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DAUGHTER Daughter have locked in an intimate headline show to coincide with their appearance at Laneway. Daughter were last in the country in August for the 2013 incarnation of Splendour In The Grass. The Heavenly Sounds touring concept, which sees artists perform in the breathtaking surroundings of churches and cathedrals, has proven to be a great success on the live music circuit with sold out tours from acts such as Laura Marling, Seeker Lover Keeper, Kate Miller-Heidke and Lisa Mitchell to name a few. Catch ‘em at the St Michael’s Uniting Church on Monday February 10.
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Belle Roscoe are returning to Australia this November in promotion of their new album, Boom Boom. The Melbourne indie pop-rock band led by siblings Julia and Matt Gurry have spent the past three years in Paris, where they have been refining their sound since their self-titled debut album in 2009. Boom Boom will draw influences from Belgium, France and Malta, and create a powerful blend of European pop and vintage synths. Belle Roscoe will be playing at the Bella Union on Thursday December 5.
Corrina Steel will hit the road this December in promotion of their new album, Borrowed Tunes. Collaborating with guitarist Mike Anderson, Borrowed Tunes features tracks from The Black Keys, Iffy & Stooges and Primal Scream; unexpected choices for a country artist. Corrina Steel will be performing free shows at The Post Office Hotel on Thursday December 12, Pure Pop Records on Saturday December 14 and a ticketed show at the Flying Saucer Club on Sunday December 15.
Promoters Live Nation have released a statement which details that illness has caused the band to cancel their upcoming 14-date tour of Australia and New Zealand. “John McVie, one of the co founding and original members of Fleetwood Mac, is now scheduled to be in treatment for cancer during that period of time. The band have released the following statement: ‘We are sorry to not be able to play these Australian and New Zealand dates. We hope our Australian and New Zealand fans as well as Fleetwood Mac fans everywhere will join us in wishing John and his family all the best.’” If you had bought tickets, please contact your point of purchase for more details on receiving your refund.
MOUNT KIMBIE Mount Kimbie have locked in a Laneway sideshow. Earlier this year Mount Kimbie released their sophomore album Cold Spring Faultless Youth, of which our reviewer stated “it evokes a sense of ephemeral beauty - enveloping the listener in a sweet seductive haze for a few fleeting moments before disappearing. The duo have played a central role in forging a new form for electronic music. Their influence stretches far beyond the tiny corner of the dance music underground that birthed them and, with the duo now signed to the legendary Warp label, it looks set to stretch further still in the coming years. Catch ‘em at the Corner Hotel on Thursday January 30.
METRIC New wave synth maestros Metric are headed Down Under in December for a string of dates around the country. Since releasing their fifth studio album Synthetica in 2012, the Toronto-based quartet has been bringing the party with tracks like Youth Without Youth, Breathing Underwater and Lost Kittens. Metric’s national support, Glass Towers, will join the tour fresh from dates across Europe and Japan. Metric hit The Forum on Monday December 9.
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE & NINE INCH NAILS Two of the world’s most influential bands of the last decade will join forces for a massive double headline tour and they’ve added a second show. In what could arguably be described as one of the biggest double bills to ever reach our shores, QOTSA and NIN joined by special guest Brody Dalle, will take on both Australia and New Zealand next March. During the tour, the first headline band is set to be decided by the toss of a coin. It all goes down at Rod Laver Arena on Friday March 14 and Saturday March 15.
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What do you love about making music? After a long break of not making music together, we have a new appreciation for it. As siblings, the way our voices blend can be magical. We seem to be telepathic on stage. The ability to be able to communicate a vast idea in a song that’s otherwise difficult to explain in every day life, it’s a pure form of expression. So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? “Hey, that pink haired chick and her brother from The Mavis’s (who don’t know how to spell) are playing down the road.” Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? New Matt & Beki EP Searching for Zero available now on iTunes and Bandcamp. Forthcoming single Standing In the Dark due for release on Friday November 1. Check out Matt & Beki clips on YouTube, or check out mattandbekimusic. tumblr.com or www.facebook.com/ themaviss When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/single/etc? Yah Yah’s on Saturday November 2 with the full band. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Musically our inspiration began with the punk and new wave era of the late ‘70s, early ‘80s: The Slits, Cyndi Lauper, Depeche Mode, Human League, The Go-Go’s, The B-52’s, The Raincoats, The Divinyls, Divine to name a few. Nonmusical influences include dogs, UFOs, space, wigs, Farfisa organs, op shops, conspiracy theories and love!
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American punk rockers Parquet Courts are headed Down Under for the first time ever as part of the 2014 Laneway festival, and have locked in a Melbourne headline show. The foursome are known for their up-all-night energy, vibing on a DIY underground sound. They’ll be joined by Total Control and Constant Mongrel.Catch ‘em at the Corner Hotel on Wednesday January 29.
BILL MEDLEY FALLS FESTIVAL More acts have been added to the already extensive Falls bill. Musical additions to the festival include Anna Lunoe, Born Ruffians, Citizen Kay, Dappled Cities, The Delta Riggs, Dustin Tebbutt, Ego, Generik, Hiatus Kaiyote, Jackie Onassis, Little Bastard, M4sonic, Motorik Vibe Council, The Murlocs, Mustered Courage, Owl Eyes, Perch Creek Family Jugband, Remi, Smith Street Band, Touch Sensitive, Twinsy, Tyler Touche, Vydamo, Wave Racer, Willow Beats and Wolf & Cub. Excited about Boogie Nights? Nine-piece soul band Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes will be replacing Hot 8 Brass Band, who are unable to play due to illness, and taking on the fancy dress theme of ‘Intergalatic’. Comedians Amos Gill, Dave Callan, David Quirk, Michael Hing, Nath Valvo and Ronny Chieng will also bring all the laughs this year. Falls Festival will run from Saturday December 28 – Wednesday January 1. Tickets are currently sold out to Lorne and Byron Bay, but tickets to Marion Bay are still available.
FRIGHTENED RABBIT Frightened Rabbit are backing up their recent national tour with more headline shows Down Under, this time alongside their Laneway appearance. Australia is proving a home away from home for the Scots, who’ve previously appeared at Woodford Folk Festival, Pyramid Rock, Peats Ridge and Splendour In The Grass. Catch ‘em on Wednesday February 5 at The Palace. Tickets through Ticketek.
American music icon, Bill Medley, will tour Australia this March on his Lovin’ Feelin’ 50th Anniversary Tour. As half of The Righteous Brothers, Medley’s baritone can be heard on a number of sing-a-long worthy classics, including the most played song in the history of American radio, You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. Catch Bill Medley and his full band on Saturday March 15 at the Palais Theatre. Tickets go on sale Thursday November 7 on Ticketmaster.
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So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? Aurora Jane. I play guitar and sing. What do you sound like? Soulful funk meets psychedelic retro rock with a zesty pop twist. What do you love about making music? Everything. It nurtures me, helps me to enjoy life more deeply, and when I’m in a state of flow, allows me to transcend the boundaries of space and time. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Jimi Hendrix, to get some feedback on controlling feedback with Mojo and gusto! What can a punter expect from your live show? Sweet sounds, phat sounds, deep pockety groove, adventure stories, laughter and dancing! What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? We have four albums, What is it?, Universal Language, Deep End and our new album we are launching is Holding Pattern. When’s the gig and with who? Thursday October 31 at the Evelyn with two of my favourite Melbourne bands The Imprints and The Lovely Days. Holding Pattern is your fourth album, what makes it different from the others? It was written, recorded and mixed over a few months… so it’s spontaneous, fresh, and carries a lot of vibe from the live tracking of the bed tracks in a house in the Byron hinterland. So you’ve launched a new project ‘Mojo Junction’, what’s that about? mojojunction.com is a ‘creative intersection’ featuring music, food, travel & culture stories from independent artists across the globe in the form of short-films, podcasts, photo-stories and reviews. You produce music and videos for other artists too, do you find it rewarding? I love it. Working with great writers is a joy. I feel I have so much room to move creatively when breathing life and ideas into other peoples work. Collaboration is always the most rewarding art form.
Define your genre in five words or less: Clean, considered, collaborative, pop songs. How long have you been gigging and writing? We have been together for a long time in various incarnations, in our current line-up we’ve been together for about a year. The Ocean Party as an entity though, is roughly four years old I’d say. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Our new album SPLIT is available on CD through Spunk Records. We have a morass of old EP’s and single CD’s lying around in our kitchen cupboard also, but they’re getting a little old now. When’s the gig and with who? We’re launching our new album at Boney on Saturday November 2 with The Clits, Totally Mild, and the mysterious Sam Cooked. What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording? We went to Zach and Lachlan’s grandparent’s farm in Tarcutta to record our new album. There were two lambs, and Zach caught a trout. Their grandmother Daisy Denton constantly made us trifle to eat, it was a real treat. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? I think everyone in The Ocean Party is happy to be afforded the chance to play our own original music, basically as much as we want. Personally I am happy that there is actually a supportive community of people around who enjoy original music, most of whom also make some themselves. That doesn’t happen everywhere. What part of making music discourages you? Time can be something that breeds discouragement. We’ve always kept up a good momentum with our stuff, but even so some things can gather dust pretty quickly. Things that sit on the shelf are just asking for scrutiny and examination, though it may even be unfounded. Best not to let new ideas ferment too long, but there is definitely a delicate balance there too.
SEBADOH The lo-fi pioneers reformed in 2007 after a sevenyear hiatus, and then visited Australian shores back in 2011 touring their classic Bakesale (1994) and Harmacy (1996) albums. The 2013 tour will see them celebrate their first studio album in 14 years, entitled Defend Yourself. Catch ‘em at the Corner Hotel on Friday March 21.
THE JULIE RUIN The Julie Ruin will be hitting Australian shores for the first time this January. Since their conception in 2010, The Julie Ruin has garnered attention for their whipsmart wit and raw punk. On their tour to Australia next year, the band will entertain newcomers and longtime fans with their fierce expression and feminism. The Julie Ruin was created by Riot Grrrl pioneer and feminist activist Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre), and consists of her hand-picked bandmates, which include former Bikini Kill bassist Kathi Wilcox. The Julie Ruin will perform at The Corner Hotel on Wednesday January 15.
STEVE KILBEY Modern day renaissance man Steve Kilbey has announced that he will embark on a very special tour early this November. The former The Church member will be backed by a full string section and is expected to dig deep into his back catalogue of solo releases, collaborations and The Church classics. Catch Steve Kilbey at the Northcote Social Club on Sunday November 10. Grab tickets on the venue’s website.
AUTRE NE VEUT In addition to his already announced appearance at Laneway Festival, Autre Ne Veut will also be performing a run of solo headline shows. Recent years have seen the ascension of a whole new and prosperous era for R&B with the emergence of a raft of transcendent neo-soul artists such as Frank Ocean and The Weeknd, but it’s Autre Ne Veut who’s really paved the way for this glorious reimagining, first via his 2010 self-titled debut and more recently courtesy of his sophomore long-player, Anxiety. Catch him at the Northcote Social Club on Tuesday February 4.
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The Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania has announced the lineup for their annual Festival of Music and Art. The eclectic 2014 lineup will feature Ansgar Wallenhorst, Astronautalis, Australian Art Orchestra with Ngaiire, Australian Chamber Orchestra Quartet, Chris Thile, Client Liaison, Colin Stetson, Conrad Shawcross: Ada, Faux Mo, John Grant, Kim Myhr & Kjell Bjørgeengen, Matmos, Mick Harvey Does Serge Gainsbourg, Morning Meditations, Orquesta TĂpica FernĂĄndez Fierro, Perch Creek Family Jug Band, Pixar In Concert With Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Psycroptic, Robin Fox, Roland Tings, Slave Pianos & Punkasila 3ith Michael Kieran Harvey & Rachel, Sarawati, Striborg, Sun Ra Arkestra, The Bombay Royale, The Julie Ruin, The Orb, Tyondai Braxton: Hive with more to be announced. MONA FOMA takes place over Wednesday January 15 Sunday January 19.
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The Be Project is a new national competition which implores young Aussies to produce an inspirational song or action sports film, to be a collective voice challenging Australia’s binge drinking culture. Hip hop artist PEZ is working with The Be Project to encourage young Aussies to get involved. Having seen the effects that alcohol can have on budding musicians, PEZ is passionate about encouraging young Australians to fulfil their musical potential without succumbing to the pressures of binge drinking. Footage from the ten winners of the amateur filmmaker’s category will have their clips mashed together and played over the soundtrack of the winning song to produce an inspirational music video – developed by young people for young people. The ten best budding action sports film makers will win a handheld action camera so they can continue to capture amazing action sports moments with their friends. The winner of the music category will win a trip to Melbourne where they will have their song professionally recorded by one of Australia’s leading producers, a professional music industry mentorship and a Macbook Pro so that they can continue recording tracks at home. The competition is now open and closes at midnight on Friday December 20. To enter or find out more please visit tacklingbingedrinking.gov.au/thebeproject or facebook.com/nationalbingedrinkingcampaign.
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KING KRULE King Krule, aka Archy Marshall, has added a Melbourne sideshow to his Laneway dates in February. The 19-year-old Brit has one of those remarkable voices that turns heads and captures ears. His debut, 6 Feet Beneath The Moon, combines elements from across the musical spectrum - jazz, dubstep, hip hop and anything else. Catch him on Tuesday January 28 at the Corner Hotel.
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THE APE The Ape are set to tear apart The Shadow Electric Bandroom. Comprised of Raul Sanchez, Pat Bourke, Gus Agars and the mighty Tex Perkins, The Ape have just released their self-titled debut album. They hit The Shadow Electric alongside Mesa Cosa on Monday November 4. We have a double pass to give away.
BLUEJUICE Bluejuice have pashed a grandmother, jumproped their way to being grand champions, leapt from a plane and stormed the streets as religious zealots to get their music heard and loved. With new single S.O.S. Bluejuice are back to rid the world of douchebags, saving our streets one stage at a time, including their show at the Corner Hotel this Friday November 1. We have some double passes to give away. Head to beat.com.au/freeshit to win.
KURT VILE & THE VIOL ATORS Kurt Vile & The Violators are once again descending on Melbourne in all of their ragged glory. The Philadelphia hair throb and his band return to our shores to continue the love affair that began with their sold-out debut Australian tour for Meredith Music Festival 2012. Catch Kurt Vile & The Violators over two nights at the Corner Hotel with special guests Early Woman (Wednesday February 5) and Montero (Thursday February 6).
TURBO FRUITS Turbo Fruits will be hitting Australian shores this November in promotion of their latest album Butter. Founded in Nashville, Tennessee, back in 2006 by Be Your Own Pet guitarist Jonas Stein, Turbo Fruits made a name for themselves with their self-titled 2007 debut (released through Thurston Moore’s label Estastic Peace!), which encapsulated their garage rock infused style and pummeling, primal rhythms and wild abandon. Turbo Fruits will tear up The Toff in Town on Monday November 4 and The Barwon Club on Tuesday November 5.
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Four years after Call Signs earned them critical acclaim, psychedelic rock outfit Black Cab have announced the release of their new EP, Go Slow, and a tour in its support. The EP features two double A-side singles off of their forthcoming double LP, due out in June 2014. Drawing inspiration from the 1976 Montreal Olympic steroid scandal, the Go Slow EP showcases the band’s new-found grip on electronica. Catch Black Cab at Northcote Social Club on Monday November 4. Tickets are available via the venue’s website.
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 perform at The Evelyn on Thursday November 28.
PETER MURPHY Peter Murphy has announced that he will play three rare shows of solely Bauhaus material on his Mr. Moonlight Tour this December. Celebrating 35 years, this will mark the first time ever that the frontman will play full Bauhaus sets on his own since the post-rock band’s 1978 inception. Peter Murphy will play the Corner Hotel on Thursday December 12. Grab tickets via the venue’s website.Â
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Adding to the already huge lineup, three new shows have been announced for the upcoming Shadow Electric Bandroom performances. The opening night party on Friday November 1 will feature live music from Citizen Sex, a new matinee show from local heroes Hello Morning has been announced for Saturday November 9 and will be followed up on Sunday November 10 by the Spoils and Ben Salter. Several support acts have also been added; The Bombay Royale will be supported by San Lazaro, Karate Boogaloo and DJ Chris Gill on Saturday November 2, Little Scout on Sunday November 3 will be joined by I, a Man and Courtney Barnett will launch her second EP with support from the always incredible Teeth and Tongue. The Shadow Electric Bandroom will run daily from Friday November 1 to Sunday November 10, head to their website for tickets and more information.
CHVRCHES have locked in a Melbourne headline show to coincide with their appearance on the 2014 Laneway bill. The Glasgow synth-pop trio were last on our shores in August where they played to sold out audiences nationwide. Since then, they’ve released their debut album The Bones Of What You Believe to widespread critical acclaim. Catch ‘em at The Forum on Wednesday January 29. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday October 30 through the Laneway website.
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CASS MCCOMBS Cass McCombs has locked in a Melbourne headline show. McCombs has traversed many borders, literally and figuratively, since his debut Not The Way in 2003. Over the last decade, McCombs has been a remarkably consistent singer-songwriter, often compared to the ilk of Bill Callahan and Will Oldham. He’ll be joined by Ross McLennan. Catch him on Thursday January 30 at the Northcote Social Club.
BATTLESHIPS Sydney act Battleships will be hitting the road this November in promotion of their new single Take Your Rest. Take Your Rest features eerie vocals layered over sweeping compositions and powerful drumbeats that point towards a more mature sound. You can catch Battleships at the Northcote Social Club on Friday November 29 after they wrap up their tour with Boy & Bear.
HOLY HOLY Holy Holy have announced an east coast in celebration of the end of 2013. This year saw the duo, consisting of award-winning Brisbane songwriter Timothy Carrols and Melbourne-based guitarist and composter Oscar Dawson, tour with their friends and an amazing array of artists, including Emma Louise, The Trouble With Templeton and Snakadaktal. Holy Holy will perform at The Grace Darling on Friday November 22.
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Gossling will tour the east coast in support of her forthcoming debut album, Harvest of Gold, due out Friday November 1. With her latest single Never Expire landing her a prominent position on the blogosphere’s radar, Gossling’s debut effort will showcase Helen Croome’s penchant for tender lyrics and memorable melodies. Gossling will play the Corner Hotel on Wednesday November 20.
In the last 12 months Jagwar Ma have delivered on the considerable hype that surrounded the release of their accomplished debut Howlin. After wowing the masses at Glastonbury, Bestival and Creamfields, the band played their debut sold out shows in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles just last week, and will return home for the 2014 Laneway festival alongside a run of headline shows. Check out our review of Howlin here. Catch ‘em at The Hi-Fi on Thursday January 16.
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London all-girl four-piece Savages have announced a Sydney show alongside their Laneway dates, with support from Kirin J Callinan. Following their wellreceived debut album Silence Yourself, released in May, the post-punkers made a splash at SXSW and were nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize. They hit The Hi-Fi on Thursday January 30.
British brothers Drenge have announced a Melbourne headline show alongside their Laneway dates next February. Having already played at Glastonbury and the Reading and Leeds Festivals, Drenge will finally be bringing their raucous live show to Melbourne. Catch ‘em at The Tote on Wednesday February 5. Tickets through Oztix.
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INTERNATIONAL LIGHTNING BOLT Corner Hotel October 30 VERONICA FALLS Northcote Social Club October 31 THE SEEKERS Hamer Hall, November 7, 8, 28 TURBO FRUITS The Toff in Town November 4, The Barwon Club November 5 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 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 METRIC The Forum December 9 DEERHUNTER The Hi-Fi December 11 MAC DEMARCO Corner Hotel December 11, Shadow Electric December 16 HOPSIN The Espy December 12 PETER MURPHY Corner Hotel 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 THE JULIE RUIN Corner Hotel January 15 MONA FOMA FESTIVAL TBA January 15-19 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 KING KRULE Corner Hotel January 28 PARQUET COURTS Corner Hotel January 29 CHVRCHES The Forum January 29 MOUNT KIMBIE Corner Hotel January 30 CASS MCCOMBS Northcote Social Club January 30 SAVAGES The Hi-Fi January 30 ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL Footscray Community Arts Centre February 1 KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS Corner Hotel, February 5, 6 AUTRE NE VEUT Northcote Social Club February 4 DRENGE The Tote February 5 FRIGHTENED RABBIT The Palace February 5 THE NATIONAL Sidney Myer Music Bowl February 9
DAUGHTER St Michael’s Uniting Church February 10 LYNYRD SKYNYRD The Plenary February 11 DOLLY PARTON Rod Laver Arena February 11 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AAMI Park February 15 EMINEM, KENDRICK LAMAR, J. COLE Etihad Stadium February 19 SOUNDWAVE 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, NINE INCH NAILS Rod Laver Arena March 14, 15 BILL MEDLEY Palais Theatre March 15 SEBADOH Corner Hotel March 21 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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BERNARD FANNING By Dan Watt “It is the popular songs like Wish You Well that allow you to travel around the country – almost like Trojan horses – those songs bash the door down for all the other songs you’ve written,” succinctly explains 44-year-old modern Australian rock-legend Bernard Fanning. Fanning, one of the most well rounded musicians in Australia and one of only a handful of people that could make the previous statement with such conviction. As front-man of Brisbane rock’n’roll band Powderfinger, Fanning enthralled listeners with his impassioned grunge cries during the outro of Pick You Up and steadied during the middle of The ‘Fingers career on the back of the flawlessly constructed These Days and the pure pop genius of My Happiness. In June this year roughly two years since Powderfinger played their last show on the banks of the Brisbane River, Fanning released the album Departures. While being his second solo album, the followup to 2005’s Tea & Sympathy that featured the aforementioned Trojan horse Wish You Well, Fanning explains that Departures is a more focused and committed effort than its triple platinum selling predecessor. “Tea & Sympathy was kind of a project because Powderfinger were still together; we were having a year off so I made an album. Departures was made knowing that I wasn’t going back to Powderfinger – a really different mentality. Tea & Sympathy was just written by sitting on the veranda and drinking a bottle of wine or getting high. But with this album I put a lot more thought into it.” Aurally, Departures is a completely different beast to Tea & Sympathy, a notion that becomes obvious from the first listen. Departures quite literally got ‘Hollywood treatment’ under the helm of überproducer Joe Chiccarelli whose résumé includes The Strokes’ Angles and Boy & Bear’s five-times ARIAaward juggernaut debut album. Fanning explains that the expectation of production-value on his latest album was always in the mix. “Tea & Sympathy lends itself to sitting down with a guitar. I wasn’t in that situation at all with this record, teaching myself how to program drums and do things really differently to how I had done them before. I did Departures with a totally different view in mind.” Surprisingly, this new approach freed Fanning from the weight of expectation, considering Tea & Sympathy was so successful. “I didn’t have any great expectations for this record, I think a lot of people probably had a lot of expectations for this record because Tea & Sympathy was a pretty successful record but I wasn’t trying to ‘follow it up’ or any of that crap that is normally associated with it by the music press. “I just wanted to make music that was different to what I had done before. About halfway through the process I ended up getting, the opportunity to go and make the music with Joe and that kind of changed the mentality that I was going into the record with.” The reason Fanning jumped at the chance to go and BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 26
make it in LA was that he would get to work with such a well-regarded producer and the access that he would have to really slick, top-end musicians. As Fanning now confirms, even after 25 years as a recording artist, there are some opportunities in ‘the biz’ that still excite him. “I wanted to see what that was like so I saw the opportunity and just grabbed it! Originally this record was going to be a little more cut and paste-y and a lot more lo-fi than it ended up. I mean the demos of Departures really reflect it a lot more - I’ll probably look at trying to get them out at some stage as well,” concludes Fanning on the studio permutations of Departures.
“TEA & SYMPATHY LENDS ITSELF TO SITTING DOWN WITH A GUITAR. I WASN’T IN THAT SITUATION AT ALL WITH THIS RECORD, TEACHING MYSELF HOW TO PROGRAM DRUMS AND DO THINGS REALLY DIFFERENTLY TO HOW I HAD DONE THEM BEFORE. I DID DEPARTURES WITH A TOTALLY DIFFERENT VIEW IN MIND.” With the higher production value of this record, the beefed-up sound, actually threw-up an unexpected challenge Fanning – to not let the songs sound like Powderfinger songs. One songs that flirts close to this line is the third single from Departures, the stirring Grow Around You. Fanning discusses the challenge of getting this song to how it sounds today. “That song went through a few different permutations, and you’re right, it could have turned into a big rock power ballad but I think that it would have ended up sounding a lot like Powderfinger if it had gone down that road, and part of the idea of this record was not
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go there as well out of respect for Powderfinger and out of curiosity.” The concept of challenging himself as songwriter is not new to Fanning. One particularly memorable anecdote from his songwriting history is the story surrounding the Powderfinger song These Days that came in at no.1 on the Triple J Hottest 100 in 1999. The song was first released on the soundtrack of the film from the same year, Two Hands. The story goes that the film’s writer and director Gregor Jordan asked Powderfinger to write a song specifically for the scene where karma gets the better of Brian Brown’s gangster character. “Gregor Jordan came to us and said, ‘I like your music – can you guys contribute some music to a film I am making?’” Fanning clarifies the origins of the song. “To which we said, ‘Can we see it before we agree to do it?’ And he showed us a scene that he was looking to put a song and we actually wrote two songs for it with These Days being the second one written. We recorded the first one and we were like, ‘That’s alright’ and then I went home that night and wrote These Days. The scene we wrote it for is the one where the girl walks up the hallway and shoots Brian Brown and co. I hadn’t seen the whole film at that stage but I knew the story and I knew the idea.” As one would discern from this article so far, an audience with Fanning is intelligently enlightening due to his extensive experience and keen observation. Finally, Fanning talks about his upcoming Day On The Green show in the Yarra Valley at Rochford Wines on Saturday November 9 – a live show that will see Fanning at his best having honed his live performance during July/August’s Departures tour of Australia. Joining him on the lineup at Rochford Wines are similarly iconic Australian artists The Cruel Sea, Sarah Blasko and Bob Evans. “I know them all through Powderfinger and touring Tea & Sympathy. I have played with all of them at some stage, with Kev [Mitchell a.k.a Bob Evans] more so through Jebediah. From just talking to friends of mine and people about the lineup, everyone really likes it. There is a lot of variety there but also enough familiarity to keep a thread running between all four acts. I think it is going to be a great day. Hopefully we get good weather – that’s the main problem in Victoria isn’t it?” tells an enthusiastic Fanning who still manages to have a little jab at ‘The Place To Be.’ Fanning is also very definite in establishing that if you saw his Departures show at the Palace Theatre in August that this performance will be different. “We have no intention of reproducing the show we put on for the Departures tour – we are going to do a different show again and this time there is a visual element to it – more production. It is a little bit more theatrical.”
BERNARD FANNING, The Cruel Sea, Sarah Blasko and Bob Evans are playing A Day On The Green on Saturday November 9 at Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley. Visit adayonthegreen.com.au for more information. Departures is out now via Dew Process/UMA.
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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN The Turning is a unique cinema event. 17 talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi awardwinning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever. This watershed film reinterprets and re-imagines the work for the screen. It’s currently showing at Cinema Nova.
With Tyson Wray. Got thoughts, news, gossip, complaints or cat photos? Email tyson@beat.com.au or send by carrier pigeon before Friday 12pm. about as anarchic as you would expect, with lots of toys to play with and bad guys to beat up. “Making movies with Robert is a lot of fun,” he says. “It’s action all the time. It’s a real down home kind of atmosphere on set, because we’re all really good friends.” Alongside an all-star cast, which also includes the likes of Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Jessica Alba, Mel Gibson and even Lady Gaga, Machete Kills features Alexa Vega, recognisable from her roles in the Spy Kids films. Suffice to say, Vega is now grown up, and in Machete Kills, she plays the role of a scantily-clad assassin. For Trejo and Rodriguez, who have known her since the age of 11, it was odd to see this transition. “When she initially approached him, Robert said there was no way, because she was too young,” Trejo laughs. “He finally gave her the part of KillJoy, and she took it and kicked the role in the ass…literally.” Working with Amber Heard, who played the role of a deranged beauty queen, was one of the main highlights for Trejo. “I got to kiss her!” he says of their scenes together, which clearly made a big impression. “It’s funny, because when Robert yelled ‘action’, Amber was laughing. He asked her why, and she said ‘it’s because Danny won’t stop whispering ‘thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus!’” Machete Kills opens with the trailer for a third instalment in the franchise, a rollicking adventure entitled Machete Kills Again: In Space. It seems a little far-fetched, but in Machete’s world, anything is possible. I ask Trejo if it’s likely Machete will make another appearance, and he says we’ll have to be patient. “The first two films came out of audience response,” he says, “so we’re going to wait and see how this one goes before we make any decisions, but we’ve definitely already hinted at another one.”
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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.
ON DISPL AY 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.
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In Dear Blossom award-winning jazz vocalist and leading lady, Fem Belling, brings to life the independent spirit and wistful romanticism of Blossom Dearie, the ‘childlike’ vocalist with a caviar taste in songs and musicians. An aural, visual and emotional journey through Blossom’s music and the tales of her performances, the show blurs the line between jazz and cabaret with needling wit and a twist of obsession. It takes place this Sunday November 3 at Village Melbourne.
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MACHETE KILLS By Alasdair Duncan The world got its first glimpse of Machete Cortez when the trailer for the blood-splattered b-movie Machete was shown as part of the Grindhouse double bill, but the character’s origins go back a lot further than that. Star Danny Trejo and director Robert Rodriguez had discussed the possibility of a Mexican action hero for years prior to Grindhouse. The initial trailer was a joke, a tongue-in-cheek parody that ran alongside others for fake films like Werewolf Women Of The SS, but it proved so popular that it turned into an actual film, and then another. Machete Kills arrives in cinemas this week. Trejo returns as the title character, who this time is facing off against brutal drug cartels, and a mad villain with a weapon pointed at Washington. Machete is the strong, silent type, letting his actions speak for him, and Trejo revels in the role. “Machete is a really old school kind of guy,” he says. “He’s like a Clint Eastwood or a Charles Bronson, and I love that about him. He doesn’t say a lot, but when he does, it’s to the point. The bottom line
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for him is that he’s a murderer. He doesn’t read the bad guys their rights, he just kills them.” Danny Trejo and Robert Rodriguez have a relationship that goes all the way back to 1995’s Desperado – they’ve made numerous films together, including four films in the Spy Kids series. As Trejo tells it, they revel in each other’s sense of mischief. “I love his style,” he says of Rodriguez. “I love the fact that he is a fan of action movies, just like I am.” Life on one of his film sets is
the highway trucking route out of town. Alienated from both the white dominated police force and his own community, including his teenage daughter, who he discovers is connected with the murdered girl, Jay stands alone in his determination to fight back for his town and his people. We have some double passes to give away. Head to beat.com.au/freeshit to win.
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This November Tinning Street Gallery will present the newest exhibition from visual artist Carla Fletchers entitled Grey. Grey will be the first solo exhibition from the Melbourne artist in two years, and is a contemplative and detailed compilation of illustrations of Australian fauna, including kangaroos. In the past, Fletcher has been a finalist for the 2010 Archibald Prize, the 2011 Black Swan Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Award last year, and a finalist for the Sulman Prize this year. Grey will be on exhibition at Tinning Street Gallery from Thursday November 14 – Sunday November 24.
IN A FOREST, DARK AND DEEP
After a successful season in 2012, Winterfall Theatre will be staging an encore season of the Neil LaBute play, In A Forest, Dark And Deep, at Northcote’s Theatre Husk in November. The two-hander returns with its original cast, Winterfall Theatre co-founder Michele Williams as Betty, and sought-after actor Christopher Connelly in the role of her sibling Bobby. On a dark and wet night, all Bobby thought he was doing was helping his sister Betty clear out her cottage in the woods. But in this cabin of lies nothing is what it seems and the truth refuses to be packed away. Opening on Saturday November 2, the season will run until Saturday November 23.
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AUSTRALIAN TATTOO AND BODY ART EXPO
The Australian Tattoo and Body Art Expo will return to Melbourne for its third year of special guests, entertainment, and of course, tattoos, late this November. Featuring everything from burlesque performances to a kids’ corner, this year’s expo will welcome guests from around the world, including pinup model Sabina Kelley and tattoo artist Randy Engelhard. Get inked from Friday November 29 to Sunday December 1 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
As part of the Girl Rising campaign, Loop Project Space Bar will screen the revolutionary documentary film Girl Rising this October. Narrated by numerous actresses, musicians and artists — including Selena Gomez, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep and Alicia Keys — Girl Rising documents the tale of nine girls who are born into unforgiving circumstances and their dreams, voices and their determination to receive an education despite their conditions. Girl Rising is a global movement to provide educational equality for girls, as this is regarded as a step to encourage gender equality where it does not exist. The foundation aims to capture the attention of international leaders and inspire them to include girls’ education on the post-2015 United Nations agenda. Girl Rising will be screening at Loop Project Space Bar on Tuesday October 31.
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The Shadow Electric open air cinema at the Abbottsford Convent have revealed their full 2013/2014 program. After rave reviews at the 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival,  Frances Ha will open the season on Thursday November 21, which 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. Check out The Shadow Electric website for the glorious entire program.
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Returning for its third consecutive year is Open Channel, a two-day speaker and session conference for young and emerging screen practitioners. This year the twoday conference will focus on reality TV with its theme Generation Next: Facing Up to Reality; introducing a load of guest speakers including comedian and TV personality Lawrence Mooney (Dirty Laundry Live), Rory Callaghan (Executive Director of Shine Australia) and Deb Stewart (Consultant Executive Producer of Big Brother) who will provide insight into the narrative element of reality TV and what television networks want Open Channel Generation Next: Facing Up to Reality will be hosted at Docklands Studios from Monday December 9 – Tuesday December 10.
MONSTERFEST
It’s nearing the end of the year, therefore, it’s time for Red Stitch Actors Theatre’s last production of the year — NSFW. NSFW (Not Safe For Work) is the newest production by UK playwright Lucy Kirkwood, a serious and satirical exposÊ of the glossy magazines of today and their attitudes to sexuality, normality and morality. NSFW illustrates the tale of Doghouse, a men’s magazine that is looking for an amateur page three girl from their readership and the consequences of this decisions. Ultimately one of the writers, Sam, is a casualty of this ambition and is forced to approach a women’s publication called Electra, where he realises magazine publishing might not be for him. The Australian premiere of NSFW will be performed at Red Stitch Actor’s Theatre from Friday November 22 – Saturday December 21.
MonsterFest is returning for another year of cult movies, horror and absolute awesomeness. Hosted at the Cinema Nova on Lygon Street, MonsterFest will open with A Night with Linda Blair and the 40th Anniversary of The Exorcist. Despite the mouthful, the night will feature a Q&A panel session with Linda Blair and is hosted by Paul Harris. Blair will also be available after the screening of The Exorcist for signatures. Other highlights of the festival include a marathon cult horror series A Night on Elm Street, a one-night-only Skype session with horror icon Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead, Django) who will present the Tarantino/Rodriguez classic From Dusk Till Dawn on Monday November 27, erotic vampire gore Kiss of the Damned and many, many more. MonsterFest will light up Cinema Nova from Friday November 22 – Sunday December 1.
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A huge lineup tonight at Crab Lab includes Celia Pacquola, Kate McLennan, Xavier Michelides, John Conway, Daniel Connell and much more. Still only $5 in the heart of the city, 16 Corrs Lane. 8.30pm start.
PUBLIC BAR COMEDY Melbourne’s hottest new comedy spot will be at boiling point tonight as one of Australia’s best comedians; Harley Breen is at the helm  along with Oliver Clark, Dilruk Jayasinha, Tom Ward, Ryan Coffey and Beau Stegmann for what will be one hell of a good show for a mere $5!
LOL COMEDY Bev Killick
Bev Killick – one of the dirtiest, funniest and continuously laugh out loud hilarious comedians in the country will slay LOL Comedy with Xavier Toby at the Portland Hotel on Wednesday October 30 and the Provincial Hotel on Thursday October 31. At The Local on Tuesday November 5 it’s Luke Heggie along with Laura Davis. Tickets from lolcomedy.com.au or at the door.
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Randy The Puppet headlines Commedia Dell Parte this Thursday in St Kilda. Hosted by Tony Besselink the huge lineup also features Jay Morrissey, Sonia Di Iorio, Timothy Clark, Sophie Rajander and Sean Hyatt. The room still runs on a ‘pay as you like’ basis, so come along and have a great laugh, then pay what you believe the show is worth on the way out. Commedia Dell Parte runs every Thursday from 8.30pm at the George Lane Bar, St Kilda.
COMEDY AT SPLEEN It’s another bursting Comedy At Spleen this Monday with guests Daniel Connell, Khaled Khalafalla, Steele Saunders, Gerard McCulloch and more. It’s on this Monday November 4. It’s free, but a gold coin donation is appreciated. It all happens at Spleen, 41 Bourke St, city.
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LASSETER’S BONES By Liza Defouli In stories following the pattern of mythic structure, they call it the call to adventure: something beckons and life goes in a new, challenging and ultimately transformative direction. For Luke Walker, UK born actor-turned-documentary maker, the call to adventure came during a conversation with 85-year-old Bob Lasseter, son of the goldseeking pioneer Harold Bell Lasseter who ‘found’ a seven mile long seam of gold in the central Australian outback. Lasseter Senior perished in 1931 on his last attempt to find the gold not everyone believed was there. Bob, now 85, was only six when his father died but, convinced that the seam of gold exists, has devoted his life to continuing his father’s search. For Walker, the Lasseter mystery had become an ‘unhealthy obsession.’ “I started collecting the information eight years ago when I came to Australia,” he says. Walker, who’d fled the UK to Australia after being typecast in what he calls ‘a terrible soap opera’ and unable to find more acting work, was already obsessed with the mystery of ‘Lasseter’s reef ’ and went on to compile a 50,000 word document of his findings. “ I consumed all the books, visited the archives, talked to people – I enjoyed the process of research and investigation. It was a silly obsession; I did it for fun and put it in a file somewhere.” Walker hadn’t intended to become a documentary maker but researching the Lasseter story changed that. “I went to VCA and learnt how to make docos,” he said. “I forgot about Lasseter.” Walker’s first feature length documentary was the unforgettable Beyond Our Ken, exploring the NSW based Kenja cult whose leader Ken Dyers committed suicide two weeks before the film’s premiere at MIFF. Beyond our Ken was screened twice on the ABC, and was nominated for two AFI awards. After this success Walker looked around for another project. “I went to the States to do a film about exorcism, which isn’t nearly as interesting or exciting as you’d think. It’s hard to feign interest – feigning enthusiasm is exhausting.” A plan to make a film about whaling in Japan subsequently fell through and Walker found himself wondering what to do next. “I thought – I should give Bob Lasseter a call,” he recalls. “I did still have a lot of curiosity about the Lasseter story. Bob realised I did know a lot about the story; I was an AFI award-nominated film maker – I had a right to ring him. People hassle Bob all the time. Lots of nuts call him with their theories. He humours them. And then, the moment: Bob said ‘I’m going out again – do you want to come with me?’ Then I knew I had to make that film. “It’s been a long process. Four years in the making.” The toughest thing in creating Lasseter’s Bones was the amount of travelling involved. “We covered so much country,” Walker says. “If I was a sensible filmmaker I wouldn’t have done it. It was a ridiculous choice. Bob and I were out bush for a month. You’ve got to break camp, drive, bash through all that mulga, drive, make camp. We went over so much country, from Perth, to Sydney, central Australia, one of the most hostile environments on earth.” Lasseter’s Bones is a beautiful film telling a vast story set over vast terrain and a vast time span. The notion of obsession informs the film and Walker’s presence in the film, and being obsessed himself, gives the story a unique quality of immersion. Because the story of ‘Lasseter’s reef ’ does so many twists and turns, Walker had to find ways of fitting it all in to one film. “The Lasseter story is a beast,” he says. A friend from VCA, Tom Fraser, came up with some singular animation to fill some gaps. “I wanted to somehow show source material in the background, and animation in the foreground to create a collage effect,” Walker notes. “The animation represents real people and real events – incredibly complex to do but the film is made with heart, not with my head.” There isn’t a neat resolution to Lasseter’s Bones. The film plays out to the point when it realises the real story is someone else’s altogether – it belongs to the people living there. “It’s a land of mystery,” Walker says. “We reached a gateway – we really went as far as anyone could go, really went the distance. We got closer to the gold than anyone else in the last 80 years has done. Any white man, that is. What I’ve tried to do is put in all the information you need to work it out; I think anyone watching the film will be able to work out what happened to Lasseter,” he says. The end of Walker’s own journey comes when he is ‘given permission’ to stop, to stop wondering, stop working. A local man called Sandy ‘makes a call’ and the story ends with another mystery. “Perception of time is very different out there,” observes Walker, a comment which makes sense when you see Lasseter’s Bones. The documentary is about to get an outing in cinemas all over Australia, a thrill for the film maker. “It’s exciting that the film is going to be seen across the country.” Lasseter’s Bones opens at Cinema Nova this Thursday October 31. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 32
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Somehow, as part of his busy lifestyle, Eelke loves a workout at the gym and perhaps a sauna afterwards. “I go rock climbing once a week too,” he chimes. “I also used to really love videogames; I played my Xbox 360 every night but ever since I became a father I can’t seem to find the time for it.” Yet even minus the family commitments, it’s hardly surprising the Dutchman claims there aren’t enough hours in the day. Speaking down the line from his native Rotterdam in the Netherlands – arguably with Berlin and London the pivotal centers of the electronic dance music universe – he is busy working on a live set for the BlownAway2Rotterdam party which is coming up in late November. “I am dividing my time between that and finishing a new remix for Outside the Box Music and a couple of new EPs as well.” Back pedaling though, coming up in music for Eelke was a combination of what was going on at home as well as his childish curiosity with all things unusual. “As long as I can remember I had a thing with music,” he admits. “As a kid, I was taping music and making mix tapes and the like. But it wasn’t until I was 12 that I started to play an instrument and really got into creating music as well. I used to take home musical instruments from the store that I worked at over the weekend - and returned on Monday or Tuesday morning. That hobby got out of hand really quickly and when I was 18 I released my first record on vinyl!” Fast-forward a few years then and the chap finds himself well inside that aforementioned epicenter of the dance music phenomenon - and he loves it. “Regardless of whether the center is in London, Amsterdam, Berlin or a combination of those, the fact remains that we are very central here and it is easy to travel everywhere in Europe in a couple of hours. Holland has such a rich history in dance music and because the dance music scene has been going strong here for over 25 years, there are at least 20 clubs where you can go to and enjoy dance music. That’s pretty cool for such a small city!” Indeed, such diversity affords punters the opportunity to hear
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feel any pressure to finish a third one. I feel I can communicate my music at the moment better in singles and remixes. I am currently also working on a follow up single to Ein Tag Am Strand. I’m definitely not trying to quickly copy that track and release it, so it will be something different. For the follow up I am working with Emily Bruce, who sang on Goldfish’s Woman is a Devil on a melodic vocal track.” And with that, he adds the label carries with it no specific direction. “Actually there is no philosophy behind it and I think that is the beauty of it. I just release music that I like from artists that I like to support – that could be a philosophy if you look at it from a certain angle, I suppose.” We have a forthcoming EP coming up from MUUI, one of my favorite artists at the moment. We had it remixed by Santiago Garcia and Kaap de Goede Hoop. After that I have an EP by Rob Hes with a remix by Steve Slight, and also a two-track EP by Arjuna Schiks that I’ve remixed myself.” Finally, the lad is looking forward to getting to Australia for the upcoming Earthcore festival. “Some of my closest friends who have visited the festival told me it was the most amazing thing they ever experienced. So with them coming from Holland - and having extensive experience in dance music - does raise the bar quite high for me.” And not to be outdone – he is also likely to spend a little time on the floor with punters and fans – because as the old adage goes – you can’t trust a DJ who doesn’t dance. Luckily, this one does.
Studio wise, Eelke is working on a remix for his label Outside the Box Music. “I’ve got a new track coming up by Arjuna Schiks that we are releasing,” he professes. “I am also working on some originals that should appear over the next few months, on different labels. I’m not however currently working on a new artist album. That will happen eventually, but after having done two, I don’t
Eelke Kleijn plays at the Earthcore 20th Anniversary alongside Ace Ventura, Perfect Stranger and more, which takes place from Friday November 29 - Sunday December 1. facebook.com/eelkekleijn
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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.
cabaret nocturne
This is it. The big one zero. Cabaret Nocturne has been kicking your Friday nights in the nether regions for ten years and they’re gonna blow the roof off Platform One (figuratively speaking) to celebrate. From humble beginnings at Dream Nightclub way back in 2003 (remember $2 Cowboy shots from a cask?) to La Di Da, Tilt, RMH, Brown Alley, The Bottom End, Eleven A and Roxanne Parlour, on Cup Eve they’re returning to Platform One for one huge public holiday party. Cabaret Nocturne is proud to hold a reputation as the friendliest goth club in the country and we aim to keep it that way, so spread the word, invite your friends/lovers/enemies and prepare to dance your arse off to three rooms of mentally unhinged DJs spinning the best music of the underground, underground. Cabaret Nocturne turns 10 on Cup Eve at Platform One.
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earl sweatshirt, danny brown, run the jewels Earl Sweatshirt, Danny Brown and Run The Jewels are joining forces for a huge Laneway sideshow. With each artist playing their own set, these Laneway sideshows are sure to satisfy eager fans keen for another slice of the action. It goes down on Thursday February 6 at The Palace.
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Next year electronic duo extraordinaire Matmos will be returning to Australia for the first time in 15 years. Since their conception in 1997, Matmos have made a vast contribution to the electronica scene with their unique ability to marry unpredictable sounds (liposuction, cameras and VCRS, amplified crayfish nerves) and concrete noises to create a delectable rhythm matrix. Known for their audio-visual live performances, Matmos will play a combination of tracks from their albums, including their new release, The Marriage of True Minds. Matmos will perform at Howler on Sunday January 19.
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It’s often necessary for dance music festivals to specify on their lineups which acts will actually be performing live, as opposed to just DJing. Fans of UK electronic producer Sub Focus (AKA Nick Douwma) will be pleased to observe the “live” tag next to his name on the poster for next year’s Future Music Festival. Speaking from his London studio, Douwma emphasises that his shows are certainly an active undertaking.
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“The show’s me playing all of my own songs on a fully electronic setup. I guess the best way to describe it would be live remixing,” he says. “I’m taking elements of my tracks and doing different things with them on the sly.” The brand new Sub Focus LP Torus features collaborations with a number of guest vocalists, including Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke on the chart hit Turn It Around. Douwma won’t be joined on tour by the record’s vocal contributors but he says the Sub Focus live show provides plenty to stimulate. “I wanted to come up with a show that allows me to perform, and change, as much of the music as possible in a live setting. I use motion sensors, which are a bit like theremins – they allow me to move my hands around. We’ve also made the lighting in the show audioreactive so at points during the show the lights are actually responding to stuff I’m doing, whether it be playing the keyboard or hitting the drum pad or using these motion sensors.”
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Kele’s not the only impressive vocalist appearing on the album, with other guests including rising pop lass Foxes and lesser-known English performers MNEK and Jayelldee. Collaborating with vocalists on almost every song greatly distinguishes Torus from Sub Focus’ self-titled debut. Douwma explains his newfound relish for working with other musicians. “I didn’t really want to do an album with tons of features on it, but I much prefer songwriting with other people so that’s how it ended up … The last album was basically just me in my bedroom writing tracks completely in isolation. [On this album] there’s a lot more collaboration in general, which is quite refreshing for me”.
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The internet makes it easy for artists to work together without being in the same room, but Douwma opted to personally seek out the acts who feature on the album, engaging in an interactive exchange of ideas. Virtual technology still played a part in the process, however, as Douwma elaborates on how he worked with Kele.
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“Kele is someone who I’d wanted to work with for ages; I’m a big fan of Bloc Party and I love his voice on electronic stuff. He was living in New York at the time so we were sending to files to and from each other, then we got together when he moved back to London, about six months ago, to finish the track.” Joining forces with many artists from a variety of genres has evidently broadened Sub Focus’ stylistic reach. Douwma says he previously regarded composition as an introspective activity, but he’s come to embrace the unique results offered by creative conference. “I think an album gains a lot of richness from having multiple different players and people on it. I was quite interested [hearing] about the whole process behind the Daft Punk album recently. They were pretty much playing the role of the old-fashioned producer, getting the best players together in a room and recording the results. I definitely enjoyed the process of getting lots of people to contribute in small ways.”
Sub Focus plays at the 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/subfocus
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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 DUBSTEP GRIME DRUM & BASS - FEAT: DJ BADDUMS + DJ CARMEX Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. HALFWAYS Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. HOODRAPZ - FEAT: WEDNESDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. LOST & FOUND - FEAT: DJ SPIDEY + DJ RUBY FROST Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. MO’ SOUL - FEAT: DJ VINCE PEACH & MISS GOLDIE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. NEW GUERNICA WEDNESDAYS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SOUL ARMY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE DINNER SET Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.
thursday october 31
3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + JAKE JUDD + NIKKI SARAFIAN + HEY SAM + JESSE YOUNG + JOHN DOE + SEAN RAULT Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 5:00pm. BANG N MASH Word Events Warehouse & Lounge, Melbourne. 8:00pm. BILLBOARD THURSDAYS - FEAT: MATT DEAN + MATTY GRANT + PHIL ROSS Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10. CHI BEATS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. DJ KRONIC + MS BUTT Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DO DROP IN - FEAT: DJ KITI + DJ LADY NOIR The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DON’T THINK I’M ALIVE THURSDAYS The Vineyard, St Kilda. 7:00pm. FREE RANGE FUNK - FEAT: AGENT 86 + LEWIS CANCUT + WHO LUCKY COQ, WINDSOR. 6:00PM. GOOD EVENING - FEAT: DJ PEOPLE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. GRAD PARTY THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. LE DISCO TECH Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm. LOVE STORY Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: DJS PREQUEL & EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. MOOD - FEAT: NUBODY Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. NEW GUERNICA THURSDAYS - FEAT: CONDUCTORS + JAMES KANE + NEGATIV MAGICK + NU BALANCE + POST PERCY New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. RADIONICA Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. THE RITZ THURSDAYS - FEAT: NARI & MILANI + CARRICK DALTON & SAM COHEN + CAUC-ASIAN DJ’S + ED WILKS + JOSHUA GILILAND + KEN WALKER + LUCILLE CROFT + MAX KRUSE + TIM LIGHT + ZACK ROSE Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $20. TIGER FUNK LIVE - FEAT: DJ MOONSHINE Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TROCADERO
Match Bar & Grill, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
friday november 1
ANYTIME Workshop, Melbourne. 8:30pm. BADABOOM FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. CANT SAY Platform One, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. CHI FRIDAYS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne. 8:00pm. CRUCIAL SOCIAL ACADEMY - FEAT: DJ A13 + DJ JELLYFISHWorkshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. DISCOTHEQUE - FEAT: ELANA MUSTO + GREG SARA + SCOTT T Match Bar & Grill, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. FLASH - VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 10pm FRIDAY NIGHT COMMERCIAL HOUSE DJS - FEAT: HIJACK + LIVNBEYNG + MAGIC HOUSE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:30pm. HAPPY - VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 10pm I LOVE OLD SCHOOL - FEAT: SHAGGZ & PUPPET + DJ TEY + MERV MAC Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $10. JUICY - FEAT: CHAIRMAIN MEOW + COBURG MARKET + MR. FOX + TIGERFUNK + WHO Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. MEET YOUR MATES FRIDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MIDNIGHT MIDNIGHT New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. PANORAMA - FEAT: DJS MATT RAD + MR GEORGE + PHATO A MANO + TOM MEAGHER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. REMEMBER ME The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. RETRO SEXUAL One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. REVOLVER FRIDAYS (ANTARCTICA REMIX LAUNCH) - FEAT: DJ LEWIE DAY + DJ MIKE CALLANDER + DJ ALEX THOMAS + DJ KATIE DROVER + DJ WHO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: DJ SUNSHINE + DJ BUTTERS + DJ HEY SAM Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00am. SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 10:00pm. SVELT + BISCOTTI + MANGELWURZEL 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10. THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. WEEKENDER! Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 11:00pm. THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
saturday november 2
VENICE MUSIC - FEAT: DJ ALI E Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. BILLBOARD SATURDAYS - FEAT: FRAZER ADNAM SCOTT MCMAHON + JAMIE VLAHOS + MR MAGOO + ZIGGY Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. CHI SATURDAYS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm CLUB FICTION - FEAT: KITTY ROCK & THE BAD LADIES Red Bennies, South Yarra. 2:00am. DJ PLAZMA Idgaff Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. FIRST FLOOR SATURDAYS - FEAT: BILLY HOYLE + DJS DUCHESZ + MZRIZK + WASABI First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. GLITCH THIS - FEAT: SATURDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. HOT STEP Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. LAB 22 Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MIXED DRINKS SATURDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MOTEL SATURDAYS The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. NEO SACRILEGE - FEAT: DJ NERO Abode, St Kilda. 8:00pm. NEW GUERNICA SATURDAYS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. ONESIXFIVE - FEAT: DJ COURTNEY MILLS + DJ HOOPS + DJ OLLIE HOLMES + DJ JOSH PAOLA + DJ WILL CUMMINGS Onesixone, Prahran. 3:00am. POISON APPLE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. SATURDAY CONFIDENTIAL Galley Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SATURDAYS - FEAT: ACTION SAM + DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SATURDAYS @ LEVEL 2 - FEAT: DJ BOOGS + DJ CHESTWIG + DJ LUKE MCD + DJ MIKE HUNT + DJ ROWIE + DJ SPECIAL K Level 2 The Club, Northcote. 9:00pm. SATURDAYS AT ONE TWENTY BAR One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SOUND EMPIRE - FEAT: DJ TATE STRAUSS + DJ JOE SOFO + DJ MATTY + DJ MISS SARAH + DJ PHIL ROSS Fusion, Southbank. 9:30pm. $25. SOUTH SIDE SHOW - FEAT: EDD FISHER + KNAVE KNIXX Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $15. STAR SATURDAYS Star Bar, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. STRUT SATURDAYS - FEAT: COLLECTIVE + ANDREAS + DANNY MERX + HENRIQUE + JASON SERINI + MARK PELLEGRINI + MC JUNIOR + NICK VAN WILDER Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $22. SUNDAY NIGHTS - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ JAY J + DJ KEN WALKER + DJ LIGHTING Co., Southbank. 8:30pm. TEMPERANCE SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ MARCUS KNIGHT + DJ XANDER JAMES Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm. TEXTILE - FEAT: DJS PACMAN + JEAN PAUL + MOONSHINE + TAH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. THE FOX SATURDAYS
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Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: DJ ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. TOO MUCH 4TH BIRTHDAY - FEAT: MOSCA + DAVID BASS + NAISE + SAME O + WOZ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. WHAT’S DOING? - FEAT: DJ CITIZEN.COM Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. WHY NOT? - FEAT: SATURDAY Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
sunday november 3
COSMIC TONIC Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:30pm. DANGER - FEAT: GEORGE HYSTERIC & ROHAN BELL-TOWERS The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. GUILTY PLEASURES Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm. MOTEL SUNDAYS The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. NO MORE-BANG-FOR-BUCK BURLESQUE SHOW! Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: DJ BOOGS + DJ SPACEY SPACE + DJ RADIATOR + DJ SILVERSIX + DJ T-REK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:30pm. SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE - FEAT: ASKEW + BOOSHANK + DISCO HARRY + JUNJI + MISS BUTT + PAZ + PETER BAKER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. SUNDAE SHAKE - FEAT: AGENT 86 + PHATO-A-MANO + TIGERFUNK Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: DAN BOWDENA ND MAYFIELD + FOUNKSHUI Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 4:30pm. SURRENDER - FEAT: DJ SERGEANT SLICK + DJ ADAM TRACE + DJ ADRIAN CHESSARI + DJ CHRIS OSTROM + DJ SEF Fusion, Southbank. 8:00pm. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJS ANDYBLACK + HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.
monday november 4
IBIMBO - FEAT: LADY NOIR & KITI Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. KOOL AID - FEAT: DJ MU-GEN Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. STIFF DRINK - FEAT: DJ MICHAEL KUCYK + DJ MICHAEL OZONE + DJ ROMAN WAFERS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. TWERKERS CLUB - FEAT: DJ FLETCH Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
tuesday november 5
BIMBO TUESDAYS - FEAT: ADAM ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. COSMIC PIZZA Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. DJ JAGUAR E55, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. NEVER CHEER BEFORE YOU KNOW WHO’S WINNING - FEAT: REPETER FONDA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
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wednesday october 30 Compression Session - Feat: Cassawarrior + Dd + Ricka E55, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. Soul Ensemble Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
thursday october 31 Pennies Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $6.
friday november 1 Chaise Fridays - Feat: Soulclap + DJ Claz + DJ Dirx + DJ Peril + DJ Sef Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 4:30pm. Crew Love - Feat: DJ Tony Sunshine Sub Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $15. DJ Thaddeus Doe The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. Faktory Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 2:55pm. Faktory - Feat: DJ Damion De Silva + DJ Durmy + DJ K Dee + DJ Yaths Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 9:30pm. Get Lit Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. Like Fridays - Feat: Broz + Dir-X + DJs Dinesh + Nyd + Sef + Shaggz + Shaun D La Di Da, Melbourne. 8:00pm. Rnb Superclub - Feat: Young Men Society Rnb Superclub, Southbank. 8:00pm. Studio Chasers, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $20. Sweet Nothing Fridays - Feat: DJ Marcus Knight + DJ Xander
James Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 9:00pm.
saturday november 2 Chaise Lounge Saturdays - Feat: DJ Andy Pala + DJ Kah Lua Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. Cheap Sober + Maggot Mouf & Gutz + Pete Mc + Planz The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $26. Laundry Saturdays Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. Saturday Nights - Feat: DJ Damion De Silva + Dj Jay Sin + DJ K Dee Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 9:30pm. The Dojo Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. The High Society Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
monday november 4 Freedom Pass - Feat: Phil Ross + B-Boogie + Chris Mac + Dozza Co., Southbank. 10:30pm. Hip Hop Open Mic First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
tuesday november 5 Can I Kick It? Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH
MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP
With Christie Eliezer * Stuff for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm
TRIPLE J TAKES OVER DIG MUSIC Dig Music has been taken over by triple j management who are aiming at the over-30 market. It’ll focus on new music from Australia and overseas, but will also play songs and artists that shaped the lives of its audience (read: classic triple j tunes). For the next six months they’ll be listening to their audience to find out exactly what they want from the station, in terms of what songs and how they want it presented. After this six months of audience engagement and industry consultation Dig Music officially launches in April 2014.
M-PHAZES CO-PRODUCES EMINEM TRACK Gold Coast-hailed Melbourne-based M-Phazes co-produced Bad Guy, the first track off Eminem’s MMLP2 album with Grammy winning S1. “Being a long time fan of Eminem, it’s a real honor to co-produce the opening track of his next album, and it’s incredible to know that both Rick Rubin and Dr. Dre have given my work their seal of approval!”. M-Phazes has over the last five years produced for Bliss N Eso, Kimbra, Drapht, 360, Xzibit and Talib Kweli, and just finished working on Illy’s fourth album Cinematic. M-Phazes is also working on the follow up to his ARIA-winning Good Gracious in his new Melbourne studio.
ABC1 TO LAUNCH BAND SERIES ‘EXHUMED’ ABC1 premieres its five-part TV band series Exhumed on Thursday November 14 at 8pm. It looks at bands who never made it but continue playing for the love of it. Over 1400 entries flooded in from around the country from amateur bands that are unsigned, unrecorded and unrecognised,. The series will be hosted by musician and radio presenter James Valentine with judges Julia Zemiro, Tim Rogers and Clare Bowditch. They choose the winner at the live Grand Final on December 12 from the Rooty Hill RSL in Western Sydney.
THINGS WE HEAR * Sony Music is suing United Airlines alleging that it is duplicating the sound of works by Britney Spears, Carrie Underwood, Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson and playing them during their flights. Apart from alleging copyright infringement, it claimed that the in-flight music system is interactive and ondemand, which is not covered by a royalty collection outfit like SoundExchange. Sony wants a share of the airline’s profits. * After her final Auckland gig, Beyonce was set to race offstage and to the airport to fly in a private jet to Australia. But waiting in the wings was her opening act Stan Walker who performed a haka (Maori war dance) in her honor. Ivy Blue’s mum was tearful (presumably Walker didn’t stop on her feet during the dance) and tried to do a haka herself. Maori fashion designer Kiri Nathan gave her a korowai (Maori cloak) she made herself. * The former writer of the troubled Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark musical, Glen Berger, has a book coming on the saga. Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History says problems were exacerbated by Bono’s slow writing of songs and of former director Julie Taymor’s out-ofcontrol spending. * In the meantime Morrissey rushed out a statement to say that when he talked about a two-year relationship with a man called Jake Owen Walters in his book Autobiograph, he didn’t mean it was a gay one. Rather, Walters was one of the few human beings he got along with. * It’s not just Silverchair drummer Ben Gillies whose wife (psychic Jackie) landed a TV role (in The Real Housewives Melbourne). Parkway Drive guitarist Jeff Ling’s writer and model partner Nina Hill is now a TV presenter. * Coldplay’s Chris Martin’s wife Gwyneth Paltrow is dreading the publication of a story by Vanity Fair which is digging up dirt on her relationship with handsome Miami billionaire Jeff Soffer. She asked friends not to speak to Fair. * The December tour by marvellous American singer Iris DeMent, who last year released her first album of original music in 16 years called Sing The Delta, has sold out. Promoters Square One & Laing Entertainment have added Catherine Britt as support act. * Plans to have late rapper Notorious BIG honoured with his own walkway in Brooklyn has its critics. They’re asking why he should be considered a role model when he started selling drugs at 12, dropped out of school at 17, and arrested for various drugs, weapons and assault charges. Less than three miles away, Brooklyn’s Palmetto Playground was recently renamed Adam Yauch Park to honour the late Beastie Boy who passed away in 2012.
GAGA SETTLES THIS WAY
CALVIN HARRIS ENTERS RICHEST UK CELEBS UNDER 30 LIST DJ Calvin Harris is a new entry to the annual list of the richest British celebrities under the age of 30, compiled by Heat Magazine. It is estimated he made £22.20m (Australian $37.31m) in the past 12 months. The list was topped by One Direction who had combined earnings of £59.33m ($99.25m). The boy band toppled Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe who topped the list since it began in 2010: he made £56.19m ($94m) during the same period. In the top five were Robert Pattinson at £44.16m ($73.87m), Keira Knightley at £37.28m ($62.36m) and Emma Watson at £27.93m ($46.72m). Other new entries were Jessie J (£5.68m), model/actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (£5.63m), The Amazing Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield (£5m) and boy band JLS (£4.87m). The biggest gain was The Great Gatsby star Carey Mulligan.
‘MUSIC MATTERS’ LAUNCHING ON 3CR 3CR launches a new show Music Matters on Friday November 8 in the midday to 2pm timeslot. It presents diverse new sounds from the crate and around the planet presented by musicologists Jane Brownrigg, Renae Maxwell and Doctor Gonzo From Planet X. It includes live-in-the-studio performances, interviews and gig guides. Musicians are invited to send new releases for consideration to: Music Matters, 3CR, PO Box 2102, Fitzroy VIC 3065. Email musicmatters3cr@gmail.com
Apparently Lady Gaga and her former assistant settled their legal differences out of court, and avoided the glare of publicity before the trial started on November 4. This was revealed when a court dismissed the suit filed by Jennifer O’Neill that she was underpaid. She claimed she was on call 24 hours a day seven days a week, had to look after her 20 bags of luggage, and expected to sleep on Gaga’s bed on tour rather than have her own room so she could tend to Gaga’s needs through the night. O’Neill, a roommate of Gaga’s back when she was a nobody, was paid $50,000 for the first year and then $75,000. It is estimated that Gaga earned $80m in the first six months of 2013.
URBAN, AC/DC, EARNING MUSOS
HIGHEST
Keith Urban and AC/DC were the highest earning Australian musicians in the past 12 months, according to the BRW Top 50 Entertainers 2013 list. Urban was at #8 ($6.8m) – his wife Nicole Kidman was #6 with $8.6m – while AC/DC ranked #11, earning $5.8 million as their back catalogue hit iTunes. The Australian Pink Floyd Experience were at #15 ($5m) after selling 3 million tickets, Human Nature at #16 ($4.3m) from their successful Las Vegas residencies with their Motown show, Hi-5 at #25 ($2.2m), Gotye at #27 ($2m), Dannii Minogue at #28 ($2m), Peter Andre at #43 ($1.1m), Kylie Minogue at #44 ($1.1m) having a relatively quiet year, Delta Goodrem at #45 ($1m) and The Temper Trap at #46 ($1m). The actorheavy list was topped by Hugh Jackman ($46.8m) with The Wiggles at #2 ($18.2m).
TIMI ARNOTT MEMORIAL The public memorial service for radio producer Timi Arnott is on Saturday November 2 at Catani Gardens in St Kilda. Arnott was buried in Cairns. For more details contact benni.mihan@lightfm.com.au.
VALLEYARM STRIKES CHINESE DEAL Valleyarm, the largest digital music distributor in the Asia Pacific, struck a deal with Shanghai-based Fun Music. Fun represents some of China’s best new pop, hip hop and dance. The deal was struck at the Victoria-Shanghai Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Summit where Victorian ICT companies met with potential Chinese partners and investors. Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher said, “Valleyarm’s ‘Asia in, Asia out’ solutions are enabling this Victorian-based company to capitalise on its strong networks in the region. Its unique position enables it to effectively monetise Asian content outside of Asia as well as acting as a gateway for western content owners to capitalise on Asian markets.”
FACE THE MUSIC REVEALS FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM Face The Music’s 45 panels and workshops will cover a range of topics. These include a shakedown of the future of festivals in Australia with Ken West (Big Day Out), Paul Sloan (Rock-It WA), Steve Halpin (Groovin’ The Moo) and Blink (Camp A Low Hum, NZ). Ball Park Music’s singer Samuel Cromack discusses songwriting in an APRA In Conversation with triple j’s Dom Alessio and then links with filmmaker Darcy Prendergast and Rage Programmer Tyson Koh discussing how great visuals can combine with a good song to leave a lasting impact. Courtney Barnett joins the APRA Songwriting Masterclass while M-Phazes’s production approach is the subject of a Yamaha workshop. See facethemusic.org.au for full list of panels and latest speakers.
mDNA ON ITS WAY mDNA is a new project which, through a web and smart phone application, will allow music fans to boost the exposure of independent and emerging artists and show in real-time the top trending tracks. Musician Nick Arnold, founder of indie music platform Holding Pattern, is launching a campaign via crowd funding site Indiegogo to raise $60,000 to get mDNA’s technology up and running. He says, “mDNA will allow users to connect with each other and allow music to become our currency to communicate. Identify yourself through the music you love with one simple application. mDNA.” To donate: igg.me/p/562242/x/5103146.
JACKSON TOPS DEAD CELEB EARNINGS Michael Jackson, who died in 2009, has reclaimed his crown in Forbes magazine’s highest earning dead celebrity. He earned US $160 million during the past 12 months, most from the two Cirque Du Soleil shows. He was followed by Elvis Presley ($55m), Charlie Brown/Snoopy cartoonist Charles Schulz ($37m), Elizabeth Taylor ($25m) after her estate earned $210m from the auction of her art, jewels and clothes, Bob Marley ($18m) as his label reintroduced him to a young audience, with others including theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon and Steve McQueen.
YOUTUBE’S SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE TO LAUNCH? YouTube is close to launching its own premium music subscription service before the end of the year. Said to be run through parent company Google’s All Access subscription music service, it will offer free and premium tiers. Both are rumoured to include unlimited, on-demand access to full tracks but the premium tier is likely to have additional ad-free and offline listening functions.
DEEP END LAND EUROPEAN DEAL The Deep End signed a European licensing and publishing deal with French label Bad Reputation joining the likes of Hardcore Superstar, LA Guns and Rick Springfield. TDE are touring Europe in February promoted by Teenage Head in Belgium. They play hardcore rock clubs of France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium including the Bad Reputation showcase in Paris.
HARD ROCK CAFÉ RETURNING TO MELBOURNE
LIFELINES Ill: Lorde suffered food poisoning in Brisbane but went ahead with her show. “I literally hurled walking offstage,” she posted. Engaged: Kanye West proposed to Kim Kardashian by booking out a stadium in San Francisco and getting a 50-piece orchestra to play Lana Del Rey’s Young and Beautiful. Married: Kelly Clarkson to music manager Bradon Blackstock at a farm in Tennessee after a two-year relationship. Ill: Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee revealed a reason for the band’s decision to do a farewell tour was that guitarist Mick Mars’ spinal disease, which is slowly fusing his vertebrae together, is progressively getting worse. In Court: Norway black metal band Burzum’s Varg Vikernes’ court date for “inciting racial hatred and glorifying war crimes” is deferred to June 2014. In Court: Cee Lo Green is charged with furnishing a controlled substance after a woman claimed he slipped ecstasy into her drink, and that she later woke up naked in the singer’s bed. He faces up to four years jail. But prosecutors have declined to charge him with rape because the two were dating. In Court: Robb “TaLLLLL” University, frontman for LA hard rock band Lights Over Paris was jailed for seven years for loan fraud. He applied for $11 million in loans ($6.2 million of which he received) to fund his music career by claiming he already had $8 million when he had just $10,000. Died: singer actor Noel Harrison, 79, who won an Oscar for The Windmills Of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair. His father was actor Rex Harrison. Died: Lou Reed, 71, in New York months after a liver transplant. One of the great rock lyricists who opened rock to literature, art and the avant garde, he emerged with the seminal Velvet Underground and then hit with a series of solo albums which ranged from game changers including tracks as Walk On The Wild Side to Metal Machine Music – a double album of feedback sounds.
SCHOLARSHIPS AT JMC ACADEMY JMC Academy offers a total of six undergraduate scholarships per campus each academic year. These cover tuition fees for the first year of study in one of the JMC Academy’s six Bachelor Degree courses (Audio Engineering, Animation, Game Design, Film Production, Entertainment Business Management, and Music Performance). The first year also commensurate with a one year Diploma course. Applications close Friday December 6. Go to their website or call 1300 410 311.
METALLICA TO GIVE LEFTOVER RIFFS?
AWAY
Lars Ulrich revealed that Metallica have discussed giving away their riffs left unused after each album. The idea is to put it up in an eBay-style website where others can choose. Ulrich said, “We have more riffs than we know what to do with. Some of them are actually quite decent, but we won’t be able to use all of them.” Britain’s Classic Rock magazine stated that earlier this year, Queen’s Brian May and Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi came up with a similar idea. May told the magazine Iommi has a lot of unused riffs. “I thought it would be great to make a compilation out of them,” said the Queen guitarist. “The idea was to put all these riffs out in some form so people could build their own songs of them. You could make your own music with Tony Iommi on guitar.”
The new owner of Hard Rock Café Australia says negotiations are on to bring it back to Melbourne. Jeffrey Beaumont took over after companies owned by ex-owners Lionel Huntly and David Rich went into voluntary administration owing $4 million. See Industrial Strength Online at beat.com.au for details.
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BONJAH By Augustus Welby New Zealand-bred Melbourne-based four-piece Bonjah returned to the fold early this year with the groove-heavy tune Evolution and they’ve now dropped a follow-up single Blue Tone Black Heart. The new songs step away from the band’s rootsy origins, incorporating a raw rock’n’roll feel, and lead vocalist Glenn Mossop explains that the band chose to pursue this sound after simply reflecting on what songs in their catalogue they enjoy playing most. “We’ve always enjoyed playing the more up-tempo numbers live, so we thought, ‘Let’s just make a louder, faster record’,” he says. “I put down the acoustic and upon picking up the electric – that’s just the way I began writing. Everything started coming out gritty, which I really liked, so we’ve continued to build on that energy.” This year’s two single releases are the first new music Bonjah have let slip since 2011’s Go Go Chaos LP but their third full length album is yet to arrive. Mossop indicates that, despite the delay, songwriting for the forthcoming record has felt more natural and honest than ever before. “We are really refining a more collective sound for an album than what we have in the past and using a different songwriting process. We’re also a bit older now and choices become more direct and certain. So it is feeling more natural and true to where we’re at musically at the moment.” Bonjah relocated to Melbourne from New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty in 2006 and, after a couple of years inserting their
brand of roots-tinged pop-rock into the live music network, their debut LP Until Dawn shoved them into public view in 2009. A number of years of songwriting and witnessing audience reactions has allowed Bonjah to recognise that, rather than trying to please everyone, following their own impulses and crafting music according to what they like optimally strengthens the quality of the songs. “Finding what’s best for the band and band members so the music can reach its potential; I think that’s giving more to the people who listen to our music than trying to please anyone purposely. You can see right through any artist – whatever their craft is – that’s not doing it firstly for their own development as a creative individual or group. That’s where magic happens,” Mossop evaluates. Similarly, over the years the band’s perspective on what they want to achieve has shifted somewhat. Initially the focus was on gaining masses of fans but Mossop says they’re now chiefly driven by writing the best music they can.
“The focus now for us is just writing and recording a record we can be proud of and it’s a bonus if people want to put it on.” Despite this stated quest for artistic sovereignty, Bonjah’s ambitions to cultivate a wider-reaching fanbase haven’t completely subsided and Mossop reveals their plans for a more rigorous approach to cracking the overseas market. “It’s been over seven years in Oz, we’ve done a fuck load of touring and gathered some amazing fans and friends along the way, which we’re pretty honoured about, but we’re definitely going to head over to Europe sometime in the next year and broaden the horizon,” he says. With two singles now out in the open fans are no doubt getting antsy for the new Bonjah record. Mossop serenely states that the album is still a work in progress but assures that it will come out in the early part of next year. “We’re still continually coming up with new tunes and having a great time writing. We’ve got some pre-production dates set with Jan to hone in on the songs and even write more with him, so we’re all pretty pumped at the way it’s travelling at
the moment.” As for whether the garagey old-school rock sound confidently expressed on Blue Tone Black Heart will be explored further on the album, Mossop covertly suggests the record will canvass a variety of influences. “We’ve never been set to one certain sound when it comes to writing songs, and we’ve always had a pretty broad range of music we listen to, so we’re influenced by a lot of various artists and bands from all eras.”
the departure of keyboard player Jerry Craib. “It was scary because he is so talented and he was such a big part of what the band do. But we knew there was a way to overcome it. Bands have replaced people before, you know, it’s happened.” If AC/DC could go on then anybody can. “Definitely,” he agrees. “When you think about that, if you have to replace a vocalist that’s a big ask. Luckily AC/DC were primarily a rhythm section and even though Bon Scott was almost definitely one of the greatest rock‘n’roll front-men in history, Brian Johnson came in and does a great job. We’ve got a lot of songs there and I knew we could get past it and make them work. Our front of house engineer strangely enough said, ‘I’ll give it a go’ and we were like, ‘But you’re our front of house guy’ and he was like, ‘Yeah but I can play keys’ and suddenly he was playing our whole set and we were like. ‘Whoa’. He’s been the biggest surprise because he wasn’t even playing with us before and now he’s nailing our set. So yeah, I feel good about everything.” If people know your music intimately enough to be concerned that a synth patch has been slightly altered than really, all you can feel is complimented. Bluejuice have clearly made the impression they set out to make. “I expect it to come up, people are naturally interested in
that and I understand that people want to know whether we’re still the same band,” he says. “We won’t be the same band, Jerry was a completely different player to the other two guys although Cameron is probably closer to Jerry he’s not as interested in funk. Alex is great and they’re both, well, Cameron can do the set and make it sound like Jerry and does a different thing and is probably a new evolution and the likely future direction of the band. “At the moment, we kind of have two touring bands – one with Ivan and Cameron on drums and we have Alex and James our original drummer. There’s a degree of everyone having a go here and it seems to be really working. I know which one I’m most comfortable with and I’m not going to say. At the same time there’s a workable format with both set ups. If you know the band, you’ll know some patches are different and some parts are being played differently but it’s essentially the same.”
Valley and The Mars Volta fame and engineered by Joe LaPorta), the album is a step forward without being a move out of their comfort zone. “I think for the most part the impression that I’ve gotten is that people can see that we’ve worked pretty hard to try and make a step up,” he says. “I never really like the connotation attached to a band that has matured because sometimes it implies that they’re become a bit boring, but I think, if anything, we’ve become more confident. I think the maturity lies in the fact we’re playing to our strengths a lot more. With the first album, and I think this happens a lot, people kinda went, ‘Oh well we knew they were OK and they put out this album and it’s pretty good for a first album.’ So this being our second record you can’t hide behind any of that unknown stuff. People seem to be picking up on the stuff we wanted them to pick up on this album as well.”
Stalfors and LaPorta’s involvement in the project is a testament to the band’s growing reputation. “That was all a happy mixture of luck and the right connections,” he says. “Lars heard one of our songs online and approached us first. Given his background we totally thought it was a hoax email. That relationship formed really easily and nicely and he had a big influence on the final product. Given the artists that he’s worked with, we were really happy to take cues from someone like him and have him give us what was really great guidance. From there he works a lot with Joe anyway so that’s how that came about – it was a no-brainer to make that happen.”
BONJAH play at Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday November 2. Bonjah also proudly support The Be Project, a national competition inviting young Aussies to submit an inspirational song to form a collective voice challenging Australia’s binge drinking culture. The competition is now open and closes at midnight on Friday December 20. To enter or find out more please visit tacklingbingedrinking.gov.au/thebeproject or facebook. com/nationalbingedrinkingcampaign.
BLUEJUICE By Krissi Weiss It’s easy to get steamrolled by the Bluejuice train of debauched humour and body-slamming funk – theirs is a party-starting kinda music. They’ve never appeared to take themselves too seriously, either through their uninhibited performances or no-holes-barred media presence but all the while we have been hypnotised by their master plan. They’ve managed to sneak skilfully crafted, funk-infused pop gems onto the iPods of the otherwise unaware while simultaneously appeasing music lovers seeking out a rock steady beat. Their latest single, S.O.S, has been released to an audience eager to hear how Bluejuice will find their feet after the departure of keyboardist Jerry Craib. Recorded in the UK, the song was helped along in the studio by an impressive roster: Blue May and Alex Burnett tackled production duties while session players Sam Best and Ade Omatayo, formerly of Amy Winehouse’s band, joined seminal vocalist Vula Malinga of Basement Jaxx Oh My Gosh fame. Despite the daunting talent surrounding Jake Stone in the east London studio, he felt at ease steering the song towards its final sound. “They’re all a tightknit group of musicians and while they’re busy, they’re not necessarily working for any more money than what people would be working for here and were quite easy to get in to do this,” Stone says of the session players. But was there any feelings of intimidation? “Yes absolutely, there is some of that. We already had a demo of the song done and they basically played to that. They always ask if that’s what you want, but it’s more that they’re like a steam train and you can’t change direction too much once they get going. Luckily, what they were doing was generally what I
wanted. They’re fairly confident in their abilities so once they get an idea what they like they’re gonna drive that idea and you’d have to be very musically onto it to even keep up with the musical process of the band. I had so much trust in the band and was confident in what they were going to do.” Bluejuice have seemed to be a crowd favourite from the early days of Vitriol screeching out across the airwaves. S.O.S already has toes tapping and Stone acknowledges that they while they have enjoyed warmth from the industry, they’ve worked damn hard to get that. “There’s an affection for the band which I’m really grateful for,” he says. “We’ve worked to market the band in that way; we really felt like we had to do everything we could. I was writing for The Brag for a long time, I was bartending at the Hopetoun and the Annandale and most of my friends were in bands but we were never the cool band. We needed something to push us out there, the performative style of the band was different to what was going on at the time so that helped, and our ability to do media really helped too.” A risk that the band weren’t really in a position to assess was
BLUEJUICE play the Corner Hotel on Friday November 1. S.O.S. is out now through Dew Process/Universal Music Australia.
LITTLE SCOUT By Krissi Weiss While the Brisbane music scene has always remained tight-knit, it has suffered from a tendency to be influenced from the inside out. Bands share houses, members and an overall vibe that has kept the river city’s amps buzzing and yet also led bands like Little Scout to search for a more diverse sound. The four-piece began their recording time in 2008 with their first EP, Dead Loss. Their debut album appeared in 2011 to positive reviews and then they reached that treacherous chasm – following up the initial hype. Admittedly the hype they’d enjoyed was born out of their own hard work and genuine word of mouth, and yet still album number two has managed to undo the best of them. Luckily for Little Scout, Are You Life, is everything they wanted it to be and more. Daytime lawyer and nighttime multi-instrumentalist Patrick Elliott is taking a break from work and pondering whether he would ever be willing to shake of the shackles off the 9 to 5 for a life on the road. “I think about it all the time and some days you think, ‘You know if I got paid a third of what I do now to do what I love I’d jump at doing it full time’ but by the same token I don’t know,” Elliott says. “Without having experienced it it’s really hard to say. I’ve seen people who’ve made the jump and it’s either not turned out to be what they thought it’d be or they totally lost balance. I think it’s probably always safest to assume, in our case anyway, that job number two will always be there. I reckon it keeps your BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 38
head in check too.” Looking down the barrel of an upcoming album tour is exciting times in the Little Scout ranks. “For us it gives us something to really look forward to and that’s the best part of having a weird, split life,” he says. “We have this full time hobby that we get to look forward to, keeping us sane during a long day so we don’t just feel like we only have one fire going.” Elliott is happy with the album without ever coming across like he is selling a product. Recorded in a relaxed way in and around Brisbane and then finished off by some industry heavyweights (mixed by Lars Stalfors of Cold War Kids, Deap
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LITTLE SCOUT will hit The Shadow Electric Bandroom on Sunday November 3 with guests I, A Man. Are You Life is out now through MGM.
RUMBEROS By Rod Whitfield
Latin music has a very strong and dedicated following in this country, despite us being oceans apart, geographically, from its origins. So much so that a band such as Melbourne’s Rumberos has been able to carve out a very successful career since the late ‘80s. Like any long running act, the band have been through their ups and downs, but late 2013 sees some very exciting developments in their career. Founding member, vocalist and bassist Leo Salvo joined us recently to chat about the band’s long and storied history, its musical development over time and what they have coming up for the remainder of this year. “We formed in ’89, and in that time so many people have been in the band and come out of the band,” he begins. “Basically it’s just kept evolving and bettering itself until now, and it continues to do so. It was formed initially as a rumba band, Spanish rumba. Then it changed and the Latin/Afro Cuban influence started coming into it, and different players, and basically it just got better with age I guess!” he laughs. “I’m very conscious of choosing a wide variety of the best stuff that I’ve heard, and really enjoyed listening to in the past,” he continues, regarding the band’s influences and musical evolution over time. “I try to be as broad with the Latin music as possible. You know, I choose my favourite Puerto Rican Salsa, and I choose my favourite Latin Jazz tunes, Afro-Cuban with New York Salsa. I try to not stick to one genre of Latin music – we like to mix it up as much as possible.” The band recently made it through to the Grand Final of a
prestigious national Latin band competition, the ‘Clave Contra Clave’ Latin music comp. The competition ran heats all over the country during October, and is culminating in the Grande Finale this coming Sunday evening at The Plenary in South Wharf. Leo tells us that being in the comp and making it through to the Grand Finale has revived the fortunes of the band in a way. “At the moment, basically our singer lives in Columbia,” he states. “Half the time he’s here, half the time he’s there. So this competition gave us the opportunity to kind of re-form the band to play in the competition. So it’s been a great opportunity, not only for us but for any up and coming Latin band…and it basically lifts everyone’s game, just because the competitive nature of us human beings makes us want to do our best when it comes to a competition format. “We’ve been working hard on the backing vocals, the horn section, the rhythm section and the percussion,” he explains. “We knew that the band, doing a lot of residencies, tends to slack off a bit with
Event Profile: DIA DE LOS MUERTOS at the FITZROY BEER GARDEN So, someone is walking past your venue, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? Scull your beer mate, we are off to The Fitzroy Beer Garden on Gertrude Street. It looks awesome and the food smells amazing! Why should everyone come to your Day of the Dead Event? It’s going to be a fantastic weekend of beer, tequila, music, food, fun, art, and most importantly beer and tequila! Did I
mention beer and tequila? don’t forget about the beer and tequila. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Everyone who comes in our place makes us happy. Some when they arrive, some when they leave. When are you doing your next event? Well after the Day of the Dead celebrations our next big event starts on Saturday November 9. We are hosting a four part Summer Beat Sessions in collaboration with Scarlett
rehearsals and things like that, so I think it’s been a real positive for everyone.” So what will it mean to you and your band if you win the competition? “It’d be great to win,” he admits. “It would be a bit of validation for all the hard work we’ve put in over the last 20 years. It’s also nice when people come up to you and congratulate you, people who’ve seen your band for years and years, that you’ve won something that involves what we do. “(It’s) just the positive energy that we get from people either by Facebook or people that we meet, sending messages, I think it just gives everyone a second wind, a re-energising of what we do. That’s sort of what it means to me.” After the competition and a short break over Christmas, and the band’s singer returning to his home country for a few months, Rumberos have some serious plans for themselves next year. “Our singer’s going back to Columbia until February,” Leo says, “but we plan to record some time next year. As far as the actual band is concerned, we probably won’t be doing many gigs until early next year. The guys all play in other different bands. When you’ve been playing such a long time, we’ve got to be not playing all the time, but be more selective, and just get together when we all can. When we
play a gig we want to do it with our full strength lineup. “So that’s kind of the position with Rumberos at this stage. We’ll just wait a few months until the full lineup can get back together, and keep changing songs and keep people enjoying it.” Overall, Leo is very positive and optimistic about the present and future of Latin styles of music in Melbourne and Australia. He feels that it is a style of music that evolves and changes over time, and has plenty to offer young people and existing fans alike. “Yeah, I think it’s gets bigger all the time,” he opines. “I think all around Australia, doesn’t matter where you go, there’s a good scene for it, and think it can only grow more and more every time. “I think there will always be a scene from now on,” he predicts. “I don’t think it’s a fad anymore; it’s really well established now. I’ve been doing this music for over 20 years now, so many new people are coming for the first time, and it just seems to grow and grow. And young people keep coming back, so it feels very healthy.” RUMBEROS play at the Grand Finale of the Clave Contra Clave Latin band competition this Sunday November 3 from 4.30pm at The Plenary.
Vogue Productions. We have on board some of Melbourne’s finest DJ/Producers and the event will be held every second Saturday of each month 1am to 1pm. It’s gonna be huge! You can find out more on our Facebook Page. Name an interview question you wish someone would ask you, and answer it. Q. Is there a place you can comfortably drink and have a ciggy at the same time? A. Hell yeah! At The Fitzroy Beer Garden! If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be? A massive Polly Waffle. Anything else to add? The Famous Fat Eddy and Papa Goodtimes are always in the house.
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THE LIVING END By Rod Whitfield
For a band with a history like The Living End, which happens to be approaching 20 years long, yielding six full length albums since their debut in 1998, six ARIA awards and hundreds upon hundreds of sold out shows the length and breadth of the nation, you would think they would be a band that had ‘done it all’. But apparently this is not actually the case. One stone left unturned in this band’s career so far has been an appearance at the Queenscliff Music Festival. Strange, when you consider the festival started the year before that band’s first album was released. That is about to change, however, as the band have been given the headlining spot on the bill for the 17th year of the annual festival, in late November, alongside such other luminaries of the Aussie music biz as John Butler Trio, Spiderbait, The Screaming Jets and plenty more. Double bassist, backing vocalist and co-founding member Scott Owen, is very happy to be breaking the band’s QMF duck. “Yeah, bloody oath man,” he enthuses. “I haven’t actually been to the Queenscliff Music Festival before. It’s always been on my radar; I used to spend a lot of time down at Point Lonsdale and Andy (drummer Andy Strachan) used to live down in that neck of the woods as well. I always stumble across the ads for it, and the lineup’s always pretty great, and from what I understand it’s a pretty cool festival, just how it’s all set up all round the town. Sounds like fun!” The good people of Queenscliff, and punters from all over the country, can expect a typical rocking and rollicking good set from Australia’s favourite punk and rockabilly-infused rock band, taking in all the hits and material from most if not all of their albums. “Look, we’ll just do sort of a bit of everything,” he informs us. “Just like we normally do. When we play festivals, it’s all about trying to write a setlist that’s going to please everybody. It’s not your own crowd, it’s a curious crowd!” he laughs. “So yeah, we tend to just throw in a bit of everything. Just play the songs that we consider to be the crowdpleasers. It’s not the type of gig where we’re going to jump up and go all experimental or anything. So we’ll just get up there and do our thing.” That said, after their retrospective tour of last year where they played entire albums from their back catalogues in single shows across the nation, they may actually throw a few unexpected tunes in here and there.
“IT WAS A SPINOUT MAN, PLAYING THOSE SONGS AGAIN. IT PUTS YOU BACK IN THAT FRAME OF MIND WHEN THEY WERE RECORDED – THE GIGS THAT WE WERE DOING WHEN THOSE RECORDS CAME OUT. ALL THOSE MEMORIES CAME FLOODING BACK.” “Because we did the tour that we did last year, the Retrospective Tour, where we played every album in each city, our repertoire has expanded to every song that we’ve ever recorded. So we may be able to throw in a few surprises. “There were songs (on the Retrospective Tour) that we hadn’t played since the records came out,” he continues. “It was a spinout man, playing those songs again. It puts you back in that frame of mind when they were recorded – the gigs that we were doing when those records came out. All those memories came flooding back.” After many years of hard work, the band are pretty much taking things a bit more slowly and easily at the moment. And deservedly so. But The Living End fans need not worry, they still plan to write, record and tour as a band again in the not too distant future. “Look, there’s always new songs kicking around,” he says. “When we get together and get into the rehearsal room, there’s always something that comes out. But we haven’t got any plans to do anything with it yet. We’re all living in different parts of the planet now, and doing a few other things ourselves. It’s been a pretty full-on slog for us over the years, and it’s good to step back and take some perspective every now and then. “So that’s where we’re at, at the moment. But, we still love playing together and we’re still keen to keep making music, so it’ll happen one day. I just don’t know when.”
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MIKELANGELO & THE BLACK SEA GENTLEMEN By Patrick Emery Mikelangelo, the eponymous, debonair and charismatic leader of the Black Sea Gentlemen, is talking to me from his hotel room in the New South Wales town of Cooma. Having spent the last few days wading through the dense sludge of the sanitised, anglocentric history housed in the local historical society, trying to elicit some colourful and inspiring cultural tales from the area, Mikelangelo has just been blessed with a serendipitous encounter. “I was standing outside the pub and this guy came up to me and said, ‘Hey, mate, what’s your name?’” Mikelangelo says. “He then introduced himself as ‘Dirty Victory, the Bull Rider’, and proceeded to tell me the story of his summer of glory about 20 years ago, when he rode bulls. The names of the bulls were Smoking Bandit, Washing Machine and Junkyard Dog – it was hilarious! I managed to keep enough of it in my head to go up to my room and write a song. Maybe if he’s still down there I can go and play it – because it doesn’t look like he’s done a lot since then,” Mikelangelo laughs. Our conversation segues seamlessly from Washing Machine the bull to the washing machine dance – a short-lived dance craze that I encountered some years ago in Canberra (where Mikelangelo grew up), which was inspired by seemingly mundane domestic appliances. “Humans are great in the way they can entertain themselves,” Mikelangelo muses. “We’re up in Cooma at the invitation of this theatre company, Big Heart, who’ve been working for about 21 years, going into communities and gathering stories and making shows. They were aware of our work, and wanted us to go around and find stories. It’s been an interesting process trying to find the really interesting stuff, because everyone wants to tell you the history of the Snowys. There was a dude with an old ambulance who used to drive down from Sydney with prostitutes in the back, and guys would just spend all night going in and out of the van. So we’re just trying to find out more crazy stuff like that. So it was great that Dirty Victor turned up.” The journey of the Black Sea Gentlemen hasn’t necessarily been as titillating as the sordid and colourful underbelly of the building of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme, but it has been highly entertaining. Formed originally in 2000 by Mikelangelo to fulfil a desire to play the ‘European landscape’ style songs he’d written, the Black Sea Gentlemen combined aspects of cabaret, Gypsy-folk and spaghetti western. “It also allowed me to explore my European bloodline,” Mikelangelo says. The Black Sea Gentlemen evolved into a five-piece outfit, with each member of the band accomplished vocalists and performers in their own right. “Each member of the band has their own vignette in the show, so you get to know them,” Mikelangelo says. “We all come from diverse backgrounds, and a love of pop music, which helps in making our music different from Gypsy music.” The Black Sea Gentlemen has become a regular feature of theatre shows in Australia and Europe. “I’d just like to say – on the record – that I’m a big fan of the support for theatre and the arts,” Mikelangelo says dryly. “It’s certainly helped us over the years!” Recently, the Black Sea Gentlemen headed out west to play shows in regional Western Australia and the Northern Territory, where the reaction was just as positive as the audiences in Edinburgh or Berlin. “In a way we’re all showmen, and we like to connect with an audience, so in a way, people just always get it, wherever we play, so you don’t have to change anything to ‘localise it’,” Mikelangelo says. Mikelangelo relays a story of playing the Sziget Festival in Budapest a few years ago, where the predominantly Hungarian audience thought the Black Sea Gentlemen were from Russia. “This happens to us quite a bit,” Mikelangelo laughs. “Different Europeans think we are from their country or a neighbouring one – it’s quite flattering really.” In addition to its recent tenure in regional Australia, Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen has been working on a television pilot with novelist Elliot Pearlman. Having broken up Mikelangelo and Tin Star to free himself up to pursue various other projects, Mikelangelo is looking forward to the prospect of transforming into a television star. “Elliot Pearlman is a big fan of the Black Sea Gentlemen, and he’s been talking to us for a few years saying he wanted to write something for us,” Mikelangelo explains. “When he finished his latest novel, The Street Sweeper, he started to work on a pilot. The basic idea of the show is a musical comedy – but a good one! And we get to star in it – which suits me fine! I’m ready for it – and let’s face it, TV needs us as well,” he laughs. While on tour in 2009, Mikelangelo filmed a number of ‘grooming tips’, which he posted on YouTube. Having done the 30 hour plane trip to Europe on numerous occasions, what are Mikelangelo’s tips on arriving in Europe without looking like someone who’s just spent five years doing hard labour in the Gulag? “I must admit to being one of those people who spend a lot of time in the bathroom when you want to go to the toilet before the plane arrives,” Mikelangelo says. “I take my shaving kit – it’s amazing how having a shave is almost as good as having a shower.” MIKELANGELO & THE BLACK SEA GENTLEMEN play at The Spotted Mallard’s first birthday on Friday November 1 alongside Bearded Gypsy Band and My Sauce Good. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV
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THE TELEVISION SKY By Rod Whitfield This avant-garde, instrumental rock act from Melbourne have been around for four years and are set to release their second, self titled album. It’s an involving, immersing affair, a journey across strange and wonderful instrumental soundscapes, and according to the band’s multi instrumentalist Andrew Macrae, the band have put their heart and soul into its creation, and believe it is a major step from their debut of 2011, We Trust That the Moon Shall Guide Us. “Well, the first one was really, if I’m being brutally honest, it was really just a glorified demo,” he admits. “The first six or eight tracks [came from jamming] when we first got together. We recorded that one on a very shoestring budget, basically in a mobile recording studio in a squat house that was scheduled for demolition, in a two-day period. It was really only meant to be a demo but it turned out a lot better than we expected, so we ended up releasing it through MGM. “This one, we were really happy with the material, we’re really proud of the songwriting, so we really wanted to take it up a level on this one,” he continues. “We worked with a producer this time, and we really wanted to make it the best representation of our sound and our aesthetic that we could.” Ultimately, Andrew and the band are extremely happy with the results of their extensive labours on the project. “Really
excited,” he states enthusiastically. “We put a lot of work into it, we were writing and rehearsing the material for about eighteen months, two years. We rehearsed really hard in the lead up to the recording sessions. We’re really happy with it – it’s a real strong representation of us. It was really what we were going for, we managed to capture the feel of the band, and we’re just happy to release it to the world!” The band are launching the album this coming Sunday evening at the Worker’s Club in Fitzroy. They are very excited about the launch, and have some exciting stuff planned for punters rocking up on the night. It promises to be an aural and visual feast. “It’s going to be an amazing night,” he foretells. “We’re working with some experimental projectionists, called Dr Projectionists, who use a range of kaleidoscope and vintage,
and also contemporary, techniques to create mesmerising visuals. We hope it’s going to be a really good night, with a lot of really interesting audio-visual type stuff going on for people. We’re really interested to see what the projectionists come up with.” According to Andrew, it’s important for an all instrumental band such as themselves to provide the fans with that extra visual element when they come to a live show, since there is no vocals/lyrics for people to identify with. And aside from that visual aspect, the band promise a very powerful but dynamic live show. “We’re an instrumental band, and that can be difficult to put across the an audience without a singer,” he opines. “You don’t have that kind of immediate link through the human voice to the audience. We’re pretty loud, it’s definitely a rock sound, we kind of go for the overwhelming rock sound at times, but it’s also balanced with the lighter, more kind of classical influences through the quiet passages with the piano. “So it’s a blend of light and dark,” he continues his description.
“It’s loud at times, but it’s also pretty and quiet at times, and I guess we just try to put across an emotional connection. Our whole thing with our live show, because we can’t rely on a vocalist or lyricist to do that, we try to create that emotional connection with an audience through the instrumentals… communicating something through pure sound.” All that said, the band actually harbour possible plans to add a vocalist one day, or take some of the vocalising upon themselves. “I think that’s probably on the cards at some stage,” he states. “I think we’ve kind of taken the three piece format as far as we can with this record. So I think we’ll probably be looking to do some new things…that’s the plan for next year.”
people didn’t even double back. I felt that everyone was going to stare and it was going to be really awkward, but it’s almost like they were so busy going about their day that even the things in front of them didn’t make them stop. “One of the boys who did vocals in the male part of the song was dressed as a homeless person and we sat him in the spot with a sign that read WE WILL SING FOR FOOD. And the whole day, we were completely ignored, except for this one man who stopped and said to him, ‘Mate, I’ve got a bag of chocolate coated almonds you can have if you’re hungry’ and the guy sitting goes, ‘Oh nah mate, we’re filming a video, but thank you so much!’” The shoot proved to be an interesting little sociological experiment for the band and a complimentary visual for many of the ideas inherent within the song. “We wanted to capture that feeling of almost feeling senseless in the crowd,” Faithfull explains. With only one person acknowledging them, this feeling was more than manifested; as like many people out there, their art was mostly ignored and unappreciated. On a more positive note, the upcoming single launch party is hardly something to disregard. Dominating The Espy’s Gershwin Room will be Soul Safari and their stellar guests, which include funk queen Kylie Auldist, Cookin’ On 3 Burners and LABJACD, a mammoth outfit which will include 15 musicians, “a real hit you in the face set,” Faithfull enthuses. “This one is going to be big. From start to finish we’re going to have people dancing. There’s going to be giveaways, like merchandise and promo cause we’re getting sponsored by
some awesome companies. We’re going to have a walk of fame at the entrance, so when everyone comes in they can have their photos snapped and it will go up on our website. We just want everyone to leave the event going, ‘Holy shit! That was the best lineup we’ve seen in Melbourne in a really long time.’ We want to show that live music and our style of music in particular in Melbourne is very much alive.” Soul Safari are incredibly grateful to the artists joining them on stage and Faithfull is more than appreciative about this. “We feel so blessed to have them on board with us. As a band we’ve done some work with Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ drummer, Ivan. They’re awesome! I’ve done some work with Kylie through PBS. They did a Women of Soul series and I was on the lineup with Kylie. She’s someone we’ve respected for so long. Ivan gave her a call and she said she’d be happy to come along and have a sing. Having her as part of the show is such a blessing.” Soul Safari’s humility is overwhelming and their unconditional love and belief in their music is inspiring. Their music is a movement, an image of perseverance and hope for all those artists out there struggling to share their voice.
THE TELEVISION SKY launch their second album this Sunday November 3 at The Workers Club, with support coming from Syre and Fresko, and Rich Davies and the Devil’s Union (acoustic set).
SOUL SAFARI By Dina Amin
Soul Safari are a confident bunch. They’re about to release their new single The Weather and they are pretty damn proud of it. And so they should be – it’s fucking good. Boasting an impressive octet, led by the soul-drenched powerhouse vocals of Lisa Faithfull, these guys are doing everything they can to get their presence known and their music heard across Melbourne. “It’s been a crazy week!” Taking a break from rehearsal, Faithfull and some of the boys took some time to discuss their new single and its anticipated launch party. “We are really excited to release it. It’s been a long time coming. We’ve been recording the song since about May this year, so we’ve been in the studio, just sitting on it, waiting and waiting and waiting.” Even though the band have been playing together – not the same lineup – for five years, Soul Safari have only just found their niche and their new single The Weather personifies this re-defined sound, a sound which owes its influence to the likes of Badu, The Roots and The RH Factor. The Weather tackles the universal struggle of balancing work and creativity, of pushing through the storm of routine in order to support creative pursuits. “I was sitting one night after work – cause I’d been working at a cafe at the time – and I’d worked all day and when I got home, my partner was in bed and the house was silent and I just sat there thinking, ‘There’s this thing that you’re so passionate about but it’s quite a lonely thing, because when we’re creating, most of the world is asleep.’ “You wonder if all the other musicians, artists and other creatives are feeling this way, you know, you work a normal job to make ends meet and then most of the money you earn from your normal job, you invest back into the passion you
have. The bridge section is ‘dying to be alive’ and I sat there thinking, ‘We literally kill ourselves to make ends meet.’ “It’s a bit of an irony I guess, you have all these passions for something and you will kill yourself to get it, but at the end of the day you’re sitting there alone and no one may ever hear your music.” An incredibly moving soul ballad, Faithfull is not shy in stating that it may be their best song yet. It’s honest, raw and universal; “We want people to connect with the song. People aren’t alone – whether you’re creatives or whether you’re someone working in a factory – you’re working your ass off and at the end of the day you get home and you’re questioning why you’re doing it. We just want people to be able to play this song and go ‘we’re not alone.’ It’s almost like an anthem for people who are trying to get by and trying to be noticed.” In the months leading up to the release of their single, Soul Safari decided to shoot the music video in the Flinders Street underpass, an event which coincidentally complemented the theme of the track. “We decided to film it there obviously because the song’s got that urban kind of feel. We also thought, ‘What better way to capture it than having business people walking past, kids on skateboards, etc.’ I’m singing like I would on stage and
Check out Melbourne’s neo-soul heavyweights SOUL SAFARI when they play at the The Espy on Saturday November 2. Joining them will be Kylie Auldist, Cookin’ On 3 Burners, LABJACD, plus DJ Vince Peach and DJ Mz Rizk.
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If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why? We sing about all kinds of nutty stuff and folks have told us that we have a big sound and high energy stage presence that really satisfies...but I don’t really care much for chocolate bars. Anything else to add? We’re nothing if not festive. This year we’re playing the Halloween Freakfest on Thursday October 31 at The Tote, which is also where we’ll be hosting our annual Riffmas event on Friday December 27 (aka the Xmas recovery party).
THREE QUARTER BEAST ASK RIFF FIST:
I think the drummer is on speed. I could sure go for some hash browns right now.”
So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? Usually something like “Damn that singer/bassist is a tall dude! Did he just say he needs a fix of minimum chips? Their guitarist has a mean death stare!
Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? We launched an EP called Fistful of Riffs earlier this year, and soon we will be releasing a 7” called For A Few Riffs More. Stay tuned to rifffist.com for more on that one.
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RIFF FIST ASK THREE QUARTER BEAST:
How long have you been gigging and writing? We’ve been writing for a while and I think it’s about two years now that we’ve been going mental and turning into a beast on stage.
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Tell us about the last song you wrote. It’s about the legend of the Loch Ness Monster. If you believe the drunken word of a Scottsman. But I don’t know if I trust him. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? We snort wizz fizz off of the butt cheeks of giant sumo wrestlers. When are you doing your thing next? Being the beastliest band in burn city, we have to throw a massive Halloween dress-up party at The Tote, cool bands and freaks galore! Then Beau’s birthday party at the Brunswick Hotel on Saturday November 16 and supporting Poison Fish for their awesome EP launch at Friday Cherry Bar on November 22. Riff Fist and Three Quarter Beast will be playing Freakfest at the Tote this Thursday October 31 feat. The Battery Kids, Inedia, The Instincts, Grindhouse and Caladonia.
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WEDNESDAY 13 By Josh Fergeus “You’re my last interview,” Wednesday 13, one of the world’s principal proponents of horror punk, tells me. “I’m so excited!” And fair enough. As we speak, he and his band are five weeks into the US leg of their tour, followed by flights out to Australia, and then on to Europe. “We’re 22 shows down on a 50 show tour,” he says. “I’m in the wonderful world of West Virginia right now.” The front-man – the driving force behind The Murderdolls, Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13, and Gunfire 76 – and his band will be spending Halloween gigging in Australia. “It definitely adds to it, but I think we carry the Halloween flag 365 days a year. But on Halloween there is an extra special feel. Last year we played Halloween and I saw Beetlejuice crowdsurfing – it was awesome. “The first time I went to Australia was as Wednesday 13 in 2005 in support of my first album. Once Murderdolls had started a lot of guys who were playing in that were also playing in my other project Gunfire 76. We came back in 2012 as Wednesday 13 and did Soundwave, and that’s the same lineup I have now.” Wednesday 13, otherwise known as Joseph Poole, has
had somewhat of a revolving door of band members supporting his solo project over the years. “A lot of those other guys in the band were strangers,” he explains. “We didn’t know each other. It takes a lot of work to be in a band at this level. It means a lot when you have friends and people on the same page. It’s taken me years and years to find the right guys to complete that. I have that now and we’ve been going strong for the last couple of years. We’re a much better band, we’re in a good place.” While it hasn’t always been like that, the singer has been nothing if not prolific. So much so that he can’t quite remember just how many albums he has released. “I don’t know exactly. I’ve released my fifth full-length Wednesday 13 record, a couple with the Murderdolls, then you add the Frankenstein Drag Queens where there were like six albums...it starts to add up. I’m
really bad at math but it’s probably close to 20. “There was a point where it felt like it was a little harder to get it going. That was back in 2008 after I had recorded the Skeletons record. We had the revolving door lineup and I wasn’t confident as Wednesday 13 the way I am now. I feel more inspired and I feel like I’ve got more of a drive for doing this stuff. I feel like it’s taken me all this time for me to grasp what Wednesday 13 is and what I want it to be. I’ve got that vision. “I’ve been inspired by movies, and I still get inspired by music. I constantly listen to music, a lot of heavy stuff. I’ve been a punk rock guy and also listened to a lot of old classic rock like Alice Cooper and things like that but I listen to Gojira and Lamb of God just as much. I’m inspired by different things, and my fans are probably
the most inspiring thing of all. With social media I can hear them when they praise me, I can hear them when they bitch at me. I think a lot of bigger bands lose sight of what their fans want. You don’t have to do exactly what they say, but you do have to listen to them, because they’re the ones that put you where you are. “You know whenever I put a record out I never know what my fans are going to think about it. I might have a gut feeling – they’re really going to like this song or they’re really going to like this album cover. You want the fans to accept it but you never know.”
the world, I always want to find out what the local and traditional music’s like. I find it fascinating and interesting, and mixing it all together, like reggae with jazz with rock or whatever. It’s fascinating.” Of course, it’s not all sunshine and happiness. The man himself, Dereb, was originally from a tiny village in Ethiopia, and wound up as a refugee in the thriving, first world metropolis of Sydney, 12,000 kilometres away. “That’s an interesting question!” he says, when asked what it’s like to work with Dereb. “There’s been some cultural…err…hurdles that he’s had to jump over. He grew up in a really small village, and didn’t have the type of education that we take for granted. When he arrived in Australia, he had to learn, slowly but surely, what it’s like to live in Australia. “And even after being here for quite a few years now, there are still issues on a day to day basis with being in a band together,” he continues. “And his expectations of
the industry are, and what the reality of the Australian music industry is, they’re completely different things. And I think he finds it very frustrating in this country. He’s had a lot of success in Ethiopia, and he finds it hard to get that same success here. Dereb’s very passionate about his music, so much so that he’s only really into doing the music, and so when other things come up, he just seems to want to just roll off and go back to performing and rehearsing and all that.”
what we’ve been doing for the last 15 years. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, I don’t know – I guess the punters can make their own decision.” In late November, Legends of Motorsport will appear on the bill for the CherryFest at Melbourne’s Cherry Bar. Not surprisingly, Legends of Motorsport are a big fan of Cherry. “It’s got that long standing thing of being a bit of a hang-out for people who’re passionate about their music, whether it’s playing or listening to music, or drinking near it,” Stops says. “It’s the type of place you can feel pretty much at home when you’re there, and staff are going to be looking out for you. It’s always just a fun place to be, without having to worry about people not understanding your behaviour – put it that way!” But before Legends of Motorsport makes its way to the Cherry, the band will play at the Tote on Melbourne Cup Day as part of the Cup My Balls celebration. I ask Stops if the band has ever considered
playing as Legends of Horse Racing for the day. “I think the occasion might be a bit above our station to go down that road – I don’t know if we’re classy enough to find ourselves on the straight on Cup Day,” Stops laughs. “I think we can probably consume enough alcohol to have that much in common. Maybe we could get a nice Bart Cummings poster! But the spirit of the day at the Tote is more an alternative to the big horse race than a tribute to it. Maybe we could get hold of some jockeys’ silks that are way too small and trot out in them. Or maybe a top hat and t-shirt, or tuxedo and thongs.”
WEDNESDAY 13 hits Billboard on Friday November 1.
DEREB THE AMBASSADOR By Rod Whitfield When you think of the term ‘rock music’, literally hundreds of iterations and acts spring to mind. Its breadth as a genre of music these days veritably boggles the mind. When you think about ‘world music’, the definition is even broader, as it can take in the Indigenous music of just about every nation on the planet, from Djibouti to Japan to Jamaica. The Australasian World Music Expo comes to Melbourne in mid-November, and the list of acts on the bill displays the sheer diversity of music and nationalities on show. One of the feature acts, Dereb the Ambassador, is headed by Dereb Deselegn, an accomplished Ethiopian singer songwriter, and also features members with backgrounds in Australia, South Africa, Chile, Morocco and New Zealand. And that’s just in the one band. It’s just that they all now live in Sydney. The band’s flautist and saxophonist Matthew Ottignon, speaking from his home in the New South Wales capital, agrees that the definition of what world music is has grown significantly over time. “That’s right,” he says. “It’s a hopeless label, really. I don’t think anybody really can narrow that down. I know you can potentially have Australian bands playing at a world music festival. I think once upon a time ‘world music’ was just a label used to sell African music, back in the day. They needed something to sell
it, so they called it ‘world music’. But of course now, having a label like that means that any music that isn’t mainstream top 40 or something like that!” he laughs. Ultimately however, Ottingon is just happy to have this style of music represented in such a major way in mainstream Australia, with the event set to take place at the Melbourne Arts Centre and several well-known venues around town. “I like this music because it’s a great mixture of African music,” he explains. “It’s from east Africa, from the ‘Horn of Africa’, it’s got a different flavour than the rest of African music. It’s got more of an eastern flavour to it, and the music itself is quite distinct. It also features jazz quite heavily, and it has a tendency to become quite ecstatic and hypnotic and even freeing, which is the sound of traditional Ethiopian music. Plus there’s a touch of James Brown and other soul music, so it’s quite an interesting mix.” It’s that melting pot of styles, all rolled into one, that attracts Ottignon to this musical style. “When I travel
DEREB THE AMBASSADOR will perform at the Australasian World Music Expo, which runs from Thursday November 14 to Sunday November 17. They play at the closing night party on Sunday November 17 at The Hi-Fi alongside The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, The Cactus Channel and more.
LEGENDS OF MOTORSPORT By Patrick Emery Legends of Motorsport conjures up images of charismatic racing drivers from days of yore: Peter Brock battling it out with Dick Johnson, Allan Moffatt, Colin Bond and Kevin Bartlett for the Bathurst 1000. Maybe it’s gratuitous nostalgia, but modern motorsport doesn’t seem to have drivers with the charismatic attraction of the legends of the past. “I suspect the legends are more in the lower tiers,” Legends of Motorsport guitarist Cameron Stops muses. “It’s become a lot more of a professional pursuit these days, with all the big dollars on it. The characters are all out there in the country meets waiting to be discovered. If you go out to some club track you’ll come across some young guy in a homemade car doing something deserving of wonder.” Motor racing aside, it’s been a quiet 18 months for Legends of Motorsport. A spate of shows early last year, including a show at the Northcote Social Club with help from the Dynamo horn section, was followed by a long period of absence, as lead singer and organ player Richard Fyshwick headed back overseas on an extended break. Fyshwick did manage to keep up appearances with Legends of Motorsport, finding time to ring in to the studio in Melbourne to add his two cents’ worth to the mixing process for the soon-to-be-released new Legends of Motorsport record. Fyshwick also found time to record some video
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footage that ended up in the film clip to Legends of Motorsport’s new single, The Grrr. “That footage was some of the work Richard did while he was away. I think the salt plain scenes are in Bolivia, and the desert scenes are in Morocco, or around north Africa,” Stops says. As for what exactly ‘the grrr’ is, Stops is coy – if indeed he does know what it is at all. “Well, that’s really the question that song is asking,” Stops laughs. “And it’s a good question – I think it’s one of those songs when the grrr can be anything you want it to be.” Stops says the new album is essentially finished, with the release date dependent only on finding a suitable label. While Stops says Legends of Motorsport haven’t mellowed at all, he does note that the new record does include a hitherto unfound acoustic track. “I think the new album will have the first ever Legends album with a prominent acoustic guitar track,” Stops laughs. “Maybe that’s mellowing out – but you won’t hear it in our live set, so I don’t know if it counts. With the new album, I think we’ve evolved a bit, but I don’t think we’ve evolved into anything significantly different from
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Infinite Void Poison City Records will celebrate their tenth birthday next month by chucking two rather huge shows at two of Melbourne’s best live music venues. That’s the good news. The bad news is that if you’re reading this and haven’t hunted down tickets yet, you might just be shit outta luck. You know what to do. Get on the forums and find a way to get to The Gasometer on Thursday December 19 (Harmony, Lincoln LeFevre, Infinite Void, Apart From This, Freak Wave, Postblue) or The Reverence on Friday December 20 (The Smith Street Band, The Gifthorse, The Bennies, Paper Arms, Clowns, Daysworth Fighting). Boys Of Summer 2013 has been announced. Blessthefall will headline the annual tour, alongside Like Moths To Flames and The Colour Morale. Locals will be added in each city (if you’re interested in scoring a support slot, drop Destroy All Lines an email. They’re hunting for new talent!). All happening at Arrow On Swanston (AA) on Wednesday January 15 and the Corner Hotel (18+) on Thursday January 16. Tickets from Thursday October 31. The Locust will tour Australia for the first time ever in February. After a decent hiatus the band will head south, don their signature full body nylon suits and hit the Corner Hotel on Friday February 7. Well this is fairly hilarious. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has said that the band have been contemplating selling their ‘leftover riffs’ online. He reckons the band might end up selling their riffs on eBay considering “some of them are actually quite decent, but we won’ t be able to use all of them”. Now the big question. Would your band admit to including a bona-fide Metallica leftover riff in your new song, or just chuck it in there and hope you can pass it off as your own?
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1: Not Fest at Reverence Hotel Cosmic Psychos, Spazzys, Sun God Replica at Gershwin Room Enslaved, Rise Of Avernus at The Hi-Fi Wednesday 13, Witchgrinder at Billboard Scar The Surface, Bronson at Sound Bar, Werribee Legends Of Motorsport, The Lovebombs, Slue Stratos at The Old Bar Maggot Fest IV feat Boomgates, The DHDFDs, White Walls and more at The Gasometer Cold Ground, Kodiak Throat, Public Liability, Organ Donor at The Bendigo SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2: Nancy Vandal, Sheriff, Wolfpack, Mucho Sonar at The Reverence Hotel Bodyjar, Luca Brasi, Sinking Teeth at the Corner Hotel Not Fest feat Up & Atom, Foxtrot, Too Soon, Del Lago and more at The Public Bar Saviour, For All Eternity, Anchored at Phoenix Youth Center (AA Arvo) Saviour For All Eternity, Anchored at Band Jonesez, Iowa, Sincerely, Grizzly, Desperateens, Pretty City at The John Curtin Turbo Fruits, Bad Dreems, The Kremlings at The Tote MaggotFest IV feat Straightjacket Nation, Oily Boys, Lakes and more at The Gasometer SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3: Not Fest featuring Maricopa Wells, Laura Palmer, White Oak & Stuyvesant and more at The Public Bar You Am I, Bittersweet Kicks, Drunk Mums at Prince Bandroom MONDAY NOVEMBER 4: Violent Soho, Straight Arrows at the Corner Hotel You AM I, Bittersweet Kicks, Drunk Mums at Prince Bandroom Apes at Yah Yah’s The Go Set, The Ramshackle Army, I Am The Riot, A Commoners Revolt at John Curtin Saviour, For All Eternity, Anchored at Masonic Hall Clagg, Broozer, Child, Xenos, Shift at The Tote The Spoils, La Bastard, Mightiest Of Guns at The Old Bar Thy Art Is Murder, Witchgrinder at Next! Buried In Verona, Left For Wolves, Fail The Abstract at Bang TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5 Taco Tuesday featuring Mark and Arlo, Josh Mann (Paper Arms), Josh Newman (Foxtrot), Grace Lawry (Kissing Booth) at The Reverence Hotel Charlie Parr, Amarillo at The Old Bar Electrik Dynamite, Death By Six, The Glenn Danzig Tapdanzig Extravadanzig at Next! The Shitfits (Misfits cover band), Denim Demons (Turbonegro cover band), Ebolagoldfish, Blood Vision, The Out Of Towners at Bar 291
RIP LOU REED As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Lou Reed died aged 71 on Sunday of complications from a liver transplant. I’d like to remember Lou as I saw him: berating the audience at a show at the ANU in Canberra back in 2000.
BMTH & THE CONTORTIONIST Don’t you fucking dare forget that Between The Buried And Me are at the Corner Hotel on Tuesday November 19 to perform their ambitious release The Parallax II: Future Sequence in its entirety. This critically acclaimed album is described by Tommy Rogers (vocals, keyboards) as “A conceptual journey that takes the listener to worlds that seem familiar and worlds that make you scratch your head.” Joining BTBAM are US prog metal alchemists The Contortionist. Combine Rush, Dream Theater, Cynic and their touring buddies and add a dose of their own personality and you get these guys. They create a frenzy of warped time signatures, percussive mathematics, spider-fingered fretwork, dazzlingly atmospheric keyboards and arresting vocals. In short, a stunning, virtuosic group of musicians who have been shattering the boundaries of conventional heavy metal since their inception in 2007. Tickets are on sale now.
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When Ronnie Montrose passed away in March, 2012, friends and musicians immediately wondered what they could do to pay homage to one of rock’s all-time legendary - and influential - guitarists. The result was some of music’s most renowned artists uniting for a concert only a month and a half later and performing Ronnie classics throughout the evening - which will now make its official DVD release on Tuesday December 10, 2013, Concert for Ronnie Montrose - A Celebration of His Life In Music. Recorded in San Francisco at the historic Regency Ballroom and mixed in 5.1 surround sound, the DVD features performance by Ronnie’s past band members in Montrose (Sammy Hagar, Denny Carmassi, Bill Church with Joe Satriani), Gamma (Davey Pattison, Denny Carmassi and Glenn Letsch with Marc Bonilla), performing both groups’ hits. Additionally, Ronnie’s colleagues and people he mentored and produced over the 40 years of his career are featured as well, including Neal Schon (Journey), Ricky Phillips (Styx), Steve Smith (ex-Journey), Ed Roth, Jimmy Paxson (Stevie Nicks), Jeff Watson (ex-Night Ranger), Tesla, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer (Kiss), Eric Martin (Mr. Big), and more.
BABY ANIMALS THIS THURSDAY Don’t forget The Baby Animals are at the Corner Hotel this Thursday October 31. They’ll be playing material from their new album This Is Not The End as well as classics from their first two records. As guitarist Dave Leslie told me last week, “I think having the new guys in the band gives the old material a bit of a kick, and it is ‘the band,’ and the band’s always done an eclectic mix of stuff. It’s really good to be able to mix it up, do some darker ambient things and then some ball-tearing rock and everything in between. It’s worked out well.”
WITCHGRINDER SCORE WEDNESDAY 13 SUPPORT Aussie industrial metallers Witchgrinder have been named as support for the Wednesday 13 tour, which hits Billboard The Venue on Friday November 1.
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Ten bands everyone should know about: Spinning Rooms, Deep Heat, New War, Batpiss, TV Colours, Spite House, Hoodlum Shouts and High Tension, Deep Heat and Batpiss. Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Power gain formula, energy drinks, hot tequila, viagra, wasabi, servo hot dogs, warm milk, strawberry ice cream and swordfish steaks. I wouldn’t want to be there, but how could that combination fail to kick arse? Eight possessions that define you: Orthodox guilt, one set of clothes, a 1973 HQ Panel Van up on blocks in a paddock on the peninsula, three broken noses still worn, every piece of shark paraphernalia ever conceived from the dawn of time, gifted on birthdays and packed to the roof in a 1973 Panel van up on blocks in a paddock on the peninsula, 85 VHS videos containing 176 of 180 episodes of Seinfeld taped off Tasmanian TV from 1994-1999, some with garish advertising, others edited, The distortion pedal that Dr Know from the Bad Brains used to record Rock For Light with and a jar of tears. Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape: Hot to Trot, Short Circuit 2, Blind Fury, The Boy Who
Could Fly, Darkman, Predator 2 and Slapshot. Six bad habits you can’t escape: Moping, trying to find new lows of self deprecation to beat the encroaching hordes to the punch, nailing my thumbs to things with nail guns, roof renovations at the end of gigs, assessing people’s bad heads and thinking about their lives and screaming in my sleep. Five people who inspire you: Tim Brennan from Tym Guitars in Brisbane who does more for music in a day than most people do in a lifetime. Alex Gillies who is an artist and musician from Brisbane who excels at anything he turns his hands to with a nonchalance that is maddening. Charles Mingus, Lita Ford and Scotty O’Hara. Four things that turn you on: The sound of Rossi boots unbuckled in a hallway, closing my eyes while playing the guitar and opening them again, having not been dime bagged, harmonies and shark death. Three goals for your music: To not get shot in the face while performing it, to play a set with one hand while throwing more picks at the crowd than Rick Nielson from Cheap Trick and to play Launceston and leave of my own free will without being escorted. One day left before the apocalypse and you… Go to the Tote and wait for the fuss to pass with the other cockroaches. Then walk around picking up loose change like it’s New Year’s Day. When’s the gig / release? Tuesday November 19 at The Residence for Melbourne Music Week launching our new single Diminishing Returns out through Poison City Records.
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WEDNESDAY OCT 30 AMAYA
THE KILLDEERS
Alt-country cosmonauts five-piece The Killdeers deliver their dynamic live show at the Retreat Hotel this Wednesday October 30 and unleash new material to a live audience. Recently hitting the studio recording new tracks, they play two sets at the Retreat front bar from 7.30pm. Free entry.
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.
Fresh from an Australian/New Zealand tour with The Drones, Mike Noga has been sticking around in Melbourne a little bit longer to play a month of Wednesdays at The Yarra Hotel in Abottsford, 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.
PETE COMELIUS
PASSERINE
At 29 Pete Cornelius is, as Rhythms Mag rightly pointed out, quite possibly the youngest veteran going around on the Australian blues and 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.
LUCY ROLEFF
Talented local musician Lucy Roleff will launch her debut EP Longbows tonight. Lucy has been a regular feature on the Melbourne music scene for a number of years now and has also toured Europe. She finger picks strings, hums and claws at the piano. Her music stems from a childhood devoted to classical music, opera and a particular summer’s day ten years back when she discovered folk and lyrical realism. Catch her at the Grace Darling on Wednesday October 30.
MIKE NOGA
Part dub, part disco, part trip-hop and a whole lot of fun, Passerine play the last night of their Revolver residency on Wednesday October 30. Their debut single Ready to Begin has just got an awesome Gloves remix, climbing Hype Machine and sparking widespread radio interest around the country. The seven-piece bring some special guests including Alta and Ruby Whiting Music for their final night of their residency, and entry is free. Live music kicks off from 8pm.
DAVE O’CONNOR
All October, Dave O’Connor has been playing weekly down at The Tote with a diverse group of handsome talented friends playing every Wednesday. Accompanied by a full band, come down to enjoy yourself and make a new friend or ten. Joined by Alistair O’Brien and Amanita, it kicks off around 8.30pm every week.
MISCHIEVOUS THOM
Geelong/Melbourne four-piece Mischievous Thom are concluding their four-week residency at The Toff in Town with a special filming of a backstage acoustic performance tonight. They’ll also be joined by the talented Josh Romig at 8pm.
THURSDAY OCT 31 AURORA JANE
Blending psychedelic ‘70s analogue warmth with upbeat funk, soaring rock and intuitive song-craft, Aurora Jane’s fourth album Holding Pattern unveils an expansive creative evolution. Aurora Jane have built an extensive international fan base across North America, Europe and most interestingly India with their funkinfused pop rock. Catch Aurora Jane celebrating the release of Holding Pattern at The Evelyn this Halloween and enjoy a great night of music as two of Melbourne’s finest acts The Lovely Days (formerly Capcha) and The Imprints (fresh back from the European tour circuit) open the evening.
CATCH RELEASE
Soul-folk soundscape act Catch Release play the Great Britain Hotel this Thursday October 31 showcasing their Antony & The Johnstons style vocals alongside violin, bongos and French horn. Supporting them from 9pm is Farrow and their indie-folk electronica tunes and Hudson, fresh off the back of his The Undertow EP release. 3 sweet bands from 9pm and it’s all free entry.
ROSIE BURGESS
With songs that cross a genre of folk to blues to gyspy roots and back, Rosie Burgess crosses more genres than state borders giving off “more energy than an illegally sparked firecracker”. She hits the Retreat on Thursday October 31 from 8.30pm. Free entry.
PIERCE BROTHERS
Pierce Brothers have returned from a tour of the UK and have announced a residency at Ding Dong Lounge for Thursdays 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.
FIONA LEE MAYNARD & HER HOLY MEN
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. 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.
THE HACKKETS
It’s been a long time coming but The Hackkets, a rock band with more than 200 gigs to their name, will finally release their debut single Mexico / LA at The Reverence this Thursday. Proudly hailing from Melbourne’s West, the band is made up of members with and without disability, brought together more than ten years ago as part of Footscray Community Arts Centre’s Artlife program and are still going strong. The band originally focused on covers, immersing themselves in the kind of universal classic hits rock'n'roll that wins over even the most hardened in-car sing-along scrooge, but since 2011 have channeled their love of such classics into their own reinvented AM radio fan-fiction. Head to The Reverence Hotel in Footscray this Thursday October 31.
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This Thursday October 31, Clapped Records have organised an inner city sideshow for the Kennedy Creek Music Festival happening over the long weekend which mainly comprises of bluegrass bands. Playing on the night will be Man In The Clouds, Sugar Ghouls and Kung Fu in Technicolour. It’s on at Yah Yah’s from 7pm (music starts at 9pm). Entry is free.
CHERRYWEEN
This Thursday October 31, Cherry Bar steals your Soul with CherryWEEN starring 25-piece all-teen-girl soul act The Sweethearts with free entry if you dressup! Soul in the Basement with DJs Vince Peach and Pierre Baroni late. Open 5pm, door charge $10 from 8pm till 5am.
DRUNKEN MOON FESTIVAL
Ten bands everyone should know about: Sarah Humphreys, Mike McCarthy, Formidable Vegetable Sound System, The Frames, Lisa Hannigan, Lucie Thorne, Sia, Kooii, Iron and Wine and of course, Formidable Vegetable Sound System. Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Coconut Oil, cacao, honey, avocado, nuts, sweet potato, tahina, lemon and organic wine. Eight possessions that define you: Guitar, Ukulele, Yoga Mat, Netti Pot, blender, teapot, homemade chai and ugg boots. Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape: Nausica Of The Valley Of The Winds, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Nausica- My Neighbour Totoro, Outrageous Fortune, The Sound of Music, The Office (USA) and Anchorman. Six bad habits you can’t escape: Cacao, saying ‘like’, cocoluscious ice cream, op shopping, losing’s one shoe and losing a wallet, keys and phone.
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Five people who inspire you: Joan Baez, Emily Lubitz, Captain Paul Watson, Hugh Masakela and my daughter Cedar Bee. Four things that turn you on: Cacao, chanting, the beach on a perfect sunny day and tropical fruit. Three goals for your music: To always have a crowd to play to, to connect with people on a heart level and to grow and evolve. Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why: Simon and Garfunkel- I grew up listening to these beautiful men and George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic- the trippiest gig ever! One day left before the apocalypse and you: Go on a picnic with my most favourite people in the whole world and eat heaps of raw chocolate and delicious food and sing songs…. When’s the gig/release? Friday November 8 at The Velvet Room, Thornbury Theatre with Broni and Saturday November 9 at The Harvester Moon Café, Bellarine.
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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/rock/’abilly’s 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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HALLOWEEN
There’s a Halloween party at Tago Mago this Thursday and you’re invited! Carve up a pumpkin, work up your best horror movie scream, dress to kill and get on down to High Street’s favourite local, Tago Mago, for a Halloween spooktacular featuring three of Melbourne’s finest, most rockin’ bands: grunge-pop trio Dear Stalker (fresh from the Creepshow Halloween Festival), dark cabaret outfit Rouge Foncé and purveyors of the finest vintage indie rock, The Dark Ales. Entry is free, there’ll be tasty Halloween treats on offer and prizes for the best dressed on the night. Festivities begin at the prewitching hour of 8pm.
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PRIVATE LIFE
VERONICA FALLS
Indie-synth melodic dream Private Life are launching their new single Escalator at The Espy front bar and have put together a local indie-dream lineup as supports. Having played supports alongside Garbage and Bluejuice to name a few, they’re joined by Tokyo Denmark Sweden, Neighbourhood Youth and I Know The Chief for a free entry show on Friday November 1 to not be missed. Be sure to check out their spacey filmclip for the single to catch vocalist Renee looking like a total babe.
Visiting Australian shores for the first time next week is the jangly and memorable, Veronica Falls on an exclusive Australian tour for their Nobody There single. They play the Northcote Social Club on Thursday October 31 with Pearls and Milk Teddy supporting. Tickets available via northcotesocialclub.com.
TASTE OF INDIE COLLECTIVE
Serving up another great local lineup of original music at The Wesley Anne on Thursday October 31, the Taste of Indie Collective present you a no tricks, no goblins, no candy and no costumes required original music feast featuring singer-songwriter Acoustic Foxx opening the night, followed by The Moops bringing their taste surfer-rock vibes to get the party going. Wrapping up the night is folk-rock four piece Waterline. Entry is $5 and bands kick off from 8pm.
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.
HALLOWEEN FREAKFEST
Time to get your ghoul on! All Hallows Eve is the time to let the monster in you and let loose with some of Melbourne’s finest and freakiest bands! Full costume party, two stages. Full venue. The Battery Kids, Three Quarter Beast, Inedia, Riff Fist, The Instincts, Grindhouse and Caladonia will all be hitting the stage. Prizes for the best dressed Freak Fest goers! It goes down at The Tote on Thursday October 31.
MIKELANGELO
ALEX GIBSON
Having honed his skills busking on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne, Alex Gibson proudly presented by JMC Academy is set to begin his national tour, celebrating the release of his first album This Is Life which debuted at number two on the iTunes Singer Songwriter charts. Alex recently shared his unique vocal tone with millions of people nationwide as a finalist on The Voice, achieving five singles in the Top 100 overall iTunes charts. Alex is now ready to hit the road and share his new album with Australia. He plays The Yarra Hotel on Thursday October 31. Tickets available from alexgibsonmusic.com
FRIDAY NOV 1 THE PEEKS
Williamstown folk-rock four piece The Peeks take to the stage at Revolver this Friday November 1 to launch their self-titled debut EP. Citing Fleet Foxes, Crowded House and The Beatles as influence, their four-track release blends infectious melodies with the soaring vocals of their spellbinding frontman Fraser Henry, The Peeks boast versatility and a raucous Stonesy romp not to be missed. Support comes from The Zanes and July Days. Doors at 8pm and tickets are $10 on the door.
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.
WILDERBEAST
Wilderbeast is a fresh project for a bunch of musicians that have collectively clocked up thousands of gigs. Combining their backgrounds in hardcore, ska, hip hop and soul, Wilderbeast is folk, rock and blues with a punk aesthetic and shit-hot musicianship. Headed by charismatic front-man Michael “Crowey” Crowe (aka Micro from SS Pecker), Wilderbeast is also made up by Sam Osborne (House Vs. Hurricane), Kate Lucas (Telltale) and Tim Parry (Soul Safari, Lamarama). It’s on at Yah Yah’s this Friday November 1. Free entry!
THE SHADOW ELECTRIC OPENING NIGHT PARTY
As a prelude to its 3rd annual cinema program, The Shadow Electric is once again cranking up the bandroom for 14 sweet live gigs over 10 days and nights this November. The opening night party featuring Citizen Sex, ScotDrakula and DJs and goes down this Friday November 1. Sick.
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DANCE OF THE UNDEAD
This Friday November 1 the zombie apocalypse is coming to Rubix Warehouse. It’s a night to let your brains hang loose, release your inner corpse and satisfy all your zombie needs with brain shots and blood sucking nurses. The scariest corpse will receive a prize so don’t be shy with your costume! There’s a killer lineup of DJ producing quality house and chugging techno grooves that will be kicking off at 8pm and charging until 2am. So all you zombies, vampires, werewolves and witches, adventure to the other side of the tracks this Halloween and party with the Rubix crew.
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
Get yourselves down to The Fitzroy Beer Garden on Gertrude Street on Friday November 1 and Saturday November 2 for a weekend of Dia De Los Muertos celebrations. It’s The Day of the Dead and what better way to party with the living and the dead than with $20 Corona buckets, $4 tequila shots and $3 tacos. The place will be decked out and there’ll be free sugar skull face painting from 6pm, awesome DJs (including their amazing resident DJ Andre Le Vogue) will be spinning the tunes and they’ll have Day of the Deadinspired artwork on display and to buy.
WATT’S ON PRESENTS
This Friday November 1 at The Prince of Wales Public Bar it will be warm and luscious with a humid 27 degrees expected plus garage psych rockers Loose Tooth and psychosis stirring songstress Willow. Constantine will be wooing audiences early with his blessed voice and delicate guitar fingering. It’s free as always with cheap longnecks and the best pub food on the strip.
HEAVY JUDY
Bringing ace rock bands and ace DJs to you every Friday until 3am, Heavy Judy serves you with a killer lineup this Friday November 1, local heavy-weights Redcoats headline at 11pm with Child supporting from 10pm. DJ Traffic Jam serves you the very best til 3am. Head down to The Retreat for a Friday night rock’n’roll party.
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VAUDEVILLE SMASH
Vaudeville Smash have announced the release of their brand new EP, V-Grade Horror. An ode to the kitsch ‘80s horror films that struck fear into the hearts of the band, V-Grade Horror is a tight collection of spookalicious tracks. Part Thriller, part Steely Dan, part Toto, this Halloween release is a Frankenstein’s monster of influences and sounds. To celebrate, Vaudeville Smash are taking their horror-show on the road with two frightful Halloween launches. They visit the Northcote Social Club on Friday November 1.
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Infectious rhythm, worldly lyrics and impassioned musicianship are just the beginning for any Sol Nation performance. From Dili to Cairns, Lisbon to Rio, Sol Nation draws upon a wealth of international musical culture to bring you a melting pot of reggae, samba, funk, salsa, and African dance music. Sol Nation have created one of the most exuberant, colourful, intoxicating and exciting live shows in Australia. With a charismatic, high energy, infectious live show, and a strong global conscience, Sol Nation is a unique and must-see Australian musical experience. They will be launching their brand new single Spread The Word at The Evelyn on Friday November 1 with supports from Tumbarumba and Keagan Clothier joined by Jesse Hooper.
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 to announced 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.
NANCY VANDAL
Nancy Vandal, the elite death squad sent from Planet Sex in 1993 to destroy this planet, are hitting The Reverence Hotel this Saturday November 2 to celebrate the release of their new album Flogging A Dead Phoenix. Joining them on the ride are the riffdriven Sheriff and Wolfpack. Doors open at 7.30pm and tickets are $20 at the door.
THE BOMBAY ROYALE
Saturday November 2 sees a super-charged night of music at The Shadow Electric with freakadelic Bollywood goodness from The Bombay Royale, hot salsa and Latin funk from San Lazaro, a selection of rarities, versions and remixes from the funk and soul closet with Karate Boogaloo – The Cactus Channel rhythm section and their guests and tunes by DJ Chris Gill. It’s all in aid of launching HopeStreet’s Tropical Brunswick Mixtape, mixed by DJ Jumps.
THE OCEAN PARTY
The Ocean Party have announced a new tour in support of their recently released LP Split. Throughout November, The Ocean Party will tour throughout most of the country, with stopovers in Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Cairns, Townsville, and Brisbane. The new record marks a change in direction for the Melbourne boys. After releasing two LPs, the band moved to a more split approach for their third LP. On the new album, each band member writes and sings their own songs. Suitably, the emerging record is titled Split. They visit Boney on Saturday November 2 alongside Sam Cooked, The Clits and Totally Mild. $10 entry.
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Fresh from a series of shows with his band the Exit Keys, local indie/Americana/art noir proponent Michael Plater will be playing a special stripped down acoustic duo set at Some Velvet Morning on Saturday November 2. He’ll be playing songs from his 2012 solo album Exit Keys, alongside new songs and a few covers of the likes of Lee Hazlewood, the Triffids, and the Velvet Underground. He will be supported by Ballarat’s king of gothic-country Matt Malone. The show will kick off round 8.30pm and entry is free.
BODYJAR
The one and only kings of the Australian pop punk scene Bodyjar are back and psyched to bring you their newest release Role Model! Hitting the Corner Hotel on Saturday November 2 on their The Role Model Australian tour, they bring their memorable punk rock hooks in support of their banger album share the stage with special guests Luca Brasi and The Sinking Teeth. Tickets via cornerhotel.com. Role Model is out now.
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.
id SATURDAYS
id Saturdays is 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.
COLD HARBOUR
Back and better than ever, Cold Harbour are ready to showcase new material from their winter song writing hiatus to bring you a powerhouse mix of garage, swampy, spaghetti western blend that has become the Cold Harbour trademark. Joining them at their Great Britain Hotel gig on Saturday November 2 is Marilyn Rose & The Thorns for a night of drama, darkness and decadence. Doors 9pm and free entry.
THE SPITFIRES
Hitting the road for their third national tour for 2013 is Sydney indie-garage outfit The Spitfires playing songs from their debut album Songs from the Debt Generation. With their latest single Suffer Kate featuring a truly bizarre music video to accompany their latest release, head down to The Retreat on Saturday November 2 from 10pm to see what the fuss is about. DJ Traffic Jam plays til 3am. Free entry.
MATT & BEKI (THE MAVIS’S)
Formerly of The Mavis’s (those Australian darlings who had hit singles in Cry and Naughty Boy that breathed some glitter into the black lungs of Australian rock), Matt and Beki have each developed now-matchless styles and more striking voices than ever before. If they made you smile then, they will make you shiver now. In the studio, they mix together to create the listening pleasure that is Searching For Zero, six tracks of pop so mouthwatering and so well put-together you could mistake it for an apple and cherry strudel (laced with something, perhaps). First on will be a rare appearance by Caroline No, the new group fronted by Caroline Kennedy who sang in Deadstar and The Plums. Tickets on sale now. Check it out at Yah Yah’s on Saturday November 2.
SUNDAY NOV 3 SUNDAY SCHOOL
In the words of Sonic Youth, “Sunday comes alone 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 line up 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.
HARMANIAX
The Harmaniax are a bunch of worldly musos 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 and come sample our cajun kitchen specialties.
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Hot off the plane from a month of dates in Europe, Claude Hay has announced a swag of east coast shows for the summer. Keen to change direction and form a band for his next release, Claude wants to film for posterity the multitasking one-man-band show that won him Best Vocalist at The Australian Blues Awards, landed him in the top ten of USA’s Billboard Blues charts and blew music industry insiders away at his Bigsound showcase this year. He’s also starting a Pozible campaign, with some awesome rewards on offer. Check him out at Pugg Mahones in Carlton on Sunday November 3. Free!
HELLO WEEN
Super Rock and Roll Party are once again presenting the much cherished Hello Ween at Yah Yah’s, Melbourne’s funnest, superest, most over-the-top Ween tribute band to date. In a partnership spanning more than three decades, ‘Dean’ and ‘Gene’ Ween have not only created amazing, interesting music crossing any genre you care to name but kept us laughing our arses off the entire time. They have apparently decided to call it quits this year (we hope this won’t stick) and so we want to make Melbourne seethe with Ween love. So get dressed up (few days after Halloween), rock around to Yah Yah’s (free entry) and get excited, because Hello Ween will be playing all your favorite genre straddling, trip inducing, side splitting Ween classics. Head to Yah Yah’s on Sunday November 3. Free entry.
CHERRY ARVO BLUES/THE STORY MODEL
This Sunday November 3 looks wild at Cherry Bar. First up in the afternoon there’s Cherry Arvo Blues with Collard, Greens & Gravy. Doors 2pm, $5 entry, DJ Max Crawdaddy till 6.30pm. Collard, Greens and Gravy: acclaimed for their gritty, driving, down home-sound, Collard Greens and Gravy play a mostly original repertoire of foot stomping country blues that would sound right at home in a Mississippi Juke Joint. That evening, The Story Model play with Hemy and Marshall, and Junior Under The Moon. Free entry from 6pm, Cherry DJ till late.
EXHAUSTION
Exhaustion wield the negative/downer/repeato sensibility like they invented it. Ratsak gnaw at the bones of hardrock and vomit out sick hard/heavy classics via '80s HC. Marco Fusinato extends the language of guitar to distressed oblivion, compounding electronic detritus into over-amplified aural weapons: unleashing tsunamis of ecstatic free noise. Cup Weekend. Fuck your horse. This is the race. Sunday November 3. Bar Open.
TOM KLINE
Last September, Melbourne singer-songwriter Tom Kline launched his debut EP Vintage Loneliness through TK Recordings/AWAL. Produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Francois Tetaz (Gotye, Kimbra) Kline and Tetaz have selected four tracks from a list, each with their own story and sound highlighting Kline’s versatility as a singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Much loved in Melbourne’s music circles, Kline enlisted the help of friends Bertie Blackman, Lior and Sophia Brous for backing vocals on two of the EP tracks. Tom Kline plays The Evelyn on Sunday November 3.
THE LARGE NUMBER 12S
With a band named after their favourite pizza, you know you’re gonna have a great time. The Large Number 12s hit The Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford for a month long Sunday residency, kicking off on November 3, playing their classic country-rock tunes, full of lovely melodies, catchy choruses and guitarist Charlie Owen’s impressive playing. With a BBQ in the Yarra’s beer garden from 3pm and live music from 4pm, there’s no reason to not be at this free entry Sunday arvo delight!
CLAVE CONTRA GRAND FINALE
CLAVE
Come Sunday November 3, Clave Contra Clave escalates to its final event, the Grand Finale. Expect passion, fire and sheer demonstration of musical talent as Australia’s top four Latin bands go head to head in a final showdown for a share of the total cash prize of $25,000. The lineup boasts Melbourne’s Rumberos and Quarter St Orquesta. The lineup will be completed with the Sydney Heat Finalist, to be announced October 31, and People’s Choice Finalist to be announced November 1. The highlight of Clave Contra Clave Grand Finale will be a combined concert with international super band Grupo Niche (Colombia) and international support act, the SalSalavador All Stars (El Salvador), along with guest performances by Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo player William Barton, Australian’s Got Talent finalist Juan Carlos Ospina Sanchez (Colombia), and international salsa singer Bobby Rivas (USA). Supported by world leading hand percussion brand, Latin Percussion, a two-year endorsement deal will be awarded to the best percussionist of the national competition. It goes down at The Plenary from 4.30pm.
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SMITH STREET SOUL TRAIN
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.
LITTLE SCOUT
With album number two hot off the press and their Hungry Kids Of Hungary tour done and dusted, Little Scout are hitting The Shadow Electric. Mixed by Lars Stalfors (Cold War Kids, Deap Vally, The Mars Volta) and mastered by Joe LaPorta of Sterling Sound in New York, Are You Life is a stunning work of dense arrangements, layered distortion andstriking vocal melodies. Don’t miss Little Scout’s only Melbourne show with special guests, I, A Man at The Shadow Electric Bandroom, Sunday November 3.
MONDAY NOV 4 THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY
The Ramshackle are gearing up to release their first single from their debut EP Life Lessons and Drunken Sessions Back in 2011. They spent the next two years working their way up and down the country and stopped by the other side of the world, supporting bands such as Antiflag, Strike Anywhere, The Flatliners, Frank Turner, Dropkick Murphys and a plethora of awesome Australian bands too. They eventually came to the realisation that real bands record! So they furiously spent the last few months fine tuning some older songs, writing some new songs and discovering some new sounds. The party kicks off for their Anchors Aweigh single release at the Curtin Hotel in Carlton on Monday November 4 with The Go Set, I Am The Riot and A Commoners Revolt. $13 at the door.
CUP EVE CARNAGE: CLAGG, BROOZER, CHILD, XENOS AND SHIFT
After three crushing years of Cup Day Carnage, this year The Tote are gonna be exploding ear drums on Cup Eve. Lineup for this liver-pummelling eve includes doom, sludge, metal, grind and psychedelic riffage from the armpits of hell courtesy of Clagg, Broozer, Xenos, Child and Shift. It goes down on Monday November 4, doors at 4pm.
BISCOTTI
Biscotti is not only an Italian biscuit, but also Melbourne’s own international electro hip-pop kooky beat maker lead by producer Carla Ori. Her dance beats are embellished with textural landscapes of instrumentations and playful lyrics that paint a picture of Melbourne’s underground and sub culture. Biscotti never fails to ‘bring it!’ on stage and more often than not has an entourage of other musicians and dancers backing her up. For the month of November she presents a residency at The Evelyn Hotel with a conglomerate of quality acts and DJ’s ranging from bizarro hip-hop, to dreamy electro, to punk and disco.
THE AFROBIOTICS
Cup Eve presents you with the only chance each year to party hard on a Monday night before the government gives you the day off on a Tuesday (unless you are a recently retrenched public servant or something). So we thought we’d head straight to the top of the pile and get The Afrobiotics in celebration of this once in a year event. The Afrobiotics are a six-piece Melbournebased band that breathe new life into the sound of West Africa whilst bringing a powerful message of resistance to the next generation of afro-beat. The Afrobiotics hit up Bar Open on Cup Eve.
THE SPOILS
The Spoils celebrate C grade celebrities on the cover of D-grade publications this Spring Carnival season as they take their tales of pursuit, regret and frustration to The Old Bar for Cup Eve on Monday November 4. Joining them are surf-rock party animals La Bastard and dark country balladeers Mightiest of Guns, both fresh from Chopped Fest in Newstead. Come celebrate the biggest Monday night out you’ll get all year!
THE APE
The Ape are set to tear apart The Shadow Electric Bandroom. Comprised of Raul Sanchez, Pat Bourke, Gus Agars and the mighty Tex Perkins, The Ape have just released their self-titled debut album and it fucking rules. They hit The Shadow Electric alongside Mesa Cosa on Monday November 4. Don’t miss it.
WAGONS
Wagons, known for their dynamic and unpredictable live shows, are bringing their ever-engaging ‘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.
THE APES
Melbourne band Apes are working on the title of Australia’s hardest working band. Having recently caught their collective breaths after a recent tour with Stonefield and shows with The Love Junkies, Papa Vs Pretty and Davey Lane, Apes are heading out on the road again, this time hitting the east coast of the country through the month of November. The band’s garnered fans worldwide with BBC Radio 1 DJ Phil Taggart saying the band’s last single Helluva Time was the greatest rock ‘n’ roll song written this year. Hands down!’ They play Yah Yah’s on Cup Eve, Monday November 4 with special guests Them Bruins. Doors 8.30pm, $10 entry.
MAX SAVAGE AND THE FALSE IDOLS
Ever since he shipped across to Melbourne with his unique brand of vintage soul and Australiana country, Max Savage has been making waves wherever he stomps his boots. With stories of heartbreak, loneliness and redemption beckoning imagery from the central desert where he has spent much of his adulthood, Max Savage has a lyrical style firmly rooed in the traditions of the Go-Betweens, Saints and Paul Kelly. They play The Workers Club on Monday November 4. Tickets $12, doors 8.30pm.
TUESDAY NOV 5 CUP MY BALLS TOO!
It’s nearly that time of the year again where the majority of the nation glues itself to the TV screen to watch horses run around in circles. Last year, the Cup My Balls team felt a need to offer an alternative to this equine yawn-fest and provide a day of rock’n’roll ecstasy and amazing food (Yaz’s BBQ Banquet). Last year’s C.M.B was an incredible success with all the bands causing a frenzied strip down and mass orgy. Okay, there was no orgy but everyone was feeling the love and sonic energy. So come and dance, bounce or whatever you like to the ripping lineup of Batpiss, TTTDC, Sun God Replica, Legends Of Motorsport, Mangel Wurzel, My Left Boot, Cyberne, Dead, Spermaids, Bodies and Them Nights. It’s on Tuesday November 5 at The Tote. Doors at 4pm.
CHARLIE PARR
The Old Bar is the place to be on Cup Day Tuesday November 5 to catch American country blues musician Charlie Parr. He last visited the country in 2009 touring the country with Paul Kelly and now you can catch him playing his vast catalogue of bluesrock on Cup Day. Tickets are $25+bf or $30 at the door with special guest Andrew Morris and Amarillo. Doors at 8pm.
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.
The Grace Darling hosts Melbourne’s newest soul night – Smith Street Soul Train – with a 12-piece live band featuring stellar players who have performed with the likes of The Commodores (ahem, that’s Lionel Ritchie’s band!), James Morrison, Little Red, Harry Angus (Cat Empire), Hugh Jackman, Thelma Houston, Bon Jovi, The Good China, Gossling, and Kylie Minogue. These monster musicians come together every Tuesday night from September 10 to bring you the tunes that will help you get your boogie on down. With funky soul DJs and drink specials thrown in, Smith Street Soul Train is the new destination for your weekly serving of sweet soul music. Doors 8pm, $8 entry. $5 Tecate beer, $5 house wine.
CUP DAY AT THE DRUNKEN POET
Cup Day is a curious tradition, the day we stop to watch horses and a day which we get off from work. The Drunken Poet plays host to look after your postFlemington beverage requirements in the intergalactic roots styles of The Vanguards to bring the party to warp speed from 6.30pm. Whether you’re into the Melb Cup or not, the Drunken Poet will be celebrating with a party you’re welcome to crash! Doors at 4pm.
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FIFTH FLOOR
Fifth Floor is an underground movement of events. The conception of the name was drawn from the first location of The Factory. The fifth floor of East Street, Midtown Manhattan. Fifth Floor #1 was a huge success. The event sold out reaching a capacity crowd of 400+ and hundreds were turned away at the door before the headline act hit the stage. The next event Fifth Floor #2 is a send-off party. The collective are heading abroad to host Fifth Floor #3 in an arts warehouse in Berlin. Fifth Floor #2 is made up of 12 psych/garage bands, with Wolf & Cub headlining. Thom Russel of Astral Projection will be providing the live analogue psych projections and there will be two stages this time around. The main stage is setup for established acts with the side stage setup for upand-coming local Melbourne bands. The second Fifth Floor event is on Friday November 23 contact contact@5thfloor.info for more information.
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THE FIRE ALIVE
We don’t have to go to work on a Tuesday, so what else are we going to do but lose money on horse racing, watch one of Melbourne’s hottest bands right now – Cherrywood – and enjoy some refreshing beverages at Bar Open. Having recently recently released their LP Book Of Matches, the lads have hit the bitumen of Australia on a neverending tour. There’s a lot happening on Cup Day in Melbourne but an afternoon with Cherrywood will be hard to top.
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.
LOOKING FORWARD NCAT MAKERS AND PLAYERS GUITAR EXPO
Northern College Of The Arts in conjunction with Maton Guitars and a mix of talented Australian independent guitar builders will be hosting this year’s Makers and Players Guitar Expo on Saturday November 16 at Deakin Edge, Federation Square. An event that will showcase a range of local builders and their guitars including the likes of Andy Allan, Jack Spira, Benedict Stewart, Ian Noyce, David Worthy, Jeff Crisp, Shane Briggs, Daniel Kenny, Darren and Ryan Bolitho. It will also be an opportunity for aspiring builders and 6 string aficionados to learn more about the craft and the NCAT Instrument Making & Repair course that is taking this emerging industry by storm. There will also be some killer live music with guest appearances from Louis Johnson, Rebecca Barnard, Nicky Bomba and Lisa Miller to name a few. One lucky punter will also take home a brand a new Maton EM-325 Acoustic, all for attending. For tickets and more information visit ncat. vic.edu.au or phone 9478 1333.
ATTENTION ALL MUSOS AND BUSKERS
The Waratah Hotel in Hobart have put the call out across almighty Bass Straight to musicians looking to jam in the Apple Isle. All musos and buskers are being encouraged to apply and perform at the venue and the world famous Salamanca Market which attracts 10,000+ visitors every Saturday. The Waratah Hotel is offering accommodation, transfers, marketing, production dinner and breakfast and a small fee. Looking ideally for solo and duo acts the team behind this great venture may also consider larger arrangements should the music fit! The idea is to attract more musos to visit Tasmania and add a new mix to an already thriving and emerging music scene. Email gigs@thewaratahhotel.com.au for more information and to learn how to get involved.
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Define your genre in five words or less: Psychedelic swamp rock. When’s the gig and with who? The single launch for the Glow 7” is this Wednesday October 30 at The Workers Club. We’ve got Fucking Teeth coming over from WA to supply the rawness and Brother James which is a bit of a supergroup of The Vasco Era, Rat & Co, Second Hand Heart and The Exploders members. We’ll all be coming straight from playing Kennedys Creek Music Festival so we’re expecting a really fun night. What can a punter expect from your live show? Spacey jams, bass fuzz, spilt beer, slide guitar, a sore neck and an onslaught of sound with hopefully a catchy tune buried underneath. What do you love about making music? Everything. The first spark of an idea when you’re jamming at home and hear something interesting form in your head, fleshing out that idea and being really excited, all the twists and turns it goes through along the way with everyone’s ideas coming in. Then when it’s done you get to play it in front of people and if you’re lucky someone will come up to you and say they really liked that new song. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Probably just music in general. There’s so much awesome stuff out there and people are making amazing music right now and that inspires us to want to make the best possible music we can; ambition is not a bad thing. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? We love a good pump-up song as we’re approaching the city after a boring drive. Something like Bleeding Through or Slayer. Tell us about the last song you wrote. It came from a Warren bass delay noodle that we turned into a morphing, rising kinda jam. It was cool because we don’t usually get to work on songs from scratch in the band room, usually the idea’s already half there. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? Our new single Glow is available in 7” vinyl. You can grab one from a show or from thefirealive.bandcamp.com. There’s also an old EP there.
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK
TOP TENS: RECORD PARADISE TOP 10
MAJOR TOM & THE ATOMS
1. Transformer Lou Reed
A musical safari of howling blues, psychedelic comic book soundtrack and bone-crunching rock, Heroes, Villains, Boom Boom Boom! is an accomplished debut, filled with skilled musicianship and the growling vocals of Major Tom. If Major Tom & The Atoms’ debut album proves one thing, it is this: there has been some good to come out of Little Red’s demise. Tom Hartney, the keyboardist and vocalist in Little Red, dons the moniker of Major Tom and leads his Atoms with a voice as dark as tarmac and twice as rough. He will immediately be recognised by anyone who has heard him before. Hartney tears open the album with Bloodhound, a track so thick with the blues you could swim in them. The racing beat of Boom Boom Boom and bouncing organ and bass line of Confusion keep the album moving along and buzzing to its own pulse. The album is also full of social satire, with lyrics that deal with the dreams of grandeur and making it big, like in Chasing Rainbows: “Back in the factory where dreams are made and sold. Some folks are cashing in their happiness for gold. Trading tomorrow for the here and now.” The album closer Every Little Monkey delves into the fantasy of escaping the everyday grind by becoming rich and famous, labelling it more of a delusion: “Life on the stage might look like a rage. But when the
Underground
2. The Velvet Underground And Nico The Velvet
Heroes, Villians, Boom Boom Boom! (Independent)
3. 1969 Velvet Underground Live The Velvet Underground 4. Ooga Boogas OOGA BOOGAS 5. How To Carve A Carrot Into A Rose COURTNEY BARNETT 6. Float Along Fill Your Lungs KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD 7. Debased Shapes SKY NEEDLE 8. The Loving Gaze MONTERO 9. Daddy’s Highway THE BATS 10. Double Natural BOOMGATES curtain’s drawn you must return to your cage. Life in a band might look very grand. But when the show is over you’re alone with your hand.” DANIEL PRIOR
RECORD COLLECTORS CORNER - MISSING LINK 1. Smashed On A Knee LP POWDER MONKEYS 2. From The Ages LP EARTHLESS
BEST TRACK: Chasing Rainbows IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE THESE: Listening to honkytonk blues in the jungle. IN A WORD: Boom.
3. Monster Planet LP STVEN MAXWELL VON BRAUND 4. Das Seelenbrechen CD IHSAHN 5. Omega Sessions 10” BAD BRAINS 6. Imitations CD/LP MARK LANEGAN 7. Abra Kadavar LP KADAVAR
SINGLES
BY LACHLAN
ALEX CAMERON
Happy Ending (Crawfish) The opening track of the debut solo record (released for free on alexcamerononline.net.au, the Greatest Website Of 2013) from the newly vocal Seekae frontman Alex Cameron is a simple affair, meditating on lo-fi keyboard with a croon that deviates between self-awareness and unreliable narrator with affecting savvy. It’s a nostalgic brand of pathetic, the protagonist stroking their ego despite a perceived disenfranchisement – “I know I’m living with my folks now, but I can still get around, and I don’t even have to pay rent.” There’s an overwhelming beauty in its sheer simplicity.
STRAIGHT ARROWS
Make Up Your Mind (Rice Is Nice) New track from the usually ace Straight Arrows starts off a bit Jumpin’ Jack Flash, which is very good, but settles for a more passive and ultimately boring remnant of the early-2000s garage explosion. The hackneyed titular chorus encompasses the general lack of imagination, compounded by what equates to a fairly shit riff. Hopefully not an outright indication of the upcoming LP, and we can anticipate a worthy follow up to It’s Happening.
JAPANESE WALLPAPER FEAT. WAFIA
Breathe In (Zero Through Nine) Melbourne producer Japanese Wallpaper delicately crafts a chiming guitar-led wash of intoxicating down-tempo dream pop. Its more in line with the organic arrangements of Wintercoats than the more electronic-inclined works spreading forth from Sydney in the past decade. Brissy vocalist Wafia is a perfect fit, so hopefully the team-up isn’t a mere one-off.
STONEFIELD
Love You Deserve (Illusive) Ramping up the swagger with a Jean Genie-like stomping riff, Stonefield stick to their pure rawk guns on the latest cut from their debut LP. After the initial blast of guitar and rollicking toms, there’s not much else of interest to be found. Again, their weakness is in the chorus, this time the ham-fisted lyrics are the let-down. The organ-aided solo is almost there, but still feels a bit stilted, like the soul has been refined to the point of suffocation. The talent is there, but its obscured by plain dull production.
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9. Nuclear Reich LP KROMOSOM 10. Novo’s CD/LP GOOCH PALMS
Off The Hip Records
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8. Threace CD/LP CAVE
1. So Tonight LP MAZZY STAR
PANAMA
Always (Future Classic) There are some interesting elements amongst the mix in Always, with intriguing underlying synth moments and grand piano theatrics, but the recipe is slightly overcooked with plain same-y pop tropes. It’s a proficiently crafted track, not relying on a singular idea to carry the melodic load, but there’s a certain spark missing, failing to lift above the current indie-pop glut.
CUT COPY
We Are Explorers (Modular) Harnessing their pretentious-free pop appreciation, Cut Copy find a middle ground between Pet Shop Boys and Katy Perry in a unapologetic anthem in We Are Explorers. Dan Whitford delivers the uncool pickup line “You got a face for the front page, you should join me some time” in his gentle cadence, but somehow comes across as a true charmer. If you’re not getting down by the big bongo breakdown then you’re living your dang life wrong.
HARMONY
Diminishing Returns (Poison City) Renowned live powerhouse Harmony play to their strengths on Diminishing Returns, frontman Tom Lyngcoln imbuing his voice with a haunting monotonous inflection like that of a chanting high priest. The inevitable payoff isn’t quite like the apocalyptic explosions that defined their debut album, giving the gnarled guitar solo room to breathe. The angelic harmonies ease in at just the right moments, the guitar and drums colluding in hypnotic tandem. As a seven-inch release, it’s a more than satisfying offering that hopefully precedes an imminent second LP.
2. Shakedown LP CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK 3. I Wanna Go Backwards BOXSET ROBYN HITCHCOCK 4. Ooey Gooey LP/CD DIRTBOMBS 5. Idle No More LP KING KHAN 6. Burn My Eye 7” RADIO BIRDMAN 7. 7”EP FUN THINGS (orig) 8. No Seasons LP JACUZZI BOYS 9. S/T LP FUZZ 10. Novo’s LP/CD GOOCH PALMS
BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS ABOUT LEAVING
1. Baby I’m Gonna Leave You LED ZEPPELIN 2. Exit Music (For A Film) RADIOHEAD 3. Leaving The Past IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE 4. You’re The Reason I’m Leaving FRANZ FERDINAND 5. I’m Good, I’m Gone LYKKE LI 6. Leaving Home JEBEDIAH 7. Watch Her Disappear TOM WAITS 8. Leave Before The Lights Come On ARCTIC MONKEYS 9. Going Mobile THE WHO 10. Exit Everything ROWLAND S. HOWARD
BEAT’S TOP TEN LOU REED SONGS 1. Walk On The Wild Side LOU REED
2. I’m Waiting For The Man THE VELVET UNDERGROUND 3. Pale Blue Eyes THE VELVET
SINGLE OF THE WEEK KIRIN J CALLINAN
Landslide (Siberia/Remote Control) The best song of the year is treated to the best film clip of the year. The finest moment from Kirin J Callinan’s debut full-length keeps his more depraved inclinations out of sight, brandishing stunning lyricisms embedded within an earthly landscape. It’s a beacon of pure Australian balladry, an arresting counterpoint to Callinan’s abrasive extremes. The moment the sweet little piano solo hammers through the speakers is pure magic. Life is a landslide. We are dirt.
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UNDERGROUND 4. Charley’s Girl LOU REED 5. Sunday Morning THE VELVET UNDERGROUND 6. What Goes On THE VELVET UNDERGROUND 7. Here She Comes Now THE VELVET UNDERGROUND 8. Venus In Furs THE VELVET UNDERGROUND 9. Perfect Day LOU REED 10. Metal Machine Music LOU REED
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BAD RELIGION
OCEANO
Christmas Songs (Epitaph Records)
Incisions (Earache)
Want to have a great Christmas, filled with tight punk-rock riffs supplied by a group of intelligent middle-aged men wearing black? Looking for a hilarious and yet artistically valuable gift? Really, really like Greg Graffin? This album is probably for you. Although this is their first Christmas album, Bad Religion have been covering Christmas classics for years, mostly using it as an opportunity to poke fun at Christianity. The imminent threat of a full-scale Christmas album has finally come to fruition, and the result is highly enjoyable. Featuring Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, White Christmas, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and another six classics, the album is basically a recording of one of the best punk rock bands of all time assaulting Christmas. The last track on the album is a new mix of one of Bad Religion’s greatest songs, American Jesus, by the Grammy-award winning Andy Wallace. Sprinkled throughout Graffin’s trademark vocals and Brooks Wackerman’s workmanlike drums are recreations of some classic punk riffs from bands including the Sex Pistols and the Ramones. All in all it’s great fun, and is well worth a listen by anyone who likes their music fast and loud. BEST TRACK: American Jesus IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: JOSH FERGEUS PENNYWISE, THE RAMONES IN A WORD: Christmassy
THE HEAD AND THE HEART
Let’s Be Still (Sub Pop Records)
The Head and the Heart know their sound. But while they may have conquered it, it is debatable whether they have exhausted it. On their sophomore effort, Let’s Be Still, the Seattle six-piece once again play upon their penchant for making feel-good, dreamy Americana, proving that they are still firm believers in sticking to what they know rather than exploring their creative boundaries. Over the span of 13 tracks, they take their listeners on a journey through delicate harmonies, elegant violins and poignant piano, all topped off by Charity Thielen’s goddess-like vocals. The singer/violinist is arguably the strongest reason why the band have set themselves apart from a seemingly endless roster of emerging indie-folk Americana outfits with her ethereal vocals haunting tracks such as Summertime and These Days Are Numbered. Ballads Cruel and 10,000 Weight in Gold are near perfect illustrations of songwriters Jonathan Russell and Josiah Johnson’s ability to craft stirring tales of despair which are intensified by powerful harmonies. That’s not to say that more upbeat tracks such as Homecoming Heroes and Shake can’t stand their ground, however they come across as remarkably similar to the majority of the band’s debut self-titled album. While it’s hard to fault a band for not taking risks on only their second effort, Let’s Be BEST TRACK: 10,000 Weight in Gold IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Still exhibits that they are completely content to stick with MUMFORD & SONS, FLEET FOXES, EDWARD what they know. SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS, THE LUMINEERS LAUREN GILL IN A WORD: Hearty
PINK & WHITE BRIDGE
Home and Hosed (Independent)
The perverse irony of the Californian pop-rock scene of the 1970s lies in its internal contradiction: on the one hand, there was the sentimental and philosophical rhetoric; on the other, the drug-induced egotistical psychotic behaviour of its protagonists. You’re singing about peace, love and forgiveness, while at the same time snorting lines of coke, waving guns at your band mates and shagging everything with a pulse. Go figure. Pink & White Bridge’s music takes you back to one side of that paradoxical equation – the good side, that is. Bring Our Love Home is the harmony-laden soundtrack to the moments of love that fill a thousand great songs; With a Song skips up a beat, and embarks on a ride through the Mojave Desert with Crosby, Stills and Nash. Watch Me Plead leans over the piano and bangs out a heart-felt lament for a bond destroyed by human foibles, Run For Cover has got a bit of Neil Young grunt and guts to get through the tough times – maybe with a whisky chaser for good measure – and Home Again whisks you through the door to find Jackson Browne singing some beautiful music. If Donald Horne had copyrighted the phrase ‘the Lucky Country’, he’d have made a million; if he’d written the track of the same name on this album, he’d be a happy man. Tomorrow is Today finds light within the darkness of emotional confusion; Constant as Change isn’t, thankfully, an entree into a change management course, but a plea for romantic resilience. Wanted lurches into Steve Stills’ most fertile territory, Always Complaining could be John Lennon in a moment of personal reflection when all the bitterness had drained from his body and Who’ll Stop Me Now strikes a BEST TRACK: Run For Cover pose and swaggers like Cold Chisel at the Largs Pier Hotel IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: JD in 1975. There’s a lot to see and hear on this record, and it’s SOUTHER, FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS, CROSBY, all good. STILLS AND NASH IN A WORD: California PATRICK EMERY
Within 30 seconds of slipping this disc into my CD player I felt an urge. I just wanted to call Oceano up and tell them to stop. These deathcore bantamweights mindlessly bore and boulder through Incisions, their third record. Maybe they’re nu-metal? They sure love dat slap bass, making it rain over opener Eternal Wasteland. Internal War suffers through throat grinder Adam Warren’s whispering creepy nothings in our ear. It’s got the worst case of split personality any single metal track has ever had. They crib Behemoth-style rolling blast beats before facing toward sparkly postrock atmospherics. Where are you going, Internal War? Do you need a lie down? Oceano are marginally better sticking to an agenda. New Age Apophis is deathcore-by-numbers; big ole blast beats serving as bedrock to heaving blobs of guitar and breakdowns; breakdowns where guitars rest and dead air rushes through the gaps. The title track again runs loose like a kid on red cordial. Is it active rock radio fodder or a soundtrack for a sweaty, ultraviolent moshpit? As for the Chuck Schuldiner memorial instrumentals on Disseverance? Why not more of that? Why not all of that, for the entire record? I know I said they ought to stop. They don’t need to stop forever, just pause and reflect. What kind of band does Oceano want to be? On Incisions, it feels like Oceano, conceptually speaking, BEST TRACK: Disseverance is stuck sword fighting a particularly noxious fart. Next time, IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Films with plot pick something and stick to it. holes or puzzles with pieces missing. IN A WORD: Confused. TOM VALCANIS
GEORGIA FAIR
Trapped Flame (Sony)
It hasn’t been that long since Georgia Fair featured on the racks of our favourite record stores with their debut LP All Through Winter. Trapped Flame, their second album since their formation in 2006, sees the Sydney-formed and Melbourne-based band mature their blend of charming folk, country, rock and blues with the help of producer Ted Hutt (Gaslight Anthem, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dropkick Murphys). Trapped Flame opens with Gloria, a blues-infused number where vocalist Jordan Wilson’s husky vocals resemble an austere ‘60s ballad, setting the tone of the album. Second track Love Me Free livens up the album with its infectious rhythm and rocking rifts, while Coming Back creates a morose atmosphere with its tender melodies and raw vocals. Are We Not Alive may be the closest track that resembles the band’s previous works, with its contagious lyrics and sweet, upbeat tone. Fifth track Fiery Night returns to the blues-imbued sound Trapped Flame appears to adopt, while The River creates a metamorphic interpretation of water with its dipping crescendos and decrescendos that mimic the movement of water. Old Friends sees vocalist Jordan Wilson return to his husky ballads over a minimalistic, but poignant, piano composition; following tracks Plain Girls and Trapped Flame see the duo adopt their folk roots with fluttering guitar and poetic lyrics while Broken Wings drives the album forward to its conclusive tracks: Someday Soon and Wrong BEST TRACK: The River Side. Overall, Trapped Flame is a complex album that sees IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: MUMFORD Georgia Fair mature into a fine young band that refine what & SONS, BOY & BEAR, BAND OF HORSES, THE they know and do it well. PANICS IN A WORD: Mature AVRILLE BYLOK-COLLARD
COSMIC PSYCHOS
Blokes You Can Trust DVD (Umbrella Entertainment) Blokes You Can Trust, Matt Weston’s documentary on the life and times of the Cosmic Psychos, is the type of music documentary to which all music documentaries aspire. It’s a narrative of the band’s evolution, located in a sociological, musicological and personal context. The Cosmic Psychos are the antithesis of pretension. Songs about dead marsupials, David Lee Roth’s tabloid sexuality, going to the pub, arriving back after spending time away, doing your best to achieve (what the Chinese would call ‘doing your utmost’, the Cosmic Psychos describe as ‘go the hack’). Loved by fans, revered by contemporaries and feared by drinking partners, the Cosmic Psychos are the rock’n’roll manifestation of a country footy team. But Blokes You Can Trust is far more than a linear history of the band. It’s about the members in the band, from Ross Knight, the irreverent farm boy who toured the world, to Bill Walsh, the business-savvy drummer whose estrangement from Knight gives a perverse irony to the film’s title, to the late Robbie Watts, a fiendishly guitarist whose life-long battles with heroin addiction flew under the radar until one fateful night in Bendigo in 2006. There’s nothing sanitised in the documentary – Walsh even chortles at the abuse directed at him in Kill Bill, the opening song from 2005’s Off Ya Cruet. Knight’s own relationship break-up bookends the film, providing an almost counter-intuitive emotional backdrop to the story of a band whose history is constructed by images of beer, bare buttocks and larrikin behaviour. As an artistic concept, the Cosmic Psychos makes no sense: who the fuck would pay money to listen to a bunch of rough blokes with dumb-arse rock’n’roll songs? And in that paradox lies the infinite, indefinable, undeniable rugged beauty of the Cosmic Psychos. Blokes you can trust. BEST TRACK: All of ‘em. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Tinnies. PATRICK EMERY IN A WORD: Rock.
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WEDNESDAY OCT 30 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS TELSTRA ROAD TO DISCOVERY GRAND FINAL - FEAT: JOSH PYKE + ASH GRUNWALD + BOB EVANS + EMMA LOUISE + SCOTT OWEN Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 4:30pm. AMAYA LAUCIRICA (FOUND SOME SECRET LAUNCH) + BRIGHTER LATER + MATT BAILEY Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. COLLAGE - FEAT: CALLING UTOPIA + SISTER ANXIETY + THE BALLS Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. DAVE O’CONNOR + ALISTAIR O’BRIEN + AMANITA Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. DIANE + KINDLING + PEACH NOISE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. KAISHA + CHELSEA MORGAN & THE WOVEN SOULS + LEE BRADSHAW & THE HORIZON BAND Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. LUCY ROLEFF BAND + MALLEE SONGS + PRUDENCE REESLEE Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $8. MIKE NOGA Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. ROOT OF MUSIC - FEAT: PASSERINE + ALTA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. SECRET GOODTIMES CLUB Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm. THE DAY THE WORLD SHITS ITSELF - FEAT: THE HOTSTICKS’ NICKEL + MAKSYM ‘DREADLOCK PUSSY’ SOSNOWSKI + NICK ‘FREEDOM’ WILLIAMS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm. THE FIRE ALIVE + BROTHER JAMES + FUCKING TEETH + THE LAUGHING LEAVES DJS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10. THE LOVE BOMBS + BLACK ALLEYS + BLUE STRATOS + SUBMARINES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. WEST TEXAS CRUDE + TWO SHOT Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC 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. JULIEN WILSON QUARTET 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. MARK LOCKETT & PAUL VAN ROSS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. THE JEX SAARELAHT TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. VIVE LA DIFFERENCE Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK DADDY PIMP - FEAT: LUKE ESCOMBE Butterfly Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. GRIM FAWKNER John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. LES THOMAS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. MONIQUE BRUMBY + STRINE SINGERS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC Ontop In Ormond, Ormond. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. PETE CORNELIUS + IAN COLLARD Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $12. SING FOR YOUR SUPPER Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 8:30pm. THE KILLDEERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: LEISHA J + CAITY FOWLER Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
THURSDAY OCT 31 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS ALEX GIBSON + SARAH RZEK Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. AURORA JANE + THE IMPRINTS + THE LOVELY DAYS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15. BABY ANIMALS + OLLIE BROWN + STEVE BALBI Corner Hotel, Richmond. 6:30am. $35. DARREN MIDDLETON Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. DORKUS MALORKUS (TELLING SECRETS TO STRANGERS LAUNCH) + GERYON + PHOEBE & SCHINA Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. DRUNKEN MOON HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL - FEAT: BROTHERS GRIM + KING OF THE NORTH + BATPISS + CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK + DIGGER & THE PUSSYCATS + GUTHRIE + LA BASTARD + MESA COSA + RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD + SHERIFF + THE DRUNKEN POACHERS + YARD APES Espy, St Kilda. 6:09pm. $25. EL VEZ The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. HALLOWEEN - FEAT: EINSTEINS TOYBOYS Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. HALLOWEEN FREAKFEST - FEAT: THE BATTERY KIDS + CALADONIA + GRINDHOUSE + INEDIA + RIFF FIST + THE INSTINCTS + THREE QUARTER BEAST Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. HALLOWEEN HOUSE OF HELL - FEAT: HUNTING GROUNDS + BAPTISM OF UZI + DRUNK MUMS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15. HALLOWEEN PARTY - FEAT: THE PIERCE BROTHERS + AL PARKINSON Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. HALLOWEEN SLASH PARTY - FEAT: CLIENT LIAISON The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 6:30pm. HALLOWEEN SPECIAL - FEAT: DEER STALKER + ROUGE FONCE + THE DARK ALES Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm.
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HELL ON HALLOWEEN - FEAT: TERRA AUSTRALIS + ABRAXXAS + ATOMIC DEATH SQUAD + MYRIDIAN + ORDNANCE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $12. HONEY BADGERS + CONGRATULATIONS EVERYBODY + JAYDEN KENNY + MUSCLE MAGIC John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. HOW SOON IS NOW HALLOWEEN PARTY - FEAT: NOSE BLOOD CATHARSIS + DEEP HEAT + MISS ARTS VIKTORIA + MISS T. WRISTY Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. JACK LONDON PRESENTS - FEAT: HOLLOW EVERDAZE & WARMTH CRASHES IN Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:03pm. LEVITATING CHURCHES + HOME INVADERS + SPIDER CANYON Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. MALADAPTOR + APOLLO APPLES + REVEREND DAVE & THE SHADY LADIES The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $7. NEXT - FEAT: KISSTROYER + DEATH BY SIX + ELECTRIK DYNAMITE + GLENN DANZIG TAPDANZIG EXTRAVADANZIG Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. THE DHDFD’S + FRANCO COZZO + REMOVALIST Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE GARDEN OF EIDA + CAT JUMP ROAD + CHARM + UNHOLY RACKET Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE HACKETTS + RUDELY INTERRUPTED + THE HACKELELES Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10. THE SPITFIRES + BRESSA VOE + THE SOLICITORS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. VERONICA FALLS + MILK TEDDY + PEARLS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $26.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ALWAN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. CHERRYWEEN - FEAT: THE SWEATHEARTS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DAN PARSONS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET The Commune, East Melbourne. 5:00pm. LANI STANISTREET The Famous Blue Raincoat, South Kingsville. 7:30pm. MACE FRANCIS NONET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20. MEL SEARLE & THE CRAIG SMITH QUINTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. SIMON BURKE TRIO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. SYZYGY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. THE CREATIVE VOCAL SERIES - FEAT: JACQ GAWLER + HANNAH CAMERON Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. THE JEF NEVE SOLO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. THE OVEREASYS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 6:30pm. THE RETHINK PROJECT Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BENJALU + ROSIE BURGESS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. BLOW The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 8:00pm. CATCH RELEASE + FARROW + HUDSON Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. CHARLIE PARR + ANDREW MORRIS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30. DADDY PIMP - FEAT: LUKE ESCOMBE Butterfly Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. GUY KABLE Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. HALLOWEEN MUSICAL SPECTACULAR - FEAT: FIONA LEE MAYNARD & HER HOLY MEN + LOS DOMINADOS + THE ORIGINALS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $20. INDIE COLLECTIVE - FEAT: ACOUSTIC FOXX + THE MOOPS + WATERLINE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. KATE KELSEY SUGG BAND + STEELBIRDS + TURTLE & FOX Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm. MAJOR CHORD Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. MAN IN THE CLOUDS + KUNG FU IN TECHNICOLOUR + SUGAR GHOULS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. MELBOURNE FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. $15. OPEN MIC Station 59, Richmond. 6:00pm. OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 6:30pm. OPEN MIC Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 7:00pm. SMALL TOWN ROMANCE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. STETSON FAMILY Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. THE STETSON FAMILY Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 7:30pm.
FRIDAY NOV 1 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS POWER LOVE! Rochester Castle Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. 180 PROOF + HIGHRIDER + LACE & WHISKEY + THE SUPERGUNS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:07pm. ADRIAN LUTZE & DON GOSLING The Famous Blue Raincoat, South Kingsville. 7:30pm. AIRCRAFTE + CASSIUS CLAY + DUENDE The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $7. BLUEJUICE + LURCH & CHIEF + SURES Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $28. COSMIC PSYCHOS + SPAZZYS + SUN GOD REPLICA Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $25. DROOLING MYSTICS + MOSES JONES III + NODES + PROJECTNRT + TALKSHOW BOY + THE RUDY V ALLIANCE John
GIG OF THE WEEK!
THE APE The Ape are set to tear apart The Shadow Electric Bandroom. Comprised of Raul Sanchez, Pat Bourke, Gus Agars and the mighty Tex Perkins, The Ape have just released their self-titled debut album and it fucking rules. They hit The Shadow Electric alongside Mesa Cosa on Monday November 4. Don’t miss it.
Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. ECHO DRAMA + LIQUID FUNK ORCHESTRA Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. EL VEZ The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ENSLAVED + RISE OF AVERNUS The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. GOOD ROCKIN TONIGHT - FEAT: SILAS & THE KING CREOLES Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. HALLOWEINER - FEAT: THE PLAYBOOK + ADMIT ONE + AFTER THE CURFEW + THE JUST-US LEAGUE + THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY Evs Youth Centre, Croydon. 5:30pm. $12. HARDCORE PUNK NIGHT - FEAT: COLD GROUND + KODIAK THROAT + PUBLIC LIABILITY ORGAN DONOR + SOUTHPAW Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. JAKüBI + AIRWOLF + HIDING WITH BEARS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $15. LEGENDS OF MOTORSPORT + BLUE STRATOS + DJ MERMAID + THE LOVEBOMBS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. LITTLEFOOT (SCARECROW LAUNCH) + OVERDOSE + POSEIDON + THE MAGIC BONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. MAGGOT FEST 4 - FEAT: BOOMGATES + DRIBBLE + FLESH POLICE + LIVING EYES + MOB + MULTIPLE MAN + PLASTIC BAGS + PRONTO + THE DHDFD’S + WHITE WALLS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15. MIKE MCCARTHY + JESS LOCKE + KRISTOFFER PAULSON 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. NICE BOY TOM + DAMON SMITH & THE QUALITY LIGHTWEIGHTS + LUKE LEGS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. NOT FEST! - FEAT: STRATHMORE + FOLEY + I AM THE RIOT + SECONDHAND SQUAD + SOME DUDE TO WRITE HOME ABOUT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10. PITBULL & KE$HA Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. PRAYERBABIES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. PRIVATE LIFE + I KNOW THE CHIEF + NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUTH + TOKYO DENMARK SWEDEN Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. RAISED BY EAGLES Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. SEXY HEAVY + APOLLO APPLES + THE SUNDAY REEDS Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm. SOL NATION + DJ DAN GOLD + KEAGAN CLOTHIER & JESSE HOOPER + TUMBARUMBA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE PEEKS + JULY DAYS + THE ZANES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $10. THE VAUDEVILLE SMASH + ANIMAUX + DJ MIMI VELEVSKA + THE RED LIGHTS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. TIM FREEDMAN The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 2:40am. $32. WEDNESDAY 13 Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. WOODLOCK + TASH SULTANA Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC BORROWED TIME TRIO Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $35. CRAIG SCHNEIDER TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. DEAN’S MARTINI & SHAKERS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. MARGIE LOU’S PIANO HOUR + ALYCE PLATT Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. NAT BARTSCH TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. NICHAUD FITZGIBBON QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. NICOLA MILAN Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. TANGO COLLUSION TRIO + IN THE POCKET Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm. THE REBECCA MENDOZA QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ASHLEY NAYLOR & STEPHEN PINKERTON Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 7:00pm. CHRIS WILSON Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. DADDY PIMP - FEAT: LUKE ESCOMBE Butterfly Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. ERIC BOGLE Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. FLYYING COLOURS Jb Hi-fi Brunswick, 3:00pm. HARRY HOWARD & THE NDE + TWINKLE DIGITZ Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 7:30pm. $12. HUGO RACE & THE TRUE SPIRIT Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. METAL ASYLUM - FEAT: MURDER RATS + ANIENT + BEFORE CIADA + ZYPHOYD Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 5:30pm. MIKELANGELO & THE BLACK SEA GENTLEMEN + BEARDED GYPSY BAND + MY SAUCE GOOD Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 5:30pm. PAVEMENT SERENADERS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. PRAYER BABIES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. REDCOATS + CHILD + DJ FANTA PANTS Retreat Hotel, Bruns-
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wick. 10:00pm. ROUGH CUT COUNTRY BAND Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $8. SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $8. THE GOOD MORROWS + MAGIC AMERICA + SANDGIANT Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. THE TIPPLERS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm. WILDERBEAST Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
SATURDAY NOV 2 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS THE SPOILS + BLOOD RED BIRD Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 7:30pm. $12. BANG - FEAT: SAVIOUR + ANCHORED + FOR ALL ETERNITY Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. BENEFIT CONCERT - FEAT: MICK PEALING + PHIL GOLOTTA + PHIL MANNING + ROSS HANNAFORD + RUSSELL MORRIS + WILBUR WILDE + BRITISH STEEL + CAT STEVENS TRIBUTE + KISS THE VYPER + NEALE JOHNS/BLACKFEATHER + PEGAZUS + TERMINAIDER + TONY CATZ + WENDY STAPLETON & PAUL NORTON Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. BODYJAR + LUCA BRASI + THE SINKING TEETH Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $25. BONE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. BONJAH (SINGLE LAUNCH) + DJ SNAKEHIPS + JACK STERLING + REMI Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. BOY & BEAR Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 7:30pm. DAN SULTAN Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. DR PIFFLE & THE BURLAP BAND Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $15. DUBMARINE + EL MOTH + KOOYEH + SYSTA BB Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. EYE OF THE ENEMY + ARMOURED EARTH + DECIMATUS + NABERUS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15. FUNK RABBIT + MAYFIELD Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. GRAM FRIDAY + ANDY WEAR + NEW ARCHER Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:30pm. GRINDHOUSE + DJ WHISEY CREAM + DRIFTER + FOAM + SEEDY JEEZUS + THE HIDDEN VENTURE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. LIME CORDIAL (FALLING UP THE STAIRS LAUNCH) + CASTLECOMER + I KNOW THE CHIEF Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $10. MAGGOT FEST 4 - FEAT: STRAIGHTJACKET NATION + BLOOD RULE + CLITZ + CONSTANT MONGREL + ENCOUNTER GROUP + GUTTER GODS + HELTA SKELTA + LAKES + LEATHER LICKERS + OILY BOYS + RIP FUCKER + RORT + SIMFUCKERS + SOMA COMA + STATIONS OF THE CROSS + VELVET WHIP Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. MATT & BEKI + CAROLINE NO Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $15. MY ECHO + I AM THE RIOT + IKARII + PHIL PARA + THE BEGGARS WAY Espy, St Kilda. 6:00pm. NANCY VANDAL + MUCHO SONAR + SHERIFF + WOLFPACK Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. $20. NOT FEST - FEAT: UP & ATOM + DEL LAGO + FOUR ZERO ONE FOUR + FOXTROT + GLADSTONE + INITIALS + JEN BUXTON + LUCY WILSON + MAX GOES TO HOLLYWOOD + SOMEONE ELSE’S WEDDING BAND + THE SHADOW LEAGUE + TOO SOON! The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 1:00pm. $15. PARADISE + DISCOVERY OF A FOX + LUNA GHOST + THE GEAD HEIR 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. QLAYEFACE + OPPRESSION + SCARAMOUCHE + SKINWALKERS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. ROWEN ROEBIG Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 10:00pm. SAVIOUR Phoenix Youth Centre, Footscray. 7:00pm. SHADOWS OF HYENAS + COLD DIVIDE + SEX ST Cbd Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. SHORT ORDER SCHEFS - FEAT: PRAYERBABIES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. TEST GIG 2 - FEAT: TEST ARTIST 2 Werribee Park Mansion, Werribee. 8:00pm. THE BOMBAY ROYALE The Shadow Electric Bandroom, Melbourne. 6:00pm. THE HIGH SOCIETY Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE JONESEZ + DESPERATEENS + IOWA + PRETTY CITY + SINCERELY GRIZZLY John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. THE KUJO KINGS + THE WILLY WAGTAILS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.
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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au THE MARY GOLDSMITHS + BOOGIE MONSTER Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $8. THE MODERN AGE + HONEYBONE + THE SAND DOLLARS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. THE OCEAN PARTY + SAM COOKED + THE CLITS + TOTALLY MILD Boney, Melbourne. 7:30pm. THE SPITFIRES + DJ TRAFFIC JAM + THE VANGUARDS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. THE STETSON FAMILY Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. THE TUT TUT KYNGS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. TIM CHAISSON & DIESEL The Palms, Southbank. 7:00pm. TIM FREEDMAN (EARLY SHOW) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 7:30pm. TONY HADLEY Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. TURBO FRUITS + BAD DREEMS + THE KREMLINGS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. VIRTUE + BERLIN POSTMARK + RABID ZULU + VELUDO Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:30pm. $10.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC AARON CHOULAI TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CLASSICAL PIANO Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 2:00pm. GIANNI TURCIO TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. GOYIM + ELVIS IN THE HOUSE Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. JULIE O’HARA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25. PROJECT BROCZEWSKI + CHASR + RED LANTERN COLON Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $8. SOUL SAFARI + COOKIN’ ON 3 BURNERS FT. KYLIE AULDIST + DJ MZ RIZK + DJ VINCE PEACH + LABJACD Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. $10. THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR + SUMIYOSHI Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. TIM FREEDMAN (LATE SHOW) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 10:00pm. YVETTE JOHANSSON & THE JOE RUBERTO TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ALOHA HAWAII - FEAT: MIGHTY DUKE & THE LORDS The B.east, Brunswick East. 7:00pm. ARTIST PROOF Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $7. BRONI Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. COLD HARBOUR + MARILYN ROSE & THE THORNS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. DADDY PIMP - FEAT: LUKE ESCOMBE Butterfly Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DINER & BORNSTEIN PRESENTS - FEAT: JT TONY Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 4:00pm. HARRY HOOKEY Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 7:00pm. JUKE BARITONE & THE SWAMP DOGS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. MARTI BROM + BENNY & THE FLY BY NIGHTERS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. MCALPINE’S FUSILIERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. MIDNIGHT SCAVENGERS + THE IN THE OUT Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm. NEVAJA NEGRA Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. ROSS WILSON & THE PEACENIKS + MIKE RUDD Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. RUSTBUCKET Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. SHORT ORDER SCHEFS - FEAT: SCHORT ORDER SCHEFS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $20. SOUTHBOUND SNAKE CHARMERS + DOUBLE SHOT BLUES BAND + THE PICKLED ONION Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE JAMES KENYON BAND Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. THE MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS + GABRIELLA Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE RECHORDS + LITTLE BASTARD + WEST TEXAS CRUDE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE STEVENS Polyester Records, Melbourne. 1:00pm.
SUNDAY NOV 3 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 6:00pm. EAMON & DUDI PROJECT Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:00pm. ELVIS IN THE HOUSE + DUO SEVERINI Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 1:00pm. JAZZ VOCAL SESSIONS 303, Northcote. 2:00pm. PETE CORNELIUS Gh Hotel, St Kilda. 4:30pm. VINCS & WAKELING The Famous Blue Raincoat, South Kingsville. 2:00pm.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS 80’S ON THE EDGE Sloaney Pony, Port Melbourne. 8:30pm. A TRIBUTE TO AMY WINEHOUSE - FEAT: ATLANTA COOGAN & THE LITTLE BIG BAND + MATT DWYER Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 1:30pm. $25. BOY & BEAR Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 7:30pm. CALL THE SHOTS + DAY BREAK Wrangler Studios, Footscray . 12:00pm.
EXHAUSTION + MARCO FUSINATO + RATSAK Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. FIREWIND + BANE OF WINTERSTORM + CRIMSONFIRE Corner Hotel, Richmond. 6:30pm. $59. FIVE Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. GAMMA RAYS + AL MATCOTT + WILDERBEAST Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $10. HELLO WEEN Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LITTLE SCOUT + I A MAN The Shadow Electric Bandroom, Melbourne. 6:00pm. MOUNTAIN GOAT BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: ZOE K & THE SHADOW KATZ + DJ COCKTOPUS + FINGAL & HIS FOXES + HEAD HONCHO Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. MULTIPLE MAN + ABSTRACT MUTATION + ASPS + JUSTIN K FULLER Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. NOT FEST - FEAT: MARICOPA WELLS + DON’T GET LOST + JAYNE’S FIGHTING SHIPS + LAURA PALMER + TROUBLED MEDIUM + WHITE OAK & STUYVESANT The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 2:00pm. $15. RAISED BY EAGLES + BEN WRIGHT SMITH + WILLOW DARLING Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SONS ET AL + CASH FOR GOLD + HANK SNAKE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:40pm. SPOONFUL Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. THE LARGE NUMBER 12S Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. THE STORY MODEL + HEMY + JUNIOR UNDER THE MOON + MARSHAL Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. THE TELEVISION SKY + RICH DAVIES + SYRE & FRESKO Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $8. THY ART IS MURDER + EYE IMPOSE IMPOSTER + FLESH OF THE EARTH + I VALIANCE + SHALLOW GRAVE Seaford Community Hall, 7:00pm. TOM KLINE + ELIZA HULL + WHITAKER Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 1:30pm. WHITE CAVES + RED SPENCER Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $10. YOU AM I + BITTERSWEET KICKS + DRUNK MUM Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK TIM FREEDMAN Substation, Newport. 7:00pm. ALEX ARONSTON SOLO SHOW Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 5:00pm. BATTLEFIELD BAND Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. BRENT PARLANE & HIS BAND Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. CHARLES JENKINS Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 3:00pm. CHERRY ARVO BLUES - FEAT: COLLARD GREENS & GRAVY + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. CLAUDE HAY Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 10:15pm. DADDY PIMP - FEAT: LUKE ESCOMBE Butterfly Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. DAVIDSON BROTHERS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 3:30pm. DEAD ALBATROSS + THE ASMATICS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm. DUVATEEN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. EATEN BY DOGS + THE LITTLE SISTERS + TIM NEILSEN Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 5:00pm. KEL DAY + MATT STOREY Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. KIM SALMON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 2:30pm. LITTLE BASTARD Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. MARTY KELLY & THE WEEKENDERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + DR PIFFLE & THE BURLAP BAND Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. NICHAUD FITZGIBBON & THE CAIRO CLUB ORCHESTRA The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. OPA 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $5. ROSS WILSON & THE PEACENIKS + MIKE RUDD Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:30pm. SIMPLY ACOUSTIC Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 7:00pm. SLEEPING BAG Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. SMALL TOWN ROMANCE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. STRETCH ‘N’ THE TRUTH Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 4:30pm. STRETCH N’ THE TRUTH + MARTY KELLY & THE WEEKENDERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. THE BAKERS DIGEST Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE BONA FIDE TRAVELERS + THE DRUNKEN POACHERS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. THE MARGIE LOU TRIO + GIL ASKEY Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. THE NUDGELS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. THE STORY SO FAR - FEAT: STEVE KILBEY Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 2:30pm. $30. TIM CHAISSON + DAN PARSONS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:30pm. $15. WAZ E JAMES BAND Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. WILBUR WILDE Bay Hotel, Mornington. 3:00pm.
LIGHTNING BOLT Lightning Bolt have become infamous for Brian Chippendale’s explosive and intense drumming combined with Brian Gibson’s earth crushing and complex bass techniques, which propels them in a fury of volatile noise and orgiastic tribalism. Emerging from Providence, Rhode Island in ’95 as an art project, Lightning Bolt soon became known for destroying the conventional idea of live performances; with their guerrilla style shows – typically playing in the middle of their crowd. Lightning Bolt will hit the Corner Hotel on Wednesday October 30.
BLACK CAB (SINGLE LAUNCH) + DEAR PLASTIC + DJ ANDREW TILL Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. BOY & BEAR Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 7:30pm. CUP EVE - FEAT: THE SPOILS + DJ LINK MEANIE + LA BASTARD + MIGHTIEST OF GUNS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. CUP EVE CARNAGE - FEAT: CLAGG + BROOZER + CHILD + SHIFT + XENOS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. DAN SULTAN Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $30. FIVE Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. JOE CAMILLERI & THE BLACK SORROWS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $33. MARIE WILSON Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $22. MAX SAVAGE + BUFFALO TRACEY + KING LEAR & MISS EILEEN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12. MELBOURNE CUP EVE PARTY - FEAT: BAD NEWS TOILET + GOLD FIELDS DJ SET + THE PRETTY LITTLES + THEM 9S Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. PLASTIC CUP EVE - FEAT: THY ART IS MURDER + BURIED IN VERONA Brown Alley, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $39. ROAR CHERRY ROCK - FEAT: RIOT IN TOYLAND + ARABELA + FOREVER + MARY WASHINGTON + THE HEROINES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $13. THE AFROBIOTICS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THE APE The Shadow Electric Bandroom, Melbourne. 6:00pm. THE APES + THEM BRUINS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY (ANCHORS AWEIGH LAUNCH)
+ A COMMONERS REVOLT + I AM THE RIOT + THE GO SET John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 7:00pm. $13. THE RETREATS 10TH BIRTHDAY WEEKEND - FEAT: KING OF THE NORTH + DETONATORS + DREAM TEAM DJS + KINGS + LAURA IMBRUGLIA Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. THE SKAMPZ Sloaney Pony, Port Melbourne. 8:00pm. THE VAGRANTS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. TURBO FRUITS + SCOTDRAKULA + SMILE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15. VIOLENT SOHO + LIVING EYES + STRAIGHT ARROWS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $18. WAGONS Yarraville Club, Yarraville. 7:00pm. YOU AM I + BITTERSWEET KICKS + DRUNK MUM Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ALLAN BROWNE’S SEXTET NOUVELLE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. RICKI MALET & LUKE MINNESS COME TO TOWN 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $8. THE GENERATIONS IN JAZZ ACADEMY Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK THE TIGER & ME + DANIEL CHAMPAIGN + THE BEARDED GYPSY BAND Substation, Newport. 7:00pm. ALEISTER JAMES BLUES ASSEMBLY + OSKAR HERBIG & THE
MONDAY NOV 4 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS BISCOTTI + DIARY DAY 1 + DJ MACK DADDY ALBINO DWARF + PURPLE TURTLE + SIMO SOO Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au KEBAB SHOP PUNCH-UP + SIB Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK + MR BLACK & BLUES Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 5:30pm. CHRIS WILSON & THE CROWN OF THORNS + LIAM GERNER & THE ALAN LADDS + STEVE TALLIS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
TUESDAY NOV 5 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS
CHARLIE PARR + AMARILLO Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $25. CUP MY BALLS TOO - FEAT: BATPISS + BODIES + CYBERNE + DEAD + LEGENDS OF MOTORSPORT + MANGELWURZEL + MY LEFT BOOT + SPERMAIDS + SUN GOD REPLICA + TTTDC Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm.
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.
Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $40. PETER BAYLOR’S ULTRAFOX Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. STANDING TALL Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm.
HOLLOW EVERDAZE + ATOLLS + LOVE MIGRATE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. MAGGOT MASS - FEAT: CUNTZ + GENTLEMEN + SEWERS + SHOVELS + TERRIBLE TRUTHS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 4:00pm. MASSIVE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. THE RETREATS 10TH BIRTHDAY WEEKEND - FEAT: THE REMAINS + LOVE SLAPS + PONY FACE + SPENSER P JONES & THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE + SUZANNAH ESPIE & THE LAST WORD + WILD TURKEY + YANTO SHORTIS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 2:00pm.
CHERRYWOOD Bar Open, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. CUP DAY PARTY - FEAT: THE VANGUARDS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:30pm. CUP DAY PARTY Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. GOOP PEOPLE PARTY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 2:00pm. $10. KLUB MUK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. LOCALS DAY Tago Mago, Thornbury. 4:00pm. MARLON WILLIAMS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. THE MOULIN BEIGE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:30pm. $20.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC HETTY KATE & THE IRWELL STREET BAND Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. HI-FI LOUNGE LIZARDS Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. JULIEN WILSON (THIS IS ALWAYS LAUNCH) Bennetts Lane Jazz
60 SECONDS with DUBMARINE
Define your genre in five words or less: Tantric super delay dance attack. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? The best description I’ve ever heard from a punter was that we were the aural equivalent of getting slapped in the face with peace. Other than that, a cross between The Prodigy, Anthony B and Rage Against The Machine. Describe the best gig you have ever played. Colours of Ostrava Festival, Czech Republic 2010. We played to about 18,000 people who were bouncing the whole time and the vibe was incredible. Afterwards I got so smashed I fell asleep in a port-a-loo and lost my phone. True story. Tell us about the last song you wrote. It’s a tune called Solar Flare Fire. It’s got a huge pocket and an even bigger chorus and I think it’s everyone’s favourite tune to play. Plus I get to blow the Christ out of the trombone, which is always fun! Where would you like to be in five years?
We’d love to be regulars on the European touring circuit, continuing to develop the sound of the band and maybe have a new album or two under our belt. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? My pre-gig ritual involves doing 20 push-ups, 20 box jumps and sculling two glasses of OJ. Works every time. Name an interview question you wish someone would ask you, and answer it. Question: What is a secret skill of the band that no one would know about? Answer: Sitting in cafés, eating big brekkies, and talking absolute nonsense. If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why? Probably Rocky Road. A little bit of everything combined into something totally delicious, unique, and slightly sexual. Dubmarine hit the Northcote Social Club on Saturday November 2.
THE PUSH
+ BEAT PRESENT... whatson@thepush.com.au
ACCESS ALL AGES Wednesday October 30 With Claire Barley
October is just about over already. Where on earth has the year gone? In just a couple more months we’ll be celebrating the New Year, and in a couple of weeks, the fabulous Face the Music Conference will hit Melbourne’s Arts Centre. Taking place from Friday November 15 - Saturday November 16, the conference will feature countless workshops and talks involving some of music’s biggest names. If you’re hoping to establish a career in the music industry, this event is an unmissable opportunity to gain some first hand, professional advice. For the full program, list of speakers and registration info, hit up facethemusic. org.au. There’s even a concession price for students. Recent additions include Samuel Cromack, lead singer of loveable Brisbane indie poppers Ball Park Music. Bless him and his fabulous band. Also commencing on Friday November 15 is Melbourne Music Week, offering up a huge variety of workshops, performances and talks. Amongst the all ages events is a Signal presented workshop with R&B artist Fatti Frances. During this special two day workshop, Frances will share her experience and ideas on using MIDI and Virtual Studio Technology software. Registrations for this one are essential, so make sure you head to thatsmelbourne.com.au/whatson/music/ mmw ASAP. Also running is a Q&A session with Gotye and his collaborators. As part of ACMI’s current music video exhibition Spectacle, Gotye will be chatting with past creative partners to discuss the creative process behind some of his most iconic music videos. At only $12.50 for concession card holders, this is sure to be an extremely interesting talk. Besides which, who doesn’t want to be in the same room as such a legend? Info for this one also included on the Melbourne Music Week website. Want to hear from some of Melbourne’s best self managed singer-songwriters? Music Victoria is presenting a one off workshop called I Manage My Music. Running at The Wick in Brunswick on Thursday November 21, the event will feature Jen Cloher, Mia Dyson and Liz Stringer, who will discuss core elements of being a self managed artist. To book, head to imanagemymusic.com/workshops. Ever been to Wrangler Studios in Footscray? This venue has hosted some incredible all ages acts over the past year. This Sunday the studio will host Pay What You Wish, a not for profit event all about paying how much you think the line-up is worth. With a minimum price of $1, attendees pay however much they think is appropriate. All profits will go towards Wrangler Studios so it can continue to host affordable gigs for Melbournian youngsters. Full details included below. Get down and support a great venue.
ALL AGES TIMETABLE FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 Halloween Party w/ Plastered Bastards, Sonic Milf Castle, The Factory, Sinister Kids and DJs Gingerbread Man & Hammy Sparkz, Northcote Uniting Church, 251 High Street, Northcote, 7pm, free, 8470 8001, facebook.com/darebinfreeza, AA. Halloweenier w/ The Playbook, The Ramshackle Army, Admit One, After The Curfew and The JustUs League,EV’s Youth Centre, 212 Mt Dandenong Rd, Croydon, 6:30pm, $12, 9294 5709, facebook. com/maroondahyouthservices, AA. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands Regional Final: Western Metro w/ Closure in Moscow, BNASH, Al203, Great John Himself and Love Alone, Melton Community Hall, 232 High street, Melton, 6pm, $13, facebook.com/ignite.productionz, AA. Thy Art is Murder w/ Ocean Grove, This Fiasco, I Valiance, Athenas Wake, Your World in Ruins and Mindgrave, Wyndham Youth Resource Centre, 86 Derrimut Road, Werribee, 2pm, $10, facebook.com/ ignite.productionz/WyndhamFreeza, AA. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3 Call the Shots w/ Cambridge, The Playbook, Day Break, Move On, Be Strong and Under Vienna Skies, Wrangler Studios, 8C Whitley Parade, West Footscray, 1pm, pay what you think the line up is worth (minimum $1), facebook.com/calltheshotsofficial, AA.
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THE LOCAL
A PLACE TO CALL HOME
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VENUE PROFILE
THE GRACE DARLING HOTEL
Address? 114 Smith St, Collingwood. History? Built in 1854, the city’s second oldest pub, The Grace Darling Hotel was named after a 19th century teenage heroine who was propelled into 1800’s style rock stardom when she spotted a ship wreck form her Northumberland lighthouse and rowed out to save 9 sailors. In 1892, the founding fathers of the Collingwood Football Club met here and made a decision to inaugurate the club into the newly formed VFL. How long have you been operating as The Grace Darling Hotel? Since 2009 What do you feel is your major attraction? Everything from live music almost every night of the week, one of Melbourne’s best happy hours or our menu which delivers a modern twist on classic pub fare and is focused on local, seasonal and sustainable produce. What was your favourite show in the last six months and why? Dune Rats, they sold out two nights in their usual chaotic and rowdy way, the local supports killed it too: Drunk Mums, Mesa Cosa, Scotdrakula and Apes. Could you nominate a bartender of the month? Zac Litinovich. How many nights of live music & entertainment are running at your venue Every night of the week..
Ways to get there? The classic 86 tram with its included live entertainment, walking from the CBD is totally possible, plenty of sturdy objects to lock your bike to outside, rollerblades and razor scooters are banned as are unicycles. Available for functions? Yes, we have a unique, recently renovated blue stone basement available for functions which features its own bar and PA (totally private!), same goes for our dual level restaurant. Crowd? Mixed, everything from seasoned local regulars to families. Opening hours? Monday - Saturday 12pm - 1am, Sunday 12pm 11pm. Cover Charge? No cover charge to stroll into the pub, entry to live music in the band room or the basement ranges form $5 - $15 depending on the lineup. Favourite on the menu? Inside out chicken parma- bay free range poussin stuffed with prosciutto and fior di latte cheese. Known for? A good solid pub with live music, above average pub food and a great selection of local beers on tap.
PHONE: (03) 9416 0055 WEBSITE: thegracedarlinghotel.com.au
BACKSTAGE
THE PLACE FOR MUSICIANS
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COURSE PROFILE
ENGINEERING AND SAE - AUDIO SOUND PRODUCTION COURSES
SAE is widely regarded as a pioneer in creative media education, with all courses being delivered in an innovative learning environment, using their proven teaching methods that combine sound theoretical knowledge with invaluable hands-on training. The biggest Audio school in the country with facilities located in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Adelaide and Perth – we caught up with SAE to find out more about what’s on offer. Being a prospective student, what could I hope to learn from SAE’s Sound Engineering courses? Our students learn and master technical and creative aspects of the audio production process by working on multifaceted projects in professional studio, live sound and post-production environments. Graduates will leave with a sound knowledge and unparalleled technical and creative proficiency, well equipped to establish themselves within the industry in many audio and production roles. What positions will graduates be qualified to work in? With a proven track record in post graduate employment, students will gain the skills required to work as a sound, mix or mastering engineer, a producer, or in various other professions within the audio and entertainment industries. Explain your main methods for teaching? Our education concept is very simple; learn by doing. Our teaching method combines sound theoretical knowledge with invaluable hands-on training. This hands-on experience with the latest audio engineering BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 56
equipment in the industry, ensures students that everything discussed in class and lectures can be applied practically upon graduation. How is the course structured? Students are now offered the opportunity to fast track their degree and finish in two years, completing 3 trimesters per year. What productions will students have the opportunity to participate in throughout the duration of their Audio Engineering course? SAE students have the opportunity to participate in a range of music festivals, theater projects and activities throughout the year that put what they’ve learned in the labs into real life performances and practice. Facilities available for students? Apart from the range of recording studios each campus provides, the Foley studio and Electronic music production studio the Byron Bay campus even provides students with accommodation. There is also a range of different course specific libraries that are available amongst a stack of other university amenities and audio facilities for students to use as well. Studio gear available for learning and production? Students have access to state of the art facilities and a range of the latest industry standard equipment that is used widely around not only our country but the world. Online course availability? Unlike other Audio and Performance schools, SAE does provide online courses. To find out more visit www.online.sae.edu. Do you have an opportunity to help students find work experience and/or employment?
We do help students find work experience and depending on the student and how well they perform and what they’re really after we also have a lot of contacts for future employment opportunities. Payment options: FEE-HELP and VET FEE-HELP are available for domestic students applying for Higher Education courses and selected VET courses. Intake Periods: Our trimester dates are as follows: Trimester 1: March,
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Trimester 2: June, Trimester 3: October. Take note, our next Open Day is on the 14th of December, so come and say hello, check out our facilities and see where our courses can take you.
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THE POLYPHONIC SPREE Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub, Monday October 21 Here to promote latest album Yes It’s True for Melbourne Festival, The Polyphonic Spree have always been a curious live experience. Whether it’s the robes, the overly motivational banter or the sheer number of band members, your focus is meant to be grabbed and shaken, your emotions stirred. As they began a white sheet obscured the view, on which prophet leader Tim DeLaughter spray painted “Yo Booty Is Mine” before cutting it with scissors, revealing a stage overflowing with robe-cladded members drunk on their own positivity. The girl-choir has reduced to four members, and interestingly they seem to have gotten younger, slimmer and more scantily clad. Hold Me Now and Light & Day/Reach For The Sun are dispensed with early though in no way prove to be sole highlights. We Sound Amazed was epic, and INXS’ Don’t Change and Rocky Horror’s Time Warp proved more vital than you might think given their place on pub-rock cover bands set lists. Announcing ‘heres a song off our latest album’ usually falls flat but I responded most to the newer material. It feels like the trademark choir hollers have been fitted into the song after the fact, rather than them being the sole purpose of the song. The band still struggles with dynamics, opting for uber-bombasticity over letting sparseness ebb and build towards the eventual screaming brass. Mercifully a lot of the ‘are-we-gonna-have-a-great-time’ banter is said off-mic, leaving only the keen fans of the first few rows hearing it. DeLaughter may be charmingly full of shit and his stories usually go nowhere, but it’s hard not to get swept up and smile at the silliness of it all. LOVED: Free endorphins. HATED: I don’t hate, I congratulate. NICK HILTON DRANK: Hefeweizen, red wine.
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EMMA LOUISE Village Melbourne, Friday October 25
AN EVENING WITH CAITLIN ROSE & HENRY WAGONS Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub, Thursday October 24 No one could ever say Henry Wagons wasn’t born to be a star. From his early days as a confrontational agitator in Wagons, at some point he must have realised you catch more flies with honey, now giving off a best friend’s easygoing storytelling vibe, and peppering it all with Elvis circa ‘77 stage moves. His songs keep getting better while the baritone remains as deep and decadent as if born from the depths of gothic hell. A sweet ode imploring couples to Give Things A Chance and not fight about parking spaces or who forgot to bring money (both issues torn from the headlines of my night) seamlessly followed a dark country hymn about lusting for Mary Magdeline. Joined at the end by co-vocalist Kelly Day and Caitlin Rose’s pedal steel player Seamus, Wagons ended on a sky-high note with Elvis’ Never Been To Spain and elicited reluctant crowd participation for Willie Nelson. Caitlin Rose is a wildly different but no less transfixing performer. What she lacks in Wagons’ ability to end an anecdote succinctly she makes up for in treacle-coated vocal chords and an endearing awkwardness. The last tour saw her backed minimally by a guitarist and a pedal steel player, and she’s since added bass, keys and a fancy drummer in Kanye shades to the mix. Songs like No One To Call and Silver Sings do benefit from the rock treatment (her new guitarist is an absolute monster on the Telecaster), though I think I prefer things stripped down to the bare essentials. Rose also squeezed in a couple of covers-with-cool, nailing The National’s Pink Rabbits and Gene Clark’s She Darks The Sun solo and seamlessly back to back. Her vocal range covers all bases of the holy country Trio; from the throaty sass of Dolly before the enhancements, the fragility of Emmy Lou of the Gram era, to equal even Ronstadt’s power before the 80s put her in shoulder pads and diluted her appeal. She’s a bona fide southern mannered Americana country superstar who simply needs to hang around long enough to become a hall-of-famer, and I for one am LOVED: Slide galore. thankful that she’s alive and making music. HATED: The bass was a tad loud, taking up valuable aural space. DRANK: Hefeweizen x 10. NICK ROE
FUCK BUTTONS Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub, Friday October 25 I thought I was going to die. The temporary Melbourne Festival hub felt like it was going to tear itself apart, the opening toms of Brainfreeze testing the tensile strength of every rivet embedded within the structure, rumbling the wooden floor as if a gaping passage straight to hell was ready for boarding. It was mortal euphoria, the waterfall of volume crashing down like the goddamn Niagra. It didn’t really let up for a second throughout the performance, with tracks clocking in around the 10 minute mark, Andrew Hung and Ben Power made each one count. The cauterising Colours Move was the only selection from debut album Street Horrrsing, marking the only instance Power utilised the floor tom to his left. Tarot Sport highlights Surf Solar and Olympians were all-obliterating, each of the pair eliciting cheers during several key moments. Visually, there’s nothing too interesting about two dudes occasionally exchanging glances from either side of a desk covered in trinkets. They more than compensated, with a jerry-rigged pair of Xbox Kinect cameras enhancing the real-time action with an array of visualisation effects and a low-lung and sizable mirror ball peeking up from behind the desk. Just as they opened the set with the first track from Slow Focus, the set concluded with the album’s closer Hidden XS.The five tracks from Slow Focus (the aforementioned plus Sentients and The Red Wing) came into their own in the live setting, evolving into true LOVED: The sound in the venue was beasts. They returned to heed the overwhelming demand for an truly phenomenal. encore, tearing into Tarot Sport deep cut Space Mountain. HATED: That I could only see Fuck Buttons twice in one week. LACHLAN KANONIUK DRANK: Brews.
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If you haven’t heard of Emma Louise, you’ve surely heard that one song. You know, Jungle? For an artist whose popularity has derived solely from a singular breakout track, her packed show at Village Melbourne on Friday confirmed that the Queenslander is fated for a career far beyond just being the voice of a one hit wonder. Opening up the night was Brisbane outfit Holy Holy, delivering a sound somewhere between Fleet Foxes and The National, with lead singer Timothy Carroll’s voice bearing an undeniable resemblance to that of Ben Gibbard. After Holy Holy’s punchy set, a glowing Emma Louise, channeling her best Sinead O’Connor, took an eerily lit stage. Dressed sharply in a crisp white button-down and suspenders, the singer/songwriter launched into a mesmerizing rendition of album opener 17 Hours. And with that, her angelic voice transported Village Melbourne from a rainy, overcast night into a dream-like fantasy world. Positioned against a foggily lit backdrop, Emma Louise and her four-piece band floated through a hypnotising eleven song set. The singer/songwriter created an ethereal atmosphere, but at times it was easy to get lost in a melancholy daze. Even Emma Louise acknowledged her penchant for forlornness, joking with the audience in the middle of her set that there would be “One more sad song and then some not so sad songs, but still with a hint of sadness.” Songs from her debut album, vs. Head vs. Heart largely made up the night’s material, but it was 1,000 Sundowns, off of her 2012 EP Full Hearts & Empty Rooms that emerged as the runaway moment of the evening. It was a clinic in storytelling of sorts, as Emma Louise stood alone with a guitar and her crisp voice, in its most articulate form of the night, resonated throughout the hall. Claim to fame, Jungle came near the end of her set and even managed to rouse some enthusiastic audience members out of their seats for a bit of a dance. Emma Louise closed up the night with a haunting new duet with her keyboardist and left not a doubt in anyone’s mind that although she may have that one song, she’s got many, many more of those up her sleeve. LOVED: The diversity of the crowd. HATED: The blinding stage lights. DRANK: Nothing, her voice was LAUREN GILL intoxicating enough.
BEYONCE Rod Laver Arena, Tuesday October 22 “FIN”. The panoramic LCD display descended to the ground, signalling the end of the concert in monochromatic serif, Drake’s Girls Love Beyonce gently emanating from the PA as the crowd shuffled their feet through golden confetti towards the bottlenecked exits. We had just witnessed greatness, a goddamn real life superhero. A queen, a god. Mrs Carter. Beyonce. It was a state of the arts (plural emphasised) spectacular. Lights, sound engineering, multi-screen cinematography, dance, fashion, and most importantly, amongst all the hyper-stimuli was music. It’s a sweet spot for Beyonce’s album cycle, the entirety of the set list imbued with familiarity, cherry-picked from Bey’s four-album-deep back catalogue, mostly shying away from slower ballads, sustaining energy levels well into the red for two straight hours. After a tease of the Major Lazer-sampling drum line of Run The World (Girls), Beyonce, shining like a deity, emerged from the middle of the stage. An image of sheer, commanding power. “Who run this mother?” Rhetorical question, obviously. The joyous End Of Time followed, then one of the night’s many costume and colour palette changes (the dynamic, all-consuming use of colour swathes can’t be overstated), then one of three ballads evenly placed throughout the performance. If I Were A Boy was mixed with hints of Bittersweet Symphony early on, the incredible 1 + 1 was performed atop a grand piano in a celestial purple cat suit midway through, then the night was closed with Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You segueing into a percussion-enhanced Halo. Through a storm of glitter, Queen Bey flew over the crowd to land in the centre-arena catwalk, commanding a sing-and-wave-along of “To the left, to the left” for Irreplaceable. Forgoing the medley of classics displayed at Glastonbury 2011, we were instead treated to Survivor as the only taste of Destiny’s Child material. I guess we weren’t ready for the jelly of Bootylicious. In terms of pop arena spectaculars, tonight didn’t really push the envelope. The tropes were adhered to – pyrotechnic wonder (including the clichéd spark-firing guitar solo), the kinda-contrived audience interaction (a fan just happened to throw a hat onstage which matched Bey’s current dress), confetti cannons, plus plenty of call and response – “Heeeeeey Miss Carter” – and back-up dancers-as-foil action. But it was a case of brandishing pure class rather than striving for transgression, compounding the power of womanhood with Beyonce’s self-built mythology through inter-song video vignettes. Classic showmanship, misdirection-aided magic proving to be futile distractions from a weapons-class powerhouse of a voice. Countdown, and its technicolour film clip, were teased for fleeting moments on the array of onstage displays. When it came to the actual countdown, we joined in, with intuition leading to a full runthrough of the song, yeah? But after counting down to one, bam, straight into an all-gold Crazy In Love. Jaws on the floor. “Ten years from now you gon’ say you was at that Beyonce concert.” LOVED: The booming Mercy beat Who are we to disagree with the Queen? creeping into Diva. Seriously, Diva could drop today and still sound fresh as hell. LACHLAN KANONIUK HATED: The setlist was incredibly polished, but I suppose you’re always going to be left wanting for more in a show like this. DRANK: Not enough to provide a numbing aperitif for Iggy Azalea.
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