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KYLESA Due to unforeseeable circumstances, experimental rock band Kylesa have had to postpone their December tour. If you purchased tickets to any of their Melbourne gigs — Sunday December 8 at The Corner, Monday December 9 at The Barwon Club, and Tuesday December 10 at HOWLER — the tickets will still be valid for the rescheduled show next year, which will be held at the same venues. Watch this space for more news.
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Neil Finn There aren’t many artists whose songs and emotive performances have infiltrated the hearts and minds of a generation of Australians in quite the same way as Neil Finn. Next March will see Finn return for a national tour in support of his new album Dizzy Heights. The tour will follow the release of Finn’s third solo album and will give the iconic artist the opportunity to showcase these new songs as part of his already extensive repertoire. A second show has been announced and you can catch him at Hamer Hall on Wednesday March 12 and Thursday March 13. Tickets through Live Nation.
DENI BLUES & ROOTS FESTIVAL The Deni Blues & Roots Festival program is close to completion, the organisers confirming the artists’ day schedules and announcing their “Time To Pay” ticket purchase option. This ticketing scheme will allow punters to pay off their tickets in instalments. The festival will run from Saturday April 19 to Sunday April 20 at the Deni Ute Muster site, featuring the likes of John Mayer, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Dr John & The Nite Trippers, Michael Franti & Spearhead and many more bands/artists.
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COOPERS AMP Awards The 9th Coopers Australian Music Prize has just announced a Hermitude headlined Sidney Myer Music Bowl Australia Day Event called Shortlisted. Held for the first time at The Bowl, the event aims to recognise Australian albums released this year, which are up for the Coopers AMP $30,000 prize courtesy of PPCA. The free event will run from 6-8pm and will feature live performances by a select group of artists, with further announcements to be made in the coming weeks. More info including the list of nominees is available at thecoopersamp.com.au.
Gregg Allman, Gov't Mule and Devon Allman The Forum will welcome all things Allman when Gregg Allman, Gov't Mule, and Devon Allman hit the stage this April. The founding member of the one and only Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman's solo career has spanned seven albums, with the most recent, 2011's Low Country Blues, featuring the musician's own take on Blues giants from Muddy Waters to BB King. Joining Allman will be Gov't Mule, fronted by visionary singer-guitarist Warren Haynes. This will mark the band's first return to Australia in 14 years. Son of Greg Allman, Devon Allman will complete the bill, who will front his own band on the heels of the release of his first true solo album, Turquoise. Catch Gregg Allman, Gov't Mule, and Devon Allman at the Forum on Wednesday April 23.
D at sEA Brisbane acoustic hardcore singer/songwriter D At Sea has announced a huge national run of summer shows. The 17 date Summer Chills Tour travels all across the country and sees the beautifully talented Millie Tizzard coming along as main support. D At Sea gained notoriety back in late 2011 when his acoustic cover of Parkway Drive's 'Carrion' became a viral hit, garnering thousands of new fans from right across the globe. That same clip has now had close to one-million plays. Since then D At Sea has utilised this platform to secure a legion of loyal followers. In March this year D At Sea released his first original work through UNFD titled the Unconscious EP. The release was incredibly well received, charting at #18 on the ARIA Australian singles charts. The subsequent headlining tour saw him play to sold out audiences in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth as well as touring nationally with Tonight Alive and landing slots on Pushover Festival and the Warped Tour. Tickets on sale now.
The Rolling Stones After announcing a now sold-out show at Adelaide Oval, The Rolling Stones have confirmed a run of national Australian dates. One of the most iconic rock'n'roll bands of all time, The Rolling Stones were last Down Under in 2006 on their A Bigger Bang World Tour. The 2014 tour will be their seventh tour of our shores. They'll hit Rod Laver Arena on Friday March 28 (tickets via Ticketek) and Hanging Rock on Sunday March 30 (tickets via Ticketmaster). Tickets for both shows go on sale on Monday December 9.
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Off the back of performances at Island Vibe and Mullum Fest, Brisbane six-piece Kingfisha have announced their final shows for 2013. The band, having enjoyed airplay from national broadcaster triple j, will take their weighty reggae and dub on the road, presenting the ‘Fallen Empire’ tour. Here’s your chance to get in on the action: with El Moth and Echo Drama in support, Kingfisha play the Workers Club on Saturday December 21 - and we have two double passes to give away.
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the great australian beer festival The Great Australian Beer Festival is set to back up their overwhelmingly successful inaugural event last summer with another celebration of craft beer. The festival is also hosting a full music line-up to soundtrack the event, including the likes of Owl Eyes, Tigertown and Kylie Auldist of ARIA nominated outfit The Bamboos. The event calls for the sipping, sampling and tasting of some 150 craft beers and ciders on offer. Combine all that with the region’s best gourmet food and you have yourself a fine festival indeed. It takes place Saturday February 1 at Geelong Racecourse. Tickets are available now.
In the majestic surrounds of Mossvale Park, South Gippsland, amongst the grand old trees lives a single stage awaiting its friends to come and join the search for soul. This setting is the home of the 2014 Summer of Soul, starring soul phenomenon Lee Fields and his band The Expressions, with Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes, The Basics, The Bombay Royale, Hiatus Kaiyote and Pony Face also joining in the party. This one day, one stage, BYO event in the picturesque surrounds of a heritage park is on Saturday January 4, and we have some double passes to give away.
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If you consider hip-hop, R&B and enjoyable alliteration your thing, you’ll definitely love DJ Jazzy Jeff. Does the name ring a bell? It should: he’s best known for his work alongside The Fresh Prince himself, Will Smith. The duo scored multi-platinum hits with Summertime, Boom! Shake The Room and Girls Ain’t Nothing But Trouble. Now, DJ Jazzy Jeff - one of hip-hop’s earliest pioneers & best-loved artists - is venturing down under. He’ll be at the Espy on Friday December 13 and we have a couple of double passes to give away.
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After erupting back onto the scene with the release of soul-rock single Under Your Skin, Dan Sultan will hit the road for a string of tour dates this fall in support of his highly-anticipated forthcoming album. Recorded in Nashville’s legendary Blackbird Studio, Under Your Skin marked Sultan's first release in over four years. The upcoming tour will be a chance for fans to hear both new songs and old favourites, all accompanied by Sultan's dynamic band. Dan Sultan hits the Corner Hotel on Saturday March 1. Tickets go on sale from the venue's website.
Melbourne’s Wagons will headline a stellar music line-up at the 2014 Ballarat Beer Festival on Saturday January 18. Yes, you read correctly: it’s a festival of beer. It’s a celebration of liquid gold, an opportunity to sample the sweet, sweet nectar of the gods. With premium brews, wines, gourmet food and great entertainment on offer, the 2014 Ballarat Beer Festival is shaping up as an event not to be missed… and, if you’re lucky, you won’t have to! We have some passes up our sleeves and they could be yours.
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The Plot is an exciting new party from the peeps behind Groovin’ The Moo. It’s set to feature Australia’s best electronic party starters, as well as the visiting DJ Snake from France. It all kicks off on Sunday December 15, across three stages including the Palace Theatre and Ding Dong Lounge. If an explosive eight hours of dance sounds like your idea of paradise, you’ll be pleased to hear that we have two double passes to give away.
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The Rolling Stones are heading to Australia and New Zealand this March, but it’s come at a cost: with only one date possible for the Stones to play at Rod Laver Arena, US rockers Thirty Seconds To Mars kindly agreed to step aside, moving their own concert into next doors Hisense Arena. “Thirty Seconds to Mars were more than happy to help us out of our dilemma and we’re hugely grateful for their assistance,” said promoter Michael Gudinski. All tickets for the Rod Laver Arena concerts will be reallocated to similar locations at Hisense Arena. Ticketek will email all patrons this week to advise them of the process regarding their new tickets. All remaining tickets to Thirty Seconds To Mars at Hisense Arena will be available to purchase from Friday December 6 at 9am, from Ticketek.
Metal-heads Skid Row and Ugly Kid Joe will be bringing their co-headline tour to Melbourne next year. Currently on tour in Europe, where they’re having a rad time, Skid Row and Ugly Kids Joe are pioneers within the metal genre. Skid Row are notable for their catalogue of anthemic singles, including ‘Youth Gone Wild’ and ‘Slave To The Grind’. This tour will be Ugly Kid Joe’s first Australian tour since 1994, and their new album Stairway To Hell will be released to coincide with the tour. Melbourne’s own Dead City Ruins will be joining the bands in support, following on from a European tour alongside the metal legends. Skid Row and Ugly Kid Joe will tear down the Palace Theatre on Friday April 25. Get your tickets through Ticketek.
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BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014 Brunswick will again boast its standing as a distinctive arts and cultural precinct when the Brunswick Music Festival returns in 2014. A showcase for all things glamour, sass, funk, vintage, the festival – celebrating its 26th year – will feature live folk, roots and world music. A major lineup announcement is on its way, but we can reveal that the festival will feature Alaska String Band (USA), Altan (Ireland), Antonio Serrano (Spain), Breabach (Scotland), Funny Folk featuring Kransky Sisters and Mic Conway's National Junk Band (Aust), Hanggai (Beijing), Louis McManus Memorial Concert with The Purple Dentists and guests and The Tiger Lillies (UK). Watch this space for more news on one of Melbourne’s longest running festivals.
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Edwyn Collins Soul-pop Scotsman Edwyn Collins has announced that he will play a show in Melbourne ahead of his appearances at Sydney Festival. Considered one of the pillars of British indie rock, over the course of his career Collins has fronted '80s post-punk band Orange Juice, released several solo full-length albums, and produced for indie rock titans Primal Scream, Franz Ferdinand and Belle & Sebastian. Catch Edwyn Collins on Friday January 17 at The Kelvin Club. Tickets are available from the venue's website.
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JOHN BUTLER TRio John Butler Trio will be touring again next year for their Flesh & Blood tour. These dates will see the ARIA award winners perform songs from their sixth studio album, Flesh & Blood, which is due for release next year. If their current single, ‘Only One’, is anything to go by, Flesh & Blood is going to be full of acoustic riffs layered over engaging rhythms and sun-kissed steel drums. Songstress Emma Louise will be joining the band for the ride. You can catch the Flesh & Blood tour at the Palais Theatre on Tuesday April 1. Tickets are on sale Friday December 13 through Ticketmaster.
Jason Isbell will return to Australia in April. After touring Australia with Ryan Adams and Justin Townes Earle in the past, Jason Isbel will be returning to Australia for the first time with his full band for four shows in Victoria and a show in Sydney. He will be playing songs from across his discography, including tracks off his new album Southeastener. Supporting will be Tift Merritt, showcasing songs from her new album Travelling Alone. Jason Isbel and Tift Merritt will play Northcote Social Club on Wednesday April 16 and Thursday April 17, Boogie Festival at Bruzzy's Farm, Tallarook on Friday April 18 and Meeniyan Town Hall on Saturday April 19. Tickets to all shows are available through Love Police.
Recent ARIA winners Karnivool will hit the road alongside buddies Dead Letter Circus this January for their Polymorphism tour. Known for their quaking guitars and solid sound, Karnivool released Asymmetry, their third LP, earlier this year, which received an ARIA for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album of the year. Polymorphism will see the band show why they’re one of Australia’s best progressive rock bands. Karnivool will perform at The Palace Theatre on Wednesday January 8 and Thursday January 9. Tickets are through Ticketek.
LEMURIA New York punk rockers Lemuria will be crossing the Pacific Ocean for the first time next year with their Blood, Sweat & Beers tour. Known for their blend of mellow pop anthems and fast slinging guitars, Lemuria released their lauded sophomore album The Distance Is So Big earlier this year. Joining the New Yorkers will be Melbourne’s Kissing Booth, a band made from friendship and 90s mixtapes. Lemuria will grace the Reverence Hotel on Saturday February 8 and The Vineyard on Sunday February 9. Tickets go on sale soon.
The Ball arat Beer Festival Regional Victoria’s original festival dedicated to allthings-ale, The Ballarat Beer Festival, has announced an impressive music line-up headlined by Melbourne’s Wagons. Fresh from sell-out gigs around Melbourne in 2013, Wagons will be supported by Sydney sevenpiece old jangle band Little Bastard, as well as Steel Birds, Sweet Jean, No strings Attached, The Blue Souls and Soul Town DJs. Tickets can be purchased from ticketek.com.au or at Ballarat’s City Oval gates on the day – Saturday January 18.
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Dear stalker + Johnathan Devoy + Caitlin Archibald 8:00pm Wesley Anne Band Room , $5 Wednesday 18th December
Simply Acoustic
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MINIMUM CHIPS (QLD, reunion show) Shuriken (QLD, reunion show) Drowning Hell (VIC) Pale Earth (QLD) 8pm
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DJ Jumbo + MRSPKR Golden Era Beer Garden
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international NILE RODGERS Billboard December 11, 13 DEERHUNTER The Hi-Fi December 11 MAC DEMARCO Corner Hotel December 11, Shadow Electric December 16 HOPSIN The Espy December 12 Peter Murphy Corner Hotel December 12 THE KVB Boney December 12 FOZZY The Espy December 13 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre December 13 - 15 TAYLOR SWIFT Etihad Stadium December 14 CITY AND COLOUR Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 14 DERRICK MAY Howler December 14 THE PLOT FESTIVAL Palace Theatre, Ding Dong Lounge December 15 JOHN LEGEND The Forum December 16 MELVINS The Hi-Fi December 17 HELMET The Hi-Fi December 18 WAKA FLOCKA FLAME Billboard December 18 THE WAR ON DRUGS Northcote Social Club December 28 THE ROOTS Festival Hall December 28 TOM ODELL Corner Hotel December 28 FALLS FESTIVAL Lorne December 28 - January 1, Marion Bay December 29 - January 1, Byron Bay December 31 - January 3 FUTURE OF THE LEFT Corner Hotel January 2 BEN CAPLAN Northcote Social Club January 3 THE CORRESPONDENTS Prince Bandroom January 3 JOHNNY MARR Corner Hotel January 4 WIZ KHALIFIA, A$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 EDWYN COLLINS The Kelvin Club January 17 JOHN GRANT Corner Hotel January 18 MATMOS Howler January 19 HALF MOON RUN Corner Hotel January 19 Major Lazer and Flosstradamus The Palace January 21 THE 1975 Northcote Social Club January 22 MUDHONEY Corner Hotel January 22 SNOOP DOGG The Palace January 22 Arcade Fire Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 22 Toro Y Moi/Portugal. The Man The Hi-Fi January 23 The Lumineers The Palace Thursday January 23 GROUPLOVE AND CSS The Hi-Fi January 23 BIG DAY OUT Flemington Racecourse January 24 MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS Melbourne Zoo January 24 - March 8 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 CAT POWER Thornbury Theatre January 31, February 1 ST JEROME'S LANEWAY FESTIVAL Footscray Community Arts Centre February 1 PERIPHERY, ANIMALS AS LEADERS Billboard February 2 Autre Ne Veut Northcote Social Club February 4 DRENGE The Tote February 5 Frightened Rabbit The Palace February 5 YOUTH LAGOON Prince Bandroom February 5 Kurt Vile & The Violators Corner Hotel, February 5, 6 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, 12 JULIA HOLTER Northcote Social Club February 14 AUSTRA Corner Hotel February 15 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AAMI Park February 15 EMINEM, KENDRICK LAMAR, J. COLE Etihad Stadium February 19
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NILE RODGERS By Tyson Wray
In the late ‘70s Nile Rodgers was one of the most celebrated musicians in the world. In 1976 Rodgers teamed up with bassist Bernard Edwards to co-found the band Chic, who then went on to record a string of commercially successful disco hits including Le Freak, Good Times, I Want Your Love and Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah). However, his time in the spotlight was short-lived, and until his recent commercial revival through his collaborative work with Daft Punk, Rodgers spent the most part of the past three decades behind the black curtain crafting some of the biggest and most influential records of our time. “It’s been a strange adventure with Chic,” confesses Rodgers. “People don’t realise that all of those hit records that we had – and there were a lot – happened in just the space of two years. We had say, ten gold, platinum and multiple-platinum singles all in that short time.” Following the anti-disco reaction which climaxed on July 12, 1979 with the widely publicised and ill-fated Disco Demolition Night (now referred to as “the day disco died”,) Chic struggled to maintain airplay and sales, which eventually forced them to take extended hiatuses and follow individual pursuits. “After 1979 we never had another hit record again,” he notes. “We went from 1979 all the way to 1983 doing nothing but flops.” It was then that Rodgers stepped out of the limelight and into the producers chair, going on to work on some of the ‘80’s most prolific records, including David Bowie’s biggest-selling album Let’s Dance and Madonna’s blockbuster Like A Virgin. “INXS, Duran Duran, Mick Jagger and Peter Gabriel,” lists Rodgers with a laugh. “At this point it’s pretty endless.” Flash-forward to 2013 and Rodgers is back riding high on the charts, headlining festivals around the globe with Chic and continuing to work with some of the world’s most influential artists. “In a life of big, big, big, big years, this has been one of the biggest,” laughs Rodgers when reflecting back on 2013. “We played at Glastonbury for the first time and killed it – according to most that was our show, that was our festival. We played at Hyde Park just after that with Lionel Richie and J-Lo which was in front of 65,000 people and was just great.” His appearance on the year’s most ubiquitous single Get Lucky, alongside the earlier release of his auto-biography Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny and various televised live performances (including Glastonbury) in 2013 saw a radical commercial reprise for Rodgers. “Daft Punk, quite like Chic, are a very anonymous BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 26
band,” he notes. “With Get Lucky and Lose Yourself To Dance Pharrell (Williams) and I became the recognisable faces. I also became the main guy promoting the tracks because they wanted me to take all of the interviews. I basically became the de facto spokesperson for the band. It was a position that I wasn’t particularly comfortable in. But, y’know, it’s my record too. Other than Daft Punk I’m the only other
“SOMEONE TOLD ME, ‘YOU KNOW NILES, YOU’VE HAD SOMETHING LIKE SEVEN #1 RECORDS OVER HERE’ AND I’M LIKE, ‘REALLY? AND WE CAN’T EVEN GET BOOKED!” person with three tracks on that album. I’ll be working with them on at least one new song on the upcoming Chic album which will be great. I’m really looking forward to it.” These high levels of commercial interest led to the release of the compilation record Up All Night, attributed to Nile Rodgers and The Chic Organization, which contains recordings written, played and produced by Rodgers and Edwards for various artists alongside Chic themselves. “It’s been extraordinary this year because it’s really come full circle because now we’ve released the best Chic greatest hits package that I believe has ever come out. Even people like Madonna, who has always been my friend but is very protective of her product, gave me a great version of Like A Virgin that we did use. It’s been really awesome to have that on my new record.” A busy year, no doubt? “That’s not even beginning to mention the amount of records that I’ve got coming
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out!” he laughs. “This feels to me like my career back in the ‘70s and the ‘80s, when one of my records was up for an award a journalist said that I should receive some sort of special award for sheer volume. I don’t even want to start mentioning them because I know I’ll forget some, but I have records coming out with Disclosure, Chase & Status, Tensnake, Avicii, Daft Punk and Jessie Ware – it’s just an insane amount.” After a whirlwind sold-out Australian tour in March 2012, which included a headline performance at Golden Plains, Rodgers and Chic will be returning later this month for appearances at Subsonic, Meredith and a series of theatre shows in what will be their largest Australian tour to date. “With Australia there’s always been this longrunning joke,” muses Rodgers. “Any time a promoter even considers bringing Chic over they never, ever follow through. The reason why? We’re basically an anonymous studio band. They don’t know what we do. They don’t know of my composing background or my production background. They don’t know how many hit records I’ve worked on. We have a really dynamic live show, so I’m always like, ‘What! They’re picking that over us?!’ But last year a couple of promoters took a chance with us. “When I got to Australia last time I just couldn’t believe that no-one had ever booked us. Someone told me, ‘You know Niles, you’ve had something like seven #1 records over here’ and I’m like, ‘Really? And we can’t even get booked!’ In fact, last time one of the promoters even dropped us because he was nervous that we didn’t have a bunch of pre-sales. He didn’t understand – we almost always sell out, but we never do it until the night of the show. “There’s this phenomenon about us. People going to see Chic like they’re going to a disco. They have this mentality. As everyone saw in Australia – we sold out. People showed up in droves. I don’t really understand, but people really do come to our shows as if they were going out to a club. We’ve had a number of massive sell outs all throughout Europe this year, and we’ve had to go on an hour or two hours late because the queues have been so long because people are showing up at the last minute and we want to give people a show. We’re not go to be all, ‘Well, sorry, you came at the last minute so we’re just going to go on and to hell with you’. We wait – and we put on a show.”
NILE RODGERS and Chic will play at Billboard on Wednesday December 11 when there will also be a Q&A session and guitar clinic, again on Friday December 13 (sold out) and at the Meredith Music Festival on Saturday December 14 (also sold out).
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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN William Shakespeare’s Richard II has been captured live from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s sellout London production (the fastest selling show in the RSC’s history!). David Tennant (Dr Who) shines in the title role. Directed by RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran. Richard is King, ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years. 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. energy to it. It’s not political, it’s not trying to say anything huge.” Santos talks about two aspects of her work, the installation side and the commercial side. How would a viewer know which of her pieces was a commercial work? “You could just put it on your wall; the ceramics, for example,” she answers. “Everything’s beautifully sewn or embroidered. But still grungy, it’s still what I do. I don’t know if people would want to own the others. Some of the sculptures are slapped together with a glue gun and air dried clay. Although I do like things to last, I also like to go crazy.”
ON STAGE American funnyman Neil Hamburger is once again be teaming up with Dr El Suavo to serve up a dose of ‘anti-comedy’. Neil Hamburger is described as the hardest working comedian in existence, performing up to 399 shows a year internationally. He’s toured as the hand-picked opener for Tenacious D, Tim & Eric, and Faith No More and his most recent album, Live At Third Man, was produced by The White Stripes’ Jack White. His debut DVD Your Part Of The Show Now! and debut album by Dr El Suavo & The Freaks of Nature, Rise Of The Fruity Asses are both being finalized and set for release next February. Neil Hamburger and Dr El Suavo will be playing at the Northcote Social Club with Dane Certificate’s Project Magic Show and DJ El Pimpo on Sunday December 15.
ON DISPL AY Change is imminent, and Blak Dot Gallery’s newest exhibition, NOT Made In Somalia, will explore how change can still maintain cultural relevancy. Cultural integration can, at first, seem like an unattainable milestone for many ethnicities, whether they’re moving from a Middle Eastern country to a European one, or a European country to an Africa one. NOT Made In Somalia will be delve into this cultural assimilation and how practical items can emulate a culture through the transposition of Somalian patterns, textures and shapes on everyday objects. NOT Made In Somalia is currently on display at Blak Dot Gallery until Sunday December 22. Admission is free.
FUTURE PRIMITIVE By Liza Dezfouli “I just vomit it out,” says installation artist and sculptor Sarah Santos, threatening to reinforce some people’s theories about modern art. But it’s not quite that simple. “It looks like I’ve just whipped it up but it’s taken a long time,” explains the artist. A piece of work might involve her using a found photograph, photoshopping it, using it as the basis for a silk screen and embroidering or and spray-painting over that. “I just tend to start sewing,” she says, of how she begins a work. Santos is one of 19 artists showing at Heide in the Future Primitive exhibition showcasing Australian and New Zealand artists engaging with the past and present across different cultures. Santos was an obvious choice for this show as she travels as widely, collecting trinkets, beads, small objects and bric a brac and using them in her work. “I’m not a hoarder,” she says. “But I don’t throw things away.” Artist residencies all over the world have provided Santos with inspiration and ideas, in particular trips to Africa. “I travel as much as I can,” she says. “I go to some
amazing places, like Kenya and Tanzania, the Navaho homeland. I look at a lot of things. Flower arrangements, fashion, Chinese gardens, buttons, computer games... I steal things.” How does Santos describe her work? “Very playful,” she answers. “Quite subtlety erotic. It has a push pull effect, where you look at things that are familiar but then I’ve put them all together in a way that is not quite familiar. There’s a duality. I kind of take a little bit of everything in a search for identity. It’s seasonal, it changes a lot. Sometimes it’s very strong but the strength has vulnerability. There’s an
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100 BLOODY ACRES By Lachlan Kanoniuk
The Designing 007 : Fifty Years of Bond Style exhibition celebrates this world of innovation and action, style and sex appeal with an inside view of the world’s favourite secret agent. Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style takes visitors on a multi-sensory journey, through a dozen themed rooms and environments from 1962’s Dr. No to 2012’s Skyfall. The objects are unforgettable: Roger Moore’s white tuxedo from Octopussy and the spacesuit from Moonraker; Scaramanga’s golden gun from The Man With The Golden Gun, Jaws’ fearsome teeth which first appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me; gadgets from Q Branch including the attaché case given to Bond in From Russia With Love; and the 1964 silver Aston Martin DB5 from Goldeneye which famously returned to the screen in Skyfall. Designing 007 : Fifty Years of Bond Style is currently on display at the Melbourne Museum.
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Generating critical buzz over the past year, Australian horror-comedy romp 100 Bloody Acres has since been germinating as a cult favourite across the globe. Set in a small country town, the film tells the story of the Morgan brothers – two Aussie battlers utilising dubious ingredients for their organic fertiliser business. The narrative stems from the minds of co-writers and directors, and brothers themselves, Cameron and Colin Cairnes. “The film is about two brothers that don’t see eye to eye and basically want to kill each other. Like all siblings, we probably didn’t see eye to eye in our younger days. We both realised at a certain age that we wanted to make movies, and it turned out we wanted to make the same kind of movies. It’s actually a very harmonious process. We’ll disagree on things, but that means we’ll work out the problem and come up with a better way of doing things. But I think most of the time we were in agreeance,” Colin assesses. “Or agreement,” Cameron corrects, leading to a fraternal digression regarding the correct term The creative process is one enlivened by the sibling dynamic. “There isn’t a set system, for us the writing is
more about talking, about us being in a room sharing ideas in the headspace of the characters. Being happy with the way the story is heading and the way the characters are sounding. Then we’ll just divvy up the workload. Break up storylines into sequences, concentrate on that, then when it’s all done we put it all together and see if it gels. Most of the time it seems to.” Colin says. “It’s a process that chopped and changed all the way through, and we were working on it for close to ten years. There’s never a set way of doing it, but I think at the end after being on our own working we would meet up, Colin would sit at the keyboard, and we would go over every line, really.” Cameron explains. Mixing horror and comedy isn’t exactly a new concept, but
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Perth native Santos trained as a costume designer in theatre as well as in fine art and her work does have a bold dramatic presence. You can imagine them as part of a set design but having to share the space with live bodies might not be the best setting for them, as, like their creator, her works are singularly assertive and independent. “I like to think of them as actors already on stage in their own right,” says Santos. What took her away from working in theatre? “I don’t like to be told what to do,” she admits. “I don’t like collaborating or working within a hierarchy.” She’s open to co-creating work that spills into performance, however. “If everyone’s working together, on the same vision … I’d never rule that out. I’d love someone to interact with an installation or sculpture.” Her exhibition for Primitive Futures, she says, is ‘like a Victoria and Albert museum of the future or past, I don’t know.’ “I’m the solo artist in the project space. There are other artists in the main Heide space. Does she have a favourite piece? “I like them all. A mother doesn’t have a favourite child – at least she isn’t supposed to.” Future Primitive is currently on display at the Heide Museum of Modern Art until Sunday March 2. the brand of grounded humour and relatable characters, and shock elements, has come together for a nascent subgenre in itself. “It can easily tip over the top into that broad comedy when you are making horror comedy. It inherently lends itself to that type of humour with all the visual gags. It’s a delicate balance, getting those two elements right. In the writing, we were careful not to push it too much on the page,” Colin explains. “The cast and crew got that, so it was never forced. We love the Scream films for example, because the scares work, but so does the humour. You care about the characters, they’re not just stereotypes – they’re playing on stereotypes, but they’re giving them heart and making them sympathetic. That’s what we tried to do with our characters, and I think we succeeded in that regard. It was partly the writing, partly the casting, then the execution. On set it wasn’t a case of ‘how do we makes things funnier?’ It was more ‘how do we stay true to these characters and the world we’re trying to create here?’” The cast, led by Damon Herriman and Angus Sampson (replete with hearty chinstrap beard), prove more than adept at capturing that relatable charm amongst absurdity. “We were still casting a couple of months out from production. The first casting decision we made was actually the voice you hear on the on the radio, Bernard St John, who you hear broadcasting throughout the film. Then John Jarratt came on early on, which we thought was a really good start. Then when Damon Herriman’s audition tape popped up it was a no-brainer, he was our Reg. He’s just brilliant. Then Angus Sampson we had worked with before on a few things, a great guy with comic chops. Initially it was a bit of a stretch, because we pictured the character of Lindsay as being quite older, but Angus came in and did a read and just blew us away. It was a really fun process, all very last minute. But that’s the way it often is.” Colin reasons. “It gets a bit tense when you know you have to lock everyone down, with a few roles with question marks over them, which is all a bit thrilling,” adds Cameron. “But you get there in the end.” 100 Bloody Acres is out now on DVD and Digital HD.
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BIG BAD WOLF
Big Bad Wolf, Windmill Theatre’s table-turning tale for ages five and up opens this January. Written by Matthew Whittet and directed by Rosemary Myers, Big Bad Wolf turns the tables on a classic story, presenting the Big Bad Wolf as one of the most misunderstood characters in fairytale history. The play aims to explore what it’s like to be different and challenge the presumptions we all make. Windmill regular Patrick Graham stars as Wolfy, with former Circus Oz performer Emma J Hawkins starring as Heidi Hood and taking on a myriad of roles is Kate Cheel. Big Bad Wolf opens on Saturday January 11 at Southbank Theatre, The Lawler.
LOBBY HERO
Written by award winning US playwright, Kenneth Lonergan, Lobby Hero will be starting a month long season next January. Lobby Hero is a character-driven play where each character struggles with truth, lies and compromise. It is a comedy, a romance and a play of ideas. The show is performed by Luke McKenzie (Rescue Special Ops, Winners and Losers), Josh Blau (various TV shows including Neighbours), Francesca Bianchi (House Husbands, It’s A Date) and Kane Felsinger (It’s A Date, Upper Middle Bogan) and is directed by Trent Baker. Lobby Hero opens on Friday January 31 at Goodtime Studios, Basement, 746 Swanston Street, Carlton.
$ THE PRICE IS RIGHT $ THE WAY, WAY BACK, AT THE SHADOW ELECTRIC Owen (Sam Rockwell) is the perfect mentor for an introverted 14-year-old, Duncan (Liam James), in need of some mojo. An awkward adolescent family vacation gets turned on its head when Duncan takes a job at Water Wizz and picks up some of Owen’s waterpark wisdom. Rockwell steals the show alongside great performances from Steve Carell, Toni Collette and Alison Janney in a smart, poignant and razor-sharp coming-of-age comedy from Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Descendants). It screens at The Shadow Electric this Friday December 13. We have some double passes to giveaway Head to beat.com.au/freeshit to win.
UNCLE VANYA
Uncle Vanya opens this month for an 11-day season. Originally written by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, first published in 1897 and premiered in Moscow in 1899, Uncle Vanya is a classic. Translated by founding members of Intrope Productions Joseph Sherman and Greg Ulfan, also the director, the play aims to penetrate the heart of this beautiful, comedic and tragic masterpiece. The play intertwines the ideas of love, complex family dynamics, the conflict between living a life of duty with that of passion, ideals versus actions and the nature of happiness, with the urgent concern for our planet and the future of humanity. Uncle Vanya opens Wednesday December 11 at La Mama.
GREEN PORNO
Green Porno, that porno you’ve been waiting for, is arriving at the Arts Centre this March. Described as “delightfully unexpected” by The Guardian, Green Porno is a one-woman-show featuring Isabella Rossellini as she narrates coitus short stories in the natural world. Green Porno is collaborative effort between Rossellini, who is currently studying animal behaviour at Hunter College in New York, and screenwriter, actor and opera librettist Jean-Claude Carrière (Marie-Antoinette, The Artist and the Model). Green Porno will be performed at The Playhouse, Arts Centre, on Wednesday March 26.
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THE TEMPERAMENTALS
Mockingbird Theatre’s The Temperamentals opens this January as part of Midsumma. Written by American playwright, Jon Marans, The Temperamentals has been described as Mad Men meets Harvey Milk. Mockingbird Theatre Company members Tim Constantine and Angelo De Cata star in the politically charged love story set to the backdrop of 1950s Los Angeles, that chronicles the genesis of The Mattachine Society, one of the first homosexual societies in the US. The play won the Drama Desk Award for Best Cast Ensemble in 2009. The Temperamentals opens at Brunswick Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre on Friday January 17.
SETTING SUN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Entries Are Open For Setting Sun Short Film Festival Designed to showcase the best filmmakers in the western suburbs, the Setting Sun Short Film Festival has put out the call for next year’s entrants. Presented by the Sun Theatre in Yarraville, anyone can enter with categories to recognise filmmakers and the craft of filmmaking from across Melbourne’s western suburbs, open categories for the ‘non-westies’, students, and a category for films with strong cultural diversity. The best films will be screened at the Sun Theatre as part of a four day film festival running from Thursday March 27, 2014. Call for entries ends 6pm Friday January 31. For more information head to the festival’s website.
PUBLIC BAR COMEDY It’s a good thing the Public Bar’s new airconditioning got installed this week as tonight’s lineup is red hot. They’ve been looking forward to getting the hilarious Adam Richard since they started and this week it goes down. For only $5 you can catch the new team captain of Spicks & Specks along with Geraldine Hickey, Jonathan Shuster, Gerard McCulloch, Taco and more. It all kicks off at 8.30pm sharp.
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CHRISTMAS CRACKER All The Yarraville Club wants for Christmas is a night of Santa-belly laughs and they must have been good boys and girls because Frank Woodley (Lano & Woodley), Hung Le (Hey Hey It’s Saturday, Rove Live), Adam Zwar (Wilfred) and Rusty (Scared, Weird, Little Guys) are greeting the season from their stage on Saturday December 14. Get down!
THE SHADOW ELECTRIC
Have you been to check out The Shadow Electric open air cinema at the Abbottsford Convent yet? If not you’re seriously missing out. With the weather clearing up it’s the perfect place to head down and spend an evening under the stars with a fine film. This week will feature screenings of Frances Ha, Salinger, The Way, Way Back, Gravity, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Before Midnight. Head to shadowelectric.com.au for more information and bookings
Peter Berner – this week at LOL Comedy. How lucky are you? Answer: Very! One of the finest stand ups in the country, on an extremely rare working trip down in Melbourne. He’ll perform at the Provincial Hotel on Thursday December 12 and the Hawthorn Hotel on Friday December 13. While at the Portland Hotel on Wednesday December 11 its award-winning British comedian Jeff Green. Then bring on Xmas with Santa hats and silliness galore featuring Nath Valvo and Adam Richard at The Local in Portland Melbourne on Tuesday December 17. Tickets from: lolcomedy.com.au or at the door.
COMEDY AT SPLEEN
What happens when you ask three exceptional arts centres to create a festival? You get the Festival of Live Art, of course. Consisting of six venues spread over four suburbs, the Festival of Live Art (FOLA) will feature over 35 contemporary and community events, including Arts House’s Tristan Meecham’s Game Show and 2013 Edinburgh Fringe First Awardwinning production, Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model. Festival of Live Art will be a three-week, artsbased festival featuring works from Theatreworks, Arts House and Footscray Community Arts Centre. Festival of Live will run from Friday March 14 – Sunday March 30. A full program will be unveiled on Monday February 3.
AZTECS
Melbourne Museum will be showcasing some of the most recherché Aztec archaeological finds from Mexico. Considered one of history’s greatest civilisations, the Aztec Empire was a dominant force in central Mexico during the 15th Century. Their culture was rich with religious traditions and they excelled agriculturally, politically, architecturally, and scientifically, akin to their predecessor: the Maya Empire. Aztecs will engross history-lovers people with its dramatic multimedia and intricate artefacts, which number over 200. Aztecs will be exhibited at Melbourne Museum from Wednesday April 9.
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Mondays at Spleen are always a full house and a great night. This week looks like another cracker with Karl Woodberry hosting, plus there’s surprise guests alongside David Quirk, Daniel Connell, Sarah Bennetto and heaps more. It’s on this Monday December 16, in the city, at 8.30pm. It may be free, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL Alright. It’s that time of year again, when the Melbourne International Comedy Festival teases us with their first announcement of acts. So hold your breath and drum roll please. The first acts announced for MICF 2014 are Paul Foot, Stephen K Amos, Jason Byrne, Doc Brown, Max & Ivan, Milton Jones, Sara Pascoe, Carl Donnell, Tom Stades and Kai Humphries. Of course, to balance such a British Isles rich lineup, Dave Hughes, Wil Anderson and Australia’s Prince of Polyester Bob Downe will return for another year of side-aching laughs. Tickets for Melbourne International Comedy Festival go on sale from Friday December 13. A full festival program will be released in February.
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PARQUET COURTS By Edward Sharp-Paul
Through ‘privilege and luck’, garage punk four-piece Parquet Courts have seen everything go their way in 2013. Austin Brown, guitarist and sometime singer, explains the realities of being in a band on the rise. Parquet Courts always seemed like a little more than some dudes thrashing it out in a rehearsal room. From their sound to the lyrics to their artwork to their worldview, there is far more to what they do than fulfilling the mechanics of production and consumption. The band is not their sole creative outlet – three of them have written for Michael Azerrad’s Talkhouse site – and there’s more than a hint of the bands profiled in Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life in the Parquet Courts approach, bands like The Minutemen and The Replacements. Brown attributes the sharp, observational lyrics that populate their songs partially to plain old work ethic (“We all have a pretty good work regimen,” he says) and partially to the freedom of having multiple writers in the band, and multiple outlets for their collective written efforts – zines, screenplays, poems, etc. Of course, one might miss all that if they were only listening to the semi-hinged, exhilarating sounds that Andrew Savage, Max Savage, Austin Brown and Sean Yeaton tend to make when they are put in a room to-
gether. That sound is wiry, energised and immediate, reminiscent of New York forebears such as The Modern Lovers and Richard Hell. Brown is flattered by such comparisons, but he resists the easy pull of the ‘New York band’ narrative. “Well, we’re all transplants,” he says. “I’ve always had a fondness for the music that comes from New York, the stuff that we get compared to, and it’s always influenced me a great deal.” He rejects the idea that there is some essential ‘New York-ness’ to their sound, though. “We take a lot of influences from all over – bands from the UK, bands from Australia. I guess that because we live in New York, it’s easier for people to make that connection. I’m usually ok with who we’re compared to, though!” And fair enough, too. Their music, though often sitespecific, has something broader and more universal than many of the street poets that Lou Reed and the New York Dolls have birthed over the years. From the bastardised business jargon of Master Of My Craft to the catalogue of dead-end career paths in Careers In
Combat, Parquet Courts have a rare ability to locate cultural fault-lines in an unnervingly casual, cheerful manner. When I put it to Brown that their breakthrough album Light Up Gold sounded like a document of the end of a cultural moment, a snapshot of the US in a time of recession and fundamental division, Brown offered a glass-half-full alternative view. “I like to think of it as the beginning of something, I’d like us to be a signifier of change. I wouldn’t necessarily say that, but it would be nice.” The band have always been determinedly accessible and unmediated, leaving their street address and phone number on their website, and mailing out mixtapes to anyone who expresses interest. Though their profile leapt up a few notches in 2013, Brown said that their newfound prominence has caused no crises, forced no compromises, and in fact, that life has largely sailed on as usual. “People can still write to us about whatever. People
say, ‘Come play at our house!’, and if we’re able to do that, we do. There’s this shitstorm of publicity that revolves around us in the echo chamber, but we still make friends at our shows – it’s not like we have a posse of security guards keeping people off our tour bus.” In other words, the change is by very manageable degrees. “We’ve just gotten to the point where we’re able to tour with a lot more ease,” Brown explains, “but we’re still on the same plan that we had years ago: record, tour, and have a record to sell on tour.”
together and the songs would just happen [but] we’ve never been a band that jams or anything like that. For Scott to relinquish that control that he previously had was a process as well. Initially there was a lot of him having the final word, which changed. I think he realised if you’re going to open it up, open it up completely.” Aligning multiple creative voices is not easy and it takes some trial and error before a harmonious method can be discovered. Hutchison indicates that technology was useful for facilitating the group songwriting efforts. “We built songs using samples of what we’d recorded ourselves. We’d take a guitar part and we’d basically loop it or chop it up, copy and paste it and shift it around on the computer. Then [we’d] sit with that for a few days and go back to it afterwards and try to play it together as a full band and see how it was sitting.” Enduring and overcoming their initial creative struggles ultimately pushed the band into previously untouched territory. Hutchison believes that their perseverance generated some of the strongest Frightened Rabbit material to date.
“On this record you can hear individual people and their parts and their input. That’s what I think has created this more expansive sound, one that people might say we’ve been aiming for each time but we’ve really just miscued slightly. With every record you should try to achieve something that’s different enough that it keeps people interested and it keeps you interested as well.” Pedestrian Verse has gained a greater commercial response than the three LPs that preceded it, which affirms the band’s constructive experiments. Despite the effort to stylistically evolve, Hutchison suggests that their identity is well in tact. “We’re still Frightened Rabbit, we don’t want to come out with some sort of minimal electro record that no one’s going to understand… we might have to take a few more drugs before we get to that.”
know from the first couple of records what songs to expect from Toro Y Moi. When it’s sitting there beside other songs that aren’t like that, it’s a fun little breather.” Like so many successful acts of the past few years (too many to list, but I offer Tame Impala as an example to Chaz), Toro Y Moi is a solo project at its core, branching out to a full band in the live setting. “It’s been the case for a long time, but now because of the internet it’s pointed out that it’s one person playing all the music. I feel like it’s definitely a popular trend. When I heard Tame Impala I thought, ‘How did all these guys come together and think of the same exact genre at the same time, playing it all together?’ Then I found out it was one guy and it all made sense. These days it’s common. It’s uncommon to find a band that meshes that well for every member.” Well respected by fellow musicians, Chaz doesn’t feel
compelled to enter any collaborative projects in the near future, instead remaining busy juggling on his musical outlets. “I’m not looking to work with anyone in particular, just focusing on my projects right now. Nothing is lined up, I haven’t really thought of doing that. But it’s an option I’m open to.” As for the fourth Toro Y Moi LP, the primordial stages are yet to take shape. “We’re taking a break right now, we finished [touring] a few weeks ago. Just trying to get some ideas together, but I don’t really have anything going yet for the next album.”
PARQUET COURTS’ new EP Tally All The Things That You Broke is out now. They will be playing at the Corner Hotel on Wednesday January 29, and at St Jerome’s Laneway Festival at Footscray Community Arts Centre on Saturday February 1.
Frightened Rabbit By Augustus Welby Scottish indie-folk quintet Frightened Rabbit released their fourth album Pedestrian Verse in February this year. The record features the production of esteemed UK musician and producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Brett Anderson) and is the band’s first release through major label Atlantic Records. Pedestrian Verse is distinguished from Frightened Rabbit’s previous releases by the fact that it formed out of a collaborative songwriting procedure. Drummer Grant Hutchison explains how this is a departure from the group’s earlier work. “With the previous records Scott [Hutchison, vocals] would take it separately and write the songs and then come to the band with the songs essentially fully formed,” he says. “I’d put my drums on top of that but in terms of the song structures and the melodies, they were all there, not to be touched.” The critically lauded record is a further demonstration of Frightened Rabbit’s heartstringing folk rock, yet it also marks a progression in the band’s sound. Hutchison details what prompted the revised songwriting approach. “When it came to start writing songs for the new record I think [Scott] felt that he was starting to repeat himself. He’d essentially figured out a formula of how to write a Frightened Rabbit song. We’d been touring as a group for long enough that he felt comfortable opening up to all of us, so we all chipped in and we
all went away together to write the songs, which was amazing and I really enjoyed that process.” Despite everyone’s excitement about the interactive songwriting arrangement, Hutchison reveals that they did face some growing pains. “It made for a little bit of a slower start to this record because it’s a very different process. I didn’t know how to go from playing drums over fully formed songs, using five or six different elements of a song to draw inspiration from to create a drum part – to go from that to playing along to one guitar and a half sung melody was difficult and frustrating.” Offering creative suggestions can put people in a vulnerable position, which often leads to stubbornly defending their ideas. Hutchison admits it took time and patience to fully establish the altered creative dynamic. “I think we had it in our head that we’d all sit in a room
FRIGHTENED RABBIT play St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival at Footscray Community Arts Centre on Saturday February 1, followed by the Palace Theatre on Wednesday February 5.
TORO Y MOI By Lachlan Kanoniuk
Launching beyond the ephemeral chillwave trend of the early 2010s, Chaz Bundick has gone on to release three albums’ worth of R&B-inflected dream pop as Toro Y Moi. This year saw the release of the poppier Anything In Return, an album that built upon the sonic craftsmanship of the previous two well-received full-lengths. People contextualise music on their own terms, often using labels to categorise what’s happening within the world of certain artists. While Toro Y Moi has done well to avoid pigeonholing, it’s not something that has consciously been rejected. “It’s funny when that happens, but it’s hard to do that these days because everyone is influenced by a lot of stuff at the same time,” Chaz reasons. “I know people will try to be those labels on artists, but it’s getting harder – who’s to say that artist won’t explore something different.” With vastly different approaches for the first two albums, the third LP, released earlier in 2013, found a practical middle ground between organic and electronic. “Anything In Return is definitely more of a mix between live type stuff and programmed sequence stuff. Everything on Causers Of This was samples and/ or sequenced. Then Underneath The Pine was all live. Anything In Return was a mix of both. I wasn’t trying to avoid anything, I was just experimenting, trying BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30
different stuff,” he explains. “It’s still an experiment. I don’t think that the next album will be electronic because the last one was. It’s hard to say at this point.” With a diverse range of studio production processes, translating material to the stage was initially a tough task. “We were kind of stuck for a second between records, and it was kind of hard to do when we were just doing stuff from the first record live. Then it wasn’t until the second record was finished that we started feeling good about the launch shows. It’s definitely a collaborative effort for the live show; it’s not a backing band type situation. We’re all in it together.” One of the more peculiar tracks on Anything In Return is the straight-faced pop track Baby, melodically and thematically not too far removed from what you’d expect from a teen sensation. “It’s kind of a tongue in cheek song, it was almost like I was writing it for Justin Bieber or something,” Chaz states. “Everything I sing about is really honest. People
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TORO Y MOI play The Hi-Fi on Tuesday January 21 and Big Day Out at Flemington Racecourse on Friday January 24.
DJ JAZZY JEFF words / tamara vogl
The French Prince of Bel Air re-runs on Channel Nine were an after-school staple of Aussie childhood. The all too classic theme rhymed by Will Smith rang throughout countless playgrounds, perhaps even more pervasively than the notorious “No Hat No Play”. Jazz, Will’s dimwitted and tactless friend from Compton, known for being purged out of the house via a swift drop-kick courtesy of Uncle Phil, was most Australian’s first introduction to Jeffrey Townes, otherwise known as DJ Jazzy Jeff. Perhaps less familiar to our audiences is the role Jazzy Jeff had in the launch of the show. A music lover from a young age, Jazzy Jeff, grew up in a period intersecting the development of hip hop and its mainstream crossover. Despite his more traditional musical roots, Jeff opted instead to become a DJ, citing, “It wasn’t cool to be a musician”. He maintained work on the sitcom for its full six seasons, while also working as a producer with music legends, including Michael Jackson. As hip hop was gaining prominence during the mid-80s Jeff found himself putting away his guitar and drums in lieu of a mixer and turntable. Developing a name for himself within the local Philly area, DJ Jazzy Jeff met Will Smith at a party. “I knew of him, he knew of me,” he explains, “We met by chance at a party. I didn’t bring an MC and he asked if he could get on the mic. There was a natural chemistry, so I called him the next time
I played, and he said yeah. And it never stopped.” DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince continued to collaborate and soon the hip hop duo blew up, creating hits such as Boom! Shake the Room and Summertime. It was their 1989 hit Parents Just Don’t Understand, however, that landed the two with a Grammy – the first one to ever be awarded for a rap song. Popularising hip hop and certainly contributing to the mainstream crossover of the genre, the duo maintained a squeaky clean image. Jeff explains they never grew up in the suburbs, they were in the inner city and saw the same things everyone else saw, they just chose not to focus on that. “We just wanted to have a good time,” he explains. Discussing their creative process together, Jeff says he was the guy who did the music, and Will Smith was the one who wrote the lyrics. The overall understanding of the importance of the whole musical project was what aided their relationship further. “It was almost like a team,” he explains. “Each member on the team has to sacrifice something for the group goals. Him being like my brother, would fight me like a brother. And that taught me later on when I was producing other projects that one without disagreement isn’t a good project.” Their upbeat and energetic music, coupled with its videos caught the attention of none other than Quincy Jones. In the works of
creating a sitcom, he was in search of an animated lead star. Jeff explains the attention attracted from their videos led to people noticing a different kind of talent Will Smith possessed. “We were on tour and he told me, ‘Quincy Jones wants me to read for a television show.’ We laughed and thought that’s cool! He came back and was like, ‘Yo! I got a TV show!’ But we didn’t take him serious…When he showed us the pilot, we all expected it to have been filmed on a camcorder so we were like, ‘Oh shit! You got a real TV show. This looks like something on NBC!” And he laughed, ‘It is!’” They all flew out for the first episode where Jeff was asked if he wanted to be on the show. Both had zero acting experience. Nonetheless, the sitcom was a huge success. The short six hour days on a television set were new to Jazz, who was used to slaving away for eighteen hours a day in a studio. The “camaraderie” of the actors and workers on set was what made the experience invaluable for Jeff and provided for an extended “Fresh Prince family”. He explains James Avery and himself bonded over a mutual love of jazz music, each discovering new music through the other. The end of the show was inevitable, however Jazzy Jeff admits he “thought it’d last forever”. He explains when he finished his last scene, he had a tear in his eye. He looked across to the catering and set, grabbed his bags and went to the airport.
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The end of Fresh Prince gave Jazzy Jeff more time to focus on his music and his production company - A Touch of Jazz. He produced Butterflies with Michael Jackson, describing the King of Pop as “extremely professional” providing for a “great experience”. He has also worked with soul songstress, Jill Scott, who is a “dream” to Jeff. “I don’t like rules and regulations,” he explains, “She was so raw and didn’t have any rules so everything happened in an organic way. We did nine songs in a week. That’s how I like to work.” Looking forward to his return to Australia, Jeff cites checking out the local music scene as a huge appeal every time he visits. A bona fide fan of Hiatus Koiyote (having donated money during their campaign), Jeff says the Australian music scene is always buzzing with some really cool people and DJs.
DJ Jazzy Jeff will be playing on Friday December 13 at The Espy. ffacebook.com/djjazzyjeff
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on tour NILE RODGERS [USA], TODD TERRY [USA] Wednesday December 11, Billboard Friday December 13, Billboard JON HOPKINS [UK] Thursday December 12, The Hi-Fi RØDHÅD [GER] Friday December 13, Mercat Basement MEREDITH: TIM SWEENEY [USA], DERRICK MAY [USA] + MORE Friday December 13 - Sunday December 15, Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre DERRICK MAY [USA] Saturday December 14, Howler MIDLAND [UK] Sunday December 22, Revolver Upstairs STANTON WARRIORS [UK], S.P.Y [UK], MC LOWQUI [UK] Friday December 27, Brown Alley ?UESTLOVE [USA] Saturday December 28, Roxanne Parlour LET THEM EAT CAKE: JAMES HOLDEN [UK], FLOATING POINTS [UK] + MORE Wednesday January 1, Werribee Mansion BIG STRICK [USA], WILLIE BURNS [USA], SUZANNE KRAFT [USA] + MORE Wednesday January 1, Peoples Market, West Melbourne DANNY TENAGLIA [USA], MORGAN PAGE [USA] Wednesday January 1, Shed 14 SWINDLE [UK], MARIBOU STATE [UK] Saturday January 11, Globe Alley BEN UFO [UK], PEARSON SOUND [UK] Friday January 17, Brown Alley MARCUS WORGULL [GER] Friday January 17, The Liberty Social JUAN ATKINS [USA] Saturday January 18, The Liberty Social KOLOMBO [BEL] Sunday January 19, Revolver Upstairs MATMOS [USA] Sunday January 19, Howler MAJOR LAZER [USA], FLOSSTRADAMUS [USA] Tuesday January 21, The Palace SNOOP DOGG [USA], MAC MILLER [USA] Wednesday January 22, The Palace BIG DAY OUT: SNOOP DOGG [USA], MAJOR LAZER [USA] + MORE Friday January 24, Flemington Racecourse RAINBOW SERPENT: DONATO DOZZY [ITA], MICHAEL MAYER [GER] + MORE Friday January 24 - Monday January 27, Lexton HENRIK SCHWARZ [GER], DANNY DAZE [USA] Friday January 24, Brown Alley AVICII [SWE] Sunday January 26, Melbourne Showgrounds MOUNT KIMBIE [UK] Thursday January 30, Corner Hotel ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL: XXYYXX [USA], MOUNT KIMBIE [UK] + MORE Saturday February 1, Footscray Community Arts Centre XXYYXX [USA] Tuesday February 4, Corner Hotel YOUTH LAGOON [USA] Wednesday February 5, Prince Bandroom EARL SWEATSHIRT [USA], DANNY BROWN [USA] Thursday February 6, The Palace MK [USA] Sunday February 9, Revolver Upstairs DJ SHADOW [UK] Thursday February 13, Prince Bandroom EMINEM [USA], KENDRICK LAMAR [USA] + MORE Wednesday February 19, Etihad Stadium FLYING LOTUS [USA] Friday February 28, The Forum BRUNO MARS [USA], MIGUEL [USA] Tuesday March 4 & Wednesday March 5, Rod Laver Arena GOLD PANDA [UK] Friday March 7, Corner Hotel GOOD LIFE: DEADMAU5 [UK], KNIFE PARTY [UK] + MORE Friday March 7, Flemington Racecourse MAITREYA: DICK TREVOR [UK], YAHEL [ISR] Friday March 7 - Monday March 10, Sealake GOLDEN PLAINS: PUBLIC ENEMY [USA], FLYING LOTUS [USA] + MORE Saturday March 8 - Monday March 10, Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL: DEADMAU5 [UK], KNIFE PARTY [UK] + MORE Sunday March 9, Flemington Racecourse BATHS [USA] Saturday March 22, Corner Hotel DARKSIDE [USA] Friday April 4, The Palace
tour rumours Ben Pearce, Marcel Dettmann, Cassy, DVS1, Mario Basanov, Legowelt, Redshape, Will Saul, Rustie, Jacques Greene, Kito, Reija Lee, Marcel Vogel, Andrew Weatherall, Skudge, Roman Flügel
pez word wor o d s / k ri s s i we i s s or Brothers-in-arms Pez (Perry Chapman) and 360 (Matthew Colwell) have climbed the Aussie hip hop ladder together from the very first rung. When an inkless 360 dropped a verse in Pez’s massive summer hit The Festival Song back in 2008, it would’ve been hard to predict the mammoth ride that both rappers would take. For Chapman it would’ve been even harder to predict that a serious illness would put a massive hold on his trajectory for what seemed like an eternity for both he and his fans. He’s back in a big way with an album (featuring an appearance from 360), you’ll hear him on 360’s forthcoming album too, they’ve also got a joint album in the works. Oh and these will all be coming out on their new label. Welcome back, Pez. Being body slammed to the turf by a serious illness can have some strange positives and while it’s often hard to see it at the time, Chapman has acknowledged what his tango with Graves’ disease (a serious thyroid condition that also put a hold on Sia’s touring life) has taught him. That lesson is now being passed on to others through his involvement in The Be Project – a government initiative aimed at tackling the problem of binge drinking. Apart from supporting up and coming songwriters and film makers and keeping young people alive (awesome), it will hopefully reduce the amount of vomiting douche bags we all need to deal with. “A lot of artists, kids look up to them and they think they wanna be like them but they don’t see them behind the scenes and what they’re really like,” Chapman says. “They don’t see that they’re alcoholics and that they’re really not happy at all. In their photos and shit and it’s so glorified, kids think they’re livin’ the dream and I’m there with ‘em thinking ‘this is all bullshit’. Music is really promoting binge drinking, especially a lot of international music. It’s all like ‘Yeah, you only live once, we get fucked up yeah! Work hard, play hard, we don’t give a shit!’ and somehow it’s cool to be like that. The people in the industry have always had that agenda to try and plug straight into kids thoughts. Before I got sick, everything got crazy for a while. I went from being in a bedroom wanting to do music to playing festivals and I was in front of thousands of people and everyone’s really hysterical and shit and I definitely didn’t handle it very well being a really shy person. You can just start abusing yourself with substance abuse and drinking. I got lucky, when my thyroid went crazy I couldn’t do that anymore and it gave me a slap in the face. Since then I’ve stepped back and I’ve realised that if you’ve got issues you’ve gotta deal with them.” Chapman’s dealing with his, and that’s why folks like he and 360 are actually living the dream. The next few months are set to be massive with his album looking to be wrapped up by the end of December. “Everything’s being put out on the label with both mine and 360’s solo albums out early to mid-next year and then with the album we’ve done together, we’ll have that ready and we’ll have to gauge
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I swear that every three months I re-read the Taman Shud case and then can’t sleep for 48 hours.
giveaway: let them eat cake
After a killer debut this year Let Them Eat Cake is back with another huge lineup for 2014. The 2014 bill will feature Bicep, Cyril Hahn, Digital, DJ Koze, Dusky, EPROM, Estere, Floating Points, Hypnotech, James Holden, Julio Bashmore, Kode9, LTJ Bukem, Mark Pritchard, Soul Clap, TOKiMONSTA and Wolf + Lamb with a stellar cast of locals. We have a double pass to giveaway. It all goes down on Wednesday January 1 at Werribee Mansion. Head to beat.com.au/freeshit to win.
ben ufo and pearson sound
As one of the co-founders of Hessle Audio, Ben UFO has been responsible, alongside Pearson Sound and Pangaea, for some of the most varied and ground breaking releases of recent years. He remains one of the few DJs in the UK to have made an impact without a production career to fall back on, and as such his reputation is solely the result of his skill as a selector and as a mixer. As one third of the team behind the Hessle Audio label, David Kennedy’s Pearson Sound moniker has become synonymous with cutting edge UK dance music. Make sure to head down to Brown Alley on Friday January 17
marcus worgull
After four years, Marcus Worgull has announced he will be returning to Australia next January. After releasing his first 12’’ in 2001, the Ole EP, and breaking into the scene with its follow
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how it’s going, whether it’s crazy or not, and see whether it comes out late in the year or early in the next year. Both the solo album’s will definitely be finished up by late December though,” he says. They says the surest way to lose money is to start a record label, and with the two-way street of Obese and Elefant Traks now divided into a multi-lane highway of countless hip hop specific labels, what motivated Chapman to start the label? “I always wanted to have one just on my own called Easy Records and I was gonna do that and put out my stuff on that,” he says. “Plus I had a few other people just within my circle that I wanted to believe in and put out their music; I’m really passionate about that. But then cause me and 360 have the manager and we’re always talking, he wanted to do the same thing so we were like ‘stuff it, let’s do it together. That’ll be even more fun’. We might lose a shit load of money, we’ll find that out real soon, and it’s all pretty innocent, but we just love it and we’ve always wanted to do it. A lot of the people we idolised in the hip hop genre came from nothing and were pretty entrepreneurial and started labels, so I guess the whole idea was glorified for us.” Hopefully there’s enough room in this large land of few people to share the hip hop spoils. So far everyone seems to be playing nicely. “The people that I come across seem to be really excited that things are growing to this kind of level but I’m sure there was, well I mean Obese was the huge label for so long,” he says. “Elefant Traks seems to be such a tight-knit little family and seems to be going strong. Pez will play at the Big Day Out which will take place on Friday January 24 at the Flemington Racecourse. He is also an ambassador for The Be Project, a national competition inviting young Aussies to submit an inspirational song or 30 seconds of amateur sports film that has a positive feel, to form a collective voice challenging Australia’s binge drinking culture. The competition is now open and closes at midnight on Friday December 20. The winning songwriter will win a Macbook Pro, their song will be professionally recorded and they will receive mentorship from music industry experts. The 10 winning amateur action sports footage entrants will each receive a handheld action camera and their footage will be edited together and set to the winning song. To enter or find out more, visit tacklingbingedrinking.gov.au/thebeproject or facebook.com/nationalbingedrinkingcampaign.
Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up? My homeboy DJ Lickweed’s tent at Deliverance festival in NSW last year after a failed mission to save Kodiak Kid. Describe yourself using the title of a song. Thugged Out Bitch What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child? Well, people used to think it was weird that I thought they were weird for eating creatures from the ccean. I still do. The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? Being too short to reach the decks. What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat? That psytrance tune, the one that goes dugga dugga dugga. What’s the most played record in your bag? Fliptrix - The Road to the Interdimensional Piff Highway What question would you like to ask an omniscient, allknowing being before you die? Got any snacks? If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead? Bounty Hunter. When and where is your next gig? facebook.com/le1fny I’m a resident at Rubix Funhouse every Friday.
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up, the Texel EP in 2005, Worgull has spent the last seven years building a reputation as one of the leading deep house/ fusion DJs in Germany. Marcus Worgull will be playing The Liberty Social on Friday January 17.
juan atkins
Juan Atkins has been locked in for a three stop Australian club tour for next January. Widely credited as the originator of Detroit techno, and a shadowy but important figure in the birth of Chicago house, Atkins has featured prominently in the dance scene since the ‘80s. After founding the Metroplex label in 1985, he began working as Model 500. In 2010, the label celebrated their 25th anniversary, and after 10 years away from the scene, Atkins released OFI (Objects Flying Identified) under the pseudonym. Juan Atkins will be playing The Liberty Social on Saturday January 18.
custom lighting and projection show. With a huge line up of Australian legends and Rubix resident dj’s including Kodiak Kid, Snareophone C:1, Skipone, Muska ft nixie, Timmus and Angus Green The celebrations will kick off at 4pm on the 31st with a street ball jam, Jim’s Burgers and cheap drink specials. All three rooms will be heaving with tunes, visuals and lighting effects. It goes down at Rubix Funhouse, 36 Phoenix St, Brunswick.
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animals dancing
Animals Dancing are starting off 2014 with their third annual New Year’s Day party, and have just released the full lineup. Headliners Big Strick, Tom Of England, Willie Burns, Cos/ Mes, Chida, Lovefingers, Suzanne Kraft, Jonny Nash will be joined by a kller local lineup, featuring Tornado Wallace, Otologic, Andee Frost, Andras Fox, Roland Tings, Sleep D, Totebagz, Kris Baha, Laila, Peace Pipe and Jezadin. Make sure you don’t miss out on Wednesday January 1 and head to 135-141 Rosslyn St, West Melbourne.
new year’s eve at rubix funhouse
Stay out of the city this New Year’s Eve and venture to the other side of the tracks for the Rubix Funhouse warehouse party. 2013 was a huge year for the Rubix crew with the opening of the venue, seeing all the renovations unfold, working with all amazing crews that threw events in the space and welcoming all new staff that have joined the team. Hedflux, the psychedelic drum and base king from the UK, will be headlining the night, spinning his groovy techfunk sounds and offering the crowd a string of original and cutting edge tunes. The high-energy live act, Men Imitating Machines, will couple their masterful live performance act of dubstep, glitch hop and broken beats with their acclaimed
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Grammy Award nominated DJ/producer Todd Terry has been engulfed in dance music, since he first started listening to European dance music records while growing up in Brooklyn. Already devoted to turntables, he heard something different in those tracks, and he went for the difference. Before the EDM revolution in the States, US artists had to establish themselves and their sound on a world stage. Todd did this by fusing early house music from Chicago and techno from Detroit with a NY BBoy feel. Once those influences were thrown in the pot – the finished produce was a very distinctive Todd Terry sound, that has been copied by many and mastered by none. He’ll support Nile Rodgers on Wednesday December 11 and Friday December 13 at Billboard.
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“I feel like I’m a great entertainer. I’m a hip hop rockstar, I can’t explain it.” Even the man himself admits that it’s hard to define ATL artist Waka Flocka Flame, one of the most electrifying rappers to emerge in recent times. When it comes to technical skill and lyrical dexterity, Flocka is not exactly proficient. But that’s not what we’ve come to expect from Waka Flocka. The energy he brings to the mic is unrivalled, as showcased in the hood anthem Hard In Da Paint, produced by steady collaborator Lex Luger. That track still stands as one of the hardest trap anthems out there. Since its release, trend has seen a marriage of trap and EDM – the two genres’ unbridled hype capabilities proving to be a more than potent complementary force. As such, it’s typified by the current circumstance I find Flocka. He’s speaking on the phone while on tour with EDM heavyweights Steve Aoki and Borgore, with the potential for studio collaborations with the DJs a distinct possibility in the near future. “Honestly, this is one of the best tours I’ve even been on. The energy on this tour is amazing, it’s so positive with the party vibe. Everything so turnt and everyone just wanna party, party, party. I feel like it’s all one big-ass party. Everything I do.” Showing a thirst for smashing through genre barriers, Flocka has teased the prospect of touring with metal titans Lamb Of God. As of now, Flocka is scarce on details, but his excitement is palpable. “I can’t wait, it’s looking good,” he delivers in his trademark gravelly cadence. Last year saw the release of Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family, Flocka’s second commercially released album, with guest spots from artists such as Drake, Nicki Minaj, Trey Songz, Ludacris, Meek Mill and more. The diverse offering of tracks on the album
saw an experimentation with a broader range of styles with varying levels of success. The record will be followed up by the recently delayed Flockaveli 2, the sequel to Flocka’s debut album. “All my vocals are done, just working on my mixes. It’s gon’ be crazy man, I can’t wait,” he teases. As for dividing time between the studio and the road, Flocka is philosophical. “It’s a balance man, know what I’m sayin’? Doing shows, it’s all music.” As for what Flocka does in his downtime to unwind, he retorts that there isn’t really a downtime at this stage in his life. “It’s not about me right now. I might have a couple of massages, then I’m back workin’. It’s not about me right now,” he reiterates. “It’s all work.” Not limiting his pursuits to a purely music medium, Flocka is the star of the recently released WakaVille, a zombie-slaying videogame for mobile platforms. It’s indicative of a grander vision for legacy-building. “It’s amazing man, it’s like the start. The start of a dynasty right now. The whole business is more than just music. This right here is my baby steps. We just keep moving forward and keep making history,” he declares. As for what Australian audiences can expect for Flocka’s debut tour, chances are we’re in store for a rap show like we’ve never seen before. “I’m just gonna come do what the hell I do.”
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bam bam: bags packed national tour When is it? Friday December 13 . Where is it? The Workers Club. Who’s playing? Bam Bam and Dylan Joel. What sort of shit will they be playing? Hip hop. What’s the crowd going to be like? Sold out. What will we remember in the AM? That Bam Bam means party!
Catch Waka Flocka Flame on Wednesday December 18 at Billboard. What’s the wallet damage? $12 presale and $15 door. facebook.com/wakaflocka
Give us one final reason why we should party here. Because it is one of the hottest local hip hop lineups going around!
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When is it? Every Monday starting at 12pm.
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Anna Lunoe is killing it. It has been 18 months since the Sydneysider relocated to the US and in that time she’s proved herself as a key artist to watch in the realms of global dance music. On the phone from Las Vegas – which she casually mentions she has “only played about four times” – Lunoe fills me in on the decision to swap Tim Tams for Twinkies and make the massive move Stateside. “I really did go for it in Australia for a long time and toured constantly,” she explains. “I felt like I played every festival and every club a million times. I just wanted to keep moving forward and I knew there was more to achieve.” Lunoe has been touring nonstop in 2013, working with some major industry players and pumping out tunes with that signature Lunoe house flair. “It is an exciting time here for dance music, people are really getting behind it,” she says of the nation she now calls home. “It is such a big country and there are a lot of opportunities.” One of those opportunities was a recent national US support slot with Canadian hip hop/R&B wunderkind The Weeknd, which saw Lunoe delve back to her roots to bring together a versatile but relevant set. After all her achievements in the dance world, it can be easy to forget that Lunoe started out as a part of Sydney DJ group Hoops alongside Nina Las Vegas and Bad Ezzy. Now her new single, Breathe, is out via cult label Fool’s Gold (headed up by ex-Kanye West DJ and one half of Duck Sauce, A-Trak). As with many of her releases, Lunoe uses her own vocals in the mix on ‘Breathe’. I ask if there is a possibility of seeing her jump on the mic to bust it out live during a set. “It’s something I’d like to do,” she says. “I started singing in a band years ago. It never went anywhere, but that’s something I thought would always happen.” Mainstream audiences would probably be most familiar with Lunoe’s vocals from I Met You, her
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2012 collaboration with Flume that’s just notched up over a million views on YouTube. “Everyone’s talking about Australian music,” she says. “Every time I do an interview they’re like, ‘Tell me about this Australian sound! What is going on down there?’ We’ve totally got a presence here.” Jokingly referring to the phenomenon as “the Flume thing”, Lunoe admits, “It does have a kind of sound to it. I think that by and large, the music that comes out of Australia has positive, festival vibes because that’s what gets popular in Australia.” Unfortunately, Lunoe is a rare breed in that she is one of few female producers receiving recognition for her work. “It’s a tough industry for women at the moment,” she agrees. “People want to perceive women as being really sexy and attractive … So, everyone just uses naked or completely objectified women in their videos. All their artwork is just butts and tits and that is how women are being perceived by the mass media.” To quote Lily Allen, “It’s hard out here for a bitch”. Lunoe’s solution? To stop talking about this ‘issue’ and just start promoting female artists in the same capacity as their male counterparts. “If you’re a female DJ you’re instantly compared to every other female DJ, which is not really fair… Basically I just wanna be treated like a dude! At the same time, I know a lot of guy DJs who feel like girl DJs get an easy run, so it’s totally a huge, weird problem.”
Anna Lunoe plays at The Falls Festival with Vampire Weekend James Vincent Morrow, Flight Facilities,Grizzly Bear,MGMT, The Preatures, Neil Finn and more which will take place at Byron Bay, Marion Bay and Lorne from Saturday December 28 – Friday January 3. facebook.com/annalunoe
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Who’s playing? The Rubix Big Beat Panel selects all of their favourite mixtapes from up and coming local acts. The crew are always looking for new dj’s and artists for their Friday night parties so this is your golden ticket to get involved and submit your mix. What sort of shit will they be playing? The best hip hop, drum and bass, broken beat, minimal tech and live band mixtapes. What’s the crowd going to be like? It’s a relaxed crowd of music lovers and Rubix crew searching for new sounds from local artists.
What will we remember in the AM? The awesome local tunes and the homely vibe of the venue. What’s the wallet damage? It’s free with happy hour from 6pm – 7pm with $2 pots. Give us one final reason why we should party here. It’s an afternoon/night dedicated to supporting up and coming musicians around Melbourne.
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wednesday december 11 COQ ROQ - FEAT: AGENT 86 + DJS LADY NOIR + JOYBOT + KITI + MR THOM Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. NEW GUERNICA WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. THE DINNER SET - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. 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 december 12 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + JESSE YOUNG + JOHN DOE + MATTHEW BUTTERS + SAM GUDGE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 5:00pm. BILLBOARD THURSDAYS FEAT: MATT DEAN + MATTY GRANT + PHIL ROSS Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10. CHI BEATS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. CQ SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Cq, Melbourne. 8:00pm. DO DROP IN - FEAT: DJ KITI + DJ LADY NOIR THE CARLTON HOTEL, MELBOURNE CBD. 8:00PM. FREE RANGE FUNK - FEAT: AGENT 86 + LEWIS CANCUT + WHO Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. GOOD EVENING - FEAT: DJ PEOPLE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: DJS PREQUEL & EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. MOOD - FEAT: NUBODY Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. RADIONICA - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. VARSITY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 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 december 13 ANYTIME - FEAT: FRIDAY
Workshop, Melbourne. 8:30pm. BADABOOM FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. CANT SAY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Platform One, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. CHI FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CQ FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Cq, Melbourne. 3:06pm. DISCOTHEQUE - FEAT: ELANA MUSTO + GREG SARA + SCOTT T Match Bar & Grill, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. FUSION FRIDAY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Fusion, Southbank. 10:00pm. GET LIT - FEAT: D’FRO + HANS DC + YO M.A.F.I.A LOUNGE, MELBOURNE CBD. 9:00PM. I LOVE OLD SCHOOL - FEAT: SHAGGZ & PUPPET + DJ TEY + MERV MAC Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $10. INCREMENTALIST + BREAKFAST + GABRIEL GILMOUR + SEEDY JAZZ Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 7:00pm. LATIN QUARTER - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. MEET YOUR MATES FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. PANORAMA - FEAT: DJS MATT RAD + MR GEORGE + PHATO A MANO Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ LEWIE DAY + DJ MIKE CALLANDER + DJ KATIE DROVER Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. RUBIX FRIDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID, MINI P, SK, SNAREOPHOBE Rubix Funhouse, Brunswick, 8pm SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: DJ SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00am. SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 10:00pm. SNATCH - FEAT: DJ ARSONAUT + DJ PAUL + DJ ROD S Kama Bar, South Yarra. 7:00pm. THE FOX FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. TUNES BY SABO Gem Bar, 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 december 14 B GRADE CHRISTMAS PARTY FEAT: ARABESQUE, MISS CHINA SKY, RYAN OBLIQUE, THE CHIEF
WHAT’S DOING? - FEAT: DJ CITIZEN.COM Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. sunday december 15 CAN I KICK IT Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 12:00am. DANGER - FEAT: GEORGE HYSTERIC & ROHAN BELLTOWERS The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MASHTAG - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: DJ BOOGS + DJ SPACEY SPACE + DJ RADIATOR + DJ SILVERSIX + DJ T-REK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:30pm. SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. 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. 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 december 16 CLUB NIGHTS IBIMBO - FEAT: LADY NOIR & KITI BIMBO DELUXE, FITZROY. 6:00PM. MIXTAPE MONDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Rubix Funhouse, Brunswick, 12pm 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. TWERKERS CLUB - FEAT: DJ FLETCH Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. tuesday december 17 COSMIC PIZZA - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 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. TRUST - FEAT: ANDY UKHTHOMOSKY + BADDUMS + DISRUTE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
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COMPRESSION SESSION - FEAT: CASSAWARRIOR + DD + RICKA E55, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. SOUL ENSEMBLE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
thursday december 12 PENNIES Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $6.
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CHAISE FRIDAYS - FEAT: SOULCLAP + DJ CLAZ + DJ DIRX + DJ PERIL + DJ SEF Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 4:30pm. CREW LOVE - FEAT: DJ TONY SUNSHINE Sub Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $15. DJ THADDEUS DOE The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. FAKTORY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 2:55pm. FAKTORY - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA
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Rubix Funhouse, Brunswick, 8pm BILLBOARD SATURDAYS FEAT: FRAZER ADNAM SCOTT MCMAHON + JAMIE VLAHOS + MR MAGOO + ZIGGY Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. CLUB FICTION - FEAT: KITTY ROCK & THE BAD LADIES Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. CONCRETE JUNGLE ROCKERS FEAT: NAHUATL SOUNDSYSTEM + BACHU + PAPACHANGO Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $15. DJ DAVE THE SCOT Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 2:00pm. FIRST FLOOR SATURDAYS - FEAT: BILLY HOYLE + DJS DUCHESZ + MZRIZK + WASABI First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. GLITCH THIS - FEAT: SATURDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. GLORY - FEAT: DJ BECSTA Kama Bar, South Yarra. 7:00pm. HOT STEP - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. LAB 22 Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MIXED DRINKS SATURDAYS FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. NEO SACRILEGE - FEAT: DJ NERO Abode, St Kilda. 8:00pm. NEW GUERNICA SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. POISON APPLE - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm. RAZZMATAZZ INDIE DISCOTHEQUE - FEAT: DJ CAITY K + TED C Exford Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SATURDAYS - FEAT: ACTION SAM + DJ ROWIE EUROPEAN Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SATURDAYS AT ONE TWENTY BAR - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 1:49pm. 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 - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Star Bar, South Melbourne. 3:02pm. STRUT SATURDAYS - FEAT: TIMOMATIC 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. SUPER GRANDE - FEAT: ARKS + MR MOONSHINE + NORTH POLLAND Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. TEMPERANCE SATURDAYS FEAT: DJ MARCUS KNIGHT + DJ XANDER JAMES Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm. TEXTILE - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. THE FOX SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: DJ ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: MAT CANT + NICK THAYER + RANSOM + BOOSHANK + LEWIS CANCUT + PAZ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. TUNES BY RALPH GRANADILLA Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:00pm. WHY NOT? - FEAT: SATURDAY Pretty Please, St Kilda. 3:21pm.
+ 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.
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CHAISE LOUNGE SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ ANDY PALA + DJ KAH LUA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CHEAP SOBER + MAGGOT MOUF & GUTZ + PETE MC + PLANZ The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $26.
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LAUNDRY SATURDAYS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. SATURDAY NIGHTS - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ JAY SIN + DJ K DEE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 9:30pm. THE DOJO Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. THE HIGH SOCIETY Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
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FREEDOM PASS - FEAT: PHIL ROSS + B-BOOGIE + CHRIS MAC + DOZZA Co., Southbank. 10:30pm. HIP HOP OPEN MIC First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
tuesday december 16 CAN I KICK IT? Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
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The Beat Magazine Market Guide
Fitzroy Market
Introduction When the sun starts shining and the thought of Christmas shopping starts weighing heavily on your mind, what better than getting yourself down to a market? In Melbourne we’re spoilt for choice – from artist markets which spruik creations old and new, vintage markets with their one-in-a-lifetime finds and fresh produce markets which inspire you to enact Jamie Oliver-esque feats of excellence, in this city there is literally a market for every purpose.
Offering a plethora of pre-loved, vintage, handmade and recycled goods, the Fitzroy Market continues to cement the cool status of the local market scene. Hitting its strides over four years of operation, there exists a re-occurring strength in what the market has to offer. Operating on the third Saturday of every month, with over 65 stalls and known for a distinctive friendly vibe, it’s hard to go wrong with the Fitzroy Market. With half the fun in the exploring, and the other half in making successful purchases, it becomes a win-win situation.
Whether it’s live music, craft, activities, food, homewares, bric-a-brac or clothing that you seek, we’ve put together a list of the best markets this December. Where else can you buy a hot jam donut at ten in the morning without any judgement?
When: Saturday 21st December, 10am-3pm. Where: Fitzroy Primary School (corner of Napier Street and Chapel Street Fitzroy).
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Kensington Market Arts? Crafts? Where and when you ask? Once a month from Sunday the 15th of December through to March 2014, Kensington Primary School will hold host to the Kensington Arts and Craft Market. With performances, produce and products you’ll want to note this market down in your diary every month. When you’re done soaking in all the buskers, buying fresh produce, specialty arts and crafts items, then you can enjoy a coffee of a bite to eat at the Pop-up Piazza. For further details please contact kensingtonartsandcraftmarket@outlook.com. When: Sunday 15th December, 10 am- 3pm. Where: Kensington Primary School, 62 McCracken Street, Kensington
Greville Village Christmas Market and Record Fair
Combine your festive spirit and festival fetish at the Greville Village Christmas Market and Record Fair. Embracing Melbourne’s melting pot of design, music and food you’ll enjoy perusing stalls from small independent designers showcasing their products along with four tents packed with records from Jnett, Mezabel, Alley Tunes, Bounce Audio, Eddie Mac, Chris NG and Greg Molinaro. The fair will also have DJs spinning disco, boogie, funk, breaks, house, techno and hip hop tunes to provide an alternative soundtrack to your Christmas shopping - sorry Miss Carey, you’ll still be serenading the crowds at the mall this year. If you have ankle-biters with you, there will also be a great arts and crafts tent and other free Christmas workshops for adults and kids to join. Where: Grattan Gardens, Greville Street Prahran When: December 15th and 16th,10am-4pm
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St Kilda Twilight Market The St Kilda Twilight Market is how Melbourne does summer. Watch the sunset and the stars come out while wandering around the beautiful O’Donnell Gardens. Beneath the shady palm trees and Luna Park’s devilish grin, the market comes alive every Thursday night from 5.00pm to 10.00pm. The market features artwork, vintage fashion, crafts and food. When: December 12th and 19th, 5pm – 10pm. Where: O’Donnell Gardens/The Esplanade, St Kilda
Trash for Cash: Brunswick’s Original Flea Market It’s time to get jolly market lovers, Trash for Cash: Brunswick’s Original Flea Market is being held a week early this month on December 22nd - it’s a Christmas Flee Market miracle. You’ll get those stockings stuffed with second hand designer steals and vintage timeless treasures (hello nice list.) Featuring blues and folk acts throughout the day, gift-wrapping and a huge range of locally designed ware the Brunswick Flea Market will actually make Christmas shopping fun this year. Ho, ho, ho! When: Sunday 22nd December 1pm Where: Bar 291, 291 Albert St, Brunswick
Renee Daniele: Organiser of the Kris Kringle Night Market at Northcote Town Hall Can you tell us about the market and how it started? The markets started in 2007 to help promote the Northcote Town Hal as a culture hub for the community. Ever since then the Kris Kringle Night Markets have focused on supporting local artist and locally made products. The markets are also a great free activity for the whole community to attend and enjoy. What else does the Kris Kringle Night Market add to the excitement of Christmas Shopping? The markets add that different shopping experience at Christmas time. It’s a chance to buy those unique gifts and at the same time support local artists. There’s also free live entertainment each week. It’s more of an outing then just Christmas shopping. What are the most popular stalls, and which are your top picks? We have a lot of jewellery stalls which are always popular and also some great natural skin products and children’s toys stalls which always do well. This year I would have to say my top picks are Brooke Thorn - Handmade Ceramics, Chloe Waddell - Art & Jewellery and Brewsmith. Brooke makes beautiful, simple designed ceramics, Chloe creates mounted illustrations of local landmarks and Brewsmith is a good one for the beer enthusiast, selling homebrew kits. Do you have any tips for shopping, strategies or relevant game plans when in the market? It’s always good to have an idea of who you need to buy for. Then start at one end and do a full lap of all the stalls and then return to the stalls that caught your eye. It’s also important to buy something special for yourself ! With the markets so close held in the lead up to Christmas, how do you avoid stresses of the silly season? I’m a big advocate for making lists. Whether it be a Christmas shopping list or a ‘to do’ list I think it’s the best way to manage this time of year. It is also important to get organised early to avoid any last minute stresses. northcotetownhall.com.au
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St Kilda Esplanade Markets Every Sunday you can sweep St Kilda Esplanade Markets for some fine craftsmanship - from arts and crafts to jewellery, accessories and woodworks. Since the ‘70s, the St Kilda Esplanade has hosted over a 100 different stalls, offering all things handmade and handcrafted. It’s all here and it’s all lovingly made, presented in what can be described as an “open-air gallery.” You can’t miss it either, the stalls all sit right next to Luna Park and run along the Upper Esplanade from Fitzroy Street to Acland Street. www.stkildaesplanademarket.com.au
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Ticket To Ride INTRODUCTION Bikes are the new Suzuki Swift – they’re everywhere. Cycling is not only convenient, environmentallyfriendly, and a simple solution to save a few bucks – but you also have a wheelie good time. Seriously, bikes have also been dominating as the hipster must-have item. Good old Melbourne Council’s have been supporting this new mode of transport with bike friendly tram stops, bike lanes, and even bike traffic lights. Racking your brains for your nearest and dearest’s Christmas gift? Forget about it! We heard from a couple of Melbourne’s best bike gurus to find out all you need to know.
QNA: MOJOBIKE Name of Shop and details? Mojobike.com.au – Retailer of Premium Single speed, Ladies & Commuter Bikes. What makes the perfect bike in 2013? Our preference would be anything that looks good, rides well and has great build quality. Tell us about the best value bike you have on offer for this Christmas? Our 3spd and 8spd Duke are a great choice for anyone who wants some cool Vintage styling but all of the convenience of a modern bike. With it’s Chromoly frame and Hub Gears it combines all of the benefits of a Fixxie and a Hybrid bike with none of the drawbacks. Hub gears are easy to use, require limited maintenance and pretty much last forever. What bike accessories make awesome Christmas presents? A Gift Voucher!! Don’t get it wrong, cycling is all about personal taste. Geared or fixxie? Arguments for both? There are pros and cons to both types of bike, it all comes down to where you ride. If you need to climb a lot of hills everyday then a Fixxie wouldn’t be the best choice. If you only ride short distances but on a regular basis a Fixxie could be the perfect choice, pretty much no adjusting to do and the added bonus is you can lock them up without worrying someone’s going to come along and nick your wheels etc.
There’s no specific reason but they’re all good ones, cycling is healthier, costs less than public transport and less damaging to the environment than driving. Not being stuck in traffic at rush hour in a car or on a tram is always a good reason to dust off the bike. Do you think cyclists should have a license registration like vehicle drivers? Not at all, it would cost a huge amount to implement and enforce, which would inevitably be funded by the taxpayer. A better idea would be for people to remember that they aren’t alone on the roads, a little mutual respect (on drivers and cyclists parts) would go a long way.
What’s your favourite route for a bike ride? Anniversary trail from Gardiner Creek to Fairfield.
Do you have any safety tips for cyclists new to the road? Lots, but the top ones would be: 1. Always wear a helmet, regardless of how daggy it looks. The brain works better when it’s kept inside the skull. 2. If you’re driving in traffic, try and make yourself more visible: Buy some lights for riding at night, especially if you dress like a Ninja. And by remembering Cars have blind spots.
Why do most people make the change of transport from car to bike? Environmental or financial reasons or other?
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BORN RUFFIANS By Krissi Weiss
Canadian indie/rock band, Born Ruffians have notched up a decade together (although they began as Mornington Drive), and with each album has come a host of musical metamorphoses. Singer and guitarist Luke LaLonde has always been the primary songwriter for the band and as Born Ruffians go through perhaps their biggest state of change, he remains their unrelenting driving force both creatively and psychologically. Their most recent release, Birthmarks, (etched out of a dude ranch-style escape that LaLonde concocted for the creative process) saw the band bob just a little higher in the indie ocean, with their audience growing and their reviews evermore favourable. If they can hold on long enough to weather the slings and arrows of the music industry ladder, it might all just get a little smoother for them. “I really wanted to get out of the city to work on the album. I didn’t want to go into rehearsal spaces and I really wanted somewhere we could sleep too,” LaLonde says of their rugged country escape for Birthmarks. “I kind of lived there the whole time because I didn’t have an apartment at the time – the guys would go back on weekends occasionally – but it was just great to be away. The environment was great; we could shoot bows and arrows, light a fire and have dinners together, and we could also play whenever we felt like it and not be tied down to being there for specific hours. But also
that rural environment just felt like a dude hangout.” He’s doing his best to keep the studio momentum up with an EP almost on its way. “We’re working on an EP of B-sides of stuff that didn’t make it onto the record. We’ve been working on a song today that’s new, but I really wanna put it on the EP anyway,” he says. Why does a song that’s worthy of an EP get to render a B-side in the first place? “I guess, well so many songs get cut along the way anyway that by the time you make it into the studio you’re really only left with the good ones,” he says. “Then after that some just get cut from there just because they don’t really resonate with the whole record or in this case, we wanted to keep the record fairly trim, we didn’t want it 16 songs long.” The concept of an album, a story told through many songs and not just a playlist, is something that LaLonde is eager to explore as the band grows. While the death of the album has been loudly proclaimed for more than a decade, it’s still alive
and well so it’s probably safe to assume the album’s here to stay. Just like the novel survived the introduction of “talkies”. “It’s something that I struggle with – trying to avoid the album just being a collection of and it having an overarching theme or purpose – and it’s something that I really want even stronger on the next record,” he says. “I think I want to start with the concept instead of just writing, writing, writing and then going, ‘OK, well what are the best songs and what go together?’ For someone like Katy Perry, I think her job is to make singles, I don’t think she really needs to worry about making an album that speaks as a whole album, and I don’t think that’s bad thing. But when you’re playing rock music and you’re gonna put a record out, that’s a pretty old format so it should be a good record. It’s such a nice thing when a record flows with one feeling throughout.” Apart from the recording of the EP, LaLonde is concerned
about what the future of Born Ruffians will look like. “For us it’s a case of wanting the usual things – always wanting to tour more places, play to bigger audiences and reach more people – that has never changed and probably won’t ever change,” he says. “Musically though things change constantly from record to record. Over time, if anything, I’ve become the leader. I’ve always been the songwriter but as time’s gone on it has fallen to me to dictate or take charge of the creative ideas behind the songs the sounds and the production.
“So we thought ‘what’s the alternative to the alternative’,” Hanna says. “There were definitely a lot of good things that happened in the ‘80s and ‘90s – rock against racism, and a lot of good bands – but there was this overriding straight white male type of mentality. And I think we were reacting against that and looking at older punks in the ‘70s and early ‘80s and realising there was all this female involvement back then that got erased – Poly Styrene, Alice Bag, The Raincoats and The Slits. We thought, ‘Hey, this is what punk is all about!’” Bikini Kill eventually folded in 1997, not long after releasing the band’s final album, Reject All American. As the band began to fall apart around her, Hanna conceived of a solo project that continued the punk ethos of Bikini Kill, but enable her to stretch into more electronic music territory. “I don’t really know where the ‘Julie Ruin’ name came from, though I’ve always liked the name Julie,” Hanna says. “I felt that I’d been vilified in the punk scene – I’d got a lot of attention for riot grrl, and that had kind of pulled me out of my community, which was really painful. So I made up this person called Julie Ruin who was a lot stronger than me and who didn’t give a shit, and who just wanted to make music.” The Punk Singer documentary described Hanna’s battle with
Lyme disease, the serious illness that precipitated Hanna’s withdrawal from the music scene. Now having received stabilising treatment for the disease, Hanna has revived the Julie Ruin concept and with it, provided Hanna with the strength to return to music and to continue to explore her punk philosophy. “I’ve always considered punk an idea and not a genre,” Hanna says. “I feel a big part of that idea is that people don’t take their entertainment from corporations. People can take it upon themselves to create their own music, and their own communities, and to use music and art to connect with each other.” And, Hanna says, punk can be anywhere – even in a superficially banal retail setting. “Punk as an idea can be when you’re standing in line at the airport trying to get a bottle of water and some businessman walks in front of everyone and slaps his money on the counter – that one person who says, ‘You can’t do that!’ That’s a punk rock moment!” Hanna laughs.
BORN RUFFIANS play Northcote Social Club on Monday December 30. They also play Falls Music & Arts Festival, which runs in Lorne from Saturday December 28 – Wednesday January 1. Birthmarks is out now through Yep Roc/MGM.
THE JULIE RUIN By Patrick Emery
Kathleen Hanna has spent her life challenging the dominant discursive structures of power, both in the music industry and generally. As lead singer of Bikini Kill, and a protagonists in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s riot grrl punk scene, Hanna’s confronting public and lyrical statements on issues of sexuality, violence and gender politics provided the inspiration for musicians – especially female musicians – across the world, and a talisman for the contemporary punk movement. “I think it’s definitely possible for pop music to bring up interesting conversations,” Hanna says, when I ask her if it’s necessary to remain outside the dominant political institutions in order to be heard. “Most things you see in the mainstream were originally created in the underground – but that’s OK, because people in the underground have unlimited creativity. So you’ll still have these great ideas being ripped off, over and over.” Hanna cut her political teeth in the Washington State capital Olympia in the ‘80s. Olympia was home to Evergreen State College, where Hanna had moved to study photography. “In Olympia you had K Records, and later Kill Rock Stars, and the fact that you had this do-it-yourself community in the town inspired me more than the college did,” Hanna says. Evergreen College was the location for one of Hanna’s regular confrontations with authority when staff at the college took down Hanna’s photographic exhibition one night, without her prior knowledge – and, inadvertently, provided the catalyst for Hanna’s grassroots political activities. “I guess they found [the exhibition] too provocative – it was a feminist work,” Hanna says. “So me and my friend started
this photographic exhibition downtown in a garage. So it was actually the college’s attitude, which was a bit oppressive, that led me to be more of a rebel,” Hanna laughs. Hanna went on to team up with fellow Evergreen State College student Toby Vail, Kathi Wilcox and Billy Karren in Bikini Kill. At the time Bikini Kill was formed, the United States was still languishing in the conservative political climate led by Ronald Reagan, and continued under George Bush Senior. Hanna admits that riot grrl’s political edge was in some respects a reaction to the prevailing political mood; it was also reviving punk’s original provocative aesthetic. “I remember being policies being passed around that time that were putting girls who’d been raped in their homes, back in their homes to try to keep the family together,” Hanna says. “And you had the war on drugs – totally insane things like that, that unfairly targeted minorities. We were at a boiling point – we were being told that feminism didn’t exist, we were seeing racism all around us.” Hanna and her contemporaries turned to the punk scene and found it compromised by the same reactionary values that permeated the straight community.
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THE PIERCE BROTHERS By Graham Blackley If you haven’t stumbled across the rousing genius of the Pierce Brothers, hop on YouTube and check out their foot-stomping performances on trams and street corners. Jack and Pat Pierce display all the attributes that make the best folk musicians so engaging: tightknit vocal harmonies, playful multi-instrumentalism, natural and unaffected energy and the almost supernatural ability to nail a tune with skill and swagger anywhere, anytime and in front of anyone. 2013 has been a great year for brothers Jack and Pat Pierce as they have played sell-out venues across Australia, toured successfully overseas, sold over 12,000 EPs from busking alone, released the astonishingly catchy single Tallest Teepee In Town and are about to embark on a four-date Aussie tour in December. Chatting to the twin brothers over the phone was an entertaining experience as they traded humorous quips, indulged in lively banter and exuded plenty of enthusiasm while speaking about their music. As it was impossible to decipher who was saying what (yes, they sound alike!) we decided that their juicy quotes would be attributed to the collective entity known as the Pierce Brothers (or PB as short-hand). I was interested to discover the impact that being brothers has on the musical relationship. “We’re best friends…but the fact we work together, tour together and up until a little while ago we lived together as well…that started to get challenging because you are
always in each other’s face,” PB explained. “As twins we bicker all the time anyway but at the same time we know each other better than anyone else so we know how to get each other into the zone before a show and when we are on stage we have a sort of twin weirdness thing where we just pull something out of nowhere and start improvising and the other one will just get it!” The Pierce Brothers are certainly adept at bringing a refreshing looseness and unpredictability to live performances without ever losing control of the song. “One of our strong points is the fact that we can make it different; the fact that we can jump around and on the fly add a chorus…it feels like a big jam or an improvisation but it’s still as tight as it can be.” This organic approach to making music is a natural byproduct of the band’s prodigious busking experience. “The secret to busking success is understanding your audience and being malleable,” PB explained. “You read the audience…and try different things. [While
busking] we never pushed to sell CDs and we never asked for a donation. We’re just doing our thing… we’re just here for enjoyment rather for money – to be a successful busker [you need to] focus on what you’re best at and that’s playing music and entertaining people. Energy is the key. Lots and lots of energy and being excited to be there.” The band’s energy has proven to be a potent contagion capable of exciting audiences both here and overseas. “The Edinburgh Fringe Festival was one of the most amazing experiences of my life!” PB exclaimed. “We had a ball doing that! Playing the Water Rats [theatre bar] in London was our first UK show. It was a packed out audience which was amazing; it completely went off ! It was one of the best shows we have done!” To pique your interest about the upcoming Aussie gigs, here’s what PB had to say about what you can expect from the show. “A lot of energy and interaction between two people on stage and I don’t mean that in a
creepy way! It’s just fun folk songs put together in the most interesting way we can and the most energetic show we can. It definitely sounds like more than two people on stage. We have been surprised by how full a sound we can get. “We have been pretty lucky with that…with the kickdrum and the stomp-box that we use as a dynamic we actually get a really thick sound. On the shows coming up we will introduce a couple of little different flavours [such as] different percussive stuff. We will find different things I can hit sticks on. We might find a cowbell somewhere on an iron rod or a cymbal. We can make the experience as interesting as we can.”
Archie spoke about the acts of kindness that help to make life on the road a memorable and happy experience. “We were in America and were supporting Joan Armatrading” he recalled. “On the first night it was me and my late partner Ruby singing to this packed audience. We were playing and it sounded a bit funny, you know the foldback and everything, so I was uncomfortable with the sound. I think it was in our third song that something changed. It [suddenly] sounded really good, and we looked across at the guy who had been doing the foldback and he wasn’t there [any more] but Joan was there at the desk [instead]. She was actually doing our foldback. I thought that was pretty amazing! We had a great relationship.” Patti Smith also displayed a natural and down-to-earth warmth and openness that Archie remembers fondly.
“We were in the band room ready to go on” Archie said. “We heard a voice calling from the doorway, ‘how are you?’ We looked up and it was Patti Smith. She was there on her own. She took it upon herself to come down and meet the support band, that was great.” Archie pointed out that, “You can’t take away the love of what you do. It’s important that you always love what you do in music. That’s why you did it in the first place. When you meet people [that appreciate that, even] the big-name artists, it just comes down to one thing: that we all love music and we are all part of this greater community.”
THE PIERCE BROTHERS play Northcote Social Club on Sunday December 15.
ARCHIE ROACH By Graham Blackley At the Riverboats Music Festival in Echuca-Moama earlier this year, Archie Roach’s band provided tasteful instrumentation that allowed his evocative vocals and thoughtprovoking lyrics to take centre-stage. Roach paid a tender tribute to his partner Ruby Hunter who passed away three years ago, shared his insights into the land and the people “being one” and “lifted our spirits high up to the sky.” When I caught up with Archie recently for a chat he spoke about the emotional impact that music can have on both the listener and the musician. “Music affects people on so many levels” he said. “It’s a good place to go when you are feeling down…music has the capacity to pick you up.” Archie has recently released the compilation album Creation which features remastered versions of his first four albums (Charcoal Lane, Jamu Dreaming, Looking For Butter Boy and Sensual Being) plus over a dozen unreleased bonus songs. As you can imagine, this significant document of the highly respected singersongwriter’s work is jam-packed with classic and muchloved tracks such as Charcoal Lane, the ARIA-award winning Took The Children Away and Down City Streets. Throughout the Creation project Archie has found it to be an interesting experience revisiting his own songs. “Some of them I haven’t performed for a while” he said. “It’s really good because the songs have grown in time. You have a better idea of how to perform and sing them.” For the Creation concerts Archie is joined on stage by a ten-piece musical ensemble featuring a string quartet and the vocal prowess of Lou Bennett, Emma Donovan and Deline Briscoe. Archie pointed out that working with this large group “gives the songs a depth…it’s a real joy.”
Archie’s ARIA-award winning album, Looking For Butter Boy was recorded in 1997 on his traditional land at Port Fairy in South-Western Victoria. With Archie playing at the mighty Port Fairy Folk Festival in March 2014, I was interested to discover how he felt about performing in a place that is so important and significant to him. Archie said, “I think being able to sing in country is probably one of the greatest things… the country inspires certain songs…songs come from everywhere but when they come from country it’s pretty special.” Archie, who has toured with an incredible array of famous artists including Joan Armatrading, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Tracy Chapman, Crowded House, Suzanne Vega and Patti Smith, chatted about his experiences on the road. “Bob Dylan came down to hear one song that I was singing in Sydney. That was Took The Children Away” Archie said. “I looked to the side of stage and he was standing there listening to that particular song.”
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ARCHIE ROACH will be featuring at the Port Fairy Folk Festival next year, which runs from Friday March 7 until Monday March 10.
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THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE By Lachlan Kanoniuk
Anton Newcombe is speaking from his Berlin studio, having risen early to accommodate a conducive balance between our time zone difference. There’s some faint hint of his current musical project in the background as he answers the phone – possibly the makings of a follow-up to last year’s well-received Aufheben. Professing an erudite dissection of the machinations of the music industry and the commodity of culture, the Brian Jonestown Massacre progenitor lets us into his mind ahead of the band’s return to Australian shores. “I pretty much go to work every day, so I’m always working on stuff. It’s not always necessarily about my band – soundtracks, collaborations. I should be working on the new Brian Jonestown Massacre album, but it’s going a little bit slower than it should,” he reveals. “I think it’s because I can’t imagine what it is I’m looking for. If I had an idea, I’d find it. I made up some really good songs, but I can’t see in my mind how they would fit together as an album. Even though the album format might be extinct, I like to view the songs in bundles like that. I’m interested in longer trips
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than just hits.” More so than pretty much any other artist on the planet, Anton is constantly exploring and experimenting with distribution methods, being a pioneer of sorts for online filesharing. “I’m interested in all forms of media. I’m about contact. I put all my stuff on the internet in the earlier days. By the time Napster came, I had an FTP site so people could instantly download and seed my stuff on peer-to-peer downloads. I pay people to destroy sites where people are selling those files. Just like iTunes, people have their own
blogs and try to sell my demos. It’s ridiculous. The decisions need to be made by society and governments. “In the meantime, I have to focus on market share and plant my seeds everywhere. I was aware of what dead end record deals were to begin with. That’s why I maintained my rights, and I’ve seen all my peers just dropped. They get to an age where they’re just not interested in playing music anymore. I’m not one of those people. Most days I enjoy playing music; I get a thrill from finding something new. But it doesn’t last very long. It’s something I still enjoy doing, so that’s why I do it.” The Brian Jonestown Massacre have been in existence for 25 years, with Anton’s enthusiasm for performing music ia now as strong as ever. “When I play live, it’s equally terrifying and exhilarating. You’re vulnerable. I was thinking yesterday about how many concerts I’ve done where people haven’t locked into it when something amazing is happening. I’m not being an egomaniac, just the concerts I’ve seen of other people and everybody’s feeling it. I’m not talking about rocking out, flipping your hair – I’m talking about when it clicks. I was thinking about it yesterday, and you can never bring any of that back. There were times when Matt Hollywood [guitar], back when he played bass, that he got so sick of the long repetitious stuff and just sat down his bass. Just walked off stage, ‘Fuck this, I’m not playing this riff one more time’. “It’s so bad, considering what we were playing was radical in its minimalism. Just not getting it. It leads back to the rehearsals, where so many people have not got what they’re being a part of. Now 20 years later I’m living in Berlin, and it’s still paying my rent. It’s paying for all my shit. They never got what practice was about. I’m going off on a tangent again. All I can say is that I enjoy
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searching for stuff. I feel that Western culture is geared towards the fame thing. This is a better place for me than LA. I just work on my music.” Since 2007, Anton has made base in Berlin, finding his niche as he acclimatises to newfound fatherhood. “I don’t speak German, so it’s difficult if my washer and dryer get broken. I’ve got a baby now, and I think it’s a good place for him. I have those things to consider. It’s a good economy, education system, it’s safe. There are a lot of pluses. I don’t want the same things for my son as I did for myself – freedom to do what I want, ‘Fuck the man,’ sort of thing, start a revolution, fuck society, let’s rip it apart. “You look at a phenomenon like Lollapalooza was, and just thousands of people with braided hair and dreadlocks, people in purple hair jumping around to music. Every single one of those people would have been beat to death if they were a teenager in my hometown,” Anton deadpans. “That whole thing became a commodity that was sold to you. Or whatever it is now, it’s disturbing. It reminds me of fascism. Bieber fans remind me of Hitler youth, the hysteria, the fanaticism, it’s just over nothing. I know that it’s not impossible to be a part of beautiful things like youth culture, I experienced that, felt my kindred spirits. There’s a big tradition, even with Aussie bands, of people supporting each other. I just find that it’s the opposite when it folds into itself – ‘You’re supposed to like this because it was on TV, because Simon Cowell told you.’ It’s just that fanaticism that bothers me.”
THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE play Meredith Music Festival, which runs at the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre from Friday December 13 – Sunday December 15. They also play Palace Theatre on Friday December 20.
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CRASH AND BURN By Rod Whitfield The ‘concept album’ is a much maligned idea. There have been a number over the course of rock history that have worked an absolute treat (Operation: Mindcrime, The Wall, Tommy), but for every one of those, there have been several that have come up a bit short, and even been complete creative failures. So it’s always a gutsy move for a band to do one, knowing the criticism that they may be in for. This is the case for an established band, for a new band, doubly so. But that’s just what this Melbourne-based alternative/progressive rock band have done. And not only that, the fortitude they have displayed in creating such an ambitious piece of work is multiplied even further, since this new band have also chosen to bypass the traditional way of doing things, that is, release an EP before doing their first full length. These guys have leapt straight in the deep end, releasing a full length concept album as their first major release, and they are only to be admired for their boldness. Daniel Viktor from the band joined us recently to tell us all about it. “We sort of decided to jump the gun,” he begins. “It’s sort of a ‘Melbourne’ thing to do an EP first. We thought coming off a single which did quite well for us, getting us shows and so forth, we just thought, ‘Let’s go the whole hog and get a full album going.’ We spent a lot of time honing in on what we wanted to do. It’s a concept album, from start to finish – it’s sort of got
a theme. “There’s a lot of stuff lyrically going through the whole album, linking it up together,” he continues. “It’s a story about somebody who goes through depression, someone who goes through that stage where everything is falling on top of them. There’s a turning point where things go more positive… Redesign is the name of the album, and the whole concept is just making yourself a better person.” So what inspired you to write such a complex album? Is it autobiographical, personal, or just from the outside looking in? “I wanted to make it really personal, but also very generalised, so everyone can take from the piece what they wanted to get out of it,” he explains. “So obviously there are bits in the songs that are very personal and very specific, but also generalised enough so that anyone listening to it can make up their own mind about what they want to get out of it.”
The band officially launch the album this week, Saturday December 14 to be precise, at Ding Dong Lounge. Daniel feels that, since the band has been tucked away out of the public eye for quite some time incubating the album, the band is absolutely raring to go. They are very excited about the launch, and aim to give the punters who show up to the show their absolute money’s worth. “Yeah, it’s a massive build up, and we’re trying to get as many people there as possible,” he says. “We’re doing all the right steps, we’re practising really hard for it, very excited about releasing it officially, because it was three years in the making.
“We’ve been out of the loop for a while, we haven’t played many shows in the last two years,” he goes on. “But we really come into our own, with our live set; we really do aim to entertain people. I find that a lot of bands these days, they just pay to play. We’re not like that, we’re actually going to give you a show that you can go away from and say, ‘Well that was a great show!’ We pride ourselves on our live playing, and we’ll try to stay as close to the album as possible.”
pop-punk juggernauts Paramore and rounded out by indie-pop duo Twenty One Pilots. It’ll be Franceschi and his group’s fourth time in the country since their debut appearances Down Under back in 2010 as part of Soundwave. “There’s something different about Australian crowds. Maybe it’s all the sun that gets on everyone’s heads,” laughs Franceschi. “Everyone just always seems so pumped and eager about music. It’s hard not to love coming and playing shows in a country where everyone is just as passionate about music as we are”. On Lived A Lie, the lead single from Cavalier Youth, Franceschi and co. anthemically chant the line “We
are believers”. An earnest and to-the-point declaration, it wholly encapsulates the spirit that resonates throughout the album – optimistic, self-assured and defiant. When asked whether the shift into a more positive direction is representative of where You Me At Six are at as a band, Franceschi responds without hesitation. “Absolutely. It’s the strongest we’ve ever been”.
CRASH AND BURN launch their album Redesign this Saturday December 14 at Ding Dong Lounge with Fisker, Silverstakes and Voodoocain in support.
YOU ME AT SIX By Blake Gallagher For You Me At Six, it’s been a stream of upward momentum since the release of first LP Take Off Your Colours back in 2008. The British pop-rockers are currently preparing to release fourth studio album, Cavalier Youth – the record with which the quintet, according to frontman Josh Franceschi, have defined a clear identity almost a decade after forming. We’re very proud of what we’ve done,” says Franceschi, fresh from an extensive European tour with the Jared Leto-led Thirty Seconds To Mars. “We’ve taken a step up, and as a band I think we’ve finally found our sound. We’re the band we were meant to be”. Listening to Cavalier Youth, it’s a statement that rings true. Fully realised and delivered with youthful exuberance and mature confidence in equal measure, it’s a vivid sonic portrait of a band that has stepped firmly into its own skin. “It was important for us this time around to make an album that had a more cohesive sound,” Franceschi says. He’s the first to admit that figuring out the sort of band he and his comrades wanted to be hasn’t been a straightforward enterprise. Previous album Sinners Never Sleep, though lauded by critics and fans alike, featured a mixed bag of styles, with vitriolic posthardcore (Bite My Tongue) haphazardly juxtaposed with fragile balladry (Crash).
“If you were a new listener, it’d be quite confusing. I think we really tried on this record to make an album that throughout sounded like one band, while still allowing that room for creativity”. Lyrically, one immediately gets the impression Franceschi is in a far better place on Cavalier Youth than he was on Sinners. “One thing I knew I wasn’t going to write about was a relationship gone wrong. I’m in a happy and healthy one now, so I couldn’t really write about that. I took inspiration from a lot of things. One thing I wanted to write about was how I feel different now as a 22-year-old man to how I did when I was 17, 18, making music for the first time. My world’s gotten both a lot smaller and a lot bigger. It’s a strange time, your mid-20s. Your friendship groups get smaller, the world just sort of changes for everybody.” Before You Me At Six release Cavalier Youth, they’ll be hitting Australian stages on a triple bill headed by
YOU ME AT SIX play alongside Paramore at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday January 12. Cavalier Youth out Friday January 31 through Cooking Vinyl Australia/Caroline/UMA. r.
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DAY RAVIES Ten bands everyone should know about: Too many Australian bands to name. Here’s ten in no order: The Stevens, Velcro, Summer Flake, Bruff Superior, Sounds Like Sunset, Unity Floors, Nun, Thigh Master, Cured Pink, Blank Realm. Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Hard breads, mushy eggplant (look it up), hash brown pile, quail bgg (they’re little), haloumi stacks ($$), novelty cakes, beef jerk(y), lush dips (all flavours), brews. Eight possessions that define you: Dick’s jam room (not really ours), numerous rabbits, colourful dresses, Sam’s crusty car, Lani’s lovely, heavy synth, Caro’s seasoned bass, Matt’s (actual lack off ) drum equipment, leaky roofs. Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape: Cocoon, Tampopo, Step Brothers, ANVIL: the story of Anvil, BBC Synth Britannia, Do It Yourself: the Story of Rough Trade, The Valleys.
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Six bad habits you can’t escape: Gum in hair, Facebook, biting nails, sleeping on your face, $8 Bourby cokes, abbreviating shit. YOLO. Five people who inspire you: David McComb, Lawrence (from Felt), Lætitia Sadier (Stereolab), Alan Partridge, Divine. Four things that turn you on: An electric shock, counting unused election ballots, long and grim bus trips, waking up at 3am to cats fighting. Three goals for your music: To hopefully entertain people, to have fun, to make bank bro. Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why: The Cannanes, Sounds Summit, Newcastle, 2012 Lovely afternoon set by one of our favourite Australian icons.
Towards the end of the set someone switched the AFL final on down the other end of the room. The Cannanes continued on. Didn’t affect much, they were great as always. I think the Swans won the final... My Bloody Valentine, ATP, Melbourne 2013 The first time any of us had seen them before and it was pretty amazing. Everything you wanted to hear from them as well as the brutal ending, the skull-crushing drone section in You Made Me Realise (that everyone’s probably
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heard about, even if you weren’t there). I literally saw a girl’s knees buckle when the song dropped back in. One day left before the apocalypse and you: See above. When’s the gig/release? Tussle out now. The Hi-Fi with Deerhunter on Wednesday December 11, The KVB at Boney on Thursday December 12.
THE BOMBAY ROYALE By Garry Westmore We open on a desert road. The Mysterious Lady drives at breakneck speed across dust and sand, en route to rescue her partner in espionage, The Tiger, whom The Skipper and Dr. Electrico have kidnapped. No it’s not actually a film; just another storyline from the musical narratives of The Bombay Royale who are reviving and reinterpreting the sounds of Bollywood’s Golden Era. Singer Parvyn Kaur Singh explains what it’s all about, and why it’s so much fun being a one-of-a-kind type of band. “It’s really cool thinking about all the songs, what they mean, and what part of the movie they are for,” she says explaining how the songs form a soundtrack to an imaginary film. “There’s so much freedom to it, because no-one has done this before we can do whatever we want. We’re creating something new, but are still able to have that vintage label behind us to help us get away with it. Some of the vintage Bollywood stuff was so ridiculous, so over the top, so bold and colourful that it has kind of given us a license to do anything.” Full of fun, frivolity, great costumes, theatre and of course, great music; word about The Bombay Royale shows quickly spread around Melbourne, leading to a sizeable cult following of punters sucked in by the espionage filled storylines and extravagantly costumed musicians. They began as a group of 11 from Melbourne’s inner North just wanting to play Bollywood covers, but have evolved into an original and creative force all unto their own, with Singh keen to point out to me their second LP will be made up entirely of originals. “You probably wouldn’t be able to tell though,” she adds, “because we do stick to the vibe of ‘60s and ‘70s
Bollywood – that surfy, disco and funk style. But it still has this modern edge to it.” It all started, not through Singh, but through band director and saxophonist Andy Williamson (a.k.a ‘The Skipper’), Singh coming in when the band was nine members young. Initially she was taken aback at finding so many musos keen to cover Bollywood tracks. “I was so surprised when I met them all. They’d started learning all of the old covers. I didn’t get it! But it was amazing for me because they taught me to appreciate something I took for granted, something I was used to listening to. Andy especially showed me the importance of it, that it could be cool, that other people could really relate to it, not just the Indian community and not just the old folks.” Thankfully too, all of it translates well onto record, their first LP You Me Bullets Love lauded for its creativity and vividness; the kind of record that brought films like James Bond and Kill Bill to mind as much as it did those classics from ‘60s and ‘70s Bollywood. It was Singh’s parents who were responsible for her personal exposure to those classics, and she speaks nostalgically about growing up with her mother blaring Bollywood
soundtracks whilst cleaning and her father showing her what he considered ‘real’ Bollywood. She also speaks glowingly about the sheer joy she personally gets out of the characterisation and storylines that inform the songs. “When I’m on stage I really am that character and I think we’re all getting better at taking on those characters for real. I really feel it, it’s an awesome thing to let yourself go in the character of it and the story of it.” They plan on taking those elements even further on
their upcoming LP (which they’re recording right now), but Singh isn’t sure if she should spill the beans on what that might involve; we’re promised it’s exciting though. “It’s going to be awesome!” she gushes, tempering her excitement with the follow up, “I know I’m bias though…”
album have evolved in some way because of the fact we like to experiment with the sound as we play, keeping it interesting for the audience and ourselves. “If you’re constantly trying to do that, it pushes you to be better – you intensely care about it. Over the years we were playing shows and trying to be the best band we could. When you try new things out, you gain confidence in so many ways. It keeps it interesting. There are songs that weren’t quite there for the album, but we through them into the set here and there. It’s so important for a band to try things out in the live environment.” Literature on Savages often paints the band as belonging in another era, placing them alongside the early ‘80s post-punk vanguard. The notion of not being made for these times isn’t really one that resonates with Ayse. “To be honest, I feel that we are what we are. There are things from the past that have influenced us, but there isn’t an intention to replicate that in any way. What we are creating now is something that is coming
to us quite naturally. Each of us have very different styles in how we play and that combination of our experiences – the movies we watch, the books we read. All of that comes together to produce the band that we are, how we create events, how we created the album. There are bands that are current that we are interested in, but when we create music it is from that range of influences, writing from a bassline, or it might be lyrics. From that starting point it can change into anything. When people say we remind them of bands from the past, that’s great, but I don’t totally get it.”
THE BOMBAY ROYALE play Northcote Social Club on Tuesday December 24
SAVAGES By Lachlan Kanoniuk After honing their at-times violent and confronting sound for little over a year, UK outfit Savages arrived on the world stage fully-formed with the debut LP Silence Yourself midway through 2013. The four-piece have maintained a steady course amidst a palpable explosion of hype, appearing impervious to the follies that so often sullen any sudden rise to the fore. Bassist Ayse Hassan sounds disarmingly chipper as our phone call connects, belying both the inconvenient London time zone difference and the powerfully dark nature of Savages’ music. We’re speaking a few days after the band performed alongside Australian ex-pats HTRK for a night celebrating the legacy of Rowland S Howard. “He’s an absolute genius and so inspiring,” Ayse says. “I think along the way you can hear how he has inspired us, most notably in the sounds of the guitar and our attitude in some way. That night with HTRK took us so long to put together because we wanted people to come together for a Rowland S Howard night and really experience it. It’s a shame, it doesn’t feel like he’s as big over here as he should be, because he was such an incredible guitarist. He is an influence among other influences, and it was such an honour to have Autoluminescent (the recent documentary on Howard’s life) premiere with us and HTRK playing. “HTRK are a band we love very much, so to have them on the night was an honour. It was an emotional night for us, and to share that with an audience was incredible.” After generating immense buzz since inception, Savages braved the sudden attention from labels to make things work on their own terms. “That album was a challenge to do it in the way we wanted and
release it in the way we wanted. It took a lot of strength to come up with what we wanted. For us, the album means so much because it is a snapshot of that time, and we did it exactly how we wanted to do it. Of course there are always people giving you advice, telling you to do this and do that, and it can be hard to close yourself off from that. I think we did really well being true to ourselves. It means a lot, because it showed that you can release an album how you want and have that control. You can do what you want if you know what you want, and do your darndest to push for that.” Some (well, most) bands give in to temptation and take immediate monetary gratification when it’s offered, more often than not leading to a path of waning motivation. Savages instead made choices based on fostering creative growth. “The motivation is not to be blind to what you’re being offered. You might get offered bucketloads of money, but how are you going to return that back? We looked at our options, explored a lot and worked out between us which was the right way to go. Sure we’ve made mistakes along the way, but from those mistakes you figure out what’s right and what’s wrong,” she reasons. “The fact that the album took longer than some people expected is because it felt like it would have been too rushed to do it before that. Even now, some of the songs on the
SAVAGES play The Hi-Fi on Thursday January 30. They also perform at St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival at Footscray Community Arts Centre on Saturday February 1.
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MARTIN MARTINI Ten bands everyone should know about: Lead Belly, Ross Holcombe, Archer, Hue Blanes, Nina Simone, Elizabeth Cotton, Smog, John Jacob Niles, Randy Newman, Thelonious Monk Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Lemons, horseradish, Baccaficco, Morello cherries, Nasturtium pods, anchovies, French breakfast radishes, Cavallo Nero, morels Eight possessions that define you: Oxygen, the past , my grandfathers shovel, knife,
Peugeot 504, my library, my garden, tap shoes Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mixtape: Saddest Music In The World, Punch Drunk Love, The Perverts Guide To Cinema, Bicycle Diaries, Sweet Grass, A Quiet Place In The Country, Cabaret Balkan Six bad habits you can’t escape: Over talking, illegal foraging inside other people backyards, trespassing, over-committing, cheese , flirting
Five people who inspire you: My mother, my lover, my son, Eddie Perfect, Luke Caleo Four things that turn you on: Mushrooms, dusk, elderflower, dirt Three goals for your music: To stay small, no radio hits, to understand the piano
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Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why: Bill Callahan at the Toff in Town – his stillness. Ray Charles at the Myer Music Bowl – his humour even when he was approaching his death. One day left before the apocalypse and you: Take a long walk. When’s the gig? Sunday December 15 at The Evelyn.
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11
THE DINNER SET
Revolver Upstairs in collaboration with Red Bull Music Academy present The Dinner Set every Wednesday in the Back Bar from 7pm till late. The evening is hosted by Julien Love, one of Australia’s finest DJs and Red Bull Music Academy NYC 2013 participant. The Dinner Set features an amalgamation of Melbourne’s best DJs and producers as guests each week. Their eclectic, genre weaving musical selections are recorded on the night and broadcast via Revolver’s Soundcloud and Red Bull Music Academy Radio. Launched initially as a side project in collaboration with the Red Bull Music Academy workshop series in 2005, RBMA Radio established itself as a platform for like minded DJs and musicians broadcasting interviews, live recordings and DJ mixes from more than 50 countries via a 24/7, on-demand live stream. Every Wednesday, free entry, 7pm-late.
BEN SALTER
Acclaimed singer/songwriter Ben Salter (The Gin Club, Giants Of Science, The Wilson Pickers) returns with his brand new single Tremulous. It’s the follow up to the atmospheric lead single Semi-Pro Gamer which was released earlier this year, lifted from the ‘European Vacation’ EP, out now. Ben Salter will be playing Wednesday nights in December at The Spotted Mallard from 8.30pm. Free entry.
STEVIE & THE SLEEPERS
Sleeping Sound on rockin’ ground: Stevie & The Sleepers takeover Wednesday nights Mo’Soul in December at Ding Dong Lounge. Part soul, part wandering roots, front woman Stevie Grumont leads a distinct assembly of artistic collaborators. The Sleepers play rock and soul and there’s a strain of blues heartbreak behind the riffs, with the storytelling genius of a good ‘70s folk tune. They are joined by Alone with Tiger, serving up a tasty feast of soul and groove, guaranteed to make you boogie. Legendary Northern Soul Kind, DJ Vince Peach plays the music he loves and wants the world to know about from the cool sound of James Brown to the Temptations and everything in between. Be at Ding Dong Wednesday December 11 and Wednesday December 18, doors at 8pm. Best part of all – free entry.
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Palace Of The King return to Cherry Bar again this Wednesday December 11 along with Vice Grip Pussies for Best Of 2013, celebrating the forthcoming release of their second EP, Palace Of The King II: Moon & Mountain. Nominated as one of ‘the very best live bands of 2013’ at the inaugural Cherry Awards, don’t miss Palace Of The King performing at Cherry this Wednesday December 11 and Wednesday for the Jagermeister Cherry Awards - rock lives!
Bar Open will be the venue for “Morrissey on Ketamine”, as Archer Moore is debuting his new band Body Corporate on Wednesday December 11, with an eclectic, melodic mix of Melbourne’s pop spectrum in support. The beauty and devastation of Archer Moore’s words now has a full-size backing, so prepare to be emotionally ravaged in several more kinds of ways. Supporting will be the brainchild of sparkling Melbourne pop outfit Totally Mild, Elizabeth Mitchell. Also in tow will be Sissysocks (Tom Briglia from Creeks and Parading), Nina Renee and more. Come to Bar Open this Wednesday from 7.30pm – free!
BOB EVANS
Bob Evans returns to the Northcote Social Club this December for three unique ‘Good Evans It’s Xmas’ shows. Each Wednesday in December Bob Evans, the charming alter-ego and solo project of Australian recording artist Kevin Mitchell, will be joined onstage by special guest performers, guest comedians and supports from outstanding local talent in Ali Barter (Wednesday December 11) and Hayden Calnin (Wednesday December 18). Join Kev and friends over three special nights for a festive Christmas celebration of music, meat trays and comedy.
LIKEDEELERS
Melbourne punk rock three-piece Likedeelers return to The Bendigo on Wednesday December 11, fresh from the studio before putting the finishing touches on their debut record to play a host of sweat-fuelled tracks from their soon-to-be-released album. Expect a military assault of punk rock. Joining them will be local dirty blues two-piece group Carter Reck Blues Review. Night Walks open the night with the sounds of croons in a cave through a reverb-drenched haze.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 12
BREE DEROME
A sweet songstress from a by-gone era, Bree DeRome is here now for you to enjoy as she makes her way down from Gold Coast to play The Public Bar in Melbourne Thursday December 12. Her recently released debut EP Bag Of Bones was produced by Tony Buchan (Thelma Plum) and recorded with the lads from Deep Sea Arcade. Bag of Bones branches from surf rock to sweet 60s girl pop to 50s rock’n’roll to country all within the five tracks. Tickets for $8 on the door from 8.30pm.
REIGNWOLF
Reignwolf is invading the streets, unleashing throaty soulful howls, bleeding guitars plugged into smokey half stacks, and stomping on a vintage Ludwig bass drum. The Reignwolf experience is best summed up by one of his lyrics - “I gave you my soul, and I can’t give you anything more”. On stage, Reignwolf undoubtedly gives “it all”. Catch him playing The Northcote Social Club on Thursday December 12 with DJ Hand of Doom from 8pm. Tix via Ticketscout $20+bf.
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Define your genre in five words or less: Folk, blues and acoustic rock. What do you love about making music? The quest to make something that moves people, and the buzz of achieving that. I call it ‘pretty noise’. It’s also a massive outlet, something just has to be said. What can a punter expect from your live show? An old bastard in a hat thumping on guitars and things, while bearing a tender, tarnished interior. Sometimes I bring friends for moral support and a bigger sound. I love being in a band. There are some live clips on my YouTube channel for further reference. How long have you been gigging and writing? Twenty years! Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? The two most recent Roostar albums are available online (iTunes, CD Baby, Spotify etc.). Out Of The Woods being the latest addition. Some of my older albums and EPs are available as stream on my dodgy website roostar.com. Some are still on tape in the cupboard. When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/single/etc? Well I’ve just released the album Out Of The Woods and will announce some live show in and around Melbourne early in the new year. Details will be in the Beat and on the Roostar Facebook page. What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording? Possibly a gig on an island off the coast of Cornwall in England. It had a pub and a campsite and that was it. We travelled with our gear on a fishing boat and then a tractor and trailer. We played on some grass across from the pub under the stars. Cracking night. When there are no roads, nobody has to drive home.
EMPAT LIMA
Empat Lima, with their silky Japanese pop, psychedelic Thai, and Indonesian Dangdut inspired music have scored a residency at the Tote on Thursdays in December. In conjunction with the dream team ‘The Pink Tiles’ they have organised four nights of sounds to party to. The loveable bands are; Them Nights, Wonderboy, Chookrace, Bill Posters and the Prosecutors, Gorsha, The Night Party and more. The nights are likely to be a fun mix of colourful, upbeat, loud, gentle, tight, loose, steamy, sleazy, inspiring, adventurous and satisfying sounds and visions all in the homely setting of the famous Tote band room. Every Thursday in December 8pm.
SOUNDS FOR HOUNDS
This Thursday at The Spotted Mallard, Sounds for Hounds, a benefit raising money and awareness for the Melbourne based Greyhound rescue and adoption group, Amazing Greys. Featuring Howlin’ Steam Train, Quarry Mountain Dead Rats and Saint Jude.$10 entry from 8pm.
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ANDRE
Fronted by motorcyclist André Vanderwert, André’s music consists of a mixture of modern garage pop-rock and soft rock/jazz undertones. After the 2013 release of Do Watchya Wanna, the band were quick to record new material, completing a second album in the same year. Check ‘em out at The Grace Darling on Thursday December 12 supported by The Clits, Dr Doctor, and Tomb Hanx. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 52
The Tommyhawks are an indie grunge rock duo from Perth, West Australia featuring Vanessa from the very popular Australian group Jebediah and Axe Girl on vocals and banjo who hails originally from London. The Naxalites formed in 2009 on a riverboat in Paraguay and hit the Melbourne music scene in 2010 playing aggressively for two years. An EP, Black Skull Death Cult, was dropped in 2012 and received airplay around Australia and in the United States. The Naxalites are coming back strong in 2013 with new members and new tunes. Musical freedom is Stone Revival’s game. With sounds ranging from heavy hard rock, swamp blues, breakneck funk and psychedelic jams, the band take pride in diversity and pushing the boundaries of what rock is about. Come down to Yah Yah’s on Thursday December 12 for a free show featuring Stone Revival, the Naxalites and The Tommyhawks.
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AYE CANDY
Roll up, come along, come on, come in – let the fun and games begin! Melbourne’s newest Scot/Australian rock‘n’roll outfit Aye Candy are looking forward to hitting the stage at Bar Open once again after well received shows earlier this year. Fresh from recording their debut album at Melbourne’s Circle Studios, the band are looking forward to unleashing some of their soon-to-be-released material. Expect a retro/ futuristic weapon of mass rock‘n’roll destruction. Not to be missed! Also onboard for the shenanigans are Awkward Insects, The Free Nuns and Lia Avene. It’s at Bar Open on Thursday December 12, free.
SKYSCRAPER STAN & THE COMMISSION FL ATS
Having just launched their debut EP Tall Stories to a packed house at The Workers Club, Skyscraper Stan & The Commission Flats are on a roll, with their EP currently sitting at No. 3 on the AMRAP Now Charts and their film clip for Oil-City One Step debuting on Rage this month. Best described as playing troubadour rock ‘n’ roll, a flavor of music birthed in the musical mecca of Melbourne, Australia and unique to the group. With sensibilities gleaned from years of playing early American music that collides with the big band sounds of New Orleans Skyscraper Stan and the Commission Flats have the audiences rocking on their toes and hollering for more. They play The Retreat on Thursday December 12 with John Patrick & The Keepers supporting. Doors 8pm.
WARPED
If you’re looking for something special, Warped play a Meredith Music Festival warm-up slot with a free gig strictly on stage 6.30-7.30pm. For regular Melbourne live music punters in the 90s and first half of the noughties, seeing Warped play was as essential as having vegemite in the house and a beer at the pub. Led by Benny and Cris, a cast of thousands have played their part in the incredible beast that has been Warped. Make sure you’re down at Cherry Bar after work for this treat on Thursday December 12.
INEDIA
On Thursday December 12, The Tote’s Slow Club plays host to an evening of gazed out post-everything bliss as Cochlear Kill unleash their new EP Blush. Their first release in two years sees the band emerging from its bedroom studio confines to that of a live functioning band – Earth-shattering drums groove with undulating bass, dissonant hazy guitars and synths swirl amongst ethereal vocals. Joining Cochlear Kill in their celebration of all things hallucinogenic and dreamy are Sleep Decade, Colourwaves and Suns. Doors 8pm.
CORRINA STEEL
Peter Murphy celebrates 35 years of Bauhaus! Iconic frontman Peter Murphy has announced the Mr Moonlight Tour which will see Murphy play the East Coast in December. Taking to the stage with full band, Murphy will perform nothing but Bauhaus material. Forming in 1978 and achieving worldwide cult status with their post-punk landscape this is the first time since 2006 that Murphy will perform full Bauhaus sets. Mr Moonlight Tour lands in Melbourne on Thursday December 12 at the Corner Hotel.
Spending the last ten years penning an impressive lineup of driving highway tunes, soulful country ballads and southern blues rock that recalls that golden age of ‘70s swampy-gospel-country-soul, Corrina Steel plays a string of Melbourne shows to celebrate the release of her latest offering Borrowed Tunes. Alongside her collaborator and gun guitarist Mike Anderson, they play The Post Office Hotel on Thursday December 12, Pure Pop Records on Saturday December 14 and the Flying Saucer Club supporting Russell Morris on Sunday December 15.
THE SLIMS
THE KILNIKS
Well, that’s another year done and dusted – but not quite yet! The Kilniks, the indie-rockers known for their party antics, are coming back to the Evelyn Hotel with the awesome pop fun of Nebraskatak, trip-hop extraorindaires Dear Plastic and the infectious energy of Return To Youth along for the ride. Plus, the good old Ev’ are going to be putting on $2.50 pots all night. And when the entry fee’s just three bucks, well, you know you’re in for a great time!
COCHLEAR KILL
Get down to The Reverence Thursday December 12 to see four killer rock bands as the New Year fast approaches. Fresh from touring their debut record, exciting new blues-rock band Smoke Stack Rhino finally return to Melbourne. Street Fangs bring their unholy concoction of booze houndery, classic rock’n’roll swagger and outlandish hijinks. Three-piece Charm will be presenting huge rock songs from the recently recorded debut EP, and Inedia will see out the night bringing you tracks off their brand new album ‘Life Sucks, Then You Die’. They never NOT blow audiences away! Just $5 for a big, big night. 8pm.
On Thursday December 12 The Slims shall once again be gracing the legendary watering hole that is the GB for one last kick ass show to end the year. Exams are well and truly done, the weather will well and truly be awesome, Christmas will well and truly be on the way and the vibe will be well and truly vibing. Their last show for 2013, they’re putting on a massive year and are thanking everyone for their recent support of the band with a final 2013 hoorah. Playing alongside The Slims are two shit hot fellow rocking vagabonds named Pockets and The Hollow Hounds. Doors 8pm, free entry.
PETER MURPHY
FRIDAY DECEMBER 13
THE HUMAN ELECTRIC
Get grim, or Christmassy, or Summery with some legends at The Reverence this (black) Friday December 13, featuring four bands with their own particular approaches to super fun guitar music. Melbourne via Geelong dudes The Human Electric make ballsy, good-times rock music that references legends from Hot Water Music to Gyroscope and The Bronx. Empra have been playing super sweet, head noddin’ pop rock that definitely brings Weezer and even Fall Out Boy to mind for yonks now .Hailin’ from Tassie, The Middles Names bring the catchy as hell power-pop rock and melodic punk rock guys Laura Palmer bring up the rear. $12 on the door, 8.30pm. Tell your mates.
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ALEXKID
He’s a Revolver favourite, a Melbourne favourite, and a true DJ’s DJ. This Friday night marks the return of Frenchman/Spaniard/Berliner Alexkid to the cage. After tearing the roof off the first Revolver Summer Series four years ago, then returning to blow your pants off with his super-jackin’ live set and a six-deck marathon alongside Revolver Fridays resident Mike Callander and fellow Spaniard, Safari, (plus a couple of tequila fuelled back-to-backs with resident Mike Callander along the way) What does this mean? He knows how to get the job done with any and every crowd. He’ll be doing it again on Friday December 13 with support from Safari and Mike Callander, plus Who for dinner and Sunshine for breakfast.
DREADNAUGHT
Fresh from a 21st birthday celebration and Heavyfest comes Dreadnaught’s final show for 2013 on Friday December 13 at the Evelyn. Also appearing are The Levitation Hex (featuring members of Alarum, Alchemist & Aeon Of Horus) as well as Ordnance and Myridian. Off stage Dreadnaught are currently working on material for a new LP and have started the pre-production process for an album to be recorded mid-2014.
THE CONTROLLERS
The Controllers are thrilled to present the first single Twins, to be launched Friday December 13 at the Brunswick Hotel from 9pm with Among Giants, Squarehead and Chop Squad. Twins is the first single to be lifted from their forthcoming debut 5 five song EP and is sitting at number 17 on the overall charts and number five on the rock charts on triple j’s unearthed page. Free entry.
THE STRAY MELODICS
The Stray Melodics will launch their upcoming EP at Cherry Bar on Friday December 13. Joining them on the night will be Halcyon Drive and Cider Tree Kids. Have a listen at soundcloud.com/thestraymelodics/ sweets, because these dudes have a bright future ahead of them.
LOOSE PILLS
LOS TONES
Sydney’s garage quartet Los Tones have just released their debut 7” Vinyl Buchanan Hammer/Gone Away though Portuguese Garage Label Groovie Records. The band came together in early March 2013, from the ashes of La Mancha Negra, Mother & Son & Glitter Canyon.The foursome play garage punk, inspired from the likes of The Standells, Los Saicos & The Sonics to create a sound that is uniquely their own. The Record was recorded in a few short hours at a rehearsal studio using nothing but pre 1968 microphone and produced by Stu Hibbard of cult Psychobilly band Zombie Ghost Train. Groovie will be releasing 300 copies on blue vinyl with cover artwork by Lluis Fuzzhound at a string of shows around town. First stop; Friday December 13 at Off The Hip Records from 5pm followed by a late set at The Public Bar 2.30am.
THE BL ACKEYED SUSANS
Returning for their annual Christmas shows on Friday December 13 at the Caravan Music Club and Saturday December 14 at The Thornbury Theatre is the Rolling Stone magazine declared ‘national treasures’ The Blackeyed Susans. There’ll be Xmas songs sad and sweet and shiny, along with the best of their extensive back catalogue to celebrate the birth of little baby Jesus with their biggest Christmas show yet! Playing two venues complete with full band (plus Mr. ‘Evil’ Graham Lee on pedal steel) a clutch of Christmas songs and a swag of shiny lights and decorations, be sure to celebrate the festive season in style this December! Tickets and more info to both shows visit caravanmusic.com.au for their Friday December 13 show and thethornburytheatre. com for their Saturday December 14 show.
LOUIS LONDON
After breaking down the door of the scene with their musical debut EP On Your Lips We Roared, which garnered love from critics, bloggers and tastemakers such as triple j and FBi, Sydney five piece Louis London buckled down for long winter days and nights in the studio, and are now ready to bring you their forthcoming EP We’re Not Alone. With their lush synth driven single We’re Not Alone lifted off the EP, taking you to ‘places where the ocean calls’ be sure to catch them on their tour at Revolver Bandroom on Friday December 13 with supports Cardinal and The Trotskies. Doors 8pm.
AXE GIRL
A testament to the great things that can grow from a combination of serendipity, dedication and good oldfashioned irresponsible life choices, Axe Girl make their way to the Prince Public Bar on Friday December 13. A case in point being lead singer Addison Axe’s relocation from bustling, cosmopolitan, ‘gatewayto- Europe’ London to, err... Perth... in early 2012 to pursue what was very much a fledgling musical project. Some may have viewed this gamble as a tad loopy, but it soon became obvious that she just might be crazy like a fox, with the endeavour living up to everybody’s hopes as the group began rehearsing and playing shows around town in earnest. They launch their latest single Give me your T-Shirt this Friday night! Free entry. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 54
A veritable supergroup of Aussie power pop/rock, Loose Pills are coining the term ‘heavy pop’. Starring Ryan Ellsmore on vocals and guitar (The Stiffies, The Scruffs, Hammerfish, The Wake Ups, Ze Robotz), Matt Galvinon guitar and vocals (The Scruffs, Happy Hate Me Nots, Eva Trout, The Barbarellas, Orange Humble Band, Perry Keyes), Bill Gibson on bass and vocals (Orange Humble Band, The Eastern Dark, Lemonheads, The Pyramidiacs, New Christs) and Stuart Wilson on drums, vocals (New Christs, Atomicide, The Crisps, Lime Spiders, Hammerfish), Loose Pills hit up Off The Hip in-store party on Friday December 13 with Aqua Birds and Shock Waves. They also play Yah Yah’s on Saturday December 14.
I EXIST
Clawing their way out of the frosty, political hellhole of Australia’s capital, Canberra sextet I Exist return with their third full length monstrosity, From Darkness, released on November 29 through Resist Records. Constant touring across Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the UK has sharpened the band’s approach resulting in the expert marriage of the doom, blues and sludge flavours of 2011’s II: The Broken Passage with the ferocious blackened hardcore of their pre-history, making From Darkness the strongest I Exist release yet. Joining them at The Bendigo this Friday December 13 is an awesome local support team, URNS, The Ruiner and Higher Power.
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King Parrot & Gay PARIS
Set to smash their way through the East Coast as the perfect accompaniment to the impending holiday season, King Parrot and Gay Paris are coming on a joint-tour to a town near you. Melbourne five-piece King Parrot is a force of nature unto themselves, smashing together thrash, death, grind and punk rock into something uniquely skull-shattering. Renowned for their aggressive, no-holds-barred, and always confronting live show, since their emergence onto Australia’s live scene in 2011, their relentless assault on the scene and the studio has seen them become kings of the genre. Gay Paris is a dirty fucking rock band from Sydney. They play music that grabs you by the chest, hands you a whiskey and makes you dance well past your bedtime, every time. While the band are at home in the Blues/Swamp/Rock genres, they are also completely compatible with pop, metal and even folk bills, sharing stages with likes of Karnivool, The Beards and The Snowdroppers. Catch King Parrot and Gay Paris partying together for Satan this weekend! Friday December 13 at Karova Lounge with The Yard Apes and Hackxwhore. They also play this Saturday December 14 at Northcote Social Club with High Tension and The Arbiter.
BATPISS
In what is possibly the best damn lineup ever, The Old Bar is proud as punch to present for you on Friday December 13: Batpiss, Bits Of Shit, Deep Heat and Bad Vision. All four of these bands have played sold out shows at The Oldie and now they’re all on the same bill together. Bugger camping. Why not sit in your favourite bar watching your favourite bands? Doors 8.30pm, entry $10. DJ Kezbot supports throughout.
THE GLENN DANZIG TADANZING EXTRAVAGANZIG
Come and celebrate the darkest night in December on Friday the 13th at The Public Bar with Melbourne’s very own The Glenn Danzig Tapdanzig Extravadanzig, Risk and Reason, Removalist, Caged Grave and new band The Wrecks. Come eat, drink and get grim (The crab shack is bloody mental) five bands for five bucks at The Public Bar.
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Yah Yah’s will be showcasing a stunning lineup of some of the most up and coming folk and country influenced singer songwriters on Friday December 13. As two independent artists, Krista Polvere and Bryan Elijah Smith met in 2012 only to discover a musical chemistry translated through their combined voices and songwriting. The duo’s live performance is nostalgic and romantic as the songs and harmonies entwine taking the listener on a journey through heartbreak and joy. Also playing will be Nashvillebased performer Marchelle Brandanini accompanied by Chris Pickering on guitar and winner of Telstra’s Road to Discovery last year, Gena Rose Bruce. This is a free entry show. Don’t miss this night.
CHOP SQUAD
After the fantabulous release of their debut EP Float/ Glide at the beginning of the year, Chop Squad return to the scene after honing their latest material in sworn secrecy. Supported by the almighty Controllers, who will be launching their new single on the night, as well as the bear and i. and Among Giants, the Brunny on this particularly scary-themed evening will be rockin’ and happening till well into the next day. Well into. And well rockin’. Come get wild at The Brunswick Hotel on Friday December 13.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 14
CARUS THOMPSON
Folk rock singer-songwriter Carus Thompson performs with his full band for the first time in Melbourne this year on Saturday December 14 at The Toff In Town. He’s toured with Dave Mathews, John Butler, Jack Johnson, Xavier Rudd, The Waifs and played all the festivals. His shows, whilst often sold out, have kept their atmosphere of intimacy and uniqueness. In an era where music is increasingly commercialised and packaged, the real thing is becoming more and more special. Carus Thompson is the real thing and he puts on a real show. He’s built his entire career on it. Juan Alban(ex-Epicure) and alt-country darlings The Stillsons, both fresh from launching new album, round out what’ll be a great night of music on Saturday. Tickets on sale now from thetoffintown.com
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SABRINA & THE RED VANS
Sabrina & the Red Vans are excited about the release of their next offering- The Candy Shop, a series of five flavoured singles. Produced and mixed by Shane O’Mara (Tim Rogers, The Audreys, Lisa Miller), packed with soaring vocals, dirty rock guitar and driving drum and bass, 55 Degrees is an exciting taste of The Candy Shop goodness. A Melbourne-based outfit celebrating a long tradition of female vocal harmony, The Little Sisters is fronted by multi-instrumentalists Julie Connolly, Teresa Dixon, and Lucy Rash. The trio and their musical accomplices have come a long way since their debut performance at Fitzroy’s Builders Arms in 2010. You can catch both bands for free at the Yarra Hotel on Saturday December 14.
TIJUANA PEANUT
Tijuana Peanut are a band born out of your parents’ record collection. Over the past 50 years, millions of fans have cut the rug to Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass and now that music is being revived right here in Melbourne. Tijuana Peanut presents a line-up of some of Australia’s hottest musicians, including members of The Band Who Knew Too Much, FLAP!, and Blue Grassy Knoll. Don’t miss their free gig this Saturday December 14 at The Spotted Mallard from 9pm.
HARD SKIN
Sydney’s Angie (Circle Pit, Ruined Fortune) and Nathan Roche (Camperdown & Out, Marf Loth) have coincidentally made debut solo albums, thus it only seems natural to tour them at the same time with the same backing band. Angie’s Turning is a rock’n’roll cesspool of drones, wild guitars and dreamy vocals. It’s a continuation of the trademark sounds and impressive guitar workouts she’s been renowned for in a host of bands. Nathan Roche returns to similar nonsense as heard previously through Marf Loth. His record Watch It Wharf is a total shun of the inner-West and an embrace of the East with a lot of phaser on it. Catch them both at the John Curtin Bandroom on Saturday December 14, $10 entry. Get ready for an Off The Hip Xmas with Melbourne’s wild rock and rollers Midnight Woolf taking the stage for the last time this year at Yah Yah’s. The Woolf will be performing tracks off I’ll Be A Dog, as well as fast-paced, made-for-dancing covers and beerswilling oldies. Joining them on this night of dance floor madness are a bunch of special guests: Sydney’s Loose Pills (Ex Lemonheads/Eastern Dark), super group Los Tones (Mother & Son, La Mancha Negra, Glitter Canyon) as well as local favourites Reprobettes. It all goes down Saturday December 14 at Yah-Yahs.
SLEEP PARADE
South East London’s finest Hard Skin are finally heading to Australia to play some shows in December , after a jaunt to Japan. They will be playing their fine brand of singalong Oi and Punk for Herberts down the East Coast and should not be missed. They only have a few days to cram it in before heading back to the Fruit and Veg market in Lewisham High Street, and back to their real jobs. Catch em at The Reverence on Saturday December 14 with Stanley Knife, The Worst and Spew & Guts. Ripper. $30 on the door, 8pm.
Following up their national support tours with Dead Letter Circus and The Butterfly Effect, Sleep Parade are now taking to the road themselves, supporting their sophomore album INSIDE/OUT at the Corner on Saturday December 14. You don’t wanna miss this.
MEDUSA
Medusa are one of Australia’s hardest working, independent, original, heavy metal bands. The band was originally formed by Wez in Swan Hill, a town north of Victoria back in 1987. The band knew they had something going well and established a large following, but they wanted more. So the band decided to shift to Melbourne in 1990. Joining them at The Bendigo this Saturday December 14 are Motherslug and debutants
HIGHTIME
Adelaide skate punks Beaver are braving a van with their hippy mates Hightime for an epic celebration with some of best punk bands ever to disgrace the stage in Melbourne. Both bands have had a huge year releasing new records, with Hightime following their Ishi Prende record with a Live DVD, and Beaver dropping a double video in support of their debut 7” On The Record. This travelling circus hits The Reverence Hotel front bar on Saturday December 14th. It’s time to close the year out in festive style, so come help us make these shows loco! $12 on the door, show kicks off at 8pm.
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MANIC OPERA
Manic Opera, a powerful progressive rock band formed in early 2000 have developed a unique style of progressive rock music. Their debut album Moments In Time is out of print however in January 2012 the band decided to being their new album, All That Matters, which is out now. They have taken this new album to the higher level, pushing the boundaries of odd time signatures, heavy rock and classical elements. They play The Evelyn on Saturday December 14.
Experimental progressive latin fusion experts, The Electric I, will be taking over one of their favourites homes of expression in their native barrio of Bar Open, to put on a show that will challenge your mind, move your soul and awaken your senses on Saturday December 14. Prepare yourself to witness possibly the best combination of the experimental, progressive and pop genres in Melbourne. All of that infused with the some of the best Latin American rhythms in town and Los Electricos have one hell of a show in store for you! Joining in on the action will be the greatest kung fu funk band this side of the orient, Karate Boogaloo. Karate outfits and oh so sweet funk grooves, what more can you ask for. Free entry on a summer Saturday night in Brunswick St, this show is going to be a muy buena fiesta people.
Velvet Poet
Recently departed songwriting giant Lou Reed stands as a truly singular artist. Unwavering in his vision and fiercely independent, Lou Reed’s legacy will endure with as much vitality as any contemporary. This Saturday December 14 the Drunken Poet commemorates this legacy with a stellar line-up of local players and ‘Reedites’ including Sean Simmons (The Spoils), Wilderbeast, Ali E., Damon Smith, Blake Scott, Suzie Stapleton, and Van Walker. Kicking off at 2pm this Saturday this will be a huge day of music and general good times as we celebrate the late, great Lou Reed and the countless gifts he left behind.
DERRICK MAY
Stranger presets a Warehouse Party with Meredith Music Festival performer Derrick May at Howler on Saturday December 14 with some very special guests. Rage on young and old. Derrick brings the melody to our memories. On which our lives depend. Let’s go to the beginning with rhythm. We all need somebody to dance for. Tickets $40+bf via Ticketscout.
MODELS
It’s been 30 years since The Models released The Pleasure Of Your Company and it’s still regarded as one of the best Australian albums of all time. To celebrate is 30th year, Warner Music is re-releasing it alongside Local and/or General and Out of Mind Out of Sight making it a three-CD digitally re-mastered package including exclusive mixes, new material and bits from their back catalogue. Catch Sean Kelly, Andrew Duffield, Barton Price and Mark Ferrie strut their stuff in the Espy Gershwin Room on Saturday December 14. Tickets $29.90+bf available from theespy.oztix.com.au, Oztix outlets and Espy bottleshop. On sale now.
OHMS
They found each other online and in February this year formed a band combining old pop and rock with lofi garage punk. They’ve been compared to The Kinks, The Pixies, X (USA, not Aus) and Blondie. They recorded a three-song demo in April which led to gigs supporting Warped, Bardo Pond (US), Monarch (France) and killer local Melbourne acts. In August they self-recorded their debut album in nine hours at Pat’s auntie’s lake-house, and launched it in a hot and sweaty Collingwood basement in October. Check out OHMS this Saturday December 14 in The Tote front bar with Bad Vision, World Cup, Tom Lynhcoln and Space Junk. Free, 4pm.
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DIRT Y HARRIET AND THE HANGMEN
Dirty Harriet and the Hangmen, featuring members of Australian Kingswood Factory, Sin City, Strawberry Fist Cake, Wolfpack and Un-Australians bring it to Whole Lotta Love with some killer rock with a touch of country. Support from I Am The Riot and The FckUps, 8pm, free entry.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 15
SUN GOD REPLICA
Sun God Replica are camping out at The Old Bar for all of December to facilitate their Sunday December residency. That’s right they’re not going to leave for the whole month so as to fully commit to attaining an organic/sonic connection to one of the best venues in Australia and the world. So come every Sunday in December they will simply leave their banana lounges (set up in the beer garden), take the stage and burn it up. Joining them in their Sonic squatting this Sunday December 15 will be Ox and Space Junk.
Sime Nugent
Sime Nugent is a name that requires little introduction in this town. Having enjoyed a long and varied career including singing to thousands at Vienna Jazz Festival, Co-Founding the Castlemaine Music Festival, and more recently joining the Aria nominated bluegrass party band, The Wilson Pickers, Sime has long proven to be a versatile and sought after talent. In his solo guise, Sime takes cues from roots, blues and rock to create songs both ageless and entirely his own. Sime will be taking to the Drunken Poet stage at 4pm this Sunday December 15.
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LUKE THOMAS
Thommo (Luke Thomas) is a good local friend of The Reverence Hotel, and like any good friend does, he’s plotted some solid Sunday arvo parties for December. Thommo usually plays the ol’ six string and sings in local emo-rock sweeties Kissing Booth, but he also plays acoustic tunes with his big, gritty voice that’ll make your heart swoon. He’s also kindly roped in a bunch of quality mates to play his inaugural Revidency This weeks’ line-up boasts Dan Bonnici (Cavalcade) and Luke Smith (Have/Hold) playing solo. There will definitely be some quality cover tunes and hopefully a Christmas song or two thrown in. It all happens on Sunday December 15 at 3pm. Free entry!
MARTIN MARTINI
After a successful run of shows at the Melbourne and Darwin Festivals, Martin Martini has added more shows to his list of November and December dates to celebrate the launch of his latest vinyl release Vienna 1913 and independent record label, Pound Records. Catch him with home grown produce plucked fresh from Martini’s garden and prepared by Fitzroy’s finest pop-up chefs, to a special daytime performance at the gorgeous Evelyn Rooftop Sunday December 15 and more, Martini’s shows, like all his endeavours, will be an untraditional music experience not to be missed.
WALTER T V
Mac Demarco’s bro-band, Walter TV, tread the line between shaggy, psych-tinged afro-pop and jumpy folk hymns. Walter TV are essentially the Mac Demarco touring band, chewed up and shuffled up. Here, Piere McGarry straps on guitar and sings, while Mac sits back on bass. Joe McMurray hitting the kit in both. While there aren’t any Odes To Viceroy here, the band of Canadian pranksters bury surfy freak-outs and acid dropped afro-beats in a wave of fuzzy fury. Check out Walter TV rip apart The Tote Hotel in the aftermath of Meredith Music Festival on Sunday December 15. Mac Demarco will also be playing The Shadow Electric on Monday December 16.
BUSY KINGDOM
Brothers Brendan and Michael Etherington hail from Sydney. The two spent years writing and performing as part of a band, but moved to Melbourne to start afresh. Recruiting Curtis on bass and Alex on drums, Busy Kingdom’s melodic rock music was finally able to flourish. The guys have been described as “a band that has that rare spark: amazing live energy and feel-good songs that bury themselves in your head”. Regulars in the Melbourne music scene, Busy Kingdom are always working hard on new music. Joined by The Vanns, Chase City and Graham Panther, they play The Brunswick Hotel on Sunday December 15.
RUSSELL MORRIS
Recently winning an ARIA Award for Best Blues and Roots Album for Sharkmouth, Russell Morris will be playing a show at the Flying Saucer Club on Sunday December 15. He plays in the arvo, with special guest Corrina Steel. Tickets and info via flyingsaucer.com.au.
THE NEVER EVER
The Never Ever will embark on their final live performances for 2013 this December with two killer Christmas shows in Sydney and Melbourne. The band will perform their most loved tracks with support coming from Melbourne band Let’s Not Pretend, Canberra’s Drawing North, and Move On, Be Strong. Since the bands formation in 2010, the Sydney fivepiece have supported international heavyweights like Simple Plan, Yellowcard and We The Kings. In the coming months, the band will deliver a brand new single from the EP in the form of In Or Out. Check out The Never Ever at Wrangler Studios on Sunday December 15.
MONDAY DECEMBER 16
SUNDAY SESH
Sunday Sesh with DJ Ago bring some funk and soul from 3pm. Award-winning producer, vocalist, songwriter and sound engineer teaks up with AJ Live from 8pm! $15 hugs all day! It’s all going down at Whole Lotta Love on Sunday December 15. Alison Wonderland
STRAW KING EYE
Often floating around parties, paddocks and pubs, Straw King Eye have spent the last couple of years turning up at more or less accommodating venues to deliver music that is somewhat guttural, yet intoxicatingly romantic. Nailing down their debut album The Girls of Paradise in late 2012, they have recently retreated to East Brunswick - home of Marcus Hobbs from East Brunswick All Girls Choir - to relive that experience of hearing their own voices. And tucking a couple of soon-to-be hit singles up their sleeve, they’re on the move, escaping their own visions. With their recently fashioned repertoire of new material, they plan to expose themselves to Monday-night-Evelyn-goers throughout the finalist of months: December. Catch them this Monday December 16.
CAT CANTERI & ALI FERRIER
Teaming up to play one off intimate show at front bar of The Retreat Hotel, Cat Canteri, and Alison Ferrier take a break from band projects, and strip their songs down to the bare essentials. Both singers have spent the past few years touring, and recording in critic acclaimed outsits – The Stillsons, Sean McMahon’s Western Union, and Les Thomas band, and will be performing two sets of their songs on Sunday December 15. Music starts at 5pm, and there is no cover charge.
JEMMA & HER WISE YOUNG AMBITIOUS MEN
In the summertime, when the weather is fine, there’s no better place to be than out in the elements, listening to music with a refreshing beverage in hand. Bar Open are lucky to have an intimate little beergarden and an indoor stage, with no wall to separate the two. Al fresco, baby. This Sunday arvo, they’ve got Jemma & Her Wise Young Ambitious Men stopping by for some arvo country cuts. Feel free to swoon at Jemma or any of Her Wise Young Ambitious Men, as they are truly affection-worthy. Oh and they’re more country than straw in your teeth or a cow. Good drinking music. Free entry, cheap beer and one of the hottest bands in town right now = no excuses. Visit Bar Open this Sunday December 15 from 3pm.
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THE PLOT
The Plot is a brand new one day dance party featuring an awesome collection of Australia’s favourite artists. It also provides a unique way to experience a live music gig - there’s an online community for this party, which you can access once you’ve bought a ticket, where the audience, artists, media and guests can all interact with each other, share content, win stuff and join in fun activities! The Plot features Alison Wonderland, Beni, Elizabeth Rose, Goldfields, Miami Horror, Tyler Touche, Yolanda Be Cool, Wave Racer and heaps more. This Sunday December 15 at Ding Dong and the Palace Theatre. Ticets are only $45+bf. Head to theplot.co for more info.
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TUESDAY DECEMBER 17
THE APRIL MAZE
Recently returning back to the country, fresh from a very successful six month UK and Canada tour with sell-out shows, packed festivals and now a recent UK management and publicity team, The April Maze are hitting The Toff in December! Armed with a bunch of new tunes from their forthcoming May 2014 album, they play Tuesday December 10 with The Shivering Timbers and play a Christmas eve show with Cisco James on Tuesday December 24. Tickets via tickets.thetoffintown. com. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets on the door $10.
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Define your genre in five words or less: Beach-pop-punk. When are you launching your single? We just released Give Me Your Tee Shirt digitally, and we’re having a launch party at The Prince Of Wales, to celebrate on Friday December 13 and it’s free! This is extra-rad for us as we are all the way from Perth! We’ll be joined by special guests The Deep End. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Everyday life I guess, stuff that happens to me, or things that I watch or read that have a profound impact on me, be it on YouTube or in a movie, in a book or things happening around me. Our single Give Me your Tee Shirt is about waking up in an unknown place without any clothes on, which has happened to me on more than one occasion. I thought it happened to everyone - but apparently not. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Realise that playing music is the real success. I see so many people who are always chasing something, or want more, but if that’s your attitude then the boundaries of success will always shift and you can never be content. I think the most important thing is to remember why you started playing music in the first place; because it’s this magical incredible gift, and if you’re lucky enough to possess it, and appreciate it, then you truly are successful. Anything else is just the cherry on the cake. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? Drink beer and party!
PETE REID
Singer-Writer and Actor-Director Pete Reid comes to Dane Certificate’s for the first of three Tuesdays in December to share his Songs From The Edge Of The World. A collection of new songs and interpretations that’s a tribute to those wayward souls among us who live on the edge’ Best know for music with his band The Tar Gang, as well as various stage and screen undertakings, Pete takes his audience on an intimate journey to the edge that is at times funny, dark, weird, melancholic, beautiful and even frightening. He plays the first three Tuesdays at new venue Dane Certificate Magic Shop and Theatre on Sydney Rd.
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Ten bands everyone should know about: (Not all “bands” technically, but good music none the less) The Stepkids, FKA Twigs, Fantomas, and from Melbourne, all these mad dogs: Sex On Toast, Mayfair Kytes, Kirkis, Silent Jay, Clever Austin, Ainslie Wills, Demian, Oh and lucky number 11, from NYC, Emily King. Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: The main thing you need is good friends (and lots of booze). And also smoked salmon (but only the good shit, Huon brand from Tassie is da bomb). And lots of hummus. Anything Morroccan is also the best thing ever. Eight possessions that define you: I don’t define myself by possessions, man. Unless it’s music gear. But I can’t give away my secrets can I? But seriously, I wear the same shit everyday. I do love my Lexus and my grills though. And my subterranean Orca tank. Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mixtape: Black Mirror, Mulholland Drive (and every other thing David Lynch has done, basically), The Sopranos, Nausicaa of The Valley of The Wind, (and all the other Myazaki stuff, Princess Monoke, Spirited Away etc.), Curb Your Enthusiasm, City of Lost Children, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Six bad habits you can’t escape: Overwhelming pessimism about how shit people are at running the world (including Abbott), wasting time on the internet, wasting time in general, getting fatter on tour, being overly romantic/keen in situations where it’s definitely a really bad idea, overthinking everything. Five people who inspire you: Stephen Hawking, Alan Watts, David Attenborough, Bjork, Batman. Four things that turn you on: Mad Skills. You know, like nunchuku skills,
bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills… guys only want to have girlfriends who have great skills. Enough brains to have a healthy scepticism. Other things way too lurid for these pages, but not too lurid for Tumblr. But really, I’m a hopeless, old school romantic at heart; I seriously drive around listening to Golden Days radio thinking, what happened? Give me a saccharine love ballad and some slow dancing any day. Three goals for your music: To work with an orchestra plus some sort of giant percussion group (I imagine this gig in my head constantly). To keep evolving and make people’s brains melt at every gig, even if they’ve seen us a bajillion times. To record an album in the deepest part of the ocean…THE MARIANA TRENCH. Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why: Our first ever London gig at XOYO was probably the rowdiest (in the best possible way) bunch of motherfuckers ever. Holy shit, it was hot, sweaty madness, and the sang along to everything, guitar riffs included. Every heavy jilt groove felt like we were at a drunken high school party going mental to House of Pain’s Jump Around. And of course, supporting Erykah Badu in Columbia and Detroit was a huge, huge honour. One day left before the apocalypse and you: Let’s be honest, I think I’d be with a lot of you here, and don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about…NO HOLDS BARRED ORGY. I mean, we’re all gonna fuckin die, innit? When’s the gig? We’ll be playing Falls Festival on Monday December 30 at Lorne. While you’re there, make sure you go see Mangelwurzel at the Village Stage at 2am New Year’s Day. Hotties. Also playing the Summer of Soul event at Mossvale Park, South Gippsland on Saturday January 4.
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Marlon Williams has been wowing the crowds down at the Yarra Hotel Abbotsford every Tuesday night through November. As his residency was coming to an end, the good people of Abbotsford kicked up about it and he is back for another run of Tuesday nights through December. Having relocated from NZ to Melbourne, he has been steadily building a crowd of Marlon believers around town. Blending the mystical lyricism of writers like Townes Van Zandt and Gene Clark with an inborn flair for melody and harmony, at just 22, Williams has been nominated for two NZ Music Awards and 3 APRA music awards, recently winning the 2013 NZ Country Album of the year and APRA Country Song of the Year. He has supported Justin Townes Earle and Band of Horses, and been featured on an internationally released Townes Van Zandt compilation. Catch him while you can, playing Tuesdays in December at the Yarra Hotel Abbotsford. Free entry, kitchen is open.
PAGE HAMILTON
Whole Lotta Love and ESP guitars present Page Hamilton (Helmet) Clinic and Q&A on Tuesday December 17 from 7pm. Experience a rare opportunity to listen and learn from one of the great guitarists and musicians of modern times. Noted for his contribution and ongoing influence to heavy guitar music and film scores, Page Hamilton will run through concepts and techniques that make up his unique sound. Following the Clinic will be an audience participated Q&A session. Limited Capacity. $15 + booking fee. Tix available at wholelottalovebar.com.au or over the bar.
STREAM FOUR
Pagan devotional trio, Stream Four play their last pub show before going on hiatus to travel, fill in job seeker requirements and record. Known for their arresting live show, the mavericks of unbuilt absurdity, The Charles Ives Singers are main support. The night will also feature a special performance of the beautifully tender new solo project of Superstar’s Esther Edquist; Dead Calm. Come down to doof. Hear the riddlers. Swim in the echoes and ride the dolewave. Avant shard is here. Tuesday December 17 at The Old Bar and only $5.
Define your genre in five words or less: Alternative Americana. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Love, beauty, heartbreak, desire and life. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Krista Polvere’s 2013 release called Reservoir Drive and Bryan Elijah Smith’s 2012 released called Turn It Up. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Persistence, passion and patience is the key to anything you desire to do in life. What do you love about making music? The Connection between the performer and the audience, the feeling you get immediately after you’ve created a new song or recording and how making music can heal you in ways that nothing else can. What part of making music excites you the most? The next song, the next record, the next show. KRISTA POLVERE & BRYAN ELIJAH play Yah Yah’s on Friday December 13.
CHARLES JENKINS AND MATT Y VEHL
Charles Jenkins and Matty Vehl bring their magnificent collective talents back to the front bar of the Retreat Hotel for another series of spectacular Tuesday night concerts throughout December. You’d be mad to miss this! Free entry, two sets from 7.30pm onwards.
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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews SASKWATCH Corner Hotel, Saturday December 7
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I’d like to officially nominate Saskwatch to support The Rolling Stones when they tour next year. The Melbourne troupe remains one of the best live acts around, and I’d pay good money to hear lead singer Nkechi Anele backing Mick Jagger on Gimme Shelter. This was the final show of Saskwatch’s national tour, promoting their latest single Hands. And what a finish it was. The brass section kicked things off with an impressive intro to Not Ready Yet, which features on the Hands single release. They quickly followed with Your Love, still one of their best, and Two Hearts, which had everyone in high spirits. The nine-piece recently returned from a European tour (including Glastonbury Music Festival), and their live show is better than ever. They’re more confident and seem to be enjoying it all a bit more – or maybe it was just the thrill of playing in front of a packed out home crowd. New material Only One and Keep Me lost some tempo but that’s only because people didn’t know the words to shout along. Things picked back up with You Don’t Have, Alone and Reason, and then both the crowd and the band hit full party-mode with Don’t Wanna Try. I Get Lonely featured an epic guitar solo and as expected they finished the set with Hands. By any indication from the single, we can expect big things from the new album (due out next year). They didn’t leave us waiting for long as the band, minus Anele, re-emerged for an encore and belted out an instrumental rendition of Robbie William’s Kids. LOVED: The time-freeze during Second Best HATED: Not much really Anele rejoined for Second Best, which had everyone raving and walking DRANK: Scotch, with Coca-Cola and ice out with sore legs from dancing. CHRIS BRIGHT
MUSE Rod Laver Arena, Friday December 6 It’s hard to know where to look. The house lights have only just gone down on a sold-out Rod Laver Arena, and already there’s a glittering pyramid of dystopian images descending on the stage. Green laser lights roam the arena. Strobe lights cut ribbons through the clapping crowd. And just when things can’t seem to get any more dramatic, the famous Vincent Price voiceover from Thriller thunders across the PA. It’s fucking massive. And Muse haven’t even hit the stage yet. When they do arrive – emerging like rock gods from beneath the pyramid – they launch into the monstrous detuned riff of Supremacy. In the blink of an eye frontman Matthew Bellamy goes from thrashing on his knees with his guitar to strutting across a catwalk above a sea of hands. Machines fire orgasmic blasts of smoke into the air behind him. It’s stadium rock at its most exuberant. And it’s utterly captivating. Like the seasoned pros they are, the band cruise through a succession of hits (Supermassive Black Hole, Resistance, Hysteria – the latter concluding with a detour through AC/DC’s Back In Black). And again, just when it seems inconceivable the theatrics could be ramped up any higher, bassist Christopher Wolstenholme produces a harmonica and suddenly Muse are playing the Ennio Morricone classic The Man With The Harmonica. But that’s not all. Just as the cover reaches its climax they burst into a frenzied version of their own spaghetti-western classic, Knights of Cydonia. The wow-factor drops slightly during the middle of the set, as they play a number of songs from their latest album The 2nd Law. Before long though, the energy levels are back through the roof as the band rip through Time Is Running Out, Plug In Baby and the bludgeoning Stockholm Syndrome. After being swallowed by the pyramid and bringing darkness to the venue for the first time in almost 90 minutes, the band return for an inevitable encore (which Bellamy dedicates to the late Nelson Mandela). They storm through Starlight and Survivor, before the house lights LOVED: Every second of Muse’s blink back on and the audience is left to bask in the aftermath of one of the stupendous aural and visual assault greatest rock n’roll spectacles we’re ever likely to see. HATED: Nothing DRANK: Daiquiri WAYNE MARSHALL
FIFTH FLOOR II WITH WOLF & CUB Rubix Warehouse Saturday November 23 Everything about my experience at Fifth Floor II was surreal, or more accurately ultra ‘real’ bordering on visceral. When we arrived, the rain was torrential resulting in a clog of smokers at the venue’s entrance. Once inside, the atmosphere of the night was almost tangible. Promoter Vlad Chant’s vision for the night is 100 per cent experience focused from the selection of bands to the visuals projected on to the two performance spaces. Hollow Everdaze owned the main room. Their rich proto-goth, post-punk stylings worked perfectly in this sparse dark environment where the main lighting came from Thomas Russel’s (a.k.a Astral Projection Artwork) projector. Vocalist Daniel Baulch’s rich vocals and expansive music combined with the room did give off the vibe one would have imagined on the original Fifth Floor of Andy Warhol’s warehouse in New York that played host to so many important parties and gigs in the formative days of the punk movement. The side room offered two main highlights – the first band we saw was Sooky La La, whose Dirty Three with vocals aesthetic was pretty sick. The other that I saw in the side room was Western Australian exports New Pollution – their psych stoner vibe was indulgent, but there was enough song structure to make it a compelling 35 minutes of music. It was the first time I had seen Wolf & Cub since Wade Keighran and Brock Fitzgerald had joined the band. The two former The Scare members have provided more ‘rock’ and less ‘psych’ in Wolf & Cub. Existing members Joel Carey and frontman Joel Byrne appeared very comfortable with the new focus and, predictably, the songs from their new album Heavy Weight were the most powerfully performed, in particular the driving I Need More that left the audience...err, needing more? LOVED: I Need More At 1am when the venue called it stumps, the party kept going with the HATED: The lack of bottom end on official after party featuring The Good Morrows and Drunk Mums at Alia the sound system Arthouse, but that’s another story for another day. DRANK: Dexy’s ‘Up All Night To Get Some’ magic potion DAN WATT
BON JOVI Etihad Stadium, Saturday December 7 “This ain’t television, baby!” Bon Jovi spelt it out, opening with That’s What The Water Made Me as they kicked off the Australian leg of the Because We Can tour at Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium. It wasn’t their best known song. But New Jersey’s second finest rock band quickly pile-drove behind it with You Give Love A Bad Name, Raise Your Hands and Lost Highway by which time the crowd was theirs. Little wonder that Bon Jovi remain voted one of the greatest arena bands. Their two and a half hour set saw them play 25 songs drawn from 30 years of back catalogue: there was something there for everyone. The massive Buick grille backdrop accentuated the message: this was American rock. The sound and production was first class. The sell-out show started and finished on schedule. No Bieber-type hour long waits. New Jersey’s finest knew people in the audience had trains to catch and schedules to keep. The crowd took the new songs in their stride but the roars and sing-alongs were kept for Livin’ on a Prayer, I’ll Be There For You, Wanted Dead or Alive, Bad Medicine, It’s My Life, We Were Born To Follow and Who Says You Can’t Go Home. There’s no doubt the band are on top of their game, like on the extended Keep The Faith. But the absence of Richie Sambora was felt. Replacement Phil X(enidis) of Triumph and Methods of Mayhem knew his chops, but Sambora had that strong presence which bounced off Jon Bon Jovi’s onstage. Jon, at 51, remains a master stage performer. He works the crowd beautifully whether it was interspersing Asleep When I’m Dead with Jumpin’ Jack Flash and Whole Lotta Love or thanking everyone for the last 30 years. “What better place than in Australia on a Saturday night in summer” he roared, and implored everyone to have a safe Christmas. During the four song LOVED: (Living On A Prayer) encore, he told the crowd to take over vocal duties on Wanted Dead Or Alive singalong because he needed a break. Everyone happily obliged. In all, a terrific night HATED: Richie Sambora’s absence out for an Australian Saturday night in summer. DRANK: Lots CHRISTIE ELIEZER BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 58
JUSTIN BIEBER Rod Laver Arena, Monday December 2 “Justin”, “Bieber”. Two words, loaded with connotation, shorthand for all that is bad in music. A pop icon for the millennial masses. Philanthropist. Bucket-pissing, shitty-grafitti-purveying douche. Above all else, he’s a pop culture sensation - one of the biggest in recent memory. I gave Believe, his most recent album, another run through in the day leading up to the concert. I remember enjoying it when it was released in 2012, but the majority of tracks on the record haven’t really held up that well. Bieber is in the midst of a hashtag-friendly release program, #MusicMondays, where actually-quite-decent songs are unleashed on a weekly basis. There’s musical growth alongside those well-documented extracurricular pursuits. Australian sensation Cody Simpson took the stage amongst a swarm of cochlear-stabbing squeals, lapping it up in his contrived surfer dude charm. He couldn’t dance for shit, but picked up the six-string for some Mumford-And-Sons-like tunes. It was fairly insipid fare, leading my imagination to supplant other acts into the support slot. Collarbones would have crushed it, Marcus Whale pulling shapes down the runway. Client Liaison have better dance moves than Cody, far superior pop songs, too. It’s honestly not too much of a stretch for the next Bieber tour. Miley is hitting the road with Sky Ferreira in the states. The tectonic plates of mainstream and alternative are colliding. A series of certified pop bangers emanated through the PA in between acts, the Dr Luke and Max Martin-penned tracks triggering MDMA-like reactions for the tweens in attendance. California Gurls saw thousands of pre-pubescent girls rapping along with Snoop Dogg. Strange times. The build-up to the main event was prolonged, each subtle change in environment – muted tracks, shifts in lighting, then the eventual countdown clock – eliciting bursts of pandemonium. I pitied the security trying to fight the tide crashing down on the runway. The show unfolded with clinical - and predictable 0 precision. That’s not to say it wasn’t great. Invoking MJ, we got our first glimpse of Bieber as he launched upward from the centre of stage in a blaze of pyrotechnics, landing in a statuesque pose (like MJ), eventually snapping from freeze frame to generate another barrage of cacophonous squeals (like MJ). All Around The World was a hyper-stimulating opener, the pure spectacle of it all undeniably astounding. The set was Believe-heavy, the Australian leg of the tour being the tail end of the nearly two years-long touring cycle for the album. Bieber’s a good dancer, but not really mindblowing. He emanates a stoic brand of cool, compounded by the robotic pop and lock moves and cocky strut. The banter was corny, but endearing enough as he introduced tracks. Never Say Never is almost there as an anthem, but doesn’t quite carry the weight live. A pre-recorded Nicki Minaj made an appearance for Beauty And A Beat, Justin’s most bangin’ banger. Things reached fever pitch when Biebz strolled onstage sans shirt for the first time. Justifiably so: the dude is ripped. Nice work, Justin. He had a bash behind the kit, showcasing the drum chops that were hinted at during inter-song home movies. One less lonely girl was welcomed onstage to be serenaded with One Less Lonely Girl – a trademark of the tour along the lines of Bruce boogying down with a lucky lady for Dancing In The Dark. Just as it is on record, Believe’s title track acted as a big cheesy closer for the main portion of the set. The two-track encore of Boyfriend and Baby saw the audience take on most of the vocal duties, hitting the cues as Justin approximated Luda’s verse for the latter. As far as arena spectaculars go, this was an adept imitation of one. It’s unfair to put Justin alongside the Michael Jacksons, Princes, Beyonces and Gagas of the music world. However, there will be longevity that most of his contemporaries won’t experience, and the potential to reach those lofty heights is genuine. Any derision stems from a purely aesthetic level. We know that, right? And LOVED: Strolling past the ridiculous that’s okay, as long as we’re aware. There are real monsters out there, let the clusterfuck of a traffic jam on the way home. kids have their heroes. HATED: Leaving earplugs at home. DRANK: I felt like a big enough LACHLAN KANONIUK dirtbag as is.
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INSANE CLOWN POSSEE The Hi-Fi, Friday December 6 Insane Clown Posse was one of the most disappointing concerts of my life. Strolling down The Hi-Fi’s steps, I looked forward to a joyful night mocking all the gimpy juggalos and juggalettes, intentionally screaming WHIP WHIP, then going home and drinking alone to Lizzie McGuire. I hoped the gig would suck, my prejudices would be confirmed, and in my review I could use the “Juggalos? I thought my editor said there’d be gigolos!” joke that I couldn’t quite get to work. Boy was I let down. Unfortunately, it was one of the most INSANE, fun, and bizarrely wet performances I’ve ever experienced. God I loved it so much; it was terrible. The night started well – there was plenty to make fun of. The final support act, I believe he goes by the name Boondox, spat this lyric out: “She’s really into pain/I’m glad she came…into my life.” The men’s toilets were clogged by a circus of clowns applying make-up. The burly man wearing eyeliner next to me in the crowd looked like Game of Thrones’ Khal Drogo. I can work with this…or so I thought. The moment Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope smashed onto the stage, the juggalo mating calls of WHOOP WHOOP were infectious. You probably know of Insane Clown Posse through their feud with Eminem, their viral song Miracles about their yearning to understand magnets, or the oddball subculture that they’ve cultivated. One of the crucial aspects of this fanbase is the obsession with the soft drink ‘Faygo’. Faygo, it turned out, became the only instrument onstage. After almost every song, several bottles of the soda were fizzed up and jizzed onto the mosh. You don’t understand. Gigolos in the back were even getting nailed. This was a fucking frenzy. The crowd was an impressive sight: arms up, eyes closed, mouths open. It was, in a strange way, cultic and religious. The truth is this wasn’t a typical hip hop show. I’ve seen rappers like Immortal Technique come out onstage with DJs, 15-man entourages and other bullshit. The ICP setup is just two dudes rapping to a ferocious, pulsating backing beat (and some freaky dancing clowns). Their entourage was the crowd. The Posse, it seems, is not limited to those onstage – evidenced by the final song where ICP invited the crowd onstage. And that’s what made the atmosphere of The Hi-Fi unlike anything I’ve been involved in. Juggalos are obsessed – almost everyone dresses up, dances however they like, and scream with utter comfort – because of this proud, non-judgemental, familial culture they exalt. Outside, haters gonna hate. But inside, I dare you to find an audience more unified, fanatical and friendly. Insane Clown Posse and their fans are an easy target, because you can hate them for no real reason other than the fact that they’re the Other. They’re dressed as clowns, they’re “losers”, they’re “weird”. But goddamn do they know how to party. WHOOP LOVED: WHOOP WHOOP! WHOOP! HATED: WHOOP WHOOP! DRANK: WHOOP WHOOP! NICK TARAS
GUITAR WOLF Public Bar, Saturday November 30 Drunk Mums should play a gig with Mum Smokes, even if it’s only to drive Andrew Bolt to express his profound disdain for the irreverent discourse of rock n’roll. They’ve got haircuts like my favourite SANFL footballers from the ‘80s; they play music like a suburban incarnation of the Black Lips. It’s replete with three chord wonders and almost instant classics; in an ideal world, Drunk Mums could be everyone’s next favourite local rock’n’roll band. Rumour has it that Seiji sleeps in his sunglasses and leather attire, such is his all-encompassing embrace of the rock’n’roll aesthetic. He appears onstage and exhorts the crowd to join in a call-and-response monosyllabic chant; the crowd overcomes the typical Melbourne enigmatic diffidence, and Guitar Wolf is officially on message. Toru – aka Drum Wolf – has the tattoo illustrations of a man raised in a culture where skin design has genuine sociological meaning. Bass (UG) Wolf ’s presence in the band is a subtle reminder of the mortality that lies at the end of a life in rock’n’roll – eight years ago, his predecessor, Billy, died after suffering a massive heart attack. The music is ‘dumb’ rock’n’roll: Eddie Cochrane via The Ramones with spiritual advice from The Saints. Riffs, licks and songs segue seamlessly, with ne’er a break to gather breath. You get the feeling Seiji will literally rock ‘til he drops, and that every gig is played as if it could be the last night on Earth. Sweat pours down his face, and in every sneer and shout can be seen evidence of passion, and maybe just a hint of insanity. But for all of that it’s not quite the unbridled Guitar Wolf attack of yore. The first set barely scrapes in at 45 minutes, and the encore is over before 12.30am. Seiji, Toru and UG push through the crowd and out on the street, where they exchange high-fives and cries of satisfaction like a well-oiled team that’s defended its world championship for the 150th time. Perhaps incongruously, they load their gear into a white Japanese hatchback – arguably, as un-rock’n’roll a car as you could hope to experience – and prepare to leave. Guitar Wolf is a beast: a rock’n’roll beast. LOVED: Seiji’s passion for the cause. HATED: The absence of psychotic noise. DRANK: Mountain Goat. PATRICK EMERY
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The evolution of Dev Hynes hits a heady peak on the new Blood Orange release, Cupid Deluxe. After the punk-rock implosion of Test Icicles and a couple of earnest indie-rock recordings under the Lightspeed Champion moniker, Hynes adopted a more dance-orientated, new wave sound for 2011â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underrated Blood Orange debut, Coastal Grooves. Perhaps his greatest exposure has come from co-writing and producing songs with others, notably the recent successes for Solange (Losing You) and Sky Ferreira (Everything Is Embarrassing). Hynesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dabbling with an accessible pop sound has had a big influence on Cupid Deluxe, which confidently combines all that he has learnt into one big, bubbling funk-popdance cauldron. Recent twitter spats suggest that Solange/ Hynes collaborations are a thing of the past, and lead single Chamakay has a clip that slyly inverts Solangeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Losing You promo, instead bringing Hynes into the spotlight as the shimmying pop star in a low-key setting. The mix of melancholy subject matter and upbeat pop instrumentation that made Coastal Grooves so alluring is potently realised on this follow-up. Hynes had warned â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am not your saviour, baby girlâ&#x20AC;? on the opener of his last album and he takes this warning to a new level on the narcissistic, mean-spirited Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Not Good Enough. The last thirty seconds open to a bustling warehouse party, with live band, pingpong games and a rabble of voices, the most prominent being a wary â&#x20AC;&#x153;No-one wants to see that.â&#x20AC;? The following track, Uncle Ace, is a gorgeous chunk of funk that sees Hynes slip from a low Boney M-style vocal to a higher, soulful croon, but the track gets even better in its instrumental second half. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most uplifting, fun song youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ever hear about the homeless LGBT community in New York. As the album progresses, the guest musicians become more prominent. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unusual that Hyneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most definitive work is also his most guest-heavy, though perhaps this is a sign that collaborating is where his strength lies. Dirty Projectorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; David Longstreth delivers a star turn in the Clams Casinoinfused No Right Thing, while girlfriend and Friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vocalist Samantha Urbani duets on the delicate, soothing It Is What
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It Is. Slick, concise rap cameos are dropped in from Despot on Clipped On and Skepta on High Street, with Hynes weaving heartfelt vocals in and around them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apt that on such a complete, self-actualizing album, Hynes ends up referencing his own work on the final track, Time Will Tell. He takes over from Urbani for a reprised vocal from It Is What It Is over a minimal piano and drum machine backing, after which the lyrics switch to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;come into my bedroomâ&#x20AC;? hook from one of Coastal Grooveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highlights, Champagne Coast. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a soft, emotive and seductive close to one of the best albums of 2013. Just ignore any reviews calling it â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;chillwaveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agree to never use that word again, shall we? CHRIS GIRDLER BEST TRACK: Uncle Ace IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;LL LIKE THESE: True SOLANGE, Confess TWIN SHADOW IN A WORD: Desirable
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wow so many year-end lists. Maybe someone should do a list of all the lists haha!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cool joke I came up with. Do not steal this joke. It is mine.
FRACTURES
Cadence (Independent) Melbourne producer-singer-instrumentalist Mark Zito, aka Fractures, has spent the latter half of 2013 bouncing back from an accident that left him with a fractured neck. The live debut of Fractures was postponed as a result, but it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seemed to affect the momentum currently building for the project. Cadence is lifted from the debut EP due early next year, leaning towards the organic side of electronic productions. The earnestness never becomes too overbearing, capturing a true sense of paranoia through hypnotic repetition. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing revelatory â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the vocals, production and songwriting are all decent enough, but lack that certain spark to take it to the next level. But yeah, early days yet.
LORDE
Team (Universal) The moment when Teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arresting kicks nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; claps beat blasts over its gnarled opening vocal loop is one of the finest moments on Pure Heroine. The chorus is strong â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not as strong as Royals, of course â&#x20AC;&#x201C; worthy of being presented in the context of a single. It follows along the thematic lines of Lordeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous singles, channelling that togetherness-in-otherness thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s managed to resonate throughout the mainstream this year.
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Instant Crush (Columbia/Sony) One of the weaker cuts from Random Access Memories, Instant Crush is a pleasant but aimless synth ditty. Old mate Julian Casablancas is a pretty shit vocalist, in conventional terms, failing to channel his Strokes cool as he whispers through the vocoder. Guessing Doinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; It Right will be the next RAM single? Makes sense.
ATOLLS
Dwell Breaker (Independent) Serving up some demented garage soul, local outfit Atolls hit the mark with the smoky cool
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Dwell Breaker. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beauty in the sparseness, each element a star in its own right, from the slinky bass to the searing solo. Tidy stuff.
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Red Eyes (Secretly Canadian) There are a few bursts of glory on Red Eyes, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;whoo!â&#x20AC;? that calls to mind fellow Philly rocker and pal Kurt Vileâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Freak Train. The rollicking verses with their spaced out piano chords feels a bit too Mumford & Sons. Maybe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too harsh a pejorative. Still, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all a bit dull, never coming across as dangerous as it longs to be. Would be a treat live, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much to hold onto on record. Plus the fade-out end feels like a cop-out.
JIMBLAH
Fireproof (Elefant Traks) Jimblahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Phoenix stands tall as one of the finest local releases of 2013, an example of local hip hop operating on a world-class level. Fireproof showcases the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strengths, projecting the fiery motif of the record amongst the Australian landscape. The production is tight as hell, sampling Yothu Yindiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upbeat Fire to great effect.
SINGLE OF THE WEEK
EAST BRUNSWICK ALL GIRLS CHOIR
Dirty Bird (Independent) Back home when we were old enough to drive we used to sneak off from school over lunch and cruise down to the drive thru for some dirty bird. Dirty bird is what we called KFers. I thought it might have been a slang exclusive to our region. The cover art for EBAGCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dirty Bird features a sketch of a roast chook, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m guessing itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Strayan term that applies to all less-thanhealthy poultry. Anyway. The track opens with a commanding vocal bloodletting, giving way to some dark and dirty â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Strayan folk. A solid harbinger for the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full-length return in 2014 with Seven Drummers.
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Tea (Independent)
Everything Is Debatable (Old Friends Records)
The closest thing to class warfare in benign Adelaide was hanging shit on private school kids from the Eastern suburbs. It’s those memories that come flooding back when Adelaide band Tea narrates the story of the Eastern suburbs in Burnside Mums: slacker, slightly obnoxious, naive and comically sincere. On Crook, Tea channels You Am I if Tim Rogers had been a surfie from Glenelg: the lyrics tell the tale of some feeling like shit, the music draws the link between Eel Pie and Greasy Pop, and the drum fills are to die for. Birthday Boy is a two-minute wonder that takes the best garage elements from Kiss’s Deuce and creates the best birthday celebration you’d ever want; Tea Home for Xmas takes a whimsical, humorous and slightly violent ten-minute journey across the Princes Highway and back again, played out against a lo-fi psychedelic soundtrack that’s equal parts Flipper, MC5’s Black to Comm and Painkillers. OD is the sad and seedy side of the City of Churches: sometimes shit is a lot worse than it seems, but at least you’ve got a tight slacker punk track like this to make you forget about the bad stuff. Matt Vecchio is The Stems’ Move Me taken into a dark place in the Northern suburbs and given a serious working over, while Ballad of Parash is suburban country with a sense of contrition and sincerity that makes you want to offer a reassuring hug. Fourty-five seconds of feedback and noise precedes the final track, Some People. It’s simultaneously tender and confrontational, like an earnest young kid trying to woo the object of his affection with a copy of the Velvet Underground’s first album and a copy of John Cale’s What’s Welsh for Zen. You’re never quite sure how it’s going to end, but you’re enjoying the ride. And when it does eventually finish – in a blaze of noise not untypical BEST TRACK:Tea Home for Xmas of the end of a night down Christies Beach way – you’re IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: THE WHO, simultaneously violated and exhilarated. Not bad for a PAINKILLERS, SCREAMING BELEIVERS AND THE night out in Adelaide. DAGOES IN A WORD: Slacker
“Everything old is new again,” homegrown performer Peter Allen once proclaimed. It’s an idiom that neatly defines HelloGoodbye’s third album. Everything Is Debatable represents much more than a lazy reprisal of ideas: the album is a stylistic fusion of its two predecessors. It works well, too, the jangly guitar of Would It Kill You? meshing comfortably with the obnoxious synths of Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! The opening track, And Everything Becomes A Blur, features frontman Forrest Kline musing upon mortality and impermanence. To Kline’s credit, he manages to keep the LP sounding decidedly upbeat, in spite of its themes. Summer Of The Lily Pond traces bittersweet resignation, yet it sports a rambunctious, brass-fuelled swagger. Only A Near Death Experience sheds the album’s juxtapositional trend with style, the arresting epic making for an exceptional finale. It ought to be said, however, that (Everything Is) Debatable is the stand-out overall. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more sublime archetype of a contemporary indie-pop single. Infectious and in-step with trends, it’s the go-to track in an otherwise consistent album. You could accuse HelloGoodbye of arriving a little late to the party, with the likes of Passion Pit, The Wombats and Foster The People all exploring similar sounds and ideas years earlier. Yes, this particular showcase of HelloGoodbye’s indie-pop expertise lacks originality in patches, but you’d be daft to let that detract from an otherwise excellent record. BEST TRACK: (Everything Is) Debatable In boasting a knack for neat and catchy melodies, IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Torches HelloGoodbye continue to match it with the world’s FOSTER THE PEOPLE, This Modern Glitch THE indie-pop heavyweights. WOMBATS. IN A WORD: Fun NICK MASON
DOLLAR BAR
PATRICK EMERY
Paddington Workers Club (Mere Noise Records)
CREEP
Echoes (Inertia) CREEP is a partnership between established Brooklyn-based DJs Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard. On their debut LP, Echoes, a string of guest vocalists crucially help to infuse Flax and Dillard’s dark electronica with a human touch. CREEP have released a handful of singles over the past three years, all of which are included on the album. Continuing in the manner of these singles, Echoes widely employs eerie trip-hop backbeats and gothic minimalism. Skittering percussion lines pop up here and there, but the pulse is usually too disjointed for dancing. By the record’s third-quarter the murky atmospherics start to lose breath, but there are a number of memorable cuts. Second track, Vertigo, features Lamb’s Lou Rhodes, whose elegant presence gives the delicate number a hypnotic substance. CREEP’s 2010 debut single Days, a collaboration with the XX’s Romy Madley Croft, still surges with hook-laden alarm. On Call Her, Tricky’s slinking whisper is melodically supplemented by the ethereal vocals of Alejandra de la Deheza (School of Seven Bells) and the track placidly alludes towards a grimey underbelly. Flax’s past collaborator, Sia Furler (she co-wrote Sia’s 2009 single You’ve Changed) shows up on the album closing power-ballad Dim The Lights. One of the record’s lesser successes, the song urgently shoots for the stars, yet the emotional target feels somewhat abstract. Echoes shows that CREEP understand how to evoke an image of a maligned reality, where beauty must BEST TRACK: Vertigo fight against machine manipulation. However, the formula IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Crazy does become slightly tired before the record’s conclusion. Clown Time DAVID LYNCH, Aquemini OUTKAST, Mezzanine MASSIVE ATTACK AUGUSTUS WELBY IN A WORD: Disquiet
It’s not quite nostalgia, but there are times when, in the midst of chaotic juggling of domestic and parental tasks, that I look fondly back upon days of relative simplicity, when temporal constraints were measured in days not minutes, the most complex question was which piece of last night’s pizza to consume for breakfast and emotional issues were selfmedicated over a dozen beers at the pub with a bunch of your equally romantically inept friends. To listen to Dollar Bar’s new album, Paddington Workers Club, is to drift back into such rose-coloured immature circumstances. The Jonathan Richman-via-Custard slacker-pop whimsy of Diff ’rent for Gurls charms you off your feet and into a smelly share house bedroom; Hipster Mental Ward is biting social commentary through the lens of youthful envy. (You’re) Blind Baby is Big Star in the suburbs of Brisbane, State of Decay is a strained political critique of all manner of modern inconveniences and Animal Defences locates primeval reaction in a Sebadoh-sponsored environment. The mood picks up with Half the Battle, and you’ve been transported to the jangly-indie-pop world of Melbourne’s hipster inner-north; My Fleas Have Dog is notable, if not perfectly memorable for its juvenile pop nature and the assertion of victory We Won the War – apparently, on account of the alcoholic and narcotic substances consumed in the cause – is probably pyrrhic, but fun while it lasts. And finally, there’s the almost fatalistic resignation of Everyone’s Everyone’s, and it’s all BEST TRACK: Diff ’rent for Gurls over. Don’t take it all too seriously, but sit back and bask IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: CUSTARD, DAVE EDMUNDS, MODERN LOVERS in Dollar Bar’s simple pop glory IN A WORD: Slacker PATRICK EMERY
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Death Beat (Cooking Vinyl) These Melbourne based noise makers have something about them. I actually don’t know what it is, but it’s something. Maybe it’s the difficulty people may have in putting them into a convenient box, as people seem to need to do these days. They take quite a heavy dose of punk, a liberal spoonful of hardcore, just the right amount of ballsy rock, some dredgy doom, pour it into a pot over intense heat and stir it all around. And what comes out is all of those things and none of them. And sitting above it all is the ear-bleedingly aggressive vocals of Karina Utomo. My God does this chick have a screech on her, it’s hard to believe that she’s a tiny, slightly built Asian girl. Thankfully, she doesn’t scream constantly across the course of the album, she lays back and sings cleanly, and moodily on a reasonably regular basis. You may not be able to easily categorise them, but one thing is for sure, High Tension are all grit, spit, anger and attitude. It’s caustic and abrasive, in fact it’s actually quite an uncomfortable listen. For these ears that strongly prefer the more progressive, melodic and symphonic side of heavy music, it’s really quite harsh on the ears and the psyche. But if you favour music that simply BEST TRACK: Astral Plane strips paint off the walls, then this is your bag. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: LO!, KVELERTAK, DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN ROD WHITFIELD IN A WORD: Cacophonous
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The Kiss My WAMi compilation grants us an opportunity to peek inside the secret world of the Western Australian music scene; which proves time and time again to be rich in talent and enthusiasm. WAMi deserves much praise for a) even creating these compilations in the first place and b) for highlighting just how high the quality of production and song construction is in WA. The two-disc compilation (and a bonus DVD) features a selection of 41 artists and songs that span several genres from generic folk/roots through to Aussie hip-hop. However, the primary focus for both the WAMi compilers, and the WA music scene in general it seems, is both targeting and influenced by the Unearthed/JJJ competitive brand of polished gutless kickdriven rock/pop (think Phoenix, Edward Sharpe, 3Yeahs and Washington etc.). In that sense then, there is a lot of talent. Other genres are represented, but much less so, from instrumental post rock to banjo choral-country and Daramad’s beautiful world track Isahan. The best tracks on WAMi are the tracks that don’t fit into that description; tracks by D-JEONG, Flower Drums, The Community Chest, The Strychnine Cowboys, The Seals, The Floors, Davey Craddock & The Spectacles, Bastian’s Happy Flight, Daramad and Sons of Rico. Unfortunately, not represented at all are the incredible rock’n’roll, psych and garage scenes that I know exist, not to mention any evidence of any drum’n’bass/psy-trance culture, and only one punk song. Therefore, I can’t really believe that this is truly a comprehensive guide to Western Australian Music; rather a version created for BEST TRACK: Show me - The Community Chest a mass market and predominately easy listening, and is IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: PHEONIX, consequently a bit “samey” and quite uninteresting. ARCADE FIRE, WASHINGTON VANCE JOY, PEZ, EDWARD SHARPE, TRIPLE J IN A WORD: Unadventurous HANNAH MILLAR
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By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com In a fit of spontaneity and perhaps Christmas cheer, I decided to purchase some cheap tickets to see Bon Jovi last week. Nothing like a bit of stadium rock on a Sunday night to really kick that festive spirit into gear. Etihad was glowing, buzzing; dedicated fans had, after all, been waiting at least twelve months to see some live music, and if this atmosphere was anything to go by, then old JBJ was going to deliver. What he managed to deliver (apart from a stunning set of pearly whites that could have illuminated Etihad Stadium on their own) was almost three hours of tunes, about six of which were certified hits, backed by some shoddy graphics and fuzzed out , flickering stage lights. There was no Always, no Bed Of Roses, and no Blaze of Glory. For a tour that boldly promised all the hits, they certainly left a few leather clad uberfans wanting. I have long argued with friends about the obligation that bands have to perform their hits live, regardless of their feelings about the song. For sure it probably grows tiring and repetitive in a way that few of us could comprehend, but I staunchly believe that if the musical gods have bestowed a smash hit upon you then it is your duty to deliver said hit at your shows henceforth. Call me inconsiderate and unsympathetic, but this is the curse of being a successful musician. You made your musical bed JBJ; it is decked with key changes, catchy choruses and a throng of adoring ladyfans, now fucking lie in it! Still reeling over Bad Religion’s Christmas album? Well, they’ve just unveiled an online advent calendar where they give away presents every day in the lead up to Christmas. There’s also a video out for Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. How does that taste, haterz?! You know what’s bloody great? House parties. You know what is also great? Lemuria. You know what fucking rules? Lemuria are playing a house show in Carlton this January and good god is it going to rule. The band will tour nationally this Summer with Melbourne band Kissing Booth, and after they smash out a Reverence Hotel set on Saturday February 8, they’ll play at The Vineyard on Sunday February 9. Where is the Vineyard, you ask? Just follow the sounds of squeals of delight. Devastated that ‘unforseen circumstances’ have raised their devilish heads again and ruined everyone’s fun. They’ve interjected in Kylesa’s upcoming Australian tour and we will now be seeing the band in March/
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NEW LONG HOLIDAY SINGLE OUT NOW
FOZZY AT THE ESPY
Check out Insane, the new single by Melbourne postgrunge trio Long Holiday. It’s available for free at their Bandcamp page (longholiday.bandcamp.com). The official launch is at Cherry Bar on Saturday December 1 with The Hidden Venture and River Of Snakes.
Fresh from their slot on the STD tour with Steel Panther and Buckcherry, Fozzy (featuring WWE star Chris Jericho and Stuck Mojo’s Rich Ward) will be at the Espy on Friday December 13. The band says “We love Australia so much that we decided five shows with Steel Panther and Buckcherry weren’t enough for us and our amazing Aussie fans. So we’re ending the tour with a bang by adding two huge headlining shows. Sydney and Melbourne prepare to start your holidays by hanging with Fozzy at the ultimate party... it’s all you’re going to want for Christmas!” Tickets available now from Oztix.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 13: Sirenia, Ne Oblivscaris, Orpheus Omega at The Corner Hotel I Exist, Urns, The Ruiner, Higher Power at The Bendigo Hotel Fozzy at The Espy King Parrot, Gay Paris at Karova Lounge, Meredith Music Festival SATURDAY DECEMBER 14: City and Colour, Husky, Twin Forks at Sidney Myer Music Bowl, King Parrot, Gay Paris, High Tension, The Arbiter at Northcote Social Club Sleep Parade, Glass Empire, Holiava, High Side Driver at Corner Hotel I Killed The Prom Queen at Bang Hard Skin, Stanley Knife, The Worst, Gutter Gods, Spew & Guts at The Reverence Hard Skin, Stanley Knife at Reverence Hotel Manic Opera, Circadian Pulse, Isolation at The Evelyn Hotel Hightimes, Beaver, Foxtrot, All We Need, Dixon Cider at The Reverence SUNDAY DECEMBER 15: I Killed The Prom Queen at OLP Ringwood Neil Hamburger, Dr ElSuavo, Mandek Penah at Northcote Social Club Hard Skin, Razor Cut, Stanley Knife, Foot Soldier, Sudden Impact at The Bendigo Luke Thomas, Dan Bonnici, Benjamin Searle at The Reverence ‘
April 2014. Your tickets will still be valid, but the hole in your hearts may never mend. Hang in there friends. Recently reunited Brissy band The Gifthorse will perform an extra show in Melbourne while they’re here for the upcoming Poison City Records Anniversary show. They’ll headline a gig at The Public Bar on Saturday December 21 alongside Postblue, Freakwave and Regrets. Tickets are on the door only so get down there at 8pm and get festive.
NEW MUSIC FROM SUBTERRANEAN DISPOSITION After releasing a debut album late last year on Hypnotic Dirge Records, Subterranean Disposition, the one-man recording project from Melbourne, Australia’s Metal veteran Terry Vainoras (Order of Chaos, Insomnius dei, Damaged, Cryptal Darkness, The Eternal) now offers up new music in the form of two songs appearing exclusively on this year’s HDR compilation double album The Wild Haunts Us Still, which was released as a free download on Monday December 2. Wooden Kimono Fixative is the first glimpse into SD’s sophomore album Soundtracks For Our Landscapes Of Failure, due in 2014. Frozen on the other hand is a cover of the 1998 song by Madonna. “Ever since I first heard this song when it came out I knew it was one of those songs that could transcend its genre and be powerful in another style,” Terry says. “I believe this version stays true to the original while simultaneously fitting the mould of the drawn out light and dark landscapes of SD’s style.”Motherslug and Third Round Knockout.
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GIG REMINDER: MISFITS When you think of a band that is defined as being outside the realms of what is punk, one of the first to spring to mind has to be the one and only Misfits. They’ve left their darkened imprint on many a soul worldwide with their iconic horror punk stylings, blending the intensity of punk rock with themes and imagery from horror films and literature for over 35 years and they are making their long awaited return to Australia in 2014! Their setlist is chock full of classics such as Die, Die My Darling, Attitude, Last Caress, Where Eagles Dare, Skulls, Mommy,Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight?, Astro Zombies, Hybrid Moments, We Are 138 and Horror Business to name but a few. They’ll be at the Corner Hotel on Friday January 17. Tickets only $59+bf available from metropolistouring.com, and strictly limited VIP meet and greet packages are available for all Australian shows.
GIG ALERT: KING PARROT AND GAY PARIS King Parrot and Gay Paris will smash their way through the East Coast this December. Melbourne quintet King Parrot is a force of nature unto themselves, smashing together thrash, death, grind and punk rock into something uniquely skull-shattering. And Gay Paris is a self-described “dirty fucking rock band from Sydney. They play music that grabs you by the chest, hands you a whiskey and makes you dance well past your bedtime, every time.” They also seem to bleed a lot during gigs and they sport some exceptional, exceptional beards. They’re at Karova Lounge in Ballarat on Friday December 13 and Northcote Social Club on Saturday December 14.
METAL AT THE BENDIGO A few more excellent shows at the Bendigo Hotel: on Friday December 13 (ooooh) check out I Exist (it’s their album launch), Urns, The Ruiner and Higher Power. On Saturday December 14 will be Medusa, Motherslug and Third Round Knockout.
MINISTRY DVD WINNERS Congratulations to the winners of the Ministry DVDs: James Richardson, Chris (who gets extra points for pointing out that 1000 Homo DJs’ Supernaut cover was originally released as a single in 1990) and Wayne Donovan. If you didn’t already provide your address with your entry I’ll be hitting you up so I can send you your DVDs.
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Define your genre in five words or less: Smooth, funk/soul R&B vibes. What do you love about making music? The feeling of working with people who are as passionate as you about music, no-one wants to let anyone down and it creates the greatest atmosphere. Why should everyone come and see your band? The energy we put into our music transmits into the audience making sure everyone has a great time. We also love hanging out after shows talking to the audience and continuing the night on! If you could go on tour with any musician or band, who would it be? We have all thought about this a lot and have decided we have to bands at the top of our lists. Electric Empire would be amazing, those musicians are similar to what we wish to be in ourselves. Although we also want to tour with Allen Stone, he actually happens to be touring next year, Allen if you ever read this, hint hint! How do you balance making and playing music with your other commitments? We generally always put music first! Many shifts at jobs over the year have been lost from having to play gigs, the only time music ever really gets put aside is at rehearsals, got to have a cup of tea before we start! What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? We have released a five-track EP called Show Me How on sale for $5 at our shows, this includes four studio tracks and one live track, and there is also a guest appearance from Eagle and The Worm horn section on the first track! When’s the gig and with who? So this December we have a three-week residency at The Evelyn in Fitzroy. Joining us these nights are still waiting to be completely announced but some bands include Papa G and the Starcats, Sons of Solace, Brooklyns Finest, plus way more tasty acts for your enjoyment.
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WEDNESDAY dec 11 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS
beast & flood + halt ever + leisure + nun of the tongue Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. benny & the dukes + crooks & queens + kooyeh John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. bj morriszonkle + groom lake + made for chickens by robots Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. bob evans + ali barter Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $22. body corporate + nina renee + sissysocks + totally mild Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. chase city + cider tree kids + the vanns + the zanes Boney, Melbourne. 8:00pm. collage - feat: legends of gofposs + michelle meehan + monika & the explosion + wally + zakytuss Espy, St Kilda. 7:30pm. deerhunter The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 7:30pm. likedeelers + carter reck blues review + night walks Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5. nile rodgers & chic Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. passerine + gossamer pride + sex on toast revue Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $10. seventh gallery fundraiser - feat: martin king + darren sylvester + dj jen moore + melanie upton + ross coulter + steaphan paton + valentina palonen Workers Club, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. sugar fed leopards + empat lima Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. the lovelies + mathlete Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick . 7:00pm. the vice grip pussies + palace of the king Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. twerps + bum creek + mac demarco Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
dizzy’s big band Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. dj flipside karl Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 6:30pm. hammond jazz club + mr andrew swann Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. howlin’ wind flautist + manny gaucci seddon All Saints Church, St Kilda East. 7:00pm. $30. midnight soul ensemble - feat: king excel + mike justice + dj peril & mzrizk Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. stevie & the sleepers + alone with tiger + dj vince peach Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. the martha baartz quintet Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. the mondlarks hammond b3 trio Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. the white tree band Red Bennies, South Yarra. 7:00pm. tom fryer quartet 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. vive la difference Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
brooke russell + amarina waters + ayleen o’hanlon + loni thomson Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. lilth lane + roller one Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12. marlon williams Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. monique brumby + woody pitney Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. open mic Ontop In Ormond, Ormond. 7:30pm. open mic Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 6:30pm. open mic Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. open mic & jam night Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. simply acoustic Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. strumarama - feat: dusty springclean & the pops + bearbrass asylum orchestra + the mysterious fourth Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $2. wine whiskey women - feat: leisha j + tabula rasa Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
THURSDAY dec 12 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS
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andre - feat: andré + dr doctor + the clits + tomb hanx Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. aye candy + awkward insects + lia avene + the free nuns Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. empat lima & pink tiles + wonderboy Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. fifth friend + captain valuable + jack jack jack + peny bohan Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ghostsoul + able8 + forsue + how green + ribongia Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10. inedia + charm + smoke stack rhino + street fangs Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5. jon hopkins The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. louis spoils + carl rush + darling james 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $8. minimum chips + drowning hell + pale earth + shuriken Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8:00pm. nat allison + ben laguda Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick . 7:00pm. next - feat: mindsnare + declaration + the evercold + the just-us league + the spinset + thorns Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. original music networking night Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. owen campbell + crooked saint Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:00pm. peter murphy + charlie horse Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $60. slow club - feat: cochlear kill: album launch + colourwaves + sleep decade + suns Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. sooky la la + bin stumps Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. sounds for hounds - feat: howlin’ steam train + quarry mountain dead rats + saint jude Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $10. stone revival + the naxalites + tommyhawks Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. the electric guitars + lands + orange Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. the kilniks + dear plastic + nebraskatak + return to youth Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $3. the kvb + brian jonestown massacre djs + cash for gold + day ravies Boney, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $15. the slims + pockets + the hollow hounds Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. warped Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. weekend warmup Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 8:00pm. white caves (ep launch) + dear leader John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.
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ford. 8:00pm. nice boy tom Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. nice verdes Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. open mic Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 6:30pm. open mic Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 6:00pm. reignwolf + dj hand of doom Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $20. robert zielinski & cliodhna ni ruairc + joe ferguson + tolka Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $24. rod paine & the fulltime lovers + dj matt fredrick Agent 284, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15. sime nugent & corina steel Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. skyscraper stan & the commission flats + john patrick & the keepers Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
FRIDAY dec 13 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS
bam bam (single launch) + dylan joel + gmc + justice & kaos Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15. batpiss + bad vision + bits of shit + deep heat + dj kezbot Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. ben abraham christmas show + whitaker Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. cabbages & kings + creep & harp Alia Arthouse, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. chop squad + among giants + the bear
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
alwan Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. chamber state Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $12. funk & soul xmas party - feat: dru chen + mitch power & the soul assassins + the do yo thangs Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:40pm. $10. kylie auldist & the glenroy all-stars + dj pierre baroni + dj vince peach Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. luke howard trio Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20. marchand noir + mark coffee Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. monique dimattine - feat: monique dimattina Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $18. the hoodangers Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. the john montesante quintet + fem belling The Commune, East Melbourne. 5:00pm. the overeasys Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 6:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
acoustic showcase - feat: justine walsh + lisa spykers + the reimers brothers Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 6:30pm. annie & bern Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 7:30pm. $10. austin brady Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. blow The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 8:00pm. bobby & the pins Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 6:30pm. carpark chior Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. celia church + oakley grenell The B.east, Brunswick East. 6:00pm. cr avery + dan parsons + the glorious Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. david ryan harris + chris sebastian Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25. michael crowe & tim parry Yarra Hotel, Abbots-
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THE KVB
PIERCE BROTHERS
British buzz band The KVB will play a special one-off show complete with support from The Brian Jonestown Massacre DJs this week. London audio/visual duo The KVB’s sound is made of shoegaze guitars, minimal synth melodies, hypnotic drum machine beats, and reverb drenched vocals. They will perform material off of their forthcoming album Minus One, which is due for a release this month. Catch The KVB with Brian Jonestown Massacre DJs, Day Ravies, and Cash for Gold on Thursday December 12 at Boney.
The Pierce Brothers will play a string of tour dates this week in support of their foot stomping new single Tallest Teepee in Town. Known for their high energy performances and delectable harmonies, the twins’ sound lies somewhere between Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Young, and Mumford & Sons. This sound has taken the brothers from big festival stages to supporting slots with the likes of The Beards, Ash Grunwald and Donovan Frankenreiter. Catch the Pierce Brothers’ matinee show at Northcote Social Club on Sunday December 15.
AND I + THE CONTROLLERS: SINGLE LAUNCH Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. DREADNAUGHT + MYRIDIAN + ORDNANCE + THE LEVITATION HEX Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $14. ECLECTIC MIX Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 9:00pm. EINSTEIN TOYBOYS Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $10. EMPRA + LAURA PALMER + THE HUMAN ELECTRIC + THE MIDDLE NAMES Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. $12. ENGINE (SINGLE LAUNCH) + GUARDS OF MAY + HELM + THE CHARGE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12. FOZZY Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $51. GATOR QUEEN Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. I EXIST + HIGHER POWER + THE RUINER + URNS
Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. JIMMY BARNES (THE MIDDLES LAST STAND) Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 7:30pm. LOS TONES The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 1:30am. $5. NILE RODGERS & CHIC Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. OPAL GHOST + CHINESE HANDCUFFS + ORRYELLE DEFENESTRATE BASCULE Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. PEDALFEST BENEFIT - FEAT: MONOLITH + FASPEEDELAY + MAP ENDS + MIDNIGHT SCAVENGERS + PENGUINS + THE IN THE OUT Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 6:30pm. ROOTS OF MUSIC - FEAT: LOUIS LONDON + CARDINAL + THE TROTSKIES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.
8:00pm. SHANNON BOURNE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. SIREN SUN + LUNAIRE + THE THIEF IS GREEN + TUX John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. SIRENIA + NE OBLIVISCARIS + ORPHEUS OMEGA Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $52. THE BAND WHO KNEW TOO MUCH Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THE GLENN DANZIG TAPDANZIG EXTRAVADANZIG - FEAT: REMOVALIST + CAGED GRAVE + DJ DAN LEWIS + RISK & REASON + THE WRECKS The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $5. THE SPOILS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. THE STRAY HENS + DJ MARCEL BORRACK Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. WOLFPACK + DJ FANTA PANTS + THE JACKS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
DEAN’S MARTINI & SHAKERS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. FLORELIE ESCANO Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:15pm. FUNK NIGHT - FEAT: DJ JOHNNY TOPPER + DJ KING 7 Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MARABOU 303, Northcote. 7:00pm. $5. MARGIE LOU’S PIANO HOUR + ALYCE PLATT Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. MARK JOZINOVIC Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15. ROMAJANCO + JO RUBERTO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. STEVE GRANT QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15. THE LISA YOUNG QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. THE STEVE SEDERGREEN QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
ANNA CORDELL Famous Blue Raincoat, South Kingsville. 7:30pm. BAKERSFIELD GLEE CLUB Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. BOSAK’S BIRTHDAY SWING NIGHT - FEAT: LEIGH BARKER & THE NEW SHEIKS + STEPHEN GRANT Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm. BROOKE RUSSELL Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. COLLARD GREENS & GRAVY + DJ KING LUCHO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm. INVISIBLE DEARS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. JOSHUA SEYMOUR Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. JULES BOULT & THE REDEEMERS Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. KRISTA POLVERE & BRYAN ELIJAH SMITH + GENA ROSE BRUCE + MARCHELLE BRANDANINI Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. LAUREN GLEZER + LESTER THE FIERCE Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. SAMMY OWEN BLUES BAND + DOUBLE SHOT BLUES BAND Bar 291, Brunswick. 7:00pm. THE BLACKEYED SUSANS + SWEET JEAN Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:30pm. $25. THE PRESLEY FAMILY - FEAT: TANYA-LEE DAVIES + BENNY PETERS + BROOKE RUSSELL + BUCK LEXTON + JON VON GOES + THE LUSCIOUS LAYLA FIBBONS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $18. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 64
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DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm. TRAM PHILOSOPHY Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 10:00pm. VAGUE SENSATIONS + NEIL QUINLAN Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:30pm.
SATURDAY DEC 14 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS
3 LITTLE BIRDS + ALEXIS NAYLOR + KURTIS GENTLE Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $20. A BASKET OF MAMMOTHS (EP LAUNCH) + COTANGENT + LUCID SUN + SEXY/HEAVY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. ACTS REVELATIONS + DAN TROLLEY + DJ JACK PETTY + KEL DAY + PLAGUE DOCTOR Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. ANGIE + ENCOUNTER GROUP + NATHAN ROCHE + REPAIRS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. BANG - FEAT: I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN + HIDEAWAY + OCEAN GROVE Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. BLACK CAB + R. ELECTRIQUE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. BONNIE & CLYDE Alia Arthouse, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. CINEMA 6 + SKYSCRAPER STAN & THE COMMISSION FLATS + ZEBEDY’S Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. CITY & COLOUR + TWIN FORKS Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne. 6:00pm. CRASH & BURN + FISKER + SILVERSTAKES + VOODOOCAIN Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:10pm. $18. DIRTY HARRIET & THE HANGMEN + I AM THE RIOT + THE FCKUPS Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick . 7:00pm. DJ SATURDAY KNIGHT Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 9:00pm. DV8 - FEAT: TEMPORAL + ARMOURED EARTH + I VALIANCE Cbd Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. GO FOR IT - FEAT: JIMMY CUPPLES + ANABELLE LYRICICH + JESSICA BENINATO + KEN BELL + SOOZIE PINDER + TONY FALCONE Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $10. HARD SKIN + SPEW & GUTS + STANLEY KNIFE + THE WORST Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $30. HIGHTIME + ALL WE NEED + BEAVER + DIXON CIDER + FOXTROT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $18. JAMHURI DAY! KENYAN NATIONAL DAY - FEAT: DJ JEFF LEOPARD + BEN HUTTON + DJ BUMAYE + DJ PIT + DJ RAFIKI + GITHINJI + TUKAVANA Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 1:00pm. KING PARROT + GAY PARIS + HY TENSION + THE ARBITER Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. LOOPTROOP ROCKERS & SAGE FRANCIS + TENFOLD The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. MANIC OPERA + CIRCADIAN PULSE + ISOLATION Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15. MDMA (ALBUM LAUNCH) + MISTRESS OF CEREMONY + NYMPHLOW & POLAROID + RATES Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. $12. MEDUSA + MOTHERSLUG + NUREMBERG CODE + THIRD ROUND KNOCKOUT Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. MODELS + THE EARS + THE MERCURIALS Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. $35. MRSPKR Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm.
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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au ocea + lumibug + wayfarer Bar 291, Brunswick. 7:00pm. off the hip xmas party - feat: midnight woolf + loose pills + los tones + the reprobettes Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. red red krovvy + dj kezbot + velvet whip + white walls The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $5. sabrina & the red vans + dj bagalicious + dj el bastardo Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. seagull + kieran ryan + lucy roleff Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10. ska vendors + fez puskas + mohair slim + pat powell The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. sleep parade + glass empire: ep launch + high side driver + holliava Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $12. stranger warehouse party - feat: derrick may + acm + mike buhl Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $40. taylor swift (the red tour) + guy sebastian Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. 7:00pm. test gig 2 - feat: test artist 2 Werribee Park Mansion, Werribee. 8:00pm. the electric i + karate boogaloo Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. the pierce brothers + brooke taylor + tanya batt Westernport Hotel, San Remo. 8:00pm. $15. the rapalas 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. the shambelles Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. the terraces + very handsome men Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. tijuana peanut Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. wakefield xmas charity show Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 2:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
cannonball Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25. classical piano Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 2:00pm. creative vocal series - feat: clio renner + hailey cramer + helen catanchin Bennetts
Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. goyim + elvis in the house Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. jadida Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. jam the funk The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $18. jayne-anne power & monique dimattinia Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15. paul williamson quartet Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. the joe chindamo trio Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK blackeyed susans christmas show - feat: the blackeyed susans + jp shilo & rosie westbrook + sweet jean Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. bonjah + red x + sweets Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. carus thompson + juan alban + the stillsons Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $22. chris wilson & band Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. coral lee & the silver scream` Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. dr malone + ben laguda + mel & brendan Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. hornets Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. phil para band Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. rainy day mushroom pillow + sarah eida Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:30pm. ron rude + dirt bird Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 7:30pm. $10. saturday night fish fry Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. speak no evil Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. spoonful Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. stax on soul revue christmas show feat: suzannah espie + emily lubitz + ian collard + liz stringer + wayne jury Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 7:00pm. $30. stormy monday Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. the brad martin project Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
NILE RODGERS AND CHIC
Nile Rodgers and Chic will play two Melbourne sideshows to accompany their appearance at Meredith. Rodgers was last in Australia when he played alongside Chic at the 2012 Golden Plains festival, of which our reviewer stated, “Chic’s own hits were impressive enough, but Nile busted out a string of tracks that he laid his Midas touch upon over the years – Original Sin, Like A Virgin, Let’s Dance, I mean, goddamn. Then of course we were told to freak out during Le Freak. Everyone obliged.” They’ll hit Billboard on Wednesday December 11 (show with Q&A) and Friday December 13 (sold out). three kings Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. velvet poet (lou reed tribute) Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 2:00pm.
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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au busy kingdom + chase city + graham panther + the vanns Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. dale ryder band + dj paz + gary eastwood express Espy, St Kilda. 5:30pm. daniel champagne Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $12. dj jumbo + mrspkr Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 7:00pm. hard skin + foot soldier + impact zone + razor cut + stanley knife Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. $25. kamikaze bees Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 3:30pm. let your hair down girls + reika John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 7:00pm. luke thomas + dan bonnici + luke smith Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. martin martini Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. $25. matt glass band + nick costello + queen & convict + sean kirkwood Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. michael meeking & the lost souls Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. mighty dukes & the lords Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. mountain goat beersoaked sundays feat: sun god replica + dj whiskey cream + ox + space junk Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. musicland xmas party - feat: einsteins toyboys + anthea jewel + iain archibald band + soul sacrifice Musicland, Fawkner. 2:00pm. phake phur Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. pressure drop + tess Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $5. the large number twelves Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. the never ever + be strong + drawing north & move on + let’s not pretend Wrangler Studios, Footscray . 7:00pm. the pearce brothers + brooke taylor + tanya batt Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 1:30pm. $12. the plot Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $45. the salvadors + return to youth Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $8. walter tv + smile + the clits Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.
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bank who knew too much Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. black jesus experience The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 6:00pm. cheap frills Farouk’s Olive, 3:00pm. $5. elvis in the house + duo severini Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 1:00pm. festival sextet Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. lotek + aj + dj ago Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick . 2:00pm. opa 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $5. orgrin gulina & whyte trio + windjammer bass quintet & don jordan Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. vincs & wakeling Famous Blue Raincoat, South Kingsville. 2:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK backwoods creatures + cat canteri & ali ferrier Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. checkerboard Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 3:00pm. cherry blues - feat: chris wilson Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. collards greens & gravy Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 3:00pm. david ryan harris + chris sebastian Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25. dear stalker + caitlin archibald + jonathon devoy Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. geoff achison’s classically blue Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. lot 56 Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 5:00pm. open stage Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 5:00pm. rod paine & the fulltime lovers Clare Castle, Carlton. 8:00pm. sime nugent Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. songs from afield Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm. spencer p jones Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 2:30pm. stephen cummings & shane o’mara Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 3:00pm. super unsigned music festival - feat: dominique + finn doyle + hom hone + mo + once were wild + real now + seb mont & thee + stonefox + surrender the throne + the d.y.e + zenith skies Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:00pm. $15. the justin yap band Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.
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Wednesday December 11th, 2013 With Claire Barley
Checked out next year’s Pushover line-up yet? Details were released recently, with huge names like Allday, Cub Sport, Chance Waters, Dream on Dreamer, Pez and In Heart’s Wake. Tickets are already on sale, so head to ticketmaster.com.au to nab yourself some. Check out the full line-up at www. thepush.com.au. In case you haven’t heard, Sheffield’s finest indie rockers Arctic Monkeys have recently announced Australian tour dates for next year! Following the release of their fifth LP AM earlier this year, which received some pretty hectic reviews, the fourpiece will be playing a total of five dates in May. Upgrading from Festival Hall, (aka, festering hall) where they played in 2012, Alex Turner and Co will be performing at Rod Laver Arena on May 9. Hopefully the bigger venue will mean there will be less short people getting crushed by 6 foot tall crowd members. Not that that happened to me. Tickets are on sale now- head to www.ticketek.com.au.
FOZZY
Things are about to get a lot heavier in Melbourne. Fozzy consists of professional wrestler Chris Jericho and Rick Ward of Struck Mojo fame, in addition to a slew of other musicians, with their music characterized as a hybrid of Metallica and Journey. Catch Fozzy at the Espy on Friday December 13.
4:00pm. the margie lou trio + gil askey Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. the prayerbabies Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. the quayle project Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. the russell morris band The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $35. timber & steele presents - feat: little may + al parkinson Workers Club, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $15. tinsley waterhouse band Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. tom rule Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 2:00pm. tyto tyto Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm.
MONDAY dec 16 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS
audego + lucianblomkamp + sui zhen Boney, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $10. cherry jam Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. dear monday - feat: regan hancock + ally mok & freya hanley + frankie andrew + hudson Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. john legend Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 8:00pm. miss eileen & king lear + sagamore Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $10. monday night mass - feat: mutton Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm.
Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. melvins + mesa cosa + warped The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:29pm. stream four + dead calm + the charles ives singers Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. the april maze + the shivering timbers Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. the deep end Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK charles jenkins& matty vehl Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. eddie perfect & the renovators Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $12. marlon williams & the abbotsford four Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. nigel wearne Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm. open mic Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK port phillip gilgamesh readings Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. take the mic Red Bennies, South Yarra. 7:30pm. $15. the stopouts Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. unpaved songwriter sessions Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5. whirling furphies + marty kelly & the weekenders Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.
TUESDAY dec 17 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
ben winkelman trio Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $18. hi-fi lounge lizards Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. jazz cats Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. peter baylor’s ultrafox Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS brunswick discovery - feat: blind reactions + monica & the explosion + moon
Looking for something to fill your summer days with? Melbourne’s annual Queer Celebration Midsumma is currently on the lookout for volunteers! Involving stacks of arts and cultural events in over 85 different Victorian locations, the festival will be running from mid-January to February. Potential volunteer roles include ticketing, technical/production assistance, team leading, bar and hospitality staff and more. Also available are two internship positions for a Marketing Co-ordinator and a Publicity assistant. Volunteering is a great way to get your foot in the door and gain some event experience, plus it looks great on your resume! If you’d like to get involved, head to www. midsumma.org.au/volunteer. This weekend will see Taylor Swift turn her wholesome charm on Melburnians, playing at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night. Love her or hate her, her ability to sell tickets can’t be denied. She’s the first woman since Madonna to undertake a solo stadium tour of Australia, playing in huge venues across the nation. With songs that cover a wide scope of subject matter, including relationships, relationships and even relationships, she has gained a substantial fan base, with tickets to her Etihad show just about selling out. Full details are included below.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
alan browne christmas party - feat: allan browne Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. daryl mckenzie jazz orchestra + daina jowsey The Apartment, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. mckinnon high + ian orr Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 7:00pm.
Also gracing the Rod Laver stage in 2014 will be The Rolling Stones, arguably one of the most famous bands of all time. The band will be playing in Melbourne on March 28, and will only be performing once in each capital city. Talk about exclusive! Tour rumours have been circulating since the Stones announced a single show in Adelaide, which has already sold out. This may very well be the band’s final Australia visit, so if you’re a fan, get on it! Ticket presales commenced on Monday, with official sales starting Monday December 16.
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ALL AGES TIMETABLE Wednesday December 11 Open Mic/Jam Night, Musicland, 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 7pm, free, musiclandonline.com.au, AA. Thursday December 12 Napier Street Block Party w/ MC Yung Philly, Candice Monique, Silent Disco, Rising High DJs, Film Screenings and live music, Yarra Community Youth Centre, 156 Napier St, Fitzroy, 4pm, gold coin donation, 9426 1455, yarracity.vic.gov.au, AA. Friday December 13 Beachside Youth Festival w/ Eloquor, Eloji, Brighter At Night, Danish, Daydream Pioneers and DJs Make or Break, Green Point- Brighton Beach Gardens, Beach Road, Brighton Beach, 4pm, free, facebook. com/baysidefreeza, AA. Saturday December 14 City and Colour w/ Husky and Twin Forks, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Kings Domain Gardens/Linlithgow Ave, Melbourne, 6pm, $69.95-$79.95, ticketmaster. com.au, AA. Taylor Swift w/ Guy Sebastian, Etihad Stadium, Docklands, Melbourne, 6.30pm, $85-$114, ticketmaster.com.au, AA. Monday December 16 – Tuesday December 17 Jack Johnson w/ Paula Fuga and John Cruz, The Plenary, 1 Convention Centre Pl, South Wharf, 6.30pm, $109, ticketmaster.com.au, AA.
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How many nights of live music & entertainment are running at your venue We have seven nights a week of live music, including a Sunday matinee show which takes us up to eight shows a week. Although there have been some weeks where we squeeze in a couple more on top of that! Ways to get there? Being on Brunswick street we are in a fairly central location. The 112 takes you right near our doorsteps while if you get off at the corner of Brunswick and Johnston St after catching the 200, 201, 203, 205 and 207 busses you’ll be able to grab a kebab before hitting our doors. Available for functions? We are available for shows any night of the week just hit up our friendly booker Jack. Crowd? The Evelyn caters for a wide range of people. We have an eclectic range of bands playing here so you can find pretty much anyone drinking within our confines! Opening hours? 12pm – 1.15am, seven nights a week. Cover Charge? On Mondays and Tuesdays you will find entry around the $2 mark. However, we generally fall within the $6 to $15 bracket.
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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 Hiatus Kaiyote
INCREASED FUNDING FOR LEAPS AND BOUNDS
Impressed by its inaugural figures from this July – 80,000 people at 293 events in 34 venues – Yarra Council increased its funding for the Leaps and Bounds festival from $35,000 to $80,000. Organisers plan to expand activities next year, including possibly branded beer, live to airs and tours through recording studios. Full details, see Industrial Strength Online at beat.com.au.
HIATUS KAIYOTE UP FOR GRAMMY
Melbourne band Hiatus Kaiyote were nominated for a Grammy on the weekend, for their track Nakamarra (featuring Q Tip) from the album Tawk Tomahawk. It’s up for Best R&B Performance category against Tamar Braxton, Anthony Hamilton, Miguel & Kendrick Lamar and Snarky Puppy with Lalah Hathaway. It’s been a great year for the band, which just returned from an 18-date European and US tour, and whose champions include Questlove and Erykah Badu. Other Grammy nominees were Keith Urban and Tame Impala, and Lorde who, now that she is a hit, can be claimed as an Aussie. See Industrial Strength Online at beat.com.au for full report.
PARSONS MOVES TO TRIPLE R BREAKFAST
Jacinta Parsons will head the new Triple R breakfast team, replacing Fee B-Squared who leaves after 13 years this Friday with a live broadcast from the Corner. “You’ve entertained and guided a whole generation of listeners who will be sad not to have you as part of their daily lives,” Program Manager Chris Hatzis saluted. The team includes Stew Farrell and Lorin Clarke.
MEANWHILE OVER AT THE EMC
The Electronic Music Conference in Sydney drew 600 people to hear 150 delegates. It coincided with Flume’s dominance at various awards turning the spotlight on Australian EDM. There was intelligent discourse on the future of EDM in Australia and abroad, with the opening address by Beatport CEO Matthew Adell setting the tone that EDM’s success in the past few years was just beginning. Some panels had some robust arguments, especially the one on festivals which got heated when it touched on ticket prices and artist fees, or the all-male artists panel when triple j House Party host Nina Las Vegas asked about the lack of females in the industry. Among the quotable quotes: “We are still Australia… [overseas agents] know we’re a fervent, competitive bunch of arseholes down here, and God knows they prey on that. Our industry can be fucking retarded when it comes to the way we coordinate” – Adam Zammit, CEO Big Day Out, on how demand for overseas acts by festivals sees agents push fees up. Fees now make up 80% of a festival budget. “This is going to be the next big battleground” – Dror Erez of SFX Totem on why the focus by EDM festivals will be on Asia. “I’m so proud that Flume’s success has changed the conversation about Electronic Music in Australia” – Chad Gillard of Future Classic, Flume’s label. “I’m not excited about getting 20 demos that sound like Flume everyday”, Chad Gillard on rising acts wanting to find success by aping Flume. “If you like a song and you fucking bang your head against a wall, that’s a banger!” – Will Sparks “explains” the much-touted Melbourne Sound.
MUSTERED COURAGE SIGN US MANAGEMENT
Melbourne progressive bluegrass act Mustered Courage signed to US management company Sterling Artist Management during a crowd-funded trip to Nashville to play Americana Fest. They return to the US after an invite to perform at the International Folk Alliance Conference in Kansas City. Second album Powerlines [produced by Jimi Maroudas] in May scored Album Of The Week on Radio Australia and is nominated at the CMAA Country Music Awards for Alternative Country Album and Instrumental for Allegheny.
U2, STONES, CCR, RECORDS FOR GRAMMY HALL OF FAME
Twenty-seven recordings will be inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame next year. Albums include U2’s 25-million selling The Joshua Tree, Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, Creedence Clearwater’s Cosmo’s Factory and the Woodstock soundtrack. Singles include The Stones’ Honky Tonk Women, CCR’s Fortunate Son, Walk This Way the Run-D.M.C-Aerosmith team up, Sam Cooke‘s Wonderful World, Sugarhill Gang‘s Rapper’s Delight, Gil Scott-Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and The Drifters’ Under the Boardwalk. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 70
YARRA COUNCIL TO FUND SOUND PROOFING?
Yarra Council has voted to consider a Live Music Venue Acoustic Fund in the 2014/15 budget. They would help venues soundproof their buildings in the event of noise complaints. It will be released for public debate next April. For full details, see Industrial Strength Online at beat.com.au.
COOPERS AMP TO REVEAL SHORTLIST WITH BOWL SHOW
The Shortlist for the 9th Coopers AMP will be announced at an event called Shortlisted! held for the first time at Myer Music Bowl as part of Australia Day. 2012 AMP winners Hermitude will headline the free event, which runs 6-8pm. This year also, Coopers AMP, has introduced a Highly Regarded section of 25 albums that judges considered so good they deserved to be highlighted.
NEW FESTIVAL FOR VICTORIA
Victoria’s newest festival is Peninsula Music, held Sunday January 12 at Morning Star Estate in Mt Eliza. It is a major project of the Lions Club of Mt Eliza, organised by volunteers, with the proceeds raised by the event will benefit Peninsula Health. Kick off is at 10am, with Ross Wilson And The Peaceniks, Raw Brit, Lachlan Bryan And The Wildes, Coral Lee And The Silver Scream, The Weeping Willows, Aleyce Simmonds, Little Willy And The Hopeless Romantics and Out Of The Blue.
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CERES JOIN HOBBLEDEHOY
Melbourne’s Ceres joins the roster of Adelaide’s Hobbledehoy Records. It includes Arrows, Blueline Medic, Eleventh They Reach London and The City On Film. Hobbledehoy will release a vinyl version of Ceres’ self-released Luck EP from early 2013, and their debut album in the autumn.
MOSHTIX LAUNCHES MOBILE TICKET SCANNING APP
As summer festivals kick in, ticketing provider Moshtix’s launched new mobile ticket scanning app, smartScan, which uses the camera on smartphones to scan tickets. Multiple mobile devices are used simultaneously across multiple entry points. It allows event organisers to leave ticket sales open after the event begins and scale up to deal with surges in fans arriving at odd times.
SONG CHOICE OF THE WEEK
Sydney radio 2GB’s Ben Fordham was reporting the news on air. First item was about a woman from Rouse Hill who suffered serious burns, and how her husband was also injured when he tried to help her. The next item was on the ARIAs. To introduce it, he unwittingly played a song that was played on stage during the event – Alicia Keys’ The Girl’s On Fire.
ARIA AWARDS DRAW 337,000
Pearl Jam
THINGS WE HEAR
* Pearl Jam shaved a fan's dreadlocks off during their show in Spokane, Washington. Eddie Vedder noticed a fan holding a sign that he’d chop his locks if they played Brain Of J off the 1998 album Yield. Onstage the guy asked if he could headbang one more time with his dreads. So the band played the song and cut his locks after. * The Offspring and Simple Plan hit Twitter to thank fans who stayed to watch their sets in the rain at the Coffs Harbour show of Vans Warped. * YouTube’s music service has been delayed until the first quarter of 2014 after it was first thought it’d be launched by the end of this year. YouTube has all the licensing in place but still working on how to integrate user-generated content like lipsyncs and mashups with professional recordings. * Promoter Frontier Touring faced a dilemma when only one date was available for The Rolling Stones to play Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. But it was already booked by Thirty Seconds To Mars. But after some coaxing, the Mars chappies moved their show next door to Hisense Arena. * Facebook posting by Hayley McKee suggest that Super Wild Horses are about to split. They played their last Melbourne show on the weekend at Bitch Prefect’s launch and their finale may be at Tasmania’s Panama festival. * NSW Hospitality Minister George Souris is thinking of introducing a law forcing violent venues to close earlier in the evening. The Ivy tops the latest violent venues list. Twnty venues are on level two with 12-18 incidents recorded. * Rod Stewart signaled that 2015 could be the year that The Faces reunite for a tour. Another reunion, with Rod and The Jeff Beck Group is off, as Beck has fired the manager who was coordinating it. * Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker has produced the debut album of French band Melody's Echo Chamber, led by his girlfriend Melody Prochet. * Wu-Tang’s RZA wrote a tribute ballad called Destiny Bends for actor Paul Walker after he heard of his death in a car crash. They worked on the movie Brick Mansion. “A good man. We had plans to continue working with each other in the future. It seemed destined, but 'destiny bends'." * Ballarat community groups and musicians are fighting to save the Civic Hall, which Council voted to demolish. Musicians performed at its steps as part of Rock The Civic to make their feelings known. They think the place should be restored and turned into a space for (all the) young dudes. * The name of the new $25.8 million Bendigo Theatre is Ulumbarra, chosen from a group of names suggested by the public. The local Indigenous community said choosing an Indigenous name would help preserve the history of the Dja Dja Wurrung people and forge closer ties with Bendigo. The 1,000-seater theatre is due to be completed by 2015.
FOXTEL ANNOUNCES NEW MUSIC CHANNELS
The ARIA awards drew 337,000 viewers to Channel 9's digital Go!, a rise from last year’s 304,000 but a long way from the 1.26 million of 2006. Next year, organisers must decide whether to have a “musical” or “pop” show. And if to give hip hop its own category as all four urban finalists were hip hoppers.
Foxtel announced new music channels. Max 90s Hits harks back to those days. [V] Buzz replaces Faster Louder featuring the indie, the undiscovered and the upcoming. [V] Pop takes the place of Chart Countdown with a new genre that complements [V] Rock, [V] Urban and MTV Dance.
MATT OKINE JOINS TRIPLE J
GRINSPOON TAKING “INDEFINITE BREAK”
Award winning comedian Matt Okine is new copresenter of triple j’s breakfast show with Alex Dyson, replacing Tom Ballard. The new team begins on Monday January 13. Triple j also announced that Hack presenter Sophie McNeil won’t return from maternity leave. Tom Tilley will fly solo.
After 18 years together and a series of platinum albums, Grinspoon announced a “long-term, indefinite break”. The band said, “It's been a wild ride to say the least. We are still a band of brothers but it's time for us to take a break and recharge the batteries. We’re excited to see what our future holds…adios amigos, it’s been a blast!” Their last gig is in Brisbane on December 20.
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LIFELINES Split: Rapper Ja Rule’s wife Aisha Atkins claims he’s left her for a man that he met in prison when serving 28 months for tax evasion and gun charges. “We spent tenplus years building our marriage but it only took him two to decide he'd rather suck a dick than be with his wife." The rapper denies it. Injured: British rapper Dappy was thrown off his horse while riding in the grounds of his palatial home and kicked in the face. Injured: Sydney bluegrass performer Jimmy Rush was involved in a car crash on his way home after appearing at the inaugural Mountaingrass Bluegrass Festival at Harrietville, Victoria. He broke a bone in his neck and was hospitalised in Canberra. His car was a write-off. In Court: Timothy Alan Everett of NSW North Coast-based The Mojo Bluesmen had an appointment at the Proserpine Magistrate's Court after being charged with busking on without a licence before the Airlie Beach Music Festival which his band was performing at. A businessman complained he was making a racket, and Everett stopped when the cops turned up. Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist dismissed the charge as being trivial. Jailed: Sean Spence, 38, owner of a Karratha (WA) nightclub for six-and-ahalf years. He attacked Adrian Armstrong after he was ejected from the club leaving him with severe head injuries. He attempted to obstruct the course of justice by switching CCTV cameras when police investigated the assault. Arrested: Professor Green on suspicion of trying to pervert justice, which carries a life sentence. He called police to say he’d been robbed his Rolex outside his £1 million South London pad. But when cops arrived they saw his Mercedes had been in a crash. He was held on suspicion of drink driving. Jailed: Keith Tamkin, 52, to 18 months for manufacturing and distributing 150,000 pirated CDs and DVDs, money laundering a total of £140,000, and possessing prohibited weapons – a pepper spray and a stun gun. Died: Jamaican reggae singer Junior Murvin, best known for the hit Police and Thieves, from advanced diabetes and hypertension. Died: Dick Dodd, 68, drummer/singer for Boston garage act The Standells (1965’s Dirty Water) from cancer of the esophagus, spleen, liver and spine. Died: one time British manager Harry Maloney (Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Uriah Heep and Eddie & The Hot Rods), 70, from cancer. He later became a record company exec, first with BMG and then heading one of the world’s largest distributors Apex Music Group. Died: British jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey, who played with everyone from Sonny Rollins to Charlie Watts, aged 86 from cancer.
VICTORY FOR LANEWAY SYDNEY
Leichhardt Council approved Laneway Festival’s application to expand from 8,000 to 12,000 at Sydney College Of The Arts at Callan Park. Promoters had the support of NSW Police, and many music fans spoke on its behalf at the Council meeting during the issue debate. Friends Of Callan Park had objected on the grounds the park wouldn’t cope with extra attendance.
TRAVERS JOINS ACMI
Internationally recognised marketing, communications and development professional Chris Travers joined Melbourne arts venue, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) as Marketing and Development Director.
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