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STEVE KILBEY Not gonna waste your time talking rubbish, so let’s cut to the awesomeness: Public Enemy, You Am I, Flying Lotus, Neko Case, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Yo La Tengo, Cut/Copy, Charles Bradley And His Extraordinaires, The Drones, Chet Faker, Adalita, Gold Panda, Cosmic Psychos, Seekae, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Hiatus Kaiyote, Los Coronas, Osaka Monaurail, Tornado Wallace, Mark Pritchard, Sixfthick, The Orbweavers, Archer and The Long Gone Daddies, The Perch Creek Family Jugband, DJ Jnett, Jps (The Operatives), Spacey Space, Silence Is Golden and Andras Fox featuring Oscar Key Sung. The interstitial soundtrack will be provided by Typical Girls, Breaking & Entering, Max Crawdaddy, and La Pocock. Golden Plains 8 is on at the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre from Saturday March 8 until Monday March 10, 2014.
Undefeated champion of RocKwiz, ARIA Hall of Famer, polymath and modern day renaissance man Steve Kilbey is touring Australia in November. In these special performances, Kilbey will backed by Fremantle music identities Shaun & Adrian Hoffmann, and accompanied by a string section, as he delves into his unrivalled back catalogue of solo releases, collaborations and Church classics. He plays Northcote Social Club on Sunday November 10. Tickets through the venue.
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One of the world’s most respected guitarists, Jimmie Vaughan, has announced a run of headline shows to coincide with his appearance at Bluesfest 2014. Since the release of his debut record in 1994, the older brother of legendary “Texas Blues” guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan has set the standard for quality modern roots music. He’ll be joined by Nikki Hill when they hit the Corner Hotel on Thursday April 17.
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh, we like it, uh-huh uh-huh. KC & The Sunshine Band have announced their Bluesfest sideshows, and we are shake-shakeshaking in anticipation. The Sunshine Band have been around for 40 years, and their sunshine sound is still brightening up dance floors around the world. Catch ‘em at The Palace on Friday April 18.
In the lead up to the release of his new album Knock Madness, Hopsin is set to fly around Australia treating fans to his signature rhymes, style and music. Hopsin’s roots lay in an $8 microphone that he bought from Walmart and since then he hasn’t looked back. Knock Madness is set to be released on Sunday November 24. Head down to The Espy on Thursday December 12. Tickets are on sale from Ticket booth.
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Seabellies will be hitting the road again this November in promotion of their sophomore album Fever Belle. Originating from the bellows of Newcastle, the sixpiece monster that is Seabellies have been entertaining thousands with their complex and experimental compositions since 2006. In 2010, the band made their mark on the music industry with their critically acclaimed debut LP By Limbo Lake. Fever Belle will pick up where the band left off – creating a blend of ambitious melody and texture that draws influence from Melbourne, Berlin and Sydney. Seabellies will play at the Northcote Social Club on Friday December 27. Fever Belle is out now through Permanent/Shock Records.
WAKA FLOCKA FLAME GA rapper and Brick Squad member Waka Flocka Flame is set to make his Australian debut this December, touring the country on the back of his new album Flockavelli II. Waka Flocka Flame is the next level of ferocity in the growing Southern rap phenomenon. His reputation as a performer and partystarter has seen him become one of the worlds most controversial and renowned rap stars of the last five years. It goes down on Wednesday December 18 at Billboard.
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ALLEN STONE After a sold out Australian tour earlier this year, Allen Stone will be making a swift return. Drawing comparisons to the ilk of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Prince, Stone will be returning to Melbourne with a brand new album under his belt, the follow up to his 2012 self-titled record. Allen Stone will hit the Corner Hotel on Saturday April 12.
VANS WARPED SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT With summer just around the corner, the Vans Warped Tour have announced another round of kick arse bands to join the already killer lineup. Esteemed punk rock juggernauts, Millencolin are spearheading the second announcement alongside The Amity Affliction, Reel Big Fish, Confession, Hands Like Houses, Buried In Verona and Hand Of Mercy. It all goes down on Saturday December 7 at Birrarung Marr. Tickets available from the Warped website.
PRETTY CITY Heights, the debut EP by Melbourne three-piece Pretty City, takes the band’s lo-fi aesthetic and makes the jump to light speed. Lead single Falling In And Out Of Love throws a nod to the band’s shoegazing forefathers, all the while delivering an original sound. To celebrate the release of Heights, Pretty City hit the road this November with their own light and projection show, creating a must see, immersive experience. Check ‘em out at Boney on Saturday November 30 alongside Warmth Crashes In.
POISON CITY ANNOUNCE TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOWS Since starting in 2003 from a spare bedroom in Thornbury, Poison City has grown into an highly respected, diverse and fiercely independent label with almost 80 releases to its name. Based in Fitzroy, Poison City also operates as a skateboard/record store, and is the label behind the annual Weekender Fest. And how time flies. Poison City Records is turning ten later this year! To celebrate the milestone they’ve just announced two massive shows, bringing together the best of the label’s old and new breed. The party starts Thursday December 19 at The Gasometer Hotel, featuring Harmony, Infinite Void, Lincoln Le Fevre, Apart From This, Freak Wave And Postblue, and continues on Friday December 20 at The Reverence Hotel with The Smith Street Band, The Gifthorse, The Bennies, Paper Arms, Clowns and Daysworth Fighting. Tickets for both shows go on sale Thursday October 24 via poisoncityestore.com/estore
DOLLY PARTON Her beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair – iconic singer, songwriter, musician and actress Dolly Parton has announced Australian tour dates as part of the Blue Smoke World Tour starting in February 2014. New VIP packages are coming out for this upcoming tour that include access to Dolly’s personal wardrobe and instruments, a backstage tour, and an opportunity to meet Dolly. The release date for Dolly’s latest studio album, Blue Smoke, will be announced soon. Dolly Parton plays Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday February 11, 2014. Tickets for all Australian shows go on sale at 9am Friday November 1. Check out dollypartonmusic.net for further information. Pre-sale begins 2pm Monday October 28, hit up livenation.com.au
COSMIC PSYCHOS ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE SHOW Punk legends Cosmic Psychos will be tearing up The Espy this November in promotion of their upcoming DVD, Blokes You Can Trust. Known for their wicked shows, the band have just returned from a three week, 12 city tour across the USA, where they screened Blokes You Can Trust at each of the shows, including a few local cinemas along the way. Cosmic Psychos will hit up The Espy’s Gershwin Room with support acts With The Spazzys and Sun Gold Replica on All Hallow’s Day (Friday November 1 if you weren’t aware). Tickets are available through Oztix.
DEAFHEAVEN Having produced one of the most critically-acclaimed albums of the year in Sunbather, Deafheaven’s relentless touring sees the band traveling to Australia for the first time ever to play shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth in January 2014. Deafheaven’s live show is as renowned as their record, with the group turning their 11-minute songs into short, visceral exorcisms. See Deafheaven on their first ever Australian tour when they roar into the Corner Hotel on Friday January 10. Tickets on sale now from lifeisnoise.com, Oztix and the venue.
BLACK CAB Four years after the release of their critically acclaimed album Call Signs, Melbourne’s Black Cab have returned with the Go Slow EP. Working alongside UK producer and ex-Death In Vegas member Timothy Holmes, the new release features two double A-side singles Go Slow/Games of the XXI Olympiad. The forthcoming record was inspired by the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games which featured huge amounts of performance enhancing steroids that were used mainly by the East German team. Black Cab will launch it across Australia, visiting their hometown at the Northcote Social Club on Monday November 4 and The Espy’s Gershwin Room on Sunday November 16.
TRUST PUNKS Auckland pop-punk collective, Trust Punks have announced a string of Australian tour dates for this November. The kiwis released their latest single, Prone Hold, at the end of last month, a biting addition to the five-piece’s catalogue. Trust Punks will take on The Public Bar on Thursday November 28.
STEVE EARLE The long and winding Copperhead Road is bringing Steve Earle our way for Bluesfest next year, and he’s announced a fresh string of sideshows while he’s in the country. Alongside Earle - one of America’s most celebrated storytellers and activists - will be his band, The Dukes. The Low Highway is Earle’s 15th album, itself written on the road as Earle made his way around the States. Support on this tour comes from homegrown heroine Kasey Chambers. They’ll hit the Forum on Thursday April 24. Tickets through Ticketmaster.
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The sisters of Stonefield are embarking on a national tour in support of their highly anticipated self-titled debut album, which dropped last week. They will be hitting the Corner Hotel this Saturday October 26 and we have some double passes to give away.
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Nancy Vandal will be hitting the road to promote their new album Flogging A Dead Phoenix with an explosive East Coast tour through October and December. They hit the Reverence on Saturday November 2 and we have some double passes to give away.
This Melbourne Cup Day, skip the bustling crowds and lengthy queues of Flemington Racecourse and head to the Yarra Valley’s most anticipated event – Oakridge Wines’ celebration of the ‘race that stops the nation’. With stunning views of the vines at their Spring best, Oakridge is looking forward to hosting its annual festive Cup Day filled with great company, food, wine and racing action. eaturing live musical entertainment and a large screen to watch the all-day races broadcast, guests will be greeted with a glass of sparkling and canapĂŠs. We have some double passes to give away.
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Prominent Sydney jazz pop artist, Briana Cowlishaw has just released her latest record Paper Mache City. To celebrate the new material, Cowlishaw will be hitting the road with her six-piece band on a ninedate national tour. She hits Bennett’s Lane this Saturday October 26 and we have some double passes to give away.
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WOODFORD FOLK FESTIVAL The Woodford Folk Festival is back for its 28th year, with a stellar program to match. The “festival of festivals” will feature over 500 acts in 28 venues across six days and nights. Among a number of notable national and international musicians, Beth Orton, The Basics, Clare Bowditch, Julian Marley, Blue King Brown, Matt Corby and Tim Finn will be gracing the stage. Between sets you can head to the Talks Programme and hear former Prime Minister Bob Hawke chat current affairs. Or for the environmentally minded, the GREENhouse venue will be a hive of activity to expand your knowledge with workshops from academics, farmers and innovators. It all goes down from Friday December 27 to Wednesday January 1. Head to their website for more information.
KID MAC Kid Mac’s new studio album, Head Noise, has just been released. Written and produced by Kid Mac, the highly anticipated sophomore album offers an insight to a personal inward journey of the busy heart and mind. Mac recently premiered the album’s lead single Bustin’ Down The Door live on the NRL Footy Show, which offered a taste of what was to come. Proving his versatility as an award-winning musician (2012 Music Oz Independent Music Awards’ Artist Of The Year) and filmmaker (Best Director and Best Cinematography for his feature Fighting Fear at this year’s prestigious AACTA’s), Mac has also had his hands full filming his reality TV doco-style show The Crew. Kid Mac performs at Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday November 30. Check out his website for regional dates.
SHAUN KIRK ANNOUNCES NATIONAL TOUR Blues multi-instrumentalist Shaun Kirk will be hitting the road this November in promotion of his new EP Giving. This tour will be Kirk’s last tour for 2013 before he returns to the studio to finish recording his LP Steer the Wheel, which is due for release March next year. Kirk’s energetic musical perspective has seen the young artist perform at Bluesfest, Woodford Folk Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival and perform alongside The Cat Empire and Ben Harper. Shaun Kirk will be at The Evelyn on Thursday November 28.
THE MURLOCS The Murlocs have unveiled a tour to promote their boisterous new single Space Cadet. Loud and abrasive, the local boys have become known for their distorted brand of R&B and front man Ambrose KennySmith’s distinct screeching vocals. Get rowdy with The Murlocs at The Tote on Friday November 29.
BRIAN MCKNIGHT R&B icon Brian McKnight will be bringing his world tour spectacular to Australia next year. McKnight is a veteran to the music business; he began his career at the age of 20 as a band leader for his high school and church choir member. 30 years later, the New Yorkborn singer has earned 16 Grammy nominations, received certified Platinum for seven of his albums and has collaborated with some of today’s biggest R&B stars including Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey and Guy Sebastian. His current album, More Than Words, is McKnight’s 15th studio album and it is filled with signature heartfelt lyrics and a melodic tempo. Brian McKnight will perform at the Palais Theatre on Wednesday March 5. Tickets go on sale Friday October 25 and will be available through Ticketmaster.
MIX MASTER MIKE Ex-Beastie Boys turntablist Mix Master Mike is returning to Australia. Mix Master Mike started off dabbling in vinyl to starting his own mobile DJ business and once he had discovered his new found love for hip hop he was virtually unstoppable. In 1992, Mike was the first West Coast DJ to become World Champion by winning the New Music Seminar DJ Battle for World Supremacy in New York City. That same year, Mike, DJ Apollo and Q-Bert, known as the first ever scratch band, won the DMC World title. Check out the legend at The Espy Thursday November 21. Tickets are on sale from The Espy.
URBANTRAMPER Urbantramper will bring Melbourne the soundtrack of the future as they play a pair of shows in promotion of their latest single Your Lung Meridian. The Wellington based trio call on an assortment of pads, synths, and buttons to create their Electric utopia sound. Their celebrated EP, Tomorrow We Leave Here, is the most recent in Urbantramper’s 10 year collection of future folk. Get a double dose of Urbantramper as they play The Toff in Town on Wednesday November 6 and The Espy on Saturday November 9.
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JAMES BLUNT Singer-songwriter extraordinaire James Blunt is returning to Australia next year in promotion of his new album, Moon Landing. It’s perfect timing too, considering the success of his current single Bonfire Heart, which has peaked at #1 on the iTunes single chart and debuted at #5 on the ARIAs. Co-written by Ryan Tedder, Bonfire Heart incorporates the melancholic acoustics of 2005 hit You’re Beautiful coupled with twinkling piano and nostalgic soft rock. Blunt will be supported by Rockhampton, Queensland duo Busby Marou, who will bring their countrytinged songwriting to the tour. Their current album, Farewell Fitzroy, is out now through Warner Music. James Blunt will perform at The Plenary on Sunday June 8. Tickets go on sale Monday October 28 through Ticketmaster. Moon Landing is out now.
THE JUNGLE GIANTS The Jungle Giants are currently on tour; a successful tour at that, therefore, it is no surprise that the indie quartet have announced more tour dates for this November, including two Melbourne shows. Originating from Brisbane, the quartet have made headlines with their recent debut LP Learn to Exist; a charismatic indie-pop album that has spent two weeks in the top spot on the AIR Independent Label Album Chart and debuted at #20 on the ARIA Albums Chart back in August. Be ready to contemplate your existence this November as The Jungle Giants hit up The Prince Bandroom on Friday November 29 and The Wool Exchange on Saturday November 30.
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INTERNATIONAL MELBOURNE FESTIVAL Various Venues October 11 – 27 BEYONCÉ Rod Laver Arena October 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 The Palais and Prince Bandroom 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 FRANZ FERDINAND The Forum November 14 BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB Palace Theatre November 15 NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, M.WARD, SUPERCHUNK The Forum November 15, 16 FACE THE MUSIC Various Venues, November 15, 16 MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK Various Venues November 15 – 24 MIX MASTER MIKE The Espy November 21 LEONARD COHEN Rod Laver Arena November 20, December 9, Bimbadgen Winery November 23 BLACK FLAG Palace Theatre November 22 CHERRYFEST Cherry Bar November 24 TUMBLEWEED Central Club Richmond November 29 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 INSANE CLOWN POSSE December 6 CAVE Kelvin Club December 6 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, Shadow Electric December 16 HOPSIN The Espy December 12 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 THE PLOT FESTIVAL Palace Theatre, Ding Dong Lounge December 15 MELVINS The Hi-Fi December 17 HELMET The Hi-Fi December 18 WAKA FLOCKA FLAME Billboard December 18 THE WAR ON DRUGS Northcote Social Club December 28 THE ROOTS Festival Hall December 28 TOM ODELL Corner Hotel December 28 FALLS FESTIVAL Lorne December 28 - January 1, Marion Bay December 29 - January 1, Byron Bay December 31 January 3 FUTURE OF THE LEFT Corner Hotel January 2 JOHNNY MARR Corner Hotel January 4 WIZ KHALIFIA, A$AP ROCKY Festival Hall January 4 HANNI EL KHATIB January 5 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Festival Hall January 6 SOLANGE Prince Bandroom January 7 MOUNTAIN MOCHA KILIMANJARO Corner Hotel January 9 LONDON GRAMMAR Prince Bandroom January 9, 10 PARAMORE Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 12 SO FRENCHY SO CHIC Werribee Park January 12 JOHN GRANT Corner Hotel January 18 HALF MOON RUN Corner Hotel January 19 BIG DAY OUT Flemington Racecourse January 24 WE ARE SCIENTISTS Corner Hotel January 25 ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL Footscray Community Arts Centre February 1 THE NATIONAL Sidney Myer Music Bowl February 9 LYNYRD SKYNYRD The Plenary February 11 DOLLY PARTON Rod Laver Arena February 11
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AAMI Park February 15 EMINEM/KENDRICK LAMAR/J. COLE/360 Etihad Stadium February 19 SOUNDWAVE 2014 Flemington Racecourse February 28 BRIAN MCKNIGHT Palais Theatre March 5 FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL Flemington Racecourse March 9 BILLY BRAGG Palais Theatre March 13 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE AND NINE INCH NAILS Rod Laver Arena March 14 ALLEN STONE Corner Hotel April 12 EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Palace Theatre April 15 BLUESFEST Byron Bay April 17 – 21 JIMMIE VAUGHAN Corner Hotel April 17 KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND Palace Theatre April 18 IRON AND WINE The Forum Theatre April 22 STEVE EARLE Forum Theatre April 24 JAMES BLUNT The Plenary June 8
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QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Princess Park, Queenscliff November 22 – 24 ELIZABETH ROSE Workers Club November 23 ONE ELECTRIC DAY Werribee Park November 24 SAL KIMBER & THE ROLLIN’ WHEEL Northcote Social Club November 29 THE MURLOCS The Tote November 29 ALEX LLOYD The Kelvin Club November 29, Ferntree Gully Hotel November 30 THE JUNGLE GIANTS Prince Bandroom November 29, Wool Exchange November 30 KID MAC Ding Dong Lounge November 30 PARADISE FESTIVAL Lake Mountain, November 29 December 1 SASKWATCH Corner Hotel December 7 ROCKWIZ Palais Theatre, December 8 POND Corner Hotel December 19 SEABELLIES Northcote Social Club December 27 NYE ON THE HILL TBA December 30 - January 1 NYE AT THE ESPY The Espy December 31 RIVERBOATS FESTIVAL Echuca February 14 - 16 HUNTERS AND COLLECTORS The Palais April 11 RUMOURS METRIC, ROY AYERS, DMX = NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
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MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA
By Jeremy Sheaffe
Loosely, ska music is defined as a modern style of vocalised Jamaican popular music, which emerged in the ‘50s as a blend of African-Jamaican folk music, calypso and American rhythm and blues, notable for its shuffling, scratch-like tempo and jazz-like horn riffs on the offbeat. For a 14-year-old Nicky Caruana, a teenager born in Malta but having called Australia home for nearly ten years, it was the “sort of music that I belonged to.” “I got into The Specials and Madness and the British Beat, the second wave that happened in the UK, and I just remember belonging to that sort of music.” The now nearly 50-year-old Nicky Bomba leans on the word belonging. “That led me to reggae, the whole genre moved me on some level and I don’t even like to try to explain it but there is certain songs that make me wanna dance when I put them on, they lift my spirit they lift my energy, they make me roll my sleeves up and get busy.” Bomba is nothing if not busy, ever since he and his brother formed their cover band, Fugitive Flight in the late ‘70s he has been playing music in one form or another virtually every day of his life. From his work with Ethiopian music Dereb Desalegn in Drums and Lions, his long relationship with John Butler, his own Bomba band or lately, and increasingly, the multi-player, multi-layered Melbourne Ska Orchestra. “Most musos don’t make a living, they have to have another job,” he agrees, “What I have thankfully been able to do is diversify. I haven’t always just been playing drums in a band. [I might] have three or four different bands on the go playing different types of things, so I can do a variety of things. “I have learned how to work in the studio, I have my own studio so I can record other people and that was a way of making bread and butter, especially when I had a family. It’s just about having your fingers in five different pies; it’s the only way you could kinda make a living. “It’s not common that there are bands that have success like Gotye; that’s a small percentage that that happens too. The majority of musicians on this planet are playing their gigs on the weekend, they’re teaching, they’re writing some songs. You have to ask yourself, ‘Is this what I want to do?’ I suppose it is like any art, you have to open up your income stream so that you can make a living doing that thing if that is what you chose to do.” It’s also about surrounding yourself with people who can be part of your musical journey, and Bomba is completely ensconced in a musical family. His sister, Daniella, is also known as Mama Kin (also known as Mrs John Butler) and his brother Michael plays with Mama Kin and Nicky himself. His relationship with John Butler is more than brothers-in-law – they share a passion for reggae, funk and creating music. Bomba was an integral part in getting Butler’s career moving, playing on his debut, finding the bass player, studio and engineer. However, BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18
at the time, he was focused on his own band and chose not to tour. “So I found them a drummer and then with that other drummer, they recorded Grand National and after that I was kind of having some time off. That whole thing about ambition and anxiety was getting me down, I kind of felt like I was banging my head against a wall. I felt that I was making really good art but I didn’t have the right team. So I took some time to let the dust settle and said to John that we should jam, which led to ‘let’s make another album’. He found another bass player, changed the band and we recorded April Uprising.
“IT’S A BIT LIKE FISHING OR PLATING SEEDS, AT SOME POINT THE CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT THAT THE PLANT IS FRUITING LIKE CRAZY AND YOU NURTURE THAT PART OF THE GARDEN MORE.” “So then for the next three years after that, I toured that, I become part of the unit. Went around the world, experienced all those beautiful things, I mean we played big gigs, Red Rocks, big gigs you know.” In 2003, with Butler still enjoying massive success, Nicky Bomba was back in Melbourne, writing and playing, plying his craft; it was the 40th Anniversary of ska music’s birth and he had a novel idea. “We tried to set the world record for the most horn players on stage. So we booked the Gershwin Room, put the word out and we were inundated with so many people, we had no idea that there was such a big scene for this sound in Melbourne. So we put the gig on, it was fucking huge, completely sold-out, a real celebration of the form… we totally forgot about the world record but it was so great we decided to do it.” And by it, he means become a band. “We got together, once a year and played a gig or two for five or six years, it was more of a get together but a couple of years back I managed to secure a spot at Bluesfest, and we decided to really get the show together and it was a major hit.” Such a hit they asked the band back.
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“Second year we played there we got some interest to record an album. I’m always writing, so we basically recorded 23 originals – 21 actually and two covers. For us it is another new wave of ska because we didn’t just copy what was done before, we’ve tried to make some great hybrids. We incorporated Latin with ska, some funk with ska; we really tried to mix up the rhythms and the tonality. We added chords that come from jazz, rather than just the straight up ska. “Since we got signed and released the album it’s been this beautiful trajectory.” Indeed it has. The album in questions has garnered two ARIA Awards nominations: one for Engineer of the Year and one for Roots and Blues Album of the Year. For a musician so deeply rooted in the creativity of music and working with musicians, I am curious to know how Nicky Bomba knows that it is time to focus on just one of his projects, as he currently is with the Melbourne Ska Orchestra? “It’s a bit like fishing or planting seeds,” he explains. “At some point the conditions are right and that plant is fruiting like crazy and you nurture that part of the garden more. Even if it doesn’t grow, you still have to put the maintenance in. It doesn’t happen often, so when it does you’ve got to appreciate but also not be obsessed by it. It is quite easy to get sucked into that celebrity thing, the press, and all that stuff which takes you away from what got you into it in the first place, which is writing songs and playing music. You have to get that balance right.” Which is why leaving the John Butler Trio for the much larger musical family of the Melbourne Ska Orchestra was a fairly easy decision to make. “One of the many reasons that I wanted to join up and play with John is that having a great team is part of the key to success. But that takes time; if I’m gonna build this ship then this is how it is going to be. And if you don’t take that impulse from the start, if you don’t have that conscious thought at the start… which is one thing I did with this project… and it kind of happened organically, I found a really good manager who was interested in the band, a good publicist, a good label and a good radio promoter, just this whole team and I removed myself from the marketing and become all about the creative and I think the result, I mean you are spending money, but it feeds back into it. It is an investment. “It’s interesting, because there is a lot of love in this music, you don’t be in this band for financial reasons; there’s a magic that exists when we are writing and playing. Because there is a magic there you have to have fun with it, you’re lot of energy and you get a lot done. The hardest thing with this band is the fucking catering man, that was a big part of the recording budget.” MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA play the Australasion Worldwise Music Expo at The Hi-Fi on Saturday November 16 and Queenscliff Music Festival on Saturday November 23.
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ON SCREEN This week Classic Cinemas will premiere the musical documentary, The Songs They Sang, an insight into creative presences in the Vilna Ghetto, Lithuania, during the Holocaust. Poignant and inspirational, The Songs They Sang, a four-year-work created by filmmaker Rohan Spong and producers Anna Monea and Amadeo Marques-Perez, will focus on artist Shmerke Kazcerginski and Avrom Sutzkever and the songs composed by them and others encamped in the ghetto. Vilna, now known as the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, was ravaged by the Holocaust during WWII, with tens of thousands of people disappearing between 1941 and 1943. However, in the face of this horror Vilna still maintained its influence as a cultural hub for Eastern Europe’s most revered poets and musicians. Tickets are available through Trybooking. The Songs They Sang will be screened at Classic Cinemas from Sunday October 27.
ON STAGE Conceived and composed by Tania Bosak, Miss Jugoslavia & The Barefoot Orchestra is a nonlinear composed theatre work based on themes of political and social secrecy, identity, censorship, interrogation, escaping, and finding oneself inarticulate in a foreign land. Inspired by Bosak’s musician father, and his extraordinary defection story, which took place between the former Jugoslavia and Belgium in 1958, Miss Jugoslavia and The Barefoot Orchestra is not only a very long title, it has been modeled on no theatrical ‘style’ or genre ever seen in Australia. The work driven by an original score is also a celebration of espionage through concert practice, unashamedly Balkan, bold, funny, and storytelling beyond words. Catch it at fortyfivedownstairs from Monday October 28 - Sunday November 10.
LIFE AND TIMES By Krissi Weiss There is an opus in every bird’s song, an epic tale in every mundane life – according to the ever-searching eyes of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper of the Nature Theater Of Oklahoma. A phone call made up of a fairly inconsequential life story has mushroomed into a massively ambitious project at the hands of Liska and Copper. Episode 1 – 4 of Life and Times, with a combined running time of 10 hours (although that does include times to eat and stretch one’s legs) is ambitious and daring. If the MTV generation had a short attention span then the world of 140 characters and gifs is, as they say, a world of goldfish. But perhaps this is what is driving the success of this undertaking? People are yearning for more substance and willing to invest their time when the returns are high. Eventually, Life and Times will become a mammoth ten episodes and while Liska is never short of motivation, he admits that the undertaking is unique with regard to the creative process. “Each episode is always informed by the unanswered questions from the previous ones so we’ve learned that we shouldn’t make too big of a plan for anything in the future because once we start working with a new episode things change completely” Liska says. “We’re working on Episode 8, 7 and 6 – we’re working on them simultaneously because we have support for them – but
we know that ultimately until 6 is completed, 7 won’t be generated. Episode 10 will be tough because we’re deliberately keeping ourselves ignorant about the plans.” As with the rest of the dwindling creative economy, Liska and Copper faced a challenge financing this project. “It’s so hard with this, particularly when we’re looking for grants and support because we’ve learned that no matter what we say, we’re lying,” he laughs. “As much as we may fall in love with an idea we know plans have never worked out before and everything changes with this. We need people to trust us to deliver. Ultimately, we want to do the whole thing together. The messages we’re getting is not that we’re crazy, even after we did the 15 hour show, the messages we’re getting are ‘Keep going.’” Just as Michelangelo’s David was once a crude lump
ON DISPL AY Heide Museum of Art are currently hosting a special exhibition dedicated to selected works from renowned Australian artist Erica McGilchrist. Entitled Erica McGilchrist: Selected Works 1951 – 1995, the exhibition will include a selection of textiles, paintings and illustrations by the acclaimed modernist, art educator and women’s art activist. Erica McGilchrist: Selected Works 1951 – 1955 is currently being exhibited at Heide Museum of Art until Sunday April 27.
PICK OF THE WEEK This week the Hola Mexican Film Festival will celebrate its eighth birthday, bringing their blend of Hispanic culture and entertainment to ACMI this October. Featuring over ten films hosted over six days, the Mexican Film Festival will open the festival with the premiere of Nosotros Los Nobles (We Are The Nobles); Gary Alazaraki’s blockbuster film that illustrates the story of three children of an affluent father who are cut off from the family and forced to get jobs. Other film highlights include Ariel Award winner La via precos y breve de Sabina Rivas, a story about two ex-teenage lovers who stumble across each other again in adulthood, and Tlatelolco, director and writer Carlos Bolado’s tale about two students in love during the Mexican Students’ Movement which escalated to the horrific Tlatelolco massacre of 1968. The Mexican Film Festival will be hosted at ACMI from Thursday October 24 – Tuesday October 29.
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ROOM OF REGRET By Josh Fergeus “It’s not about being nervous,” muses Kate Davies. “It’s about refining.” It’s just days before Room of Regret debuts at Theatre Works as part of the Melbourne Festival when we speak, and the co-creator is a very busy woman. “We’re so ahead in the work, we’re not really ready to say how we feel about it. It’s all logistical hell at the moment getting everything organised. It’s a massive undertaking. The production is very big technically... if it all goes to plan then hopefully it will be good.” The production is the latest offering from The Rabble, a group formed in 2006 by Davies and two colleagues, one of which she’s still collaborating with now. “We were all directors,” she explains. “We created The Rabble to support ourselves and our own work. It’s basically Emma (Valente, co-creator) and I now. It slowly developed and has grown slightly over the years. We mainly use the same actors as we did in 2006, which is incredible. “We’ve slowly formed this method of creating work. We’d previously worked together for about 15 years anyway, developing this method of devising work on the
floor, taking classic texts and then reinterpreting them and re-imagining them in our style. We’re well practised in that now, we’ve really come to a great space with it and have the help of an amazing ensemble of actors. We basically create all the work through improvisation.” Their latest source of inspiration is Oscar Wilde’s classic, Dorian Gray. “Emma has wanted to do this book for a while,” says Davies of her co-creator. “It’s been on the cards. She’s very connected to it. It’s interesting, I think it’s more about what it interests us to investigate rather than matching a text to our process. It’s more about going ‘what a great launching point is this book’
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of marble and Air on the G String from Bach was once a silent piece of stretched sheep’s gut, Life and Times was just someone’s ordinary life. Of course that life is Josephine valuable to Ridge the person living it, as the sheep valued its stomach, but the eventual conversion into art is what the audience wants to witness. “The whole idea is that the story wasn’t interesting,” he says. “We always look for things that are not art yet and that’s the main premise of everything that we do. I already appreciate Chekhov, I already appreciate Mozart, but there is a limited amount of what is already art and there is only so many times I can go to the theatre or see a great film. So I spend the rest of my day looking at things and trying to figure out if they could also be art so that I can live perpetually in the arms of art – not to sound pretentious or anything. I guess I just don’t want there to be a break between my experience of art and my life.” While the episodes are being run as separate shows, Liska and Copper are presenting one marathon performance of all four episodes. Liska isn’t concerned, however, about people misunderstanding what they’re coming to see. “I don’t have to worry about those [distracted] people because it’s not like anyone’s going to come in there by accident thinking they’re coming for an hour long show,” he says. “I have a very short attention space myself; I get very restless too. But I feel like I’m not alone in knowing that I want experiences like these. It’s always hard to convince the curators not to worry about the long performance because I find people are hungry for an experience that’s out of the ordinary and are willing to make that commitment.”
Life and Times is currently being performed at The Art’s Centre, Playhouse. Episode 1 took place last night, but you can catch Episode 2 tonight Wednesday October 23 at 7pm; Episodes 3 and 4 on Thursday October 24 or the marathon (Episodes 1–4) on Saturday October 26 which spans 10 hours with intervals and BBQ dinner. You can see any of the four sessions that you like, they are all completely self-contained.
– all of the themes are very connected to what we’re looking at more generally.” Davies believes that festivals like the Melbourne Festival help to generate more unique works. “I think that people are maybe a little bit more happy RidgeI think they’re more accepting of toJosephine experiment. something crazy. Maybe just being a part of the festival is great to push you to make things and dream really big. Maybe it’s a bit more accepted. We don’t know if it’s going to work or not. You never do with any show, but this kind of premise is a big experiment. How an audience might take this kind of experience – it’s really going to range from hating it to loving it, hopefully. Our work is usually taken like that, which I think is great. It creates great dialogue. “For us it is a big experiment,” states Davies. “This work in particular is very tricky, it’s very different. We’re making such an abstract world. Because it’s slightly immersive we’ve had to get a few test audiences in to experience it and give us feedback on what it’s like. You don’t sit down in an auditorium and watch the show. It’s very particular. We’re still trialling that now. It’s about making it as best as it can be up to opening night. We keep changing, cutting, adding. “We’ve been rehearsing part-time for about nine to ten weeks. It takes that long because so much of the content is improvisational. Once we’ve collated material and then the performance begins to form up. Slowly, slowly, we’re still changing stuff now and we open in a week. The method keeps growing, keeps changing, because it is so organic. It gets to this stage in the process where we’re shifting the order around all the time, cutting and changing. It’s never really done until it’s presented to an audience.”
Room of Regret is currently playing at Theatre Works as part of Melbourne Festival until Sunday November 3.
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ARABELLA
Malia Walsh (Circus Trick Tease, Spiegel Tent) will return to La Mama this November with her newest production Arabella. Devised and created by Walsh, the production will combine puppetry, dance and circus to illustrate a tale full of old and new memories, and memories that are tethering on the edges of delusion. Arabella will also see Walsh collaborate with a cast of talented and diverse artists including Rockie Stone (Circus Oz, Fright of Flight), Marianna Joslin (Vulcana, Quantum Clowning) and Dan Goronszy (The CollaborAgents, Polyglot). Arabella will be performed at La Mama from Wednesday November 6 – Sunday November 24.
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A BUS
Showing as a part of Platform Theatre’s season at La Mama, first time writer and multiple time director Elise Dorian brings to the stage A Bus. Not just your standard public transport trip and set in the isolated social underclass of Melbourne suburbia, A Bus pulls the audience through the ulterior reality of a girl dealing with her own ghosts on the path to adulthood. Performed by Jessica Gailitis, Danielle Triandifilidis, Mish Wittrup, David Yeates and Eben Rojter, with photography by Brie McPherson, A Bus promises to be an in depth insight into the world outside the hustle and bustle of city life and into the hidden underbelly of suburban existence. A Bus will be performed at La Mama from Wednesday October 30 - Saturday November 2.
Melbourne is no doubt at its finest, continually striving for a deeper understanding of its culture and the amalgamation of its developing sub-cultures. This is what GRN GLD is all about… Developed by Melbourne graphic designer and photographer Lily Gloria, the zine Green Gold (GRN GLD) was born out of a love for the city of her birth. Based in New York City for the duration of 2012, Lily worked at 12ozProphet, one of the largest graffiti websites in the world. It was here that she was inspired by her colleagues and their deep-rooted pride in their city where she reflected on the way she felt about Melbourne. There is nowhere she would rather be right now. Through GRN GLD, Lily Gloria aims to reveal through her photography, the subtleties of her city, the heart of the place and the feeling that it gives her. GRN GLD is printed entirely by Risograph. This machine uses soy-based ink and is printed in separate, single colour layers, printed on top of one another. Lily Gloria chose this method of printing due to its gritty, canvas like quality – similar to that of an old colour photocopier, which is essentially what zine production is rooted in. The GRN GLD zine launch party takes place at 234 Brunswick St, Fitzroy on Friday October 25 at 6pm.
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ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM
Before their relocation to Sydney later this year, theatre company The Hayloft Project will present their updated version of their murder mystery, Arden of Faversham, in Arden v Arden. Set during the mid-16th century, Arden of Faversham illustrates the tale of Thomas Arden who was murdered by his wife and her lover. In the adaption Arden v Arden, written and the directed by the founding member and artistic director of The Hayloft Project Benedict Hardie (Yuri Wells, The Seizure, The Nurse), the play is essentially split in half; one half set during contemporary Australian times and other in the classical period of the original text. Arden v Arden will be performed at the Northcote Town Hall from Wednesday November 20 – Sunday December 8.
Salon Boudoir is a brand new monthly burlesque and cabaret revue consisting of burlesque starlets, showgirls, cabaret divas and vaudeville vamps. Each month Salon Boudoir presents a vintage-flavoured, glamorous and decadent showcase of classic burlesque, comedic antics, chorus girls, songstresses and cabaret delights. The resident cast is star studded with some of the best in the country. Local, national and international special guests appear each month as well as showgirls, and chorus line girls. Salon Boudoir is the last Saturday of the month at the sensational Agent 284. Not only will you be delightfully entertained but you can dine on superb food and beverages. Visit facebook.com/ salonboudoirclub for more information.
SUPER DISCOUNT
This November it might be time to don your best superhero costume because Super Discount, the newest theatre production from Back to Back Theatre (Ganesh Versus the Third Reich), will be hitting up the Malthouse Theatre. Super Discount will delve into what it means to be a superhero. Do you need to have a square jaw and washboard abs? Or do you simply need to wear your undies on the outside? Sharp, witty and poignant, Super Discount will teach you how to unleash the caped crusader (or vigilante if you’re Batman) within you. Super Discount will be performed at the Malthouse Theatre from Wednesday November 13 – Sunday December 1.
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Tomorrow The Shadow Electric open air cinema at the Abbottsford Convent will reveal their full 2013/2014 program, but we can reveal a sneak peak of what will be on offer. Frances Ha will open the season on Thursday November 21, and the season will continue until Sunday January 26. Some of the highlights of the season also include The Stone Roses: Made of Stone, Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, This Is Spinal Tap, Gravity and more. Visit beat. com.au on Thursday October 24 for the full program.
UNNATURAL SELECTION
After a successful shared exhibition in Paris, Sam Young is returning to Australia to present his first solo exhibition, Unnatural Selection, at Off The Kerb gallery this November. Devised and created by Young, the exhibition will see the fledging artist delve into the tenuous dichotomy of life and death through graphite and coloured pencils. Unnatural Selection will be on exhibition from Friday November 1 – Friday November 15. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 22
LASSETER’S BONES
Luke Walker’s acclaimed documentary Lasseter’s Bones is confirmed for theatrical release in selected cinemas around Australia on Thursday October 31. A Best Documentary nominee at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2013, Lasseter’s Bones was also voted one of the Top 5 Most Popular Documentaries at the 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival. Like so many others over the years, director Luke Walker became fascinated by the story of Harold Lasseter, whose body was found after perishing in Central Australia’s deserts in 1930. In making Lasseter’s Bones Walker discovered Lasseter’s 85-year-old son Bob still wandering the desert after 50 years, on a quixotic mission to discover the gold that killed his father and destroyed his childhood. As a result, Walker found himself teaming up with Bob Lasseter on a quest to solve the many riddles his father left behind and believes this film has finally deciphered the Lasseter puzzle.
This year the Greek Film Festival will be returning to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Hosted at the Palace Como, the two week festival will open with Greek box office success, What If…; starring the Adonis of the small screen, Christoforos Papakaliatis, in a love story set during the economic crisis. Other highlights of the festival include veteran editor Yannis Sakaridis’ directing debut, Wild Duck – a guerrilla-style feature set during the 2009 Greek debt crisis; The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas, a debut feature by Elina Psykou which was played at Toronto International Film Festival and follows the story of a Greek TV anchorman played by Christos Stergioglou (Dogtooth); and Nicos Perakis’ Female Company, a movie which follows six sexually and emotionally deprived wives and how they take matters into their own hands. The Greek Film Festival will run from Thursday November 7 – Sunday November 24.
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THE COMIC STRIP MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL Registrations for the 2014 Melbourne International Comedy Festival are officially open. If you are registering and you are a comedian, producer, newbie, old hat, we suggest that you attend one of the information sessions to get advice and to talk to a staff member in person. Four information sessions will be hosted in Melbourne, with the first session kicking off at 6pm on Wednesday October 23 at the Imperial Hotel. For more information about these sessions and to RSVP your interest, visit comedyfestival. com.au or call 9245 3700.
WOGBOYS
Returning to Melbourne next year will be the much-adored success Wogboys. Based off the Australian hit comedy movie The Wog Boy, the production will see two of Australia’s most loved and revered actors, Nick Giannopoulos and Vince Colosimo, return to the stage for the first time in over a decade. The duo will be joined by Big Mama’s Boy star Frank Lotito and ACCTA award winning actor, Alex Dimitriades. Insightful, hilarious and self-deprecating, Wogboys will open in Melbourne from Wednesday January 8 – Sunday February 2.
PUBLIC BAR COMEDY Catch the host of SBS’s Legally Brown and one half of Fear of a Brown Planet Nazeem Hussain tonight at Public Bar Comedy. Along with Nazeem will be previous room destroyers Elbow Skin plus the award winning Asher Treleaven, Twitter addict Ben Pobjie, Hayman Kent and Liam Ryan for what will be one hell of a good show for a mere $5.
COMMEDIA DELL PARTE Karl Woodberry hosts Commedia Dell Parte this Thursday in St Kilda alongside Kate McLennan, Tommy Dassalo, Peter Jones, Anna Log, Kevin Lim and Elizabeth Davie. 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 at 8.30pm at the George Lane Bar, St Kilda.
FIVE BOROUGHS COMEDY Celia Pacquola headlines Five Boroughs Comedy this Thursday. Celia will be joined by Harley Breen, Karl Chandler, Toby Muresianu and more. They regularly have special guests (Frank Woodley popped in last week) and it’s all happening this Thursday October 24 at 8.30pm, for only $12 at Five Boroughs (upstairs), 68 Hardware Lane, CBD.
COMEDY AT SPLEEN Tommy Dassalo hosts Comedy At Spleen this Monday. Plus Nazeem Hussain, Michael Chamberlin, Karl Chandler, Laura Dunemann, Greg Larsen, Laura Davis and some special guests! It’s on this Monday October 28. It’s free, but a gold coin donation is appreciated. It all happens at Spleen, 41 Bourke St, CBD.
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TOM ODELL By Augustus Welby Since coming into focus in late 2012, England’s Tom Odell has generated hyperbolic polarity amongst the music press. The 22-year-old Odell received the Critic’s Choice award at this year’s BRIT Awards, however the characteristically flippant NME gave his debut LP Long Way Down a 0/10 rating. Getting exposed to such wayward attitudes could easily unsettle Odell’s artistic self-appraisal but he stresses that this year’s ups and downs won’t skew his essential compositional motives. “The most important thing for me is to write songs for myself because really that’s the only listener that you can please,” he says. “I think your instincts are one of the most important things and not to think about what people are going to like and what they’re not going to like. That just ends in an awful headfuck situation.” Having the ability to abstract oneself from the impositions of circumstance is a hugely advantageous skill for anyone creatively inclined. Odell’s current listening habits reveal that rather than focusing on what’s hot right now he gathers inspiration from broad reaches of the music spectrum. “I’m obsessed with Nina Simone. I’ve been listening to a lot of Etta James, a lot of Sun House. There’s this guy Cass McCombs, my friend got me into him, there’s albums of his I love. I’ve been listening to that band Girls who split up about two years ago – really into them at the moment.” Nina Simone and Girls might appear to be disparate
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influences but both artists share an emotionally driven core and Odell admits to a strong affection for music that vibrates with feeling. “I think I’m just drawn to music that moves. I’ve never been particularly interested in acid-house or anything. I like stuff that moves you emotionally and you can connect with it. The raw soul,” he explains. Odell’s debut album Long Way Down wears a smorgasbord of influences on its sleeve, owing debt to such exemplars of commercial pop-rock as Arcade Fire, Elton John and Coldplay. Odell indicates that rather than adhering to a habitual songwriting method he’s learned how crucial it is to pursue creative challenges. “I very easily write piano ballads because I’m a piano player. I had to push myself to write a song like Hold Me, it’s not a song that naturally came. It’s about not thinking too much but also just opening up a bit. There was a point where all my songs started with a piano riff, but you break out of those things.”
If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? Bearing in mind that Citizen generally has a ‘no assassination’ policy, I should say someone absolutely massive to start a flame war for cheap publicity…so Kayne West. He’s a bit of a douche. Bring it Kanye! What can a punter expect from your live show? I can promise them that I’ll have whiplash the next day from all the onstage head banging. I’ll also remember nearly all of the riffs and more than half of the lyrics – which ain’t a bad ratio. It’ll be heavy, groovey, grungey, stoner rock, with some good hooks and a lot of intensity. How long have you been gigging and writing? We’ve existed in one form or another for ten years.
Long Way Down’s favourable public reception threw Odell a lengthy global touring schedule and he says that getting to live the lifestyle of a 24-7 musician will inevitably influence his next album. “We’re touring the world at the moment and you learn a lot from that – the bits you don’t have to play, don’t have to sing. It will definitely have an effect, unconscious or consciously. I’ve learnt more about music in the past year than I ever have in my entire life.” The Long Way Down world tour continues into Australia this December including appearances at the Falls Festivals and the Corner Hotel. The same group of musicians that played on the record join Odell on stage and he’s emphatic that the live show isn’t a generic singer-songwriter display. “A big part of it is about the band and how the songs work with the band and I. I think people would come to the shows and be quite surprised about how energetic and live it is.”
Alex (bass) somehow teed-up recording time in a high school band competition (well after we’d finished school). He needed a song, so I quickly churned out a punky number called Redneck with a Bomb. We recorded it as Prize Pig – a few drummers, a new name, tonnes of gigs and a shitload of songs later, and here we are. Tell us about the last song you wrote? Other than the new jams we’re working on, the last song I wrote for the record was an acoustic number called Bones – it’s pretty different to the rest of the album. My aunt died while we were finishing the record and I wrote a song about it. It was literally written by the time I’d finished playing it through
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Following up a successful debut record is always a daunting prospect but Odell doesn’t feel too anxious about album number two. “I don’t feel any pressure. If it takes me five years to make an album it doesn’t really bother me. It’d be awful to make an album just because you’ve got to make one. No one has to make one.” Despite this reasoned response Odell seems intent on following up Long Way Down as soon as possible. “I’ve been writing quite a bit and I’m already talking to a few producers about working with them. I’ve learnt so much about recording and songwriting that I’m excited to get into it.” TOM ODELL will play all three venues (Marion Bay, Lorne and Byron) at Falls Festival and he will also hit the Corner Hotel stage for a sideshow on Saturday December 28. Long Way Down is available now via Columbia.
for the first time – it wrote itself in four and a half minutes. That’s never happened before and perhaps won’t again. We recorded a demo at home without a producer – it came out great so we chucked it on the album. I’m really glad it’s on there. When are you playing live/releasing your album/ EP/single/etc? We’ve just finished our debut album, Enemies, which took us a monumental amount of time to record. We’re really proud of it and we’ll have it at our upcoming gigs: Prince of Wales this Friday October 25, and two nights at The Espy on Thursday November 7 and Thursday November 28, with The Redcoats which will be sick.
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BOOKA SHADE [GER] Thursday October 24, Prince Bandroom BEN SIMS [UK] Friday October 25, Brown Alley DJ COOLHANDLUKE [NZ] Saturday October 26, Bluebar330 Sunday October 27, Howler DAVE CLARKE [UK] Friday November 1, Roxanne Parlour DROPLEX [HNG] Friday November 1, Brown Alley ALEX SMOKE [SCO] Friday November 1, Alex Smoke 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 HIEROGLYPHIC BEING [USA], JUSTIN VAN DER VOLGEN [USA] Saturday November 16, The Residence BIG SEAN [USA] Saturday November 16, Prince Bandroom FINNEBASSEN [NOR] Sunday November 17, Revolver Upstairs SHED [GER], ANDY STOTT [UK] Sunday November 17, The Residence PANTHA DU PRINCE [GER] Monday November 18, Melbourne Recital Centre MIX MASTER MIKE [USA] Thursday November 21, The Espy DAVID AUGUST [GER], JOHN TEJADA [USA] Friday November 22, Brown Alley JACQUES LU CONT [UK] Friday November 22, The Residence STRAWBERRY FIELDS: CARL CRAIG [USA], MOODYMANN [USA] Friday November 22 - Sunday November 24 , TBA NOSAJ THING [USA], JONWAYNE [USA] Saturday November 23, The Residence AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA [USA] Sunday March 24, The Residence EARTHCORE: ANGY KORE [ITA], PERFECT STRANGER [ISR] + MORE Friday November 29 - Sunday December 2, TBA FUNKINEVEN [USA] Saturday November 30, The Liberty Social
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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 RØDHÅD [GER] Friday December 13, Mercat Basement MEREDITH: TIM SWEENEY [USA], DERRICK MAY [USA] + MORE Friday December 13 - Sunday December 15, Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre DERRICK MAY [USA] Saturday December 14, Howler MIDLAND [UK] Sunday December 22, Revolver Upstairs KOLOMBO [BEL] Sunday January 19, Revolver Upstairs LET THEM EAT CAKE: JAMES HOLDEN [UK], FLOATING POINTS [UK] + MORE Wednesday January 1, Werribee Mansion KYLE HALL [USA] Wednesday January 1, TBA DANNY TENAGLIA [USA], MORGAN PAGE [USA] Wednesday January 1, Shed 14 RAINBOW SERPENT: DONATO DOZZY [ITA], MICHAEL MAYER [GER] + MORE Friday January 24 - Monday January 27, Lexton EMINEM [USA], KENDRICK LAMAR [USA] + MORE Wednesday February 19, Etihad Stadium BRUNO MARS [USA], MIGUEL [USA] Tuesday March 4 & Wednesday March 5, Rod Laver Arena MAITREYA: DICK TREVOR [UK], YAHEL [ISR] Friday March 7 - Monday March 10, Sealake GOLDEN PLAINS: PUBLIC ENEMY [USA], FLYING LOTUS [USA] + MORE Saturday March 8 - Monday March 10, Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL: DEADMAU5 [UK], KNIFE PARTY [UK] + MORE Sunday March 9, Flemington Racecourse
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How sweet an era it must be for Louisa Rose Allen – aka Foxes – an exciting young artist swept up in a whirlwind of firsts. The electro-pop songstress only recently became acquainted with life on the road. “We actually just finished touring. It’s been insane, I’ve never toured the UK before so it was a real dream come true,” she reveals excitedly. “It’s the first time I’ve had actual fans buying tickets and coming to shows. It’s been really great.” Allen’s origin story would be familiar to most young artists, the 24-year-old blessed with fond memories of a musical household. “I lived with my mum and my sister and they had brilliant taste in music. They loved really strong, female artists like Nina Simone, Bjork, Patti Smith...I think I was definitely brought up with an incredible, musical background,” she recalls. “They weren’t necessarily musical but I really was. For some reason, as soon as I could talk, I was singing, constantly. I think I annoyed a lot of my family members by being that kind of child!” Nevertheless, Allen was encouraged to dream big. “My mum allowed me to have the belief that you could achieve anything you wanted to, if you worked hard at it or wanted to live your dream. I had a free kind of childhood which I think is really key to me doing music now and believing that I can do it, which I’m really thankful for.” Inspired, Allen followed her sister from Southampton to the Big Smoke, studying music in London. However, faced with a stifling environment, Allen looked to other options. “I studied for about a year. I think I felt like you couldn’t really learn music in a class. For me, it wasn’t the right thing to be doing, so I ended up dropping out,” she recalls. “I wanted to kind of run off and be free and write about what was going on in my life and experience life a bit. I kind of knew in myself that, once I did that, I would find a way somehow to get there. I just kind of got on with life I think. I had some pretty rubbish jobs but then met the right people in music, did some collaborations and signed my record deal.” Allen has already collaborated with the likes of Fall Out Boy and Russian-German producer Zedd, making her mark as a feature artist. “It’s been very exciting, working with all these incredible,
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massive artists. I feel very blessed to be working with such talented people,” she gushes. “I did a lot of TV shows like Jimmy Fallon and Letterman... they were quite overwhelming but incredible experiences at the same time.”
Yet, through it all, Allen has kept a level head, with a one-trackmind for the music. “I’m not someone who wants the fame. I’d be quite happy just doing music and not having that side of it. I definitely think that fame is something that comes with music and I understand that it does, but it’s not necessarily something that I’d put first. The music for me is the most important thing.” Allen holds authenticity in high regard. In spite of an enormously successful two years, she remains as focused as ever. “I really feel like I’ve stuck true to what my music was a year ago and what it is now. It’s very personal and comes from the heart,” she explains. “I feel like it won’t ever change in that respect. I might experiment with
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stuff and find different sounds and that kind of thing.” For now, though, the focus remains upon Allen’s forthcoming LP. “The best way to describe it is that it’s definitely the album I’ve always wanted to make,” she reveals. “It’s got a really good mix of important album tracks that aren’t the big singles. They’re personal and cinematic and have a soundtrack vibe to them... but I love good pop music, so I think there are tracks that are definitely more anthemic and upbeat and have that kind of feeling. It’s going to be (released) very early next year, either end of January or end of February. I don’t know when it’s going to be released in Australia though. I think it’s the same time! I’m very excited to be able to share it with the world.” When it comes to making music, it’s the exercise of sharing that perhaps matters most to Allen. “I definitely write to give myself strength and hopefully inspire other people to feel hope and feel stronger... because that’s what I’ve always gotten out of other people’s music. To give that to other people is really important to me,” she explains. “It’s definitely like a form of therapy. It’s all really personal and from the heart. I get a lot out of my writing and I think it’s kind of what gets me through life!” Australia won’t have to wait too long for a taste of Foxes’ album, though, with live dates in November recently announced. “I’m so excited. It feels so overwhelming that I’m going to be going around the world performing to people. I feel so blessed,” says a decidedly bubbly Allen. “I’ve always wanted to go to Australia so the fact that my music’s taking me there is just a real dream of mine. Honestly, I’m counting down the seconds!”
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derrick may
Stranger have announced they’ll be throwing a warehouse party in the summer with Detroit legend, Derrick May. One of the early Detroit producers who tested the limits of spirit within electronic dance music and changed the integrity of the form forever, Derrick May’s reputation as an originator remained intact despite more than a decade of recording inactivity. The classic Derrick May sound is a balance between streamlined percussion-heavy sounds with string samples and a warmth gained from time spent in Chicago. A sound that delves you deep in nostalgia and euphoria simultaneously, May creates music few ever will come close to. It’s all happening on Saturday December 14 at Howler.
iggy azaela
Australian hip hop golden girl Iggy Azaela will bring her sassy sound Down Under this month marking the rapper’s first performances in front of her home-crowd. Known for fusing memorable electronic beats with eyebrow raising lyrics, the first ever female, non-American XXL freshman’s biggest tracks include Work, Bounce, and her latest single, Change Your Life. Iggy Azalea will be putting Melbourne on blast Friday October 25 at Toorak’s Trak Lounge Bar.
rødhåd
A Colourful Storm are bringing down Rødhåd for his debut Australian tour. Rødhåd has been socialized by Berlin’s loop techno nights and always finds the perfect balance of timeless techno to lift the dancefloor higher and higher. His style is always deep, powerful and melancholic, from dub to techno and back to house. Catch the Dystopian label boss at The Mercat on Friday December 13.
funkineven earthcore
Earthcore has announced an encore show for all those wanting to keep the party going. With a Shpongle DJ set, Raja Ram, Lucas, Quivver, Bluetech, D-Addiction, Captain Hook, Perfect Stranger, Michele Adamson and a long line of local support, Earthcore are looking to take extra special care of those who intend to party well into the week. It’s all happening on Friday December 6 at Brown Alley.
Resident Advisor, Novel and The Liberty Social are all coming together to present an incredible lineup, incuding FunkinEven, Fis, Gardland, Standish/Carlyon and Michael Ozone. FunkinEven, is a London-based music producer whose rich appreciation, and masterful ear, for music has been cultivated throughout his life. His initiation into music began at an early age being exposed to the sounds of reggae, soul boogie and house. Make sure to head down to Liberty Social on Saturday November 30.
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Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up? Next to Danny Brown. Describe yourself using the title of a song: Da Baddest Bitch by Trina obviously. What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child? The TLC song Waterfalls was about a guy called Jason. The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? White girls requesting the Kanye and Jay Z song about Paris and having no understanding that it’s not okay for them to use the n word. This and requests for New Slaves from the same set of gals What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat? Riverside motherfucker. What’s the most played record in your bag? OVOXO edit by Teams. What question would you like to ask an omniscient, allknowing being before you die? How does one reach a full based state? If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead? Probably Aesop assistant. When and where is your next gig? Hip Hop Hotties Hollaween Block Party at the Mercat on Friday October 25 and then a party at Boney on Saturday November 23 as part of Melbourne Music Week. soundcloud.com/hip-hop-hotties-melbourne
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behind the decks with: dj coolhandluke
Describe yourself using the title of a song. I Just Want To Celebrate. What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child? Jesus/religion. What has been your most favourite gig to date? DJing with Jam Master Jay in Sydney early 2000s and DJing with De La Soul three times. As far as a hip hop gig I’ve attended - Rakim in 1997 New York city at Tramps with DJ Premier on the decks = golden. The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? Being mistaken for a Cook/Short Order Chef and getting ‘three hotdogs and chips’ as a request. Also playing Marvin Gaye when model Helena Christiansen came up and asked for some Marvin Gaye at Soho Bar in the early ‘90s in Sydney. What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat? Any dance track. They’re all not my cup of tea, I prefer music with that soul/analog feel. What’s the most played record in your bag? Agent 86 - Big Shot If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead? Apprentice power pole painter. When and where is your next gig? Saturday October 26 (Phaturdays at Bluebar330) and Sunday October 27 (Sunday Jamrock at Howler).
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word s / f ra n c i s w i t s e n h u ys e n
Helena is steadily becoming one of Australia’s most prominent producer/DJs, dominating the world of electronica with her progressive electro/house beats. Seducing dance floors globally, the UK-born, Australian-bred Helena says she is ready to live up to her reputation as the boss of electronica at next year’s Future Music Festival. “I’m so honoured to come back to my home ground and play Future. The lineup is pretty epic. I can’t wait to play my set and be able to deliver my sound, vibe and what I’m about there, and tour with everyone on the bill. I’m sure I will come offstage flying. When you’re learning, you look at these guys who are successful and that’s what you aspire to be doing, playing a festival like Future. To reach those levels, to kick those goals, you really are playing out your dream as an artist; it’s so exciting to be involved in this kind of thing.” Becoming the first female artist to be booked as the support DJ on the main stage for Miami’s Ultra Music Festival in March was an experience Helena will never forget. “It’s the highlight of my career so far. I got booked on the main stage alongside Swedish House Mafia, Disclosure and Major Lazer. I ended up doing 24 sets on the live stage, so I was playing in between all of the main acts. I was literally running backwards and forwards all day playing sets every hour, on the hour. It was pretty intense; at the end of it I almost collapsed and died, but it was worth it.” Helena says she is proud to show other women that they too can dominate main festival stages. “It’s a huge honour, to be leading the way in that sense and opening up future opportunities for female artists. It’s a privilege; I get a lot of emails from girls who want advice on different things, like how to go about furthering their careers. It’s really cool to think I’ve been inspiring other female artists. To see girls up there kicking it as hard, when it’s been such a boys’ club for so long, is a really positive thing for the music industry.” Helena’s recent decision to
relocate to LA, where the club scene is exploding, was an easy one. “I’ve been touring the States since January, and did quite a few shows backwards and forwards, so I decided to relocate to LA three weeks ago. The shows I’ve been part of here, and the clubs I’ve played, have been ridiculous. There’s been such a positive response everywhere I’ve played, and it’s really exciting that I’m building a strong fan base over here.” International chart success has seen Helena collaborate with the likes of Dutch sensation Disfunktion. “I spent a few months in Amsterdam last year, and decided to work with some of the Dutch guys. The track Detox actually came about because I was on this hard core detox for
five to ten days, and in the studio Disfunktion kept trying to feed me truffles, so I was trying to make them eat celery sticks and carrots. When we finished the track, it only seemed fitting to call the track Detox.” Growing up surrounded by music and DJs, Helena says she didn’t have a choice with music, it chose her. “My love for music originated back in the UK; I was obsessed with music in general, it was my passion and love. My brother’s a DJ, a lot of my good friends are DJs and I was also involved in running nightclubs in the UK, so becoming a DJ was just a natural progression. I would steal my brother’s equipment, and make quite a hobby out of mixing. I never set out to become a DJ; I just loved it, which makes me incredibly lucky to be able to make a career out of a hobby.” Helena says she owes her talent for mixing to her background in classical music. “I grew up playing the cello and classical piano, which definitely helped train my ear and helped me to pick up mixing techniques rather quickly. Once you understand musical theory, you can naturally feel the beat and how it’s all put together. When I’m playing, I’m naturally mixing tunes because I can hear what tracks are going to go with others.” And whenever she’s on the decks, Helena makes sure every person in the crowd has the time of their life. “I try to have a really big stage presence and showcase my attitude and passion towards my music. My sound is pretty upfront. I keep it unique and play mash-ups no-one would ever think to play. I always try to deliver and create a really good atmosphere. I put a hundred per cent into everything I do.” Releasing a full-length album isn’t on the cards yet for Helena, who wants to focus on singles first. “I want to establish my sound a bit more before making an album. I have just finished three tracks, Breathe, Decoda and Wake Up which are bubbling away for release. The plan of attack is to whip up a bit more of a storm and keep getting my name out there.”
Helena plays Future Music Festival with Deadmau5, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Phoenix, Hardwell, Rudimental, Eric Prydz, Kaskade, Porter Robinson and more at Flemington Racecourse on Sunday March 9. facebook.com/djhelena
will sparks wo rd s / ra c h e l d av i s o n
When superstar DJ, David Guetta drops a track in his set, well, it’s a big deal, and it means a whole heap of DJs, producers and clubbers worldwide are taking note. The track he dropped was the catchy Ah Yeah from a relatively unknown name outside of Australia, Will Sparks – an all round nice bloke and key player in pushing the Melbourne sound or Melbourne bounce. “Ah Yeah was a track that charted really highly out of nowhere and I was not expecting it at all,” Sparks says from his home in Melbourne. “I don’t know how it happened but the social networks these days are just incredibly powerful and I think, because I was making track after track every week and putting it up on Soundcloud, and the more people that like it, the more people see it, and it just kept progressing. When all those followers see that a track’s out, they buy it (well some do) and it charts, and that’s how it got up there.” This bouncy take on electro house that began in Melbourne many years ago has over the past 12 months been creating quite a stir worldwide and Sparks has been in the right place at the right time. “The big guys around the world like Laidback Luke are supporting it now and Djuro...I’ve heard Calvin Harris and even A-Trak – guys you would never think would play anything like that, especially A-Trak – he’s more hip hop, isn’t he? I don’t even really know, because I haven’t been around that long. It’s incredible to see their support and I couldn’t ask for anything more to be honest,” he says genuinely. While he didn’t really want to get into a discussion about the musical characteristics that define the Melbourne sound, he couldn’t help himself: “You know, I’ve tried to explain it that many times but every time I try to, I get bagged, well not bagged, but pulled up on certain things that I say about what it compares to, so what I usually say is, ‘just go listen to it and that’s what it is’. Do you know what I mean?” he laughs. So if you’re not totally au fait with this take on electro house, you can listen to Sparks’ DJ mix on the new OneLove release, Sound Machine 2013 (which also includes a mix from Bingo Players) and on the just released compilation, Melbourne Bounce. But Sparks continues to elaborate on the sound, regardless. “I’ve got a metal background, I played guitar my whole life, like hard metal or death metal and so I think it compares to it in a way because it’s really hard, head bangin’. My brain switched one night when I heard that sound and so there are certain attributes that compares to that, but in a totally different way. It started off to be more minimal like kick bass-y and now it’s kinda progressed to a big room style of minimal. So the big progressive chords and then the drop (and as people call it a Melbourne drop) it’s progressed a lot in the last four/ five years and it’s just going to keep on progressing I think.” Sparks talks about his first-time playing in the US. “It was amazing.
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I had no idea what to expect and the reaction from the Americans with my new sound, I was pretty worried on it, because it’s something brand new to them and yeah, it was just awesome every time they went crazy so it was great. “It’s really similar (to Australia) but there’s the whole PLUR thing in America that stands for Peace, Love Unity, Respect and in some states they make candy bracelets and wear out-of-this-world clothes…it’s like a religion over there and that’s one difference in the scene in America. Americans talk differently though,” he laughs “and there is a lot of bottle service and there’s hardly any in Australia and that was another big difference. It was pretty daunting at the start because I didn’t know whether to play a more lounge-y kind of music style, but I still banged it out and didn’t care and they got amongst it.” Even though we’re all over Miley Cyrus and her publicity antics, a conversation ensues, given Sparks did a remix of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines and I sort of inadvertently suggest that Sparks only did this remix for exposure, given he’d posted on Facebook about the fact that ‘what Miley’s doing at the moment is obviously planned and a genius way to get people talking about her…’ “It wasn’t at all,” he laughs. “Because I’m getting co-managed by someone from Interscope (Records – the label Thicke’s signed to) that’s how I got the remix. I know the people that know Robin and so yeah, it’s obviously all planned, like even for him up there with her. The public don’t realise (well most of the public) that it’s a way to get your name out and she got 60 million views in a day because of the way she’s acting. I don’t think she’s really like that, it’s just her management and marketing team behind her that have gone ‘that’s how you do it ‘cause Britney’s done it, Gaga’s done it and look where they are’… but I’m not really into the whole celebrity thing.” And when I suggest that it’s not likely you’d actually say ‘no’ to remixing Thicke early in your career, Sparks assures me that’s not the case. “I’ve had to say no to a few other big things, like multiple,” he reveals. “It’s just because it’s not where I wanna go yet. I really don’t want to commercialise myself, I just wanna keep my style going and do my thing because it seems to be working so far and yeah, just tour around and keep working on music because I’ve got lots to come out.”
Will Sparks plays Future Music Festival with Deadmau5, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Phoenix, Hardwell, Rudimental, Eric Prydz, Kaskade, Porter Robinson and more at Flemington Racecourse on Sunday March 9. facebook.com/willsparksofficial
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club guide wednesday october 23
snaps bimbos
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 HALFWAYS Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. SOUL ARMY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE DINNER SET - FEAT: JLOVE + JAMIE BENNET + SPECIAL GUEST Revolver Upstairs, Prahran, 8pm
thursday october 24
first floor
kazbar
lucky coq
3181 THURSDAYS - DINNER SET WITH HANS DC FOLLOWED BY 3181 LATE WITH JESSE YOUNG, MATTHEW BUTTERS, SAM GUDGE, JOHN DOE + GUESTS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran, 8pm 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. 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.
friday october 25
CANT SAY Platform One, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. CQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne. 8:00pm.
strike
COMPRESSION SESSION - FEAT: CASSAWARRIOR + DD + RICKA E55, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. SOUL ENSEMBLE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
thursday october 24 PENNIES Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $6.
friday october 25
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
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saturday october 26
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. HOT STEP Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. 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. SATURDAYS - FEAT: ACTION SAM + DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. 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. 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. THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + NICK THAYER, MAT CANT + PAZ + LEWIS CANCUT + BOOSHANK + SPECIAL GUESTS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran, 8pm
khokolat koated
sunday october 27
COSMIC TONIC Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:30pm. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + RADIATOR + SILVERSIX + SPECIAL GUESTS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran, 8pm SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE - FEAT: ASKEW + BOOSHANK + DISCO HARRY + JUNJI + MISS BUTT + PAZ + PETER BAKER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. SUNDAE SHAKE - FEAT: AGENT 86 + PHATOA-MANO + TIGERFUNK Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: DAN BOWDENA ND MAYFIELD + FOUNKSHUI Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 4:30pm.
rhythm-al-ism at eden
monday october 28
IBIMBO - FEAT: LADY NOIR & KITI Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. KOOL AID - FEAT: DJ MU-GEN Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TWERKERS CLUB - FEAT: DJ FLETCH Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
be. at co.
tuesday october 29
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.
urban club guide wednesday october 23
workshop
FLASH - VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 10pm HAPPY - VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 10pm MEET YOUR MATES FRIDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. 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. REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + LEWIE DAY + KATIE DROVER + SPECIAL GUESTS SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran, 8pm 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. THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
+ 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 october 26
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.
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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 october 28
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 29 CAN I KICK IT? Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
faktory
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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
FLUME LEADS SPORTSBET FOR ARIA WIN After demolishing the indie awards this month, it’s a cert Flume will do a similar crunch at the ARIAs at the Star on December 1. He had eight nominations including album of the year, breakthrough artist - release, best male artist, best dance release, best Australian live act, with ‘Holdin’ On’ in the running for song of the year. Sportbet has him at $1.40 to win best male, $1.44 for breakthrough (down from $1.65 when first announced) and $1.50 to win the album category. Matt Corby is his nearest competition. Tame Impala had seven nominations, Birds of Tokyo and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds six each, and Guy Sebastian five. Go to the ARIA website for full list. The nominations event at the Art Gallery also saw the announcement of the Fine Arts and Artisan Awards. These winners were Sally Whitwell’s All Imperfect Things: Solo Piano Music of Michael Nyman (classical), The Idea Of North’s Smile (jazz), Paul Kelly, James Ledger, Genevieve Lacey and ANAM Musicians’ Conversations With Ghosts (soundtrack) and Joseph Tawadros’ Chameleons of the White Shadow (world music). Of the Artisans, Flume took producer, Virginia Read won engineer (for Whitwell’s All Imperfect Things) and Aaron Hayward and David Homer @ Debaser for the cover art of Empire Of The Sun’s Ice On The Dune.
FACE THE MUSIC’S DIGITAL APPLICATIONS Applications for Face The Music’s Digital Learning Hub have opened at facethemusic.org.au and close on Sunday November 10. It includes workshops with artist/producers M-phazes, Tim Shiel and German pioneer of “glitch” and “clicks & cuts” Oval. Other sessions include Arranging Strings For Your Music with Georgia Fields, Pre-Production with Jimi Maroudas, the APRA Songwriting Masterclass with Courtney Barnett and Meet The Managers with one-on-one opportunities.
HOW DIVA IS BEYONCE? Backstage riders can be ridiculous of course: boa constrictors, chauffeurs wearing 100% cotton (Kanye West in Australia), a framed picture of Princess Di (Britney Spears) a masseuse (Eminem), rose petals in her loo (Babs Streisand) and a lifesize cutout of himself (David Hasselhoff). So it was refreshing to read a leaked rider at Beyonce’s recent video shoot. Her dressing room had to be furnished all-white, enough for eight people, baby proofed and set to 72 degrees to create a “sitting room” atmosphere.
ARMIN VAN BUUREN, SKRILLEX MANAGER, FOR EMC Among those in the second announcement for December’s Electronic Music Conference are global DJ superstar Armin van Buuren, Skrillex’s manager Tim Smith, Clark Warner of Beatport, Future Classic founder Nathan McLay, Q-Dance Australia’s Simon Coffey, Moshtix CEO Harley Evans, Will Sparks, theAudience’s Oliver Luckett and Vicious Vinyl’s John Course.
NIRVANA, KISS, CHIC NOMINATED FOR R&R HALL OF FAME Nirvana, Kiss and Chic are among acts nominated for inclusion in the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame. It’s a first time nomination for Nirvana, Yes, Linda Ronstadt, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Link Wray, The Zombies and The Replacements. However Kiss, LL Cool J, N.W.A., Cat Stevens, Deep Purple, The Meters, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Chic were nominated before. It’s the eighth time for Chic since 2003 although co-founder Nile Rodger’s current profile with Daft Punk might sway the 600 voters.
COOKING VINYL AND PLEDGEMUSIC ENTER PACT Cooking Vinyl Australia and direct-to-fan platform PledgeMusic Australia have formalized a pact where they will help any of Cooking Vinyl Australian acts to help their marketing. Scot Crawford, GM PledgeMusic Australia/ New Zealand, tells Industrial Strength that crowd-sourcing is just one part of a fan’s journey with the artist to making a record. It includes marketing and rewarding the fan. Cooking Vinyl Australia, set up this year by Leigh Gruppetta and Stu Harvey, expands to announce three new acts by end of 2013.
THINGS WE HEAR * Lars Ulrich admitted that two years ago, Metallica, U2 and Green Day planned to tour together after they met up and got drunk in San Francisco. * Noel Gallagher ticked off BBC Radio 1 for not playing younger acts, citing Sydney electro duo Jagwar Ma. * Rising rapper Future got booted off Drake’s US tour after Future mouthed off in an interview that his music was better than everyone else’s. But last we heard, they kissed and made up. * Deadmau5 lashed out at Justin Bieber on twitter as a “spoiled bitch” after an incident in Singapore when Bieber arrived at a club where British DJ Michael Woods was spinning. Bieber asked him to play more rap, at which Woods told him to “fuck off and put more clothes on”. Biebs said something snotty to Woods’ tour manager and then disappeared behind his security. Woods complained about the incident on twitter. * MTV Australia is moving most of its broadcasting operations to London, as the global channel centralizes most roles in the UK. These include programming, production, creative, production management, research, operations and acquisitions. Fifteen people will lose their jobs in Sydney. The sales, marketing and talent/artist management divisions remain in Australia. * South Australia’s The Beards had to cancel their US tour after Immigration refused to give them performance visas. In the meantime, Brisbane’s Dead Letter Circus had to axe some of the early shows of their American visit due to the US Government’s budget lockdown during which many government offices closed. DLC’s passports remained in the US Embassy unprocessed. * Melbourne nightclub Brown Alley was fined $15,000 for sending marketing text messages to patrons with no optout information.
AURORA JANE LAUNCHES MOJO JUNCTION Melbourne performer and producer Aurora Jane launched website Mojo Junction, which combines new music, food, culture, politics, art and travel features. This takes the form of everything from short films and podcasts, to recipes and reviews, sourced from independent artists, filmmakers and food writers from across the globe. The first posts expose mustvisit music venues across London and Havana, short films about aphrodisiacal food and extreme touring stories from remote regions of India. A regular feature ‘Artists on Artists’ sees musicians introduce their favorite new releases. “We are lucky enough to visit many diverse and often remote locations (on tour),” she tells us. “I love to take photographs, eat local cuisine, hear local music, and stroll the city streets in search of street art. Immersing myself in the local culture is always rewarding.” Global collaborations have already begun as a result of the site. Latin music from Victorian surf coast band Los Locos features on the Cuban Cooking vid, Bobby Alu's features with Brian McMillan from Toronto in the podcast. See mojojunction.com.
NEW SIGNING #1: NICHE GETS DIAFRIX Sydney-based Niche Agency added Melbourne hip hop duo Diafrix to its roster. African-born Momo and Azmarino came to Australia as refugees. Full details in Industrial Strength online on beat.com.au.
NEW SIGNINGS #2: UNFD GRIME WITH HACKTIVIST UNFD’s latest signing is five-piece UK grime/metalcore Hacktivist, known for an unusual mix of down-tuned, djent style music with hard grime rapping.
9TH COOPERS AMP REVEALS JUDGES With entries for the Coopers AMP closing on November 1, organisers unveiled the judging panel. Chaired by Dave Faulkner of The Gurus, they are Renee Geyer, Urthboy, Chris Johnston (The Age), Mikey Cahill (Herald Sun), Bernard Zuel (Sydney Morning Herald) and retailers Mike Glynn ( JB Hi FI), Christopher Powell (Blackwood Sounds, Adelaide), Shannon Logan ( Jet Black Cat Music, Brisbane) Chris Berkley (Red Eye Records, Sydney) and Nate Nott (Polyester Records, Melbourne). Response from social media: ummm, just two women?
FREE NMIT SONGWRITING FORUM NMIT’s Bachelor of Music Industry program holds a free songwriting forum with practical workshops and a showcase opportunity this Saturday October 26. It is led by the course’s Head of Program and Senior Lecturer Greg Arnold. Also involved are singer songwriters Rebecca Barnard and Charles Jenkins. It’s held at Yarra Edge Theatre, NMIT Fairfield Campus (Yarra Bend Rd) from 11am to 5pm. Reserve your spot by contacting Catherine Keely on 9269 8805 or bmiadmin@nmit.vic.edu.au.
KELVIN CLUB EXPANDING The 150-year old members-only Kelvin Club – in a quiet alleyway off Russell Street (14-30 Melbourne Place) – has drawn members from the academic, corporate, legal, medical and the arts. It is steeped in tradition: answering your phone in the main bar means a round of port for the occupants on you. The club has just enlisted the Get Notorious team to reach out to the entertainment world. There are limited multi-tier memberships available with a Full Membership annual fee for $550. This entitles members to workstations, meeting rooms, a business centre and restaurant. For more info on membership, email memberenquiries@kelvinclub.com. To book the club for functions and events write to 14-30 Melbourne Place, Melbourne 3000.
LIFELINES Split: the bitter parting between Jai Brookes of Melbourne’s Janoskians and US singer Ariana Grande hit twitter. HE called her a cheat for dumping him to be with Nathan Sykes of The Wanted. SHE blasted that he’d threatened to make her look bad on social media, “I’m no longer afraid of you or your lies.” Hospitalised: original Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward was operated on in California for a perforated diverticulitis and will make a full recovery. Arrested: a raunchy tweet by Rihanna about a sex show she saw in Phuket during her Thai tour saw the manager of the bar she named nicked, as he had no licence to feature naked dancers and faces a year in the clink. Earlier, her posting a pic of herself with a slow loris, a squirrel-like animal with big eyes on Instagram led local police arresting a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy, for possession of protected animals. They face up to four years in prison. In Court: Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy was sentenced to three years probation for a hit and run incident in Glendale, California, and for possessing crystal meth. He crashed into another car on a LA freeway and fled. Suing: Alex Van Halen of Van Halen divorced his wife Kelly 20 years ago. But she kept the name, and launched two companies using the name. The band’s business people are taking action, claiming fans would be confused. Kelly deals with children’s blankets, furniture, construction services and interior design so it’s not easy to see where the confusion lies. Died: Rod Craig, Sydney-based co-founder of professional audio visual and digital Audio Telex Communications, after a four year battle with brain cancer. Died: Maxine Powell, Motown’s “charm coach”, 98. She taught the label’s signings – including the Supremes, Jackson 5 and Smokey Robinson – charm, grace, style and manners.
60 SECONDS with ALEX GIBSON
BOWIE ‘BEST DRESSED’ BRIT IN HISTORY David Bowie was named best dressed Brit in history in a poll in BBC History Magazine. The Thin White Duke beat other aristocrats as Queen Elizabeth I, Henry II, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, infamous dandy Beau Brummell who took six hours to get ready and 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys. Fashion designer Wayne Hemingway explained of Bowie, “He was a creative genius who understood art and design, looked cool, inspired us and upset the establishment. All these attributes lead to things that drive humankind forward… change.” 4,067 people voted.
What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? I am currently on my first ever national tour promoting my debut album This is Life. It has 13 tracks with most of the songs recorded live at Studios 301 in Sydney with my band. It was possibly the best musical experience of my life. We recorded all of the instruments, including the vocals at the same time. I really wanted to record it in the way they did back in the '60s and '70s to try and get that organic, live sound. So I recorded it live. This is Life is available on iTunes and also via my website alexgibsonmusic.com. When’s the gig and with who? The Melbourne date of my tour is Thursday October 31 at The Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford and I am taking my djembe player and bass player with me for a road trip. I have a local Melbourne singer songwriter
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Bellusira signed a US management deal with Floridabased Stephanie Christie Management and Publicity and Evanescence/ Device drummer Will Hunt. The pair spotted the Melbourne band’s video for Cachango on Tunelab and were knocked out by singer Crystal Ignite’s presence. A US tour is mooted next year. More on Industrial Strength online at beat.com.au.
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Mushroom Group executive director Matt Gudinski launched online music and mobile app Purifier (purifier. com). It identifies news, videos and social media updates from thousands of websites, blogs and social networks and delivers it to a user’s personalised feed. Now with a free to download iPhone app, on-the-go mobile apps such as iPad and Android versions coming.
opening the night and her name is Sarah Rzek; she is incredibly talented. It is a funky little venue and it will be a fun night. How long have you been gigging and writing? I have been writing songs for the last ten years and playing professionally for the past five. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? My inspiration for songwriting comes from experiences that have affected my life and the stories that have grabbed me. I could have just broken up with a girl, gone to a music festival, seen a horrible movie about wars, or just gone to the beach. Anything that strikes my fancy at the time can inspire a song. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? To succeed in the music industry you need to work your butt off. You can’t let your pride get in the way. Go out busking, tape posters to polls, do whatever you have to do to get your name out there. These days you have to take all the opportunities that come your way. Don’t sit there waiting for the phone to ring. Don’t think that red carpets and limousine rides are what it’s all about; it’s about the music, remember that.
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THE CRIBS By Zoë Radas
When Gary, Ryan and Ross Jarman took a second to look up from their sweaty instruments last year and take a peek around, it was with some surprise that they realised their band’s singularly angsty honesty and punk approach had got them through ten years together. The Cribs haven’t kowtowed to anyone during that time, and to celebrate the landmark released a ‘best of ’ on the same label which they signed to in 2002. “The label that we’ve always been on in the UK, an indie label called Wichita, we’ve been with them since the start,” says bassist and vocalist Gary Jarman. “When we first started they were actually only two years old, we were one of the first bands which they signed. The band and the label sort of grew together, so I think they really wanted to mark the occasion. Me and my brothers are pretty obsessive about things and so it’s kind of nice to wrap up ten years in one record.” Jarman apologises for the lack of violent tales about how the three siblings put the release, Payola, together. “We didn’t really take any outside opinion – we’re really diplomatic. Collecting songs together wasn’t that tough; it wasn’t a case of just putting the most popular ones on there. We put the one on which we think are the best ones.” What eventuated was a thoroughly emblematic anthology of the West Yorkshire group’s lo-fi, rabblerousing spirit across their five albums. The consistency
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of The Cribs is often referred to, held up as a part of their solid success without compromise. Jarman says that in the beginning, the boys honestly weren’t aware that such a trajectory was possible. “The only thing that we ever wanted when we first started was to get out of the town we grew up in,” he says simply. “There weren’t many bands coming through and there wasn’t a great deal of culture at the time – it’s actually much better now, but at the time we felt that we were pretty isolated. When we started with Wichita our idea was like, well, we just want to tour.” And tour they did, heavily and determinedly. “We had this ethic of going to small towns, not just playing the big cities. That was an effect of growing up where there wasn’t any concerts. You figured there must be some kids in these towns that were frustrated too.” The way The Cribs’ music traversed the popular radio landscape was curious to the Jarmans as well. “We hadn’t really considered the idea, I think because we
Name/Band: Briana Cowlishaw. Define your genre in five words or less: Singer/Songwriter Jazz infused pop. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Well, people have told me I sound like Norah Jones, Fiona Apple and have a jazz twist and approach similar to that of Esperanza Spalding. I love all of these artists so I’m okay with this diagnosis. Describe the best gig you have ever played: The best gig I have ever played was on my recent trip
didn’t really have that same ambition as a lot of the bands which were being held up as our contemporaries at the time,” Jarman says, referring to other British acts such as The Libertines who were being heralded as a counter to the wave of American alternative rock bands which ruled the airwaves in the early ‘00s. “We never really imagined that it was possible to be a mainstream popular rock band. We operated in a different way to that; we were lo-fi and scrappy. But I think that because we built up a fanbase in that way, when the radio did start playing the songs and we did start crossing over – we never expected that,” he concludes solidly. “And if you go in expecting that, your band is going to be kind of a lame band, you know what I mean?” Speaking of the swampy politics of radio play, that’s
to South Korea in August 2013. My six piece band and I were flown over for five days to perform on the main stage of the Chilpo International Jazz Festival in front of 5,000 people. Exhilarating as it was to play to that many people, the main highlight was just how enthusiastic and happy the audience were. eighty percent of them bopped along to my songs and smiled and waved and were just so happy to be watching live music. Korea is an amazing place. Where would you like to be in five years? My dream is to be touring Europe in five years with both my jazz/pop band and a multimedia project I am involved in called The Wires Project.
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where the name of the album comes in. “That was the irony,” Jarman says. “The label had asked us to put out a best of and we felt kind of weird about it. We didn’t want to seem like we were being vain. ‘Payola’ means when a record label ... pays a radio station or a TV station to play their music, which frequently used to happen. We felt like The Cribs had built themselves primarily as a live band and we like to think it’s been a grassroots sort of process. And so the fact that we managed to get success on a mainstream level in the UK, we had to put something sort of snarky in there.” THE CRIBS play Ding Dong on Saturday October 26. Tickets are available through oztix.com.au.
Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? I usually have to sit on my own for a good half an hour to let my brain slow down, so that I can turn off my constant to-do list mode and melt into the present moment with the audience.
BRIANA COWLISHAW will play two shows at Bennetts Lane this week on Friday October 26 and Saturday October 27.
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BEAT’S HALLOWEEN SPECIAL TRICK OR TREAT
As a child, Halloween was the most confusing day of the year for me. For 364 days, Mum and Dad were like, “If some weirdo stranger approaches you and offers lollies, walk away”. But when Halloween came round, they were like, “Dress up like a weirdo and approach strangers and ask for lollies.” It didn’t make sense then, and it doesn’t make any now. Another great thing about Halloween is that it reminds me of actor/comedian Kevin Pollack’s impression of Christopher Walken answering the door during Halloween: “Trick or treat? Good QUESTion. I, TOO, have, a QUESTion. Which one of you kids, can guESS, what I have buried, under the hOUSE?” While the holiday is ubiquitously celebrated in America, hence all the fat people, it’s slowly growing in Australia, too. In all honesty, it is one of the funnest nights of the year. We here at Beat have compiled some of our favourite Halloween events this…Halloween… for you to attend. From the Drunken Moon Festival at The Espy and Cherryween at Cherry Bar, to the Festival of the Dead at The Space Dance & Arts Centre, Melbourne is getting into the Halloween spirit. You should too.
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When / where is the Halloween gig? Cherryween is on Halloween, Thursday October 31 at the Cherry Bar, we kick off our set at 10pm. Pretend you’re a kid about to go trick or treating. Your parents tell you to avoid a particular mysterious house but don’t tell you why. Do you knock on the door? I’d go into the house anyway. I’m crazy and I won’t learn until something very worrying is actually in there, then I can blame my parents for not telling me what’s there in the first place. When you see a ghost, who you gonna call: Ghostbusters or Ghostface Killah? Ghostface Killah definitely! We could all have a rap off together (he’d win). You hear the zombie apocalypse has begun. What do you do next? Well, I’d secure my place, get a weapon and hide Name one annoying person you’d never want to spend a
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night trick or treating with. Kristen Stewart, as I prefer people to show some sort of emotion and expression whilst I converse with them What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever watched? That One Direction movie. Who would you rather fight: 100 gremlin-sized zombies, or 1 human-sized gremlin? I think I would be at ease knowing that there is only one gremlin to fight rather than 100 little ones, plus I can’t deal with a vast amount of little things running around trying to attack you, I wouldn’t be able to cope. What are you most scared of? It pains me to say this, but nothing scares me more than moths. They are ugly looking horrific beasts that can fly and I can’t think of anything worse. Maybe screaming fan girls come a close second. SWEETHEARTS also play Queenscliff Music Festival on Saturday November 23.
DRUNKEN MOON FESTIVAL: BROTHERS GRIM AND THE BLUE MURDERS By Tom Valcanis James Grim, of blues punk band Brothers Grim and the Blue Murders wants to get your ass shakin’ and feet stompin’ this Halloween. There’s nothing more Halloween than bone-rattling rockabilly, punk and blues. Most people hop on board the jack o’ lanterns and spooky skull bandwagon but once a year. Slicked back hair and donning skull and crossbone ties are king. Doing the Monster Mash for the zillionth time? Not so much. James Grim is both curating and playing the festival, now in its 2nd year. The show that takes over the whole Espy, James says, will spook the fake teeth and bandages off you. “If you took the best of B-grade horror and slasher films, Drunken Moon would be the soundtrack,” James begins. “You want horror? Just get in the front row for Batpiss. Or see me in my underwear. It’s all trick or treat down there!” A truly terrifying image, if there ever was one. More importantly, Drunken Moon is a celebration of live music. The premise that gave Drunken Moon rise is simple. Every act on the multi-state bill will electrify the stage. This is James’ bonafide guarantee. “I really wanted to create a platform where I could show off a lot of interstate bands to other states,” James says, mapping it out. “We come across bands that have never played Melbourne or Brisbane so we thought to create a touring-festival party and bring all those bands out.” James has seen audiences craving quality live music in Australia. Drunken Moon is a real party for people who shout back twice as loud when music speaks to them.“I’m not a fan of the shoegaze stuff,” James says, explaining Drunken Moon’s foundations. “I don’t want to see someone stare at their feet, looking to me that they don’t even like their own music. I wanna see a band, I don’t care what genre it is...I want them to sell it to me. I want them to deliver every nuance of what they love about each song. I want a visual spectacle. When I see bands like that? I just collect them. I’m like, ‘Yes!’” Drunken Moon could be mistaken for a beer-soaked theatre of the macabre, but good live music transcends such narrow terms. Live music is a visceral experience, running invisible threads
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King of the North between fans and players like no other art form. “Maybe it isn’t theatrical,” James ponders. “Maybe the people performing it are so into what they do, it’s almost shamanic. They’re just possessed by the music that they love and they wanna vomit it all over the people in front of them.” Bands on Drunken Moon’s bill bob up and down out of an underground - but by no means small - blues/punk/garage/ rockabilly scene. Stalwarts such as King of the North, La Bastard and Digger and the Pussycats will jangle the stage alongside bands standing at the scene’s edge. For example, raw hardcore act Batpiss will sit beside one man rhythm and bluesman Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood. It’ll draw many fans from unlikely places, but that’s part of the festival’s appeal. “I’m not in the business of changing people’s minds about music,” James explains. “But, if they come to see that one band that they love and that speaks to them and they see even one other band, that’s a bonus. “We have Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood to Costa Mesa, a sevenpiece Mexican style garage act. They are quite broad, but they all have swagger. It’s music that any kind of audience should be able to appreciate.”
THE DRUNKEN MOON FESTIVAL, featuring Brothers Grim and the Blue Murders, is at the Espy on Thursday October 31.
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When/where is the Halloween gig? Creepshow Halloween Festival at The Espy this Saturday October 26. Pretend youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a kid about to go trick or treating. Your parents tell you to avoid a particular mysterious house but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you why. Do you knock on the door? I would scout the area and throw rocks on the roof for a while, then if everything seemed fine, go in for the sugary treats. When you see a ghost, who you gonna call: Ghostbusters or Ghostface Killah? Ghostbusters. Just so I could speak with Dan Ackroyd and try and convince him to let me have one of those cool skull shaped vodka bottles heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been selling. You hear the zombie apocalypse has begun. What do you do next? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d listen to One Direction for more than 15 minutes. By
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Searching for a good spook this Halloween? Then head to The Memo in Healesville on Halloween eve for the screening of 1985 horror fairytale classic Creepers. There will also be a creepy costume contest, DVD giveaways, and more scary surprises. Come dressed in your Halloween best on Wednesday October 30. Book online at the Box Office via the Yarra Ranges website. Doors open 8pm, costume competition at 8.15pm, screening at 8.30pm.
FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD By Liza Dezfouli Nearly time for The Undead to get their spontaneous on over the weekend of Saturday November 2 and Sunday November 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Impro Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Festival Of The Dead comes out of the crypt for two nights of zombies and horror. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Halloween classic; we usually do something around this time of year,â&#x20AC;? says Tim Redmond of Impro Melbourne. Ten years ago Redmond went along to learn impro after watching Whose Line Is It Anyway on cable, and a weekend of good fun turned into a long-term relationship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s addictive,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going well, impro is the funnest thing in the world.â&#x20AC;? Festival Of The Dead, two shows over two nights, builds up to something along the lines of reality TV meets The Walking Dead. What gave Redmond the idea for the weekend? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit long-winded to explain,â&#x20AC;? says Redmond, who is the Festival Of The Deadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Creator and Director, as well as one of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea comes from the University of Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lifeboat Debate, where different faculties â&#x20AC;&#x201C; maths, philosophy, science â&#x20AC;&#x201C; make their case about why they should be kept alive in an imaginary lifeboat, rather than thrown overboard, and the audience decides which one survives.â&#x20AC;? The Festival of the Dead offers three separate performances, all improvised, where at any given time five actors are in the room for an hour. In the last segment, Zombie Rockalypse, also a musical, only one performer is going to make it to the end of the show. The audience votes on who lives, and who dies (to be reborn as a zombie, naturally). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Audiences are very good at punishing bad impro,â&#x20AC;? continues Redmond. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It comes down to whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most convincing, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s holding their ground on the night.â&#x20AC;? Anything could happen, including big scares: Redmond is hell-bent on frightening the bejesus out of audiences. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know we can make them laugh,â&#x20AC;? says Redmond. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get the comedy, the drama, the silliness, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really having a crack at scaring them.â&#x20AC;? What will be so scary? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My face!â&#x20AC;? he answers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the rest is to be determined.â&#x20AC;? The Festival of the Dead is described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a journey into the heart of darkness, exploring stories of terror, intrigue and suspenseâ&#x20AC;?. The nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offering consists of Shadowlands, the Fifth Dimension and Zombie Rockalypse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Shadowlands the scenes are in the dark, with small focused pieces of lighting. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to recreate the effect of a graphic novel,â&#x20AC;? Redmond explains. Inspiration for the stories comes from classic horror tales such as Tales From The Crypt, The TwilightZone, The Walking Dead, and masters of the macabre like Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen King, and John Carpenter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The 5th Dimension is a 20 minute improvised episode of The Twilight Zone, a little bit comedy, a little bit serious,â&#x20AC;? the Director continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Zombie Rockalypse is the
final show of the night â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a big full-on experience with big songs, lots of bodies on stage, where things could turn like a flock of sparrows.â&#x20AC;? How do the Impro Melbourne performers prepare for something like this? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We practise in beats,â&#x20AC;? Redmond explains. (A beat is like a miniature scene within a scene.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like performing a five minute chapter. You highlight whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already there. The challenge is to be enough prepared to hit the stage running with whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already there.â&#x20AC;? Experience gives performers an instinctive sense of timing and knowledge of when to shift. Being present is all. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You feel it, when to move the story on. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re inside the story and often you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realise, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel stress or the impulse to move the story on; it just happens.â&#x20AC;? Redmond says comedy is inherent in impro. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The comedy is inbuilt. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help it. Laughter is a response to many emotions. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in the moment.â&#x20AC;? Why arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t more women performing impro? â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my opinion,â&#x20AC;? Redmond answers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because at the bar end, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a more comedic energy, interruption, an energy of masculine hostility, and not many women enjoy that sort of thing. But some of the best improv peformers Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked with are women â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Patti Stiles and Rama Nicholas, for example. They have key skills, like listening and moving at the same time.â&#x20AC;? The musical element of the show is also improvised with musician Gordan Dorin on keyboards. How does that work? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It sounds like it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work,â&#x20AC;? answers Redmond. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the musician is tuning into the work. He can lead, the musician can lead the actor, the actor can lead the musician and when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at its best you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading who.â&#x20AC;? Redmond said he hooked into performing improv straight away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hit a technical wall after about two years. But push through that and improv is the greatest fun there is. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing cops and robbers, playing dress-ups. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s addictive,â&#x20AC;? he says again. Good news folks: you can learn to perform improv yourself with Impro Melbourne. See you there. FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD takes place over two nights, Saturday November 2 and Sunday November 3, at The Space Dance & Arts Centre in Prahran. Bookings and more info can be found on Impro Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website.
CREEPSHOW HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL: CHOAS DIVINE By Rod Whitfield Creepshow Halloween Festival has been around for several years now, and just keeps getting better and better. Not only does it feature some of the most killer rock acts in the country, the organisers deck the entire venue out, Halloween style. All of the bands and many of the crowd dress up in Halloween garb, and the night also features Burlesque dancers, giveaways and a whole lot more. One of the headline bands is awesome Perth progressive/melodic metal act Chaos Divine. Guitarist Ryan Felton, speaking from his home in the Western capital, is very much looking forward to playing the festival for the first time, and tells they will be getting into the spirit of the night in a pretty big way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, (Creepshow) should be good,â&#x20AC;? he enthuses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re) really excited to be playing some new songs that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working on, and just get back over there, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cause itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a while since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been back over East. The last time was a bit over a year ago now. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been writing songs, but we really wanted to get back over there so we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lose touch with our fans over there.â&#x20AC;? He is a little coy about how the band will be dressing up for the show, but promises some surprises for Creepshow punters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re keeping it a bit of a secret,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve kind of got our own inspired costumes, not the typical zombie or vampire type costumes that people will probably be expecting. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something a little bit different. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be equally as scary, but not scary in the way youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re probably thinking!â&#x20AC;? he laughs. You guys arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nuding upâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; are you? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nah, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to be nude,â&#x20AC;? he laughs again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to embarrass ourselves too much, but it should be fun.â&#x20AC;? Unsurprisingly, it may be the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frontman who may be taking things the furthest, as far as going all out for the vibe of the festival is concerned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say Dave the singer will probably go the furthest, in as far as dressing up goes, and making sure he gets into the
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theme,â&#x20AC;? he reveals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got something pretty cool lined up to wear onstage.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been over two years since the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last album, The Human Connection. Ryan tells us that the band is quite painstaking and fussy in their writing process, but promises that work on the next album is progressing slowly but very surely. The next Chaos Divine record should be seeing the light of day within 12 months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken a little while to get everything written, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re one of those bands that tend to write a bit slowly. We sort of go back and forth on a lot of ideas, to make sure we really nail a song. But yeah, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been coming along well, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re about 90% there with the writing, so hopefully we should start to demo, and do preproduction work hopefully later next month. And then try to get into the studio as soon as we can after that.â&#x20AC;? So possibly mid to late next year for a release? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say so, yeah,â&#x20AC;? he concurs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll try to do it as fast as we can, without compromising anything. These things just take time, metal bands donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put out albums like other genres, but hopefully mid next year.â&#x20AC;? CHAOS DIVINE join a massive lineup of bands, burlesque and DJs for CREEPSHOW HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL this Saturday October 26 at The Espy. Also performing are Sydonia, Engine, Gay Paris, Anna Salen VS Mario Bros, Death Audio, Head Filled Attraction and heaps more. Full playing times and info head to creepshowfestival.com
60 SECONDS with N’FA JONES
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? N’fa Jones. I write the songs and perform them on recordings and live shows. I bring the fiiiiiire to ya cook out. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? Some new cool hotness that they can’t put their finger on but luuuurve. What do you love about making music? It’s so magical. It appears from nowhere. People can resonate with it, and it’s a means for release, escape, creativity, togetherness or lonerism in one. I can’t explain it, but the feeling of music and it’s vibration always lifts me higher. What do you hate about the music industry? That like all beautiful things in life, it often gets taken for granted, or gets exploited, and the beauty forgotten. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? I dunno – maybe someone like Beethoven. I reckon modern music would blow his mind! Imagine If he was making music today. If you could assassinate one person or band
from popular music, who would it and why? Ah, where do I start? Maybe Simon Cowell actually – it’s not the shitty bands that he turns into monsters that are at fault. Nor even the soft labels that support this sad, weak, un-emotive music. It’s people like him with ability to attract vulnerable people who suffer a menial day to day life chasing escape in any form, and making them believe he is right. It’s his sick and twisted view of what music is, and what it should be to people. Nothing but income at any cost. What can a punter expect from your live show? A really good time. Different, but a new type of good time. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? I won’t likely be selling CD’s, I’ll probably be giving away a mixtape. If I am selling CD’s it’ll be a new single, or a sampler of my forthcoming album, Black +White Noise. When’s the gig and with who? Saturday November 23 at Revolver with Charlie Bucket and Remi. Anything else to add? Head to nfajones.com to get up to date on all things we’re doin’. Join the mailing list and get loads of free downloads. I’m always adding new sounds.
60 SECONDS with WILDCAT GENERAL STRIKE
Define your genre in five words or less: UK-influenced indie.
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Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? For the last EP, I got Jesus And Mary Chain and Pixies, which I’ll take.
Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? I often get angry before playing a gig and start wishing I was home writing music. Also for a warm up I often secretly sing-along to whatever band is playing without knowing the words.
Describe the best gig you have ever played. Quitcoalapalooza – a benefit gig for an environmental collective called Quit Coal. Every single person danced; it was a nice feeling.
Name an interview question you wish someone would ask you, and answer it. How are you so mind-numbingly sexually attractive? That’s a tough question. I don’t know, I honestly don’t know. But look, it’s humbling to be asked that, it really is.
Tell us about the last song you wrote. It’s called Let The Old World Break. It’s got lyrics about a girl called Susy and global politics and some chord changes and a trumpet doing triplets. And a digital choir, for some reason. And a hip hop sample of a guy going “one that you wanna listen to”. It’s all a tad random. I guess you had to be there. Where would you like to be in five years? Discovered from relative obscurity in Coburg
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If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why? Maybe Bounty – generally overlooked but kind of awesome if you give it a chance. WILDCAT GENERAL STRIKE’s new 3-track EP Hell Is Empty The Devils Are All Here is out now.
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SONNY & THE SUNSETS By Patrick Emery
When Sonny Smith was in his late teenage years, he packed his bags and headed to Central America. Smith found himself living in the jungle, writing screenplays for films he’d hope would eventually see the light of day when he returned to the United States. “I was already a musician, but I thought of music more as a side thing, and that I was going to be directing movies and stuff,” Smith says. Smith found, however, that his nascent screenwriting ideas began to morph into songs. “I started singing these long rambling songs that had a lot of characters and a lot of dialogue, and sometimes would even have screenplay direction – ‘cut two!’, stuff like that,” Smith says. “So when I went back to San Francisco, I had more of a focus on being a songwriter. So Central America was really the pivotal place where that happened.” Smith grew up in the Bay Area of California, before moving east to Colorado when he was about 17. Smith’s album, Fruitvale, looked back on his time living in the city of Oakland (Fruitvale being a district in Oakland with a high Latino population). Often dwarfed by the rich history and colourful artistic scene of neighbouring San Francisco, Oakland has played a pivotal – and occasionally violent – role in contemporary American history. It was here that Huey Newton and Bobby Seale formed the Black Panthers in the ‘60s. In 1973, the Symbionese Liberation Army shot and killed two school officials as part of that group’s radical political program. “I don’t know if I have one feeling toward Oakland,” Smith says, when I ask what he thinks of the city these days. “It does seem to be getting more and more violent – San Francisco is as well. I think maybe because the affluence that’s happening in Oakland and San Francisco is making the difference between rich and poor even bigger. I just went through Fruitvale the other day, and it’s looking a lot different these days – it’s been gentrified a bit.” By this time Smith’s artistic pursuits had broadened to include visual arts, poetry and longer form writing, as well as his songwriting and screenwriting activities. “I’ve noticed over the years that I will often be working on something – like a song – and I’ll see part way through that it’s really meant to be a play, or that I set out to write a play, and that it’s supposed to be a comic book,” Smith says. “So to that extent they all come from the same place, and they have to find their own identity, and I tend to be open to different mediums. So if a song isn’t working, rather than throwing it away, I’ll make it a drawing. And sometimes I’m surprised at what it becomes – it’s not always what I set out to do.” In 2009, Smith embarked on his ambitious 100 Records project, in which he created 100 fictional bands, each with a single featuring an A-side and B-side written by Smith. Apparently, a Japanese label took interest in one of the bands and asked to put it on a compilation – not realising that it wasn’t a ‘real’ band.
“IT’S NOT SO MUCH AN ARTISTIC MANIFESTO – IT’S MORE THAT I’VE GOT AN ARTISTIC SHORT ATTENTION SPAN,” “I can only vaguely remember that,” Smith laughs. “I think it was Danny Dusk and the Twilights. I’ve tried to put out a few of the bands as if they were regular bands, and I’ve got a lot of interesting emails in response.” The sci-fi, psychedelic overtones of Smith’s latest album, Antennas to the Afterworld, render it a stark deviation to his previous country-styled album, Longtime Companion. While Smith does enjoy the challenge of artistic reinvention, it’s not necessarily a conscious pursuit. “I don’t set it as a goal, but it’s more of a by-product of me getting bored very easily – I have a very restless, impatience with identifying with one thing,” Smith says. “So I’ll get into country music, but even before I’m done I’ll be like, ‘I’m bored – what else interests me?’ It’s not so much an artistic manifesto – it’s more that I’ve got an artistic short attention span,” he laughs. Antennas to the Afterworld was written at a time when Smith was dealing with the grief and tragedy of the death of a close friend. Notwithstanding, Smith says the album was more about exploring the notion of death, and what lies beyond life, than engaging in a cathartic activity. “I was certainly sad at the time, but the record wasn’t exploring grief at all – it was actually exploring more the curiosity of death and the afterworld,” Smith says. “There were a few contributing things that seemed to put death just around. Another friend had died, I’d gone to see a psychic – I was ‘visited’ by one of them. The afterworld was just all in the conversation of my mind. It was really just exploring the curiosity of that, rather than dealing with grief. But I hope that doesn’t make me seem cold!” Despite his artistic and personal explorations, Smith says he doesn’t have a particular vision of the afterlife. “I have no idea what it is – I’m none the wiser after making a record about it,” Smith says. “I have no clue what’s out there, and that’s kind of the beauty of it. Anything’s possible. I was talking to my son about aliens, and we were drawing pictures of them. Our human concept of what aliens are is pretty small – it’s just a reflection of ourselves. When you think about it, maybe the atoms that make up our planet are aliens, or emotions are aliens. Love could be an alien that sucks on your heart that takes a couple of years to get rid of!” Smith laughs. SONNY & THE SUNSETS play The Residence on Friday November 15, and Sonny Smith will be a speaker at Music = Art at Arts Centre Melbourne on Saturday November 16 as part of Melbourne Music Week. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 38
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YACHT CLUB DJS By Lachlan Kanoniuk
“I’m just waking up from a pretty rowdy night at a dive bar in Nashville; this place is probably my favourite so far.” Gaz Harrison, one half of mash-up maestros Yacht Club DJs, is feeling the effects of the duo’s current US sojourn. It’s a long way from their home base in the 3350, establishing themselves as one of Ballarat’s finest exports since Steve Moneghetti. As things are getting hectic in the States, Gaz takes a look back on how they’ve honed their craft over the years. “Everything we do has gotten a bit slicker and sounds better. Producing stuff the way we do generally leads to the sound quality being a bit shit and we were pretty naive of that back in the day. Apart from that, it’d just be basic music choices. Guy [Chappell-Lawrence] and I have pretty fiercely different taste in music and if anything, that has gotten worse, but we’ve learned to make it work. I think as a whole you could say we focus less on mash-ups and more on just putting on a good party, there’s a lot more to life than hearing Whitney Houston sing over Static X, right?” he muses. While Yacht Club DJs are very much at home behind the decks, commanding the dancefloor, there is a little something brewing in terms of recorded material. “We’ve got some demos sitting around, but we aren’t sure what to do with them just yet. The main reason being we aren’t sure if they are Yacht Club songs or something for a new project. We start every demo by sitting down with a guitar and banging away and as a result the music has come out a bit psych-rock and maybe not as party as people would expect from Yacht Club. So yeah, there will be stuff from us soon we just don’t know what it’s called yet. Yacht Club will keep on partying though, we’ve nearly finished a new mixtape that we’ll drop online sometime soon too. Plus there’s always Twinsy and Rick Moranis Overdrive if you want to listen to all our other stuff,” he says, referring to the band’s side-projects. Dealing primarily in mash-up creations, Yacht Club DJs foremost goal is to generate a party-conducive atmosphere – something they have proved mightily adept at over the years. “We aren’t for chin-strokers, that’s for sure. I’m sure there are people who probably
don’t like what we do coming out and getting pretty involved with their chin down the back, but while they’re stroking away they forget or refuse to have fun. Everything we do has a sense of humour about it and quite often we are poking fun directly at the people who think it’s necessary to shit-can us. One thing I’ve never understood about our critics is they just seem to be pissed off we’re having a good time. But I don’t really give a shit either, it’s just weird,” he reasons. With the pejorative to party, Gaz has been privy to some pretty wild moments on the road. “I’ve been pretty determined to experience all America has to offer on this tour. It’s got me in some hot water occasionally. But I always land on my feet. My favourite so far has been when I got a police badge in Guthrie, Oklahoma. I had been out partying with some friends at the festival site and Guy and Brendan [tour manager] had gone back to the hotel. Anyway, things got a bit spirited and there was moonshine getting around and next thing you know it was 7am and I had a cop pointing a gun at me because I was drunk. I tried explaining that was a massive overreaction to intoxication, but he wasn’t having it. So I had to sit in a car park with these cops threatening to arrest me if I didn’t move on whilst I waited for our tour manager to come and rescue me. So anyway I rock up at the festival the next day to play, feeling like death, and the chief of police is there rapping me over the knuckles and threatening to deport me. As you can imagine, I was pretty terrified, but after 20 minutes or so he just laughed in an Australian accent and said ‘only kidding, boys will be boys,’ And gave me a badge with the advice, ‘if you get in trouble again get this badge out and they’ll drive
you home. You’re a deputy now.’ Australian Chief of Police in Oklahoma – who’d have thought?” He recalls with a grin. Back in 2008, Yacht Club DJs experienced a true baptism of fire (or more specifically, rain) when they crushed it at the wettest Meredith Music Festival to date, winning over the post-MGMT crowd. “My brain had turned right off. I’d been standing out in the rain watching MGMT trying to work out why they were hating it so much. Then I took my boots off in the green room and nearly killed everyone with wet feet smell. Then we were onstage; I didn’t get nervous till afterwards. It’s really weird how that happens with big shows. You go into this weird flight or fight response state. Well I do; I’m a terrible introvert. Will yell at
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a crowd with no shirt on but won’t make eye contact with a check out person at Safeway,” Gaz self-assesses. “But yeah after that show I lost it. Then I got drunk and spent the morning throwing mud at my friends like everyone else.”
YACHT CLUB DJS perform with Gold Fields, Northeast Party House, City Calm Down, Neon Love (doing a one-off reunion show), SNKDKTL DJs, Indian Summer and Acolyte for I OH YOU’s Fourth Birthday Party, as part of Melbourne Music Week, at Flagstaff Station on Saturday November 16.
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THE CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT By Patrick Emery
Like many Australians, Julien Poulsen grew up with a relatively limited understanding of Cambodian history. So when Poulsen found himself in Cambodia “by accident” after a planned project in East Timor was postponed due to a flare up in fighting in that country, and Poulsen chose to relocate the project to Cambodia, he wasn’t sure what he’d find. “I was completely unprepared – all I knew was the basic overall picture – Khmer Rouge, Angkor Wot, Dead Kennedys’ Holiday in Cambodia, Apocalypse Now, The Royal Ballet, that sort of thing,” Poulsen says. Poulsen was aware, however, of the Cambodian psychedelic pop scene – a once fertile musical environment that would be almost obliterated by the Khmer Rouge forces in the ‘70s. “I’d grown up through my musical life listening to community radio, and American radio, and I’d heard stuff from this by now very famous compilation, Cambodian Rocks,” Poulsen says. Poulsen, however, wasn’t initially interested in Cambodian pop when he first arrived in the country. “When I first got there I was more interested in the musical traditions, the more folky history,” Poulsen says. Eventually Poulsen began to explore the contemporary Cambodian music scene. “It kind of pulled me in,” Poulsen says. After initially contemplating a film project based on the idea of rural singers moving to Phnom Penh, Poulsen happened upon a local bar where he witnessed a young female singer, Srey Thy, singing karaoke. “I was walking around with a video camera interviewing people on the street singing,” Poulsen explains. It was to be the catalyst for The Cambodian Space Project, a musical project that would see Poulsen, Thy and a “melting pot” of musicians from different cultural, professional and demographic backgrounds exploring and celebrating the Cambodian psychedelic pop scene. In many ways, it is a miracle that anything of that scene survived Pol Pot’s ruthless purges in the ‘70s. In addition to largely wiping out the intellectual and academic population as part of the ‘Year Zero’ genocidal policy, the Khmer Rouge targeted artists and musicians. The Cambodian pop scene had grown out of the influence of western tourists, and American servicemen, who brought with them ‘50s and ‘60s pop and rock’n’roll records. To the Khmer Rouge, hellbent on destroying every aspect of modern society, the music scene was an obvious target. “Very little of that whole scene survived,” Poulsen says. “The very exceptional singers of that golden era – which was really as little as between 1965 and 1975 when the Khmer Rouge took control of the country – they all disappeared in the killing fields,” Poulsen says. “There are some macabre stories, like when Sinn Sisamouth, the Elvis of Cambodia, who was executed, but allowed to sing one final song before he was shot – which apparently his executioners were very moved by, but he was killed anyway.” Ros Sereysothea, the so-called Queen of Cambodia was murdered, and other notable musicians, such as Pan Ron, simply disappeared. The recorded output also vanished. “If you compare it to the ‘50s and ‘60s scenes in neighbouring countries like Vietnam and Thailand, where you can still see copies of the original material, in Cambodia you can’t – it’s a very sensitive topic, and there’s lots of debate at the moment,” Poulsen says. The Cambodian Space Project has arrived at the right time, with a cultural revival taking place – a revival that is adding inspiration and momentum to the Cambodian Space Project. “That’s something that inspires us, and fuels us to do what we do,” Poulsen says. Poulsen says the reaction to The Cambodian Space Project has varied. “On the one hand, Cambodia is a more conservative place than ever – female singers can be a target of violence or jealousy. It can be dangerous if they’re deemed to be politically or socially incorrect – they can be attacked,” Poulsen says. “But at the same time, for the original musicians, the survivors who can recall Cambodia’s music and arts tradition before 1975, Srey is very much seen as a champion, and they really appreciate the Cambodian Space Project.” The symbiotic relationship between psychedelia and Cambodian music would, if not for the Khmer Rouge’s murderous efforts, be fertile ethnographical and musicological material. “It’s an interesting question,” Poulsen says. “In the ‘60s there was this explosion of music all over the world, and the same thing happened in Cambodia – there was probably even a bigger catalogue of music produced in Cambodia than in Australia.” The Western rock’n’roll scene fit well with Cambodia’s desire to modernise. “The musicians were influenced by The Yardbirds, The Kinks, Ike and Tina Turner, and possibly later when GI radio spilled into Cambodia, more intense stuff like The Stooges and the Velvet Underground,” Poulsen says. “And Cambodia’s music was always psychedelic, in the true sense of the term, so all these things came together, especially as the war loomed on the country’s doorstep.” In 2011, The Cambodian Space Project recorded its debut album, as well as touring through Asia, Europe and the United States. “It’s been well received – I think music builds bridges. And there’s a strong back story that appeals to people as well,” Poulsen says. Poulsen initially considered bringing the project to Melbourne to record, with Mick Harvey as producer. While that may still happen, The Cambodian Space Project has been recording recently with the legendary psychedelic guitarist and Rodriguez producer Dennis Coffey in Detroit. “He’s credited with taking The Temptations in a psychedelic direction, and he virtually invented the whole Blaxploitation soundtrack,” Poulsen says. “He and his partner Mark Theodore have done hundreds and hundreds of Motown tracks, but The Cambodian Space Project is their first time Cambodian band.”
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LIMP BIZKIT By Peter Hodgson
Limp Bizkit are stayers. They’ve had their ups and downs, their band member comings and goings, and they’ve ridden out a particularly intense backlash against the genre they helped to define, maintaining their attitude and sense of humour along the way. A triumphant Australian return at Soundwave 2012 helped solidify their place within the current metal landscape, and they’re back to do it again this month with a series of headline shows. “It was redeeming,” guitarist Wes Borland says of the band’s last Australian visit. “And it kind of felt like us resurrecting ourselves, in a way, with what had happened at the Big Day Out, with the young girl’s death, as well as Australia and us.” The sense of sadness in Borland’s voice as he speaks of the tragic 2001 death of Big Day Out concertgoer Jessica Michalik is palpable. “When I think about the two combined, Australia has always been tied to grief in the past, and it was nice to kind of obliterate that and meet Jessica’s family, meet the friends that had been there at the show with her when she died, and in some ways the whole thing has come full circle for us to forgive ourselves and make new memories and have the air cleared. And now this’ll be our first headlining tour of Australia that is not linked to a festival, so it’s nice to kind of hit the reset button, in a way.” When Limp Bizkit hits Australian stages this month, there’s a chance audiences will hear some new material to go along with the classics: they’re hard at work on forthcoming album Stampede of the Disco Elephants, which is due for release in January. “The album’s not out yet, but we’ve released one single [Ready To Go] and we may be releasing another single,” Borland says. “We’re working very hard on it every day. Fred [Durst] has a home studio and I have a home studio that are very well equipped, and we’re deep into a postproduction area of the album, working on the icing on the cake right now.” Following the departure of DJ Lethal, that particular area of sonic real estate has been commandeered by Borland, although the change hasn’t particularly shifted the dynamic of the writing process. “We’ve always written as a four-piece, or drums, bass and guitar with Fred conducting or producing, and Lethal always came in after the fact, after almost everything was finished, so it’s not a big difference to how we wrote before.”
“IT KIND OF FELT LIKE US RESURRECTING OURSELVES, IN A WAY, WITH WHAT HAD HAPPENED AT THE BIG DAY OUT, WITH THE YOUNG GIRL’S DEATH, AS WELL AS AUSTRALIA AND US... AUSTRALIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN TIED TO GRIEF IN THE PAST, AND IT WAS NICE TO KIND OF OBLITERATE THAT” A fiercely individual guitarist, Borland was one of the first wave of groove-and-texture-oriented metal guitarists to embrace the seven-string guitar, and yet he was also one of the first to abandon the seven in favour of six or even four strings. And he has no intention of dipping into the current trend of ultralow-tuned eight-string guitars, Meshuggah-style. “I like less strings. I even play four string guitars, and I’ve found that once you get into guitars that move away from what’s generally accepted and what the generally standard model of the guitar is, you lose out on all this shared technology. You isolate yourself. People are like, ‘Oh, this is an eight-string, it sounds so heavy,’ but dude, you can put one extra heavy string on a one-string guitar and it’ll sound the same. There’s all sorts of things that you miss when you limit yourself to something that’s that specific. So that’s why I got away from using guitars like that. It was just too much. I just didn’t need all of that, and I just found I got over that ‘I’m jacking off ten times a day, I’m 18 years old and full of testosterone’ part of my life. It’s not about how big the tyres on my truck are. I just started looking at it in more of an adult way, I guess, as far as guitar playing goes – says the guy who still dresses like a moron in costumes on stage!”
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SAINT JUDE By Garrath Westmore
Taking all that was great about country rock and blues from the ‘60s and ‘70s, the unassuming gents from Melbourne’s Saint Jude continue to deliver their take on the greats of Americana with their second long player, Saint Jude II. Considering the deep mines of musical influence we could discuss, it’s probably not my proudest professional moment to ask frontman Brooke Penrose why he has a girl’s name. He doesn’t seem to care though. “Well, Brooke Shields hadn’t made it famous yet so no one had really heard the name, then a few years later it was like, ‘Great, now I’ve got a girl’s name’,” he laughs recalling the moment. “But now I love it.” It wasn’t a Boy Named Sue type scenario either, although one could be forgiven for thinking so. Saint Jude’s music draws a lot of inspiration from the American greats so a link to a Johnny Cash song didn’t seem like too much of a stretch, although they’re more reminiscent of The Flying Burrito Brothers and The Band than the Man in Black. They also infuse that country rock sound with plenty of soul and gospel, particularly through the Hammond keyboard tinkering’s of Brendan McMahon. “Brendan is an absolute gun,” Penrose gushes of his band member’s keys. “He has these sounds in his head, and he’ll say, ‘I’m gonna do this…’ and you hear it and say, ‘Yeah that’s what it needed!’ I often demo with a poxy little midi Hammond part on it, then he plays something and he’ll change the tone, and you think,
‘Oh my god yeah, that’s it’. Penrose and McMahon’s efforts rounded out by the incendiary guitar of Ryan McCarthy, Mick Styliano’s bass, and percussion from famed Melburnian drummer Bill Deeble, with all the guys chipping in for vocal harmonies. “We always thought of the band as a bit of a gang – there are certain methods that drive it in certain ways, but we all play a part and make decisions together. We’re a union of friends and musicians.” And, it’s worth noting, a group that seem at times more eager to share their musical tastes than advancing their own standings in the music world. Though not attempting to sound too magnanimous, Penrose agrees with the suggestion. “Absolutely, we’re always passing music onto other people and hoping they enjoy what we’ve enjoyed.” It’s a point evidenced on their website, where each member has posted their ‘desert island’ tracklists, their amusing preambles making them seem more keen to share rather than laud any musical knowledge. That said,
it’s not as if they’re completely devoid of self-promotion, nor does Penrose suggest they approach Saint Jude with selfless abandon. He notes his own artwork, used for LPs and shows as an attempt to have a “visual identity” for punters to recognise. “We’re not the kind of band that’s going to dress in suits or costumes,” he laughs. “Although someone did describe us as button-down press-stud shirts with cowboy boots once”. Having a visual identity is all well and good, but worthless if you’re not giving people something worth listening to. Fortunately that’s not an issue; upcoming release Saint Jude II will be their second LP in four years to go along with their previous three EPs, and more importantly it’s quality stuff. There’s a ridiculous amount of soul on Only You I Need with its out-of-thisworld keyboard and guitar solos. Drifter’s Ballad is as gorgeous as anything else out there and Laurelie rouses with its drawn out organ and a choir backing that’s
trumped only by a bit of shredding on the telecaster from McCarthy. A cover of The Kinks’ This Time Tomorrow also makes the cut, a fairly obscure choice I suggest. “We’re not hipster enough to pull off a Missy Elliot cover or anything like that,” laughs Penrose as an explanation. They’ve certainly snowballed from being a recordingless two-piece back in 2009, to a five-piece with two LPs under their belt, and it’s a journey Penrose has certainly been enjoying. “It’s been great, we’ve gotten a lot of love out of Melbourne,” and despite all that love, the goal still remains simple. “I think the main thing we all want for our music, besides playing it, is to be on people’s iPods and record players, and for people just to dig it.”
that process, or refined into something. And so much of it was just learning. “A lot of this new stuff has been written with a live band sound in mind,” he continues his explanation, “arranged to work onstage and then kind of documented in the studio in a different way. And yeah, it’s just more of a focused band sound this time. And we made a conscious effort to ‘theme’ the record. Last time, the theme sort of grew into it, post production, this time we kind of let the cat out of the bag.” So what is the meaning or thinking behind the title Aubades? “This is part one of a two part record,” he explains. “The contrast between the parts is that one is morning and one is night, and this is the morning edition, so to speak. It’s called Aubades, and aubades is a French word for, like a morning poem. Sort of like a serenade, but it’s for the morning instead of the evening, and it’s sort of usually about lovers parting at dawn or something like that.
“So then you’ll have the night time equivalent some time next year,” he continues, “part two, and we’ll put them out as a double record.” Part one is to be released digitally this coming weekend, and to be launched on the same day in a live sense as well. Part two will follow at some stage next year. “Yep, it’s coming out on October 27,” he says. “We’re just releasing it online, on our Bandcamp which is Glasfrosch.com, you can download it there. And we’ll re-package it next year when we do part two. And we’re doing our album launch the same night, at The Evelyn,” he continues. “That should be lots of fun.”
not necessarily a huge scene in any particular town, but putting something on vinyl...if it’s a good record then people are going to be looking for it. Whether it’s in the UK or New York, someone’s going to buy that record if they can find it. It was a good way for us to start. We found some distributors overseas that supported our kind of stuff, and started hooking up these contacts overseas.” Simple. Maybe it hasn’t all been quite that easy, but it’s clearly a labour of love. “The whole time it’s always been fun,” Ludowyk asserts. “Recording and producing music is why we started putting all this stuff together in the first place.” HopeStreet is still very much a hands-on operation for Ludowyk, who together with Bobzilla has produced each and every record they’ve put out to date. “That’s kind of part of the personal reason for us for doing it but at the same time we’ve built up a platform for launching the careers of other bands which we’ve been in or are working with. We can start some careers for artists and help them get known overseas
as well through what we’re doing, introducing them to audiences they normally wouldn’t get exposed to until they started doing tours around the world. “With the Bombay Royale, after we put out the record last year it got into the hands of some people and it helped them get this tour. They did it this year and it put them on the map a bit, they landed some really good gigs and festivals. It’s a fairly easy way to get bands like that started. It’s been pretty cool.” It is indeed. But what else would you expect from an operation run out of an abandoned textiles factory somewhere in Brunswick, beneath the sign of a long-defunct karate school, run by two mysterious guys known as Bobzilla and Tristan Ludowyk?
SAINT JUDE play Howler on Friday October 25.
GLASFROSCH By Rod Whitfield
This Melbourne-based three-piece band are a true enigma, about as indefinable as you can get. There is no safe, convenient box that you can lump this band into; they combine progressive and arty rock with jazz, pop, ambient and cinematic styles, and just about everything in between, and create long, involved songs that take you on sonic journeys across epic, weird and wonderful soundscapes of unknown origin. If you are the type who desperately needs a genre to label bands with, ‘experimental’ may be the only one that does this band any kind of justice at all. But even that description, as potentially broad as it may be, seems hopelessly inadequate. Glasfrosch released a typically enigmatically titled debut album, If You Go Far Enough Into the Sky, You’ll Come Out Underwater, in mid 2011. October 2013 sees the follow-up finally emerge, and founding member, singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Justin Ashworth joined us recently to tell us all about the journey he and the band have been on to create Aubades. “Some of the songs on this album, we’ve [had] the ideas for, and even in the live set, for a while,” he tells us. “This year, we went into the studio, it was time to get them down. It’s taken most of this year to produce it. We tracked all the drums and guitars and stuff, I’ve done all the production and recording myself. That was a bit of an epic learning curve, but that’s been good. I mixed it
myself, and it’s going to be mastered this week.” Whilst the first album was more of a ‘project’ than a full band production, sketches and ideas pieced together, Aubades has been far more of a collaborative effort on the part of the three members, and designed to play in a live setting. Justin is happy to tell us about this, and what he feels are some of the other key differences between the two recordings. “I guess the first album was a collection of ideas and a lot of experiments,” he recalls, “Every song was born out of one or two strange, weird experiments until they built into songs. Almost like study pieces in a way, like ‘let’s find a way to use this gear, and these influences, and see what comes of it.’ And so much was rejected in
GLASFROSCH bring their mesmerising live show to The Evelyn this coming Sunday October 27 to launch their new album Aubades. Joining them are Gelido, Squarehead and Adam Simmons vs Brian Odwyer.
HOPESTREET RECORDINGS By Josh Fergeus Legend has it that in an abandoned textiles factory somewhere in Brunswick, beneath the sign of a long-defunct karate school, sits an eight-track tape machine, tended to by two mysterious guys known as Bobzilla and Tristan Ludowyk. This operation is called HopeStreet Recordings. Ludowyk, himself a musician who has played with bands such as The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, The Afrobiotics and the The Bombay Royale, doesn’t play live as much as he used to. “I’m mainly a trumpet player,” he says. “But I also play guitar, keyboards, percussion...I still work with those bands sometimes. I do African funk, that kind of thing. I really love doing that but I love getting bands into the studio and working with them there even more. I’ve personally found a lot of satisfaction in creating a musical work from start to finish. Whether it’s writing and arranging it, getting the right sound in the studio...the way you mix it can bring everything together and give you a really satisfying result.” HopeStreet Recordings was started by Ludowyk and a fellow musician and engineer, the rather dramatically named Bobzilla. “We wanted to get into analogue BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 42
recording,” explains Ludowyk. “That kind of stuff. We started because we just wanted to explore it, doing four-track recordings, funk and soul and just kind of having a jam. Out of that we ended up with some music we thought was pretty cool and which we thought would do well in a vinyl format. We ended up pressing some 7” [records], and doing a few one-off small run records. Bit by bit we worked out how to get them into the hands of people overseas and find niche markets for vinyl funk, soul and Afrobeat. Different types of stuff that record collectors and DJ nerds like as well as general music fans.” Ludowyk has a way of simplifying the story of the label’s development to a point where it seems like launching a band might be as easy as picking up the phone book. “There’s little niches around the world looking for the sort of music that we do,” he says. “It’s
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By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com Poison City Records are going to celebrate their ten year anniversary later this year and they’ve booked in two huge shows in December to ensure the event is as memorable as possible. Blow off your work Christmas party plans ‘cause these ones are going to be a blast. Thursday December 19 sees Harmony, Lincoln LeFEvre, Infinite Voice, Apart From This, Freak Wave and PostBlue play at The Gasometer. Then The Rev will host The Smith Street Band, The Gifthorse, The Bennies, Paper Arms, Clowns and Daysworth Fighting on Friday December 20. Tickets are available from Thursday via the Poison City E-Store. Vans Warped Tour have added a couple extra acts to the 2013 tour. Everyone’s favourite Swedes Millencolin are on board, as well as The Amity Affliction, Reel Big Fish, Confession, Hands Like Houses and Buried in Verona. It was revealed this week that the Melbourne leg of the tour would take place on Saturday December 7 at Birrarung Marr on the Yarra River. AJ Maddah tweeted that the venue change was to avoid “too much of a shitfight with so many juicers and pillpoppers next door for Stereosonic”. He later apologised to Stereosonic organiser Richie McNeill saying his comment was “totally out of line”. Cosmic Psychos have had a truly psychotic year. These blokes have enjoyed the success of their doco Blokes You Can Trust as well as a hugely successful Australian and US headlining tour. They’re now booked in for one last gig at The Espy on Friday November 1 in support of the documentary’s DVD release. They’ll be back on the road next year for Big Day Out duties. The Hits and Pits crew have revealed that No Fun At All will play a sideshow while in Melbourne next month. You can see No Fun At All on Thursday November 21 at the Gasometer with Clowns and Beaver. There are only 150 tickets on sale and they’ll disappear pretty quickly. Tickets are still available to the Melbourne Hits and Pits festival featuring Boysetsfire, Black Flag, Bad Astronaut, The Ataris, Snuff, Good For You, Jugheads Revenge and Off With Their Heads at The Palace on Friday November 22. Local band Clowns have had to cancel their scheduled show at Geelong’s Dive Bar on Saturday, so will be replacing said show with another Melbourne gig. Their launch at Public Bar sold out in an hour last weekend, so if you missed it, make sure you get to the Gasometer on Saturday night to see them smash out tunes from their new album I’m Not Right.
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CORE GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23: The Amity Affliction, Chelsea Grin, Stick To Your Guns, In Hearts Wake at The Palace Stratovarius, EYefear, Darker Half at Billboard THURSDAY OCTOBER 24: Chelsea Grin, I Valiance, Hands Of Hope, Nicholas Cage Fighter at Next The Shadow League, Kings Cup, Break The Wall, Self Help at The Reverence FRIDAY OCTOBER 25: Behemoth, Hour Of Penance, Cemetery Urn at Prince Bandroom Take Your Own, Bateman, Public Liability, Death By Deathray, Break The Wall at The Reverence Have/Hold, Oslow, Darts, Kill Taker at The Old Bar Clowns at Yahoo Bar, Shepparton Joey Cape and Brian Wahlstrom, Jamie Hay, Nathan Seeckts at Karova Lounge Disgruntled Bruntle, Conjurer, Hollow World, Selenium at The Bendigo Bear Witness, Jack The Stripper, Sick Machine, Removalist, Bloodwolves at The Gaso Upstairs The Siren Tower, Secret Tsunami, Ezekiel Ox, Lebelle, Willow Darling at The Espy Front Bar SATURDAY OCTOBER 26: Joey Cape, Brian Wahlstrom, Jamie Hay, Nathan Seeckts at The Reverence Screamfeeder, Lincoln Le Fevre and the Outsiders, Tender Bones at The Tote Fall Out Boy, British India at Festival Hall Clowns, Kodiak Throat, Break The Wall at The Gasometer Sydonia, Gay Paris, Engine, Chaos Divine, Death Audio at The Espy The Breeders, Television, The Scientists, Fuck BUttons, Lightning Bolt and more at The Palais Theatre and Prince Band Room Batpiss, The Kremlings, Captives, Swhat at The Reverence Antagonist AD, Head Check, Your World In Ruins at Bang SUNDAY OCTOBER 27: Lucy Wilson, Lincoln LeFevre, Ben Buxton at The Reverence Limp Bizkit at Festival Hall Antagonist AD, Train Wreck, Left For Wolves, Hideaway, Impasse, Body Filler at Phoenix Youth Center
BRONSON HIT THE ROAD – INCLUDING BENDIGOAT METAL FEST
Melbourne’s Bronson have delivered one of the best heavy albums of 2013 in Blood Brothers – a crushing blend of Killswitch Engage style riffsmanship and Pantera-esque groove yet infused with a fresh modern edge. It was recorded and mixed in Australia by Roman Koester of Complex Studios and mastered in Sweden by Peter In de Betou of Tailor Made Productions. And you can catch the band live on Friday November 1 at The Sound Bar, Werribee. They’ll also be appearing at the Bendigoat Metal Festival at New Market Hotel on Saturday November 2 alongside Path of Destruction, A Greed Science, Terror Strike, Avirus, Scar the Surface, Internal Nightmare, Myridian, Severity, NOÛS, Internal Harvest, Mardraum, Sewercide, Maniaxe, Evil Intent, Order of Torment, Mar Mortuum (the band formerly known as Agave Maize), Terra Australis and Adamus Exul.
DOUBLE DIGITS FOR DENOUNCEMENT PYRE
BM Belts presences Denouncement Pyre 10 Year Anniversary Ritual 2003-2013 at the Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood, on Saturday October 26. Denouncement Pyre cap off their tenth year of underground darkness with this last show of 2013 after releasing Almighty Arcanum earlier this year on Hells Headbangers records! Cauldron Black Ram make their return to Melbourne shores for skullduggery, rum and wenches, Hellbringer drag their evil thrashing madness down south from Canberra, and Altars will be bringing forth their brutal death metal as heard on their new album, Paramnesia. Doors at 8pm, $15 entry, 18+.
BABY ANIMALS NEXT WEEK
Don’t forget! Iconic Aussie rockers Baby Animals are hitting the road for the Feed The Birds tour, which began in Newcastle a few weeks ago. The tour will be filmed for the band’s first ever live DVD, to be called Feed the Birds (Live). Fans can pre-order the DVD, or grab a limited release bundle that includes a ticket to the show and a signed copy of the DVD upon its release for Christmas, from thebabyanimals.com. They’ll be at The Wool Exchange in Geelong on Wednesday October 30, and the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on Thursday October 31. Tickets for the Feed The Birds tour, exclusive fan bundles and copies of This Is Not The End and Feed the Birds (Live) are available from thebabyanimals.com
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KINGSWOOD NEW SINGLE
In a studio in Nashville your favourite gritty indie rock four piece from Melbourne, Kingswood, are finishing off their long awaited debut LP. Taking a break from the studio, where they are working with esteemed producer Vance Powell (Jack White, Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon) Kingswood has kicked off a run of US tour dates including renowned music conference CMJ in New York City. Packed with all the intensity they have become known for, new single Sucker Punch will be in hand when Kingswood land back on home soil in November. The single comes complete with artwork by legendary designer Ken Taylor, infamous for his iconic artwork and design for many local and international bands. And the band will play a few Australian dates upon their return (including at the Prince Bandroom on Friday December 6) before zipping around the country as part of the Big Day Out in January.
NIGHT OF THE SPIKY LOGOS AT THE GASOMETER
Stretch those neck muscles (do people still head-bang any more?) for a night of brutality at The Gasometer Hotel, 484 Smith St, Collingwood on Friday November 22. Hailing from Tasmania, melodic black metal powerhouse Atra Vetosus will return to Melbourne in support of their acclaimed debut album Voices From the Eternal Night, backed up by experimental post-black doom metallers Internal Harvest, who will be sequestered in the studio for most of 2014 working on a new album. The extreme melodic death metal horde Catacombs have spent the majority of this year perfecting their debut album, and this will mark their triumphant return to the stage with a fresh hunger to push forward and crush the things in this life which attempt to tear us down. And melodic death metallers Ordnance have been a tireless force upon the Melbourne metal scene over the last few years playing countless shows. This past year has seen them release their debut EP Blight, acquire a killer new drummer (who also plays with Adamus Exul and Internal Harvest) and now they are preparing to record their debut album. Be sure to get there early to catch some intense and aggressive metal! Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10.
WHO ELSE IS ON TOUR?
Stratovarius: Wednesday Oct 23 - Billboard The Venue Korpiklaani: Wednesday Oct 23 - Corner Hotel Enslaved: Friday November 1 - The Hi Fi Scott Kelly & Jarboe: Thursday Nov 7 - The Corner Hotel Between The Buried And Me + The Contortionist: Tuesday November 19 - The Corner Hotel Moonsorrow: Saturday November 23 - The Hi Fi Rotting Christ: Saturday January 18 - Heavyfest, The Hi Fi
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WEDNESDAY OCT 23 ME. BAIRD
M.E. Baird is a Victorian based singer/songwriter. He is a solo performer and the celebrated singer/songwriter and guitarist behind alt country/rock outfit Lionel Lee’s Curse. His songwriting and music has been described as cinematic vignettes full of tragedy, despair, elegance and beauty. The settings can range from haunting landscapes and frenetic city bars to sublime worlds of the imagination or bleak suburban cul-de-sacs. He plays the Retreat Hotel tonight at 7.30pm sharp.
MIKE NOGA
Fresh from an Australian/New Zealand tour with The Drones, Mike Noga will be sticking around in Melbourne a little bit longer to play a month of Wednesdays at The Yarra Hotel. Work has begun on his follow up to The Balladeer Hunter, and Noga will be presenting some of these new songs along with some oldies and a few covers over two sets each week. The show starts at 8.30pm and it’s all free.
ROYAL CHANT
NSW locals Royal Chant are sending out their new single New Nowhere to the wide world and hitting up Melbourne with their typical mix of fuzz, melody, apathy and optimism. With the new line-up firmly in place and spirits high after a smashing start to 2013, Royal Chant continue to carve their strange path amongst the gutters, garages, and stages of Australia, out of the spotlight but never far from it, keeping their heads down and the distortion up. They play The Old Bar on Wednesday October 23 and The Empress Hotel on Thursday October 24.
COLLAGE
Collage unsigned musicians night is rocking The Espy in St Kilda this Wednedsday October 23. Featuring Ahilya and Tim, Scaramouche, Cleveland Blues, Kite Machine. Doors open 8.30pm. Free entry.
THE LOVE BOMBS
Wednesdays in October catch Cherry Bar’s own The Love Bombs. Featuring DJ Mermaid and Cherry allstars Hamish, Pippa and Derek. Doors open 6pm, bands from 8.30pm until 11.30pm. Free entry all night. DJ until 3am.
THURSDAY OCT 24 STRINE SINGERS
LUNAIRE
Winning audiences by singing their hearts out playing show after show and growing their audience one listener at a time is Strine Singers, who are currently in midst of their Wednesday Spotted Mallard residency. This Wednesday you can catch Hoy headlining with the music starting from 8.30pm and it’s all free entry.
Formed mid-2012, The Primary have been making quite the impression with their noisy, minimalist and dissonant post-punk sound. Since then, the trio of bassist Gemma Louise Helms, singer/guitarist Jules Sheldon and drummer Will Lovett have only grown, and have been building up buzz all around Melbourne for their intense live shows and love of the nasty, dark, and atmospheric side of music. See them play The Tote upstairs at Slow Bar Thursdays in October with three of Melbourne’s best bands supporting them each week. Entry is five bucks and doors open 8pm.
ANNA’S GO-GO ACADEMY
Shake it like a Polaroid picture at Anna›s Go-Go Academy every Thursday night at Victoria Hotel. Annas go-go classes are great fun, an excellent cardio workout, and have been described as inspiring, a retro hit parade…everything from Elvis‘ Jailhouse Rock to AC/DCs 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.
DIAMONDS OF NEPTUNE
Five piece indie/dream pop Diamonds of Neptune formed in late 2011 after two of the boys bumped into each other skipping class at uni and now 2 years later hit the Brunswick Hotel with their Temper Trap, Radiohead and Tame Impala influenced sounds. Catch them playing what one eccentric fan described as “the potent melting nectar of Foals delicately infused with high quality Harvard LSD” on Thursday night.
This Thursday night at Yah Yah’s, Lunaire bring their heavy swoon sounds to the stage. Tender Bones support with a drowned out drone pulling along a deep drum sound, Apollo Apples bring the psych/blooze riffs and Maladaptor adds their own brand of swagger and noise. Doors 8.30pm, $5 entry.
WHITE SUMMER
Introducing White Summer, the howling, swampblues playing trio made up of Jimmy Stanfield, Michael Barnsley and Anthony Zielke. White Summer will be releasing their first single Head In The Sand from forthcoming four track EP on Friday October 11 with an official single launch party on Thursday October 24 at The Evelyn. Joining them to celebrate the release will be Kashmere Club, Winter Moon and Bones Blackwood. $10 entry.
ROYAL CHANT
NSW locals Royal Chant are sending out their new single New Nowhere to the wide world and hitting up Melbourne with their typical mix of fuzz, melody, apathy and optimism. With the new line-up firmly in place and spirits high after a smashing start to 2013, Royal Chant continue to carve their strange path amongst the gutters, garages, and stages of Australia, out of the spotlight but never far from it, keeping their heads down and the distortion up. They play The Old Bar on Wednesday October 23 and The Empress Hotel on Thursday October 24.
STELLA ANGELICCO
First bursting onto the scene wowing audiences with her soul inspired rock-pop, wailing and shaking over three years ago, Stella Angelico hits the Espy for what is set to be one sweaty, sassy night backed by her band and friends on Thursday October 24. She’ll be joined by doo-wop/disco pioneers Sugar Fed Leopards as well as Stevie and The Sleepers and That Gold Street Sound. The gig is free entry too so there’s no excuse not to get your freak on.
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Sydney musician Emad Younan plays two shows in Melbourne playing the beautiful catalogue of music his late brother Jesse Younan left behind after losing his battle to leukemia in July 2008. In 2012 a tribute album was produced including the likes of Jen Cloher and Jordie Lane performing his music. Since Jesse’s passing, Emad Younan is performing his tunes on Jesse’s behalf and you can catch him playing Horse Bazaar on Thursday October 24 from 7-9pm and playing Some Velvet Morning on Saturday October 26, 8pm-10pm.
SKYSCRAPER STAN & THE COMMISSION FLATS
This coming October Skyscraper Stan & The Commission Flats are pretty damn excited to be “bearing all” in their hometown at The Workers Club on Thursday October 24. Best described as playing troubadour rock ‘n’ roll, a flavor of music birthed in the musical mecca of Melbourne and unique to the group. Backed by his superb full band, and with the support of Ben Wright Smith and Liam Gerner, this EP launch is sure to have audiences rocking on their toes and hollering for more. Doors open 7.30. Entry is $10.
MR BLACK & BLUES
Fresh off the back of a number one debut on the Australian Blues and Roots chart, comes the Mr Black & Blues second full length album and third release, Long Road Home. Recorded by ARIA winner Jason McGann in a house in Colac and also featuring on drums, Mr Black & Blues has a large run of shows to showcase the feel-good roots blues record. Catch him at The Drunken Poet Thursday October 25 with Shorty from Collar Greens and Gravy. Head on over to breakneckrecords.com for full details and shows throughout October and November.
PIERCE BROTHERS
Pierce Brothers have returned from a tour of the UK and have announced a residency at Ding Dong Lounge for Thursday’s in October. The guys have made a name for themselves playing on the city streets selling over 10,000 EPs, selling out their launch at The Evelyn and supporting the likes of Bonjah, Ash Grunwald and The Bamboos. Catch them this Thursday at Ding Dong. Tickets are $10 on the door. Get there early, as this will sell out.
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CATCH RELEASE
With vocals channeling Antony & The Johnstons; a drummer who switches from kit to bongos mid song; a strong, resonating violin; bass keeping it all together with great drive, and a French fucking Horn, Catch Release are one hell of an act. If you haven’t seen them yet, you’re missing out. Supporting will be Philemon with her spacious atmospheric folk and Boyeur whose luscious compositions never fail to inspire. Catch this incredible line up for free at Richmond’s Great Britain Hotel. Doors at 9pm.
JASON LIVES
High energy punk-ish band Jason Lives are bringing their wacky live show to the Cubby House this Friday October 25 for a heart pounding night of tunes. Head on down for a fun night out.
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FRIDAY OCT 25 THE SIREN TOWER
Perth roots-rock powerhouse group The Siren Tower hit the Espy in support of their latest single King River from their critically acclaimed album A History of Houses. Touring the country this October and November, their reimagined Australian-rock sounds have seen a star-studded audience at their recent shows including members of Karnivool, Circles and Birds of Tokyo. Don’t miss out on their Friday October 25 free show.
HAVE/HOLD
Have/Hold are going on tour. With half of what has been easily the busiest year of their lives conquered, the band is warming up the van for the epic journey up, down and part way across this glorious island we call home for the very first time. The boys are proud as parents to announce that by the time they loose their moorings their first release Song For Bill Of The Trains/ Dexamphetamine Blues will be available as a ‘pay what you feel’ download via Bandcamp. This AA-side single rings with the sensitive, humanistic storytelling and fevered emotional energy that has become indicative of a Have/Hold live experience. Catch their brand of prog inspired post-emo at The Old Bar on Friday October 25. Doors open 8pm, tickets are $10.
BEN MASON
After recently knocking the socks off a brimming Northcote Social Club with the launch of his homage to The Zombies' Odessey and Oracle, Ben Mason is now set to launch his debut album, Holes and Corners. Holes and Corners is a concise collection of bedroom breakup pop that explores the universal themes of loving and leaving through well-crafted songs and intricate arrangements. Ben and his crack band, featuring members of Grand Salvo, Baptism of Uzi, The Zebras and The Bank Holidays, launch the album on Friday October 25 at the Workers Club. Support comes from local sweet-tooths, Minibikes and Milk! Records sweethearts, The Finks. Kick off is at 8pm, and tickets are $10 on the door.
THE STRANGE
Six-piece psych rock and rollers The Strange take over the Espy basement on Friday October 25 fresh off the back of recording their single in Sydney. Featuring Quang, of Little Red fame, the gig is one sweet free show featuring D D Dumbo, Honey Badgers and Andre (SSBASS, Pencil).
Melbourne’s own country-soul heroes Saint Jude return with their much anticipated second album, Saint Jude II. Saint Jude II meters out slow-burning countrysoul; underpinned by the swirling guitar and organ combination and tapered five-piece gospel harmonies that have become synonymous with Saint Jude’s live show. They play Howler on Friday October 25 with support from Pony Face and Sugar Fed Leopards. Tickets available via h-w-l-r.com.
JENNIFER KINGWELL
Over more than ten years, The Pearly Shells have gained a reputation as Melbourne’s premier Jazz/Swing/RnB band with a classic style and look reminiscent of the Golden Age of Ellington, Basie, Goodman and Brother Ray. Catch them this Friday October 25 at the Substation in Newport. Featuring special guests Yvette Johansson and vocal group the Pacific Belles. Doors open 7.30pm. Tickets are $32 +bf standing or $27+bf seated.
Known as one-half of the indie cabaret sensation, The Jane Austen Argument, the dazzling Jennifer Kingwell now gears up for the release of her own debut solo single Kissing In Tutus. An epic, avant-pop ode to radical love and a celebration of resistance, her sounds are reminiscent of a delicious blend of Regina Spektor, Bat For Lashes and Florence Welch. Jennifer is gearing up for her single launch at the Empress Hotel on Friday October 25 backed by her new band, The Garland Thugs. Support comes from Beloved Elk and Plum Green. Doors at 8.30pm and tix avail via music. jenniferkingwell.net.
MAGIC AMERICA
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Melbourne psych guitar rockers Magic America are having a launch Party to celebrate the upcoming release of their single I thought I told you something better. “Displaying influences ranging from britpop to vintage psychedelica, Magic America play a brand of rock which is spacious, cruisey and chaotic at once” Playing with special guestsThe Trotskies and Luna Ghost. It is sure to be a ripping night of great music. This Friday October 25 at The Tote. Doors open 8pm.
Having recently released a well-received live album, Blow these Tracks, with Chris Wilson, Mr. Black & Blues is in fine form. Recorded on the Blues train, Blow these Tracks is destined for multiple ‘Best Albums’ lists come the end of the year. It has been said that the sound is like Eric Bibb getting drunk with Tom Waits and being told to straighten up by the ghost of Howlin Wolf in a Clarksdale back alley, this cannot be a bad thing. This Friday at the Drunken Poet from 8.30pm.
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TAKE YOUR OWN
Listen up, campers. After many, many, many months, powerful melodic hardcore quintet Take Your Own will officially unleash their debut album Open Water. They think you should probably come down and join them at The Reverence Hotel to celebrate this momentous occasion on Friday October 25. Sharing the stage will be the most awesome pop punkers Bateman, Public Liability, Death by Death Ray and Break The Wall. This will be an epic night and we look forward to seeing you all there. $12 on the door. Doors open 8pm.
BOOM CRASH OPERA
The Flying Saucer Club is pleased to announce that the complete Boom Crash Opera will perform an intimate one-night-only show on Friday October 25. Growing out of Melbourne’s fertile post-punk scene in the ‘80s, they are responsible for radio anthems Onionskin, The Best Thing and Hands Up in the Air. Set to release the ‘Rattle It Out’ boxed set including the band’s first three albums plus never-heard-before material as well as The Best Things, a best-of collection featuring two new songs, catch their boisterous and humorous live performances with all members belting out their classics. Tickets start from $28. Doors at 8pm.
A DEAD FOREST INDEX
The Grace Darling bandroom has recently completed a long awaited renovation. The bar has been moved to create premium viewing real estate, JPJ ( Johnston) audio have installed a killer P.A and Dan’s Mum has sewn many metres of new curtains. With all these improvements they hope The Grace Darling band room can continue to thrive as a staple of the Collingwood live music scene. To celebrate all these nice new changes The G.D is re-launching the bandroom with a free show featuring A Dead Forest Index, Grand Salvo, Tim Richmond & Evelyn Ida Morris (Pikelet). A Dead Forest Index are brothers Adam and Sam Sherry, forming a minimalist two-piece drawing on elements centring around the voice. Their songs detailing simplicity in structure are lyrically engulfing, with an underlying depth in percussion highlighted by repetition, and voices in unison. This show will double as a send off show for A Dead Forest Index for their November tour with London’s SAVAGES throughout the UK, also keep an ear out for their debut full-length album which is near completion. This all takes place at the Grace Darling on Friday October 25. Doors at 8pm, free entry.
CREEPSHOW HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL
STONEFIELD
With less than three weeks until the release of their highly anticipated self-titled debut album, Amy, Hannah, Sarah and Holly of Melbourne based rock outfit Stonefield unveil the dates for a new national tour and their album pre order options. 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 packed out 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. In support of their debut, Stonefield are once again hitting the road throughout October and November for a collection of metro and regional tour dates, in the lead up to supporting the legendary Fleetwood Mac and playing the iconic Meredith Music Festival in December. Catch them at The Corner Hotel, Saturday October 26.
Start preparing your Halloween costume as Melbourne‘s biggest Halloween party is just around the corner. The Espy will be transforming into a haunted mansion to host Creepshow Halloween Festival on Saturday October 26. In its fourth year, Creepshow will feature DJs, burlesque dancers and bands all in full costume. Playing on the night is Sydonia (video launch) Engine, Gay Paris, Chaos Divine, The Killgirls, Anna Salen VS Mario Broas, Death Audio, Ten Thousand, Head Filled Attraction, Marlow, Shadowgame, LeSuits, Red Remedy, The Pass Outs, Sentia, Transience, Ire and more to be announced. Prizes for best dressed on the night. Visit creepshowfestival.com for more information.
SUPÉR GRANDÉ
Lounge runs Supér Grandé every saturday night from 10pm-2am featuring an assortment of DJs to help you unwind in their selection of the most current and throwback styles of upfront club music, to build the night before the infamous 2am-takeover featuring some of Melbourne’s most discerning club crews and tastemakers.
60 SECONDS with SWEETS
SATURDAY OCT 26 Define your genre in five words or less: Kaleidoscopic bonk-pop. Why should everyone come and see your band? Sweets is a total guilty pleasure. We’re all about music that isn’t ‘cool’ (we smile a lot while onstage) and perform it large. Not holding back, everything is brazenly fun. It’s all on the table. When’s the gig and with who? We’re playing at the Workers Club this Sunday October 27 with supports from Martin King (Oscar & Martin) and Hollie Joyce. It’s gonna be outrageous.
ISAAC DE HEER
Melbourne based singer-songwriter Isaac de Heer is set to debut a host of new material this Saturday October 26 at The Spotted Mallard. Joined by his band, The River Tracks, the set will feature songs from his new EP Streets, which was crafted with help of UK producer Roger Mars and with input from local producer Tony Dupe (Holly Throsby, Jack Ladder and Grand Salvo). Isaac recorded a number of tracks while travelling around Ireland, France and England at the beginning of this year, and has previously supported the likes of The Temper Trap, Luke Steele, Fink (UK) and Josh Pyke. Free entry. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 46
If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? Robin Thicke before he released Blurred lines so we never had to witness that song and never had to watch the general public lap it up as if there is nothing wrong with it. But, I guess it having been released means the issue of sexism is more in the public eye which is awesome. Shame his record label are making millions off it…. Tell us about the last song you wrote. I’m in the middle of penning an epic 6/8 number about the good old fashioned maternal crush. You
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know ladies, the one where you’re into someone purely coz you’d like to stop them drinking so much beer, get them to go to bed earlier and eat more vegies. This is a real thing. It’s pretty weird and pretty common. Watch out lads. What part of making music excites you the most? Doing it with other people. All the bands that I am in or have been in are all about the people. I can sit at home and be very uninspired by the dust on the shelves but if you put me in a room full of friends, it’s on. If you could go on tour with any musician or band, who would it be? Janelle Monae. That would be a party lineup. I think we have a similar outlook on music making, that it doesn’t have to be serious all the time. I get the feeling she likes to be a little silly and a little tongue-in-cheek and so do we. What’s your favourite song, and why? I saw her standing there by The Beatles because it is like an injection of happiness right into your blood stream and leaves you feeling out of breath and exhilarated. Well at least, that’s what it does to me!
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THE OUTFIT
After 22 years, local punk band The Outfit are back! Having originally supported acts like You Am I, Spiderbait and Cosmic Psychos during their initial 19871991 run, the band gained notoriety when they set up a guerrilla gig on top of a bank on Chapel Street. After setting off alarms, they were eventually brought down by six police cars worth of officers, who thought that burglars had cut the roof. Reforming in 2013, The Outfit are planning to record the songs from their early days and are set to make their return to the live scene at The Lyrebird Lounge on Saturday October 26.
ROCK FOR CATCHMENT
After last year’s massive success of raising $3,100 for charity, they are doing it once again for 2013. This year, their goal is to raise $5,000 on Saturday October 26 at The Evelyn Hotel in Fitzroy. How are they going to do it? With this absolute killer of a lineup, 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 probably 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.
BRIANA COWLISHAW
Prominent Sydney jazz pop artist, Briana Cowlishaw has announced the release of her new single, Paper Mache City lifted from her new album of the same name. To celebrate the new material, Cowlishaw will be hitting the road with her six piece band on a ninedate national tour set to kick off at The Ellington in Perth on October 4. Catch her at Bennetts Lane in Melbourne on Saturday October 26 and Sunday 27. Doors Open 8.30pm. Entry is $25.
LITTLE MURDERS
Little Murders and special guests Dave Wright and The Midnight Electric play the legendary Great Britain Hotel in Richmond this Saturday October 26. Little Murders first splashed onto the Melbourne scene in 1979 with their classic Mod anthem Things Will Be Different. After rocking Melbourne as Australia’s number one Mod band in the early eighties they crashed to a halt in 1985 and the band took a long vacation before returning to regular gigging and recording in 2010. This year they have released a new vinyl only single Baby It’s You and the new album GO is due early 2014. Dave Wright and The Midnight Electric deliver songs which are narrative driven rock with a country tinge and Dave sings it how he feels it – raw with plenty of power and emotion. Catch them both for free this Saturday, doors at 9pm.
PABLO NARANJO
Pablo Naranjo is a Melbourne based songwriter who has recently released his first album as a solo artist, Here in the Distance. With an influence of rock icons Jeff Buckley, Pearl Jam and Pink Floyd in his music, Pablo will be performing his evocative guitar-driven songs on Saturday October 26 at Station 59 in Richmond with support from Justin Conway. The show starts at 8.30pm and entry is free.
THE GRAND RAPIDS
LENKA
Launching her new album on own label Skipalong Record, Shadows brings Lenka to a new place in her life and musical career, following on from the success of her first two more pop driven albums. After leaving Decoder Ring and moving to the USA, Lenka released her self-titled debut album in 2008. It entered Billboard‘s Heatseekers chart at #3 and contained The Show, a No. 1 single at radio in three countries. Whilst her sophomore offering featured another chart topping single Everything at Once across Europe and Asia, receiving world wide attention from its use in a global commercial for Microsoft Windows 8. With performances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel and the Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Lenka has grown into a household name in places like Asia and the USA. With more Facebook fans than Gotye (1.9 million and counting), her music has starred in Hollywood films and TV shows and she often gets mobbed at concerts. Her name is Lenka Kripac and she’s the biggest superstar Australia didn’t know it had. Saturday October 26 at Workers Club, with special guest Devin Luke. Tickets available from theworkersclub.com.au.
THUNDEROAD PRESENTS THE SONGS OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
The year just keeps getting better and better for Bruce Springsteen fans with a tour locked in for 2014. If you can’t wait til 2014 for a Bruce fix, then this Friday night at the Corner hotel has you covered. You’ll hear all the Bruce hits plus the full Born in the USA from start to finish. Tickets are $25 at the door and doors at 8.30pm. Visit ozspringsteenshow.com.au for more.
BATPISS
Batpiss of Melbourne, The Kremlings of Geelong, Captives of Tassie and Swhat of Ballarat, humbly relying on the blessings of the almighty gang of Shitty Teenage Aliens, crocodilian King K. Rool and everyday whistle blower Henry Doogan, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble mob under the seal of The Reverence Hotel and under the Constitution hereby established: shall, by distorted means, rock your cochlea. Expect punk, expect sludge, expect stoner, expect hardcore, expect doom. Expect a sore head the next day. Saturday October 26. Doors open 9pm. $8 entry.
ALIA ARTHOUSE
Saturday night welcomes it’s newest venue Alia Arthouse – a cosy and creative curved bar in the heart of Fitzroy. It boasts a 4am licence Thursdays-Saturdays that will host bands and late night DJs. “The idea is to grab some young bands and merge them with our bigger contacts, the venue is a great size for big and small“ says the events duo Bonny & Clyde. It’ll be the newest cultivated space for the humble, the artist, the musician, the eccentric, the hamburger eater, the vegan, the drinker and whoever else wants to join the locals on the corner of Smith and Gertrude St.
id SATURDAYS
id Saturdays has launched at the revamped Barley Corn Hotel, hosting live music, dance and 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 theresafter. id Saturdays, let the abomination begin.
The Grand Rapids are ‘60s influenced psych rock merchants from the near future. Droney walls of fuzz, reverb drenched vocals, caveman drums and Tax Man bass lines construct the sonic makeup whilst kaleidoscopic projections, lasers and smoke machines are used to create a visual feast that is creating a local groundswell for these paisley troubadours. Following on from the 7” single release of Blow Up, The Grand Rapids are set to release debut album Great Shakes in October on local label Psyche Ward. The album is a sonic tour de force that is definitely no flower child. An upbeat sense of darkness exists in all corners of The Grand Rapids’ world. Catch them at Yah Yahs on Saturday October 26.
WALKER
Emerging East Melbourne artist Walker brings his big and energetic sounds to Revolver bandroom on Saturday October 26 for one big night to release his much anticipated album, Common Ground. Helping out with the celebrations is Hunting Season and Amistat. Tickets available on the door $10 or $20 with an album included. Doors at 8pm.
SUNDAY OCT 27 VAN WALKER
This Sunday the Drunken Poet plays host to one of the finest crafters of song this town is fortunate enough to call its own. The critical plaudits offered to Van Walker over the years are too numerous to mention, but they’re not relevant anyway. It’s all about the quality of the songs, and the experience of sharing them with friends. Van is prolific to say the least, and as such has a song that is suitable for every occasion, both delicate and fierce. This Sunday from 4pm at the Poet.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
In the words of Sonic Youth, “Sunday comes along again, a perfect day for a quiet friend, and you, you will set it free”. Sunday School is a new event happening at Public Bar on Sundays through summer. The afternoon is based around good bands, hanging out and getting some time to wind down in the sun, outside under the umbrella’s in Public Bar’s beer garden. Each Sunday consists of a fresh lineup of local and interstate bands or solo acts, and will run from 12pm onwards. The day is laid back, cruisy and full of quality entertainment. “cheap tinnies & jugs / African beats / good vibes”. Summer’z coming - your extracurricular activity begins! The first Sunday is happening on October 27. Featuring Jonny Telafone, Miss Destiny, The Angel And Baby Chain and Deadset.
SWEETS
Melbourne vocalist Annabelle Tunley AKA Sweets has released a hand-clapping, percussive racket of a track and a show to go with it. Produced by Nick Huggins (Kid Sam; Hello Satellites), Mark Lang (Skipping Girl Vinegar), Greg Arnold (Stonefield), and mixed in Nashville by Brad Jones (Missy Higgins; Josh Rouse), Swagger is a brazen concoction of low-fi electro-fuzz, Afro-beat shake, and kaleidoscopic bonk-pop. The music video, directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Rohan Spong, is a frolicsome, psychedelic feast for the senses. Sweets launches Swagger at The Workers Club on Sunday October 27, with support from Martin (Oscar and Martin) and Hollie Joyce. Tickets at the door.
LAURA IMBRUGLIA
Head on down to The Post Office Hotel on Sunday October 27 for a relaxing arvo of tunes by Laura Imbruglia for two sets from 4.30pm. The gig will feature two switching lead guitarists for a special free show and a select few country songs from their big recent country show. Be sure to not miss out on a free show by one of Melbourne’s local rising stars.
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GLASFROSCH
Melbourne art-rock ensemble Glasfrosch have just released their second album Aubades, part one of a twopart thematic album (to be released in 2014) and are celebrating by transforming the Evelyn into an immersive multimedia art space. Their new material explores drum and rhythm focused positive and energetic sounds. They hit the Evelyn on Sunday October 27.
HARMANIAX
The Harmaniax are a bunch of Worldly muso’s based in Melbourne. The music mixes Zydeco, Cajun, Blues and Country. All this combined with five fine voices to round off the package, sweet harmonies, superb playing, and beautiful songs. High energy and lots of fun, you’ll want to dance! Every Sunday from 4.30pm at the Spotted Mallard and come sample their Cajun Kitchen specialties.
SiB
Fresh from recording their whiskey infused debut album just weeks ago at Soundpark Studios in Northcote, SiB are kicking off this October at The Old Bar with their Sunday night residency. This Sunday October 13 the fuzz rock quartet with be joined by Zoe K. And The Dreamcoats, Tim Neilson (The Death Rattles) and DJ Kezbot. Be sure to get down for the filthiest rock vibes you’ll see all weekend. $8 entry, doors at 8pm.
MONDAY OCT 28 LOUIS SPOILS
Louis Spoils is the recording project of Jake Rush, a talented musician and songwriter and a friend to many, a fact that immediately leaps from the linear notes of his debut, self-titled EP. Co-produced with chum Tom Glaum, the five tracks contained on this stellar first effort feature a star-swollen line-up of guests who think so much of Rush, they worked on this recording alongside the man himself for little more than pizza. Old friend Wally De Backer (Gotye) plays drums on all five tracks while the likes of Kane Mazlin (Hungry Kids of Hungary), Dan Parsons, Sam Cromack (Ball Park Music), James O’Brien (The Boat People) and more all lend a hand to proceedings. Catch Louis Spoils at The Retreat Hotel on Monday October 28.
TUESDAY OCT 29 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 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.
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NANCY VANDAL
LOW FLY INCLINE
2013 marks the 20th anniversary of seminal Australian punk band Nancy Vandal, and to celebrate the occasion they’re releasing a new album Flogging a Dead Phoenix and heading out on an East Coast tour this October. Flogging A Dead Phoenix is the band’s first album since I’ve Wasted My Life in 1999 and was recorded by exbassist Jason “Jason” Beers, more commonly known as the front man of fellow punk rock heritage item Frenzal Rhomb. It has been described as “a chaotic blend of garagey punk infused with Motorhead riffs and a glue sniffing brass section.” Nancy Vandal will hit The Reverence Hotel on Saturday November 2. Support comes from Sheriff, Wolfpack and Mucho Sonar. Doors at 7.30pm. $20 door, $15 pre.
Low Fly Incline are a local band from Melbourne. They formed in 2012 and travelled to the desert in California USA to record an album’s worth of material engineered by Scott Reeder (former bass player for Kyuss) at his home studio. Reeder also contributed bass guitar and talk-box to several songs. Low Fly Incline consist of Tarek Smallman (T-Rek) on vocals/guitar/ bass, and Mitch McGregor (Children Collide/No Zu) on drums. Catch them at Cherry Bar every Tuesday in October.
MELBOURNE FRESH
After ten years, Melbourne Fresh at Revolver Upstairs is the longest running Industry Showcase in Australia. Having showcased thousands of artists over this time, the legendary Tuesday night has been a local Industry Hot Spot for unsigned musicians and industry professionals. Running as a competition, Melbourne Fresh gives away thousands of dollars in prizes at each Grand Final with EP recordings, Cash Prizes, CD Pressings, iTunes releases, Management Consultation and much more. Doors 7pm. Tickets $15 on the door.
THE LOMOND BAR
Head down to The Lomond Bar for your regular dose of celtic/folk on Tuesday evening in the main bar from 8.30pm. The session commences at 8.30pm every Tuesday and is run by Dan Bourke with Tony Hargreaves on keys and Marty Kelly playing the good ol’six string. Everyone is welcome to either jam with the band or listen and enjoy. Free entry.
LOOKING FORWARD FLYBZ
From a dusty Tanzanian refugee camp to the prestigious stage of the Sydney Opera House, it has been an intriguing and inspirational journal for Australia’s recently voted number one African-Australian rap act Flybz (pronounced Fly-Beez). As a former child solider, Fablice Manirakiza escaped his guerilla army life in Burundi at age 11. Connecting with his nephew G-Storm and living in refugee camps, the two began experimenting with music in a war-torn environment and the Flybz were born. Catch them on Thursday October 31 when they launch their new single Child Soldier at Shebeen in Melbourne. Doors open at 7pm.
TRUE VIBENATION MAGGOT FEST
Maggot Mass will close out the four day Maggot Fest IV at Northcote Social Club on Cup Day, Tuesday November 5 with Cuntz, Terrible Truths, Gentlemen, Brisbane’s Sewers and Shovels. It’s gonna be a loose night featuring some of the best punk going round. Free entry.
EATEN BY DOGS
If work is getting you down, if you’ve lost your savings at the casino, if your woman is cheating on you, if life is getting difficult, if this sounds like you - then head down to the Rev for Eaten By Dogs every Sunday in November. Featuring the greatest alternative country music that should and could be your soundtrack your next summer road trip or doomsday. Plus a bunch of delectable friends every week from 4pm.
GOSTI
Acoustic pop songstress Gosti returns to the Wesley Anne in November to launch her third single Charlie from her album The Travel Tree. Gosti will be performing an unplugged set with cello, French horn, hand percussion and acoustic guitars. Gosti’s wind-swept lyrics tell tales of nostalgia and fragility, accompanied by a menagerie of acoustics, planting her snug and tight in Melbourne’s indie-folk scene. Don’t miss out on this ethereal stripped-back performance at the Wesley Anne on Saturday November 9. Doors 8pm, $15.
FIONA LEE MAYNARD & HER HOLY MEN
Sydney hip hop rising stars True Vibenation hit the road on their Dressed To Chill Tour and hit local hangout The Wesley Anne on Saturday November 16. They’ve had their nose to the grindstone all of 2013 and show no sign of slowing down. The trio took to the road after recording their Standby Sessions, to perform at what was their most successful tour yet, releasing the project via concreting USBs loaded with their music into walls across the country. With a growing fan base and tight live show, their hard work has set them on a path for a very bright future, catch them in Melbourne with support L-Fresh the Lion.
MIKELANGELO
Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen return to Melbourne with their multi-award winning show to play the Spotted Mallard’s 1st Birthday on Friday November 1. A heady mix of music, theatre and black humour, the group’s signature sound blends Balkan melodies, European Kabaret Noir and Spaghetti Western - a heady cocktail that plumbs the depths of sophisticated irreverence. Pre-sale tickets ($25 +bf ) are available via the venue website, otherwise $30 tickets at the door.
WAGONS
Melbourne’s Wagons, known for their dynamic and unpredictable live shows, are bringing their everengaging ‘70s inspired boogie outlaw rock to Yarraville for the first time this Cup Eve. Fresh from a sold-out Corner show in June and with work underway on their latest album featuring Mick Harvey, the boys will be armed with a bunch of new material and ready to entertain. Wagons look forward to celebrating Cup Eve with you at The Yarraville Club over several drinks and some loud rollicking. Catch these guys on Monday November 4, entry is $27 pre sales or $30 on the door after 8pm with special guests Little Bastard.
DAN SULTAN
After strong demand from his league of dedicated fans, and following two sold-out shows in his hometown of Melbourne earlier this year, Dan Sultan is happy to announce a national tour for his Back To Basics solo show. It will give his fans the opportunity to hear his inspired collection of new material in its rawest form, played live in a stripped-back and intimate environment. Dan’s upcoming national tour will be an opportunity for audiences to witness his classic yet intriguing songwriting abilities up close, and share an unforgettable experience with Australia’s favourite rock’n’roll soul man. Catch Mr. Sultan at the Thornbury Theatre on Saturday November 2. Doors 8pm. Check the venue website for ticket information.
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Fiona Lee Maynerd & Her Holy Men continue their musical mission launching a Music Video for their haunting song; Beware The Bad Bad Man from the band’s debut EP at Flying Saucer Club, on Thursday October 31 for Halloween 2013. Featuring musical peformances from The Origionals, Los Dominados and Fiona Lee Maynard & Her Holy Men. Doors open 8pm. Tickets are $20+bf for reserved seating and $15+bf for general admission.
AMAYA
DRUNKEN MOON FESTIVAL
You want horror that makes you scream for more? Gather the finest filthiest bands together and unleash them to an energetic captivated audience across two states. Following the success of 2012, Drunken Moon Festival is set to continue to promote the best live performers in the punk/roots/blues/garage/ rockabilly live scene with a beautifully menacing line up for 2013. It is the pleasure pit of James Grim who through extensive touring with seminal punk/blues outfit Brothers Grim and the Blue Murders collects fellow troubadours of the stage over one year and pulls them together onto one bill for two shows only. This year DM will be held at key music venues that have always supported the best independent music Oz has to offer. Besides being Brothers Grim’s last shows before taking a well earned hiatus from touring, the festival also boasts acts like King of the North, Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, Digger & the Pussycats, Batpiss, Mesa Cosa, La Bastard and many more you wish you’d have heard of already. Tight. Loud. Proud. Don’t miss the chance to be part of a very boisterous celebration. Thursday October 31 at the Espy, tickets through Oztix.
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Found Some Secret is the first single from Amaya’s latest album, Sway. Musically, the track is an exercise in restraint and subtlety which nevertheless carries with it a degree of weight and majesty. A steady beat and bass line surrounded by reverb soaked synths and led by a chiming, repetitive guitar invite the listener into the increasingly layered soundscape of the song, as Amaya’s ethereal voice delivers abstract, image-rich lyrics. Sweet, yet dark, soft, yet strong, Found Some Secret is the perfect introduction to the sonic landscape that awaits on Sway. Amaya is launching her new single at The Toff on Wednesday October 30. Doors open 7pm. Tickets are $15 on the door.
PETE COMELIUS
At 29 Pete Cornelius is, as Rhythms Mag rightly pointed out, quite possibly the youngest veteran going around on the Australian blues & roots scene. Having released his first album at the age of 13, the gifted musician is on his way to Victoria for a short run of shows, touring to promote the release of his ninth long-player Groungswell. The new album sees Pete continue to branch out further, delivering soul, alt-country, folk and R&B based tunes alongside the blues that he is renowned for. Catch Pete Cornelius on Wednesday October 30 with special guest Ian Collard at the Northcote Social Club.
WHITAKER
Existing over the years in many forms and with many names, independent Melbourne band Whitaker has for the best part of a decade been relentlessly creating, releasing and touring new music. At its core Whitaker is Ryan Meeking, Brett Scapin and Simon Rabl. Their Wichita EP is set for independent release on November 22nd and Whitaker take over Revolver on Friday November 29th.
Name/Band The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra. Define your genre in five words or less: Afrobeat that moves them feet!
one big family so hopefully we’ll all be living in our own castle that has been declared an independent state, playing afrobeat all day and sticking it to the man.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? The funk of Fela’s Africa, the rhythms of the tropics, the swagger of Parliament and the fire of Public Enemy.
Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? Someone find MC 1/6! Also whenever we are on tour, a big ritual always involves having a West African feast lovingly cooked by one of our backing singer/dancers Kukuaa Acqua- chicken stew, jollof rice, goat soup and a little palm wine - that lady is a genius.
Tell us about the last song you wrote. The System features vocals from our very own Lamine Sonko, a Senegalese singer, percussionist and dancer. It’s something for the dance floor but his lyrics have their own force. As Fela Kuti said ‘music is the weapon’ and we always aim to bring that spirit; Lamine nailed it on this one.
Name an interview question you wish someone would ask you, and answer it. Q: How does it feel to have a number one hit in 24 countries simultaneously, despite the fact this is afrobeat music and only available as a 7” vinyl single on the HopeStreet record label? A: Yeah, it’s alright I guess…
Describe the best gig you have ever played. 19 band members deep in the groove on the main stage at WOMAD with added fire courtesy of MC Tumi of South Africa - a collaborator, friend and inspiration. We thought it was all over when the heavens opened but instead the crowd just danced even harder and we found a new gear. Where would you like to be in five years? With so many people in our band it feels like
If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why? A Pollywaffle. It looks a little funky, it smells a little funky but one taste and you will want to get down.
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THE PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA play at The Hi-Fi on Sunday November 17 as part of the Australasian Worldwide Music Expo.
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PATAPHYSICS
Pataphysics has built a solid reputation off the back of his energetic and diverse live shows that combine trumpet, bass, keys, MPC, guitar, drums, turntable, percussion, tabla, dolke, panpipes, melodica, spoons, freestyle and beatboxing. He is a revolutionary poet and subversive theorist, with insightful rhymes, in both the English and Sri Lankan language. In support of his new EP IED, he will be playing the Workers Club on Friday November 8. Doors at 8.30pm, $10 entry. Special guests included.
BLACK CAB
Black Cab will turn the Espy Gershwin Room into a beat orgy to celebrate their first St Kilda show in over three years. Fresh from working with ex-Death In Vegas member Tim Holmes, Black Cab will play their first St Kilda show in years, showcasing their beats heavy set with very special guest drummer Richard Andrew (Underground Lovers) back on sticks. Special guests will be Transkei, the new project of Richard Andrew (Underground Lovers, Registered Nurse) and a host of great Melbourne musicians including Martin Sleeman (Morning After Girls), Lewis Boyes (Adalita), Brett Poliness (Hugo Race) and Alex Jarvis (Automatic, Alex Jarvis Band). Kicking off the night, Andrew and James from Black Cab will perform an encore performance of Suicide’s legendary first album in its entirety. Andrew and James performed this at a sold-out show at Pure Pop Records last Summer to great acclaim. Head down to the Espy’s infamous Gershwin room on Saturday November 16.
SOUL SAFARI
Praised as one of Melbourne’s best and most original acts, Soul Safari have been making waves across Australia. These groove based music makers are wowing crowds with their passionate and energetic performances, leaving audiences begging for an encore. The launch of their much anticipated new single The Weather will see them take their sweet blend of neo soul, funk, R&B and hip hop to The Espy Gershwin Room on Saturday November 2. Tickets are $10+bf from The Espy and Oztix outlets.
HITS AND SIDESHOW
PITS
FESTIVAL
Collateral Manage Co, Bombshellzine and Hysteria Magazine Present: Hits and Pits 2013 Festival at the Palace this November and the first sideshow announcement comes from Boysetfire. The legendary USA band bring their intense hardcore sounds to The Rev on Thursday November 21. Paper Arms and Outright bring support good times and added in the mix is Marco Desantis (Sugarcult, Bad Astronaut) and Jo Jughead ( Jughead’s Revenge) as guest DJs throughout the night. Tickets are sure to be gone really quick so make sure you get your via Oztix and hitsandpitsfest.bigcartel.com
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? A trainwreck of cacophonous caterwauling. Describe the best gig you have ever played. Mexico City with Dream Theater in front of about 10,000 people. It was our first time playing with DT, and our first time playing in Mexico. Very surreal. Tell us about the last song you wrote. The last song we wrote was Silent Flight Parliament. That was written as the sort of epic ending of the parallax saga. We brought back a lot of themes from earlier in the record to tie it all together.
Allans Billy Hyde Music Academy are re-opening their doors located in Melbourne’s CBD, at 152 Bourke Street to offer the finest in music tuition. At a perfect city central location, the Music Academy will be perfect for anyone interested in picking up an instrument or getting better at their ‘musical weapon of choice’ and incorporating it into their working week during store hours. All lessons cater for all ages and level of experience and they are currently taking bookings for guitar, violin, piano, drums and vocal lessons. For a limited time only they are also offering a no obligation free introductory lesson so prospective students can view the updated rooms, the fantastic new performance stage and meet one of the teachers to discuss their musical objectives and their Allans Billy Hyde tuition options. To book your free lesson for ABH Academy, please call (03) 9510 4455 or email your name and daytime telephone number to their coordinators at bourke.academy@allansbillyhyde. com.au. Check out their impressive staff bio’s too at allansbillyhyde.com.au/academy/melbourne.
THE VAUDEVILLE SMASH
Melbourne pop/disco '80s movie come-to-life delight, The Vaudeville Smash have just announced a Halloween spooktacular headline show down at the Northcote Social Club on Friday November 1. Having recently released their debut album Dancing For The Girl to a packed out Corner Hotel show, they hit the Northcote Social Club in support of their new EP V-Grade Horror with the ghastly Animaux, the wicked Red Lights and the truly horrible DJ Mimi Velevska - you don’t want to miss out on this hip-shaking, dance-floor slamming, flute solo-filled, falsetto disco halloween party. Tickets via Corner.
JORDIE LANE BODYJAR
Bodyjar are back with their new album Role Model out this Friday October 18. The debut single Fairytales is the first new material heard from the seminal punk act in more than eight years. Fans can rest assured that Bodyjar have lost none of the energy or melodic hooks that made them one of Australia’s most influential and respected bands. The guys are gearing up to hit the road to promote the new album and play all the classics from their 19 year history. Bodyjar are also stoked to announce that we will have poison City favourites, Luca Brasi along for the ride, playing all of the shows. The last run of headline shows sold in mere days, so make sure you get your tickets fast to see one of the best Australian live bands and what they do best. Playing at the Corner Hotel, Saturday November 2.
60 SECONDS with BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
Define your genre in five words or less: Transgalactic schizo-metal.
ALLANS BILLY HYDE MUSIC ACADEMY
One of Australia’s most acclaimed troubadours Jordie Lane will tour Australia this October/November to celebrate the release of his forthcoming EP Not Built To Last. Released on Friday October 18 through Vitamin Records, Not Built To Last follows Lane’s acclaimed 2011 album Blood Thinner which was nominated for ‘Best Blues & Roots Album’ at the 2012 Australian Independent Music Awards and cemented him as one of the country’s finest songwriting talents. Since releasing Blood Thinner, Lane has headlined four Australian tours, supported tours for The Moody Blues, Billy Bragg and Ruthie Foster, and released the single Fool For Love, which was downloaded over 40,000 times as iTunes Single of the Week. Check him out when he hits the Thornbury Theatre on Saturday November 9. Doors open 8pm. Tickets are available from the venue website.
Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? Not really. I just like to warm up for about half an hour and maybe stretch a little. Name an interview question you wish someone would ask you, and answer it. What color is your kayak? Yellow. If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why? Something nutty. Snickers maybe. Or a squirrel turd. But that’s not really chocolate I guess. BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME play the Corner Hotel on November 19.
Fresh from a jam packed showcase at BIGSOUND 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. Gossling’s BIGSOUND performance at Brisbane’s Black Bear Lodge was the first taste of what is in store from her forthcoming debut; effortlessly winning hearts of fans and industry alike. 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 number six on Hype Machine’s Most Popular Chart. The Corner Hotel, Wednesday November 20 will see Gossling and a full band propelling their new album into the live realm.
60 SECONDS with GREY GHOST
Define your genre in five words or less: Space-Core-Post-Rap-Grunge. Where would you like to be in five years? Mars.
GOSSLING
What inspires or has influenced your music the most? The Muppets, whiskey, Batman comics, Talking Heads, Francis Ford Coppola and Basquit. If someone made a movie about your life, who would play you? Definitely Russell Brand. My mum actually called me the other day and said I was on TV, I checked and it was him. She has done the same thing with Craig David - if he can act maybe he could play me. In fact maybe it could be like that Bob Dylan movie where a bunch of people play me. Then it could be Russell Brand, Craig David, Wesley Snipes, John Goodman and Steve Buscemi.
of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Surely it’d have to be Mozart or Bach or Brahms – cos my music would just fuck with their heads. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? I generally do half an hour of vocal warm ups, drink some tea and honey, do some stretches, drink some whiskey and then jump on the spot 30 times like I’ve just kicked the best goal of all time. It puts you in a good frame of mind – try it. Once I’ve done all that I’m pretty much ready to go smash it up. When’s the gig and with who? I’m currently on my Adventures Of Grey Ghost Tour and the Melbourne show is on Friday October 25 at the Northcote Social Club. I’ve got the dude Remi playing as well as Mathas from Perth and my sister DJ LeiLion.
If you could travel back in time and show one
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK GRAND RAPIDS
SINGLES
2. Last Night on Earth CD/LP LEE RANALDO 3. Last Patrol CD/LP MONSTER MAGNET 4. Whales & Leeches CD/LP RED FANG 5. Lightning Bolt LP PEARL JAM 6. Everlasting LP REFUSED 7. Sorrow PIC DISC 7” DAVID BOWIE 8. 25 Alive DVD MORRISSEY 9. Self Titled LP DEAD MEADOW 10. Memorial CD/LP RUSSIAN CIRCLES
RECORD PARADISE of the thousands of inane activities which we must juggle in order to get through a day. Julia is a beautiful pop song that deserves its own hour-long dedicated examination; Read On takes your hand and leads you through the darkness and into the light of hope and enlightenment. Finally, you’ve got the Velvet Underground-meets-Warlocks drone of Sailor from the Sky: if you can open your mind, you’ll be in a better place. Grand Rapids are on another plain, and it’s good for your soul. PATRICK EMERY
ADALITA
Trust Is Rust (Liberation) “Trust is rust / Maybe love / is not enough” Adalita soars on the incredible chorus to a true highlight from the recently released All Day Venus, segueing into a glorious orchestral backdrop. It’s a stark contrast to Adalita’s stripped-back debut LP, still playing to her strengths while fleshing out every tonal aspect. Pure majesty from Australian rock royalty.
ROKWELL&GROOM
Impossible Alps (Spinning Top) Concocting a smoky blend of elements to come up with an incredibly tasty mix, Rokwell&Groom dip their toes into chillwave without diving in completely. The bassline carves a deep groove, akin to what was found on Standish/Carlyon’s very excellent Deleted Scenes. The underpinning breakbeat loop somehow generates an eerie sense of calm, anchoring an inspired and genre-diverging tune.
EMINEM
Rap God (Aftermath) Lil B had I’m God, then Yeezy had I Am A God, now Eminem jumps on the deity tip with Rap God. It’s less contrived than Beserk’s attempt to take it back to real hip hop, with Slim sharpening his tongue with his most impressive brandishing of rap skills in years. The machine gun, Busta-style, flow is ridiculous, the throwback to homophobia/misogony is a bit boring, and the hook doesn’t quite hit the spot, but Em’s tenacity and the booming production are a promising sign for what’s to come from MMLP2.
EMOH INSTEAD
Why Can’t You (Say So…) (Sweat It Out) Sir Harley Streten’s What So Not offsider Emoh Instead goes it alone on the first taste from his debut EP Say So. The result is a little overloaded, dishing up trappy horns, chiptune swirls, a disparate spectrum of pitch-shifted vocals, plus a digestif of guitar solo. It doesn’t quite work as a banger, while the vocal hooks aren’t quite hooky enough. But there’s no saying that Emoh can’t strike gold if he pares his scope back just a touch.
DEEP SEA ARCADE
Black Cat (Ivy League) You listen to a song like Black Cat and for a few moments you think Australian rock is completely rooted, wallowing in a heady post-Wolfmother daze. Then you remember there is actually a multitude of incredible rock tracks being
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1. How To Carve A Carrot Into A Rose COURTNEY BARNETT 2. Float Along Fill Your Lungs KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD 3. The Living Eyes THE LIVING EYES 4. Fade YO LA TENGO 5. MGMT MGMT 6. I Hate Music SUPERCHUNK 7. Debased Shapes SKY NEEDLE
BEST TRACK: Julia. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, BLACK ANGELS, WARLOCKS. IN A WORD: Drone
8. Last Splash THE BREEDERS 9. Heavy Syrup GREG BORING 10. The Loving Gaze MONTERO
COLLECTORS CORNER BY LACHLAN
MISSING LINK 1. Is Survived By CD/LP TOUCHE AMORE 2. Seasons of Your Day CD/LP MAZZY STAR 3.Mammoth Grinder CD/LP MAMMOTH
For all the latest singles check out beat.com.au “Well if people think that everyone will dress as Walt and Jessie in hazmat suits, that means nobody will. That means we can. Unless everyone is thinking that, then we shouldn’t.” Recursive Halloween hell, 2013.
HEARTLAND RECORDS 1. Surgical Steel LP CARCASS
Great Shakes (Psycheward Records) Everyone knows someone who’s travelled through Asia and discovered Eastern religion. Sometimes – usually, it must be said – it’s a good thing, and the person in question has embraced a sense of emotional tranquillity that allows them to absorb the periodic bouts of mania and idiocy that permeate ordinary western existence. And then there’s the person who takes it too far – changes their name, erects a shrine of a deity in their bedroom and spouts rambling popphilosophical rhetoric in annoyingly measured tones that, sadly, only induces annoyance in conversational partners. To such people, I say – just get into some droning psychedelia: it’s better for the soul, and eschews the pretension that some other cause might otherwise attract. And why not start with Grand Rapids, and their debut album Great Shakes? Start with the opening track, Drone Machine, with its rumbling backbeat and barbed wire Brian Jonestown Massacre guitar lick, lie back and think of Echo and the Bunnymen constructing a world beyond the anti-social political rhetoric of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. Move on to Headless Riders, and its marriage of post-punk feedback and lumbering beats – just close your eyes, and immerse yourself in the mesmerising simplicity of the moment. Blow Up will open your mind to a Mandelbrot Set of sonic colours and shapes, and shards of dark Californian pop sensibility. Brian’s Got a Rubber Soul is more than a subtle musical pun: it’s an existential lament for solitude in a world plagued with narcissism and obsession. The title track hangs there for a moment, waiting, like Allen Ginsburg tantalising a crowd of acid-freak Hells Angels; and when it breaks, the psychedelic tide brings with it a musico-meteorological change that takes you to a warm and comforting place. On one level, Fake Blood is just a wash of noise; on a deeper level, it’s the sound
TOP TENS:
GRINDER created right now, it’s just that Deep Sea Arcade aren’t the ones making them. Even if this track was remotely timely, say when Get Born was ruling the airwaves, it would still be local battle of the bands fodder. Black Cat’s defining riff is vehemently stupid, and not the good kind of stupid – a moronic meat-and-potatoes melody that’s more potato than meat. Insipid lyrical platitudes result in a complete dearth of substance and a resolute failure to generate anything remotely memorable.
4. Hobo Rocket CD/LP POND
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
10. Shakedown CD/LP CHRIS RUSSEL’S
If I Had A Tail (Matador/Remote Control) Homme and co. get a bit disco doom and gloom on another cut from this year’s …Like Clockwork, downtempo but still dirty. If I Had A Tail is one of the stronger offerings from the record, a solid display of stomping menace and desert swagger. Homme’s wicked lyricisms are also in top form.
THE JEZABELS
The End (Indpendent) Beachy guitar licks abound in The End, transposing some pretty emo break-up lyricisms into the festival commanding scope that defined The Jezabels big-time breakthrough in 2011. It’s by the numbers for the most part, tapping melodrama and measured bombast to create potency. The guitar tone doesn’t quite fit, like the band is searching for the antithesis of a delay-soaked U2 fare. Still, festival-goers could do a lot worse when it comes to arm-in-arm sing-alongs.
THE JIM JONES REVUE
Collision Boogie (PIAS) Displaying uncharacteristic restraint, The Jim Jones Revue keep it simple with a little barroom ditty on Collision Boogie. It feels like it could all blow open with a firestorm of guitar and drums, but the palette is kept to a repetitive tilt on the ivories and a clap-along chorus. It’s honed blues-boogie goodness, a welcome little respite from the band’s rock‘n’roll belters.
5. Nuclear Winter CD/LP BATPISS 6. AM CD/LP AERTIC MONKEYS 7. BBC Sessions 12” BLACK KEYS 8. Spiritual mental Physical CD DEATH 9. Novo’s CD/LP GOOCH PALMS
CHICKEN WALK
OFF THE HIP 1. Ooey Gooey LP/CD DIRTBOMBS 2. S/T LP FUZZ 3. Novo’s LP/CD GOOCH PALMS 4. Let It Bloom LP BLACK LIPS 5. No Seasons LP JACUZZI BOYS 6. Among My Swan LP MAZZY STAR 7. Shakedown LP CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK 8. Dreamt For Light Years LP SPARKLEHORSE 9. Stop And Smell LP TRUE SONS OF THUNDER 10. Live At The Hanging Tree LP/CD JOHNNY CASINO
SYN SWEET 16 1. Flyying Colours FLYYING COLOURS
SINGLE OF THE WEEK
2. Ilp. KWES
Would You Believe (Independent) Criminally underrated mainstay in the Melbourne underground, Popolice opens Would You Believe with an irresistible flurry of guitar pop punches, delivering a vocal incantation like an antipodean Malkmus. Everything hits the spot nicely, harnessing a tonal swell that lifts the syncopated elements to a higher level. I’m tempted to say that this feels like a gem from another era, but when it comes down to it, this is a timeless splendour.
4. Always Forever CULTS
POPOLICE
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3. Future Folklore CRYSTAL STILTS
5. The Colours In The Light May Obscure GRASS HOUSE 6. Make A Livin’ MARK PRITCHARD 7. Bodies JUAN ALBAN 8. Space Cadet THE MURLOCS 9. Good Man TEETH & TONGUE 10. Without Me JONES JNR
ALBUMS
NEW MUSIC IN REVIEW THIS WEEK
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THE APE
MELVINS
The Ape (Independent)
Tres Cabrones (Ipecac)
Tex Perkins has become a successful brand, flexible enough to be adapted from everything from hard rock to stylish surf rock, from angry punk to foot-tapping nostalgia. And now comes Perkins’ latest act of self-invention, The Ape. The Ape isn’t, as Perkins has made clear already, a complex beast: it’s dirty-arsed garage rock’n’roll with enough funk and soul (courtesy of Perkins’ supporting cast, Raul Sanchez, Gus Agars and Pat Bourke) to make you get your derriere wiggling on the dance floor. The opening track, Mission, operates on multiple levels: the grinding riff and Perkins’ salacious lyrical commentary throwback to rock’n’roll’s primitive origins. Crawl Back is slow and funky enough to elicit a wry smile from Sly Stone; Don’t Need Nuthin’ is James Brown fronting the Beasts. But there are other moods to The Ape: All of Us mutates from power ballad into heavy grunge rock experience; Gonna Make You Love Me is the best Beatles track Perkins has ever put his hand to; All the Same is slick, sexy and charismatic. The sparseness of It’s No Fun strips the Ape concept back to its skeletal form; Kitchen Monkey would be at home strutting the clubs of LA back in ’79. Jane locks into a blues-rock groove but finds more contentment in the arms of The Faces than Canned Heat; I Can Feel A Thing suggests vulnerability – though, really, is that part of the Tex Perkins raison d’être? BEST TRACK: All the Same And therein lies the issue – is The Ape for real, or is it part of a rolling IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: SLY AND tide of irony? And maybe it doesn’t even matter. Just suck it up. THE FAMILY STONE, YARDBIRDS, FACES IN A WORD: Tex PATRICKY EMERY
Melvins’ latest record is Tres Cabrones. The immediate salient institutional element of the record is the presence of original drummer, Mike Dillard; beyond that, it’s another crazy step in The Melvins’ already weird and wonderful journey. You can group the tracks on the album into four rough categories: firstly, the dumb and ugly grunge-metal tracks (Doctor Mule, City Dump, American Cow, Stump Farmer), the short of lobe-thumping bursts of psychotic punk energy that fuck with your brain, and brutally violate your cognitive capacity. Secondly, the fuzzy-psychotic shit that’s more an excuse for The Melvins to conjure up deranged sonic images (Dogs and Cattle Prods, Psychodelic Haze, I Told You I Was Crazy). Thirdly, the Ramones-esque amphetamine punk statements (Walter’s Lips, Stick ‘em Bitch) that confirm the Christian Right’s every fear about the social dangers of rock’n’roll. Finally, there’s those odd interludes of comic book humour (Tie My Pecker to a Tree, 99 Bottles of Beer, In the Army Now) that confirm that despite the passage of time, and the semblance of maturity with which Melvins carry themselves, they’re just a bunch of pottyBEST TRACK: Dogs and Cattle Prods IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: All those ‘80s mouthed kids who’ll never grow up, and why the fuck should and ‘90s grunge-metal bands, and you’ll probably believe nothing they? Melvins are still out there, just doing their shit. better will ever come along. And you might just be right. IN A WORD: Melvin PATRICK EMERY
DARREN SYLVESTER
TARJA
Off By Heart (Chapter Music)
Colours in the Dark (Edel/Universal) Tarja Turunen is Finnish rock royalty. Her star rose during a tenure in symphonic metal staple Nightwish. In 2005, keyboardist and primadonna Tuomas Holopainen accused her of diva-like behaviour. At the end of their tour, the band cast her out with a group hug of death. Go figure. No biggie, Tarja kept her captivating mezzo-soprano pipes warm going solo. In Europe, her records mostly rang gold and platinum gongs. The mere word ‘Tarja’ dances like silk across the tongue. Her conservatory-to-rockstar story reads like a fairytale. Colours in the Dark shatters a once deeply held illusion. Tarja’s band apes the Nightwish sound. No doubts cast there. It’s kind of like hearing them outside the pub while stuck neck-deep in a chat about tax accounting. Opener Victim of Ritual builds around a suspiciously knocked-off Bolero march before taking off into full-blown Hollywood metal. Later, she realigns hippie chakras in Lucid Dreamer. She’s a waif-like doll dancing gracefully across a dive bar stage on Neverlight, penned by ex-In Flames headbanger Jesper Stromblad. She struggles in Peter Gabriel cover Darkness, proving her opera hall voice doesn’t fit inside pop-sized boxes. It feels like Tarja’s handlers swatted her into an array of bizarre backgrounds, hoping her sublime voice will carry us away every time. It feels like Tarja’s fallen from symphonic metal heaven only to hold court in a stylistically confused hell. Nightwish proved repeatedly they don’t need Tarja. With this record, Tarja indentured under a crazed, top-hat BEST TRACK: Victim of Ritual wearing martinet doesn’t sound so bad after all. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: NIGHTWISH, SARAH BRIGHTMAN’s crossover albums, SIRENIA TOM VALCANIS IN A WORD: Odd
OBITS
Unlike Darren Sylvester’s debut album, Off By Heart wasn’t created in conjunction with his visual art, but it does strike a very similar chord. One notable difference is in the track-listing; where Sylvester’s self-titled album warmed us up with a modest acoustic intro and a cheeky T-Rex-style number before soaking us in new wave synths, Off By Heart immediately smothers the listener with a handful of dramatic, attention-grabbing pop songs before pulling back slightly in its second half. The two tracks that have been selected as singles, Don’t Do That To Yourself and Dream Or Something Like That, are Sylvester on peak form. Both promo clips reflect the style of his photography and feature characters lip-syncing his lyrics. These are the kind of dead-eyed, beautiful types that populate his songs, with lyrics often questioning their motives, such as the helpless interrogation of an old friend in Toni, How Did You Get So Cynical? and the attempts to understand cruel, detached shop assistants in Shopgirls. This analytical breaking down of human psychology may be bottled as kitsch pop, but beneath the slick, crystalline exterior, there’s a warmth and substance. Backing vocals from Magic Silver White’s Jojo Petrina and Biddy Connor are a welcome new element, though this album really is a one-man vision. Sylvester maintains meticulous control BEST TRACK: Don’t Do That To Yourself of his subjects (like a true visual artist), playing every instrument IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Lodger/Let’s on the album to create a radiant work that’s dedicated to and Dance DAVID BOWIE, Avalon ROXY MUSIC Junk Culture fascinated with the sounds of the 1980s. ORCHESTRAL MANEUVERS IN THE DARK IN A WORD: Artpop CHRIS GIRDLER
RON S. PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS
Beds and Bugs (Sub Pop Records)
Anywhere And Everything Is Right (Public Bookings)
Obits is a band of noticeable pedigree who teeter precariously between sanitised and snarling. Their debut album, I Blame You saw them apply focused frenzy to their high octane surf tinged rock ‘n’ roll while their sophomore Moody, Standard and Poor saw them dialing it down a few notches. Number three, Beds and Bugs can’t seem to find an angle to roll with – pushing the envelope successfully in some departments and skirting alarmingly close to the scrap heap at others. Taste The Diff opens the album with a gritty basement feel, vocals sit nonchalantly low in the mix as the groove filled bass insists that you move. This Girl’s Opinion plays like a kind of mutant Dead Kennedys, it’s dirty and demented sounding garage, complete with some deranged howls thrown in for good measure, echoing the likes of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. Pet Trust abounds with classic pop vocal melodies that could have been penned by Ray Davies and the instrumental cover of Besetchet by Orchestra Ethiopia is quirky and unusual but it gives the listener a window of opportunity to become distracted. Operation Bikini brings the heart rate up again, conjuring up visions of a mad car chase scene while Malpractice masquerades at first glance as another surf instrumental. Front man Rick Froberg is quick to break the silence on the number but still this desperation filled ditty remains anti-climatic. Receptor is another mid paced track with a sweet melodic chorus while Machine stands out with its’ uncharacteristic dreamy vocals, playing like an indie rock track and adding little to embellish the album. Double Jeopardy is a better example of the band getting loose and limber without loosing momentum, it slithers and stalks in a stylish manner. Beds and Bugs sees Obits taking cues from dirty rhythm and blues bands with guitar interplay that works seamlessly together as expected. If only the same could be said for the album, songs seem carelessly BEST TRACK: This Girl’s Opinion placed and lack cohesion. What starts as a promising follow up IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: NIGHT to Moody, Standard and Poor loses direction mid way, leaving the MARCHERS, TELEVISION, THE KINKS, THE listener with a fractured and ultimately unsatisfying album. ROLLING STONES, THE STANDELLS IN A WORD: Fractured KRYSTAL MAYNARD
After a career as expansive as that of Ron S. Peno, every new release could be regarded as formulaic and filed away on the CD rack without much thought. But not so. Died Pretty have been confined to the history books and The Superstitions have reinvigorated Peno. Almost in a way analogous to the Grinderman project for one N. Cave. Less raucous than early Died Pretty, Peno now delivers his cathartic blasts in a more regal manner. For example the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde element that occurs midway through Call Your Name. Destination Unknown flickers along like a continuum of The Love Song. Feels So Cold trembles in the anticipation of an ardent suitor. But unlike the trademark of the aforementioned Cave, a mournful baritone delivered by a tall bloke in a dark suit, Peno adds a splash of colour to the ensemble. Flanked by Cam Butler and Tim Deane, exuding a similar sartorial elegance of a certain style, Peno is able to call upon the solid backing of Mark Dawson and Andy Papadopoulos. In a more considered creative phase, Peno now jumps into the pit of torment that is Myself In Thee to face the tribulations of a forsaken life, and then clamber onto a comfy armchair and deliver Oh Life with equally committed flair. The record therefore sounds as strong as it should as it is played by men that have decades of experience. Monumental for its assured vocals and musicianship, Anywhere And Everything Is Right takes you somewhere pleasant. The Superstitions, like their leader, give a measured performance that does not devolve into hysteria surrounded by scalding guitar and organ as could so easily have been the case if the band was typecast. Similarly, Peno repositions himself and boils and broods as often as he bawls. As can be expected Anywhere And Everything Is Right BEST TRACK: Call Your Name hits the motherload of forging a way forward with the benefit of IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: JIMMY appreciating its past. WEBB, THE DOORS, GENE PITNEY, TOM JONES IN A WORD: Touching BRONIUS ZUMERIS
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WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
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WEDNESDAY OCT 23 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS BEYONCE Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:00pm. CAITLIN ROSE & HENRY WAGONS Foxtel Festival Hub, 7:00pm. COLD HIKER + ALTA + SECOND HAND HEART Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5. COLLAGE - FEAT: AHILYA & TIM + CLEVELAND BLUES + KITE MACHINE + SCARAMOUCHE Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. DAVE O’CONNOR + BRIXTON CHUCK + MUSCLE MAGIC Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. DEN HANRAHAN Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. GUTTER GODS + LEATHER LICKERS + VELVET WHIP Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. MARTIN MARTINI Foxtel Festival Hub, 10:00pm. ROOT OF MUSIC - FEAT: PASSERINE + ECHO DRAMA + PINN’D Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. SECRET GOODTIMES CLUB Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm. STRATOVARIUS + DARKER HALF + EYEFEAR Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. THE AMITY AFFLICATION + CHELSEA GRIN + IN HEARTS WAKE + STICK TO YOUR GUNS Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. THE IN THE OUT + AUTO DA FE + ROYAL CHANT Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. THE LOVE BOMBS + HOME INVADERS + SEX STREET Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. THE TIMBERS + MATT GLASS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BACKWOOD CREATURES + STRINE SINGERS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm. KORPIKLAANI Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $59. LISA SPYKERS + ERIK PARKER + ORDINARY Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7:00pm. M. E BAIRD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC Ontop In Ormond, Ormond. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. SIMPLY ACOUSTIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: FREYA HANLY + BETH CLEARY & ANNA CARDELL Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC AMADOU & MARIAM Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm.
ANAM QUARTETS & HAYDN OP. 20 Foxtel Festival Hub, 11:00am. BARRY WRATTEN’S NEW ORLEANS PELICANS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. 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. PAPA G & THE STRAY CATS + VINCE THE PRINCE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. QUARTETS AT SUNSET - FEAT: SHANGHAI QUARTET Collins St Baptist Church, 5:00pm. THE GIANNI MARINUCCI NONET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20. THE VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS SECONDARY SCHOOL SHOWCASE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $22. TIM PLEDGERS SANDWICH JESUS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. TIM WILLIS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. VIVE LA DIFFERENCE Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
THURSDAY OCT 24 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS BRICKS + BOMBS ARE FALLING + LUNG + STREET FANGS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CAITLIN ROSE & HENRY WAGONS Foxtel Festival Hub, 7:00pm. CAPTIVES + FOAM + STONE REVIVAL + THE QUARTERS The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $8. CATCH RELEASE + BOYEUR + PHILEMON Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. DANCING HEALS + SINGING FOR HUMANS + YOUNG HYSTERIA Boney, Melbourne. 7:30pm. DAVE HOLE + CHARLIE A’COURT Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:00pm. $28. DEAR PLASTIC + KALACOMA + SLEEP DECADE Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $12. DIAMONDS OF NEPTUNE + DENVER + EARL SPACEMAN + JORDAN WALKER Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. EAGLE & THE WORM Foxtel Festival Hub, 10:00pm. ELIJAH MADDERN EXPERIENCE & ANGELA JOSIFOSKA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. EMAD YOUNAN Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. KIM SALMON & LEANNE COWIE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. LIONESS EYE + HALT EVER + LUNA GHOST Alia Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. LUNAIRE + APOLLO APPLES + MALADAPTOR + TENDER BONES Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5. MELBOURNE FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASES Revolver Upstairs,
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FUCK BUTTONS Bristol electronic duo Fuck Buttons are currently riding high following the release of their third studio album Slow Focus. They’re playing a sold-out show at the Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub this Friday October 25. You do not want to miss this.
Prahran. 7:00pm. $15. NEW EMPIRE (SAY IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT TOUR) + ASH GALE + JESSICA-JADE BRUCE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $23. NEXT - FEAT: CHELSEA GRIN + HANDS OF HOPE + I VALIANCE + NICOLAS CAGE FIGHTER Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. OVERDRIVE - FEAT: THE NEW POLLUTION + BOTTLES OF CONFIDENCE + JAKE JUDD Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. PAUL DEMPSEY + OLYMPIA The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 6:30pm. $41. PRIESTESSA + OLD HAT Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. REVEREND FUNK & THE HORNS OF SALVATION + DJ PIERRE BARONI + DJ VINCE PEACH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. ROYAL CHANT + CLAWS & ORGANS + INDIAN RED Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. STELLA ANGELICO + STEVIE & THE SLEEPERS + SUGAR FED LEOPARDS + THAT GOLD STREET SOUND Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. THE DEAD HEIR + SAM COUPER + SCURVYLICIOUS + THE CITRADELS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. THE PIERCE BROTHERS + JACK STIRLING Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. THE PRIMARY + HOWARD + TAM MARLAKOWSKI + TANGRAMS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. THE SHADOW LEAGUE + BREAK THE WALL + KINGS CUP + SELF HELP Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. THE SUGARFOOT RAMBLERS Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TOOTH & TUSK + MUSCLE MAGIC + THE STRANGE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $7. WHITE SUMMER + BONES BLACKWOOD + KASHMERE CLUB + WINTER MOON Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $12. WOLF & CUB + IOWA + ZEAHORSE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $17. WONDERBEAST + ADRUSHA + CITRUS JAM + SPLEEN Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BLOW The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 8:00pm. DANNY STAIN + AARON THOMAS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. DOC HALIBUT + OLIVERS ARMY + STEEL BIRDS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm. ECHO DRAMA + THE ELECTRIC I Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. GRID (FINAL) - FEAT: SARAH GRIMSTONE + ONLY ALIENS + PATRICK WILSON + THE FABRIC Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. JAREK + RDZJB + THE CHEESES + THE SPINSET + THE WINTERS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. JUSTIN CUSACK + CAVANAGH & ARGUS Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7:00pm. MUSICLAND VIP MUSIC INDUSTRY NETWORKING NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Station 59, Richmond. 6:00pm. OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 6:30pm. OPEN MIC Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 6:00pm. OPEN MIC Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 7:00pm. SARAH MCLEOD Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. SKYSCRAPER STAN & THE COMMISSION FLATS + BEN WRIGHT SMITH + LIAM GERNER Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE COLOUR GAME Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. THE LUCILLES Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. WIL WATSON Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC AFROVIVAL & THE OIL CAN PROJECT + KING BELL + MPAPHI NFANDIZO + RANDY BORQUAYE + SUZANNE WATTSNFANDIZO Bella Union Bar (trades Hall), Carlton South. 8:00pm. $10. ALWAN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. AMADOU & MARIAM Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. ANAM QUARTETS & HAYDN OP. 20 Foxtel Festival Hub, 11:00am. ARTIE STYLES QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. ENGINEERED SOUND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET The Commune, East Melbourne. 5:00pm. MARK VINCENT & THE STRING QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:00pm. QUARTETS AT SUNSET - FEAT: IRONWOOD Collins St Baptist Church, 5:00pm. THE DARRIN ARCHER SEXTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. THE GARRULOUS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. THE OVEREASYS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 6:30pm. THE SHUFFLE DEMONS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. VCA FUNDRAISER Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $8.
FRIDAY OCT 25 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS
A DEAD FOREST INDEX + EVELYN IDA MORRIS + GRAND SALVO + TIM RICHMOND Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
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ALBATROSS Central Club Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. AUSMUTEANTS + PRONTO + WET BLANKETS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5. BEAR WITNESS + BLOODWOLVES + JACK THE STRIPPER + REMOVALIST + SICK MACHINE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. BEHEMOTH + CEMETERY URN + HOUR OF PENANCE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $63. BEN MASON + MINI BIKES + THE FINKS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10. BEYONCE Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:00pm. BEYOND THE MUSIC - FEAT: KINGSTON CROWN + EMPRA + HOLLIAVA + THIRD EARTH Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BOOM CRASH OPERA + BELLE ROSCOE The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $30. BOSS MOXI + JACKJACKJACK Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. CAT OR PILLAR + FOREIGN/NATIONAL + NOTHING HURTS ROBOT + ON SIERRA John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. DARK ARTS 3 - FEAT: THE RED LIGHTS + VELMA GROVE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DISGRUNTLED BRUNTLE + CONJURER + HOLLOW WORLD + SELENIUM Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. EARLY WOMAN + A GENDER + DJ NO PANTS + THE DEAD CALM Boney, Melbourne. 7:00pm. EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + CASSETTE Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10. ELECTRIC PUNNANY Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 9:00pm. $20. FUCK BUTTONS + DJ DEXTER Foxtel Festival Hub, 7:00pm. $45. GO GENRE EVERYTHING + GOD’S COME Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 7:30pm. HAVE / HOLD + DARTS + DJ KEZBOT + KILLTAKER + OSLOW Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. JASON LIVES Cubby House, Moonee Ponds. 7:00pm. JENNIFER KINGWELL + BELOVED ELK + PLUM GREEN Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. LES LEVEL + LUKE POCOCK + MICHAEL OZONE + SALMON BARRELNG FOR HUMANS + SINGISALVADOR + YOUNG HYSTERIA Boney, Melbourne. 10:00pm. MAGIC AMERICA + LUNA GHOST + THE TROTSKIES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. PAUL DEMPSEY + OLYMPIA The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 6:30pm. $41. RED-X + MARK CAMPBELL + PENSIVE PENGUIN + THE LOST DAY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. SAINT JUDE + PONY FACE + SUGAR FED LEOPARDS Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $15. SARAH MCLEOD Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. SCARAMOUCHE Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. TAKE YOUR OWN + BATEMAN + BREAK THE WALL + DEATH BY DEATH RAY + PUBLIC LIABILITY Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. THE BLUEBOTTLES + DJ TRAFFIC JAM + ROYAL CHANT Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. THE CONTORTIONIST’S HANDBOOK + QLAYE FACE + SLACK HANDS + TUX Wrangler Studios, Footscray . 6:00pm. THE IMPOSSIBLE NO GOODS + COLOSTOMY BAGUETTE + GREAT EARTHQUAKE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. THE LOOK OF LOVE - FEAT: JACK HOWARD Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $23. THE LOVE BOMBS + HOME INVADERS + MODESTY Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE ROCK DUNGEON - FEAT: DAMNATION’S DAY + MANIC OPERA + TRIGGER Cbd Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. THE SIREN TOWER + EZEKIAL OX + LEBELLE + MICHAEL BADGER + SECRET TSUNAMI + WILLOW DARLING Espy, St Kilda. 6:30pm. TWISTA Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $40. WOLFPACK + HIDDEN VENTURES + ORGAN DONOR + SPEED DEMONS The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $10.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $95. ARCHER + SLIPPERY SID JAMES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. BROOKE RUSSEL & THE MEAN REDS Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. CITRUS JAM Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7:00pm. FLYING ENGINE STRINGBAND Railway Hotel, Fitzroy North. 9:30pm. KING LUCHO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm. LITTLE STEVIES + THE DAVIDSON BROTHERS Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. LIVE AT ROOFTOP - FEAT: RICKI WOOD Deluxe Bar & Lounge, Moonee Ponds. 6:00pm. MIGHTY DUKE & THE LORDS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. MR BLACK & BLUES Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. PAUL COSTA & THE DALTON GANG Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $8. SHIRAZZ Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE STRANGE + ANDRE + D D DUMBO + HONEY BADGERS Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
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JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ADRIAN WHITEHEAD Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. AMADOU & MARIAM Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. ANAM QUARTETS & HAYDN OP. 20 Foxtel Festival Hub, 11:00am. DEAN’S MARTINI & SHAKERS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. EMMA LOUISE Ormond Hall, Melbourne. 7:00pm. GIL ASKEY & THE ROGER CLARK QUARTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:09pm. $20. KOOYEH The Night Cat, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MARGIE LOU’S PIANO HOUR + ALYCE PLATT Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. PANORAMA DO BRASIL Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20. QUARTETS AT SUNSET - FEAT: AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET Collins St Baptist Church, 5:00pm. SAM KEEVERS QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SCOTT DARLOW Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. SNAKE EYED ROLLERS SOULFIST + DJ JUMPIN JOSH The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. TANGO RUBINO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. THE CHANTAL MITVALSKY QUINTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. THE FUNK BUDDIES + CAPTAIN GROOVE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THE JOSHUA KYLE QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. VARDOS + TANGO COLLUSION TRIO Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm.
SATURDAY OCT 26 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS TAKIN’ COVER Onefourteen Bar And Lounge, Mentone. 8:00pm. ATP (RELEASE THE BATS) - FEAT: THE BREEDERS + FOREST SWORDS + FUCK BUTTONS + LIGHTENING BOLT + POP CRIMES + TELEVISION + THE SCIENTISTS + THE SPINNING ROOMS + THE UV RACE + TOTLA CONTROL + WHITE WALLS Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 11:00am. ATP (RELEASE THE BATS) - FEAT: THE BREEDERS + FOREST SWORDS + FUCK BUTTONS + LIGHTENING BOLT + POP CRIMES + TELEVISION + THE SCIENTISTS + THE SPINNING
ROOMS + THE UV RACE + TOTLA CONTROL + WHITE WALLS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 11:00am. BANG - FEAT: ANTAGONIST + HEADCHECK + YOUR WORLD IN RUINS Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. BATPISS + CAPTIVES + SWHAT + THE KREMLINGS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. $8. BEWARE BLACK HOLES + DJ JEFF LEPPARD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. BEYONCE Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:00pm. CREEPSHOW HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL - FEAT: ANNA SALEN VS. MARIO BROS + CHAOS DIVINE + DEATH AUDIO + ENGINE + GAY PARIS + KETTLESPIDER + SYDONIA + TEN THOUSAND + ACOLYTE + BLIND MUNKEE + DEAR STALKER + FALLEN ENDS + FEAR IS A LIAR + HEAD FILLED ATTRACTION + IRE + LESUITS + MARLOW + NIKHAIL + RED REMEDY + SENTIA + SHADOWGAME + THE PASS OUTS + TRANSIENCE + ZELORAGE Espy, St Kilda. 4:30pm. $21. DEN HANRAHAN Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. DENOUNCEMENT PYRE + ALTARS + CAULDRON BLACK RAM + HELLBRINGER Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15. FALL OUT BOY + BRITISH INDIA Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. FIONA LEE MAYNARD & HER HOLY MEN + LOS DOMINADOS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 7:30pm. $10. FIRESTONE & HONEY Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. HAIL SLINKY - FEAT: SEX ON TOAST + BACK BACK FORWARD PUNCH + MOSE & THE FMLY + PROLAPSE + RED ROCKETS OF BORNEO + THE PURPLE TUSKS Musicland, Fawkner. 6:00pm. $20. IDIOTFEST - FEAT: THE FLANGIPANTS + ADMIRAL ACKBARS DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE + KUJO KINGS + LENNIN MKARTHEY + LESUITS + MENAGE-A-SKA + STRAWBERRY FIST CAKE + THE UNPRETTIER Cbd Club, Melbourne Cbd. 4:30pm. JAMES REYNE The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. JOEY CAPE + BRIAN WAHLSTROM + JAMIE HAY + NATHAN SEECKTS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $30. KILL SHOTT + BLACK FUEL + MIDNIGHT ALIBI + SMOKIN MIRRORS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. LAMARAMA Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. LENKA + TANYA BATT + TOM KLINE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MASSIVE COX PLATE AFTER PARTY Cubby House, Moonee Ponds. 7:00pm. ORLANDO FURIOUS + B DEEP + BEIGE RAINBOW Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:30pm. PARTY VIBEZ + CAGED GRAVE + IMPASSE + SICK MACHINE + VICIOUS CYCLE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. POTATO CAKE - FEAT: SHE’S THE BAND + ANT FACE + BANGERZ + DJ LONG DONG + DREAMBOATS + FOXTROT The Public
WERK In a late-night haze of neon and performance, live art and discotheque, the Foxtel Festival Hub is being put to WERK. Born in the belly of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and baptized in the fields of Ireland’s Electric Picnic Music Festival, theatre renegades THISISPOPBABY present their epic performance-art-club at the Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub this Saturday October 26. Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $10. RED FIRE RED MICRO MUSIC FESTIVAL - FEAT: WINTER YORK + GLADSTONE + GRANDE FLASH + MOONS POET + RICHY MCKAY + THE BALLS + WITHOUT PARACHUTES Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15. REDCOATS + FINE ART DEALER Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. RIPPINLIFE - FEAT: RED X + IMOGEN BRAVE + MC NATE + THE RUMOURS + VICE GRIP PUSSIES DJ Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. ROCK FOR CATCHMENT - FEAT: BABARION + DIGGER & THE PUSSYCATS + HEAVEN THE AXE + LONG HOLIDAY + MY LEFT BOOT + THE CHARGE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $21. ROOTS OF MUSIC - FEAT: WALKER + AMISTAT + HUNTING SEASON Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $20. SCREAMER FEEDER + LINC LE FEVRE & THE INSIDERS + TENDER BONES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. SPOONBILL + GRIFF + STAUNCH Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $28. SPOONFUL Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. STONEFIELD Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $20. TEST GIG 2 - FEAT: TEST ARTIST 2 Werribee Park Mansion, Werribee. 8:00pm. THE CRIBS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. THE GRAND RAPIDS + LIONESS EYE + THE GOOD MORROWS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE KIN + KISSHEAD + MERCIA WISE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12. THE LIVING EYES + SPERMAIDS + THE OCTOPUS RIDE + WARMTH CRASHES IN Alia Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. THE REFUNDS + DICK N’ STEIN + THE GRUNES + THE PENSION 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. TRJAEU + DROOLING MYSTICS + ELECTRIC SEA SPIDER Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. WERK Foxtel Festival Hub, 7:00pm. WUNDERLUST + DOG ACT + FRAUDBAND + O LITTLEBLOOD Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:00pm.
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ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BAKERSFIELD GLEE CLUB Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. BAND BRAWL Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 4:00pm. BEN SMITH & THE NOISE DIARY CHAPTER Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. CLANNAD Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:00pm. DAVE GRANEY & THE MISTLY Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. DAVE WRIGHT & THE MIDNIGHT ELECTRIC + THE LITTLE MURDERS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. EDWARD MOUNTAIN + SYNESTATIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. EMAD YOUNAN Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7:00pm. GLORY B Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:00pm. HOLY MOSES HEARTACHE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. INTO THE MYSTIC - FEAT: JOE CREIGHTON Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $23. ISAAC DE HEER + GREAT EARTHQUAKE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm. JVG GUITAR METHOD Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. LEAH FLANAGAN Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. MARTY KELLY & THE WEEKENDERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. MATT KATSIS & PRETTY LITTLES Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $10. PROJECT KOLKATA CHARITY LAUNCH - FEAT: AMBIENCE OF RAIN + AIMEE VOLKOFSKY + CHARLES DONAHUE + GYPSY ATTACK + QLAYE FACE Higher Ground Warehouse, 7:00pm. $15. SIMON HUDSON BAND The B.east, Brunswick East. 7:00pm. THE GROOVETONES Blarney Stone Irish Pub, Yarraville. 7:30pm. THE GROVES + DJ CURSES REGIONAL Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. THE LOWRIDERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. TWIN BEASTS + GRIZZLY JIM LAWRIE + SAGAMORE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. WILD HONEY PIE + ALEXIS NAYLOR + BROOKE TAYLOR + DUNCAN YARDLEY Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ACTIVE CHILD + OLIVER TANK Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. ANAM QUARTETS & HAYDN OP. 20 Foxtel Festival Hub, 11:00am. BANQUET OF THE UNDEAD - FEAT: KINGSTON CROWN + CENTRE & THE SOUTH Barleycorn Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. CLASSICAL PIANO Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 2:00pm. FORTY-PART SPECTACULAR - FEAT: JOHN O’DONNELL & ENSEMBLE GOMBERT The Dome, 7:00pm. GOYIM + ELVIS IN THE HOUSE Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. HEATHER STEWART Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. HIPSHAKER 60S DANCE CLUB - FEAT: THE BREADMAKERS + DJ SOOZIE WONG + DJ SYE SAXON The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. JASPORA Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. KATE CEBERANO The Palms, Southbank. 8:00pm. KOOYEH Jewell Of Brunswick, Brunswick. 7:00pm. LA MAUVAISE REPUTATION Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25. SAMANTHA MORLEY & THE JOHN MONTESANTES QUINTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. SEAN COFFIN TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE BRIANA COWLISHAW BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm.
MUSICIANS WANTED SOLO MUSICIANS, DUO’S, BANDS WANTED to play at Acoustics Anonymous Thursday Nights at The 86. Starting with open mic from 7pm and live band sets from 9pm. Open Mic - just rock up from 6pm, gig spots email drink@the86.com.au with bio, pics and sound demo. BANDS/ACTS WANTED for Espy Shows. Shoot an email through to mark@gunnmusic.com.au for more details. BATTLE OF THE BANDS. Registration now, starts Wednesday the 28th Dec and every Wednesday after for 8 week. First prize: recording time in a studio. Call Jesse 0411 803 579 SERVICES FREE VENUE HIRE - Fully stocked bar - Huge capacity, whole venue or partial. Call Jesse 0411 803 579 EMPLOYMENT FLAUNT IT. Internationally acclaimed producer of profeminist erotica looking for confident, adult women to smash the stereotypes and earn good money ($400 and up). Don’t overlook this til you’ve found out more about it. Jessica 9495 6555 or www.feck.com. WE WANT EVERYONE Promoters, Bands, DJs Revitalised bar, The Barley Corn, has reopened its doors 7 days a week and we want YOU. Call Jesse 0411 803 579 TUITION MUSIC LESSONS. Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano and Vocals. Great Teachers, great Vibes. Visit www.katzmusic.com.au or call 9530 0984 or 0425 788 252 for more info.
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THE SUGAR FOOT RAMBLERS + JAZZATOMIKA Open Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm.
SUNDAY OCT 27 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS 80’S ON THE EDGE Sloaney Pony, Port Melbourne. 8:30pm. ARCHER & THE LONG GONE DADDIES Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 3:00pm. $10. BEERS & BALLS - FEAT: THE SINKING TEETH + HUG THERAPIST + SUMMER BLOOD Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. BOSS MOXI Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. BRUNSWICK’S BEST BEARD - FEAT: UNDERLANDER + JUKE BARITONE & THE SWAMP DOGS + TRASH FAIRYS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm. GLASFROSCH + ADAM SIMMONS VS BRIAN O’DWYER + GELIDO + SQUAREHEAD Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. HUGH MCGINLAY & THE RECESSIVE GENES Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5:00pm. KID INK (U18) + BAKE SHOP + DUKES UP The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 3:00pm. KINEMATIC + JEFF SAMIN 303, Northcote. 4:00pm. LILY ROUGE + BLACK ACES + LA BELLE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. LIMP BIZKIT Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 7:00pm. $88. LUCID PLANET + TRASH PALACE + VALLEY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. MAYFAIR KYTES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. MOUNTAIN GOAT BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: SIB + ALI E BAND + DJ KIRA PURU + RICH DAVIES & THE DEVIL’S UNION + THE HOLY ROLLERS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8. QUA + DAVE BROWN + EPA + KANGAROO SKULL + PHIL SAMARTZIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. ROD FRITZ + ESSAY EDWARDS + ROWAN ROEBIG Tago Mago, Thornbury. 5:30pm. SUNDAY SCHOOL - FEAT: JOHNNY TELAFONE + ANGEL & THE BABBY CHAIN + DEADSET + MISS DESTINY The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 2:00pm. $6. SUPER XX MAN & THE ACTOR BUDDHISTS + SUPER XX MAN + THE ACTOR BUDDHISTS + PASCAL BABARE + TEETH Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $8. SWEETS (SINGLE LAUNCH) + HOLLIE JOYCE + MARTIN KING Workers Club, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. $12. THE LORD RAR + KT SPIT + ROGUE WAVS + THE BIG FACE & THE BOOGIE WOOGIE BOOGIE BOARD BOYS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $8. THE NAYSAYERS + GASSAMER PRIDE + JAMES OAKFIELD + LESUITS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $8. TINPAN ORANGE + PRINCE RAMA & NO ZU Foxtel Festival Hub, 7:00pm. WARREN EARL & THE ATOMIC ROCKERS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. YSEULT MANTELLI + KATIE MCNAMARA Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CHERRY ARVO BLUES - FEAT: MR BLACK & BLUES + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. CLASSIC DOUBLE ALBUM SHOW - FEAT: PAUL WOOKEY & THE ZIMMERMEN Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 2:00pm. $12. DAVID BRAMBLE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm. $7. EMAD YOUNAN Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7:00pm. ERIC BOGLE Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $40. ESTEE BIG BAND Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. GUNN MUSIC ARTIST SHOWDOWN Espy, St Kilda. 1:00pm. $15. HARMANIAX Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 3:30pm. JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 5:00pm. JAMES KENYON + VAN WALKER Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm. JULES BOULT & THE REDEEMERS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. LAURA IMBRUGLIA Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. LUCY WILSON + GEORGIA MAQ + JEN BUXTON + LINCOLN LE FEVRE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 2:00pm. MOONSHINE WHISTLERS + KEN MAHER & TONY HARGREAVES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. SEAN KIRK Bay Hotel, Mornington. 3:00pm. SIME NUGENT BAND Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. THE ALAN LADDS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. THE MARGIE LOU TRIO + GIL ASKEY Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. THE T-BONES Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. TIN MAN TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. VIKA & LINDA The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $32.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 6:00pm. CAMERON LEE MACKAY & MAXWELL HUDSON Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. DALE RYDER BAND + BAD BOYS BATUCADA + MS BUTT Espy, St Kilda. 5:30pm. ELVIS IN THE HOUSE + DUO SEVERINI Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 1:00pm. GUITARSCAPES MEETS SNOTJEK - FEAT: ADNKM + KERANG JEFFERSON QUARTET Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. STANDING TALL + CLASSICAL REVOLUTION Open Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm. THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Rah Bar, 7:00pm. $10. THE BRIANA COWLISHAW BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. THE TIM STEVENS TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. WINDJAMMER BRASS QUINTET 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.
STONEFIELD The sisters of Stonefield are embarking on a national tour in support of their highly anticipated self-titled debut album, which dropped last week. They will be hitting the Corner Hotel this Saturday October 26.
BEYONCÉ Beyoncé will hit Australian shores this week. Dubbed The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, her 2013 visit promises to be filled with explosive special effects and an intricate, strobe-laden light show. She hits Rod Laver Area from Tuesday October 22 - Saturday October 26 (except Thursday).
MONDAY OCT 28 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MONASH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 7:30pm. MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: TEETH & TONGUE + MATT BAILEY + MICHAEL BEACH Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm. ONE DIRECTION + 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:00pm. STELLA ANGELICO Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. THE ALLAN BROWNE TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BROOKE RUSSEL & THE MEAN REDS Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. DEAR MONDAY - FEAT: INDIANA AVEN + 19TH CENTURY STRONGMEN + LOUIS SPOILS + PHILEMON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. RISING TIDE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:30pm. SANS GRAS Dan O’connell Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm. TAKE THE MIC Red Bennies, South Yarra. 7:30pm. $15. UNPAVED SONGWRITER SESSIONS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC DARYL MCKENZIE JAZZ ORCHESTRA + FEM BELLING The Apartment, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $10. PAUL WILLIAMSON’S HAMMOND COMBO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE GUTHRIES + ALISTAIR MCLEAN TRIO 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $8.
TUESDAY OCT 29 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS LOW FLY INCLINE + BROOKLYN HOOKERS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MISCHEVIOUS THOM + JOSH ROMIG Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $6. ONE DIRECTION + 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:00pm. THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL DISCOVERY NIGHT - FEAT: MY SWEET REVOVLER + EXILE + LAZARUS MODE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. YELLOWCARD + TOY BOATS Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.
Wednesday October 23 By Claire Barley
As the end of the year draws nearer, so too do the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awards. Nominations were announced last week, featuring a swag of fabulous Aussie acts. Young gun Flume aka Harley Streten dominated, collecting a total of 8 nominations including Album of the Year, Best Male, Breakthrough Artist, Song of the Year and Handsomest Act of All Time. Okay so maybe not that last one... but I think we can all agree that if that category existed he would be up there. Other nominees include Seth Sentry, Josh Pyke, Missy Higgins, Paul Kelly and Tame Impala. All categories were pretty male dominated, and nominations for Best Album and Best Group didn’t include any women. ARIA exec Dan Rosen claimed these things go in cycles, and that last year was very female dominated, while singer-songwriter Abbe May questioned “why men tend to get more favour in these situations”. Either way, the Best Female category was certainly female dominated; all five nominees are women. Weird!* If you’d like to get involved in the awards, jump on the publically voted awards at www.ariaawards. com.au/public-voting/. Sections include Song of the Year, Best International Act, Best Australian Live Act, and Best Video. Have you heard of Signal? Signal is a creative arts studio for young people aged 13-20 located in the middle of the city. They’re running some great art workshops in the coming months, with activities open to people of any skill level. Workshops cover a range of mediums and are facilitated by professionals, so if art is your thang, it’s a great chance to get some expert advice. Check out the program guide at www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Signal/. If you haven’t made any plans to celebrate Halloween yet, the good folks at Maribyrnong FReeZA have organised a fabulous hardcore gig taking place this Sunday. Headlining are Auckland based band Antagonist A.D, who are taking some time off recording to treat their Australian fans to a few shows. Full details of Sunday’s show are included below. If you’re a massive Antagonist A.D fan and have to th go to your Nan’s 80 birthday this weekend, never fear, because the band hinted on their Facebook page that they’ll be back “sooner than [we] think”. There’s always something a bit sinister about cryptic messages…let’s hope they mean they’ll be back to play music and aren’t planning a Terminator style “I’ll be back” return with machine guns. Finally, T.I has just announced details of a replacement show after Akon pulled out of a joint gig the pair were set to play. He will perform November 7 at Festival Hall. All tickets for the cancelled performance will be valid for this show. *Sarcasm intended.
All Ages Timetable WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23, FRIDAY OCTOBER 25 AND SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 Beyonce w/ Iggy Azalea, Rod Laver Arena, Batman Avenue, Melbourne, 6pm, VIP packages $650-$1,275 (regular tickets sold out), ticketek.com.au, AA. Open Mic/Jam Night, Musicland, 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 7pm, free, musiclandonline.com.au, AA. SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 Fall Out Boy w/ British India, Festival Hall, 300 Dudley St, West Melbourne, 7pm, $88.20, ticketmaster.com.au, AA. Quiksound Productions Learn to Skate Workshops & Festival w/ DJs and Skate competitions, Glen Waverley Skate Park, Cnr of Springvale and Waverley Rds, Glen Waverley, 12pm, free, 9518 3900, AA. SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 Hardcore Halloween 2013 w/ Antagonist A.D, Trainwreck, Left for Wolves, Hideaway,Impasse and Body Filler, Phoenix Youth Centre, 72 Buckley Street, Footscray, 2pm, $5, oztix.com.au, AA. Jam at Musicland Sundays, w/ jam session open to all ages/ genres, Musicland, 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 7.30pm, free, musiclandonline.com.au, AA Limp Bizkit w/ support, Festival Hall, 300 Dudley St, West Melbourne, doors TBA, $88.20, ticketmaster.com.au, AA. Kid Ink w/ Dukes Up and Bake Shop, The Hi-Fi, 125 Swanston St, Melbourne, 3pm, $60.50, oztix.com.au, U18.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK FOR_GOTTEN MAGAZINE LAUNCH - FEAT: JODIE HOFFMAN & MOLLY CUSACK Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. JJ CUSACK + JACKSON BRIGGS + STORYHORSE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. TRISTEN BIRD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
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DANIEL GASSIN TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. HI-FI LOUNGE LIZARDS Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. MIKE’S RETRO FIVE Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. MONASH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 7:30pm. MOVEMENT 9 Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. PETER BAYLOR’S ULTRAFOX Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. THE MARK LOCKETT TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm.
Following their hugely popular I’ll Be Your Mirror event curated by The Drones earlier this year, ATP will return with their next Australian chapter this weekend. The event comes in the form of Release The Bats, a Halloween event featuring The Breeders performing The Last Splash, Television, The Scientists, Fuck Buttons, Lightning Bolt, Sleep, Forest Swords, Total Control, The UV Race, Hoss, White Walls and The Spinning Rooms and more. It takes place on Saturday October 26 at the Palais Theatre and Prince Bandroom.
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Address? 29 Lygon St, Carlton (CITY END) History? The old girl has a lot of history. A brothel (early 1900’s) to an old labour and union pub and most recently a band room. Locals still recall the tale of Bob Hawke being passed out under the chalk board after a five day test match. What do you feel is your major attraction? Still after all these years, some people don’t know we have a killer band room upstairs. 300 capacity room, with an amazing sounding PA.
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What was your favorite show in the last six months and why? So many amazing shows to choose from. Cash Savage’s single launch was wild - ensued into a crazy late night disco, but probably my favourite would be The Stabs’ reunion / double record launch show.
PA specs? We recently upgraded our PA and its sounding incredible!! Here are the good bits.. Midas Venice 320 - 4 x D&B Q7 speaker system - 2 x Dual 18” Subs - QSC PL236 Power amp
Could you nominate a bartender of the month? The one and only Kiwi Rhys (or mini Rusty as he is called). Ask him to make you a ‘Leather and Steel’.
Opening hours? Mon/Tues/Sat: 3pm - late, Wed Fri 12pm - late, Sun 3pm - 11pm
How many nights of live music entertainment are running at your venue: Wednesday to Sunday every week. Ways to get there? ...ie buses trams , cabs etc be as creative as you want: The Curtin is so easy to get to. Its walkable from the City/Fitzroy area. There is also one of those horse and carriage’s that runs right past the venue. A free jug to anyone who catches that! Available for functions? We do bands only really , but if you have a cool idea for a show or a party, let us know. We have done live to air radio shows before
Cover Charge? Yep - bands need to make money. Food specials / Your pick ? We have a kitchen, open until 10pm every day. Known for? No pretentiousness, great bar staff, relaxed atmosphere, late night dancing in the front bar - cheapest Coopers in town! PHONE: 9663 6350 WEBSITE: johncurtinhotel.com EMAIL: booker@johncurtinhotel.com
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This week we had had the pleasure of catching up with emerging Melbourne Guitar Luthier Shane Briggs. A recent graduate from NCAT’s Instrument Making and Repair course, Shane tells us how his thriving career in building guitars and stringed instruments all started. Firstly, what drew you to the art of guitar making? In high school I was keen on learning to play Weissenborn guitar, but I couldn’t afford one. I was talking to a teacher who was an instrument maker and he suggested I have a go making my own. I did a bit of research online, purchased some wood and parts and built my first wonky Weissenborn guitar in dad’s shed using whatever tools I could find. From that point on I was hooked. How long have you been guitar making and what related studies have you completed? I’ve been building guitars for about six years. After completing my VCE I began a one year course in Guitar Making & Repair at NCAT (Northern College of the Arts). It was the very first year that the course was running, which was great timing for me as I was undecided on what career path to choose. Whilst there I established a network with people in the instrument making industry and made great friends with fellow students whom I still see regularly. The most influential aspect of the course for me was the wealth of knowledge available to us through teachers and guest luthiers as well as the state of the art facilities. Following completion of the course I did a bit of repair work in a Melbourne music store alongside work for Luthier Jack Spira, who has also been a great influence of mine. Nowadays I design and build by own range of BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 56
guitars from my Melbourne workshop. How would you best describe your building style and your guitar’s aesthetics and sound? I use predominantly hand tools which allows me to get to know each piece of timber before it becomes a part of the guitar. The art of using hand tools suits my style more than using less tactile methods and unnecessary machinery. I like to incorporate new techniques such as carbon fibre neck reinforcements and double sides as well as learning older methods such as French polishing. Like most guitar makers, my shape is a variation of the Martin OM shape in which I have altered the curves and lines of the silhouette. For me, the most important thing is letting the timbers talk for themselves without the distraction of ornamentation such as inlays. I believe a well designed, highly crafted guitar can please the eye without the need for overdressing it. As for sound, I would say that my guitars are well balanced for finger-style playing. What’s the most rewarding part of making a Guitar? The most rewarding albeit nerve-wracking part is the first strum after stringing up and tuning a guitar for the very first time. It’s a sacred moment for reflection on 150 hours of work. Where can people learn guitar making skills? There are a number of hobby courses around the country, but this is the only place where students can gain a nationally recognized qualification. NCAT run a full time Certificate IV course and there is also the option of a one day a week program where students can either gain experience or complete a Certificate III. Because it is a government-funded program the cost is also very minimal. Students up to the age of 21 can access the program for $2000. This covers all of the materials and access to high-end machinery.
Mature age students are also welcome. There are no tuition fees. After building their instruments, student can graduate with a Tele style electric, a Dreadnaught acoustic, and a custom designed guitar of their choice to take away, all covered in the cost.
wood-working and guitar making equipment. With all of this equipment it gives students the opportunity to gain exposures to traditional instrument maker’s hand working skills right through to the latest mass production methods of guitar making.
Guitar building facilities available for learning and production? The facilities at NCAT are second to none. The college has a $17M Technology centre, filled with high-end machinery including, CNC routers, a multi-cam flat bed router and a number of laser machines. All of these modern instruments sit alongside traditional
Shane Briggs will be showcasing his custom range of guitars on Saturday the 16th of November at the Makers and Players Guitar Expo at Deakin Edge Federation Square in Melbourne. For more information and tickets on this event visit www.ncat.vic.edu.au
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MATT CORBY Festival Hall, Friday October 18 Old mate Matt Corby is at it again winning the hearts, minds and loins of females in every direction. Tonight, he takes his Resolution tour to a jittery Festival Hall audience serviced on warm-up duties by London folk trio Bear’s Den as well as Bree Tranter. Tranter, formerly of The Middle East fame, with her ethereal and angelic vocals is a highlight when she resurrects a ripping version of Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U. Corby casts a small figure over his guitar when he emerges. Kitted out in a black T-shirt and jeans, he looks more like a roadie than a rock star in the blacked-out stage under the smokey spotlight. Overwhelming the venue with an intimate, almost mournful opening, he kicks off the set with a list of slow burners such as It’s Good To Be Alone, Made of Stone, Untitled and Water and Wine. Playing one of his biggest venues to date, there are no frills or added extras to this performance but there’s an undeniable stage presence and a serious talent. He moves seamlessly from one song and one instrument to the next, with very little banter in between. In soft pillow whispers he greets the crowd who hang off his every word and introduces a few songs. The reception from the audience is shrill and relentless until Corby pulls out the trump card that silences their screams: his voice. With an incredible strength that comes from the depths of his belly and a range that shifts from towering and powerful to delicate and vulnerable, it’s something that can only be fully appreciated once heard live. Obvious standouts from the night come from better-known tracks such as Brother and Resolution. They take the second half of the set to more upbeat places yet don’t quite steal the show. With only a guitar and his voice, he manages to conjure some swagger with an acoustic version of The Black Keys’ Lonely Boy followed by some jazzed-out vocal scatting on a cover of The Who’s bluesy Trick of the Light. A little audience teasing ensues before My False rounds out the set as encore LOVED: Corby’s almost-ferocious and the entire band is brought onstage. As a collective they belt out the beard. almost-evangelic lyrics in a chorus-singing session and close an immensely HATED: The crowd’s chatter during songs. polished show that’s been a long time coming. DRANK: Beer ISABELLA UBALDI
BUSHWALKING John Curtain Bandroom, Saturday October 12 In the past, electronic-based My Disco side project Kangaroo Skull provided long, seamless club-friendly sets, emanating booming deep house beats in a sea of smoke machine and strobe. Tonight signalled somewhat of a new chapter, with Rohan Rebeiro now taking the reigns in solo mode to provide more intricate electronica meditations in fragmented, more structured, bursts. It was a success, hinting at world-class production values as opposed to the slightly novel bombast of previous sets. It was an interesting lead in to the disparate Bushwalking, who were making a decidedly rare live appearance to celebrate the launch of resounding LP number two, No Enter. The album made up the majority of the setlist, with the bolted down grooves shining in the live setting. Guitarist Karl Scullin contorted around his LOVED: The humble faux-foliage mic stand like a creeper vine, building tension to be unleashed in his guitar featured on the rear wall. breakdowns. HATED: Being a bit too crook but No Enter’s title track was a definitive highlight, stretching into a dizzyingly sinking a bit too much. brilliant elongated jam. Bushwalking’s live showings may be all-too rare, but DRANK: A six pack of those god dammit, they make it count. Mountain Goat tins beforehand. They were okay, but still not sure if they’re a worthy candidate for a Meredith LACHLAN KANONIUK session beer.
KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Corner Hotel, Saturday October 19 The band with the most ridiculous/awesome name in the world, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, launched their latest album, Float Along/Fill Your Lungs, at the Corner on Saturday night. These guys are fun. Really fun. The energy in the air was palpable while we waited for this psycho/punk seven-piece to hit the stage, and when they did, the couple of hundred heads at the front of the room went absolutely wild. A friendly, excited wild that infected the rest of the crowd and made the room move. Every single person in the room had an enormous smile on their face from woah to go, and even the crowdsurfing kids who could have been dropped at any second had a look of pure glee. The crowdsurfing started with their first song, and didn’t let up until the unabashed psychedelic end. It’s a rare energy that’s really engaging to be around, because one can’t help but get involved. Even the old folks up the back were swinging their hips to the melodic jangling guitar and punk breakdowns. King Gizzard played their songs faithful to the studio recordings, right down to each wah and reverb-drenched guitar lick. They used some kind of special microphone to get those carbon filter-esque vocal effects, which sound especially cool when they hum and scream into it. I haven’t ever even entertained the notion that a band would even want two drummers, but they pull it off admirably. You can tell that they practice a lot, but the guys are so far from just going through the motions – the performance aspect of the show seems rehearsed, yet with a cool, organic component. The sound is exactly what you’d expect from a band that bills themselves as ‘surf psych punk someshit.’ The wet reverb guitars could be informed equally by The Del-Tones or Jimi Hendrix, genre-mashing from song to song while retaining a hookdriven pop sensibility, reminiscent of The Beatles in their prime. It’s as if they’ve taken chunks of every classic or influential style or band, and savagely twisted it into their own brand of mature rock‘n’roll. The boys’ excellent attitude towards melody is showcased even in the most simple of ‘hum-into-a-filter-mic-after-the-verse’ parts, and shines with each crashing breakdown. It’s no wonder that these guys took out the Carlton Dry Global Music Grant. They recently received $50,000 to establish themselves internationally – rightfully so, as it would be a crime to not show King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard off to the rest of the world. I look forward to watching them continue to move from strength to strength, and I’m quietly confident that they can take over the world, in one way or another. Their live show is awesome, their albums rock. Go get yourself some King Gizz today! LOVED: The band. HATED: Jerkoffs who’d been at the races. DRANK: Beer. REI BARKER BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 58
OWL EYES Northcote Social Club, Wednesday October 16 Tonight’s performance was the first of three shows at the Northcote Social Club for local songstress Brooke Addamo aka Owl Eyes. This would be another chance for the singer-songwriter to showcase songs in front of her hometown from her debut album Nightswim, which was released earlier in the year. The biggest unknown before the show was how well would her electro indie-pop tunes be translated to the live setting. If there were any trepidation’s in the room they were well and truly put to bed early. Backed up by her three piece band which consisted of keys, synth, bass and drums, each song came effortlessly to life in a venue which seemed to be the perfect companion for her music. The keys, synth and electronics blended seamlessly with the live drums and, when utilised, the bass, but it was Addamo’s vocals that really soared. She sure does have an impressive voice, quite and still one moment then easily reaching great heights the next. Owl Eyes looks as if she was born on stage, effortlessly moving and swaying to her ‘80s influenced pop tunes. Although only three quarters full, which considering it was a week night and the first of three shows is no mean feat, the Melbourne crowd was none the less lifeless. It certainly didn’t seem that they weren’t enjoying the show or Owl Eyes own performance which was solid. Perhaps it’s just a case of your typical mid-week Melbourne crowd, hopelessly quiet and well, kind of shit. Despite this, Owl Eyes owned the stage, playing through her highly infectious and danceable tracks and finally receiving a rapturous applause for triple j favourite Raiders, which for a brief moment saw the crowd come to life. The lack of vibe certainly didn’t dampen Owl Eyes performance, nor that of her band and you couldn’t help but get the feeling that the sold out Friday night show in front of a full house LOVED: The ‘80s style synth. could well be something to write home about. HATED: The crowd. DRANK: Fat Yak. JAMES NICOLI
BRITISH INDIA The Hi-Fi, Friday October 18 Having established themselves as a leading force in the new breed of Aussie rock gods, British India are known for their gutsy, balls-on-the-line shows and this tour is proving no different. Travelling the country in support of new album, Controller (including a couple of cheeky shows with Fall Out Boy), the local lads were obviously pleased to be in front of a home crowd – and the fans agreed. It was a packed Hi-Fi bar that greeted the band, already jiving from the Bee Gees soundtrack during set-up. And then it was time to rock. A bit of old school charm with the super catchy choruses of This Dance Is Loaded and Avalanche getting the crowd singing along as the moshpit grew ever busier. A moment of reprieve came with one of their newer singles, Plastic Souvenirs, its stripped back vibe perhaps not the best style for frontman Declan Melia to convey live. At heart, he is a talented performer but definitely at his best when he’s at his loudest. Other older favourites from 2007’s Guillotine album, Tie Up My Hands and Run the Red Light remain set highlights to this day – impossible to resist singing along to – and rounded out a gig that showcased the very best of releases past and present. With tracks vacillating between rock, punk and hardcore, it was a horns-out affair for young and old (and the crowd really was mixed). I Can Make You Love Me took fans on an emotional journey of love and loss, a fine example of Melia’s songwriting ability. And there’d be no better ending to a British India show than Summer Forgive Me, the ultimate anthem of power, determination and – something Melburnians are simply aching for – summer. All in all, a fantastic example of good quality rock music from our very own shores from a band that these days has trouble fitting all their singles into one show. The best kind of problem to have. This band has done the hard yards and it shows – they are seasoned LOVED: Sing-along city! performers that truly come to life onstage. HATED: Down-tempo vocals (keep it rockin’!). JEN WILSON DRANK: Beer (and lots of it).
YO LA TENGO Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Friday October 18 Hoboken’s Yo La Tengo are a reliably great live band. Their shows often feel like special occasions and their success as a live act is assured due to their feeding off a very appreciative fan-base. I have seen them several times, the previous show being a Q&A/request show that allowed some insight into the band’s personalities. This exclusive Melbourne Festival show is named ‘An Evening With Yo La Tengo’ and set within the formal, seated Hamer Hall, though it lacks a little of the warm interaction and spontaneity that you come to expect from this trio. Tonight’s conceit is a set of two halves over a three-hour period. It’s a great idea for a band who offer such range to divide their sets into a gentle, quiet show and a louder, electric second half, and yet the contrast isn’t as great as you’d expect. There’s a huge chunk of new album, Fade, on offer tonight. The weight of it is a surprise from a band with such a hefty catalogue and there’s an early lull with a three-song run of slow, sleepy Fade songs. On the plus side, Ohm is such a great song and translates so well live that you can LOVED: Despite my expectations not forgive them playing it twice. quite being met, a band of this calibre There are a couple of odd choices from the band’s back catalogue (Mr Tough is are always a breath of fresh air. HATED: The disruptive waves of no-one’s favourite Yo La Tengo song, surely?), but the set is made memorable latecomers and early leavers. And by a handful of classic tracks that get serviced in grand style: a dreamy Little whoever was slow-clapping long after Eyes, Painful gem Sudden Organ and the absolutely essential Sugarcube. everyone had finished applauding. DRANK: A half-time red wine CHRIS GIRDLER
WHITLEY Howler, Friday October 18 This particular Friday evening marked an official return of sorts for Melbourne’s Lawrence Greenwood or as he is more commonly known Whitley, who after a few years away from the scene, found himself back up onstage. New Brunswick hot spot Howler was the venue where Whitley took to the stage, acoustic guitar in hand and accompanied only by a second guitarist. Whitley casually and without a hint of pretention played through his back catalogue, covering material from all three albums including this year’s Even the Stars Are a Mess. What stands out immediately is Whitley’s vocals, a perfect blend of power and restraint that puts just enough emotion into each song but never too much. And the words. His lyrics are like poetry which beckon you to get lost in them and even when you don’t know the words they still seem familiar. The guitar playing was a delight too, with Whitley and his companion complimenting each other perfectly, not a note out of step. Recent single My Heart is Not a Machine stood out, showing off the delicate beauty which made us take note of him in the first place but also showing a new found maturity as a songwriter; surely a memento from his travels to foreign lands. The stripped back approach suited the songs accordingly yet I couldn’t help but hope that he gets the full band together in the near future to really bring the songs to life. For the last few songs Whitley played accompanied solely by his guitar and then just as the hour was up, he was done, and the crowd slowly poured out of the band room and into the night. JAMES NICOLI
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LOVED: The lyrics. HATED: Not much. DRANK: Red wine.