for the launch at The Northcote Social Club on Friday September 20. Doors at 8.30pm.
CORY BRANAN
Mississippi singer-songwriter Cory Branan has announced an Australian tour to follow his sold out Poison City Weekender performance. This naturalborn storyteller will bring his hushed, dry whiskey voice and sharp edged story song lyrics to our country for the first time this September, teaming up with a host of local talent for some very intimate performances. Now a Nashville-based itinerant road warrior, Cory Branan released his third album Mutt through Bloodshot Records last year, to fan and critical acclaim. Catch him at The Reverence Hotel this Friday with support from Lincoln Le Fevre and Darren Gibson. Doors open 8pm, entry is $18.
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BRENDAN GALLAGHER
Funky, bluesy, gritty, a little bit country, a little bit rock n roll and one hundred percent Gallagher. Wine Island is the highly anticipated new double album by the twotime ARIA award winner and Karma Country front man Brendan Gallagher. The album tour includes a cacking band featuring legend Robbie Souter, jazz bad maestro Jonathan Zwartz and young WA guitarist Doug Nairn. Catch Brendan Gallagher performing in Melbourne at The Flying Saucer Club on Friday September 20 and on the Victorian coast at Barwon Heads Bowling Club on Saturday September 21.
CARAVANA SUN
Cronulla’s gypsy fuelled ska rockers, Caravana Sun have risen after their European tour to launch the first single Took The World from their forthcoming Independent release. To celebrate the launch they have announced 16 shows throughout Australia during September, including a brief stop-off in Melbourne at Bar Open on Friday September 20. Come see them as they tear up the Bar Open stage with local favourites Sammy Owen Blues Band – it’s a pairing sure to get the dancefloor jumping. Doors 10pm, free entry.
SAINT JUDE
Continuing their Fridays in September Post Office Hotel residency, is Melbourne’s country-soul heroes Saint Jude. Celebrating the release of their slowburning country-soul, swirling guitar and organ combination track Laurelie, from their forthcoming album Saint Jude II. Be sure to head down to catch them this Friday night at the Post Office Hotel.
WILDERBEAST
This Friday Wilderbeast will be making an all too rare live outing at West Melbourne gem The Drunken Poet. Combining storytelling, conscious lyricism and a punk aesthetic (not to mention shit-hot musicianship), Wilderbeast are like our very own Gaslight Anthem. Due to the constraints of adulthood, they don’t get out much these days, so this is one to get involved in. This Friday from 8.30pm at the Poet.
SATURDAY SEP 21
THE DRUNKEN POACHERS
If you wanted to know what Irish-bluegrass sounds like as a genre, then hit up the Union to catch The Drunken Poachers, a rambunctious sextet of rabblers, playing banjo, mandolin and uke, on Saturday September 21. Doors at 9pm.
YORQUE SHERIFF
Southern-psychedelic-horror-blues-rock Melbourne trio Sheriff have a new recording out and to celebrate they are having an EP Launch to remember at The Tote Hotel on Saturday September 21 with a whopping nine band bill just to prove that, like always, they don’t do things by halves. Alternating between the main stage and the newly named Slow Club (aka Cobra Bar) joining the band at The Tote will be Bitter Sweet Kicks, YIS, I Am Duckeye, Vice Grip Pussies, Don Fernando, Sons Of The Ionian Sea, Them Bruins and Swamp Mouth. Time to lay down the dropsheets, because this is gonna get messy. Come along and lose your faculties when you catch Sheriff perform songs from their new EP Roughhouse Hymns at The Tote Hotel on Saturday 21 September along with the madly mammoth nine band lineup. Entry is $15, pre-sale tickets available via Oz Tix or on the door if available. Doors at 7.30pm.
Often listeners can guess what a band will sound like solely from hearing what their main influences are. With Melbourne band Yorque however, the task is a little trickier. Citing influences as varied as Angus & Julia Stone, Alt-J and Coldplay, their sound combines folk, rock and alternative elements, with piano arrangements driving each song. What separates Yorque from other bands is the ability to avoid the predictable, combining a number of genres to create a truly unique sound. They launch their self-titled EP at the Northcote Town Hall this Saturday September 21. Doors 4pm, entry $12.
JACK ON FIRE
Teenage Libido, gods of all things loud and phallic, are back from a fairly short break to bring you four weeks of the best gigs you have seen and ever will be. With a fully hektik new set and a great lineup you guys are in for a treat if you come down to The Tote front bar Saturdays in September. You will get good tunes, good beers and maybe even some BBQ. You don't even have to pay to get in, but if you feel obliged you can slip the band a $20 or something, they won't care. Week one they've got noise rock masters Scul Hazzards to blow your brains out; week two there are the impossible no goods, like an '80s cop show on god knows what; week three shaking hell are doing their first show and they've got members of No Anchor, Scul Hazzards and Deep Heat; week four you can watch the grand final, Cocks Arquette and Teenage Libido in the same room, what more could you want?
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RHYTHM KITCHEN
Father and son duo Rhythm Kitchen are bringing their multi-instrument blend of pub, Irish and rock classics on Fridays and Saturdays from 8.30pm until late. It’s a night not to be missed. For more info visit theirishtimespub.com.au/events
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Celebrating the release of the first track How Many Times from his third album, Death to Nature, is Melbourne’s own Matt Bailey. Combining Bailey’s relentless electric piano loop, with a reverse-drenchedpsych guitar and no-wave sax from Melbourne improve-jazz legend Adam Simmons, the track is avail via mattbailey.bandcamp.com. In between touring duties as bassist for Adalita’s new solo band, Bailey debuts the line up of his own new solo band shows, Saturday September 21 at the Bella Union. Support comes from A Dead Forest Index, Amaya Laucirica.
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Ewe Ripper! The legendary Chris Wilson returns to the Union for a three-week residency of blues tunes and amazing harmonica. Settle in and kick back this Saturday September 21 from 5pm.
Powered by a steady musical diet of old time country legends and modern day guitar bands, Jack on Fire released an EP’s worth of new material in November, 2011 through independent label Hooked Up Records/ MGM. The bands latest single Easy Money is a seething and ominous offering that follows a constant steam-ofconsciousness haze through veiny guitar lines, abrasive vocals and scorched bass lines. Catch Jack On Fire launching Easy Money as an exclusive 7”, with b-side track Suzanne, at The Old Bar on Saturday September 21, with the group's second album due for release in early 2014.
JAE LAFFER
This coming Saturday September 21, join Melbourne’s Dreadnaught in a very heavy metal celebration of their 21st birthday. Forming in 1992 in Melbourne, Dreadnaught have contributed to the hearing loss of many people, released four LPs and two EPs, played countless gigs, and drunk way too much. Joining them are 16 of the loudest and ugliest bands imaginable, including Frankenbok, Alarum, Earth, Desecrator, Se Bon Ki Ra, and Heaven the Axe to name a few. See you at The Reverence Hotel from 1pm onwards for a full day of heavy metal and beer.
CHRIS WILSON
THE WALKING WHO
Having just released their new EP, performing at this week’s BIGSOUND and playing tour dates with The Delta Riggs, the psychedelic rock sounds of The Walking Who are ready to rock your world. They’ve just recorded their Mansions EP recorded at an artist playground dubbed the ‘mansion’ and have received monstrous amounts of play on FBi Radio and have had their tracks played by Richard Kingsmill and Dom Alessio on triple j. Don’t miss out on their Saturday September 21 show with The Delta Riggs at The Toff. Tickets via moshtix. EP available via iTunes.
DREADNAUGHT
LA BASTARD
La Bastard play their first hometown show in almost 3 months to celebrate the launch of the video clip for Call of the Wild, the first single from their new album Tales from the Beyond. Catch the video launch at The Grace Darling Hotel on Saturday September 21 with support from Rick Davies & the Devil’s Union. Doors open 9pm. Entry is $10.
LUNARS
Lunars is taking the stage in support of legendary UK acid folk band Fuchsia, reforming to play a series of shows throughout Australia. Lunars will be putting his own spin on an acid not so folk set, joining Lunars will be the mystical Trappist Afterland Band and The Boy Who Spoke Clouds. Doors open 7.30pm, Edinburgh Castle Brunswick, Saturday September 21. BYO nostalgia.
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Gleny Rae Virus and her Playboys launch Whojigadandy at the Spotted Mallard on Saturday September 21, with support from some of their favourite musicians creating a collage of musical genres; Little Rabbit (old timey) and Soft Gold (Sarah Carroll and Marcel Borrack playing post modern lounge). It will be a night of music to make your ears sing.
MARISA QUIGLEY
After fronting the award winning blues outfit. Chubby Rae & the Elevators, Marisa Quigley heads down to the GH to light the blues flame once again. With a career of highlights including: Vocalist of the Year at the 2007 Australian Blues Music Awards, semi-finalist at the 2012 ISC and a recent appearence on hit TV show The Voice, expect to be blown away this Sunday from 4pm at the Greyhound Hotel with the EBC Allstars. Free entry.
BOWLINES
Bowlines are Ernie Gruner, Heather Stewart, Jenny Thomas, a string trio playing violins, violas and hardanger (Norwegian fiddle). They play original, contemporary, cross-genre music from three eclectic string players. Music with depth, intelligence and warmth, created from classical, jazz and world sources. Catch them as they play a Concert for Darebin Music Feast at the Northcote Uniting Church on Saturday September 21 from 4pm. Tickets are $15 on the door.
BLACK NIGHT CRASH
Black Night Crash is turning seven and will be celebrating the Anniversary with Apes, The Love Junkies, Elegant Shiva & British India DJs. Melbourne‘s longest running weekly indie rock night turns seven this Saturday, and to celebrate, we‘ve got some of our favourite Australian bands and artists performing over the two level venue, including APES, The Love Junkies (WA), Elegant Shiva and British India DJs. Of course this all happens each and every Saturday, at the Rochester Castle.
MODELS
Sean Kelly, Andrew Duffield, Barton Price and Mark Ferrie celebrate the musical adventurousness, sly humour and pioneering nature of the early Australian alternative music scene with a sound that is as fresh now as it was then. 2010 saw Models inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame after gaining notoriety in the early '80s with ground breaking mini album Cut Lunch but it was their long player The Pleasure Of Your Company featuring the hit I Hear A Motion which cracked it commercially for the band. With new recordings and re-releases of their classics imminent, 2013 sees the band entering a new phase. Don’t miss two exclusive Melbourne shows at The Ding Dong Lounge Friday September 20, and Saturday September 21. Tickets are $35.
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NEW ESTATE
This is New Estate‘s 10th year as a band. Over these years the band has established themselves as an icon on the Melbourne music scene. Containing ex-Sleepy Township and current Popolice/Teeth & Tongue members. They have released a slew of albums on tastemaker label Chapter Music and have graced the stages of Festivals and warehouses alike. Doing everyting with the same effervescent energy and integrity. Catch them as part of the Darebin Music Feast at Bar 303 in Northcote. Supports from D-Grades, Nervous and Fraudband. Doors open 8.30pm. $10 entry.
TUMBLEWEED
Tumbleweed are launching their latest single in the Gershwin Room at The Espy this Saturday September 21, with special guests Sun God Replica plus Bruce. Doors from 8pm, tickets are $20.
AZTEC ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Aztec Electronic Music Night returns to Bar Open with the envelope-pushing sounds of Nahuatl Sound System and Galambo. Nahuatl Soundsystem is produced by Mexican born and Melbourne based Fernando Perez, the pioneer of Aztek style Dub and the creator of Aztek Electronic Music. The soundsystem’s original and rebel sound is a powerful energy fuelled blend of dub, techno and digital cumbia. Their nights are rad and well worth getting down to, especially considering it’s all free. Fitting support from Galambo, it’ll be a show worth getting excited about. Saturday September 21, doors at 10pm.
id SATURDAYS
id Saturdays launches Saturday September 14 at the revamped Barley Corn Hotel, hosting live music, dance, Haute Couture fashion shows each night. Coupled with the theme of the unconscious mind the Freudian mannequins, Klimt inspired art works and a giant tellow submarine. Running fortnightly until Saturday November 30 then weekly theresafter. id Saturdays, let the abomination begin.
FLYYING COLOURS
Finally the wheels are in motion and Flyying Colours have locked in a release date of Friday November 1 for their self-titled debut EP to be released through UMA distribution. They play just a handful of shows before the first single Like You Said will be unleashed. On Saturday night they play with Sydney-siders Black Lakes who are making their first trip down the Hume to play their indie/psyche/west tunes to Melbourne, with DJ Adalita. Catch these guys at The Retreat Hotel in Brunswick, playing until 3am.
SUNDAY SEP 22 TRACY MCNEIL
To celebrate the release of Wildcats, the first single off her brand new album Nobody Ever Leaves, Tracy McNeil and her band will be playing every Sunday in September from 4.30pm at The Spotted Mallard. Free entry.
THE RECHORDS
Roots and '30s-'60s Western swing three-piece The Rechords return to the Gem for a short Sunday residency in September. Having gained a stack of new fans over the last few years playing almost every Sunday between early 2010 til early 2012, they return to their second home to dazzle crowds with their old faves and bust out some new tunes. Be sure to catch their energy and all the buzz that folks have come to expect from the trio. Playing every Sunday 7.30pm9.30pm at The Gem Bar.
THE DRUNKEN POET 7th BIRTHDAY
This Sunday the Drunken Poet celebrates seven years of good times and better music, and we’ve got some of our absolute favourites to help us in the task. Kicking off at 2pm with Irish favourite Roesy, this outstanding lineup includes Liz Stringer, Van & Cal Walker, The Alan Ladds, and Raised by Eagles. Don’t reckon it gets much better in the realms of local country and folk than that! Get in early as this one is going to be a big one.
JAMES TEAGUE
Channelling some of the more inspired moments in the annals of folk, country, blues, psych-rock and pop. James Teague will bring friendly sounds to The Reverence Hotel front bar this Sunday arvo, back by the confident solo stylings of wonderful rocker JP Swallow. Free as always, join them for a hair of the dog and some sweet solo songs. 3pm, Sunday September 22.
LITTLE HOUSE GODZ
Coming to The Bendigo Hotel on Sunday September 22 will be a early evening show which will consist of rock, hard rock and blues rock. Gigs starts at 5pm with rock and blues band Little House Godz. The music and musicianship of Little House Godz has been described as outstanding and incredible, with songs that are certainly worth the ears of any age, both youthful and ripe. Triumph Over Logic all the way from Gippsland. Black Fuel are a four-piece original rock band from Melbourne and have had a lot of success with their latest single Freaks On Fire and video Wired. Headlining will be 4tress at 8pm. Rock/ pop with influences of punk, surf and rockabilly. 4tress perform with high energy, have a reputation for their harmonies guitar riffs and solos. 4tress have an all girl front line.
ALANNA & ALICIA
Folky/jazz twin sisters, Alanna & Alicia host an afternoon of sweet harmonies and fine songwriting at Bar 303, High St Northcote on Sunday September 22 at 3pm as part of the Darebin Music Feast. They‘ll be singing songs from their new album Twinlines, released at Port Fairy Folk Festival earlier this year, as well as favourites from their previous albums, Two in a Book (2010) and Funny She‘s So Much Like Me (2006), with accompaniment from their amazing band, Damien Neil on guitar and Silas Palmer, violin and piano. Special guests are the vibrant Mae Trio and the whimsical duo, Eva Popov and Tristan Kelly. Lovely way to spend your Sunday arvo!
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JACOB PEARSON
All the way from Central Coast NSW comes the beautiful indie pop of Jacob Pearson. Catch him this Sunday September 22 at Cherry Bar. Support from Iain Archibald and Bleeding Rose. Bands start 8.30pm sharp till 11pm, Cherry DJs until 2am. Free entry.
CRATE DIGGER RECORD FAIR
Andy Fantapants brings his vinyl pushing tune peddlers to the majestic Northcote Town Hall - Main Hall on Sunday September 22. Come and buy records, then hit the hub bar for Open Decks, play your new records and bask in your friend’s jealousy. It kicks off at midday and is an all ages event. Free entry.
MONDAY SEP 16 THE BAUDELAIRES
The Baudelaires will be taking to one of their favourite live music venues for a Monday night residency in September. They have crafted their sound from influences of ‘60s psyche bands such as The 13th Floor Elevators and The Velvet Underground, blending them with more modern tones of overdriven shoe-gaze guitars, a slap of country rhythm and the mysticism of soft tenor blues vocals. So come on down to The Evelyn Hotel for Monday nights with The Baudelaires in September for $10 jugs and a $3 night of live music!
TUESDAY SEP 17 MELBOURNE FRESH
After ten years Melbourne Fresh at Revolver Upstairs is the longest running Industry Showcase in Australia. Having showcased thousands of artists over this time, the legendary Tuesday night has been a local Industry Hot Spot for unsigned musicians and industry Professionals. Running as a competition Melbourne Fresh gives away thousands of dollars in prizes at each Grand Final with EP recordings, Cash Prizes, CD Pressings, Itunes releases, Management Consultation and much more. Doors 7pm. Tickets $15 on the door.
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK
HEARTLAND RECORDS 1. Peace LP/CD VISTA CHINO
THE GOOCH PALMS
2. MTV Unplugged 2LP ALICE IN
Novo’s (Anti-Fade Records)
It’s a long shot, but there’s an argument that the industrial city of Newcastle is the perfect metaphor for the social, economic and political changes and challenges of the current generation. The decline of Australian manufacturing, the recalibration of the mining sector and the erosion of the ALP’s industrial demographic: it’s all happened in Newcastle, and the city is still working through it. The Gooch Palms are from Newcastle – Novo’s (sic), the title of The Gooch Palms’ album, is a contraction of Novacastrian, the correct name for a resident of the city – and if this album is any indication, there’s plenty of life left in the once thriving economic powerhouse. We Get By is Devo via Eddy Current Suppression Ring, a tale of subtle triumph over prevailing regional socio-economic adversity; False Identity is a dirty garage track from central casting in London c1977. Hunter Street Mall is The Cannanes loitering with adolescent attitude in the bustling Newcastle retail metropolis. Loudest Mouth is the original Go-Gos spitting LA punk venom on hapless bystanders; You is a piercing meander through David Lynch’s suburban American dystopia. Flip over to side 2, and there’s some freakish punk calland-response in The Slide; A Sun, A Moon combines the prototypical dumb punk attitude of The Ramones with Calvin Johnson’s lo-fi aesthetic. Hungry is replete with the spirit of CBGBs and all its attendant amphetamine excitement, the title track pays tribute to Newcastle with the precision of Love of Diagrams covering The Fall and Don’t Cry rounds out the album with some cheesy 50s dancehall rock’n’roll.
TOP TENS:
CHAINS 3. Core LP STONE TEMPLE PILOTS 4. Take It From The Man 2LP BRIAN JONESTOWN 5. Studio Albums LP BOX THE CLASH 6. Warmaster LP BOLT THROWER 7. Evol LP SONIC YOUTH 8. Ptooff 3CD THE DEVIANTS 9. Alive 2LP SET KREATOR 10. Mind Crawler 7” UNCLE ACID
COLLECTORS CORNER MISSING LINK It’ll take a while before the coal dust settles in Newcastle, and the city works out where its economic and political future lies. In the meantime, kick back and listen to The Gooch Palms. This is some seriously good shit.
1. Album Of The Year LP - FAITH NO MORE 2. Relationship Of Command 2LP - AT THE DRIVE-IN 3. Hesitation marks CD/2LP - NINE INCH
PATRICK EMERY
NAILS 4. Sleeper CD/LP - TY SEGALL 5. 1986-1991 2CD - VENOM P. STINGER
BEST TRACK: We Get By IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING, THE GERMS, GO-GOS, HEAVENS TO BETSY IN A WORD: Dirty
6. Bring Me Weed 12” - ADRIAN SHERWOOD/PINCH 7. Do I Wanna Know 7” - ARSTIC MONKEYS 8. Marquee Moon LP - TELEVISION 9. Europe 2013 Tour CD - CAPTAIN
SINGLES
BY LACHLAN
MIAMI HORROR
Real Slow (Neon Gold) Emerging from a few years away from the spotlight, Melbourne’s Miami Horror has signalled a beacon from their upcoming second LP across the pond from their current LA base. Real Slow is a dreamy pop blast guided by joyous rave piano and handclap action. There’s a certain strive for organic pop goodness, avoiding any banger tendency.
CUT COPY
Free Your Mind (Modular) MORE RAVE PIANO MORE OFTEN. Also, bongos. The title track from what sounds like a chemicallyenlightened fourth LP, Free Your Mind’s feel good retro dance is pulled off with sincere aplomb. The only downside is that Dan Whitford’s “Arroooo”s can’t help but remind me of Richard Nixon’s head encased in a jar.
THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS
Everything’s A Thread (Dew Process) As a recorded artefact, Everything’s A Thread is a fairly forgettable jaunt – its frenetic falsetto and chirp-ified Teenage Riot guitar bursts lacking a semblance of dynamic. The brief respites of Beach Boys harmonies break up the action, but the stop-start doesn’t really accommodate in terms of connection. Having said that, I can totally see this track being drawn out in the live setting for a satisfying bout of boogie-down action.
NO ANCHOR
Bogan Ash (We Empty Rooms) Paired on a split seven-inch shard with DEAD for an excellent artefact of heavy Australian punk, Bogan Ash packs a lot in around its pained howls of “Now it’s time for you to die” – shifting from chugging menace to spacious shoegaze in a deft fashion.
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Dontcha (Sony) Just before the remainder of OFWGKTA took to the stage at the 2012 Big Day Out, DJ Syd Tha Kyd warmed things BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 46
PARTY
1. Shakedown CHRIS RUSSELL’S up with N*E*R*D’s Spaz. It was great, and it was great seeing Syd wild the fuck out behind the decks. Here on Dontcha, Syd channels a less aggressive, more seductive strain of Pharrell over some smooth as hell production.
CHICKEN WALK
BRITNEY SPEARS
SUPPRESSION RING
Work Bitch (Sony) Going mostly spoken word (with slight British inflection) over a big house banger beat, Britney fails to inspire with her “work hard” lyricisms. Still, the Will.I.Am beat goes pretty hard. Yer.
GOING SWIMMING
She Hates Sports (Independent) Following on from previous single Sluts Who Stole Our Palm Tree, Going Swimming garnish their beta-male misogyny with a façade of ironic-retro-alpha-machismo in She Hates Sports – a turgid shart of paint-by-numbers garage riffs and a fuckheaded vocal delivery that has the decency to conceal lyrics like “She don’t really care about the bands that I know or the clothes that I wear” with what sounds like an impression of Bobcat Goldthwait. This is the worst shit, and bottom feeder cunts like Going Swimming are everything that’s wrong with Australian music in 2013.
MATT BAILEY
How Many Times (Independent) A brooding and paranoid stream of id, permeated by squeaking bursts of brass, How Many Times marries hypnotically repetitive electric piano swathes and razor sharp lines such as “I have to think about your wife to get me over the line” to tremendous effect. Taken from the upcoming third LP Death To Nature.
HIGH TENSION
Primitives (Cooking Vinyl) An appeasing mix of garage punk and post-hardcore venom, Primitives sounds the alarm with some big fat power chords before kicking up a gear with high-energy rawk riffs. There’s something a bit cock rock about it all, but that’s a good thing.
10. Mutiny/Bad Seed 2LP - BIRTHDAY
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CLEANOFF
2. Falling/Running LACE CURTAIN 3. God GOD 4. So Many Things EDDY CURRENT 5. King Hokum C W STONEKING 6. Sceptre Hole RAT COLUMNS 7. Twerps TWERPS 8. Heavy Breathing CONSTANT MONGREL 9. Rough End Of The Stick A VACANT VALLEY COMPILATION 10. Cut Sleeves BITS OF SHIT
SYN SWEET 16 1. The Loving Gaze MONTERO 2. Dynamics HOLY GHOST! 3. Pool ZEAHORSE 4. Happenings LUNARS 5. Just For You KIRKIS 6. Now is The Time NIGHTMARES ON WAX 7. Reflektor ARCADE FIRE 8. Defend Yr Self SEBADOH 9. Arabella ARCTIC MONKEYS 10. Jump Out of the Train CFCF
BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS ABOUT CULTS 1. Don’t Fear The Reaper BLUE OYSTER CULT 2. Yum Yum Cult TOBACCO
SINGLE OF THE WEEK KES FEAT. OLIVER MANN
Hopper And The Crow (Polyester) The notion of a duets album is invariably a garish one, but Kes’ upcoming Duets project is primed to be a more than tasteful embracement of the concept. Taken from the all-instrumental LP, Hopper And The Crow is a fragile and affecting pairing of Kes’ (Karl Scullin) sparse acoustic guitar and a haunting turn on the harmonica from arresting vocalist Oliver Mann. It’s like Neil Young’s Heart Of Gold, Dead Man OST and Unplugged rolled into a concise, splendid whole.
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3. Grab A Hold BΔSSCULT 4. Beyond The Dance (The Cult Mix) DERRICK MAY 5. Subbacultcha PIXIES 6. Yvan Eht Nioj THE NAVY 7. 1969 BOARDS OF CANADA 8. Never Learn Not To Love THE BEACH BOYS 9. Helter Skelter THE BEATLES 10. Hare Krishna HUSKER DU
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RUFUS
BELL WEATHER DEPARTMENT
Atlas (Sweat It Out)
Bell Weather Department (MGM Records)
Jacob Moore’s assured vocal performance shines as one of the many highlights of this excellent ten-track debut album by Australian quintet Bell Weather Department. On Hole in the Sky, for instance, the core melody is delivered in the form of some rather snazzy “ah-oo” vocals that float across the intriguing and diverse sounds whipped up convincingly by this talented band. For a sparking slice of addictively catchy and sonically inventive powerpop check out the melodic powerhouse that is End of the Yellow Brick Road or crank up the volume on the thumpingly good Voodoo Hoodoo which features pummelling grit ‘n’ glitter guitar riffs that are guaranteed to blow the roof off the house. If your tastes lie more in the direction of richly textured and decidedly majestic soaring soundscapes allow Bell Weather Department to fly you to the stars on the atmospheric The Pursuit of Blue which manages to pull off the unlikely feat of achieving epic status in less than five minutes. This achievement is a key example of Bell Weather Department’s ability to construct monolithic sounds and rich textures whilst remaining sufficiently restrained so that the songs are BEST TRACK: Voodoo Hoodoo never lost in the heady embrace of experimentation. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Given To
The Wild THE MACCABEES IN A WORD: Inventive
Judging from the very first bar of opening track Sundream, you might think Atlas is just another ‘90s inspired indie-dance album. However, it doesn’t take long before you’re completely swept away, with soothing vocals and uplifting beats that build into an overly contagious rhythm. This is the debut album from Sydney-based trio Rufus, who attracted a lot of airplay with their first few singles, We Left, Paris Collides and This Summer. The first track here, Take Me, is another instant festival anthem and the rest of the album is equally impressive. To be honest, it’s not as though these guys are doing anything revolutionary or ground-breaking in terms of their sound – but what they do, they do it well. This is the kind of feel-good and inspired music you can enjoy while having a boogie on a Saturday night, or alone cleaning your house on a Sunday afternoon. At times, some of it feels a little basic and rushed – but the continual mix of instrumentals and synth-effects is enough to keep you moving. The fact that Rufus were added to next year’s Big Day Out BEST TRACK: Take Me lineup before releasing this album is a testament to their IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: SBTRKT, talent as musicians. Expect big things. JAMIE XX IN A WORD: Ecstasy CHRIS BRIGHT
GRAHAM BLACKLEY
TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND
BUSHWALKING
Mind Made Up (Masterworks/Sony Music)
No Enter (Chapter Music)
No Enter is the second album from Melbourne/Sydney three-piece Bushwalking. Last year’s First Time originated from Ela Stiles’ solo pieces and evolved into a more collaborative work, with the band properly forming as the album was recorded. Fusing the mantra-like intonations of Fabulous Diamonds with the psychedelic looseness of Songs and adding the eccentric, abrasive element of Kes Band, Bushwalking represents the three musicians’ bands on paper, but churns out something new, exciting and unexpected. Their direct, focused sound is further enhanced on this new recording; No Enter stays true to their foundations, but it’s a heavier, slicker beast. Jess Lucas again contributes the album artwork, the wide open blue eye now a downcast eye painted with green eyeshadow, reflecting this new album’s subtle shift in the weather. Highlights include the hypnotic seven-minute title track and the fiery, perfectly formed Grey Area. Kes Scullin’s obsession with song titles built around the numbers seventeen and one resurfaces on a splintered, scrappy whirlpool at the album’s centre. Land Lols starts softly but soon dives into a maelstrom of shredded guitars and ringing phones, so it’s up to delicate BEST TRACK: No Enter closer, Always Here, to give us an acoustic comedown after IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Fifteen SUPER WILD HORSES, Commercial Music a wild, intense ride that is very much in keeping with their FABULOUS DIAMONDS, The Fool WARPAINT stormy, swampy live sets. IN A WORD: Inviting CHRIS GIRDLER
Far from a second hand ute dealership, Tedeschi Trucks symbolises union. When guitarist Derek Trucks married vocalist Susan Tedeschi, it stitched up their solo bands too. Made Up Mind is the second baby born to this fruitful act of matrimony, a labour of no less than eleven seasoned blues and soul veterans. Rooted in blues and soul, Tedeschi Trucks is a celebration and continuation of all the American heartland has to offer. Hard driving rockers (Made Up Mind), smoky bar-room soul (Do I Look Worried) and foot-stomping, hip-swinging Motown funk (Misunderstood) are all tempered with Susan Tedeschi’s smooth as fine whiskey soprano. Acoustic country slides, finger picked blues and red-cheeked trumpeters blare in amongst their sun-shiny ensemble, every player allowed room to jam without trailing into self-indulgence. Derek and Susan even provide a soundscape map in the notes so theres no trouble picking your favourite player. Lovelorn Part of Me appropriates equally from the Temptations and Otis Redding, as if poured their spirits into harmonies and horns. Tender soul ballad Sweet and Low is a hushed slow-dance for lovers shuffling around the dancefloor cheek-to-cheek, long after everyone’s gone home. If you’ve a made up mind on this genre, it probably won’t win you over. Nevertheless, a tightly arranged record such as this doesn’t come around often. So warm is their energy, even the slower songs won’t yield for BEST TRACK: Misunderstood melancholy. Fans of blues, soul or a well played instrument IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Motown and will find more than one or two things to fall in love with. Stax artists of the ‘60s and ‘70s, ROYAL SOUTHERN BROTHERHOOD IN A WORD: Rich
TOM VALCANIS
GOV’T MULE
Shout (Blue Note Records)
THE POLYPHONIC SPREE
You can imagine the mirth around the dinner table of some swank New York eatery as Dr John, Elvis Costello, Steve Winwood and their Gov’t Mule compadres sit down for a feast. Then one of the latter confuses suckling pig for squealing like a pig. It’s all in the enunciation l guess. Except this shows the pulling power of these boys from the byways and highways of Deep South USA and that they can convince some pillars of music to join them for a ride. Shout is the umpteenth Gov’t Mule record and is a double record to boot. Disc One is the bona fide “Shout” record. Full of Southern roots with a splash of psychedelia and heavier beats. Solidly delivered by the vocals of Warren Haynes which are backed by the seasoned rhythm of Matt Abts and bass of Jorgen Carlsson. Gov’t Mule deliver some serious business with none of the goofball honky tonk that some less resilient protagonists of the style possess. But it is Disc Two that demands closer listen. This is because Haynes hands over the mike and picks up the guitar to allow other singers to bend expectations a little and deliver the vocals for songs of Disc One. Having some behemoths to deliver their tunes does not leave the band nor lead vocalist starstruck. It is still an aggressive freewheeling rocket. But sung by new, if not unfamiliar voices, most songs are actually rendered and delivered in a better form. This is probably an unintended consequence of the project. So Myles Kennedy quakes along to Done Got Wise, Elvis Costello relives his youth on Funny Little Tragedy, Glenn Hughes is in some unforgiving hallucinogenic state of vigour on No Reward, Toots Hibbert dubs up Scared To Live, Grace Potter turns Whisper In Your Soul into something wonderful. Elsewhere there is a distinct flavour and Cream riffs BEST TRACK: Whisper In Your Soul behind grizzly vocals singing about outrage and remorse. IF YOU LIKE THESE YOU’LL LIKE THIS: THE Just a soundtrack for a Saturday afternoon hunting gators ALLMAN BROTHERS, NEIL YOUNG, GRATEFUL on the swamp supping a litre of moonshine. DEAD IN A WORD: Sincere BRONIUS ZUMERIS
Yes, It’s True (Good Records/Create Control) You ever seen Elmo unhappy? I’m talking about Sesame Street’s resident furry red monster, of course. Granted, he’s anatomically incapable of anything but manic glee. For him, beating off the sads is simple. He cracks open his imagination, slips a crayon in each hand and puts The Polyphonic Spree on in the background. Mostly. Dressed in flowing robes and led by frontman/”cult-leader” Tim DeLaughter, The 22-member Spree’s message is aimed at inner children, if not actual children. You Don’t Know Me opens with heads in the clouds, dancing on harmony. It’s brimming with junkie logic: “Keep yourself high, don’t keep yourself low,” DeLaughter intones. Rock’s biggest pep rally assembles on Popular by Design. Electro brass bands march and rosy-cheeked cheerleaders thrust glittery sceptres to and fro their chests. It feels as plastered on and non-negotiable as the real thing. They must’ve hired Oingo Boingo’s repetitive drummer on the sly, each track pounded by an identical metronomic beat. Heart Talk scoops up the rest of those nutty new wavers as DeLaughter slips into a cracked-up Danny Elfman impression. Flurries of pan flute wind up Let Them Be, a foot-dragging psychedelic jam. Anthem Raise Your Head blends baroque pop with a rousing hosanna-chanting choir, all concerned thrusting hands upward in praise of positivity. In both tracks however, it sounds like DeLaughter has benched most of his Spree. Yes, it’s true: this cult’s cloyingly upbeat hooks will latch BEST TRACK: Raise Your Head onto your brain stem and refuse to let go. Truer still: their IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: OINGO indomitable levels of goody-goody gumdrops will clean rot BOINGO, THE FLAMING LIPS, ELO when Jeff your ears off. Lynne’s not brooding IN A WORD: Overjoyed TOM VALCANIS
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
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WEDNESDAY SEP 18 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS ALISON WONDERLAND + CAN’T SAY DJS + L D R U + TOMDERSON + WILLOW BEATS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $15. ALONE WITH TIGER + LEMON JOHN + PAPA G & THE STARCATS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. BABOON REBUS + TOUCHING THE BEES + WIND CHEATERS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. COLLAGE Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. EAST BRUNSWICK ALL GIRLS CHOIR + SARAH MARY CHADWICK + TOM LYNGCOLN Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. HAIL TO THE KING - FEAT: KIRA PURU + ABBIE CARDWELL + HALEY + MOJO JUJU + SIMONE PAGE JONES + STELLA ANGELICO Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:00pm. JACKSON FIREBIRD + VILLAINY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. JAJU CHOIR + LIONESS EYE + THE GRAND RAPIDS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. NMIT YARRA EDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL - BACHELOR OF MUSIC Yarra Edge Music Centre, Fairfield. 7:00pm. PUREPOP’S CLASSIC ALBUMS - FEAT: SHANNON BOURNE + SARAH CARROLL + SIMMEAU Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20. RETURN TO YOUTH + BELOVED ELK + TANE + THE STORY MODEL Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5. ROOTS OF MUSIC - FEAT: VELMA GROVE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. SECRET GOOD TIMES CLUB Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:30pm. SLOW CLUB - FEAT: HEADS OF CHARM + OUTERWAVES + SUCKS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. STRUMARAMA - FEAT: BIPOLAR BEARS + EDDIE INK + HEIDI EVERETT + HOTEL ECHO Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK MARLON WILLIAMS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. MISS EILEEN & KING LEAR + NIGEL WEARNE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. NMIT YARRA EDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013 - VET IN SCHOOL Yarra Edge Music Centre, Fairfield. 1:00pm. OPEN MIC Ontop In Ormond, Ormond. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. QUARRY MOUNTAIN DEAD RATS The Bain Marie, Northcote. 9:00pm. ROSEY Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. SIMPLY ACOUSTIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: ZOE K + ALICE WILLIAMS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ALLIRA WILSON & THE JACOB EVANS TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. BOHEMIAN NIGHTS - FEAT: ERNIE GRUNER & PHIL CARROLL Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $8. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. EILISH GILLIGAN + BEN MECLER Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 7:00pm. HAMMOND JAZZ CLUB + MR ANDREW SWANN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. JENNIFER KINGWELL Jewell Of Brunswick, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE DARRIN ARCHER SEXTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. THE ROYAL JELLIES The Bain Marie, Northcote. 8:00pm. TIM PLEDGER’S SANDWICH JESUS + CHRIS YOUNG & JAMES MAGUIRE BAND + TOM NOONAN BAND 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. VIVE LA DIFFERENCE Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
THURSDAY SEP 19 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS + A BASKET OF MAMMOTHS + ELECTRIC WAR BABIES Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $7. ACOLYTE + BEN + RIFF FIST Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. ALISON WONDERLAND Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $15. AYE CANDY + AWKWARD INSECTS + EXTREME WHEEZE + ISAAC DE HEER & THE RIVER TRACKS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. BEC & BEN + ADELAIDE CROWS + UDAYS TIGER + WOD Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8. CATCH RELEASE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. CHANCE WARTERS + THE GRISWOLDS + LIME CORDIALE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $15. DUSTIN TEBBUTT + ARIELA JAKOBS + PACKWOOD Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. INTERNATIONAL PIRATE DAY - FEAT: THE MORRISONS + HYPERDRONES + MY PIRANHA The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $6. JHEREK BISCHOFF + KAVISHA Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $12. KIM SALMON Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $5. NEXT - FEAT: BUILT ON SECRETS + I AM EVEREST + THE EVIDENCE Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. OLD ETIQUETTES + GOSTI + THE BOOK OF SHIPS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5. PEPPERJACK (EP LAUNCH) + BELOVED ELK + LEIGH DALLIMORE + THE BON SCOTTS Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $10. PLYMOUTH REVERENDS + IVORY ELEPHANT + THE ROLLING PER-
PETUAL GROOVE SHOW Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5. SLOW CLUB - FEAT: O LITTLEBLOOD + PSALM BEACH + SNOWY NASDAQ Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $6. SPIDER GOAT CANYON + HOTEL WRECKING CITY TRADERS + SILENCE DEAD SILENCE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. THE DEEP END + LISA CRAWLEY + THE LOVE BOMBS + VILLAINY Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. THE GROVES + KUNG FU IN TECHNICOLOUR + THE BRAVES + THE VELVETS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE RUGGED MAN Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $33. THE STAFFORDS + HAVE HOLD + NEW MANIC SPREE + THE STRAY MELODICS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BILL JACKSON BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. BLAME SMARTY - FEAT: SERI VIDA Willow Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. BLOW The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 8:00pm. BRIAN KENNEDY Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $38. DAN PARSONS & HIS BAND The Bain Marie, Northcote. 9:30pm. GEORGE HYDE & JOSH SEYMOUR Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. JACOB PEARSONS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10. MADELEINE PAIGE The Bain Marie, Northcote. 10:30am. MELBOURNE FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. $15. OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 6:30pm. OPEN MIC Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 6:00pm. OPEN MIC Station 59, Richmond. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Waterside Hotel, Melbourne. 8:00pm. REBECCA BARNARD Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. SACRI CUORI Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. SONGS IN THE KEY OF TOM WAITS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. THE BOYS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. $15. THE SHAMBELLES + STEVE LUCAS & JOEY BEDLAM Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. THE TATTERED SAILS + BEN WILLIAM Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. THOMAS HUGH + JESSIE STORM Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $8. WOODWARD & ROUGH Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC AGUA CON SOL Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. ALWAN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. CELLAR CATS + NIHILL DUO Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 7:00pm. COOKIN’ ON 3 BURNERS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET + RUBY PAGE The Commune, East Melbourne. 6:00pm. LOS COUGARMEN Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20. NMIT YARRA EDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013 - SONGWRITING COMPETITION Yarra Edge Music Centre, Fairfield. 1:00pm. REVEREND FUNK & THE HORNS OF SALVATION + DJ PIERRE BARONI + DJ VINCE PEACH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. SOUTHERN STARS + DARREN WRIGHT Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. THE JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. THE OVEREASYS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 6:30pm. TIM CLARKSON TRIO + ALEX BONEHAM Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY SEP 20 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS
ALBERT SALT Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $15. AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 8:00pm. CAPTAIN MOONLITE HOUSE PARTY John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. CARAVANA SUN + SAMMY OWEN BLUES BAND Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. CHERRYWOOD + CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK + JUNK HORSES Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12. CORY BRANAN + DARREN GIBSON + LINCOLN LE FEVRE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $18. EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + UNDECIDED Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10. EMERGENZA Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $20. HUGO RACE + SACRI CUORI + THE SPOILS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $25. I AM DUCKEYE + 12 SANDWICHES + CHICO FLASH The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $6. KINGS & QUEENS - FEAT: HERITAGE + ARABELA + ENTROPY + LOW SPEED BUS CHASE + LUCID PLANET + MY SWEET REVOLVER + VELUDO Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $15. LED ZEP CELEBRATION - FEAT: FIONA LEE MAYNARD & HER HOLY MEN + BEC & BEN + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20. LES THOMAS (SURVIVOR’S TALE LAUNCH) Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. LOT 56 Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:00pm. LUCHA LIBRE AUSTRALIA - FEAT: SIN FRONTERA BAND + NAHUATL JAGUAR + SACA LA MOIS DJ The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $27. METALFEST (ALL AGES) - FEAT: FRANKENBOK + ALKIRA + CONSCIOUS CONTROL + HALLOW WORLD + HARLOTT + HYBRID NIGHTMARES + INTOXICATED MEMORIES + IRE + THE SERAPHIM VEIL Evs Youth Centre, Croydon. 6:30pm. METH LEOPARD + DAMIAN MINNARD + DJ KEZBOT + ESC + EUPHORIACS + PETER BIBBY Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. MODELS + INTOXICA + MONTERO Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MURPHY’S LAW + COLD GROUND + PARTY VIBEZ Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. NGAIIRE + LESTER THE FIERCE Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm. PARKWAY DRIVE + OUTSIDE CODE + THY ART IS MURDER Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. RELEASE THE HOUNDS + AITCHES + CABIN FEVER + HAILGUN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. REMI + CITIZEN KAY + DJ MOONSHINE + FREEDS + SOLILIQUY Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. SFORZANDO + CABBAGES & KINGS + CATGUT MARY Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12. SIB + LONESOME + LUCY & THE DIAMONDS + NICK MURPHY Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SICK PEOPLE + HEADLESS DEATH + SCAB EATER + SEWERCIDE + WHITE WALLS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12. THE DEAD LOVE + DJ DAVE THE SCOT + WARMTH CRASHES IN
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RÜFÜS Sydney indie-dance outfit RÜFÜS are embarking on a national tour to celebrate the release of their debut album ATLAS. Following their own DIY tradition, the record was written, produced and recorded by the band between two self-built studios. One in a remote farmhouse on the NSW south coast and the second in a hollowed out water take under one of their parent’s houses. Catch them at the Corner Hotel on RÜFÜS play at the Corner Hotel on Sunday September 22, Monday September 23, Tuesday September 24 and Friday September 27.
Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. THE TIGER & ME The Bain Marie, Northcote. 9:30pm. THE WOOHOO REVUE + JUKE BARITONE The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THROWING FRISBIES + MIGHTY BOYS + RAYON MOON + RICHIE 1250 BRIDES OF CHRIST Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. WHISK & KEY RECORDS - FEAT: INITIALS + MAX GOES TO HOLLYWOOD + REVELLERS + SUMMER BLOOD Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BLUESTONE JUNCTION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. BRENDAN GALLAGHER (WINE ISLAND LAUNCH) + LIAM GERNER & THE ALAN LADDS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $18. BROOKE RUSSELL Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. CHASING WINTER - FEAT: THE CUTTING LIST Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 8:00pm. CHRIS WILSON Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. DEE VUKI The Wharf Hotel, Melbourne. 4:30pm. ESSENCE OF RRRROMANCE - FEAT: FIRE & THEFT Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:30pm. $5. FLYING ENGINE STRINGBAND Railway Hotel, Fitzroy North. 9:30pm. FUCHSIA + ANATMAN + SONS OF THE IONIAN SEA + THE GRAND RAPIDS + TRAPPIST AFTERLAND Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10. JACKJACKJACK + WHITE SUMMER Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. JAMES TEAGUE The Bain Marie, Northcote. 8:30pm. JIMI HOCKING’S BLUES MACHINE Micawber Tavern, Belgrave. 9:00pm. KING LUCHO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm. MUSIC & POETRY - FEAT: THE SCION PIRATES Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:00pm. OLYMPIA + ALTA Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. ROUGH CUT COUNTRY BAND Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:30pm. $8. ROUGH CUT COUNTRY BAND Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $8. SAINT JUDE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. SHORT ORDER CHEFS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. SONGS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD - FEAT: ANDREW FINEGAN Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:00pm. TANK DILEMMA Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $12. THE GRAPES Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. THE MORELAND CITY SOUL REVUE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. THE ORBWEAVERS (CEILING ROSE LAUNCH) Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $22. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:01pm. VIRTUE Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. WILDERBEAST Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.
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A GIG BY MO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. AL CAMPBELL’S BLUES ASSEMBLY + JENNA & THE BAND STIPPED BASS Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm. ALANNA & ALICIA EGAN Old Cheese Factory, Berwick. 8:00pm. CONNIE LANSBERG QUARTET The Regent Club, 8:00pm. DEAN’S MARTINI & SHAKERS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. GIANNI TURCIO TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. GOODLOVE Jewell Of Brunswick, Brunswick. 9:00pm. MARGIE LOU’S PIANO HOUR + ALYCE PLATT Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. MELODY MOON Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $7. MUSIC MANIA - FEAT: GHOSTLY WHALES + ENTROPY QUARTET + GHOSTLY WHALES + JIMMY B + LATIN TRIO + MATT MCFARLANE + MIKKI MICHELLE + MONIQUE SHELFORD + PETER HAREN + SALLY BAULCH + SAVIDAS + TRACEY HOGUE Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 12:00pm. NMIT YARRA EDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013 - ORIGINAL ENSEMBLES Yarra Edge Music Centre, Fairfield. 1:00pm. THE EMMA GILMARTIN QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. THE JON HUNT QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. THE NICHAUD FITZGIBBON QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. THE POLY’S The Vineyard, St Kilda. 11:00pm.
SATURDAY SEP 21 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS A DEAD FOREST INDEX + AMAYA LAUCIRICA + EXTREME WHEEZE + MATT BAILEY Bella Union Bar (trades Hall), Carlton South. 8:00pm. $12. ANDREA KELLER QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BANG - FEAT: HELLIONS + BELLE HAVEN + DAY DREAMER + DJ THY ART IS MURDER Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. BEACH FOSSILS + MINING BOOM + TERRIBLE TRUTHS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $38.
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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au BLACK LAKES + DJ ADALITA + FLYYING COLOURS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. COWER BETWEEN LEGS (EP LAUNCH) - FEAT: BOBBY & THE PINS + THE BON SCOTTS + SINCE WE KISSED Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. CROSSROADS + ACOUSTIC FOXX + AURORA + GABY BAINY + PAIGE WEBSTER + THE VAS Edward’s Place, Reservoir. 8:00pm. DARK ARTS 3 - FEAT: ANGEL EYES + ASPS + DIRE EARS + DJ LINSEY GOSPER + MANTICLE & DOLL DISORGANATION Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8. DISENTOMB + BROOZER + INTERNAL NIGHTMARE + INVOLUNTARY CONVULSION + MYRIDIAN + SEMINAL EMBALMMENT + THE SEAFORD MONSTER Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. $15. DREADNAUGHT 21ST BIRTHDAY SHOW - FEAT: FRANKENBOK + ALARUM + ALKIRA + CONTRIVE + DESECRATOR + EARTH + HADAL MAW + HEAVEN THE AXE + MSO + PINA TUTERI + RED SKY BURIAL + REPUGNANCE + ROCK FILLY + SE BON KIRA + SWIDGEN + THE PLAGUE BLACK + WILDERBORNES Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 1:00pm. $21. DRUNK MUMS + LEGENDS OF MOTORSPORT + MANGELWURZEL + MIGHTY BOYS Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. EMERGENZA Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $20. EMPRA + DEAD CITY RUINS + DRIFTER Workers Club, Fitzroy. 11:00pm. $15. HIGH TAILS + GLACIERS + PRETTY CITY + SNOWY NASDAQ Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. INVOLUME + CRASH & BURN + GLASS EMPIRE + SONS OF ABRAHAM + ZERO NATURAL Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. JACK ON FIRE + MATT WALKER + TINSMOKE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. KING LEGHORN + ELEVATOR TALK + POCKETS + SONS OF THUNDER Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. LA BASTARD + JUNK HORSES + RICH DAVIES & THE DEVILS UNION Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. LOST ANIMAL (FAREWELL SHOW) + EARLY WOMAN + LADY DREAMS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. MIDNIGHT SCAVENGERS - FEAT: THE MIDNIGHT SCAVENGERS Willow Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. PARKWAY DRIVE (U18) + CONFESSION + THY ART IS MURDER Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. PEARLS The Bain Marie, Northcote. 8:30pm. ROCKSHOW Edward’s Place, Reservoir. 8:00pm. RUDIMENTAL Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. $58. SHERIFF + BITTER SWEET KICKS + DON FERNANDO + I AM DUCKEYE + SOTIS + VICE GRIP PUSSIES + YIS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. SPIT SYNDICATE (MONEY OVER BULLSHIT TOUR) + JOYRIDE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TANK DILEMMA Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. TEENAGE LIBIDO + DEEP HEAT SUPERGROUP + NO ANCHOR + SCUL HAZZARDS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. TEST GIG 2 - FEAT: TEST ARTIST 2 Werribee Park Mansion, Werribee.
8:00pm. THE CITRADELS + GRAND RAPIDS + LOCAL GROUP The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10. THE DELTA RIGGS + PALACE OF THE KINGS + THE WALKING WHO Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15. THE NATIVE CATS + BITCH PREFECT + SARAH MARY CHADWICK Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. THE OCEAN PARTY + GREAT OUTDOORS + MELBOURNE CANS + THE ANCIENTS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE STEVENS The Bain Marie, Northcote. 9:30pm. THE UGLY KINGS + DJ MERMAID + RUMOUR CONTROL + STONE REVIVAL + TANE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. TUMBLEWEED + BRUCE + SUN GOD REPLICA Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $20. WILL FERRELL NIGHT - FEAT: THE BLUEBOTTLES The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ANDREW SWIFT & THE RATTLESNAKE CHOIR + CAM MINEO + MADDISON WILSON Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00am. $20. AUSTIN BRADY Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. CANARY BU CANDLELIGHT Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15. CAROL LEE & THE SILVER SCREAM Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. CHEEKY GOOSE + MONIQUE SHELFORD Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. CHRIS WILSON Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. CISCO CAESER Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. DAVEY LANE Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 11:30pm. $15. FORTNIGHT JUMBO Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. FORTNIGHT JUMBO + ALL WE NEED Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. GLENY RAE VIRUS + LITTLE RABBIT + SOFT GOLD Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $15. GREEN HATCH EFFECT Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. HUGO RACE & FATALISTS + SACRI CUORI Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $15. LISA MILLER Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. LOCAL AMBIENCE - FEAT: THE UNHOLY RACKET Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:30pm. LOST COLONIES Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. MATT GLASS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. NGAIIRE + LESTER THE FIERCE + WE ARE THE BRAVE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. ROD PAINE & THE FULL TIME LOVERS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. RORY ELLIS BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. SIX FRIENDS WITH SONIC BENEFITS - FEAT: THE MIGRATIONS Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 10:00pm.
THE BASTARD CHILDREN + FRANCIS FRANCESCO + JUKE BARITONE & THE SWAMP DOGS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $25. THE DRUNKEN POACHERS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE F100S Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE GROVES + THE VELVET ARCHERS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. THE VOLCANIKS + THE SURF THANG Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. TRAPPIST AFTERLAND + FUCHSIA. THE BOY WHO SPOKE CLOUDS + LUNARS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC A DEAD FOREST INDEX + AMAYA LAUCIRICA + DJ PEACH IMPEDIMENT + EXTREME WHEEZE + MATT BAILEY Bella Union Bar (trades Hall), Carlton South. 9:00pm. $12. BOWLINES - FEAT: ERNIE GRUNER Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 4:00pm. $15. CLASSICAL PIANO Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 2:00pm. DAMIEN LEITH Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. FRILLY KNICKERS JAZZ BAND Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm. GOYIM + ELVIS IN THE HOUSE Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. LATIN TRIO + MINNIE ANDREWS Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 7:30pm. LUCKY ALI + THE FIFTHS The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 6:00pm. $76. MAY JOHNSTON & THE JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. MOOSHIM Substation, Newport. 9:00pm. $15. NATALIE DIETZ Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20. SHIRAZZ Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. THE HOUR GLASS Salvation Army Hall, 3:00pm. THE IMPRINTS + CURTIS REARDON Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. THE NORIA LETTS QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20.
SUNDAY SEP 22 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS 4TRESS + BLACK FUEL + LITTLE HOUSE GODZ + TRIUMPH OVER LOGIC Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 4:30pm. $10. 80’S ON THE EDGE Sloaney Pony, Port Melbourne. 8:30pm. BROTHER JOHNSTONE + TIM GUY & THE LAND OF CONFUSION Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. CARDWELL Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. CHERRY ARVO BLUES - FEAT: MATT DWYER & THE MAGNATONES + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $5. EMPRA + PALACE OF THE KING + THE DEMON PARADE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. FREEZA - FEAT: THE BLACK HARRYS Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 3:00pm. JACOB PEARSON + BLEEDING ROSE + IAIN ARCHIBALD Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. JAMES TEAGUE + JP SWALLOW Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. JASPORA + DAN KROCHMAL TRIO + SCRIMSHAW4 Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. LAMB OF GOD + MESHUGGAH Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. $77. MOUNTAIN GOAT BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: LOVE MI-
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GRATE + DJ SIMONA SWING + FRASER A GORMAN + SAGAMORE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. ONCE OFF RETURN SHOWS - FEAT: THE OVALS + MUSHROOM HORSE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. PARKWAY DRIVE + CONFESSION + HIGH POWER Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. ROSCOE JAMES IRWIN + AL PARKINSON + BEN WRIGHT SMITH Workers Club, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $12. RUFUS + MOTEZ + SAFIA Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $20. SICK PEOPLE & SWERECIDE + DRIBBLE + SICK MACHINE + VELVET WHIP Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. SPIT SYNDICATE (MONEY OVER BULLSHIT TOUR) + JOYRIDE Phoenix Youth Centre, Footscray. 8:00pm. THE BLACKHILL RAMBLERS Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. THE DUFRANES + JAY STEVENS + THE MATT GLASS BAND Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. THE FLUZZIES + CREPES + THE KNAVE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. THE LARGE NUMBER 12S Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE RECHORDS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK TRACY MCNEIL Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm. $15. ANDY WHITE + KAVISHA Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $10. CHRIS WILSON Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. DUNCAN GRAHAM & THE CO-ACCUSED Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. FALLING LEAVES Dan O’connell Hotel, Carlton. 4:00pm. GILS OF THE NORTH LANDS - FEAT: SARAH & LIZ TAYLOR + JEN PEARSON + LAURA BAXTER + MERRY PRAIN + MICHELLE MEEHAN + PHOEBE STRETTON-SMITH Tago Mago, Thornbury. 5:30pm. $5. HUGH MCGINLAY & THE RECESSIVE GENES Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 4:00pm. JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 5:00pm. JAME FORBES The Wharf Hotel, Melbourne. 1:00pm. JIMI HOCKING Westernport Hotel, Hastings. 5:00pm. LUCY WILSON + JEROME KNAPPET + LACHLAN STUCKEY + ZIGGY BRITTEN Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. MERRI CREAK + MARTY KELLY & THE WEEKENDERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. NAI PALM + REMI Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15. PHIL PARA Bay Hotel, Mornington. 3:00pm. SACRI CUORI Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. SHAKY STILLS The Bain Marie, Northcote. 3:00pm. SLIM DIME & THE PRAIRIE KINGS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. SOPHIE ROSE Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 8:00pm. STAGE DOOR Red Bennies, South Yarra. 1:00pm. SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: JACK JACK JACK + THE BLACK HARRY’S AND CHANEL SWITCHER Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 7:30pm. THE BELLWETHER BAND Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm. $15. THE DRUNKEN POET’S 7TH BDAY PARTY! - FEAT: RAISED BY EAGLES + LIZ STRINGER + ROESY + THE ALAN LADDS + VAN & CAL WALKER Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 2:00pm. THE MARGIE LOU TRIO + GIL ASKEY Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. THE RECHORDS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
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WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au THE RRRRROCKETS! Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 2:00pm. $10. THE SONS OF MAY Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. WAZ E JAMES BAND Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC A GIG BY MO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. ADAM STARR’S JAZZ COMPOSITION FORUM Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 4:00pm. BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 6:00pm. DALE RYDER BAND + BAD BOYS BATUCADA + MS BUTT Espy, St Kilda. 5:30pm. ELVIS IN THE HOUSE + DUO SEVERINI Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 1:00pm. MARK ISAACS SOLO PIANO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. MOOSHIM Substation, Newport. 7:00pm. $15. PLASTERED BASTARD SISTERS + SUNLARK DUO Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. RUBY’S JAZZ JAM Ruby’s Music Room, 6:00pm. WESLEY ANNE 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECTACULAR - FEAT: SAL KIMBER & THE ROLLIN’ WHEEL + ALEXIS NICOLE AND THE MISSING PIECES + BRONI + BROOKE RUSSELL + CABBAGES & KINGS + CATCH RELEASE + GEORGIA FIELDS + JAMES KENYON + OH PEP! THE BON SCOTTS + THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHER + YEO Wesley
GROOVE Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm. PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. UNPAVED PRESENTS SONGWRITER SESSIONS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.
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MONDAY SEP 23 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. ELECTRIC GUITAR CIRCLE - FEAT: KIM SALMON The Bain Marie, Northcote. 8:00pm. LILLIS + ADAM HYNES + RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. MANDEK PENHA + FIRE CRACKER BARREL + TOXIC LIPSTICK Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $8. MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: EXHAUSTION + DJ BRIAN TURNER + EAST LINK + LEATHER TOWEL Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm. MONTE DIAMONTE’S WORLD FAMOUS DRAG SUPERSTARS FEAT: THE BLACK MOLLS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 9:30pm. RUFUS + MOTEZ + SAFIA Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $20.
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TUESDAY SEP 24 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS FUSION TUESDAY - FEAT: ATOMIC CLOCK Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. KILL SHOTT Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. RUFUS + MOTEZ + SAFIA Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $20. THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL DISCOVERY NIGHT - FEAT: CINEMA 6 + ADAM HICKMAN + THE GENERAL Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE DARJEELINGS Preston Library, 3:00pm. THEM SWOOPS + THE RED LIGHTS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CHARLES JENKINS & MATTY VEIHL + GEORGIA FIELDS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
FORTE JAM Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 7:00pm. GO GO MAMA The Bain Marie, Northcote. 1:00pm. HOUSE HOODS The Bain Marie, Northcote. 7:00pm. HOWL & CROW Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. SEPTEMBERISTS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. VINCENT’S CHAIR Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC A CHEKHOV TRIPTYCH - FEAT: ANTON CHEKHOV Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 7:00pm. A NIGHT IN POLAND - FEAT: SENIVODA Ferdydurke, Melbourne. 7:00pm. HI-FI LOUNGE LIZARDS Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. MANCHOIR The Bain Marie, Northcote. 9:00pm. OPEN MIC Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 7:00pm. PETER BAYLOR’S ULTRAFOX Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. ROMAN JENCO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. SONGSTRESS - FEAT: ALUKA Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:00pm. TD2+2 + TD2 + 2 Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.
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Now that the election is finally over, we can turn our minds back to more important things…for example, the fact that Arctic Monkeys have recently hinted at an Australian tour in 2014! In interviews with both FasterLouder and triple J, Alex Turner and Jamie Cook have both said they’ll be paying us a visit next year to promote their most recent release, AM. Winner! If you have a passion for writing music scores and are under 15, check out Tropscore Jr. Running in conjunction with Tropfest and Trop Jr, Tropscore Jr is a competition inviting music composers (aged 15 or under) to produce a musical score for a short film. The film is provided for you by the competition. The winning artist or band will get to perform their score live at Tropfest in December and will win $2,000 thanks to the good folk at APRA! If you will be over 15 by November 1 2013, don’t despair! You’re eligible to enter Tropfest or Tropscore, the equivalents for older peeps. For full details of each competition, head to tropfest.com. Entries close October 10. An event currently in the works for 2014 is White Night, a huge festival of live music, pop up art, sound/lighting events and more. Running from 7pm to 7am, White Night is the perfect excuse to pull an all-nighter (and spend the entire next day in bed). Australia’s first edition of White Night was held earlier this year, with The Cat Empire, World’s End Press, Eagle and The Worm, Hiatus Kaiyote and others. The White Night team are currently seeking contributions for next year – music, projection, street art, performance, dance, sound installations- basically all forms of artistic expression, “so long as it’s original”. If you’ve got some work that fits this category, head to whitenightmelbourne.com. au for your chance to be involved! Ever wanted to know what it’s like to curate an exhibition? ACMI are running the Intermix Curators Program on Tuesday September 24 and Tuesday October 1. Participants will get to develop a tour for ACMI’s Spectacle exhibition, which features 300 music film clips from nine decades. Helping out will be international curators, as well as Natasha Pincus, the director of Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know clip. If you’re aged 15-20 and are interested in curation, arts management or just want to gain a behind the scenes look at this great exhibition, this program is for you! To take part in this free event, register by emailing intermix@acmi.net.au.
ALL AGES TIMETABLE Wednesday September 18- Sunday September 29 Darebin Music Feast w/ various music acts and arts events around Darebin Area, www.musicfeast.com.au. Friday September 20 Metalfest w/ Frankenbok, Hybrid Nightmares, Alkira, Conscious Control and more, EV’s Youth Centre, 212 Mt Dandenong Road, Croydon, 6.30pm, $20, maroondahyouthservices.com/evs, AA.FRANKENBOK - facebook.com/frankenbok HYBRID NIGHTMARES - facebook.com/hybridnightmaresofficial HARLOTT - facebook.com/HarlottOfficial ALKIRA - facebook.com/AlkiraMetal CONSCIOUS CONTROL - facebook.com/consciouscontrol THE SERAPHIM VEIL - facebook.com/theseraphimveil IRE - facebook.com/iremelbourne HOLLOW WORLD - facebook.com/hollowworldband INTOXICATED MEMORIES - facebook.com/IntoxicatedMemories Saturday 21 September Decibels Records Artist Showcase and Release Launch w/ Miss Eileen & King Lear and Yorque, Northcote Town Hall. King of the Castle 2 w/ DJ Torfu and more, The Castle, Hemmings Park. Parkway Drive w/ Thy Art Is Murder and Confession, The Palace Theatre. Rudimental w/ supports, Festival Hall. Brighter at Night w/ Little League, I Ran Eleventh, The Reprize and Static Revenue, Phoenix Youth Centre, Footscray. Sunday 22 September Animaux Alaska Single Launch w/ The Rims and The Black Harrys, Northcote Town Hall. Lamb Of God w/ Meshuggah, Festival Hall. Tuesday 24 September The Darjeelings, Preston Library.
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THE DRONES The Hi-Fi, Saturday September 14
THE CAT EMPIRE The Forum Theatre, Friday September 13
For the first time in living memory, set times at the Hi-Fi were running according to advertised scheduled, and The Drones were onstage and playing by 10pm. There’s no warm-up with this band, no time to settle in, no easing into the action. Gareth Liddiard is immediately contorting and writhing around, his guitar slung barely above knee height. Fiona Kitschin has her back to the crowd, following every beat from Mike Noga’s drum kit. Dan Luscombe is to The Drones as Charlie Owen is to the Beasts of Bourbon; he’s technically fantastic, but without the prevailing sense of mania and madness of Rui Pereira, his predecessor on guitar. With his frizzy hair and bear, new recruit Stevie Hesketh is Sideshow Bob meets Digger and the Pussycats’ Andy Moore; later on, someone invokes the memory of former Richmond legend Jim Jess, now catching crayfish in Robe in South Australia. Liddiard is as brilliant a raconteur as he is a storyteller; even when he stumbles through a joke relayed by Noga, Liddiard has the crowd tittering with laughter. His impish grin gives way to a tide of human suffering in Locust, animal suffering in Laika, and controlled bile in Why Write a Letter That You’ll Never Send. Baby2 appears on setlist for the first time in many years; I Don’t Ever Wanna Change is the emphatic denial of a life lost to beige interests, and packs a bigger punch than Phil Carman acting under provocation. Without Pereira, The Drones are more song-based, and the end-of-song crescendo eschews the cataclysmic sensation of yore. But every moment is perfectly executed, and the set builds to a climax. The opening bracket ends with From Black to Communist, The Drones’ brutal take on the MC5’s Black to Comm. It’s a surprise appearance that sends a shiver down our spines, and we hope that the moment will never end. The band returns shortly after, and winds up the evening with a cover of Leonard Cohen’s Diamonds in the Mine. With Harmony’s Tom Lyncoln guesting on guitar, it does the night perfect justice. The lights come on, and the security staff are upon us, ushering us politely, but LOVED: From Black To Communist firmly out of the venue. The Drones are a great band, a paragon of rock’n’roll HATED: Paying $9 for a Fat Yak excellence and virtue. DRANK: Fat Yak, at prohibitive prices designed to dissuade binge drinking PATRICK EMERY
WAKEFIELD MINI FESTIVAL The Empress Hotel, Saturday September 14 The Empress Hotel’s Wakefield Mini Festival was a collision of musical worlds which brought dramatically different genres like nu metal and alt-country together in a somewhat bizarre arrangement. Entertainment ensued. Stone Temple Pilots then Hole then a non-descript nu metal band are played over the PA in between bands. Baggy jeans, dyed black hair and people who look like Al Jorgensen from Ministry are milling about. What year is it? I’m wondering if it’s 1999 and I have somehow fallen through a tear in the space-time continuum. The deep red light emanating from the stage lights is unnerving. Am I in the twilight zone? In reassuringly modern fashion, Jeremy James kicks things off with his upbeat acoustic pop and is followed by the Folky Alexandra Pye who’s inimitable voice sounds distinctively warbled like a cassette that’s been left in a hot car. I mean that in the most endearing way. Intriguingly named Roots duo ‘Turtle And the Fox’ deliver a solid performance complete with a Didgeridoo, lyrics about whales roaming free in the ocean and stage attire that could not have been sourced outside of Byron Bay. They are future contenders for headlining the Blues and Roots festival and reaching a state of Nirvana. Two members of the ‘headlining’ nu/pop-metal band Bellusira take the stage and the baggy Jean parade move to the front in anticipation. These guys obviously have a following. Songs like Culprit satiate their fan’s desire for a time when bands like Coal Chamber and Korn were popular. Bellusira provided us with not just the highlight of the day but quite possibly the year when singer Crystal Ignite (I have a feeling that’s not her real name) noticed she didn’t have the entire crowd’s attention and asked that people turn around and face her so she could ‘connect’ with them. Very David Brent. Following on from Bellusira are another female fronted metal band Heaven The Axe, whose Mariah Carey-esque rendition of Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box made me question the nature of reality. That ever-present red light might have had something to do with it as well. The Musical highlight of the festival came from alt-country band Millar Jukes And The Bandits, whose billing make as much sense as trying to eat soup with a fork. Sounding like Wilco with Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon singing, they instantly and dramatically stand out from the other bands. They also happen to be the only band who brought a drummer but that could just be a coincidence. Upbeat and jangly songs like the harmonica driven upcoming single Love Me All Night have people dancing and the whole vibe in the room is different. They are definitely a band to watch around town if you get the chance. ‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows’ wrote Shakespeare. The Wakefield Mini Festival made bedfellows out of nu metal and alt-country – I’m not sure if that has ever been done before. Way to make history Empress Hotel! Despite the distinct ideological differences LOVED: Millar Jukes and The Bandits in the genres involved, it was still a fun way to spend a day. Bring on the HATED: The crappy PA system next one. DRANK: White Rabbit Dark Ale JAMES BARLOW
OPIUO Howler, Saturday September 14 Within minutes of the opening song, the varied hipster/tripper crowd found it impossible not to dance to the bass-laden glitch-hop tunes Opiuo has become known for, amassing into a heaving, sweaty mess of love for the Melbourne-based-yetKiwi-born artist. Testing a wonderful sounding PA and room with heavy sub-bass and crisp high frequencies was a testament to the sonic perfection Opiuo brings as a producer. Throwing in his own remixes of Kimbra’s Come Into My Head and The Upbeats’ Diffused made it clear that this guy knows how to vary his set to work the crowd. Coming off the back of a series of sold-out dates on his latest American tour, a openly jetlagged Opiuo also brought a stellar mix of crowd participation and fondness for his hometown declaring, “Feeling the love from my home fucking town and although I’m from New Zealand, this place is home so fuck yeah Australia!” A dedicated laser show was integrated superbly along with an animated Opiuo intermittently playing an electronic drum pad and iPad mini adding a human element often neglected by many DJs in their live show. His hip-hop influence was evident when he included Dangerdoom’s Benzie Box and The Pharcyde’s Ya Mama to change up the set along with his banging tune Robo Booty convincing a group of scrawny guys (and girls!) to take their shirts off. Usually treating punters to new tunes sparks simultaneous emotions of unfamiliarity and gratefulness but this was no ordinary crowd. Like old favourites, at least two new songs were met with wide smiles supplying the confident feedback any artist needs to know that putting that song out on the next record is the right move. “I make music for people like you” were Opiuo’s heart-warming words to finish off the extended double encore set and as the lights came on, a newly formed happy horde of soaked friends stormed the LOVED: Thumping bass water table for some sorely needed hydration. HATED: Hairy sweat DRANK: Hairy sweat particles DEAN BERLINGERI WITH BRYCE SPRATLING BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 54
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Arguably one of the best live acts in Australia, The Cat Empire never fails to draw a crowd. Having been a while between albums, their few brief performances at festivals and special events have been near impossible to get near and so it was with unashamed urgency that fans packed out two nights at The Forum Theatre. It was also what greeted the band on this Friday night – a pressing need to see this talented crew that has warmed our hearts for so many years. Clap, clap, clap…. And before long, the stage delivered a familiar song, the latest single and title track from new album, Steal The Light. With but a breath between songs, the music rose quickly a frenetic pace. Harry took to the mic and the song continued for over ten minutes, the band all getting their moment in the spotlight to show their musical prowess. New song, Sleep Won’t Sleep, transported the audience to a tropical island as the band sang; “All night on the other side, I’ll be with you on the other side.” The Forum was transported again, this time to the middle of a Carnaval, where a dancing troupe of three hip-swinging girls and a trickster guy (which many would recognise from their new videos) offered yet another spectacle for our stage-trained eyes. Then, just to reconnect with the old days of The Cat Empire, How To Explain reminded us that “music is the language of us all” as we were sent into another frenzy of shoe-tapping action. Not long after we were singing just that in Two Shoes. Brighter Than Gold, with its worldly gypsy beat and driving energy, kept the party going and, after a Spanish interlude, set the scene for favourite sing-a-longs The Wine Song and Sly. And, as he was flanked with feather headpiece-clad dancers, Felix made sure he told his home crowd, “It’s good to be back home” (twice). Chariot began a fitting encore that ended with All Night Loud, where Felix painted the perfect picture to a crowd that couldn’t get enough: “Playing all night long, playing all night loud. Singing all night with me, all night loud.” A better summary of this night would be hard to find. Dancing out the door, each fan knew firmly that The Cat Empire is still a live force to be reckoned with and no other act does LOVED: Choosing flats over heels it quite the same. HATED: That is had to end JEN WILSON
DRANK: Life
CASTLE MUSIC PRSENTS: MY SON IS ALSO NAMED BORT The Gasometer Hotel, Friday September 13 While the obscure Simpsons’ reference used to title tonight’s’ event was a little strange, there was a sense of camaraderie to be gained from the fact that tonight’s crowd were no doubt united in their love of the longest running cartoon series. Castle Music can be commended for their good taste in cartoons and bringing together a mix of bands that captured the breadth of punk music nicely. The Gasometer sound system is pretty bangin’ and had openers Summer Blood sounding loud and manic. Early ‘90s grunge is punctuated with bursts of unruly punk-rock and there’s a smattering of summery guitar melodies that suggest a definite love of J Mascis. The next band, Kodiak Throat possessed plenty of energy and had the crowd engaged with their mid ‘90s hardcore but after mentions of ‘excessive nudity’ and ‘hospitalisations’ in their bio, it was a little disappointing that no private parts or blood was being bandied around on stage. Kremlings are quickly establishing a reputation as one of Victorias’ best live acts. Tonight’s performance continued to perpetuate the fact, front man Andre Merino delivers a vitriolic vocal attack with a presence that owes much to the likes of Jello Biafra and Keith Morris and tonight he seems to barely take a breath. Their sludge punk sound captures elements of 80s’ hardcore and Aussie rock ‘n’ roll greats, GOD and Powder Monkeys. A lack luster show from these boys is yet to be seen. With six different personalities on stage vying for your attention, there is never a lack of action when it comes to a Mesa Cosa show. But with a lot of excellent live bands there’s a tendency to forget about the actual songs and focus on the chaotic nature in which they are executed. Mesa Cosa have the best of both worlds, excellent songs backed up by a consistently frenzied live show. Tonight the band moved from fast and nasty garage rockers to cacophonous, almost Birthday Party-esque unhinged abandon. At the sets climax new guitarist Chris was in the crowd twirling some ladies while Stu smashed his tambourine so LOVED: A lot viciously it’s unlikely it will ever recover. You never know what you’re HATED: That I had very little money getting with Mesa Cosa, but you know it’ll be good. left in my wallet the next day KRYSTAL MAYNARD
DRANK: Liquid refreshments
THE PREATURES Northcote Social Club, Thursday September 12 For all you sorry motherfuckers that didn’t get a chance to catch a Preatures show last week, make sure you grab the next one. On Thursday night, the Northcote played host to a true rock ‘n’ roll show which fused musical performance and theatre as a means of resonating with its audience long after its termination. The Preatures, a five-piece outfit from Sydney, owned that stage and their audience to the point where their performance became cultish. Fiercely alluring, frontwoman Isabella Manfredi was like some sort of ancient Greek goddess, using her voice, eyes and body in a way that left her crowd writhing around on the dancefloor. Rather than staring over our heads, she would keep her eyes locked on one individual for half a song. Her seductive gaze was simultaneously arousing and uncomfortable; a paradox that raised one’s intrigue even more. These punk aficionados – with their black leather jackets, tight pants and doc martens, plus a couple of Stone Roses and Pretenders emblazoned tees – played a particular sound that dips a toe in a number of old-school flavours. On record, they are a rock ‘n’ roll band dabbling in various pop melodies, but onstage they become so much more. Their theatrics and stage antics are frenzied and uninhibited, performed with an intensity that is reminiscent of ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll decadence. Manfredi fucks you with her eyes and co-vocalist and guitarist Gideon Benson sets your panties alight with his masculine howl. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more authentic, Manfredi’s $1000 leather jacket caught fire, due to it being left near the speakers. “It’s cool though” she remarked, throwing water over the jacket, herself and us. Ah, a true rock ‘n’ roll performance. Instrumentally, The Preatures were flawless. Manfredi and Benson’s voices were ridiculously sensual and powerful and their band played off that, showcasing dirty guitar and bass riffs and melodious drum patterns that transitioned swiftly from rock ‘n’ roll into disco. Manfredi also played keys, creating spooky ‘70s organ inspired compositions that took them into a Gothic soul paradigm. Manic Baby and Dark Times were crowd favourites, but it was the hit single Is This How You Feel? that got the audience really swinging. The band’s movements were contagious and soon enough we found ourselves copying the energy of The Preatures. Damn, did it get hot in there! After they finished, any innocence the audience may have had was irrevocably stripped away. It now belonged to Manfredi and her LOVED: The whole bloody spectacle delectable cult. As far as I’m concerned, she can keep it. HATED: Not being up onstage DINA AMIN
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DRANK: Sweat