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BOY & BEAR The people have spoken, and after repeat sell outs in Melbourne, Boy & Bear are pleased to announce a third and final show at The Forum on Monday November 4. It’s a musical trifecta of sorts, with the new show falling on the eve of Melbourne Cup, and conveniently enough, a public holiday! Tickets to the 16 Days Under A Southern Sun tour are on sale now from boyandbear. com. Southern Sun is out now; Harlequin Dream is out now through Island Records Australia.
STEEL PANTHER It’s time to stock up on protection, Steel Panther are bringing their STD (Spreading The Disease) tour to Australia. One of the Sunset Strip’s most beloved exports, Steel Panther will once again descend on Australian shores for a week-long tour filled with their signature debauchery, spandex and rock’n’roll. Steel Panther last hit Australian shores in October, of which our reviewer stated, “For all the filth and flesh, this was still a balls-out rock show dedicated to the glory of the cranked amp, spandex, melody, flash, neon, lights, smoke, chicks and the Hollywood dream.” They’ll be joined by fellow LA rockers Buckcherry. Steel Panther will slay the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday December 8. Tickets through Ticketmaster.
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Following her self-released new album Shadows on Skipalong Records, Australian’s own Lenka will finish up her world tour with a run of east coast dates this October, including her home town of Sydney. Part of Lenka’s 2013 international tour, the local dates will celebrate the release of Lenka’s critically acclaimed, captivating third album, along with the recently released remix EP Shadows Of Shadows. She plays the Workers Club on Saturday October 26. Tickets available from the venue website.
Fresh from a jam-packed showcase at BIGSOUND last week that left many waiting on the street in hope to catch a glimpse, Gossling reveals details of a celebratory East Coast Tour to mark the release of debut album Harvest Of Gold - out Friday November 1. New single Never Expire has already caused a stir; landing an add at triple j last week and sending the cyber world into a frenzy – coming in at #6 on Hype Machine’s Most Popular Chart and clocking up more than 70,000 plays of the single and remix. Catch Gossling at the Corner Hotel on Wednesday November 20. Tickets are available now via the venue website.
STONEFIELD The sisters of Stonefield have unveiled a national tour in support of their highly anticipated self-titled debut album, due for release on Friday October 11. Riding the momentum of a soaring radio and video favourite Put Your Curse On Me, a string of sold-out shows across August and a massive BIGSOUND campaign that saw the band partner with Red Bull to throw a packedout launch party for their album on the first night of the Brisbane industry conference, Stonefield are poised to make their mark on the rest of 2013. Catch ‘em at the Corner Hotel on Saturday October 26.
LILLY ROUGE SUN CITY Perth duo Sun City returns just in time for spring, with their brand new tropical-dance single Colour Blind. Premiered on triple j last week, the track continues Sun City’s customary upbeat synth driven approach. Sun City will play a free show at The Espy on Friday October 18. The new single is available for free download via the band’s Soundcloud.
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HAVE/HOLD In support of their new 7” single Song For Bill Of The Trains/Dexamphetamine Blues, HAVE/HOLD are gearing up for a national tour. This track will be available for download via Bandcamp on Friday October 4. Catch the boys when they hit The Old Bar on Friday October 25. Support comes from Oslow, Darts and Kill Taker. Tickets $10. Doors at 8pm.
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ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL It’s here, it’s finally here! Get excited ‘cause next year’s lineup is sweeeeeet. Taking place on Saturday February 1 at Footscray Community Arts Centre and the river’s edge, the official lineup includes the likes of Mount Kimbie and Jamie XX – British Post-dubstep pioneers, Earl Sweatshirt – who recently joined Tyler, The Creator at his Melbourne show, Australian favourites The Jezabels and Cloud Control and break-through post-punk revivalists Savages. Also included on the delicious bill is Adalita, Autre Ne Veut, Cashmere Cat, Cass McCombs, Chvrches, Danny Brown, Daughter, Dick Diver, Drenge, Four Tet, Frightened Rabbit, Haim, Jagwar Ma, King Krule, Kirin J Callinan, Kurt Vile, Lorde, MT Warning, Parquet Courts, Run the Jewels, Scenic, The Growl, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Vance Joy, Warpaint, XXYYXX and Youth Lagoon.
DC TUNES This October will see the first dc Tunes shows hit The Espy. The event will feature a killer lineup of the hottest local unsigned rock bands including King of The North, My Left Boot, My Dynamite and Hailmary plus DJs Diamond Deb and Dan Attard. dc tunes is now in its second year and going strong. In our first year they helped well over 30 bands and musicians play across several live music venues in Melbourne. It all goes down on Friday October 11 at The Espy.
SAL KIMBER & THE ROLLIN’ WHEEL Sal Kimber & The Rollin’ Wheel will hit the road this November. Known for their intelligent blend of roots, blues and country, the five-piece established themselves with their rusty-hilled self-titled debut, which saw producer Shane O’Mara (Tim Rogers, The Audreys) refine the band’s talents. Sal Kimber & The Rollin’ Wheel will be playing at the Northcote Social Club on Friday November 29.
Sydney quartet Evan & The Brave have announced an East Coast tour this October in promotion of their debut EP, Island. Having performed alongside triple j favourites such as Josh Pyke, The Trouble With Templeton, and Hungry Kids of Hungary, it is no surprise that the indie dream-pop band has garnered much radio-play over the past year, including current “ear candy” single, Stay This Way. This tour will be the band’s first headline tour since founding in 2010. Evan & The Brave will perform at Rochester Castle on Saturday November 9. Island EP will be available at all good music stories from Friday September 27.
ALEX & THE SHY LASHLIES In celebration o the release of their 7 inch vinyl single, Eleven Hours/While You Were Sleeping, Alex & The Shy Lashlies have announced an East Coast tour this October. Founded by the Alex Lashlie, a demure gentleman with a voice as poignant and captivating as Jeff Buckley’s, Alex & The Shy Lashlies are known for creating engaging tracks that recapture the pure emotion of folk. Alex & The Shy Lashlies will be playing at The Toff in Town on Wednesday November 20. Tickets are available through the Toff; Eleven Hours/While You Were Sleeping is currently out now through Pure Pop Records.
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KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Fresh from performing a series of jam packed shows at BIGSOUND, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced a national tour. The mighty Melbourne based septet will load up their tour van and hit the road throughout October and November in celebration of their sophomore album, Float Along Fill Your Lungs. Catch â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em at the Corner Hotel on Friday October 19.
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PATRICK JAMES After wowing punters and industry alike at his jam-packed official BIGSOUND showcase just days ago, Patrick James has announced he will be doing one final hurrah around the nation for 2013, before retreating to craft his debut album for release next year.  The Spring Tour heads across five of the seven mainland states and marks the rising troubadourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest headline tour to date. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss out on seeing Patrick James perform at the Northcote Social Club on Friday November 22. Tickets available via venue website.
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BERNARD FANNING We have one double pass up for grabs this week to the concert and dining experience for Bernard Fanning at A Day On The Green on Saturday November 9. Situated in the Rochford restaurant overlooking the green with a direct view of the stage, you will be served three-course meal, matched with award winning wines. You will have Reserved Seating to watch Bernard Fanning so you can feel the music flow through you as your feet start to tap and arms start to move to the melodies. DANCE! DANZA! DANS! Saca La Mois DJ, Sonidero Esperanze and Ed G bring you music from the dance halls, favelas, shantytowns, barrios, cumbia street parties and bass heavy bin of the Caribbean. Join festival staff and volunteers for this special event CaribbeanMexican closing party, Sunday September 29 at the Northcote Town Hall. We have three double passes to give away. TIHAI3 Tihai3 presents the Bollywood retrospective at the Darebin Music Feast 2013, celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema. Tihai3 will begin the evening with live accompaniment to surviving footage from the silent film Raja Harish Chandra (1913) by the pioneer of Indian cinema Phalke. We have three double passes up for grabs for the event on Saturday September 28, at 7.30pm.
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HANNIBAL Before Silence of the Lambs, before Red Dragon, Hannibal Lecter was a brilliant psychiatrist in the employ of the FBI. His task: to help an unusually gifted criminal profiler, Will Graham, who is haunted by his ability to see into the minds of serial killers. After a particularly gruelling case hunting a serial killer known as the Minnesota Shrike, Will Graham (Hugh Dancy: Hysteria) threatens to walk away. Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne: CSI, The Matrix), the head of the FBIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Behavioral Science Unit, desperately needs Will on his team to break the tough cases, so he enlists Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen: Casino Royale), to ensure Willâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mental well-being. Unbeknownst to Will, Hannibal also has a particular insight into these horrible crimes and the psychopaths who commit them. As Will hunts down the brutal killers, he is unwittingly sitting across from the most gifted killer of them all. We have some copies of the season one DVDs to give away.
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DAVEY LANE After years of experience as sideman to some of the countries most legendary acts, Davey Lane is forging his own path and going solo with his debut EP The Good Borne Of Bad Tymes. The five track EP pushes his cosmic pop stylings one step further, and takes a large step away from the guitar-based retro pop of his previous group The Pictures. We have a double pass to his show at The Tote on Saturday October 5 to give away.
THE WALKING DEAD The Walking Dead, the most watched drama in US basic cable history, returns for another exhilarating season. In this uncertain world, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his band of survivors must not only fight the dead, but also face a whole new fear: the living. In this highly anticipated new season, Rick and his fellow survivors continue to seek refuge in a desolate and post-apocalyptic world and soon discover that there are greater forces to fear than just the walking dead. The struggle to survive has never been so perilous. Season three also introduces new characters, including the Governor (David Morrissey) and fan-favourite Michonne (Danai Gurira). We have some copies of the season three DVDs to give away.
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TUMBLEWEED Aussie fuzz rock giants Tumbleweed are back with their eagerly awaited new album Sounds From The Other Side out this Friday via Shock Records. We have five of these up for grabs.
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Eclectic songwriters The Crooked Fiddle Band will be embarking on an Australian tour this November in promotion of their sophomore album, Moving Pieces Of The Sea. Recorded in Chicago under the guidance of the legendary Steve Albini (Nirvana, The Pixies, Joanna Newsom), Moving Pieces Of The Sea will see the band refine their blend of roots, post-rock, punk and progressive into a collection of haunting, urgent and demanding tracks inspired by the fjords of Norway and the lakes of Finland. The Crooked Fiddle Band will be playing at the Corner Hotel on Friday November 8.
Wired For Melbourne Sound will see NGV Studio be transformed into a fully functioning recording studio where a specially formed group of Melbourne musicians, named Batman Park, will take over the space to write, record and produce an EP. Led by Alex Badham from Aleks and the Ramps and Magic Hands), Batman Park will feature talented musicians from Melbourne bands and solo outfits including Pascal Babare (Pascal Babare and Teeth), Thomas Mendelovits (Milk Teddy), Evelyn Morris (Pikelet), Jess Cornelius (Teeth & Tongue) and Lachlan Denton (The Ocean Party). It’ll all be launched with a celebratory gig on Thursday October 3 at NGV with live performances by Pascal Babare, Teeth and Tongue and The Ocean Party. Visit the NGV website for more information.
AURORA JANE BLUESFEST 2ND ANNOUNCEMENT Diehard Bluesfest fans always hang out for the second announcement. The first is usually focused on headliners (this time John Mayer and Dave Matthews Band) and contemporary musicians, while the second announcement is where you’ll hear about the legendary icons and genre hardcores. And Bluesfest 2014 boasts a particularly stellar second round of names: The Doobie Brothers, Aaron Neville, Gregg Allman, Boz Scaggs, India.Arie, Suzanne Vega, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Dr John & The Nite Trippers, Jamaican Legends featuring Ernest Ranglin, Sly & Robbie and Bitty McLean, Jimmie Vaughan, The Wailers, Ozomatli, CW Stoneking, Larry Graham & Graham Central Station, Grandmothers of Invention (featuring alumni of Frank Zappa’s Mothers Of Invention), The Magic Band, Robben Ford and more. Bluesfest Byron Bay is held over the Easter long weekend (April 17-21) at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, north of Byron Bay.
Blending psychedelic '70s analogue warmth with upbeat funk, soaring rock and intuitive song-craft, Aurora Jane’s fourth album unveils an expansive creative evolution. Holding Pattern is set for independent release on November 1 and will coincide with the launch of a new concept project ‘Mojo Junction’ – a creative lifestyle website. Aurora Jane have built an extensive international fan base across North America, Europe and most interestingly India with their funk infused pop rock. Catch Aurora Jane celebrating the release of Holding Pattern at The Evelyn on Thursday October 31.
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MAGGOT FEST Maggot Fest is back! Charging into its fourth year celebrating music of the rowdy and raucous persuasion, Maggot Fest showcases the best in Australian punk, hardcore, garage and noise. This year the line up extends to four Melbourne venues over four days and includes performances from over 30 acts including Boomgates, Straighjacket Nation and a special ‘Maggot Mass’ at Northcote Social Club on Melbourne Cup Day, Tuesday November 5. Kicking off Friday November 1 at the Gasometer with the mighty Boomgates as well as New Zealand’s DHFD’s and interstate guests MOB (Sydney) Multiple Man (Brisbane) and Perth’s Plastic Bags and Flesh Police. Saturday, the party continues at the Gaso with the best hardcore band in the country: Straightjacket Nation heading a massive 15 band lineup upstairs and downstairs as well as the country’s biggest punk/hardcore/garage record sale/ swap. Sunday the action moves to the Town Hall Hotel in North Melbourne for an afternoon show that includes Housewives, Human Grooming, Perth’s Helta Skelta and Black Deity. A day of rest on Monday then it all starts up again on Tuesday (Cup Day) at Northcote Social Club when Maggot Fest teams up with the long running and successful Monday Night Mass for a special Cup Day Maggot Mass featuring a host of the countries best bands. Tickets available now through oxtix.
Psych-rock quartet, The Grand Rapids, will be hitting the road this October in promotion of their debut album, Great Shakes. Released through local label Psyche Ward, Great Shakes will be the band’s followup to their current single Blow Up, a psychedelic wall of fuzz and reverb drenched vocals. Influenced by the psych-rock of the ‘60s, Great Shakes will recapture the acid-trip adventures of the era through dance floor anthem, Julia Now, schizophrenic Brian’s Got a Rubber Soul and dreamy, kaleidoscope title track Great Shakes. Known for their killer live shows, The Grand Rapids are not to be missed. You can catch the psych-lovers at Yah Yah’s on Saturday October 26. Tickets are available through Yah Yah’s.
LOOSE CHANGE Straight out of Sydney’s Big Village, smooth operators Loose Change are getting their maturity on for the release of their second LP Listening Party, out Friday October 4. Following on from first single Shoosh - a sharp, tongue-in-cheek, four minute jab at some people’s lack of ability to know when to be quiet – the record cracks Loose Change open to reveal a depth of lyric and instrumentation that says a hell of lot more than ‘pipe down, man.’ Heading out on tour in support of Listening Party, Loose Change will be gracing The Espy on Friday November 8. And guess what?! Yep, entry is free!
DRUNKEN MOON Drunken Moon Festival returns to Melbourne for its second year with a Rockin’ Halloween live spectacle over three stages at the Espy. Lineup comprises of the dirtiest live bands collected over one year: Brothers Grim and the Blue Murders, King of the North, Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, La Bastard, Digger and the Pussycats, Batpiss, Mesa Cosa, Sheriff, Guthrie, Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood, Yard Apes, and the Drunken Poaches. Pure Rockin/Blues/’abilly/Filth/ Torque-Action! Don’t miss the chance to be part of a very boisterous celebration. Tickets via oztix.
2 for 1 main meals available between noon - 10pm monday and before 6pm other weekdays. Wednesday 25th September
Simply Acoustic 7:00pm, free, Band Room Thursday 26th September
Broni 6:00pm, free, front bar,
Anatman & Gelareh Pour
Wednesday
Mrs Smith’s Trivia
8:00pm, $10, Band Room
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Friday 27th September
Ben Carr Trio 5:45pm, Free, Front Bar
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Goddess Grooves 8:00pm, $16, Band Room Saturday 28th September
Brooke Russell
Los Cougarmen & Movement Known
6pm
2:00pm, $12/$10 concession, Band Room
King Lucho
Saturday 28th September
9pm
Pavement Serenaders 5:30pm, Free, front bar
Seri Vida & Alex Watts & Gosti 8:00pm, $10, band room Sunday 29th September
David Bramble Felicity Cripps
Saturday
Shakey Stills 6pm
3:00pm, $15, band room
Dandenong Ranges Hot Jazz Orchestra
Michael Plater $5 Band Room 9pm
8:00pm, Band Room Monday 30th September
Oh Pep! (duo) 6:30pm, free, front bar
Sunday
Tuesday 1st October
Kate Walker & Friends
THE MOULIN BEIGE 7:30pm, $20/$15 concession, band room
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TOURING
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INTERNATIONAL 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 STEEL PANTHER Sidney Myer Music Bowl 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 ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL Footscray Community Arts Centre February 1 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
NATIONAL DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST Various Venues September 18 - 29 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 Ding Dong Lounge September 27 JINJA SAFARI The Forum September 27 THE BASICS Northcote Social Club September 27, 28, Corner Hotel September 29 THE PAPER KITES The Forum Theatre September 28 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 TWELVE FOOT NINJA Corner Hotel October 4 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, 17 LACHY DOLEY Bar 303 October 17 WHITLEY Caravan Music Club October 17, Howler October 18 SUN CITY The Espy October 18 BEC LAUGHTON The Paris Car October 18 MATT CORBY Festival Hall October 18 ESKIMO JOE Ferntree Gully Hotel October 18, Forum Theatre October 19 KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Corner Hotel October 19 SPRUNG FESTIVAL Kevin Bartlett Sporting And Recreation Complex October 19 CALLING ALL CARS Ding Dong October 19 THE MODELS Ding Dong October 20, 21 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 HAVE/HOLD The Old Bar October 25 CREEPSHOW The Espy October 26 TWIN BEASTS Northcote Social Club October 26 THE GRAND RAPIDS Yah Yah’s October 26 STONEFIELD Corner Hotel October 26 BRIANA COWLISHAW Bennetts Lane October 26 - 27 LENKA Workers Club October 26 LILLY ROUGE Cherry Bar October 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 AURORA JANE The Evelyn October 31 BONJAH Ding Dong November 2 DAN SULTAN Thornbury Theatre November 2, 4 BOY & BEAR The Forum November 2 - 4 VIOLENT SOHO Corner Hotel November 4
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AUSTRALASIAN WORLDWIDE MUSIC EXPO Various venues.
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SO FRENCHY SO CHIC Werribee Park.
THE NATIONAL Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
LOOSE CHANGE The Espy November 8 A DAY ON THE GREEN Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley November 9 EVAN & THE BRAVE Rochester Castle November 9 JORDIE LANE Thornbury Theatre November 9, Caravan Club November 10 THE PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUGBAND Northcote Social Club November 16 ALEX & THE SHY LASHLIES The Toff November 20 GOSSLING Corner Hotel November 20 PATRICK JAMES Northcote Social Club November 22 QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Princess Park, Queenscliff November 22 - 24 ONE ELECTRIC DAY Werribee Park November 24 SAL KIMBER & THE ROLLIN’ WHEEL Northcote Social Club November 29 PARADISE FESTIVAL Lake Mountain, November 29 December 1 ROCKWIZ Palais Theatre, December 8 POND Corner Hotel December 19 NYE ON THE HILL TBA December 30 - January 1 RIVERBOATS FESTIVAL Echuca February 14 - 16 RUMOURS MEATLOAF, THE CURE = NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
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THE BASICS By Lachlan Kanoniuk
Over the course of the past 12 or so years, Melbourne trio The Basics have generated a fervent following with their slick rock acumen and charismatic live performances. The start of 2012 saw the release of the best-of collection Ingredients and the complementary rarities collection Leftovers. The releases could well have been a full-stop on the band’s story, with the band seemingly in a stasis since 2010. Since that time, Tim has enjoyed film work, Kris set up base in Kenya (replete with a bout of Malaria), and Wally saw immense worldwide success as Gotye. But against the odds and to the rejoice of fans, The Basics are back in full swing in 2013. Ahead of the upcoming national tour, Kris speaks to us about the band’s vitalising idiosyncrasies and their long-awaited return to the stage. “It’s been three years. I think the last show was Woodford 2010,” he gauges. “Obviously it’s better than what the mindset was then, because then we were thinking, ‘Oh let’s give it a rest, let’s just stop.’ So now we’re much more relaxed about what we’re doing. I think we’re all much more comfortable in our own space as individuals. Now we’re a bit more open with what we want to do and what we don’t want to do. We’ve only just embarked on the latest journey, but the vibe is good and we’re talking about doing more recording. We’ve got a bunch of shows to do, so that will test our resolve. I guess we’re just open to what may come.” Last year while Kris was residing in Kenya, Wally and Tim performed a set of Basics material at an impromptu Melbourne show. Being oceans away from the stage that night didn’t instigate any Basics FOMO for Kris, however. “Not at all. I just took the time off, I didn’t really do much music stuff. I did some stuff with some local Kenyan bands, some stuff for the Australian high commissioner – who was a fan. Other than that, I just let it go. I was stoked that they got together and did that. Then Tim and I did a similar thing when I was back for a couple weeks in October last year. I didn’t anticipate that it would get to this point. It was more going through the material for the Leftovers thing that sort of led to that for me, going through the old material and thinking, ‘Hey, we’re a pretty good band,’ thinking maybe we could do this.” It’s strange to think about, but The Basics are one of the few survivors of the past decade of Australian rock. “I was asked in a previous interview, ‘Who do you think your peers are?’ And I was trying to think of other bands that were comparable in terms of being around as long as us, and I couldn’t really come up with any that are still going,” he assesses. “It’s been around 12 years for us. There are bands like Even, The Fauves that have been going a lot longer. Then you have the other bands that are dead. So the cult, niche thing comes around because of the fact we’re still alive as a band. So when the gig-going public are looking for good gigs, we’re still around. It’s survival of the fittest, maybe. Maybe people have heard the name and haven’t seen us, or maybe people have seen us before but it’s been six, ten years and they think, ‘Fuck, these guys are still going. Let’s go check ‘em out.’” Many years ago, it seemed like The Basics’ ascension BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 20
was hampered by the national youth broadcaster’s aversion to spinning any of the band’s material. At the time, Kris was outspoken about his frustration with triple j’s music director Richard Kingsmill. Though triple j did end up rotating a few Basics singles down the line, Kris can reason that the death of radio play may have been a blessing in disguise. “It’s allowed us to be free, where we don’t need to get a song on triple j, or meet a goal that the record company has set us. Thinking about Jet, Little Red, Wolfmother, to a smaller extent The Vasco Era — They had their thing and hit it really well. I don’t know what their mindset was, whether they were thinking, ‘This isn’t us, we didn’t enjoy that.’ There are so many egos in a band – I don’t mean that in a bad way, I just mean that people want to express themselves. So we’ve been able to do that because we haven’t got anything to lose and everything to gain, so we can keep doing what we want. People have no specific expectations of what that might be. It’s quite freeing in a way,” Kris muses. “I think that’s one of the things that drew Wally back. He’s trying to do a follow-up Gotye album, and he has lots of musical ideas but might be struggling lyrically, as he said to me. It gives him the freedom to not have to think about it and not have that pressure.”
EVEN WALLY SAID THE OTHER DAY THAT HE’S BEEN A BIT OF A TRAGIC DRESSER OVER THE YEARS, AND HE’S ONLY RELATIVELY RECENTLY REALISED THAT. SUITS DO LOOK COOL, BUT IT’S AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE HIM LOOK LESS DAGGY, TO BE BLATANTLY HONEST. More so than most of their contemporaries, The Basics stand as champions of the sartorial. Whether onstage or in the press (when they actually do decide to wear
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clothes, it should be said), the three emanate a classic sense of style. “Ha, well it probably comes from a number of sources. My ex-wife is a fashion designer, so I think I personally gained a lot of appreciation for aesthetics through her, and that was disseminated in the band throughout the years. Even Wally said the other day that he’s been a bit of a tragic dresser over the years, and he’s only relatively recently realised that. Suits do look cool, but it’s an attempt to make him look less daggy, to be blatantly honest. I think it worked. It gave a bit of uniformity, people recognise us. We’re known for wearing the suits, whereas bands like You Am I don’t get asked about when they wear the suits, which is quite often. It’s become a thing we do. I got 12 suits made in Kenya for 40 bucks each, so that’s four new styles each,” Kris reveals. The runaway global success of Somebody That I Used To Know has no doubt resulted in some collateral newfound attention The Basics’ way. Gotye’s explosive rise into stardom has had little tangible effect on the trio’s already fervent local fanbase, as Kris explains. “Wally was already pretty famous after Heart’s A Mess in 2006. So it kind of already happened at various times over the years. So the club shows, it’s not so much. But maybe at festivals, people might read the program and think to check us out and see how it measures up to what Wally’s done. But at the moment, we don’t feel the pressure to live up to anything. Wally, and Tim, wouldn’t want it any other way. We’ll just be The Basics, there won’t be any spotlight on a particular member.” The band’s return to the stage raises the question as to the prospect of any new Basics material. “We started rehearsing a new song the other day. Wally’s in the middle of Gotye writing, so I don’t want to interrupt his thing too much. But we’ve got a bunch of songs that we’ve written, and I just want to get the cogs moving. Maybe some of them will end up on an album, maybe none of them will. Maybe all of them will,” Kris forecasts. “Tim was mentioning that we should bunker down and write an album together, which is something we’ve never done before. It’s always been individual songwriters, or Wally and I together. We’ll see how these shows pan out and how much time we have. In terms of making a new album, the biggest question is ‘why?’ I don’t think ‘just because’ is a good enough reason to record new music, I really want a strong notion of why we are doing it so we go in with the right attitude. When that reason comes around, we might have something that falls together.” While Wally’s inevitable Gotye commitments will impose a finite timeframe on the current Basics chapter, Kris is calm and confident with the unit’s current headspace. “I think we’re doing better stuff now than we’ve ever done before. We’re sounding better, we’re looking better, we’re a lot more comfortable with ourselves and who we are as a band. We’ve hit a bit of a zen stage where things are seeming to work without trying too hard. The best is happening now, rather than in the past. The past is cool, but I think we’re in a good spot now.”
THE BASICS play two sold-out Northcote Social Club shows on Friday September 27 and Saturday September 28 and a sold out Corner Hotel show on September 29.
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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN
With Tyson Wray. Got thoughts, news, gossip, complaints or cat photos? Email tyson@beat.com.au or send by carrier pigeon before Friday 12pm.
The Hijacking tells the story of a Danish cargo ship MV Rozenthat that is heading for harbour when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship’s cook Mikkel (Pilou Asbæk) and the engineer Jan (Roland Møller), who along with the rest of the seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars, a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company (Søren Malling) and the Somali pirates. It’s currently showing at Cinema Nova.
ON STAGE 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, and post-producer Ana Jimenez. Suspended will grace the Rooftop Cinema from Tuesday October 1 – Thursday October 3.
ON DISPL AY Melbourne artist Dean Jones’ new solo exhibition BOARDED UP!….and Threw Away the Key at Brightspace is an eclectic mix of writing and 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 three-tiered 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-beat-music to Jones’ spoken words. It’s currently showing at Brightspace until Friday October 3.
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THE KANGAROO KILLER By Liza Dezfouli The 2002 book Cradle to Cradle by US architect William McDonnagh and German engineer Michael Brangart, a manifesto calling for a radical change in industry, has inspired actor director and videographer Paddy Mac’s first play, The Kangaroo Killer. “It was a revolution for me,” says Melbourne-born Mac, a graduate of Deakin University where he completed a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts. “I never thought I could write. But it came out of desperation, my (admittedly easy) experience of being an immigrant, of not having a voice. I wanted to get my thoughts across: ‘I’ve got a brain, I’ve got a story to tell.’ Spending a year in London gave Mac just enough of a sense of being an outsider and enough distance from Australia to appreciate how good we have it here. So he wrote the play, a political comedy, he says, about consequences, confrontation and making things right, in London and returned to Melbourne to haul it to its feet. The piece also reflects some of Mac’s own experiences. The play’s story centres around Australia’s biggest hydro electric dam being opened in Kangaroo Valley but when Frank Smith is introduced to the townsfolk as the project’s engineer, rumours of sabotage begin. Frank has a past and it’s not been forgotten. The opening event is threatened by violence. Along with the reactions of the locals, the weather also menaces
the proceedings with the forecast of a cyclone. What was it about Cradle to Cradle, a book exhorting manufacturing and industrial practices to go further than recycling to save the environment, that captured Mac’s imagination? “I needed someone with these ideals,” Mac responds. “The protagonist Frank is an engineer, a reformed environmentalist, someone who
CLASSICAL VS JAZZ: THE ULTIMATE HARP BATTLE By Liza Dezfouli We’ve heard of duelling banjos but duelling harps? “The harp is visually a very striking instrument,” says Michelle Smith, who is about to do battle with her friend and colleague Catherine Ashley in their Fringe show Classical vs Jazz: The Ultimate Harp Battle. It’s hard to imagine a harpist playing jazz but Smith is on a mission to change all that. The show’s cross genre rivalry between Smith and classical harpist Ashley gives the musician a chance to show the world what the harp is capable of. ” There will be two harps on stage, which looks impressive,” continues Smith.
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The harpist’s love for her instrument comes across strongly. “I always wanted to play the harp,” Smith says. “But it’s a very expensive instrument and I didn’t have millionaire parents.” Starting her musical education at the age of three, Smith had to be content with learning piano, cello and classical guitar. “But they didn’t give me the fiery feeling in my stomach,” she continues. By the time Smith was 23 she realised if she were going to learn to play the harp then she had better do something about it. Fortunately Ashley felt the same way and between them the two applied for a bank loan to buy a harp. “My life changed direction. I’ve never
looked back,” says Smith. Jazz harpists are a rare species; Smith found there was no-one to teach her jazz harp in Australia so left for the United States to study. Smith obtained a mentorship to go to Boston and says she can’t wait to go back. “There are no more than 100 jazz harpists in the USA, and about the same number in Europe,” she notes. “I am the only one in Australia, and I’ve looked high and low in this country. Once I’ve mastered jazz I want to set up workshops and extend the knowledge of jazz harp in Australia.” Learning to improvise jazz rhythms is a huge
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passionately, obsessively believes that what he’s doing is right, but who fails epically, not because he’s not trying hard enough but because he doesn’t have the community on his side. I know what that’s like. The protagonist is a believer, he practices Cradle to Cradle principles but being an idealist isn’t good enough. It’s important that his green thumb comes with a business point of view, he still hasn’t quite recognised that he needs people: his family, the community at large, he needs to work on their level. I had to show someone having ideals but not being able to achieve those. He fails to recognise the need for community. I needed someone with high hopes who fails and tries again.” The play’s point of view is mostly that of the protagonist, Frank. The production’s lighter moments are provided by the character of Podgy. “He’s a really funny goofy character,” says Mac. “He was born out of fun. The character of ‘introverted genius’ Janice was born out of the necessity for the story to have some dramatic impact, for the story to have tension. She has a biological and psychological response to the environment; she suffers from a medical condition called poliviaphobia which is a fear of being rained on. It comes from a past traumatic experience, of a flood or a cyclone or tsunami. Her father left the family when she was very young and we are led to believe this happened at the same time as a storm, that the two are associated. She’s confronted physically and emotionally. It’s also about how we see the environment as a character, at its most extreme.” Mac is quick to point out that serious themes don’t prevent the play from having broad appeal. “It’s a bit serious but you can have a laugh. It’s fun for the whole family, a bit of fun, and it’s got a bit of nudity.” Really something for everyone then. The Kangaroo Killer is currently playing at the Revolt Artspace until Saturday October 5 as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
undertaking in itself, whatever instrument you’re playing. It’s a job that can’t be hurried. “It takes about five years to become a good improviser,” Smith says. “The more I learn, the more I find I don’t know. But when you can do it properly, it’s jaw-droppingly amazing. You have to have been playing for about ten years. It’s a wonderful thing that the older you are the more likely you are to get noticed.” Classical versus Jazz is Smith’s first interstate performance. She won’t be playing her own instrument: the size of harps means that transporting them is a problem.“I wouldn’t put my harp on a plane, no way,” Smith says with a shudder. Fortunately Melbourne harpists have been supportive of a show which will be new to everyone, really everyone and Smith and Ashley have been loaned harps for their show. Not only does the show expand on the proverbial classical versus jazz debate but it does it in a way that’s entirely new. “This is the world’s first harp battle,” Smith notes. “There has never been a harp battle before.” Will Smith be playing her own music? “The opening piece is original, it’s my composition,” she answers. “The music includes some Latin and classical flamenco in a duet. There’s a Chopin arrangement. We’re taking the music to other areas.” Smith is keen to explore everything that can possibly be played on a harp – cabaret numbers, blues, hip hop, “It gets you into all sorts of things.” Who inspires her musically? “The greats. Miles Davis, the way he plays with space. It’s not so jarring as some jazz music. Blues. Johnny Lee Hooker. I’m learning more about jazz musicians as I go along, found different ways to make it listenable as opposed to theoretical. Music is a language, it should be spoken and accessible to everyone.” Classical vs Jazz: The Ultimate Harp Battle will take place at the Revolt Artspace from Wednesday October 2 - Saturday October 5 as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
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THE COMIC STRIP PUBLIC BAR COMEDY
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Tonight’s Public Bar lineup is Ronny Chieng along with Celia Pacquola, Josh Earl, Simon Keck, Dave Warneke and Xander Allan. If you don’t know why this is a red hot line up, you need to get down there and find out tonight. It’s all killer no filler for just $5. Stop thinking about it and get down to the Public Bar at 8.30pm.
ONCE
REGIONAL MODERNITIES PARTY
If you still haven’t attended the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s current exhibition, Regional Modernities by Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, the gallery will be giving you more incentive to go this week with a closing party this Friday. The night will feature music provided by Brothers Hand Mirror, comprised of Grant Jonathan Gronwold (HTML Flowers, Cougar Flashy) and Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn (Oscar Key Sung, Oscar & Martin), and happy hour drinks from 6pm – 7pm. Regional Modernities is the first major Southern Hemisphere exhibition of the internationally acclaimed artist Monika Sosnowska. The collection of work captures the psychology of architecture and how it defines the social, political and demographical aspects of our identity. ACCA’s Regional Modernities party will happen on Friday September 27 from 6pm – 9.30pm. Bookings are essential. Regional Modernities, the exhibition, will close on Sunday September 29.
The Melbourne Theatre Company are currently open for auditions for parts in their production for next year, Once. Regarded as one of Broadway’s favourite musicals, Once illustrates a tale filled with friendship, love and music based on the independent Irish film which captivated audiences years ago. The Melbourne Theatre Company will be looking for talented performers who can sing, dance, act and play a musical instrument (if you can do all four, you deserve massive kudos). Melbourne Theatre Company will be taking Online Video Submissions until Friday October 18, and the first round of live auditions will be held in Melbourne on Saturday December 7. For more information, please visit oncemusical.com.au.
LOL COMEDY Hot Night in the City continues the Melbourne Fringe festivities at LOL Comedy at the Portland Hotel in the city on Wednesday September 25, Provincial Hotel in Fitzroy on Thursday September 26 and The Local in Port Melbourne on Tuesday October 1. This Friday September 27 at the Hawthorn Hotel don’t miss the LOL Comedy grand final special with a game preview, past players and most importantly of all, comedians talking with authority and jokes just like the pub experts that they are. Tickets from lolcomedy.com.au or at the door.
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GOTYE & HIS COLLABORATORS
In conjunction with Melbourne Music Week this November, ACMI will host Gotye & His Collaborators, a panel discussion. Hosted for one-night-only as part of Spectable: The Music Video Exhibition, Gotye & His Collaborators will see the Australian Grammy winner take stage alongside the filmmakers and animations behind his iconic videos clips, including Easy Way Out and international hit, Somebody That I Used To Know. Hosted by film and music critic Megan Spencer, the event will provide a fascinating insight into the collaborative process, from its conception, to its development and final production. Gotye & His Collaborators will grace the ACMI on Monday November 18 at 5pm.
EMPIRE
Since Empire by Spiegelworld opened in Australia in January this year, it has been seen by over 130,000 people around the country with rave reviews, sold out performances and standing ovations. Now, Empire will return to the rooftop of Crown in Melbourne under the beautiful spiegeltent next March. Presented in Spiegelworld’s 700-seat antique spiegeltent, Empire smashes the boundaries of circus, cabaret, vaudeville and burlesque, reinventing the genres for a 21st century audience. Featuring the sexiest, most daring artists from across the globe, the show had its world premiere season in New York City during the summer of 2012, where it was the first tented show ever seen in Times Square. It returns on Tuesday March 11 next year.
DOCKLANDS ARTS, LAUGHS & BLUES FESTIVAL
This October, the Docklands Arts, Laughs & Blues Festival will celebrate its second year. To commemorate this anniversary, the festival have included a saucier and circus-inspired theme, including cabaret, burlesque, magic shows, acclaimed British comedian Jeff Green, and Search For A Funny Bone, a nightly competition to discover Australia’s next comedian talent. Other highlights include Papillon, a circus cabaret full of acrobats and cigarette girls, and jazz extraordinaire Pugsley Buzzard. Docklands Arts, Laughs & Blues Festival will transform Melbourne’s Docklands from Tuesday October 1 – Sunday October 6.
Commedia Dell Parte returns to a single room again this Thursday in St Kilda. Come down to the George Lane bar this week and join Neil Sinclair as he hosts a great lineup of comics featuring Trav Nash, Laura Davis, Mark Trenwith, Angus Brown, Blaise White and Bert Goldsmith. 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.
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BUSHPIG
POP MASHUP: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOCTOR!
By Sam Wilson Bushpig is a one woman show that is pure fringe – intimate, funny, and a bit of an experiment, performed with wonderful dexterity by the creator of the show, Hannah Malarski. Bushpig (Malarski), is a lonely hopeful from a country town, desperate to make it big in the city. Just how she should go about doing this is not so clear, along with what talents she has to make it to the big time. Still she goes to seek her fortune, spurred on by an encouraging aunt and a doting father. But of course fame is not what it says on the tin, and Bushpig finds herself longing for home. It is a wellworn story line, but one that still holds resonance in a small performance venue like the Owl and the Pussycat. Why we go on creating and performing is a question that a lot of people, in the face of multiple
setbacks, continue to ask themselves. This play highlights the joy and freedom from performing in a one woman show. In an industry still bogged down in gender inequality, both on stage and behind the scenes, it is one of the few formats that a female performer gets to shamelessly hog (pun intended) the stage, and with characters and performances that aren’t designed to complement the (usually male) protagonists. Indeed Bushpig is full of well-meaning, ambitious-by-proxy female characters who, having missed out on their own chance, invest in the female lead to fulfil their own dashed dreams. A trim-down in run time would hugely benefit this show, but otherwise Bushpig is a good example of solid fringe theatre, beautifully performed, and full of simple, yet highly effective stagecraft.
EIGHT
Saturday November 23 will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, the longest running sciencefiction show in history. Since its genesis in 1963, the TV series has captured the hearts of millions across the world with its eccentric characters and thrilling adventures, including US comedian Katherine Phelps (In Search of LOLitanium), who created the Melbourne Fringe Festival musical comedy: Pop Mashup: Happy Birthday Doctor! One of the most fascinating things about this production is not its collusive blend of Rowling’s Harry Potter characters and the BBC classic sci-fi, rather, it is the intricate detail that Phelps has invested into the characters. Lead actor Ruben Francis, who studied at
SONGS MY PARENTS TAUGHT ME
By Josh Fergeus What are the ramifications of growing up in a world where success is measured by sexual, commercial, and aesthetic excess? This is the question posed by Ella Hickson, writer of Eight. It’s also the one thing holding together this disparate group of (mostly) monologues. Despite the rather tenuous link, the stories 28-yearold Hickson’s eight Gen Ys weave are engaging and well-delivered by an equally young cast. There’s young mum Bobby, desperately trying to capture the magic of Christmas for her kids after their father has walked out on them; seventeen year old Jude, holidaying in
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Southern Europe and desperate for his first sexual encounter with a bewitching older woman; and Millie, an upper middle-class English patriot who also happens to be a courtesan to the extremely wealthy like her mother before her. The production is enjoyable and entertaining, however the seating arrangements within the small Owl and the Pussycat theatre leave a little to be desired. This is not a bad choice if you’re not easily offended and in the mood for some light entertainment, but get there early to secure your place in the line for the best seats.
By Jo Robin Lisa Skye’s Songs My Parents Taught Me warmly weaves reflections on her own transition to adulthood through the narrative of ‘70s couple Bunny and Mad Dog. It is a love story set in Melbourne’s inner north in a simpler time, when sex and music reigned and marijuana was ‘legal’. She combines the second hand anecdotes and reminiscences of her parents with her own experiences to offer up a look at modern day hedonism. Skye uses an effective mix of conversational storytelling, metronome bolstered beat poetry, music and a
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the Actors Conservatory, plays a compelling and witty Doctor full of frantic intelligence and impulsivity, while Sarah Cooper portrays an impeccably anxious Hermione Granger. They complement each other very well, creating a riveting dynamic akin to that found in both Rowling’s writings and Doctor Who. However, when you thought that combination was strange enough, wait until you see The Doctor’s nemesis Grumpy Cat (Melinda King) try to take over the universe with Nyan Cats powered by arton energy emitted from the TARDIS (the blue police box that The Doctor travels around in) and pop tarts. It sounds like too much internet, especially Tumblr, crammed into one show, but somehow it works. And it is because of this fact, that playwright and comedian Katherine Phelps has to be commended on creating a time travel, magic and cat-infused musical comedy that will leave all geeks regarding it as the Shakespeare of their generation.
collection of amusing slides that don’t shy away from using Wordart. She openly discusses everything from sex to settling down, to stupid things teenagers say on acid. While some of the subject matter is confronting, Skye delivers it in such a way that it avoids becoming unnecessarily shocking and audience members are invited to opt out at any time and take comfort in a picture of an intergalactic shark, making love to a rocket. Skye energetically imparts her wisdom with an earnest, natural humour. It is difficult not to like the glittery, green haired performer, resplendent in all her imperfection. She has a strong, sharply funny, independent voice and if what she’s saying starts to offend, just remember, the evening’s safe word is ‘shark’.
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MGMT By Tyson Wray Ben Goldwasser was 25-years-old when he and fellow band member Andrew Van Wyngarden were thrust viciously into the global spotlight. In 2008 the duo released arguably the biggest breakthrough debut album of the decade in Oracular Spectacular, and while the paramount levels of success were no doubt welcome, the subsequent pressures and expectations laid upon them became overpowering and deeply affected their artistic output. “When we worked on Congratulations we didn’t really give ourselves much of a break after touring Oracular Spectacular,” explains Goldwasser. “A lot of the moods on that album we’re influenced by what we were feeling, which for the most part was overwhelmed by all of the attention we were getting and not really knowing how to deal with fame and success. It’s really easy to get disillusioned with the whole machine that is the music industry.” These realisations were what led the duo to step back and take an unrefined approach when they recorded their third self-titled studio album. “Things were pretty crazy for a while – it got really confusing. But now we’re really feeling in control, “ states Goldwasser. “We’re feeling really confident and really happy with the music that we’ve made. We’re really excited that now people can finally hear it, we’ve been waiting for a fair while. On this album we really gave ourselves a lot of time to decompress after we finished touring, which I think
really helped. We were in a really good frame-of-mind when working on this album.” For MGMT, the duo returned to Tarbox Road Studios to work with long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann (co-producer and mixer of Oracular Spectacular and Congratulations). “We had a lot more time with Dave to record all of the album up there, we actually learnt a lot of the songs in the studio,” he notes. “Previously we’d do a lot of the recording somewhere else and already have these fully-fledged ideas of how we wanted things to sound and what the arrangements of the songs would be before we went to work with him. This time we went up there with a clean slate. It was a cool way to work. We really just recorded ourselves jamming in the studio. Just recording for a couple of hours and then going back and listening to what we did and picking moments that we thought would be cool to expand on and try and turn into a song. A lot of it was written like that – which was really fun.
“For this album we used a lot more analogue synths and drum machines than we ever did in the past. A lot of it was written by setting up sequences, building up from something and synchronising a bunch of things together and slowly starting to make changes to the patterns that were playing and getting a lot of variations and stringing together a song that way. In a lot of ways it was a lot more organic instead of just sitting at a piano with a guitar and trying to write a pop song, which can be really stressful.” Returning to Australia over the New Year, Goldwasser admits that their current live performances are both evolving rapidly while also being a steep learning curve. “For the past few months we’ve been playing about half of our new material, but a lot of it is really difficult to play live,” he explains. “Considering it was built from the studio from improvisation and filled with a lot of unique
moments, it really isn’t possible to recreate without a room full of gear that we spent so much time fine tuning to get the exact right sound. “We’re still using a lot of the same instruments [from when we toured Congratulations], but I feel that we’ve gotten a lot better and creating the sounds that we want to. We’ve been playing really well together. We don’t have a lot of gimmicks, or whatever, it just sounds really good.”
The Fifth, he decided to try a new approach, entrusting production duties to his various collaborators so he could focus on song writing instead. Pop heavyweight RedOne contributed, along with R&B star Baptiste, and many more. “The production side of me was still there, because I picked the beats, and I worked on the arrangements,” Dizzee continues. “The way things fit together on the album isn’t necessarily the way they fit together when I was first presented with the beats. When you have to build a beat then write to it, your thought process is different, so I liked that I started out working with smashing pop hooks for this one.” Dance and hip hop are changing and evolving all the time, and on that front, Dizzee considers it a part of his job to always be on top of the newest sounds and
the newest beats. “That’s especially true when it comes to hip hop,” he says. “My heart’s still there, it’s still the core of what I do, so I wake up every morning and look all over the internet for new shit, from the mainstream as well as the underground. I also listen to a lot of club music – it’s not necessarily my main thing, but I hear a lot of it about, and I’m always curious about why and how people respond to different beats. It’s about finding out what stimulates people, and then trying to find a balance, putting that into my own music.”
[The Social Network]. We just fell in love with it because we were watching them play it on the internet, and the hymnotron and all these things. We became kind of obsessed with those cousins. We’re gonna go on a pilgrimage one day and meet them I’m hoping.” Torrini and Carey liked the instrument so much they ordered one, but it had to be hand-made before being sent to Iceland, a process that took months. They spent the time watching more YouTube, which is where they found the next piece of the puzzle – an Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer. “I fell in love with the Oberheim and I was like ‘all right, let’s do electronic music. I really need to dance.’ I’ve had the baby and most women or people need to go out with friends and have a weekend of dancing. I needed to go in the studio and make dance music. So we just did [first single] Speed Of Dark and Tookah and danced around and then we fell into making the re-
cord and it became much more natural.” That natural feeling is an important part of the process for Torrini. Back in 2003 she co-wrote the Kylie Minogue hit Slow and as a result is still on an industry list of songwriters who are asked to contribute songs for up-and-coming pop stars, which are often very specific in the details they ask for. For the last 10 years she’s been saying no to them. “It’s basically saying ‘we want to sound like this and this is the subject’ and often there are words,” she says. “It’s not very exciting. And then a lot of artists and writers choose, ‘I’d like to write for them or we can send this song’. It’s a machine, you know.”
MGMT’s self-titled album is out now through Sony Music. They are also appearing at Falls Festival which takes place in Lorne from Saturday December 28 – Wednesday January 1, Marion Bay from Sunday December 29 - Wednesday January 1 and Byron Bay from Tuesday December 31 – Friday January 3.
DIZZEE RASCAL By Alasdair Duncan A few years ago, Dizzee Rascal’s single Dance Wiv Me signalled a change in the cheeky UK rapper’s music, away from the grime sound of old, in the direction of unabashed pop. His new album, The Fifth, sees him embrace the idea of pop even more. Packed with dance floor-ready beats, it’s his most joyous release to date. As he tells it, he wanted to make an album that would give his live show more punch. “The whole thing with this record is that it’s geared towards live audiences,” he explains. “The earlier stuff didn’t have a lot for the crowd to latch onto in terms of hooks and the rest of it, it was just me rapping away, so this time, I really wanted to give people something. I challenged myself to bring those big hooks in and make it work.” On his newfound musical direction, Dizzee has said that if his last record, Tongue n’ Cheek, represented him dipping a toe into the swimming pool of happiness, then The Fifth is him diving in and going for a swim. I ask him what brought about this new way of thinking and he says, simply, that he’s arrived at a point in life where he appreciates the benefits of happiness and positivity. “I want to see people smiling and jumping around and having the time of their lives at my shows,” he says. “I want music that facilitates that. I want to make people feel good. I want to make classics. I want people to put my music on when they have a celebra-
tion. That’s how I want to be remembered.” The Fifth was made in Los Angeles, and the atmosphere of the city – itself undergoing something of a hip hop resurgence at the moment – contributed greatly to the sound of the album. “I’ve been coming to LA for years,” Dizzee explains, “it’s actually the first place I went when I came to America back in 2003, but I’ve never made music here before this album. It’s always been my favourite American city, even ahead of Miami. This time around, I decided to come out here and do the pop star thing – I worked with some big people in some big studios, and I just had a laugh. It’s funny to be waking up in hotels, every day is sunny, going to the studio all day … There are so many people here. You can go to a studio here and anyone can be next door. You’ll be walking the halls and bump into Tyga or Chris Brown.” Across a decade-long career Dizzee has always determinedly produced his own material, but when making
DIZZIE RASCAL’s new album, The Fifth, is out now via Island Universal in 16-track deluxe and 12-track standard versions.
EMILIANA TORRINI By Jody Macgregor It’s been five years since Emiliana Torrini released her album Me and Armini and its memorably bouncy single Jungle Drum. Afterwards she worked on but ultimately abandoned another record, and life got in the way like it tends to do. By the time she started writing songs for the album she recently finished, Tookah, Torrini was a different person with different ideas. “By doing records with such a big space in between you go through so many stages of development,” she says in her delightfully chirpy Icelandic accent. “I guess if I would have done a record, like, three years ago it would have been a psychedelic rock record. You just realise how much you morph into something. And also I gave birth to my son and that puts a different head on you.” Torrini discovered she was pregnant the last time she was in Australia, while preparing for a show as part of the Sunset Sounds festival in Brisbane. “I thought I was really jetlagged and I thought I still had the food poisoning since Mexico, but actually I was pregnant. That was huge. I have such an amazing memory from it. I was roaming around in this haze like, ‘Oh my God, this is incredible. There’s some little creature growing inside me.’ It was amazing. Then being onstage playing music to all these incredibly happy people was really good for my body.” Having huge life changes affect her music isn’t new BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 26
for Torrini, whose 2005 album Fisherman’s Woman was shaped by the death of her boyfriend in a car accident.“It was such an emotional record to make,” she says. “It was a really tough record in that way, but then Me and Armini taught me to let go. When we did Me and Armini we decided everything comes out and we’re gonna leave everything alone no matter how different everything is. We’re just gonna put it down. So that was a very quick record to work.” Tookah was not so quick. When Torrini and her songwriting/producing partner Dan Carey gave up completely at one point, they decided to just kill time watching videos on YouTube instead. That was how they discovered the swarmatron, an electronic instrument that sounds like a choir of bees and was designed by two Brooklynite cousins who also created something called a hymnotron. “We got lost in YouTube watching those cousins talk about it. It was just this incredible swarming noise. It’s the same as Trent Reznor used for a movie
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on tour 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, Boney 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 ANDY MOOR [UK] Friday October 4, Brown Alley 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 CROOKERS [ITA] Saturday October 19, RMH The Venue 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 DROPLEX [HNG] Friday November 1, Brown Alley CHOPSTICK & JOHNJON [GER] Sunday November 3, Revolver Upstairs AME [GER], MATTHIAS TANZMANN [GER] Sunday November 3, Brown Alley EXTRAWELT [GER] Friday November 15, 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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New York City based DJ/producer Anthony Naples has had one of those dream rides to notoriety. Fitting into quite a techy and minimal pocket of ambient house Naples was thrust into the electronic music limelight when in 2012 he was asked by Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) to remix his song 128 Harps. Naples is performing a DJ set this Friday at Boney as the headline act for the Jung & Dumb opening night – Jung & Dumb is a new semi-regular party at Boney hosted by DJ LA Pocock. Having just arrived in Australia, Naples took the time to chat to Beats about being a long way from home, the Four Tet connection, respecting but disrespecting the house scene and finding his place on the register of respected UK label The Trilogy Tapes. “I haven’t been to Australia before, it’s the furthest I can be from home so I’ve never even imagined I would be so that’s pretty crazy. It’s been really cool, everyone’s been really nice, the weather is perfect and it just has a nice laidback vibe to it so I’m pretty hyped on that,” notes Naples, currently in Perth. As established in the introduction Naples was literally shot into the international DJing and production spotlight from his sublime remix of 128 Harps that appeared on a b-side on the track’s 12” single that was released in the UK in June 2012. Naples explains how he got asked to edit a song that is surely on the wish-lists of many far more experienced artists than him. “Yeah he heard my song played at a party that he was playing and turned to me to ask who it was, so I told him ‘oh that’s me actually’ and he seemed really impressed with the song. He asked me to remix Harps because I was really fresh to the whole thing and I think he thought it would lead to interesting results - kind of how it would be if you gave a 5th grader a guitar for the first time,” Naples laughs at his own self-effacing wit. He now summarises the experience with, “It was definitely cool but also really high pressure for someone who spent the last decade - and only decade – of looking up to this guy and following his every move!” As evidenced by this final comment Naples is
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modest and conscious of his relative newness to the scene. This attitude implies, somewhat, that his cheekily named 12” single Mad Disrespect on Mister Saturday Night Records, that came out last year, was ironically titled.
In March this year Naples released the El Portal EP on UK crossover label The Trilogy Tapes. Other producers on the label are _moonraker, Tuff Sherm, MGUN and Willie Burns. Naples discusses the distinct advantages of being part of such an eclectic bunch. “I think it’s really opened a lot of doors for me as I don’t think people look to TTT for a source of club bangers but more like a source of good music in a sea of very plain and functional music. It has definitely opened up opportunities for me that I don’t think a lot of club DJ’s get.” He pauses thoughtfully before explaining the
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One of Melbourne’s most successful day parties, Lockdown, makes its return with Crookers next month. With Phra now continuing the Crookers legacy on his own, he has made sure not to compromise their signature sound but continue moving forward. Local support will come from Orkestrated, Rob Pix, Keesh, Jungle Jim, Zac Depetro, Johnny Canik, James Fava, Azmac, Press Play, Nick Kennedy, Luke Montgomery, Benson, Butters – and that’s not even the half of it. It’s all happening at RMH The Venue on Saturday October 19.
Soul Clap, Wolf + Lamb, Will Saul, Rustie, Tokimonsta, Jacques Greene, Kode9, Kito, Reija Lee, Floating Points, Marcel Vogel, Andrew Weatherall, Shed, Psychemagik, Smallpeople, Dave Clarke, Skudge, Roman Flügel, Jam City, Silicone Soul.
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opportunities TTT has opened up, “For instance I opened up for a collaborative performance between VAR and Pharmakon in an art space with very little to do with dance music or that whole vibe. But the fact the party in question thought that there was a middle ground between what I do and what those guys are doing is an honour and surely couldn’t have happened without the TTT 12” and what that all means!” The opening track to El Portal is the title track. It is a carefully constructed piece of slightly blurry down-tempo house. The density of the song could imply glum environmental factors during its conception but Naples partially agrees then dismisses this assumption. “I was living in a room with no windows and it was winter,” he waits before adding, “But I’m not sure if that had anything to do with the vibe of the song but those were the circumstances.” However he is willing to talk through what the influences to El Portal’s sound may have been, “I actually purposely stopped listening to music for a bit and told myself that I had a month to make a set of tracks with a few pieces of gear and at a certain time of day every day or else. So between 8am and 12pm every day I’d just jam and record it, then send it to Will (Bankhead of TTT) and see what he thought. But yeah, anyways, I’d say it’s my most un-influenced record where as something like Mad Disrespect was supposed to just sound like some NY-House/bootleg Mood II Swing stuff. “ Finally Naples discusses his upcoming set at Jung & Dumb, “ As heady as I think my music can get when I DJ I definitely like to play to the crowd a bit and have a nice party. I just want everyone to have a good time, and obviously the goal is to educate people with music they don’t expect as well as to make sure they have a good time. If I can hit that mark and make a few people lose their shit to some good music, I’ve hit the mark!”
extrawelt and phaeleh
The annual bonanza returns in 2013 with arguably the biggest Electric Owl of the year featuring Extrawelt and Phaeleh. The pre-Strawberry Fields bash is going to be featuring non-other than the who’s who of techno, deep house and electronica. Extrawelt is the latest project from Hamburg’s Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe, otherwise known as techtrance duo Midi Miliz. Phaeleh is Matt Preston who produces an inimitable style of cinematic electronic music, which floats between the shifting tempos and timbres of dubstep, garage, electronica and house music. Make sure to head down to Brown Alley on Friday November 15.
lost the plot
Lost The Plot Festival unleashes itself once again reuniting the tribes for what is set to be a mind blowing musical, spiritual and visual journey, exploding at the seams which is spanned over three days, set in picturesque bush land in Victoria. Bringing the old school back to the new age, reconnecting the scene with some of the finest psychedelic and progressive trance acts from across the globe and as home grown as they come, Lost The Plot caters for all electronic music enthusiasts. It goes down from Friday October 18 - Sunday October 20. Visit losttheplotfestival.com for more information.
droplex ian m
Underground, techno legend Ian M is heading down to Melbourne this November. Ian M’s career spans over three decades, with anthemic tunes riddling his discography. Having gained the reputation of a legend it is only fitting that he is often dubbed the Godfather of Hard House. To experience an era of hard house and trance few have, head to Room 680 on Friday November 8.
Droplex is a young minimal and techno producer from Hungary. His first release with the Activate EP that was released in the summer of 2011 set his career on the path he finds himself on today. Finding support from Tocadisco, Ahmet Sendil, Hoxton Whore, Antoine Claraman, Daniel Portman, Steven Lions and many more, Droplex’s future looks bright. He will be supported by the best in local support including Keesh, Zac Depetro, Katie Drover and many more. It’s all happening at Brown Alley on Friday November 1.
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jack in the box monthly: featuring rampa and james silk When is it? Friday September 27. Where is it? OneSixOne - 161 High St, Prahran Who’s playing? Special guests RAMPA and James Silk plus OneSixOne and Jack in the Box residents HOOPS, Tony Wardan, Josh Paola, J Ramon, Ollie Holmes, Jay Ueta, Funky Col and James Steeth. What sort of shit will they be playing? House and deep house in the main room, hip hop, funk and disco downstairs so pretty cool shit! What’s the crowd going to be like? The crowd will be a mature crowd who love and follow good quality music. Most will have personality, a lot of good looking people, there might be a few strange ones but definitely no peanuts! What will we remember in the AM? That depends on how you play your night I suppose but one thing I will remember is that I heard some good music and had a good night out with some awesome people! What’s the wallet damage? Entry fee for this event is $15 before midnight and $20 after on a guest list. Other damages to your wallet after that is up to you. Give us one final reason why we should party here. There are lots of reasons to come, and I am sure there are also reasons for you not to, but just come! We have Ollie Holmes, that’s almost more than enough!
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andy moor
Andy Moor is a trance and progressive DJ who many would have come to know for his many aliases. Whether you’ve known him as Dub Disorder, Dwight van Man or Sworn, it is undeniable that Andy Moor is a highly talented individual with an exciting discography. Andy Moor also won Best Trance Track at the 2006 International Dance Music Awards at the Winter Music Conference in Miami and Best Trance Track and Best Producer in 2004. Catch him at RMH The Venue on Friday October 4.
dj tony wardan Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up? Best Westlander Motor Inn in Horsham. Describe yourself using the title of a song. Never Gonna Stop What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child? That Agro was a distant relative. The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? Accidentally stopping the track that’s playing mid way through a mix. Not cool. What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat? Depends on what you call ‘dance’ but anything that involves Pitbull. What’s the most played record in your bag? Sonny Fodera & Wally Callerio - Everything
flako
What question would you like to ask an omniscient, all-knowing being before you die? Would you really forgive me for all my sins?
Soulful London beat maker Flako will be hitting Melbourne for first time ever next month. Flako will head here after supporting Bonobo on his European tour to treat fans to his signature acoustic and electronic sound folded into each other making for and warm and inviting sound. Head down to Revolver on Saturday October 5.
If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead? Designing good quality eye wear. When and where is your next gig? Friday September 27 at Jack In The Box at OneSixOne featuring RAMPA and James Silk.
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German DJ Rampa is elbow deep in beats. Everything he releases throbs with the best elements of both house and techno with sprinkles of disco. He is best friends with Azari & III, he releases tracks through taste making labels Keinemusik, Get Physical and is coming to Melbourne to play Onesixone this Friday September 27 just one week after playing for Defected in Ibiza. A signature of his sound is the deepness of the beat. Rampa, quite openly, discusses where his attraction to the deepness of the bass comes from. “I’m inspired by everything but mostly by my crew Keinemusik. It’s not a specific person, DJ or producer who I get my inspiration from.” The tall German with movie star good looks pauses before adding, “Sometimes club nights inspire me a lot and then after the show I can’t wait to get in the studio and catch this feeling somehow.” He then, in a mockingly defeated way explains, “Sometimes it works, and sometimes I get depressed because it just doesn’t sound like I had it in my mind.” A Rampa produced track that captures the deep house with a disco sensibility is Where Did I Go Wrong. Overlaying this incredible musical base are the vocals of Azari & III singer Starving Yet Full (S.Y.F). “I played some shows with Azari & III and became friends with them. I recorded a track with Fritz which is still in progress and then Cedric (S.Y.F) came to Berlin for like two weeks and we hung out in the studio. Actually we spend more times in bars or clubs but anyway we got the idea of this track. I did a simple loop and he started writing on it,” concludes Rampa. Interestingly Rampa’s main musical influences are contemporary artists like Azari & III and environmental factors like club experiences. However, when pushed he offers some insight into his musical roots.
“To be honest, I have never thought that much about my influences. It just comes out as it does. I mean I do love disco but DJs don’t influence me that much as musicians did and still do. I was a big Michael Jackson fan as a child and I’m still fascinated by his whole story. Also a lot of hip hop artists and punk bands have influenced me,” discloses the Berlin resident. A vocalist that has been working with Rampa since 2009 when they collaborated on his release Rebirth is New York based vocalist Nomi Ruiz. Ruiz is most renowned for her work with DFA act Hercules & Love Affair. Rampa talks about his relationship with this strong voiced woman who strikes an imposing figure. “We met through a friend and she liked my sound and I liked her voice! After the single we decided to work on an album. We were so slow at one point to join the album to fasten it up and we went three weeks to NYC to do recordings. We did ten track ideas in that time but it took another year until we released the single as NR& on Keinemusik. I think it might take another year till we finish this project,” he laughs. Finally, Rampa explodes with enthusiasm about his OneSixOne set. “I have never been to Australia before. I’m really looking forward to it. You should expect kicks, snares and tones somewhere between 120 and 124BPM!”
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Rampa is playing at OneSixOne alongside James Silk this Friday September 27. soundcloud.com/rampa
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At face value, the Flight Facilities boys are a couple of larrikin mates that finish each other’s sentences, dress up in costumes and play at clubs and festivals. Beneath it all, Hugo Gruzman and James “Jimmy” Lyell are the forces behind a thoughtful and intelligent catalogue that pushes genre limits and embraces all musical stylings, old and new. Forming in 2009, they first began mixing songs by other artists before releasing their first original single Crave You. While they mightn’t have known it at the time, the duo was destined to form Flight Facilities as Jimmy remembers always having been drawn to the music industry growing up and Hugo concedes, “I think at about nine or ten years old I wanted to be a pilot. It’s kind of funny how that seems to have panned out.” Funny indeed, as the pair currently sport aviator jackets, flying goggles and pilot caps on stage. The outfits and their artist name, it’s revealed, are genuine pieces left over from Hugo’s grandfather’s business. “Flight Facilities was the flight charter company between Sydney and Merimbula. There used to be a sign down at the airport for Flight Facilities until about four years ago when they took it down. But that’s where it all came from,” Hugo cites. Since the establishment of Flight Facilities’ musical incarnation, the duo have carved a name for themselves producing original tracks that marry dreamy melodies and infectious modern-day disco. Both agree that the timelessness of the ‘70s sounds are a major influence on their own creations. “The fact that a lot of that music still gets played and listened to on a pretty heavy basis says a lot about the longevity of it. So we decided to have a go at it,” says Hugo. While pop/funk riffs do most of the heavy lifting among their collection of originals, there are obvious stylistic differences within each song. Jimmy reveals, “It’s all part of the end game... We want to be known as songwriters as well, so if we’ve got quite a catalogue of different stuff then it means in the future we can go and write for different people.” He also admits it’s a deliberate decision that “...reflects on the inspirations that each of us brings to the table. It’s quite a shared platform that we make music with and what’s come out of it has been a really good marriage of all of our inspiration. I guess we really like to put two opposites together and make a song out of it. That’s probably our favourite thing to do, our favourite way to make a song.” Enter Clair de Lune: The lofty, eight-minute ode to Claude DeBussy’s creation of the same name. It’s all encompassing with an almost progressive soundscape introduction, drawn out strings and Christine Hoberg’s vocals that are equal parts painful and delicate. This Flight Facilities bomber solidified their versatility and proved their theorem that opposites attract.
Jimmy pinpoints the song’s inception at Denpasar Airport, Bali while listening to the original DeBussy manifestation. “We were sitting in this airport … with one earphone each, and we were about to fly home so it was the perfect song. If you’ve ever been to Bali you’ll know you get Bali Leaving Depression. We’d obviously had the perfect week and then we were like, ‘You know what, let’s make a song using this as a reference’. It kind of went from there and it grew and grew.” With over two million views on Youtube, the song’s music video has become a force in itself. Co-created by Foals’ main videographer Dave Ma and shot in the San Fernando Valley, California it was a featured short film at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival. Hugo and Jimmy recognise these new digital platforms as key elements in fostering relationships between new artists and developing fan followings. In a matter-of-fact manner Jimmy explains, “Music’s become like a business card now. You’ve got to give it away for people to hear it. Would you rather the five people that have bought [the track] at the show or the 500 people that have downloaded it for free at the show?” “It’s about embracing the new platforms…you just want to embrace everything and give it a shot. If it isn’t for you, you can always get off it but I think it’s a good idea to just embrace the new technology as it comes”, adds Hugo. The boys certainly have it covered with a blog, Twitter, Instagram, Soundcloud and Youtube accounts, but the real Flight Facilities experience peaks and culminates at their live performances. Self-proclaimed as a show with “lots of colour, lots of light, a few vocalists, and two guys standing behind it all” they’ve sold out national shows, secured a spot at Splendour In The Grass and featured in Triple J’s House Party tour. Of this recent whirlwind Jimmy understates they’re experiencing “a retrospective, ‘wow that was big’ yawn.” On plans to further enhance the Flight Facilities live experience, the duo digress and entertain fantasies of arriving at their upcoming venues in a suitcase, unpacking themselves on a baggage claim carousel and starting the set. “Somewhere down the line, that is the vision. You’ve heard it right here.” Jimmy jokes. Flight Facilities are bound for Melbourne Festival performing a special Decades DJ set on Friday October 18 and Saturday October 19 at the Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub. facebook.com/flightfacilities
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club guide wednesday september 25
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 26
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.
friday september 27
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. FLASH - VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 10pm FRIDAY NIGHT COMMERCIAL HOUSE DJS - FEAT: HIJACK + LIVNBEYNG + MAGIC HOUSE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:30pm. HAPPY - VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 10pm 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. THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
saturday september 28
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 29
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 30
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.
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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 25 Compression Session - Feat: Cassawarrior + Dd + Ricka E55, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. Soul Ensemble Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
thursday september 26 Pennies Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $6.
friday september 27 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 28 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.
monday september 30 Freedom Pass - Feat: Phil Ross + B-Boogie + Chris Mac + Dozza Co., Southbank. 10:30pm. Hip Hop Open Mic First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
tuesday october 1 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
NOW JETSTAR GETS MUSO-FRIENDLY It took a media storm to do it, but Jetstar has realised that violins are expensive instruments which can’t be stored in the hold. Violinists have been having runins with the airline, which didn’t move with the times as Qantas and Virgin did three years ago. Two weeks ago folk violinist Caroline Trengove was rushing from Hamilton Island to Sydney to see her dying father but got offloaded when she refused to store her violin in the hold AND told to pay $150 excess baggage. Ducking from the bad PR, Jetstar returned the money, apologised, and updated its carry-on policy. Musos can now take on instruments as large as 81cm x 36cm x 23cm and weighing 10kg or less. In related news, Qantas and Spotify have struck a deal where members of its frequent flyer program can use loyalty points to buy Spotify subscriptions.
FINALISTS FOR DAREBIN SONGWRITER AWARDS The Darebin Music Feast has narrowed down the 100 entries received for its Songwriters’ Award to ten. They are Kristilee, Tomas Fitzgerald, Samantha De Vos, Dan Flynn, Domini Forster, Matthew Kenneally, Emi Day, Nick Lovell, Melody Moon and Kieren Lee. Judges Jen Cloher, Peter Farnan and Ben Mason announce the winner at the Songwriters’ Award Grand Final concert on Sunday September 29 at 3pm at the Northcote Town Hall. Prizes include $2000 cash from APRA, studio time at Head Gap Studios, mastering at Indie Masters, duplication services thanks to Implant Media, $200 Guitar World voucher, Face the Music Conference tickets and an ad in Beat.
THINGS WE HEAR * Sting is tipped for a March/April run, which could include a set or two at Bluesfest … Insane Clown Posse let slips they’ll be here in November. * Mumford & Sons keyboardist Ben Lovett told Rolling Stone that the band is taking an “indefinite break” and he’s not sure if they’ll make another record. No doubt a denial will follow later this week. * Arcade Fire reveal that when David Bowie popped in to a studio in New York to hear their latest stuff and throw in mixing ideas, he was so enamoured with ‘Reflektor’ he kept saying ‘Hurry up and mix the song, or I might just steal it from you’. They replied, “Why don’t you sing on our version then?” * Falls Festival founder Simon Daly, not content with organising the A Show for Casey at Simonds Stadium on September 29 for injured footballer Casey Tutungi, has also donated $16,000 towards it from the festival’s Community Fund. At Tutungi’s request, all wheelchair patrons get in for free. * The naming of Rowland S Howard Lane has had a slight hiccup. Port Philip Council approved the name of the laneway between Eildon Road and Jackson Street in St Kilda earlier this year. But the Office of Geographic Names knocked it back, because it prefers one-word street names. Council is talking to Howard’s family about calling it Howard Lane. Meantime, the
Ballarat Courier reports that local artist Casey Tosh has taken matters into his own hands. In a run-down laneway off Webster St he’s painted an elaborate tribute to the musician, and unofficially dubbed it Rowland Stuart Howard Lane. * Real Estate section: Gin Wigmore is spending more time in the US these days, so she and Snowdroppers drummer Andy Cook sold their Marrickville house for $1.2 million … Ministry of Sound Australia Tim McGee and wife Kara have their Birchgrove, Sydney, two-storey terrace place for auction on October 12 … Hilltop Hoods’ MC Pressure and his chiropractor partner Dr Rebekah Talbot, are selling their Flagstaff Hill home in Adelaide – home of many a Hilltops afterparty – after seven years and have bought a place in Belair where he grew up and where he can stay close to nature. * Morrissey was about to release his autobiography through Penguin in the UK this month. Three days before, the deal went ass over tit when the two disagreed over some of its content. * Mike Myers' directorial debut Supermensch explores the life of legendary rock manager Shep Gordon. Gordon arrived in LA in the ‘60s after failing to become a prison guard and was famously punched out by Janis Joplin. Her friend Jimi Hendrix asked, “Are you Jewish?” He replies, Yes. The guitar hero surmised, “Then you should be a manager” and help design a logo and got a name for his company Alive. He later managed Joplin, Hendrix and Pink Floyd, dealt drugs for other bands, got Teddy Pendergrass by challenging him to a marathon of drugs and women, and finally discovered Alice Cooper. * A rich woman in the Hamptons in upstate New York heard a noise come from her kitchen at midnight. She snuck down to see Alicia Keys, husband Swizz Beatz and friends having a party. The couple had recently rented a place nearby but accidentally went into the wrong house. * Sydney metal act Lord are taking their album Digital Lies to Asia. They’ve just finished dates in Johor and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and one in Singapore, and now head for their seventh tour of Japan to play four cities. * Short film festival Tropfest extended its entry deadline to October 17.
FREE MUSIC WORKSHOPS FROM MUSIC VICTORIA, APRA Music Victoria and APRA hold free live music workshops in Ballarat and Geelong to provide info on topics including approaching bookers; venues and performance spaces; budgeting for a tour; publicity; stage craft; grants and funding; licensing & publishing your music; radio airplay; and solutions for the regional touring circuit. Both will feature Music Victoria’s Bek Duke or Patrick Donovan, APRA’s Tom LarnachJones and the National Live Music Office’s Dr Ianto Ware & John Wardle. The Ballarat workshop (Wed Oct 2, Ballarat Mining Exchange, 6.00-7.30pm ) will also have Shaun Adams, venue booker at Karova Lounge and musician Neil Murray. The Geelong session (Thurs Oct 3, The Pulse, 8.00-9.30pm) will also include musician Wayne Jury and bookers Sarah Carroll and Andre Trosky. RSVP info@musicvictoria.com.au.
SPIEGELTENT SERIES MOVES TO TOFF The Famous Spiegeltent is one of the victims of savage budget cuts at the Arts Centre Melbourne. Its autumn residency has been scrapped, while its popular Story So Far’ series – which in the past had Tex Perkins, Lior, Katie Noonan, Russell Morris and Dave Faulkner speak about their songwriting in intimate interviews – has been moved to The Toff In Town. Arts Centre Melbourne has blown its budget out by $8 million, ABC News said.
MUSICIANS DECIDE: MORE UNION PRESENCE IN MUSIC INDUSTRY 50 musos fronted for the first meeting of the newly formed Australian Freelance Musicians Alliance (AFMA) in Sydney on Monday. It unanimously endorsed a resolution to build a strong union presence in the music industry, and that a Music Industry Committee be formed to develop strategies and campaigns for better outcomes for working musicians. The AFMA says it is working on getting the committee up and running in the coming weeks.
I MANAGE MY MUSIC WORKSHOP The popular musicians’ workshop I Manage My Music is back with another 8-city run of workshops. Three selfmanaged singer-songwriters Jen Cloher, Mia Dyson and Liz Stringer will discuss funding streams, time and financial management, how to build a team that supports your creative vision and touring on a budget both here and overseas. The Melbourne date is Thursday November 21 at The Wick (25 Leslie St, Brunswick). It runs 5 pm to 10 pm, and presented by Music Victoria. Bookings at imanagemymusic.com/workshops. More info, email info@imanagemymusic.com.
X FACTOR RICH LIST It’s not surprising that One Direction topped a new list of the UK X Factor Rich List compiled by Now magazine, and by quite a considerable distance! Harry, Niall, Zayn, Louis and Liam have built up a fortune of £775 million (A$1.3 billion) in the past three years. Leona Lewis who won the competition in 2006, is worth £12 million ($20.35 million, partly because she signed a £5 million ($8.4 million) record deal and charges up to £1million (A$1.69 million) for a personal appearance. Third on the list is 2008 winner Alexandra Burke with £6.1million ($10.34 million). JLS who were runners-up are worth £6 million ($10.17 million) EACH, which explains why they have no problems breaking up next year. Rest of the list: Irish twins Jedward (£5 million), Little Minx (£3.3 million), Olly Murs (£3.2million), Stacey Solomon (£3 million), Cher Lloyd (£2.7million) and Rebecca Ferguson (£1.7million). Some runners-up fare better than some winners who don’t appear on the list!
LIFELINES Born: son Samuel Bear Isamu, to Device/ Disturbed frontman David Draiman and singer Lena Yada. Expecting: Mick Jagger. 70, is going to be a great-grandad! His 42-year old fashion designer daughter Jade’s eldest daughter, socialite Assisi, 21 and her chef boyfriend Alex, are expecting a baby next year. Investigated: two members of the Bloodhound Gang, by Russian authorities, for “inciting hatred and enmity” after they stuffed the Russian flag down their pants at a show in the Ukraine (much to the crowd’s delight). Arrested: South Carolina woman Vernett Bader for stabbing her 65-year old room mate repeatedly when he refused to stop listening to his Eagles music. Sued: Insane Clown Posse by their expublicist for sexual harassment, on the grounds that when she split from her boyfriend, they gave her a “large sex toy”. They also called her a bitch and told her to get some illegal automatic weapons for use in a video. In Court: Kanye West faces a year in jail after being charged with assaulting a photographer at LA airport and grand theft for trying to take his camera. Arrested: two drunks went into an art supply store in Seattle, and then tagged a Jimi Hendrix statue in the neighbourhood of Capitol Hill. They were busted from camera tapes from the store, eyewitness reports … and the fact they had blue paint over their clothes and hands. Arrested: Gucci Mane for carrying a concealed weapon, disorderly conduct and marijuana possession after a friend called cops over his behaviour. Jailed: Melbourne rapper Mr Morgz for two years for a series of robberies during an ice binge. These included stealing a car, waving a gun at its terrified occupants, and holding up a post office. Died: Jamaican reggae singer, producer and DJ Prince Jazzbo, 65, lung cancer. He ran Ujama Records and guested on a Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry cut. Died: Australian jazz saxophonist Bernie McGann, 78, following recent heart surgery. His unique sound made him a highly influential and respected figure. Died: UK singer Jackie Lomax, 69. From Liverpool, he was signed to The Beatles’ Apple label where George Harrison wrote and produced the single ‘Sour Milk Sea’.
ADALITA By Lachlan Kanoniuk Released to critical acclaim in 2011, the self-titled debut solo album from Adalita Srsen was an emotive triumph that contained little more than vocals and immaculately distorted guitar. Following up the record is All Day Venus, an album emboldened by a full band setup, while retaining the distinctive guitar tonal signatures. Speaking ahead of the album’s release, Adalita looks back on the differing recording processes of both LPs, and lets us know what’s in store for the future. “Completely different in every way,” Adalita says on each LP’s lead-up. “I can’t begin to describe how different it was. Obviously I didn’t have Dean [Turner, Adalita’s Magic Dirt bandmate and producer of her first solo LP] there, which was the main thing. I was the main dude, the central figure. I had to organise everything, coordinate everyone, plus organising song choice and deciding who to work with, who was in the studio band. So I had to manage everything in that respect and be the leader of the project. So that took up all my resources and a lot of my energy. Every second of the day, even when I was sleeping, I was thinking about every detail and how it was all going. I was putting on a lot of different hats, which I’ve never really had to do. But I sunk my teeth into it. I was really up to the task. I knew it would be hard, but you don’t know how hard it’s going to be until you’re thrown into those situations. I feel satisfied that the decisions were good.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 34
The fleshed out full band sound on All Day Venus is the biggest distinction between the two solo LPs. The task of gathering like-minded musicians proved to be a difficult one at first. “I didn’t really know who I’d get, so I had to audition people. That was hard for me, having to turn people down. I didn’t enjoy that,” Adalita states. “But you can get used to anything, and it’s the way you do it. With hindsight, I could do it a bit easier now. It took a while to find a drummer, but then I found Lee Parker. That started the ball rolling, he was great and brought a new element to the songs. Then I ran into Hugo Cran from The Devastations, and [Dirty Three drummer] Jim White was also in town. The bass player, Matt Bailey, I’ve known for a long time. He was always in the back of my mind. Luckily he said yes when I approached him. It’s always a gamble and you don’t know how people are going to go, but he’s a good fit. I was very much the leader this time around, I wasn’t just part of a team. It was a real challenge
to coordinate. I was putting on a lot of different hats for this album. It was very much a trial by fire – I feel exhausted but extremely satisfied. There was a lot going on that I had to wrangle, but I feel really good. It was definitely a team effort, I couldn’t have managed it without everyone.” At this stage in her career, Adalita can be just as informed by her own back catalogue as compared to other artists when it comes to finding a source of inspiration. “I think I’ve always been influenced by my own music. The timeframe varies. Back in the Magic Dirt days, I’d always been influenced by what I’d done prior. With the writing process, I’ve always existed in a bubble. I love music, and I love listening to other bands and I’m influenced by other artists – ‘inspired’ would probably be a better term. When it comes to creating my own music, I shut everything out. There’s no reason for it, I just seal myself off so I can concentrate on the writing. When I write the next record I always think about the one prior to it.
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My main thought is that I want to write something better. I don’t think what I’ve done is not good, I just can’t wait to write the next one. I did a good job there, I want to do a better job there. It’s a path that I feel like I’m on, and I’m continuing on from the records that came before me." Though All Day Venus is only fresh out of the oven, Adalita is already preparing for the next chapter. “I definitely felt like I could write a record as soon as I was finishing this one,” she assesses. “But I felt like I was in too much of an intense mood, like I had to get out of the storm and get into a more detached, calmer state. But I have thought about it, where I’m going to go aesthetically. I haven’t got a clear idea yet, but it’s definitely brewing.” ADALITA plays the Corner Hotel on Sunday October 13. Her second solo release All Day Venus is out now via Liberation.
TELEVISION By Lachlan Kanoniuk
Still sounding as vital as when it was released some 36 years ago, Television’s Marquee Moon stands as one the most important and influential debut releases in the contemporary rock canon. Defined by a penchant for guitar complexities and lead singer Tom Verlaine’s verbose and colourful lyricisms, the record has long been lauded from a critical standpoint. Speaking before Television’s first ever Australian tour – one that will see them perform Marquee Moon live in full at ATP’s Release The Bats – Verlaine examines the potent sense of familiarity that fans tend to crave in this era. “We’ve never actually performed it live in full before,” he says of Marquee Moon. “Most of the songs we’ve done live over the years, but never all in one show. To me, people just like to hear songs they like. Maybe some new things too. I can’t say I think too much about it. If I go see a band, it’s because I like some of their songs, or I like the way they play.” The abundance of guitar solos authored by Verlaine and former guitarist Richard Lloyd on Marquee Moon won’t necessarily be recreated verbatim in the live setting. “The solos probably won’t be the same. They’ll be in the same mood and some will have familiar phrases. I think things like Friction are pretty much the same, Jimmy (Rip, Lloyd’s replacement) is playing some of Richard’s solos pretty much the same. Some of those solos I don’t even know where my hand was on the neck when I played them. So to figure them out is really time consuming.” The amicable transition of guitarists in 2007 proved to be a smooth process, with Rip and Verlaine’s longstanding rapport proving to be a natural fit within Television. “I’ve been playing with Jimmy since 1981, including a bunch of instrumental shows and tours of Europe. I’ve actually done more shows with him in my life than any other guitar player. The problem is that he’s lived in Argentina for the past six years. It’s more fun if everybody plays in the same place so you can schedule rehearsals and get together. Our bass player lives two hours north of New York now, so it’s a bit more scattered. I think Jimmy and I can play guitar over Skype. That would be really fun.” With Television’s legacy proving to be a highly influential one, Verlaine is somewhat grounded when it comes to his own influences. “My main influence is drinking too much coffee. That hasn’t changed at all. I stopped smoking for a few years, but now I’ve started it again.”
SINCE I LAST DID A RECORD, THAT WHOLE WORLD HAS CHANGED AND THIS GENERATION BASICALLY GETS MUSIC FOR FREE... IT’S USELESS FOR US TO GET A RECORD DEAL, IT’S A WASTE OF TIME. Along with a gallery of mid-1970s New York punk icons, Television are depicted in the upcoming biopic CBGB – fanning the mythology behind the titular venue. The result is something flippant and less than stellar, much to Verlaine’s chagrin. “I didn’t realise it was going to be a silly comedy, so I let them use some music. But after a while went by I started to hear things about the film that weren’t good at all. I talked to them about the script. They had bands wearing Nike sneakers and shit, just a lot of stuff about the tale that was really off. So I asked how much of it they had shot, and luckily they had not shot much of this shit yet. I tried to steer them somewhat into an authentic appearance, but I spoke to two old-timers who have seen it and said it’s dreadful. They said the actor who plays the club owner is really good, but as a film it’s just a really dumb comedy. It should have just been shot as a comedy at a rock club and changed the names, instead of making it about all CBGB,” he dismisses. The prospect of a fourth Television LP, the first since the middling 1992 self-titled record, is a very real one. “We have 12 to 14 songs,” Verlaine reveals. “We’ve cut the basic tracks for them, but all sorts of other things happened so we haven’t finished them up. We’re working on another three. We played a tour this May in Japan, and Japan is a great place to play new material because they like to listen to things. Of course they want to hear Marquee Moon, but they also get enthusiastic about hearing something they’ve never heard before. We played a lot of new things over there.” As for the release of the record, Verlaine is aware that previous strategies need to be adjusted in the current climate. “What we’re aiming to do is finish up this record and figure out what to do with it. Since I last did a record, that whole world has changed and this generation basically gets music for free. All these sponsored tours. Everything’s so different, and we’d have to sit down and plan it all. It’s useless for us to get a record deal, it’s a waste of time. The real factor is how you let people know you have something available, outside the people that would look around for it anyway. That’s the real tricky thing,” he reasons. “The word of mouth thing is really interesting, it bypasses all publicity. It’s a blessing. That’s the thing that interests me about the internet, how things can come out of nowhere and have an audience within a year or two. I don’t know how to exploit that,” he states wryly. TELEVISION will perform Marquee Moon in full at ATP’s Release The Bats, taking place at Westgate Centre and Grand Star Reception in Altona on Saturday October 26. Tickets on sale at atpfestival.com. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV
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MOBY By Rachel Davison You only have to take a quick listen to Moby’s latest euphoric single, The Perfect Life to make the assumption he’s quite content with life and his latest creative offering. Innocents is a return to the vintage Moby we know and love, more akin to 1999’s Play and subsequent 18, than his many stylistic deviations of the past seven years. It’s lo-fi, despite being produced by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent – a big shot pop producer who’s worked with the likes of Madonna, Lady Gaga and Beyonce; there’s a whole lotta soul injected by some powerful female vocalists such as Skylar Grey and Cold Specks; added warm richness by way of the unique voices of Damien Jurado and Mark Lanegan and the collaboration on The Perfect Life with The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne. All of this is warmly cocooned in Moby’s signature, downtempo pop-tronica. “It’s a tricky thing to talk about,” says Moby, poolside, on the phone from his home in LA when asked if he’s ‘happy’ with his latest record. “I’m really happy with how we made it because we used a lot of very strange, old equipment and at the end of the day, I wanted to make a record that was more vulnerable and that also had a quality of fragility to it. I wasn’t looking to make a big, bombastic, super-slick pop record - I wanted something warmer and more inviting. “It’s funny, it almost worries me because the process of making this record wasn’t very frustrating at all and usually the more frustrating it is to make, the more successful the record is,” he explains. “My most successful album was Play and making that was incredibly frustrating. So the fact this record wasn’t frustrating means it’s probably doomed to be a complete failure.” He says it was a very nice process making the record, in part due to the producer and collaborators, but he is realistic about his prospects of success, his honesty bordering on selfdeprecation at times, especially given his longevity to date as an artist.“The thing is I’m 48-years-old making records in
2013, so my expectations of success are really pretty small. It would just be absurd at this point in my career to want to go out and try and sell millions of records, because that would involve so many distasteful compromises... Almost no one sells millions of records anymore – certainly not 48-year-old guys who aren’t willing to compromise.” Our conversation leads to the existential angst one can experience as the years creep by; our interview occurring the day before Moby’s 48th birthday, and just because Moby and Wayne Coyne are dressed in mariachi costumes wandering the streets of LA, singing their hearts out and seemingly living an idyllic existence in the video for The Perfect Life, Moby isn’t usually all sunshine. Is this then, the happiest song he’s ever written? “Back in the rave days I wrote some really happy rave songs, but The Perfect Life is a very happy song, especially if you listen to the song in conjunction to the video – it is pretty silly, but there is a degree of darkness in the lyrics,” he reveals, and this single isn’t necessarily reflective of the tone of the new record overall. While the teaming of Moby
with Coyne seems like a rather strange collaboration, the two of them met in 1995 while on tour supporting the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and they’ve remained friends ever since. “The Flaming Lips and I were the opening acts, so for about two and a half months, we shared a dressing room and had to deal with the sort of frustrations of being an opening act for a big rock band,” he explains. “When I wrote The Perfect Life – it honestly sounded to me like a Flaming Lips song, so I thought to myself, well if I’ve written a song that sounds like The Flaming Lips; then maybe Wayne will sing on it. He really is the nicest person on the planet and just his whole approach to music, art and live performance I find really inspiring. I think of myself as being really lucky that I was able to get him to sing on the record.” In what is deemed to be a pretty controversial move these days, his unwillingness to compromise means there isn’t going to be any touring in promotion of the album, except for three shows in an LA theatre, close to home. “I realise that as much as I like being on stage and making music, I’m actually much happier and satisfied being in my
studio writing it,” he explains. “So that’s the main reason why I’m not touring, I’m just trying to stay home so I can write more music. This of course drives my manager insane given the only way musicians make money now is by going on tour, and clearly no musician makes money by just making music... I’m sure my manager is on the verge of breaking up with me.” But the comfortableness that shines through on this record, is, essentially all about doing the things that make Moby happy. “I really do believe that life is short and I guess I look at a lot of musicians and public figures who seems to judge their success based on so many things they’d like to buy and I don’t want to judge them or be critical of it, but I feel like my job as a musician is not to make music so I can buy things, it’s to make music because I love making music. So even if I’m making considerably less money, I’m just happier staying home making music that probably no one will ever listen to.” MOBY’s Innocents is out September 27 via Mute Records.
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CHINATOWN ANGELS By Denver Maxx
Straight-up hard-rock is not as easy to find in Melbourne as it once was. Yes, there is a plethora of rock bands, but since the resurgence of psychedelic rock and Cali-punk, there are so many variations that it can be hard to give your ears an honest ass-kicking at a show. However, this deficiency is only the case if you haven’t heard of local hard rock band Chinatown Angels. To add a certain integrity and mythology to their music Chinatown Angels’ three axeman are brothers - Jason Mahar, Cam Mahar and Adam Vincent – with the drummer being known only as The Panther (or Rory George to his mum). “It’s a funny dynamic but I think has worked the best of any other band I have been in [having three quarters of the band siblings],” explains the straight talking Adam Vincent. To add to this supreme working relationship Vincent has previously been in a band with George – that band was called Sabasrockets. This overall comfort and familiarity of the band members has avoided situations Vincent has previously found himself in where a band persists despite there being a fatal personality clash. “The dynamic is good because previously I have had non-relatives in bands where you think ‘they’re not a bad guy’ but then you end up in certain situations with the band where you fucking hate them. At least having a band where the majority of the members are brothers, you know what you are getting. Things might be a little rawer because you’re not worried about what you say to them but it is generally a good thing because you can say to them ‘that riff ’s shit’,” explains Vincent as he laughs heartily. Adam Vincent is the middle brother with Jason the eldest and Cam the last brother to join this earth. Vincent now discusses Jason’s singing style, “He has a very Bon Scott voice so I will always work lyrics and words towards that but he can also lead into areas of like Cheap Trick style vocals - that higher register rock vocals. There are songs where if I was writing them for myself I would phrase things a bit different because of the way I sing whereas with Jason I can push it more. And also too we are that four piece so Jason is part of the band structure so he doesn’t quite have the freedom of a lone frontman to improvise and really break from the structure,” he says. The influence of 1980s hair metal and rock’n’roll seeps into every aspect of Chinatown Angels aesthetic, not just their sound. Interestingly the band’s name was inspired by 1980s hair metal band Hanoi Rocks. “I think it was Cam that came up with the name. It’s hard these days to come up with a name because you try to come up with names but everything is taken,” reflects Vincent. “When we were coming up with this band’s name it seemed that every name you thought of was already taken - there’ll be some fucking band in Norway. It was quite a frustrating process but then Cam just blurted out ‘Chinatown Angels’ and I guess we just all liked the sound of it. What we liked about it so much was that it was in the vein of New York Dolls / Hanoi Rocks,” contends Vincent, wrapping up his band’s name’s origins. As previously established, Chinatown Angels is a band that has an incredibly fluid inner dynamic where, due to shared blood and history, all four members understand each other. Adding to this fluidity is the fact that Vincent has been the band’s drummer, guitarist, sometime vocalist and now the bass player. He explains how this inherent cohesion works in context to Vincent writing lyrics for Jason. “I think Jason is definitely a major driver of the band’s music as the rhythm engine. Being a heavy rock’n’roll band based around riffs it stands to reason that he is a pivotal part of that sound. He doesn’t think of himself as just a lead singer - much more of a workman like attitude. He is always trying to get me to sing songs and I do sing little bits here and there. I tend to not really head down that path, if we’re doing a low key thing like a Cherry midweek residency then we will just have a bit of fun and do a bunch of rock metal covers and I will sing,” states Vincent. So what about the only non brother in the band? Vincent talks warmly about the enigma on the sticks, “The Panther is a strange cat. I think he penned that name himself. When we cross the state border out of Victoria he transforms into The Panther. It’s pretty stupid but funny as fuck. We’d forget about it and then be on the plane crossing the border and then he’d just be like ‘Reeeowww’ and make this ridiculous panther noise,” he explains in a highly bemused tone. Finally, Vincent discusses the main reason for the catch-up with Beat Magazine and that is Chinatown Angels’ Gypsy Blood… Live At Cherry album they are launching this Saturday. “It was recorded Saturday December 29. We brought in a portable studio. It was a bit of an effort because we had to work hard to avoid sound bleed across the mics but we have mixed it professionally and the final product sounds really good.” Now he adds, “I am really excited to be playing with The Love Bombs because I was living with Pip from the band when they first started and I actually drummed for their first rehearsal. Killshott are straight up guns and roses rock’n’roll, I like those guys a lot and we are all looking forward to seeing Rise Of The Rat.”
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ENSLAVED By Tom Valcanis Enslaved gave rise to Norwegian black metal’s diabolical empire in the early 1990s. With the first wave in ruin, Enslaved arose from its ashes embracing progressive sounds and ambient moods. Founding guitarist Ivar Bjornson’s itching to invoke dark ritual Down Under for the first time. “We’ve been trying seriously to come to Australia for a decade,” Ivar says in an encouraging tone. “In the last three years we found people to work with but it went belly up last minute. It’s a real feeling of relief having found a way to make it happen. We feel an extreme sense of excitement.” Extremity is in Enslaved’s blood. Formed in June 1991 out of Bergen, Norway, Enslaved were one of a handful of Norwegian black metal “founding fathers” signed to the genre’s childhood home, Deathlike Silence Records. The label operated out of the basement of Oslo record shop Helvete, the place where black metal was ‘born.’ Alongside Mayhem, Darkthrone and Immortal, they stood not only as one of the scene’s founders but visionaries. Ivar was barely fourteen when Enslaved came together. He learned to play guitar as the band matured, “playing the stuff over and over to ourselves,” Ivar recalls. “To make more complex music, we had to become a little bit better at playing.”
Enslaved gradually diluted “pure” blast beats and growling chainsaw riffs with ghostly moods and pillowy textures. They held their roots in dire and grey black metal and Enslaved gradually flowered into complex new forms and palettes. “Listening to prog rock from the 70s has added to our music style and technique,” Ivar explains. “To realise some of the ideas that we found in bands like, say, Genesis, we had to expand somewhat on the metal techniques. It’s not enough to do the tremolo thing, the classic heavy metal thing. The disharmonies, the more out there stuff, you have to figure it out on guitar. But it’s an advantage being as heretical as we are towards musical theory, it intensifies the music.” Their latest album RIITIIR stretched their musical grasp yet again. The title, loosely translated as “Ritual,” flashed like lightning to break people under a Twitter and Facebook stupor. In Ivar’s view, humans need real, tangible ritual like we need food and shelter. “I think it’s present all over the place, because in
our daily lives we’re building these small rituals for ourselves,” Ivar says, sounding scholarly. “They have them before they go on stage, before they take final exams, before sports matches. It becomes evident that these rituals are necessary. People don’t take this real life as more important than television or Facebook or whatever. It’s as if they’re in stasis or limbo between these social mediums. “You don’t have to put on a pointy hat and act like Gandalf, but it’s more about being present in your own life.” Listening to music isn’t a ritual any more either. People idly snack on music like an open bag of potato chips. Concerts are case and point; just look at the ratio of eyeballs locked on the stage compared with phones. Ivar feels upbeat about music returning as a cherished and honoured experience. “That’s what you see in Scandinavia and it’s happening all over the world,” he says confidently. “Music is going to come back to the ritual. The people are sensing that
there’s something lacking. Even the youngsters are realising that they’re missing a non-tangible part of music. They’re missing the ritual of going to the store, putting on the vinyl. When they do that, they feel like they’ve been cheated out of something when they were just given MP3s. They realise it’s so much more than the soundwaves and the bits.” Society might’ve thrown ritual out along with their CD players, but dedicated fans keep the rites of old burning with music. “A lot of fans hang out for a new album when it comes out and they jump on a plane to spend four years of hard earned wages following bands around. We’ve lost religion; we’ve lost so many things. But music is one of the more meaningful things a young person can get involved with.”
established player in their own right, with their own voice and their own following, something Wilson is happy to emphasise in the form of plenty of spots for improvisation and solos. “That was almost fundamental to the whole philosophy of putting this band together.” Virtuoso Guthrie Govan (whose band The Aristocrats just released their second album, Culture Clash), takes the lion’s share of big guitar moments. “Guthrie is absolutely extraordinary,” Wilson says. “Not only is he a brilliant technician, he’s also someone that completely understands how to do the right thing for the music, and those things very often don’t go together. What I love about Guthrie is, if I ask him to play two notes for ten minutes, as long as he understands why he’s doing it and he agrees it’s the right thing for the song, he’s just as happy to do that. I love that about him. The thing with Guthrie and the thing with a lot of these guys that are very well known within the circle of great musicians is that you’ll never break out of that unless you’re actually in a band that goes beyond simply appealing
to the muso mentality. And I think that’s a problem with Guthrie: he’s never been in a band before that’s reached beyond that muso sensibility. And he’s been discovered now by all my fans that are not interested in the technical feats of guitar playing, but know an amazing player when they hear one, and respond to the emotional quality and the feel when he’s playing. “It’s a foolish thing to do, to walk away from an established band and brand, and drop all of that material and play material which is new,” Wilson concludes. “I think in a way I’ve earned the opportunity to do that by virtue of the fact that anybody who’s followed my career has learned to accept that I’m someone that needs to constantly develop and evolve, and I can’t just stand still. You accept that as part of the deal in a way that you wouldn’t with AC/DC.”
here just has this vibe, which is really great. It’s so happy and joyous – we’ve never had any issues.” This year’s Chopped festival will be again held at Newstead Raceway, about one and half hours north of Melbourne. In addition to the display of custom vehicles, there will be a wide range of food, as well as a cocktail bar. The festival event music program includes sets from Los Tones, Twin Beasts (formerly Toot Toot Toots), Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, Mesa Cosa, Graveyard Train, Hard-Ons, La Bastard, Sheriff and a special ‘One Man Band Brigade’ featuring Hank Haint, Made for Chicken by Robots, Bumface and, of course, T-Bone and the Carburetors. “The one-man band car will be going around hassling people during the festival,” Ford says, “so it’ll be interesting to see how people respond.” While the entry prices are refreshingly affordable – $95 will buy you a three-day festival pass, with daily passes available for $35 ($25 for children) – the investment in the 50s and 60s vehicular aesthetic is anything but cheap. The entry rules for the main parking area of
the festival permit only pre-1965 style hot rods and customs; customs must be lowered and have a wheel alteration. “Even in the mixed car parking area where people are camping, you’ll usually get a whole lot of old 70s cars, and cars that don’t quite make it into the main area – so even that mixed area is great to walk through.” Into its sixth year now, and Ford hopes the festival will keep growing and evolving. “In general, everything has stepped up a level this year,” Ford says. “The food is even better, there’s a proper cocktail bar and the music line-up is fantastic. We don’t want people to come along and say ‘it’s just like it was last year’. We want every event to be even better than the last time, and that’s what will make people keep coming.”
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STEVEN WILSON By Peter Hodgson Regarded as a visionary and one of the driving forces behind the modern progressive rock/metal movement, Steven Wilson (the man who created Porcupine Tree) is an eclectic and prolific artist who is able to tap into the pure emotional heart of his music as well as the intellectual side without compromising either. Witnessing a Steven Wilson live performance is to be engulfed by mind-bending visuals and a bombastic aural surroundscape. His latest album, The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) is perfectly built for the live stage. Actually, scratch that: the album is so ambitious and enveloping that it requires a special stage setup in order to pull it off in a way that’s true to Wilson’s vision. So when Wilson tours Australia this October, he’ll be bringing with him a quadraphonic PA system as well as multimedia visuals for a truly immersive experience. “The show is in many ways the most ambitious live event I’ve ever staged,” Wilson says. “Some people may think that because I’m doing a solo tour it’s more stripped down. In fact, no, the opposite is true. In many respects I’ve taken the philosophy of what I was doing with Porcupine Tree - the film, the visuals - one step further. We have films, multiple projectors, and we also have a quadraphonic sound system.” This approach makes perfect sense. After all, Wilson has made a name for himself as someone who has made many surround sound mixes, including the
Jethro Tull and King Crimson back catalogues. It’s a medium he understands better than most, in both its creative potential and its creative limitations. It’s not just a matter of putting different instruments in different speakers and letting it be. “It’s not as simple as that because it can’t be as simple as that,” he says. “The problem with quadraphonic sound is that every room you go into is different. Every room has its own dimensions and its own logistical and acoustic conditions. So we have to be very careful what we put in surround sound.” Wilson is no slouch on the guitar, but he finds himself taking on more of a multi-instrumentalist approach on his solo material. Each of the band members is an
STEVEN WILSON performs at Billboard on Wednesday October 2.
CHOPPED ROD & CUSTOM FESTIVAL By Patrick Emery Kyle Ford has been a fan of hot rods and custom vehicles for as long as he can remember. “I grew up surrounded by hot rods,” Ford explains. “My father was one of the hot rod pioneers of the 50s, so it was all around us from a young age.” About eight years ago, Ford and his brother Ryan teamed up with their good friend Paul Williams to start a fanzine, Chopped, devoted to all things hot rod and custom vehicle. Little did the Ford brothers and Williams realise that it would be the commencement of a journey that would see Chopped evolve into a three-day custom vehicle and music festival. “What’s been great about it has been that it’s just been a natural progression,” Ford says. “It’s been an organic growth, so when people come, they’re coming to something that’s created itself.” Having taken its fledgling steps away from the initial fanzine with a car show in the country (“we did that just for fun,” Ford says), Chopped has gradually increased in size and scope each year. “It’s basically doubled each year,” Ford says. The first event was held on a country football oval; when the festival moved to an old horse training track, the festival organisers were elated. “That was a real highlight when we moved locations so we could set up a track for dirt drags,” Ford says. “And the response to that has been huge – even if it’s raining, people still love it.” Eventually, Chopped added a music program to the BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 38
weekend’s festivities. “Adding the music thing has been great,” Ford says. “We had Six Ft Hick a couple of years ago, and Graveyard Train have played before, and this year we’ve got Graveyard Train and the HardOns headlining, so it’s just an awesome line-up.” While Chopped has both its origins, and its spiritual focus, in the hot rod and custom vehicle market, its demographic – which includes car lovers from across Australia, and New Zealand – has broadened as the festival has evolved. “Not everyone who comes along has a car, but people still love coming along regardless,” Ford says. While the audience has its fair share of 50s and 60s fashion styling, Ford says the main criterion for attendance is empathy of the mood of the event. “There are a lot of people who really get into that lifestyle, but it’s not a rockabilly event,” he says. “But everyone who’s
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By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com Look I’ve got to admit that I’m still a little baffled by the resurgence of vinyl at the moment. It’s like the music community had a general meeting about two years ago and decided vinyl was once again a totally legitimate way to listen to music and nobody sent me the memo in which they managed to justify it. Let the record state (puns!) that I have no issues with said revival and am fully supportive of music remaining a tangible commodity and the funds it directs towards musicians as a result. I just seem to remember my peers very suddenly starting to purchase vinyl with such an informed passion that it sincerely felt like I missed the workshop on how to flick through the vinyl rack with their sense of awe and purpose. And truthfully, I still can’t really figure out just how the expense is really justified. The sound is glorious, yes. The artwork alluring, sure. But the lack of convenience in playing vinyl seems to mystically contradict everything the modern music fan has come to value in the past decade. Am I the only person yet to throw myself into the romanticism of it all? Feeling like a staunch and unsupportive music fan, you guys. Having cheered up significantly since the days of Dashboard Confessional, Chris Carrabba is heading to Australia this year to tour with his new band Twin Forks. They’ll accompany City and Colour when they play at the Myer Music Bowl this December and their new self-titled EP has just dropped. Melbourne band High Tension have announced a big old album launch for their new album Death Beat (October 25). The band consisting of members of Nation Blue and Young & Restless will hit The Tote on November 15.
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Notoriously distasteful cockrockers Steel Panther are returning to the country this December and they’re tackling some almighty venues. LA rockers Buckcherry will join them at the Myer Music Bowl on December 8. Tickets are on sale this Friday. American metalcore band Woe, Is Me have parted ways but not without giving themselves a firm slap on the back. “I can confidently say that Woe, Is Me definitely made a mark on the scene and influenced a handful of bands…all good things must come to an end and that’s one of many beautiful tragedies to life” the original vocalist said on Twitter. Misfits are on their way back! Against all odds reviews for their last tour were relatively complimentary so go suss them out when they play the Corner Hotel on January 17. Poison City party kings The Bennies are making good on their promise of a new album but confirming a November 8 release date for Rainbows In Space. They’ve also locked in
a gig at Melbourne’s Ding Dong Lounge on November 16. Reunited mathcore band Daughters will tour Australia this January. Shit’s gon get hectic when they play The Evelyn Hotel on January 17. You’re unlikely to see these guys play again. Get tickets now. Me First and The Gimme Gimmes have confirmed supports for their upcoming Aussie shows. The Bennies will play both Corner Hotel performances with some ‘secret special guests’ opening on Saturday October 5 and Burgworth opening party proceedings on Sunday October 6. Sydney metal band Caulfield have revealed that they’re planning to release their debut album Vanity on Halfcut Records – distributed by Shock Recordson November 8. It looks like the guys have caught the right ears since their 2010 EP Clarity In The Sea
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26: Trainwreck, Term Four, Disasters, Fight The Avalanche at Next Hug Therapist, Angry Seas, Initials at The Reverence FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27: Rolo Tomassi, Totally Unicron, Stockades, Fourteen Nights At Sea at The Reverence Dan Cribb, Ben David at Gertrudes Brown Couch Beastwars, King OF The North, Nunchukka Superfly, Agonhymn at The Tote Them Bruins, River Of Snakes, The Sinking Teeth, A Gaziliion Angry Mexicans at The Public Bar SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 28: Lincoln Le Fevre, Grenadiers, The Union Pacific, Kissing Booth, Toy Boats, TNNLCNTS, Lucy Wilson ad more at The Reverence Beastwars, Batpiss, Broozer at The Bendigo Hotel Hand Of Mercy, The Rose Line, The Evercold at Bang SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 29: Rolo Tomassi, Totally Unicorn, Stockades at Wrangler Studios Beastwars, matt Sonic and the High Times, Brooklyn Hookers at Cherry Bar Kill Taker, Angry Seas, Laura Palmer, Japan For, The Translucents at The Bendigo Hotel Darren Gibson, Tim Hampshire, Heath Anthony, Lachlan Hicks at The Reverence
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BLUESFEST SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT IS A DOOZY
STEEL PANTHER SPREAD THE DISEASE
Everyone’s favourite sleaze rockers (and I say that with affection) Steel Panther are heading back to Australia in December. And while their spiritual stomping ground is the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, here in Melbourne they’ll be rocking the balls off a much higher-capacity venue: the Myer Music Bowl on Sunday December 8 (tickets on sale Friday September 27, 9am). Support comes from none other than Buckcherry. That’ll be a hell of a flight from LA… And Steel Panther have teamed up with On The List to provide a variety of VIP ticket packages for the tour including dancing on stage, early entrance, meet and greets, photo ops, parties and more. For more information go to www.SteelPantherRocks.com. I highly recommend doing whatever you can to get drawn into the cyclone of decadence that is Steel Panther close up: last time they were in town a few of us lucky journalists got to party with the band and a bunch of porn stars pre-show and y’know what they say: what happens at the Steel Panther pre-show stays at the Steel Panther pre-show.
SPEAKING OF METAL MIXED WITH COMEDY… SATAN’S FINEST
THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF BEASTWARS
The Devil’s never been so disappointed. Come with Jackson Voorhaar and Mitch Alexander as they crowd surf their way atop the cultural norms and greasy-haired assumptions surrounding the modern metalhead. Laugh as they reveal the hidden code of death metal vocals, cringe as they expose the disturbed psyche of the metal groupie, and sigh as they circle pit a sweaty hug around your heart. Satan’s Finest doesn’t promise to deliver anything, but it’s probable you’ll walk away with a smile, a sore neck, and a bit more understanding of what it means to be a metal head in an age of Salmon coloured shirts, Nespresso machines, and feelings. The show’s at Tuxedo Cat (17-23 Wells St), September 29-30, October 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Tickets available at the door on the night subject to availability or from www.melbournefringe.com.au
After laying waste to The Bendigo way back in May, Wellington natives Beastwars return to play on Grand Final night (that’s Saturday September 28, for those of you whose heads are so full of metal that they’re oblivious to AFL), joined by Melbourne’s noisy punk rockin’ trio Batpiss along with heavy mates Broozer and TTTDC.
COOL BAND ALERT: ETERNAL REST
Hailing from Brisbane, Eternal Rest are one of the Australian metal’s best kept secrets but not for long as they set out to envelop the country and beyond with their meticulous and venomous brand of technical ferocity. Their immense sonic assault caught the ear of US label Deepsend Records who immediately signed the band to a deal. The end result was their crushing debut album Prophetic. Keep an eye out for ‘em!
Diehard Bluesfest fans always hang out for the second announcement. The first is usually focused on headliners (this time John Mayer and Dave Matthews Band) and contemporary musicians, while the second announcement is where you’ll hear about the legendary icons and genre hardcores. And Bluesfest 2014 boasts a particularly stellar second round of names: The Doobie Brothers, Aaron Neville, Gregg Allman, Boz Scaggs, India.Arie, Suzanne Vega, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Dr John & The Nite Trippers, Jamaican Legends featuring Ernest Ranglin, Sly & Robbie and Bitty McLean, Jimmie Vaughan, The Wailers, Ozomatli, CW Stoneking, Larry Graham & Graham Central Station, Grandmothers of Invention (featuring alumni of Frank Zappa’s Mothers Of Invention), The Magic Band, Robben Ford and more. Bluesfest Byron Bay is held over the Easter long weekend (April 17-21) at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, north of Byron Bay.
TOUR ALERT: DARK TRANQUILITY
Sweden’s metal wonders Dark Tranquility are returning to tour Australia for the first time since 2006. They will be here performing tracks off their very recent brilliant and thought provoking release Construct, more importantly, they will be performing all their fan favourite tracks across their discography. They’ll be at Billboard the Venue on Thursday March 27. Doors at 6:15pm, DT onstage at 8pm. Tickets and VIP meet and greet fan packs on sale now from metalmassacre.com.au, or from ticketing outlets from Monday 8th October.
LOVE KING DIAMOND & MERCYFUL FATE? King Fate, Stormbane and Diabolical Demon Director bring their combined brutal powers to the Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood this Friday September 27. King Fate was formed to celebrate the musical vision of two of the most ground breaking and innovative bands from the heavy metal genre: Mercyful Fate and King Diamond. The band features well-known talented players from the Melbourne metal scene and they pull it off to perfection.
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MISFITS ARE COMING! MISFITS ARE COMING! When you think of a band that is defined as being outside the realms of what is punk, one of the first to spring to mind has to be the one and only Misfits. They’ve left their darkened imprint on many a soul worldwide with their iconic horror punk stylings, blending the intensity of punk rock with themes and imagery from horror films and literature for over 35 years and they are making their long awaited return to Australia in 2014! Their setlist is chock full of classics such as Die, Die My Darling, Attitude, Last Caress, Where Eagles Dare, Skulls, Mommy,Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight?, Astro Zombies, Hybrid Moments, We Are 138 and Horror Business to name but a few. They’ll be at the Corner Hotel in Richmond on Friday January 17. Tickets only $59 + bf available from metropolistouring. com, and strictly limited VIP meet and greet packages are available for all Australian shows! Meanwhile the band’s current line-up has rerecorded 90s-era Misfits ‘fiend’ fave Descending Angel with wicked cover art by Jeff Zornow (Fright Rags, IDW’s Godzilla comics and more).
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WEDNESDAY SEP 25 BEN MASON
A little while ago Ben Mason set himself the task of re-recording The Zombies' classic album, Odessey and Oracle in itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entirety. The goal was to teach himself to play the piano and strengthen his home recording skills. Ben blogged about the project over the six months it took him to complete it. Folks from all over the globe were impressed, including the original members of the Zombies themselves. Benâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Odessey Odyssey is now available as a very limited run of 12 inch records with his own interpretation of the original artwork screen printed by hand onto the sleeves. Ben has hand picked Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best suited musicians to help him launch this record. His super group consists of James Fleming â&#x20AC;&#x201C; keys, Zoe Jackson â&#x20AC;&#x201C; piano, Ashley Naylor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; guitar, Nick Murphy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bass and Brett Wolfenden â&#x20AC;&#x201C; drums. Catch this performance for one night only at The Northcote Social Club on Wednesday September 25.
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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.
CINEPHONICA
Darebin Music Feast 2013 is proud to be celebrating the launch of the new AV Performance Series: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cinephonicaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. You can catch this unique audiovisual event, showcasing live collabs, original work and redux experimentations which explore the relationship between music and the moving image on Wednesday September 25. This Wednesday's launch features a line up including: The Spheres, Great Earthquake and Todd Anderson-Kunert. Tickets are $15/$12 concession. Head down to the Northcote Town Hall for an audio and visual delight.
SEX ON TOAST
A nine man explosion of 1980s pop music, yachtrock, R&B, and synth-funk, Sex On Toast showcase undeniable musical finesse whilst never taking themselves too seriously. With an outrageous live show featuring tight vocal harmonies, talk-box synthesizers, drum-machines and choreographed dance moves, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re consistently engaging an ever expanding audience of both chin-stroking musicians and teenage revellers. Catch them every Wednesday in September at The Workers Club.
PRIVATE RADIO
Private Radioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energetic style of Rock which takes influences from ground breaking three-piece bands like Cream, Hendrix Experience and The Police, creates sound that is larger than the sum of its three members. Garethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique melodic lines with lyrics that are both captivating and confronting add to the explosive sound from this band. Gareth and Adam have been writing, gigging and recording together for ten years. Two years ago Cam joined the band and ever since Private Radio has become a solid unit. Never content on staying indie, Private Radio are playing regular shows in the vibrant Melbourne music scene and you can catch their performance at The Bendigo, Wednesday September 25.
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Sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s folk, others just plain abrasive, it can sound like the old dainty blues and even â&#x20AC;&#x153;quite prettyâ&#x20AC;?. 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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Touring the country in support of their latest release State Of Unrest, Brisbane band The John Steel Singers give audiences a first taste from the bandsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; forthcoming and long-awaited sophomore album. You can catch the Brissy six-piece at the Northcote Social Club with a bunch of awesome supports including psych-rockers Baptism of Uzi and Dirt Farmer. Head on down Thursday September 26, tickets via Corner Box Office. First band from 8pm.
NICE BOY TOM
The Old Bar stage will be set to burst when unique seven piece folk-alt-country outfit Nice Boy Tom pile onto it this Thursday September 26. With their rare depth and breadth of song writing and penchant for getting the punters up and boogie-ing, the Nice Boys are fired up and in form for their debut at this institution of great live music. Kicking off the evening is old pal, the ever-charming Paul McManus followed by new friends the sweet and soulful Isaac De Heer (full band).
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O LITTLEBLOOD
O Littleblood, dark-psych two piece, debut their live performance with a residency at the Totes â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Slow Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; every Thursday in September. Combining a love of gloomy lyrics, heavy drone noise and minimalistic structures, the band formed when Adam Bennett (Since The River) and Samantha Arthur (These Patterns) 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 (7â&#x20AC;? Launch), Hex On The Beach, Psalm Beach, Premium Fantasy and more, expect heavy strobes & intense onslaughts of sound. $6. Doors at 8pm.
After years of dominating the covers and corporate circuit, touring all over Australia, Kristy Jinx is launching her brand new original project titled The Kristy Jinx Band. With a blend of Baby Animals meets Pink and one of the most powerful voices you will ever experience, Kristy Jinx has a polished pop rock sound that still translates well live. Her official launch show is Thursday September 26 at the Brunswick Hotel. Doors open 8pm and entry is free.
INITIALS
Local lads, Initials, kick off a massive weekend of Grand Final festivities at The Reverence Hotel front bar, off the back of a recent appearance at the Poison City Weekender! The guys will be showcasing songs from their soon to be released album. Support comes from Footscray legends Hug Therapist, bayside garage punks Angry Seas and Maricopa Wells main man Lachlan Hicks. Thursday September 26. Doors at 8pm. Five Bucks.
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ANNA’S GO-GO ACADEMY
Shake it like a Polaroid picture at Anna's Go-Go Academy every Thursday night at Victoria Hotel. Anna's go-go classes are great fun, an excellent cardio workout, and have been described as "inspiring", "a retro hit parade…everything from Elvis's Jailhouse Rock to AC/DC›s Jailbreak", and a "high energy dance party with the hostess with the mostest". Charleston, Watusi, Mashed Potato, Madison, Hustle, Thriller! Anna brings you the most popular, most awesome and sometimes most ridiculous dance crazes of history for fun and fitness. It kicks off at 6.30pm. Entry is $12 or $10 if you bring a friend.
ELECTRO FUNK THERAPY
Featuring Alek Hurdy Gurdy, The Northtones and Soul Machine get your electro funk on this Thursday September 26 at Tago Mago. Three unique bands have united to cure your worldly ills with an overdose of electro-funk-therapy. Satisfy your cravings. The Northtones dispense Funk, Soul Machine add the Soul and Alek blows your mind with insane electro loops on his Hurdy-Gurdy. Just what the doctor ordered. $5 entry, music from 8.30pm.
THE SLIMS
The Slims, are a Melbourne-based band made up of Andre Ricardo, Sam Jeffreys, Nick Renton and Hugo Dean. They play music of the surf rock, punk, psychedelic (sometimes) and jazzy bluesy variety. They also like to put on killer live performances so if you want to see one, head on down to the Great Britain Hotel on Thursday September 26. The guests are special but a little on the secret side so get in early for a treat. Support hits the stage at 8.30pm and it’s a freebie peoples, which means more dough for drinks.
MORNING MELODIES
Led by Dr. Graham Clarke, Acoustic Voice, in association with Darebin Music Feast, presents Morning Melodies with Acoustic Voice (in the afternoon) Dr. Graham Clarke is one of Darebin’s unsung musical treasures. After graduating from Melbourne University with a double degree in voice and piano, Graham was invited by the late Betty Pounder to teach at Her Majesty’s theatre during the run of Irene. Graham has been a voice and singing coach to performers including Kylie Minogue, David Hobson, Terry Donovan, Evelyn Krape, Daniel MacPherson, and Jesse Spencer. His research on the mechanics of singing led to his doctorate on “The principles and teaching of Bel Canto: the grammar of the human cry”. The Acoustic Voice Morning Melodies is a selection of songs composed by some of the greats: Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, and Bizet. This program of music is performed in the beautiful acoustic space of Northcote Town Hall. Acoustic Voice singers will be accompanied by Dr. Clarke playing the Town Hall’s beautiful grand piano. It all takes place on Thursday September 26 from 2pm. Tickets are $15.
DIGIDOG ROCKS AND DAREBIN MUSIC FEST PRESENTS: COVERS THAT ARE BETTER THAN THE ORIGINALS With songs covered by Hendrix, Manfred Mann, The Byrds, Bryan Ferry and more, is every Bob Dylan covered song better than the original? Discotheque Music Club presents Covers that are better than the original for Darebin Music Feast. Hosted by DJ DigiDog, the topic of the night is one that incites a particularly passionate debate and one which you may learn some interesting songwriting trivia about some of your favourite artists and their hits. Head down to The Bain Marie on Thursday September 26 from 8pm. Free entry.
ZOE K
Zoe K is a new & powerful force on the Australian music scene with a remarkable voice that pays tribute to the bygone greats of jazz and blues. Having success with her top shelf band The Shadow Katz featuring some of Sydney and Newcastle’s finest musicians, and an excellent new album hot off the press. In a climate dominated by manufactured talent, Zoe K is a welcome dose of old school substance and style. Catch her at The Retreat Hotel this Thursday September 26 supported by Oh Pep! Doors open at 7.30pm.
MELODY MOON
Local songbird Melody Moon, launched her latest single Bridges at The Wesley Anne on Friday September 20. Her songs have been described as "lullabies being sung to you by an issue of Frankie Magazine" - Rave Mag. Melody's trio of guitar, cello, double bass and three-part harmonies are set to be a highlight of the Darebin Music Feast. They'll be doing a live recording in the Northcote Uniting Church on Thursday September 26, in collaboration with the Enchanted Sound Circle. Bridges is just a taste of their upcoming debut album.
FRIDAY SEP 27 FOALS OFFICIAL AFTER PARTY
IOHYOU is proud to present the official Foals afterparty this Friday September 27 at The Liberty Social! If you were lucky enough to catch their show head on down to continue the party, and if you missed out on their live show, then join the party with one of the best support line ups including: Northeast Party House (DJ set), Hollow Everdaze, Acolyte, Airwolf, The Ripe (DJs) and Mirrorman. And ofcourse Foals play a DJ set! What more could you want. Head on down early as it’s set to be a full house.
LONE TYGER
Straight off the plane from a three week tour of California, Heavy Blues rock three piece Lone Tyger hit Yah Yah’s Friday September 27. Supports from 9.30pm, Lone Tyger on stage at 11.30pm. Free entry.
WAY OF THE EAGLE
The Way Of The Eagle Australian tour has been announced, which will see the band play at Ding Dong Lounge Friday September 27 for their Melbourne show. As one of the busiest players in the industry, Jan Skubisewski isn’t one to slow down – after all, the way of the eagle is forward and up. Expect some very special guest vocal performers on the night. Doors at 8pm, tickets $20 on the door.
THE HYBERNATORS
Spring has sprung and The Hybernators have awoken to deliver a sensual night of garage punk rock at The Brunswick Hotel Friday September 27. Joining them on Footy Finals night will be Sons of Lee Marvin and The Cants. There will also be a cardboard footy handball and kicking comp on the night. Great choice for a massive night out in Melbourne.
THE BARON
Adelaide based rock’n’roll bandits The Baron, are returning to Melbourne to kick some goals footy finals weekend! Celebrating the AFL Grand Final weekend with a bag full of new materials over two nights, you can catch them play The Brunswick Hotel with Ziah Ziam, Dan Krochmal and Shut Up Jackson on Friday September 27 from 9pm. They will then play The Espy Basement on Saturday September 28 with Big Volcano, Sean Peters and The Motherf**king Boogaloo Allstars and The Frankston Ladies Choir from 9pm. Both gigs are Free Entry.
DEAR STALKER
It's no secret that Heavy Judy likes it hard, fast and loud, and Dear Stalker are more than happy to oblige. The grunge-pop trio will be busting out a set of their loudest tunes at the Brunswick institution that is The Retreat this Friday September 27. This will be the band's final show before heading into the studio to record their debut album in October. Entry is free, Dear Stalker hit the stage at 10pm sharp, followed by White Knuckle Fever at 11pm.
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ROSS MCLENNAN AND MATT WALKER
Ross Mclennan and Matt Walker are (just quietly) true heroes of Australian independent music. They’ve both had fascinating and weighty careers and are coming together for one rare evening. Laden with musical gifts, they’re both songwriters of great depth and intensity who can weave a world to hold you spellbound with each song. This will be a gregarious evening with two of the most fascinating fellows you could choose performing together at The Flying Saucer Club, Friday September 27. Tickets are $27, doors open 8pm.
KING FATE
This Friday night, bear witness to a dangerous meeting Melbourne. King Fate was formed to celebrate the musical version of two of the most ground breaking and innovative bands from the heavy metal game, Mercyful Fate and King Diamond. These guys feature well known talented players from Melbourne’s music scene and they pull it off to perfection. Don’t miss this if you are a King Diamond fan. Joined by awesome supports, Stormbane with their dark fresh thrash rock and diabolical demon director. Don’t miss these guys rocking out The Bendigo hard, it was packed last time and this time will be no exception. Friday September 27.
WEEKENDER: BOWIE, BEATLES AND THE ROLLING STONES SPECIAL
Not much more to say really... These three iconic music legends The Beatles, Bowie & The Stones will be featured in one massive night of mayhem at Weekender this Friday September 20 at Ding Dong Lounge. Come and spend your night on the dance floor with Melbourne›s best indie DJs and the sounds of the past and present. Live music from 8pm with another iconic band The Models followed by Weekender at 11.30pm. $10 on the door.
THEM BRUINS
Outrun The Furute is Them Bruins' latest single. Three minutes and five seconds of give-it-up-for-not-beingdead rah-rah-rock’n’roll, and they’re going to launch it at The Public Bar on Grand Final Eve. You bewdy! They’ve got a line up of fully sick Melbourne bands to help them out too. Joining them on the night will be River Of Snakes, The Sinking Teeth and A Gazillion Angry Mexicans. 8.30pm Friday night at The Public Bar open until 7am.
MORNINGS
Canberra boys Mornings are heading down to Melbourne for the first time to launch their new album Guilty at The Old Bar on Friday night. Joining them will be local Melbourne acts; The River of Heaven, a solo project full of drones, feedback and reverb. SeeSaw, an energetic drum and bass punk combo featuring a member of White Walls and Magma Diver, a new doomy, guitar noise duo feat. ex-Mankilled folk. This Friday at The Oldie.
BITTER SWEET KICKS
Tonedeaf.com.au presents the return of St. Kilda street rockers Bitter Sweet Kicks after their European Tour. Supports from Submarines and Red X. It all goes down at Cherry Bar this Friday September 27. Doors open 5pm. Door charge $13 from 8pm to 11.30pm then $10 for DJ Lucy till 5am.
SATURDAY SEP 28 SO SHE SAYS
Saturday September 28 hosts not only the Grand Final, but also a grand opening performance of female community based Melbourne group So She Says, as part of the Darebin Music Feast. Zoe Ryan (and The Dandy Lion), Agnoskere, Aurora Jane, and Stevie and the Sleepers will grace the make-shift stage in the Uniting Church’s forecourt on High Street, Northcote from 12-2pm. Come on down for a free and relaxed start to the day, and we’ll all be kicking goals.
RONNIE CHARLES AND THE RETRO BANDITS
Ronnie Charles, the voice of chart-topping Melbourne 60s band The Groop first burst onto the scene with hits such as Woman You’re a Breakin Me and Such a Lovely Way. Enjoying both sales and critical success it took them straight to London and the heady days of rock and pop music’s electric birth. Fast forward to today and Ronnie’s still going strong with his power-house vocals commanding full attention from centre stage. Together with razor-sharp backing band the Retro Bandits he rekindles the excitement of those musically magical days paying tribute to The Beatles, Animals, Rolling Stones, The Band, Crosby Stills and Nash, Roy Orbison, Dylan, Elvis, Procul Harum, Talking Heads, Steeley Dan, Eagles, Traveling Wilburys and lots, lots more. Catch Ronnie Charles and The Retro Bandits at The Flying Saucer Club on Saturday September 28. Doors open 8pm. Tickets are $20 on the door.
JESSE VALACH & THE BLUES MOUNTAIN TRIO
Get set to witness Melbourne’s newest fiery blues-soul inspired outfit, Jesse Valach & The Blues Mountain Trio at the Coburg RSL this Saturday night. Best described as authentic and contemporary blues woven together with a tasty Hammond, intense guitar and groove oriented energetic shuffle, they deliver down low soul ballads and energetic shuffle romps in a demanding fashion. Find out just why their album debuted #3 on the Australian Radio Blues Roots air play charts and why they’re attracting the attention they deserve on Saturday September 28 from 6pm.
MICHAEL PLATER AND THE EXIT KEYS
Fresh from a live-in-the-studio session on Matt Gleeson’s Burning Vinyl on Friday September 27 local proponents of art-noir Americana Michael Plater And The Exit Keys will be bringing their act to the Edinburgh Castle for the second time this month on Saturday September 28. They will be playing alongside spooky rock merchants Midnight Scavengers and evocative instrumental trio The Night Sky. Doors Open at 8.30pm.
T:DY T:OWNS
Airpunch Music presents t:dy t:wns launching their second double 7 inch single, Hello Satellites the first single from their new album, and Milk Teddy & The Motifs coming out of semi-hiatuses to make a special night of firsts, once offs and have-to-be-there moments. The environs of Brunswick's sumptuous Spotted Mallard will become a loving, champagne hazed, combination of debutante ball, high school reunion, bar mitzvah, 1960s record hop, '90s rave party and all night twerk-fest this Saturday from 8:30pm.
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 8 shows over 4 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 so so much more. For bookings and more info visit tittytwister.roller.net.au. (Cnr Gertrude and Smith St, Collingwood).
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REGURGITATOR
Those perverse pop creatures of cut and post interplay take a dive into the shallow end of reality, splatter the glass ceiling, hacking the fragmented fashion flash in a shimmer of sugar pop hysteria and the slice & dice channel flicker of our pop culture wonderland. Regurgitator are back with their eighth LP Dirty Pop Fantasy. They hit the Hi-Fi on Saturday September 28. Doors open 8pm and tickets are available from the venue website.
THE SEVEN UPS 7INCH SINGLE LAUNCH
Head down to The Evelyn for ‘Grand Vinyl Day’ as The Seven Ups are releasing their debut Eight Revolutions 7” and putting on the ultimate house party. Playing the Melbourne funk scene in the last two years and finally getting their tracks onto wax, their deepfunk and bad-afro beats can be heard this Saturday September 28 with Echo Drama and DJ Miss Goldie supporting. Expect a dose of unrestrained solos from unkempt horns over a clean cut rhythm section and a whole lot of fun.
TEENAGE LIBIDO
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 hectic 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 80›s 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?
CHINATOWN ANGELS
Chinatown Angels have a reputation for delivering straight ahead ear splitting rock 'n’ roll that echoes the seedier darker side of life that exists in their hometown of Melbourne. After releasing two well received singles the band decided to take the unusual road of releasing their debut album live. For a band that defines itself in the live forum it’s a logical step to showcase the rawness and energy in this way. Recorded live at The Cherry bar Gypsy Blood…Live At Cherry is an 11 track hell ride through the ups and downs of life after dark! It’s definitely music to party to but you may come out feeling a little dirty and maybe even a little bit abused. A limited edition CD version of the album will be available on the night. Once these sell out the album will only be available digitally. Chinatown Angels are a well oiled rock n’ roll machine who deliver their ferocious brand of rock with undeniable swagger and intensity. It’ll be a massive Grand Final night in Melbourne and there will be no better place to kick on then at Ding Dong partying with Chinatown Angels.
Time to get your dancin’ shoes on for September’s Potato Cake at The Public Bar this Saturday September 28! A cracker lineup and DJs ‘til late plus drink specials and Miss Katie’s Crab Shack serving food from 5pm, this is the grand final party not to miss. Featuring: Stella Angelico, she sings because she must, her voice and violent hip-shaking performance is an explosion of the untamed feminine. Together with her band The Switch, get ready to shake, shimmy and roll! Celia Curtis (Circus Bizarre) and 3kShort (Machine Gun Fellatio) are a high-energy assault on decency and a paint-bynumbers guide to devil worship. Catchy and driving riffs aplenty! 7am license - What more do you need?
THE CLIFTON HILLBILLIES
Head along to the inaugural Clifton Hillbilly Country Club hoedown this Saturday night for your fix of classic Country, Texas Two Step dancing, Hillbilly TV and live music by The Moonshine Brides, Small Town Romance and your hosts DJ Hillbilly Frilly and DJ Whiskey River. This free event is one y’all don’t wanna miss out! The Country Club is open from 6pm.
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THE LOVE BOMBS
Melbourne female-fronted rock juggernaut The Love Bombs play Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday night for Chinatown Angels long awaited Gypsy Blood…Live at Cherry Album Launch. Having quickly become a must-see Melbourne live act, catch their set before their Wednesdays at Cherry October residency. Support comes from Kill Shott and Rise of the Rat this Saturday September 28 from 8pm. Tickets available through Oztix.
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TRACY MCNEIL & BAND
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. It’s the final instalment this week so don’t miss out.
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SHAKY STILLS
Fresh from gigs in NYC and LA plus riding the wave from Darebin Music Feast, Shaky Stills are playing The Edinburgh Castle this Saturday September 28 from 6pm to 8pm – yep, it’s Grand Final night, so come and celebrate, commiserate or escape with a drink and some good times and original music. It’s free entry and the beer and food is spot on.
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 yellow submarine. Running fortnightly until Saturday November 30 then weekly there-after. id Saturdays, let the abomination begin.
SUNDAY SEP 29 CHARLES JENKINS
Charles Jenkins is one of the true treasures of our city, a songwriter and performer that deserves the worlds attention. His most recent album, Love Your Crooked Neighbor With Your Crooked Heart, has been widely revered. If you haven’t seen him live, do so. It’s a privilege to watch Charles play and we are all better off for the existence of his songs. Get down to the Drunken Poet at 4pm this Sunday September 29 and see for yourself.
All the northern suburbs are a stage. All the men and women, players: With their exits and entrances, High Street hopes and Separation Streets. Singing their stories from the Merri Stage. For those who enjoy ballads as much as wit, who have ventured far but miss their distant homeland: the Lords attend the round table. Be present to witness the words and the sounds of these gentle men, offering their artistry for one night on this endless journey home - featuring the acoustic sounds of Matt and Sam Ellis from The Dark Ales, Schina Coy from Local Group, Andrew Bonnici from Taylor Project, Kinch Kinski and Joe Oppenheimer. This will be a finely spun musical show to see. This Sunday September 29 at Tago Mago. $5 Entry. Music from 5.30pm.
BEASTWARS
Catch the end of the Blood Becomes Fire Tour Party show from New Zealand’s Masters of Doom at Cherry Bar this Sunday September 29. Supports from Matt Sonic & the High Times and Brooklyn Hookers. Doors 7pm. $10 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.
JOE MATERA
Having wooed audiences on his recent European tour, Melbourne based solo artist Joe Matera, will be bringing his own unique brand of guitar powered melodic instrumental rock to The Empress Hotel, for a special one-off solo show on Sunday September 29. Joining him for the instrumental shindig will be Sydney’s own Kim Humphreys. Matera, who is signed to European record label W.A.R Productions, will be showcasing his original material from his releases, including his latest album, Creature Of Habit, which has garnered much praise from critics and fans alike in Europe. Doors open 4pm. Tickets are $10 at the door.
MUSIC FEAST SONGWRITER AWARDS FINAL
Each year more than 100 local songwriters enter this great competition to win what has now become one of the most highly regarded song writing awards in Australia. Past winners include the amazing Jordie Lane, Sal Kimber, Ben Mason, E’Wah Lady and Falloe. Our esteemed judges, Jen Cloher, Peter Farnan, Tristan Goodall (The Audreys) will select ten finalists to perform at the Songwriters’ Award Grand Final concert. The event will be hosted by writer, musician & broadcaster Ben Birchall and feature a special guest performances from the 2012 Darebin Music Feast Songwriters’ Award winner, Richard Jeffery and 2007 winner, Sal Kimber. This year’s winner will receive $2000 cash thanks to APRA, studio time at Head Gap Studios, mastering at Indie Masters, duplication services thanks to Implant Media, $200 Guitar World Voucher, Face the Music Conference Tickets and a Beat Ad. Check it out from 3pm on Sunday September 29 at Studio 1 in the Northcote Town Hall. It is an all ages event and entry is free.
TRACY MCNEIL
THE DAMES
The Dames are Clare Moore on drums, songs and vocals, Kaye Louise Patterson on keys, songs and vocals and Rosie Westbrook on bass and backing vocals. Their debut self-titled album has been mixed by acclaimed, award winning icon of UK post punk and '90s film funk music Barry Adamson. They will launch it on Sunday September 29 at Northcote Social Club, 2pm matinee show with the Morning After Girls. Tickets are $12+bf.
DARREN GIBSON
Join us at The Reverence Hotel for a free Spring day Sunday sesh. We’ve got Darren Gibson, who spent his formative musical years playing guitar in melodic hardcore band Away From Now and singing in rock act Lead Sketch Union, teaming up with the wonderful Tim Hampshire, whose distinct punk influences entwine into his musical exploits, creating an ever vibrant, honest and raw punk rock sound. Plus, Adelaide’s Heath Anthony and his alt/folk singersongwriter sounds and the wonderful Lachlan Hicks (of the awesome Maricopa Wells) who has just finished recording his new EP. Nice. Sunday September 29, 3pm start at The Reverence Hotel, fo’ free.
DAN DINNEN AND THE EBC ALLSTARS
The EBC Allstars are delighted to have Dan Dinnen on the stage with them this Sunday night at the Grey Hound. He is the real deal. Singing, playing finger-style guitar and complimented with howls into the harp. Recent highlights include representing the MBAS competing in the International Blues Challenge on Beale Street, Memphis in 2010. Catch his original blues-infused tunes and country folk sounds at the GH from 4pm and come hear why he won the Blues Performer of the Year award. Free entry.
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.
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MONDAY SEP 30
MELBOURNE FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASES
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.
THE BAUDELAIRES
THEM SWOOPS
The Baudelaires will be taking to one of their favourite live music venues for the last time this month, The Evelyn Hotel. They have crafted their sound from influences of 60`s 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 this Monday night with The Baudelaires for $10 jugs and a $3 night of live music. The 30th sees support from Lands and Calypso.
Coming off an impressive sold-out launch show promoting their debut EP, Glimmers. Them Swoops will settle into The Northcote Social Club for a Tuesday night residency for the month of September (and one October show) with special guests Singing For Humans. Doors at 7.30pm, $10 at the door.
TUESDAY OCT 1
In today’s seemingly diminishing physical music retail market Goldmine Records is thriving and to celebrate 21 years in business, they’re having a huge Birthday Sale from Friday October 11 till Sunday October 13. With a rapidly expanding Vinyl section, comprising of new and second hand in all genres; new releases, reissues, limited editions, 180g and colour vinyl, plus loads of cheap CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays, there’s always something for everyone. Goldmine can be found at 369 Nicholson St, Carlton North or on Facebook and eBay. Come and join the fun and re-discover music retail therapy as it was always meant to be. Bring your Gran, bring your dog and bring everyone. There’ll be cake and giveaways!
SMITH STREET SOUL TRAIN
The Grace Darling hosts Melbourne’s newest soul night – Smith Street Soul Train – with a 12 piece live band featuring stellar players who have performed with the likes of The Commodores (ahem, that’s Lionel Ritchie’s band!), James Morrison, Little Red, Harry Angus (Cat Empire), Hugh Jackman, Thelma Houston, Bon Jovi, The Good China, Gossling, and Kylie Minogue. These monster musicians come together every Tuesday night from September 10 to bring you the tunes that will help you get your boogie on down. With funky soul DJs and drink specials thrown in, Smith Street Soul Train is the new destination for your weekly serving of sweet soul music. Doors 8pm, $8 entry. $5 Tecate beer, $5 house wine.
Q & A with LOS COUGARMEN
LOOKING FORWARD GOLDMINE RECORDS
Los Cougarmen with Movement 9 Saturday September 28 A sizzling double bill! Let the salsa stylings of Los Cougarmen take you on a trip to Cuba and back with a heady mixture of jazz and Afro Cuban music, then experience the energy of Movement 9 and its irresistible cocktail of funk and samba. What are you most looking forward to about the Darebin Music Feast, and why? Seeing the eclectic shows on offer, particularly in the smaller local venues such as Open Studio and The Wesley Anne. It is at these more intimate gigs where so much magic can happen! If you were programming the Darebin Music Festival, what would be the overall theme (if any), and who would you want to play?
THE COUNT with GEORGIA FAIR
Ten bands everyone should know about: The Band, Crazy Horse, The Wiggles, Steve Smyth, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, The Venga Boys, Band of Gypsies, Whiting Tennis, Credence Clearwater Revival. Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Pickles, red wine, hard boiled eggs (with shell), Swiss cheese, horse radish, almond meal, carrot juice, thickly sliced bread, frozen peas. Eight possessions that define you: Love, Anger, Pain, Happiness, Pleasure, Instinct, Creation, Thought. Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape: Chopper, Titanic, I’m Still Here, The Godfather, The Godfather 2, Toy Story 3, Life. Six bad habits you can’t escape: Writing seemingly aimlessly, seeing faces in everything, seeing humans in other humans, buying bottles of whisky, buying groceries, drinking water.
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Five people who inspire you: Bob Dylan, Robert Redpath, Joshua Wilcox, Chester Arthur Burnett, Orson Welles. Four things that turn you on: Words, Sounds, Humans, Freedom. Three goals for your music: To express, To heal, To live. Two live gigs you’ll never forget: Bob Dylan at the Hollywood Bowl, Brother Sal at Piano Bar. One day left before the apocalypse and you…: Have a Guiness. When’s the gig / release? Georgia Fair’s new single Love Free Me is available digitally now. GEORGIA FAIR are supporting The Paper Kites on their tour, playing The Forum on Saturday September 28.
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Anyone and everyone. What I love about this program and previous years’ programs is the variety and diversity of acts. That’s what Darebin is about. On any given night there could be a Jazz gig at 303, a rock gig at Wesley Anne and a folk gig at Open Studio, and that’s what’s so special about Darebin. 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, and this has been happening for some time. At the same time, I think that there is still a majority of people who appreciate the arts, and are willing to go out and pay to see live music. I hope this never changes.
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MCKISKO
TIJUANA CARTEL
Tijuana Cartel's new attitude seems to have had a positive effect on their musical direction. There is still plenty of the party flavour in the music but there is now a much more serious musicality and a quite sexy theme permeates the live sets. Each song flows seamlessly into the next and provides a groove that builds throughout their entire show. Tijuana Cartel have carved what is one of Australia most successful independent musical careers. They have spawned a sound that is truly unique and managed to convert a growing crowd into devoted fans. Their recent single release gained over 40,000 YouTube hits in its first few days of release and the band have played at almost every major festival in Australia including a headline spot at Peats Ridge Festival over New Years. You can catch a glimpse of the new and improved Tijuana Cartel, at the Evelyn Hotel on Saturday October 5.
OWL EYES
Indie-electro songstress Owl Eyes has just announced an Australian tour for October and is playing two shows at the Northcote Social Club on Wednesday October 16 and Thursday October 17. Having just announced that Hurricane will be her fourth single from her debut album Nightswim, the tour of the same name will also feature upcoming acts Willow Beats and The Kite String Tangle. With a massive 2013 already achieved, including two appearances in the Hype Machine Top 10, lending her vocals to Aussie electro DJ duo Flight Facilities and a much-lauded performance at Splendour, don’t miss out on catching Owl Eyes.
This October, McKisko aka Helen Franzmann is set to embark on an extensive tour to celebrate the release of her eagerly anticipated new album, Eximo. Eximo is the follow up to her sparsely beautiful and critically acclaimed 2009 debut Glorio, which the Sydney Morning Herald awarded 4 stars calling it “a totally engaging and thoroughly exhilarating listen.” It also saw her chosen to support the likes of Tiny Vipers, Juana Molina, Jose Gonzales, Bon Iver, and J. Mascis. On Eximo, produced and recorded with drummer/ engineer Kurt Read at his home in Woolloongabba, Brisbane, McKisko exhibits a newfound confidence, a relaxed assurance, and a willingness to stretch out. First single Good Grief and accompanying clip, a collaboration with Franzmann’s sister Caitlin, effortlessly twists between haunting and hopeful, setting the mood for what’s to come. Eximo is out October 11 through El Niño El Niño records. You can catch McKisko at The Toff In Town on Thursday October 17. Doors open 8pm. Tickets are $15.
ROCK FOR CATCHMENT
After last year’s massive success of raising $3,100 for charity, we are doing it once again for 2013. This year, our goal is to raise $5,000 on Saturday October 26 at The Evelyn Hotel in Fitzroy. How are we going to do it? With this absolute killer of a line-up that’s how! Barbarion, Heaven The Axe, The Charge, My Left Boot, Long Holiday, Digger & The Pussycats, Plastic Spaceman, The Feel Goods, Sordid Ordeal, Tequila Mockingbyrd, Leex Lido and Poison Fish. Doors open at 1pm and the live music starts at 1.30pm. So, you not only get to see an amazing show that you would be probably going to see anyway, but the funds from the door goes straight to those who need it most, the kids! Catchment Youth Services are a refuge in the Melbourne Northern Suburbs who take in homeless youths. They not only give kids shelter they also help to reintegrate them into society. Catchment are a small organisation where every dollar counts, so come pack the venue and rock out on Saturday October 26.
60 SECONDS with THE SEVEN UPS
Define your genre in five words or less: Deep funk and bad Afro. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? I’d like to think people would say we sound kinda like The Funkees, but since no one seems to know who they are, maybe halfway between The JBs and Fela’s Africa 70. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? I would say Fela Kuti, but he was such an intense dude, I’d be scared of what he’d have to say. What can a punter expect from your live show? Eight scruffy characters having a good time, and laying down (with respect) the funk.
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What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? No CDs, but we just recorded our debut 7 inch single. It comes with a download card of the A/B sides plus a third bonus track too. You can get it at Northside Records or at any of our gigs. How long have you been gigging and writing? We started this thing just short of two years ago. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? When I first heard Fela Kuti on PBS, I knew that I had to start an Afrobeat band. In the end it definitely hasn’t come out as straight up Afrobeat, but we’re happy with whatever it is. When’s the gig and with who? We’re launching our 7 inch Eight Revolutions this Saturday September 28 at the Evelyn with support from Echo Drama and DJ Miss Goldie. Doors at 9pm.
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SINGLES
APES
Napalm (Independent) Whoops I thought this was Tex Perkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new project (nope, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Ape). Anyways, Apes is a Ballaratraised meat â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; taters rock and roll. The meatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overcooked and the taters are soggy on Napalm, with songwriting chops youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect from a local high school battle of the bands. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m guessing theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re young but? Still a chance for them to worship at the altar of Lemmy and evolve into something worthwhile.
LONTALIUS
Furthest Thing (Independent) Covering one of Drakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nothing Was The Same highlights, Kiwi prodigy Lontalius doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to dig deep to tap into a well of sentimentality with his sincere Casiotone take. Drizzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-effacement is transposed into something more melancholic, with Lontaliusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forlorn vocal take compounded by fragile waves of keyboard drone.
TIGER SHIT! TIGER TIGER
Twins (To Lose La Track) That band name is so fucking terrible that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost brilliant. Almost. Despite the interesting moniker, Twins is pretty boring shoegaze shit with not much in the way of discerning from pretty much every other shoegaze revivalist. My kingdom for a shoegaze band that can actually write a song in 2013. Have I mentioned the word shoegaze enough?
BEST COAST
I Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Know How ( Jewel City) The opening half of I Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Know How, taken from Best Coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming mini-LP (EP?) Fade Away, showcases Bethany Cosentinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest vocal performance to date over a dreamy throwback to dreamy arpeggio-tinged classic pop. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough to warrant a pass for the overly pedestrian lyrical content. But then it switches things up midway with up-tempo garage-pop drums without varying the vocal dynamic. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s listenable, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a case of Cosentino more or less playing the same hand to rake in diminishing returns each year since Best Coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breakthrough.
MILWAUKEE BANKS
Pluto Bounce (Independent) Local producer Edo and MC Dyl Thomas have joined forces to form Milwaukee Banks, a duo that calls to mind the laid back, sensual style of rising US outfit JODY. The druggy pitched-down vocal hook on Pluto Bounce is a bit overlong and overbearing to really work, but the verses form a tasty mesh with the dreamy production. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 46
RECORD PARADISE exposed to some sterling music. The listener has a birdseye view of the journey from Royal Park in Melbourne through torrential rain and stultifying heat. All the while there is omnipresent gloom surrounding the optimism: The Gulf, Success Of A Kind, Gray Has Suffered Very Much, Towards Adelaide, By Mount Hopeless. The Expedition is one of the finest Australian records that can only instil the very best of national pride. BRONIUS ZUMERIS BEST TRACK: To Carpentaria Into The Unknown IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;LL LIKE THIS: REDGUM, GOANNA, THE DIRTY THREE, THE BUSHWACKERS IN A WORD: Colossal
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For all the latest singles check out beat.com.au Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never placed a bet before â&#x20AC;&#x201C; can someone help me drop a cool grand on both major newspapers running with the front page headline â&#x20AC;&#x153;PURPLE REIGNâ&#x20AC;? this Sunday should Freo get up?
COLLECTORS CORNER MISSING LINK 1. Nine Inch Nails 2CD/2LP+CD HESITATION MARKS 2. All Day Venus CD ADALITA 3. In Utero 2CD NIRVANA 4. Imitations CD MARK LANEGAN 5. Relationship Of Command 2LP AT THE DRIVE-IN 6. Live & Loud DVD NIRVANA 7. Hooray Fuck Live At The Tote 2LP COSMIC PSYCHOS 8. Tame Impala 12â&#x20AC;? EP TAME IMPALA 9. Celestial CD/2LP ISIS 10. Shakedown CD/LP CHRIS RUSSELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHICKEN WALK
The Expedition: Burke & Wills (Fuse) Along with his musical skills, Reg Mombassa provides the unique cover for this unique two disc set, one instrumental, the other narrated by Henry Wagons. Yet the cover is a little too positive for a recording that celebrates an initially euphoric vision which ultimately ended in stoic fatalism in the desolate Australian outback. This is a record which should be placed in a time capsule for future reference as a prime example of taking the listener on a romantic journey through the beguiling Australian landscape as it wreaks havoc on the expedition party. Nothing can be faulted with this deluxe package. Ashley Davies reignites his musical relationship with Matt Walker and this works a treat. History records this expedition as no venture for delicate sensibilities. But just like the journey, this record is something of a milestone in the career of those involved. It is astonishingly drifting and superlatives come easily. The narration of Henry Wagons traverses a story as vast and inspiring as it is doomed, to the inevitable end. It is a snapshot of the Antipodean ideal of giving everything a go. Valorising the principle that despite overwhelming hardship, mateship will shine through. How can one not get a heavy heart when violin and didjeridoo are the backdrop as Wagons recites a dying Burkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wish that fellow traveller King â&#x20AC;&#x153;remain with me til l am quite dead, it is a comfort to know that someone is by.â&#x20AC;? Or when King is found after being the last man standing, drenched in a flood of tears answering â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am King, sir, the last man of the exploring expedition.â&#x20AC;? This recording should become compulsory syllabus in Australian history and its benefit would be two fold. Not only would young minds be nourished by important national events but their ears would be
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MGMT
Cool Song No. 2 (Sony) I guess that this track might work in the context of the album? As a standalone track, there really isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much to say. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dreary as fuck, any psychedelic impulses are toned down, any pop songwriting semblance only momentarily emerges from the bass-heavy slosh, and the vocals sound like Jose Gonzalez overdosing on ennui. Tediously unremarkable in every sense. Like I really canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine an MGMT fan seeing them live in 2013 thinking, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh good, they are playing Cool Song No. 2. This is a song I want to hear right now. This is a fun way to spend my time.â&#x20AC;?
BODYJAR
Fairytales (UNFD) Venerable pop-punk champs Bodyjar have emerged from hiatus with Fairytales, the first taste of their upcoming new full-length Role Model. And waddaya know, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fairly shit-hot. Despite approaching the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20-year anniversary, Bodyjar sound more vitalised than ever, drilling it home with a killer pop-punk chorus replete with just enough â&#x20AC;&#x153;woah-ohâ&#x20AC;? action.
GLASSER
Shape (True Panther/Remote Control) Crafting multiple layers of captivating loops, Glasser (aka Cameron Mesirow) deftly builds and strips back with enchanting electronic pulses adhering to a minimalist chord progression throughout Shape. Though each tonal element is presented in a distinct fashion, there are more than enough nuances in the production to command repeat listens.
AMAYA LAUCIRICA
Found Some Secret (Independent) For the first offering from third LP Sway, Amaya Laucirica soars through the clouds on Found Some Secret. As an instrumental, the track could almost stand as a satisfying post-rock meditation. Lauciricaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice takes things to another level, drawing you in with a wonderfully restrained chorus along the way.
SINGLE OF THE WEEK PRIMITIVE MOTION
Skyline (Bedroom Suck) Primitive Motion build a ridiculously enticing groove out of blown-to-pieces keyboard tones on Skyline. The acerbic sway calls to mind a more concise rendition of Velvet Undergroundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sister Ray opus. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a gritty triumph, bleeding its twisted pop heart dry with fearless aplomb.
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1. Dogs In Space DOGS IN SPACE 2. More Songs About Buildings And Food TALKING HEADSÂ 3. Transformer LOU REED 4. Return Of The Giant Slits THE SLITS 5. Paris, Texas RY COODER 6. Under The Sun PAUL KELLY 7. Grievous Angel GRAM PARSONS 8. A Wizard/A True Star TODD RUNDGREN 9. No Stone Unturned ROLLING STONES 10. Raining Pleasure THE TRIFFIDSÂ
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OFF THE HIP 1. Ooey Gooey LP/CD DIRTBOMBS 2. Idle No More LP/CD KING KHAN 3. World Wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t End LP PERNICE BROTHERS 4. Do You Love The Sun LP SCUD MOUNTAIN BOYS 5. Time Bomb High School LP REIGNING SOUND 6 Urinals 2xLP URINALS 7. Live At The Hanging Tree LP/CD JOHNNY CASINO 8. Tea LP TEA 9. Meet My Friend Venom LP VENOM P. STINGER 10. Clear Bags 7â&#x20AC;?/12â&#x20AC;? DAVE HINES
SYN SWEET 16 1. Float Along-Fill Your Lungs KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD 2. Dream River BILL CALLAHAN 3. Chamakay BLOOD ORANGE 4. Shape GLASSER 5. Sonsick SAM FERMIN 6. Exploded View EMPTY POOLS 7. Zebra ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER 8. History MADE IN JAPAN 9. New York Summer FEELINGS 10. Ruby SEAGULL
BEATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TOP TEN SONGS ABOUT BEING BASIC 1. B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth) Genius/GZA 2. Basic Mountain NATHAN FAKE 3. Basic Instinct QUASIMOTO 4. Basic Math INNERZONE ORCHESTRA 5. The Dumb in the Rain LIARS 6. Vildgolia (Deaf, Dumb and Blind) GIL SCOTT-HERON 7. Dumb Animals HANDSOME FURS 8. Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend MOGWAI 9. More Loves Than Stupids BUNNYGRUNT 10. Your Stupid Face SHLOHMO
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THE HELLO MORNING
Tie That Binds EP (Red Rocket Records) On first listen, I almost made the mistake of writing this EP off. I think it had something to do with it just having three original tracks and a cover — I was a little suss. It wasn’t until the second run through and the subsequent 15 following that I realized how damn good these four songs were. I have always liked this band, but I have wanted to love them.Those big fat guitars, the slicked back hair and that husky voice. After the second listen to these songs I realized they are songs I always wanted from The Hello Morning. The ones I knew they could always make. They had eluded to them with tunes like It Gets The Better and Don’t Let It but I was never reaching straight for the repeat button when they finished. Tie That Binds is a country rock ‘n’ rolling delight with some tasty reoccurring riffery and those trademark scratchy but spot on vocals. The chorus kicks and keeps kicking and there’s some quality ivory and organ lurking in the shadows. Next to bat is Stay Awake. A ballad. A perfect ballad. What could be identified as slightly cheesy chords, but the difference between a good band and a bad band is making those chords sound completely natural, sin cheese. Reminiscent of a down and out Springsteen, the song plods along and then pokes its head out with another cracking chorus. I recommend smoking a funny cigarette and sitting in a dark room with some headphones on. This song is ear porn. Reckon I’ve been positive about the first two tunes? Well strap yourself in, because third in line, The Closer, is the best song I’ve heard this year. Again, chords you know. Chords that are synonymous with alt-country. It’s a slow burning seething self analyzing ditty that keeps giving. And the guitar solo? Its creepy perfection. Burning holes in the song before launching into another delicious chorus. The EP round off is a nice cover of Jackson with Ali Barter. It’s a nice rendition, but for the moment, for me, its 1, 2, 3 and repeat. BEST TRACK: The Closer IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: And repeat. And repeat. DOWNHILLS HOME, WAGONS IN A WORD:Yum JACK PARSONS
THE DUNHILL BLUES
MOONDOGGIES
Adiós I’m A Ghost (Hardly Art) Marieke Hardy wrote a piece in a recent edition of The Monthly critiquing Mumford and Sons’ empathy for the country rock tradition, and the band’s credibility generally. It was, like much of Hardy’s observations, harsh but fair. While The Band’s legacy continues to grow, the relevance of cheap country rock imitators will evaporate faster than Kevin Rudd’s latest bout of humility. Moondoggies, in contrast, are bathing in substance, and bear little interest in exploiting superficial style. The band’s latest album, Adiós I’m A Ghost, opens with 25 seconds of humming campfire harmonies; what is going on here, you might wonder. But when the whisky and blues riff of Red Eye kicks in, you know you’re amongst friends who’ll look after you forever and a day; skip past the tender Annie Turn Out the Light (but come back to it later, because you know you should), and you’re basking in the lush afternoon glory of countrified Grateful Dead in Midnight Owl. Pride is soft and sweet, a tribute to romantic attachment that we all want to believe in; A Lot to Give grinds like a spurned suitor protesting his case before a tribunal of sceptical departed lovers. The second half of the record opens with the rustic railroad shuffle of Stop Signs; why can’t everything in life be as beautiful as this track? Start Me Over is drunk with regret and the still warm memories of Levon Helm; One More Change is country rock in its perfect combustible form. Back to the Beginning tries to wind back the clock of disappointment, but succeeds only in creating a dirty great rock track that Drive By Truckers would doff its collective cap to. And if Don’t Ask Willy isn’t the best song The Band never wrote, then it’s Warren Zevon’s long-lost testament to the BEST TRACK: A Lot to Give wonders of southern rock. Forget the commercial flim-flam IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Drive By – Moondoggies are the real deal. Truckers LYNYRD SKYNRD IN A WORD: Rugged PATRICK EMERY
EMILIANA TORRINI
Hulacide! (Off The Hip)
Tookah (Rough Trade/Remote Control)
The Dunhill Blues, hailing from Sydney, are the ultimate bourbon-drenched, B-movie party band. Their expertise in pumping out a spicy hybrid of soulful garage rock, snotty punk, scuzz-bucket country, twisted surf and fried-brain psych ensures that this album absolutely shakes with the type of primitive, ‘ice-pick through the amps’ raw power that made legends such as The Sonics, The Monks, The MC5, The Dictators and The New York Dolls so much eardrum-exploding fun. Title track Hulacide, a wild explosion of dirty surf rock that rings with chiming guitars, sounds amazing. With the volume pumped up to at least eleven this storming opening salvo may even be dangerous. The thunderous Does The Kid Match My Shoes? not only wins “The Most Hilarious Song Title of 2013” award but also boasts a pummelling rhythmic force that is impossible to resist. For insane sing-along-fun check out the wonderfully weird and suitably organ-drenched It’s Gotta Look Like A Murder/Suicide. The 16 foot-stomping songs that make up this delirious collection are delivered like punches that rain down unrelentingly ensuring that the listener is given little chance to gasp for air. This of course makes the album perfect for your next noisy rebel-rousing shindig complete with disgruntled neighbours and wallto-wall go-go-dancing. With this sweaty and passionate BEST TRACK: It’s Gotta Look Like A Murder/Suicide album The Dunhill Blues have shown us that the deranged IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Rock ‘N’ Roll spirit of rock ‘n’ roll is alive and well in Sydney! NEW YORK DOLLS IN A WORD: Fun GRAHAM BLACKLEY
KOOYEH
Five years on from Me And Armini, Emiliana Torrini emerges out of the Icelandic landscape with new offering, Tookah. The album title is an invented word to describe the inner balance of good and bad, a search for the essence of what you are before all of life’s baggage gets on top of you. The nine songs within reflect an inner search that’s likely to have been influenced by new motherhood; they’re gently exploratory and pare back Torrini’s sound to reach a sophisticated simplicity. The collection is once again blessed with the crisp production of co-songwriter, Dan Carey. Electro touches add tiny sparks to an insular work that is best summarized by the lovely second track, Caterpillar, with its clipped handclaps and unfurling guitars. There’s nothing as immediately accessible as Jungle Drum (cannily used as a lure inspired by Iceland’s Tourism campaign), but the album reaches a peak with the excellent electro-pop thrill of Speed Of Dark. While you can’t help but pine for something else that hits BEST TRACK: Speed of Dark the mark as directly as the album’s single, the more IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: The subtle pleasures of Tookah slowly reveal themselves Haunted Man BAT FOR LASHES, I Awake SARAH in time. BLASKO IN A WORD: Instinctive CHRIS GIRDLER
MONTERO
Soul Cleansing (Independent)
The Loving Gaze (Mistletone)
Any frequenter of Fitzroy’s nightlife will be familiar with Kooyeh, the nine piece soulregae-band of smiles belting out ballads or crooning to skanking fans. Though you miss out on the odd choreographed dance move, Kooyeh’s first album Soul Cleansing translates the stage presence of members as interwoven as pipes on a 97 Windows screen saver. The album plays breezily start to back. Their sound is a fluid tug-of-war between descending and ascending grooves that back drop tales thematic of love, freedom, and assessment of a modern commercial climate. Out of the 13 tracks, four are standouts while the title track, although it may capture the album’s essence, falls off comparatively. My Oh My keeps a steady waxing and waning beat and questions our constant need for communication through media. Nice “delivery’s free/Da liver is free” wordplay too. Haven’t Found A Lady is a cheeky, uplifting break up song about herbal methods of coping, sang in a Cee Lo Green twang. Woke Up In Babylon might be their most accomplished track. It highlights a moment of clarity in the realising that you might be a cog in a defunct machine and resonates beyond itself. Mountain Top is the Kooyeh anthem. A song about a longing for widespread nature by guys living in the city. Production on the album is of note too as it is remarkably crisp for a band who are apparently used to performing in a home studio “made from 20 mattresses and a walled mish-mash BEST TRACK: Woke Up In Babylon of carpet”. Predominantly Reggae, and Dub, Soul Cleansing IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: KORA, bypasses the monotony that hinder its parts and comes TRINITY ROOTS, SALMONELLA DUB, across as a versatile whole. GOODIE MOB ERA, CEE LO GREEN hooks IN A WORD: Lively ROBERT BROWN
Ba-ba-ba-ba-be! begins the Montero album, a disbelieving stutter in awe at it’s subject, the late Wheel of Fortune host Adriana Xenides. Making his vocal drag deeply like the wrong speed has been switched on the turntable, Ben Montero submits himself to the force of love with Adriana’s thundering chorus “She melts me down”. It’s exciting, eccentric songwriting that nods to early Eno and current Ariel Pink, and makes for a forceful, convincing start to the album, with the triumph continuing on the lighter, soft-rock singalong of second track, BC. Montero wholeheartedly embrace radio-friendly soft-rock, and they settle into an amiable, sometimes meandering groove for the remainder of the album. Lightweight ballads are likely to kick off with noodling moog and build to earnest statements like the pleading “Does it have to be tonight?” or the Granddaddy-like “Giving everything we’ve got!”. It’s tempting to term a back-up band made up of Guy Blackman, Geoffrey O’Connor and Cameron Potts a super-group, though they serve as reliable instrumentalists who dedicate themselves to Montero’s modus operandi rather functioning as a collaborating collective. The longer, more experimental tracks on the album’s second side give the group more of a chance to shine. BEST TRACK: Adriana The Loving Gaze commits to a classic sound and adds its IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Mature own dollops of weirdness, but the highlights suggest that Themes ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI, Montero has scope to take his ambitions further. The Association THE ASSOCIATION, That’s Why God Made The Radio THE BEACH BOYS CHRIS GIRDLER IN A WORD: Self-reflection
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
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WEDNESDAY SEP 25 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS
BEN MASON + MONNONE ALONE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. CALEXICO + DEPEDRO + QUARRY MOUNTAIN DEAD RATS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $55. COLLAGE Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. DANCING HEALS + ALBERT SALT + LOOSE TOOTH + NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUHT Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. JACKSON FIREBIRD + SMOKE STACK RHINO Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. JUNK HORSES + BLOWN CONES + CLINKERFIELD Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. RAVENSWOOD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. RETURN TO YOUTH + NOTHING HURTS ROBOT + THE KILNIKS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5. ROOTS OF MUSIC - FEAT: THE MERE POETS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. XENOS + THE BLACK ALLEYS + THE CONTORTIONIST’S HANDBOOK + THE UNHOLY RACKET Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ALANNA EILEEN Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. BREAST CANCER NETWORK ASSOCIATION FUNDRAISER FEAT: FLASH COMPANY + AL PARKINSON Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. CONVICT PARADISE Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. I KNOW THE CHIEF + NEBRASKATAK John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. JAMES TEAGUE Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. MATT KELLY Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. OPEN MIC Ontop In Ormond, Ormond. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. SECRET GOODTIMES CLUB Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:30pm. SING FOR YOUR SUPPER Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 8:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
C I N E P H O N I C A - FEAT: THE SPHERES Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:00pm. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. HAMMOND JAZZ CLUB + MR ANDREW SWANN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. MO’ SOUL - FEAT: JEN KNIGHT & THE CAVALIERS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SWING NIGHT - FEAT: KATE VIGO & THE FLIPPIN’ HOTCAKES First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $10. THE BRUCE WOODWARD/JAMES SHERLOCK QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.
GIG OF THE WEEK!
THE DARRIN ARCHER SEXTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. THE JACK SPRATS + CHARLIE GRIFFIN Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 7:00pm. TIM PLEDGER’S SANDWICH JESUS + LO-RES + TOM NOONAN BAND 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. VIVE LA DIFFERENCE Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
THURSDAY SEP 26 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS ABSTRACT MUTATION + AIR MAX ‘97 + WATERFALL PERSON + WET KISS West Space, 8:00pm. BEASTWARS + HOTEL WRECKING CITY TRADERS + MY LEFT BOOT + RAINY DAY WOMEN Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. BOOGIE MONSTER + THE MIGRATIONS + YES/NO/MAYBE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DIANE + KINDLING + PEACH NOISE Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:30pm. EL MOTH + CC THE CAT + UP UP AWAY Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. EMLYN JOHNSON + FIREMAN’S BALL + PETER BIBBY Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10. FOALS + ALPINE Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. FROM BEYOND - FEAT: GUITAR WARS + BLACK REVOLVER + SEAN & THE BOYS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10. INITIALS + ANGRY SEAS + HUG THERAPIST + LACHLAN HICKS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5. JINJA SAFARI Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong. 8:26pm. NEXT - FEAT: TRAINWRECK + DISASTERS + FIGHT THE AVALANCHE + TERM FOUR Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. NICE BOY TOM + ISAAC DE HEER + PAUL MACMANUS BAND Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $7. OVERDRIVE - FEAT: AUTOPORTRAITS + SUGAR GHOULS + THE FIRE ALIVE. DJ NICK BROWN & JAKE JUDD Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. PAPA VS PRETTY + APES + PRETTY LITTLES Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $12. PCP EAGLES + DAD JOKES + FU*K WHITEY + LAURA PALMER + TEEN KONG Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. ROCKING HORSE RACE + THE BLACK ALLEYS + THE CANING Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. SLOW CLUB - FEAT: HEADS OF CHARM + HEX ON THE BEACH + PREMIUM FANTASY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS + BAPTISM OF UZI + DIRT FARMER Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $14. THE SEABELLIES + AL PARKINSON + I A MAN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15. THE SUN BLINDNESS + ORANGE + PREMIUM FANTASY The
THE PAPER KITES Having won over fans across the globe with their first two EPs, recent Beat cover stars The Paper Kites have just released their highly anticipated debut album, States. Having crossed the country a number of times in the last year on both their own headline tours and in support of Bombay Bicycle Club, Josh Pyke and Boy & Bear, The Paper Kites have built up a loyal, word-of-mouth fanbase. The Paper Kites will play at the Forum on Saturday September 28.
Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $7. THE WATERMELON TREE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:45pm. TINY RUINS + BRIGHTER LATER + EMMA RUSSACK Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20. TUX + A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS + MALCURA Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. VICE PARTY - FEAT: CLIENT LIAISON + CHELA + SOLARIS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 3:52am. WHEN WE WERE SMALL + BIG WORDS + SPORADIC CHILDREN Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. WIRE BIRD + THE WINTER SUNS + WOODLOCK Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. YAKKS + KOREANVEVOBBQ + WORM CROWN Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. $5.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ALI E Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. BEN WHITING + MANISHA Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. BLAME SMARTY - FEAT: GOLD GULL Willow Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. BLOW The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 8:00pm. CASIUS CLAY + ALICE D + RIDERS OF SIN John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. DELIVERY BOY Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:00pm. GEORGE HYDE & JOSH SEYMOUR Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. HARRY BORLAND & UGANDAN NATIONAL CHOIR Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. JAMES HARRISON + TOY BOATS Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. JOHN FLANAGAN & THE BEGIN AGAINS The Bain Marie, Northcote. 1:00pm. KRISTY JINX BAND + AARON LAGUDA + ALTAMIRA + RABID ZULU Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. MELBOURNE FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. $15. MORNING MELODIES - FEAT: ACOUSTIC VOICE Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 2:00pm. OPEN MIC Station 59, Richmond. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 6:30pm. OPEN MIC Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 7:00pm. THE SLIMS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. ZOE K + OH PEP Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ALWAN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. ANTMAN & GELAREH POUR Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. BRONI Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. CLAYTON DOLEY TRIO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. ELECTRO FUNK THERAPY - FEAT: ALEK - HURDY - GURDY + SOUL MACHINE + THE NORTHTONES Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $5. ENCHANTED SOUND CIRCLE & MELODY MOON + MELODY MOON Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 7:00pm. $10. FEM BELLING & THE JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET The Commune, East Melbourne. 6:00pm. MELBOURNE UKULELE KOLLECTIVE - FEAT: MELBOURNE UKULELE COLLECTIVE Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:00pm. NICOLA MILAN & THE ROGER CLARK QUARTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. SYZYGY + SOPHIA CHAPMAN Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. THE CREATIVE VOCAL SERIES - FEAT: LOUISA RANKIN & GEORGIE DARVIDIS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. THE GIANNI MARINUCCI NONET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20. THE JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. THE OVEREASYS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 6:30pm. THE SAM KEEVERS QUINTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE SWEETHEARTS + DJ PIERRE BARONI + DJ VINCE PEACH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. TOM DOCKRAY + CELLAR CATS Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
FRIDAY SEP 27 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS APART FROM THIS + FEATHERWEIGHT + LOVE ALONE + MOWGLI Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. BARBARION Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10. BEAST WARS + AGONHYMN + KING OF THE NORTH + NUNCHUKKA SUPAFLY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. BITTER SWEET KICKS + RED X + SUBMARINES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. BUFFALO TRACY Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. CROUCHING ROCKETS HIDDEN VENTURE - FEAT: RED ROCKETS OF BORNEO + HIDDEN VENTURE Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:30pm. $5. DAVE GRANEY Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm. EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + ANTHEA Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $10. EMERSON + LEFT FOR WOLVES + REFRACTION + SHALLOW
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GRAVE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. FOALS + ALPINE Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. GRAND FINAL EVE - FEAT: SAMMIGOLD + SMOKIN SAM & CARGO BLUES BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10. HIPSHAKER 60S DANCE PARTY - FEAT: SHANTY TOWN The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. JINJA SAFARI Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 8:00pm. JVG’S GRANDFINAL EVE PIE NIGHT - FEAT: JON VON GOES + BILLY MILLER + DAVE EVANS + DAVE WARNER + HORSE HARRINGTON + LORETTA MILLER + PAUL STEWART + REBECCA BARNARD + SIMON MADDEN + VAN & CAL WALKER Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30. KEAGAN & JESSE + DJ MY-T-JAXX + MAX FOTHERINGHAM Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 7:00pm. LIONHEAD The Wharf Hotel, Melbourne. 6:30pm. LONE TYGER Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MONTERO + ANDRAS + DJS DARREN SYLVESTER & HIGHER POWER HANNAH + PRUDENCE REES-LEE Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $12. MORNINGS + DJ COCKTOPUS + MAGMA DIVER + RIVER OF HEAVEN + SEESAW Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. NAYSAYER & GILSUN + DJ OTOLOGIC + TWO BRIGHT LAKES The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $32. NEW DUB CITY + BIRDZ + MUMA DOESA + ZULU FLOW ZION Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. NICK LYNAR + EDARCY + FRIENDSHIPS + SUB DAPPER X ODSOC Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. NUN OF THE TONGUE + LOOSE TOOTH + SHIT SEX + THE SUMMERVILLES 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. OVER-REACTOR + CHINA VAGINA + SUPER SALOON + THE DEEP END Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. PRIESTESSA & DASH Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:00pm. PRIESTESSA & DASH Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:30pm. ROLO TOMASSI + A SECRET DEATH + FOURTEEN NIGHTS AT SEA + JACK THE STRIPPER + JURASSIC PENGIUN + STOCKADES + TOTALLY UNICORN + URNS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 5:30pm. $50. RUFUS + CROOKED COLOURS + YESYOU Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $20. STOPPING ALL STATIONS - FEAT: HOUSE OF HONEYS + DUENDE & STEELS RANGE + MANTIS & THE PRAYER + THE GRUNES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:30pm. $15. THE BARON + DAN KROCHMAL + SHUTUP JACKSON + ZIAH ZIAM Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE BASICS + HOY + LOUIS SPOILS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $20. THE GRUNTLED + THE PAUL KIDNEY EXPERIENCE Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5. THEM BRUINS + DJ KEZBOT + RIVER OF SNAKES SINKING TEETH A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10. THROWING FRISBEES + RIPSNORTER + THE MIGHTY BOYS + TIPRATS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. WATTS ON - FEAT: THE FLYYING COLOURS + THE GRAND RAPIDS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 8:00pm. WAY OF THE EAGLE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. WHITE KNUCKLE FEVER + DEAR STALKER + DJ SHAMIKAZI Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BAKERSFIELD GLEE CLUB Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. BEN CARR TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:45pm. BEN LAGUDA Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. CHRIS WILSON Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. COLIN JONES & THE GENTLEMEN OF COUNTRY Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:32pm. $8. COLIN JONES & THE GENTLEMEN OF COUNTRY Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $8. DAN CRIBB + BEN DAVID Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. GODDESS GROOVES Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. INTO THE MYSTIC - FEAT: JOE CREIGHTON Yarraville Club, Yarraville. 7:00pm. JOHNNY CASH KARAOKE Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. KING LUCHO + BROOKE RUSSELL Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:40pm. MISS LIZZY & THE NIGHT OWLS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. OH PEP! Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. ROSS MCLENNAN & THE NEW WORLD + MATT WALKER & THE LOST RAGAS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $27. SAINT JUDE Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. SAINT JUDE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. SLOW TRAIN Famous Blue Raincoat, South Kingsville. 8:30pm. SONS OF LEE MARVIN + SONS OF LEE MARVIN + THE CANTS + THE HYBERNATORS The Victoria Hotel, Melbourne. 8:00pm. THE PHEASANT PLUCKERS The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. THE TIPPLERS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. THE UKE GROUP - FEAT: UKE4KIDS The Bain Marie, Northcote. 1:00pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au THE GOGO GODDESSES The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. AMOR SENTIMENTAL MUSICA - FEAT: ALMA MATER Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:00pm. $25. CHEAP FRILLS Faroukâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Olive, 8:30pm. DEANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MARTINI & SHAKERS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. EMILY MAE, ALARUM BELLES, TWINKLE DIGITZ - FEAT: EMILY MAE & THE ALARUM BELLES Willow Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm. GIAN SLATER & THE JAMIE OEHLERS QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. GIL ASKEY & THE ROGER CLARK QUARTET Dizzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. GOODLOVE Jewell Of Brunswick, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $10. MARGIE LOUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIANO HOUR + ALYCE PLATT Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. SANTA TARANTA Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. THE FURBELOWS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. THE JAMES SHERLOCK TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE STEVE CLISBY BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 7:00pm. THE STEVE CLISBY BAND (LATE SHOW) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 10:00pm.
SATURDAY SEP 28 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS MCALPINEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FUSILIERS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10. BANG - FEAT: HAND OF MERCY + THE EVERCOLD + THE ROSE LINE Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. BEASTWARS + BATPISS + BROOZER + TTTDC Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15. BOONANANANANZA! EDGARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MISSION FUNDRAISER FEAT: LINCOLN LE FEVRE + ADELINE PINES + DREAMBOATS + GRENADIERS + HEATH ANTHONY + KISSING BOOTH + LUCY WILSON + MARA THREAT + SHADOW LEAGUE + SUMMER POLICY + THE UNION PACIFIC + TOY BOATS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 5:00pm. $20. BRUNNYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GRAND FINAL DAY! - FEAT: THREE QUARTER BEAST + JAJU CHOIR + RIFF FIST + ROSENCRANTS + TWIN AGES THE HIGH SUBURBAN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 12:00pm. DV8 - FEAT: I AM DUCKEYE + SON OF SET Cbd Club, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. EL MOTH + CC THE CAT Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. FLYING SAUCERS + ROCKADEES Lucky 13 Garage, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $15. HANKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S JALOPY DEMONS Bella Union Bar (trades Hall), Carlton South. 9:00pm. $15. ID SATURDAYS - FEAT: SLOWJAXX & THE KOZMIC LOVE ORKESTRA + SOPHIE OFFICER + THE VELVETS Barleycorn Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $10. JACKY JACKY & THE BLACKS + ROBERT K CHAMPION Yah Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LINDSAY TUC + ANGEL EYES + GLAMOUR LAKES Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. LOVE OF DIAGRAMS + BRUFF SUPERIOR + SPITE HOUSE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12. MURDENA + ALEX & THE SHY LASHES + KAPOW KRAKEN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. POTATO CAKE - FEAT: STELLA ANGELICO + CREEPCAKE + DJ KIRA PURU + DJ STACEY + OHMS + WHITE KNUCKLE FEVER The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10. PUB ROCK - FEAT: THE FAUVES Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 6:00pm. RECALL Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. REDSPENSER + COUNCILOR OF AGING Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5. REGURGITATOR + SUN GOD REPLICA + WAMPIRE The Hi-ďŹ , Melbourne. 8:00pm. $39. ROCK Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; FOOTY GRAND FINAL NIGHT - FEAT: SPENCER P JONES + LEADERS OF THE THREE WORLDS Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $5. RONNIE CHARLES & THE RETRO BANDITS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $25. SAFE IN HOUSES + DYLAN HILL + EMBODE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. SANS GRAS + CAYN BORTHWICK Dan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;connell Hotel, Carlton. 4:00pm. SERI VIDA + ALEX WATTS + GOSTI Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. SPENCER P JONES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. SWERVEDRIVER + IOWA + WHITE WALLS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $55. T (INY T) - FEAT: T:INY T:WNS + HELLO SATELLITES + MILK TEDDY + MOTIFS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $12. TEENAGE LIBIDO + COCKS ARQUETTE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. TEST GIG 2 - FEAT: TEST ARTIST 2 Werribee Park Mansion, Werribee. 8:00pm. THE BARON + BIG VOLACNO + SEAN PETERS & THE MOTHERF**KING BOOGALOO ALLSTARS + THE FRANKSTON LADIES CHOIR Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. THE BASICS + HOY + LOUIS SPOILS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $20. THE CANNANES + THE STEVENS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $11. THE DETONATORS Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. THE MICK PEALING BAND + LEE BRADSHAW & THE HORIZON BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $15. THE NAYSAYERS + 23AOA Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE PAPER KITES Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 8:00pm. THE STRANGE + THE POPEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ASSASSINS DUO + TOOTH AND TUSK Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE VANGUARDS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. TIGERTOWN + MTNS + TULLY ON TULLY Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15. VICE GRIP PUSSIES + RED X + THE MERCY KILLS + THE SUBMARINES Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BACKWOOD CREATURES Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:30pm. BYRON & THE GYPSY CATS + STRUMPET Open Studio, North-
cote. 6:00pm. CHOOK RACE + CHRIS RUSSELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHICKEN WALK The Bain Marie, Northcote. 12:00pm. GREENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DAIRY ANGEL ENSEMBLE + JESS PALMER + JOSH CASHMAN Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $20. HARMANIAX Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. JESSE VALACH & BLUES MOUNTAIN TRIO Coburg Rsl, Coburg. 6:00pm. $10. JOHN FLANAGAN & THE BEGIN AGAINS Junction Beer Hall, 3:00pm. JUKE BOX RACKET Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. LOS COUGARMEN + MOVEMENT KNOWN Wesley Anne, Northcote. 2:00pm. LYRICAL LADIES - FEAT: EMMA WALL & THE URBAN FOLK + LAUREN GLEZEN + LITTLE WISE 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12. MARLON WILLIAMS Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:00pm. MICHAEL PLATER Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm. PAVEMENT SERENADERS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:30pm. SHAKY STILLS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. SO SHEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SAYING - FEAT: SO SHE SAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 12:00pm. SPOONFUL Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. THE CLIFTON HILLBILLY COUNTRY CLUB Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. THE DRUNKEN POACHERS The Victoria Hotel, Melbourne. 7:30pm. VARDOS Budapest Bar & Restaurant, Elsternwick. 6:30pm. WRONG TURN + THEE WYLDE OSCARS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC BOLLYWOOD & BEYOND - FEAT: TIHAI3 Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 7:30pm. CLASSICAL PIANO Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 2:00pm. GIAN SLATER & THE JAMIE OEHLERS QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. GOYIM + ELVIS IN THE HOUSE Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Dizzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. MOOGY Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15. TAMARA KULDIN (GREAT LADIES OF JAZZ) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25. THE JOE Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;CONNOR TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE NEW IMPROMPTU QUARTET Marquee Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. THE SEVEN UPS + DJ MISS GOLDIE + ECHO DRAMA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $8. VARDOS Budapest Bar & Restaurant, Elsternwick. 6:30pm.
SUNDAY SEP 29
REGURGITATOR Welcome to another universe in the Regurgitator saga. One of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most loved outfits have just released their eighth studio album, Dirty Pop Fantasy. To celebrate, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re heading around the nation on a gargantuan album tour. Regurgitator will launch Dirty Pop Fantasy on Saturday September 28 at The Hi-Fi.
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80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ON THE EDGE Sloaney Pony, Port Melbourne. 8:30pm. A SHOW FOR CASEY - FEAT: THE YOU AM I ALLSTARS + ADALITA + DAN SULTAN + MISSY HIGGINS + PAUL DEMPSEY + REGURGITATOR + THE BAMBOOS + YACHT CLUB DJS Simonds Stadium, 12:00pm. ARCHEOLOGY + RESIDUAL Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. BEASTWARS + BROOKLYN HOOKERS + MATT SONIC & THE HIGH TIMES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. CHERRY ARVO BLUES - FEAT: ROD PAINE & HIS FULL TIME LOVERS + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. DARREN GIBSON + HEATH ANTHONY + LACHLAN HICKS + TIM HAMPSHIRE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL - FEAT: EVERMORE + NEW EMPIRE Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8:00pm. HANKS JALOPY DEMONS + 2 SHOTS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. ITCHY FINGERS Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. JOE MATERA + KIM HUMPHREYS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 4:00pm. LEESA FARRUGIA Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 4:30pm. LORDS OF THE NORTH - FEAT: MATT & SAM ELLIS + ANDREW BONNICI + JOE OPPENHEIMER + KINCH KINSKI + SCHINA COY Tago Mago, Thornbury. 5:30pm. $5. MOUNTAIN GOAT BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: SAGAMORE + DJ J-RAD BROWN + EMMA RUSSACK + LOVE MIGRATE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. RED LANTERN COLONY + BLOOM + DR MOTH Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. SLOW CLUB - FEAT: BIG DEAD + BEN SNAITH + STORYHORSE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. SONGWRITERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; AWARD GRAND FINAL - FEAT: BEN BIRCHALL Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 3:00pm. SWERVEDRIVER + INFINITE VOID + LUNAIRE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $55. THE BASICS + HOY + LOUIS SPOILS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $20. THE BELLWETHER BAND Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm. $10.
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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 DAMES + THE MORNING AFTER GIRLS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 2:00pm. $12. THE HARLOTS The Bain Marie, Northcote. 8:00pm. THE RECHORDS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:30pm. THE WINTERS + 23AOA + MORNING BLISS + QLAYE FACE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TIGERTOWN + KATE MARTIN + MTNS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15. TRACY MCNEIL BAND Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK THE PRAYERBABIES Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. BAKERSFIELD GLEE CLUB Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. BEAUTIFUL CHANGE + CHARLES JENKINS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. BOIS ET CHARBON 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $5. CARDWELL JAMES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. CHRIS WILSON Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. DAVID BRAMBLE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm. DREW HOWELL The Wharf Hotel, Melbourne. 1:00pm. ESTEE BIG BAND Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. HISSY LOCO (MY HEART LAUNCH) Agent 284, Collingwood. 3:00pm. HUGO RACE & THE FATALISTS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 5:00pm. KATE WALKER Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5:00pm. LANI STANISTREET Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 5:00pm. LOVESICK BLUES The Victoria Hotel, Melbourne. 4:00pm. MICHAELA JAYDE + EBONY HARE + TANE EMIA-MOORE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. MOOSEJAW RIFLE CLUB Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. NICK CHARLES & BLUE STRINGS + KEN MAHER & TONY HARGREAVES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. SOPHISTACOUSTICA 303, Northcote. 4:00pm. $10. SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: JACK JACK JACK + THE BLACK HARRYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S AND CHANEL SWITCHER Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 7:30pm. THE MARGIE LOU TRIO + GIL ASKEY Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 6:00pm. CONTRA DANCE Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10. DALE RYDER BAND + BAD BOYS BATUCADA + MS BUTT Espy, St Kilda. 5:30pm. DAN DINNEN & THE EBC ALLSTARS Gh Hotel, St Kilda. 5:30pm. DANCE! DANZA! DANS! - FEAT: SONIDERO ESPERANZA Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 9:00pm. DANDENONG RANGES HOT JAZZ ORCHESTRA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.
ELVIS IN THE HOUSE + DUO SEVERINI Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 1:00pm. HOWLINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; STEAM TRAIN The Bain Marie, Northcote. 9:00pm. JAMIE OEHLERS & PAUL GRABOWSKYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOST & FOUND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. JOE CHINDAMO & ZOE BLACK DUO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:00pm. SALTY SERGE + ADE ISHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TRIO + UNDERLANDER Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm. VINCS & WAKELING Famous Blue Raincoat, South Kingsville. 3:00pm. YVETTE JOHANSSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S VINTAGE PEARLS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:30pm.
MONDAY SEP 30 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS
MANDEK PENHA + THE DO YA THANGS + THE RED BRIGADE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $8. MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: FOOTY + SCHOOL GIRL REPORT + TLAOTLON + WHERE WERE YOU AT LUNCH Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm. MONTE DIAMONTEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WORLD FAMOUS DRAG SUPERSTARS - FEAT: THE BLACK MOLLS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 9:30pm. RIHANNA Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. THE BAUDELAIRES + CALYPSO + LANDS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. DINEO & BOURNESTEIN PRESENT - FEAT: JT THE KING OF GROOVE Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm. LILLIS + ADAM HYNES + RATTLINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; BONES BLACKWOOD Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. PAUL WILLIAMSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HAMMOND COMBO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 12:00am. $10. PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. TAKE THE MIC Red Bennies, South Yarra. 7:30pm. $15. UNPAVED SONGWRITER SESSIONS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.
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ALLAN BROWNE SURREALIST PROJECT Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. LEBOWSKIS - FEAT: CURIOUS FINGERS + JACOB EVANS QUARTET 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $8. OH PEP Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:30pm.
A SHOW FOR CASEY Casey Tutungiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heartbreaking story has been heard and felt across the country. Fundraising efforts are still crucial to support the 28 year old in receiving the care required after his horrific football accident and resulting spinal injury. Casey and his partner, Bridget, are also preparing for the arrival of their first baby. Some of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top acts have thrown their weight and musical prowess behind Caseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cause and will be performing at this special one-off event in Geelong, headlined with a vintage set of classics from You Am I, who will be joined on stage by some very special guests to form an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Allstarsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; super group. Playing alongside You Am I Allstars at A Show For Casey are Something for Kateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paul Dempsey, Regurgitator, Missy Higgins, Lisa Mitchell, Magic Dirtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Adalita, The Bamboos, Dan Sultan and Yacht Club DJs. It takes place on Sunday September 29 at Simonds Stadium.
TUESDAY OCT 1 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS
PATRON SAINTS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. PURPLE TUSKS + KESHIE + TIARYN Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THEM SWOOPS + SLOW DANCER Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK FORTE JAM Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 7:00pm. JAMES KENYON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. KLUB MUK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. STEPH BRETT + THE WIKIMEN + TOBIAS HENGEVELD Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
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FLAMENCO NIGHT - FEAT: GUITARRA FLAMENCA + NATALIE ANTON + MARCOIRIS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. HI-FI LOUNGE LIZARDS Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. PETER BAYLORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ULTRAFOX Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. THE JAMES MULLER TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. THE MOULIN BEIGE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:30pm.
ACCESS ALL AGES Wednesday September 25, 2013 By Claire Barley
For those of us who avoid homework until the last minute on Sundays, an end of the week gig is problematic. That is why school holidays were invented. This Sunday sees hip hop duo Horrorshow play at Ding Dong Lounge in the city, joined by Home Brew and Jimblah. Tickets are still available at oxtix.com.au. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still hungry for more Aussie hip hop acts after Sunday and are 16 or over, Allday, Drapht, Seth Sentry and many more will be playing at the Melbourne edition of Sprung festival in October. The closest Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to Seth Sentry was when I spotted him at my local McDonalds. DeďŹ nitely the most exciting fast food run of my life. Head to sprunghiphop. com.au/tickets for tickets. Musicians all know that song writing skills need help to develop. Unless youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Paul Kelly, because he was probably born a genius. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re reading this, Paul, just disregard this next paragraph. Otherwise, why not apply for Push Songs? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fabulous program that gives you the chance to participate in three, one-on-one workshops with song writing pros. This seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mentors include David Bridie, Rebecca Barnard, Donnie Dureau and Georgia Fields, as well as the wonderful Charles Jenkins, program coordinator. Participants will also get to attend the Tuesday Night Song Club to meet fellow song writers and share ideas. If professional advice, networking and performance opportunities sound like your kind of thangs, head to thepush.com.au to ďŹ ll out the application before September 30. FReeZA has also recently announced that up to 20 Face the Music Scholarships are up for grabs. The scholarship involves a complementary pass to Face the Music conference, participation in an interactive Plan Your Music Industry Career session with The Pushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shane Wickens and access to a one on one mentoring session with a music industry professional. Applications are open to anyone who has had an active involvement in FReeZAmaybe youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve performed at a FReeZA event, are part of a committee or are involved in your community in another way. Head to thepush.com.au to complete the online application form before Friday October 4. Earlier this year, 27 year old Casey Tutungi was left a quadriplegic after a footballing accident. Falls Festival promoter Simon Daly has organised a beneďŹ t festival for the Casey Tutungi Appeal, with Lisa Mitchell, Paul Dempsey, You Am I, The Bamboos, Dan Sultan and more stepping up to offer their support. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the means to head the Geelong way this weekend, the event will be held at Simonds Stadium. To buy tickets or make a donation, head to www.caseytutungi.com.
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RUDIMENTAL Festival Hall, Saturday September 22 A Rudimental show is more of a static parade than a performance. Trumpets, drums, Perspex boxes, keyboards, electric guitars - it’s all there (cheering and excited crowd included). The usual quartet has multiplied tonight and explodes onstage as a nine-person troupe. With an injection of reggae and dancehall elements into their performance, they take the crowd to the Caribbean via UK industrial drum and bass sounds and manage to turn Festival Hall into a sweaty, heaving pit of energy. It’s about the only time it’s appropriate as a venue. This tour marks the third time Rudimental have toured Australia over the past 12 months and they’ve got their set list sorted blending smaller tracks with high-impact hits. Three songs in and MC Kesi Dryden, in grey trackies and a trucker cap, yells “I love to Spoon!” before playing the spoons and launching into an actual rendition of their own hit Spoons. Sinead Harnett and Ella Eyre, vocalists for Hide, Baby and Waiting All Night on the debut album Home, are present to lend their pipes to most of the performance and they certainly deliver. It’s no easy feat rising above a cacophony of horns and drums in an acoustically awkward venue but their vocal pulling power is highlighted as an unforgettable talent. Feel The Love and Not Giving In are major performance highlights as revelers jump on each other’s shoulders and belt out the anthems before the music stops and the band leaves it up to the crowd to give a cappella renditions of each chorus. With a performance as uplifting and energetic as theirs it’s no surprise LOVED: Feel the love Rudimental performed at this year’s Glastonbury and V festival and HATED: All ages shows where parents will be returning to Australia for next year’s Future Music Festival. bring young kids, shove earmuffs on them and hope for the best. ISABELLA UBALDI DRANK: Beer
SHERIFF The Tote, Saturday September 21 The rumbling begins before The Tote is even in sight. A feral, sinister grumbling builds and bubbles until the belly of the beast is breached. Launching their EP Roughhouse Hymns, Melbourne band Sheriff, never ones to do things either quietly or by halves, have put together a two stage, ten band extravaganza. Recruiting YIS, I Am Duckeye, Vice Grip Pussies, Don Fernando, Sons Of The Ionian Sea, Them Bruins and Swamp Moth, every other pub in Melbourne must be unusually quiet in comparison. Also enlisted are the always entertaining Bittersweet Kicks in their first hometown appearance after a string of shows in France. Any remaining jetlag is blown away as lead singer Jack Davies finds time to roar out Bedtime Blues while dangling from the roof. They are joined by consummate party professionals Vice Grip Pussies for a raucous rendition of Team Rock N Roll and the crowd, when not dodging stray guitar necks and flying boots, seems happy to have them home. There is a mass exodus from the beer garden as swirling guitars signal the start of Sheriff ’s set. Singer Jimi Coelli’s voice sounds like it is full of nails, in the best possible way, as he belts his way through what could easily be the soundtrack to a Southern horror film. Guitarist Tom Watson’s combined vocals on Bobby Sue coupled with Callum Routledge’s cacophonous drums give the bursting room a sharp kick in the guts. The entire set is perfectly orchestrated pandemonium LOVED: The upside-down piggybacking, crotch grabbing, nipple complete with stage invasions and Watson surfing over the crowd biting stage invaders astride a demonic looking horse. As far as EP launches go, Sheriff are HATED: Having a gargantuan certainly going to be a tough act to follow. hangover DRANK: A pint of Bulmers MADISON THOMAS
CHERRYWOOD Northcote Social Club, Friday September 20 ‘Twas a very chilly Spring eve in Northcote and the Northcote Social Club was full of varying types: sport lovers, hipsters and muso types. Black seemed to be the general theme except for a few girls optimistically choosing summer dresses. Anyhow onto the gigging part. Junk Horses: good, loud, rollicking fun. Nice, simple swampy drums on the foxy gold drum kit, a Gibson SG for the singer and a Fender Tele adding some nice chops to build the energy. I think that was the key - great drones and chops building away and before you know it you’re trapped in their cool, ethereal groove. Visually interesting with their orange and green milk crates supporting their small 12” speaker amps, but they didn’t stick around as Chris Russell rolled out his piggy-backed behemoth amplification for some deeper, dirtier, and darker tones. The fancy drum kit stayed but Chris Russell and his drummer were all about dirty blues. Recommended to me by a nice chap I met in a guitar shop in Mississippi, USA they put on a great show with some simple yet cunning riffs working with the drums to keep everyone jumping. I particularly liked his rendition of Catfish Blues by Muddy Waters - well, it started like that anyway. It seemed to morph into a song more about girls and sex if that’s possible. At one point it wasn’t enough to just sing to the pretty girls - he wandered out and serenaded, slow-danced and made his feelings felt to some of those summer-dress-clad ladies. He also sang what I’m guessing was a song called Bad Motherfucker like he meant it and that went over extremely well. Behind all this was his Australian Goldentone amp from the ‘60s or something wired up to a Trace Elliot as the preamp. Driving that were his two (reasonably priced) Danelectro guitars. I’ve seriously never heard a Danelectro sound that good. We asked him about it after the show and he philosophically stated: ‘Someone once bought me a $2,000 bottle of wine. Well it tasted good, but it didn’t taste like $2,000.’ That says it all I guess really. Local favourites Cherrywood, rolled onto the stage and steamed through their punk-inspired, yet friendly, irishstyle, drunken and stompin sing-along tunes. The drummer certainly brushed the hell out of that snare drum. Really got the crowd moving and singing like they knew all the words. Maybe they did. Very stripped back stage with just a lone-open guitar case behind four gents with a bunch of acoustic instruments. I think the open guitar case was a bit of a hint…. From left-to-right it was mandolin, snare and hi hat, guitarist, and double-bass. Quite a bit of banter and chatter between songs which worked well to get the crowd wanting and asking for more. My mate described it as gang-vocals, whatever that is. The open guitar case trick seemed to pay off after a while though as people started to throw money. Not sure if it was before or after he said things like ‘Throw money but just not at the $310 guitar’, and ‘Gee the dole only pays $200 a week these days’, and ‘You know I had to steal these strings.’ Money aside, there was a nice lady who bought them a round of shots and they did put on an excellent show. LOVED: Chris & co’s muddy noise ANDREW BURKE
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AMANDA PALMER AND THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA The Forum, Friday September 20
Having sweated it out to Palace of the Dead and The Walking Who, the energetic and intoxicated crowd were ready to party by the time the main act started – and luckily The Delta Riggs brought the noise. The boys opened with Stars, the first track from their new album Hex.Lover.Killer, and followed with America, their latest single and also the name of their current tour. Needless to say, this track is one of their best. Throw together the best parts of The Hives, Jack White, Jet and Oasis, along with moments of old-school blues, and you’ve got a similar sound to the The Delta Riggs. These guys are a solid live act, with lead singer Elliott Hammond shifting swiftly between keys, vocals and generally working the crowd. Hammond is extremely confident on stage, and why wouldn’t he be? He’s backed by some impressive talent, with each of the band members sharing vocals and performing impressive solos where possible. The set list mostly comprised of songs from the new album, with highlights including Anybody Home, instrumental Save It ‘Til Morning and I Was Profound Tomorrow, which started with a laid back rocky intro and ended with an epic harmonica solo. Hammond exclaimed “Now that you’ve heard some of the new stuff, we’ll reward you with an old song” before launching into Rah Rah Radio, swigging a bottle of Coopers and spraying it over the crowd. Get Back was also a highlight, with a funky little insert that had everyone yelling, “Holy guacamole... we got the chips!” The band returned for encore, re-joined again by the brass brand LOVED: The inclusion of Saskwatch’s from Saskwatch. The brass really lifted the sound, especially with the brass band – those guys are awesome! closing ‘80s-inspired instrumental, with Hammond incorporating HATED: The drunk tool who jumped harmonica, tambourine and even a cowbell. onstage
Amanda Palmer graced the stage of the Forum on Friday night and as expected, did not fail to impress. She is a true master of performance, and as anybody who has seen her TED Talk will attest, her ability to make people love her is one of her strongest assets. She creates an environment where an audience feels safe and free to join in and express themselves however they damn well please, and in another life she would have made a great cult leader. Each call to action, each catchy hook – is lapped up by an enraptured audience and organically contributes to an inclusive, and dare I say, beautiful vibe. She introduced a song by saying it was written by a friend of hers with Asperger’s and it was called either ‘I Love You So Much,’ or ‘Asperger’s R Us.’ Both titles were given, but the former makes a little more sense, given the nature of the song. A simple melody, with amazing crowd participation. Amanda instructed the crowd to ‘hold the hand of the stranger next to you, not in a creepy, rapey way, and sing along with the chorus of “I love you, sooooooooooo much.” The gentlemen to my right in a trench coat wasn’t that keen on holding my hand, but my wife was, and most of the crowd seemed to get into it and sing along. It was an amazing thing to be a part of - and a testament to Amanda’s ability to get people involved and make them feel included, creating a tribal mentality that is difficult to resist. Amanda’s recorded music has never really excited me much, but seeing her live made me realize the woman has some pipes on her. I don’t think she’ll go down in history as one of our generation’s greatest voices, but she belts out each number with passion and technique - and the pop sensibility of her songwriting make for engaging, catchy songs. A particularly warm part of her performance was where she stepped out onto the crowd and sang most of a song out there, more stage glide than stage dive. It is truly a sight to behold - a kimono-clad, freakishly tall woman, effortlessly and with complete trust being held up by an adoring room full of people. It’s probably an appropriate metaphor for her recent crowd funding success and way she inspires such a loyal and accepting fan base. Amanda Palmer must be seen to truly understand what she is capable of creating. You’ll probably learn something, especially if you are a performer yourself. She will teach you something LOVED: The atmosphere about interacting with the other humans and how people react to the HATED: The Forum being too full to simplest things - love, kindness, and being included. Go see her if you sit comfortably get the chance. DRANK: Water
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